TV Tropes

TV Tropes, also called Television Tropes and Idioms, is a wiki that collects tropes seen in movies, television shows, video games, books, and other media. It started in 2004. It originally covered only television and movie tropes, but has since added other media such as books, comics, advertisements, and toys. Unlike other wikis such as Wikipedia, it covers tropes in a casual and funny way.

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TV Tropes started by focusing on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It has since added other television series, movies, books, plays, professional wrestling, video games, anime, manga, comic strips, and books, fan fiction, and other subjects, including Internet works such as Wikipedia, which is called "The Other Wiki" on the website. It also describes topics such as science, philosophy, politics, and history under its Useful Notes section.

The site has pages on series and tropes. A page on a work has a summary of what the work is about, as well as the tropes that are seen in the work. Trope pages are the opposite of articles on works: after describing the trope, it lists the trope's appearances in different media. For example, the page for the antihero trope has a list of works that have different types of antiheroes.

Trope pages are created through a system called "Trope Launch Pad" (originally called "You know that thing where ... "), TLP, where other users, who are called "tropers", can give examples or suggest ideas to make the page better. This was originally just a suggestion to help the page improve before launching, but as of 2016, all new trope pages go through TLP before creation.

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