** '''The Mad Bride.

''' One fan that springs to mind actually believed she was in an intense online love affair with him. When that went sour in her head, she became a Vocal Loyalist. To a lesser degree, there were others who claimed to have an "insider" in their pocket who told them all kinds of TMI stuff about him, which always seemed to fit whatever crackpot theory they espoused, and others who were convinced he was reading and taking cues from the discussion forum, even to the point where they were taking credit for things he said in interviews. It got especially precious when two Mad Brides would get into arguments with each other over who's "insider" information was more correct. "My contact said this!" "Oh yeah? Well, MY contact said..." ** '''The Insane Avatar.''' May quite possibly be the person the Mad Bride mentioned above was talking to online. Also, there were at least two MySpace users claiming to be him. ** '''The Monomaniac.''' The point where The Purist, The Vocal Loyalist and The Mad Bride intersected. ** '''The Fragger.''' Some took this to a downright sociopathic degree, to the point of digging up personal, identifying information on a fan they had in the cross-hairs with the intent of threatening or just humiliating that person publicly. *** The actor in question wasn't Orlando Bloom, has it? *** Yep, that's who it was. I take it you spent some time on his IMDB discussion board. * God, where to even start on this in my accusations!? Well, for starters there was this one duche that joined a forum that I'm a member of and saying that I "Ruined ______ for him" just because I loved it so much, or to the fact that I was heavily intrested in said game/anime/manga/what-the-fuck-ever but never really watched/played/read it. Keep in mind that this female Troper isn't a yaoi fan and will never be. * This troper's friend is a Protectionist when it comes to ''HarryPotter''. When I learned she was a huge fan of the series, I mentioned that I loved it too. Her reaction? "It's MY thing! You can't be as obsessed as me!" She calmed when I told her that I wasn't obsessed, but it still stops me from mentioning the series much around her. ** I used to do this with everything I became a fan of, to the point that I started to tell my friends they wouldn't like something before they could even watch/read/listen to it, just so I could remain the biggest fan. After getting my first internet connection(at the age of 12), and finally joining a fandom, I realized how goddamned idiotic I was being. Feeling like you have to be the biggest/only true fan in the world of something is a poisonous, and down-right exhausting feeling! * This troper cannot help but laugh at all those Ne'er do wells who are whining about developers pulling away from the PC due to all the piracy, and yet they admit to having ''never'' paid for a PC game since they learned how to pirate it. AND these include people who petition Blizzard to allow a private server (which is a violation of the Terms of Service) after they give them a cease and desist letter. AND the people who whine about how the company they bought their PC from won't repair it because they upgraded a bunch of parts. AND the

banned-from-Xbox-live crowd who thinks that they should have been allowed to mod their Xboxes. AND the people who whine about how the game developers aren't catering to their Softmodding market...when that demographic is usually hated by developers and publishers because they don't usually ''pay''. ** ''Frostsabre.'' Well to be fair, you ''are'' allowed to take an Xbox or PS3 and mod it; you aren't allowed to take that online. As for private servers 9-3/4 times out of 10 they do dishonorable stuff such as [[AllegedlyFreeGame selling]] [[InfinityPlusOneSword overpowered gear]] on the server, which can be more expensive than having a character on retail WoW. And I've never heard from [[DigitalPiracy pirates]] who claimed not to buy video games. Mention the Humble Indie Bundle and most of them would jump and say "I'll buy it." * This troper tried to play through a friend's copy of Final Fantasy VIII, and was forced to give up in a fit of rage after repeatedly being berated for "playing it wrong." I didn't get to finish the game until a couple years later when I bought my own playstation and a copy of the game. * This troper likes {{ARMA}}. He, however, does not like its fanbase. He's seen idiots hate other {{FPS}}es because, apparently, the singleplayer campaign's long periods of inactivity, compared to the "instant gratification" and "no learning curve" of other games, make it the best game EVAR! The "if it's not realistic it sucks" crowd is also annoying. -facepalm* This troper is a fan of a Japanese rock band that is quickly gaining in popularity. She encounters Fan Dumb so frequently that it makes her very embarrassed to even be a fan of said band (even though they are an excellent band), and is only a member of about two LiveJournal communities so she can keep up with the news in regards to the band (being on the other side of the world and not being great at reading Japanese and all). Within this fandom, you will find the Easily Impressed, the Willfully Blind, Chicken Little (esepcially considering half of the Fan Dumb sees the band's label as Satan), the Bloodthirsty Evangelist and the Misplaced Champion, and a number of Mad Brides. The fandom regularly bitches about how much they hate the covers of the latest singles and concert [=DVD=]s, complain how this next song is the WORST EVAR THEY'VE CHANGED TOO MUCH/HAVEN'T CHANGED ENOUGH (never mind that the band has a very distinctive style of song that they do variations on for every album and why aren't people expecting it at this point?), and then once the video comes out, will not stop squeeing about how awesome it is and how, if you dare to dislike it, YOU'RE NOT A TRUE FAN. Everything any member of the band touches or says is gold - especially the vocalist (who is seen as a creative ~* ~genius~* ~). tl;dr: great band, scary as hell fanbase. * This troper used to have a raving Hate Monger for a LiveJournal friend. Although this person claimed to be a "fan" of a popular manga series, her journal basically consisted of nothing but rants about how much she hated a character called "Hanako" (let's pretend that is the name.) According to her, Hanako is a piece of evil, misogynistic propaganda designed by the mangaka to show young girls that the perfect woman is a submissive ExtremeDoormat with large breasts. Hanako's every interaction with the protagonist was taken as

ShipTease, even though their relationship in canon is more of a LikeBrotherAndSister thing. From bashing Hanako alone, the Hate Monger moved onto bashing the Hanako/Protagonist ship and finally the mangaka, digging up quotes from old interviews to "prove" that he is an evil woman-hater. The troper eventually got so fed up that it was one of the reasons why she deleted her journal. Having switched journals, troper now has a new Hate Monger on her friends list, whose current target is ''KamenRiderDouble''. It never ends. * The ''KingdomHearts'' FanDumb seems to be currently ruled by a HateMonger for Kairi, who has written several entire essays on why Kairi is a bitch, and has done her darndest to gather followers and not allow Kairi any fans on a certain forum. When Kairi defenders call her out on this crap elsewhere, she whines about how it's "just her opinion" or "just her view on the games" as a means of copping out of a debate, which she can't really handle without [[FanHater insulting Kairi fans themselves.]] ** Speaking of KingdomHearts and SquareEnix, this troper found a [[http://asmilingmalice.deviantart.com/art/STAMPS-Square-Enix107371683 classic case of RuinedForever on DeviantArt.]] It's fine if you don't like the series/company anymore, but the stamper has made other stamps that essentially say in the description (about the same topic): "If you disagree and/or don't think like me, [[OpinionMyopia you're wrong.]] No wonder this troper is beginning to turn away from the so-called "opinions" of stamp artists on DA! *** This troper has yet to encounter any semblance of open-mindedness or even intelligence from pretty much the entire Kingdom Hearts fanbase. It's HateDom fueled by FanDumb: Disagree with this dude on that forum there, you're banned. Don't like that one game over yonder, you're a troll. If you like all the games released, you're a hopeless drone. No matter which road you take, you'll end up pushing ''someone's'' BerserkButton, and the entire community follows suit. **** And on the flipside, I've yet to encounter any semblence of intelligence from the KingdomHearts HateDom, either. If you like one game, you're a hapless drone. Say you prefer one game. you're a troll. Say you like the series ''in general'', and you're somehow gay or retarded. And I see idiots who trash the game series merely because ''there are people writing fanfiction or drawing fan art of it''. If they hate stuff merely because of that stuff, then I guess it's safe to say they hate entertainment in general! And I've seen intelligent KingdomHearts fans too, as well as stupid ones so no I'm not just ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow. ***** [[FanHater There's no such thing as an intelligent Kingdom Hearts fan.]] ****** This KH fan troper would like to disagree. I have no reason to think that I'm unintelligent. ****** I would also like to disagree. What, just because we like a game with a sizable Fan Dumb and/or silly concept means we're all idiots? You're no better then the Hatedom yourself. ******* [[NoTrueScotsman Then you're not fans]]. CONVERSE TIME! [[spoiler: [[InsaneTrollLogicBecause there are two types of people: KingdomHearts fans and people who like]] KingdomHearts.]] *** Sensors indicate InsaneTrollLogic.

* Have we seriously gone on this long with out mentioning {{Sonic The Hedgehog}}? Sweet Solaris, the amount of Elitists, Toxic Critics, Highbrow Elitists, Strawstuffers, Tinfoilers, Vocal Loyalists, Perfectionists, Chicken Littles, Willfully Blinds, and '''ESPECIALLY''' Oldtimers is [[{{BeyondTheImpossible}} simply amazing]]. ** [[{{Tropers/STK}} I]] have been lucky to not be involved with the fucktardery of the Sonic fandom, as the members of the Sonic forum I frequent are mostly intelligent. However, YouTube and DeviantArt are terrible sources of Fan Dumb. *** An intelligent Sonic forum? prove it. *** Sonic Stadium Message Board. *** I go there every now and then. It's certainly a better spot to discuss Sonic then other places, but I have still witnessed some extreme stupidity and immaturity on that forum. **** [[http://nicochi.deviantart.com/art/Sonic-in-Lava-Reef-Zone117341739 This guy from DeviantArt]] is the epitome of so many different kinds of Fan Dumb. The Sonic Stadium board can't stand him, and for good reason. He has actually stated that "It's okay to be arrogant when you're right." {{Jerk Ass}}. ***** Don't jump down my throat for this or anything, but I'm confused as to why this guy has so much hate around him. Yes, he is completely full of himself and disregards what other people have said out of hand for stupid reasons, but... this is the internet. That isn't unique to him, and he's far from the worst I've seen even in just the Sonic community. For his weird little theory he got, it doesn't seem like it deserves all the attention it gets. It makes some good points, it makes some bad points, has a lot of common sense, and more then it's fair share of 'derp' moments too. It really just seems like any other crackpot Sonic fanboy theory on what's wrong with the series and how to "fix" it that you can find in any number of places, even Sonic Stadium. To me at least, it seems like this guy got blown way out of proportion for not doing a whole lot. Unless someone want's to explain how I'm completely blind to the kitten murdering evil this guy apparently posses that I'm not seeing. ***** '''''[[{{EpicFail}} ...How in the living FUCK does that guy have watchers?!]]''''' As if that weren't bad enough, he's a {{Hollywood Atheist}}, too. ** Come on, Sonic 2006 was ''objectively'' bad! If you ''don't'' hate that you're weird! *** Granted, but still. *** Objectively? ''Really?'' *** Levels were glitched almost to the point of unplayability. That's objective, dude. **** Uh, no. No that's not. A lot of people say the same thing about [[ShadowtheHedgehog Shadow the Hedgehog]], yet I went through that without running into a single game-breaking glitch. Glitches also bug some people more then others. *** [[@/SMsoldier This troper]], while a Sonic fan, must admit at first he was did not really think high of the 4Kids VAs. Once I looked back at the potential {{Narm}} in the voices and genuine moments of the Sonic series in general, I enjoyed them as I always did back then.

I did not become a member of gaming sites back then and now (except for Mario Kart Wii), but I did remember the huge controversy of the series and decided not to get involve as this will probably worsen things. I usually see good in most things in general currently, but I can still understand some people's view as long as they are at least rational (or at least have a rational tone). As for Sonic 06, I usually like to mess around with it after I beaten the game. Back then, I had minor shades of this, but when I saw some of the fans' statements like "IGN is biased" and stuff like that, I think to myself they are just opinions and they are not that serious. *** Sonic 2006's glitches and stuff were bad, [[{{Troper/Enzeru}} this troper]] will admit, but how could almost no-one have fun with the Purple Shoe Gem glitch were you can infinitely jump in the air? Oh, and the Elise X Sonic shipping hate? I don't care how squicky it is to people, but the constant flaming of Elise for this is WAY outta line. It ''was'' what revived Sonic, and she might not have even liked him that way; she never explicitly stated that she was in love with him. And come on, have you ''seen'' what that poor Woobie has been through? '''Cut her some slack.''' ** [[@/{{Nayrani}} This female troper]] just might the rarest thing in the world; a sane Old Timer. I've played the original SonicTheHedgehog on the Mega Drive and has liked 3D games as well. Do keep in mind I can't play the NewGen game due to lack of consoles, but they don't look THAT bad even by my nonexistent hype and standards. She doesn't go to forums because they scare her. She hates most fandoms because they're full of hypocrisy and bullshit. But of course, I live in the middle of nowhere (Balkan). Nobody else sane enough to talk about this. I feel so lonely... but if it means not to be put together with insane people like that, I'm probably better off. *** Nah, you ain't alone in this. Hell, just at my [[Tropers/{{Komodin}} troper page]] if you don't believe me. *** Count me in, too. I don't like newer Sonic's as much as the older games (Sonic Adventure 1 and anything before that) but I think the negativity surrounding the franchise went waaaaaaay overboard. I hated Sonic 2006 and I don't really care for Sonic Heroes, but all of the others are at least playable to some degree. That and everyone seems to ignore that the series reception on handhelds have pretty much always been positive. ** Goodness Sonic 4 Episode 1...this troper couldn't believe the high amounts of {{Fan Dumb}} that she witnessed...'s *** [[http://www.destructoid.com/why-sonic-the-hedgehog-4-will-suck166221.phtml I think this sums it up pretty well]] *** Oh gods Sonic 4. [[UnPleasableFanbase The game that's been dubbed as bad as 06, simply for]] [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks not being the same as the originals,]] [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks and being too similar to the originals.]] Seriously, I've been in fights with people over the game's quality and their arguement had been that it sucks for both at the same time. And I wish it stopped there. People have already declared Sonic Generations the best game ever despite never playing it (I'm apparently a terrible person for pointing out that they don't know whether or not it's good yet, and based on what they usually do they'll end up complaining). There's also the people who declare

anyone who thinks the games improved after the original ones, and likes the newer games better is a false fan, while they themselves only like about three games, [[SarcasmMode cause of course you have to hate all the games expect three to be a true fan.]] Then there's the [[SonicAdventureSeries Adventure]] fans, who believe that they're a group seperate from the modern and retro fans, and therefore SEGA needs to keep them satisfied with new Adventure games like they're trying to do with the modern and retro fans. Lots of the fans are also extremely sensitive. Saying you don't like a character (usually popular ones) will get you long paragraphes about why they rock and your favorte characters suck, even if what you said was the truth (for example, Amy fans refuse to admit to her being a stalker. They seem to have stalker confused with ninja and say she has to be hidden for it to be stalking. And this troper was banned from SEGA Forums (permanantly, but I got them to let me back on) for calling Bean a duck, because he's not a duck, he's a ''dynamite'' duck.). Deserving a special mention from all these [[SarcasmMode wonderful fans]] is a guy on the SEGA Forums (the sight's down so I can't post a link at the moment) who believes his opinion is law, even over official Sonic Team members statements, makes long posts about stuff that's barely related to the current discussion (those posts will usually be insults to stuff he doesn't like and has nothing to do with what's being talked about), and uses logic from other games that have no connection what so ever to Sonic in arguements about Sonic games. It's actually so bad that most people on the forums (most of which are already major [[JerkAss JerkAsses]]) basically ignore him. * I'm just going to say it; {{Furry Fandom}}, this troper (Himself a furry) only got into the community about two years ago, and I'm often appaled or stunned by the behavior of furries towards other furries, among other things, let's count all the things I've ran into: ** If you're a wolf furry, you're unoriginal (This troper's chosen fursona, I get this a lot). ** If you're a fox furry, you're unoriginal and probably gay. ** If you're a dragon scalie, you're wierd and probably a voreaphile. ** If you're any other kind of scalie, you can just get out. ** If you're a bird, real or mythical, exotic or common, your existance is pretty much ignored. ** If you're none of the aformentioned, you're a SpecialUniqueSnowflake. ** These can mostly be attributed to the fandom's long history of being the punching bags of the internet, they're unwilling and sometimes outright hostile to newcomers, showing a sign of being new to the fandom will at best make people ignore you because teaching you is "Not their problem", and at worst, flame you until you move on because they believe you to be a troll. * [[{{Prinzenick}} This troper]] remembers one particularly bad case of FanDumb he encountered with a fan of the Archie Sonic comic. He was making a huge, hissy fit over Fiona Fox [[spoiler: turning evil and slapping Tails]] and only got more angry when he read Mobius: 25 Years Later and discovered [[spoiler: Tails was married to Mina Mongoose, with no mention of Fiona]] and was absolutely insistent that the two be an official pair...[[CompletelyMissingThePoint completely

ignoring]] that Fiona '''never loved Tails to begin with''' (it was a completely one sided romance, with Tails just having a mild, puppy love crush on her) and that the age difference between the two was so great (five years or something, give or take) that even if she did love him back, the relationship would never have worked anyways. Also, this person had no other reason to pair them up ''other'' than that they were both foxes. ([[InterspeciesRomance did i mention he can't stand seeing pair ups of Tails X Cosmo from SonicX?]]) Speaking of which, Fiona and Tails have as much chemistry together as gasoline and pancakes-they had virtually NOTHING in common with each other or any reason to have them as an official couple. I have never seen this fool since. Oh, and did i mention that he was so insistent on the pairing, that he tried to justify Fiona [[spoiler: turning over to her bad boy Scourge]] by making up complete, utter fan nonsense like "No, she was brainwashed! She would never turn her back on her love Tails!" even though it was blatantly obvious that [[spoiler: she was doing this of her own will and she even ''smiled'' out of sheer pleasure when she slapped Tails, [[HeroicBSOD which shattered the poor fox cub's heart like glass.]]]] Absolutely, positively, one of the worst examples of FanDumb and/or DieForOurShip (right trope?) i have ''ever'' seen in my life. * [[{{Ziggerfreud}} This Troper]] was hesitant in joining the steam forums of TeamFortress2 because of the VocalMinority and elitist pricks... holy shit the elitist pricks... especially the ones the call themselves pro... I blame BileFascination because the drama in there is surprisingly entertaining... that and the SelfDeprecation threads. ** Also, Hardcore Tec- [[PublicMediumIgnorance ...ahem... Music ]], has it's share of FanDumb as well, thanks to idiots with limewirelook at the youtube comments on the songs "Ubermensch" by Angerfist & "Earthquake" by Art of Fighters. [[spoiler: They're the same damn song, just mixed versions- the former is incorrectly credited, the latter isn't though... even WITH videos that explain this fact, ''the fans still argue over who made it'']] * [[MacPhisto This Troper]] has, in his mind, absolved YokoOno of all responsibility in the downfall of TheBeatles. Rather, he places the blame solely on [[YokoOhNo Linda Eastman]]. Not that he has anything against Wings (and certainly admires her beliefs in Animal Rights), but Paul became a {{Control Freak}}/{{Jerk Ass}} after they got together. * Right after ''StarWars Episode III: RevengeOfTheSith'' came out, a somewhat famous (and only half-joking) essay, ''[[http://www.jivemagazine.com/column.php?pid=3381 The Complex and Terrifying Reality of Star Wars Fandom]]'', about how real fans completely hate StarWars and everything about it came out, which needless to say, was [[BrokenBase divisive]]. -->There is a diabolical twist to Star Wars fandom, you see, that defies comprehension, and yet is the life-blood of all Star Wars fans. It is this: -->Star Wars fans hate Star Wars. ** According to the author in a [[http://www.jivemagazine.com/column.php?pid=25600 later essay]] about

the first, the article was inspired by an experience at the premiere of ''Revenge of the Sith'' in which some fans had a costume contest before the show and two kids in a homemade, cardboard-box AT-AT were actually ''[[PeripheryDemographic booed by the adult "fans"]].'' * [[PentiumMMX2 This troper]], while he likes DonkeyKong64, there was a time he avoided talking about liking it online because of the massive hate for it from purists who hated it for "not being DonkeyKongCountry 4", as well as some of the stupidest reasons like "Donkey Kong doesn't walk as cool as he did in DKC". The hate even extended into the [[Series/DonkeyKongCountry TV series]]; the purists hating the series not for the SoBadItsGood writing, but hating it because it was CG animated, which "reminded them of DK64". Thankfully, most of that has faded away, as the people who did enjoy it have come out of the woodwork. * [[{{Tropers/SuperGex}} This Troper]] used to be a Monomaniac with some shades of The Willingly Blind towards SonicTheHedgehog. They have both disappeared for the most part, but before I found this site, I became an InternetMimic towards the 3D-haters. * Programming and computer science. ''Good God.'' I can't talk about what I'm studying in this field without people telling me I'm doing it wrong! * "Not being able to [=1CC=] ''ThunderForce III'' is massive failure." * This troper is a part of the ''{{Touhou}}'' fanbase--he plays the games, browses for fanart of the characters, and indulges in the [[{{Memes/Touhou}} massive laundry list of memes]]. Yet there are aspects of the fanbase that he's not too fond of, such as some fans' stance on buying the games and the need to compare every other shooter to ''Touhou'' and tell many a [=YouTube=]-using shmup fan to "play touhou!!!1!1!!chen!!!1". * And all of the above is why this troper avoids message boards all together, I just don't have the will, energy, or patience to listen to people tell me I'm either "not a true fan", or "I just don't get it", or I'm "jumping on the bandwagon now that [whatever] is popular now". * This troper learned about Social Distortion's "Story of My Life" thanks to a friend's copy of GuitarHero. So he went on YouTube to have a peek at the video. Then he read the comments. He suspects that anything appearing in those games that is more obscure than TheBeatles has a similar supply of Elitists who mock anyone who learned about it from GuitarHero for being "not true fans", because apparently it's a crime against nature to get interested in things via a different path from these idiots. * [[TheAtroxious This Troper]] starts out on a great deal of things she adores as FanDumb. Really, really dumb. She has been the Misplaced Champion, The Litter-Bearer, The Monomaniac, the Mad Bride, The Old Timer, The Hate Monger, The Toxic Visionary (which she's actually proud of), and The Perfectionist. Usually, after her ardour for the object of her love has dulled, she becomes a normal fan again, and realises what an idiot/asshole she was being, but by that time...the fandom is just not as much fun anymore. In one example, she was on one side of a broken base, militantly up in arms against the other side and brutally tearing them down for their beliefs...until she wound up doing a little accidental research on the other side's point of view.

She switched sides ''immediately''. Another time, in a raging fit of fangirl, she post-bombed a few boards, and wondering at the less-than friendly response, she skulked off into the shadows. Coming back some months later, she re-read her posts...and realised how insane and even demeaning to the creator she sounded. [[{{Facepalm}} Wut]]. * This troper doesn't play ''{{Counter-Strike}}: Source'' online, because he's afraid that when he goes into a random, open server, he'll get kicked within 5 minutes for committing the mortal sin of being a {{noob}}. * I just got banned off of some SonicTheHedgehog forum for having the username [[CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]] ( apparently having a "retarded username" [[DisproportionateRetribution is enough to get you banned there]]). I hadn't even ''said'' anything yet. When I went on the site's IRC, the administrator randomly called me names. I asked about just why my account was banned, he just banned me for no reason. I also read their rules, which had said moderators raging at the users for spoiling parts of [[SeriousBusiness Sonic 4]]. If they were the mods, I'd hate to see the users. * This troper was never a huge yaoi fan, but when she got into DeathNote, she started reading and enjoying LxLight fanfics. Eventually though, the FanDumb became too much (not to mention all the Mello/Matt fics which she ALWAYS hated) and now she doesn't like yaoi at all. In addition, she no longer reads any HarryPotter fanfiction (except for the occasional oneshot) because of this, and once had a person tell her that she 'had no right to call [herself] an anime fan if [she] didn't watch {{Naruto}} (which she hates). * Seeing as there are no [[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Umineko]] stories on here...I agree that yes, the complaints about the [[AdaptationDecay anime]] ''are'' justified to a certain extent (the one scene that got cut that actually made this troper angry was [[spoiler: Battler and Beato's hug in the last episode]], but that was about it). But seriously, it's gotten to ridiculous proportions now. [[CompressedAdaptation Yes, it has cut down on certain scenes for character development.]] And yes, it did something of a messy job in remembering what it left in and what it cut out. However, I have come across fans who expect the anime to follow every single chapter wordfor-word or else it's [[RuinedForever Ruined Forever.]] And apparently, using ''the wrong music'' makes it so horrible it isn't even worth watching. And then there are the [[DisContinuity Discontinuity]] claims...''ugh.'' ** And that's not all. This troper read one comment by one fan who said that if ''they'' adapted the VN, they would make it '''56 episodes long so nothing would get cut out.''' [[SarcasmMode Good luck finding the budget for that, buddy!]] * [[DarkInsanity13 I]] can't stand being on Gaia (or any forum, for that matter) and seeing the line "#1 fan of [insert character/show/pairing/what-have-you here]!" in someone's signature, because no matter how intelligent or rational you may be, it is a complete and utter ''lie''. Sure, you may know much more than the average fan, you may have a frighteningly massive collection of pictures and merchandise, and you may be able to quote over half the series/movie/whatever, but as far as I am concerned, there is no

"number one fan" for anything. On the other hand, I do admit I'm an incredibly biased fan of rock music. I'm a bit more tactful online (amazing, huh?), but I have a habit of getting angry at people who misname my favourite bands, to the point where if they mistake the band being played for another one I really detest, I'll say "of course it's not that, it doesn't suck". Also admittedly, I'm very involved in anime fandom. I'm ashamed about the things I say sometimes, and each time I get worked up, it takes me at least a day to calm down and think rationally again. I'm honestly trying to get better, but it's very '''hard'''. * This troper facepalms everytime someone trys to deny that Skillet is a Christian rock band despite the explictly religious lyrics to some of their earlier matierial, Word of God (no pun intended), being on Christian radio stations, etc. * This troper can't stand being around forums about ''WanganMidnightMaximumTune'' for more than five minutes. On one board, the thread for the region he's from is chock full of people who you'd guess to be at most 13 flinging flames at each other. * Whatever you do, DO NOT get involved with the Sailor Moon fans. Oh my God, they are terrible. They might act nice, but in truth, they're a bunch of backstabbing attention whores. I was involved with them for about two years until I said enough. ** I'm very sorry you had such a bad experience. However, we're not all like that :) * Had recently encountered an example on a forum discussing {{LEGO}} themes. Being a moderator in one of the sub-forums, I had to ask someone to calm down after utilizing the "you're not a fan unless..." argument. He was apparently so angry at LEGO for discontinuing the ''{{Bionicle}}'' line and replacing it with ''Hero Factory'' that he labeled everyone who dared not to hate HF and say something negative about ''Bionicle'' (even if it was a true fact) a hypocrite and an untrue fan, while [[DoubleStandard accusing others for the same things he has committed]]. Naturally, he took the advises and counterarguments as insults, and started talking back. When he later offended the forum administrator too, they sent him flying from the board. His next action? Re-register and make his "first" post an insult. We have another LEGO nutcase too, on the same board, this one actively hating ''Bionicle'' and its fans to the point of wishing them death... * Sadly, ThisTroper has, at times, been a part of the FanDumb. Rather ironically this was largely in response to (and then provoking more) other FanDumb. Yes - recursive FanDumb. To explain in detail: I like to muck about with... well just about any setting in which I become interested. Warhammer/WH40k, Warmachine, Star Wars - the list is fairly endless. If I get involved with a fandom I'm going to be looking for oddities, edge cases and general weirdness to exploit for my own amusement. Unfortunately after less-than-polite responses... I became a bit hard-headed and rather than simply post elsewhere on the same topic... continued going as much to irritate the detractors as anything. This alone might have been OK to a point. There is after all a certain satisfaction in continuing on to spite someone who's been less-than-kind to oneself... but I made a rather large jackass of myself in the process; thus going from "Odd guy who feuds with a

couple ridiculous people" to "Nobody likes this guy" on a couple forums. Fandumb begets Fandumb begets Fandumb... oi! (Someday I'll learn...) * This troper would like to one day find a ''DwarfFortress'' fan who accepts the intimidating learning curve as a valid excuse to not play instead of going "NO FUCK YOU GO PLAY IT BECAUSE LOSING IS FUN." ** [[CountDorku Now you have]]. ** To be honest, there isn't a massive learning curve as long as you stick to the basics. If you're trying to build computers to automate your farming system or stuff like that then you're going to hit a massive wall in terms of learning curve. It's possible to make a sustainable force with the very basics, though. * Jeroic sayeth: Beware TheElderScrolls FanDumb especially if you are in the "regular" fandom like myself. There are so many varieties to choose from, too! If you prefer Oblivion, the "Morrowhiners" will gut you. if you prefer Morrowind, the "Oblivion Newbs" will flame you. "Daggerfags" always hate you and any other Daggerfag. That's the games themselves. For the mythology and background lore, if you even mention Michael Kirkbride, Vivec, or CHIM, you'd better prepare for the inevitable flame war between people who view MK as a God, Vivec as his in-Universe avatar (and therefore the God with a capital G, of which TES has none, of the TES canon) and CHIM and related ideas as the absolute truth of TES' mythology and possibly that of the real world; versus the HateDumb of Vivec, CHIM and MK who believe the opposite, with anyone taking a moderate viewpoint flamed by both. Oh, and did I mention that the MK/CHIM/Vivec FanDumb will find a way to turn ANY lore discussion into a discussion about Vivec and CHIM, so this happens ''every single lore thread without exception?'' I didn't? Well, now you know. Further, don't bring up Sovngarde and Bloodmoon around either group, FanDumb or HateDumb, because it will spark another flamewar about whether it "proves" CHIM false or not, or whether the [[CantArgueWithElves not-elf]] whose ghost tells you about Sovngarde was just delirious. THAT led to the idea that all afterlives are... ah, well, screw it, it's a real sordid state of affairs for the TES community. ** From this troper's experience; he's yet to find proof that intelligent life exists when Tamriel is mentioned. And for the record, '''Elitist'''s don't count. I don't care how educated you are, but if you're so stuck up as to bemoan every single game ever made because "It's not Daggerfall/Morrowind" and you think it's ''developers''' faults, then I truly won't believe you ain't Stupid as a log. ** There are mature and friendly ES fans. You just have to find the right forum. The Official Forums, like the Official Forums of any video game, attract the largest number of the biggest idiots. Admittedly, the modding community for both Morrowind and Oblivion (and in many cases Fallout 3, that also being a Bethsoft game on the Oblivion engine) has its share of dramas that it's better to stay on the outside of. ** This is Jeroic again. it's been some time since I wrote this tale, and things are different. The Lore section is much more polite and diverse in its discussions now, but since Skyrim is a game in development by Bethesda Game Studios, there is not a single feature

shown thus far that has not been taken as "proof" that Bethesda are evil corporate sellouts and that TheElderScrolls is RuinedFOREVER! Mostly it's the purists and Old Timers, but there is literally no manner of FanDumb that you cannot find on the first page of the Skyrim forum on Bethesda's official board. It's gotten so bad the forum is actually ''too stupid to make a drinking game out of.'' You know how Star Wars fans hate Star Wars? Skyrim is looking the same way. The Imperial Library is much nicer. * This troper's experiences in the TenchiMuyo fandom when he first started to really get into anime soured him on fan communities altogether. The sheer amount of hate he got for getting into the show via AdultSwim, for not being in line with either the rabid Ryoko or Aeka lovers(he's a Washuu fan, for the record. Doesn't ship, just likes Washuu), and for having the gall to think that Tenchi in Tokyo was merely mediocre rather than OMGWORSTTHINGEVAR led to him being roundly yelled at by many of the fans. To this day, I only lightly step into any fandom for fear of getting burned by the FanDumb again. * This Troper likes to stay within his circle or reasonable ''WarriorCats'' fans simply because what is outside of it is scary. There are either the young fans, who for the most part aren't too bright, constantly twist the GrayAndGreyMorality into stuff like "[[DracoInLeatherPants that villain is good!]]" or "[[RonTheDeathEater that hero is evil!]]", and don't understand that imperfect characters and a depressing storyline isn't instantly bad writing, as well as a few Megalomaniacs and some TheyChangedItNowItSucks compalaints. Then there are the "true fans": All Purists with a few Old Timers and Vocal Loyalists in there who come together to cover every single variety of the Highbrow Elitist. They are also noticeably blinded by NostalgiaFilter, since as they ruthlessly tear apart the newer books, they don't realise the older books weren't exactly high literature either. And of course, the nauseating amount of FanWank and DracoInLeatherPants-ing directed at their precious Ashfur has completely ruined his character for me. Can't we just ''enjoy'' the freaking books? * This troper has characteristics of the Monomaniac, the Theocrat, the Elitist, the Misplaced Champion, the Bizarro Chicken Little (at least for fandoms of more obscure material), and especially the LitterBearer in recent years. Some of it can probably be attributed to my confirmed mental disorders (at least the more anal aspects). The Misplaced Champion and Litter-Bearer aspects definitely date back to being flamed, on the Internet and in real life, for liking the ''StarWars'' prequels; as well as spending too much time on Fandom_Wank and witnessing the FanDumb prevalent in other fandoms. * This troper is a huge fan of [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney]], ''HarryPotter'' and ''TheLordOfTheRings'' and has been known to have characteristcs of the Monomaniac and the Misplaced Champion. I'm glad to say I've calmed down a bit after reading stories about ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', ''HannahMontana'' and ''[[TheJonasBrothers Jonas Brothers]]'' fangirls taking things [[{{Understatement}} a little bit too far]]. Despite the fact that I'm not... their gendre, I realised that I didn't want to stoop to their level. While I'm still a big fan, [[AnAesop I have learnt to accept

that not everyone has the same tastes, and people who can't respect the opinions of others, don't deserve to let their own voice be heard.]] What can I say? ''SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped''. ** This troper can be embarrassed to call himself a Disney fan sometimes. I've given up trying to find a post on IMDb that doesn't have one bout of 'my favourite Disney film is better than yours, because you didn't grow up in the 90's' and all that sort of thing. * Speaking of Harry Potter and its infamous FanDumb, this troper is a member of an HP community which mocks said FanDumb. While I have many horror stories from that arena (and I recommend checking out the Fandom Wank Wiki for more info), a recent event stands out. While mocking commenters on a FAP thread who claimed that nobody in their right mind could prefer Bonnie Wright (Ginny's actress) over Emma Watson because Bonnie was fugly, several trolls showed up to attempt to "prove" this. As in, provide objective evidence that a majority of the male population (because of course, [[HideYourLesbians only ''male'' opinions matter when it comes to judging female beauty]]) finds Emma more attractive than Bonnie. Their "evidence"? A Maxim poll that ranked Emma the fourth hottest woman in the world...and Bonnie the sixth. They continued to troll the board for several weeks afterwards, bringing it up in posts completely unrelated to Ginny, before everyone got sick of their misogyny and started screening anonymous comments. * A girl I know hates the ending of Labyrinth because Sarah didn't end up with Jareth and, you know, TOOK CONTROL OF HER OWN LIFE AND TOLD THE ABUSIVE MANIPULATIVE BASTARD THAT HE HAD NO POWER OVER HER. * This Troper is now a semi-Litter Bearer now, appearantly. * Watch any StreetFighter ranked match replay on YouTube where worldfamous Daigo Umehara loses. The comment section WILL feature the following comments: "This isn't Daigo!"/"Daigo doesn't lose, this is someone else!"/"Daigo would NEVER lose to *insertnameofotherprofessionalplayerhere*!" * [[LimeTH I]] was once in a chat room on the website of an independent singer (who, as luck would have it, was there that day chatting with us). Though the FanDumb experienced wasn't about the singer. See, I made a refrence to {{Animaniacs}} ("Would someone please stop this man from saying 'Dragon?'"). The mention of dragons set off a guy to constantly shout [[HomestarRunner "TROGDOR!"]] (Which eventually reached it's cap when the singer herself said [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "Would someone please stop this man from saying 'Trogdor'?"]]). Then said Trogdor fan went into a rant about how American cartoons suck and are horribly drawn, and Anime is infintley better, after gushing over ''Trogdor'', whose an ''American cartoon character''. Honestly.... ** [[Tropers/OldManHoOh I]] like HomestarRunner, but Trogdor's definitely not well-drawn. *** I disagree with you there. * [[{{mglittlerobin}} This troper]] is quite irritated with the FanDumb of the FullmetalAlchemist fans because ever since FullmetalAlchemist Brotherhood came out everyone automatically tosses out the first series and says the manga adaptation is "better" simply for the sake of following the manga. They don't give the first series

any credit when I think that the first series was more emotionally involving, and had a better musical soundtrack, and while it didn't follow the manga, it was by no means bad, but FanDumb makes it out to be horrible. You can't blame it for not following the story when over half of it wasn't written when it was made! ** Gotta co-sign on this one. Big time. I don't care if it follows the manga or not. The original series, IMO, is a masterpiece, and even my mom (who could give two rats about anime) enjoys it. ** While, yes, I enjoyed Brotherhood a little more, this troper LOVES both series. I don't understand how someone could just give the bird to the original they used to love as soon as the new one comes along. * God, the ''HomestarRunner'' community... The most active forum out there belongs to the Homestar Wiki, and it is currently teeming with overly dramatic Chicken Littles due to the as-yet ongoing SeriesHiatus. Some of them even have suggested holding a ''funeral'' for the series. MST3KMantra much? * This troper was forced to endure a dragon Monomaniac of all things on a forum dedicated to discussing myths and mysteries and the like. Apparently, ''every'' mysterious thing ''ever'' involved dragons in some capacity. Also, every God in every religion is a dragon. Ditto angels. [[SarcasmMode Because, you know, that makes perfect sense.]] * Hello, certain ShootEmUp-centric forum. Hello, ''{{DeathSmiles}}'' thread of bitching and moaning. * There is a surprising degree of FanDumb for Nancy Farmer's HouseOfTheScorpion; it has a large group of willfully blind monomaniacs, insane avatars and at least one highbrow elitist, (specifically, a toxic visionary). Most of the FanDumb are found posting on Farmer's personal blog, oftentimes claiming to be doing so for an elementary or junior high assignment. Most of these fans claim that this is the only novel they've read and that the experiences the characters in the novel go through parallel their own. Most of them also claim to want to be writers, and were so moved by the book that it "changed their lives forever". These fans also believe they are unique in liking the novel, and that it is only for them. Some of the fans are purists: These fans are the shippers, and also constantly make requests on what the novel should be like, including the title, and plot related elements. The saddest part is likely the fact that these fans ''actually expect'' these requests the be implemented in the novel. One fan named "chandler" goes as far to say: -->''[-I love the House of Scorpion but I dont[sic] want to tell you how to write your book but dont[sic] name it God's Ash Tray becuase that name offends me and probley[sic] otheres[sic] and theres[sic] no way im[sic] gona[sic] be able to read it with my parents please-]'' ** The sad part is most of the FanDumb are (claimed) to be between 11 and 16. They're already acting arrogant and obnoxious even though their education is still incomplete. One kid called Rikin Shah claims to be 12, and, amongst other things, shows signs of a toxic genius. ---> ''"I'm 12 and we had a poetry unit in school...I wrote a few poems about bio ethical topics and one of my poems were about cloning...For cloning to take place it would take the same species and the original nucleus of the embryo would need to be replaced by the modified nucleus. So theoretically(to current knowledge) a cow

wouldn't work to harvest a Clone."'' *** 12 year olds know '''''nothing''''' about bioethics and biological mechanisms in general. * This troper has found that ''{{NetHack}}'' players are just as uptight as ''{{Touhou}}'' players about control schemes: in their eyes, if you're using numpad instead of HJKLYUBN for movement, you're doing it wrong. ** Speaking of NetHack, this troper has a nasty habit of claiming that playing NetHack with text glyphs, especially in a command line, is the "only" acceptable way to play. At the end of the day, though, it's totally fine by me if you use tile graphics, but that doesn't mean I won't stop avoiding them like the plague. * This troper used to enjoy ''{{Anime/Monster}}'', despite feeling that it had its share of problems. Granted, most of the fans are decent, polite people. Then there's the FanDumb, which is made up of a bunch of '''Toxic Geniuses'''. Because I didn't parrot their opinion that ''Monster'' was the greatest manga ever or that Kenzo Tenma was the greatest fictional character ever, they talked down to me like I was some kind of uneducated hick. I honestly would have preferred a bunch of profane-spewing loudmouths, because at least '''that''' kind of FanDumb wouldn't have made me doubt myself. One fan in particular (who was not only a toxic genius, but also a very ruthless ''Misplace Champion'') told me that the series was flawless and that only problem was with me because I didn't "get it". On a side note, I'm pretty sure that particular fan had a crush on the lead character; make of that what you will. I still reread the series occasionally, but I don't enjoy it as much and I don't like to talk about it online anymore. ''Sigh.'' Whatever happened to ''live and let live''? ** *pats on the back* I'm sorry to hear that. Granted, I believe ''{{Anime/Monster}}'' is one of the best anime/manga out there (note that I said "one of" and not "the") and this troper loves Tenma to death, but fans should respect each others' opinions. I hate to see it ruined for you. :( * The ThatGuyWithTheGlasses forum. Dear God... I managed to pull myself out and stick to this site and LiveJournal when the Chick's "Titanic" review came out, not wanting to go though idiotic threads of people being more obsessed with her new hair than the actual review. My braincells are still in the process of returning and if I had a hat, it would go off to Rob and the other mods for managing to keep their sanity. * Let's face it, if a movie has a place on the IMDb Top 250 list, the odds are, you'll find at least one entry in that film's forum bitching and whining, to the point of trolling, about it being too high the list, or wether or not it belongs there at all. On the other hand you'll ocassionally get people who actually use the list as what they see as a successful arguement as to why their film is the best. So, in some ways, the Top 250 list has its own FanDumb. * This Troper is a Fanfic writer who usually writes Crash Bandicoot & X-Men Evolution, but has delved into Transformers, he created a forum for Crash Bandicoot's Fanfiction Archive & recently joined an X-Men Evolution one based around creating characters, now sure, it seams

cool enough, the forum starter & admin seamed nice enough, until in a character's likes & dislikes I wrote {{Deadpool}}, as both this character & Deadpool were used in a fanfic I wrote & worked on oposite teams, now this was the odest moment of my life, they apparently dislike Comic characters, they objected to using Deadpool, quite bluntly, & when I explained why I mentioned him they merely said 'I Don't care, No Deadpool' so then I apologized for doing whater it was I did that upset them & pointed out another user mentioned Maria Hill, followed by being asked 'who the heck' she is, both me & another user explained, causing their next reply to be bluntly & rudely 'I'm the Admin, so what I says goes', I've offered to just make a created character profile for Deadpool in case that will make it better but I'm still waiting for their reply. * The ''StarTrek'' FanDumb is sometimes really hard to live with. Apparently, Voyager was awful because of (among other things) Seven, the "lost in space" plot, and the weak characters. And don't even mention the JJVerse movie if you value your life. Granted, I'm a bit of a Purist, but that doesn't mean that newcomers to the franchise are evil. Heck, I've gotten a lot of people into the original series because of the reboot! * This troper used to be part of a ''{{Supernatural}}'' forum on fanfiction.net where every person was a '''Toxic Genius''' (myself included). The problem was, I grew up and accepted the show for what it is while keeping my opinions, while they didn't. The worst person there was this '''Tinfoiler''' who was also a '''Mad Bride''' for JensenAckles but professed disdain for "screaming fangirls" (I longed to tell her that she was one, but never could). She honestly seemed to feel that any female presence on the show would take away from Sam and Dean and she was incredibly vocal about it (especially about Bela). She became so close with one of the mods that I just had to leave. Also, after awhile, everyone got so spoilerphobic that we couldn't speculate over promos anymore--that was the last straw. But nothing quite beats the '''Bizarro Chicken Little''' I ran across once during the 2007 Writer's Striker who genuinely believed that since the writers were striking, we should've written episode scripts and sent them to Eric Kripke. I was pissed at her ignorance then, but now I think it's hilarious. ** The fandumb gets worse- according to those fangirls, if you don't like either Dean/Cas or Dean/Sam, then you're completely evil and homophobic. Oh, and go and mention that your fav character is one of the recurring females? I had one fangirl tell me that I'm not truly a Supernatural fan because I like Bela (yeah, I know, unpopular decision) better than either of the boys, and that I had no right to watch. *** Don't forget the fans who transfer the hate of a girl character onto the actress. Geneivere Cortese was hated on because she played Ruby, being called a evil backstabbing slut, because apparently people can't recongize fact from fiction. * My God, I'm afraid to even mention ''[[BaldursGate Baldur's Gate II]]'' anymore. I'm a big fan of role-playing games. Western, Japanese, tabletop games, video games - I don't pick favorites, I just like a good story with memorable characters. And ''Baldur's Gate II''

was a damn good story, but its fanbase ten years later, with retroactive CreatorWorship and the NostalgiaFilter in full effect, seems to be about 40% Elitists, 40% Toxic Geniuses and 20% sensible people. Don't even mention to one of them that you enjoy any RPG made after ''Baldur's Gate II''; you're not ''allowed'' to. And whatever you do, don't you dare admit to ever having played and enjoyed a console RPG, you filthy peasant. Ask a die-hard fan of ''Baldur's Gate II'' why they dislike this game or that, and the answer always seems to be some variation on "It isn't ''Baldur's Gate II''." ** It's rather ironic how RPG fans are supposed to be incredibly intelligent. Yet whenever I even look at most boards, it's obvious that they can be outsmarted by friggin ''slimes''. Let those fans rot in their puddles of stupidity - It's their own damn fault they're unable to be pleased. ** I've had the same thing happen - Only replace "Baldur's Gate II" with "''{{Fallout}}''." * I've been interested in ''TheLegendOfZelda'' timeline theorizing for a while now, but most of the individuals involved seem to have goals that go beyond simply trying to figure out the order that the developers consider the games to have happened in. People will often blatantly ignore developer's statements if they contradict a fan theory, going so far as to deny that the developers ever said that, or were invariably mistranslated by ignorant American publications because it's '''so obvious''' that the one true timeline is the one that the fan supports, despite evidence to the contrary. The sheer obsession that goes on with these people is also almost frightening. Fans will write huge dissertations on the ''Zelda'' timeline as if they were writing a commentary on Homer or a biblical concordance. These people will translate every line of dialogue from the original Japanese and then nitpick on the minor differences between the Japanese and the American version. Some fans will uphold the Japanese text as the one true canon always, while at the same time trying to argue that the American versions of some games are more accurate because they were "obviously" revised before American release. The one consistency between all camps in the timeline debate seems to be that they don't care what the creators of the series think as long as they agree with preconceived fan theories. ** Then there's the people who insist that there isn't really a timeline and call people stupid for even thinking so, despite the fact that [[WordofGod Word of God]] has said otherwise time and time again. I feel your pain. * [[Tropers/BonsaiForest This troper]] received crap from ''SilentHill'' fans for... loving ''SilentHill3'' and hating, absolutely hating, ''SilentHill2''. I didn't like the setting, I didn't like the story, I didn't find it as scary as other games in the series (it had its moments, certainly), but I did like Maria's scenario, which I found a lot more interesting. Better setting, better story, and even better level design in that mansion, imo. Don't think I'm a "true" fan? I literally bought a PSP just to play ''SilentHillOrigins''. But since fandom is SeriousBusiness, I can't dare have an unpopular point of view. * Any religious text will be full of FanDumb:

** First, you have the people who will kill you for either being a hater or never having read the book. For most of its history, Christianity has fit this bill. So does fundamentalist Islam. ** Then you have the people who don't ''want'' you to read the book, but instead rely on your interpretation. See medieval Christianity. ** Then you have the [[{{Fanon}} fan theories]]. [[IncrediblyLamePun Many border on]] WordOfDante. Naturally, even the most inane differences in fanon lead to war. ** A new religion is born from an old one. ExpandedUniverse or {{Fanfic}}? Expect a war over this, such as the expulsion of Mormons. ** An inherent element of following a religion is belief that it is real. [[ScienceMarchesOn Evidence to the contrary]] may be shoehorned to fit this (polygenesis), denied that there is a contradiction (e.g., Earth on four pillars), or it may be disregarded entirely, set up as a straw man, or even responded to with death threats (evolution, evolution, and evolution). *** As a corollary, [[{{Jossed}} evidence to the contrary of fan theories]] (e.g., [[EternalEnglish all languages springing ex nihil at the tower of Babel]]) will be treated identically. ** Have you forgotten the {{Hatedom}} for the whole genre? And while the HateDumb isn't so pronounced outside fiction and the Internet, go on certain websites and you'll see a lot of [[HollywoodAtheist them]]. Fact is, anything that elicits strong feelings in humans is going to start a fight. It's why some forums have a BanOnPolitics: politics, religion, racial and ethnic identity, family or personal honor, these things come up and someone's going to start something. * [[Tropers/LordPentium I]] like to consider myself [[IGotBetter getting better]] from this, but I've got my FanDumb moments. First of all, The Protectionist for [[VideoGames an entire medium]]. Why? Because all I've seen of females playing the kinds of games I like leads to SlashFic, and I'm a mild HeteronormativeCrusader. [[TheLegendOfZelda Link]] ain't gay, [[FinalFantasyVII Cloud]] ain't gay, [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] ain't gay (and I don't want to even see him doing the straight stuff), all characters are straight until proven gay. Except Sephiroth, he's the gayest thing since San Francisco scientists discovered gayness in the ruins of Sodom. Fact is, girls are just different, and I'm uncomfortable with that other way of enjoying the games for certain reasons. This may also make me The Perfectionist. I'm also rather selective about which installments of a series I like: I like [[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask the]] [[TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess darker]] [[TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]] games better than [[TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker the]] [[TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass lighter]] [[TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks ones]], and you can occasionally find me complaining about WindWaker getting two sequels while the superior TwilightPrincess got none, though I don't hate WindWaker and its sequels by any means; however, that's rather light compared to my lingering bad feelings (misguided as they may be) about ''[[{{Ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokmon]]'' [[{{Ptitlem5qiqwn8}} Generation 3]], which I regard as a mild DorkAge even if I know it really wasn't that bad. I also get defensive of stuff I like when faced with {{Hatedom}}, in particular for Japanese games and {{anime}}, because

TrueArtIsForeign. ** Of course, I have my HateDumb moments too. In particular, that complaint about the "wrong" Zelda getting sequels? Yeah, pure Andy Titlement. And all {{First Person Shooter}}s are the same except for MetroidPrime[[hottip:*:I'll at least try to justify this by saying that my main complaint with the FPS is the unintuitive and unnatural two-stick control scheme, as I'm more used to games with simpler controls where the challenge is what's on the screen, not what's in my hands]]. Then there's my Crusader-esque hatred of [[{{ptitlewj38mw4u}} Seth MacFarlane]]'s animated shows. ** Another guy here; I've had a few works ruined for me by the knowledge that people were writing slashfic about the main characters. No, I don't want to think about Sonic rogering Tails. Not even a ''little''. I can watch ''RizzoliAndIles'', say, but when people start sexualizing characters from kids shows...? * Yeah, I'm watching the [[BrokenBase reactions]] to OtherM unfold, and the only reason I haven't fallen into fan dumb myself, is because of the MST3KMantra. It is tempting to burst a blood vessel trying to make people see things my way, but all that would accomplish is making me look like an idiot and, either way, it isn't going to change anything. * The Wii. The top complaints many people will spew is how Nintendo abandoned their fans for the casuals, how waggle controls will [[RuinedForever will ruin gaming forever...only now it's MORE ruined thanks to Microsoft's Kinetc and Sony's Move,]] and how the Wii will always be inferior thanks to Nintendo refusing to add DVD playback, a 1080p upscaler, more hard drive space, etc. On the other side of the spectrum, you have fans who think the Wii is a shining example of perfection with the games and motion controls and how everything Nintendo does is the right choice while ignoring any legit criticisms people have of the Wii or just call them a troll. * This [[Tropers/CyberTiger88 troper]] [[strike: might be]] is asking [[UnderStatement a bit too much]], but just once would he like to see a FinalFantasy6 fan that isn't out to flame and call every single FinalFantasy7 fan a whiny, emo, socially-retarded, YaoiFangirl abortion for just simply living. ** WeirdRaptor: ''Raises hand.'' You've met him. *** TheDeadSkin: ''Waves.'' Hello to you both. *** XephyrEnigma: And I say "Yo.", to the three of you. *** {{Tropers/TeamKarasu}}: Hi there! * If you want to talk about FanDumb, try the InvaderZim fanbase. It's been established that ''water'' is caustic to Irkens, yet there are hundreds of [[HalfHumanHybrid human-Irken hybrid]] [[MarySue fancharacters]] running around. * The ''GurrenLagann'' fanbase. Oh good GOD I've had many problems that fanbase. While I do think GL is a decent series, I found that these fans may possibly be even worse than the ''{{Naruto}}'' Fan Dumb. This Troper has ran into many that will get up in arms of you point out the tiniest thing you didn't like. I've been to a message board saying that I didn't like Kamina that much, and what do they do? The start bashing me and saying I'm not looking at the character well enough. I am aware that there was more to Kamina than his loud

personality, but I just didn't really care. Sure he may have been a modest guy at heart but on the outside, he was still an annoying and obnoxious loudmouth. In addition, there are fans who wont stop saying the quotes from Gurren Lagann, whether they be WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM, or YOURS IS THE DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS or even recite those damned speeches. Sure it was fun at first but then after a while, it started to get real old. Back onto the topic of GL fans getting really defensive, there was a video of some girls disscussing why they disliked Gurren Lagann. While I admit they [[CompletelyMissingThePoint completely missed the point]] of the show, the comments from those rabid fanboys were just plain mean spirited and sexist. I'd link the video here, but supposedly, it's deleted from youtube. Just goes to show how psychotic those guys can get. ** I can relate. This troper found Kamina annoying at first, but he grew on me. Plus, I don't get all the hate for Rossiu. He was simply desperate to protect the human race. He even felt incredible guilt over it and ''wanted to commit suicide''. The man is a [[TheWoobie woobie]] in my eyes. * With no disrespect to the sane fans, the Fosters Home fandom deserves special mention. At least one certain forum seems to go by the following commandments: Never like Cheese, never dislike Wilt, Frankie, or Mac, never like any villain character (aside from Terrence and POSSIBLY the Duchess), never once think the show may have gone downhill at any time, never like Goofball, NEVER EVER like the episode "Imposters Home For Make-Em-Up Pals" or any episode where Frankie is treated like dirt, never bring up most pairings outside of Wilt x Frankie and Khones x Fluffer Nutter, and never ever think of criticising even the dumbest moment on the show, aside from above mentioned episode. Prepare to get your backside tanned or yourself shunned if you break ANY of these commandments. Fun, isn't it? Obviously, the fandom's died down from a couple years back, but for pity's sakes, why so strict?! ** I think I know what forum you're talking about and what you say is (was?) on the money. It's part of the reason why I left the fandom and while I already disliked Wilt x Frankie (which is actually a CrackPairing at most and a rant for another day), this forum made me hate it with a passion. And that's only the start of it. Yeah, it was pretty much the Foster fandom's FanDumb Central. *** I also seem to remember most people (not all, keep in mind) were quite 'opinionated' about what everyone should and should not like. Spongebob, anime outside of Sailor Moon, and pretty much whatever the higher ups didn't like were frequent punching bags for them. As I said earlier, I haven't checked on the forum in years to see if everything is still like that, but I doubt much has changed since then. You couldn't critique an episode of Foster's at all. You're pretty much expected to shut up and glorify upon how awesome the show is all the time. The only episodes anyone was permitted to criticize is whichever ones the admins themselves disliked, or any episode that 'treated' a particular forum favorite character 'rudely', even if said character did something that would fully warrant such behavior against them. The episode 'Imposter's Home for Make'em up Pals' is probably the crowning example of such. Tell any Frankie fan on there that you like the

episode at all, and I doubt you'll see any signs of an intellectual discussion on why the episode isn't bad, in favor of "OMG YOU HAET FRANKIE GTFO RAAAAUGH". Probably the most laughable aspect of the forum was that it represented itself as a 'Foster's Community'. Like, really. * This troper is frankly ''astonished'' that nobody has yet brought up the HalfLife fandom. Dear god... I played Half-Life 2 (well, up to the conclusion of Ravenholm before having to postpone the rest of my playthrough indefinitely), I found it to be on the upper end of average. It certainly had its good moments, and wasn't bad... but I ''despise'' the elitist and superior pricks which apparently comprise the most vocal elements of its fanbase. Mention that you like Halo, CoD or anything else with the gall to not be the [[SarcasmMode aweinspiringly deep contribution to modern literature that is HalfLife]], [[SeriousBusiness and you're a lesser being, not fit to exist, who should be ashamed for liking such inferior trash.]] It doesn't seem to enter their minds that there can be people who can disagree with their opinion and at the same time be intelligent. Half the time, when writing up their essays on how much you suck, they're not even trying to promote the game to you - evidently you've already fallen so deep into damnation that you are not worthy of touching Half-Life with your Halo-dirtied hands. I'm sorry, no, just shut the fuck up and let me enjoy the games I like. ** '''''Agreed'''''. I find the HalfLife FanDumb to be worse than the FanDumb for ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' (Which I haven't yet seen!) or ''FinalFantasyVII'' (Which has been gravely exaggerated). Even ''{{Halo}}''. The main reason? They're not subject to FanDumb control as those fandoms are. Say you think those games are anything but Trash and you'll be asked to prove why, and you must properly cite it and write it the way you would write a dissertation. Say something negative about HalfLife, even that you thought it was good but not as good as what everyone said, and you'll be lucky if they don't murder you in your sleep. Not to mention, the Escapist forums is one big FanDumb for HalfLife and HateDumb for Halo - I see people citing reasons that Halo suck as being subjective to flat-out ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch. *** Funny, This troper (the first one) also goes to the escapist and you're right - that's where most of my negative experience with Halflife's fanbase comes from. It's probably something to do with the fact that [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] likes it... though these people are [[BeyondTheImpossible above and beyond him when it comes to sheer dumbness.]] * This troper's heard horror stories about the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fandom and what they do to people who don't like the series, I heard a story from a friend about how he told a bunch of noisy twilight fangirls that they need to shut up because it's not that good, what do they do? Yank his arm over the booth and bend it down until it ''broke''. ** However, the holy mother of god would have to be what happened to me myself, I was at the mall around the release of the new moon movie, so naturally every "woman oriented" store was decked out with posters, cue a sneer of dissapointment, followed by this huge chick in an "I <3

edward" T-shirt walking up and starting to berate me, I tried to be unavoidant, but after a long while of pushing my buttons, I told her to screw off, what did she do next? ''Pull a knife on me'', at this point I said screw chivalry and sweeped her legs out from under her before booking it, thankfully a security guard was watching and came to my aid. * Just read the HowIMetYourMother page. It is positively dripping of Barney/Robin shippers whining about how their favorite couple got screwed over and how Ted Mosby is THE BIGGEST [[JerkAss JERKASS]] EVAR, because he's so much worse of a person, than oh I don't know, [[EnsembleDarkhorse Barney]]. It's a sitcom, people! Get your damn panties out of a wad and enjoy it. I mean, I can at least understand when fans stop watching a comedy because of a DudeNotFunny moment, but because of a relationship? That's really, really pathetic. Really. ** You think they're bad? Try ''TheBigBangTheory'' fandom on for size. '''Nothing''' is [[UnpleasableFanbase ever good enough]] for this show's "fans" -- every week they complain about either there not being enough geek jokes, or about how "the magic has been lost", and it's almost guaranteed that if someone complained about too much [[EnsembleDarkhorse Sheldon]] in last week's episode, that same someone will complain about there being ''not enough Sheldon in the current week's one''. [[JumpTheShark Shark-jump]] is now called literally ''every week'', for one reason or another. This troper stopped going to Paradox, a large Sheldon/Penny livejournal, when it devolved into a litany of fangirls whining and threatening to stop watching the show ([[{{Hypocrite}} a threat they rarely, if ever, make good on]]) because it's not going their way -- you know, despite the fact that Sheldon and Penny getting together in reality would be pretty damn insulting to our intelligence. I like the show, it makes my nerdy self and my nerdy boyfriend laugh just fine, and neither of us like to argue with anyone, so we find it's best to avoid this show's [[SarcasmMode true fans.]] * JillBug's grandfather briefly worked at BBC Radio during the '70s. When a popular character on ''TheArchers'' was killed off, many nonetoo-bright fans contacted the station to express their condolences, ask where the funeral was held, or whether they could send tributes. Perhaps they thought the show was a documentary? * I have an annoying friend who will instantly LOVE a game so much as it's made by {{Sega}}. He grew up with the genesis so i guess it's half justified but he'll scream at me if I have so much as 1 [-small-] complaint. He also hates anything else too * As a fanfic writer, I've had to deal with Fan Dumb. In one {{Batman Beyond}} fic, I had Terry and Dana break up with absolutely no angst involved; in fact, they were laughing hard enough over the circumstances that Terry's healing ribs were hurting. I was actually threatened over this- even though those two spent half their screen time fighting and had broken up more than once during the run of the show. The stupid, it burns. * Why isn't TheEscapist mentioned here? How do so many good writers attract so many frothing misogynistic morons? This female troper is literally afraid to sign up on that forum. ** You shouldn't. I've felt physical pain while reading some of those

threads. You just ''know'' that if Yahtzee mystersiously started praising Nintendo and Square-Enix, whilst slamming Valve, everyone would mysteriously have all sorts of pleasant memories and experiences with Nintendo games while citing reasons ''HalfLife'' sucks that are ''clearly nothing more than opinion''. * I admit I just don't get it when someone claims a piece of fan fiction left their favorite game/book/etc. RuinedFOREVER. I mean, it's ''fan fiction''. Someone else's opinions or fantasies don't render your own thoughts invalid, much less change the actual canon. ** That's also present in HateDumb, too. * The PC Gaming FanDumb is filled with highbrow elitism. I do know there are PC gamers who aren't just PC FanDumb / Console HateDumb, but it seems for however many people who use ''both'' formats, there are at least two straw Patricians who believe that their format makes them more intelligent than playing with another and that anyone who thinks otherwise is stupid and should feel bad about it amongst other insults. ** As a PC gamer i know that the cycle is self perpetuating most PC players are fairly quiet about it but there are still quite afew small names with huge bulging egos the size of Azathoth. ** I've been a gamer for a pretty long time now, and this one really bugs me. Partly because I can't for the life of me figure out where it started. Most people I know are reasonable enough, and for that matter most people I know, like myself, play both console and PC games, with little thought given to which is "better." And then there are those other people. The ones who claim that all console gamers (or "kiddies," as the popular term seems to be, because your choice of gaming platform somehow reflects your age) are a bunch of knuckledragging FPS fans, despite the fact that, until the current console generation, you could really only play an FPS ''on a PC'', simply due to the limitations of the technology. It gets even worse when you get into role-playing games. Apparently the quality of an RPG or even whether it should be called an RPG or not is dependent not upon its story or characters -- in other words, the ability to ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin play a role]]'' in an established narrative -- but upon the sheer amount of number-crunching and stat management required. Basically, complexity equals quality, and anything that doesn't ''require'' a keyboard and mouse is an inferior product for stupid children. Oddly enough, I rarely see such broad insults aimed at PC gamers from the other side of the supposed "war." Sure, console gamers can be idiotic in plenty other ways, but it's very rare to hear one of them insult a PC gamer for his choice of gaming platform. * I don't have much of an opinion on Justin Bieber, but his fans are freaking ''terrifying.'' If someone insults him or even so much as says they're not impressed, a slew of videos and Tweets are posted full of violence and death threats. One girl detailed how she was going to hit another girl in the face with a wine bottle because the other girl joked that she wasn't into the Bieb anymore. Another bunch Tweeted that they were glad Lily Allen had a miscarriage because apparently Allen once said something about him that they didn't like. A post to OverheardInNewYork had a boy of about three telling his

mother that he didn't like Bieber anymore. Sadly, I would not be surprised if a rash of videos and Tweets come out wishing death on a freaking toddler. Look, I get that some fangirls can be overwrought and invest a whole lot of time and emotion into the object of their affection, but there's a line between "devoted" and "the cops need to check this girl's basement for that hiker that went missing." ** Where have these rabid fans been hanging out? Because I've actually seen a lot more rabid ''haters'' than Fans. *** There's quite a few of them on YouTube and Twitter. **** I see more HateDumb of JustinBieber than I do FanDumb. ***** IMO, the dumbness seems equally distributed between fans and haters. The FanDumb people often seem to love him for his {{Bishonen}}ness and delayed puberty. The HateDumb people hate him for the exact reason, regularly due to some jealousy of his ChickMagnet factor. And then there's his music: FanDumb means that you don't really care about his music, but {{Squee}} about his "cute" appearance all the time. HateDumb means that you keep complaining about his terrible music even when nobody forces you to listen to it. * After reading some messages on VideoGame forums, it quite frankly surprises me how many King customers there are and how many fans flat out [[YouFailBusinessForever fail business forever]]. People who work in game companies have to have a place to sleep at night, materials to work with, and they have to put food on the table. This is a ''business'' - they need to make a profit to survive. * The [[DotHack .hack]] fandom. How such a small fandom can have so much FanDumb boggles the mind. If they aren't dismissing future developments as RuinedFOREVER and making essays about what CyberConnect2 should have done to make it suck less ''long before said-development is even out'' (which I sadly admit I have been [[OldShame guilty of]]), they're a grotesque hybrid of the Mad Bride and Hate Monger. ** Special mention goes to poor Atoli and Alkaid. Dear god, these two may as well be the poster children for both FanDumb AND HateDumb. To describe Atoli's fans as a HypocriticalFandom would only be scratching the surface. Alkaid's fans are calmer, but innocent they are not. That's just the admiration part of spectrum. *** Oh, and be careful when you say you ship [[LauncherofaThousandShips Haseo]] with someone other than their preferred girl. Some Haseo/Alkaid fans have not had their rabies shots. Some Haseo/Atoli fans have been known to attack regardless of rabies shots. If you like Shino in any way, please be sure to take extra safety precautions. * The number of {{Pixar}} fans who want BradBird to skip his 1906 project and move on to TheIncredibles 2 is really exasperating, the ones that want Pixar to skip every project they've planned for it are just as bad, if not worse. This troper can honestly forsee an UnpleasableFanbase that rivals ThePrincessAndTheFrog. ** Speaking of Pixar, this troper is a longtime Pixar fangirl who has witnessed quite her fair share of Fan Dumb on a forum she's inhabited for years now. Pixar makes the best movies out there and anyone who says otherwise is DUMB. Pixar has never made a less-thangroundbreaking film and anyone who says otherwise is DUMB (or,

alternatively, anyone that wasn't shaking their head in shame at this person's least favorite Pixar movie, most often [[{{Cars}} Cars]], is DUMB) Pixar is the greatest studio, nay, ''company'' out there, and anyone who says otherwise is DUMB. Anyone who likes [[WaltDisney the Mother Company]], much less *gasp* prefers them over Pixar, or doesn't credit all their recent successes to Pixar, is DUMB and has no taste. Need I go on? *** Ironically, the same is true for vehement fans of the company that inspires Pixar the most, StudioGhibli. Fans who will [[FandomHeresy tar and feather you]] if you even ''insinuate'' that a Ghibli film has flaws? CHECK. Fans who gladly spit on [[{{Pixar}} other]] [[WaltDisney acclaimed]] artists/animation studios in order to prove that there is no one who can rival the spotless Miyazaki and the Holy Land of Ghibli? CHECK. (And when these rabid fans make such [[SarcasmMode bold, truthful declarations,]] they are also inadvertently insulting films such as {{Persepolis}} and WaltzWithBashir). I may be a fan of Ghibli as well, but the smug, obnoxious portion of the fandom is LONG overdue for a slap on the wrist from saner fans. * This troper is surprised at how the main theme of ''WanderingSon'' goes completely past the fandom's head; it's about two {{Transsexual}} children, not two crossdressing children. Nitori is a girl, and Takatsuki a boy. Fans often seem like they're out for a shock factor when they describe the series. * This troper actually coined the Litter-Bearer fandumb sub-type back a couple years ago as a newbie troper based on his experiences with the pro wrestling fandom - in particular, WWF/WWE fans. I was criticizing some big generic hoss who didn't last very long, it may have been Heindenreich, and a litter-bear countered with the argument that "you can't call Heindenreich talentless, [[VinceMcMahon Vince]] hired him and I think he knows a lot more about what makes a wrestler good than you". This after said hoss in question had botched continually during a match and legitimately injured his jobber opponent. He proceeded to opine that no fan knew anything about wrestling and so they should all like exactly what Vince, as the most successful promoter, told them to like. He may have been trolling, this particular poster liked to play devil's advocate (although he was a devoted Vince defender already), but he attracted a good half dozen supporters who all happily agreed that they were witless, undeserving of having opinions, and proud that they reacted exactly as they were told to. * Nintendo fans. Dear lord. So much King Customer mentality as they cry how Nintendo abandoned them for the casuals and feel they should be entitled to more games suited for them just because they think they know what it takes to make a good game. Metroid fans are probably the least offensive out of all the Nintendo franchises and that's just putting it kindly. I was actually labeled as a blind fanboy for actually liking MetroidOtherM just because I didn't jump on the hate filled bandwagon and for actually directing their blame for the game's changes to the guy who was the co-creator of the Metroid series (they blamed Team Ninja, who only did the programming and not the directing). ** This troper thinks a lot of people don't really know how game

development works. For starters; I notice a lot of (But not all of) people's complains about how "Easy" games are were stuff that's actually FakeDifficulty or merely from a lack of experience/genre savviness. I always found it strange how the people who ''just'' started gaming had difficulty with ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' when the HateDumb was saying that it held your hand through and was impossible not to lose because they thought it was so easy and that the people who went through it so quickly were almost always the people who've been playing for years. Not to mention a lot of people just need to sit down and take a freaking business class and don't realize that they're not the sole demographic out there. Developers aren't like some kind of omnipotent all-knowing cabal who knows who ''all'' of their customers are. They don't know if you're someone who's in their 40s and has been playing since arcades or if you're a 12 year old who was just given a game system for Christmas and doesn't even know ''what'' makes Mario so super. Not to mention a lot of people don't seem to realize that not every game is going to be just like their favourite. Yeah, I was surprised by ''ValkyrieProfileCovenantOfThePlume'' because it had some stuff I loved from ''TacticsOgre'' in it, but if it was ''exactly'' like ''TacticsOgre'' then it'd just be a remake of ''TacticsOgre'' with the ''ValkyrieProfile'' license slapped on it for...no good reason. It doesn't seem like people realize that sometimes; they're the reason some games are so "bad" to them. ** [[http://bd.baldurk.org/lp/95 This LP of Prime 3]] has a lot of complaining about Other M, but Slowbeef openly acknowledges that any blame can be laid at the feet of the series' creator as much as Team Ninja, if not more so. While he produced the Prime series, he ''directed'' Other M. Yes, that's right, the most popular games in the series, the ones the fanboys like, are some of the ones he was ''least'' involved in. * The KeroroGunso fandom. That is all. * Smart Phone Wars (ex. iPhone, Droid, etc) Similar to the ComputerWars and ConsoleWars, It seems having something like a smart phone instills this chemical reaction that causes snobbery. * Adding to the technology example above, the Linux community is sadly full of those... People complaining that "Ubuntu has it too easy for the n00bs", "Linux is selling itself to EVIL CAPITALISTS!!!" etc etc... To be fair, this happens (in different ways) with Mac and Windows too. * A personal story: After watching {{The Nostalgia Critic}}'s tribute to {{Animaniacs}}, I blamed Tom Ruegger for mixing up Akom and TMS's names (Akom was mentioned durring a shot of TMS' footage) and actually complained about it on another site. Cue one embarassed 16 year old getting berated by Mr. Ruegger himself on said message board. (It was in actually, one of the show's other writers who mixed up the names). * This troper's mother is something of a protectionist when it come to the Lord of the Rings. As such, this troper is typing this entry after she was sent to her room and told to go to bed for not wanting to watch it. Just to further demonstrate how juvenile my mother was, this troper is 16. * Regarding ''FinalCrisis'', there's some intense debate over whether

[[spoiler:Batman should've shot Darkseid. Specifically, whether he should've used a gun. For some reason, there are people who think that a guy who doesn't use guns and doesn't kill should stick to those promises even when the entire Multiverse is at stake. They also claim that if he ''had'' to shoot Darkseid, then it "should've worked", since people who break vows in a last ditch effort to try and save all of existence should automatically succeed.]] * What is it with the ''{{Metroi}}d: OtherM'' fans? I can understand if you liked the game, but there's no need to strawman the claims of the people who disliked it. For example, some complained that they found Samus too whiny and insecure, and her portrayal inconsistent with previous games. Your response is to claim that they want her to be stoic and robotic, and to claim that she shows no personality in any of the previous games at all, which is simply not true. (''Fusion'' alone...) She's had plenty of characterization, it's just been a lot more subtle than Other M's "[[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry being under Adam's command gave me butterflies in my stomach]]." * Some people (most notably the British) tend to get [[{{Understatement}} pretty]] [[SeriousBusiness infuriated]] when an American company exports (or what the British say "steals") a British franchise to America. First of all to all you FanDumb and HateDumb, the original creators and the American creators agreed to it and pay loyalties to do so (Or in some cases like [[TheOffice Ricky Gervais]] and [[TheXFactor Simon Cowell]], the original creators bring the show(s) to America themselves) which means they have every right to do so. The other involves a DoubleStandard in which a British (or some other country's) work gets exported to another country or especially if an American franchise gets exported to Britain or another country, nobody complains about it. ** There's also the inversion of this, in which a work that is SoBadItsGood, ItsPopularNowItSucks, etc. in which the country of origin will be hell bent on distancing themselves from it. For example, American says: ''"[[SouthPark Blame Canada]] for JustinBieber!"'' Canadian rebuts: ''"[[MisplacedNationalism No he's yours now!]]'''' ** It's funny that the American versions of TheXFactor, WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire, etc. has gotten hate mainly because "It's not the British version." [[DoubleStandard Funny that this doesn't happen to other nations]]. ** [[CaptainObvious Of course mis-blaming or mis-crediting a entire country for one person's work is not very wise]]. * The ''Vocaloid'' fandom. My god, the Vocaloid fandom. We have misguided purists who refuse to acknowledge any Vocaloid who isn't Japanese (including Leon, who was the first Vocaloid ''period''), mad bride/grooms who obsess over one Vocaloid and insist all others are crap, shippers who complain endlessly whenever a song that doesn't feature their ship becomes popular, elitists who think only certain producers (or themselves) know how to use the software "properly"... the list goes on and on. ** I'm a Vocaloid fan myself, I don't mind people disagreeing with my tastes in Vocaloids or pairings, but I'm not very open in discussions about the latter, especially when [[{{Twincest}} Len and Rin]] are

involved. I get worried that bringing up my favorite pairing will result in an InternetCounterattack. My {{OTP}}, by the way? It's [[spoiler:Len / Luka]]. *** This troper is not a major Vocaloid fan, but has listened to a few of the (better) songs. Although I have met some nice people from the fandom, and I'm sure not everyone who likes Vocaloid is like this... but the majority seem to be nothing but perverted elitist "thou shalt agree with me" types of people more or less bent on everyone worshiping their usually-less-than-impressive work. A certain Vocaloid forum comes to mind... * This trope is why this troper (wow, that's a little redundantsounding...) is reluctant to admit in public that he is a professional sports fan. I won't say the problem is most sports fans, but the most vocal of those I have encountered are judgmental and hostile toward their team in a way that I can't imagine they would ever be toward a person they were more closely connected to, and act as though they are entitled to a win and any loss is squarely on their team being terrible, not on the other team playing well (or a little bad luck). The last game I attended, the home team (read: us) lost by one point, after an incredibly solid game, and were still roundly booed by the fans around me; the person sitting behind me didn't speak during the good plays, and complained about any tiny mistake (and the mistakes that game were quite tiny). As a person who suffers from social anxiety and is kind of extra-sensitive even beyond that, I don't read my team's Facebook page, or really talk to most fans about the game anymore; I find myself getting sad about it when my team loses, but only because I hate knowing that a reaction like this is coming. Of course, this could be fandumb on my part for wanting to insist on enjoying the wins and good seasons and just shrugging off the losses and bad seasons...an idea which is even more depressing. * This troper fanboyed ''CrimzonClover'' a little too hard in a Fora discussion involving ''{{Touhou}}''. As such I'm doing what any Fan Dumb-class gamer should be doing with their favorite game(s): Deleting it. * I have seen a Youtube comment about ''[[RollerCoasterTycoon Roller Coaster Tycoon 3]]'' which bashed the game because he believes that Atari ruined the series. One of his complaints was that the coaster designing is stiff, which ''is'' a legitimate complaint...but criticized another person who said he liked the game, saying "I bet you only like it because it has full [=3D=] graphics * I used to run one of those Character Review services and had to shut it down because of all the users who went crazy at me because I didn't fawn over their KatekyoHitmanReborn [[MarySue MarySues.]] One particularly teeth-grinding example was a girl who's OC was [[KnifeNut Bel's]] 'maid' with a suspiciously Japanese name (despite Bel being so obviously ''not''). Upon recieving critique she flew into a rage and accused me of being a jealous Bel fangirl who wanted him all to myself. Yeah, [[BloodKnight I]] [[SlasherSmile think]] [[EvilPrince I'll]] [[AxCrazy pass.]] Scarily enough, this isn't that uncommon. What is it about this fandom that attracts all the crazies? * [[Tropers/SangoOfTheDead I]] recently discovered [[http://powet.tv/powetblog/2011/05/12/my-little-pony-friendship-is-

magic-gets-snubbed-in-emmy-nominations/ this]] article made by some FanDumb of FriendshipIsMagic. I'm sorry, I can't keep going, I'm too busy speaking {{Angrish}} now at how petty the author who wrote this is. * This Trope doesn't want to but has to bring up {{Pokemon}}, which due to size has FanDumb of every type in every language it's been translated in. Ship wars, anime purists, game purists, metagamers, Stop Having Fun Guys, manga verse lovers, card game devotees, collectors, cosplayers, there's jerks in every single group. All of them are convinced some other part of the fandom is ruining the fandom for everyone. But if you'd like to see the entire group rally against you, say you liked HeyYouPikachu or PokemonTrozei. Or say you don't love Misty. The debate on which names to use alone could fill this page. Fanfic writers have their own vicious sub-levels of hate going on where the writers of insert genre or pairing here are clealy inferior fans. And if you say you liked the original 150 best, the forum will divide into Camp You Are Old and Camp You Are Right overnight. I haven't even brushed the surface here, but it's just so complicated that, like the Harry Potter fandom, an overview is really impossible. ** Amen * This troper used to like yuri/shoujo-ai. You know, anime lesbians. After some observing on how the fanbase act like, he hates it with passion. * Ever since SOCOM 4's release on the PS3, there have been a VocalMinority of SOCOM fans who won't stop at nothing but prove that 2 is the apex of the series and that 4 is the absolute black sheep of the franchise. Truthfully, the critical reception is mixed at best. SOCOM 4 doesn't do enough to stand out from the crowd of tactical shooters, but it's still decent and playable. Try telling that to the SOCOM fans only attached to the second game. [[http://www.makesocomhd.com/?gclid=CIb3rtWT9qgCFSRe7AodY3m1Xw They're holding petitions]], [[http://forums.socom.com/t5/SOCOM-4-GeneralDiscussion/How-to-restore-Classic-Mode-to-it-s-former-glory/tdp/1065178 they're screaming out what changes they want to SOCOM 4]] (mostly to make it a more polished version of SOCOM 2), and spreading SOCOM 4 hate propaganda to any possible forum that even marginally discusses SOCOM 4, like Amazon. The fact that [[http://uk.kotaku.com/5803389/socom-studio-hit-with-layoffs-sonycalls-them-routine developer Zipper recently had 33 layoffs further exacerbated this situation]], and only reaffirmed the fans' opinions that SOCOM 4 is a steaming pile of turd that's a disgrace to the series. Nevermind the fact that Zipper has a pretty good track record of listening to fan complaints, has done a decent job supporting their other shooter game (M.A.G.), and hasn't exactly had the easiest time to see how SOCOM 4 fares online, thanks to the nearly 4-week long PSN outage. As a troper who actually enjoys SOCOM 4 but hated 3 with an absolute passion (mainly because it was a poor man's Battlefield), it's getting extremely annoying to justify my love for the game without getting bashed by SOCOM 2 enthusiasts left and right. * The FanDumb for Linux. I got kicked out of IRC chatrooms for saying I didn't have a Linux-based OS.

