Wiki documenting plot conventions in creative works
TV Tropes
Screenshot as of July 16, 2020
Type of site
Wiki
Available in
13 languages[1]
Owner
Chris Richmond[2]
Drew Schoentrup[2]
URL
tvtropes.org
Commercial
Ad-supported
Registration
Required for all features other than viewing
Users
16.000+[3]
Launched
April 2004; 20 years ago (2004-04)
Current status
Active
Content license
CC BY-NC-SA[4] from July 2012
Written in
PmWiki (very heavily modified with no current source code used)[5][6]
TV Tropes is a wiki that collects and documents descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, which it refers to as tropes, within many creative works.[7] Since its establishment in 2004, the site has shifted focus from covering various tropes to those in general media, toys, writings, and their associated fandoms, as well as some non-media subjects such as history, geography, and politics.[8][9] The nature of the site as a provider of commentary on pop culture and fiction has attracted attention and criticism from several web personalities and blogs. Users of the site's community are called "Tropers", which primarily consist of 18-34 year olds.[10][11]
From April 2008 until July 2012, TV Tropes published free content.[12] After that, the site modified its license to allow only non-commercial distribution of its content but continued to host the prior submissions under a new distribution license.[13][14]
The TV Tropes website runs on its own wiki engine software, an extremely modified version of PmWiki to the point where the PmWiki website lists that it "no longer uses PmWiki in any way; the only trace that remains is in the URL" and that "no code is in use"[15] but is not open source.[5] Before October 2010, it was possible to edit anonymously; however, registration is now mandatory for all other activities besides viewing the website.[16] It has two subwikis meant to categorize the more informal tropes and is held to less rigorous standards. Darth Wiki, named after Darth Vader from Star Wars as a play on "the dark side" of TV Tropes, is a resource for more criticism-based trope examples or common ways the wiki is inappropriately edited, and Sugar Wiki is about praise-based tropes, such as funny or heartwarming moments, and is meant to be "the sweet side" of TV Tropes.
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TVTropes is a wiki that collects and documents descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, which it refers to as tropes, within many creative...
2023. "Chikn Nuggit / Characters". TVTropes. Retrieved December 3, 2023. Bell, James (June 20, 2023). "Chikn Nuggit TV Series Officially In The Works"....
over the course of a serial work. The term Flanderization was coined by TVTropes in reference to Ned Flanders of The Simpsons, who was caricatured over...
or plane Tropidophiidae or tropes, a dwarf boa Tropes, part of the desktop search engine software Tropes Zoom Michael Trope (born 1951), American trial...
and make heavy use of nuclear weapons. The claim was mentioned on the TVTropes wiki in 2012, and continued until 2020, when the series' creator, Sid...
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Mo Troper, American musician a member of TVTropesTroper(s) (possibly related to Byzantine-Greek troparion), manuscript(s) containing musical tropes, such...
unicorn called Scoundrel's Luck. List of fictional horses "Winged Unicorn". TVTropes. Retrieved 2024-05-07. "Citations:cerapter". 24 June 2020. Shepard, Odell...
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(Creator)". TVTropes. Retrieved 2021-04-02. Brooks, Tim; Earle, Marsh (2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows (9th ed...
"Mystery Science Theater 3000 S 05 E 08 Operation Double 007 / Recap". TVTropes. Archived from the original on 29 March 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2020...
her performance as Sandra, the battleaxe daughter in Kisses at Fifty. TVtropes entry "Play for Today: Kisses at Fifty". Forgotten Television Drama. 2020-11-17...
in Spain with social networking service Tumblr Blog Microblogging TVTropes Wiki TV Time Untappd Beer drinking Vero VK Music upload, listening and search...
Media Company. Retrieved 3 October 2015. "Miranda Richardson (Creator)". TVTropes. Retrieved 29 March 2024. "In Contention for Academy Awards (Published...
RogerEbert.com. Archived from the original on 2022-05-12. Retrieved 2022-09-21. Meet Cute on TVTropes Look up meet cute in Wiktionary, the free dictionary....
2016-05-19. "The Lying Game / Characters". TVTropes. Retrieved 2024-04-15. "The Lying Game / Characters". TVTropes. Retrieved 2024-04-15. Cynthia Littleton...
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