A notably addictive wiki where thousands of tropes and idioms throughout creative works are collected, defined, and expanded. Though it originally only focused on tropes within television shows (hence the name), it now covers literature, comic books, anime, manga, western animation, video games, film, webcomics, web animation, music, and others. Unlike Wikipedia (which "tropers" call "The Other Wiki"), there is no such thing as notability on TV Tropes.
by JohnnyLurg March 19, 2011
TV Tropes is a wiki that collects and expands descriptions and examples on various conventions and devices (tropes) found within creative works. Since its establishment in 2004, the site has gone from covering only television and film tropes to also covering those in a number of other media such as literature, comics, video games, and even things such as advertisements and toys. The nature of the site as commentary about pop culture and fiction has attracted attention and commentary from several web personalities and blogs.
The content was published as free content from April 2008, and changed its license over the years to one allowing noncommercial distribution.
The content was published as free content from April 2008, and changed its license over the years to one allowing noncommercial distribution.
TV Tropes initially focused on the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and has since increased its scope to include thousands of other series, films, novels, plays, professional wrestling, video games, anime, manga, comic strips and books, fan fiction, and many other subjects, including Internet works such as Wikipedia, which is referred to in-wiki as "The Other Wiki". It has also used its informal style to describe topics such as science, philosophy, politics, and history under its Useful Notes section. TV Tropes does not have notability standards for the works it covers.
by The Centurion December 28, 2015
Urban Dictionary, but better
by Backwards Toilet Paper October 30, 2021
A word commonly used when a member of your friends decides to bitch out, (i.e. turning down shots)
Many times this word can synonymously be used with "rosening out"
Basically if you really want to make a person feel like a jackass tell him he is "troping out"
Many times this word can synonymously be used with "rosening out"
Basically if you really want to make a person feel like a jackass tell him he is "troping out"
by Teddy Penderazdoun November 29, 2007
The act of surfing TVtropes.org in order to recover from the impact of a particular work, be it fiction or nonfiction by understanding the tropes which make up the work. Most often used in conjunction with horror movies.
After watching The Orphanage, Sarah spent several hours indulging in theraputic troping in order to alleviate her fears.
by Gabriel Rosalind April 22, 2010
The self-congratulatory act of meaninglessly subverting a trope in media. Usually for the sake of appearing more well written than in actuality.
by ThatSilverbean September 19, 2019
A very addicting site about tropes that describe media but plagued by absolutely ridiculous admins that permabans people for disagreeing with them (or for fun) and lock pages that they don't like.
Known for being Anime focused.
Known for being Anime focused.
Tv tropes is the new gamefaqs.
by Fast Eddie is a cock March 14, 2012