** [[@/{{endlessness}} I]] have voluntarily left some Linux chatrooms/forums due to some FanDumb, despite being a Linux user myself. Some people seem to think that, unless you're using Linux the same way they use it, you are just a [[Noob]] which does not deserve to use their blessed operating system. * The {{Fallout}} fansite No Mutants Allowed ''is'' this trope. They refused to accept Fallout 3 as a sequel due to gameplay and extremely minor style changes (which ironically brought it closer to the style of the original Fallout than Fallout 2 was), coupled with the fact that it wasn't the Van Buren project that died several years before release and that it wasn't being made by the dead Black Isle studio. They then went on to absoluteness ''adore'' Fallout New Vegas, a game with the exact same gameplay and style, simply because the development team mostly came from Black Isle. Que {{facepalm}}. * I don't know if it happens in other countries much, but it seems there are those here in UK that take watching their soaps as SeriousBusiness. Even to the point where they hate an actor/actress for something their character has done. Sending hate mail and even harassing them in public by yelling abuse at them. Another thing that this troper gets confused about is people that believe posting a comment on youtube for the official video of some famous singer will mean that singer will read it (let alone then do what's said in the comment as in watching a video they've uploaded and help them get a record deal). * RENTheads. Dear God, RENTheads...(for the record, this troper loves RENT but the fans are scary). * Is it me or are the Left4Dead fans complete morons? Aside from them bitching about Valve Time when it comes to new content, people say that Cold Stream, a campaign made by mapper outside of Valve and is being introduced into the game itself as main content, should be completely scrapped because their little darling 3rd party campaign favorites are much better and how much Cold Stream sucks. This is all while ignoring the fact that a dev from Valve said many times that Cold Stream is in BETA and was released as such so that the community can give feedback on how the campaign can be improved. What do people do instead? Bitch that Cold Stream is garbage and demand that the L4D1 maps be released NOW. On top of this, people keep suggesting ridiculous ideas for how VS mode could be "balanced" when all their ideas really show is buffing the zombie characters to a high degree so that they can kill the survivors faster, but if you even dare to call them out on this, they will call you a casual gamer who is ruining the game! * The ''MadokaMagica'' fandom, at least during the series' run when fans would post spoilers on Twitter without warning. It made having friends who watch ''Madoka'' difficult, if you're not fully caught up. * I enjoy ''AxisPowersHetalia''...but mostly as a jab at world countries and history. Just...don't expose me to the fandom in general for too long. * I have a few moments of Fan Dumb myself, mostly as a protectionist. At one time, I felt that mainstream super hero comics and table top R P Gs are the exclusive provenance of my own exact demographic: midtwenties to something less than forty years old, male, and sort of

second generation fans with parents or other older relatives having brought them into the hobby. Never mind that the hobby can't grow if these young 'uns who are doing it all wrong don't enter the hobby. * The tornado siren fandom (mainly based on The Siren Board). Petty rivalry, snobbery, hypocrisy, general intolerance, and a somewhat scary 80's "go with the popular guy" mentality, this troper was disappointed when he joined that forum, supposedly dedicated to discussion about sirens, but instead found constant arguing, petty opinions, and much whinging over the laughable "karma" system. Same thing on Youtube, only replace "karma" with video views. Did we mention you won't go one week without seeing someone throw up an argument? Egad. And just to make things more laughable, the main group usually goes around trolling and spewing nonsense on a typical basis, and then they get angry when no one important listens to them. * The ''[[YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' fandom is out of control. Out of many animes that have large online fanbases (Naruto, Bleach, APH, etc.), Yu-Gi-Oh has by far the highest concentration of OMG SQUEEE!!1! yaoi fangirls. It's ridiculous how poorly thought out any fan work is. I'm a bit terrified to ever look at anything Yu-Gi-Oh related because it has a 99.98% chance of being of a shameless self-insert mary-sue or something that makes me pity people in gay relationships because some people actually think it works like that. The .02% of the fanwork that is actually worth your time then attracts the rest of the fandom that flames you for speaking constructively with the creator. NOTE: [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries The Abridged Series]] is not always included in the FanDumb. * [[@/SanaMae This Troper]] was, for the most part, pretty cool with the AxisPowersHetalia fandom, no matter how crazy it could get. I stayed away from the more fanservicey and squee-flled communities, but I let the fangirls have their fun- until HetaliaBloodbath2010 hit, and someone actually threatened Himaruya with ''rape'' if he didn't update. Guys, he has a family, and a job. He doesn't exist just to make comics for you. And even if he did, that would ''still'' not be an appropriate thing to say, as a joke or otherwise. I still participate in the fandom, but there's a slight undercurrent of dsgust with the knowledge that these people exist within it. * ''WorldOfDarkness'' has a huge FanDumb, and they're one of the worst cases because unlike a lot of other FanDumb, are not subject to the same amounts of Fandom control. Say you like D&D 4th edition and you get flamed. People who mindlessly enjoy ''WorldOfDarkness'' are likewise given a free pass. They're also full of Genre Aliens and Highbrow Elitists, insisting that ''every'' tabletop game should use rules or settings from ''WorldOfDarkness'', and many people insisting that other settings (especially ''Changeling'') are "not dark enough" and "dark" in this case basically means [[RatedMForMoney blood, death, gore, sex, violence, rape, and stuff classified as "mature" for the sake of having it]]. I've seen people refuse to play tabletop games merely becaus ethey aren't absolute clones of ''WorldOfDarkness'', or only give stuff like DC RP a chance if they use ''WorldOfDarkness'' rules and essentially make it DC RP InNameOnly. * The ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' FanDumb. While this troper is not a FanHater and is respectful when referring to the series despite not

liking it, it bears mentioning that the dumber portion of the fandom (and even some neutral parties!) always class people who don't like the books into this category and this category only- rabid, raging haters. Never once do they think, "The haters are probably NotSoDifferent from everyone else, they just get bothered by something in the books." No, it's always "Everyone who identifies as a Twilight hater is obviously a FanHater[=/=]Rabid, screaming, violent mobster who rages at anything to do with Twilight/someone who just hates it because hating it is "what the cool kids were doing" who more often than not [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch hasn't even read it]]/FoeYay fans who need to get lives beyond bashing a book..." etc. While [[VocalMinority a small portion]] of the {{Hatedom}} is a HateDumb, none of these accusations have any evidence supporting them to prove that the hatedom as a whole is like that. Not to mention that the alleged faults are '''''so''''' exaggerated to hell that it's now considered "what the cool kids are doing" to bash the haters. The following lines are from this very wiki: ** Internet Backdraft: Pity the poor people who take a neutral stance on the books, then mention to the diehards or the haters that they think the series is "okay". [[hottip:*:Someone is convinced that anyone who hates a book wants to kill you for saying anything more than "It was okay." [[BigWrong WRONG!]] ]] ** Love It or Hate It: Those who love it, really, really love it. Those who hate it, really, really hate it. [[hottip:*: Also wrong! StopBeingStereotypical!]] ** The Woobie: Robert Pattinson. The man took a role he didn't like for a decent paycheck and the chance to work with his celebrity crush, and in return is stalked by fans and [[EpicFail raged at by haters]]. [[hottip:*: CriticalResearchFailure! Haters pity the guy for taking the role, not rage at him!]] * End long rant- what I mean to say is that just because a VocalMinority of a Hatedom is a HateDumb doesn't mean that all haters are like that, something the FanDumb just can't seem to recognize. ** I can't read the "VocalMinority is HateDumb" with a straight face...that's one of the biggest {{Understatement}}s of the year. FoeYay doesn't even ''begin'' to describe most of the people who hate Twilight. I honestly want to tell them one thing: '''''Move. On.''''' The more you trash Twilight, [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity the more you advertise it for free]]. Yes, people ''DO'' try things out out of BileFascination. * Some of the FanDumb around ''LeagueOfLegends''. Yeah, there's the whole StopHavingFunGuys thing, but some of them also act...way too entitled for their own good. There were rumours and a lot of signs pointing to Leona, the Radiant Dawn being released on July 7th and then July 8th. However, she was delayed and of course people were mad, but one of the silliest comments I've read was "We've waited too long for Leona". Uhm...Hello? Lee Sin the Blind Monk and The Monkey King would like to have a word with you - Lee Sin was intended to be a champion ''in the beta''. He didn't come out until ''2011''. And the monkey King was announced ''before Orianna even was''. Leona was announced when, Late May-early June? * Huh this troper is surprised that no one has brought up Halo. Well

let me do my best to describe that tornado of unreasonableness and InsaneTrollLogic. Now this troper has only played 3, ODST, Reach and Wars so he doesn't know anything about CE and 2 that much,( [[SeriousBusiness Hell that's unforgivable sin number one]] ) so if you have anything on those feel free to slap them on. People complain how 3 is so much better than Reach, as in, they will never shut up about it, saying that Bungie has destroyed the series. Now while they are entitled to not like Reach, their arguments (and responses to people disagreeing with them) are stupid beyond belief and worthy of this page. They say that it isn't competitive elements in Reach, [[DidNotDoTheResearch I guess they never played Arena]] that's a nightmare for casual players. They say that it is too easy to rank up and you don't have to get your skill up, [[WhatMeasureIsANonSuper even thought only the most competitive and skillful of players could get anywhere above 30]], this troper getting stuck at 35 before giving up. They say that the bloom is stupid and is based on luck [[DidNotDoTheResearch which isn't the truth guns with bloom still take skill]] If you're at close range you spray wildly while at a range you must pace your shots,[[MovingTheGoalPosts I get the feeling that they are just lousy with the new version and they were better with the old version]] They say it sucks because the BR isn't in it and the DMR sucks...really? These people are so shallow that they say a game sucks just because one gun from an old game got replaced...ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? The DMR isn't even that different from the BR, it's semiautomatic, has a slightly bigger clip in terms of how many times you can pull the trigger, and it takes five shots to the head to kill instead of four thats it. That these people are serious just makes me... [[Angrish GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH]] sorry sorry, the lack of common sense here just drives me over the edge. Should you happen to come across one of these fanboys only point these facts out if you want to be called a 4 year old that sucks at Halo 3, accused of never having played CE (I guess that's supposed to be an insult and before you ask, yes someone said that to me online, when I said I thought Reach was better, he said I had probably never played CE. We're dealing with people who think that they're [[NoTrueScotsman the REAL Halo fans]]) or a COD fan. That last bit is kind of hypocritical seeing as most COD haters criticize it for being repetitive while these people are complaining about Reach [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks for one reason and one reason alone]] I'm not sure weather to try and learn to play COD and get out of this shitstorm, apologize to Bungie for all the shit they had to go through, or pray for 343 Industries because of the UnpleasableFanbase they are now dealing with. "Sigh" Nowadays I'm kind of ashamed to be a Halo fan. * MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic. How shall I count the examples? ** '''Monomaniacs'''. Guys? Monomaniacs in ''any'' fandom are really creepy and disturbing. Stop it. If you don't want people thinking you're a bunch of obsessed people, then StopBeingStereotypical. ** It is okay to recommend the show to a friend. It is ''not'' okay to repeatedly badger them when they show no interest. It is ''not'' okay to repeatedly ask if they saw the latest episode when they've said they haven't seen it. It is ''not'' okay to keep on bothering them over and over again to see the show. "No" means "No".

** Stop linking me to MLP fan art, pictures of the show, demotivational posters, photoshopped pictures of your own original pony, contests on art sites to win free fan art, artists taking commissions of MLP fan stuff, etc. I have told you on ''numerous'' occasions that I am ''NOT'' interested in the show. I'm going to start blocking you if you keep on doing it. ** Quit trolling games like ''LeagueOfLegends'' or ''TeamFortress2'' with "Brony" characters. I'm seeing people on the tribunal for ''LeagueOfLegends'' being reported for "MLP Crap" or "Brony troll". You're not funny. You're just annoying. ** Not liking the show does not mean you are gay. It does not mean you are deprived. It does not mean you are uncultured. It just means that you are someone who doesn't like My Little Pony. ** StopBeingStereotypical. * I can usually tolerate FanDumb, mostly because the vast majority of women I know who love Literature/{{Twilight}} and JustinBieber are very intelligent and down-to-earth people, maybe even more so than me, which itself is a nice reminder that FanDumb is a VocalMinority. The sort that really gets under my skin though are the '''Old Timers''', the elitist snobs who believe that children, teens and young-adults can't appreciate a film or a music album because they weren't alive when either the film was in cinemas or when the band or singer was performing live. Couple of cases in point: before and after [[ToyStory Toy Story 3]] came out, people were waxing the nostalgic about seeing the first two films in cinema, which isn't bad. But then there came the comments deriding children for not having to wait 11 years in between 2 and 3. Another example is a YouTube review that an 18-yearold did for {{Terminator}} 2, he got chewed out by a troll saying that he was too young to have seen it in cinemas and therefore wasn't qualified to review it. The reason why it annoys me, even when it's not directed at me, is because I'm a huge fan of Animation and it all started with watching {{Fantasia}} when I was 2 and a half, a film which is 48 years older than me and as much as I love TheLionKing, Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast and Pixar's movies, (all made during my lifetime) I probably wouldn't appreciate animation if I'd been introduced to it through any other film. I guess what makes it more disheartening is that these people are clearly old enough to know better, and the fact that being born in a different generation is apparently such a cardinal sin takes from elitist to disgustingly pretentious. There's NostalgiaFilter, then there's this...

FanficChopSuey * Take your basic ''{{Digimon}}'' template, i.e. X number of kids (blanks to fill in names here) go to/are sucked into (pick one) Digital World, where they are paired with Digimon partners and fight evil, fill in the name blanks with the characters from ''FullmetalAlchemist'' and ''{{Hellsing}}'', and replace your stereotypical villain Digimon with the BrainwashedAndCrazy Digimon partners of the cast of ''{{Higurashi}}'', with a few from ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Now give the Digimon actual developed personalities, make a few characters' later Digivolved forms blatantly

unsubtle ShoutOuts, and throw in a HeelFaceMindscrew and an EmergencyTransformation at the end, and there you go. ** Also, the sequel. The character who got emergency-vampirized at the end of the last story is now working for the ''{{Hellsing}}'' organization (post-Valentine Brothers attack, pre-Trip to Brazil), and then a few characters from ''FullmetalAlchemist'' return via dimensional wormhole. And then Ed, his brother Al, and Seras get turned into Mew Mews. And then a group of goblins mistaken for vampires (yes, really) introduces ArtemisFowl into the mix. Then more interdimensional shenanigans brings in ''{{Higurashi}}'' and ''LyricalNanoha'' and the ''FullmetalAlchemist'' anime continuity into the mix. Yes I am quite insane thank you very much. ** Also, the threequel. [[ChronoCrusade Rosette and Chrono]] are thrown into the ''{{Hellsing}}'' continuity (more than 80 years in the future). Then Rosette becomes a SixthRanger in the little Mew squad introduced in the last fic. Followed by Nanoha getting even more involved in the story. * This troper is working on a comic filled with her acquaintances, fictional characters from her favorite works, and obscure celebrities (semi-famous actors if there's no such thing). None of these people have anything to do with each other in RealLife as far as I know, but they interact in my comic anyway. Some examples of my characters are Shel Silverstein, Holden Caulfield, and Bob Kenny Frank Grommitt, the one purely original character, whose name is a collection of homages. * This Troper is writing an episodic series where the casts of {{D Gray man}}, {{One Piece}}, {{Hetalia}}, {{Durarara}}, {{Sgt Frog}}, {{Naruto}}, {{Bleach}}, {{JyuOhSei}}, {{Fullmetal Alchemist}}, {{Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series}}, {{Kuroshitsuji}}, {{Eureka Seven}}, {{Baccano}}, {{Code Geass}}, {{School Rumble}}, {{Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt}}, {{Ouran High School Host Club}}, {{Soul Eater}}, {{Gintama}}, {{The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya}}, {{Sengoku Basara}} {{Katekyo Hitman Reborn}}, {{Lucky Star}}, {{Fairy Tail}}, {{Strike Witches}}, and {{Azumanga Daioh}} live together in a mansion and Hilarity Ensues. Yeah, it's crack. * This troper is working on a crossover of ''CodeGeass'' and ''ElfenLied'' with a little bit of TheBattleOfAlgiers flavoring thrown in for good measure. After posting eight chapters, I've come to the conclusion that the fic practically writes itself (the two plots mesh surprisingly well) and the interactions between Lelouch and Lucy are quite fun to write. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5327665/1/Galtons_Children]] * This troper keeps randomly plotting out a fusion of ''GunslingerGirl'' and ''LuckyStar'', which replaces the eponymous Gunslingers with the younger half of ''Lucky Star's'' roster to create something [[{{WAFF}} WAFFy]] by Gunslinger's standards and extremely [[DarkFic dark]] by ''LuckyStar's''. He's not sure if he should actually go ahead with it though (it's a bit left-field...). * This troper once wrote a crossover that started as ''StarWars'' [[FusionFic recast]] with ''{{Discworld}}'' characters. It started off a bit cracked, but by the end had snowballed and included not only many minor characters from various eras of the ''{{Discworld}}'' series but also ''Series/DoctorWho,'' and ''BillAndTed'' as well.

[[HilarityEnsues Much merriment was had.]] ** I demand linkage. %%* This sort of mentality arguably leads to much of original fiction.* Reading this article, [[ROBRAM89 this troper]] realizes that he almost wrote a story exactly like these about a month ago. It tied together, in all seriousness, ''SnowCrash, SouthlandTales'', Chuck Palahniuk's books ''Rant,'' ''Fight Club'' and ''Haunted,'' {{Primer}}, ''DonnieDarko'', another novel I was going to write, and, at least in passing reference, ''BioShock'' and ''HalfLife'' (the necessary complications those cause would be avoided by the fact that they take place in a timeline that was erased). After remembering how rarely I write, I decided that I shouldn't waste my time on a huge, sprawling story I could never do anything with outside the internet. I ended up writing seven short chapters of a SnowCrash fan sequel before having a complete creative breakdown. All that came out of this weird phase was a really, really disturbing short horror story and a realization that something is horribly wrong with me. * @/NekoIncardine is working on a ''CodeGeass / {{Touhou}}'' crossover, solely to see if he can produce a happier mood while still keeping some of the first series' tone. This has already descended into numerous typical examples of MemeticMutation from the Touhou series, and one really strange comment on region locking, to name some examples. He suspects he'll only make something stranger as things progress. ** This troper respectfully requests a link to said crossover. ** As does this troper. ** Thirded. We need a link! * @/{{Ronnie}} has a timeline for a planned fic series that combines ''DannyPhantom, KimPossible, {{Daria}},'' and ''MeetTheRobinsons'' in one timeline. It's eerily accurate to airdates... * This troper (OldShame) once started writing a fanfic titled "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tokyo". [[FinalFantasyVIII Seifer]], [[{{Castlevania}} Soma Cruz]], [[{{Chobits}} Dita]], [[{{Trigun}} Vash the Stampede]], [[MegaMan Zero]], and [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] (who first appears dressed as [[TheMatrix Trinity]] for the purpose of ... [[{{Stripperiffic}} attracting Vash]]) do battle against [[PhantasyStar Dark Force]] in a dimensionally-unstable Tokyo, run by [[FinalFantasyVII Rufus Shinra]], which teleports in people from various alternate dimensions for the purpose of facilitating crossovers. ** If done with tongue properly in cheek it sounds awesome. * Pretty much what @/FigmentJedi is doing with his fanfic trilogy. Primarily focuses on a universe featuring characters from the DisneyAnimatedCanon and parks, as well as monsters from the {{Godzilla}} and {{Gamera}} movies, and a few characters from various {{Nintendo}} games, ''{{Bionicle}}'' and some animated series. The later 2/3rds also shove in the titular mech from ''GurrenLagann'' just from a main character's obsession with the series leading him to build his own in the name of the RuleOfCool. * @/DannyLilithborne once wrote a ''{{SailorMoon}}[=/=]{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' crossover and is now going through great pains to remove all traces of its existence... oops!

* This troper has managed to cross over ''{{MegaMan}}'' with such series as ''[[{{TheLegendOfZelda}} Zelda,]] {{Halo}}, {{Metroid}}, Magical Doropie/The Krion Conquest, [[{{SuperMarioBros}} Mario]]'' and ''{{AstroBoy}}''. In every case I try to blend the series as thoroughly and logically as possible to avoid my concepts ending up as SnarkBait. According to feedback, I did a good job -- though being the author, I can't actually say. * @/YueRyong is currently running a {{D20 Modern}} campaign based loosely on this principle, crossing over ''{{Hellsing}}, ReadOrDie, ShadowHearts, {{Guyver}}, [[ThePrinceOfTennis TeniPuri]]'' and as many random references as he can find somewhere to slip things in. The players seem to enjoy playing "What's the DM referencing this time?" * This troper (@/{{Anthem}}) is in the process of writing a ''[[TheDresdenFiles Dresden]]/{{Inuyasha}}'' crossover. It's only got a big hunk of exposition, a couple of fights, and Dresden being a wiseass so far, though. * When this troper was a grade-schooler, she and her friend wrote a fanfic that starred both of them, and involved characters from ''{{Gargoyles}}, {{Sonic The Hedgehog}}, {{The King of Fighters}}'', and a few others she can't even remember anymore. Admittedly, though, youth was the culprit behind that monstrosity. * For @/HarpieSiren, if Disney makes it, no mater how obscure it is, it's gonna be crossed over with ''KingdomHearts''. ** At least it's ''remotely'' connected to it. * @/DarkInsanity13 (as part of an OldShame) started a fic that was basically a retelling of the ''Daredevil'' movie with ''{{Beyblade}}'' characters and [=OCs=]. Thank God she started forgetting how the movie went and that she realized it was a stupid thing to do. Mind you, since she had pushed it out of her mind, it didn't stop her from starting (but thankfully never posting) a humourous rewrite of ''{{Stardust}}'' with ''{{Bleach}}'' characters. The idea was more thought out this time around, and wasn't meant to be taken seriously, but once again, she forgot how the plot of the movie went and the basic dialogue. * OldShame for @/RadioactiveZombie - a FanSequel to ''KingdomHearts'' had some sort of bizarre alien race attack every single fictional media work ever. It primarily focused on [[{{Hellsing}} Seras Victoria]] and [[ResidentEvil Jill Valentine]] escaping an infested Twilight Town, but detailed the other events in the war. Wound up deleting it due to boredom, and he honestly doesn't remember how the writing was. Probably badly. It filed under MegaCrossover, but he had a thing for alien invasions at the time, and was happily filling in two cops blasting xenomorph expies to bits. * @/GuySmiley will not forget a long-ago chop suey a friend wrote. Said fic featured [[DragonBall Trunks]] as a gigantic Marty Stu who dominates proceedings and beds [[SailorMoon Sailor Mercury]] often; [[GundamWing Quatre]] paired up with a female character (a crossover pairing, no less!); [[PinkyAndTheBrain The Brain]] piloting a HumongousMecha; and Team Rocket transforming into furries, magical girl-style, for reasons never fully explained. It's the friend's OldShame, and I refuse to let him forget it. * This troper and a friend run a massively multi-character two person

roleplay which is basically one long Fanfic Chop Suey. When we get bored of writing characters from one fandom, we dump them and yank some in from somewhere else. The one constant is the original-series ''StarTrek''' characters - we've also had major contributions from StargateAtlantis, ''DragonBallZ'' and ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', as well as an assortment of original characters and cameos from just about everyone we could think of, real or fictional. RuleOfFun dominates, and it's been running for ''years''. * This troper remembers the time when one of her old friends from middle school brought up her ''GundamWing'' fanfic where the 5 main guys all go on a road trip in (if I remember correctly) a beat up yellow VW bus. (This was years before ''LittleMissSunshine'' came out and I think was around the same time that VW beetles were back in style.) To this day, I am still [[BileFascination looking for that fanfic.]] (Even though I don't even know if she posted it on the internet.) * This troper's managed to cross ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' with ''{{YuYuHakusho}}'' and ''{{Xenosaga}}''. And it actually made sense. * Well, it might more properly be filed under "{{MegaCrossover}}," but save that...@/{{Ranchoth}} wrote a five chapter fanfic that was, technically, a ''Daria, Undergrads, BeavisAndButthead, MissionHill, CodeLyoko, TheBraveLittleToaster, TheLittles, TheProudFamily, TheWeekenders, AsToldByGinger, TheBFG, TheSecretOfNimh, Fluppy Dogs, RescueRangers James Bond Jr.'' crossover. It's actually a pretty mundane, low-key political thriler. Churchill is quoted in {{epigraph}}. * This Troper is planning on doing a story where all of the major characters in ''{{TalesofSymphonia}}'' except for Lloyd and Colette with characters from various other series. Kratos would be [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] Genis- {{Harry Potter}} and...well, I think it's best to leave it at that. * This Troper has a plot bunny for a ''LifeOnMars / {{Series/Merlin}}'' crossover that will NOT go away. * This Troper once tried to do a fan fic Crossing ''Myth Adventures'' By Robert Aprin with ''Kimagure Orange Road'', but found himself unable to mesh the two. I seem to recall I planed to have Akane have a crush on Tananda. * This Troper is writing(ish) a ''Bleach/Harry Dresden'' crossover, of all things. However, he feels his Roald Dahl's ''League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' is practically plausible. * This Troper wrote a ''Wombles'' story set in an alternate history where they revolted and destroyed humans just before World War 2 - The story focuses on organised Womble Crime in New York. ** Interesting. If you have the fic on you and it's not much of an OldShame, can I see it? If you say no, [[SincerityMode I don't mind]]. * @/{{nine}} is actually planning a [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]]/[[SuzumiyaHaruhi Haruhi]] crossover with several groups (SOSdan being one of them) on a contest to find the [[GreenRocks Chaos Emeralds]]. Yeah, he's weird; so what? ** He's also planning a crossover with those two and ''{{LuckyStar}}'' [[spoiler:with a hopefully good set-up for the opening of SonicUnleashed.]]

* @/{{Sharysa}} is writing a crossover between ''FireEmblem'' (''Sacred Stones'' and ''Blazing Sword''), ''TheLionKing'', and ''KingdomHearts''. The main plot is a juxtaposition of ''FinalFantasyX'' and ''TheLionKing'' with the side-plot of an Organization 13/Black Fang gang war, which I refer to as "Yuna gets adopted by Human!Mufasa and joins the Black Fang." According to my sister, I've turned Yuna into a {{Woobie}} because Braska dies in the prologue, I'm killing off a LOT more people along the way (because, you know, GANG WAR), and we all know what happens to Mufasa. And for the other FFX fans, [[spoiler: Tidus]]. * This troper's two main fandoms are ''{{Bleach}}'' and ''Ace Attorney''. The crossover attempts never end well, though the glasses!Aizen/Edgeworth actually seems rather promising if you're into character torture. * Much of @/{{Alice2}}'s [[OldShame Old]] (and new!) [[OldShame Shame]] crosses over ''{{Kirby}}, SonicTheHedgehog, FairlyOddparents, {{Pokemon}}, {{Neopets}}'' and RealLife, starring five {{Author Avatar}}s who are alternate universe versions of me, each with a name that is some variation of Alice or @/{{Alice2}}. The OldShame is all comedy, though...the newer stuff is mostly drama, with emphasis on {{Love Triangle}}s and the PowerOfFriendship. * Oh me, Oh my. Where will I ever begin... I wrote some spectacularly horrible fanfiction from the ages of 9-14. It eventually evolved into this huge "canon" that grew to the length of ''War and Peace''. (No, I am not joking - it's 560,000 words in the main series and god knows how much in side-material.) At some point, all of the following series were used: ThePowerPuffGirls, TheLegendOfZelda (three different ones), FinalFantasyVI, SailorMoon, DragonBallZ, Pokemon, RoninWarriors, and SuperMarioBros. I also had Batman but I eventually retconned it out. Most of it also counts as CrackFic and OldShame. * This troper thinks he can work ''{{Halo}}'', ''{{Metroid}}'' and ''FZero'' together with few seams. Likewise for ''DeathNote''/''CodeGeass'' (Key character: B.B. Think about it.) and ''{{Batman}}''. He is, however, too scared of SturgeonsLaw to try. * @/{{Indefatigable}} and her sister started writing a fanfic treatment of the original 8-bit NES ''FinalFantasy'' -- with Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and two Power Rangers as the Light Warriors. * @/{{Universalperson}} is working on a ''{{FateStayNight}}'' and ''{{TouhouProject}}'' crossover that looks like it will just end up with [[OCStandIn Mima]] kicking butt. He's also considering a more general Nasuverse crossover with...*shudders* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' * [[@/{{Kalle}} I]] can top the previous troper's crossover with my own: ''{{Touhou}}''/''PulpFiction''. With Sakuya as Vincent Vega. THE PLOTBUNNY WILL NOT LEAVE MY HEAD * This one in the process of writing an interactive ''{{Touhou}}'' / ''{{Dennou Coil}}'' fic. It's less crossover than probably needed for this page, though. * @/{{Mariko-chan}}'s favorite roleplay on [[{{GaiaOnline}} Gaia Online]] live on this trope. It's a chatroom roleplay that can have anything from {{Naruto}} to [[{{The Proud Family}} The Proud Family]] to {{CSI}} to [[{{RealLife}} real life]]. There's even a plot ot it,

unlike most chatroom rps: Yami, the [[{{BigBad}} Big Bad]] from Okami, kills people. ''[[{{WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome}} Through e mails]]''. * This troper has written one chapter of [[{{Watchmen}} Rorschach's]] journal as if it were written by [[AzumangaDaioh Osaka]] swapping the Watchmen cast with the Azumanga cast based mostly on RuleOfFunny(Azumanga has a much smaller principal cast so they have to be more than one Watchmen charcter, so I gave up and made Rorsaka the only constant everyone else changes randomly). ** [[citation needed... please]] ** [[http://northnightwatchmanjr.deviantart.com/art/Rorsaka-s-JournalChapter-1-114790845 Granted]] * This Troper (Aoirann) is currently working on one hell of one. It's a ''Persona 4'' Fanfiction with Chop Suey from ''Persona3'', ''Ranma1/2'', ''SailorMoon'', and ''ReadOrDie''. By typing that it makes it sound worse than it is. Tying them all together is an OC from America Who is powerful in a Persona setting but gets his ass kicked in the other three. It's BetterThanItSounds. * @/{{Terrace}} would ''love'' to read a well-written fic where the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Vandread Nirvana]] encounters the [[GurrenLagann Dai-Gurren Dan]] aboard the Hyper Galactic Dai-Gurren with the author going from there. Oh, and [[HotBlooded Kamina's]] still alive. Prefer a Hibiki/Dita pairing for the Vandread side of things, with Simon/Nia and Kamina/Yoko, with a helping of Leeron creeping out everyone on the Nirvana with his CampGay behavior. * This troper has written, and is in the process of revising/editing for coherence, a fanfic series that combines a ton of themes. Its a crossover between Star Trek and Godzilla, but heavy in AU-ness and apocalyptic tones. To wit, King Ghidorah arrived on ancient Earth and kills the Gojirasaurus before it could mutate into Godzilla in the present. As a result, its power growth is unchecked, as the mere existence of the Gojirasaurus had drawn it down in canon. By the 23rd Century, it has grown to the size of a small planet, and has annihilated the entire universe, save for the space surrounding the UFP and the species we know. The Kirk family, starting with Jim's father and going through his nephew Peter, are engaged in one level of the struggle without even realizing the creature of legend is real. * @/NeoSilverThorn pulled this more than once; most recent was an attempt at a Silent Hill/Ed Edd n Eddy crossover. Don't ask, I'm not sure what the hell I was on, either. * @/{{Mapi-chan}} is currently working on an ''{{Air}}'', ''{{Kanon}}'', ''{{Clannad}}'', ''FateStayNight'', ''CodeGeass'', and ''[[spoiler:SuzumiyaHaruhi]]'' MegaCrossover fic. To wit, Misuzu's good end in the VisualNovel happens, but she mysteriously dies one year afterwards. Yukito then meets a stranger who tells him that 2 [[{{Kanon}} other]] [[{{Clannad}} guys]] are in the same boat as him. Tying the three [[FanNickname Key Ani]] leads together is that stranger who happens to be [[spoiler:Kotomi Ichinose's uncle, whose first name was based on the protagonist Slider in the doujin VisualNovel, ''Worlds of Haruhi Suzumiya'', which [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] his AWizardDidIt! Dimensional Sliding abilities, bestowed

by, you guessed it, Haruhi herself]], and the BigBad is [[spoiler:Charles zi Britannia, with his [[TheDragon Dragon]], Kirei Kotomine and the Holy Grail]]. Typing the rest makes it sound worse than it really is, though. * JimmyNeutron plus CalvinAndHobbes plus WarOfTheWorlds plus WallE. This troper has done it. He has also done WallE plus RobotChicken. * @/{{Griffin}} would like to direct you to the OnePiece, Hidden Talents, ArtemisFowl, {{Animorphs}}, RealLife, and whatever she gets interested in crossover that she is writing in her mind. It is, naturally, insane. It involves a stuffed weasel that becomes real and human, who gets married to Griffin's AuthorAvatar, and also a young (by demon standards) fox demon who was sealed in an Oriental rug and becomes involved in a ToyShip. I ''think'' ItMakesSenseInContext... * This troper is planning out a CodeGeass/ {{Exalted}} fic, where Lelouch exalts as a Solar, Kallen a Lunar, (maybe his lunar mate,) C.C. a Sidereal, and Suzaku, (because of his "live" geass,) is forcibly exalted as an Abyssal. * This troper is writing a story featuring, um, yeah... an OC former X-Men member mentored by Burt Rutan, working for NASA, who's also a huge Star Wars fangirl and likes listening to Vangelis. * This troper should be kept far, ''far'' away from any opportunity to make ''One Piece'' AMV's. The reason: the possibility that she could make ''One Piece'' AMV's to Nakajima Miyuki songs, with maybe a few exceptions where the combination of OP and Nakajima Miyuki could actually be fitting (for example, clips from Robin's flashback set to "Boku wa Aoi Tori"). * This troper once wrote a fic combining Clamp Campus Detectives and Weiss Kreuz(came from a friend comment during a WK marathon that Omi and Nagi were escappes from Clamp and someday Clamp was going to want them back) We also had plans for CCD/Gundam Wing crossover that never came to be. * This Troper's early Fanfictioning days were ''absolutely rife'' with this. One of her earlier stories was as bizzare cross of SeriesOfUnfortunateEvents and DannyPhantom. ''With Tucker Foley as a mute''. She still does this occasionally (read: ''Very rarely''); one of her more popular stories is a [[NightmareFuel Nightmare Fuelleriffic]] mix between [[{{MystSeries}} Myst III: Exile]] and [[EdgarAllanPoe The Cask of Amontillado]]. * One fanfic This Troper once wrote (when he was about thirteen, so this is OldShame) was a variant of this: it was a TheLegendofZelda fanfiction with elements of two series he liked tossed in. It had Inuyasha-esque and TheBartimaeusTrilogy-esque djinn stuffed in. Also, he named a foretress of Hyrule Ishbal, as in the FullMetalAlchemist Ishbal. * When they were little, this troper used to tell her sister stories on long car trips. One involved NancyDrew, HarryPotter, and the [[ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents the Baudelaire children]] going back in time to save ''Anastasia Romanova''. * It's not so much a fanfic as it is a mod. This troper has been working on a mod for Sid Meier's Civilization where instead of playing as guys like Lincoln or Napoleon, you can play as King Arthur, Dr. Doom, Oedipus, Big Brother and many more. Basically The League of

Extraordinary Gentlemen in game form. * @/{{Lurkerbunny}} is in the middle of writing a fanfic about one of her favorite cartoon shows (albeit one that has needed some improving lately in her opinion). In it, an {{Expy}} of John Keating from ''DeadPoetsSociety'' starts teaching poetry at the main teen girl character's high school, and she gets a crush on him ([[AuthorAppeal Surprise, surprise]]). It then turns into a ''{{Heathers}}'' spoof where the show's [[TheLibby Libby]] [[RevengeFic is killed off]], and it ultimately ends [[spoiler:just like ''WorldsGreatestDad'' ([[AuthorAppeal Yes,]] [[RobinWilliams the]] [[MaleFrontalNudity swimming pool]] [[{{Fanservice}} scene]]).]] With guest appearances by MorkAndMindy, Luis Avalos from ''TheElectricCompany'', [[strike:[[{{Hook}} Peter Pan]]]], [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]] ([[TakeThat who gets repeatedly run over by a car]]), and many others. Somewhat justified though, because the show this fic is for is ''FamilyGuy'', which is pretty much a Chop Suey ''series'' (especially these days). ** Said fic is now finished, but Peter Pan's scene has been cut. But the wheels in this troper's mind are always turning, so there will probably be room for him in her next fic. * @/LadyJafaria has two fanfics that are crossovers involving {{Disney/Aladdin}}. Now, it kind of makes sense to cross Aladdin over with TheMummyTrilogy. Just place Agrabah relatively near Egypt, have the sequel not happen, and voila, you have your ancient evil for the mummy busters to defeat. But, it does not make sense to cross Aladdin over with {{Discworld}}. This troper decided she'd do it anyway, flung an AWizardDidIt on, and called it a day. ** Same troper, less plot-relevant example. She just noticed that characters in her fics tend to eat [[YourFavorite her own favorite foods]]. When a dessert comes up, it's nearly ''always'' baklava. * @/{{Shiruvi}} is currently working on a SilentHill, {{Naruto}} and FatalFrame crossover starring Itachi, Sasuke, Pyramid Head and the Camera Obscura. Just use the same logic to explain PH's presence in the Movie and SH:H, and apply the ritual of Fatal Frame 2, tweaking it so [[spoiler:the elder, as in Itachi, sibling strangles the younger, since that whole suffix twist would only work with twins.]] PH has been sent from Silent Hill by Valtiel for unknown (read, unplotted) reasons, and Itachi and Sasuke are trying not to freak out over the ghosts of all the dead Uchiha coming back from the grave, and strangely, nobody else in Konoha notices... Expect cameos from [[spoiler:Izuna and Shisui Uchiha]]. I can't even begin to write this until I know what parts of the Uchiha past are [[{{UnreliableNarrator}} fact and fiction]]. * @/PuppyLuver and a friend have a rather extensive roleplay series that we have dubbed "Weirdies", in which anything can and undoubtedly will happen. There are 24 main characters in the main series, which this troper insisted being the cut-off point from adding any more because more than that would just be confusing. Some of the main characters include [[VideoGame/PaperMario Dimentio]], [[NightsIntoDreams NiGHTS]], [[TheMrMenShow Mr. Small]], [[SonicTheHedgehog Rouge the Bat]], and a few original characters. This does not include the various spin-off roleplays(based on the

Pokemon game series, Total Drama Island or The Mole[TV show, not an actual Mole]). And please, do NOT get this troper started on the many "parody" stories, which are more like recasts of movies with characters featured in the roleplays in place of the original characters than actual parodies. * This troper isn't a huge fan of Mpreg fanfics but nonetheless has created her own 'verse which is a {{Supernatural}} / {{Torchwood}} / {{Smallville}} crossover where Dean and Castiel are Capt. Jack's real parents and Jack had been kidnapped by Zachariah and sent to the future when he was a baby. And that Jack is really Oliver Queen's father. Oh yeah and remember Adam? Not that [[{{Supernatural}} Adam]] , the other [[{{Torchwood}} Adam]]. Yeah, he's Sam and Gabriel's son. Lots of Mpreg to go around. * This troper is currently working on a fanfic set in the Bleach 'verse where a major screwup on the series' three main mad scientists opens a wormhole in reality and draws in whoever the hell this troper feels like adding. The results have varied from easily recognizable series like Batman (so far we've got Harley Quinn, Scarecrow, and at least ''three'' different versions of the Joker) and Resident Evil (Wesker and eventually Nemesis, if you were wondering) to either incredibly obscure or non-anime series, like AM, GLaDOS, Patrick Bateman, Rorschach, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and Pyramid Head. Eventually, everyone is going to unite and probably die anyway when Warhammer 40k gets thrown into the mix, eventually. * This troper has a notebook where she and two of her Nakama wrote one several years ago. The list is too long and random. Said notebook is indecipherable as none of the writers have any clue what happened, is happening, or will happen. I even found a made up name for something but had no clue what it was (which is unusual for me). Yet I got the concept for the novel I'm working from this. ....How did we do that again? * This troper wrote an [[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Umineko]] oneshot songfic that featured snippets of lyrics from Disney princess songs, and a snippet of a Fergie song at the end. You read that right: Umineko. Disney princesses. Fergie. [[BetterThanItSounds I swear it's better than I make it sound!]] * This Troper has managed to work almost anything into the Sonic fandom rather successfully (unless you don't like the AlternateCharacterInterpretation). * @/PentiumMMX2 has done this with one of his story series. I'd love to go over every single thing I threw in there, but it'd be way too long... * This troper did a story that's an in-universe example- a nerdy kid in the late 70s is home sick and trying to think of a way to pass the time. He randomly grabs a model X-Wing Fighter and a model of the space shuttle and decides to write a story where the Rebels come to Earth... so we have a crossover between Star Wars and the 80s IMAX film The Dream is Alive. And Sally Ride has a lightsaber. * This troper is still having ideas about a FormulaOne [[AzumangaDaioh Azumanga]] crossover with all characters laid out. * This troper simply ''loves'' these. One such fic involved a crossover of NoituLove and CaveStory, while another (on FF.net right

now,) was basically TheWorldEndsWithYou meets {{Ouendan}} meets {{Space Channel 5}} meets {{Persona}}, and is a bit of an OldShame DeadFic. Of course, now I'm writing what could be considered a SpiritualSuccessor to the latter, with what I'd call a more cohesive plot. Probably the only idea I had that wasn't this was a StrangeJourney fic where the MC was writing his experiences down in a journal of sorts. * This troper once wrote a {{Daria}}/{{Sailor Moon}} fic in which Daria and Jane were, respectively, Sailor Sun and Earth, the fashion club were the bad guys, and Trent was a Tuxedo Kamen like figure. This took place on a school trip to Tokyo. I wrote this in 2000, and I'm still finding copies online. I think I've finally gotten them all taken down, the ones Geocities didn't destroy for me. * This troper is working on a fanfic primarily for AClockworkOrange, which turns into a {{Portal}} crossover in the middle and features a Corporate {{Goth}}-dressing OriginalCharacter who adores MikePatton. * Although not necessarily fanfic wise, this troper ''LOVES'' this trope. [[KingArthursDisasters LANCELOT]] AND [[{{Gorillaz}} MURDOC]] [[YaoiFangirl GET MARRIED]] AND FIGHT OFF A [[{{Pingu}} GIANT WALRUS]] AND BECOME RULERS OF [[HappyTreeFriends HTF LAND]] AND [[KimPossible DRAKKEN]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome POPS OUTTA A CAKE]] [[{{Squee}} YAY!!!!!!!!]] * I have seriously considered the idea of a ''Naruto'' - ''Mass Effect'' crossover. I am also considering writing an original story that is based on combining the original BattlestarGalactica series and ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', solely on the basis that they were both created by Mormons. Plus, it would probably improve both of them. (Not hating on Mormons in general; just ''those'' particular creations weren't very good.) * I once made a long comedic epic called Mario and Luigi's Adventure Through Movies and TV [[LongTitle (or something much longer than that)]]. Yes, this was a crossover between the SuperMario series, {{Chowder}}, SpongebobSquarepants, TheFairlyOddParents, SonicTheHedgehog, TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack, DonkeyKong, {{Catscratch}}, ToyStory, FindingNemo, TheIncredibles, MonstersInc, all the other {{Pixar}} movies, most of the characters in SuperSmashBros, KungFuPanda, {{Pokemon}}, WarriorCats, and HarryPotter. With guest appearances by DaftPunk, the Frosted Flakes tiger, and the Patriots. And AbrahamLincoln. ** I also recently considered making a sequel, starring the same characters, except with new characters from TheSimpsons, {{Kirby}}, ScottPilgrim, WesternAnimation/AdventureTime, {{Avatar}}, [[AvatarTheLastAirbender the other Avatar]], IronMan, StarWars, StarTrek, {{Pendragon}}, {{Shrek}}, {{Transformers}}, HowToTrainYourDragon, SpiderMan, TheLegendOfZelda, and StreetFighter. ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill, indeed. I'm so glad I never finished this. I would have exhausted my brain. * [[Tropers/FoxxPark This Troper]] has written an AzumangaDaioh / AquaTeenHungerForce crossover, in which the Bonkura's potluck breakfast is interrupted by the Cybernetic Ghost. There are also [[ReferenceOverdosed Quite a bit of]] ShoutOuts. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6489290/1/The_Bonkuras_meet_The_Cybnetic

_Ghost_of_Christmas Link]] for those interested. * [[Tropers/{{Melloncollie}} I]] have a weird fondness for {{Watchmen}} crossovers & [=AUs=] (please don't kill me AlanMoore). I've read WildWest Watchmen, Fashion Designers Watchmen, Steampunk Watchmen, and Furry Watchmen, among others (courtesy of the KinkMeme). Someday I would like to see SuperRobot Watchmen (an [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]] Watchmen is fine too). * Our imagination. Just our imagination. * [[Tropers/AirOfMystery I've]] written or plotted what is basically a parody of {{Naruto}} High School [=AUs=]...except filtered through [[BurnNotice self-aware]] [[HotFuzz buddy cop]] tropes, and [[TheMusical with songs]]. Not all CrackFic is porn, you know. * My Role-Playing Games with canon characters always end up like this but special mention goes to. A {{Ben10}} rp with [[TheOneGuy Loki]]. Seeing how we literally run the fan club for [[KissingCousins Bwen]] we had that in mind from squire one. But the RP pretty much began with "Ben I'm a [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaid]]" which of course makes them NotBloodRelated. Over the course of the RP we get [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]] (one becoming Gwen's adopted sister.) HeelFaceTurn for Albedo, Vilgax, Rojo, Kevin and Charmcaster. Oh, did I mention Charmcaster is Mermaid too? How about a lesbian [[NerdsAreSexy nerd?]] Also, Gwen has a pet sea monster, Ben has a [[StarWars Wookiee]] and Sartfrie form, and we expies of [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] and [[CowboyBebop Ed]] the second of which is Charmcaster's girlfriend. If that's not enough to qualify he decides that it can't go on without becoming a crossover with {{FZero}}, which may or may not be on the same planet as CowboyBebop, and since I never played one of the games I shoehorn Samus and [[SlyCooper Murray]] into the races. * This Troper, as a child, used to play an imagination game -basically, a solo, fairly quiet, LARP -- which he called Everything Meets Everything. He distinctly remembers being [[SesameStreet Grover]] catching some Pokemon. * Any photocomic that uses the toys in the author's collection can automatically turn into this, especially if the premise is that the characters [[ToyStory living toys]]. This troper actually has two ongoing-''Laughably Evil''(Which features characters from [[TransformersAnimated several different]] {{Transformers}} [[TransformersFilmSeries series]] along with {{Batman}}, [[IronMan Whiplash]], and a few {{Halo}} Spartans), and ''Sequitor'' (Still in its infancy, but will feature more characters from more different works and toylines). ---Carol Brady, The Doctor, and Inuyasha all agree you should head back to FanficChopSuey. ----

FanNickname {{Troper}}s' names for characters and other things. In other words, {{Fan Nickname}}s that haven't caught on... yet.

If any of these do catch on, remember, you saw them here first! ---'''Please, add your own entry in alphabetical order.''' [[index]] * TroperTales/{{Fan Nickname A-F}} * TroperTales/{{Fan Nickname G-M}} * TroperTales/{{Fan Nickname N-S}} * TroperTales/{{Fan Nickname T-Z}} * TroperTales/FanNicknameUncategorized [[/index]]

FanNicknameA-F '''Please, add your own entry in alphabetical order.''' ---[[foldercontrol]] [[folder:A]] * Tropers/AceOfScarabs ** iCon - The Real Gear Decepticon who bears a passing resemblence to Laserbeak and becomes an MP3 player. ** Jesus Cube - the Movie Allspark Cube ** Permaban Crusher - Goldion Crusher ** Large Huckebein Core - Large Hadron Collider, named for the Huckebein Incident in SuperRobotWars Original Generations. ** Banhammer - my beloved e9 (all Quickfire) Savage Jackhammer 7 of Fly (-39ra, 444 max dps), which is my current grinding weapon in AceOnline. ** The Great Communicator - any [[ChainsawGood Chainsaw]] I use as a weapon, because of the [[{{ComicBook/Doom}} Doom comic]] and an awesome [[LetsPlay Let's Play]] of {{Doom}} 3. * Tropers/AckSed ** Evil Borg Jayne: The terminator in ''Terminator: TheSarahConnorChronicles'', that [[spoiler:until he grows new skin]], walks around disguised like Jayne in {{Firefly}}'s "Jaynestown". ** Mumbles: Suzuki,the fake love interest of Koizumi in ''LovelyComplex'',for his voice actor's leaden,muffled delivery of all his lines. ** Dr. Stupid: [[Series/{{Heroes}} Dr. Mohinder Suresh]]. For someone who's supposedly smart,he's not the best judge of character... or good at making decisions... or rigorous in his findings. He should also know that [[spoiler:injecting oneself with an untried SuperSerum]] ''never'' ends well. The name comes from RenAndStimpy's "Ask Dr. Stupid". ** Tifa Kenpachi: Sui from ''DoubleArts''. ''Almost'' an {{Expy}} of Tifa,and ''almost'' as psycho as Zaraki Kenpachi. ** The Pink Atom Bomb: The CuteBruiser Yachiru from ''{{Bleach}}'' this troper's just waiting for her to go off. When it does,it will be ''awesome''. ** Batnerd,Otakubat: Daniel Dreiburg,the second Nite Owl in

''{{Watchmen}}''. ** Slash Goggles: Yuri/yaoi shipper extraordinaire Hiyori from ''LuckyStar''. ** Awesome Pussycat: Galeon from ''GaoGaiGar''. * Tropers/TheAdversary: ** The [[AustinPowers Fat Bastard]]: Wario or sometimes Mario ** That Fucking Muppet: Attenborough in GurrenLagann. ** Psychodelic Grave: Spear Pillar in SuperSmashBros Brawl. For being an AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield and having a hell of an InterfaceScrew. ** Renal Problem: Any kind of FreakOut, [[TheReveal reveal]] of {{Yandere}}-ness or SanitySlippage. For [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Rena]]. ** Capcomtastic Marathon: A BossRush in a level right before the FinalBoss. Common in {{Capcom}} games. * {{Tropers/Aela}}: ** Hernando: {{Frankenstein}}'s Monster. ** [[MartyStu Stu]] in Shining Armor: [[KingArthur Sir Lancelot]]. *** Stu II: Spawn of Stu: [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Galahad]]. ** [[SequelHook Professor Sequel]]: [[Film/SherlockHolmes Moriarty]]. ** Series/DoctorWho: *** Earthgirl and Spaceboy: Donna and Ten, respectively. *** While I'll occasionally refer to most of the Doctors as "the Loon [[MemeticOutfit in]]/[[IconicItem with]] the X", "the [[ObfuscatingInsanity Loon]] in the [[BowTiesAreCool Bow Tie]]" gets used a ''lot'' for Eleven. *** The Amazing Technicolor Doomcoat: Go on. [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes Guess]]. *** Human Clingwrap: [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace Jamie]] [[SecurityCling McCrimmon]]. * Tropers/TheAffableParanoiac: ** Dr. Smith: [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] ** Space-Rhinos on the Moon: the Judoon and the episode "Smith and Jones" in general ** The Creators: [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Mike and Brian]] ** The Source Of All Truth: {{Wikipedia}} * {{Tropers/Allronix}} ** [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Kreia]] - "Yes, [[{{Dune}} Reverend Mother]], no Reverend Mother...someone forgot their Box of Pain in their other robes, didn't they?" ** [[BlakesSeven Servalan]] - El Presidente (from a [[DuranDuran Simon LeBon]] song) ** However, [[GalaxyRangers The Queen of the Crown]] gets nicknamed [[StarWars Darth]] [[BlakesSeven Servalan]]. ** [[{{Serenity}} Miranda]] gets the nickname "Reaver Prime" ** [[MassEffect Reapers]] are "Space Cthulhu." Sovereign is Darth Cthulhu. This is due to my comment upon seeing them - "[[OhCrap Aw, crap]]. These guys just made [[KnightsOftheOldRepublic Malak]] look

like [[{{Spaceballs}} Dark Helmet]]."

* Tropers/AmadeusWindfall ** The Deathbunny: ShakuganNoShana's Margery Daw and Marcosias. * [[Tropers/AndThenThereWereNone And Then There Were None]] ** Lera: PortmanteauCoupleName for Lombard/Vera ** Passing down the noose: A new actress playing Vera (eg, June Duprez passed down the noose to Shirley Eaton) ** Play's Ending Syndrome: Using the same ending repeatedly for each adaptation, even when said ending did not come from the book, but from the play * {{Tropers/Anaheyla}} ** [=HOEsada=] / HOE Quesada: Joe Quesada, Editor-In-Chief of Marvel comics. ** {{Naruto}}: *** Idiot: Masashi Kishimoto, author of {{Naruto}} *** God: The Raikage, this troper's favorite Naruto character. *** [=FAILchihas=]: The Uchiha clan ** {{Bleach}}: *** Barry: Barragan, the Second Espada *** Blindy [=McJustice=]: Kaname Tosen, refering(naturaly) to his blindness and his belief in "the path of least bloodshed" *** Captain Old Dude: Head-Captain Yamamoto. *** [=FAILshiro=]: Toshiro Hitsugaya. *** God: Mayuri Kurotsuchi, this troper's favorite Bleach character. *** Harry: Harribel, the Third Espada *** Sizzle: Szayel Aporro Granz, the Eighth Espada ** OnePiece: *** God: Interchangably Eiichiro Oda, author of One Piece or Kaku, this troper's favorite One Piece character. * {{Tropers/Anima}} ** Snarko: {{Animorphs}}, Marco. ** Shmion: [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi both Shion and Mion]]. ** Goth Dude, Deadly Mc Goth Goth, and a laundry list of other overthe-top goth nicknames: {{HarryPotter}}. Severus Snape. ** Alpedo: {{Xenosaga}}, Albedo Piazzolla ** Bleachigo: {{Bleach}}, Ichigo Kurosaki. Used in conversation when talking about two or more characters named Ichigo i.e. Ichigo Momomiya of TokyoMewMew. ** STEEEEEEN, The Sten: [[DragonAge Sten]]. "The Sten" is exclusively used in an AndZoidberg context. ** Lose: [[DragonAge Wynne]] ** Elf-in-Boots, Elven Manslut: [[DragonAge Zevran]] * {{Tropers/Andygal}} ** Wii-condoms: Wiimote covers ** Ash Ketchup: Ash Ketchum, obviously. *** Tropers/WillZ: This becomes a high level of {{Squick}} when anyone

realizes that Pikachu LOVES ketchup a lot... * {{Tropers/Andyroid}} ** {{Buckethead}}: [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=139742 Mudbutton Torchrunner]]. ** Chuck: [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=140217 Brion Stoutarm]]. ** Fishbrick: [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=152844 Noggin Whack]]. ** The Re-Cycle: [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=152874 Recross the Paths]], [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=152616 Redeem the Lost]], [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=152619 Release the Ants]], [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=152618 Research the Deep]], and [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=152836 Revive the Fallen]], a series of cards from ''Morningtide'' that return to your hand after casting if you win a "clash" with an opponent. ** [[TheyMightBeGiants Robot Parade]]: [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=46699 March of the Machines]]. ** Holy Hand Grenade: [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=129808 Wrath of God]] ** Black Wrath: [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=122423 Damnation]] ** Raving Rabbids: The boggarts of ''Shadowmoor'', especially [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=142013 Tattermunge Maniac]] ** Fatland: The plane of Naya from ''Shards of Alara'', which is themed around creatures with high power and toughness (known to many M:TG fans as "fatties"). ** Soccer Hooligans: [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=179248 Matca Rioters]] ** Krypto: [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=Thornling Thornling]], to go with Superman ([[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=Morphling Morphling]]) and Bizzaro ([[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=126810 Torchling]]). ** Water Closet: Wailing Caverns, an instanced dungeon in ''WorldOfWarcraft''. ** Cow Town: Thunder Bluff, home city of the Tauren.

** Froggo: Urdnot Wrex from ''MassEffect''. Grunt from ''MassEffect2'' is, naturally, "Froggo Jr." ** [[HomestarRunner Trogdor]], Rogzor the Burninator: Rogzor, from ''{{Monsterpocalypse}}''. ** [=FEVer=] Attacks: The combo attacks from ''JumpSuperstars'' that require use of the special [[FunWithAcronyms "Friendship", "Effort", and "Victory"]] panels. ** [[HomestarRunner Modestly Hot Homsar]]: Rin from ''KatawaShoujo'', because she's cute, has no arms, and says a lot of really weird things. ** Evil Walt Disney: Andrew Ryan from ''BioShock''. Especially fitting after seeing [[AmusementParkOfDoom Ryan Amusements]] in the second game. ** Keroro Puppet Pals: The twelfth ending of ''KeroroGunsou'', "Omotase Pekopon Icchou!", which features hand-puppet versions of the Keroro Platoon. ** Rebellious Chicken: The [[ButtMonkey long-suffering]] chicken from the opening cinematic for ''{{Fable}} 3''. Comes from the narrator's speech about rebellion, and Burger King's "Subservient Chicken" marketing campaign. ** Bitch of the Wilds: Morrigan from ''DragonAge: Origins'', a play on her mother Flemeth's nickname of "Witch of the Wilds". * Tropers/AndyWaltfeld ** Walker, Texas Gallier - The MidseasonUpgrade mecha from ''{{Xabungle}}''. Earned during ''SuperRobotWars Alpha Gaiden'' when Jiron delivered both killing blows to Aurgelmir, both times using a Soul'd ICBM Toss. ** [[TurnAGundam Diana-sama's]] [[SchoolDays Nice Boat]] - the Soleil, also for meritorious performance in the above. Namely, sniping {{Mooks}} with support particle cannon fire and having the balls to Support Defend my healers when faced with late-game universe-ending attacks. (Apparently no unit will Support Defend if the amount of unblocked damage they would take would kill them.) ** The "I Win" Button - Among my Alpha Gaiden keyboard, Walker Gallier with Haro (+a decent bit to everything) and Minovsky Drive (flight and +2 movement), Mazinkaiser with HPHGCP (+30% energy regeneration per turn), Shin Getter with Haro and HPHGCP, Turn-A with Haro and Solar Panel (+10% energy regeneration), and Brygar with Haro and Solar Panel. ** E-Saviour - The version of Eve at the end of ''ParasiteEve II'', on account of some documents on {{GameFAQs}} list her as "Saver (AKA Eve)." It doesn't help that the decreased difficulty compared to the BonusBoss version of Eve in the first game is similar to the apparent backstep in technology between ''VictoryGundam'' and ''G-Saviour''. ** [[{{Macross}} YAK AGRICULTURE]] - The bioluminescent algae everybody's fighting for in ''G-Saviour''. Coined during the screening thereof on Mogulus internet TV channel [=NeoToonami=], just before it got canned and moved channels. ** ''{{Gundam 00}} [[CodeGeass R2]]'' - This should be fairly obvious by now. I mean, seriously, 20-odd episodes of randomly allocated character development that tosses the first season's cliffhangers by

the wayside, only to end with [[spoiler: Setsuna pulling off a GN Moonlight Butterfly to half-ass {{Instrumentality}}, and Sunrise saying the actual resolution will be saved for TheMovie]]? What the crap? * {{Tropers/Andyzero}} ** Anti-Sora - Neku from ''TheWorldEndsWithYou''. Strangely looks like the lead for ''KingdomHearts'' yet desperately tries to be an EmoTeen, at least at first. The game even pokes fun at this. ** The Batcave - [[{{Tsukihime}} Kohaku's]] cavern under the Tohno mansion, where she cooks up drugs and robots. In game calls it "The Underground" or "The Magic Kingdom." *** This was from the following train of thought. "Where on Earth did Kohaku keep her Manga-version solid black NinjaMaid outfit where Shiki or Hisui don't see it? The Batcave? Wait...she ''does'' have a Batcave!" ** Big Ball of Rape: [[TheJuggernaut The Unstoppable Spheres]] that crush everything in their path from ''{{Heroman}}''. ** Chibi-SEELE -- {{The Omniscient Council Of Vagueness}}-esque group of little kid hackers in the anime version of ''[[DotHack .hack//tasogare no udewa densetsu]].'' So named in honor of the GovernmentConspiracy from ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''; and their shared past-time of talking ominiously and vaguely to each other over a table while wearing headsets. ** ''Der Sodomizer'', the incredibly phallic "Seventh Scripture" [[ThisIsADrill Drill Gun]] that Ciel wield in ''{{Shingetsutan Tsukihime}}''. ** Disembodied Whale Testicles From Hell - The guardians from ''[[DotHack .hack//SIGN]]'', which were floating singing orbs that killed you with CombatTentacles. What's especially ironic is that during the same episode that [[spoiler: Tsukasa's summoned one is destroyed, she remembers she's a girl]]. Paging Dr. Freud. Paging Dr. Freud. ** The Gayest HeterosexualLifePartners Ever -- Miyuki and Natsumi from ''YoureUnderArrest.'' They really are heterosexual throughout the plot, but [[CoversAlwaysLie official art]] always seems to depict them as seconds from passionately having their way with each other. ** [[DragonBallZ Going Super-Saiyan]] -- in ''KingdomOfLoathing'', using the Greatest American Pants ability to make combat skills cost 0 mp, then going back in time and using Krakrox's Mighty Shout Ability 29 times in one fight to double your strength and speed for 29 turns. (Normally, using the skill goes up in MP for 15*(t+1)^2 turns you have accumulated.) A fight is 30 rounds, if you don't mind losing, you can get 30 turns. The effect lasts 5 rounds, so you can use all five rounds doing this, for 150 turns worth. ** ''[[{{Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann}} Gurren]] {{Utena}}'' - the End of the World arc of ''HayateTheCombatButler''. ** The Heterosexual Ray -- Brainwashing done to Anita's old class in ''RODTheTV'' that included [[{{Cure Your Gays}} giving Hisami a boyfriend]]. ** Heterosexual [[{{Noir}} Kirika]] - Ein from ''PhantomOfInferno''. Yes, I know ''Phantom'' came first. Tell my brain that!

** Mount Spaghetti - Those meals in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' that consist of a very big pile of noodles and colorful bits in the center of the table. ** Pikagirl - Xiaomu from ''NamcoXCapcom''. The yellow hair with pointy black tips and the ability to shoot lightning helps ** Saint Saber: Olivie the Saint King from ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', because she looks like a [[FateStayNight certain]] GenderFlip of King Arthur. ** Sineaters: The "brand" of Magical Girls from ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', whose job is to absorb despair. ** [[TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]] - Odin from ''MythicalDetectiveLokiRagnarok''. We only see him as an ominous AllSeeing Eye; either in a crystal ball or floating in the sky. ** Sombrero Man - That one guy in a suit in ''ElCazadorDeLaBruja'', wearing a sombrero and smoking a pipe while "guarding" a facility in the middle of the Mexican desert. ** Voldemort-chan - Medusa the Witch from ''SoulEater.'' Takes a child form later, and still is a master of the "I'm evil" Snake Face. * {{Tropers/Anomalocaris}} ** Browser - [[SuperMarioBros Bowser]], as a simple and lazy alteration to his name. ** Giant Cheese Stick - Those smashy-ceiling-things from the second room in Iggy's Castle from SuperMarioWorld. The thin, spiky brown ones that appear in later castles are known as Giant Pretzel Rods. ** Giovanni's Glare - The "The Boss's Way" card from the Pokemon Trading Card Game, due to it being a close-up of his eyes. Apparently, it's the evolved form of Giovanni and is even more of a MemeticBadass. ** Gorgonflarfadoofadorf - Ganondorf from TheLegendOfZelda, as an over-the-top parody of his name. ** Harry Pothead - HarryPotter. ** Nazisteel - Registeel, due to the UnfortunateImplications of its Diamond/Pearl sprite. ** Paula Deen - Bertha, from PokemonDiamondAndPearl. ** Pokemon Rapist - The "{{Pokemon}} Breeder" trainer class, as a misinterpretation of the name. Originated while looking through old Pokemon cards, but worked its way back into the main series. ** Ridley Beam - The mouth laser attacks that Ridley uses in the MetroidPrime series. Originated while watching a parody video of the FreeFallFight from Prime 3. "[[CallingYourAttacks RIDLEY]] [[NoIndoorVoice BEAM]] [[BreathWeapon FIRE!!!]]" * Anime King ** [[FruitsBasket Kyo Sohma]]- Bitch-Cat due to his constant [[{{Wangst}} complaining throughout the series]]. Yeah. [[TheScrappy I really hate Kyo]]. ** [[FinalFantasyIX Zorn and Thorn]]- [[{{Futurama}} Wingus and Dingus respectively]]. ** [[FinalFantasyIX Armarant Coral]]- Rooster-man. Come on. Don't tell me this troper wasn't the only one who thought he looked like a rooster with his pale skin and red dreads. ** ChristopherNolan- Pretentious Hack.

** [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Honey-sempai]]- [[FruitsBasket NotMomiji]]. ** [[{{Bleach}} Kon]]- [[RanmaOneHalf Happosai 2.0]]. ** [[YaoiFangirl Yaoi Fangirls]]- Twats. ** [[FullMetalAlchemist Gluttony]]- [[IAmAHumanitarian People]] [[SesameStreet Monster]]. ** [[LoveHina Keitaro Urashima]]- Bitch-Boy. ** Naru Narusegawa- Superbitch (Because "The Bitch that managed to out-bitch [[FullMetalPanic Kaname Chidori]]" was too long). ** [[{{Naruto}} Minato Namikaze]]- [[{{Labyrinth}} Minato, The Goblin King]].

* {{Tropers/Ansemaru}} ** Shankenstein- Vamp from ''Metal Gear Solid''. I think it's pretty obvious why. ** Rapeface-Taichou- Yamato of ''Naruto''. * {{Tropers/Aoirann}} ** Wonder Boy- Tetsuo Shima from Akira. Named after a Amv clip from Amv hell 3. ** Ghost of Jesus- Takaya from Persona 3. ** Junpei/Joker- My sister and I call Joker from Mass effect Junpei and Junpei from persona 3 Joker. Put their pictures side-by-side you'll see what we mean. ** The likeable Mary-Sue- Colette from Tales of Symphonia. She has enough character flaws so you like her even though she is a mary sue. ** Uncanny Coms- The Persocoms from Chobits. How can anyone want to have one much less have sex with them? They so deep in the uncanny valley that I get creep out by them, when they not moving in the anime. ** Impossiboobs- My sister's name for Gag boobs. * Tropers/AppleItze ** Cure Stalker (Erika) and Cure Crossover (Tsubomi) for the characters of HeartcatchPrettyCure * {{Tropers/aranoki}} ** {{Pokemon}} *** Hairspray Model: Kincaid...this should be obvious. *** Izzy: Isaac. I used to know a kid with that name. *** Afro Man: Flint. Hey, it's his most prominent feature... *** Cookie: Lucas, after his Japanese name Kouki and the fact that his manga counterpart loves to cook. ** FireEmblem *** Lucy: Lucius. No offense to him, of course. *** Prissy: Priscilla. See above. *** Operation Kidnap Pent: The desert chapter in Blazing Sword. * {{Tropers/Arcadiarika}} ** {{Pokemon}}: *** Sick Baby Seahorse Dragon: Dialga. Named because, to me, its cry

in the games sounds like a, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a sick baby seahorse]]. Don't ask. *** Pinky the Dragon: Palkia. *** The Nightmare-Inducing {{Woobie}}: Darkrai. Call me crazy, but I feel so sorry for the Pokemon. He brings nightmares to all, and he really doesn't mean any ill will. Poor thing! *** That Yellow Rat: Pikachu. I like him, but I can't help but poke fun at its popularity. *** Flame-On-Its-Butt: Chimchar, back in the day. Prior to me eventually liking the little guy, I thought he looked weird with the, well, flame on its butt. ** {{Power Rangers}}: *** The [[MartyStu Stuish]] Ranger: [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers Tommy Oliver]], from Season 2 (as the White Ranger) on. *** The "TOOOMMMMMAAAAAYYYY!!!!1"-screaming Ranger: Kimberly. Should be obvious why she's nicknamed as so. *** [=WAAAAAndros=], The Male Kimberly: [[PowerRangersInSpace Andros]]. Named because he pretty much spent the entire season whining about Karone, a fact that I took to poke fun at in my fics. **** The Vampire Ranger (that Doesn't Sparkle): Andros's portrayer, Christopher Khayman Lee. Taken from an in-joke/Wild Mass Guessing in which he thought that he was a vampire. (And let's face it: a vampire Ranger with, say, Chris's personality would be a lot more interesting than WAAAAH--sorry, Andros.) *** The Backstreet Ranger, the Laser-Toting Ranger, the God of Lightspeed: [[PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Carter Grayson]]. The first nickname refers to the fact that, back in 2000, he looks like, say, early Nick Carter. [[hottip:* :Go on and look at Nick Carter when the Backstreet Boys first started out, then look at a picture of Carter. I'll wait. And no, I'm not responsible for people who have images of the Red Ranger singing Backstreet Boys songs.]] The second one refers to him [[NeverLiveItDown not living down]] the fact that he uses blasters. The third is my gushing nickname for him, which can also apply to... **** Real-Life Positive Stuenger, That Guy with the Odd Middle Stage Name, Tommy Oliver V.2.0, the God of Lightspeed: Carter's portrayer, Sean Cw Johnson. The first is named because, well, he's too darned perfect! (and is a combination of "Marty Stu" and "Ranger") The second nickname comes from this age-old fandom question: just how in the ''heck'' do you pronounce "Cw," anyway? (Also a shout-out to ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.) The third refers to Sean's appearance after [[PowerRangersWildForce "Forever Red,"]] where [[ImportantHaircut his hair turned from Backstreet-ish to...somewhat like Tommy Oliver's spiky hair from said special, only without the massive gel]]. The fourth? See Carter Grayson. *** The Noble Purple-Clad Villain with the Cool Voice: [[PowerRangersMysticForce Koragg]]. * {{Tropers/Arruruerie}} ** ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'' *** [[{{Thundercats}} Lion-O]], [[TheLionKing Mufasa]]: Sho Minamimoto, thanks to people I know more than anything.

** ''ResidentEvil'' *** Ramon Saladbar: Ramon Salazar. [[HarryPotter Salazar Slytherin]] was once a victim of this, too, but it didn't stick in his case. *** [[BondJamesBond Ada Adawong]]: Predictably, Ada Wong. *** Albert Whiskers: Take a guess. There are the fandom jokes about his eyes, sure, but that was after finding out that his voice was based off Sher Khan from ''The Jungle Book''. ** ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}'' *** [[ResidentEvil "Alexia!"]]: Madam Red - she herself had nothing to do with it. It was in fact because of Grell. But a 'course, then he went and proved that they have less of a dynamic. ** ''{{Bleach}}'' *** That Antonio Banderas Hollow: Dordonii, thanks to [[AbridgedSeries Hueco Mundo Cup]]. *** {{Babe}}: Tesla. *** D-Roy Jenkins, [[ShanghaiNoon Roy Invincible]]: D-Roy Linker. *** Grimmjow and Luppi's Son: Ggio Vega. I mean, his looks and attitude... ** ''SpaceChannel5'' *** JAGUAAAR~: ...[[SpaceChannel5 Jaguar]]. It isn't so much a nickname as a need to say his name in an overdramatic singsong every time. ** ''DragonAge'' *** Joan of Orlais, Lellie/Lily: Leliana. *** [[{{Shrek}} Puss]]: Zevran. *** The Homies: The Warden's seconds from their origins - namely Soris, Tamlen, Leske, Gorim, and Jowan. The ghost who appears after the first part of the Gauntlet becomes "[[IncrediblyLamePun the Homie Ghost]]." *** My/Your/The Dalish Girl: ...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A female Dalish Warden]]. Of all my characters, for some reason I'm slowest to call my Dalish girl by name. Also, any of the Homies or party members can become either "Luv", "Best Friend," or "[[HeterosexualLifePartners Heterosexual Life Partner]]" at any moment for any period of time. ** ''Left4Dead'' *** [[SayMyName NICHOLAS]].: Nick. ** Fluffy Little Bastard, [[{{Naruto}} Zetsu]] Cat: StephenKing's Cat From Hell. ** The Human Comet: [[TheLordOfTheRings Denethor]]. * Atom Smasher ** Captain Oi- Captain Rex in Clone Wars, who looks and sounds like one of the cast members in SpaceMutiny. ** Master Smiley- Kit Fisto. (He's smiling because he canonically hooked up with Aayla Secura.) ** God Amongst Ships- Republic Gunship. (Seriously, does that thing ever run out of weapons?) ** Killer Queen- Padme Amidala. (For fairly obvious reasons.) ** Mighty Morphin' Imperial Guards- The guards-in-training in Crimson Empire. (Read it if you don't believe me.) ** Dr. My-Eyes- Dr. Mid-Nite. (A really bad pun on the source of his powers.)

** Tiggles- Power Girl. (A long story involving a similarly-endowed girl I once knew...) [[/folder]] [[folder:B]] * B gal ** Perkara- [[PhineasAndFerb Perry's spy alter ego]], mainly because his hat looks a lot like [[ATopTheFourthWall Linkara's]] [[NiceHat trademark hat]]. [[HilariousInHindSight Yes, I'm aware the show started a year before he actually started with the videos]] *** Mentally Unstable Baribe doll- Candace. ** Big Lipped Trumpiting Alligator Moment- [[ThePrincessAndTheFrog Louis]]... I think this speaks for itself. I planned on making a troper page on it(An inverted verison of the BigLippedAlligatorMoment, in which you suspected a character to be BLAM one, but it turns out they do popped up again, mainly for comeic releif), but I'm not very good at trope pages, and I think there's already one made that I didn't know of yet. ^^; * Blind Dead Mcjones ** Halfsugaya - for captain toushiro hitsugya after one of the later BLEACH chapters. ** The Kirk Special - my older brother actually came up with this one, refers to the move james kirk did in all of his one on one monster fights in star trek, where he would clasp both hands together, bring his arms back over his shoulder and then hit said monster of the week in the back, seemingly breaking its spine. ** Gundam00 *** Gundam Lagann - the Seraphim Gundam when it was revealed, for obvious reasons. **** GN...CANNON!....BREAKER!!!!! - when tieria [[spoiler: kills Bring Stabity]] after the reveal, yet another TTGL reference. *** Somarie - Portmanteau of Soma and Marie. *** Shin Musha Flag - the Masurao and Susanowo used by gra...sorry. bushido bob in season 2. *** Garazzocat - the Garazzo, as when you look at it from the right angle, the horns on its head look like cat ears, add to that the fact that it uses claws as it's main weapon... *** The Traitor Ribbons - Ribbons Almack, regarding his pathological need to stab people in the back, doubles as a reference to [[Warhammer40K Warmaster Horus]] *** Darth Louise - season 2 rendition of Louise Halevy ** Graham Alto - for both Graham Aker and [[MacrossFrontier Alto Sataome]], as the pair share voice actors, japanse motifs, use of transformable mecha, potential [[CargoShip Cargo Shipping]] with mecha, and have similar hot blooded moments. ** The one true god - wikipedia. ** ValkyriaChronicles *** Son of [[MacrossFrontier GARby]] - Jann, due to the similarities between him and Macross Quarter Helmsman Bobby Margot. *** Faildio - Faldio ** F** king Rico - Rico from ''Killzone 2'', self explanatory as to

why really ** Evil Cyborg Cowboy from Space - Masaki in ''LinebarrelsOfIron'' on account of his [[FashionVictimVillain wardrobe choice]] ** Attack Of the Shinji's - when any character is having a wangsty introspective emo moment, or a HeroicBSOD, three guesses as to the reference. ** Shinji with balls - Akito in MartianSuccessorNadesico. ** Taxi's of '''Death!''' - [[Warhammer40K space marine]] [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier rhino's]] that belong to the imperial fists chapter, as they're [[HighlyVisibleNinja yellow]]. ** Zaku Spiegel: the Geara Zulu from ''GundamUnicorn'' as its head looks like the [[{{G Gundam}} Gundam Spiegels]] but with a zaku face instead. * {{Tropers/Blork}} ** Space Aragorn -- Marcus from ''BabylonFive''. * {{Tropers/Bob}}: ** [[TheButcher Captain Butcher]] -- [[GodOfWar Kratos]]. He deserve that moniker. And [[VillainProtagonist not in a]] [[ChaoticEvil good way]]. ** The Boss (or any other title) -- Tropers/{{Ununnilium}}. [[GratuitousEnglish HE IS BOSS]]. ** Killer Suits -- Any {{MIB}} with assault rifles. Blatantly stolen from ''MaxPayne''. * Tropers/BobTheCarrot ** Trevor-kun -- Victor Trevor from [[SherlockHolmes Sherlock Holmes]], due to his being Sherlock's [[DeathNote first friend]]. * Tropers/BossGoji: ** G-Man: Guy Shishioh/Cyborg Guy from GaoGaiGar. ** The G-Unit: The Gutsy Geoid Guard, once again from GaoGaiGar. ** The G-Spot: Also from GaoGaiGar, the glass panel and button that Mikoto smashes to activate Final Fusion. ** Konami: [[PortmanteauCoupleName Konata x Kagami]], from LuckyStar. Occasionally referred to obliquely as "Contra Code." ** Latino Buddha: Elvis, from GodHand. ** Fist of the Plot Device: Hokuto Shinken, Kenshiro's martial arts style in FistOfTheNorthStar, for it's observed quality to be able to do anything the plot needs it to. ** Gothy Gothberg: The protagonist from {{Persona3}}. ** Rambomon: Gargomon from DigimonTamers. ** Remilia's Magic Lesbian Commando Squadron: Hong Meirin, Koakuma, Patchouli, and Sakuya from {{Touhou}}. * {{Tropers/Bly}} ** Alpha-17.5 -- Captain Rex from the Clone Wars cartoon, who was originally supposed to be ARC trooper "Alpha"-17. This idea was nixed due to the fact that the names of the show's three main characters would all start with the letter "a".

