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| URL | http://tvtropes.org/ |
| Slogan | TV Tropes will ruin your life |
| Commercial? | Ad-supported |
| Type of site | Wiki |
| Registration | Optional (anonymous editors must click through a notice screen) |
| Available language(s) | English, German (translation occurring slowly in French, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Esperanto, Quenya and more) |
| Launched | 2003 April[1] |
| Revenue | Advertising |
| Current status | Active |
TV Tropes is a wiki, built on a PmWiki platform,[2] that collects and expands on various conventions and devices (tropes) found within creative works. Since starting in 2003, the site has gone from covering only television and film tropes to those in a number of other media.[3] The site is known for approaching topics in a comic tone—author Bruce Sterling once described its style as "wry fanfic analysis"[4]—but Professor Robin Hanson characterized it as rather a possibly "great data source for studying fiction's functions."[5]
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TV Tropes found its beginning with an initial focus on the television show Buffy The Vampire Slayer,[2] and has since increased its scope to include hundreds of other series, motion pictures, novels, video games, anime, manga, fan fiction, and other subjects. Among its longer standing policies, and possibly contributing to the high number of articles, TV Tropes does not require notability standards behind its entries and examples.[6]
The site includes entries on various series and tropes; the series articles include brief summaries of the work in question along with a list of associated tropes. Trope pages are the inverse, and contain entries on when they appear in series. Tropes are often given wry names that are references to pop culture that can be started and named by anyone in their section "You Know That Thing Where"; for example, the page on bathos is named "Narm", after the series finale of Six Feet Under, wherein a character suffers a brain embolism and slurs the phrase "numb arm" into "narm". Tropes may also be named after characters, such as Xanatos Gambit, a plan so intricately crafted that any outcome will still create success; it is named after animated series Gargoyles's character David Xanatos, who specialized in such plans. Those suggestions that everyone like the most, or use the most, become real tropes.
2008 saw considerable redesign in some aspects of content organization, such as the introduction of namespaces, while 2009 saw the arrival of other languages, of which German is the most developed.
"TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life"
A phenomenon the site itself warns about as "[replacing] surprise almost entirely with recognition",[7] reading TV Tropes has been known to change the way people take in fiction. Due to its focus on and description of media conventions, it becomes difficult for some not to look at a creative work and see those same conventions, thus changing the perceptions of those that use the site.[3] Webcomic author David Morgan-Mar regularly makes references to the website in commentaries to Irregular Webcomic![8][9] and Darths And Droids.[10][11][12][13]
References
- ^ Fast Eddie: "We launched in April of 2003..."
- ^ a b From Mary Sue to Magnificent Bastards: TV Tropes and Spontaneous Linked Data - Kurt Cagle. Semantic Universe. Retrieved on 2009-05-22.
- ^ a b TVTropes.org: Harnessing the might of the people to analyze fiction. The Current. Retrieved on 2009-05-22.
- ^ Sterling, Bruce, TV Tropes, the all-devouring pop-culture wiki, Beyond the Beyond, Wired, January 21, 2009.
- ^ Hanson, Robin (2009-05-09). Overcoming Bias: Tropes Are Treasures. Overcoming Bias. Future of Humanity Institute. Retrieved on 2009-05-22.
- ^ http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability
- ^ http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife
- ^ Morgan-Mar, David. "Irregular Webcomic! #1718". Irregular Webcomic!. http://irregularwebcomic.net/1718.html.
- ^ Morgan-Mar, David. "Irregular Webcomic! #1926". Irregular Webcomic!. http://irregularwebcomic.net/1926.html.
- ^ Morgan-Mar, David. "Darth and Droids #167". Darth and Droids. http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0167.html.
- ^ Morgan-Mar, David. "Darth and Droids #173". Darth and Droids. http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0173.html.
- ^ Morgan-Mar, David. "Darth and Droids #182". Darth and Droids. http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0182.html.
- ^ Morgan-Mar, David. "Darth and Droids #185". Darth and Droids. http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0185.html.
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