* Tropers/BringTheNoise ** Canadian Chris Connection: Short-lived tag team of Chris Jericho and He Who Shall Not Be Named in {{WWE}}. [[/folder]] [[folder:C]] * {{Tropers/CAD}}: ** Tomato Guy -- Cacodemon from {{Doom}} * {{Tropers/Caphi}}: ** Superhair-koutei: Emperor Charles of ''CodeGeass''. To anyone who has seen the man, the reason should be obvious. ** Doctor God: Palparepa from ''[[GaoGaiGar GaoGaiGar FINAL]]''. ** Superbum: Sakuya, ''Dancouga Nova'' * {{Tropers/Cassy}}: ** Aru-kun or Alu-kun: Alucard from ''{{Hellsing}}''. ** Ass'ka: Asuka from ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' out of annoyance. ** Bashounet: Vash from ''{{Trigun}}'' when I feel like poking gentle fun at him. ** Demon Dantesque (Dante-like demon): Edmond Dantes from {{The Count of Monte Cristo}} ** Hohochon: Van Hohenheim from the ''{{Fullmetal Alchemist}}'' manga after he appears [[spoiler: dressed with a cute (?) womanly apron, carrying a giant soup pot and smiling stupidly]] in chapter 80. From a silly French affectionate abbreviation for guinea pig (a pet I'm crazily fond of). *** And young!Hoho for his younger incarnation in the scenes from his past. ** MC: other nickname I give to the Count of Monte Cristo with dripping irony. *** But I will Ganku (whatever it may mean) the first person who calls him "Ed" or even worse, "Edo." ** Meri: Mercedes from ''{{Gankutsuou}}'' because it sounds cute... and because it sounds like "Mary," which is the etymological root of her Spanish name. ** Naibu: affectionate nickname for Knives from {{TriGun}}, pronounced "Naibuzu" in Japanese. ** Nico or Nico-nii (big bro Nick): Nicholas D. Wolfwood from {{TriGun}}. ** [=OMGDepardieuIsEdmondDantes=]: derisory nickname for the recent French adaptation of {{The Count of Monte Cristo}}, which features Gerard Depardieu as Edmond Dantes. For heaven's sake... ** Tchaik for Tchaikowski. So sue me. ** The Coward: [[spoiler: Fei's hidden fifth personality]] in ''{{Xenogears}}''. ** [=TriBlood=]: Trinity Blood. ** Vege: A certain character from ''DragonBallZ''. ** Xeno: Xenogears * Tropers/ChrisX: ** Jack Tinpeach: JackThompson. Taken from MontyPython's sketch ''Self

Defense Against Fresh Fruits'' ** Patchuppu the Rapper - ''{{Touhou}}'''s Patchouli Knowledge, based on one certain video where she is forced to act like Parappa The Rapper ** Phantom Penguin - ''ArcanaHeart'''s Almacia, the [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Penguin Emperor]] Arcana of Ice. Because its default owner, Zenia Valov, is voiced by KaoriShimizu, who also did Lamia Loveless in ''SuperRobotWars'', who piloted the robot Angelg, which has the final attack 'Phantom Phoenix'. And there's that certain penguin who transforms into Phoenix in ''BloodyRoar''... ** Toilet Gil - Oiles Gil, The 'current' BigBad of ''KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', due to his over the top GeneralFailure attitude and his tendency to throw a tantrum in each of the failures he brought, so the troper comes up with a detractor nickname by making fun of his name. * {{Tropers/Chromical}} ** Ungrateful Little Shit- [[AoNoExorcist Rin Okumura]]. This troper roleplays him, and has a [[AllLoveIsUnrequited compl]][[{{Tsundere}} ic]][[SlapSlapKiss ated]] in-character relationship going on with another character. (We actually like him quite a lot. ** Cyclops Zombies- Those terrifying zombie...things from FullmetalAlchemist. ** Christpose- The pose people make when they are sacrificing themselves in various media. Arms are stretched out, forming a T shape. Head may be down.

* {{Tropers/Citizen}}: ** The Janitors - The maintenance crew in ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', driving around in their nondescript van like an {{MIB}}, being vaguely menacing [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness just like pretty much everyone else]]. [[spoiler:Further justified by the second season, where their skills at cleaning up messes are demonstrated]]. Beware, for [[IAmLegion they are legion]], and they do not forgive. ** Raging Mango - The "''Reiji Meigo''" MacGuffin from ''ShakuganNoShana'' that everyone is after. It grants unlimited power and is trapped in a typical wimpy shonen lead. Also, [[{{Fictionary}} made-up]] terms are silly. * {{Tropers/Cliche}} ** Aside from the typical SpikesOfDoom following the DoomyDoomsOfDoom naming convention of NintendoHard game mechanics, playing SuperMonkeyBall Banana Blitz has inspired such names as Accordion of Doom, Train Wheel of Doom, Oscillating Swing of Doom, etc. ** Purgatory - the Tvtropes Talk Pages, because seemingly no one knows they exist aside from veterans. ** WikiwoRd - inspired as mockery of a hilariously stupid FanDumb line involving spelling ''CardCaptorSakura'' that way because the dub left a sour taste in fandom mouths (which incidentally happens to be a CriticalResearchFailure easily verified by [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250141/ IMDb]], not that I particularly

know or care [[SpellMyNameWithAnS how it's supposed to be worded anyways]]), it has gone on to become a term referring to the tendency of people to use ugly-looking trope name splits for one-word trope names when curly braces would suffice. * {{Tropers/Conan-san}} ** Voice of Braves - Nobuyuki "Gai Shishioh" Hiyama ** Doomsday Device #[=IRL1=] - The Large Hadron Collider ** Large Hardon Collider - As above, only used for laughs. ** Asshole Mode Raiden - Yeah, Joshua from TheWorldEndsWithYou, I don't like you. ** The Anti-Spiral - [[{{Naruto}} Sasuke]], 'nuff said. ** Goldlolion Hammer - Vita's Hammer in MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha from [[GaoGaiGar Goldion Hammer]] ** Meatmouth - Reggie Fils-Aime (Nintendo US CEO), man's more meat than man. Plus it give a nice Kaiju feel to procedings. MEATMOUTH, PROTECTOR OF THE SHIT "GAME", SCURGE OF THOSE WHO'S GAMES REQUIRE MORE THAN ONE BUTTON. And So on. ** The Digimon God of Destruction - Black War Greymon- Voiced by the Voice of Braves himself. ** Astroboy Tamers - Astroboy 2k3, Takato's JP Va voiced Astro and the series was directed by Konaka J Chiaki, it also was the first series to follow up on the Digimon Timeslot. ** Gash Seat-Warmer Bell - Gash Bell, it had Digimon/Astroboy's timeslot for a long time before Savers took it back. ** Sailor Digiworld - Hikari Yagami, JP VA - Akari Kae. Also suffers a lot of ChibiUsa's nonsence and hence sometimes well beyond her years. ** BetterThanItSounds Surprise Sundae - The feeling of dling something to see what it's about, thinking it's primiace ludicrous only to find it's a lot better...that it sounds. This Goon will testify it's more likely than you think. * Tropers/CountDorku ** StarWars Galactic Battlegrounds: Age of TheEmpire. ** [[spoiler: [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor ten-B]]]]: Left-Tennant. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It makes sense if you naturally speak with a British accent]]. ** [[AGodAmI A God Is He]]: [[OrderOfTheStick Rich Burlew]]. ** Pretty Magic Button Machines: [=DHDs=] in ''StargateSG1'', named after a line on the JustBugsMe page for that series. ** RMFD: [[{{Warhammer40000}} Rogal Mother Fucking Dorn]] ** Older Than Me Soulban: Lucien Soulban, Black Library and ''MutantsAndMasterminds'' writer, after a line in the "Hero High" supplement for M&M. (For those who have never read it: it goes like this.) --->'''Soulban''': ''MutantsAndMasterminds'' was written by Crotchety Old Man Kenson, and as such is lacking in today's full-flavoured [[TotallyRadical hip-ness]].\\ '''Kenson''': Hey, you're ''older'' than me, Soulban! ** Dwarven Particle Accelerator: any drop-based ''DwarfFortress'' trap. Joke stolen from the DF forums. ** The Abyronation, aka Byron "Abominatus" Hall: the man responsible

for ''{{FATAL}}''. ** Kaptain Klansman: White Knight in ''MutantsAndMasterminds''. ** [[DwarfFortress Urist]] Mc[[{{Asterix}} Vitalstatistix]]: the {{Warhammer}} dwarf model being carried around by shieldbearers. ** The Good Ship Wagner: the Behemoth in ''JakAndDaxter: The Lost Frontier'', which shows up in several missions with a rather more operatic score than past ''JakAndDaxter'' games. ** Hugs Man: the Revolver Stake move in ''SuperRobotWars''. By extension, Kyosuke becomes "Mr Huggy". ** Whingey Ikari: [[NeonGenesisEvangelion do you even need to ask?]] (Googling the phrase also revealed one use in a European game forum. But the googling took place shortly adding this example, several weeks after he started using it). Again, extended into calling NGE "The Whingey Shinji Show". ** Shinji [[AllStarBatmanAndRobin Goddamn]] Ikari, [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Simonji Ikamina]]: the main character of ''ShinjiAndWarhammer40K''. ** Supermaster: watch ''Series/DoctorWho: The End Of Time Part 1''. You'll understand. ** {{FLCL}}SD, Fuck [[NeonGenesisEvangelion LCL]]: again, just take a wild guess. (I know it's pronounced "fooly cooly", but y'know what? Screw it.) ** BJOC: FrankenFran. Stands for "BlackJack on Crack". ** SupernaturalMartialArts in ''{{Exalted}}''; these can get a bit repetitive with the word "Fu", but what the hell. *** Jung Fu: Border of Kaleidoscopic Logic *** Plague Fu: Citrine Poxes of Contagion *** Kung Flamethrower: Righteous Devil *** Tae Kwon Door: Solar Hero (because of the whole "improvised weapon" thing) *** Parallel Universe Fu: Obsidian Shards of Infinity *** Krav Magi: Prismatic Arrangement of Creation *** Pornjutsu: Orgiastic Fugitive *** PolitenessJudo (not literally): Dreaming Pearl Courtesan *** Kombat Maga: Infernal Hero Style (because of that Fatality Charm) *** Punch Out Everyone On The Continent Twice Simultaneously Kwon Do: Charcoal March of Spiders ** [[SoundEffectBleep Bleep]] This Wolf Or The Earth Will Die: any of the ''Werewolf'' WorldOfDarkness games, named after a line by Geoffrey C. "{{Exalted}}" Grabowski defending the [[InterspeciesRomance Lunar Exalted method of creating Beastmen]]. ** [[{{Deadpool}} Redpool]]: Crimson Banner Executioner, the "Chosen of Battle" sample character in the Sidereals book for Exalted. So called because he's a masked guy in red with a katana. ** Other ''JakAndDaxter'' nicknames: the [[FragileSpeedster durability]] of the Havoc V12 and Firebat in ''Jak X'' has bestowed upon them the nicknames "Havoc A4" and "Mayfly". * Tropers/CorporealWolf ** CoheedAndCambria: Teh Coheedz (As in "OMG TEH COHEEDZ") ** [[SuperRobotWars Elzam]]: [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Viral]], because they have both have yellow hair, and that's pretty much it. I

think there's another yellow-haired guy I called Viral somewhere. ** [[SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration The Hagane]]: Party-Boat. There was this one time I put everyone in it. And they were fully healed by the sweet rave party. ** Any FanFiction related noun: Internet Spiders. Why not? * {{Tropers/Crake}} ** Darkman - The "evil" Matt Parkman from the future in ''Series/{{Heroes}}''. ** Pi-Boxers - Sho Minamimoto from ''{{The World Ends With You}}''. Nickname mercilessly borrowed/stolen from [[http://helyxzero.deviantart.com/art/A-mixup-with-our-buyer-89783650 this]]. ** Papa Yagami - Light's dad from ''{{Death Note}}'', because for the longest time me and my friend couldn't remember his actual name. In a similar vein: *** Afro Guy - Aizawa *** That Other Guy - Mogi **** Tropers/{{DomaDoma}}: Whoa, so I guess you remembered ''Ide''? But yeah, by complete coincidence I've explained Aizawa as "'Fro Guy" to foggy-memoried friends, and called Souichirou "Papa Yagami" just because the phrase has a nice twang to it or something. * Tropers/CrazedNinja ** {{Naruto}}: *** "Nayrudo" for Naruto, because Naruto Super Dub is amazing. *** "[[{{Pokemon}} Kabutops]]" for Kabuto. *** "Crackertsu" for Zetsu's white half. I refuse to make a nickname for the black half. **** Nice DoubleStandard. ***** What's the world coming to when going out of one's way ''not'' to offend minorities is still considered offensive? ** {{Disgaea}}: *** "That Faggot With a Rose" for Master Big Star. Actually originally nicknamed by a friend. Derived from a line of TourettesGuy dialogue: "Who's that faggot with a tuba?" *** "Maopapa" for Mao's dad. *** "Pringles" for any generic Prinny. ** {{Doom}}: *** "HOLY SHIT" for the Cacodemons *** "OH FUCK" for the Barons of Hell * Tropers/{{Creek917}} ** {{Naruto}} *** K-but and O-mar: Kabuto and Orochimaru (The first is pronounced "KAY-butt"). *** [[MaxPayne Payne]]: Pain/[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Pein]]. *** Fire Style, [[ColonyDrop Sundrop]] Jutsu: Second State Sasuke's [[KillItWithFire Down]]+[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Special]] in ''Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2'' (Katon, Taiy&#333; sh&#333;totsu no jutsu if I'm in the mood for GratuitousJapanese). *** [[{{Bleach}} Hollow]] Naruto: [[spoiler: Evil Inner Naruto,

appears in chapter 492]]. *** [[SouthPark Cartman]]: [[ThatOneBoss Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3!Deidara]]. Named after [[CompleteMonster the one character]] [[KarmaHoudini I hate most in all the world]]. ** [[MarvelUltimateAlliance Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2]] *** [[{{Naruto}} Rasengan]]: Invisible Woman's "Kinetic Sphere" attack and Penance's "Kinetic Bolt" attack. If you've seen them, you know why. *** Penny-chan: [[TheWoobie Penance]]. *** [[NarutoTheAbridgedSeries Nick Fury's Flantabulous Flashbacks]]: [[StoryToGameplayRatio The (at times) five-minute cutscenes in the sequel]]. Named after two early on in the game wherein Nick Fury has a two-to-three minute flashback. ** {{Bleach}} *** [[StarWars General Grievous]], MoonKnight, [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]]: [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Nnoitra]]. The second is a reference to the horns he has in his ''resureccin'', which take on the appearance of a crescent moon. Third is a reference to his [[MemeticOutfit spoon-shaped]] [[FashionVictimVillain hood]] *** More like a [[NoPronunciationGuide Fan Pronunciation]], but anyway: Jaegerjaquez is pronounced ['jg&#603;r'&#658;&#601;k]. German ''jger'' + French ''Jacques'' *** Expada: The ''[[GratuitousSpanish Privaron Espada]]''. Comes from "ex-" + "espada". *** Captain [[JudgeDredd Judge]]: Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto. *** Captain ^_^: Gin Ichimaru *** Captain [[LadyGaga Gaga]]: Aizen, due to his increasingly [[{{Narm}} ridiculous]] outfits. *** Lieutenant [[ButtMonkey Pinchushion]]: [[TheWoobie Momo]]. *** Captain {{Daredevil}}: Kaname Tosen. *** Captain [[ForSCIENCE FOR SCIENCE]]: Mayuri Kurotsuchi. *** Lieutenant [[MenInBlack MIB]]: Iba. *** Captain [[FamilyGuy Quagmire]]: Shunsui Kyoraku. *** Ichithor: For some reason, [[spoiler: Ichigo's newest Hollow form]] reminds me of [[TheMightyThor Marvel!Thor]]. It's probably the horns and [[StupidSexyFlanders his long, flowing hair]]... *** [[BilingualBonus Perhozen]] for [[VillainSue Ai]]z[[{{Narm}} en]]'s newest look.[[hottip:* :"Perhonen" is Finnish for "Butterfly".]] *** Bondaizen: Bondage!Aizen. ** Others *** Twitterfic: Crossover fanfiction between '''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Twi]]'''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} light]] and [[HarryPotter Harry Po]]'''[[HarryPotter tter]]'''. *** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Day_(Daniel_Powter_song) Bad Day]]: FreudianExcuse. Used in conjunction with {{Angst}} or {{Wangst}}: "[[{{Understatement}} I'M HAVING]]! [[ThisIsSparta A BAD]]! [[TheWoobie DAY]]!" *** [[{{Ptitlethsq3mffp09i}} So Bad It's Good]] [[OffModel Animation]]: Episode 167 of Naruto Shippuden and episode 133 of Bleach. I love it.

* {{Tropers/Cukeman}} ** Business Terms - [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Tropes]]. It beats explaining what tropes are every time I mention one in conversation. ** Captain Fail - Captain Falcon ** I love that man! - [[AceAttorney Godot]] * {{Tropers/Cybele}}: ** A Grave and His Acid Trip Level (The Final Stage of the original ''{{Gungrave}}''.) ** Mummy-Wolf Rival Guy (Bunji Kugashira's deadman form in ''O.D.'') ** Hammerspace Coffee Guy (Godot from AceAttorney.) ** Stoner Jesus (Takaya in ''{{Persona 3}}''.) ** Beam Cannon--FIRE! (Grave's Ceruberus O.D. demoltion shot) ** The Zap-O-Matic Sword (When I couldn't remember the name of the Alastor sword from the original DevilMayCry. Don't ask.) ** Tuxedo Grave (Grave's ''Overdose'' costume) [[/folder]] [[folder:D]] * Tropers/DaibhidC ** (-\S/-): ''Superman/Batman''. It's supposed to look like the combination-logo used instead of the title. ** ''DeepSpaceNine: [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series]]''. ''StarTrekVanguard'', a novel series about a Federation space station in a politically-charged area, during Kirk's era. * {{Tropers/Danifesto}}: ** Since I couldn't remember the names of the ronin from ''[[SamuraiSeven Samurai7]]'', I would refer to them by which rock star they looked the most like: *** Jon Bon Jovi: Kambe *** Jack White: Katsushiro *** Beck: Heihachi *** Eminem: Shichirochi *** David Bowie: Kyuzo *** James Hetfield: Kikuchiyo *** Grace Jones: Gorobei (this one didn't stick). ** Damn Wiener Kid: Shia [=LaBeouf=] ** Darth Benry, Darth Linus: Benjamin Linus from {{LOST}}, ever since the episode where he wailed on those two Middle Eastern men with his collapsible baton. * Tropers/{{Dante668}} ** An affectionate bit of fun at the expense of DisasterMovie director RolandEmmerich: *** ''IndependenceDay'': ''RolandEmmerich Breaks Shit Part 1'' *** ''{{Godzilla}}'': ''RolandEmmerich Breaks Shit Part 2'' *** ''TheDayAfterTomorrow'': ''RolandEmmerich Breaks Shit Part 3'' *** ''[=~2012~=]'': ''RolandEmmerich Breaks Shit Part 4'' (ironically, I came up with this one first after noticing a definite trend)

* [[Tropers/DaNuke Da_Nuke]] ** 575 Superamerica: Fate Testarossa's car in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. It's a Ferrari, just like the Testarossa. ** Sgt. Iwakura: Mayumi Kino from ''BlueSubmarineNumberSix'', who looks a bit too much like [[SerialExperimentsLain Lain Iwakura]]. ** Madden: Madotsuki from ''YumeNikki'' ** After one of his teachers compared the roads of Slovenia to the ones from ''InitialD'', he and his friends came up with these names for these scenarios: *** Gunma Prefecture: Karavanke *** Shibukawa: Jesenice *** Myogi: Mezakla *** Usui: Prihodi *** Akagi: Blejska Dobrava *** Akina: Vintgar *** Happogahara: Slovenski Javornik *** Irohazaka: Podkocna *** Shomaru: Akroni Zelezarsky *** Tsuchizaka: Plavz ** Pelirrrrrrrrrrroja (Spanish for "Rrrrrrrrrreadhead"): Asuka from ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', who has a tendency to roll every single R in the Mexican dub. ** T&#345;ineck elezrny: Any big NoOSHACompliance district, after the same teacher as before {{Hot Blooded}}ly described the HUEG Trinec Iron and Steel Works to his entire class. Examples include the ones in ''BurstAngel'' and ''NeedForSpeed Underground 2''. ** He also has a habit of calling series by their name in another language: *** ''{{Claymore}}'' becomes ''Claidheamh mr'', the native name of the Scottish longsword. *** ''JigokuShoujo'' becomes ''Helvetespiken'' in Norwegian. ** Wiki Mama: TheOtherWiki, aka "TOW". ** Google Daddy: Google, natch. * Tropers/DarkInsanity13 ** Fuzzy Captain ([[{{Bleach}} Captain Komamura]]) ** Ass-ke ([[{{Naruto}} Sasuke]] ** OnePiece Kicked [[HarryPotter Harry Potter's]] Ass and Stole His Magic (FairyTail) *** This is officially the BEST DESCRIPTION EVER.-Tropers/SquealingSandry ** The Bitch ([[{{Naruto}} Karin]]) ** Crazy Lady (any female character that gets angry/violent/creepy/goes insane) ** [[KingdomHearts Xemmy's Multiracial Dream Coat]] (also the Monochrome Duster of Doom). ** Most, if not all the Organization XIII members can have shortened nicknames ending in "-y": *** Xemmy *** Xiggy *** Xally

*** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

Vexy Lexy Zexy (or Sexy...as in Sexta, six! What were you thinking?) Saizy Axy Demy/Demmy Luxy Marly Larxy Roxy Whether or not these are suitable is another issue.

* [[Tropers/DForceMaster D'Force Master]] ** D'Force Mastah Pimp Daddy Wiggidy Wiggidy Wizeman: Wizeman from the ''[[NightsIntoDreams NiGHTS]]'' series. Inspired by [[http://www.angelfire.com/anime6/parodyintodreams/main.htm Parody into Dreams]] more than anything. Also long and hard to keep track of but fun to say. ** Happies: Jackle from the ''[[NightsIntoDreams NiGHTS]]'' series, if only because he seems to have the uncontrollable happies a lot of the time. ** Buru: Deep Blue from Tokyo Mew Mew. Just a simplified version of his name. * Tropers/DialgaX ** [=~Latias' Journey~=] *** Seraphim Forme Latias (Seraphim Latias) - Latias resurrected after [[spoiler: she is killed by the psychotic Red Ranger]]. *** [[GreekMythology Talos]]cario ([[XMen Colossus]]cario) - Rukario (name used in the story) with his EleventhHourSuperpower: ([[spoiler: his entire body becomes [[ChromeChampion metal]]]]) *** Misty The Seadragon ([[AvatarTheLastAirbender Waterbender]] Misty) - Misty with her EleventhHourSuperpower: [[MakingASplash Aqua]][[KillItWithWater -kinesis]]. *** Reverse pokmon battle - The modified rules of the Battle Palace's that require the ''trainers'' to fight each other with their ''Pokmon" giving commands to them. *** Archangel Charizard ([[TalesOfSymphonia Mithos]] Charizard) Ash's Charizard ressurected after [[spoiler: a crazed Blaziken kills him in an [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath extremely brutal fashion]]]]. Distinction of this form: [[spoiler: wings made of [[HardLight light]]]] *** [[{{Transformers}} Rock]][[ThePowerOfRock timus]] [[AutobotsRockOut Prime]] - the [[HumongousMecha giant mech]] used by the Pokerockers. *** Guardian Forme Groudon - Groudon's EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler: a suit of custom made metal armor]]. *** Guardian Forme Kyogre - Kyogre's EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler: a suit of custom made bone armor]]. * Tropers/DionShmion ** Maddie: Madotsuki, ''YumeNikki''.

* {{Tropers/dkellis}}: ** Super Baito Touya: Touya Kinomoto from ''CardCaptorSakura'', for being omni-competent and having part-time jobs ''everywhere''. (Especially since it was never explained in the anime.) ** MAGIC (in all-caps): Any instance of FridgeLogic that is only explainable by the [[AWizardDidIt wizard clause]]. * {{Tropers/DKN117}}: ** Rook: The Rookie, playable character of ''{{Halo}} 3: ODST''; also, the US Bank Tower in Los Angeles (half-hour drive from this troper's home) because with a bit of imagination, it does look kinda like a rook piece from chess. ** Also, plenty from ''DeadOrAlive 4'', mostly for use when frustration leads to temporarily forgetting their names: ** Kasumi: Happy Ninja ** Kokoro: Geisha Girl ** Brad Wong: [[DrunkenMaster Drunk Guy]] ** Bass Armstrong: Wrestle Guy ** Jann Lee: [[BruceLeeClone Kung-Fu Guy]] ** Tina Armstrong: Ms. America ** Bayman: Big Russian Guy, Assassinski ** Ayane: Violet ** Ryu Hayabusa: Ninja Guy, [[{{Naruto}} Kakashi]] ** Eliot: Blond Boy ** Lei Fang: China Girl ** La Mariposa: Luchadore ** Christie: Snake ** Hayate: Other Ninja Guy ** Helena: French Girl, Bow ** Gen Fu: [[DragonBall Master Roshi]] ** Tengu: Crow-Man ** Nicole-459: Chiefette ** [[SNKBoss Alpha-152]]: [[ThatOneBoss The Demon, The Bitch, Blue Death, HAX]] *** Cheap-Ass Cheating Bitch Move: Alpha's [[TeleportSpam teleportation]]. ** [[{{Naruto}} Sasuke]]: [[RedVsBlue Backstabbing Cockbite]] ** [[RealLife The Boeing 737]]: Flying Fish (due to what it kinda looks like (to this troper) when viewed flying overhead (which, considering that this troper lives in Whittier underneath an approach path to LAX, is quite often)) * Tropers/DomaDoma ** Agent Make-Me-A-Sammich: Ray Penbar from ''DeathNote'', for his... special... conversation with his fiance. *** Tropers/ShayGuy would like to note that this FanNickname sadly loses whatever effect it may have had due to his familiarity with [[http://xkcd.com/149/ xkcd]]. ** ''Don't call him that'': a sharp hiss I've had to use more than is entirely sane with ''DeathNote'' fans somewhere in the middle of the second arc.

** Got The Text Message: what happens when someone who's managed to stay away from trollish 4Channery reaches Episode 25 of ''DeathNote''. ** The 47-Bot: the toy robot in ''[[DeathNote L: Change the World]]'' that just so happens to display the number 47 on its chest when the kid plays with it. I think it an amazingly subtle continuity nod for so {{narm}}licious a movie - and even if it's not intentional, it's ''still'' how I realized [[spoiler: the kid was Near]]. ** Death-O-Sketch: The animation style in ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' when a character says their last words. ** SG-Irrelevant: Any SG team in ''StargateSG1'' that's not SG-1. Pretty self-explanatory. ** Plague Chick: Linnea from ''StargateSG1'', before I realized {{they wasted a perfectly good plot}}. ** The Voice: Tanith from ''StargateSG1'', because he can say some of the biggest cliches you've ever heard but that exquisitely evil voice still manages to wrench my gut. ** Voldyvamp - The Master from ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', because he looks strikingly like Voldemort and I'm not talking about ''Series/DoctorWho''. ** The November Restoration Project: ''{{Bakuman}}'', because all the worst things in [[DeathNote the creators' other series]] happen in November, whereas ''Bakuman'' reserves the month for modest successes. It became clear that they were taking specific pains to avoid the November stigma when it was revealed that November 5 was the romantic lead's birthday. ** Nanamonami: Nanamine in Bakuman, owing to my intense desire to have MiyanoMamoru play him. * {{Tropers/Draga}} ** Captain Happy: Many emo/angry/serious characters like [[FinalFantasyVII Cloud]], [[StreetFighter Balrog]] or {{Batman}}. ** El Stabbio: [[StreetFighter Vega]] ** The Emo Three: [[FinalFantasyVII Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo]] ** Teh Awesome: [[{{Pokemon}} Arcanine]] ** Swordy [=McBoobs=]: [[TenjhoTenge Aya Natsume]], [[{{Bleach}} Rangiku]] * {{Tropers/DragonKazooie89}} ** Kaz: [[BanjoKazooie Kazooie]] ** Wally: [[SuperMarioBros Waluigi]] ** Christmas Pit: Pit in his green and red outfit in [[SuperSmashBros Brawl]] ** Mety: [[{{Kirby}} Meta Knight]] * {{Tropers/Drascin}} ** The Goddess, Supreme Goddess, Her: Haruhi Suzumiya, as this troper takes the mock religion of Haruhiism one step further and actually claims to profess it IRL to whoever asks and tries to substitute any mention of God in his vocabulary for mentioning Her. He even rebuffed a Jehova's Witness once by saying "Sorry, not interested, I'm a Haruhiist. But maybe you would be interested in learning about ''my'' Goddess? We are much more fun" with a wide evangelistic smile ;).

** Mini Drill Breaker: [[{{Touhou}} Iku Nagae]]'s Blow of the Dragon Fish, because... well, look at it! ** The Littlest Knight of the Apocalypse: [[{{Touhou}} Flandre Scarlet]], for being a somewhat crazy but adorable little kid with the power to make buildings explode by thinking about it or turning cities into craters with a tantrum. ** [=OhCrapI'mSoDead=]: Yukari Yakumo in {{Touhou}} fighting games. Stupid "one mistake and it's zero-to-shieldbreak-to-death" spellcards. ** That Revolting Blonde <expletive deleted>: Enju the fake dollmaker from Rozen Maiden, due to his implication directly causing two of this troper's favorite characters to go into a coma. Also used (albeit with a ''smidge'' less bile) for Rozen, the true dollmaker, because when you finally manage to create ''sentient beings'' and they regard you as a father, you should have enough basic decency to ''not ask them to fight to the death for your lulz!''. ** Jiggernaught: One of my few strengths as a Smash Bros player is my ability to absolutely ''rape'' anyone I've ever come across with Jigglypuff, leading to the pink puffball earning that nickname forever in every circle I frequent. Who do you think she is? She's the Jiggernaught, bitch! ** The world's most GAR Mahou Shoujo: Fate Testarossa, for being able to have shout outs to Char Aznable and Sanger Zonvolt while being a ten-year old child, and still be every bit as awesome as them. ** En-Garde: Gallade, who is basically a male and swordsman-ish version of Gardevoir, who I have always called just Garde. ** The Bird of Elvis: Staraptor, mainly due to hair(feather?)style. ** The Amazing Brothers Cantseeshit: RefleX's (a classic-style shoot'em up game) Stage 5 boss, who is a group of identical crafts that keep making use of InterfaceScrew, making the screen red and then shooting red bullets. Still easy, but annoying, really. * Tropers/DrDedman ** Angstvelgelion: ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''. I wish I could claim this one, but a friend beat me to it. ** The Only Anime That Matters: What I call ''Eva'' when I'm feeling a bit cocky and channeling my inner rock critic. ** Plastic Nipple: ''Plastic Little''. A ''perky'' anime (oh and the characters are pretty energetic too) that looks great, and hasn't a thought in its head. ** "It's fun, but I liked it a lot better when it was called ''MaisonIkkoku''.": Another one I wish I could have made up. From an early review of LoveHina. ** Legion of All Quiet on the Western Front: Any "dark" ''TheLegionOfSuperHeroes'' story, particularly the ones after the "five year gap". ** Girl Land: The otherworldly "school" in ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena''. This one's a bit obscure, unless you're a child of a child of the 60s. ** Lupin the Sixth: ''CowboyBebop'', especially Spike. ** Junger Freud: Asuka Langley Soryuu, after her predecessor character in ''{{Gunbuster}}''. ** Furui Asuka: Rezin Schnyder from Mobile Suit Gundam. So named ("old" Asuka) because Gainax have mentioned that part of the

inspiration for Asuka was "what would Rezin have been like as a kid". Also a play off of Gundam Seed's Shin ("new") Asuka. ** The Little Black Book: Sgt. Mao's (of Full Metal Panic) book of proper drill sergent abuse. Which she lends to Sosuke while he's training the Rugby Club. * Tropers/DrZulu2010 ** {{Ace Attorney}} *** Phonyx Wrong: Furio Tigre. As a short version of Phony Phoenix and the Wrong because he's the opposite of Wright. *** Gumbyrde (yes, spelled like this): A PortmanteauCoupleName of Gumshoe/Maggey ** {{Bioware}} *** Frenchie Lesbian/Bisexual Imoen: [[{{DragonAge}} Leliana]] Because she's is what she is. [[{{ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin}} A French Bisexual expy of]] [[{{BaldursGate}} Imoen]] *** Dragon Age: Extras in action: DragonAgeII. Because of two of your party members (Isabella and Merrill) are AscendedExtra as well as being LoveInterest for [[{{Player Character}} Hawke]] hence the [[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} in action]] part. *** Mr [[{{BaldursGate}} TOB]]: [[spoiler: Sarevok]]. It was a nickname I found in GameFAQS and I have adopt it. It was given to not spoil the party member from Throne of Bhaal. *** Mr [[{{DragonAge}} Landsmeet]]: [[spoiler: Loghain]]. See Mr TOB, but after the Landsmeet. ** {{BlazBlue}} *** Chubbyzama: Hazama in "Help Me Professor Kokonoe" who is rather round. *** Professor AwesomeSex: Professor Kokonoe. ** {{Dynasty Warriors}}/{{Samurai Warriors}} *** The Bovine King: [[{{DynastyWarriors}} Cao Cao]] Because of his mispronounced name in the game who sounds of course like Cow Cow. *** Choo Choo: [[{{DynastyWarriors}} Xu Zhu]] An affectionate nickname I gave him because, again, of his mispronounciation. *** Lu Bu The loyal: [[{{SamuraiWarriors}} Honda Tadakatsu]] for being the strongest warrior in Japan, for his theme song override and for being faithful of his master. *** Yoyo Copter: [[{{SamuraiWarriors}} Takenaka Hanbei]]'s Battle Sundial. *** {{David Bowie}}: Gan Ning in DW7. *** Tits MacKenzie: Lian Shi. [[BuxomIsBetter For two obvious reasons.]] *** Boobie McGee: Wang Yuanji. [[BuxomIsBetter Again, for two obvious reasons.]] *** [[UltimateMuscle Kinniku Buster]]/Vagina Buster: Huang Gai's second Musou attack in DW7. The second name is mainly when you use this technique against women. (leading to free Panty Shots) *** Turban Man: Xu Huang, because of his Turban he got in every DW games he appeared (except in DW6) ** Others *** "GTFO of my Hotel" song/"You're busted" song: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63jdWm0J2Bc Hotel Dusk Room 215's

Drunken Waltz]]. Everytime I've heard it, it's always a bad sign. *** Twilet: Literature/{{Twilight}}. an IncrediblyLamePun on Toilet, which was made to resume how the pages can work as "Twilet paper". *** [[MetalGearSolid TIME PARADOX]] ending. AgarestSenki Zero's normal ending. Which I saw and where I can resume it as [[spoiler: Leonis, you can't die! The future will be changed. You'll create a time paradox.]] *** [[ForGreatJustice Justice Freak]]: Any and every character who like to spout the word Justice and say speeches about Justice and stuff. Alternate Nickname: [[HonorBeforeReason Honor Freak]] (for those who like to talk about honor), LoveFreak (The Nickname Namer inspired by {{Disgaea}}'s Flonne and it's for those who like to say speeches about love.) and [[ThePowerOfFriendship Friendship Freak]] (for those who like speeches about Friendship.) [[/folder]] [[folder:E]] * Ecliptor Calrissian: ** The Bourne Nomenclature: A catchier name for MadLibThrillerTitle. ** The Terellian Plague: This takes some explaining. See, early in ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration,'' a species called Terellians were introduced, and they suffered from a terrible disease. From then on, the Terellian Plague is frequently mentioned in a "Sickbay? I don't need to go to Sickbay! It's just a cough, not the Terellian Plague!" sorta way in all Trek series. (Of course, in TV land, a cough usually ''is'' indicative of [[SoapOperaDisease something]] [[IncurableCoughOfDeath horrid]].) However, this doesn't stop the writers from using the name "Terellian" over and over again, for species that can't possibly be related to each other. Since then, the Terellian Plague is This Troper's name for Star Trek's plague of Terellians, as well as the phenomenon itself: when writers DidNotDoTheResearch on the very series they're writing for, and reuse the name of a person, place, or thing for something unrelated. * [[{{Tropers/Edge-of-Oblivion}} Edge-of-Oblivion]] ** {{Berserk}} *** Fetish Freak: Slan *** Sir Slick, Captain Slick: Roderick *** Voldo: Silat *** Zerg: Pretty much all demons, due to their "infestation"-like transformations and tendency to look like insects. The infested look the ground gets whenever the God Hands show up doesn't help... *** Zerg Bomb, Zerg Egg: Behelit *** Zerg Overlords: The God Hand ** {{Bleach}} *** Captain Frankenstein: Captain Kurotsuchi Mayuri *** Draquiorra: Ulquiorra's Resurreccion Secunda form *** Facegrill, Baleen: Captain Komamura's helmet *** Grandmaster Badass: Old Man Zangetsu, also sometimes General Yamamoto *** Lazy Awesome: Stark, after finding out he's the #1 Espada *** Ogichi, Whitchigo, Shirosaki: The white Ichigo that represents his

Hollow personality (shiro=white; kuro=black) ** {{Golden Sun}} *** Minardi: Karst ** {{Hellsing}} *** Hanz and Franz: The Valentine Brothers. Partially sarcastic (they're skinny as rails), partially because I can actually imagine them storming into Hellsing HQ and shouting "I am Hanz and this is Franz and we are here to [[{{More Dakka}} PUMP YOU FULL OF LEAD!!]]" That and I can never remember their real names. *** Hopalong Catastrophe: Pip *** Lady Catastrophe: Seras Victoria, as a full-powered vampire; due to above plus... well, if you've read it you'll know. *** Zulu: Incognito from the anime, before he gave his name. Still sticks. ** {{World of Warcraft}} *** Belf-ula, Dracu-Belf, Vampi-Belf: The San'Layn, vampiric Blood Elf-like members of the Scourge. Sometimes without the "b". *** Bonebomber, Bonebombs: Nightbane, the skeletal dragon boss in Karazhan, and the flaming skeletons he drops during his air phase. *** Deadvar, Zombingvar: Ingvar the Plunderer, last boss of the Utgarde Keep instance, in his undead form. *** Destructo-King: King Varian Wrynn, especially during the Raid on Undercity quest. *** Draku-Pwn-Ru, Draku-Zilla: Drakuru the troll, in his Death Knight form *** Fronkensteen: Thaddius (from the intentional mispronunciation of 'Frankenstein' by Frederick in 'Young Frankenstein') *** Garden of Freakin' Eden: Sholazar Basin *** Grampa Dragon: Malygos *** Healbot: Loatheb, whose name is an anagram of it anyway *** Hippieland: The DEHTA encampment in Borean Tundra; by extension, any NPC with <DEHTA> under its name is therefore a Hippie. *** King Steve: The human king in Medivh's chess set in Karazhan. *** Mecha-Ninja: The Fel Reaver. How does it sneak up on you like that? HOW? ''IT'S FIVE STORIES TALL!!!'' *** Mordor: Icecrown (duh.) *** Mouth of Sauron: Kel'Thuzad, due to his tendency to speak for the Lich King, who looks like Sauron. *** Phil: Prince Malchezaar. [[{{Dilbert}} He will Darn You to Heck]]. *** Pizza Boss: Varos Cloudstrider, second boss of the Occulus instance. For his tendency to divide the platform you fight him on into pizza-slice-shaped "safe zones" and "damage zones". *** Pridelands: Nagrand *** Russian Roulette: The Violet Hold instance. *** Saffron: Sapphiron. No one in my guild bothers to pronounce it correctly. *** Skeletor: Kel'Thuzad again. And by extension any other Lich. *** Spot: Gluth the Plague Dog *** Tunnel of OMG Lag Death: The hallway/platform in Utgarde Pinnacle where Skadi the Ruthless is fought, due to the high number of enemies, extravagant visual effects, closely-concentrated population, and my lousy computer.

*** Yo-Yo Boss, Yo-Yo Mage: Blood Elf Grand Magus Telestra, first boss of the Nexus instance. Named for her ability to throw the party around the room after being jerked back and forth for a few seconds. * {{Tropers/Ekul}} ** ''Neo-Chuck:'' Chuck after the 2nd season finale. [[spoiler: "[[ShoutOut I know]] [[TheMatrix kung-fu]]."]] * Electric Worry ** Special Guest Star [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Miyo Takano]]: [[ToAruMajutsuNoIndex Professor Kiyama]], not least because of the baggy eyes and [[spoiler:being behind the Level Upper plot]]. ** [[spoiler: Captain Brundle]]: [[{{Bleach}} Kaname Tousen]] * Ellytoad ** The Chicken Man: Daniel Jackson from ''Stargate''. * {{Tropers/Emperordaein}} ** My Name is Kuzco: What I call the Emperor's New School Christmas special, due to it more or less turning into MyNameIsEarl in the second half. ** The Tank Cannon: The [=M60E4=] from Call of Duty 4. It's what I think it resembles ** Perpetually Bored Spectrobe: Furok from the Magi Nation Tv Series ** Captain Deadinanepisode: That Plumber that Ben teamed up with in the Pilot of Ben10AlienForce ** Panda Girl: May Chang from FullMetalAlchemist ** The Bay Bunker: The Estae map from Modern Warfare 2, due to my theory that it is Michael Bay's headquarters. ** Alex [=McGrah=]: The Master in Doctor Who: The End of Time, since he was basically a fusion of [[{{Prototype}} Alex Mercer]] and [[{{InFamous}} Cole McGrah]] ** Captain Bullshit: Not Aizen from Bleach, but Takuto from Pokemon * Tropers/EponymousKid ** ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''. You know the QuirkyMinibossSquad, with Azula, and Mai, and... Zoicite? * {{Tropers/Etheru}} ** Olga- [[{{IndianaJones}} Agent Spalko]], due to a mistake on my part, although I still do refer to her as Olga sometimes. ** [[{{AquaTeenHungerForce}} Mega Ul]][[{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}} tra Chicken]]- An unfortunate side effect of seeing Ra be called by that name. * Euterpe ** SLUTBITCH- Azkadelia of Syfy's Tin Man. ** The Kickstand- [[{{Bleach}} Ulquiorra's]] Hollow mask. ** Tiny Warrior Doctor- [[StarTrek Leonard]] [[TheMcCoy McCoy.]] ** The Nines, Agent No, Dr. No- [[{{Psychonauts}} Sasha Nein.]] ** The Scootbros- [[TeamFortress2 The Scout's brothers.]] The Scootfam is Scout's entire family.

** Boyfriend In a Helicopter- [[MetalGearSolid Snake's]] [[SuperSmashBrothersBrawl Final Smash.]] ** Awesome Spy Husbands- [[MetalGearSolid Philanthropy.]] ** Kara- [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara.]] ** Big Gay Lawyers- Phoenix/Edgeworth, and by extension the AceAttorney series. ** SEEEAAAHORSE- [[YuGiOh Seto Kaiba.]] ** Snipes, SNOIPAH- [[TeamFortress2 Sniper]] * {{Tropers/EveryonesFool}} ** {{One Piece}}-I like to call Luffy and Ace the "Tenacious D's." I'm a fan of both shows, so it makes sense, given the characters' personalities and names. [[/folder]] [[folder:F]] * Tropers/FarseerLolotea ** The Big Purple Cave, the Catfish Pond: The Exodar. ** Belfywelf, Crack-Rabbit, Dopebunny, [[EverythingsNuttierWithSquirrels Eversong Squirrel]]: A blood elf, when this troper is playing Alliance. ** Belftown, the Sparkly Maze: Silvermoon City. ** Blue Soap: A [[SeriousBusiness monumental]], [[DontLikeDontRead messy]] [[LetsSeeYOUDoBetter fanwank]] that this troper [[SnarkBait made the mistake]] of [[{{MST}} setting off]]. You probably do ''not'' want to know. However, if [[SchmuckBait curiosity outweighs common sense]], a search for "draenei MarySue SoapOpera" will explain it; just don't claim that you weren't warned. ** Borewind, Breakwind, Mazewind: Stormwind City. (No, I don't like it; why do you ask?) ** Caitln (pronounced Kathleen): A well-written EthicalSlut or GoodBadGirl character. ** Catfish, Catfish-Face, Catfish-Head: A draenei, when this troper is playing Horde. ** [=CheriSue=]: Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil, from S.L. Viehl's ''Stardoc'' series. Make a wild guess why. ** {{Chibi}}, Kewpie Doll: A gnome. ** Collecturtle, Fucking Collecturtle, Goddamn Collecturtle, Stupid Collecturtle, other variations on that theme: The Ancient Tartagon (giant two-headed [[TurtlePower tortoise]]) [[HorseOfADifferentColor mount]] that came with the collector's edition of ''{{Rift}}''. While convenient, it's quite large and looks rather ponderous and dopey. ** That Damn Eredar (often abbreviated to [=TDE=]): Prince Malchezaar. ** Dead Character Lives: A [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin specific sort]] of FixFic. May be abbreviated to DCL; alternately, when referring to specific fics, the dead character's name (i.e. [[{{Warcraft}} Taretha]] Lives or [[{{Redwall}} Laterose]] [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Lives]]) may actually be used. ** Drumorc Shamageicator: [[GodModeSue Med'an]]. From "'''dr'''aenei/h'''um'''an/'''orc''', '''sha'''man/'''mage'''/vind'''icator'''." So-called because he's a

ridiculous multi-class HeinzHybrid. ** Durn It To Heck: Durn the Hungerer. [[BossInMookClothing Just because]]. ** Fluzball, Fuzzbucket, Skitten: A cat as a hunter pet, or a druid in cat form. By extension, any cat. (As in: "You've got that fluzball on passive, right? Maybe one of the druids should go skitten and scout around. And why is there a fuzzbucket on top of my monitor when I'm trying to raid?") ** Fjord Reaver: Those [[BossInMookClothing damned storm giants]] in Howling Fjord; so-called due to playing a similar role to the fel reavers in Hellfire Peninsula. ** Florc, Flurk (and several other variations): A fel orc. (As in: "Are you ''trying'' to aggro every florc in Shadowmoon Valley or something?") ** Guarddamns: The [[GoddamnOrks Guardian faction]] in ''{{Rift}}''. ** Hellhole Peninsula: Hellfire Peninsula, for [[{{Mordor}} obvious]] [[ScrappyLevel reasons]]. ** JoClayton Weird: A descriptive phrase for a fantasy setting that deviates just enough from the [[StandardFantasySetting classic model]] to be obviously original. Named for the late author of the ''{{Duel of Sorcery}}'' and ''Dancer's Rise'' trilogies. ** Kelp Reaver: Those [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks damned whale sharks]] in [[UnderTheSea Vashj'ir]] that [[YouFailBiologyForever prey on unwary draenei and trolls]]. Three guesses why, and the first two don't count. ** Kinkade World, Kinkadia, Thomas Kinkade World: An apparent CrapsaccharineWorld seen through one of the demon's portals in ''[[{{Indigo}} Nocturne]]''. By extension, any CrapsaccharineWorld. (What can I say; Thomas Kinkade [[{{Glurge}} gives me the creeps]].) ** Mama Scary: Therazane the Stonemother, who's essentially a huge, cranky anthropomorphic boulder. ** Maple Treant, Rotten Lousy Maple Treant, Stupid Frigging Maple Treant: [[http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=12836 This mob]] in Ashenvale. He exists strictly to bedevil unwary low-level Horde. True story. ** Pigtails: [[{{Rift}} Uriel]] [[GenkiGirl Chuluun]], for [[GirlishPigtails obvious reasons]]. ** Princess Scarydras: Princess Theradras. Well, Mama Scary is her mother, to begin with. Even with that in mind, her father must have been something absolutely horrifying. ** Retvindicatrix: Female draenei retribution paladin; one of this troper's pet characters, for one. Literally, "retribution" + "vindicator" + Latin feminine suffix. ** Rohael: A [[CrossPlayer male character played by a woman, or a woman playing a male character]], in an {{MMORPG}}. Named for a WoW character that [[ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability this (female) troper]] plays on a roleplay server. ** Sparkle Enthusiast: Your typical ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fan, when this troper is in the rare mood to be ''polite'' about them. ** Splatter: Anything that's ''trying'' to be horror media...but which, thanks to creators apparently going for {{gorn}} and {{squick}} more than bone-chilling terror, ends up being reminiscent of a Troma film. I'm looking at you, Graham Masterton.

** Tall Blue: This troper's two favorite WoW races (note one for each faction) and favorite ''{{Rift}}'' race, collectively. "Big Blue" is similar, but excludes [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]] and can also mean one of S.L. Viehl's [[ProudWarriorRace Jorenians]]. ** Tkumel Weird: Describes fantasy settings that go significantly ''beyond'' "Jo Clayton weird." Named for the ''Empire of the Petal Throne'' setting. *** {{Talislanta}} Weird: Applies if a setting is at least "Jo Clayton weird" but more likely "Tkumel weird," with more of a [[TheWonderland whimsical twist]] than is common to either. ** That Little Green Stub-Tendriled MartySam: See: "drumorc shamageicator." ** Yipdrool: Admiral Ripsnarl in the Deadmines. * Fenrir ** Sideburns: [[GundamX Jamil Neate]] ** Handbag: [[{{WITCH}} Nerissa]] ** Fucking Ribbons: Both [[{{Gundam00}} Evil Amuro]] and any traprigged chest in an RPG ** Lite [[HokutoNoKen Hokuto Shinkin]]: [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Ty Lee's fighting style]] ** Da Douche: [[CodeGeass Lelouche]] ** EVIL Kyosuke: [[SuperRobotWars Beowolf]]. The title must be be all in caps. ** Shining Newtype Sword: Camille's {{BFS}} in ZetaGundam ** Canon Destiny: [[SuperRobotWars SRWZ's]] rendition of GundamSEEDDestiny, due to [[{{Discontinuity}} Personal Canon]]. ** Sniper Joe: Vice Granscenic from ''NanohaStrikerS'' simply because he kept forgetting his name and Sniper Joe fits. ** Fucking Proist: The primary antagonist of ''Gaiking Legend of the Daiku Maryu'', who is about as blatant of a MagnificentBastard as possible and is arguably a VillainSue done right. * Tropers/FigmentJedi ** Lawyer Friendly Ghidorah: The three headed dragon in the Mummy 3. I can't be the only one that saw this... ** Bob the Mentally Challenged Iguana: TakeThat American Godzilla! ** Adorable Little Death Machines: The baby birds from ABugsLife ** Commander [[TheSimpsons Skinner]]: The leader of the Southern Raiders that killed [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Katara's]] mother, mostly thanks to him becoming a loser that lives with his illtempered mother by the time Katara comes for revenge. ** Mr Dillo: Guame from TengenToppaGurrenLagann. Taken from the ButtMonkey of the {{Waterman}} Studios flash cartoons. And by extension, his Ganmen is Roybot. ** Catbus: [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Appa]] ** Foghorn Leghorn: That rooster Beastmen that attacks Simon in jail in one of the later episodes of Gurren Lagann ** The Boobs that will [[GurrenLagann Pierce the Heavens]]: The Yakuza mom in TheMachineGirl for her [[ThisIsADrill Drill Bra]]. ** Spider-Jesus: That ''The Other'' arc from SpiderMan. ** KingdomHearts Fun with Fractions: ''Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days'',

mostly for the sake of simplification. * {{Tropers/Filby}} ** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=268 Al]]. Because he cleans up after [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=121 Tim]]. [[HomeImprovement Har har]]. * Tropers/FishStampede ** Admiral Broken: Kizaru, from OnePiece. From his almighty, insane Devil Fruit power. SuperpowerLottery? Won. ** Clint Eastwood: Admiral Akainu, because he vaguely resembles him ** The Flamingo, Pimp: Donquixote Doflamingo, because typing his name is tough, and he dresses like a pimp. ** Stubby Fists of Impotent Rage: Volus, from Mass Effect. Half their species tends to have a HairTriggerTemper, but they're about 3 feet tall and nearly spherical, with tiny little three fingered hands. ** Wall Street Journal: Weekly Shonen Jump. Due to reading both, when people use the acronym I often get confused. ** Roll Fizzlebeef: Uroge. Most appropriate David Ryder name because of how hard he was worfed. ** The Scarecrow: Basil Hawkins ** Dino'tanian: X Drake, for his Musketeer-like appearance and T-Rex devilfruit * Tropers/FlightMaster ** Following the trend of some Spanish authors who did a heck awesome DragonBall parody, here are some names yours truly and friends use that the authors never didn't: Tabla (Spanish word for 'board', really Dabra), Songo Tres (Son Gotrenks in SSJ3), Croqueta (Meatball in Spanish, the incorrect fusion of Gogeta), Kallosin (From 'calloso', spanish for 'full of warts', really Kaioshin) Kepito (spanish pronunciation for 'what a penis', it's really Kibito) ** Prince Vegeta: Lance, the Dragon Tamer in {{Pokemon}} ** Flanny-chan: Asakura from MahouSenseiNegima, taking after Flannery, again from {{Pokemon}} ** Wolf's Sharingan: Wolf Link's heightened senses, from TheLegendOfZelda Twilight Princess. ** Yami Chris, Dark Chris, ID Hanakomachi: the sudden strenght outbursts that such character has during many an episode, she's from ''Daa Daa Daa!'' (seriously, I need to do the trope page for it, someday). ** SSJ Sasuke: The guy called Soma, in the animated version of the ''Mushiking'' game. Not only is he a blonde [[{{Naruto}} Sasuke]], but is the most blatant HeelFaceRevolvingDoor on this side of the globe. ** Queen of Games: a friend of mine used such term to refer to Yuka Odajima, from the first FutariWaPrettyCure season. He says the girl is 'like Nagisa and Honoka did the FusionDance, then used a Potara to unite with Yugi's long lost twin sister'. Yep. ** Baka Troopers: Risa, Miki and Izumi from ''HayateTheCombatButler'''s Hakuo Academy, taking after ''VRTroopers'' the same way as the [[MahouSenseiNegima Baka Rangers]] took after the

PowerRangers. * {{Tropers/Freezer}} ** Captain Beckett: Capt. Johnathan Archer of ''Enterprise'' (Played by Scott Bakula, AKA Dr. Sam Beckett of ''Quantum Leap'') ** Coach Gooding: Pittburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin, who bears a striking resemblance to Cuba Gooding, Jr. ** Dr. Rossovich: Luka Kovac of {{ER}}, who, let's face it, is Doug Ross with a Slavic accent. ** Ensign Blockhead: Kou Uraki of ''Gundam 0083'', widely considered the dumbest Gundam protagonist ever. ** ''Home Of The Braveheart'': Mel Gibson's ''The Patriot'', which made little attempt to disguise it's similarities to Gibson's earlier, vastly-superior ''Braveheart''. ** The Kick-Me Squad: My name for the nWo Black & White. ** ''Jake 3.0'': NBC's {{Chuck}}. ** Marwan The Wonder Terrorist: [[TwentyFour 24]] Season 4 BBEG, known for his Rube Goldberg-like (yet sucessful) plots, inexhaustable supply of gun-toting minions, and cartoonish ability to evade capture. ** The [=McMahon=]-In-Law: Triple H of the WWE (IRL married to Vince [=McMahon=]'s daughter, Stephanie) ** Satanman: Spider-Man, post-One More Day. * Tropers/FreezairForALimitedTime ** '''Aah!''': A statement pertaining to the ''HarvestMoon'' series: "[[HotScientist Archaeologists Are Hot]]." Refers to the fact that I always seem to pick the archaeologist or archaeology-aligned characters as spouses in HM games. ** Cuddle H and Stubble H: Somewhat derogatory, somewhat [[AffectionateParody affectionate]] nicknames for the two most common fan-interpretations of [[BeyondGoodAndEvil Double H]]: Either as a stumbling, affectionate, ''obnoxiously'' Man-{{Moe}} GentleGiant, or an impervious {{Permastubble}}d BadAss with [[DumbMuscle lots of muscle and not a lot of brain]]. While he displays aspects of both, fans tend to either play up one or the other. ** The Douchebag, Douchebag King, Sir Douchealot, any variant thereof: Weber, the... ''something''-or-other from party RPG ''DokaponKingdom.'' For those who haven't played the game? He's made of concentrated cheapness; he pops up at random on the board to give you "cursed items." These can: Kill you instantly in a few turns, do massive damage to you, or eat all your items. And if you're lagging badly in last place? He gives you an item that can turn ''you'' into Concentrated Cheapness. An ''intentional'' GameBreaker. Infuriating. ** Emonaut: Derogative nickname for the (badly characterized) fan version of [[{{Psychonauts}} Sasha Nein]], frequently cast as a weepy [[TheWoobie woobie]] who needs the [[IntimateHealing healing wub]] of (select one): 1) Milla Vodello 2) [[{{Shotacon}} Raz]] 3) {{Relationship Sue}}naut. (However, she fully supports Sasha receiving [[TroperTales/OTP regular wub]] from Milla.) ** Hamsterball: [[{{Metroid}} Samus Aran's]] Morph Ball, due to a particular [[EpilepticTrees theory]] cooked up late one night that it works by transforming her into a hamster.

** ''Lewxam:'' Pronounced "Leew-zam." The EvilTwin of [[SdrawkcabName Maxwell]] from ''{{Scribblenauts}}.'' [[RuleOfFunny For the lulz]], I imagine him in a FoeYay 'ship with Maxwell. *** Pandawheel, Circle of Panda, Pandaboros: The absurd contraption created in ''Scribblenauts'' by summoning pandas until the level object limit is reached. Then, stack them on top of one another. They'll curve backwards and become a "wheel." And yes--it is possible to actually ''ride'' this thing. ** [=OMGSlash=]: HoYay. However, used more as a response to such than a "name" for it--for example, one would say "[=OMGSlash!=]" on witnessing a rather ''suggestive'' moment between two men, but would probably NOT call it an "[=OMGSlash=] moment." ** Rapedead: The [=ReDead=] from ''TheLegendOfZelda,'' due to the AccidentalInnuendo present in their... ''interesting'' attack. NightmareFuel indeed. ** '''The Stapler!''': Duster, from ''{{Mother 3}}''. It is mandatory to say this in an extremely deep voice, as if one was announcing a superhero. ** '''Turret Friend!''': Hacked turrets in ''{{Bioshock}}.'' Said with the kind of voice most associated with a {{squee}}. ** The Walrus: [[{{Mythbusters}} Jamie Hyneman]] * Tropers/FroggoFan64 ** Pukeca: ''{{Pucca}}''. [[/folder]] ----

FanNicknameG-M '''Please, add your own entry in alphabetical order.''' ---[[foldercontrol]] [[folder:G]] * {{Tropers/Gilboron}} ** GoldenBoy: In order of main character and female character of interest from each episode: *** Benky&#333;-Boy *** Computerma'am *** Superbitch *** Noodlema'am *** Poolma'am *** Motorcyclema'am * {{Tropers/GirlwithAPlot}} ** Squishy - [[spoiler: Fetus!Envy]] from ''FullmetalAlchemist'', because, you know, [[CaptainObvious he's]] [[UglyCute squishy]]. ** Two & a half men - [[TheNapoleon Ed]], [[BadassNormal Ling]] and [[AmbiguousGender Envy]] [[spoiler: inside Gluttony's stomach]]. ** ALM (Angry Little Midget): Edward Elric! ** LadyGaga - Envy. (sometimes 'Bastard-sama')

** [[MostCommonSuperpower Incrediboobs]] - Lust. ** Angry Emo Boy - Wrathy! (Poor guy!) ** [[CoolShades Pimp Shades]] - Greed. It's the shades. ** (Crazy) Cussing (Blood) Muppet - [[SoulEater Ragnarok]], ([[spoiler: especially after being reduced to SleepModeSize!]]) ** Non-anime example: {{Moe}} [[TheSmartGuy Genius]]: Double D from ''{{Ed Edd and Eddy}}''. *** Chibi-Greed - [[{{Schemer}} Eddy]]! *** Also, Bitchy-chan - Sarah! *** [[TheChewToy Kenny]]/Kenny-[[FragileFlower chan]] - Jimmy, because he's pretty much like Kenny from ''SouthPark'', sans getting killed. *** Non-anime, non-cartoon example: Renes-demon, or Renes-Satan, from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'s'' ''Breaking Dawn,'' because she's basically the anti-christ. *** BS - Bella Swan's ''actual'' [[FunWithAcronyms initials]]! *** Tinker-butt, Sparkle-ass, Sparkle-chu, Pixie Fart - Edward Cullen. * {{Tropers/Gorank}} ** Dicloxii: [[SCPFoundation SCP-682]]. Made by taking its number, turning it into roman numerals (DCLXXXII), adding two vowels, and removing the excessive Xs. * Tropers/GracieLizzie ** Patrick Coleslaw: ''Gundam00's'' Patrick Colasour, it just sounds like that to me. * {{Tropers/Grev}} ** Trips: No, not [[{{WWE}} Triple H]], but the MagicTheGathering card [[http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=Simic_Sky_Swal lower Simic Sky Swallower]]. Triple S. Trips! ** My So-Called Hospital: ''GreysAnatomy'', which in my opinion is ''MySoCalledLife'' [[XMeetsY merged with]] ''{{ER}}''. And reinforced when Katimski turns out to be Grey's dad. * {{Tropers/Green-Stapler}} ** [[{{Nightmare fuel unleaded}}Holy Crap its gonna kill me and it won't die the bastard]]: The Regenerators of {{Resident Evil}} 4 * Tropers/GuySmiley ** The Failure Triplets: the rarely-appearing CoolBigSis trio from {{Pokemon}}, best known for choosing ballet over rooster fights (which are SeriousBusiness). ** Sailor Broken: Usagi herself, so named for having powers that are utterly broken. Her omni-competence is annoying in the face of her StandardizedLeader status. ** Justice Shades: Horatio Caine, in honor of ''WeeblAndBob''. ** Whiny Snake: Lucas of ''{{Mother 3}}'' fame - cowardly, yes, but slays every big boss in his path in Brawl. ** Orange Demon: The Tails Doll from Sonic R. ** The Mighty Thor: Liquid Snake, who shares a voice actor with Thor. ** Luigizamo: Luigi from the SuperMarioBros movie, as played by John Leguizamo. I rather like his characterization, but it's the polar

opposite of canon Luigi. ** Colonel Mustard: Liquid Ocelot * Tropers/GwenStacyWannabe ** Almost everyone in AvatarTheLastAirbender reminds me of a superhero. *** [[CaptainAmerica Captain]] Avatar: Aang *** [[XMen ShadowKatara]]: Katara *** She-{{Daredevil}}: Toph *** Sokka [[{{Comicbook/Batman}} the Boy Wonder]]: Sokka *** {{Batman}}: Zuko (alternatively, Darth Zuko) *** TheJoker, The [[XMenEvolution Scarlet Witch's]] Other Twin: Azula *** Maiven: Mai ([[JustForPun as in]] [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Raven]]) *** [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries HarLee Quinn]]: Ty Lee *** [[{{Comicbook/Batman}} Batgirl]]: Suki ** TheLordOfTheRings *** Frying Pan of Doom: Sam *** CaptainObvious, Pretty Boy, Blondie: Legolas *** King Dom: Merry/Dominic Monaghan *** Mrs. Santa Claus: Galadriel (re: gift-giving in Lothlorien) ** XMenEvolution *** Kit-Kat: Shadowcat *** Nighty, Elfboy, Kurt [[StarWars Skywalker]]: Nightcrawler *** [[StarWars Darth]] Buckethead: Magneto *** Greaser, [[IndianaJones Mutt]]: Avalanche ** X-Men movies *** Popsicle: Iceman *** Firebug: Pyro *** Root, He Who Steals the Spotlight: Wolverine ** Lousiana Jones: [[IndianaJones Mutt Williams]] ** [[{{Narnia}} The White Witch]]: Emma Frost of the X-Men, a play on her former title (The White Queen) [[{{Hatedom}} because]]... ** Literature/{{Twilight}} *** That Book *** [[HarryPotter The Book Which Must Not Be Named]] *** Twifail *** [[SarcasmMode Eddie-poo]], Edward [[{{Comicbook/X-Men}} Frost]]: Edward *** Bella [[MarySue Sue]]: Bella ** ChroniclesOfNarnia *** Warren: the unnamed geeky boy who flirts with Susan at the train station in ''[[TheFilmOfTheBook Prince Caspian]]'' *** Phyllis: Warren/Susan. [[/folder]] [[folder:H]] * Tropers/HalflingDaniel ** For FireEmblem 7: Eliwood = Elijah Wood. Obvious reasons. * {{Tropers/Hanz}} ** For CodeGeass - Code Gassy

*** Lelouch - Ledouch *** Nunnally - Ninny-poo *** Emperor - (formerly) King Rollo (until Season 2). Currently: Kingy ** [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Simon]] (post timeskip): Super Simon *** Simon's Space Army: Simon's Redshirts ** Bam's Retarded Cousin: Wonderwice Margera of {{Bleach}} ** [[{{Disgaea}} Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?]]: [[IWannaBeTheGuy I Wanna Be The Prinny]] ** Gadolf Schmitler - Prince Maximillian of ValkyriaChronicles, based on the ZeroPunctuation review of the game. By that merit, Selvaria becomes Beva Graun, Gregor becomes Beinrich Pimmler and Jeager is Bermin Grommel. * {{Tropers/Haphazard}} ** Samurai Jesus: Kambe from ''{{Samurai7}}'' * Tropers/HarpieSiren: ** Fish-Face: Davy Jones of ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' ** Mr. Popularity: Sora of ''KingdomHearts'' ** Missing Persons: The various Disney characters featured in the KingdomHearts games. It's like there has to be some magical alignment of the planets to find one good {{drabble}} featuring one of them. ** {{Troll}}mura: Tetsuya Nomura, due to the fact that he seems to enjoy making the fans squirm. * Haya ** Axel-wannabe, Axel clone: Zezu from Double Arts. Just look at him! ** Hobo-chan: Phoenix Wright in [[PhoenixWright Apollo Justice]]. He's already passed through so much. Let's just add more acid to the injury. ** {{Butt monkey}}: Phoenix Wright and Gumshoe. ** Tsuna: Sora from ''KingdomHearts''. To the point where I have mixed up the names. ** Miss Halevy came back from the dead: Miss Romeyer in [[CodeGeass Code Geass R2]] after mistaking her for Loiuse's mother in ''Gundam 00'' ** Voiiiiii!: Squalo from KatekyoHitmanReborn ** Potato face and whats-her-name: Chise and her boyfriend in ''Saikano''. Having the personality of a potato does not help them. ** Psycho Karen: Aki Izayoi from {{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}. Looks like Karen, but... * {{Tropers/HeartBurn Kid}} ** The Luggage Shitter: {{WWE}}'s Randy Orton, as a play on his onscreen nickname "The Legend Killer", referring to an incident where he (allegedly) hazed another wrestler by crapping in their gym bag. ** Man-E-H's: {{WWE}} wrestler Triple H. Mostly because I think it's funny to make references to HeMan villains. ** Trouble J: TNA wrestler/part owner Jeff Jarret, alluding to the similarities between himself and Triple H (Fun fact: Trouble J is the name of the Triple H CaptainErsatz from ''Fire Pro Wrestling G'') ** Big Titty T: Originates with a friend of mine, for the WWECW

wrestler Big Daddy V, a gargantuan ScaryBlackMan with even more gargantuan and scary man-boobs. * {{Tropers/Heleentje}} ** Zombiegoat: Darkness from {{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}} * Tropers/HelenDamnation: ** Sir Dude From Two Pints, Sir Pent: Sir - I think his name is Valient? From {{Series/Merlin}}, who was played by one of the main characters from TwoPintsOfLagerAndAPacketOfCrisps. ** Hatguy: Tulley from BeingHuman, because of the hat. Alternatively, [[IncrediblyLamePun Bad Wolf]]. [[DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog The wolf is his penis]]. ** Joshua: The Big Guy, who I'm not sure even has a name, from {{Sanctuary}}. Named after Joshua from DarkAngel, who has a similar appearance and voice and is often called Big Guy by main character Max. * {{Tropers/Homestar_09 Mario_08}} ** Rebecca Schmorange - Co-Star Luma from SuperMarioGalaxy2 ** Snufit Boos [[http://www.mariowiki.com/Octoboo Octoboos]] from SuperMarioGalaxy2 * {{Tropers/Hremsfeld}} ** ''{{Bleach}}'': For the main show, none. But, somehow, on a fan RP...we've ended up giving out fan nicknames. Captain Buzzcut, for a dead military officer; Captain WHOOSH!!1, always spelled with !!1, for a dead track star; Captain Asshat (Later evolved into Captain Acwat; put Asshat into Cyrillic and you're see why) for a dead jerkwad; Captain Phoenix for a dude with a fire bankai who was OnlyMostlyDead; Vice-Captain Klutz for...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well... you know]]. Squads themselves have been given fannames, too; *** 2nd squad (both the captain and VC are martial artists): Squad for the advancement of punching stuff *** 4th squad: Squad pansy *** 5th squad: Squad asshat (Acwat's in there, and the VC ain't too nice, either...) *** 9th squad: Squad of Romantic Entanglement (The current captain had a crush on the former captain when she was second in command, and due to [[LesYay the authoress]] having multiple characters, the current second in command has a crush on ''her''.) *** 11th squad: Squad Fratricide. If you've seen the show, you know why... * [[{{Tropers/HSZMV}} HSZMV]] ** PowerRangers Villains: Bob, Elle, and Knox, all of whom seem to act more like villains from PowerRanger Shows rather than {{Heroes}}. ** Big Honkin' Mace: Hawkgirl from JusticeLeague and JusticeLeagueUnlimited. ** Groan-son: Smallville's JimmyOlsen, who was a bad addition in this troper's opinion. ** [[AWizardDidIt A Liquid Terminator Did It]]: Troper and his

proffessor's explination for any unproven event based off a conversation about the at the time new Sarah Connor Chronicals series. Made even more funny by the fact that there is now a liquid terminator in the cast. [[/folder]] [[folder:I]] * {{Tropers/iamtroper}} ** 'Philosophic Barbarian': Winston from ''NineteenEightyFour''. * Tropers/IggyEnigma ** Mr. Rape-and-Watch: A certain 2D fighter from ''SuperSmashBros'', namely his powerful (re: cheap) Brawl incarnation; usually in the hands of this troper's brother, who pretty much kicks his ass. ** EERRAAUUGGHH: Ike's Up+B from ''SuperSmashBros Brawl'', named after the extremely loud yelling that accompanies it. Sometimes the character himself is called that for additional silliness. ** Jigglyboobs: Juvenile nickname for yet another ''SuperSmashBros'' fighter. ** Golden Feline Jesus: Aslan from ''TheChroniclesofNarnia'', in a takeoff of the trope CrystalDragonJesus. Used in real life on his Christian friends to much hilarity. * Igordebraga ** A friend had ''Super {{Bomberman}} 4'', and he and other people who played gave names to the characters (the names are approximate translations): Bomberman = Tomato Dude, Ghost/Great Bomber = Wizard, Bazooka Bomber = [[DragonBall Freeza]], Jet Bomber = Rocket Dude, Hammer Bomber = Chain Dude. (I can't remember name Lady Bomber's name...) * {{Tropers/Im a bell}} ** Captain Bondage: Voldo, from the SoulCalibur Series. * [=Inga Rasen=] ** Bad Boy Cap: [[MarvelUniverse Captain America]]. Acquaintance of mine and I thought up while discussing one of the [[CapcomVSWhatever Capcom VS games]]. The name stuck. ** Band-Aid Eyes/Cotton Candy Hair: Nia Teppelin, from ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. ** Blue Klux Klan: The Happy Happyists, from ''[[EarthBound EarthBound]]''. ** Darth Golby: Golbez, from ''FinalFantasyIV''. An acquaintance of mine once proclaimed that Golbez was the [[StarWars Darth Vader]] of the ''FinalFantasy'' series. 'Golby' comes from {{Hyadain}}'s [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome "Appearance of Golbez's Four Lords of the Elementals"]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKRHZ4MhL3Y&feature=player_detailpage #t=152s video]]. ** ''Destroying Friendships: The Game'': ''NewSuperMarioBrosWii''. ** ''Dick Move: The Game'': ''IWannaBeTheGuy''. Search your feelings; you know it to be true.

** (Mr.) [[AC:ESTUANS INTERIUS]][[hottip:*: Alternatively, (Mr.) [[AC:ESTUANS INTERIUS IRA VEHEMENTI]].]]: Sephiroth from ''FinalFantasyVII''. Comes from the first line of his most famous theme, ''One-Winged Angel''. ** Fatty Bird: King Dedede, from the ''{{Kirby}}'' series. ** Giant Space Flea From Nowhere[[hottip:*: Alternately, just Giant Space Flea]]: Zeromus, from ''FinalFantasyIV''. Amusingly enough, when I first heard of the trope, I thought that it was named after him, because he kinda does look like a giant flea to me. I soon found out otherwise, but that didn't stop me from continuing to refer to him as such. ** Hobodad: Jecht, Tidus' father from ''FinalFantasyX''. ** Kawaii Uguu: Metis, from "The Answer" portion of ''{{Persona 3}} Fes''. ** Nagisa Arisato: The female protagonist of ''{{Persona 3}} Portable''. Depending on how it's written, ''minato'' means "port", while ''nagisa'' translates to "harbor". ** Purinpuff: A portmanteau of Jigglypuff's Japanese name (Purin) and her English one. ** Purple Braid: Sion Eltnam Atlasia from ''MeltyBlood'', [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair for]] [[BraidsOfAction obvious]] [[RapunzelHair reasons]]. ** Roange: When [[MeltyBlood MELTY BLOOD Actress Again]] launched, I quickly found out that the character voice of [[ShingetsutanTsukihime Michael]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Roa]] [[BigBad Valdamjong]], was being portrayed by the same seiyuu that voiced [[CodeGeass Jeremiah]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse "Orange-kun"]] [[MemeticBadass Gottwald]]. I combined the two, and have been referring to him as such ever since. ** [[AC: SUDDENLY NECRON!]]: GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere. Every time I think of the trope, the first example that comes to mind is the final boss from ''FinalFantasyIX'. ** Sweateryams: Mitsuru Kirijo, from ''{{Persona 3}}''. ** [[ThirdRockFromtheSun The Big Giant Head]]: YHVH's depiction in the ''[[ShinMegamiTensei Megami Tensei]]'' series. ** UFO [[subscript:([[ItsPronouncedTroPAY pronounced "ooh-foe"]])]] : The UFO power-up from the ''{{Kirby}}'' series. ** Wormslut: Sakura Matou, from ''[[FateStayNight Fate/stay night]]''. * Tropers/IkuMasamune ** Hetalia: Austria the Pimp, Spain the Child Molestor, Barbados (for Canada since people get his name wrong), Falkland Islands (another name for Canada) ** D. Gray-man: The Noah of Perversion (Sheryl, because he's a perv toward Road, his daughter) ** Gintama: Sadist-san (Okita), Bastard Hijikata, Shitty Hijikata, Hijikata the Jackass (All the Hijikata nicknames are said by Okita in my fics), Napoleon Dynamite (Kamui. It's a joke from one of my fanfics) ** Fullmetal Alchemist: Canada (Vato Falman, because he's invisible like Canada), Colonel Cool Pimp (Roy), Pwetty Pwetty Pwincess (Meichan) ** One Piece: The Godfather (Capone "Gang" Bege), Yammy Riygalo

(Urouge; It's because he looks like Yammy from Bleach), Douche Bag (Akainu; For those of you that read the Marineford Arc will know why I called him that), Pedo Admiral (Kizaru; His facial expressions remind me of a pedophile), Juice Lady (Shakky; It's a joke from episode zero), Tristian Taylor (Kaku; It's because I always pictured him to sound like Tristian Taylor from Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged), Seto Kaiba (Spandam; He reminds me of Seto Kaiba), Freaky Lady (Porsche), Big Pimping (Crocodile), Obese Fugly Chick (Alvida before she ate her Devil Fruit), Cyndi Lauper (Sadi-chan; She reminds me of Cyndi Lauper), Joey Wheeler (Rob Lucci; I picture Lucci with a Brooklyn accent), Professor Stein (Iceburg; I hope he sounds like Professor Stein in the dub), The Adorable Marine I adopted Into My Own Crew (Tajio from the filler episode about the curry. True to the name, I adopted him into my crew), Sabo (Kitajima from Strong World; Their facial features look alike), Bunny Boy (Smoker; It's from a fanfic), Sweeny Todd (Dr. Hogback) ** The Gentleman's Alliance Cross: Mailman-kun (The school mailman) ** Bleach: Captain Pretty Hairs (Byakuya)

* iluvtvtropes ** ''Weapons of Mass Guessing'' - for {{WMG}} as a whole. If you think about it, it's rather appropriate. * Tropers/Indigo ** Electro-Skank: Elle of {{Series/Heroes}}. ** [=EvilDaddyGlasses=]: HRG/Bennet of {{Series/Heroes}}. ** Kryptonite Kreek: ''{{Smallville}}''. ** Skankh Su-Namun: Anakh Su Namun from TheMummy. * '''Tropers/InkkiBookman''' ** {{Bleach}} *** ''Grumblebum'': Yamamoto *** ''Tsunderthighs'': Soifon *** ''Hamtaro'': Hanataro cos I get the names mixed up. *** ''Poochie": Sajin *** ''Kenny'': Kenpachi *** ''Pinky'': Yachiru *** ''Yaoichika'': Yumichika *** ''Captain Kabuki'': Mayuri due to the makeup. *** ''Fembot'': Nemu due to her artificial nature. *** "Grumby and Weepy'': Jinta and Ururu * Tropers/InsanityPrelude: ** Snorble: for Replica Riku from ''KingdomHearts: [=CoM=]''. It's actually an in-joke within her [[PlayByPostGames Livejournal RPG]]. ** GoddamnedBats!: Zubat, Golbat and Crobat. Full stop. * Tropers/TheInsomniac: ** Zombowen: Owen of {{Torchwood}} after what happened in a ''few events''. ** OOD GLOMP!: Named after a certain scene from Series/DoctorWho that

had an Ood attacking a guy. ** Missingno: The Floow from [[SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros Brawl]] for having a vague resemblance to that glitch {{Pokemon}} from the original games. The fact that you can play as Squirtle the first time you fight them hints at some connection. ** Naked Wash: Alan Tudyk in ''Death At A Funeral''. ** Network-That-Was: {{Nickelodeon}}. Really, [[NetworkDecay you should know why]]. * [[Tropers/IsaChan IsaChan]] ** The SMASHING One: 2 from ''9''. [[MemeticMutation I shouldn't have to explain this]]. ** 9(-ball): 9. [[TooDumbToLive FULL]]. [[DontTouchItYouIdiot STOP]]. ** Them Damn Kids: Collective name for Remilia and Flandre from Touhou. ** THE FUCKING HERO: 9. Must be pronounced in ALLCAPS. ** Obviously Gay Duo: 2 and 5. ** Twilame: Literature/{{Twilight}}. ** AHFUCKHOWDOIJUMPAGAIN: MirrorsEdge, due to its DamnYouMuscleMemory controls. ** Skulduggery [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Cullen]]: Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant, or, more specifically, his actions in the first book. ** GOD NOT THAT THING: [[AliceInWonderland The Bandersnatch]]. ** Wa-ta-shi: ''[[{{Vocaloid}} Wide Knowledge of Late Madness]]''. ** Mrs. Pumpkin's [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Drug Trip]]: The PV for ''Mrs. Pumpkin's Comical Dream''. ** The March Stitchpunk, Rabbit 6: 6 and the March Hare, respectively. ** Totally Not [[{{Vocaloid}} Miku]], [[TheWorldEndsWithYou Shiki's]] Cousin: Runo from ''Bakugan Battle Brawlers'', due to her hair and surname, respectively. ** Wrinkly Green Alien OF DEATH: [[StarWars Yoda]]'s SoulSeries incarnation, due to how much ass I kick when playing as him. ** Ple$: [[HannaIsNotABoysName Ples Tibenoch]], due to the GuiltyPleasure of a Ke$ha song that I always associate him with. ** Curl OF JUSTICE, Derpcurl: That [[IdiotHair weird little curl]] [[TheOutsiders Two-Bit]] had in TheFilmOfTheBook. [[/folder]] [[folder:J]] * Tropers/JackCain: ** Puppy Arrancar: Wonderwice Magera, who in general acts like a dog, including communicating only in noises that sound suspiciously canine. * Jarl: ** Batmanime: The upcoming series of anime shorts based on the Batman Begins, The Dark Knight films. But then the recent preview kept comparing it to the Animatrix. So... "Batmanimatrix". * Tropers/JDubya: ** Inverse [[LordOfTheRings Saruman]]: Ansem the Wise from {{KingdomHearts}}, since he's voiced by Christopher Lee, and goes from

evil to good. * Tropers/JillBug ** ''KamenRiderDouble'' *** Axel F - Kamen Rider Accel *** Beauty and the Butt - the Kirihiko/Wakana 'ship * Jisu: ** Asthmamobile: The ''First Aider'' from ''[[Game/GalaxyAngel Galaxy Angel II]]'' and ''GalaxyAngelRune''. Nano-Nano's Emblem Frame looks like a giant pair of inhalers. * {{Tropers/jketchum31}} ** Hot Topic: Black Doom from Shadow the Hedgehog. Can you say fake goth? ** Marthatwo: [[spoiler:The Sontaran Martha clone]] from Series/DoctorWho's fourth season. A shoutout to Pokemon... ** The 'Two: Mewtwo. You can't exactly call him Mew, now can you? * Tropers/JohnZ: ** Satanophone: Most [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection audio-only support characters]], because they ''never'' call to say, "Hey, John, nice work out there, I have a Coke waiting for you back at base". ** Each of the different MegaMan series has a different, obviouslythemed nickname: *** Classic Rock: Original *** Progressive Rock: X *** Alternative Rock: Legends *** Synth Rock: Battle Network *** Hard Rock: Zero *** Emo Rock: ZX * Tropers/JoieDeCombat ** My entire weekly anime night group has taken to calling Mr. Shidou of ''HighSchoolOfTheDead'' "Sensei Rapeface," for obvious reasons. * Tropers/JosephStaleknight ** For some reason, [[Tropers/JosephStaleknight This Troper]] has recently equated the maidens from {{Rosenkreuzstilette}} with Biometals from MegaManZX, possibly due to having recently seen a LetsPlay of the latter: *** '''S'''piritia Rosenberg: Model SR *** '''F'''reudia Neuwahl: Model FR *** '''Z'''orne Sepperin ''(better than Zeppelin)'': Model ZR *** '''T'''rauare Wrede: Model TR *** '''L'''uste Teuber: Model LR (also Proto-Luste, for her ''Freudenstachel'' gimmick.) *** '''G'''rolla Seyfarth: Model GR *** Sichte '''M'''eister: Model MR *** Liebea '''P'''alesch: Model PR *** Schwer-Muta '''C'''asasola-Merkle: Model CR *** '''D'''olis Warmind: Model DR

*** And with their powers combined they form Model &#1071;, desined to fight... *** '''I'''ris: Model I[[spoiler:W]] ** '''UPDATE:''' I also call Lilli and Strudel from the same series "Mikosticks" on occasion, originating with when I tried approximating their looks in [[{{Walfas}} create.swf]]. They carried ''miko sticks'' in their hand. * {{Tropers/Joshua-san0}} * Brokencar>Barrigan: because his time-based powers make him very broken * Evil Overlord Classic>Barrigan: He acts like one, well minus an evil laugh * Wonder Lolis>Gauche and Droite: no real explanation other than hearing it somewhere on GameFAQs and liking the name * Stinger Missile>Soifons Bankai: Cause it really does work like one, and because of her overall theme (Bees) * Immortal Deneve>Deneve: for her accelerated regeneration * Sexy Awesome Helen>Helen: just because * Fakesuna>Shiori: she is currently taking on Asunas form * Moel>Noel Vermillion: Noels joke ending, that is all * Seth Green Pilot>Joker of Mass Effect: cause he looks like Seth Green and is voiced by Seth Green * The Giant Mecha Otaku>Kokonoe: Just look at Tagers more comedic ending and youll get the idea. * Ador Abyssal>Secret: for her woobieness! Was used elsewhere first by other fans * Boke and Tsukkomi Couple: any couple (particularly yuri ones) where both members of the couple behave this way to eachother ex. Yomi and Tomo from Azumanga Daioh. * Candy Store Face: any time a character makes a face like they just walked in a candy store. * Sexy Back Samurai>Hyou of Himegami: Because all of her best fanservice is shots of her bare tattooed back. * Before the above Nickname for her, I would always refer to Helen as an Emotional Rainbow when I was first reading Claymore, due to being the most expressive than her fellow Claymores. * Joysweeper: ** Okay, I don't have a lot of fan nicknames(Calling Luke Skywalker "FarmBoy" is ''canon''), but I like sometimes referring to [[StarWars Darth Vader]] as "The evil psychic cyborg". It's even better when I'm referring to the goodguy!Vader who appeared in that one Infinities comic. He's "The reformed evil psychic cyborg". I have simple pleasures. [[/folder]] [[folder:K]] * K: ** Aniki: Son Goku in {{Saiyuki}} Reload, when he has to play the adorably {{Badass}} big brother figure to adorably random kids. After Daimon Masaru, his seiyuu's character in ''DigimonSavers'', often

called 'aniki' by his [[EmpathicWeapon Digimon partner]]. ** [[YuYuHakusho Yusuke and Kuwabara's]] Lovechild: [[DigimonSavers Daimon Masaru]] (formerly [[DigimonAdventure02 Motomiya Daisuke]]). Because he IS. Beating up a whole middle school gang while yammering on about What A Man Does? (Or, alternatively, being a BookDumb ButtMonkey with a hopeless crush on a teammate's innocent little sister.) ''So'' [=YuYu=]. ** [=Hakkai!Goku=]: Kazuki from ''GetBackers.'' For being a polite, well-mannered, intelligent, pretty, [[spoiler:slightly insane]] bishonen with SoichiroHoshi for a voice actor. (Go on, guess my favorite seiyuu.) Also, [[spoiler:Hakkai and Kazu-chan both ripped one of their own eyes out in their manga]]. [[EyeScream Squiiiiiiiiick]]. ** Krispy: Krillin from {{Dragonball}} Z. Originally started out as a way to annoy my younger brother, I later realized that it is a fairly accurate description of what happens to him sometimes. ** DeathNote Lite: ''{{Spiral}}''. I mean that affectionately, of course. I don't know which came first... But between the FriendlyEnemy HoYay, gratuitous murder, and mad, mad love affair with [[XanatosPlannedThisIndex Xanatos]]? Come on! Shame Spiral's anime never got to the AGodAmI bit... ** Diet Cokie: Pamela Harding from the ''[[BabySittersClub BabySitter's Little Sister]]'' series, because she's Karen's [[TheLibby Libby]]. Just like Cokie is Kristy's! Wouldn't Cokie babysitting Pamela be ''fun''?! ** The Only Straight Member of Fuuga: Sakura Kakei from ''GetBackers'', until I saw a very NSFW official image of her and Kaoru Haruki. Now she's just the only ''sane'' one. * {{Tropers/Kadorhal}}: ** Boobmer: The female Boomer from ''Left4Dead'', because it's funnier and took (a tiny little bit) more effort to think up than "Boomette". ** Goat: The second-player Rookie in ''{{Halo 3 ODST}}''. Originated from my service tag in-game, "[=G08T=]", which looked more like "GOAT" during actual gameplay. ** Ro-bot: [[Left4Dead Rochelle]] while controlled by an AI. Distinct from the other AI-controlled Survivors because, even with recent updates to the AI, she is still [[TooDumbToLive the most infuriating teammate one could ever play with]]. ** Couch: [[Left4Dead Coach]] while controlled by an AI. Also distinct from the other AI-controlled survivors because, while he'll actually shoot zombies, he's basically a black [[FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] as far as intelligence goes. ** [=GLaDOSH=]: The GLaDOS Trader from the Potato Fool's Day update for ''KillingFloor''. This one's fairly obvious, so naturally I didn't think of it until after she was already gone, and apparently I'm not even the only one who thought of it. ** Staem: {{Steam}} when it's being screwy and kicking everybody off repeatedly for no reason at all. Named after spambots that would misspell its name as such when trying to trick people with claims for "free games". * {{Tropers/Kalle}}: ** AIDSMAN: Hibari Kyoya from ''{{Katekyo Hitman Reborn}}!''. ... This is all from a really complicated injoke between me and two friends,

''it's better not to ask.'' ** Walf: Wolf O'Donnell from ''StarFox'' & ''SuperSmashBros Brawl''. Due largely in part to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjmE7YZIr3w this]] ridiculously funny GagDub. * kamikamiya ** Microwave-Lad: Luke from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' * {{Tropers/KamikazeScot}} ** Brain Zap: The Haitian from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' due to the fact that his super power is basically, as my sister put it, to zap your brain. ** Evan: {{Frankenstein}}'s monster, as the monster never gets a name. Also, Evan is the name of two annoying people who were in my juinor class. Coincidence? ** Fred: The albatross from Rime of the Ancient Mariner. ** Goddamn Bear-Man: Batman, as played by Christian Bale. ** Invisible Claude Who Hangs Out With The Pigeons: Claude, from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', as people in my family tend to forget his name. ** Pedo Bait: Natsuki from Instant Teen: Just Add Nuts. ** Princess Marth: Marth from SuperSmashBros due to the fact that he has long hair, twirls around and freaking FLIPS HIS HAIR WHEN YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING WITH HIM. ** Rat Face: Dominic Greene from {{Quantum of Solace}}, mainly because he looks just like my sister's rat. *** Useless: Fields from the same movie. ** Twoey, Crispy, Dent-ed, Lawyer Boy: Various nicknames to Harvey Dent from TheDarkKnight ** Useless Go-Go Boots: Jo, from Series/DoctorWho * {{Tropers/Karalora}}: ** Ballgown Borg Collective: The [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney Princesses]] as they are currently marketed to little girls, with all individual personality traits blurred out of existence and replaced with interchangeable "Princess-ness." * katie5000: ** ''{{Mobile Suit Gundam}}'': *** Angsty [=McWhine=]: Amuro Ray, for somewhat obvious reasons. He gets called "Hikaru" a lot as well, since this troper tends to get him mixed up with the guy from "Macross". *** Captain Awesome: Char Aznable (who else? XD). *** Lady Deathstrike: Kycillia Zabi. *** Bright Slap: this troper's new name for the "Bitch Slap" of yore. "Bright SLAP! I don't taaaaake CRAP!" *** (Mother)fuckin' Kai, Bug Eyes: derisive ways of referring to Kai Shiden. The second one was coined by this troper's buddy Christine. *** Degwin the Hutt: Degwin Zabi. At least, this troper thought he kinda looked like Jabba... *** Gamera, Gay-ma: Garma Zabi. Originally, this troper blanked on his name (it started with a "G"...). Later on, this troper and her friend were discussing the character and speculating on his effeminate looks.

*** Pidge: Hayato Kobayashi (poor guy XD). ** ''{{Ronin Warriors}}/Yoroiden Samurai Troopers'': *** The Red Guy: my friend Katja and I refer to Ryo Sanada this way. *** The Watery Guy, The Other Cute One: Cye Mouri (with the second nickname, it's as opposed to Ryo). *** Ninja Kitty: White Blaze is quite the butt-kicking tiger. *** Captain Ownass, Captain Badass, Captain Whoopass: generic nickname used either for The Ancient/Kaos or Shuten/Anubis. *** Super Anubis: nickname given to Anubis/Shuten in episode 14 by someone on Youtube, and later adopted by me. *** The Lame-broghini, The Lame-mobile: the nicknames my friend Christine gave to Mia/Nasutei's car. *** Badamon's Grandma: Shikaisen, from the ''Gaiden'' OVA. *** The Stabby Girl: Luna, also from ''Gaiden''. ** ''{{Robotech}}/{{Macross}}'': *** Rickaru: a mash-up of "Rick" and "Hikaru"--the character's dubbed and original names, respectively. *** Homicidal Hayes: A nickname for Admiral Donald Hayes that originated on the robotech.com message boards...it was only used a couple of times, but it stuck with me. ** ''Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time'': *** Jesus Boots: name given to the Pegasus Boots, since the player could walk on a body of water for a few seconds while wearing them, before falling in. *** Bat Skull: my name for the flaming skulls with bat wings that sometimes turn up in dungeons. They may actually be called this; I'm not sure. But I like to sing it to the tune of "Batman": "duh-nuh-nuhnuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh BAT SKULL!" ** ''{{Pikmin}}'': *** Spaceman Spiff: Olimar's nickname. ** ''{{Xenosaga}}'': *** Space Jesus: chaos. Anyone who played the games would know why. *** Kosy: short for KOS-MOS. *** Space Pope: the Pope-like guy who is the head of Ormus. *** Mo-mo-mo-mo: MOMO. ** ''Other'': *** Boobs [=McKenzie=], Busty [=LaRue=]: generic nicknames for any character in a series or game who seems really busty, either because they actually are or because it seems like obvious attention is drawn to their bust in some way (tight blouse, low cut shirt, gratuitous cleavage, etc). *** The Little Bitey Guy: Domo-kun. * {{Tropers/Katsuhagi}} ** Ritsuna: The protagonist of ''{{Gundam00}}'', Setsuna, due to his resemblance to Ritsuka, the lead character of ''{{Loveless}}''. Given that they were both designed by Yun Koga, this may be a case of an {{Expy}}. ** Ugly Tie Man: Charlie Rose, for his often garish and eye scarring ties. ** Mr. Angsty Pants: Subaru from ''{{X1999}}'', started as an in-joke on several LJ communities.

*** Likewise, Sadistic Lady Mangaka for {{CLAMP}} themselves. ** Laito: Light/Raito from ''DeathNote'' after I got fed up with the name debates and decided that it was just better to annoy both factions at once. ** [=MegaMILF=]: Lena Sayers of ''[[{{Mai-Otome0Sifr}} Mai-Otome 0/S.ifr~]]'', due to her CrowningMomentOfAwesome in the first episode when she's not even at her peak yet. ** Subaru Kasugano: Subaru Nakajima of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' for looking and acting like Sakura Kasugano from ''StreetFighter''. *** From the same series, [[{{Xenosaga}} KOS-MOS]]: Sette, since she looks like said character with her hair dyed pink. ** [[CowboyBebop Spike and Electra's]] Love Child: Blue from ''WolfsRain'' for looking like... well, I think it's fairly selfexplanatory. ** Para and Dox: The twin axe and sword wielding bosses in ''PrinceOfPersia: The Two Thrones'' after the characters in ''{{Yu-GiOh}}'' (just imagine them saying the SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion from ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}}'' for the full effect). ** Loli of the West: Riful from ''{{Claymore}}'', came about through an IM discussion. ** Amputee Fetishist: Irene from the same series. If you've read the manga you'll know why. ** Stupid Gunslinger Russian: Revolver Ocelot from ''MetalGearSolid''. Also, Stupid Psychic Russian (Psycho Mantis) and Stupid Electric Russian (Volgin from [=MGS3=]). Note that this troper actually speaks Russian, and refers to them in that language as well. * {{Tropers/Kayube}} ** The One-Man {{Sentai}}- [[GaoGaiGar Guy Shishioh]]. When he does "Equip", it's a henshin. Getting into Galeon is like getting into a [[PowerRangers Zord]]. And then it combines with a bunch of other machines to beat the biggest monsters around. ** Luna- Tsumugi from [=~K-ON!~=], due to her resemblance to [[HarryPotter Luna Lovegood]]. ** MILES EFFIN' QUARITCH- Colonel Quaritch from ''{{Film/Avatar}}'', by analogy with ''[[PowerRangersRPM MASON EFFIN' TRUMAN]]''. * {{Tropers/Kefkakrazy}} ** The '''KNEE OF JUSTICE''': Captain Falcon's knee smash from Melee/Brawl. Will actually physically shout the nickname on the rare occasion when the move actually connects and slams someone to their deaths. ** The Falcon Drive-By: Falcon's Final Smash. ** The [[spoiler:fuck-rat]]: Pikachu, from Brawl. * {{Tropers/KingSonnDeeDoo}} ** Superking - Captain [[spoiler: Aizen]], from ''{{Bleach}}'', due to the fact that he can practically do [[MagnificentBastard anything]] if he wanted to. Derived from the superhero name that Bender from ''{{Futurama}}'' took. ** Celestial Nightmare - The Celestial Brush from ''{{Okami}}'', when

using it for the first time ** Balgy - Ba'Gamnan from ''{{Final Fantasy XII}}: Revenant Wings'', because not only has this troper only played ''Revenant Wings'', and so has no idea how to pronounce Balgy's actual name, she also finds it shorter, and it has a nice slightly insulting ring to it, fitting perfectly with [[spoiler: when he 'joins' your party - only because he's wearing a shock-muzzle, and because he seems to ''hate every second of it'']]. >:D ** [=SkulPles=] - A {{Portmanteau}} name for the Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant books, seeing as the titles are quite a mouthful. Is applicatble to both a single book, and the entire series. ** Gunner - A shortened name for ''{{Gunnerkrigg Court}}'', since it's quite a mouthful. ** Galyx - A {{Portmanteau Couple Name}} for the [[HalfLife Gordon/Alyx]] pairing. It popped into her head one day, and just kinda stuck. *** [[IncrediblyLamePun France]] - Same as the above, finding that combining their last names (Freeman/Vance) created a rather amusing [[PortmanteauCouplename portmanteau]]. ** Sa&#1111;x/Sa&#1111;xWolf: Hutch from ''{{Alpha And Omega}}'' (on the left [[http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww188/kitty_fur/hutchsaixwolf.png ?t=1299358677 here]]), due to the fact that he resembled [[KingdomHearts Saix]] (similar hairstyle, yellow eyes, has a sort of X on his face, seems like the second-in command). * {{Tropers/KKDW}}: ** Miyukipedia -- Takara Miyuki from ''LuckyStar'' due to her habit of revealing random bits of trivia. ** Captain ArtShift -- Anisawa Meito also of ''LuckyStar'' ** Captain Gullible -- Sunohara Y&#333;hei of ''CLANNAD'' ** Boredom Frown -- Former British primeminister Gordon Brown (name acquired from a breif joke in an episode of The Now Show) ** Floating B*stard -- Dung Beetle from ''{{Bokurano}}'' ** Captain Jerkass -- Kodaka Masaru, also from ''{{Bokurano}}'' * Tropers/KurisuMurei: ** The Black-and-Blue Mage: [[{{Touhou}} Marisa Kirisame]] of Touhou Project ** [=UsaRei=], Reisen Uchiha: Reisen U. Inaba, also of Touhou ** Ryukario: [[{{Pokemon}} Lucario]], particularly the SuperSmashBrothers Brawl one. ** The Eastern Triforce: The [[PublicDomainArtifact Three Sacred Treasures]] and [[KingOfFighters the three clans]] protecting each one. Particluaraly since the holders of the [[LegendOfZelda other Triforce]] seemed to take a few moves from them in Brawl. (One of Zelda's taunts (the one where she forms a flame in front of her) is taken from Saisyu Kusanagi's intro pose, and Ganondorf's Side-B is based off of one of Kyo's attacks. ** Grampa Chokehold: Ganondorf. For the aforementioned side-B special. ** (9)-Tail: {{Naruto}} ** [[CaptainTsubasa Captain]] [[FinalFantasyX Tidus]]: Let's

see...legendary player of a vaguely Soccer-ish sport, and the child of another legendary player of that sport. You can see where I'm going with this. *** Captain Jecht: By extension. That and he packs a pretty good PAWNCH in Dissidia. [[/folder]] [[folder:L]] * {{Tropers/L-chan}} ** The Black Widow: Candice "Candy" White Andrew from ''CandyCandy'', due to the fact that every male who developed a romantic interest in her sooner or later either dies or endures some tragedy. ** Orochi-Jackson: Orochimaru from ''{{Naruto}}'', due to both his interest in "young blood" and his eerie, creepy pale appareance similar to certain famous singer accused of phedophiliac acts. ** Ragnavice (Ragnavicio in Spanish): RagnarokOnline, because of its addictive nature. You know it's true. * Tropers/LadyNorbert ** [=TwiPri=] -- ''TheLegendOfZelda: Twilight Princess'' * Tropers/LadyShadowflame ** Sa-sooky -- Sasuke of {{Naruto}} in his more whiny moods. ** Ass-oka -- Ahsoka Tano, Anakin's [[DisContinuity non-existent]] little {{Lolicon}} Padawan. ** Mister Fibbs -- [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Garak]], for his propensity for distorting the truth. ** Cardassigan -- Earth clothes aside from tuxedo on Garak, as in the Bond parody episode. Not actually a cardigan, but the name just appealed. ** Starkillah, Destroyah of [=WOOOORLDS=] -- Vader's Marty Stu secret apprentice. ** Emokin, Angstakin -- Anakin, but not all the time...only when he's angsting. Ok, so ''nearly'' all the time. ** Skywhiner -- Any of the Skywalkers in a whiny mood. ** Furry Trank Dart -- A tribble, based upon the supposedly soothing effect. * {{Tropers/Lale}} ** Javert -- Ushio of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}'' ** The Fellowship of the Crucifix -- Jonathan and Mina Harker, Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, Quincey Morris, and Lord Godalming in ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' * Tropers/LeighSabio: ** [[CountryMatters Country Logic]] -- T'Pring, Spock's ex-wife from the TOS episode Amok Time ** SmallAnnoyingCreature -- My little sister, Abby * Tropers/LEXicon712 ** Bleachigo - ''{{Bleach}}'''s Ichigo Kurosaki. ** Ribble - [[CodeGeass Rivalz]], cuz his name isn't spelled right

*** Also, anything he says I like to call Drivalz. ** [[EstrogenBrigadeBait SOS Brigade Bait]] - [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Itsuki Koizumi]], cuz [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Even this guy wants him]]! ** Exceru - [[ExcelSaga Excel Excel]], which is how her seiyuu pronounces it. ** [[JohnnyYongBosch Ichigo]] vs. [[YuriLowenthal Sasuke]] - The ''CodeGeass'' dub. ** Team MarshmallowHell - [[{{Bleach}} Capt. Hitsugaya and Lt. Matsumoto]] of Squad 10. ** In ''DevilMayCry 4'', I also call Nero "Ichigo" and Kyrie "Orihime". Seriously they're almost Expies of those two. ** The Fucking Critic - TheNostalgiaCritic, since TheAngryVideoGameNerd referrs to himself as "The Fucking Nerd". ** [[{{Naruto}} Rasen]][[DragonballZ Genkidama]] - The Rasenshuriken, which looks like a SpiritBomb. ** [[GenkiGirl Genki]][[{{God}} -sama]] - HaruhiSuzumiya. A pun on the Spirit Bomb explained above. ** Q-Flyn - QuintonFlynn. ** ''Konata'' - ''LuckyStar'', because the show is all about her. ** Ken- "Motherf*** ing" -Pachi - [[{{Bleach}} You know damn straight who I'm reffering to]]. ** [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Tenken Toppa Gurren Lagann]] [[{{Bleach}} Sajin Komamura]]'s BeyondTheImpossible Bankai. ** The Harem - The cast of ''CodeGeass'' outside Lelouch. ** [=GARizard=] - [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Ash's Charizard]] ** [=Lo'L=] - [[DeathNote Light Yagami]]'s EvilLaugh (Laugh of Light); since I started watching ''CodeGeass'', I also use it as "Laugh of Lelouch". ** [=SoSorry=] - [[{{Naruto}} Sasori]], since [[spoiler:he's the first Akatsuki member to die]], but I don't use that nickname. ** [[{{Bleach}} Hollow]] Naruto - [[spoiler:Naruto's six-tails transformation]]. ** '''EPIC. WIN.''' - ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' Episode 15. *** [[{{F-Zero}} Falcon Punch]] - That one epic scene... ** [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Gurren Mk. II or Guren Lagann]] - The [[CodeGeass Guren SEITEN]], cuz it looks like it has a face on it's body. ** Star Butt - [[GurrenLagann Boota the pigmole]]. ** Shirleyhime - [[CodeGeass Shirley Fenette]], who's "I Love You Lelouch" speech [[spoiler:before dying]] sounds like [[{{Bleach}} Orihime]]'s "I Love You Ichigo" speech. ** [[CodeGeass Lulu]]sori - [[{{Naruto}} Sasori]], since his dub VA is JohnnyYongBosch, aka Lelouch. ** Chiyo [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers Repulsa]] - [[{{Naruto}} Chiyo]], since her dub VA is Barbara Goodson, who voiced Rita in MMPR. * {{Tropers/Leycira}} ** [[CriminalMinds Criminal Minds]] *** Agent [[DeathGlare Deathstare]] - Hotch, because of his main expression. ** {{NCIS}}, NCISLosAngeles, CriminalMinds, TheMentalist, NUMB3RS *** Dead Corpse - The first corpse seen in the ColdOpening of the

series abrove. ** StarCraft *** CaptainObvious - Overmind. [[PlayerTic This troper has the habit of selecting more than one larvae at the same time]]. If one should mutate into a more expensive creature, Overmind tend to say about the others: 'YouRequireMoreVespeneGas.' Thanks, I know, but I'll keep that tic. *** More-Vespene-Gas-Monsters - Mutalisks, for the reason abrove. * {{Tropers/Liangnui}} ** For both [[{{Prototype}} Alex Mercer]] and [[Left4Dead The Hunter]], "Crazy hoodie bastard." Taking HumanoidAbomination and OurZombiesAreDifferent representatives ''not'' seriously is sort of a hobby. ** And for ''AssassinsCreed''... *** "Alty" - Altair *** "Ezzy"/"Fairy" - Ezio (don't ask about the second one) *** "Malmal" - Malik, and thank you DeviantArt. * Tropers/LimeTH ** Sas-gay or Sucks-ke- Sasuke from {{Naruto}}, who I really hate. ** She-Brock- Kagura from {{Azumanga Daioh}}, she looks like Brock from {{Pokemon}} sort of, what with her ridiculously spikey hair and the dark tan she gets in the summer ** That stupid angel bastard- Pit from {{Kid Icarus}} whose Super Smash Bros. incarnation annoys the hell out of me. ** The Original Emo Kid- Charlie Brown ** Jesusbot- {{Wall-E}}. ** Upside-down Exclamation Point Ipod Ice Cream Cone- EVE ** Lemon Cat- Chiyo-Chichi from {{Azumanga Daioh}}. How I forgot to mention this one is beyond me, since me and my friends use it all the time. ** The High Lords of Awesome- The collective name for me and my best friend's mutual favorite characters. Consists of [[AzumangaDaioh Osaka]] as the leader, with [[VeggieTales Larry the Cucumber]], [[{{Pokemon}} Meowth]], [[SouthPark Kenny]], [[PonyoOnACliffByTheSea Ponyo]], [[WallE Wall-E and M-O]] ** Stanley the Wolf Hating Crazy Guy- Quent Yaiden from [[WolfsRain Wolf's Rain]], from his total lack of a name for several episodes and me needing to call him ''something'' ** Dr. Eggbotnikman: [[SonicTheHedgehog figure it out]]. ** [[DextersLab Mandark]]: [[DNAngel Satoshi Hiwatari]] *** [[CatchPhrase Curse You]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Darxter!]] ** [[AzumangaDaioh Osaka]] with boobs: [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Ty Lee]]. ** Mikuroobs: [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Mikuru]], after her... erm, ''[[MostCommonSuperpower assets...]]''. I also have a RunningGag of naming things after Mikuru, such as the family dog's (pending) middle name, my pet fish, and [[YoshisStory the Pink Yoshi]] ** '''''ACTION M-O!''''': M-O from {{Wall-E}}. (Capslock and exclamation mark mandatory.)

* Tropers/LooneyToons: ** "Somewhere That's Dry" -- The song "Part of Your World" from Disney's ''The Little Mermaid'', because it's practically a [[TheJimmyHartVersion Jimmy Hart Version]] of the composers' earlier song "Somewhere That's Green" (from ''{{Little Shop of Horrors}}''). * Tropers/LordAaronus ** Not a "fan" nickname per se; games like GrandTheftAuto tend to wow the computer-illiterate previous generation in my neck of the woods with their 3D graphics and engines in general, and my own mom has taken to referring to GrandTheftAuto as (translated from Chinese Hokkien dialect) "Driving Lunatic". * Tropers/LordPentium ** Rated GAY: The tag team of RandyOrton and {{Edge}}, when they were feuding with D-Generation X. The official name was Rated RKO, you see, and... *** Edge was the Rated G Superqueer. I used to love making fun of the {{Heel}}s' sexual orientations using mutated versions of their nicknames, back when I watched wrestling. TripleH himself made the Randy Orton gay jokes, so RKO became GAY, joining my personal nickname for Edge in a corruption of the team name. ** One-balled homo: [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]. Because if it isn't obvious, you need your {{Gaydar}} checked. [[http://gi100.photobucket.com/groups/m33/DIHC6X6B58/dissidiafinalfant asy004zy7.jpg Seriously, does it get any farther into]] CampGay [[http://gi100.photobucket.com/groups/m33/DIHC6X6B58/dissidiafinalfant asy004zy7.jpg territory than this?]] ** Dysangol: LadyGaga. Based on a story I'm thinking up. She's enough of a HumanoidAbomination as is, you see, I just thought I'd take it to a particular conclusion and create a whole group of [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]]. ** The Hero of Gaming: ShigeruMiyamoto. From [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime The Hero of Time]] and the role of his creation SuperMarioBros in saving the North American video game scene from TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983. Chances are, if you're in North America and a video gamer, this guy has had some influence on your gaming life. Just as much for casuals as for real gamers, too. * Tropers/LoustarJogger: ** Mr. [=GeeDubs=]: Mr. Game & Watch, 2-D fighter from SuperSmashBros Melee & Brawl. ** R.O.B.B.Y.: R.O.B., classic peripheral for the NES, also a fighter from [=SSBB=]. ** Ganondork: Ganondorf, LegendOfZelda. ** Bastard Son Of Bowser: Bowser Jr., because the Koopalings are far superior. ** My friend calls Luigi "Awegee". Mind you, I ''hate'' it when he does that. ** Wright Hand and Rong Hand: Master Hand and Crazy Hand, respectively. ** When given an OddNameOut situation, I will instantaneously give the

character with the unfitting name the moniker "Clyde". ** Super geek time! I give nicknames to makes of trains. Trains I tell you! ** King [=DayDayDay=]: ''Supposedly'', this is the correct pronunciation of King [=DeDeDe=]'s name. ** Earlier in this list is someone who calls Lucario "Lucaruger", which has inspired me to call him Luger, after the Luger Pistol. * {{Tropers/Lurkerbunny}} ** [[MorkAndMindy Mork]]-bot, The RobinWilliams Love-bot (don't ask): Andrew Martin in ''Bicentennial Man''. ** Bananarama - Bannakaffalatta from ''Series/DoctorWho'''s ''Voyage Of The Damned''. ** ''Law and Order: Sex and Violence Unit'' ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''. ** ''Series/DoctorWho : Special Victims Unit'' - ''{{Torchwood}}'' (Well, it is the "sex and violence" spinoff). ** ''Doctor Who: Degrassi'' - ''TheSarahJaneAdventures'' (actually, my mother's suggestion). ** [[TheSimpsons Homer]]!Genie - [[{{Aladdin}} The Genie]] in ''The Return of Jafar'' and the ''Aladdin'' TV series, played by Dan Castellaneta. [[RobinWilliams We all know who the proper Genie is]]. ** Seth [=MicSogynist=]: SethMacFarlane. [[RapeAsComedy For]] [[HollywoodHomely obvious]] [[DudeNotFunny reasons]]. ** CROOKED NOSE THE SIZE OF A FREAKING SEMI-TRUCK: Well, this is very specific, but it's basically become my frustrated name for the way RobinWilliams is drawn on ''FamilyGuy''. [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/80sFreakLurker/Others/fgrobin 4.png It's pretty obvious why]]. Now, I realize Robin's nose has been exaggerated in caricatures before, but the thing is the way they draw him is an unholy cross between caricature and the normal [=MacFarlane=] style which is freakish to look at and infuriating to have to copy when drawing ''FG'' fan art. ** [[TheVerse The Garry Marshallverse]]: My collective name for ''HappyDays'' and its [[LaverneAndShirley various]] [[MorkAndMindy spinoffs]], all of course created by Garry Marshall. [[/folder]] [[folder:M]] * Tropers/MacJabber: ** Busta Bs - The Ballas Gang in [[GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas GTA: San Andreas]]. Bust your...yeah... ** Chibi-Robo Set - Robo Furniture in Animal Crossing: From the eponymous character of the {{ChibiRobo}} series. ** Christmas Angel - Pit in {{Super Smash Bros}} Brawl: His alternate green costume. Power up your Wii and see for yourself. ** Feenie Bo-Beanie - Phoenix in [[AceAttorney Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]: Cue the "Feenie wears a Beanie in the Fourth? [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome That's awesome]]!" phrase. ** Good Girl - Euryale in {{God of War}} II. ** Pineapple Copters, Baby Pineapple Copters - Peahats and their offspring in [[LegendOfZelda Ocarina of Time]].

** Poofies - for {{Ridiculously Cute Critter}} things: Especially Rodents. ** Retardus - Thardus in {{Metroid Prime}}: {{Self Explanatory}}. Radiated Phazon Rock golem. On Hard difficulty. [[ThatOneBoss That Bastard]]. ** Saran Wrap, Sarah Lee - Sahasrahla in [[LegendOfZelda Link to the Past]]. ** Stomping Bitch - Andariel in {{Diablo II}}. I died on purpose to hear her stomping all over her cramped up room. ** Tightey-Whitey - Tidus in {{Final Fantasy X}}: Because we both played it, my sister and I incessantly argue about how the "Ti" in [[NoPronunciationGuide Tidus' name]] goes. So we were better off teasing him with his newfound nickname. ** The Undentists - The Wraiths in {{God of War}}. [[ThisISADrill The dentist drilling sounds scare your cavity-ridden teeth]]. ** Vaan the Van - Vaan in {{Final Fantasy XII}}. ** Wolfos Link - Wolf Link in [[LegendOfZelda Twilight Princess]]: Early pictures of TP's Wolf Link. At first, I thought he transformed into a Wolfos. Is he a wolf or a wolfos? [[NoteToSelf Note to my past self: he's a wolf]]. * {{Tropers/MadeofMeat}} * Dr. Libido - [[{{Psychonauts}} Doctor Loboto]], when he's portrayed as particularly sexually active in a fanfic or roleplay. Hypocritical, because I myself sometimes write him as being a manwhore. * Crispy and Cali - Another Psychonauts nickname. A shortening of Crispin and Caligosto, fairly all-purpose, but I usually use it when they're being buddy-buddy. * Jaspa, Mista Merello - JasperMorello's named spelled phonetically * Docta - [[JasperMorello Claude]] given the same treatment. ** The Creature's Daddymommy. Yep, you are now thinking of Claude MPreg. Cogratulations! * {{Tropers/Magnezone}}: ** Magneton Man: The leader of [[{{Pokemon}} Sinnoh's]] local villainous group, Cyrus. An inside joke stemming from his... ''interesting'' first appearance in my fanfiction. ** Max Lurkyface, Sr.: Another {{Pokemon}} one, Conway. Named after his striking resemblance to May's little brother and the fact that he stalks people. A lot. ** [=TGKsprit=]: Yet another {{Pokemon}} one. Refers to Mesprit (specifically, the main antagonist of ''Metal Coat''), and her rather... unique personality. The 'TGK' part came from her home fic's original name, The Galaxy Key. * {{Tropers/Malph}} ** Ass: Ludicolo because of how close "colo" is to "culo" (along with the fact that it looks like it's wearing a sombrero), and the fact that I hate every fiber of it's being (In Emerald Wallace's killed my whole team by spamming Giga Drain. And then there's Miror B.'s annoyingly defensive ones in Colosseum). ** MarySue: Generally any opponent who manages difficult things with

ease (usually used in Pokemon for anything that can survive a Super Effective attack with little damage). *** GodmodeSue: Any opponent who embodies TheComputerIsACheatingBastard. ** [[{{Metalocalypse}} Mustakrakish]]: [[{{Fallout}} Deathclaws]], because they look like Mustakrakish. ** Shrek: Fawkes (from Fallout 3) *** Panzer Shrek: Fawkes when he becomes your partner (at which point he's an all powerful tank god) * [[{{Tropers/ManCalledTrue}} Man Called True]]: ** Captain Smug-Git (Jack Harkness from ''{{Torchwood}}'', named after a nickname Rimmer gave Ace Rimmer on ''[[{{RedDwarf}} Red Dwarf]]'') ** Tranny (Adel Bernstein from ''TheKingOfFighters'', a male character who was female in the design stages) ** The following names, given to members of the Godhand in ''{{Berserk}}'' before their names were finally made clear in Volume Thirteen (the exception being Griffith): *** Mastermind -- Void, he of the bulging brain and leadership role *** Succubus -- Slan, the MsFanservice who barely covers herself with her wings *** Butterball - Ubik, who looks a lot like the Cenobite of the same name *** Daruma - Conrad, whose head looks like a Daruma doll ** Closet Furry - [[ElGoonishShive Dan Shive]]. Admit it. ** Fat Knights - The [[GoddamnedBats extremely annoying]] enemies in bulbous armor first encountered around Chapter Three of ''{{Drakengard}}''. ** Twin Bastards - Agni and Rudra from ''DevilMayCry 3''. They're both ThatOneBoss. ** Clownboy - Attenborough from ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', who really ''does'' look like a clown. ** Admiral Bowlcut - the ButtMonkey Admiral Sadaako Munetake in ''MartianSuccessorNadesico''. As good as that series is, it does a ''horrible'' job at establishing character names; I kept having to read the ''credits'' to work out who people are. ** Lesbian Folksingers - The female voices that sing a wordless melody after any moment of emotional impact in ''GilmoreGirls''. ** ''Bandai Lagann'' - The truly horrible dub job Bandai slapped onto ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. *** Kamina-stoner - The voice acting used for Kamina in ''Bandai Lagann'', who has nothing resembling HotBlooded in his voice. As per the nickname, he sounds less excited and more high. ** Frankenstein's [[FistOfTheNorthStar Raoh]] - Goliath from ''{{Castlevania}}: Order of Ecclesia'', essentially a giant, monstrous version of Raoh. Complete with Hokuto Hyakuretsuken. * Tropers/MandoKnight ** I call Ike from [[FireEmblem Fire Emblem]] "His Majesty, Lord Ike the Manly, Hero of the Blue Flame, Liberator of Crimea, Savior of Tellius, And Father of Sothe's Children" because of several factors... *** "His Majesty, Lord" after his gaining peerage in Path of Radiance.

*** "The Manly" after achieving a "prestigious" position as one of the Manly characters in [[SuperSmashBros Super Smash Brothers Brawl]]. *** "Hero of the Blue Flame" after his title at the end of the Japanese version of Radiant Dawn *** "Liberator of Crimea" due to saving his homeland from Daein almost singlehandedly... *** "Savior of Tellius" because in Radiant Dawn, he saves the entire continent [[spoiler: from the goddess Ashera]] *** "And Father of Sothe's Children" from a line spoken by Micaiah in Radiant Dawn, mocking Sothe's hero worship of the general. * [[{{Tropers/Mariko-chan}} Mariko-chan]] ** My friend and I on Gaia Online affectionaly call Xaldin and Luxord 'nymphomaniacs'. Only because we roleplay them together in a Rp, and they [[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} sleep together like bunnies]] every night. * Tropers/MasterHand ** Brigodin: The fifth boss in ''Odin Sphere'', consisting of Brigan's soul in Odin's body. For the record, I called Brigan himself [[ThatOneBoss General Impossiblepants]]. ** Queen Benz: Mercedes, also from ''Odin Sphere''. * Maslego ** Kryptids: The Monsters of the Week on Smallville. ** Tomcat: The third Wildcat in DC who can turn into a "werecat" * Maxius ** Alien Naraku: Nurarihyon from {{Gantz}}. Like the aforementioned character, it could regenerate from pretty much any damage while growing stronger in the process, gained ridiculous powers as time went on, went through a multitude of forms that became progressively more twisted, and was ridiculously hard to kill. Oh, and it died for real off-screen as well. ** The Vorpal Witch: Mio Sakamoto from {{Strike Witches}}. She got that name after she ''cut a Neuroi in half'' at the beginning of episode 1 and sliced the tail off of another in episode 2. The second Neuroi repaired itself afterwards, but that the fact that she was able to deal so much damage to it with her katana was amazing. * {{Tropers/Medinoc}} ** The [[{{Warhammer40000}} Sisters of Battle]]: Misora, Cocone, and Shakti, the witch and [[NunsAreMikos par-time nuns]] from ''MahouSenseiNegima''. ** Litany Of Furry: Chachamaru's KillSat, which is part of her artifact. Named after the [[SpaceMarine Blood Ravens]]' [[CoolStarship Battle Barge]] from ''{{Warhammer 40000}}: DawnOfWar'', the Litany Of Fury. * {{Tropers/Meagen}} ** Investigate: In the context of CityOfHeroes, "beat the crap out of". "We investigated those Skulls throughly". From all the missions

that say "investigate warehouse" to mean "[[NeverSayDie defeat]] all enemies in warehouse", and by analogy with [[LyricalNanoha Nanoha's]] "befriending". * {{Tropers/MegaTroopX}} ** Darth Kirby: The character's Spark + Cutter ability in {{Kirby}} 64. ** Anubimon: [[{{Pokemon}} Lucario]]. ** Pimpmon: Ditto, the omni-breeder Pokemon. ** Earth Razer: (That's "raze" as in "raze a building" not "a bladed shaving implement") The move Ash's Pikachu uses that damages Ground[[{{ElementalRockPaperScissors}} type]] Pokemon, even though that's not possible in the games. * {{Tropers/Meiriona}}: ** Altena-you-bitch: the BigBad of {{Noir}} can ONLY be referred to as such. * Tropers/MetaFour: ** ''GunnerkriggCourt'': *** Mr. Brass Buttons: That gaunt teacher [[AdultsAreUseless who was no help whatsoever]] in chapter 1. Named for the buttons on his jacket. *** Y: Ysengrin. *** Teal and Purple: The second pair of Suicide Fairies from "Red Returns", named for their [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair hair colors]]. *** The Salamander: That yellow lizard-thing from "A Ghost Story", due to the fire association. I can't take credit for this one. *** Evil Birmingham: That place in chapter 19 (and possibly chapter 11) where Zimmy and Gamma have periodically gone. So named because Tom Siddell modeled it after RealLife Birmingham. *** Blinker-vision: [[GreenLanternRing Blinker Stone]]-mediated clairvoyance, and its accompanying ArtShift. ** ''{{Series/Heroes}}'': *** Radiation Man: Ted Sprague, named for [[BadPowersBadPeople his unfortunate superpower]]. ** TVTropesWiki: *** Yikt-wuh: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/ykttw.php YKTTW]]. * Metaternal ** King DEE-DEE-DEE: [[{{Kirby}} King Dedede]], cause all you need is some emphasis to make it sound like [[GuiltyPleasures Carlos Mencia's]] {{Catchphrase}}. ** Rape: [[StreetFighter Akuma's]] [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Shun]] [[BadassBack Goku]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Satsu]]. ** [[{{Pokemon}} Tackle Attack]]: Any running attack in the SuperSmashBros. series that looks like a tackle [[CallingYourAttacks will have this phrase accompanying it]] sometimes, usually when it kills. Examples include [[{{Metroid}} Samus]], [[{{FZero}} Captain Falcon]], and [[MightyGlacier especially]] [[TheLegendOfZelda Ganondorf]].

* {{Tropers/Micah}} ** Principal Quark: Principal Snyder from ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' (played by the actor who played [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Quark]]). ** Sinh (or, in full, Kosh's EvilTwin Sinh): The second Kosh from ''{{Babylon5}}''. ** ''Clavdivs'': ''IClaudius''. ** Jayne in a Suit: Marcus Hamilton from ''{{Angel}}''. ** Teddy Bear: General Hammond from ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'' * {{Tropers/Midna}} ** "[=BiBi=]" (with capitalization): Bianca from ''PokemonBlackAndWhite''. ** "New Classic Metool": The Metools from ''MegaMan 9''. (They look like ''Mega Man 3''-onwards Metools, but function identically to the Mets from ''Mega Man 1''.) ** "GIANT FROG": [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Giant video game frogs]]. ** "Ostrich Ride ''OF DEATH''": The ostrich ride from [[ScrappyLevel the second stage]] of '''TheLionKing''. I still haven't forgiven them for it, though it's not as difficult as I often make it out to be. ** "{{Popeye}} the Whaler Man": Fatty Whale from ''{{Kirby}} Super Star Ultra'', after his uncanny resemblance to a certain cartoon dock hand. ** "Chowderhead": Kind of stretching the definition of "fan" nickname, but... A friend of mine at another internet forum as an alternate name for ''{{Chowder}}''. [[ViewersAreMorons In case you can't tell]], it's intended as a TakeThat. ** "Splashy": Splash Woman, also from ''MegaMan 9''. ** "Larl": [[{{Disgaea}} Laharl]]. *** "Et": Etna from the same game. Most of the Disgaea characters can be given a catchy single-syllable nickname, in fact. ** "The {{Touhou}} Attack": That purple fiery blast... thing that some {{Pokemon}} can use in ''[[PokemonRanger Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia]]''. Named after how it vaguely resembles an attack from said series. *** "The [[YumeNikki Uboa]] Noise": The noise a Save Machine makes in both ''Pokemon Ranger'' games. Named after how eerily calm it sounds, like the music/background noise of Yume Nikki (Uboa's music is anything but eerily calm, though...). ** "Midna-chan": [[TheLegendOfZelda Take a guess!]] It shouldn't take you a lesson in Japanese {{Honorifics}} to know that that the added "chan" is a term of endearment added because... [[PerverseSexualLust well, Midna's cute]]. * {{Tropers/MiffTheFox}} ** [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} Yami no Niki]] - Niki's SuperpoweredEvilSide from {{Series/Heroes}} ** The [[StarTrek Mind Meld]] Machine - The tank from {{Fringe}}. ** New Professor - Eli from GhostWhisperer, mainly due to him being a JonasQuinn for the old professor. (Who this troper never actually remebered the name of.) * Tropers/MikeRosoft

** Zora the Avenger - ''Queen of Swords'' ** Encyclopedia Defamatica - Encyclopedia Dramatica * Tropers/{{MikoGalatea}} ** "[[NoodlePeople Noodly]] [[GuiltyPleasures Trainwreck]]": ''CodeGeass'' as a whole - not that it isn't an entertaining show, of course. ** A couple for ''{{Gundam 00}}'' characters: *** "[[{{Moe}} Moeria]]": Tieria Erde, because he's adorable when he's sad and doubly so when [[CryCute he cries]]. Seems like I'm not the only person to call him that, either. *** "[[LittleMissBadass Loli]][[ArtificialHuman vator]]": Hilling Care, the flat-chested, female-model Innovator. This was before I found out she's 5' 6" tall, which is a fair bit bigger than your average loli... ** "Pudding-tan": Albel Nox from ''[=~Star Ocean: Till the End of Time~=]'', because his hair colour resembles a certain type of Japanese pudding treat. No, I wouldn't use that kind of honourific within earshot of him! ** "Fridge-tan": A certain character from ''[=~Star Ocean: The Last Hope~=]''. [[spoiler:Specifically, the unnamed girl from the Black Tribe, whose [[StuffedIntoTheFridge death]] didn't do a lot of favours for Faize's sanity]]. ** "[[AttractiveBentGender Booby-Man]]": Gren from ''CowboyBebop''. ** "[[TrueNeutral Neutral]][[BrotherSisterIncest cest]]": Switzerland/Liechtenstein from ''AxisPowersHetalia'' as a romantic pairing. (Yeah, I know they're NotBloodSiblings, but whatever.) ** "Screwdriver-tan": An unnamed blonde girl who appears in volume 11 of ''NaruTaru''. I wish she actually ''had'' a name. ** "School": Squall Leonhart from ''FinalFantasyVIII'' (and ''[=~Dissidia: Final Fantasy~=]'', for that matter), all because I misread his name when I saw it in katakana in a doujinshi sample. ** "[[TheWoobie Kicked Puppy-kun]]": Jonah Matsuka from ''TowardTheTerra''. ** "[[PortmanteauSeriesNickname MadoMagi]]": My shorthand nickname for ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. ** "[[DudeLooksLikeALady Mr]] PrincessCurls": Arion Rosemarin from ''KazeToKiNoUta''. I sometimes just call him "Rosie", too. * {{Tropers/Mimefan1107}} ** Crushy - Nikita Khrushchev ** Dizzy - BenjaminDisraeli * {{Tropers/mimichan3}} ** I seem to have an obsession with tsundere guys, since I have so much tsun- nicknames for them. For example: *** Tsunderia - Tieria Erde from ''Gundam00'' *** Tsunderyuu - Lord Ryuu from ''RG Veda'' *** Tsunderen - Ren Tao from ''Shaman King'' *** I also call a tsundere's wrath 'Tsunderage'. ** I also use 'yanderage' for when their smile fades... ** Megumilk: Murakami Megumi, formerly of the Hello! Project, after a

typo I made. ** Sailor Ayumu, Sailor Miki, and Tuxedo Sunflower: Ayumu, Hatori, and Sonoda from Life, because the way Ayumu tries to save all of Manami's former friends reminds me of Sailor Moon's heart cleansing, even though it never really worked. I'm still trying to find a clever nickname to compare Manami to Queen Beryl. ** I've recently got into the habit of calling Nasu Kinoko "eggplant", because that's what the 'Nasu' part means. My best friend, however, calls him Nurse Kinoko. * {{Tropers/MistressMinako}} ** Plot Device Dragon (PDD): The Crimson Dragon of {{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}, so-named because it honestly is an unexplained plot device since its auspicious debut. The name has become common use on related message boards. ** JACK ATLUS/ATLAS: Emphatic form of the character's name based off the promotional material before the series began (Takanori Hoshino: "I'M JACK ATLAS"). Also somewhat widely-used, mostly to mock the character's self-referential egoism. * Tropers/MiyuMiyu ** Literature/{{Twilight}} *** Norman: Edward, thanks to Tropers/MiyuMiyu's father having a slip of the tongue in regards to the Meyerpire. *** Stella: Bella, just to round things out a little. *** Pablo: Jacob, also to round things out. ** RealLife *** Generation FAIL: the current generation, with its skinny jeans, {{Fred}} and Literature/{{Twilight}}. * Tropers/MobileLeprechaun ** MakingFiends *** Amy Made-of-Win-frey: Amy Winfrey, the creator of MakingFiends. *** Milky: Mr. Milk *** Jethro: Malachi. This one stems from an in-joke between me and my sister that I'd rather not elaborate on. *** Comrade Vendetta, Little Sister: Vendetta, with Little Sister being a reference to [[NineteenEightyFour 1984]] ([[DontExplainTheJoke Get it? Big Brother? Little Sister?]]) ** Death Note *** K-Fed, Kirefron, That jerk, One Mister Yagami, Imagay: Light Yagami *** L-zaki: L, the nickname stemming from a combination of L and Ryuzaki. *** Freakami: Teru Mikami, because [[{{Understatement}} he's a little unstable]]. *** Natey: Near ** Other *** Strange Crappenings: A Haunting, mine and my sister's favorite paranormal show to {{MST}}. * Momo

** Old man Squa: Anime Squallo from KatekyoHitmanReborn for having white hair and sounding way over 30-something. * {{Tropers/MoonlightBomber}} ** Freddie Aguilar Undead: [[KamenRiderBlade Daichi, the Elephant Undead]]; since he's an {{Expy}} of the Filipino singer-songwriter. ** Mama's Boy: [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]. Blame CJ Collins, the infamous [[FinalFantasyVI Kefka]] cosplayer, for pounding it to my head. * {{Tropers/MoPete}} ** Iron Bitch: [[TheWorldEndsWithYou Mitsuki Konishi]] ** Sucker Fucker: [[TheWorldEndsWithYou Koki Kariya]] ** Pinky Psycho Pants: [[TheWorldEndsWithYou Uzuki Yashiro]] * Tropers/MrGuy ** Admiral Cthulhu: [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Davy Jones]] ** Ctulpihu: [[spoiler:the {{Eversion}} guy]] ** Fuckin' Ay: [[NetHack Floatin' Eye]] [[/folder]] ----

FanNicknameN-S '''Please, add your own entry in alphabetical order.''' ---[[foldercontrol]] [[folder:N]] * Tropers/NARFNra ** Asian Swallows - The swallows that REALLY carried those coconuts. ** Crazy Coins - Those enemies that appear at the start of every Gradius game. * Nasrudith ** Gumbys(Indentured servants in Colonization Civ IV) named so for the resemblance of the outfit and penalty to skilled labor. ** [[KickTheDog International Buearau of Puppy Kicking]] [[WhateleyUniverse The Mutant Commission/Control Office]]. ** [[{{Iji}} Mechanical Bastard]]: Sentinel Proxima. ** Also for {{Iji}} note that these are extreme spoilers about the best hidden secrets in the game. [[spoiler: "Iji forgot to take her medication" for Sector Z and the effects of the null driver, given it's extremely trippy nature]]. ** [[ElGoonishShive Dr. Tess]]: Dr. Ishida in MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha As. ** [[SluggyFreelance Bunbun]] [[spoiler:King when summoned from level 3 of the blade]]. in CaveStory. * Tropers/NatTheWriter ** [[SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom Super Happy Shiny]] [[LyricalDissonance Suicide Song]] - [[EndOfEvangelion Komm Susser Tod]] (Not my creation,

but I use the nickname fairly often.) ** Patrick Longname - [[{{Gundam00}} That guy named Patrick. I am very stupid and fail to remember how to spell his name]]. * {{Tropers/Nausicaa}} ** [[TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya The SOS Brigade]]: {{U2}} *** Haruhi: Bono *** Yuki: The Edge *** Itsuki: Adam Clayton *** Kyon: Larry Mullen Jr * {{Tropers/Nebula}} ** From {{Pokemon}}: *** [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Mega Ultra Chicken]]: Blaziken *** [[{{Bishoujo}} Bishieram]]: Reshiram. *** [[KOn Mugi]]: Alomomola *** Half of my team from Black has a nickname that doubles as an IncrediblyLamePun on their names: Dar-manly-tan, Hydrei-God and Eelektr-awesome. Serperior and Jellicent don't get one because "superior" and "magnificent" are already part of their names. Archeops doesn't get one because I can't think of a word that conveys badassery that goes well with it - Eelektr-awesome was already stretching it. * {{Tropers/Neo Yi}} ** Vlad Seximus: Vlad Masters/Plasmius from ''DannyPhantom''. There's a more naughty fan name this troper made with the Vlad Masters name that she'll refrain from saying. As far as I'm concerned, I think I was the first one to coin this nickname. ** Girly Boy: Danny Fenton/Phantom. ** Manly Legolas: [[JakAndDaxter Jak]] ** The Ruiner: Logan of ''GilmoreGirls'' whom this troper feels killed the show. Same rule applies to [[XiaolinShowdown Chase Young]]. * Tropers/NeoChaos ** [[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/bloodninja Bloodninja]]: Amadeus the Wizard from ''{{Trine}}'', thanks to being clad in a RobeAndWizardHat, his {{Casanova}} character and his shameless attempt to flirt with Zoya in the game's tutorial level. ** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_McLellan Todd McLellan]]: Master Roshi from the disastrous DragonBall [[TheMovie movie]] as portrayed by Chow Yun Fat, because Fat's appearance in that movie bears a slight resemblance to the ice hockey coach. [[http://entertainmentnow.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/dragonball5524.jpg No]], [[http://sharkspage.com/jpgs5/todd_mclellan2.jpg seriously]]. * {{Tropers/Nerdorama}} ** Instant Married Couple: Haruhi and Kyon. Also applies to similar bickering couples, in real life and in fiction. ** Giga-Rei: whatever that thing really was in ''End of Evangelion''. Alternatively, Reilith (Rei/Lilith or Rei-the-size-of-a-megalith, take your pick).

** And conversely, there is Kamina, The Anti-Rei. So named for his accomplishment of mentally pulling everyone '''out''' of the fantasyland of ultimate happiness. And being pretty much the opposite of her in every other conceivable way. ** Dr. Moriarty: Dr. M[[spoiler:atsumori]] from Y: The Last Man. Because I was reading this series (featuring a Dr. M. as a major antagonist) at the same time as League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (featuring a Mr. M - really James Moriarty - as a major antagonist). ** Adrinara: Adria from ''StargateSG1'', played by Morena Baccarin. ** Relatedly, Dr. Jennifer Kaylee on Atlantis. ** Having just read Evangelion Re-Take, I've got another one: Asuka [[NotSoImaginaryFriend Harvey]] Soryuu. I wanted to use Frank, but Harvey fit the rhyme scheme. [[NotWhatItLooksLike ...I read it for the plot, I swear to God!]] ** [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Fate Testarossa]], she is A Chibi-Char! ** Desu Note: ''DeathNote''. Lame romanization joke, mostly, with some ''RozenMaiden'' reference. ** The Universe's Most Adorable Network Terminal: [[SuzumiyaHaruhiNoYuutsu Yuki Nagato]] and, to a lesser extent, the other Humanoid Interfaces. Less a nickname and more my pithy explanation of them. ** And another one inspired by ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' but eventually applied to all instances of a particular PublicDomainArtifact: The LOL-spear. ** Wasabi Peanuts: ''AzumangaDaioh''. After having seen parts of ''LuckyStar'', I can no longer state that Azu Dai is "Peanuts [[AC:[[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on acid]]]]", but it's still rather out there, more like a mouth-burning food than an illicit substance. Plus, actual wasabi peanuts are MadeOfWin, just like the show is. * {{Tropers/Nezumi}} ** Scylla: The Tentacles from ''Half-Life''. Comes from mistaking the three Tentacles in their first appearance for part of a larger creature, and a fondness for the mythological beast that originally held the name. Still uses it because it sounds a lot more interesting than "Tentacle." ** Chicken Snuggling: The practice of picking up and putting down your chickens in the ''Harvest Moon'' series to improve their happiness levels. She got it from someone else, but to her knowledge, it hasn't actually caught on. ** Teepo Syndrome: ViewerGenderConfusion, especially as it applies to prepubescent boys. Named for Teepo from ''BreathOfFire 3'', for reasons that should be obvious to anyone who ever played the game. * {{Tropers/NigeriaLisa}} ** Pluto-tan: Maeda Irori, from HelloProject. ** Bodhisattva: Okai Chisato, again from HelloProject. ** Zacchan: Zazie Rainyday of MahouSenseiNegima * Ninkobra; ** [[GannonBanned Gannon BANNED!]] - Ganondorf's B-move in [[SuperSmashBros SSB Brawl]], to distinguish it from Captain Falcon's

[[MemeticMutation Falcon Punch]] ** Alphonzelda - Whenever Spirit Zelda is possessing a Phantom in [[TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks Spirit Tracks]] ** [[MNightShyamalan M. Night]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Shamealan]] Because it fills me with foreign shame seeing how far he's fallen from TheSixthSense to [[TheHappening Attack Of The Killer Plants]]. It may or may not hold depending on whether [[AvatarTheLastAirbender The Last Airbender]] is actually half-decent or not. *** Note to past self: Reinforce "Shamealan"... BIG TIME. * {{Tropers/Nlpnt}}; ** From ''{{Naruto}}''; *** Sauce K; Sasuke. From "Dice K"=Daisuke (Matsuzaka, of the Red Sox). I don't actually ''use'' it, but it won't get out of my head... *** High beams: Byakugan. **** Daytime running lights; [[BlankWhiteEyes Hyuuga eyes]] in nonByakugan, 'normal vision' mode. (Can also be reversed; "Those are nice cars but I wish they'd ditch the Hyuuga eyes") *** Kazekage-kun; [[spoiler: Gaara in ''Shippuuden'']]. *** Uchiha Street, Uchiha-''[[GratuitousJapanese chome]]'', The PepsiCola Bottling Company of Konoha; the Uchiha compound. *** And let's not forget [[{{Filler}} Sumaru]], The Boy With a [[strike:Car's]] Star's Name. ** The Other Zuko; Danny Zuko from ''Grease'' (Yeah, he came first. But ''Avatar'''s still cooler...) ** Volcanogakure: the Fire Nation capital in ''Avatar''. ** Comcastic: Adjective describing anything that [[Main/TakeThat sucks in a dully disappointing sort of way]]. ** Digital Edsel; 2008-up Ford Focus notchback coupe. Not my car, but if they had kept the hatchback ''that'' might have been. * Tropers/NotSoBadassLongcoat; ** '''{{Naruto}}''': *** Wooden Boy: Rock Lee. Invented before the troper even heard of NarutoTheAbridgedSeries. *** The Young NEENJUH With A Firefox Up His Ass: Naruto. *** The Second-to-Last Czarnian, BEESHAWNEN: Sasuke. *** Evil Weasel, The Last Czarnian: Itachi. Pretty self-explanatory. ** '''Left4Dead''': *** Tosspot: Boomer. A deadpan, matter-of-fact "Tosspot defused" is this troper's usual line after killing one, usually to notify other players about eliminating the threat. *** Roach: [[TheScrappy Rochelle]] from the sequel. ** '''BaldursGate''': *** The Romanian: Ion Irenicus. Mainly because it sounds like a Romanian name. *** Organ: Korgan the Dwarf. Partially based on the infamous "axe" quote he uses to taunt Mazzy. *** Janey: Jaheira. ''Note: this is a translated version. In Polish, the nickname is "Ja&#347;ka", a diminutive form of the Polish equivalent of "Jane".'' ** '''VampireTheMasquerade''':

*** Szczymiszcze ''(Shchimishtche)'', Trzy Misie ''(Three Teddy Bears)'', Plastusie ''(Clayboys)'' - The Tzimisce clan. The first two poking fun at the fact that nobody knows for sure how the clan name should be pronounced, and the last one for their ability to shape their bodies like modeling clay. ** '''VampireTheRequiem''': *** Dywany, Dywaniki ''(Carpets/Rugs)'' - the Daeva clan. *** Mehes - the Mekhet clan. ** '''{{Lost}}''' *** Esau - the nameless man officially called "Jacob's Enemy". *** Iddiott Tooslow - Elliott Maslow, the protagonist of ''Lost: Via Domus''. ** '''EntropiaUniverse''': *** Winos: Biffoids, named so for their wifebeater shirts and throaty groans reminding me of a hungover wino. *** '''Cornycowduhs''': Cornundacacaudas. *** Spike Pigs, Hedgehog Pigs: Combibos, due to the spikes on their backs and sounds they make. ** '''AllPointsBulletin''': *** Daddy Benjamin - Arlon Benjamin *** Fiat Cunto - Macchina Cosenza *** The Ant On Crack, Varchuga - Balkan Varzuga *** Zippy, Dentist Drill - Packer Vaquero, due to its high-pitched engine noise, resembling an electric toy car motor. *** Bishie - Bishada Rapier *** O-Beer, Obieraczka ''(Peeler)'' - OBIR rifle. ** '''GuildWars''': *** Mushrooms, Potatoes - the Afflicted from ''Factions''. **** Potato on Toothpicks, Potato on Stilts - Afflicted Assassin, due to its bloated torso and spindly limbs. **** Potato Pancakes - the Augmented Flesh item, due to what drops it (potatoes...). *** The Fucking Ninjas - the [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Am Fah gang]]. They just love to drop from up high like the fucking ninjas. *** Uboga Krowa ''(Poor Cow)'' - the Fanged Iboga from ''Nightfall'', due to how its name is translated in the Polish version. ** '''SoulCalibur''': *** Elvis - Maxi, due to his haircut in 1P model. *** Siekieroth ''(Axeroth)'' - Astaroth, pretty self-explanatory. *** Kijek ''(Stick)'' - Kilik, due to weapon used. *** Zafalafel, Falafel - Zasalamel. ** Music: *** Brown - System of a Down's self-titled album. ** Misc.: *** Fish: FN F2000 assault rifle. *** Kurz, Kurczak ''(Chicken)'': [=MP5K=]. *** Klocek ''(Block)'': Glock pistol. *** Ninja Master Itagaki: Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of DeadOrAlive and a {{Badass}} in his own right. *** M. Night Shalalala: M. Night Shyamalan, the UweBoll with artistic pretense. *** The Yellow Coat Hanger: Hastur from the CthulhuMythos (due to how

his symbol, The Yellow Sign, looks). * {{Tropers/Nyperold}} ** ''AnimalCrossing'' *** Bees, Bells, and Beyond: Collective name for normal trees. *** [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Ugly Bags of Mostly Water]] and Few Bells: The jellyfish, bane of ocean fishers during the last half of August, as they are, fins down, the least valuable fish of all, and there's a good chance that, during this period, any fish that is generated in the ocean will be this rather than the much more valuable red snapper or barred knifejaw. ** ''ChronoTrigger'' *** [[ChipAndDaleRescueRangers Gadget]]: Lucca. ** ''{{Civilization}} Revolution'' *** Most Annoying Wonder '''or''' Most Annoying of Wonders: The Great Wall of China. The game tells you that when you build it, all nations will offer you peace. What it ''doesn't'' tell you is that they make this offer '''''every. single. turn.''''' It tempts me to start a war just to shut them up about it, and it's a mercy when somebody finally learns Engineering and declares war on me. (Which is why I never build the thing anymore.) *** Waves of Culture: Your weapon in a... *** '''''CULTURE ATTACK!!''''': A massive assault of culture intended to capture cities without a single round of combat being fought. *** Treaty Blockade: You may have noticed that you cannot enter the territory of any civ you've made a treat with with any unit without starting a war with them. Players who do not wish to start wars may find themselves with stranded units, or unable to get at enemies. *** Opening the Floodgate: When units begin to be able to move via formerly-blockaded land or sea. This can happen if the blockading civ becomes your enemy, or if cultural conditions change. ** ''EndlessOcean Blue World'' *** [[SeaLab2021 Hazel]]: The dog you rescue. Oceana names him "Snorkel", but nothing stops the ''player'' from calling him something else outside the game, right? Based solely on the dog's breed and general location. ** ''EternalSonata'' *** Myopin: Frederic, when he starts a battle saying things like "You dare turn your sword to me?" to enemies who don't have swords, or "You dare to bare your fangs?" to enemies who don't have fangs. It's like he can't see them properly. *** Dolsaggy: Dolce, whose skin is beginning to sag. (Don't say so unless you're ready for battle...) *** [[{{Sonic}} Shadow]]: Fugue. If you've played ''SonicAdventure2'', you may notice that they talk in a ''very'' similar manner, and have the same color scheme. *** Fire-Breathing Moth-Lizard Koala: Non-[[HopelessBossFight hopeless]] Boss of Agogo Forest. *** Kids' Crew: The team of Beat, March, and Salsa. *** [[PortmanteauCoupleName Balsa]]: If anybody [[ToyShip Toy Ships]] Beat/Salsa, here you go. *** [[PortmanteauCoupleName Beach]]: Similarly for Beat/March.

*** [[PortmanteauCoupleName Bib]]: Prefer him with one of the girls from the sewers? *** Fission River: Fusion River, because it temporarily splits the party. *** Waltz's Handsome Check Point: Okay, well, why else would there be a random mirror in a dungeon? Named after the "handsome checks" the stereotypical ([[spoiler:but not actual]]) hero was always stopping for in that one episode of ''TalesFromTheCryptkeeper''. *** Somebody Else's Passage: Andantino's Secret Passage, which the party uses [[spoiler:before they actually meet Andantino, in order to get out of the dungeon]]. It's also such a gaping hole that it's just got to be protected by an [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy SEP field]] to go unnoticed like that. *** Woodblech Groves: Woodblock Groves. [[spoiler:Auto-poison at the start of every freaking battle, anyone?]] *** Tunnel of Unnecessary Ominosity: Ever gone into that tunnel from the beach at Ritardando? Ever read the creepy inscription and turned back, sure that this was some place you wouldn't be ready for? Guess what. [[spoiler:That's where Polka came from right before the first playable portion of the game, apparently]]. *** [[{{Pokemon}} Leech]] Rifle: Magnum Arm, a gun that restores Beat's HP as he shoots. *** Kinscore Fusion: The mechanic of matching a score piece you have to one held by an NPC in a session in hopes of getting an item. Named after a similar mechanic in ''TheLegendOfZelda: The Minish Cap''. *** Chopin Says: The Moving Command. *** [[AntidoteEffect The Floral Effect]]: The fact that Floral restorants restore certain percentages of your Max HP means that you'll probably put off using them until everything else is gone. ** ''FinalFantasyXIII'' *** Eidobot: Eidolons. I hope there aren't any [[{{Transformers}} Deceptilons]]... ** ''HidamariSketch'' *** Principal Shivers: The unnamed principal. ** ''IchigoMashimaro'' *** Hirohi [[LittleKidLover Misutakeni]]: Hirohi Matsui, the man from volume 4 who is mistaken for a LittleKidLover. ** ''TheLegendOfZelda'' *** The Lost Grove: The Sacred Grove from ''Twilight Princess''. It's not mapped in-game. Named after the Lost Woods. ** ''MySims'' *** Chess Nut Trees: Trees that bear chess pieces as their fruit. *** Nice-spamming: The practice of Being Nice to a target Sim over and over until he gives you something. Often the last step in... *** Suspicious Niceness: If you're a Sim in my town, and the town is at capacity, and I'm all of a sudden performing your tasks one after another and then nice-spamming you... that means you're about to be ''kicked out''. *** Suit Fruit: Card-suit Essences, which, like chess pieces, also grow on trees. ** ''My Sims Agents'' *** Specialist: An agent with only one interest, but he has it in

spades. He only helps in the event that a mission caters to his interest, but boy does he help! *** Near-Specialist: An agent with 4 of one interest and 1 of another. He's not as helpful as his specialist counterpart ''unless'' the mission's two interests jibe with his own, but he's still rather helpful if one of its interests jibes with his major one. *** Ace of Two Trades: His interests are more evenly split between the two, though by mathematical necesssity, one's still stronger. Probably a better choice to send on a mission with the same two interests than a Near-Specialist with the same two interests, as he would be better used on a different mission featuring only his strong point. *** Somewhat Specialist: An agent with three interests, two of which are minor. Doesn't have quite the potential of the higher-ups on the list, but still... *** King of Three Trades: An agent with three interests, one of which is weaker. *** Queen of Four Trades: An agent with four interests, three of which are weaker. ** ''My Sims Kingdom'' *** King Point Islands: Those stories that I do as soon as possible, because if I put them off until after the big reward, then I'm not getting King Points for them, and thus, I have no incentive to complete them. ** {{Pokemon}} *** Mantene Mro-V: What can I say? Its name always reminds me of the shampoo. ** ''ProfessorLayton'' *** [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]]!Flora: [[spoiler:Don Paolo's]] Flora [[spoiler:disguise. Obviously, it's bigger on the inside than on the outside]]. *** Tom[[spoiler:dog]]: As if it were that much of a spoiler. I mean, come on. That's pretty much how [[spoiler:Lady Dahlia reacted when Claudia ran off]] in PL&tCV. Whenever [[spoiler: a high-society lady talks like that about her missing child, IT'S A FREAKING PET]]. ** ''{{Sonic}} Adventure'' *** A/The/That lens flare: Tikal. ** ''{{Sonic}} Heroes'' *** Flower Power: Team Rose's Team Blast. ** ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' *** Verosalina Lake: Rosalina from ''SuperMarioGalaxy'', mainly on the basis of her peekaboo hairstyle. ** ''[[VivaPinata Viva Piata]]'' *** Romaze: The maze (with varying looseness of definition) that you have to guide a piata through in order to successfully initiate romance between two of them. *** Crowla [[{{onehundredandonedalmatians}} De Vil]]: The Sour Crowla, of course. *** Kevorkos: Dastardos. ** ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'' *** Tin Pinigame: Tin Pin Slammer. *** Mr. [[MegaNeko Mega-Mew]]: Shiki's Lv.2 Fusion Attack. **** So Zetta Mew!: In the same vein, her Lv.3 Fusion Attack.

**** Surfin' Shibuya!: Beat's Lv. 3. *** D+B Draggers; Sexy D+B: Pins 006-008. *** Brand Boosters: Pins 011, 034, 059, 080, 103, 117, 137, 150, 165, 179, 193, 206, and 229. (Basically, the pins that boost the attack of their brand's pins.) *** Fruit Flamb: pins 062-064. (Burning Cherry, Melon, and Berry.) *** MONKEY pins: pins 081-086. (The pins that spell MONKEY when you have them all sorted by number on the Mastered tab.) *** Death from Above: pins 96, 200, 201, and 290. (Pins whose psych is called "Grave Marker".) *** [[CaptainPlanet By]] [[AllYourPowersCombined Your Pins Combined]]: Pins that you can only used if you have all of them in the same deck. *** Sis Pin: pin 262: [[spoiler:[[DeadLittleSister Rhyme]]]]. *** Character Schwag: Items that are directly related to characters in the game. Sho Minamimoto seems to have a lot of his stuff out there... *** Grinding your food: Fighting Noise mainly for the sake of digesting food, then eating, lather, rinse, repeat. This is especially true after gaining the Hollow Leg sticker, which lets you do this without hitting the fullness cap and waiting a day, and even moreso after you reach the level cap and therefore cannot increase your Max HP, BRV, ATK, or DEF by leveling up. *** Hihigashizawa - The "Another Day" version of, well, Higashizawa. Intended to be pronounced with a girlish giggle. *** EXP Thief: The Swing, Bebop, and Fusion Sharks. They eat enemies. Hey! ''I'' wanted to beat that! *** Pin Thief: Same as above, once the level cap is reached. Not used so much for the Decadravens, Easterravens, and Nefastravens, who ''temporarily'' take away one of the pins you have equipped. [[/folder]] [[folder:O]] * 0blivionmobile ** WorldOfWarcraft: *** Angry Puppy, for Chromagnus, second to last boss of Blackwing Descent. Named as such because, according to lore, it was only (re)created recently, within a year. *** Techadin, for Engineer Paladins that will really screw you over in PVP. *** Bundle Of Cute, for any female gnome (including my own) that's decked out in plate armor an weilds very sharp objects. ** Others: *** Ninjacuga, for Nargacuga of MonsterHunter. *** Not-that-[[KingdomHearts Axel]], for Axel Almer of SuperRobotWars. *** That Psychic Hammer guy, for [[ThatOneBoss Baldrin]] from ValkyriaChronicles 2. *** The Spirit of [[MacrossMissileMassacre Missilewill]], for the [[ThatOneBoss Spirit of Motherwill]] from ArmoredCore For Answers. *** [[{{Touhou}} The Strongest]], for Nineball Seraph, also from ArmoredCore. * {{Tropers/Oolie}} ** Boobamundo: Matsumoto Rangiku of {{Bleach}} for obvious reasons. ** Puffu-puffu: Orihime from the same series, after how Kon

describes... the sensation of being hugged. Also, Bigrax from another scene, and Leekgirl from the Leek Spin website. ** Freak Out: Kira Izuru, also from Bleach, due to his reaction to the Huge Hollows in the flashback episode. ** Captain Foxface: Ichimaru Gin, from Bleach. Also gets 'Captain Smexy' from time to time... ** Captain Kisama/Bastard: Byakuya Kuchiki, for his habit of calling people 'kisama', roughly translated as 'bastard', but never translated in this troper's fan dub. * {{Tropers/Orihime}} ** Inuimhotep: Sadaharu Inui from ThePrinceOfTennis, after his second Rikkai match [[spoiler: where his injuries require him to be bandaged from head to toe, like a mummy]]. ** Lolikuno: Sakuno Ryuzaki from the same series, since she looks like borderline {{Lolicon}} bait in the anime. ** Elvis Kite: Eishirou Kite, also from [=PoT=], for his hairstyle. ** Shir-Shir: Shirley Fenette from CodeGeass. ** Tsunderia: Tieria Erde from {{Gundam 00}}, since his CharacterDevelopment turns him from TheStoic into a Type A {{Tsundere}}. ** Taxi Head: Ryuuji Yamazaki from TheKingOfFighters. Just look at his hair, dammit! ** The Bitch Squad: Natsumi, Minami and Kumi from ''SchoolDays''. [[GirlPosse For]] [[JerkAss obvious]] [[WhatAnIdiot reasons]]. * osh: ** Sonic and Tails: ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha [=StrikerS=]'s'' Subaru (blue colors, runs up magical ramps) and Teana (orange tails). [[/folder]] [[folder:P]] * Pastylover2 ** [[Series/DoctorWho The Master in the End of Time:]] BLOND SIMM! *** Dream Lord: [[ScottPilgrim Nega Doctor]] *** Donna: Noble Girl *** Ten: ANGSTY! *** Rose: Whiney *** Eleven: CrazyAwesome ! ** [[Ben10AlienForce Swampfire:]] Swampy * @/PentiumMMX2: ** [[DotHack .hack]]//Lite: CodeLyoko (Because, when I first started playing .hack, I couldn't help but notice similarities between it's story and that of Code Lyoko) ** Army of Doggie Dudes: Anubis soldiers in TheMummyTrilogy ** Alpha Suzumiya: Alpha 6, after the change of voice in PowerRangersInSpace...which happened to be the voice actress who would later by the voice of SuzumiyaHaruhi.

* @/PersonOfNote:

** BlackButler *** THE CUTEST THING IN THE WORLD- Grell. *** Goddamn Random Whore- The chick in episode 17 of the first series. You know the one. *** Jailbait- The Sebastian/Ciel pairing. *** Devila- Angela *** Grellomp- Anytime Grell glomps Sebastian. Or tries to. When he doesn't manage, it's "Grellfail" *** Ineffectual Suicide- Grell's.. Well.. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Grell's ineffectual suicides in the first few episodes.]] *** Santabutler- Tanaka, because it always sounds like he's saying "Hohoho.* *** Cielrape- The Corset scene. *** Pulling My Bung- The fact that Grell never got this kiss promised to him. -.*** Mister Lobster Head- Viscount Druitt *** [[{{Naruto}} Curry of Life]]- The curry arc. ** {{Bleach}} *** Captain 'Stache- Yamamoto *** Captain Braid-Fu- Soi Fon *** Captain [[{{Fangirl}} FRICKEN AWESOME]]- Gin *** Captain Frontbraid-Deathlook- Unohana *** Captain Evulz- Aizen *** Captain Better-than-u- Byakuya *** Captain Ladies man- Kyoraku *** Captain Furry- Komamura *** Captain [[{{Naruto}} Neji's dad-]] Tosen *** Captain Too-Much-Screentime - Toshiro. *Prepares for fangirl wrath* *** Captain [[BadAss OTHER FREAKIN' AWESOME]], or Captain JinglesKenpachi *** Captain Plz-Die-Nao - Mayuri, 'cuz that's what I always say when he comes on screen. *** Captain [[{{Naruto}} LeeBrows]]- Ukitake. *** That lazy guy- Starrk *** Skullhead- Barragan *** Sexy Chick- Harribel *** NonUkeQuiorra- Ulquiorra, after getting PO'd at him being the {{Uke}} in 95% of GrimmUlqui fics I've read. *** Spoony- Nnoitra *** Kitty- Grimmjoww *** LOVEME-car- Zommari *** Sexypinkthang, Mr. Sword Tongue-raper, Crossdressing hotstuffSzayel *** Tentacle Stomach Disease- Aaroniero. *** Hammy Yammy, or Yammy-Chan - Yammy, because though he's violent, swears a ton, and fails miserably, I love him. ^^ *** Ichi-manwhore - Ichigo. *** "Kurosaki-kun!"- Orihime. The phrase pretty much became synonymous with her name. *** Szayel's bitch- Uryuu. [[YaoiGuys For obvious reasons, kukuku..]] *** They-Changed-It-Now-He-Talks-Too-Much - Chad.

*** Icy-hot - Sode No Shirayuki *** Psychotic Bondage Slave- Kazeshini. [[FetishFuel And I love him for it.]] *** Feathers Guy Jr.- Ruryi'ro Kujaku, which makes Yumichika Feathers Guy Sr. (Or Yumi-Chan) *** [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Team Kariya]]- The bounts. Except for Yoshino, who I call "Filler Whore" *** [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Phallic Shota Bondage]]- The scenes in the bount arc with the twins with the water doll and Uryuu. *** Lolibitch- Riruka *** Needs Moar Panties- Riruka, again. ** {{Naruto}}. *** The Butt Bow- That ginormous purple rope that all sound ninjas of note (Sans Kabuto.) Wear around their waist. *** [[{{Pokemon}} Kabutops,]] Kabs, Oro-uke- Kabuto. *** [[NarutoTheAbridgedComedyFandubSpoofSeriesShow Randomly Southern Tayuya,]] Tay-Tay - Tayuya *** Gothy- Sakon *** {{Spiderman}}- Kidoumaru *** Fatso- Jiroubou *** Wonder Twin Powers, Activate! Form Of, A Demonic Unicorn!- Sakon and Ukon's 2nd seal release stage. *** Bonehead, Kimmy, Dotface- Kimamaro *** The Harem of Grayheads- Kabuto, Kimamaro, Sakon, and Ukon. *** Sasgay Bichiha, Sauce-bitch, Failchiha, Loser, Fricken' EmoSasuke *** Totally-Not-Evil Robes of Doom- The Akatsuki robes. *** Waywayway Cooler Older Brother- Itachi *** Bushhead- Kakashi. Also, [[spoiler: Sauce-Bitch's second seal release form,]] the latter of which led to the insult "Bushhead! Your head is a bush!" *** Bowlhead Jr. And Sr.- Rock Lee and Might Guy *** The Luckiest Chick In The World- Tsunade, while being strangled by Orochimaru's tongue. *** Kaboo-boo - Any injuries Kabuto gets. Unless it's related to sex, then it's [[IncrediblyLamePun Kabuse.]] *CoughsOrochimaruCoughs* *** Kaboots, Kabutoes- Kabuto's feet, and the shoes on them. *** Black and White Cookie that can [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Screw the Rules-]] Zetsu *** [[PhineasAndFerb Planty the Potted Plant-]] Zetsu again. *** blonde![[FullMetalAlchemist Kimblee-]] Deidara. He blows shit up and has a ponytail. Mmhmm. *** Jedi Wannabe, Biker Dude, Stockingsbitch, the Haku and Zabuza knockoffs, Mr. McUgly, and FillerShiro- The filler villans. (Aoi, Mizuki, Suzumebachi,, Raiga and Ranmau, that fucking bounty guy, and that goddamn suit of armor.) *** David Bowie- Kakashi. (I don't feel like linking to Narutoabridgedcomedyspooffandubyadayada. ** Due to being a rabid {{Fangirl}}, I have a whole section devoted to Nicknames for Orochimaru, or things pertaining to him. *** The Sexy Sannin, Not Michael Jackson, Oro, Owo-Chan- Orochimaru, 'cuz I wub him

*** Shower Sex Tiem- Orochimaru's highly homoerotic (And sexy.) ShowerScene. *** Oro-gasm- My reaction when he walks in the room.* *** Oral Sex Dispenser- His tongue. *Ahem* Sign me up for one, please. ^^ *** Swirl of Doom- The Cursed Seal of Heaven *** Totally NOT Orochi- Orochimaru's "Disguise" during part of the Chuunin exam arc ** Fullmetal Alchemist *** ADORABLE GUY- Gluttony *** Gropeable- Lust, [[DepravedBisexual because she is.]] *** NOT KIMBLEE- First anime!Kimblee, because Kimblee ain't Kimblee without the weird hair things. *** Reverse Antennae- The weird hair things. ^^ *** Gender-Confused Palm Tree- Envy *** Dickhead- Shou Tucker *** [[GurrenLagann Spiral Kimblee]]- The close up shots of Kimblee where his eyes have Lordgenome-esque spirals in them. *** Kittyblee- Kimblee again, for my firm belief that with a different mouth shape, he would totally look like a kitten. *** Yay She Shut Up- My celebration after Ros reappeared and DID NOT WANGST. *** Bitch McBangs- Ros ** GurrenLagann *** Commander Fuzzball- Viral *** DEM TEETH- [[FetishFuel His teeth. Om nom nom.]] *** [[{{Bleach}} Grimjoww with a giant mecha-]] Kamina *** Flowereyes- Nia *** Scythehead- Yoko *** Camp and Cyoot- [[CampGay Leeron.]] *** Beauty, Bitch, Boyish- Since I can never remember the names of the Black Sisters, these are the names I call them. (Oldest to youngest.) *** Heat-Packing Armadillo- Guame *** Circlehead- [[spoiler: The Anti-Spiral]] ** [[XMen X-Men First Class]] *** Red Ring of Death- Havok's power initially. *** Heads, You Lose- [[spoiler: Sebastian Shaw's death.]] ** TheHungerGames *** [[SoCoolItsAwesome GODDAMN AWESOME BOOKS-]] The series in and of itself. *** Plum- Plutarch Heavensbee. I don't know why. ** DeathNote *** loL- L *** Mikami Mouse- Mikami Teru *** The Pairing Without Pronouns- L/Misa. (WTF.) *** Yight- LxLight, because a portmanteau would be "LLight," Which would be pronounced Yight in Spanish. *** Take-Bitch - Takada *** Not-so-Mello - Mello. *** Shotatard- Near *** [[Series/DoctorWho Cyberman-]] Mikami. *** [[spoiler: Most Gorgeous Kira Ever-]] Mikami, again.

** {{Pokemon}} *** Gleam and Sparkle- Palkia and Dialga *** [[{{Naruto}} Yakushi-Chan -]] Kabuto and Kabutops. *** Cheeky lil' guy- Pikachu *** [[{{Naruto}} Shino-]] Wurmple, and all of its evolutions. *** [[{{Naruto}} Manda-]] Arbok *** The Goat- Absol *** [[{{Naruto}} Zetsu-]] Carnivine. *** [[{{{Naruto}} Kyuubi-]] Ninetails. (Well, DUH.) Come to think of it, I could do a whole section based solely off of Pokemon nicknames that are Naruto references..]] ** HetaliaAxisPowers ** Chibitally- Chibi Italy.

* Tropers/PhoenixFire: ** {{Bleach}} has [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters way too many characters]] for me to keep track of them without resorting to this: *** Captain JUSTICE!: Tousen, after his only vocabulary word *** Captain {{Bishonen}}: Byakuya *** Tony: Starrk, because, [[IronMan well]]... *** Kittygami: Yoruichi, although I also use it for Kabegami in ''{{Okami}}'' *** Definitely Not Gay: Szayel (based on a joke among some friends about how "He turns into a butterfly! How much more CampGay can you get?") ** Our Hero: The protagonist of anything, ever. Doesn't matter if they [[TheHero act heroic]] [[AntiHero or not]]. ** Kittygami, Nekogami, Bunnygami, Usagigami, Drunk Sheep, Mousygami etc.: The various {{Okami}} brush gods. ** I also independently came up with a few listed in the main page, including [[{{Durarara}} GARtender]] and [[FullmetalAlchemist Godfather]]. However, the more seriously I {{fangirl}} something, the less likely I am to rename characters. * ''{{Tropers/Pichu-kun}}'' : ** [[{{Pokemon}} Lopunny]] - Trap Bunnies ** Wii's - The ultimate system of awesomeness ** Nintendo - The "Too Awesome For There Own Good" company * [[Tropers/PigCatapult Pig_catapult]] ** ''YuuYuuHakusho'': *** Old Six-Ears -- Yomi *** That Monk Dude -- Hokushin ** ''HunterXHunter'': *** Designated Eye Candy -- Kurapika *** Pedoclown -- Hisoka *** Apathyman -- Illumi *** Squick-tan -- Feitan

** ''Series/DoctorWho'': *** The Cute One -- David Tennant as [[Series/DoctorWho the Tenth Doctor]] ** ''CriminalMinds'': *** Cold Corpse -- Anyone who dies/is dead/is about to be dead in the episode's ColdOpening. You have to be [[KilledOffForReal most definitively dead]] by the end of the opening credits to qualify for this status. I'd call them VictimOfTheWeek, but, in this show, that tends to not be very specific. Serial killers, ya know? ** ''KingdomHearts'': *** TURTLE OF DESTINY -- Roxas (must be [[ThisIsSPARTA PRONOUNCED IN ALL CAPS]]) * Tropers/PikaHikariKT: ** Gamecube: Triple H. The Game+3(or cube)=Nintendo system! ** Jayjay: Christian Cage. His real name is Jay(Jason) Reso, and at the time he was feuding with Jeff Jarrett(JJ). I do call him CC sometimes too. ** Jeri-chan: Chris Jericho. Combined with Japanese {{Honorifics}}, I think it's obvious why I call him that--he's cute! ...Until he starts acting like a dick like he is now. ** Double H: Hulk Hogan. At least Hunter loses sometimes, I was rooting for Shawn to beat him the entire way(and maybe Randy, but he's become a real bastard lately. Still haven't forgiven him for the lowrider explosion either)! ** Viccy-chan: [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Tamaki Suoh]], for his almost scary similarity to his dub VA. * {{Tropers/Pinkbaron}}: ** Yoink: The Thief from {{The Thief And The Cobbler}}, named after the exclamation, "Yoink!". ** Underbite and Overbite: The two Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures from {{Bone}}. To clarify, Underbite is the more monstrous one and Overbite is the one who [[RunningGag suggests cooking Fone Bone in a quiche]]. ** Tenacious R: [[{{Pokemon}} Team Rocket]] ** Team Netherlands: For Edward/Jacob. Named because the Netherlands was the first country to legalise same-sex marriage. ** Team Columbia: For all of the {{CrackPairing}}s within the fandom. Named for Columbia's infamy in regards to crack. ** The Mating Call: The brief duet between [[BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold the Music Meister and Black Canary]] during "I'm the Music Meister". * {{Tropers/Pirka}}: ** Jambalaya - The mutant, pink multi-eyed squirrel from ''TheSimpsons Movie''. This spread from IMdB and was actually put on Wikipedia once by someone who didn't know it was just a stupid name I made up. That was pretty cool. ** Guy Oncellphone - The host on the reality show ''Treasure Hunters'', who would often appear on a cell phone to guide or give hints to the contestants. Pronounced as 'Ghee Oncellpho-neh', as if it were an actual name. ** Mantracker as played by SeanConnery - ''Mantracker'' from the show

of the same name. ** Kurorobo - The Mr. Black robot from ''Shorts'', because GratuitousJapanese makes everything sound more badass. ** Emo Chicken - Galileo Figaro from the musical ''We Will Rock You'', because he acts emo and dances around like a chicken. ** Femshoggi - Khashoggi, the '''male''' police commander from the same musical, as portrayed by - * shudder* - a woman (Camilla Scott, to be specific). {{Squick}}! ** Senator Pervert - Senator Fipp from ''{{Urinetown}}''. ** Canteloupe Scene - A scene in something that borders on {{Gorn}} when the rest of the media is, at least most of the time, nowhere near as bloody. Comes from Hot Blades Harry's quote in ''{{Urinetown}}'' that the police are going to "bust [us] up like a bunch of overripe canteloupes!" * Tropers/PokeNirvash ** Naruto: *** Princess Tiny Feet of the Filler Arc: Princess Haruna from that one Naruto filler arc with the merchants. *** Elvis Caliendo: Fat prince who was in love with fat princess that looked like what Ino and Choji's baby would've looked like. *** Bishonen Butthole ANBU: The ANBU from the filler arc with genjutsu student Yakumo Kurama, the one that painted the future. ** Orochiwakamaru: Mima's stalker from Perfect Blue, who looked like a mix between [[{{Naruto}} Orochimaru]] and [[SamuraiChamploo Oniwakamaru]]. * {{Tropers/Pocketwatch}} ** TsubasaReservoirChronicle / Xxxholic : *** Kurgalurga/Kuro-pops: Kurogane, referring to two daft in-jokes about him, one calling him "the original gangster ninja" and the other... 'Shopping tiny copies of his head onto a certain chocolatey breakfast cereal. *** Lulzanuki/Lolanuki: Watanuki when makes absurdly over the top faces in the more light-hearted moments of Xxxholic. *** The Three Amigos: Watanuki, Doumeki and Himawari. ** Persona4 : *** Pimpfox: The fox from the Hermit social link, because of the extortionate price of its services. *** Boomshakalaka: The Strength arcana persona that I can never properly remember/pronounce the name of, due to laziness, and because it came in quite handy early on in the game. I sometimes also us it when talking about Revolver Ocelot's appearance in [=MGS2=]. *** You suck, eh?: When I am feeling cruel at Yosuke, I deliberately pronounce his name like that. *** Chie-chohhhn: Chie, after Teddie's way of pronouncing it. *** Adachin: Adachi, for no good reason. *** Brchen: Teddie. Because I can never have enough GratuitousGerman, ''ha''. ** SuperSmashBros : *** PK '''AWESOME''': Ness and Lucas' final smash, especially if I ended up playing as one in a random character select brawl.

** PandoraHearts : *** Gerard: Gilbert. Long story short, I was browsing some Japanese sites in a half dazed way when I misread the katakana for his name. ** In general: Failboat, for a lovable but inept/pathetic/sometimes annoying character. *** Non-linear ending: Somehow, this has become (in this troper's mind, at least) an UnusualEuphemism for solving love triangles/shipping dilemmas with an OT3. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Somehow]]. * {{Tropers/Premonition45}} ** Purple Nurple of Doom: Ash's grip on Parker's chest when he attacks him in ''{{Alien}}''. ** Fake Donny Osmond: Prince Edward's (alleged) [[HoYay male lover]] in ''{{Braveheart}}''. ** The ''ChittyChittyBangBang'' slide: The slide Bond falls on in ''YouOnlyLiveTwice'' is quite similar to the slide used to trapped Baron Bomburst in ''ChittyChittyBangBang''. ** Scottish Flea: The Scottish soldier who says William Wallace [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller isn't tall enough to be him]] looks an awful lot like "Red Hot Chili Peppers" bassist Flea. [[YourMileageMayVary At least he does to this troper]]. ** [[AustinPowers Frau Farbissina]]: The female Nazi officer that notices Indy and his father tied up and accidentally entering a secret Nazi chamber in ''IndianaJones and the Last Crusade''.

* {{Tropers/prescience}} ** Tropes *** [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Scary Dogmatic Fans]]: FanDumb ** ''{{FLCL}}'' *** Mayuge ("eyebrows"): Amarao, [[BigOlEyebrows for the obvious reason]]. ** ''Gundam00'' *** Psycho Straight Subaru: Louise in season 2, on account of both being voiced by ChiwaSaitou. Especially after [[spoiler:she gets a cybernetic arm, and even more so when her eyes start changing color]]. ** ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' *** Desu Zwei: Reinforce Zwei, since she tends to pronounce her "desu"s similarly to a [[VerbalTic certain]] [[RozenMaiden character]]. Only really noticeable in the first few episodes of [=StrikerS=], but still... *** Signum Punch: The GetAHoldOfYourselfMan delivered to Teana by Signum - it's sort of like a cross between a BrightSlap and a Falcon Punch... *** Swordchucks-tan: Fate, for Bardiche's [[DualWielding Riot Zanber mode]]. *** Nuke-tan: [[PersonOfMassDestruction Hayate]]. *** ''Rebuild of Nanoha'': Nanoha The Movie 1st, in reference to ''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion Rebuild of Evangelion]]''. Whether there is actually much resemblance remains to be seen. ** ''{{Mai-Otome}}''

*** Nina Wangst: [[TheRival Nina Wang]] after she starts to think that Sergei views her as a sort of ReplacementGoldfish for Rena. ** ''{{Maria-sama ga Miteru}}'': *** She-Shinji: Touko in season 4, because the way she pushes everyone away reminds me of "The Hedgehog's Dilemma". Oh, the angst... ** ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' *** [[BreakTheCutie You Poor Bastard]]: Shinji in particular, though it applies to every sympathetic character. ** ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' *** Ayanami Yay: Rei, for her... [[LesYay interesting interactions]] with Asuka and Maya. ** ''{{Saki}}'' *** Hacks: [[EnsembleDarkhorse Momoko]], since her invisibility initially looks like an absolute GameBreaker. *** Batbutler: Hagiyoshi *** [[{{Nyoron Churuya-san}} Nagatocchi]]: Yoshitome Miharu, for being a [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Yuki]]-lookalike. * {{Tropers/Psyga315}} ** KamenRiderOOO *** Shingo Izumi: Keiji-san (despite the fact that it means Officer, I mistook it for his real name) ** TVTropes *** @/SullenFrog: [[GurrenLagann Surren Frogann]] (for pot-holing me to the tropes page and that pot-holing me to the first episode) * [[Tropers/PutYaGunsOn PutYaGunsOn]] ** [[CodeGeass Code Fabulous]] ** DragonBall *** [[PowerRangers The Ginyu Rangers]]: The Ginyu Force. ** {{Glee}} *** [[IAmNotShazam Glee]]: Due to an inside joke, I jokingly refer to ANY Glee character as this. ** KingOfFighters *** [[StreetFighter Dan Hibiki]]: Robert Garcia. (I know, I know, Robert came first, and [[JokeCharacter Dan]] is [[TakeThat SUPPOSED to look like him]], but I played StreetFighter first, so yeah.) ** {{Naruto}} *** BabyGotBack [[NarutoTheAbridgedComedyFandubSpoofSeriesShow no Jutsu: Zabuza's Water Dragon Jutsu.]] *** [[NarutoTheAbridgedComedyFandubSpoofSeriesShow David Bowie: Kakashi.]] ** SonicTheHedgehog *** Let's start with the obvious: '''[[DragonBallZ SUPER SAIYAN]] [[SuperMode SONIC]].''' *** Probably The Most [[{{Expy}} Recolored]] [[OriginalCharacter Character]] Ever: Sonic. *** Probably The Other Most Recolored Character Ever: Shadow ** StreetFighter *** [[{{Pokemon}} Thundershock]]: Blanka's [[ShockAndAwe electric attack]]. And by extension... *** Pikachu: I haven't used this yet, but I should start calling

Blanka this. ** SuperSmashBros *** Barbie Falcon: [[FZero Captain Falcon's]] pink and white costume. ** Misc. *** [[NarutoTheAbridgedComedyFandubSpoofSeriesShow M. Night Shamamalama/Shamamalama-sama]]: MNightShyamalan. *** [[MyImmortal Enoby]]: ''Anyone'' or ''anything'' called "Ebony". [[/folder]] [[folder:Q]] [[/folder]] [[folder:R]] * {{Tropers/RAMChYLD}} ** Irritating Latino Girl: DoraTheExplorer. ** Evil Red Puffball (or rather, miming the announcer in GachagaChamp, [[ThisIsSparta EVIL! RED! PUFFBALL!]]): [[SesameStreet Elmo]]. Just Elmo. On the grounds that he stole Big Bird's spotlight and he's annoying. ** Purple Portuguese Pimp: [[BarneyAndFriends Barney]], even though he's not Portuguese. * Tropers/RandomSurfer ** Vikie Ge (pronounced Jgh): when Vickie Guererro married wrestler [[{{WWE}} Edge]] she would be traditional enough to take his last name, Ge. (Obviously, his first name is Ed.) ** ''The Andy Show'': ''NYPDBlue'', post David Caruso and even more post Jimmy Smits. ''The Greg and James Show'': Medavoy- and Martinezheavy episodes. Later replaced by ''The Greg and Baldwin Show'' when Martinez left and was replaced by Baldwin Jones. ** I've been trying without success to change the FanNickname "snail mail" to "p-mail." P for physical (as opposed to e for electronic); and because do we ''really'' want to piss off the category of human being for whom the expression "going postal" was named by insulting their product? *** Tropers/TBeholder: IMHO it's ok, as long as no one thinks [[http://notalwaysright.com/many-problems-to-address that "snail" stands for "@"]]. ** Mron: ST:DSN's barfly character who went unnamed for quite a while, later revealed to be named "Morn." My thinking was the same as the producers' (if a bit more literal): their name was an anagram of Norm (from ''Cheers''), mine was a full palindromic reversal. * {{Tropers/Raekuul}} ** Bubble-Girl: Recent buffy-speak name for Flurrie from Thousand Year Door. Is now a running Joke. * {{Tropers/Ravvie}} ** Jenny Phantom: Jenny from ''Doctor Who'' as she's a [[spoiler: opposite sex clone of the main character, ala Dani Phantom]] ** The Valeyard: Dark Danny from ''Danny Phantom'' - seeing as how he's an evil alternate future version of the main character...

** Not Magical But Welsh Gwen: Gwen from ''Torchwood'' ** The Risen Mitten 3.0: 'The Gauntlet' of ''Ben 10: Alien Force'' * Tropers/RayAyanami ** Super Mr. Gay: ''SuperMario Galaxy'', for the "subliminal" message in the game's logo; if you remove all the letters that don't have sparkles on them, the logo reads "UR MR GAY." ** Suck-You Bus: [[HornyDevils Succubi]] in general. ** Crotch Laser / Laser Cock: The Nova Skeletons' laser attacks in ''{{Castlevania}}: Symphony of the Night'', for the height at which they fire from. Also used by Beam Skeletons and Soma Cruz in ''Aria of Sorrow''. ** ''Castlevania: Death Note'': ''Castlevania Judgment'', for its artwork, which was done by Takeshi Obata, the same artist behind ''DeathNote''. Simon Belmont, for example, looks like Light. ** Noob Missile - The Polestar in ''Sin & Punishment''. Many players on [=GameFAQs=] ask how to defeat it; typically, their tale follows the format of whittling the missile's HP with lock-on shots, only for it to hit with at least 30 of its HP left. What they often don't know is that using the lock-on feature makes the player's gun weaker; the only way to pass this obstacle is with the more powerful manual-aim shots. ** Gradi-Banned: Think GannonBanned, but with ''{{Gradius}}'' rather than ''TheLegendOfZelda''. ** ''SuperSmashBros Anti-Tourneytard Edition'': ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', for the [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks backlash it's gotten from tournament-style players]]. ** ''SpaceInvaders {{Ikaruga}}'': ''Space Invaders Extreme'', for its very complex scoring system that incorporates shooting enemies of the same color (like ''Ikaruga'') and comboing enemies (like ''[=DoDonPachi=]'' and ''Star Soldier R''). As expected with any [[ShootEmUps Shoot Em Up]] that implements an advanced scoring system, he restarts stages ''a lot''. ** [[MemeticMutation Time]] [[MetalGear Paradox]] Albus: The [[spoiler:boss encounter with]] Albus in ''Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia'', because in Albus mode, you encounter Albus [[spoiler:as a boss]] even though you're playing as him already. ** Failcon Punch: The [[{{F-Zero}} Falcon]] [[MemeticMutation Punch]] in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''; Captain Falcon sounds like he's ''dying'' when he says it, as opposed to sounding like he's kicking someone's ass in SSB 64 and ''Melee''. It coincides with the serious [[{{Nerf}} bitch-slapping]] his [[CharacterTiers tier]] position took in ''Brawl''. ** Hardcore {{Tetris}} / Extreme Tetris: The ''Tetris: The Grand Master'' series, when bringing it up around people not too familiar with TGM. ** ''Nemesis 1.5'': ''Gradius [=ReBirth=]'', for its resemblence to the MSX ''Nemesis'' sub-series and the loads of references to ''Nemesis 2''. ** ''Cockblokus'': The board game ''Blokus''. * Tropers/RavenBlack

** Forbidden Fruit: John Barrowman. Gay and very much taken. I'm sure I'm not the only fangirl who mourns. ** Plot Device: Julia, from CowboyBebop. Also used for {{Inuyasha}}'s Kikyo. ** Edgeward, Wedge, Wedgie, Manwhore, Vickie's Butt Monkey: WWE wrestler Edge. For a very short time, also known as "That magnificent bastard". ** Vickie's Butt Monkey #2, He Who Pushes The Wheelchair: WWE wrestler Chavo Guerrero, for obvious reasons. ** Hottie King, That Show With The Hottie King: TheTudors, in direct reference to JonathanRhysMeyers. * Tropers/RedShoe ** The River Chronicles: Incredibly obvious nickname for ''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'' * {{Tropers/Rhomega}} ** Trick Box: A MarioKart item officially called a "Fake Item". ** RE 4 Wii: Double meaning with "ResidentEvil 4: Wii [edition]" and "Resident Evil for Wii". ** Red Team and Blue Team: The opposing cheerleading squads in OsuTatakaeOuendan 2. ** Harvest Day: In AnimalCrossing, the day when fruit comes back into bloom on trees, which occurs three days after they're harvested and sold. ** JAKQ: Named after the SuperSentai series, having a Jack, Ace, King, and Queen in your hand during a game of cards. Does not necessarily have to be in that order. Bonus points if they're the Ace of Spades, Jack of Diamonds, Queen of Hearts, and King of Clubs. ** [[EarthBound Moon Beam Gun]]/Rifle: The Convenant sniper rifle from Halo 2, officially called a Beam Rifle. ** Pinball Physics: The set of physics in Mode 7 F-Zero games causing you to bounce around the track when you hit a wall at the right angle. ** Stabby Food: Artichokes ** Blue Eagles: The Allies from CommandAndConquer: Red Alert. ** First Game Syndrome: The tendency of the first game in a series to be automatically inferior to its sequels because it lacks the features that make the sequels better. See also SequelDisplacement. Contrast FirstInstallmentWins. * [[Tropers/RiL Ri L.]]: ** Boobs [=McGee=]: [[{{Bleach}} Orihime]] ** Ice Penis: [[BlazBlue Jin Kisaragi]] ** Ms. Sofue from {{Persona 4}} has always been Nefertiti-sensei. ** Ico: Ico and Yorda were quickly renamed [[Nation Mau and Daphne]]. ** After Damon Gant's habit of calling him "Udgey," the judge in {{Phoenix Wright}} is hereafter known as The Honorable C. W. St. J. Udge. ** Also, an anime emotional balloon with a scribble in it is called a "grumble cloud". ** [[HeavyRain NAWM'N JAYDEN. EFF BEE AAAAH]]. ** When playing ''Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light,''

[[Tropers/RiL Ri L.]] just ''loves'' to annoy Mr. L. by calling Totec "Totebag" and occasionally "Totecahedron." * {{Tropers/Rissa}} ** Nobody Cares What You Think, Raoul - Raoul from ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera''. ** Random boat - Cameron on ''{{House}}'', after the inexplicable clip of a sailboat that appears with Jennifer Morrison's name on the credits (everyone ''else'' gets medical diagrams) ** New Stephen - John Oliver, ''TheDailyShow''. Named for a prediction (now confirmed) that he would gradually take over StephenColbert's vacated role as the show's effective co-host. Also "Joliver", because clearly [[OneSteveLimit we can't just call him "John"]]. ** Pizza bats - the aliens in "[[StarTrek Operation: Annihilate!]]", which look like globs of congealed cheese, fly, and make squeaky noises. ** c! and a! - shorthand for "[[AlterEgoActing character!Stephen]]" and "[[StephenColbert actor!Stephen]]", and also the name of a department store. ** Made In Scotland From Murders - ''{{Taggart}}'', punning on an old [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn-Bru#Advertising_Campaigns Irn-Bru]] ad ("made in Scotland from girders"). And you have to say 'Murders' with extra Rs, like Gandalf. * Tropers/RitiTroll ** Dread Pirate Legolas: [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Will Turner]]. I got it from someone, but I have no clue who. (If you know someone who did, please point me to them, so I can thank them properly.) ** Fred and George: [[ThoseTwoGuys Crope and Tibbett]] from the book version of {{Wicked}}. (Even if they predate the twins by a bit) ** Actually, a lot of my personal nicknames are usually to other characters, sometimes through the actor who played them. Sometimes getting mildly obscure ** Contrary to the usual expectations of a Fiyero Fangirl, the character who earned the nickname "Sexy" is actually Boq. *** Fiyero's most polite one is actually [[{{Labyrinth}} JarethWannabe]], hopefully for obvious reasons. (He also earned a profanityladen one in reference to Series 4 of Doctor Who based on a character his OLC actor played in the first Christmas Special.) ** Also I refer to [[HowlsMovingCastle Book Howl]] almost only by his original name Howell Jenkins, since well... She thinks it sounds sexier than "Howl Pendragon" any day, and to differentiate him from his doppelganger in anime (Aka "Blackbird") who goes only by that name *** Howell is also called Robin Williams when I'm talking about Castle in the Air and his mauve suit that may or may not be a different one from his red-and-gray and blue-and-silver suits. *** And Castle in the Air Sophie is called Art. After my moody girl Feline whose facial expressions inspired my view of Sophie in Castle in the Air. ** The [[{{Farscape}} Won't Get Fooled Again]] Jazz Lounge: The Destiny Board in [[DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissida: Final Fantasy]]. Cuz it's these Jazzy-ish arrangments of World Themes. And for some reason,

I've gotten it in my mind that it's Pilot and Scorpy playing said themes. ** Jailbait/Axiom Alchemist: Zidane from FinalFantasyIX. My mother found my bootleg statuette of Dissidia Zidane awesome and I ended my description of him with "And he's 16" and she said "Jailbait" So... he's Jailbait. Moreso that his alternate universe counterpart Ed. The latter comes from my crossover with FMA where he can do alchemy. ** Evil Master of Tongue Sexiness: Kimblee from FullmetalAlchemist. Goldentime Lover (3rd OP), he does that thing with his tongue and the Philosopher's Stone. It's sexy. ** That place that Ruined Anime OPs Forever: NicoNicoDouga. Now I spend half my time trying to figure out how to fit other characters in the openings and closing of Anime. * {{Tropers/Robbychu}} ** Cuboned: A horrible reference to the original Pokeymans games; boils down to anything cute in a game that had a fate that ''should'' cause extreme distress to the player character(s), if not the player. ** Yggy-tan: [[TalesOfSymphonia Yggdrasil's]] kid form. Not sure if this one's been used before. Pronouced "Yiggy-tan" ** [=AdoraDEATH=]: Deadly kid villains. Especially ones that make you think you ''won't'' get brutally butthurt by them. ** Yellow EXP-filled birdy BASTARDS: The Firebird line of monsters from GoldenSun. They give amazing EXP and revive each other. They also have ''three'' moves and [[MetalSlime run like cowards]]. * {{Tropers/Rogue 7}}: ** [[{{Bleach}} Bankai!]]: Toon Link's (and Link, I suppose, but I play as Toon Link) Final Smash from SuperSmashBros Brawl. *** When I play as Ike, I play with his blue and white costume in homage to the [[OrderOfTheStick Sapphire Guard]]. Ike's a paladin. There's really only one name for his final smash: '''SMITE EVIL!''' ** "Asshole": Said whenever Remiel of TalesOfSymphonia spoke, once I knew who he really was. ** "Serenity": my name for Paru's ship in MahouSenseiNegima. So called because I was on a major {{Firefly}} kick when I read that chapter. ** "Leonard"- Duke from TalesOfVesperia. Named because he looks like [[FullmetalPanic Leonard Testarossa]] and appears to be equally enigmatic. * Tropers/RuthieA: ** Mr. Noah "HRG" Bennet, Copy King of Morally Gray(tm): Mr. Bennet from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', combining his full name, his nickname, his current employer, and his place on the morality spectrum. Who said that Fan Nicknames had to be short? * {{Tropers/Ruise}} ** Frenchie: Bebe from {{Persona3}}. ** King Adorkable: The Earth King from [=~Avatar: The Last Airbender~=]. ** Hobochan: Any hobo, or any character who dresses like a hobo. ** Shady Characters: The Mafia/Yakuza/Delinquents/Suspicious-looking

people. ** [[AceAttorney OMGKLAVIERGAVINHELOOKSLIKEANANGEL]]. ** Hubby: Elliot from HarvestMoon Island of Happiness ** Wifey: Dia from the HarvestMoon series. ** [[SherlockHolmes Sherlock-Fucking-Holmes]]. ** "[[{{Persona4}} Yukiko]]" or "[[AceAttorney Maya]]":[[{{Kamichu}} Matsuri]] *** Evil Stanley Hopkins: Inspector Adachi *** Super Walmart: Junes ** Space Skank: [[CowboyBebop Faye Valentine]] [[/folder]] [[folder:S]] * {{Tropers/Saieras}} ** ''SuperRobotWars'': *** Poker Face: Kyosuke, the gambler with maybe three facial expressions. *** Rape Face: Ryusei. Go to OG1's character select screen and highlight Kyosuke... *** The Lavender Baroness: Latooni. She pilots a fighter plane hen you first get her and she's better at it than Garnet and Giado. *** Shitzwald: The Schutzwald. You pretty much need Hit and Away to make these things viable, their accuracy sucks, and their mobility and armor just don't cut it. *** Care Bear Stare of DOOM!: The Grungust's beam attack. *** Neo-[[AdvanceWars Grit]]: Any pilot with innate Gun Fight or Hit and Away. *** Rage-gasm: Katina's 'frustrated' expression strikes me as a little suggestive. *** Giant Douche: Thomas. Just look at him. *** [[SouthPark Turd Sandwich]]: Tenzan. It just felt right. *** [[StarCraft Science Vessel]]: Adler Koch. I just read his lines in that voice is all. *** Mega Kirby: Lamia. Her theme song is fast and electronic like the music in MegaMan games, yet sweet and upbeat like the music in {{Kirby}} games. *** Instant Awesome: Axel. Everything's cooler with [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome 'Dark Knight']]. *** Jitter[[AtopTheFourthWall kara]]: Ryoto, thanks to his 'I am a man!' speech in OG2. *** Lucky Chariot: Huckebein Gunner L *** The Yaoi Machine: Huckebein Boxer L *** Granny Robo: Huckebein Gunner R *** [[TotallyRadical Bro-bot]]: Huckebein Boxer R *** Huckey Classic: Ring Mao's plain old Huckebein. *** [[TalesOfPhantasia Durapdahamaaaaa]]: Man, Shine's will gains suck. How can we fix this? (Sees Boost Hammer in weapon list) Ahh... ** ''WorldOfWarcraft'' *** Tuberculosis: Realm Thorium Brotherhood. When I played there it had lag issues and a rather... quirky community. *** Gnomerest Accord: Realm Wyrmrest Accord, where I had a gnome of every available class.

** ''MahouSenseiNegima'' *** Camwhore: Chisame *** Perma-wedgie: Asakura ** Other: *** DO NOT ENGAGE: DemonicSpiders in general. *** Kung Fu Werewolves: A recurring class of DemonicSpiders in the WorldOfMana series. *** '''SHUT UP!''': A specific form of GoddamnBats or [[GoddamnedBoss Boss]] which casts spells non-stop. Named for silence effects. *** Shusuke Narmagai Arc: The shining jewel of underacting that is ''{{Bleach}}'''s Shusuke Amagai filler arc. * {{Tropers/SAMAS}} ** Am I the only one who now refers to [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Commander/Admiral Zhao]] as [[TheDailyShow Senior Fire Nation Correspondent]]? * {{Tropers/Schol-R-LEA}}: ** Vampire Hunter J: Robert Neville, in ''I Am Legend''. played by Will Smith in the 2007 adaptation (note that this is before the film has been released; in the original novel, the character is endlessly defending himself against [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire-like]] infected humans). The name is from Smith's character Agent J in the ''MenInBlack'' films, and the anime ''VampireHunterD'', of course. ** [[{{Uke}} UKKE]]: name for Dargon Chesterfield's organization (better known as JFO or the Britjas) in ''ItsWalky'', which were one of the enemies of SEMME. For some reason, this pun never caught on, though almost everyone got it. * {{Tropers/SilverAgito}}: ** Takeru-El: A play on Superman's real name, coming from his BFS display in the final episode. * [[{{Tropers/Scrounge}} Scrounge]] ** Subwoofer: The little dog from ''Crimson Tide''. ** Guardian Kamen: Seiki from ''SailorNothing'', after he [[spoiler: gains powers to protect Himei]]. ** Optimonkey: Optimus Primal, ''{{Transformers}}: Beast Wars'' onwards ** Barky (The Smashy): ''[[{{DuelMasters}} Duel Masters]]'' card [[http://www.wizards.com/duelmasters/dm_autocard.asp?name=barkwhip_the _smasher Barkwhip, The Smasher]]. ** Similarly, "Lizard Head" and "[[{{GoddamnedBats}} Annoying Iguana]]" for [[http://www.wizards.com/duelmasters/dm_autocard.asp?name=pyrofighter_ magnus Pyrofighter Magnus]] ** Decepti-Cop: Barricade, from the 2007 ''{{Transformers}}'' movie. ** Squid Head: Vilgax from ''[[{{Ben10}} Ben 10]]'', or, less often, Davy Jones from ''[[{{PiratesOfTheCaribbean}} Pirates Of The Caribbean]]''. ** Salt Shakers: The Daleks from ''Series/DoctorWho'' ** Puppy Raptor: Guilmon from ''DigimonTamers''

** [=GeoAgumon=]: Agumon from ''[[DigimonSavers Digimon: Data Squad]]'', as he's been redesigned a bit and has straps on his hands similar to those of his evolved form, [=GeoGreymon=]. ** The Pigtail Noise: A sound effect from ''AzumangaDaioh'' heard when Chiyo-Chan is walking, causing her pigtails to bounce. Nickname inspired by "The Geddup Noise" from ''HomestarRunner'' ** Lowemon: Dai Shi, of the ''PowerRangers: Jungle Fury'', for his resemblance to the [[DigimonFrontier Digimon]] of that name. *** Also, Anakin, for the black armor and clunky acting. ** Hit Her: Tomo from ''AzumangaDaioh''. Because she's [[{{Jerkass}} Tomo]] ** Robo-God: [[{{Transformers}} Primus]] ** Trilomon: Scorpiomon/Anomolocarimon from the various ''{{Digimon}}'' series. This exlanation's gonna take a bit... The American name (Scorpiomon) is wildly misleading, but the Japanese name (Anomalocarimon, from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalocaris anomalocaris]]) doesn't exactly roll of the tongue. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite trilobite]] is another prehistoric crustacean, but better-known and with a catchier name... Hence, Trilomon. ** Crotchet: Crotchety old man Ratchet form ''TransformersAnimated''. ** Pizza Dojo: Jungle Karma Pizza, of ''PowerRangers: Jungle Fury''. ** The Kowasaki Ninja: Prowl, of ''TransformersAnimated''. ** Ocean's Leaven: The kitchen staff from ''Rataouille'', comprised of criminals. ** Evangelimon: The second half of ''DigimonTamers'' ** Sailor Broken: [[SailorNothing Himei]] herself, because I thought that's who Tropers/GuySmiley meant when he used the nickname. Kept it due to her awe-inspiring power and ferocity and her [[BreakTheCutie host of traumatic experiences]]; broken in both senses of the word. ** Vorpal Kitty: Kamineko of ''AzumangaDaioh'', by comparison to a famous KillerRabbit. ** Megahead Mk II: Megatron of ''TransformersAnimated'', a disembodied head at the time the nickname was coined. The "Mark Two" is to distinguish him from the ''Beast Machines'' Megatron in his [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Grand_Mal "Big Floating head"]] body. ** [[GoddamnedBats Goddamned Batting Practice]]: Pretty much any game or minigame on the Wii that involves hitting a baseball. ** Scarfmon: Kudamon of ''[[DigimonSavers Digimon: Data Squad]]'', for his general place draped over commander Samson's shoulders. ** Tandoori Owl: Falcomon, also of ''Data Squad'', because he looks like an owl and the TitleBin has a weird effect on my head... But the dub voice reminds me a little of the Blue Rajah from ''Mystery Men'', so what the hell. ** Hell's Prawn: Lucemon Larva Mode, from ''DigimonFrontier'', as he looks distinctly shrimplike. Also Abamon (after Abaddon), because there were rumors spread that Chaos Mode and Shadowlord Mode were originally going to be named Apollymon and Behemon, repsectively. ** Murderball: Meta Knight in ''SuperSmashBros: Brawl'' ** The Watchdog: Seargeant Angua of ''{{Discworld}}'', being both a werewolf and a member of the Watch. ** [[OneMarioLimit The Other Chiyo-Chan]]: Chiyo Tsukidate of

''StrawberryPanic'', because she is called Chiyo-Chan but isn't [[AzumangaDaioh the Chiyo-Chan most people mean when they use the name]]. ** Witwickypedia: [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page Teletraan One, the Transfrmers Wiki]]. Portmanteau of "Wikipedia" and [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Witwicky Witwicky]]. ** The Ducktor: Paradox, from the ''{{Ben 10 Alien Force}}'' episode of the same name, because he's voiced by David [=McCallum=], who plays Ducky on {{NCIS}} and is a ''Series/DoctorWho''-ish time traveller. That is, it's Paradox who's the time traveller, not David [=McCallum=]. But you knew what I meant. ** Mjolnir: Ultra Magnus's hammer from ''TransformersAnimated'', because it's a huge hammer that calls down lightning. ** Fonzie: The ''[[Ben10AlienForce Alien Force]]'' version of Kevin, due to his CharacterDerailment turning him into, well, Fonzie... ** Scoobacca: Fiskerton of ''TheSecretSaturdays'', because he sounds like the bastard offspring of ScoobyDoo and [[StarWars Chewbacca]]. ** The Boy Who Wasn't: [[HarryPotter Neville Longbottom]], because the prophecy that made Harry Potter into The Boy Who Lived could have just as easily applied to him if Voldemort had chose differently that night. ** That Bastard: Willy Pete of ''{{Empowered}}'', a CompleteMonster. * Tropers/SeanTucker ** Doombitch 1.0: Asuka from NeonGenesisEvangelion. One person she overtly loves gets shot by an assassin. The person she covertly loves is the series ButtMonkey who goes through one of the most horrific BreakTheCutie processes ever. *** This makes Yoko from TengenToppaGurrenLagann "Doombitch 2.0". ** Ricebane: Alucard from {{Hellsing}}, so named because he is the total antithesis of Anne Rice-style vampires. * Tropers/SeasideMessenger ** Mexikrillin: Chad from {{Bleach}}, for being part-Mexican and TheKrillin. ** The Ragelope (pronounced like "antelope"): The demonic and angry looking reindeer (!!) summoned as a move by Nrvnqsr Chaos in MeltyBlood. * Tropers/SerenitySquid ** Vampixies and Wienerwolves: The so-called vampires and werewolves from Literature/{{Twilight}}. *** Brain Cell: Leah Clearwater, [[OnlySaneMan because she's the only character in those books whose got any brain cells]]. *** Mutant Hellspawn: Renesmee. ** Alien Clown Girl: LadyGaga, due to her [[BeyondTheImpossible unusual]] [[ImpracticallyFancyOutfit style of dress]]. ** Wonderbra: WonderWoman, for [[MostCommonSuperpower obvious reasons]]. ** Giant Bucket Full of Angst: [[MarvelUniverse Earth 616]]. ** Magical Flower: [[{{Firefly}} Malcolm Reynolds]], [[http://aicweirdo.livejournal.com/589119.html because]] [[http://aic-

weirdo.livejournal.com/591976.html of this]] [[http://aicweirdo.livejournal.com/593564.html fantastic]] [[http://aicweirdo.livejournal.com/594989.html parody]]. ** Hippie Space Monkeys: [[Film/{{Avatar}} The Na'vi]]. ** Interview With The Emo: InterviewWithTheVampire [[hottip:*:These nicknames were inspired by the movie. I haven't read the book.]] *** Lestat - The Crazy Blond Guy *** Louis - [[ShapedLikeItself Emo Brad Pitt]] *** Claudia - Little Miss Psycho [[BringItOn Cheerleader]] * Tropers/SerenYGogledd ** Legs Eleven: The [[Series/DoctorWho eleventh Doctor]], because his first line was about legs - and the bingo term. * {{Tropers/Sgamer82}} ** The First Lady: Henry Taylor, the President's husband on ''[[{{ptitleer2yom57x65f}} 24]]'' ** The Birdfeeder Twins: CreepyTwins Sorath and Tiriel of ''ShakuganNoShana'', due to their introductory scene showing Tiriel feeding Sorath mama-bird style. *** Boomquins: The self-destructing mannequins used by Friagne in the ''Shana'' movie, after ''WorldOfWarcraft's'' "Boomkin" Druid form. ** The Outer Luckies: Yutaka, Minami, Hiyori, and Patricia of ''LuckyStar.'' The idea came when this troper's friend called them the "[[SailorMoon Outer Senshi]]." ** Miniko: Vanessa, a girl from episode 13 of ''MichikoToHatchin'', who looks and acts like a younger Michiko. ** Cut'cha Gnomes: The Leper Gnomes in the ''WorldOfWarcraft'' zone Dun Morogh, for the way they'll say "I'll cut you!" sometimes when they attack. Partially inspired by ''The Mark & Brian Radio Program's'' "Cut'cha Guy" character. *** Queue Eye for the Straight Guy: The green eyeball that appears on your minimap when you're queued to enter a group for a Dungeon or Battleground. *** Tsundere of Grief: The Maiden of Grief boss from the Halls of Stone dungeon, due to her lines being half-angry half-sad, such as when you defeat her "I hope you all rot! I never...wanted...this." *** Lord Sandygar: Earthrager Ptah from the Halls of Origination, as he uses the same model as Lord Marrowgar ** Yu-Ri-Oh!: The anime series ''{{Main/Saki}}'', which is best described as ''{{Main/Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' [[Main/XMeetsY with Mahjong]] and Yuri overtones. *** Captain Sharingan: Mihoko Fukuji ** Minijo: Ichijo's little sister in ''PaniPoniDash.'' ** Furious George: My niece's nickname for George, the ape from ''{{Rampage}}''. ** Naoito: Naoi Ayato from ''AngelBeats'', for his resemblance to ''{{Persona 4}}'s'' Naoto. ** Chekhov's Sniper: Eiichiro Oda. Seriously, just look at the ''OnePiece'' page entries for Call Back and the various Chekhov tropes. ** Moesball: A friend's nickname for ''TaishouYakyuuMusume''

** Shrinking Violent: ShrinkingViolet Arashiko Yuuno from ''{{MM}}!'', for her tendency to [[DoesNotLikeMen reflexivly attack men who touch her]]. ** Dark Chiaki: Hitoha Marui from ''{{Mitsudomoe}}'', due to her resemblance (personality-wise) to [[{{Minami-ke}} Chiaki Minami]]. *** Mugi-brows: Yuki Yoshioka, who has eyebrows like Tsumugi from ''{{K-on}}'' ** Best Student Council [[AC:Ever]], or just [=BSCe=] for short: The student council of ''GokujouSeitokai'', a play on the English dub title of ''Best Student Council. ** Wingwongs, for the Jockeys in ''Left4Dead2'', due to their habit of riding your head, a friend's referring to them as "facehumpers", and FaceFullOfAlienWingWong * Sgtangua8 ** [[{{Sandman}} The Corinthian's]] little brother: The Joker from The Dark Night. ** ''CodeGeass'': I like this show [[NarmCharm too much]]. *** Fabulouch: Why not? *** Emperor Liberace: Emperor [[spoiler: Lelouch]] for his FAAAABULOUS outfit. *** The Purple Ranger or Adam 2.0: Zero, because of his awesome mask and because he's voiced by PowerRangers JohnnyYoungBosch *** Miwway Von Shtupp: It's twu, it's [[http://static.minitokyo.net/view/01/22/351101.jpg twu]] *** Moon Child-sama: Tianzi for her similarity to the desctiption to [[TheNeverendingStory The Childlike Empress]] *** Prime Minister Pervy Bastard: Genbu Kururugi for reasons shown in the side stories. First [[spoiler:planning to marry lil' Nunnaly in the sound dramas]]. Second [[spoiler: plotting to kill her in the first light novel. He was planning to sell her to a brothel before changing his mind]]. ** Namina or Neville Norris: Neville Longbottom in Book 7. ** Tidusley Awesome: [[FinalFantasyX Tidus]] for acting, well, ''Totally Awesome'' ** Spoony Perv: The oddly dressed [[{{Bleach}} Arrancar]] Nnoitora. ** Adam Lambert: [[{{Naruto}} Sasuke]], for his odd hair and that his fab Shippuden outfit. ** Miss Chuck, Chuck-chan: [[FullMetalPanic Kaname]] ** The B Team: The BlackLagoon Crew ** Annoying Fairies: The Na'vi ** The [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Cullen Family]] *** Harpo The Sparklepire, Eyeballs Jackson: For Jackson Rathbone himself, even when he plays [[TheLastAirbender Soh-ka]] *** Fairy Girl: Alice *** Blandie: Rosalie *** Chaz: Emmett *** Doc: Carlisle *** Whats-her-face: Esme ** AvatarTheLastAirbender LiveActionAdaptation *** Ongst, Little Red Riding Hood, [=ChipMonk=]: Aang, I mean Ong. *** He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named: M. Knight Shayamalan.

*** Miss Exposition, Miss Valium: Katara *** Creepy Uncle: Iroh, I mean Eeroh, since he always seems to try to get Zuko laid. *** Doctor HOOOOOOOOOOOO!, Theoden: Pakku *** Harpo of the Antarctic: Soh-ka *** [[MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit Chagum]]: That kid who I assume is Haru, it's the hair. ** Hadward and Belmione: The [[TheTwilightSaga Twipire]] looking Harry and Hermione from the vision Ron got from the locket in TheDeathlyHallows Part 1. * [[Tropers/ShapeshifterTheTroper Shapeshifter]] ** Auros or Morningstar: Mike Morningstar from Ben10AlienForce *** Morningstars: the marks the above character [[spoiler:leaves on the arms of his victims]]. ** The trigger-happy pinhead: Manny, from the same show. ** The Rocatoo: the mutated cockatoo from the episode "Washington B.C." of Ben10 * Shareth ** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa Ahimsa]] Boy: Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender ** The [[LooneyTunes Roadrunner]] State: the high-speed hyperactivity caused when, in an attempt to trigger the Avatar State, an Earth Kingdom general gives Aang what is clearly some form of highlycaffeinated beverage. ** Big Chief Gottum-Chicken-On-My-Hat: [[spoiler:Phoenix King]] Ozai, also from Avatar. ** Spoiled Brats (the Dragon-Blooded, who are [[RoyalBrat used to being in power]], Bureaucrats (the Sidereal Exalted are basically one big CelestialBureaucracy), and Omnicidal Maniacs (The deathworshipping, [[OmnicidalManiac psychotically nihilistic]] Abyssals): The three main antagonist {{Exalted}} types in the tabletop RPG of the same name. ** Icicle-taichou, Asspickle-taichou: Kuchiki Byakuya from Bleach. ** Twins Minor: The 'Autobot Twins' from Transformers: ROTF, as opposed to: ** Twins Major: The Lamborghini twins from the original Transformers cartoon. ** Little Gothic Teddy-Bear: [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} Yugi Motou]]. * {{Tropers/SharPhoe}} ** Sol Badgirl: Fujiwara no Mokou from [[TouhouProject Imperishable Night]]. A somewhat anti-social, now-ageless being who was once a normal human that can harness the power of fire and has an eternal vendetta against someone they can't seem to defeat for good? [[GuiltyGear Now why does all of that sound familiar?]] ** Ewan [=McGregor=]: A particular NPC in [[{{Fallout}} Fallout 3]] that looks like Obi-Wan Kenobi from [[StarWars Episode III]]. ** [[GuiltyGear Not-Sol, Not-Ky, Not-Potemkin, Not-Jam, etc.]]: Most of the characters from {{BlazBlue}} as they bear more than a passing resemblance to their metaphorical predecessors. (The ones listed are

Ragna, Jin, Tager, and Lithci, by the way.) S'all in good fun, though; I still enjoy the game thoroughly. ** [[{{Bleach}} Bankai Of The Sea]]/[[NinjaGaiden Master Of The ChakyChaky]]: Both refer to {{Ponyo}}, specifically the scene in which she uses the entire ocean to get back to Sosuke without breaking a sweat. And "Chaky-Chaky" is an UnsoundEffect referring to when Ryu Hayabusa runs across water. ** Mr. and Mrs. Cheating Hax: [[FistOfTheNorthStar Raoh]] and [[{{Touhou}} Yukari Yakumo]]. Need I say more? ** [[DevilMayCry Nero]]-[[{{Bleach}} chigo]]-[[CodeGeass louche]] [[{{Trigun}} The Stampede]]: My nickname for JohnnyYongBosch, since those are the main roles I know himn for. Well, besides [[PowerRangers Adam]]. *** [[DevilMayCry KYY]][[SayMyName RRII]][[MakeMeWannaShout EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!]]: Any female character that Nero-chigo-louche cares deeply for. * Tropers/ShayGuy ** Snail-Rei: Amefuriko, the weird snail-in-a-raincoat demon from ''{{Karas}}'', so named because she looks like [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei I]]. (She's either really cute, or really ugly.) *** Rule34 verdict? [[http://rule34.paheal.net/post/list/amefuriko/1 The former]]. ** Lilith: The giant naked Nia in the Simon arc of ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. A reference, of course, to ''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion The End of Evangelion]]''. ** Kittan's Angels: Kiyoh, Kinon, and Kiyal, also from ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. ** Bizarro-[[CardcaptorSakura Tomoyo]]: Lilie, the ''PrincessTutu'' character prone to squealing over the MagicalGirl lead's cuteness and trying to make her cuter. ** Rodef: Renesmee from the fourth ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' book, ''Breaking Dawn'', a reference to Jewish views of abortion. ** Featherbot: [[TsubasaReservoirChronicle Clone!Syaoran]], thought up right after reading volume 16 and therefore possibly completely inapplicable. (Also, "fleshbot" as a common noun, for the soulless pseudo-humans being talked about.) ** [[KimiNiTodoke Kazehaya D. Shota]]: For his resemblance to [[OnePiece a certain rubber pirate]]. ** [[{{Bone}} Mim]]: The Green Death from ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragon''. * {{Tropers/Sikon}} ** Squalak: The fan theory that Alek "Squint" Squinquargesimus from the ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' comics is a younger version of Darth Malak. ** Sideways spa: The Stargates from, well, ''{{Stargate}}'' and ''{{Stargate SG-1}}''. Name coined by fellow Wookieepedia user Thefourdotelipsis. ** MINO (Mai In Name Only): ''{{Mai-Otome}}'''s portrayal of the title character of ''{{Mai-HiME}}''. ** Wevangeliwon: ''Rebuild of Evangelion''. (Well, it's really spelled

that way.) *** Also known as "Webuild" * {{Tropers/Shini}} ** Emoboy - [[DCComics Superboy Prime]], especially after the "Carving a giant S-shield into chest" scene (followed by dozens of caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarving on my skiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin yells) ** Dr. Woobie - [[MetalGearSolid Otacon]] ** [=McHat=] - Any character with a Nice Hat. ** Fetishman, Bondage Freak, Leatherman, Gasman - [[MetalGearSolid Psycho Mantis]] - currently her gaming group has a contest to come up with the silliest nickname for him. ** Mik-Ky - [[GuiltyGear Ky]], due to the character's similar personality to Mikhail from Animamundi (and the Voice actors do sound similar). Troper suspects someone might be doing the same for Mikhail. ** Pink Fluffball - [[DotHack Gaspard]] of GU - for obvious reasons. ** Monkeytail - [[DotHack Silabus]] - just look at his hair. ** Gohan Jr. - [[FinalFantasyIX Zidane]] ** Dr. Zorro/Dr. D - Georik Zaberisk from Animamundi: The former for his "Thief" disguse and heroic introduction, the latter for the fact that he and [[VampireHunterD D apparently go to the same Haberdashery and Barber]] ** Bitch With an Internet Connection - [[MetalGearSolid Rose]] ** Boxman - Snake, after an interesting gaming incident. ** The Bug Lady - a certain {{Psycho Electro}} from Kingdom Hearts due to her hair. ** M. Night [=ShalaladingdangAwooooga=] - for you know, the guy with the {{Twist Ending}} movies that the really, really weird last name no one can remember. ** Girl-Doug - {{Pepper Ann}} ** Chickenfucker - [[TheMuppetShow Gonzo]] * Shiruvi ** Moesuke - Sasuke Uchiha, after seeing the preview for {{Naruto}} Shippuden 141. (Seriously, how ''adorable'' is he in that flashback!?) ** Oro-tan - Orochimaru ** 100% MOTHERFUCKING LOYALTY Uchiha - [[{{CrispinFreeman}} Ita]][[{{CodeGeass}} chi]] ** BlobMonster needs water badly - Suigetsu ** Lelouch of the Red Sand - Sasori ** The Goddamn Batman - Howl in the dub of Howl's Moving Castle. * Tropers/ShyTenda ** Robo-Jesus' Brother Bob - [[{{Transformers}} Ultra Magnus]] * Tropers/SiBadGui ** Evil/Angry Looking Loli: [[SchoolDays Setsuna]] ** Mr. Swirlythumb: Makoto's goofy friend Taisuke, based on [[http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p168/arroganceXneko/Taisuke_1.jpg this]] * Tropers/SilentHunter:

** Weapons Grade Idiot (Charles Logan, ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'') ** Adrica - former nickname for Chloe O'Brian from the same show, since he had an early desire to smack into a planet at high speed. As he grew to like her, he dropped the nickname. ** Dr. Kaylee - Dr. Jennifer Keller from ''StargateAtlantis'', since she's played by Jewel Staite. Others have used the nickname, but he came up with it independently. ** Stuffed Owl - the TV adaptation of ''The Magician's House''. ** MnogoNukes - Russia's nuclear weapons, with thanks to @/{{Koveras}} ** The Five Nukes - the five permanent members of the UnitedNations Security Council, due to their being the "nuclear weapons states" in the Non-Proliferation Treaty. ** Jambo - Jennifer Garner in any of her action roles. He thought about "Jarpo" for her comedy roles, but that would insult TheMarxBrothers. ** Saffron in the City - Joanie from ''MadMen'', by virtue of being played by Christina Hendricks, being rather sexual and evil. ** Goth Nancy: Niamh, from ''I'd Do Anything'' ** Joss Nancy: Jessie, from the same TalentShow- because she reminded him of Joss Stone. ** Mr. Shouty: Peter Boyd from ''WakingTheDead''. ** Shouty Man: ''WakingTheDead'' ** 2.4 Deputy Head- a character from ''WaterlooRoad'', due to his actor being in ''2.4 Children''. ** Labby - Abby TheLabRat from ''{{NCIS}}''. Came about as the result of a typo when he was writing a post. He kept it. ** Naked Backside - a five-part BBC mini-series called ''Criminal Justice'', after the main character got naked 7 times in two episodes. ** Calleigh Cleavage or Calleigh Dcolletage: Calleigh Duquesne, from ''CSI:Miami''. He'd hoped to use "Calleigh D-Cup", but she's too small for that. This suits her dressing style better. ** Candleford Kaylee - Laura, from ''Lark Rise to Candleford'', as she reminds him of her. ** Sheriff Nina - Isabella from ''Series/RobinHood'', because she looks like the ''24'' character. * Tropers/SiriusLoveGirl ** Hallucinamber and Hallucikutner: For the hallucination versions of Amber and Kutner from {{House}}. ** Loliguns: [[spoiler: Lilinette]] from BLEACH, who is a loli that, well, turns into a pair of guns. ** Wendy and Thomas: For young!Sakura and young!Syaoran from TsubasaReservoirChronicle, when it was getting too hard to keep calling all three versions by the same name. * Tropers/SirPsychoSexy: ** Has a lot of nicknames for his pet fandom, YuYuHakusho. *** [=HomoMcSchizopants=] and His Bitch: Sensui and Itsuki, respectively. Also calls the pairing thereof [[PortmanteauCoupleName ItsuSen]]. *** Captain Weeaboo: Yomi, for his {{Fanboy}}-like tendency to base the entire culture of his (Makai) province on Japan.

*** Jeffrey Dahmer: Karasu, for the resemblance of his favored... erm... activities to the notorious serial killer. *** Corporate Kira: Sakyou. If you've seen both YYH and DeathNote, it's self-explanatory. *** Maid Suit Man: Mitarai Kiyoshi/Seaman. It's [[{{CrackFic}} best you not]] [[WholesomeCrossdresser know why]]. *** [[spoiler: Mr. Hungry-For-Pussy, The Ultimate in Dick-Thinking: Raizen]]. *** [[NeverMessWithGranny Kickass Granny]], The Girl Ahead of Her Time: Genkai. ** Gurogashi- YoshihiroTogashi, for [[FetishFuel obvious]] [[{{Gorn}} reasons]]. Alternately, [[HoYay Hogashi]]. ** "[[FamilyFriendlyFirearms Where Did They Get Sei-kou-ki]]" for the moment in {{Bleach}} where [[spoiler:Aizen, Gin, and Tousen]] are carried up to Hueco Mundo. Also calls [[spoiler:Aizen]] "[=McHypnopants=]" or "Sensui Wannabe", for obvious reasons. Too obsessed... ** "Bitch Make Me A Sammich" to sum up the relationship between Light and Misa in DeathNote. ** {{Kirby}} will always be "Oral Sex on Legs". I mean he [[DoubleEntendre sucks, blows AND eats]]!! ** [[{{Gundam}} Newtypes]] for [[{{Gundam00}} Innovators]]. I mean, they're almost the same thing, right? * {{Tropers/Skazka}} ** Russian [[{{Sandman}} Corinthian]] - Nikolai from ''EasternPromises''. ** Wardo - [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]]. *** Lizzle - [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Carlisle Cullen]], out of sheer horror at how many fangirls mispronounce his name "Car-LISLEY" or "CarLIZZLE". *** Proust - Edward and Bella taken as a couple. Courtesy of GrowingUpCullen. ** Gretel - [[ThePhantomOfTheOpera Meg Giry]]. ** Big Gay Teenage Murderers - Leopold and Loeb, and by extension, Justin and Richie from ''Murder By Numbers''. Courtesy of a LJ comm of the same title. ** Sham - Sam Winchester of ''{{Supernatural}}'', when used in the context of "Sham and Dean". Derogatory. *** The Pinup Car - The Winchester boy's Metallicar. So named because of certain promotional photos of Dean casually sprawled all over it. ** Squiggly Feelings - PerverseSexualLust or FetishFuel acquired at an age where one did not fully understand it. Also used as a specific nickname for the [[{{Sandman}} Corinthian]]/the Ninth [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor]], as necessary. ** Swedish Documentaries - Horror movies, namely ones my younger brother isn't allowed to watch. Can be used specifically to refer to ''LetTheRightOneIn''. *** ''Doorway to Norway'' - See above. *** [[{{Monster}} Retrohan]] - Oskar from ''LetTheRightOneIn'', despite the fact that both Monster and Let The Right One In are set in the 80s. Different parts, but still.

** Knifey Wifey - [[{{Sandman}} Coco]] from ''The Corinthian: Death In Venice''. ** Foxypants - Revolver Ocelot from ''MetalGearSolid 3''. So called because, naturally, he is a foxy foxpants in foxy pants. ** The [[RockyHorrorPictureShow Transylvanians]] - Various vampire extras from ''InterviewWithTheVampire'' *** Vampire Douchebags - The aforementioned vampire extras; also, Lestat and Louis. *** [[{{Barbie}} Kelly]] - A certain [[CreepyChild child vampire]]. *** Jean-Baptiste - An extremely minor character, who apparently qualifies as a gilded youth, and probably dies before about a halfhour in. [[EnsembleDarkhorse Has his own fancomic]]. *** [[RockyHorrorPictureShow Brad]] - A certain interviewer-boy with interesting glasses. (Also, on a more personal basis, "Dad", due to... a resemblance to my father. Not always fun.) * The Sweaty Twins - Roy and Pris from ''BladeRunner'', taken as a unit. * Towhead - [[HPLovecraft Herbert West]]. Occasionally spelled, when a term of abuse, "toehead". ** Bizarro Towhead - Herbert West from ''ReAnimator''. ** Maxwell - The Lovecraft short story's narrator, derived from a roleplay where the character absolutely ''had'' to have a name. Correspondingly, Dan Cain is Bizarro Max. ** Abby - Dan Cain's girlfriend, due to a complete inability to remember her name. After the ''{{NCIS}}'' character, due to their corresponding levels of adorableness. * Tropers/SlackerSpice ** Chalk E. Cheese - [[GirlGenius Silas Merlot]]. Now all I gotta do is come up with a word for "into" that starts with an E... *** EDIT: Exposition, mainly because he's been doing a LOT of talking lately... ** Fogli-roll: Suddenly switch to a different scene following an important plot point or plot twist ** General Bust-his-ass - General Rieekan from [[StarWars The Empire Strikes Back]], so named because the actor also portrayed FawltyTowers guest Mr. Hamilton, who repeatedly insisted that he (or Basil) should "bust his [the absent Terry's] ass" for not having his meal ready. * {{Tropers/Sneebs}} ** the Benjamin Linus Hour - {{Lost}}, because dear old [[MagnificentBastard Ben]] is probably the main reason this show is worth watching. ** Black Molar of Death - A Zaibach Flying Fortress from {{VisionOfEscaflowne}} ** Cotton Candy Perm - [[{{CodeGeass}} Princess Euphemia]], because I'll be damned if her stylist isn't a circus clown! ** Cue Ball - [[{{Lost}}John Locke]], for his evident chrome-dome ** Dildo of the Ages - Any plot-specific sword, staff, or other [[{{FreudWasRight}} suggestive]] object which is imbued with magical or otherwise plot-relevant elements. ** (The) Eyebrows (of Death) - [[Series/{{Heroes}} Sylar]]

** Lady Snowblood - Suiguintou in the first season of {{Rozen Maiden}}. I stopped after she became an Anti Villain in Season 2 ** Meme Theory: the Animated Series - StandAloneComplex, [[ViewersAreGeniuses naturally]]. ** Mister Evil Kazoo - Gohda from StandAloneComplex, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kYq1Fhet5w due to his lietmotif]] ** Raping Time - A curb-stomp battle with extra stomp ** Rules Rapist - Any individual or group who uses cleverness to get around constraints of a contract or bend the rules of a game ** [[spoiler: Shou]] F** ker - [[spoiler: Shou Tucker]] from Full Metal Alchemist, given [[spoiler: his CompleteMonster status after transmuting his daughter and the family dog]]. You can't deny that the title suits him. ** Stabby Time - Used to describe whenever {{Dexter}} is yielding to one of his compulsions. To a lesser degreee, any situation where someone goes {{Ax Crazy}} or gets [[{{Berserk Button}} rubbed the wrong way]]. ** Strawberry Shortcake - Hina Ichigo from {{Rozen Maiden}} ** Titty Jack - Any {{MsFanservice}}, although this nickname originally described [[StarTrekVoyager Seven of Nine]] ** Unseasonal PMS - Any time the Tsun-Tsun side of a {{Tsundere}} goes off * @/SNobleJr ** Not by me, actually, but one of my friends has given [[LittleMissBadass Cinque]] from MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha the nickname "[[EyepatchOfPower Pirate Loli]]". * {{Tropers/Sparkysharps}} ** Superbitch - [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka Langley Soryuu]]. ** Frilly [=McSnarkypants=] - Miles Edgeworth from ''AceAttorney''. ** Lord Tightpants - [[{{Labyrinth}} Jareth]]. All of you know ''exactly'' why. ** Mini-[[{{Disgaea}} Etna]] - Agito from MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha ** Buddy Block - A cinder block from that game HalfLife 2 that this editor managed to hold onto throughout the majority of Ravenholm. ** +20 Box of Sneaking - That silly cardboard box that [[MetalGearSolid Solid Snake]] is so keen on using all the frickin' time. ** Spazzanuki - Watanuki from {{xxxHoLic}} ** Captain Smashy - Hawkgirl from JusticeLeague ** Pointy-eared Prettyboy: [[LegendOfZelda Link]] ** Crack Monkey - The ridiculously hyper Friend/Rival guy from Pokemon Diamond and Pearl (I think his name is Jun or something similar) ** Mass Murdering Fuckhead - [[{{Anime/Monster}} Johan Liebert]], based on EddieIzzard's nickname for Adolf Hitler in one of his standup shows. ** Dr. Gendo - Dr. Tenma of AstroBoy who, in Naoki Urasawa's ''Pluto'', bears a disturbing resemblence to Gendo Ikari thanks to the more realistic art style and the addition of ScaryShinyGlasses. ** Awesome Diabeetus Man - [[{{Anime/Monster}} Dr. Reichwein]], because he looks like disturbingly like Wilford Brimely from those

Liberty Medical ads. The difference, of course, is that the Liberty Medical guy never kicked two thugs' asses with his awesome ex-border patrol skills. ** Dr. Woobie - [[{{Anime/Monster}} the other]] Dr. Tenma. Half because of the need to not [[NamesTheSame confuse the two]] and half because he's such a big damn [[TheWoobie woobie]]. Also occasionally Dr. [[TheMessiah Jesus]], especially [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance when he forgets to shave]]. ** God-Na - [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]]. 'Tis a [[IncrediblyLamePun pun]], see. ** Inspector Spock - [[{{Anime/Monster}} Inspector Lunge]], [[TheSpock for obvious reasons]]. ** Dr. Batman - BlackJack, [[{{Expy}} because he so is]]. ** Da Gurl - [[GirlGenius Jenka]], to go with the [[FanNickname Da Boyz]] ** [[GirlGenius Maxim]]-Of-Dreams - [[NeverwinterNights2 Gannayev of Dreams]] who, lack of NiceHat and faux-German accent not withstanding, bears a suspicious resemblance to the Jaeger. ** Chainsaw-Tan - [[{{Disgaea}} Princess Sapphire]], because no {{Yandere}} worth her salt is complete without a WeaponOfChoice-based nickname. ** The Bat-Getter - Ryoma's black Getter in ''GetterRobo: Armageddon''. Seriously, it's giant robot Batman. ** Gousuke - ''[[GetterRobo Armageddon]]'''s version of Gou/Go. He's TheStoic, he pilots a giant robot, and he's voiced by TomokazuSeki. [[FullMetalPanic You do the math]]. * Some Guy From Iceland ** Spoiler warning: All these nicknames are for [[MetalGearSolid MGS4]]. *** Metal Gear Evil: [[spoiler:the part where you are on top of Drebin's APC and are fighting the braindead PMC. Named after how much the PMC solders reminded me of zombies from Resident Evil]]. *** Ms. No bra: Naomi *** Ms. Needs a Bra: [[spoiler:Big Mama, AKA. EVA]] * Tropers/SparkyLurkdragon ** SkiesOfArcadia - I've played it so many times over the years that quite a few of the antagonists have gained nicknames. *** Galcian: Lord G *** Ramirez: G-dog, CrystalDragonJesus (part of the rather involved in-joke that led to "Lord G") *** Alfonso: Fonzie, [[AnimalCrossing that crocodile]] *** Vigoro: Admiral Cock, [[{{Pokemon}} Vigoroth]] ** ...as well as some of the good guys. *** Centime: Professor Oak *** Piastol: [[RaptorRed Raptor Blue]] ** Jijiju: the Pikachu in HeyYouPikachu and PokemonChannel, after the way my little sister says his name when playing HYP. ** Captain Potty: The random guy who talks to the general in Shadow the Hedgehog's second level opening cutscene. ** LostInShadow

*** [[TheLegendOfZelda Tingle]]: The pudgy little humanoids that float with two balloons. *** [[StreetFighter Dalshim]]: The humanoids that attack by stretching their arms at you. ** The Lava Whale: The boss fought right after getting the Grapple Beam in MetroidOtherM. ** PokemonBlackAndWhite *** N = Narinder Harmonia, meaning "lord of men". The meaning would seem to fit Ghetsis' tastes. N is just an alias he uses since he, like the Pokemon, believes in the power of [[IKnowYourTrueName True Names]], and "Human" would be an even weirder alias. * Tropers/SteelBeast6Beets: ** Doctor Cackle - Both Hojo from FinalFantasyVII and his {{Expy}} Vexen from KingdomHearts: Chains of Memory due to their awesome EvilLaugh. ** Old Man Chatterbox - [[MaechenPeriod Maechen]] from Final Fantasy X and [[FinalFantasyX2 X-2]]. This one is more than obvious for the people who played the games. ** Princess Hotpants - Ashe from FinalFantasyXII, which was actually taken from the example listed in LadyOfWar. ** That Cyan Bastard - Tabuu, the final boss of the Subspace Emissary Adventure mode from SuperSmashBros Brawl, since I believe he bears a uncanny resemblance to That Yellow Bastard from the SinCity movie. * Tropers/SpaceChief: ** Ch: Stoner from ''EurekaSeven'', due to his appearance and the fact that it is impossible to take his given name seriously. ** Grinchcrotch: The part of Jim Carrey's costume that the live-action version of ''How The Grinch Stole Christmas'' was seemingly obsessed with. It is likely that the Grinchcrotch could hold its own in a fight with David Bowie's crotch in ''Labyrinth''. ** Reporty [=McStubbleson=]: The newspaper reporter who travels with Mao in ''BloodPlus''. ** Rick Wakeman: Richard Wakefield from Arthur C. Clarke's later ''Rendevous With Rama'' novels. Imagining Rick in the role made the books a lot more fun to read, considering how [[DarthWiki/{{Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n}} they're usually seen...]] ** Rickrole: The practice of imagining Rick Wakeman taking the parts of other literary characters. Thought up while adding the previous entry and realizing I had a potentially excellent pun on my hands. ** Shinjigami: Hanatarou Yamada of ''Bleach'' fame. Voiced by Spike Spencer. ** Wormface: The character from the MST-ed movie ''{{Squirm}}'' who gets infested by evil worms. The name comes from a wonderful scene in the film in which he incoherently screams at the hero, ''[[{{Narm}} "You gunna be dah worm-FACE!"]]'' * {{Tropers/Stickmeister0}} ** Boogalah: Aku-Aku from CrashBandicoot. Named after what he shouts upon releasing him from his box. I didn't know his real name for a while. And I was 5.

** Lucksman: The Huntsman in TeamFortress2. The Huntsman tends to luck-based since players run into the arrows. This has actually caught on in the server I regular. * Tropers/SpaceJawa ** [=AutoMario=] and Luigibot: Skids and Mudflap from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Because it's easier than remembering which name is what color, and we all know [[SuperMarioBrothers which brother wears red and which brother wears green]]. ** The Bootie: [[SuperMarioBrothers Kuribo's Shoe]] ** Caphat: [[StarWarsTheCloneWars Embo's]] NiceHat. Because for all intents and purposes, he wears [[CaptainAmerica Captain America's shield]] on his head. ** Culinaricons: The transforming allspark-created appliances from Revenge of the Fallen. ** [=MicroSylar=]: Sylar's microwave-powered teen travel "buddy" from Season 4 of Heroes. ** Seagull Corps/Seagulls: [[GreenLantern The Orange Lantern Corps]] ''([[FindingNemo Mine!]])'' ** Shadow Attack Batman: Batman piece from Justice League HeroClix set with the 'Out of the Shadows' ability (more commonly known as OOTS Batman). ** She-Stark: Pepper Potts in the version of armor Tony Stark built for her. (I didn't come up with it, but that doesn't mean I can't help spread it!) ** From SonicX: *** C&C: Cream and Cheese *** Crazy Gramps: Grandpa *** Doc Robo: Dr. Eggman *** [[strike:Agent]] Mr. Creepy Pants: Mr. Stewart the Secret Agent. *** Chaos Gems: Chaos "Emeralds" (Green: Chaos Emerald, Blue: Chaos Saphire, Yellow: Chaos Amber, Red: Chaos Ruby) ** Venomsaurus Rex - The Venom Symbiote controlled [[TyrannosaurusRex T-Rex]] from [[{{Wolverine}} Old Man Logan]] * {{Tropers/Specialist290}} ** Giant Landscape-Dominating Combat Walkers - The [=AT-AT=] walkers from ''StarWars: Episode V''. ** The Terminatrix - Aigis from ''{{Persona 3}}'', particularly for her quasi-emotionless speech patterns and her battle quote "[[ShoutOut Hasta La Vista!]]" in the ExpansionPack. ** The Boatmurdered Gambit - The tactic that Lelouch / Zero employs against Cornelia's Britannian forces in Episode 10 of ''{{Code Geass}}''. So named for its loose resemblance to that employed by the DwarfFortress of [[http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/Boatmurdered/ Boatmurdered]] for dealing with goblins. * {{Tropers/Spidey3000}} ** Shinobi Jesus: In Naruto, the Priest of the Six Realms. Of course, as fun a nickname as it is, I'm probably not the only one that thought of it.

* {{Tropers/Strawberry}} ** Captain Fetus - Phoebus from the Disney version of TheHunchbackOfNotreDame. ** Ernie and Bert - Hiro and Ando from ''Series/{{Heroes}}''. * {{Tropers/Sukeban}} ** Wookiebus: [[StarWars Chewbacca]] + the [[HayaoMiyazaki Catbus]] = Appa from ''[[AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]]''. ** Captain Cthulhu: [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Davy Jones]]. ** Earl Grumpypants, Chibi [[{{Hellsing}} Integra]]-kun: Ciel from ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}''. ** Adam: [[spoiler: fetus!Envy]] from ''FullmetalAlchemist'', after its resemblance to the ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' entity. * superslinger2007 ** [[BubbleBobble Bub, Bob, Coro, and Kulu]], no [[{{Woolseyism}} luns/runs]]. *** Furthermore: used for every single representative of each in the series (even BB Plus) despite official alleged descendant claims and character credits. ** Bubbobs: A term for bubble dragons in the BubbleBobble series. Stemmed from an old [[{{Tetris}} TetriNET]] theme pack based on the NES version. ** Bwock: A made-up word, used for "pronouncing" :\ in a drive listing such as C:\, and may also be used for :// in [=http://=]. ** [[BubbleBobble Coro]]: [[LuckyStar Yutaka]]'s pink hair and short height causes reminders of the Bubble Symphony character. ** (Fricking) Caramel dancing: Alleged DetractorNickname for Caramelldansen because a YouTube user who watched HomestarRunner overused it in his video series. ** [[{{Portal}} GLaDOSification]]: {{Synthesizeritis}} when done in a multi-step process (according to the Portal commentary, "pitch contrained, pitch modulation suppressed, and the fondant moved up", all of which are Melodyne functions) on a '''slightly singsongy speaking''' voice for a computery effect like [=GLaDOS=] herself. It's working quite well on [[LuckyStar Kagami]]. *** NOTE: There is a difference between [=GLaDOSification=] and "{{Kesha}}fication". Use Melodyne/Autotune on all of a sentence, not part of it; that's jarring. ** [=GLaDOS=] the Administrator: [[{{Portal}} GLaDOS]] when taking on the role of [[TeamFortress2 the Administrator/Announcer]] with the latter's voice (brain backups). Named as such due to ss07's {{Wiki Walk}}s for [[HeyItsThatVoice voice actors]]. ** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Impossible Quizzes of Doom]]: DetractorNickname for {{The Impossible Quiz}}zes... [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of doom]]. ** [[UnfortunateImplications LHS]][[hottip:* :This does not refer to the left-hand side of anything.]]/[[FunWithAcronyms light-hearted songs]]: Any happy song that is so catchy and not rocky enough that it has [[TastesLikeDiabetes gone over the threshold of tolerance]], such as "Sunny Day Disruption" stated below, and Mitsukete Happy Life, a song by Mikuru from her 2006 character album. Pass the hard rock.

*** {{Subverted}}: A song from the 2009 Mikuru album named Hen desu, Kowai desu ("It's strange and frightening"): not hated but actually tolerated! *** Basically, on the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness, below about a 5. ** "Little Miss Psychopath": Used indecisively between [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Rena, Mion, and Shion]] due to early assumptions. (And [[spoiler:Rika the victim herself]] because of season 2 episode 8) *** [[StarWars Death Star]] bait: Any character who is known to have a {{Yangire}} LaughingMad moment or have acted psychopathically (Looking at you, [[spoiler:[[AceAttorney Shih-na]]]]!), because ss07 [[AlterEgoActing the character]] had a grudge against alleged psychopaths (the characters of ''[[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Higurashi]]'') that obviously had moments that fit this criteria and, after travelling through time, he threatened to destroy Earth using the Death Star II itself in 1983. (Of course, he had to fail: he would cause a TimeParadox as the user was born in 1991.) ** "Sunny Day Disruption": Alleged codename/DetractorNickname since November 9, 2007 for [[HaruhiSuzumiya Hare Hare Yukai]], the DancingTheme, because part of its actual title means "sunny", and of course, this song was a factor in causing ss07 the character's mind to head to craziness. ** [[{{Series/Heroes}} Sylar]]: Answer to every single alleged paranormal being in chain letters. *** Sylar bait: Any chainer who spreads chain letters. Why Sylar would seem to want their stupidity/gullibility is beyond any of us, but he may as well get rid of their brains anyway. ** {{Terminator}}-clone: Besides ss07 the character having a T-clone of his own (InNameOnly; did not contain an endoskeleton), {{Linkara}} had one known as Mechakara. ** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The W]]: Warner Music for [[strike:what happened]] [[NoExportForYou what's still happening]] on YouTube. [[IThoughtThatWas Not related to]] TVTropes' {{WMG}}. * {{Tropers/Sylocat}} ** The Man Who Saved Disney: John Lasseter (and company) ** Mr. "Are You My Mummy?": StevenMoffat ** The Devil Incarnate: Ted Turner ** Cthulhu On Prozac: The Flying Spaghetti Monster ** AAH! WHAT IS THAT THING?!: Alan Hale, jr. ** Sheep In Wolves' Clothing: [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee's]] fanboys on ''The Escapist'' forums. * [[Tropers/SylviaViridian Sylvia Viridian]] ** Emperor Klavier: Klavier Gavin from the AceAttorney series, due to his resemblance to Emperor Peony from TalesOfTheAbyss in both design and personality. * [[Tropers/SynjoDeonecros [=SynjoDeonecros=]]] ** Evil Semen Stain of Doom: The Light of Destruction from ''{{Yu-GiOh GX}}''

** Furry Condom: Miles "Tails" Prower from ''SonicTheHedgehog'' (especially if he's your partner; if you've gotta ask why, you shouldn't know) ** Contact Rituals: The new Synchro Monsters in the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' card game. ** Deflated Basketball: ''{{Transformers}}'' Unicron's toy (due to its relatively flat "bottom" in Planet Mode). ** The Mythfurries: The "Myth Toons" cartoon characters used during the "Finger in a Barrel" myth (less because of their FunnyAnimal/FurryFandom look, than because someone has already RuleThirtyFour them under that name, and I cannot get the association out of my head). ** Island of Misfit [=MacGuffins=]: Duel Academy Island in ''Yu-Gi-Oh GX'' (due to the sheer amount of {{Red Herring Twist}}s that are thrown in and dropped, or suddenly pop up as being very important even though doing so flies in the face of what was already established about it by then). ** Slutty Kruger: ''[[SuperSentai TokusouSentaiDekaranger]]/PowerRangers SPD'' {{Mentor}} Doggie Kruger, because he's never seen any RuleThirtyFour-inspired FanArt of the character where he isn't being dominated by another guy. ** Mobius, Thestalos, Zaborg, Raiza, Granmarg, Caius, and Kuraz (AKA the Monarchs): the various elemental armors in ''{{Castlevania}}: Circle of the Moon'', due to their similarity to the elemental Monarch monsters in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}''. (For the record, Ice Armor, Fire Armor, Thunder Armor, Wind Armor, Earth Armor, Dark Armor, and Light Armor, respectively.) ** Michael Jackson: Trueman/Mr. T from ''Yu-Gi-Oh GX'', mainly because of the scene where he creepily goes after a 6 year old kid with a look on his face that screams "I am going to '''''RAEP YOU'''''". ** Real Gear Gobots: The Deformer/Morphtronic monsters from ''{{Yu-GiOh 5Ds}}'', due to their similarities to the "Real Gear" line of ''Transformer'' toys, but without any of their coolness. ** Offensive Racial Stereotype Man: Oilman from ''MegaMan Powered Up!'', mostly due to how stereotypically plantation slave black the Robot Master and his stage are, but also due to a similar reference to an "Offensive Japanese Cloud" in a ''WarioLand'' LetsPlay. ** Fuck You Frog: Flip Flop Frog from the ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' card game; its effect is one half of a frog combo that says "fuck you" to the opponent's monsters, the opponent, in turn, responds with "Fuck you, frog!", and its official name is such a tongue twister, you'll be uttering "fuck you, frog" under your breath after the billionth time you screwed up trying to say it. ** Mogwai: Moja from the ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' card game, because its card art reminds me of a demonic Gizmo from the Gremlins movie. *** Gremlin: King of the Beasts, the horrible, horrible "upgrade" to Moja from the same set Moja comes from. Remember the warnings: do not expose to sunlight, do not get wet, do not feed past midnight... ** Goatse: "True Form" Nightshroud from ''Yu-Gi-Oh GX'' season 4. ** Lolcatron: Ravage from the ''Transformers: Shattered Glass'' continuity. ** Creepy Pierrot Dude: Lazar from ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}''. Affirmed with

his deck being made up of jesters. ** Chaos Emperor Dragon, Envoy of the End: Kyurem from ''PokemonBlackAndWhite'', to match the other ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' nicnkames of the other legendary Dragons. ** E-Hero Dark Panther: Liepard, due to it's use as the Ultimate Assister matching the ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' monster's effect of stealing the effects of other monsters. [[/folder]] ----

FanNicknameT-Z '''Please, add your own entry in alphabetical order.''' ---[[foldercontrol]] [[folder:T]] * {{Tropers/Tabby}} ** The Original Order of the Phoenix: "The Twelve" (Kaito Nakamura, Angela Petrelli, Maury Parkman, etc.) from Season Two of ''Series/{{Heroes}}''. ** Goldfinger: Bob, of same. ** Not The Rat: Martha Jones of ''Series/DoctorWho'', whom she has indeed named a pet rat after. ** Made of Suffering: Dangerous Davies, of ''TheLastDetective''. Well, he ''is''. ** Tabby is also fond of odd nicknames for her favorite ''KimPossible'' [[CrackPairing crack pairings]], none of which lend themselves to a good PortmanteauCoupleName. *** Evil Teal Babies: Drakken/Shego *** Shotgun Babe: Shego/Motor Ed *** Sick and Wrong: Ron/Shego *** Team Insanity Ray: Ron/Barkin ** Emy: TheMiddleman. Hey, if he gets to call his sidekick "Dubby"... ** The Good Ship Awesome: All her favorite characters as a collective, most of whom have been granted some form of Awesome title. The ship is commanded by [[{{Chuck}} Captain Awesome]], of course. * {{Tropers/tehSandwich}} ** XXXXX-maku: BulletHell with "XXXXX" being an object or a theme. *** [[http://cokane.com/games/beryllium/ Neutron-maku]] (Go Beryllium!), [[http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/index_e.html Tronmaku]] (Anything by Kenta Cho) and others I forgot. ** '''{{Touhou}}''' '''Related:''' *** Magical/Youkai Gandhi/Martin Luther King Jr.: Byakuren Hijiri, the Final Boss from ''Undefined Fantastic Object''. ("Youkai Jesus" is rather inaccurate since she is more of a Civil Rights Movement leader than a messiah.) * Tropers/ThatWackyGerman ** Giant BIG: WWE Wrestler The Great Khali - Because he is a giant and he is BIG.

** The Doc, The Doctor, Doc S, The S-Man: Chainsaw Majini in Resident Evil 5 because of his resemblance of Doctor Salvatore from Resident Evil 4 ** Bob: Every mook in any FPS. Application: Spot enemy. Say "Hi, Bob.". Headshot. ???. Profit. * Tropers/TheAngryColossal ** Dewey: Albert from ''MegaMan ZX Advent'', due to him reminding me of the BigBad of ''Eureka Seven''. *** Three Sages Council: The Sage Trinity from aforementioned game. ** [[spoiler:[=HanekomAAAAAGH=]]]: The BonusBoss from ''TheWorldEndsWithYou''. ** Lugnette: Slipstream from ''TransformersAnimated'', due to her similar purple and teal color scheme to Lugnut. ** Curry-flavored [[LargeHam ham]]: TimCurry. ** [[MegaMan Mega Moe]]: {{Rosenkreuzstilette}}. ** Pokemon [=G1=]: {{Pokemon}} Red/Blue, which seems to attract a defensive purist fanbase like a certain ''other'' [=G1=]. ** Pineapple-duck: Ludicolo. I know it's supposed to be a kappa, but seriously, LOOK AT IT. ** Pimp Crow: Honchcrow. It's that "hat". ** [[{{Metalocalypse}} Hatredcopter]]: The ''TransformersAnimated'' version of Megatron. ** Maxwell's Demon: [[spoiler:Kyubey]], due to certain entropy-related revelations. ** Chainsaw Hayate: Haruna from ''KoreWaZombieDesuKa'', due to me never being able to remember her name at first and her hair resembling Hayate from Nanoha. * Tropers/TheChainMan ** 16th Century's [[HokutoNoKen Kenshiroh]]: Kanetsugu Naoe from ''SamuraiWarriors'', since he [[MemeticMutation fights for love]]. ** American {{Godannar}}: The eponymoush robot from ''{{Heroman}}'', for looking like Godannar and having stars and stripes. ** [[EurekaSeven Anemone]]: [[OvermanKingGainer Cynthia Lane]], since they look the same. Works backwards, too. ** Bertofuente: Buenafuente's show when [[EnsembleDarkhorse Berto]] hosts it. ** The Better [[NamesTheSame Misaka]]: Shiori Misaka from {{Kanon}}, because I like her much more than [[ToAruMajutsuNoIndex Mikoto Misaka]], whose popularity I don't understand. ** [[MazingerZ Boss Borot]]: Megahammer from ''SuperMarioGalaxy2'', for looking like Borot and [[BreatherBoss being about as strong]]. ** Chumino ("Unimportant"): Fumino Serizawa from ''MayoiNekoOverrun'', for being just a regular, typical {{tsundere}} with no special traits and the least memorable [[UnwantedHarem haremette]]. ** [[{{UsefulNotes/Spain}} Cuenca]]{{moe}}: ''SoraNoWoto'', because it happens on (Not)-Cuenca and is about moe girls. ** [[GGundam Darkness Finger]]: Ganondorf's Side B special in ''SuperSmashBros Brawl''. ** Double Fisting Attack: ''GaoGaiGar'' 's Hell And Heaven attack. Since that's pretty much it.

** [[GunXSword Fasalina]]: Mikako from ''SoraNoOtoshimono'', for their uncanny resemblance. ** FREE EXP!: Any {{mook}} from ''FireEmblem'' who attacks during Enemy Phase, misses and gets killed by the counterattack. ** Las Frescas (The Fresh / Easygoing Ones): The girls from ''FreshPrettyCure''. Good enough for a friend of mine to use it too! ** '''GANONDORF PUNCH!''': Ganondorf's B special in ''SuperSmashBros'', for being the Falcon Punch, but done by him. *** '''GANONDORF KICK!''': His Down B special for the same reasons. ** ''GaoGaiGar'' 's [[TheSimpsons non-union mexican equivalent]]: The El Dora V from ''GunXSword'' (Even though it takes from all the Braves, not just GGG) ** [[GaoGaiGar Goldion Hammer]]: The Golden Hammer from ''SuperSmashBrosBrawl''. Especially if [[HeyItsThatVoice Link]] is wielding it. ** [[HokutoNoKen Hidebu]]: [[DudelooksLikeALady Hideyoshi]] from ''BakaToTestToShoukanjuu'', because his FanService[[SpotlightStealingSquad hogging]] tendencies make me want to [[YourHeadAsplode blow his head]] (Or rather, [[AdaptationDecay the anime writers']]) ** Klutz: Kurtz from ''FullMetalPanic'', thanks to reading his name in katakana wrong. ** [[SuzumiyaHaruhiNoYuuutsu Kyon]]masa Kato: Kiyomasa Kato from ''SamuraiWarriors'', for being voiced by Tomokazu Sugita. ** Manzanita ("Little Apple", but also a flamenco singer's stage name): [[PunnyName Ringo Akai]] from ''OokamiSanToShichiNinNoNakamaTachi''. ** [[LyricalNanoha Nanoha]] and [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Rika]]: Kouryu and Anryu from ''GaoGaiGar FINAL'', because of [[YukariTamura their voices]], and one is associated with light (Starlight Breaker!) and another with darkness (CreepyChild). ** Nipple Beams: [[TekkamanBlade Tekkaman Evil]]'s PSY Voltekka, since it looks like it comes from his nipples. ** Nodovaca ("Nodocow"): Nodoka from ''{{Saki}}'', for having GagBoobs and the show pointing this out OnceAnEpisode (I wasn't pleased) ** Old Ratchet: SatomiArai in any role she yells a lot. ([[ToAruMajutsuNoIndex ONEESAMAAAAAAAAA]]!) ** [[FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]]: Brom from ''FireEmblem''. It helps his daughter is called [[NamesTheSame Meg]]. ** [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Rika Furude]]: Sunako from ''{{Shiki}}'', for running over water on the Ending like Rika does (And being both {{creepy child}}s) ** [[GGundam Sai Saici]] with {{twintails}}: Iris from {{Pokemon}} ** [[GGundam Shining Finger]]: [[ToHeart2 Tamaki Kousaka]]'s [[FacepalmOfDoom face grabs]]. ** The Summer of {{Yuri}}: Summer of 2009, because it [[AgentAika aired]] [[AoiHana a]] [[NeedLess lot]] [[HayateTheCombatButler of]] [[BakeMonogatari animes]] [[UmiMonogatari with]] [[{{Canaan}} yuri]] [[KanaMemo content]]. ** [[GunXSword Van]]: [[WelcomeToTheNHK Satou]]'s avatar in the MMORPG, for looking a lot like Van thanks to TheRedMage hat. ** Young [[LosSerrano Diego Serrano]]: Fard from

''FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', since he looks like Diego when he was younger (and had hair) and both of then have [[BrotherSisterIncest incestuous children]]. * {{Tropers/TheCuza}} ** "[[JackieChanAdventures Ratso]]": The Common Infected wearing dark suits in the original ''Left4Dead''. ** "''Guitar Hero: Daft Punk''": ''DJ Hero'' ** "Jon Keyhol": Fake [[{{Lost}} John Locke]]. My cousin and I started calling Locke himself this after he made a misnamed reaction image of him. When Locke got an imposter, I gave the name to him and started calling the real Locke by his actual name again. If you didn't already guess, it's pronounced "keyhole". Note the missing 'h' from "Jon" and the missing "e" at the end of "Keyhol". Very important. * The Deke ** Chocolate Boy: Mello from ''DeathNote'', due to his habitual eating of the cocoa-derived sweet. ** Breasts: Any character who falls under [[MsFanservice this]]. * {{Tropers/TheAimz}} ** Pimp Master Z and Pimp Master Raph: [[SoulCalibur Zasalamel and Raphael Sorel]], respectively. ** Amy the Pokmon: [[SoulCalibur Amy Sorel]], due to the fact that she only says her own name in ''Soul Calibur III''. ** P. Hiddy: [[SilentHill Pyramid Head]]. ** The Laranator: [[TombRaider Lara Croft]]. ** Wobble Wobble: Pretty much any character with JigglePhysics. ** Sad Ako: [[{{Onimusha}} Ako]], just because it sounds like [[TheRing Sadako]]. Yes, I know there is no resemblance between the two. Don't ask. ** The Three Stooges: [[LegacyOfKain Faustus, Marcus, and Sebastian]]. ** Richard O'Brien: [[LegacyOfKain Marcus]]. ** Pimp Master G and Gimpy J: [[{{Klonoa}} Ghadius and Joka/Joker]], respectively. Yes, I do realise I have an obsession with "Pimp Master". ** Coco Pops: [[CrashBandicoot Coco Bandicoot]]. ** Dragon Ball C: [[CrashBandicoot The last two cutscenes in ''Mind Over Mutant'']]. ** The Welkinator, Jann the Man, Nads, Maxwell House, Uka Damon, the Marmoset: [[ValkyriaChronicles Welkin Gunther, Jann Walker, Nadine, Maximillian, General Georg von Damon, the Marmota]]. The penultimate one is because John [=DiMaggio=]'s voice for Damon sounds an awful lot like his voice for [[CrashBandicoot Uka Uka]]. * Theenglishman ** I have a special nickname for the original GodOfWar's Very Hard difficulty: ''[[IWannaBeTheGuy I Wanna Be the God]]''. * {{Tropers/TheShadow}} ** ''Green Zone'' is [[TheBourneIdentity The Bourne Ecology]].

* {{Tropers/Tiara}} ** Wheatlies - Wheatley from ''Portal 2'', because his [[SarcasmMode wonderful hacking skills]] could need some help. ** Yuffatara - Yuffie in her ''Dirge of Cerberus'' and ''KingdomHeartsII appearances'', since her [[MaeWhitman voice actress]] plays both of them. ** ''FinalFantasy'' *** Firion XI - Firion due to his [[SomethingAboutARose obsession with the Wild Rose]] and [[KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Marl]][[KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 uxia]], no. XI in Organization XIII, having [[PetalPower rose-like petals]] appear at times. *** Totty - Shantotto *** Sgt. Chaos - Chaos, since he shares the same voice actor as [[ModernWarfare Sgt. Foley]]. *** Red, Flying Nissan/Nuke-Namer - Altima/Ultima from the original FinalFantasyTactics and the PSP remake, respectively. ** Kainer - Reiner from ''ValkyriaChroniclesII''. ** Atomic Nuke-Gun - The Supernova from [[JakAndDaxter Jak 3]]. ** Hypocrite - Bernard Marx of ''Brave New World'', after he [[spoiler: gains popularity of bringing John the Savage into their society. He goes and does the things he despises, i.e. take ''soma'' and sleep with a number of girls.]] ** Author-Unfriendly - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, because of its over-simplistic and redundant style of writing and the [[MindScrew effect]] that it may have on authors. ** Book-Burning - Sending cards from your Library to the graveyard in [[MagicTheGathering Magic]].

* Tropers/TromboneChild ** Joe&Lou, Bob, and Fred: [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pintel&Ragetti, Kohler, and the Bo'sun]]. ** {{Angel}}-Wannabe: [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]]. ** Plot-Twist-Palooza: ''Series/{{Heroes}}''. ** Mr. Clean: [[FinalFantasyVII Rude]]. ** Creepy Lizard-Man: [[Series/{{Heroes}} Mohinder Suresh]]. ** Human Plot Device: [[Series/{{Heroes}} Claire Bennet]]. ** Human IdiotBall: [[Series/{{Heroes}} Hiro Nakamura]]. ** Caffeine-Boy: [[Series/DoctorWho The Tenth Doctor]]. ** Evil [[StarWars R2-D2s]]: [[Series/DoctorWho The Daleks]]. ** The Stig: [[InglouriousBasterds Hugo Stiglitz]]. ** {{Hamlet}} [[RomeoAndJuliet Mercutio]] Murdock: [[TheATeam H. M.]] [[ObfuscatingInsanity "Howlin' Mad"]] [[TricksterArchetype Murdock]]. * Tropers/ThunderPhoenix ** ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'': "The Squealing Wienie" for Mikuru (Cause she'll do whatever Haruhi says, and it seems like sixty percent of her dialogue is "AAAAHHH!", "EEEEE!", or "NOOOO!"), and "Smiley" for Koizumi (obvious). * {{Tropers/TMOH}} ** Mrs Clicky: Saeki Kayako (the ghost lady) in TheGrudge, thanks to

the creepy-as-hell sound she makes and my inability to remember her name while watching the movie. ** Carcer Jr.: [[Discworld/UnseenAcademicals Andy Shank]], who could've been the real thing if the timing and plot circumstances had been just a little different. [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/Discworld Or maybe they're just related]]. ** Carcer Onna Boat: [[{{Nation}} First Mate Cox]], because he ''is''. ** Donna No-Bull: From Series/DoctorWho, of course. Because she don't take none from anybody. Also, I like [[IncrediblyLamePun Increcibly Lame Puns]] * Tropers/TheToonGeekette ** Pinky and the Brain: The pairing of Ty Lee and Azula in the ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fandom. And while we're on the subject... ** Damn Dirty Hamster: [[PinkyAndTheBrain Snowball]]. Well, he ''is'' voiced by [[PlanetOfTheApes Roddy McDowall]]... ** Dr. [[{{Firefly}} Mal]]: Nathan Fillion's roles as an OB/GYN in both ''Waitress'' and ''DesperateHousewives''. ** The Order of Awesome: [[spoiler: The Order of the White Lotus]] in ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', after [[spoiler: The "Sozin's Comet" special revealed that not only are Piandao and Iroh members, but so are Master Pakku, Jeong Jeong, and '''King fucking Bumi'''. '''HELL YES!''']] ** The Okayfeathers: The trio of pigeons in ''{{Bolt}}'' that bear a bit of a resemblance to the Goodfeathers from ''{{Animaniacs}}''. * {{Tropers/TnAdct1}} ** ''MahouSenseiNegima'' *** The Haunted House Ditchers: A group that consists of Ayaka, the twins, the cheerleaders, and the Sports girls. Named after how they ditched running the haunted house during the second day of the cultural festival in order to watch Negi take part in a martial arts tournament. *** Asluna: [[spoiler: Shiori/Luna when she's posing as Asuna]] ** ''FullmetalAlchemist'' *** Mr. Sparkle: Armstrong. ** ''TheSimpsons'' *** The Ninty-Minute JerkAss Homer Episode: ''TheSimpsonsMovie'' * Tropers/TragicTheDragon ** ''{{Lost}}'' (I'm as bad as Sawyer): *** [[CrapsackWorld Craphole Island]] / Craptastic Park / Mu-Mu Land: The Island *** [[TheMessiah The One]]: Desmand *** Creepy [=McWeirdo=] / B'enry: Ben/Henry *** Eyepatch Magee: That guy with the eyepatch whose name she can't recall at the moment, as she has been calling him Eyepatch Magee too long. *** Big Effin' [[TheWoobie Woobie]] / Big Fun/ Big Funisher: Hurley *** Doctor Emopants / Doctor [=McDreamo=]: Jack *** The Real Leaders: Alternately Sayid and/or Locke

*** Emobeard: Jack's... well, duh *** "J.J. Abrams Does Not Care About Hobbits": Charlie's story arc in the final season where he appeared *** Pablo Honey: The much-derided Nikki and Paulo from season three. ** ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': *** [[strike:Mutants]] People Of Unusual Genetics: The Heroes *** Man-Nurse / Nurse Emobangs / Peter the Pest / ad infinitum: Peter (Suffice it to say, he is not her favorite character.) *** Hiro Protagonist: Hiro Nakamura's FutureBadass self. *** The BlessedWithSuck Twins / Pablo Honey Reloaded: Maia and Allegandro. *** Organization XIII: The "first generation" of People Of Unusual Genetics introduced in season two (and kind of screwed over by the Writer's Strike). ** ''KingdomHearts'' *** Organization [=STFU=]: Organization XIII of ''KingdomHearts 2''. *** Gorram Manbeast: Goofy (mostly for getting in the way). *** Harvard Square: Traverse Town ** RealLife *** Traverse Town: Harvard Square [=XD=] *** [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids Not A Damn Playground]]: The Harvard Museum of Natural History in particular, and any "why are there twoyear-olds running around unsupervised" setting in general. *** [[CuteButCacophonic Shriekers / Noisybirds]]: Starlings *** [=NPC=] Birds: House Sparrows (think about it) *** The "GottaCatchEmAll !" School of Ornithology / Pokebirders: LifeListers (This'd take some explaining, so just [[http://babbletrish.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-do-not-understand-thiskind-of.html read my blog post]] on the subject.) ** ''{{Pokemon}}'' *** The Pink Nightmare: Chansey *** Slutty the Bunny / Slutbunny: Lopunny ([[FetishFuel Just look at it]]; it's not like they weren't asking for this.) *** Thundercat: The Shinx line. *** The Three Legendary Gremlins: Uxie, Azelf, and Mesprit, the trio of legendary Pokemon from ''Diamond / Pearl''. ** Various *** ''Harry Potter and the GainaxEnding'': Book Seven, seeing as it completely dumped the "Year at Hogwarts" structure and was just DarkerAndEdgier all around in her opinion. *** Emohawk: Tobias of ''{{Animorphs}}''. *** Darth Damon: Johnny Damon, after trading to the Yankees (Red Sox fandom = SeriousBusiness.) *** [[UncannyValley Uncanny Valerie]]: The female trainer in ''WiiFit'' *** Revenge of NintendoHard: Some of the balance games in same, but especially the Advenced level of "Balance Bubble". * {{Tropers/Triplex}} ** Neo-80s Legion: The version of TheLegionOfSuperHeroes written largely by Geoff Johns, because it's based closely (but not exactly) on the 80s Legion. Hate it, as an example of the ''writer'' telling us

TheyChangedItNowItSucks when I didn't think so. * Tropers/TroublePanic ** During an ElfenLied session, I fell into the habit of calling Mariko (number 35) "[=SanGo=]" thinking there was [[SevenIsNana some sort of naming scheme going on]]. * Tropers/TwinBird ** Gendo Cleaver: [[ElGoonishShive Mr. Verres]], due to his quick shifts between {{MIB}} and BumblingDad, not to mention the ScaryShinyGlasses. * Tropers/ThatOnePerson ** {{Akira}} *** Nude Boy - Akira, really, they asked for it. *** Biker [=McCool=], Caneda, Korea - Kaneda *** Super Psychic Man, The Ultimate Emotional Meltdown - Tetsuo Shima *** Our Heads Asplode - the rest of the bikers ** {{DeathNote}} *** Not Raito at all - Light Yagami *** L O L - L Lawliet *** Video Game Dude - Matt *** Mafia Don Whatsitsgender - Mello *** Makuta - Near, because there is the chance Near had been playing with the toys from the start and organizing Bionicle's storyline ** Oban Star Racers *** Krazy Krow - Canaletto *** emoetta - Molly ** {{FullMetalAlchemist}} *** Zeltha V's brothers - The characters turned into armor, named for a very BadAss character in my novels *** Diamond Dude - Greed *** Lady Death - Dante *** The male Nuttymadam - Gluttony *** Poofy - Wrath *** Hitler, with melons - Fuhrer King Bradley ** {{Warriors Orochi}} *** Knight of Blood - Orochi *** Mr. Nightmare Fuel, The Killer with a Hug - Kiyomori *** Tsundere without the dere - Da Ji *** Fat Bastard - Dong Zhuo *** Betrayer Mcbestgeneral - Lu Bu ** And, because one of my weirdest dreams ever featured a tvtropes page of one of my books, here are my characters with nicknames! *** Weirdo Stalin - Ceres *** Armor Man of Awesome - Zeltha V *** Brain in a Jar - Omni *** Idiot Ball Incarnate - Matthew * {{Tropers/Thatother1dude}} ** [[EyesAlwaysShut No-eyes]]: [[TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya Koizumi Itsuki]].

** [[TheOtherWiki The Other Other Wiki]]: [[http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Teletraan 1]]: The ''{{Transformers}}'' Wiki. ** "[[DesignatedHero The Blight Warriors]]": The Light Warriors of [[EightBitTheater 8-Bit Theater]], used in the actual comic [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=080408 here]], and I'm listing this in case it doesn't catch on. ** The Angry Jerk - [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Zuko]]. *** After a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar certain scene]] in "The Southern Raiders", I've begun using the 4chan nickname "[[spoiler:Master Cockblocker]]". ** Alf - Arf of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. ** Leo Supreme - [[spoiler:the lion turtle]] from the GrandFinale of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', due to a [[HeyItsThatVoice very familiar]] [[TransformersAnimated voice]]. ** The {{Battletoads}} - the toad summon clan from ''{{Naruto}}'', more specifically [[spoiler:the squadron accompanying Naruto when he returns from the toad village]] seen [[http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/430/02-03/ on this page]]. ** The Space Pope - The Bishop job from ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2'', because it's a humanoid reptile that wears a pope hat. ** [[RedVsBlue Team Killing Fucktard]] - Kamjin from ''SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', who manages to stay a major officer despite frequently killing his own men (his ''in-series'' nickname is "the ally killer") and general lack of tactical ability for most of the series. * {{Tropers/thatotherguy}} ** {{Wangst}}y little boy: Mostly [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Zuko]], sometimes Aang. ** The Void of No Return: Why TvTropes, [[TvTropesWillRuinYourLife of course]]. * Tropers/TheGunheart ** [[EvilDead Captain Supermarket]]: Sam Axe from BurnNotice. * {{Tropers/TheWeirdo}} ** The Good Doctor, for Dr. Minoru Kamiya, AKA the Doctor, from YuYuHakusho. He referred to himself ironically like this in the Brazilian translation of the anime, roughly: "Well, I figured I'd have to play the good doctor...". * A troper who's too lazy to give himself a name: ** Mr. Cursebringer/ Cursebringer-sama: The cursebringer angel from Baroque. Named such due to the number of times he's given me the exact item I needed. * {{Tropers/Tofu}} ** Mr. Sharply Dressed- Wesker from Resident Evil, since he wears sunglasses at night ** Son Of A Bitch- Lord Burroughs from Clock Tower 3, because [[BerserkButton HE IS A DOUCHEBAG RARFLEBLARGLE]]

* Tropers/TwoGunAngel ** Judge Pervert: Judge Turpin of ''SweeneyTodd'', for reasons that [[DirtyOldMan should]] [[{{Ephebophile}} be]] [[WifeHusbandry fairly]] [[{{Squick}} obvious]]. ** The Scream Queen: Sindel of ''MortalKombat'', so named due to her [[MakeMeWannaShout special ability]]. ** Angel of Death: Tequila's spin attack move from the John Woo game ''Stranglehold'', so called because when you execute the move with GunsAkimbo, Tequila's arms are outstretched like...well...you get the picture. ** Pain in the Ass Elementals: The Pain Elementals of Doom II, due to their [[MookMaker habit of spitting annoying Lost Souls at you]]. ** Butt Slam: Mario's GroundPound attack from ''[[SuperMarioBros Super Mario 64]]'', because you're basically coming down on them [[AssKicksYou ass-first]]. ** Super Saiyan: The Super High Tension state in the later ''DragonQuest'' games, due to its ''very'' striking similarity to a [[DragonBallZ certain anime also created by]] [[AkiraToriyama the game's main character designer]]. Also used with certain powerful [[LimitBreak Heat Moves]] in the ''{{Game/Yakuza}}'' series, due to Kazuma powering up like a Super Saiyan complete with blazing blue BattleAura immediately before said attack. ** Shun Kero Satsu: Suwako's spellcard "Curse God - Red Mouth (Mishaguji)" from the ''{{Touhou}}'' fighting game ''Unthinkable Natural Law'' due to its resemblance to a certain [[LimitBreak super move]] by [[BloodKnight Akuma]] from ''StreetFighter''. ** Demon Lord Batman: Griffith as Femto from ''{{Berserk}}'', due to his evil-looking red hawklike hood and his sinister red CapeWings which make him look like a demonic version of Batman. ** Princess Kirby: Yuyuko of the ''{{Touhou}}'' series. Because she's pink and a [[BigEater bottomless pit]]. Got this one from Danbooru. ** Gun Sign ~ Diamond Fusillade: Mami's attack from the first episode of PuellaMagiMadokaMagica, due to looking like something out of a freaking BulletHell. ** Big Red: The Gnoll Chieftain from ''Vindictus''. He's big, he's red, and he's got a [[DropTheHammer big damn hammer]] that he likes to smash you with. 'Nuff said. ** Falcon Kick: Fiona's Amaranth Kick from ''Vindictus''. * {{Tropers/Tyrfing}} ** [[HotBlooded Nekketsu]]-Oh [=GaoGai=][[MemeticMutation Gar]]: ''GaoGaiGar''. * {{Tropers/T-bone61}} ** {{Naruto}}: *** Air Grampa - The Tsuchikage. Who cares about having back problems when you can just float everywhere? *** Master Crash - The Raikage, given his [[ThereWasADoor preferred method of travel]]. *** Shark Week - Kisame's OneWingedAngel. *** The Business - Killerbee, badass and Eight-tailed Beast host

extraordinaire. Because if you're fighting him, the business is probably what he's giving you. *** The Raepflame - Amaterasu. Or at least that's what Sasuke [[ConvectionSchmonvection wishes]] it was. * {{Tropers/toalordsothe}} ** {{Bleach}}: *** Mr. Hat and Clogs: Kisuke. *** The Bitch Curl: Aizen's Hair. *** OMG: Yama it could be read as Oh My God or as Old Man Genocide both of which work for him. *** [[AllStarBatman The God Damn]] [[BlazBlue Hakumen]]: Tosen after his Vizard Mask. *** Satanic Hakumen: Aizen after his One Winged Angel. ** {{Naruto}}: *** Handjob: Deidara *** Hannibal Vector: Zetsu *** Kenny The Shark: Kisame *** Hunchback [=McGee=]: Sasori before he grossed the {{Bishounen Line}}. *** Edward: Hidan *** Cool Steampunk Land: The Hidden Village of Rain. ** {{OnePiece}} *** Cool Fedora Guy: That one dude who's always hanging around with Garp [[/folder]] [[folder:U]] * Unknown Troper ** Colonel MacGyver - this troper's name for Colonel Jack O'Neill as played by Richard Dean Anderson from StargateSG1. ** General Picard - General Hammond, also from StargateSG1 who is also bald and serious. ** Nicknames for the folks from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': *** Hiro Nakamura - The Matrix *** Peter Petrelli - Xerox *** D.L. Hawkins - Casper *** Ted - The Microwave *** Nikki/Jessica/Traci - Tyler Durden *** Noah Bennett - Jack Bauer: The Next Generation *** Maya - The Andromeda Chick *** Nathan Petrelli - [=JetBlue=] *** Micah - Jimmy Neutron *** Bob - Goldfinger (another Troper beat me to it) *** Sylar - Super Lecter *** Ando - Samwise *** X-Men: The Next Generation - ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' ** I have a got a few nicknames for characters and places, so here we go: *** MegaMan Geo-Omega - Geo Stelar when merged with Omega-Xis (This

comes from the two separate characters and the fact that he calls himself MegaMan after beating Taurus Fire) *** Moping Spot - Vista Point, so named because that is where Geo goes to mope in the first MegaManStarForce game *** Emo Boy - Geo's mopey personality that appears twice per game ** ''StarOcean: The Last Hope'' is a prequel to the series, details the early days of human interstellar space exploration, involves first contacts with both new and known races, and because of its newness is much prettier and sharper-looking than any of the previous entries in the series. Because of all this, this troper will always refer to it as ''Star Ocean: [[StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]''. [[/folder]] [[folder:V]] * Tropers/VampireBuddha ** Mr. Bad Vacuum Cleaner - Kirby from ''TheBraveLittleToaster'', because my sister and I have trouble remembering his name when we were kids. [[/folder]] [[folder:W]] * {{Tropers/whitetigah}} ** [[{{Naruto}} Orochimaru]] - Orco Mario (Italian for "Mario the ogre"). Originated when I was discussing with some friends name changes in a hypotetical {{Macekre}} of the animated series (which Italian public TV is infamous for); somebody came up with this name, and it stuck. ** Scruffy: JamesBond as played by Daniel Craig. The reason should be obvious. * Tropers/Wildwest666 ** Mussolini's Nazis - Nickname for the Pazzis in Assassian'sCreedII since Pazzis sound like Nazis and Mussolini was dictator of Italy. ** RGDMH - Acronym for "Restarted Game Due to Missed Hug." this is from the meme of, when you miss the quicktime event of giving Leo a hug, you feel so bad that you want to restart the game. * Tropers/WillZ (Warning! Some game spoilers) ** My Little Pony: Epona from Zelda: Ocarina of Time. ** Mr. Ed: The horse "Epona" from ''Twilight Princess'', once you start talking to it. ** "Thag Smash!" Those annoying dark nights (Darknuts?) that love to bash you to death in wonton fashion. ** The Mexican Gengar, El Gengar, Mucho (or Mucha) Gengar: Ludicolo from ''{{Pokemon}}''. ** Thrilling battle!: any battle consisting of a Magikarp with "splash" as its only move. ** 5-second encounters: any time you go into a cave in ANY pokemon game. ** Darth Emo: Anakin Skywalker as an adult. ** Darth Playboy: Anakin as a kid - He hit on Padme more as a kid than an adult!

** "Flip-up": Double-tapping the "up" button then landing with a kick. The only move you'll ever need to win Jade Empire. I did this the whole game and never lost. ** Spaz-monkey: The name I gave the main character in ''JadeEmpire'', because of the aforementioned trick. ** Bitcherella: Bastila from ''{{Knights of the Old Republic}}'', when she gets "converted." ** Hair-Trigger Muppet: Attenbro (Muppet [=McBeamspam=]) from ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. ** Marfa: Martha Jones From ''Series/DoctorWho''. Most of the Brits, Especially Tennenat sound like they are making fun of her because of this. ** Poindexter: "Normal" from ''DarkAngel'' 100% dork through-and through. ** [=SniperBroad=]: Yoko from ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', especially since her rifle is designed off the .50 caliber Barrett "sniper" rifle. ** Penis [=FireSlug=]: The Magcargo when played by the user has a very "unusual" head shape, to say the least... * Tropers/WillyFourEyes ** ''AdvanceWars'' *** General Snifit: Sturm, the BigBad of the first two games. ** ''BlazBlue'' *** Taokoto: Taokaka. [[CatGirl Cat-like mannerisms]] + attraction to [[MostCommonSuperpower large breasts]] = [[{{Mai-HiME}} Mikoto Minagi's]] lost cousin? Maybe the two of them could seek out [[StrikeWitches Yoshika Miyafuji]] and have a great big ol' party. ** ''{{Bleach}}'' *** Lieutenant Loli: Momo Hinamori, childhood friend of Toshiro "Captain Shota" Hitsugaya. ** ''{{Castlevania}}'' *** [=AluCHARd=]: Soma Cruz from the "Sorrow" arc. White hair? Check. Expert in multiple weapon disciplines? Check. [[spoiler:Vampire]]? Check and double check. ** ''{{Disgaea}}'' *** Axel Folly: The FakeUltimateHero from ''D2''. *** Freshman Mao: The main character from ''D3''. ** ''DominicDeegan: Oracle for Hire'' *** Mominic: Miranda Deegan. ** ''GalaxyAngel'' *** Auntie Milfie: Milfeulle Sakuraba. I know she's only 17 in the original manga/video games, but "Milfie" is much easier to say...and spell. Nickname is analogous to "Uncle Miltie", a popular nickname for the late, great actor/comedian Milton Berle. ** ''{{Golgo 13}}'' *** The Maze to Nowhere: The [[ScrappyLevel seemingly endless seventhlevel]] of the first NES game. ** ''{{Gradius}}'' *** Cheerio Head: The ring-shooting Moai statues. ** ''LuckyStar'' *** Hi-yuri (or Hi-yaoi-ri): Hiyori, [[YaoiFangirl for obvious

reasons]]. ** ''{{Mai-HiME}}'' *** Haruka Von Karma: Haruka, for her relentless pursuit of justice that parallels a certain [[WhipItGood whip-wielding]] ''Ace Attorney'' prosecutor. Would have been funnier if Haruka was one of the [=HiME=] and fought with a whip (she is in the manga, though), but [[MemeticMutation A Morningstar Is Fine, Too]]. *** Rei of Light: Alyssa. A play on her "golden light" motif and a recurring joke on this wiki about her being an [[{{Expy}} ersatz]] [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei Ayanami]]. [[AlasPoorVillain Too bad she had to die so soon...]] *** Sailor Midori: Midori. Same love of justice as Haruka, [[SailorMoon different mentor apparent]]. ** ''{{Mai-Otome}}'' *** Chiezuru: ''{{Mai-Otome}}'''s version of [[ChivalrousPervert Chie]]. Could be considered a portmanteau of Chie and Chizuru from ''{{Bleach}}'', or Chie and Shizuru. What do they all have in common? [[SchoolgirlLesbians Three guesses, and the first two don't count]]. *** Erstin HoYay: [[SelfExplanatory Uh...]] *** Mini-Mai: [[{{Expy}} Arika]]. *** Toady-M: Derisive nickname for Tomoe. Also, the Walking Idiot Ball, for other characters' tendency to [[WhatAnIdiot make really stupid decisions]] whenever she's around. *** {{Zorro}} Gallagher: Some say Sara (the First [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Pillar]]) looks like Comicbook/{{Batman}} in her Robe. I disagree. ** ''MakaiKingdom'' *** King Dork III: King Drake III, the DirtyCoward of the ''MakaiKingdom'' overlords. ** ''ShikigamiNoShiro III'' *** Princess {{Deadpool}}: First stage boss Yukari Horiguchi v2, who seems [[MediumAwareness all too aware that she's part of a video game]]. ** ''SonicTheHedgehog'' *** ''[[GodOfWar 'Hog of War]]'': The Werehog sections of ''SonicUnleashed''. * Tropers/WolfKazumaru ** Agent Homeboy - Blurted when he couldn't remember John Smith from Fringe's real name. ** Agent Teapot - Charlie Francis from the same show. Wolf isn't good with names, no he isn't. * Tropers/WoolieWool ** Admiral Asshole - Admiral Tolwyn from Wing Commander ** B.J. - The MUG Root Beer dog, after his resemblance to [[Wolfenstein3D a certain video game character]] ** [[MemeticMutation BOOOOOOOOOOOAT RUUUUUUUUDEEEEEER]] - Trivium, after the famous mondegreen video ** [[StarShipTroopers Brain Bugs]] - Combine Advisors from HalfLife ** Canned Meat - [[SoulSeries Nightmare]] ** Craptopsy, [[{{Metallica}} Cryptallica]] - Cryptopsy with Mike

[=McGachy=] ** [[LinkinPark CRAAAAAAWLING IN MY FUUUUUUR]] - [[SonicTheHedgehog Shadow The Hedgehog]] ** Demon Burger - The band DimmuBorgir ** Drug Fiend - The rival from [[{{Pokemon}} Pokmon]] Diamond/Sapphire/Emerald. He's gotta be high on ''something''. ** Gaylord Focker - Roy Focker from SuperDimensionFortressMacross ** John Kerry - Jeffrey Sinclair from [[BabylonFive Babylon 5]] ** Lar$ - Lars Ulrich of {{Metallica}} ** Lord Crispy - [[LordOfTheRings Lord Denethor]] ** [[MartyStu Marty Winstu]] - Mace Windu from StarWars ** [[ButtonMashing Mashi]] - [[SoulSeries - Maxi]] ** Misterr Ayinderrson - [[TheMatrix Hugo Weaving]] ** N'Flaymez - In Flames ** [[FinalFantasyVII Seph]][[DragonBallZ geta]] - Magus from ChronoTrigger ** Shut Up Button - a button that silences tutorials and [[ExpositionFairy Exposition Fairies]] ** [[PortmanteauCoupleName Son]][[HoYay adow]] In a Giant Latex Condom - [[SonicTheHedgehog Silver the Hedgehog]] ** [[MetalGearSolid Snake]] - Christian Bale's Batman ** Team Bowl Cut - [[{{Pokemon}} Team Galactic]] ** [[TheMatrix The Architect]] - Dr. Breen from HalfLife ** The Wizard, [[LordOfTheRings Gandalf]] - Jordan Rudess of DreamTheater ** Thong Lady, Big Tit Woman (BTW), Skank-Whore - [[SoulSeries Ivy Valentine]] * Wrybread ** Calgon and [=MacPherson=]: Tom Zarek and Felix Gaeta in Season 4 of (the new) ''BattlestarGalactica''. So named because they're [[SpaceMutiny a charismatic, Machiavellian schemer and a mid-level crew member who walks with a pronounced limp, who instigate a Mutiny that, coincidentally, happens in space]]. ** Chinese Food Simpsons: My name for ''Simpsons'' episodes of recent years, which, while not exactly bad, tend to be forgettable to the point where three hours after they're over you can't remember a single thing about what happened. [[/folder]]

[[folder:X]] * {{Tropers/Xyzzy}} ** 10nant - the tenth [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor]]. ** DJ Davros - somehow caused by 2:24 of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXboNhHGJLw this video]]. ** Scarfboy - the fourth Doctor. Meant to be vaguely derogatory. ** Imdib - quicker to say than the four-syllable acronym [[http://www.imdb.com IMDB]]. * Tropers/{{X2X}}

** ''{{Batman}}'' *** Rasta Joker - [[MonsterClown The Joker]] in ''TheBatman''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PEkOCRmtk Just look at him.]] ** ''{{Bleach}}'' *** AfroSamurai - [[FunnyAfro Zennosuke Kurumadani]]. Of course, Zennosuke is a ButtMonkey used for ComicRelief while Afro is [[SamuelLJackson Samuel]] '''[[PrecisionFStrike MOTHAFUCKIN']]''' [[SamuelLJackson L. Jackson]]! *** Titty Kitty, The Cat's Me-Ass - [[CatGirl Haineko]]. [[BuxomIsBetter T]] ''[[HourglassHottie and]]'' [[HartmanHips A]]? ''[[FetishFuel Rowr]]''. ** ''{{Castlevania}}'' *** The Power of [[SNKBoss Geese]]! - The [[BlowYouAway Pneuma]] glyph in ''[[CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia Order of Ecclesia]]''. It allows you to throw out [[KiAttacks Reppukens, Shippukens]], [[TheSameButMore Double Reppukens, Double Shippukens]], and [[LimitBreak Raging Storms]] like no one's business. ** ''DevilMayCry'' *** Dergil - The Vergil that stands-in for Dante in Vergil's story in ''Devil May Cry 3: [[UpdatedRerelease Special Edition]]''. It has a good ring to it (I like it better than [[FanNickname Vante]]). Plus, if you're familiar with the end of the game [[spoiler:(and by proxy, what happens to Nelo Angelo in ''1'')]] and [[MeaningfulName know what a "dirge" is]]... ** ''Encyclopedia Dramatica'' *** {{Squick}}ipedia - ''99.9% of the site''. Quick! Somebody pass the BrainBleach! ** ''FinalFantasy'' *** [[JustForPun GARland]] - [[BloodKnight Garland]]. [[TookALevelInBadass He took]] ''[[TookALevelInBadass several]]'' [[TookALevelInBadass levels in badassery]] in ''DissidiaFinalFantasy''. ''[[ButWaitTheresMore And]]'', he's voiced by ChristopherSabat! [[AdaptationalBadass Now, he]] ''[[WhosLaughingNow will]]'' [[MemeticMutation knock you all down]]... ''hard''. (This one may have ''actually'' caught on with the fanbase.) *** ''Final {{Fanservice}}'' - ''Dissidia'' itself. It appeals to ''everyone''. From a [[{{Stripperiffic}} nearly-naked woman]] with {{naughty|Tentacles}}... [[PowerPerversionPotential er...]] ''{{combat tentacles}}'' to a BlueBishonenGhetto to [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Terra]] transforming into a [[CuteMonsterGirl furry]] to a CuteShotaroBoy to ''[[FoeYay/{{Ptitlefjcz80qe}} tons]]'' of FoeYay (of ''both'' the hetero and homo variety), the game pretty much covers most bases. *** The Mighty Exdeath - [[FinalFantasyV Exdeath]] due to his status in ''Dissidia'' as [[FountainOfMemes a walking meme]] and the fact that his English voice actor [[HeyItsThatVoice was also the voice of]] M. Bison in ''StreetFighterIV''. ** ''FireEmblem'' *** Ye Broken Lord - Ike in ''[[FireEmblemTellius Path of Radiance]]''. Good stat growths? [[LightningBruiser Check]]. [[UnbreakableWeapons Unbreakable]] [[{{BFS}} sword]] [[InfinityPlusOneSword that is gained near endgame]]? Check. An

exclusive abilility consisting of a first slash that heals you according to the amount of damage you inflicted and then a second slash that ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill halves]]'' [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill the enemy's defense]]? [[GameBreaker Check]]. I swear, he's probably the only character who can ''[[SoloCharacterRun single]]'' maps with ludicrous ease (even the ''[[BonusDungeon extra ones]]''). It's a good thing that they [[{{Nerf}} toned him down a bit]] in ''Radiant Dawn'' and made him a MightyGlacier in ''[[SuperSmashBros Brawl]]''. Transfering those kind of abilities would put him ''[[BeyondTheImpossible above]]'' [[CharacterTiers God Tier]]. ** ''{{The King of Fighters}}'' *** Tristan - Nameless, the [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Jonas Quinn]] [[SublimeRhyme stand-in]] for [[{{Akira}} Tetsuo]]... ahem... ''[[CaptainErsatz K9999]]'' in ''The King of Fighters 2002: [[UpdatedRerelease Unlimited Match]]''. Why? His [[DeadLittleSister dead]] [[StarCrossedLovers love interest]] is named ''[[ThemeNaming Isolde]]''. *** [[CompositeCharacter Blankuma]] - Silber in ''XI'' (originally from ''Buriki One''). Seriously, he looks like [[StreetFighter Akuma killed Blanka]] and decided to wear him as a garment. ** ''[[MarvelVsCapcom Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' *** Kiss Kiss, '''[[MemeticMutation BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG!]]''' - [[DevilMayCry Dante]][=/=][[{{Darkstalkers}} Morrigan]][=/=]{{Deadpool}}. [[DontExplainTheJoke If you don't get it]], [[MoreDakka bullets]] are provided by #1 and (''especially'') #3, while the kisses are courtesy of [[HornyDevils the sole female of the group]]. *** The Chair Team - DoctorDoom[=/=][[DoctorStrange Dormammu]][=/=][[TheUnexpected M.O.D.O.K.]] in ''[=MvC3=]''. The first two start out with a SlouchOfVillainy on their thrones, while the latter ''is'' the chair. *** When All Else Fails, [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throw S***]] [[GhostsNGoblins Arthur]][=/=][[{{Darkstalkers}} HsienKo]][=/=]ViewtifulJoe. The first two are pretty much HyperspaceArsenal incarnate, and the third is quite bad himself. ** ''MegaManX'' *** Colonel Flag - [[BigBad Sigma]]. My dad heard me doing a spot-on impersonation of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgLr19eYoH8 much-maligned voice acting]] in ''Mega Man X4'' (mainly the lines "Where's that red Maverick that wiped out Garma's unit?" and "I don't want any more of my people being sacrificed.") and came up with this one. The name's stuck ever since and has become a several years-long [[RunningGag in-joke]]. *** [[UrbanLegendOfZelda Shen Long]] - Magma Dragoon in ''X4''. A {{Shotoclone}} with [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Akuma]]'s [[IconicItem prayer beads]], and [[PlayingWithFire fiery versions]] of the [[EnergyBall Hadouken]], {{Shoryuken}}, and [[DynamicEntry Temna Kujinkyaku]]? He's even a BloodKnight like Akuma. You ''don't'' stand a chance. ** ''MNightShyamalan'' *** M. Night Shamalalabangbang - Yes, that's ''not'' his name, but it fits considering the idiotic, [[TheUnreveal unfulfilling]]

[[DullSurprise nature]] of most of his movies. "[[RobotChicken What a tweeest!]]", [[SarcasmMode indeed]]. ** ''ResidentEvil'' *** Ouroboros Chain Drive - Wesker's {{badass}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNs0pF5iCVo scene]] from ''ResidentEvil5'' where he tosses his iconic CoolShades at Chris and then proceeds to dish out a ''[[TheMatrix Matrix]]''-esque [[CurbstompBattle asskicking]] to Chris and Sheva. Eat your heart out, [[TheKingOfFighters K']]. *** Ouroboros Raging Storm - Wesker's attack in the FinalBoss [[BossBattle battle]] where he plunges his CombatTentacles into the ground, causing them to encircle him and shoot up towards the air (see [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77xv1mn2deY 0:25]]). [[FatalFury Geese]] [[ArtOfFighting Howard]] [[TheKingOfFighters himself]] would be proud. [[GratuitousEnglish PREDICT]][[MemeticMutation ABO]]! ** ''{{Soul|Series}}'' series *** Ziggy - [[TheAtoner Siegfried]]. Because it sounds funny (and the "Sieg" in his name is pronounced "Zieg"). Sometimes shortened to [[ZeroWing Zig]] for the sake of shouting "[[MemeticMutation Move 'Zig']]. ForGreatJustice!" It also coincides with [[CrispinFreeman his VA]] in ''SCIII'' and the [[MemeticMutation more famous]] '''[[CodeGeass STORM OF LOYALTY!!!]]''' *** The Nutcracker - [[LadyOfWar Sophitia]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sun9k-HXuGA due to]] [[GroinAttack a particular move of hers]]. *** Crystal Medieval [[FinalFantasyVIII Blasting Zone]] - Siegfried's [[FinishingMove Critical Finish]] in ''Soulcalibur IV''. ** ''StreetFighter'' *** [[ThatOneBoss That One Guy]] - [[FinalFight Guy]]. Not only was he a dominant force in the ''Alpha'' series, but the fact that Guy wasn't included in the original ''Street Fighter IV'' shot his MemeticBadass status [[UpToEleven through the roof]]. As one [[YouTube YouTuber]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mONhnRcAivk best said]]: "Guy is boss. He owns so hard, they&#65279; didn't invite him to ''[[StreetFighterIV Street Fighter 4]]'' because ''[[RuleOfCool he already won]]''". [[AndTheFandomRejoiced Cue Guy's entrance]] in ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM1LpLC7dfU Super Street Fighter IV]]'' with the [[BadassCreed words]] "[[PreAsskickingOneLiner The power of Bushin-ryuu shall be my quill]]." and the ability to make the [[{{Naruto}} Primary Lotus]] even more awesome. RESPECT. *** [[ThePoorMansSubstitute The Poor Man's]] [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman Dudley]] - [[ScaryBlackMan Balrog]]. After [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen fighting like a gentleman]], going back to Balrog is the equivalent of [[TookALevelInDumbass taking]] ''[[TookALevelInDumbass several]]'' [[TookALevelInDumbass steps backwards]]. A lot of people are going to enjoy trashing around Rog with Dudley in ''SSFIV''. ''[[AndTheFandomRejoiced A lot]]''. ** ''Film/{{Transformers}} Transformers'' *** Angus, The Bearded Scotsman - [[CoolOldGuy Jet]][[BadassGrandpa fire]] in ''Revenge of the Fallen'', thanks in part to his [[FakeNationality inexplicable accent]] which came off as Irish/Scottish instead of the usual [[FakeBrit British]].

*** Sam [[{{Mondegreen}} Wit-wicki-wild-wild]] - C'mon. His last name sounds like WillSmith's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEaX4ApC_EU rap]] from ''Film/WildWildWest''. ** ''YuYuHakusho'' *** Doll Man - [[NotSoHarmless Shorin]]. It doesn't help that he shares a faint resemblance to [[DragonBall Chiaotzu]], who is also given the same nickname. *** Girl Man - [[{{Bishonen}} Kurama]]. I blame my dad. *** [[{{Mondegreen}} Kookaburra]] - [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kuwabara]]. *** New Age ''SpeedRacer'' - The English dub, at first. Whenver a new (major) character was introduced, or a technique or item was unveiled, the show would take a pause in the action 75% percent of the time to explain something, even if it was [[ViewersAreMorons easily noticeable]]. Good grief! If it's called a "Rose Whip", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin what the heck do you think it is]]? I was expecting the {{Narrator}} to start prattling on about how [[LateArrivalSpoiler Racer X was Speed's older brother]]. *** Shorty (Mc)Quicksilver - [[LightningBruiser Hiei]]. [[/folder]] [[folder:Y]] * {{Tropers/ytdn}} ** Klan Klein and Klan Gro&#946; - The Micron and Zentradi forms of Klan Klan from Macross Frontier (Klein and Gro&#946; mean Small and Big in German, repectively) [[/folder]] [[folder:Z]] * {{Tropers/ziddy}} ** Nicknamed every member of the TalesOfVesperia cast- "Awesome Guy" for Yuri, "[[TheScrappy Other Collette]]" for Estelle, "Goggles" for Rita, "Pirate Dog" for Repede, "Cannon Fodder" for Karol, "[[MsFanservice Captain Fanservice]]" for Judith, and "Other Zelos" for Raven * {{Tropers/Zephid}} ** Berserker - the blind bastards with the giant retractable claws in ''ResidentEvil 4.'' ** Atari Dumbledore - Arcueid Bumstead in ''{{Tsukihime}}''. Damn [[FourChan 4chan]]. ** Doo-hoo-hoo-hoo (like crying) - Neil in ''TheYoungOnes''. ** Those f&#65533;$ing babies! - the Grotesqueries in ''{{Drakengard}}''. ** God of the Ticks - Yu Yevon in ''Final Fantasy X''. * {{Tropers/Zuzubrion}} ** Church of Hinata - The [[{{Naruto}} Hinata/NaruHina]] {{FanDumb}}. The nickname came about while this troper became a fan of HayateTheCombatButler and visited forums for that series. The series [[{{EnsembleDarkhorse/Anime}} Ensemble Darkhorse]] there had her fandom call themselves the "Church of Hinagiku" and this is what prompted this troper to call the Hinata {{Fandumb}}, simply because

they act like the character is a goddess who could do no wrong. ** Old School Sonic AKA Physics Age - The [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] games that featured mainly physics based platforming. While most games in this Tropers opinion are from the Genesis era, Sonic Advance of the SonicAdvanceTrilogy is the only game past Adventure to qualify because to this troper it plays EXACTLY like how the old school games were. ** Neo Sonic AKA [[Narm/SonicTheHedgehog Narm]] Age - The [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] games that spent most of their time trying to tell a story than anything, and only end up being a heaping helping case of Narm which is where the nickname comes from. Everything from Sonic Adventure to Sonic06 fits in this category. ** Rush Sonic AKA Boost Age - The [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] games that have begun to spring up as the standard for Sonic, sometimes called "New School Sonic" among his friends. This Troper seeing it as starting with [[SonicAdvanceTrilogy Sonic Advance 2]] and moving to the latest [[SonicColors Sonic Colors]]. The notable thing is the boost meter and semi-automatic roller coaster-esque level design. ** TEH BOSCH - Johnny Young Bosch. Simply because he's one of my favorite dub voice actors and I haven't invented nicknames for anyone else yet. [[/folder]] ----

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FanNicknameUncategorized '''Do not add any more to this page. Please, add your own entry in alphabetical order.''' ---* Nappa - A nickname to Yammy of Bleach because his voice sounds uncannily like Nappa of DBZ, it doesn't help that they have the same arrogance, are with a character that can handle himself completely, as well as able to be punished by the main character relatively easily (When he's not arguing with his evil side). * Nappa the nanny - The original Nappa's nickname for me, I found at on these forums at some point, check Yammy for reasons why this is his nickname. * Doucheke - Sasuke Uchiha, just, Sasuke Uchiha. * Awesomus Prime - To me, the Transformers Animated version of Optimus, doing some of the coolest stuff (Like going Haruko Haruhara on Soundwave's ass), but this name may also apply to the Original, Beast Wars, Armada, among other versions. * Electro - A nickname I don't use often, but it's for Elecman of the Megaman Series. * The Flash - Another Megaman nickname, for Quickman. * Those fucking bastards - Nickname for those stupid {{Die For Our Ship}} people. * Theme Park from Hell - Nickname for Eggman Land in Sonic Unleashed, since it indeed looks like a theme park from hell.

* Bob, Foot Soldier/Agent of THE FOOT - A nickname for the playable Foot Soldier in TMNT: Smash Up, name came from a conversation with my sister. ** Deadpool - Another Nickname due to the uncanny skinnyness, making him look like Deadpool stole a random Foot Ninja's clothes. * The [=TransFighters or StreetFormers=] - Nicknames for the 5 Guardians in the 2007 TMNT movie, due to the Nostalgia Critic calling them "What the cast of Street Fighter would look like if they ate the Transformers." ** Rhison - Name for the horned and supposed leader of the guardians due to his resemblance to Bison eating Rhinox. ** [=CheeDhalsim=] - Name for the small one that looks like Dhalsim if he ate Cheetor. * Ninja in Blue overalls - Mario, yes, ''that'' Mario, seriously, his acrobatics, the fact he can jump off walls, among other things. * Espada!Xykon - [[{{Bleach}} Barragan Luisenbarn]], after his released form's uncanny resemblance to a particular villain from ''TheOrderOfTheStick'' * Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald WEAPON - Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza, respectively, from the Gen3 {{Pokemon}} games. * Delta Attack Squad - the Mover enemies from the FFVII games, after their insanely powerful 'Delta Attack' move. * Jedi Jim - The Rebel counterpart to "Darth Bob", the TIE pilot who likes to crash into you in ''StarWars: Rogue Leader''. He shows up in the two bonus missions where you play as Darth Vader. * Chiclets - ''RockBand'''s equivalent to [[GuitarHero Skittles]]. And like the Skittles, ''[[TheTetrisEffect they're every-wheeeeere!]]'' * [[{{Bleach}} Madame Ikkaku - Madarame Ikkaku]]. Started as an accident over MSN, is now used among this troper's Bleach fan friends. * [[{{Bleach}} Gay Satan - Aizen]] This tropers father named him such because of his strong (story wise) resemblance to the religous BigBad, and also his large habit to have buckets of HoYay floating around him. * Agent V Megatron - See the reasons for Movieverse Megatron and add in for ''VForVendetta''. * Trope example: Cheap 3-D - ConspicuousCGI * After [[FateStayNight the Unlimited Blade Works Movie]] this troper and his friend call Shiro: [[StarWars Shiro Skywalker]] due to his mad sword [[ImplausibleFencingPowers deflection skills]]. ----

FanOfUnderdog * [[DiscoGlacier ThisTroper]] is a fan of literal underdog [[{{Pokemon}} Flareon]], the TierInducedScrappy of the [[FanNickname eeveelutions]]. It's not an unlikable Pokemon by its own merits, but one of the many cool Pokemon that unfortunately got the shaft from Game Freak gameplay-wise. It [[NeedsMoreLove needs more love]]. ** I like Flareon too, mostly because I love fire-types and Flareon is cute. * For This Troper, it usually falls on being a fan of a series' [[{{TheScrappy}} scrappy]]. Not matter how much hatred that particular character or series has, I will look past all the vitriol and find

redeeming qualities that most people are too quick to dismiss or outright ignore. * I never had a big problem with [[Left4Dead2 Rochelle.]] In fact, I kind of like her. She's not my favorite, but I do enjoy her lines. I have a soft spot for IncrediblyLamePuns. ---Sure ''someone'' has to be a fan of [[FanOfUnderdog this page]].

FanonDisContinuity ->''"I reject your reality and substitute my own!"'' -->-- '''Adam Savage''', ''{{Mythbusters}}'' This page does not exist, and if it did, it ''definitely'' wouldn't involve tropers purging their brains of the horrible abominations wrought on their favourite media in the most annoying way possible. Note: This is very subjective. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---* [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityAnimeAndManga Anime and Manga]] * [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityComicBooks Comic Books]] * [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityFilm Film]] * [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityLiterature Literature]] * [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityLiveActionTV Live Action TV]] * [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityMusic Music]] * [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityNewspaperComics Newspaper Comics]] * [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityProfessionalWrestling Professional Wrestling]] * [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityRadio Radio]] * [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityTabletopGames Tabletop Games]] * [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityTheatre Theatre]] * [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityVideoGames Video Games]] * [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityWebcomics Webcomics]] * [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityWebOriginal Web Original]] * [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuityWesternAnimation Western Animation]]

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FanonDiscontinuityAnimeAndManga Note: This is a very subjective trope. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as

seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---* Man, I love how Inuyasha didn't drag on for seven seasons with no ending, finally wrapping everything up in season four, with Kagome FINALLY returning to her own time for a good, Inuyasha ending up with Kikyo and Shin--a demon fox boy? I have no idea what you're talking about! Inuyasha never contained an annoying demon fox boy! * Boy, it's a good thing ''[[GaoGaiGar [=GaoGaiGar=] FINAL]]'' didn't kill off all the heroes in the last 30 seconds of the series, isn't it? I mean it would've been ''the lamest thing ever'' if they'd been caught in a collapsing pocket dimension and decided that despite having both dimension-warping tools AND access to ZAH POWAH that they had no way of getting themselves home. I mean, not only are they SuperRobot heroes, they even have "never give up" written into their freaking bylaws! ** No, no, you see what happened was simple, they were just exhausted from the fight but wanted to let people know what happened, so they sent the kids ahead of them. Then, as the Universe collapsed around them, Guy freaking got up, used the final Genesic tool and opened a portal back to his home universe. Sadly, they were on the ''other'' side of the universe and it would take a few years to get back. Thankfully they landed on a planet and got repairs to the robots. Sadly, [[{{Voltron}} King Zarkon]] decided to screw things up and the Braves teamed up with Voltron, and it... Was... AWESOME!!! * And as long as we're on the topic of SuperRobot shows, ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' did ''not'' suddenly mutate into a military sci-fi action series with its' third season. What actually happened was that the Aces joined up with the Main Branch's mobile divisions and Nanoha's circle of friends got turned into a multidimensional HeroesRUs-type group with a chief who bears a very suspicious resemblance to [[GaoGaiGar Kotaro Taiga]]. There is no such thing as military politics in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' and the only {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s in the series are the ones who get [[DefeatMeansFriendship befriended]]. ** Speaking of which, I am ''so'' glad that they didn't decide to do a movie that writes out every secondary character just to give one character more screen time and backstory and make it impossible for newer viewers to enjoy said movie. I mean, the movie where the secondary characters picked up arms and were kicking ass of giant robot mooks while the two mains fought against an incredibly powerful BigBad? Man, that was AWESOME! ** As far as [[Tropers/LanceOmikron ThisTroper]] is concerned, TheMovie is not RecursiveCanon, and they didn't make any audio dramas that suggested this. After all, it would make very little sense to do such a masterful retelling of the first season, only to turn around and basically say "Nah, none of the improvements we made to the story are actually canon". * For the record, ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' ended after the Ceremonial Duel. There was never any series about [[YugiohGX a school that teaches kids how to play children's card games]], and there sure as hell wasn't a

series about [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}} playing card games on motorbikes]]. No, sir. ** AMEN. They would not be stupid enough to tarnish the name of one of the most engaging stories in all of {{shonen}} by making spinoffs dedicated to marketing more cards. ** One of the best stories in the series was seeing Joey develop into a stronger duelist. I mean from defeating Marik in duel (Though not completely since it wasn't an Egyptian God Card that delivered the final blow), even though the Shadow Game took its toll on him rendering unable to move on in the tournament, and managing to make it in the top four once more in the [[{{Filler}} KaibaCorp Grand Prix]]. There was no way he would [[CantCatchUp continue to decline in rank]] so much that he would, I don't know, ''lose in the 2nd round'' and turn him into a glorified FailureHero. And he sure as hell wasn't made into a butt of a joke based on a card, let alone one [[WithFriendsLikeThese his friends laughed about]]. ** Also, Mai defeated Tea in their {{Filler}} duel. She did NOT sacrifice a game-winning move just to prove Tea right about ThePowerOfFriendship; she's a much [[ActionGirl better duelist]] than that! *** And a bad {{Filler}} that was, as it [[CompletelyMissingThePoint completely missed the point]] of Mai's CharacterDevelopment in order to keep her a bland ActionGirl. [[YankTheDogsChain And poor Tea...]] ** There sure wasn't any spin-off of the original ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' that copied ''{{Pokemon}}'' called Capsule Monsters, (despite it having roots in the original manga), which 4Kids did not fall from its good dub of the Japanese series to expand on its CashCowFranchise. No, sir. Nothing existed like that except for an impressive soundtrack. * ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}'''s fourth season sure had an odd way of numbering its episodes. It skipped 161, 162, 165, and 166. ''Especially'' 165. Also, in episode 176, [[spoiler: after Fubuki magnificently tied with Fujiwara and both of them disappeared into the world of Darkness, Fujiwara simply came back, because Darkness is the master of his own domain, leading to Judai and Johan having to defeat Fujiwara again, this time working to break Darkness' hold on him. There was definitely nothing about an elaborate time travel scheme or mind trick in order to determine the darkness inside Fubuki's heart or anything like that. That would just be dumb, and insulting toward Fubuki's character.]] * ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}'' was rather interesting, what with the fact that Judai was able to defeat such powerful enemies as The Three Phantom Demons and the Light of Destruction just by being able to rely on his friends when he needed them and trusting in his Elemental Hero deck. I mean, can you imagine how stupid it would have been if Judai was the reincarnation of some ancient magical prince who had the power of "Dark Justice" and all the rest of the cast was derailed into being useless, simply to emphasize how special Judai was? * Similarly, ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}'' was also quite interesting in how ballsy the writers got; killing off huge swaths of characters without taking it back? Showing through Kiryu that sometimes relationships get irreperably broken? Not to mention the way Aki and Luka got to duel against Rex alongside Yusei and Jack, and how after the destined battle of the Signers versus the Dark Signers, the dragon birthmarks

faded from existance, their purpose fulfilled and everyone was able to move on with their lives. Really, dragging things on with a meandering third season that never goes anywhere and just piling on filler after filler after filler would have been such a stupid thing to do, no group of writers could be dumb enough to try that! * [[SuzumiyaHaruhiNoYuutsu Yay for second season, but why is it only six episodes long? I mean, there's no way, NO WAY, could they waste the season and animation budget to repeating same eight episodes (that fits into one episode) due to arc being called "Endless Eight" after the month it takes place in. That would be ridiculous.]] ** Seven episodes? Second season? There was just one episode about [[spoiler: Kyon and Mikuru traveling back in time]], there was certainly no five episode arc about the SOS Brigade trying to make some movie. If they did make an arc that's basically the same thing over and over again, it would just consist of the original cycle, a cycle where Kyon and Koizumi are somewhat aware of what's happening, and the cycle where they end their predicament. Other than that, there was only one episode. *** The abovementioned time-travel episode was also the first season finale, which brought everything full circle. The only other Haruhi anime made afterwards was ''the Vanishment of Haruhi Suzumiya'' movie. ** Uuhh... guys? We ''did'' get a second season. But for some reason they decided to air it over Youtube in five-minute segments and added a "-chan" at the end of Haruhi's name. Do you want proof? Nagaru Tanigawa (yes, ''that'' Tanigawa) himself wrote the source material ''and'' one of the episodes recycles footage from the first season when Asakura remembers [[spoiler:her being disintegrated]]. Further proof? It was actually entertaining and faithful to the spirit of the first series. In short, it was everything a second season (which otherwise [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean never materialized]]) was supposed to be. * I can comfortably call the follow-up one-shot of ''DeathNote'' DisContinuity because it's pretty clear that Takeshi Obata, at least, wasn't involved, what with the change back to Cloister Black font and [[spoiler: Near suddenly catching the puberty train at age nineteen]]. Obviously, it's the complete OOC of L and, even more, Mello (he got where he was by winning an ''apathy contest?'' On a subject he's shaken the living daylights out of an old man over?) that really initiate the rejection. ** The art doesn't look quite the same either, so I can definitely believe Obata wasn't in on it. I skimmed through the one-shot out of morbid curiosity and proceeded to ignore it entirely. And while we're on the OOC note, after how the series ended, why is Matsuda willing to defend Kira again? Or- why would he be, if this one-shot existed, anyway. *** For a quick example of the OffModel art on display, look at [[http://www.mangareader.net/113-4125-29/death-note/chapter-109.html the task force]]. And yeah, [[YouFailBiologyForever Near hit puberty at 19]]? The Ohba/Obata team may have made some [[DidNotDoTheResearch research errors]] (L asking the FBI to investigate - the FBI is USexclusive; Light's use of a bag of gasoline when gasoline actually dissolves plastic, etc.), but none ''that'' bad!

*** Who's Near, anyway? Mello caught Kira, everyone knows that! **** No no no, there is no episode 37. Light and Mikami killed [[TheScrappy Near]] and [[KarmaHoudini they lived happily ever after.]] ** L got bored of the lack of challenge and asked Rem to kill Kira and take the notebooks back. Misa was stricken mute. Watari got a race car. ** Those last three rules about everyone, including all of our favorite characters ceasting to exist after dying? Totally fake. What kind of angsty OuterLimitsTwist ending would that be? *** Actually, the rule wasn't that everyone ceases to exist after death. Their souls literally ''go to the world of nothingness'' when they die. Which is also terribly depressing. Everyone gets the same fate as a murderer like Kira when they die? That's so unfair, it has to be fake. **** I personally believe Ryuk wrote it in just to screw with Light. Think about it- when Light asks him "Is there heaven and Hell?" if Ryuk answered "Yes" there was the chance that Light would stop using the Death Note. There goes Ryuk's fun. So he lied. * Yep, it's a classic good ending for ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. Simon has a son with Nia and Kamina is the godfather. They all shed a tear for Rossiu, who died in a HeroicSacrifice earlier on. ** Nia did not vanish immediately after receiving her wedding kiss, and Simon [[SourGrapesTropes most certainly did not reject his chance to]] [[DudeWheresMyReward receive the happiness he deserved]] simply to deliver a clumsy Aesop. The series either ended on their kiss, or it was a complex ruse on the part of Nia and Simon to get some privacy after years of de facto figurehead status. Afterwards, Simon and Nia enlisted in the ranks of the government's army and lived long, happy lives together. Simon most ''certainly'' did not end up a lonely hobo. ** Viral still gets to live as an immortal fleet commander, though. He gets his wife and possibly finds a way to create children so he can have the family he wanted. ** It hasn't been written yet, and probably for good reason: Kamina is not dead, neither Nia, and Simon didn't leave everything behind. They're having a [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Q6AINBZ3DP2KKLDFQUSODPJ 7RVILDAFY.jpeg happy ending]]. ** Also, Kamina and Yoko got married, and Kittan was named the godfather of their second child. Kittan didn't die, people! *** Kamina and Kittan DID die. You have to have ''some'' death in the series. [[CrackShip Yoko and Viral hooked up together in the end.]] *** Well, yeah, but then they came back from the dead and stuck around, being awesome as usual. Otherwise, how do you explain why Kamina's in the above image? Eh? * TengenToppaGurrenLagann is all about doing the impossible and kicking logic to the curb, right? Not having almost the entire supporting cast ''die'' in the last few episodes for a bunch of completely pointless {{Heroic Sacrifice}} explosions. ''No one'' dies, because in that world, people are just ''too badass'' to die. Simon and Nia get happily married, Kittan comes back and marries Yoko...[[{{Incredibly Lame Pun}} you know the drill.]]

* What's all this nonsense I keep hearing about Lelouch being dead? He'd have to stay after that whole faked death thing just to keep his plan from falling apart. ''CodeGeass'' cannot be ended so easily! ** lelouche lamperouge -> rurushu ramperouge -> R.R. -> R2. he's not dead. though WoG says he is, anyone who watched the show and caught the sort of "[[RobotChicken what a TWEEEEST]]!" that it played by knows better than to believe that. he's got the code, he's got the geass, he's R.R. what's not to see? :) *** WordOfGod is a lie. Remember Nunnuly? Didn't she die due to a misshot n2 bomb, if God is to be believed. *** If I'm not mistaken, WordOfGod didn't say he was dead, it merely said that he died. If he got the code from killing his father, he did die, but did not remain dead. ** [[CodeGeass Lelouch]] [[spoiler: didn't die]], and opened up a pizza place with C.C. And [[spoiler: if he did die]], he didn't practice GoGoEnslavement towards his siblings, and use a term hinting at BrotherSisterIncest [[spoiler: right before he died]] to his sister. ** Wait, Lelouch died and Nunnally's still alive? Whuh? From what I heard, after he became emperor, he married both Kallen and C.C., Sayoko married Jeremiah, they killed Ohgi and Villeta during their wedding, and Pizza Hut rules the world. That is how Code Geass ended! *** Let's not forget Nina. She never did a complete 180 in terms of personality after firing the FLEIJA bomb, and after the end of the war she committed suicide because she couldn't stand to see the "Eleven" gain their freedom while she still hadn't avenged Euphemia. Oh, and during the final episodes, the Knight of the Round ladies (Monica and Dorothea) got some more advanced Knightmare frames and proved themselves to be very dangerous opponents. What's this thing I heard about them being WTFPWNT in a mere five seconds? Anti-Britannia propaganda, I guess. ** [[BrotherSisterIncest Incest, what incest?]] Seriously though, whatever ''romance'' there is between Lelouch and Nunnally is probably just some crazy fan's theory. ** What is this R2 your talking about? Whatever it is, I'm sure it's not a long string of AssPull and CharacterDerailment. ** [[spoiler: Euphinator]]? Massacre Princess? What the hell are you talking about? [[spoiler: Euphie]] lived and married Suzaku obviously. And for the record [[spoiler: Shirley and Lelouch]] also did not die. ** I like to ignore R2's Shirley sub-plot up until she gets her memory back. From there, I can see how it works, though I don't particularly like how it ends. But before then, we have Lelouch asking Shirley about breaking up a relationship - which wasn't even phrased in a manner to be helpful for his situation - and getting together with her. For the latter, it's obvious: Lelouch killed her father. She forgot, but he didn't. Is he truly so easily manipulated that he does something so morally reprehensible as that, simply because it didn't fit the mood? And for the former... Why does the person who, in side materials, stops an arranged marriage between Nunnally and Suzaku's father because of his love for Nunnally, consider marrying a little girl to some nameless punk under his command? Did he forget that he's spent years trying to avoid being a political tool? Does he not

realise that his good friend Milly, to whom he owes much, has repeated her final year of schooling in a desperate attempt to avoid such a fate? Does he think that being told it's a bad idea by every woman who is even remotely important to his organisation - from the ancient immortal, to his self-declared wife, to his weapons designer - is not enough to make a conclusive decision? Does he think it's a good decision to irritate the man with the sword who cut down the last five people to try that before they could even speak? Does he not realise that he just spent the last three episodes ruining an identical plan, made by some people he thinks are pathetic and disgusting, and the one man who he truly loathes? That he gives a short exclamation on the righteousness of love was also pretty silly. * Hey, remember ''{{Naruto}}''? It was that fun series about the three ninjas-in-training and their teacher traveling the world, having the proper mix of quirky antics and adventures? It's a good thing they didn't do something dumb like, say, introducing a billion characters in a combination exam/fighting tournament, so that we could keep watching the main three play off each other and grow as characters. Though, it's a shame they never found Sasuke's brother. That fight would have been epic. Also, Haku was a girl. ** This editor would like to think that there never was a TimeSkip in ''Naruto''. The series has just been a mess since. And while it was at least readable, he completely lost interest after the Itachi reveal. ** As far as this troper is concerned Sasuke returned to Konoha after defeating Itachi, and Itachi was never a good guy. ** Pain never pulled out his mass resurrection Bull Shit in ''{{Naruto}}''. And Naruto is still a badass. And Sauske's hilariously moronic plan got him and his team spectacularly mauled by all 5 Kages and their guards at once, in one of the most glorious beatdowns in fictional history. ** This Troper seconds ''Naruto'' not having a time skip. Naruto defeated Sasuke in the final battle. Sasuke was then arrested for his betrayal while Orochimaru and Kabuto were killed by Jiraiya and Tsunade's combined forces. ** Huh? Sorry to correct you, but Sasuke never did betray Konoha, instead deciding to listen to Kakashi and stay so he could continue his CharacterDevelopment into a loyal member of the team who cared about his friends more than revenge. What do you mean by all this [[TookALevelInJerkass taking A level in Jerkass]] and CharacterDerailment? * It finally happened. This troper could not accept the ending of a story. He finally got around to ''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]'' after [[HypeBacklash hearing about it for years.]] Luckily, this ending turned out to be one of Shinji's nightmares and after all the angels and other bad shit was taken care of, everyone was still incredibly messed up but [[ThereAreNoTherapists eventually came to terms with it and moved on,]] like they had been for first 60 chapters or so! I reject your reality and substitute it with my own. ** Don't feel bad. ThisTroper has never seen ''anything'' in his fandom life that has inspired as much DisContinuity, FixFic, and every other type of desperate attempt imaginable to escape the knowledge of the actual canon ending(s) than ''Evangelion''.

** I don't what you people are talking about. The ending of ''Evangelion'' is thus - Asuka was committed to an institution. The new Rei is another helpless devotee to Gendou with no memory of her former self or her close friendship with Shinji. Misato is living alone in her apartment again having to live with the guilt of killing the man she loved and pushing the Children away by making them do something that wrecked them emotionally and mentally. And Shinji is discharged by NERV since there is no use for him, now far worse then he'd even been if he'd never gone, spiritually destroyed and forever living with the knowledge that he had one person who gave him unconditional love and he knowingly killed him - left possibly suidcial and with wounds so deep he'll never want to speak to his old comrades at NERV, or indeed anyone, ever again. Beautifully dark and depressing. And before you say "no" look me in the eye and tell me it's not as good as two what-the-fuck final episodes made out of recycled footage and LSD or a movie in which [[KillEmAll the entire cast is killed]]. *** It's not as good as two what-the-fuck final episodes made out of recycled footage and LSD or a movie in which [[KillEmAll the entire cast is killed]]. Don't test fan-fic writers. Deep down inside, we're all psychotic idealists. *** Yours still sucks. The ending I saw had Everyone Live. Just this once, everyone lives. HAPPY END! *** That's a pretty good one, I'll admit. But mine has all these alternate universes connected to each other. [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann And in one, there's this kid named 'Simon'. And he's got this drill, see...]] **** You know... this troper, at first, thought that LordGenome was an older and inmortal Shinji Ikari. ** Evangelion? Yeah, that [[BeyondTheImposible incredible awesome]] series about a boy [[ShinjiAndWarhammer40K who discover a box full of Warhammer 40000 miniatures and is recruited by his abusive parent]] ** In relative contrast, I completely accept the Canon Ending(s) of Evangelion. Especially as a Symbolic exercise in futility, immaturity, and depressive suicide. HOWEVER, I will not accept the Series as another Sci-Fi Mecha Anime about fighting Space Aliens. Neither will I accept that all Life on Earth was created by said Space Aliens. Giant Robot Mother Gods are hard to swallow, but nothing on earth is going to make me believe Space Aliens are Gods. Seriously, that's the best you could come up with? SPACE ALIEN GODS?! * ''[[YesPrettyCure5 Yes! Pretty Cure 5GoGo]]'' ended with a series of scenes that most certainly did ''not'' involve Karen and Rin somehow finding time to carefully tend to a seemingly INFINITE flower garden, all by themselves, while still having time to carry out their normal lives without disruption. Also, [[{{Shipping}} Milk]] [[SchoolgirlLesbians can]] [[VoluntaryShapeshifting still]] [[InterspeciesRomance become]] [[ShipSinking Kurumi]]. * ''GundamSEEDDestiny'' is generally hated by long-time Mobile Suit Gundam fans, even the ones who enjoyed the original ''GundamSEED''. This comes about for many reasons; particularly, how certain characters can [[ContractualImmortality survive anything]]. For instance, there's the time when Mwu survived an anti-fortress cannon

obliterating his mobile suit, and the other time when Kira got a sword through his Gundam, and it exploded in a mile-wide blast. This troper prefers to think of anything that happened after the latter event as being a dream of Shinn's, rendered comatose by the Freedom's explosion, and allows for some ridiculous events to disappear entirely, including the resurrection of Kira and Mwu (Neo was just a coincidental likeness), the X-1 Destroy becoming a non-threat compared to the Minerva crew, Durandal's Destiny plan and funnels being able to hover in mid-air. ** Or you could just say the ''SuperRobotWars Z'' version of the ''SEED Destiny'' events are canon. You get a likeable and threedimensional Shinn, a ''well'' handled relationship between him and Luna, [[HesJustHiding Stella lives]], Kira's actions are not accepted by the world at large, etc. What's not to like? ** This Troper was interested in GundamSEED, but after Kira and Flay had sex, he decided that the best thing to do was pretend that said scene never happened. ** Stellar lived, and Shinn hooked up with her after she was cured of her conditioning. Luna certainly didn't inexplicably fall for the guy who shot her little sister. * This Goon will always say ''DigimonAdventure02'' was canceled after the Digimon Kaizer arc, between the Nightmare Fuel that resulted in Chiaki J. Konaka geting the seat for Tamers and the concentrated awesome of T.K's CrowningMomentOfAwesome, Toei, being the international house of failcakes they are, had to cancel it. ** I've been hearing the most frightful things about a finale where they reuse a {{Big Bad}} of the former season and the kids defeat them by talking about some stupid dream and then immediately move on to an epilogue where Yamato becomes an astronaut and ends up with Sora...... thankfully those rumors were never true. ** Also, Lucemon was unleased almost immediatly after Cherubimon was defeated in DigimonFrontier. There were no boring ten-something episodes with Takuya and Koji completely [[SpotlightStealingSquad taking over the show]] and the good guys being [[CurbStompBattle curbstomped]] by [[BoringInvincibleVillain boring invincible villains.]] That would be enough to put anyone of of {{Digimon}} forever. * Tropers/GentlemensDame883 has friends who pretend the Orange Islands arc of ''{{Pokemon}}'' never occurred. ** Orange WHAT? The AnimatedAdaptation of ''{{Pokemon}}'' never made it past it's first season! ** Lucario does not exist. I don't know who this ugly Anubis-wannabe wolfaboo thing is, but Mew was never in any films with it. Mew only exists in the first movie with Mewtwo, and possibly in Mewtwo Returns. Incidentally, apart from Mewtwo Returns, there were no movies made after the first Pokemon movie. EVER. Also, Ash grew up and hung up the Pokeballs a long time ago, so I don't know who this retarded recolor kid is who's running around now, dragging out filler after filler after filler, and Team Rocket finally found some peace when he did, instead of living as the poor comedic relief to suffer through each episode and never be happy. THE END!!!!! * There was only one season of the original ''Pokemon'' anime, and it

seemed to be missing a lot of episodes. It went rather continuous up until Ash had six badges, but the next episode after he got his sixth badge was "Pikachu's Goodbye". From there, we were fine up until the episode in which Charmeleon evolved, which seemed to be over remarkably quickly, possibly hinting at something that was supposed to happen later in the episode after Jigglypuff had finished singing. It then skipped to the battle with Blaine, an awesome two-part episode that left me wanting more quality, but then there was a bunch of sadly justified filler, much of which (like the one with the giant Pokemon or the one with the surfing Pikachu or the one where Jessie caught the Shellder) was actually pretty good, followed by the Indigo League. After Ash's elimination at the hands of Bizarro-Ash, however, the next episode has Ash and Misty--''just'' Ash and Misty, which at the time seemed [[{{Shipping}} like a good thing]]--on some island, where Charizard gets hurt in a battle with a Poliwrath and ends up trusting Ash. Also, Ash somehow has a Snorlax now, and his Pidgeotto is inexplicably missing. Then we end up fast-forwarding to another league on these islands, where a more obedient Charizard kicks ass. He then continues to kick ass for a little bit in Johto, but leaves to train with other Charizard, pretty much ending the original series, as he'd become the only real reason to watch by then. ** I think the ''{{Pokemon}}'' anime got canned in America after the eighth season. That really sucks since they were only like 15 episodes into the Battle Frontier arc. ** Ash won the Indigo League and became a Pokemon Master. Nothing else ever happened to him. Ever. ** True that. There was then a new Johto series after that; with a new main boy, a new female and male travelling companion, a new rival, and two new Team Rocket members (but with these ones being frighteningly competent rather than [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain bumbling.]]) It was a NEW SERIES, there's no way the anime producers would squander the potential and limit the concept to a random three-part special about Raikou. ** Dawn won the Sinnoh Grand Festival. Which is the best thing that could happen, really. There's no way the authors would make her lose for the umpteenth time to her rival, thus making all of her progress null and void. Oh, and May won the Hoenn Grand Festival, beating out both Drew and Soledad. * Although it has been purged from the proper page now, there was once a troper who saw fit to believe that [[spoiler: the Euphinator incident]] in ''CodeGeass'' and everything beyond that never occurred, instead giving Lelouch and the rest of the characters a happy ending. * In ''{{Bleach}}'', after a long, hard battle, and with the help of the captains, Ichigo finally defeated Aizen and his accomplices at the Soukyoku hill, and managed to extract and destroy the Hogyoku. After returning home, he sees a more powerful Grand Fisher attacking his family, and after a long, hard battle against one of the most powerful hollows in the world, manages to save his sisters and his non-Soul Reaper father, and when he visits his mother's grave for the next time, several months later, realizes that he has found a new purpose for living. ** Actually, Ichigo has never gone to Soul Society.

*** Yes, that's right. Rukia got her powers back and left in peace. Life went on as normal. ''Life went on as normal.'' *** '''[[MemeticMutation WRONG!!]]''' Rukia did get her powers back, but then she decided to stay in Karakura Town with her new friends and also because she and Ichigo had fallen in love. And they all lived happily ever after. ** And now a word from our very own forums: --->'''Tropers/WanderlustWarrior:''': ''And could someone please tell me what the point of this arc so far has been? I'm not complaining about series I don't like, I used to like bleach, but its quality went to hell soooooo long ago.'' --->'''{{Tropers/Noimporta}}:''' ''Defeating Muramasa and the rouge Zampakutous to save soul society.'' --->'''[[{{Tropers/KSPAM}} K*SPAM]]:''' ''I believe he is referring to the manga...'' ---> ... --->'''{{Tropers/Noimporta}}:''' ''Oh, but that ended after they rescued Rukia, so I figured they were talking about the anime.'' *** Yes, yes, yes. The series ended with Rukia rescued and Aizen being destroyed by the entire Soul Society. No Hueco Mundo, Espada, Vizards, or anything came after it. ** Agreed. Oh, and for the record Ishida defeated [[MonsterClown Mayuri]] in a spectacularly epic fight and avenged his grandfather. Sacrificing his powers for a failed ultimate attack? Mayuri escaping by turning into blue goo? What bad Fanfic have you been reading? * ''SailorMoon'' finishes with the end of the fourth season. The rest is just really bad fanfic. ** I thought it ended with the second season... *** Third season. And a shorter OVA that's heavily based on the manga arc about Dead Moon and did NOT overfocus on Chibi-Usa, nor did it put the [[FanNickname "Outer"]] Senshi [[PutOnABus on a bus]]. *** Season 4 is a shorted OVA and Season 5 is some glorious GaoGaiGar thing where Senshi are dying all over the place and horribly at that and the nature of life and death is explored. **** The anime also kept some of the best parts of the manga(Eg. Beryl's backstory, Pluto's role in R, Minako's seriousness, ect.), and Naru wasn't demoted to extra, and developed a bit of a hidden BadAssNormal as the seasons progessed, even if she was an interesting character if she didn't. * What do you mean [[FushigiYuugi Nakago]] [[KarmaHoudini went to heaven]] after his death in ''FushigiYuugi''? All because he [[FreudianExcuse had a bad childhood]]? After jumping over the MoralEventHorizon the way he did, he has obviously been dropped to Hell. ** Tasuki ''didn't'' attempt to rape Miaka in the OAV-- What are you, crazy? He was brainwashed, sure, but he fought it back, and that's why Miaka fell for him after all. You thought she'd actually wind up with that cardboard cut-out [[strike: Tamahome]] Taka? * In ''{{Bleach}}'', Aizen most certainly does not stab Momo with his sword after the reveal that he is still alive and now the BigBad. He instead gently renders her unconscious with one of his Kidos and takes her with him when he and his followers escape to Hecho Mundo.

Afterall, every Hades needs a Persephone... ** I thought that's what Gin was for. * In ''{{Bleach}}'', Harribel died after being frozen by Hitsugaya. After bieng slashed by Kyoraku, Starrk revealed that he had a Segunda Etapa, and Kyoraku, Love and Rose only managed to defeat him by using their bankais. ** No, no, you got it all wrong! Halibel brutally slaughtered Hitsugaya and then escaped with her life. Talk about a KarmaHoudini... *** Hitsugaya was demoted for incompetence shortly before this, of course. **** Wow, What have you guys been reading? Hitsugaya freezes Harribel but she escapes. Hitsugaya notices Aizen about to stab her and he brings up an ice wall to defend her. Starrk and Harribel joins the shinigami alongside Starrk and they, alongside the visards, crush crush Gin and Tousen. Then Ichigo appears and He and Aizen duke it out and Ichigo wins. **** All of this of course happens in a beautifully paced 20 chapter epic that was so awesome Kubo's taken an extended long break to try to come up with something equally awesome to top it. * Gosh, it's too bad ''RoninWarriors'' never made any more {{OAV}}s after Gaiden! * I have no idea what the people above me are talking about, but I forone can't wait for {{Bleach}} to stop this sudden filler streak and finish with Aizen's escape - which would no doubt be followed by a long period of subterfuge and infiltrations as all the sides of the Winter War are revealed over a few years, demonstrating the strategic prowess of centuries-old warriors. Many heroic sacrifices will no doubt define the future outlook of the protagonists as they all relavtively evenly master their powers and develop tactical warfare methods. Because after revealing a Big Bad like Aizen, we are no dount in for something that will redefine the very Shonen genre, and definitely NOT a dragged on exposition of like two months whre Ichigo gets powers plopped on - and the others barely improve - and Aizen becomes an illusion spammer while the Shinigami and "Espada" whatever that could mean - poke each other floating in the air. Nope. Because Aizen will not decay into a standard (read: crap) villain. ** Excuse me? Aizen's escape? What kind of [[PlotHole incongruent]] CrackFic have you been reading, fellow troper? Don't you remember the manga ended with Ichigo's [[spoiler: Final Getsuga Tenshou]] defeating Aizen's Bankai after both they and Isshin [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment take a cup of coffee]] [[RuleOfFun and talk about their goals in life]]? I remember it, and it was a short, beautiful, epic 5 chapters fight. *** Also, Nelliel goes to the human world and marries Ichigo. Karakura town turns into an in-earth base for the Seireitei, where all of the soul reapers live now (except for Hitsugaya because he stayed in hueco mundo but nobody cared about him) and [[TiteKubo Kubo]] has recently announced to start working on a short, gunslinger-themed 100 chapter manga. Aizen's escape? bleach continuing? No, that would just be an [[XanatosGambit evil plan]] from a professional {{Troll}} to laugh his as off at us. * I don't know what [[{{Gundam0083}} Nina Purpleton]] was thinking,

making Kou shoot her so he could finish Gato off. Well, that's UC Gundam for you I guess. She certainly didn't survive to smile at the man she'd stabbed in the back! * [[VisionOfEscaflowne Van and Hitomi's]] kids are so cute! I'm so glad those two stayed together! * KatekyoHitmanReborn is well into an arc that's engaging and adds more to the series' mythology, and certainly does ''not'' involve time-travel and some kind of impractical, implausible weapon from a box. * ''DragonballZ'' ended with the Cell saga. And Goku survived. Shut up, of course he did. So there. ** From what I saw, Goku died in the Cell saga and remained dead in the Buu saga, which is also where Vegeta died by a HeroicSacrifice of [[RedemptionEqualsDeath redemption]] and where Evil Buu was destroyed by GOHAN launching a giant mystic blast at him. *** Thank goodness they didn't do something stupid like resurrect both Goku and Vegeta. That would totally contradict the theme of the new generation succeeding the old one, a theme that's been around since damn near the beginning of the series. ** Oh shush, you, whoever heard of the Buu saga! What nonsense! (Ahem) ** This troper likes to cut it off at the end of the Cell saga as well. The Buu saga could have been great if they'd tried, and it had some good elements (Shin and Kibito are ''cool'') but then ended up weighed down by too much nonsense and silliness. (Eight-year-old super saiyans? ANOTHER "layer" of the pantheon? Piccolo, AKA [[BadAss Awesome Incarnate]], running in horror from a squealing pink blob - no matter how formidable?) This troper takes great pleasure in writing fanfiction where Goten and Trunks are barely approaching the power of the eight-year-old version of Goku - who, by the way, was revived directly after the Cell saga using the Namekian Dragonballs. So there. *** Shin and Kibito aren't enough justification for the Buu saga existing. [[PerverseSexualLust But Videl is.]] So THERE. ** What is this ''Dragon Ball GT'' of which you speak? Is it a fanfic or something? Last time I checked, the ''Dragonball'' saga ended with Buu's death. Then Goku went off to train Uub to be his successor so he could FINALLY pass the torch to someone else. It's not like he became a kid again or became some kinda Super Saiyan 4. Hey, Super Saiyan 4 actually sounds like a good idea, but it would ''definitely'' have gold hair, and not something stupid like ''red monkey fur'', or, I dunno, ''the same hair color as his normal state''... *** Umm... actually this one's canon. *** GT was a lot of fun! I loved it's back to basics style of hunting for the Dragon Balls without any of the ridiculously longs fights in DBZ. I'm just glad that "Baby" guy didn't make his way to Earth and turn everything to shit, and I'm especially glad they didn't rehash the Janemba movie and have everyone break out of hell and fuse two Android 17s together for no logical reason... And it was great how none of those dark dragons in the final arc sucked. It'd be pretty lame if most of them only took one episode to beat. ** While we're on the topic of ''DBZ'', who's this Garlic Jr. that everyone's talking about? Is he a fan character or something? *** Oh, he was in one of the better movies. He totally never appeared

in the TV series though, as it'd be absolutely ridiculous to try and shoehorn a character from a NonSerialMovie into canon. I wonder why people seem to think Broly appeared in a third movie? How could you bring him back again? I mean, it's not like they'd resort to making him some kind of sludge clone... ** Cell? Buu? Vegeta? Gohan? ''Dragonball '''Z'''''? What are you people on? ''Dragonball'' ended with Goku's fight against Piccolo Jr. at the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai. Everything was tied up: Goku became the strongest man in the world (surpassing even God himself), the most powerful evil being in existence was soundly defeated (and even given a second chance at life), Chi-chi finally found Goku and fulfilled her vow of marriage with him, Goku's tail was forever removed (preventing any future giant monkey attacks and allowing Kami to bring back the moon that Roshi had destroyed six years earlier), Goku turned down a chance at godhood (a common occurrence at the end of a legendary tale), and everyone commented on how Goku had completed his path to manhood. Perfect place to end the series. I mean, what were they going to do if it continued? Reveal that Goku was actually a space alien or something? *** I wholeheartedly second this. ** You're all delusional. The clearly series ended with the Frieza arc, with the nature of the Dragon Balls and Goku and Piccolo's people revealed in its entirety, a thoroughly evil being named Vegeta sacrificing himself to help the cause of good (and ''staying dead'', preventing any chance that he could be EasilyForgiven), Goku becoming the most powerful warrior in history and pulverising the greatest evil in the universe, and after travelling across space for a while vaporising bad guys with a gesture he eventually goes home and lives a long, happy life with his family. There wasn't a series of increasingly silly creations of an idiotic MadScientist that were inexplicably more powerful than Frieza, and there was ''definitely'' not everyone and their cat going Super Saiyan at the drop of a hat, destroying the entire point of it. There was a brief incident with a sorcerer attempting to resurrect a powerful magical creature, but that was dealt with swiftly because there wasn't a certain thoroughly evil being around to make an idiotic FaceHeelTurn. * [[WallofIllusion I'm]] not sure how [[SoulEater Asura]] got into [[spoiler:the Death Room in episode 48,]] but I do know that HumongousMecha, one of which I suppose [[HandWave kind of]] [[WishFulfillment has a reason to exist]] but the other of which absolutely does not, were not involved. * [[ViolinistOfHameln Kestra's]] 'Lie' was actually true. The real king of Mazoku just uses his name. Pandora was not tricked. Kestra was a real person, traveller, loved Pandora and his kids and was tragically killed by the real king of mazoku who uses his name and appearance to taunt people. That is all. * One of the most touching scenes in ''PrincessTutu'' was when Fakir managed to turn Duck/Ahiru into a human and got together with her. Sure, they could have done some sort of BittersweetEnding, but come on, Ahiru deserves it right? ** Huh, what bittersweet ending? I mean the series' only 13 episodes, and the thirteenth has a pretty happy ending.

*** But of course. All that chatter of [[spoiler:[[RonTheDeathEater Mytho turning evil]] and [[OneSceneWonder some French-speaking dude]] showing up in one episode for no apparent reason and never appearing afterwards]] is all just bad fanfiction. * Yukina of ''YuYuHakusho'' never said she wanted Hiei to slaughter her people for living without emotions. At the end of the series, he, having finally had his "fee" for Shigure waived, admits to being her brother and the two have an emotional reunion, during which he ''actually'' smiles. ** This "Three Kings saga" that some people talk about? Never happened. The last episode came after the end of the Chapter Black saga, in which Yusuke defeated Sensui through being posessed by a Mazoku demon. Sensui died peacefully, having achieved what he wanted and inwardly [[DeathEqualsRedemption realizing]] that his All HumansAreBastards ideology was DEAD.WRONG. So naturally, when Itsuki tried to challenge the heroes' ideology, Yusuke responded with an epic ShutUpHannibal. Yusuke then volunteered to stay behind in Demon World to look for the Mazoku and beat him down for interfering with his and Sensui's fight. Said Mazoku, who was NOT Yusuke's "father" ('cause c'mon, Yusuke's no demon) was the GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere FinalBoss of the series. The last episode then had Yusuke returning to Earth and everyone having [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming that beautiful reunion on the beach.]] * [[{{Naruto}} Chouji and Neji are dead, okay?]] And don't even think about pulling a DisneyDeath on them, Kishimoto. That would horribly cheapen their noble sacrifices. ** Hinata also died. And Sasuke was inevitably killed as well. That way, one person on each team died. This is a manga about ninjas and war, there must be prices to pay. *** No, Hinata lived to make good on her AnguishedDeclarationOfLove and hook up with Naruto. Shino is the one on her team who got offed. * At the end of TowardTheTerra, everyone was able to live to see the Mu and humans get along. No one died in a literal RocksFallEverybodyDies deathfest. Except for Keith, who sacrificed himself to defeat the Grand Mother and break the human race away from her control. He and Jomy had the Pandora's Box conversation, and Keith forced Tony to take Jomy back the the Shangri-La. The Elders were able to bring all the Canaries and Physis AND themselves back to the ship. Leo pushed the girl out of the way of the falling rocks and dodged them himself. EVERYONE LIVED. * ''{{Gundam 00}}'' only had one season, a second was never made. ** Which is a pity, because I was enthralled by a show centered around the Trinity siblings. Remember? Deconstruction of the Super Robot genre? Making the uniformed and colorful protagonists [[BloodKnight Blood Knights]]? Painting Setsuna and his allies as well-intentioned extremists who were NotSoDifferent? Okay, the Nena/Michael vibes were a little risque for shounen, but since they were all clones it's okay! * The ''[[MartianSuccessorNadesico Nadesico]]'' movie never happened. The games that were [[NoExportForYou only released in Japan]] never happened. And, just to top it off, [[spoiler:Tsukumo]] didn't die. * What do you MEAN [[TrinityBlood Caterina joined Rosenkreuz]] because she was jealous of Abel's feelings towards Esther!? That sounds like a

bad fanfic. Esther never [[{{SpotlightStealingSquad}} hijacked main character status]] away from Abel in the anime and Noelle managed to ESCAPE the Silent Noise incident. * [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]] and Integra's reunion in the last chapter did NOT, and I repeat DID NOT, have any romantic or sexual connotations at all. Also, Major was never a cyborg (he just had access to really good anti-aging serums courtesy of zee Doktor) and Walter was brainwashed. BRAINWASHED. ** What's this I hear about Hirano-sensei [[WordOfGod declaring Alucard genderless]]? That's ridiculous. He's DRACULA, remember? Dracula was very clearly male. Seriously, what have you been smoking? * ''{{Chobits}}'' didn't end with the declaration that persocoms don't have real emotions, but only fake, simulated emotions. That was just a bad dream that I had. * In ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' while [[LovableCoward Genma]] did a lot of crummy things, one thing he didn't do was [[MoralEventHorizon throw his wife over a cliff in his pursuit of a 20 dollar medal]] to pawn. Did. Not. Happen. Obviously the clumsy ditz slipped on her own, probably while fantasizing about her fetish for manliness and swords, okay. ** Indeed, it did not happen. Not the way you describe it, anyway: Genma was fleeing from Ranma to prevent him from meeting his mother. At one point during the chase, he crashed into a tree, and the momentum ripped Nodoka off his arms and over the cliff. Genma himself was horrified until Ranma springboarded off his head and we lost sight of him. The medal? Didn't even figure at ALL at that point in the story. Why did you feel the need to belittle Nodoka, anyway? * Thank goodness the ''{{Rurouni Kenshin}}'' anime ended after Kenshin's final battle with [[BigBad Shishio]]. [[spoiler:Saito]] [[HeroicSacrifice died a hero]], and he certainly [[spoiler: wasn't able to [[AssPull miraculously]] escape from the inescapable inferno]]. Kaoru managed to end the series as a {{Badass}} {{Action Girl}} - she was ''not'' left stammering Kenshin's name repeatedly until he came to [[DamselInDistress rescue her]]. I'm so glad that the plot was rounded off nicely and that it [[OvertookTheManga didn't drag]] [[{{Filler}} at all]]. * That scene where [[AzumangaDaioh Osaka]] wakes up Yukari with a frying pan and a spoon sure was funny. Also, Kagura/Tomo never beat anyone up for having hiccups! What kinda show are ya watchng here? ** Also, "Sakaki" is her first name. * In ''{{Samurai 7}}'', Kyuzo [[spoiler: survived the final battle. I'm glad he didn't die in some stupid way, like, I dunno, Katsushiro accidentally shooting him to death.]] ** I'm so glad that the writers killed off Heihachi first. I mean, all he did was jabber on and on about rice and sloppiness. Wouldn't it have been absolutely crazy if they had killed off [[spoiler:Gorobei]] first? I mean, [[spoiler:he was a far more human and entertaining character. So glad the writers saw it that way too. Yep. This troper is leading the high life.]] * The ending of ''VideoGirlAi'' sure was awesome. It's a good thing Ai was made human as a result of Youta's climbing all the way up that glass staircase to rescue her, and we didn't have to wait for 9 more

volumes of tedious melodrama to see them finally get tobe happy together... * The anime of InuYasha had only two seasons. Isn't it cool that we're finally getting the third season now? * Man, the "Spectra's Last Stand" two-parter (not episode) of BakuganBattleBrawlers was very well-done. When Dan and Spectra started brawling, the action was intense right from the get-go. I mean, in the first five minutes, Drago showed his increased power by annihilating Metalfencer. The action got more intense until the first episode ended with a cliffhanger of Maxus Drago and Maxus Helios (which had not been seen for the entire BT System arc). The second episode continued the action, with a fight so savage that the mechanical Bakugan were eventually ripped apart. Helios went absolutely berserk, screaming that he was the ultimate Bakugan, ripping out the safeguards for his mechanical parts. Ultimately, his recklessness led to his demise, as his mechanical components started to malfunction. Despite Spectra's urging, Helios kept fighting, declaring he'd sooner die than lose to the likes of Drago. He ultimately built up so much power that he exploded, but not before unleashing one final attack that broke through Drago's toughest shields and scarred his face for the rest of the series. Afterwards, Spectra was in utter shock, saying that if he hadn't fed Helios' ambition the way he did, Helios would still be alive. He ultimately repents, ripping off his mask and crushing it under his foot. All in all, it was an epic tale, much better than if Helios and Spectra had done a heel face turn for no good reason. I mean, that would be stupid! ** Also, isn't it great that Dan and Runo were such an awesome BattleCouple in the sequel? * Wasn't it funny how, at the end of {{Spiral}}, we never actually found out what that whole Blade Children thing was about? And wasn't that scene with Narumi and Hiyono riding off into the sunset together and living long, full lives really wonderful and heartwarming? I mean, I practically cried. * In a variation, to this troper, {{Bleach}} characters losses against [[spoiler:[[BigBad Sosuke]] [[VillainSue Aizen]]]] do not count. Therefore, several characters, including [[spoiler:Kyoraku, Komamura, Hitsugaya (Harribel died by being frozen; see above), Yamamoto, Urahara and Yoruichi]] remain undefeated. * The {{Minami-ke}} anime only has one season, there was never a second season which replaced the comedy with lots of [[FanService fanservice]] or a third season which retains the spirit of the first season or an OVA. Nope, no siree. * The Shunraiki / Spring Thunder arc of TsubasaReservoirChronicle didn't happen. CLAMP totally didn't take one of the most beloved and iconic characters they've ever created, [[spoiler:kill her, and reveal her to have been a clone this whole time]]. This troper would sooner accept ''[[NoEnding the Beetrain ending]]'' than this. * ''PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' clearly ended with [[BabiesEverAfter Panty and Brief as the parents of a lovely baby boy]] who has Stocking as a godmother. There's no such thing as [[spoiler:Stocking slicing Panty in [[NumberOfTheBeast 666 pieces]], revealing she's actually a demon, Corset popping out of Brief's penis,

and the two scattering Panty's pieces like bread crumbs to another city to lure Brief into unlocking the gate to Hell]]. That would be just stupid of Gainax's part. * Mohiro Kitoh sure knew where to end the {{Narutaru}} manga, 62 (that's sixty-two) chapters and no more. I loved how in the end [[spoiler:Shiina and her mother get a second chance at building a family after her father's death. Also loved how Akira, after making Shiina snap out of her HeroicBSOD - signifying strong character development in her part -, was implied to having been able to accept who she is and what she has done in order to possibly lead a normal life. Sure, not all was happily wrapped up: Tsurumaru, due to radiation poisoning, is still implied to die soon after, although thankfully he and Shiina managed to consummate their relationship and spent their last moments together. Also, only Kitoh knows what the deal was with those thugs raping Mamiko and her being Shiina's dark counterpart since [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment the whole situation didn't lead anywhere]] and was not important to the resolution of the plot ''at all.'' A finely crafted BittersweetEnding if there ever was one.]] * {{Inuyasha}}... that was just a beautiful series finale, wasn't it? The scene (shortly after Naraku's epic defeat) where Inuyasha uses the sacred jewel to revive Kikyo, thus purifying it, was just so unexpected. And the bittersweet scene where Kagome realizes that, though the bond the group shares will outlast the ages, she belongs in a different world. After a string of tearful good-byes, she removes the beads from Inuyasha's neck as a final gesture of love and wishes him well. I know I certainly cried as she disappeared down the well for the last time. But then the epilouge, where we see how everyone fared -- Kagura and Kanna living on their own; Sesshomaru still travelling with Jaken and Rin, who loves to visit human villages whenever she can; Kohaku working with Kirara as a demon slayer; and finally, the main characters themselves. Inuyasha and Kikyo with their children, Miroku and Sango with their twins, all juxtaposed with scenes of Kagome finishing school and getting ready to start a new adventure in her own time. Just perfect, all of it. * {{Black Butler}}: Grell is transsexual? [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial No, no, he just wants to be a transsexual, that's what Word of God meant when they said that he is-...I mean...um...YOU LIE!!]] * Wow! I just watched the ending of the first {{Full Metal Alchemist}} anime- so wonderfully bittersweet with hope for an eventual reunion between Ed and Al. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Thank God they didn't make a movie which screwed it all up by adding a poor replacement of a semi love interest, ridiculously advanced technology for the era, loads of meaningless character deaths and poor Winry with absolutely nothing left!]] Because that would have been the biggest cop out ever! * The {{Mai-HiME}} finale was the most epic one in recent history. Mai and Kagutsuchi! Mikoto and Miroku! Miyu and uh, uhh... Miyu's arsenal! All kicking the ass of the Obsidian Lord, together. I loved how Mashiro went and summoned every single HiME that hadn't died, powering them all for a while at the cost of her own life. The ninjas were a nice touch. The epilogue was so sad yet happy, as it was implied that

as long as they stuck together they'd eventually be able to overcome the emotional fallout, but they'd never quite get back to normal. What? That didn't happen? I only imagined that because after I saw the immense gyp that was the finale, I went BSOD and my brain came up with something to keep me happy and functioning? LIES, I SAY! LIES! ---[[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

FanonDiscontinuityComicBooks Note: This is a very subjective trope. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---* Every mythology-based character is either powered by a form of black magic, or a mutant, alien, etc. The dieties based on such polytheistic mythology themselves are such beings with delusions of grandeur who have somehow lived for hundreds of years. This does not hold true for things that are consistent with my own religious beliefs. * ''{{X-Men}}'' has a lot of this. Personally, I've found that I'm generally happier when I convince myself that Rogue was in none of the X-men movies, nor was she in X-men Evolution, and it seems unlikely that I'll see her in the upcoming Wolverine series either. Rogue can fly. Nightcrawler, I also keep telling myself, was oddly absent from ''[[XMenEvolution Evolution]]''; not even in a cameo appearance, like in the Fox series. There was a teleporting guy, but he wasn't visibly Christian in any way, so it couldn't have been Nightcrawler. ** And Chuck Austen never wrote about Nightcrawler or Iceman, and certainly did not [[NotAsYouKnowThem derail them into something unrecognizable]]. ** The Rogue that appeared in the X-men movies is not Rogue, she is simply someone with similar powers. The real Rogue was brought up my Mystique, absorbed Marvel Gir's powers, left Mystique and joined up with Gambit somewhere between Origins: Wolverine and the first movie. She is in no way romantically linked to Iceman. ** Mikhail Rasputin may have been a mutant like his brother Colossus, but it doesn't matter because he's DEAD. He died in a tragic launchpad accident that was absolutely an accident and NOT anyone's meddling. Besides, ChrisClaremont specifically compared his death to Apollo 1, so if any insensitive writer actually DID bring him back to life as a villain, that would dishonor the memories of those three real-life astronauts. * Batgirl went off to find herself after issue #73 of her own comic. [[YourMileageMayVary She may have shown up in]] the new ''Outsiders'' book during Dixon's run, but we have no idea what happened before or since... let alone who that FauxActionGirl that took over the League of Assassins, got beat up by Robin, and followed Deathstroke around was (maybe a clone with a defective braintape? please?).

* Archie only made a three-issue mini-series based on ''NightsIntoDreams''. They ''definitely'' din't follow it up with a sequel that went against everything the game was about. * Hal Jordon is still the Spectre, because the J.M. [=DeMatteis's=] book of that name was amazing. Also, the Spirit of Vengeance was not seduced into destroying all magic. It would just be silly to think that the symbol of the Wrath of the Presence (that was given a mission of Redemption) could be talked into something like that by his evil opposite. ** Superboy Prime is just the collective tantrum of a bunch of Fan Boys who cannot get past the fact that the Silver Age ended, not a serious villain. *** As the Silver Age over, Barry Allen and Kara Zor-El are still dead, their tragic sacrifices showing what an ominous threat the CrisisOnInfiniteEarths really was. Peter David's Supergirl book has just passed issue 150, and Linda Danvers is still awesome as Supergirl. Cir-El what? Stop making up silly names. **** Harbinger isn't dead. DC wouldn't randomly kill off the most appealing character introduced in the best and most important story they ever did. No way. ** Lex Luthor did not throw away his giant, multinational corporation which was the perfect cover to commit all sorts of nefarious deeds to descend into cliched villainy. As we all know, Lex Luthor is far more terrifying in Armani that he ever will be in green and purple spandex. ** One of the many shocking results of Infinite Crisis was that Dan [=DiDio=] was revealed to have never existed. There was much rejoicing. *** As a benefit of this, DCComics can have a [[CrisisCrossover crossover]] that doesn't require the death and dismemberment of countless people and dozens heroes each time to come across as urgent or serious. Instead they use smart plotting and strong writing to convey the danger. ** When Batman met Damian, his long-lost son, the first thing he did was give the kid a good spanking for being such an unlikeable little ass. Damian promptly became a more heroic character from then on. *** In fact, Damian is quite respectful of women, seeing as his mother is a ''kick-ass assassin.'' * Isn't it great that John Stewart and Kyle Rayner are the main Green Lanterns and still getting decent development and screentime instead of serving as sidekicks to someone who's as personifyable as a cardboard cutout? And that the latter actually did stuff that was useful during the Sinestro Corp war besides watching Hal do stuff and being possessed to make Hal look good? Like the above post said- Hal is still the Spirit Of Redemption. * [[Tropers/WookMuff This Troper]] was really confused when the Marvel Universe stopped publishing after Uncanny X-Men #350, especially as it really seemed like there were 3 pages to go from the end of that Issue. Oh well. * Barbara Gordon was never de-aged. She was still an adult when she was Batgirl. ** You know... Jim Gordon and his wife Barbara [[{{retcon}} adopted a girl who was called Barbara (Jr.)]]. [[AuthorsSavingThrow When the

Gordons did divorce, Barbara Jr. chose to stay with her daddy]]. * When Aunt May was shot towards the end of ''Civil War'', Mephisto did come to Peter to make a deal. Pete went to Dr. Strange and told him of the situation. The Sorcerer Supreme, along with some other major mystics come to Peter's aid and kick Mephisto's butt. Aunt May then dies. ** And Peter and MJ are still married, and they have [[SpiderGirl a daughter named after her deceased great-aunt]]. Screw you, Quesada. ** Peter is married to MJ, they still have their daughter, and every now and then, they visit Aunt May in the nursing home. *** Alas, Aunt May has gone to her final peace, just as she wished; Peter is with MJ and raising their son, with all the strenght of character imparted to him by both his departed surrogate parents. * The following incidents were caused by Scarlet Witch's power raging out of control and are in no way to be considered XMen canon: ** "[[FanNickname Xorneto]]" *** Additionally Xorneto killing Jean after the full manifestation of the Phoenix Force (since, that would just be silly, she could resurrect herself at will with the Phoenix Force) never happened, and Jean is still married to Scott. Although their marriage may not be perfectly happy (because no real marriage is), Scott would never cheat on Jean with a bitchy ice queen, even on the Astral Plain. **** Jean's family was not StuffedIntoTheFridge at once, because the crap about the Phoenix force needing compatible DNA is just crap. The PF can work with who it likes. *** Not to mention Emma is not a bitchy ice queen. She went on to teach other mutants Xavier's way after Generation X, and it still working to do for others what she couldn't do with the hellions. She's in a relationship where she didn't just declare she loved him to cover up fooling around with him. *** Quinton Quire also never gained access to the Phoenix Force, since it is an actual, sentient force of nature and not a state of mutant evolution. ** Angel Salvadore ** Gambit never went blind and gained tarot card powers. He did not voluntarily become the horseman of Death. Also, he and Rogue are in a fairly happy relationship *** Mystique never shifted into a student and came on to Gambit in an attempt to break up said happy relationship, either. ** Chuck Austen's run on the X-Men never happened, meaning that the following particularly grievous violations of canon never happened: *** Polaris did not go insane, she did not become a total bitch-queen to Havok after HeGotBetter, and Havok most certainly never never dated [[CanonSue Nurse]] [[RelationshipSue Anne]]. Furthermore, as was established earlier in the canon, Polaris is not Magneto's daughter. **** In fact, Nurse Anne wasn't actually a real person- it was the [[MarySue Mary Sueish]] delusion of a an insane comatose person. Oddly enough, this instantly made her a much more interesting and welldeveloped character. *** Nightcrawler's father is not the demon-mutant-satan, he was never in training to be a Priest not to mention never, ever, ever the victim of a conspiracy to be made the next Pope. Nightcrawler's mother is

Destiny and his father is Mystique just as it was always intended. *** Warren Warthington III is not a pedophile, therefore he never was romantically involved with Husk. He also doesn't have angel-bloodhealing powers. And he most certainly didn't stroll into a hospital and show off his wings so that the doctors would transfuse his blood to patients just to test it on people. I mean, that would be a violation of a bunch of safety regulations, not to mention just plain dumb considering the anti-mutant hysteria. *** Juggernaut did actually reform, but he never slept with She-Hulk. ** Joe Casey's run never happened either. I mean really? Banshee using mind control to make villains act as his agents? That's just silly! ** What's this about technological repowerment, and didn't Apocalypse leave Earth after being thwarted in his bid at conquest the last time? Certainly Marvel wouldn't be dumb enough to circumvent No More Mutants by such cheap methods! ** There are only ''two'' Summers brothers. '''TWO'''. There is not a third brother, nor is there a fourth half-brother. ** Scarlet Witch? No, no, no, you're thinking of someone else. She never went crazy! She's still an Avenger, with Hakweye, Vision, Wasp, Hank Pym, and co. Her going going crazy and most of the team being replaced with people who don't belong like Sentry, Luke Cage, SpiderWoman, {{Wolverine}}, and {{Spider-Man}} was a joke that Marvel played. There's no way Marvel would let someone write a story like that without remembering that she did remember her children and remained sane. * [[{{Spiderman}} Norman Osborn]] has been dead since the 60s and he never had a relationship with Gwen Stacy. * Oh boy, I'm so glad Wildstorm came out with those ''{{Thundercats}}'' comics back in 2004, giving the fans new adventures and backstory to embrace! My favorite part was when Lion-O caught on to Mumm-Ra's scheme and escaped from the Book of Omens in the nick of time to save his people from total enslavement in a grand {{Big Damn Heroes}} moment, with [[{{CrowningMomentOfAwesome}} Crowning Moments of Awesome]] for everyone. It most certainly did ''not'' lead into a [[{{Squick}} childhood-stomping]] [[{{DarkerAndEdgier}} nightmare]] that culminated in [[spoiler: Wilykat making the [[{{WhatAnIdiot}} depressingly stupid decision]] to betray the others]], separating the two characters I had the biggest soft spot for, when rescue was almost literally right around the corner. What? Sex slaves? Someone's been reading ''way'' too much bad fanfic! Now do me a favor and pass some of that {{Brain Bleach}}, please. Please? * YoungJustice is still together, and all of it's members are alive and reasonably well-adjusted. ** In particular, I was surprised at how well Cassie Sandsmark is currently and has always been handled. In no way whatsoever has her character been diminished from its initial awesomeness. I would also like to say that I approve heartily of the splendidly good way her relationship with Conner has been handled, and how even after his apparent death, she of course remained faithful to his memory and most assuredly did not go running off with Conner's best friend, especially because said best friend would never ever think to dishonor his best

friend's memory in such a way, and because said best friend is only very good friends with Cassie anyway. ** Conner Kent? Kid Flash? Never heard of them. Someone must have punched the universe and caused a momentary lapse of sanity where people confused poorly-written fan fiction with real continuity. *** Kon-El, in fact, does like visiting Ma and Pa Kent in Smallville, and he's affectionate towards them, but he likes living in Hawaii. Also, he didn't freak over his Luthor DNA. He burst out laughing because it revealed [[FoeYay just how gay Luthor is for Superman.]] * [[spoiler: Johnny Alpha is dead]], and the ''StrontiumDog'' series is concluded, period. As much as ThisTroper would love to see new stories, the franchise reboot that [[HandWave dismissed all previous stories as never having happened]] just doesn't exist. * Cry For Justice? Don't be silly. After all even DC isn't bloodthirsty enough to [[spoiler: [[StuffedInTheFridge fridge sweet little Lian Harper for a cheap shock.]]]] Though that does sound like AGoodNameForARockBand... ** Dunno which one you read. [[DCNation Ours ended with]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Sue Dibny borrowing Hal's ring and beating the shit out of Dr. Light]]. [[http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/tag/cry%20for%20just ice Link]] *** And Jean Loring is perfectly sane and still living happily with her husband. * [[{{Tropers/Popette}} A certain]] {{Scarecrow}} [[{{Tropers/Popette}} fangirl/troper]] doesn't know what you're talking about when you say Scarebeast. Haha. Scarebeast. What a silly name. I bet it would look even sillier. * There is no such thing as Buffy season eight. JossWhedon wouldn't sell out like that; continuing a property that was wrapped up ''twice'' for money. The writers particularly didn't: ** [[spoiler: Hook up Xander and Dawn]] ** [[spoiler: Make Buffy have a lesbian fling for no good reason.]] ** [[spoiler: Have Angel turn out to be TheBigBad. Not Angelus. Fully souled up Angel.]] ** [[spoiler: Have Buffy start boinking said BigBad]] ** [[spoiler: Kill Giles]]... Okay that DOES sound like something they would do. BUT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN! OKAY? * I've been reading the {{Marvel}} ''TransformersGeneration1'' comic. After Simon Furman took over from Bob Budiansky as writer, he brought back Megatron. This was no problem for the UK fans, who had seen him blasted into the London sewers by the space bridge explosion in order to be fought by the Autobots and Action Force, and then resurrected by Shockwave in order to defeat Galvatron. For American fans, however, Megatron had been dead since "Gone but not Forgotten!", and so Furman {{retconned}} Megatron into having not been ''actually'' dead, but wandering around the Dead End for a while with no memory. Thus, the guy that had been featured in the UK comics was revealed to actually be a clone of Megatron made by Straxus, who was persuaded to commit suicide by the real Megatron. Since the whole thing is rather awkward, bizarre, and not very good, I prefer to disregard both "Two Megatrons!" and Megatron's own explanation in "The Resurrection

Gambit!" in favour of the idea that Straxus died, and the Megatron who brings Ratchet to Cybertron is the same guy we'd seen in "Ancient Relics!" and "Time Wars". * Am I the only one who is thankful that Dave Sim ended ''{{Cerebus}}'' after the ''High Society'' arc? I mean, sure, Sim was at the top of his game, but could he have honestly stayed there if the series continued? I mean - and, bear with me, this is pretty crazy what if things got so derailed that [[spoiler:Cerebus ended up as both a rapist '''and''' a child-killer?]] Then again, I probably don't have enough confidence in the man. I mean, it's not like he's the type who would eventually pad his later books with [[WallOfText ludicrous amounts of text]] to the point where it couldn't really qualify as a comic anymore. Right? * As a fan of Stephanie Brown, I must say that despite her troubled past, I'm glad she had a successful career as Spoiler before moving on to take up her close friend's mantle as Batgirl after Cassandra Cain temporarily took some time off to assess her life. I'm also very glad indeed that Tim has been so supportive of her aspirations and did not break up with her for no good reason. * Fables never had a spinoff series, and ended with #69. The empire decided they were more trouble than they were worth and decided to ignore Fabletown; Fabletown, in turn, realized that the Homelands were completely different from the places they remembered, and acknowledged there was no way in hell they had the resources or power to control and rule a multitude of worlds, leading to an acceptance of the Mundy world as their true home. Things were never completely sunshine and roses, but they lived their lives peacefully enough; the 'interesting times' they lived through had drawn to a close, so while they continued on, there were no more tales to tell for the comic. * Whedon never took over {{Runaways}} after Vince left. A writer who picked up where Vince left off with Alex in limbo and the Nico/Victor relationship instead of going on a pointless time-travelling adventure coming Nico and Victor to break up, for the Runaways to pick up TheLoad, and a pointless staff upgrade. No, that didn't happen. Instead, the kids explored the orgins of the Gibborim and who knows what happens from there. * [[{{Comicbook/TheAvengers}} Disassembled]] never happened. Wanda most certainly did not go batshit at the revelation of things she already knew and start killing off her friends (and influence She-Hulk to kill off Vision and put Wasp in a coma) just to preserve her psychotic delusion of children who'd never existed, yet had somehow already been reincarnated. Subsequently, because Disassembled never happened, none of the {{Crisis Crossover}}s that came after it happened either. ** Of course! So after the [[{{Runaways}} Gibborim]] incident, Wanda insisted on taking [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Nico]] [[EthnicMagician Minoru]] in to teach her magic that ''didn't'' involve cutting herself, and help her deal with [[TheMole Alex's]] betrayal. Another motivation was that she remembered her children and wanted to try motherhood out on someone real. *** In this world where the Scarlet Witch never went crazy and adopted [[{{Runaways}} Nico]], [[CaptainAmerica Steve]] took the opportunity

to get the other kids into Avengers/X-Men custody, so they could keep their cool stuff with them and live more healthy lives. *** In this world where the Scarlet Witch never went crazy and adopted [[{{Runaways}} Nico]], [[PintsizedPowerhouse Molly]] [[NiceHat Hayes]] is, in fact, a favorite with the [[XMen X-Men,]] particularly Shadowcat, even though her crush on {{Wolverine}} fades. *** In this world where the Scarlet Witch never went crazy and adopted [[{{Runaways}} Nico]], [[SnarkKnight Gert]] [[JewishAndNerdy Yorkes]] lives in Avengers mansion with [[TheKidWithTheRemoteControl Old Lace]], alive and well. *** In this world where the Scarlet Witch never went crazy and adopted [[{{Runaways}} Nico]], [[BadassNormal Chase]] [[AbusiveParents Stein]] decides to work with Heroes For Hire when he turns 18, so LukeCage keeps an eye on him (and helps him look for a good ring when Chase wants to propose to Gert; she accepts). *** In this world where the Scarlet Witch never went crazy and adopted [[{{Runaways}} Nico]], when Gert's future self came to warn them about [[AscendedFanboy Victor]] [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Mancha]], it's handled much more sanely and Excalibur is not formed. At all. Hank Pym and Jan van Dyne adopt Victor. *** In this world where the Scarlet Witch never went crazy and adopted [[{{Runaways}} Nico]], when [[GenderBender Xavin]] comes to [[ArrangedMarriage marry]] Karolina, the Avengers coax her into ''getting to know her'' before marrying her and a peace is made sans marriage. Majesdane does not blow up. *** In this world where the Scarlet Witch never went crazy and adopted [[{{Runaways}} Nico]], the {{Runaways}} are still accidentally sent into the past, but Victor never falls for [[FieryRedhead Lillie]] because he's in love with Nico. They still meet the Yorkes, and Nico still does her "The Show Must Go On" spell...but she leaves them with the knowledge that their actions will give their daughter a happy, fulfilled life, rather than [[AndIMustScream knowing that she will die.]] Klara is still brought to the future, and she's immediately taken in by She-Hulk, who insists that she needs a confidence boost. *** In this world where the Scarlet Witch never went crazy and adopted [[{{Runaways}} Nico]], when [[YoungAvengers Iron Lad]] came for help, the Vision assisted him in finding [[RealityWarper Billy]], [[HalfHumanHybrid Teddy]], and [[SuperSerum Eli]] by hooking some of his tech into Nate's armor. TheAvengers firmly refused to allow them out on patrol, so they snuck out and made idiots of themselves at Kate's sister's wedding. [[BadassNormal Kate]] saved their asses and and met [[{{Sizeshifter}} Cassie]]. They joined up. *** When [[DoomedByCanon Nate]] had to go back, [[TheSmartGuy Jonas]] still came from the armor, so Wanda and Vision adopted him. *** [[PapaWolf Scott Lang]] wasn't exactly happy when Cassie became Ant-Girl, but she was, so he decided to just make sure to ''be there'' when she needed him. Then the emotional abuse was discovered and [[IronMan Tony]] managed to get Cassie into Scott's custody. [[YouDoNotWantToKnow He never gave details, and no one really asked.]] *** When [[SuperSpeed Tommy]] was discovered, and who [[DifferentAsNightAndDay Billy and he]] [[LukeYouAreMyFather really are]] were also discovered, Wanda and Vision [[HappilyAdopted

adopted]] Tommy and brought the Kaplans into Clan Magneto, who [[HumansAreBastards wasn't happy about it or the adoption of Nico and Jonas.]] Then he met them and decided that these were pretty cool humans, [[HoYay and Charles needs to immediately meet them.]] *** When Teddy's heritage was uncovered, [[MsMarvel Carol Danvers]] adopted him. *** In this world where the Scarlet Witch never went crazy and adopted [[{{Runaways}} Nico]], [[XMen Emma Frost]] never dated Cyclops. He and Jean Grey are still married and attempting to cope with the fact that {{Deadpool}} is dating Cable. Emma is snickering at their misery behind their backs. * Wolverine does not have bone claws. His claws are forged from pure adamantium and are bionic implants in his forearms designed to turn a man with a pacifist power (healing) into a living weapon, which ends up causing his life to spiral out of control. The bone claws was a delusion implanted in his brain by Professor X to keep his morale up because his fragile mind just can't reconcile with the idea of not having claws. Yeah, thats it. * Colossus is not the descendent of Rasputin. Rasputin did not somehow live on in the minds of all his descendants acting like the devil on the shoulder causing them to do terrible things. Colossus was responsible every time he made a questionable decision, it was not Rasputin's influence on his mind. His brother did not go into some timeless abyss just to trap Rasputin and foil Rasputin and Sinister's plans after nearly all of Colossus' relatives were killed. * The {{Punisher}} MAX canon ended when Garth Ennis quit. End of discussion. ---[[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

FanonDiscontinuityFilm Note: This is a very subjective trope. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---* [[StarWars The Rebels were entirely responsible for the victory at the Battle of Endor.]] The Ewoks tried to get involved, but they were largely useless and retreated after nearly getting annihilated by the vastly superior Stormtroopers. [[RockBeatsLaser Any other outcome would be ridiculous.]] ** Well, the Rebels ''did'' have a little help. You know, all those escaped Wookiee slaves from the Death Star's construction crew, hiding out in the forest. Chewbacca's family reunion was very touching, and then very much into producing piles of dead stormtroopers with their limbs ripped off. ** The Force needs no crude matter for the Jedi to channel it. Certianly not any form of microscopic organism.

** Anakin fulfilled his destiny and destroyed the Sith Order once and for all. His grandson certainly never became one and they DEFINITELY never conquered the galaxy again. ** For that matter, the Empire never reunified and defeated the Republic. ** You know that rumor that there was going to be a race of amphibious creatures native to Naboo that were going to appear in Episode I? I almost wish they existed, they might have been cool. They certainly wouldn't have had a stupid-sounding accent, and they would certainly not feature much in the actual movie, just show up a bit in the battle at the end and do some cool stuff. They would have also had some cool weapons, not anything stupid like spears and catapults. ** I am ever so glad that the Ewoks were only briefly shown on screen instead of what was rumored to be a much larger appearance. I'm so happy they chose to go with the Wookies instead, as their assistance in the final battle truly was inspiring, and the fight scenes were epic. ** There were certainly no ''Star Wars'' films with "Episode I" or "Episode II" in the title, with trade disputes and evil banks and adolescents failing epically at being romantic. There were plans for a film with "Episode III" in the title but was never completed, surviving only in the novelisation by Matthew Stover. ** There's some weird rumour going around about how lightsabers work, something to do with crystals and energy loops. But that's just silly. ** The "Prequel Trilogy" exists, and here's a run down of what happens: The only thing that happened in Star Wars Episode I was the fight against Darth Maul. Qui-Gon and Obi Wan killed the shit out of Maul together, then Qui Gon decided to retire to some far off location and not tell anyone his address. Between Episodes I and II Anakin just kinda showed up out of thin air and wasn't a smart-ass little shit. Episode II had a lightsaber fight and nothing else. Between II and III Anakin and Padme (who aren't married) got really drunk and ended up boning. Episode III had some lightsaber fights, including an epic battle between General Grevious (who is still awesome like in the Clone Wars mini-series) and Obi-Wan that took up a large part of the movie. Then Anakin finds out Padme's preganant with his kids and attempts to throw her down the stairs as a quick abortion. Obi-Wan stops him and they battle. The battle takes them into the "Volcano Room", where Obi-Wan beats Anakin, causing him to fall into the lava. Then Anakin becomes Vader and is suddenly cool. For some reason they released all 3 seperately even though the whole thing can easily fit on a DVD. * Lily [[spoiler: died]] in ''{{Cloverfield}}'': it's the ''only'' way the poorly written lead-up to the end can feel any better. I don't care how, but she does. Oh, and Rob [[spoiler: survived]] the bridge crash, while [[spoiler: Beth didn't]]. * [[EddieVanHelsing This troper]] refuses to believe that there were ever sequels to ''TheMatrix'', a fourth ''IndianaJones'' movie, or a ''StarWars'' prequel trilogy. ** [[Tropers/RobinZimm I'm not sure what you're saying]] - I thought ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' and ''Star Wars'' were standalone films themselves.

** [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] shares your sentiments, Van Helsing. An Indiana Jones movie with aliens in it? What malarkey! That ''never'' happened! EVER. * There are only three ''{{Halloween}}'' movies: ''[=Halloween=]'', ''[=Halloween=] II'' and ''[=Halloween=] H20''. ** Or alternatively, there's just the first, second and ''Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers''. * {{Saw}} VI: Shelby is the first on the Carousel Trap, while Aaron is the fifth. Shelby is killed and Aaron is spared. Plus, [[spoiler: Brent realizes the worst destiny for William is letting him live with the realization of what he has done until then, and pulls the lever to 'live'.]] ** ''Saw VI?'' Huh. I was always under the impression that the studio deliberately prevented any sequels from ever being made to the original. I mean, the open-ended finale was just so haunting, that, in a rare instance of artistic integrity, the studio opted to leave it at that. * [[Film/{{Watchmen}} Doctor Manhattan exposed Ozymandias, and lived happily ever after with Silk Spectre II, his anchor to his humanity. The US and Russia waited it all out, and eventually made peace. Rorschach didn't die, and indeed continued to enjoy beating the crap out of criminals, and eventually resolved differences and returned to his partnership with Nite-Owl.]] Yes, I went there. Alan Moore isn't perfect. ** This Troper would like to add that as soon as she owns the DVD she is stopping the movie at "All Along the Watchtower." The movie has a great note at that. Rorschach and Nite Owl have resumed their Life Partnership (HoYay or Hetero?), Dr. Manhattan and Silks reach a turning point in their relationship, and not TWO RIDERS, but two flippin' SETS are heading to the [[strike:Watchertower]] evil lair to stop Adrian NOT the Great copycat and save the world. It's triumphant, badass, do you REALLY need more for the ending of a superhero movie? [[DownerEnding Cynicism]]? Well, idealists live longer. *** I'm just happy that Ozymandias's big-screen debut was very true to his comic-book counterpart. It would have been just awful if the movie stripped him of all moral amgiguity. *** My favorite part was where Dr. Manhattan not only stops Ozzymendias's plan before NYC is devestated, but then proceeds to give the blond bugger a verbal beatdown and completely deconstructs his arguments and justifications. * ''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines''? Non-existent. ** John Conner never said, "No problemo," "eat me," or "shine them on." * In ''StarTrek: Nemesis'', Data did die as depicted onscreen, and then [[AWizardDidIt Q said "Screw That!" and restored Data to the Enterprise.]] ** Hell, yes. Or, Data set his phaser to blow up the Doomsday Whatever on a timer and beamed the hell out of there with Picard. And Remans are just a scary story Romulans tell their kids to get them to behave. ** [[StarTrekV Spock has no brother.]] The Enterprise never fought God in a can. Kirk and McCoy have never sung "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." After the whale incident, the Enterprise crew's next big adventure was

TheUndiscoveredCounty. Okay, the little [[HoYay hug thing]] on the bridge maybe happened, but after a different incident where Spock [[BigDamnHeroes saved Kirk's ass.]] ** Ah, nostalgia. The Star Trek franchise is one you really have to root out from the past. Pity they didn't reboot it with an alternate continuity this decade. * ''[[TheMatrix Matrix: Revolutions]]'' ends with The Architect surprised to see Neo, Smith, Sereph, and The Merovingian all burst into his office and proceed to kick his ass. Trinity. Does. Not. Die. Damnit. ** Matrix... ''Revolutions?'' Is that, like, a comic spin-off, or...? *** No, no, you're both thinking of that potential script that was floating around the 'Net. Fortunately, Reloaded turned out ''much'' better than we feared; Neo was ''not'' a BoringInvincibleHero, the female characters were ''not'' [[{{Chickification}} reduced to extensions of or complications for the male characters]], and we never met the program who was supposed to be [[strike: [[LittlestCancerPatient The Littlest Plot-Point]]]] "Sati." I mean, why would the Wachowskis derail a perfectly good sciencefiction/action series by [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic smothering it under haphazard symbolism]]? Also, wasn't the third movie amazing, tying up all the loose ends and leading into the MMO? I loved the scene where we finally saw the Merovingian fight and the Oracle ''do something''... Hey, message me in-game, okay? I heard they've got a new event planned for next week! * This Troper really enjoyed ''Film/{{Spider-Man}} 1 & 2'' and is wondering what is taking them so long to make a third movie. ** Huh? I saw ''Spider-Man 3'' just a while back. Man, am I glad that those rumors about Sandman being Uncle Ben's ''real'' killer turned out to be completely false. ** Spider-Man 3? I certainly don't recall a Spider-Man 3. Especially not one where they make an unnecessary love triangle out of Harry/Peter/Mary Jane and make the latter character insufferably whiny...or have the nerve to put Venom, a rather beloved Spidey villain into the movie for the last 15 to 20 minutes tops only to kill him off...that would be ludicrous... ** Similarly, this is the approach [[Tropers/GwenStacyWannabe I]] take to the ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' movies. Too bad they never got the chance to show the Phoenix Saga on the big screen, it would've been so ''awesome!'' I also wish we'd gotten to see Beast and Angel, but oh well. * The Movie ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' did not happen. [[spoiler: Wash is alive damnit!!!]] * sobs* ** And not only him, but [[spoiler: Book]] too. Both of them and [[spoiler: Inara]] went back to ''Serenity'', [[spoiler: Wash and Zoe]] had three or four adorable children as did [[spoiler: Kaylee and Simon]], and [[spoiler: Mal and Inara]] finally [[spoiler: got over themselves and]] got together. (Also, River is being trained by Wash to be a pilot.) And they all had wacky adventures together and the Alliance never caught them. :-) *** Also, the Alliance was stunningly portrayed with both sincere, non-psychopathic members as well as the snooty rich and sociopathic

Knight Templars, thus adding a level of realism sorely needed in a sea of two-dimensional Bad Guy portrayals. * Out of the first 5 ''Nightmare on Elm Street" only 1 and 3 exist. The second film is just readings from the previous main character's diary. 4 and 5 are a pipe dream. ** What is "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3"? There was only one movie. In it, Freddy wears a red-green sweater with solid red arms, not striped ones. And his face has red marks and doesn't simply look melted. And the front door of the house is blue, not red. And Freddy taking souls is simply ridiculous. Same with his wise-cracking character. Unfortunately, Nancy probably dies offscreen after the last scene where she is trapped in the car. Also, what's that Springwood that they all talk about? They don't mention where the movie takes place, but the screenplay says it's in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles and since we don't have any official source that overwrites it, that's the canonical location. * The thing this troper admires most about the movie ''{{Shrek}}'' is how Dreamworks managed to resist enormous temptation to completely milk the film for all its worth and give it endless sequels. Because, you know, that could possibly harm the original's satirical integrity and put it on the same level of the entity it was trying to mock in the first place (namely, Disney). ** Well, maybe there was ONE sequel. But that's all. *** Yeah, I heard they did fine with the one. But thank the gods they had the good sense to stop there! *** This troper always found it odd that they skipped a number when naming said sequel. *** Yeah, Why'd they skip 3? ** Shrek The Third happened. But Shrek Forever After is a totally different series. * Realizing that they may possibly be terrible beyond imagination, they stopped making movies after ''StarTrek First Contact'' leaving the franchise on a high note. They also stopped making ''Star Trek'' TV shows after ''StarTrekVoyager'', not necessarily a high note, but certainly not as bad as things [[StarTrekEnterprise might have turned out]]. ** This troper always wondered why the Star Trek movies went straight from IV to VI. I read a rumor on the Internet that "Star Trek V" was going to be some weird metaphysical thing about the crew meeting God, but was canned due to lack of money. Then again, it also claimed William Shatner was slated to direct the film, so I must assume it's a hoax. * You know, I'm kinda surprised that they haven't made another MissionImpossible movie yet - I mean, I enjoyed those two spy movies they made with Tom Cruise after, but I really liked the idea of the spy ''team''. Isn't that good for more than one movie? * You'd think that with the technology for Hollywood to make liveaction ''{{Transformers}}'' movies, Japan would make a live-action ''{{Gundam}}'' movie. I sure hope it's an epic set in Universal Century, features lots of good character development and spectacular mecha battles (and of course, striking a balance between the two), and has an amazing story. And they certainly won't go and have the

Federation collapse under its own weight from stagnation and corruption just to be replaced by another corrupt bureaucratic Federation-like entity under another name before the movie even starts. That would be so clichd. Maybe we'll even see the Federation learn from its past mistakes so that grows into a (somewhat) better society for the time being. * At the end of ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', the Na'vi reached a settled agreement with the humans where they could mine {{Unobtainium}} without harming the Pandoran ecosystem. The didn't send them back home, because that would be needlessly cruel and set up an InferredHolocaust ** Relatedly, the Na'vi certainly didn't declare victory as soon as the humans left and didn't bother with any continued communication, because then the humans would send the actual military and carpet bomb the planet. ** Similarly, the Earth ecosystem was not destroyed. It was badly damaged, but made a full recovery ** What the hell is Avatar? * Man, I'm glad that Sarah, John, and The {{Terminator}} prevented the war against the machines completely. The ending with Sarah watching John and his daughter play in a park really made me feel good, y'know? ** Marcus died? Yeah, right. Everyone knows that he was able to survive, what with being an essentially mechanical body wrapped in skin. If Tony Stark could do it, surely Marcus could do the same. Hell, a car battery could've done the trick. * Jenny dying at the end of ''ForrestGump''? What the hell kind of ending would that be? * I'm glad they made ''Rocky Balboa'' after 20 years. ''Rocky IV'' wasn't very conclusive. ** It's effectively CanonDiscontinuity that ''Balboa'' is the real ''Rocky V'' anyway. * Shoshana didn't die in ''InglouriousBasterds''. Her plan went off without a hitch. After her role in ending the war was discovered, she became the first person in history to simultaneously hold the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Victoria Cross, Hero of the Soviet Union, and the Legion d'honneur. The sequel will focus on Shoshana and the surviving Basterds moving to Israel and joining the Haganah. ** Soshana died by her own plan ''only'', with MARCEL AT HER SIDE. The soldier guy died instantly, and Soshana and Marcel's plan was printed in the papers the next day. They won the awards posthumously. ** What are you talking about? Everyone knows that Shoshana died! ''Everyone'' in the theater did; the new movie's gonna deal with with Basterds attempting to adjust to the civilian life, and a little thing called the [=USSR=]... Also, Zoller didn't suffer some kind of horrific [[AuthorsSavingThrow last-ditch effort]] to give Shoshanna justification for burning an otherwise nice guy alive; he ''did'' get shot, but it was a clean instant-kill, and he died with a dignity that removed a large chunk of sympathy for Soshana. Plus she didn't win any awards, since, y'know... EVERYONE IN THE THEATER DIED. So no-one was left to bear witness, and the operation was labeled a freak accident until several years after the war, when the investigation's results are declassified and the accolades are given to the Basterds.

* Bourne ''series''? What series? There is only one movie, and it ends with them living a new life happily together. ** The beginning of the ''Bourne Ultimatum'' was so upsetting (and [[JitterCam visually abusive]]) to this troper that she ended up returning the film not ''twenty minutes'' after renting it. Seriously. * It's a good thing [[ArmyOfDarkness Ash]] never traveled through time killing deadites, that would have been STUPID! They may have even called it Evil Dead: A Fistfull of Boomstick! How idiotic! * What second live-action ScoobyDoo movie? I've never heard of it. In the end of the first movie, though, Velma gets together with that adorable drummer she met on the train, and they live heppily ever after (well as happily as they do). She never wears a dorky orange "catsuit", and she doesn't try (and fail miserably) to seduce a fellow nerd. SHE HAS ETHAN!!!! *sobs* ** Sure, the casting wasn't perfect but it's such a shame they made only one ContinuityPorn-filled ''Scooby-Doo'' film called ''Monsters Unleashed''. Warner Bros. wouldn't go so low as to flog the dead horse of Scrappy-Doo being TheScrappy and becoming a ''villain'' in the year ''2002''. That would be RIDICULOUS. * Thank god Disney didn't ruin that great [[TheSantaClause Tim Allen Christmas movie]] with subpar sequels, right? ** They ''did'' do one sequel, but it was good, not subpar, especially due to Tim Allen [[LargeHam hamming it up wonderfully]] as an evil Santa toy clone. * ''HoneyIShrunkTheKids'': 1, Amy is blonde, and 2, Wayne has only one brother, and his name is Gordon, not Randy! The TV show is ''not'' part of the series whatsoever! * ''FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' - Grey is dead?! Just what the hell are you speaking of? He isn't dead, he never was and even if he was somehow (what a stupid idea!) he was resurrected and lived with Aki HappilyEverAfter after saving the world and the Phantoms. And General Heine simply couldn't have used Zeus, because he never made it from the City, where the General tried to kill the witnesses of his betrayal - Aki and Grey - but was shot and consumed by the giant Phantom. End of story. ** They only made one FF-based film. It's called Advent Children. * ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl''. What a strange (yet wonderful) twist on an [[ElectricBoogaloo excessive mouthful of a title]], suggesting sequels but not stooping to the level of crapping out the rest of an unneeded trilogy! I mean, it'd be nice to see some character development in the way of Norrington (possibly involving the growing of beards), make Elizabeth more of a Badass or give Will a personality, but, hey, it's just lovely to know that the filmmakers won't get carried away and miss out on the concepts firmly established in the first film. Like the fact the ''British Navy'' has no concept of the supernatural. I mean, if they did, the writers might get tempted to write flimsy sagas that are not about the crashing of normality against the very rare fantastic beings, which would be interesting and provide better writing fodder, and become ALL about those fantastic beings, and forget most of its original wit, pacing, and logic. Talk about a bullet being dodged there! ** There are even more things that could have gone wrong with sequels.

Imagine if they had fanned the flames for a Jack/Elizabeth relationship, thereby causing countless ridiculous shipping arguments! Or killed off major characters, only to have them resurrected almost immediately afterward! Or make a possible love interest for Jack [[BrotherChuck inexplicably vanish]] so as to fan said shipping flames! Or (this one's pretty far-fetched, I'll admit) what if they had made Jack have hallucinations of even crazier doppelgangers of himself, in the process proving that there can indeed be far, far too much of a good thing?!? But they didn't. Because that would've been just stupid. ** What do you mean, there were rumors it was going to be a trilogy, but that was vetoed by the higher ups. Man, I can't believe that there was going to be padding that was a WackyWaysideTribe, and Will and Elizabeth set out together, being an awesome BattleCouple the whole time, except for a brief time when Will was tricked, and Jack tried to make a pass on Elizabeth, but she told him off. After she became Pirate King and he became the new captain of the Dutchman, she looked at the reasoning, and [[http://annewalsh.trycanta.com/fics/Beyond_Worlds_End/1 this happened]]. * There was never a second ''{{Highlander}}''. There Can Be Only One. * [[RepoMen There was no Neural Net, there never was.]] It along with communism is just a RedHerring. Yeah, all those stunts Remy did was all real, it was no dream. * This troper once had an English teacher who insisted that ''TheTrumanShow'' ended ambiguously, as Truman's ship crashed into the sky backdrop. It kept the metaphor of Christof being God as subtle as possible, and did not have an over-the-top happy ending with generic footage of people cheering. * ''{{Dragonheart}}'' NEVER had a sequel. As depressing as the ending was for the film though, the book happily filled us in some gaps and clearly pointed to some hopeful happy endings, like Bowen and Kara getting together. However, there is no "son of Draco", and some ridiculous Knight-wannabe boy and Kung Fu Action Girl killing some man-who-was-an-Asian-dragon with terrible CG NEVER EXISTED. * It's great that ''[[RepoTheGeneticOpera Repo The Genetic Opera]]'' didn't include some silly teen-angst pop song in the middle of it. That would have totally screwed up the storytelling. * ''{{Aliens}}:'' Ellen Ripley, Corporal Hicks, Bishop, and Newt escaped safely on the ''Sulaco''. There wasn't another egg on board, there wasn't a fire resulting in an escape pod crash which pointlessly killed everyone except for Ripley, Ripley was never infected with a Queen embryo and never killed herself, and she ''definitely'' was never cloned. ** That sounds like the script they were going to use for third movie. Sounded awful. I'm glad in the finished product none of the characters appeared, though it was a nice touch in that scene where they're flicking through all the past encounters with the Xenomorphs, and it shows a photo of "Survivors of Acheron." Both Ripley and Hicks, well into middle age (Hicks has grey hair!), an adult Newt, and Bishop... looking the same as always. And in one piece. * So I read the script to ''StarTrekGenerations'' yesterday, and man

did I spot something stupid. Apparently they were gonna kill Kirk off by literally dropping a rickety bridge on him. What an idiotic way to kill of an iconic member of the StarTrek universe! Good thing they went with the final plan of having him drive the Stardrive section of the Enterprise into the rocket. [[HeroicSacrifice Thus saving the crew of the Enterprise and the world.]] * The ''Saw'' series ended after three movies. Jigsaw [[spoiler: died of cancer and will never return]], Amanda [[spoiler: died too]] and that idiot Hoffman never took Jigsaw's place. Jigsaw's job is finished. * This Troper's teacher once insisted that we should never talk to her about the second and third ''[[TheMatrix Matrix]]'' movie. They never existed. * El Mariachi's tale ended with ''{{Desperado}}.'' He and Carolina drove off into the sunset, lived happily ever after, and had many children who went on to be great musicians or book-store owners, but they were never again troubled by people trying to get revenge on them. ''OnceUponATimeInMexico'' was a completely separate movie that just happened to have a character called El Mariachi in it, who happened to be played by AntonioBanderas, and who happened to have once been in a relationship with SalmaHayek. There was no connection between this third movie and the first two. * In something of an inversion, this troper chooses to put the two ''TheIncredibleHulk'' in the same continuity (along with the rest of the MarvelCinematicUniverse) by ignoring the backstory in the second where Banner volunteered for the experiment rather than intervened to save someone else. The BroadStrokes help. * ''{{Speed}} 2'' never happened and Jason Patric's character doesn't exist. Also, [[{{OTP}} Annie and Jack]] are still together. * Wasn't X-men First Class awesome? I adored how much of a role Darwin had in the final fight. I also loved how they managed to avert that whole cliche of the black guy dying first. * There is only one {{Transformers}} movie and even if they made more, Sam and Mikaela stay together in ALL OF THEM. ** And they certainly wouldn't have wasted the time of the viewers in one of the sequels by making them stomach two horribly, borderline offensive stereotyped twin bots for a massively high duration of the film--not when there are so many other cool Autobots that needed more screen time and were less annoying. Oh and Devastator? Totally didn't have balls--that would just be STUPID... ---[[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

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---* This fan can't and won't believe that Brian and Kevin have written any sequels, prequels, midquels or anything else relating to the ''{{Dune}}'' universe. ** This one is willing to accept that such books exist, just not that the authors had any kind of notes or instructions from Frank Herbert whatsoever. Hence they only count as fairly average {{Fanfiction}}. * The purpose of Leto II's 'Golden Path' was to free humanity from the trap of precognition forever. This is why Leto II let himself die at the end of ''God-Emperor of Dune'' once he knew that Siona & Duncan's children were inherently immune to being seen by prescient vision, and also that the Ixians had perfected the 'zero room'. So after several millenia of sacrifice and galactic-scale social engineering, the last Kwisatz Haderach was finally able to free humanity's destiny from ever again being controlled by any messiah, mutant, or oracle. This was just the right ending for the whole ''Dune'' myth arc, and nothing was ever written after it. ** That ''is'' the Golden Path. Leto actually ''explains'' what the threat to humanity was in God Emperor of Dune; unstoppable prescient machines that eventually and inevitably wipe humanity out. ''That's'' why he made humanity completely unpredictable via higher dimensional calculation; to prevent humanity from ''going extinct''. *** And this is ''why'' the rumors that books exist with words like 'Heretics' and 'Chapterhouse' in their titles are lies and damned lies. *** No he doesn't... it was stagnation and control vs. freedom and actual natural selection. No machines implied in that book. **** You're right, no machines were implied; they were stated ''right out''. Siona has visions of them during her time with Leto, when they were both in the desert. **** Siona has visions of a possible ''past''. Machines of that kind were prevented from ever holding a threat towards humanity again due to the events over 3500 years before-hand. The Golden Path had nothing to do with machines. * This troper takes an odd perspective - he hates the ending of the fourth ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' book, but can't wipe it out of existence because he loves the fifth book. Even the [[spoiler: Earth and all Earth in the entire Mish-Mash doing the big firework]] wasn't enough to make him dislike Mostly Harmless. ** This troper ignores the Mish-Mash completely and insists there's still more Earths. I DON'T CARE IF IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, THE ENDING IS JUST THAT DEPRESSING. *** Hey, infinite Earths mean infinite Arthurs, Fords, and Trillians who were offworld at the time. ** This troper is torn between his liking for Fenchurch and his liking for Random Dent, meaning he is pretty much forced to accept the Quintessential Phase as the least worst ending. ** This troper is pretty sure that the fifth book ended with [[spoiler:Arthur's death]], and ''only'' [[spoiler:Arthur's death]]. Although depressing, at least it ''makes sense''. (That was actually how I read the book. This whole mish-mash thing you're talking about is not something I got from the text.)

** Fifth book? What are you talking about? The trilogy ended when Marvin saw God's Final Message to His Creation, of course! ** This troper is confused when people refer to it as a trilogy. It's a radio series in twelve episodes or "fits", with a two-part novelisation. ** I liked the ending of [[H2G2/AndAnotherThing the sixth book]], when Arthur reunited with Fenchurch, settled down on that planet from the fifth book and lived happily ever after. * The sequels to ''RendezvousWithRama'' are much better if you interpret them as a parody of everything wrong with {{sci-fi}}. The scene where the {{Yakuza}} ''hire evil robot Abraham Lincolns to machine-gun the resident infestation of alien octopi on their planetsize spaceship'' is [[SoBadItsGood particularly enjoyable]]. * [[EndersGame Ender and Bean]] [[WriterOnBoard never got religion.]] * ''HarryPotter'' (non)example: No offense to Ms. Rowling, but the name "Albus Severus" just screams AllJustADream. ** Percy died. RedemptionEqualsDeath, right? Right? Of course. No twins were harmed at all in the narrative of these books, certainly not so that Percy could have a BigNo[=/=]MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment. ** Neville killed Bellatrix. End of discussion. *** But he also killed Nagini, right? Because [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome that was awesome]]. **** Yes. Yes, he did. His newfound badassery in book seven shall remain entirely intact. ***** And then he and Ginny got married and all was well. Wasn't that a great ending? ****** No, no. Neville killed Bellatrix alongside Molly Weasley, who wanted to avenge Ginny since Bellatrix killed her. ***** If I may respectfully disagree, Mrs. Weasley did indeed kill Bellatrix, in revenge for ''hurting'' Tonks. But Tonks didn't die, and neither did Remus. They decided to go on a long trek around the world and had a lot of adventures, which is why Harry lost track of them. ** Cho who? *** You mean the girl Harry managed to invite to the Yule Ball before Cedric did and ended up dating completely non-awkwardly for the rest of the series until they finally got married and had a family in the epilogue, right? **** No, I think he's talking about the girl who Cedric married in the epilogue because he totally didn't die, and neither did Dobby for that matter. ** Epilogue? What epilogue? ** Harry and Luna started a relationship after the events of ''OOTP'', and eventually married and had a wonderful and eccentric family, not starting another GenerationXerox. *** Yeah, I remember that. Great decision on Rowling's part. Something like, I don't know, Harry/Ginny wouldn't have been nearly as good. *** Finally some else remembers that. I keep being told by these crazy people that Harry and Ginny got together after several books of not interacting in the slightest and Ginny had gotten over her infatuation of Harry. Them in a relationship would just be silly. *** Ginny? You mean Ron's little sister who remained a background character thoughout the entire series and was definitely never

shoehorned into the main cast and made Harry's official love interest with little to no build-up? That Ginny? ** Hedwig didn't die needlessly! After Harry realized there was no way he was going to talk his friends out of risking their lives for him, he decided that at least he wouldn't put his beloved owl in any more danger. It was a tear jerking ShooTheDog moment and symbolized the end of Harry's childhood by having him make the very adult decision of releasing his owl. (It was established that Hedwig knew how to hunt, so he wouldn't be abandoning her to starve to death.) **** And don't worry, she still came to visit on occasion. *** The seventh movie actually got that part ''right!'' For the most part. *** I remember that part! I thought it was too sad and was about to declare it Discontinuity, but then I got to that scene near the end, where they finally reunite for good after the battle is over. [[HeartwarmingMoment *sniffle*]] ** Snape is not dead. Obviously. Nor did Remus look like a creepy pedophile in the movies, no way. They cast Ralph Finneas as Remus ''and'' Voldem--I mean, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. And he got to keep his hair, too. Somehow. ** Snape was never in love with Lily, and he was on Voldemort's side all along. Moody never died. The epilogue doesn't exist. New wand rules that don't make any sense were never introduced. And what's this I hear about [[StrangledByTheRedString Harry and Ginny getting thrown into a relationship with little to no realistic build-up]]? I could have sworn that Harry got together with Luna, and Ginny with Neville. *** What are you talking about? Snape DID love Lily and he was on Dumbledore's side. At the end of the books, having survived, he made peace with Harry, [[ButNowIMustGo left Hogwarts and went to find himself again]]. *** No no...he definitely never was in love with Lily, making that the only unbelievable and incredibly selfish reason that he would have to be on Dumbledore's side against Voldemort and further confirming that Lily Potter may have in fact, been a Canon Mary Sue. Nor that said saintly Lily would stop being his friend after having a really nasty slip of the tongue and a really, REALLY bad day of being bullied. Nor that the only reason he helps Harry at all is because he's reminded of Lily via Harry's eyes and that possibly couldn't have been the ONLY reason that J.K. Rowling hinted at for years as to why Harry having Lily's eyes was important...or that Harry would name one of his children after said man simply because of this selfish if not borderline creepy obsession he had for his mother, even if it did help the Wizarding World...no, no, that's CAN'T be right. I believe Snape did definitely survive and simply wasn't as bad as he seemed for various reasons and that Dumbledore (and later revealed to Harry) knew, was forgiven, then went off to find himself again. *** After he apologized to Harry and became his new godfather. That was a great book overall. I love how short it was, skipping right from the wedding to Luna's house where they destroyed the locket. * Thrawn did not die at the end of the ''[[StarWarsExpandedUniverse Thrawn]]'' trilogy. He anticipated [[spoiler:Rukh's betrayal]] and was [[spoiler:wearing body armor underneath his uniform]]. After this

minor setback, he crushed the Rebel fleet at Bilbringi and went on to reconquer the galaxy and was proclaimed Emperor. ** Which essentially makes Thrawn the biggest VillainSue in history... ** And Luke's clone at the end of the ''Thrawn'' trilogy had no name. Certainly not something as lame as [[MyNaymeIs "Luuke"]]... *** This is why CloudCuckooLander villains should not be allowed to pick names! ** Kevin J. Anderson's short story "Therefore I Am" doesn't exist because it would have turned a one-appearance background character from the films into a nigh-invulnerable MartyStu who would have effortlessly conquered the entire galaxy if not for dumb luck. ** There are rumours of a trilogy of novels by Anderson involving something called the "Sun Crusher" and the [[TooDumbToLive stupidest]] [[FauxActionGirl Imperial Admiral]] to ever walk the earth. But there is no evidence that Kevin J. Anderson ''ever'' wrote a ''StarWars'' novel. '''''EVER.''''' *** The entire body of his nonexistant continuity is masturbating - as heard from those poor souls in that alternate universe where his work exists. The denizens of that universe also hate Karen Traviss, whose work also does not exist in this universe and and also consists of masturbating. ** Not to mention something about those rumored [[NewJediOrder "Yuuzhan Vong"]]. *** The Yuuzhan Vong were a dream by Luke Skywalker, who woke up the morning after and went, "Bugger me, that's bloody impossible, what a ridiculous notion". And his wife and he lived happily ever after. ** Alternatively, The StarWars ExpandedUniverse ended with the end of the NewJediOrder series. After the Yuuzhan Vong were defeated, both the Empire and the New Republic remained in peace for a thousand years or so, and Jacen Solo never turned to the dark side. *** What "Yuuzhan Vong?" The stuff Luke and Mara dreamed up after making the mistake of eating Han's cooking? *** It then spontaneously reemerged in StarWarsLegacy. * You know a while back I heard about this idea for a ''StarWars'' story where the rebels were attacked by a bunch of Borg ripoffs after the battle of Endor. Thank god that was never written! ** Why the hell are people treating this "Mara Jade" character like she's in canon? Everyone knows that she's just a fan-character in that rambling fanfic Tim Z. is still hacking away at; yet, some people keep insisting that she's supposed to be in-universe proper? Now look, I know she's hot, I know there aren't many female characters in the Star Wars universe, but do you really want to accept into canon a character who's so blantantly a fanboy's lust-object? Or even more disturbing, a ''fanboy's female roleplaying character''. For ''that'' kind of fantasy. * shudder* * Anyone ever read Jane Yolen's ''PitDragon'' trilogy? ... Anyone think the third book never should've been made? ... Yeah. ThisTroper too. ** ThisTroper is worried about the news of a potential fourth book, because the publishers can't count. * This troper will never be able to accept Extras, [[TrilogyCreep the fourth book in the]] [[{{Uglies}} Uglies series,]] as canon. For that

matter, entire spans of Pretties and Specials are nonexistent, and I have absolutely no idea who these "Zane" and "David" characters I keep hearing about are... * My copy of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series is a book with most of their pages in blank, and only TWO sentence: "This book do NOT exist. By the way, vampires do not spark with the sunlight, they burn to their death." ** My copy of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series ends with Chapter 18 of New Moon, when Bella and Jacob have make-outs and the phone rings off the hook in the background because everyone is too busy to get it. ** And because everyone should have a happy ending, let's completely ignore canon and Edward can end up with Tanya. Or the Volturi's receptionist Gianna, who actually did get changed into a vampire. Who's with me? ** Actually, depending on what mood I'm in, I can actually change canon. See, otherwise, Bella has some character growth, and Leah gets a happy ending! With Jacob! ** Jacob turns out to be a [[HarryPotter wizard]], and casts a spell that turns Edward human so he and Bella can be HappilyMarried and give birth to their completely normal daughter, Nessie. Meanwhile, Jacob marries Luna Lovegood and they have Lysander, who grows up and marries Nessie. *** So Jacob's not a werewolf, he's an animagus? Makes sense. ** My own storyline involves [[spoiler:Renesmee being aborted]] and Bella and half the Cullens not being foolish at best and insanely suicidal at worst. Bella still [[spoiler:became a vampire, though...]] *** But if [[spoiler: Renesmee was never born,]] then how could she become a BadAss vampire hunter, team up with [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]] and kill all those wierd, emo Sparklepires? ** My copy of ''Breaking Dawn'' is actually the sort-of-canon metaTwilight parody Stephenie Meyer made with "Breaking Down". She theorized that Bella was [[DrivenToSuicide going to commit suicide]], but changed her mind at the last minute. She still slipped, though, because she was just that clumsy. And then [[YaoiGuys Mike ran off with Eric]]... ** Mine ends sometime after the first with an epilogue stating that [[TooDumbToLive Bella dies]] due to her horrible taste in lovers, and [[StalkerWithACrush Edward got an ankle bracelet]] for his troubles. *** Mine's similar. The second book is a just a few pages. Edward kills Bella before a terribly haunting monologue about how dumb she is to get in the car of a stranger and devote herself to someone she barely knows. She dies staring at his topaz eyes. Her death is on the nightly news and people are warned about devilishly handsome strangers who call themselves vampires, but nobody cares too much because she never did anything. The Cullens brutally torture all of Forks Angelusstyle and create more vampires. They take over the world, using humans as farm fodder. Fangirls cry. Okay, so mines a little messed up. ** This Male Troper has substituted a reality that makes Twilight an absolutely fascinating piece of literature. He remembers reading once that Vampires have hypnotic powers as part of their repetoir. So, since the book is entirely from Bella's point of view,

UnreliableNarrator is in full effect here. It explains Bella's devotion, her months-long depression upon the break-up, and so forth, and in doing so makes Edward the main character. Picture this; you're a vampire, just want to be normal yadda yadda, and one day out of desperation, maybe you didn't even mean to, you see the pretty girl in class, not the hottest or the smartest but the sort that gives you a bit of a crush, and perhaps not even meaning to, perhaps thinking of the life you may have lead had your father not gotten a little hungry one midnight and found that there were no cookies left, you use your unholy powers and supernaturally charm the panties off the poor thing pernamently. Naturally Edward is overcome with crippling guilt, he knows that these powers are only used to lure in prey, for one, and his view of being a monster comes not from him being different, but doing something he finds unforgiveable in himself. He staves off turning Bella into a vampire, cementing this careless, adolescant choice (let's say he's really only 17 in real-life years, to edge off the creepy factor.) Eventually, he finds himself so desperate for love, he finds himself slowly giving in to his own desires, completing the process and giving in to his bestial nature, knowing that at least some spark of the love Bella has for him is genuine. This blending of Stroker's Dracula mythos creates a novel with themes of selfforgiveness, desperation for love and human weakness, the vampirism representing the capacity for ruthlessness in romantic and social pursuits in us all. Furthermore, This Male Troper has altogether too much time on his hands. ** You know, I actually absolutely loved the Twilight series. There were a lot of really badass moments in it: when the vampires and werewolves had a war, when Bella's canon friend Eric turned out to be Victoria's apprentice instead of some new OC, and especially when the Volturi fought the vampires in the last book. The best part, though, was the series epilogue when Bella finally figured out that she fell for Carlisle's scheme of using his hot son to attract new killers to his clan. What an amazing Reveal! * Not too far off, the Eva/Cthulhu Mythos crossover ''Children of an Elder God'' ended after Chapter Nine and the battle with Hastur. Nothing else happened. Nothing at all. Damn, that story was great? Wasn't that story great? Stopping at Hastur, I mean, what a move! Who could have saw that! Thank Cthulhu that story stopped while on top, before it began to absorb itself in its own mythos, mutating into a sickening monstrosity that made me pull out more hair than ''actually'' encountering a Great Old One. Yep, nobody grew wings, mouths, split personalities, or tentacles, turned into a Deep One, tentacle-raped someone else, had their semen turn into a frog monster, or met Nyarlatho-Jesus. Absolutely none of that happened. And I have a good feeling about the Shinji/Rei paring. Yeah, that's gonna' turn out alright. It's ''all'' gonna' turn out all right. (Imustn'trunawayImustn'trunawayImustn'trunawayImustn'trunaway...) * What's this you say about a third ''{{Dexter}}'' book? Don't be ridiculous, that can't possibly have existed. ** There's a third ''{{Dexter}}'' book but it does NOT contain supernatural elements. * [[{{Tropers/Nomic}} This troper]] considers August Derleth's

''[[CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]]'' mythos stories DisContinuity. They simply don't fit in Lovecraft's cosmology and trying to incorporate them into it just gives this troper a headache. ** There is no August Dereleth. That's all just a bad dream you had. Lovecraft wrote a story so awesome that it caused people to actually lose SAN. Rolling on the 'Random Insanities' table from the ''Call of Cthulhu'' RPG, many people rolled 'Hallucinate an author who tries to put classical Greek elementalism on the Great Old Ones, purports that all the Elder Gods are undeniably good and all the Outer Gods are undeniably evil, and describes Cthulhu as a green version of the blob with tentacles'. Whoo! Thank Cthulhu you can make a SAN check, and the effects only last 1d10 hours! *** No no no. August Derleth ''does'' exist, and he's mainly remembered for writing [[SolarPons one of the best Sherlock Holmes patiches ever]]. The part where he wrote Cthulhu Mythos stories though? Definitely a dream. * DavidEddings' series ''The Dreamers'' only consisted of three books. There never was a fourth, none of the gods died, and everyone remained friends, so all the changes they made never got wiped away when the non-existent elder gods basically never turned the series into a ShootTheShaggyDog series. I mean... that could never happen, it'd ruin the point. * [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Arthur Dent lived happily ever after with Fenchurch.]] Douglas Adams never suffered a CreatorBreakdown which caused him to [[DropABridgeOnThem drop a bridge on]] Fenchurch, Arthur, and every Earth in every universe. * My copy of ''HisDarkMaterials'' ended with Will and Lyra finding a way to meet each other again once in a while, and finally ending up together ''for good''. No, I don't care if I am CompletelyMissingThePoint. Screw you, DiabolusExMachina. ** Lyra got what was coming to her for being, of all the Mary Sues, the Mary [=Sueist=]. Also? Pullman did NOT derail what was looking to be a wonderful, engaging world of magical Victorian steampunk by forcing in an anti-organized religion (specifically Catholic) diatrabe that ultimately made the books little more than the atheist equivalent of [[JackChick Chick Tracts]]. ** What's all this talk of Will and Lyra [[RomanticPlotTumor falling in love]] [[StrangledByTheRedString for no reason whatsoever?]] Mr. Pullman wouldn't sink to those levels surely? Not if everyone keeps saying he's so great, right? ** For some reason, instead of writing it in a book, Mr. Pullman decided to post the ''actual'' finale in the form of this [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/35939 excellent story.]] * This Troper will not acknowledge the existence of the last two ''{{Everworld}}'' books, ''Mystify the Magician'' and ''Entertain the End.'' Those books are so [[CharacterDerailment damned]] horrible that just thinking about them sours my enjoyment of all of them. In my mind, the series ended after they escaped Atlantis, and then Senna opened the gateway and sent her whiny-ass friends back into the Old World for good. ** In ThisTroper's continuity, she found the Great Scroll of the Gods, wiped out all the pantheons, and then became the DimensionLord of

Everworld. * No ''{{Dragonriders of Pern}}'' books were published since ''All the Wyers of Pern'', there were a few short stories handling the last of the Abominators and further intergration of some technology but nothing else. I am eagerly awaiting the Final Fall novel. * I thought it was very daring of Sheri S. Tepper in ''The Fresco'' to [[NoEnding cut off the story]] right after [[spoiler:the titular fresco is cleaned]]. The changed emphasis from ending it there really puts the {{Anvilicious}} elements in a new light. * [[DarkTower Randall Flagg]] had an epic confrontation with Roland and was shot and killed right before Roland [[spoiler: reached the Tower]]. There was never any spider/man hybrid thing named Mordred. That would just be silly ** Wow, that reminds me of this really awful fanfic alternate ending of the Dark Tower I read. It turned out that [[spoiler: the Crimson King was a total wuss, was trapped at the top of the tower and was killed by a kid with a pad of paper.]] Hey, are you referencing that really bad Original Character fic? Where [[IHaveManyNames Walter/Randall]] fell victim to TheWorfEffect simply because [[strike:King]] the fanfic author had to rant about his new philosophy of what evil was, regardless of [[strike:his]] the creator's original continuity and dramatic tension? (Takes a breath.) What a terrible fanfic. And that lame spider didn't even die in an epic fashion. At least they kept the awesome MindScrew ending in the book... * {{Artemis Fowl}} met up with Minerva again. They enjoy playing chess and discussing the rather convoluted formulas of magical time travel thanks to a project with demon warlocks, and are in fact testing out this 'dating' thing. AS THE PROPER, HIGH-SOCIETY INTELLECTUALS THEY ARE. Holly and Trouble are meanwhile happily down in Haven as a P.I. couple with Mulch as a best friend. Time Paradox? Opal Koboi returning in yet ANOTHER novel? Arty and Holly being the fandom favorite pair and kissing? His plans being absolutely convoluted and ridiculous and near Idiot Ball-like, such as flying a plane with a toy monkey? Nope, not ringing a bell at all. Also, Foaly still exists, and he is just as snarky as ever, even with his new mate Caballine. * This Troper refuses to recognize Anne Rice's Vampire Chroniclesafter the first two books- as canon. The story [[JumpingTheShark went downhill]] somewhere in the middle of Queen of the Damned. * There are no sequels to ''TheGiver.'' Great book, oh yes, one of the classics of our time. But it doesn't need a sequel. A sequel, let alone two featuring poorly-built, alternate Communities and weird pseudo-magical mumbo-jumbo, and which overall lack the entire subtlety and grace of the first book, would be just silly. * Why do people keep insisting that a relative of Bram Stoker wrote a [[{{DraculaTheUn-Dead}} sequel]] to [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Dracula]]? The whole idea is absurd. ** Oh, agreed! And what's this I keep hearing about Dracula and Mina being in love and having a son together? Now that's just ridiculous-everyone knows that Mina's true love and the father of her son was Jonathan and that Dracula was lusting after Lucy. * [[AnitaBlakeVampireHunter Anita's]] plane went down at the end of ''Obsidian Butterfly'' and she did not in fact become a self-righteous

rapist GodModeSue. ---[[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

FanonDiscontinuityLiveActionTV Note: This is a very subjective trope. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---* {{Wizards of Waverly Place}} was always a corny show, but atleast they didn't add some love-interest characters, like [[MarySue Juliet]]. Even worse, what if a werewolf version of [[{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]] snuck into the series and became Alex's boyfriend? Thankfully, her artist (not werewolf) boyfriend was only in the series for one episode. ** Also, the fourth season is revolving around the Russos travelling around the world trying to create a wizard world rebellion while avoiding the goverment rather then something like the whole thing turning out to be a test by Professor Crumms. One that results in Alex and Justin being knocked backed to level one in training and Max being in the lead cause that would be stupid. Also, this never leads to him being turned into a little girl for a few episodes. * The Doctor doesn't leave the parking break on. That doesn't happen. Neither does it happen when any other TARDIS materialises or dematerialises. That noise is meant to happen and River Song deactivated a vital component of the TARDIS when she thought she was switching off the brakes. In fact, why not, that's what leads to the [[spoiler:TARDIS exploding.]] * [[BattlestarGalactica Helo]] [[spoiler: never came into the bathroom, and most certainly would have been able to tell Boomer apart from ''his wife of roughly two-and-a-half years.'']] ** There was never any Circle. Jammer's still a member of the crew, dammit, he did not get killed for being a collaborator with the Cylons [[spoiler: ''by'' Cylons and the ''wife'' of a Cylon, who never hesitated to think that maybe they'd made a bad decision in all those executions.]] Gaeta did not [[spoiler: get his leg amputated, eventually snap, and get shot for leading a mutiny.]] *** The Military Coup led by Gaeta succeeded. Adama was executed for his crimes of aiding and abetting the Cylons, As was Helo. Starbuck and Apollo were gunned down in a failed attempt to save their life. And three of the final five were executed for being Cylons. Following this outcome, Galactica ended the very next jump it made when it was ripped in two. I refuse to believe that a coup supported by the overwhelming majority of the fleet could be honestly beaten back by only 6 people. **** You forget one of the six was Bill Adama. He could take the whole fleet with one steely glare.

**** Adama was executed. He was never saved by Starbuck and Apollo, because Apollo was executed in the hanger. Starbuck's gambit of shooting one of the 4 armed guards in order to get them to drop their weapons, got them to kill Apollo there, and then engage Starbuck in a firefight. Whether or not she survived that doesn't matter, they never made it the the brig together. And then never got to Adama. **** Racetrack and Skulls jumped into a sun when they miscaculated the jump back to rescue the people stranded on Caprica. Iraq/Occupied France InSpace did not happen, and neither did all the subsequent Final Five bullshit. Tigh still has two eyes. Pegasus and Cloud Nine are still with the fleet. **** Despite being one of the few people very satisfied with the BSG finale, this troper nevertheless prefers to believe that Sam woke up from his coma and joined Galen in Scotland where they lived happily ever after... * The ''BattlestarGalactica'' finale. Right after Lee gave his insane speech about abandoning civilization and essentially destroying his own culture at the hands of primitives, we flash forward to a gleaming high-tech city with flying cars, and a teacher's voice giving a lecture. "And that, children, is when President Agathon beat the bad crazy man until he could no longer speak. Which is why we celebrate this day every year as 'The Day Helo Saved The Human Race.'" * In a similar vein, [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Willow]] is bisexual (with a preference for women). ** Also Kennedy doesn't exist. * I just can't get over the idea of the Borg Queen on ''StarTrek''. I thought it was a complete reversal of a well-established threat, and I refuse to accept it as canon except by supposing that the queen is no kind of queen at all, but a mouthpiece like Locutus. The borg, for me, were significant as a story point because they were a collective linked up by computers like a giant, instant ballot box, making their organizing system essentially a very streamlined democracy with hyperefficiency and moral blindness worked in there. They were the darkest possible democracy-type, in short, and it made them the greatest possible evil. Turning them into another total dictatorship destroyed... or rather would have destroyed all the irony and applicable lessons that the collective brought to the table by its nature. ** I felt that the Borg Queen took the Borg from functional Comunism to Stalinism. ** ThisTroper finds it perfectly simple to reconcile that interpretation with the events of ''Star Trek: First Contact''. Later seasons of ''Voyager''? Scurrilous rumors. ** Borg Queen? What are you talking about? The Borg are a single, collective entity so large and alien as to essentially be a terrifying force of nature. An unstoppable enemy that can't be talked to, reasoned with or understood. * Oh, and [[StarTrekVoyager Paris and Janeway never turned into lizards and had lizard babies.]] I mean, [[{{Squick}} ew.]] ** Even Brannon Braga [[CanonDiscontinuity agrees with that]]. * Who the hell is the [[StarTrekEnterprise "Captain Archer"]] you speak of. Temporal War, Xindi, this never happened.

* While this editor accepts ''StarTrekEnterprise'' into ''StarTrek'' {{Canon}} on a good day, he throws out anything to do with the "Temporal Cold War". What is the point of a prequel series having such timeline damaging shenannigans to the point fans start theorising the series is an AlternateUniverse. A series set in the future, fine, but in a prequel series? Luckily the opening episodes of season 4 [[FixFic fixed]] that. Also this editor refuses to accept there was an episode of Enterprise featuring the Ferengi because he refuses to believe that they stayed out of the Federation's way for two centuries just because some starship captain said so. And the GrandFinale was certainly not a pseudo-''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode featuring Riker intruding into the events of the story, although the bit with the starship captains giving the "Space, the final frontier" monologue can stay. ** And Trip is ''perfectly'' FUCKING ''fine'', thank you very much. See ''[[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_Good_That_Men_Do The Good That Men Do]]'' for details. ** ''Dear Doctor''? Was made up by the Dominion to misrepresent the Prime Directive. Also, the Kyrians made up ''Tuvix''. * Sadly, [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Gul Dukat]] was killed by the Dominion for his failure, and Kai Winn suffered horrific brain damage in a heated shockball game that caused her to drop into a coma and [[LifeOnMars imagine]] that Dukat returned disguised as a Bajoran to release the pagh'wraiths. Which don't exist. Given this was a dream, she didn't question how [[TooDumbToLive easily]] she was corrupted by Dukat. Sadly, she never regained consciousness, and no-one ever heard this story. Ever. ** Additionally, as the pagh'wraiths don't exist, Jadzia couldn't possibly have been killed by them, and she and Worf lived happily ever after. Ezri was also a product of Kai Winn's diseased imagination. *** Leaving Julian to grow up and seek a mature, healthy relationship instead of a co-dependancy with said non-existant counselor, preferably with Garak. * [[SeasonalRot Season 3]] of ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' either did not happen or was a bunch of exaggerated and/or fabricated reports by Captain Kirk. ** Except for "The Tholian Web." * [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard and Crusher]] came to their senses and got together in the immediate aftermath of "Attached". There was none of this "I don't want to ruin our friendship!" nonsense. ** Alternatively, the novel ''Death in Winter'' is canon. * [[StarTrekVoyager Chakotay]] hooked up with Seven of Nine at the end? What you talkin' 'bout? ** I really have no idea, because I remember in the finale, Janeway offered to let [[spoiler:Seven]] stay with her until she adjusted to life in the Alpha Quadrant. [[Tropers/BlossomMorphine This Troper]] thought it was CrowningMomentofHeartwarming. * That whole stupid storyline with Mulder either being kidnapped by aliens or having a terminal neurological problem Scully completely failed to notice just did NOT happen on ''TheXFiles''. Therefore, the last alleged episode of season 7 does not exist, nor do seasons 8 and 9. And TheLoneGunmen are most definitely NOT dead! They're still doing

their thing and just as adorably weird as ever. * ''TheWestWing'' ended with season 4. Leo, Toby, and Will were never completely [[CharacterDerailment Character Derailed]] and [[spoiler:Fitz]] was never {{McLeaned}}. And they didn't ruin John Hoynes in order to write John Wells into a corner, either. He may not have been the greatest guy, but he would never do something utterly moronic like tell his lover state secrets. ** You managed to make it that far!?! WOW! [[{{Tropers/A-l-e-x-99}} This Troper]] wishes he had your stomach. I hate Emily Procter with a bloody passion because her voice is so grating to me, so for me, ''West Wing'' only lasted ONE season and was a complete FLOP 'cuz it fucking SUCKED! And, on a related side note, ''CSIMiami'' doesn't exist. ''(puts on sunglasses)'' At all. ** What is this nonsense about Sam Seabourne joining a law firm after losing California 47th? He miraculously won and served until he was recalled from the House to take over as Deputy Chief of Staff under Joshua Lyman. * What never happened on ''Series/DoctorWho'': (deep breath) The Doctor is not half-human, The Time War never happened, [[TheWesley Rose]] [[RelationshipSue Tyler]] does not exist, The Doctor and his companions [[NoHuggingNoKissing never fall in love with each other,]] The Doctor [[{{Flanderization}} is not Jesus,]] "The Doctor's Daughter" featured [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Doctor's actual daughter]] instead of some sort of clone...echo...girl...thing, [[HumongousMecha The CyberKing]] does not exist, there is no [[{{Wangst}} excessive crying]] in the new series, Donna was not transformed into a {{HalfHumanHybrid}} and then made to [[TraumaInducedAmnesia forget all her travels with the Doctor,]] David Morrissey is the next Doctor instead of [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Matt Smith,]] the Ood were never [[CharacterDerailment derailed]] from spine-tingling {{NightmareFuel}} into a generic {{Monster of the Week}} and the "Daleks become humans" story was given the [[TheyJustDidntCare respect]] and intelligent writing it deserved. ** You forgot about: Martha Jones was never born, Donna Noble took the traveling offer the Doctor made at the end of The Runaway Bride and Series 3 happened with her instead, Rose Tyler either never had to let go of the clamp or stayed put in Pete's World, once she was gone the Doctor got over her and never brought her up again, Donna Noble regenerated into a full Time Lady and [[VictoryGuidedAmnesia wasn't mind wiped and]] [[FateWorseThanDeath reverted back to being]] TheScrappy, Handy!Doctor was made to combine with Proper!Doctor instead of being [[StrangledByTheRedString thrown to Rose like a cheap doll in order to]] [[CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds resolve the Rose/Doctor ship they were toting up until the very end]], the Series 3 finale was given the [[TheyJustDidntCare respect]] and intelligent writing it deserved. *** Well, I can play too. Policeman investigating what now? The series began with Rose Tyler trying to hand lottery money to her boss but stumbling into the [[strike: Autons]] Nestene duplicates. *** The Doctor was able to block the Time Lord-part of Donna's mind successfully without having to take away her memories, and she continued to travel with him throughout the specials until succumbing

to it in ''The End of Time'', where (along with her grandfather) she was critical in stopping Rassilon's plan and ends up dying peacefully in the Doctor's arms (making Dalek Caan's prediction that "one will die" true). During his 'goodbye' tour before regenerating, he takes her body and Wilfred to the Ood and buries her there, with the Ood singing a bittersweet lament and Sigma promising that her song will never end as long as there are those who sing it. He also regenerates there during the song, takes Wilfred home and says a final goodbye to him before leaving in the TARDIS. Something quickly goes wrong and greatly damages the interior of TARDIS and spins it out of control, which leads directly into ''The Eleventh Hour''. There was never any mind-wipe or walking on egg-shells by her family and everyone that knows the Doctor (not to mention the Doctor himself) for the rest of her life lest she 'burn up', and her story was ''not'' ended by her getting married and still being unable to remember anything about her adventures ''ever'', and the Doctor trying to make up for this by giving her a lottery ticket. *** While we're on the subject, Mickey Smith certainly didn't spend all that time [[TookALevelInBadass taking levels in badass]] and [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap getting out of the Scrappy heap]] just to see Rose paired off to a human clone of the Doctor before he gets hitched to Martha in the most awkward case of PairTheSpares in history. He and Rose are very happily married in the parallel universe, as they should be. * ''Series/DoctorWho'' ended after Season 1 of the revival, going out on an all time high. It did not go on to contradict it's own canon in ways such as having the Doctor paradox "Britain's Golden Age" out of existance or Rose inexplicably remembering her time as Bad Wolf for no adequately explained reason. It did not plunge the Doctor into the depths of hypocrisy by having him both condemn the desire for immortality and continually change his mind regarding whether genocide is an acceptable means of dealing with alien threats depending on what way the wind is blowing, nor did he become a [[Main/FantasticRacism Fantastic Bigot]] or begin having [[Main/OmniscientMoralityLicense delusions of authority over the entire universe]]. There were never any teases regarding averted regeneration sequences, any instances of alien threats being defeated with [[Main/HollywoodHacking Time Lord leet haxxor skillz]] or cases of the Doctor giving psychic lobotomies to any of his companions. Rose was never [[Main/CharacterDerailment derailed]] from her essentially likable characterization from Season 1, nor was she fobbed off with a clone Doctor in a parallell universe. * Martha managed to properly call the Doctor out on making Rose out to be a godlike figure, and he stopped comparing the two after the first few episodes of Series 3, and the they eventually parted as really good friends. The Master didn't die at the end of Last of The Time Lords, he and the Doctor are travelling together through time and space, saving planets and having slashy moments- copious amounts of snarking are involved. Donna joined them later, there was no Time Lord metacrisis or Reality Bomb, she remained fully human, and left the TARDIS many years later of her own free will to live happily ever after. Rose realised her infatuation with the Doctor was a passing thing, and that she loved Mickey after all and married him on the

parallel world, and never felt the need to return. * There was some 60ies Doctor Who show in Britian but the TV movie and 2005 - 2010 run of Doctor Who was completely independent of that show and set in an alternate universe. I am so sad when they announced there wouldnt be a season five unless the Master returns alive and well from the Time War with John Simm as actor. * On ''{{Torchwood}}'', [[DrJerk Owen]] and [[HotScientist Toshiko]] never died and actually had their [[CartwrightCurse date]]. What's more? It was completely awesome, even if it got interrupted by Weevil hunting. ** That would have just made it more awesome. ** Ianto is alive and well and making Torchwood into an organization staffed by sane, competent people. *** When he and Jack aren't having sex on every available surface of the new Torchwood Institute in Cardiff. *** To quote the internet, ''"no ones dead. No one is ''going'' to die. Screw you RTD."'' ** Gwen Cooper went away. Far, far away. *** No, she didn't, she realized that shagging her coworker is a bad idea, as is crushing on her boss, and worked on her relationships with Rhys and her friend Andy. Rhys helps the team out from time to time and Andy is their real police liaison. Gwen is thanking Ianto for helping save her wedding by covering for him and Jack when they need it. **** She also stays put in Wales to raise her child with Rhys, and most certainly does not go to America because she's "bored". ** ''Torchwood'''s still-flawed first season was sadly cut short into seven episodes [[hottip:for those who care:Everything Changes, Ghost Machine, Countrycide, Out of Time, Combat, Captain Jack Harkness and End of Days, though on that one read on]], which, while still not as good as ''Children of Earth'', concluded with Owen pulling all the time-displaced humans from that day back through the Rift, and ''then'' leading into the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode where Jack chases after his "right sort of Doctor" through time. [[ThatCameOutWrong Or something]]. Abaddon? Billis? Who are they? * Most of [[{{Dollhouse}} "The Hollow Men"]] didn't happen. Only the awesome things [[spoiler:the return of Topher!Victor, ninja!Victor, Topher's BatmanGambit, Mellie's sacrifice]] did. ** Also, Bennett is still alive and she helped fix Topher after he went crazy, and then after they stopped the thoughtpocalypse they settled down and [[{{Firefly}} River and Simon Tam]] are their descendants. * This troper wishes that the episode of ''TheGoldenGirls'' where Rose's boyfriend Miles [[spoiler: is revealed to be an accountant named Nick who's in witness protection after helping to convict a mobster]] never happened. * To that effect, [[TwentyFour Jack Bauer]]'s father Phillip is [[spoiler:still alive]] as well. One of the show's best villains in years, given a death that [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat nobody could survive]]? I'm too GenreSavvy to believe ''that''. * [[TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody London Tipton]] remained in Boston, and sent her {{Doppelganger}} to attend school aboard the ''S.S. Tipton''.

** The Suite Life on Deck was just a horrible dream. *** Indeed it was. What ACTUALLY happened was that the boys remained at the Tipton throughout their High School years, only leaving to go to college. Some years later, a grown up and more mature Zack met up with Maddie again. The two began to reconnect, eventually falling in love for real and got married. * Oh man, ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' was ''so awesome''. Why did they only make one season? ** And then a miniseries focusing just on what Noah Bennet would have gone on to do. But at no point was there a flying pretty boy. No way. * [[Series/{{Heroes}} Sylar]] having his mind wiped and morphed into Nathan Petrelli? What are you talking about? Claire used her blood to heal Nathan and Sylar was burnt, burnt and burnt again until he was nothing, so that he couldn't do anymore harm. Angela Petrelli did not make Matt do anything stupid. ** WTF are you talking about? Sylar died at the end of Season 1, after Hiro stabbed him! ** And Charlie most certainly did not decide to marry some unknown, unnamed person at the end of WWII and have four random kids with him. She waited faithfully for Hiro to meet up with her in the present, knowing that she's just taking TheSlowPath and that he'll eventually rescue her. He did, and they now have a grand time teleporting around the world and acting like happy tourists. *** Alternately, Hiro's powers had an oopsie and they ended up in an alternate dimension where [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031Dshcnso4 guns shoot flowers]]. Unfortunately, this new dimension seems to lack barber shops... ** Mohinder did not become a MadScientist ProfessorGuineaPig by betraying a patient coming to him for help! That was just an idea put forth by Sylar to make him come to the Dark Side. Instead, he worked with Peter, Matt, Hiro, Ando, Charlie, Audrey, Claude, Elle, Monica, Ren and Daphne to form an organization to warn and protect specials from the Company and Sylar, while performing good works for the public. * ''{{CSI}}: Crime Scene Investigation'' was canceled at the end of Season Five. ** And the spin off Series lasted a couple of seasons, and resolved the main characters' backstories, and no there tragically was never a CSI set in New York. *** Funny, this troper remembers this sequence of events a little differently. {{CSI}} went well up until the 8th season, when it was cancelled. The show ended with For Warrick, the second half of the two part series finale. {{CSI:Miami}}, the first spinoff, lasted about 3 seasons before being cancelled. However, they decided to create [[{{CSINY}}a spinoff set New York]] and that show is excellent, or at least it was before they took a hiatus after the 5th season. It's been two years and I don't believe it's coming back anytime soon. *** Grissom never retired or left, and was always happier with bugs than Sara. Incidentally, Warrick is not dead, and Greg is still the annoying lab boy he always was. Also, in Miami, NOTHING HAPPENED AFTER SEASON 3 AND SPEED LIVES. RYAN IS A MYTH. That whole 'Tim dies' episode was just a terrible ploy by the New York gang to try and

divert attention onto them, which failed miserably. * ''{{Babylon 5}}'' - Legend Of The Rangers NEVER HAPPENED ** There was a one-shot where they did an X-files parody - I always found it off that they did a one-hour 'movie', but it was good. ** There is no Byron in season 5, but there is the Drakh War and the Telepath War. Crusade went on to have four more ''wonderful'' seasons that made up for the weaknesses of the first half of the first season. * This troper has a friend who maintains that [[{{Firefly}} Wash is not dead.]] ** Wash dead? What Big Damn Movie? Firefly ended (unfortunatly) after 14 episodes. The crew continues to keep flying. Everyone is still alive. Simon paid people to get River out of the Academy and didn't conduct the BadAss rescue himself (thereby leading to questions why he never did anything Badass during the series). River has not turned out to be a freaking Slayer and remains sadly still 'touched' thereby continuing to be a compelling character. Also, there is no hovermule!!! *** Uh... What? I seem to remember Simon being a Crouching Labcoat Hidden Badass in the series, so the movie made perfect sense. Although you're right about Wash and Book not dying; don't forget the Operative! Man, was I relieved when we saw him again in the second season; he was too interesting a character to just forget about. * In ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'', Jack managed to fake his death at the end of Season 4 and finally parted with his life as a CTU agent forever. ** And he had never been in &#1057;hina, neither had Audrey. (Don't get me wrong. I like Renee Walker as well as Jack/Renee. But what happened ( sorry, I mean what never happened)to Audrey.. it's so wrong. ) Chinese man kidnapped him?! Nonsense!!! We are here speaking of Jack Bauer! And neither Michelle nor David Palmer are dead, and Tony is definitely not a terrorist. * [[{{Life}} Dani Reese never got with Tidwell.]] She continues to think of him as disgusting, and there are more than a few hints of {{UST}} between her and Crews. ** Who the heck is Tidwell? I liked how Lt. Davis eventually came to realize Crews was a great cop, and she and he and Dani worked together to bring down the corruption in the LAPD. * [[{{NCIS}} Jethro Gibbs]] is still very much involved with Hollis Mann. What is this nonsense about her retiring to Hawaii? There is no way in hell Gibbs was stupid enough to let go of the best thing that ever happened to him. ** Uh, no. Gibbs is with ''Jenny''. You know, Director Shepard? Badass Lady who took down those guys, in that diner, and got away with it? They balance each other out, Jenny and Jethro, and besides, every group of kids needs their parent. (And did you see the pilot for the flashback miniseries? We finally got to see them escape with Ducky across the English Channel!) *** Nonono. Jethro and Jenny are the TeamMom and TeamDad who are BetterAsFriends but still super super [[{{Nakama}} close]], and Jenny is [[ShipperOnDeck totally behind]] Jethro and Hollis' epic romance after finding Hollis worthy, of course. Who is this Leon Vance character of which you speak? ...oh, right, the ''Deputy'' director of NCIS. Duh. That flashback miniseries, though, was epic. As was Jenny's

smackdown of those guys in the diner. * ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' got cancelled after the "Once More With Feeling." In the canon comics that followed, Buffy's OTP Anya and Xander didn't [[ShipSinking Ship Sink]] and in fact are HappilyMarried. Willow didn't go down a magic druggie road, Tara decided to stay, grew a spine, and set her girlfriend straight because lesbian love saves the world, without a DepravedBisexual will destroy everything. Spike and Buffy got together, and provided her with enough IntimateHealing and satsication they decided to rub it in Angel's face, drove to Los Angeles with Dawn who got boinked by Conner instead so there was never that whole Cordelia/Conner squick! Sounds like the most extreme discontinuity bad!fanfic yet? Better then say the silly theories that say Tara and Anya would've died, Willow goes Dark Phoenix, Spike gets ensouled, and Giles abandons his (children) Scoobies. ** No, ''Buffy'' ended the way it was intended to, with the Season 5 finale "The Gift". Buffy made a HeroicSacrifice that there was no way to reverse. Had she come back, she and everyone around her would just wind up going through CharacterDerailment. *** Sooner or later, we're going to find out that the Scoobies are still dreaming their dreams from "Restless" and Seasons 5, 6 and 7 never actually happened. ''Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease...'' ** Wait... I'm confused. What's a "Dawn"? Is that what you call that hideously obnoxious little sister that Buffy never had? ** One second... Who is that guy Spike you are talking about? I remember one, but he was a bloody souless vampire who got killed in "What's My Line, Part Two", just as planned. And how on the Earth he and Buffy can be in love with each other? *** I thought he was that guy who had a chip put in his head and was great comic relief but realised his crush on Buffy was unrequited after the sex robot incident and remained "just friends' with her (y'know, like the actor playing him ''wanted'' to happen?) ** I'm so glad the series ended after three seasons, with the Scoobies watching the school burn down, bidding a bittersweet farewell to their adolescence. Can you imagine how ridiculous it would've been if they'd sent off most of the cast to a CaliforniaUniversity, given Buffy a wooden boyfriend who was part of an equally boring science-based vampire hunting conspiracy, had Buffy turn into a cavewoman by [[DrugsAreBad drinking beer]] just so they could get [[MoneyDearBoy government money]], made Willow turn farcically evil, and spent two seasons with all the characters alternately giving each other cheesy motivational speeches and [[{{Wangst}} whining about how alllll alooooone]] they were? ** You know, I can actually handle most of the dumb things that happened in season 4, and the idiocy in season 6. I managed to grow to like Dawn and Tara, despite the former being annoying and the latter doing nothing, and then dying shortly after. I can evend eal with the comics. And this is all because Xander and Anya are together in all of them, and by season six were happily married. What? You're telling me they never got married? Bah, that's ridiculous. * [[DarkAngel Logan and Max]] got rid of that inane virus and got HappilyMarried. Alec got over his relationship issues and got a

girlfriend. Cindy also got a girlfriend. Ben, who had been revived by Manticore because that's easy, was gradually eased back into sanity by Max and Alec. Joshua killed Ames White as poetically as possible. Max saved the human race. ** Also, do you remember that episode (''Borrowed Time'') where they got an antidote that gave them 12 hours - only for Max having to leave for a mission and return with two minutes left? Since the original estimate of the creator of the antidote was ''14 hours'', my immediate response was: "Maybe it's ''two hours'' and two minutes." ** Normal wises up and realizes his life would be substainally easier if he would be less of a douche. * ''{{Andromeda}}'': No one made the assinine mistake of firing Wolfe. * {{Alias}} ended when they brought down SD-6. No amnesia, no marriage, no likable characters killed by evil duplicates or sent into witness protection, no prophecy plots gone out of control. It ended there. * There never was an episode of ''ThePrisoner'' called "Do Not Forsake Me, O My Darling." The powers that be never put Number Six's mind in some other guy and sent him out of The Village to run an errand for them. Number Six never had a fiance. That's all just crazy talk made up by crazy people. * [[{{Supernatural}} Sam and Dean]] never went up against a racist ghost truck. I don't know why anyone would create such a blatant lie. They never ran into a giant suicidal teddy bear, either. ** Of course they never ran into a giant suicidal teddy bear, the show got canceled after season 3. It ended on a complete cliffhanger, dam you network executives! * ''{{Oz}}'' only lasted 5 seasons. If they had a 6th season, they would have had to resort to stupid, OOC stuff like [[spoiler: Alverez going gay]], [[spoiler: Ryan forgiving his father]] and [[spoiler: Emerald City exploding]]. AGAIN! * I can't wait for the LifeOnMars finale that's going to come out soon. What do you think will happen? I'm hoping for Sam to go back to 2007, be happy with the lessons that he's learned from 1973 and face life with a new, relaxed, positive attitude. ** I really liked how they faded out on the roof to the credits and Leonardo DiCaprio had a cameo in the stinger with a scene that looked like that one from TheDeparted . * [[{{Tropers/Meshakhad}} This troper]] has ''two'' possibilities regarding the ''{{Angel}}'' episode "I Will Remember You": ## The whole bit where Angel went off to hunt the Mohra demon without Buffy, and ended up having to convince the Powers That Be to fold time and undo everything, was a shared nightmare between Buffy and Angel. Buffy woke with a start, and went with Doyle to kill the Mohra demon easily. They all moved back to Sunnydale. ## The entire episode never happened. Season One of ''{{Angel}}'' only had 21 episodes. JossWhedon sketched it out, but decided that [[Main/EvenEvilHasStandards it would be too cruel]]. ** Angel in love with Cordelia Chase? ANGEL? Come on, man, it is'not even funny. At all. ** Also, the Season Five episode "Damage" had a slightly different ending. After calling Buffy, Angel agreed to hand Dana over to Andrew

and his slayers, who were better equipped to take care of her. Buffy also spoke to Spike, and assigned him to be her liason to Wolfram & Hart. Buffy is aware of everything that happened for the rest of Season Five (as Spike was passing her info). The first issue of the BuffyTheVampireSlayer Season Eight comic shows the systematic extermination of every Wolfram & Hart branch on Earth by the Slayers after Buffy finds out what happened in "Not Fade Away". ** Angel never destroyed the Ring of Amara, using it to become a more effective Champion. Doyle was never killed by a stupid cult that wasn't mentioned ever again using an even stupider weapon that wasn't mentioned ever again. Angel either killed Darla the moment they met or staked her the moment she was a vampire, and definitely didn't have sex with her to form an annoying baby that became an even more annoying adolescent. Relatedly, Angel never had a DespairEventHorizon because he [[VillainsNeverLie believed a supremely evil being]], instead using the opportunity to invade the realm of the Senior Partners and either destroyed them completely or removed their link to Earth, shattering Wolfram & Hart. Wesley TookALevelInBadass without having to betray his {{Nakama}} and get his throat slit. Holtz eventually accepted he would never face Darla and Angelus again, living the rest of his life in obscurity fighting vampires. Aforementioned annoying baby/adolescent, having never existed, certainly didn't [[SpotlightStealingSquad steal the spotlight]] of two entire seasons, creating IdiotPlot after IdiotPlot and willingly serving and aiding an EldritchAbomination. Eventually, with Wolfram & Hart gone, Fred rescued from Pylea, and Buffy dead (which isn't reversed, because ''Buffy'' seasons 6 and 7 don't exist), Angel, Doyle, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn and Fred join the remaining Scoobies (and Spike) in WalkingTheEarth and fighting the good fight. The end. ** I thought it was really weird how ''{{Angel}}'' went straight from season three to season five. And that season three was only half the length of a regular season. * The storyline on ''{{Neighbours}}'' featuring the grandchildren of Max Ramsey and Anne Robinson is not happening. No matter how likeable and well-acted the characters are, they is no way in canon they can exist. * This troper can accept the sixth season of ''Series/{{The Avengers}}'' on the grounds that Tara isn't nearly as lame some fans would have us believe, but surely within a year Emma got divorced and returned to Steed, and they lived ambiguously ever after. There was definitely no '70s' revival in which they are still apart. They're much too close for that; what the hell are you smoking? Also, Steed and Cathy eventually buried the hatchet, and she and Emma are now close friends, and every fanfiction writer knows who she is and gives her the recognition she deserves. * Also, [[TheManFromUNCLE Napoleon and Illya]] stayed at UNCLE and were lucky enough to live to retirement age. They definitely did not simultaneously quit for different reasons, enter ridiculously OOC professions and not talk for 15 years for no apparent reason. Seriously, they are CLOSE. Why would you even think that? ::headdesk:: * The ''[[HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys Hercules]]''/''{{Xena}}'' stories ended with Hercules reconciling with his divine parents in

"Full Circle", and with Gabrielle sacrificing her life to stop Hope and Dahak, and save Xena, in "Sacrifice, Part 2". No, Gabrielle and Hope did not come back in an episode that changed Hope from a viciously powerful antichrist figure into a snivelling Gabrielle imposter accompanied by her Frankenstein-monster son. Xena and Gabrielle did not eventually embark on a bloodbath and slaughter almost the entire cast of Olympians for some vague reason involving her prophecied child and an ill-concieved mish-mash of Greek mythology and Judeo-Christian monotheism. Gabrielle's death in the final episode was a shame, but I'm sure they'll make a great movie about Xena dramatically rescuing her from the underworld someday. * Y'know, one of the best scenes of ''TheWire'' is toward the end of the series, when Dukie takes the money that Prez gave him and uses it to get his college degree in mathematics. And then the part where he used that knowledge to become a software designer, and he and Randy founded a successful company together and got off the streets for good? Great stuff, man. Great stuff. ** I thought it was awesome the way Kenard was about to shoot [[spoiler:Omar]], but then [[spoiler:Omar]] looked over at him, and Kenard got so scared he wet himself, dropped his gun, and ran away. And then, when [[spoiler:Marlo went straight but couldn't resist the call of the streets]], the first person he ran into was Omar, and Omar blew him away. Oh, and Daniels remained the commissioner. * Wait, what? What is all this nonsense about [[{{Charmed}} Prue dying]]? Leo and Piper having a baby? What? 8 seasons? The show got tragically cancelled after just 3 seasons. And it ended on such an anticlimax, too. ** Yeah, imagine how stupid it would have been. The Power of 3.5? A spare charmed one that neither of the ancestor spirits looking out for the girls, nor their mother's White Lighter, ever mentioned? Then they could have some weird storyline about how the three girls, including the spare, died and got magical makeovers for some bizarre reason? They could even have theme episodes, where the girls get turned into goddesses or superheroes, or genies, or their teenage selves, and lots more time travel. That sure would suck. *** No, they did have the sister, but it turns out being halfWhitelighter is convenient for hunting demons long-distance. She comes to visit when they really need backup, and thank God she orbed in at a lucky moment or else old!Phoebe's story would have died with her and they wouldn't have been able to save Source-possessed Cole before things really went to Hell. *** The Siren never actually put a spell on Cole. He was just pretending. Come on, man, he is too powerful for such things! So instead of trying to kill Phoebe he finished the Siren and saved the day. Then he and Phoebe once again became {{HappilyMarried}}. Cole becoming evil, an Avatar, and creating an {{AlternateUniverse}} is nothing but Paige's dream which she didn't tell anyone because it is ridiculous. Also Christy wasn't killed by her own sister. She was captured, {{Brainwashed}} and now she is helping the Charmed Ones, and their children. Also we saw only one Cupid and it was in Season 2. *** What are you talking about? The way ''I'' remember it, Cole realized he was being screwed over, seeing as how he's the only person

in the Halliwells' circle who didn't get a free pass post-possession, and he left town. Of course, he did come back two seasons later to knock sense into Leo before the Avatars got to him, and ''then'' he and Phoebe made up. **** Also, Andy ''never'' died. He was saved by Prue and they ended up HappilyMarried. * [[TheBigBangTheory Leonard and Penny]] aren't dating. Instead, the five of them continue to have epic geeky adventures together with no awkward {{UST}} in sight. Also, Stephanie came back from [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse whatever dimension the writers sent her to]] and ''she'' is dating Leonard. ** I have no problem with Leonard and Penny dating. I do have a problem with people who keep trying to convince me that Leonard has a mother and that she's been in a couple episodes. ''That'' is just nonsense. * The first and third seasons of ''FridayNightLights'' were so awesome, it's truly a shame that the writers' strike prevented the second season from ever getting off the ground. It would have provided needed continuity with the seasons before and after it, and I would have enjoyed seeing the consistent, well-thought out characterization typical for the show. Instead, I have to read crappy fanfic about Landry killing Tyra's rapist and hiding the body, or Matt sleeping with her grandma's caretaker, or Landry joining the football team. The real thing would have been * so* much better. * [[{{Bones}} Dr Zack Addy]] is still an active researcher at the Jeffersonian. I have no idea why people say otherwise. Also, Angela and Hodgins are still dating, Angela does have a husband that she can't remember, but he hasn't appeared yet. And they never did an episode in London. No, not even if it supposedly did have [[{{Torchwood}} Suzie Costello]] in it. ** I really like the direction they took, though, by having Brennan and the gang mentoring more grad students, now that Zack got his doctorate though. Especially the one played by Michael Badalucco... I am glad we got multiple episodes with him. ** Me too. Zack started to get so flanderized for s bit, but I'm really happy the the writers pulled back and made him such a well rounded character before puttinghimonthebus. It was a great way to send him off - as a young man, emerging into a new sense of self. * The mess that was the finale of the second season of BBC ''Robin Hood'' never happened, nor did the trainwreck that was [[strike:the finale of]] the third one. In fact, the episode where Marian had to promise to marry Guy to dispel his suspicion and where everybody (especially Marian) acted like a fool (and which, in hindsight, foreshadowed all this mess) was probably some preliminary script; in the end, the makers came to senses and realized that when Marian learned that the necklace from Guy of Gisbourne was stolen, she could have returned it herself and told Guy off for ''daring'' to offer her jewellery he had stolen from his subjects as a gift. * Abby [[spoiler:kill [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Henry]]]] at the end of ''HarpersIsland''? And [[spoiler:escape with her ShallowLoveInterest Jimmy]]? Of course not! What were the writers thinking? She realizes that [[spoiler:she loves Henry and lives

happily ever after with him alone on the island]]. Oh, and [[spoiler:Cal and Chloe escape too, having survived the stabbing and fall off the bridge]]. ** On the island? Wait do you mean - Manhattan or something? Because there is no way a sane person would live on the island where two crazy guys killed all her friends. Henry is clever enough to realize it, just as he was clever enough to frame Jimmy and to get him killed. So Henry and Abby left the island, moved on and now they are HappilyMarried with perfectly healthy children. Naturally, Abby doesn't have any idea who is her husband or what he has done. And yes, they were in the same boat with Madison, Cal and Chloe. *** [[TheScrappy Madison]] died, dammit! It was just off-screen. You may not have noticed. **** And so did [[TheScrappy Shea]]. Do you remember she was harpooned? Poor Richard, losing his wife ''and'' daughter. Oh, and [[HarpersGlobe Robin]] didn't make it either. * {{Scrubs}} enjoyed a seven year run on NBC that went up and down in quality as is expected with any popular television program but ended with a really great eighth season on ABC that perfectly wrapped up almost all of the major characters' plotlines while giving us enough ambiguity to dream up our own versions of what happens to cast after the end. * {{All My Children}} ended when Bianca and Maggie went to Paris together. [[CharacterDerailment There was no cheating nonsense, no Bianca stabbing her sister on the back, no Reese and, certainly, no Zarf.]] Nope, that did not happen and you can't prove it did!! * [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Warren]] is dead. End of story. * Such a shame there's been no RedDwarf since 1999. I wish they'd make more! Even a three-part Easter special would be great...right? ** ...What eighth season? I thought the nanite-rebuilt ''Dwarf'' subplot was abandoned when Doug Naylor was working on pre-production for TheMovie. I remember a timeskipped special about a decade later though. * The [[StargateSG1 Asgard]] didn't commit mass suicide in "Unending". They destroyed their planet and bodies, but their minds were downloaded to the new computer they installed on Odyssey. Hermiod is now the AI for the ''Daedalus''. One day, the humans will find a way to give the Asgard new bodies. ** Also, the battle between Adria and Morgan wasn't so long and of course didn't last forever. Morgan won, took all Adria powers and sent her right to Stargate Command to atone for her sins and to achieve ascendancy on her own. At first, nobody was happy about it but sooner and later they all accepted it. The former {{Big Bad}} now works with one of the SG teams and is responsible for a {{LoveTriangle}} between Vala, Jackson and herself. And Cameron fell in love with doctor Lam, although her father isn't very happy about it. * [[StargateAtlantis Wormhole drive? What wormhole drive?]] Zelenka just found a way to boost the engines. And no amount of power can make a Wraith hive ship immune to drones. * And the mess that was {{Stargate Universe}} didn't happen. The Icarus base members walked into an unstable wormhole and died. And a more competent crew got sent along the way. THE END.

* The last scene of the season six finale of {{House}}? [[CharacterDerailment DID. NOT. HAPPEN.]] * What is all this BS I keep hearing about [[That70sShow Forman]] breaking up with Donna, moving to Africa and being replaced by some unfunny, long-haired douche? Or Kelso and Jackie splitting for good, the former eventually knocking up some librarian? Fie! * Three of my favorite {{Survivor}} winners are Colby Donaldson from ''Australian-Outback'', Boston Rob from ''All-Stars'', and the VillainProtagonist Russell Hantz from ''Samoa''. The jury sure made an awesome and wise choice voting for them to win, because ''they'' deserved it. ** Jerri Manthey winning ''Heroes vs Villains'' was awesome! * How about that ''{{Lost}}'' finale, eh? Me, I was so glad they reunited Sayid and Nadia, rather than do something silly like pairing him up with Shannon in a thin excuse to justify a Maggie Grace cameo... ** Say, why do so many people think [[spoiler: Charlie]] [[StupidSacrifice drowned?]] As far as I remember, he ended up back in the 70's just like everyone else and eventually got off the island to make lots and lots of babies with Claire. * I just love me some TwinPeaks. It's a shame it only lasted 18 episodes, but it was a blast while it lasted. I seem to remember a movie that wrapped up everything nicely rather than bringing up a boatload of more questions: After Laura's killer is found and laid to rest, an unstable Ben Horne reenacts the American Civil War. Once Audrey helps her father regain his sanity, Agent Cooper forgets his earlier problems of loving another woman and proposes to her. And they lived happily ever after. The end. [[MarySue Annie]] and [[GaryStu John Justice Wheeler]]? Who are these people you speak of? * [[MalcolmInTheMiddle Malcolm's]] family manipulating him into becoming PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?! That's crazy! [[CharacterDerailment As if they'd sink to that level]]. Everyone knows Malcolm graduated normally and went on to live a perfectly happy life. ** Malcolm left the family due to the abuse he endured and because Reese was getting all the attention. He now lives as an eccentric writer in New York. * Odyssey 5 may not have been finished, but at least Manny Coto realised and told the fans what was going on. * ''KamenRiderKiva'' ''clearly'' ended with Nago and Megumi's wedding going off without a hitch, and Wataru subsequently going back to making a violin as good as the Bloody Rose. What the hell are these 'Neo-Fangires' you're going on about? You're crazy, man. * [[Tropers/{{Sandy87}} Sandy87]] would like you to know that {{Medium}}'s GrandFinale ''did not'' contain [[spoiler: Joe dieing and Alison spending 41 years alone before finally being TogetherInDeath with him; the whole episode was an even bigger Mind Screw than originally thought and he ''really did'' survive the crash and come back to them, and then they ''both'' died old and happy and were TogetherInDeath.]] * ''That70sShow'' ended after one season. Kelso never took over the show, Eric never had a sister, Tommy Chong never randomly showed up,

Randy never replaced Eric and they didn't spend six years stuck in 1979. * It's such a shame that {{Glee}} was canceled after season one... ** Ah yes, but at least in season 1 they were able to give Brittany and Santanna a moving, thoughtful storyline instead of just leaving them as a (slightly offensive) lesbian joke before the season's end. It's also great that they gave Kurt a boyfriend who is really deep, complicated, and has a purpose on the show outside of singing and gazing dreamily at Kurt and that all the heterosexual parings are so compelling, powerful, and based on their deep understanding of one another and subtle and nuanced character interactions. * Even though many fans wanted a third season, it's probably for the best that H2O: Just Add Water ended after season 2. * Roseanne was a great show that lasted ''eight'' seasons. I know nothing of this lottery nonsense, Dan dying from his heart attack, or David and Darlene and Mark and Becky not really being married. * ''{{Jeopardy}}'' is the greatest game show there ever was, and it didn't throw out its iconic synthesizer theme and the classic [[JeopardyThinkingMusic "Think!"]] theme from the Art Fleming era, nor did it indulge in having clues read by celebrities and a whole "Clue Crew", who would slow down the show by taking '''forever''' reading them. Also, it didn't double the dollar values, because it'd be unfair to rank those winners next to all the past Jeopardy! champions who had to fight tooth and nail to earn as much as they did. And it '''definitely''' didn't do away with the five-victory limit, because why would want to watch the same schmuck utterly annihilate his opponents for six months? * One of the best things that came from ''PowerRangersSPD'' was that we finally got evil Power Rangers. Not [[PowerRangersInSpace robots]] or because of an [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers spell]] or even because [[PowerRangersNinjaStorm they opposed the good guys]]. They were evil by their own merits and wanted to be [[FaceHeelTurn "on the winning team."]] Surely they wouldn't do something stupid to ruin it by adding in an {{Asspull}}-ish reason such as... Being under the influence of the BiggerBad just to make sure that all Power Rangers are truly good. Surely they realize how stupid and cliche that would be. * It's a shame Firefly was canceled after the first season. But hey, at least they never made a movie where two of the best characters died, so if they get the rights sorted out, they can make another season of awesome. I'm also glad they kept things on the "science" side of science fiction, by having River's mind-reading ability being the result of her incredible intelligence allowing her to read peoples' body language with incredible precision. It would have sucked if they made her some kind of magical psychic or something. * What are you taking about? They never made a third season of {{Merlin}}. But if they did, Morgana would be in character. Certainly not a CompleteMonster who manages to [[{{Jerkass}} out jerkass]] Uther and smirks gleefully at every opportunity she has to make people who care about her miserable. And surely, after a suitable period of {{Angst}}, that whole poisoning thing with Merlin will be forgiven and they will go back to being friends, saving Camelot and being {{Badass}}. Because the Dragon, who is rarely trustworthy, was lying

out of his scaly arse when he said Morgana was evil and the series didn't follow the original myth that well to begin with. * [[{{Smallville}} Lana]] went to France at the end of season 3, and STAYED THERE. She never ever appeared in the show again after that. Ever. ---[[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

FanonDiscontinuityMusic Note: This is a very subjective trope. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---* This troper likes {{U2}}'s otherwise disliked album "Pop", but believes that ''Miami'' should be stricken from the record. See? [[strike:Miami]]. * Music/{{Chicago}}, for me, made their first seven albums and then vanished. What a great, innovative, catchy, creative jazz-rock ensemble. ** ...for me it's a bit longer, but they died when Terry Kath got stupid and blew his brains out. * {{This Troper}} thought Kai Hansen sacked the rest of the band in 1989 and then renamed the new lineup Gamma Ray, though they still perform old Helloween stuff live. ** This troper mostly agrees with you, but there is still a pretty good band called Helloween. She doesn't know why they named it that, though, given that it was ''bound'' to get confused with that great band that released ''Walls of Jericho'' and the ''Keepers'' albums. * Panic! At The Disco did not change their name at all. Anyone who tells you differently is insane, I tell you! ** They didn't even change it to FallOutBoy? *** This troper [[Discontinuity/{{Meta}} is going to pretend that wasn't said]]. Especially since Fall Out Boy [[FollowTheLeader came]] ''[[FollowTheLeader first]]''. ** Ryan and Jon didn't leave the band. They just formed their own side project, and all rumors that they went and called it something as silly as The Young Veins has been dispelled. * This troper is unable to hear the song ''Funkytown'' -- there's just static where everyone else seems to be able to hear something. It starts, and then static. "Want to take you tooo... cccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" ** You're lucky to know the song's name! * I don't know who this Ministry is that made all those albums after the awesome ''With Sympathy''. They must be alien impostors. ** Not even ''Twitch''? It's more experimental, but neither the guitars nor the barked vocals were present yet, and this troper finds

it the more interesting and less dated of their two synth-based albums. ''With Sympathy'' does have its share of catchy tunes though. Amusingly, Al Jourgensen would of course agree that there was some other Ministry that recorded that album for [[OldShame completely different reasons]]. * Contrary to what this troper's sisters think, Nelly Furtado ''is'' a sell-out to her old folk-songs, and those hip-hop songs she's recorded are just a dream. * ''Pop is Dead'' was a rather catchy song by...I'm not sure what band did it, but I know it ''wasn't'' {{Radiohead}}! * There was no Pacifier studio album in 2002. The only Pacifier album this troper will acknowledge is the live album, and that's because it's mostly Shihad songs (and therefore awesome). * MyBloodyValentine before 1988? Stop pulling my leg! * Music/{{Boston}} never made a fifth album entitled ''Corporate America'', and they CERTAINLY [[CharacterDerailment would never let that buffoon Anthony Cosmo compose any of their songs.]] ** What is this mad talk about more than one Music/{{Boston}} album existing? * This troper loves The Veronicas, I really do, but they never made a song called "This Is How It Feels", and they also never made a song called, "Revenge Is Sweeter (Than You Ever Were). * There is no such song as One Tin Soldier. Everyone who thinks they've heard it was hallucinating. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial It is ''not'' stuck in my head right now.]] I am ''not'' about to cry, because that song isn't real. * Stan Bush did not [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_EXxwDpq0&fmt=18 do a crappy emo remake]] of "The Touch". That is just not happening. * BlackSabbath existed from 1970 to 1975, released 6 albums, then split up and permanently retired the name. In 1980 most of the members started a HeavyMithril band with Ronnie James Dio that was called, um, something else, and put out a couple of reasonably good albums. Said band never released a live album though, especially not one featuring Dio singing "Black Sabbath", "Paranoid", "War Pigs", "Children Of The Grave", "NIB" and "Iron Man"; The results probably would have sounded pretty ridiculous. ** You forgot that BlackSabbath had a brief reunion in '78. Sadly, it was TooGoodToLast and they broke up again almost immediately. Just don't believe anyone who tells you that there was an album released on September 25th, 1976, however. * On a similar note, I Am Ghost never released a second full album, and certainly did not change their entire image to pander to the scene/teen image group. They thankfully realized that their music would lack the edge that their leaving female vocalist gave it, and decided to disband. * What the hell are these albums, ''The Party's Over'' and ''It's My Life''? Talk Talk's career began with ''The Colour of Spring''. Anyone who says otherwise is '''wrong'''. * Man, Evanescence was good while it lasted. Too bad their only album was "Fallen". ** Are you kidding? Their only album was "Origin". I'm still waiting

for them to release anything in Britain. * TheSmiths NEVER released a horribly anvilicious song called ''Meat is Murder'', although they did have an album called ''Meat is Tasty'', filled with nine (I repeat: NINE) wonderful tracks. The title should be no surprise, as Moz himself dismisses PETA and has never been involved with them. He just developed an even greater sense of tonguein-cheek as he grew older, that's all. * There is no such KingCrimson album as ''Islands'', and they certainly never played New Wave music in the early 80's. And those electronic rock and industrial leaks we've heard floating around are promising, but really need more work... * Judas Priest? Hoo boy, this is gonna get complicated. Their debut album was ''Sad Wings of Destiny'', and they put out several masterpieces. They showed a fairly promising, more commercial sound on their fifth and sixth ''British Steel'' and ''Screaming for Vengeance'', but they never released any follow-up, only a bare few singles, until their big comeback on ''Painkiller''. Sadly, they broke up immediately afterwards. At least they reunited for 2005's ''Angel of Retribution'', but we're still waiting for that promised ''Nostradamus'' concept album... ** Which hasn't come out yet. There was a doujin band who released an album with that exact name in 2008 and sounds ''kinda'' like the original Judas Priest. Except it's not well done like its 2005 release. * You know, I rather enjoyed Death Magnetic. For it being Metallica's first album since 1996, they came back rather impressively. I was worried about them continuing that hard rock sound they had on Load, but I'm glad they dropped it after one album. And it's even better they had some time off to really work, so that they didn't make any awful album or do anything embarrassing. ** Don't you mean first album since 1988? * It's odd what happened to Billy Corgan. He made three brilliant albums with the Smashing Pumpkins, including the genius Siamese Dream, then completely dropped off the face of the Earth. He never did or said anything in public again after Melon Collie, but I guess it's good that he did so before he got crazy or something. * It's too bad Linkin Park didn't make anything else after Meteora. ** No, no, there are two albums after Meteora. Hybrid Theory and A Thousand Suns. But the song "The Messenger" in which Chester whines like a douchebag to acoustic guitar instead of just screaming a little after Mike's lead vocals and the Anvilicious Minutes to Midnight? Never happened. Incidentally, they NEVER did ANY ridiculous remixes with rappers. Nope, none. The song Krwlng is a nice homage from whatever guys remixed it though, but it was totally not done with the band's permission. * Too bad The Beach Boys never released any albums after Love You in 1977. It's a shame with Brian looking like he was back in top form again. I wish they could have released several albums in the 80s and 90s as well, as they certainly would have been great and memorable. ** Well, you are forgetting that ONE SOLITARY single "Kokomo" which they got together that one time in the 80s to do. Though they certainly never did something as dumb as adding Uncle Jesse from

''FullHouse'' to their lineup around this time * Marilyn Manson's Golden Age of Grotesque was a decent-enough album, not great but not bad. Heard rumors of more to follow, but nothing's happened yet. * Genesis was an amazing symphonic-progressive-rock band whose only vocalist was Peter Gabriel and only released four albums in the 1970's, starting with ''Nursery Cryme'' and ending with ''The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway''. Once Peter Gabriel left, the band realized it would be awfully silly to record anything else together except for occasionally appearing on the solo records of their onetime frontman. Oh, and what is this madness about Collins releasing solo albums and doing stuff other than drumming? * John Tesh never went gospel. He is still counting his "Roundball Rock" money and only released one live album from Red Rocks. It was entirely instrumental. * JimiHendrix did no albums without the Experience, who only consist of Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding. * JohnLennon stood by his promise to retire from music-making after his 1975 ''Rock and Roll'' all-covers album. What's this about him recording two albums' worth of sappy elevator-music ballads, of the sort he [[HypocriticalHumor once exorciated]] Paul [=McCartney=] for churning out? * After ''Quadrophenia'', TheWho released the double-A-sided single "Who Are You / Rough Boys," (the latter of which was a group performance, not a solo Townshend one) then called it quits while they were ahead and while Keith Moon was still alive and remotely capable of playing. They most certainly didn't put out three successive {{Synthesizeritis}} albums with uninspired vocals and ensemble playing, two of them with an inferior drummer; nor did they embark on an endless series of going-through-the-motions reunion tours. * Hole released only one album, the angry yet melodic and compelling ''Live Through This''. Both the ugly, cacophonous ''Pretty on the Inside'' and the AOR-friendly sellouts ''Celebrity Skin'' and ''Nobody's Daughter'' (to say nothing of Love's solo album) were heroin withdrawal-induced hallucinations on Love's part. * TheVelvetUnderground called it quits after their third, self-titled album, the double-A-sided single "Rock and Roll / Sweet Jane," and the posthumous ''[=VU=]''). By no means did Lou Reed agree to pen an album "loaded with hits" (read: Eagles-lite pop-country ballads). * This Troper has noticed that some people have the bizarre idea that PinkFloyd produced an album named "The Final Cut". I would like to remind those people that such an album never existed, and Roger Waters left the band immediatly after TheWall was released. * The greatest hits done and dusted, Paddy [=McAloon=] permanently retired the Prefab Sprout name in 1993. He absolutely did not go on to sully the name by using it to release an album of complacent MOR, a half-baked country album, or a gospel album consisting of undeveloped demos. * Powerman 5000 were an awesome [[BuffySpeak industrial-dance-rockthing]] from the 1990s. They broke up shortly after the release of Anyone for Doomsday?, lead vocalist Spider disappearing from the public eye completely. Yes, there is a terrible punk band with the

[[NamesTheSame exact same name,]] but I dont see why people think that Spider has any connection to them at all. Similarly, the overmuscled balding man who works for FearNet and sings occasionally decent [[RobZombie Zombie-esque]] horror-rock took the name in homage and has nothing to do with the original. * WithinTemptation's 5-song EP Mother Earth in 2000 was an excellent start to introduce them to the world. It's too bad they didn't release any live albums until An Acoustic Night at the Theatre... But that was so good, it made up for it anyways. ---[[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

FanonDiscontinuityNewspaperComics Note: This is a very subjective trope. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---* The orginal [[FunkyWinkerbream Penance]] was not 'The Real M'. Monet St. Croix always has been and always will be a combination of 2 different mutant twins. ** Yeah, and Monet and Synch never hooked up out of the blue, derailing the obvious relationship between Synch and Jubilee. Synch also never died, as they never brought "regular" students into the academy. * Charles Schulz laid ''{{Peanuts}}'' to rest in the [[TheSeventies mid-seventies]], shortly after the CrowningMomentOfAwesome "Mr. Sack" storyline, with the ''coup de grce'' of the "Peggy Jean" arc which allowed Charlie Brown a fleeting moment of true love and happiness at last. (What? No, that arc ''didn't'' appear in the early [[TheNineties nineties]]; Schulz was still happily retired then.) Snoopy didn't have any siblings (certainly none that spent all their time talking to a cactus); nor did he turn into a ''{{Garfield}}'' clone, renouncing his rich fantasy life to laze around all day thinking about cookies. * Johnny Hart never turned ''{{BC}}'' into his very own answer to [[JackChick Chick]] [[AuthorTract tracts]]. * Bill Watterson ended ''CalvinAndHobbes'' before it could turn into one long AuthorTract, starring the parents, about everything wrong with society today, and before Calvin became so [[CharacterDerailment defanged]] that he ''behaved'' for Rosalyn the babysitter. And the final strip saw Calvin and Hobbes causing hilarious mayhem as usual, not [[TastesLikeDiabetes schmaltzily]] rhapsodizing about how "magical" the world is. ** Well, [[YourMileageMayVary that's the way your paper ran it, fine.]] But in my version, whatever else happens, Calvin ''never'' sold the planet Earth to aliens for a few leaves. Dude! * Say what you will about ''ForBetterOrForWorse'', but it did pull a

good fake-out with [[TheWesley Anthony]]. I was surprised when Liz came to the same conclusions that I did; i.e. he was a bland, boring guy whose marriage problems were entirely his fault. I love how the strip ended with her marrying an interesting man who truly loved her and being able to return to her exciting career. Lyn Johnston had me scared for a moment there. ---[[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

FanonDiscontinuityProfessionalWrestling Note: This is a very subjective trope. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---Here are the things that never existed or happened in the various promotions of the world of ProfessionalWrestling. ---!!! ECW * ROLLLLLLERJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM! * Man ECW was a great wrestling promotion. Good thing Paul Heyman realized he couldn't keep the company afloat and closed it. I did like the fact that the WWE allowed several of it's wrestlers to return for the ''One Night Stand'' pay-per-view, and glad they didn't do something stupid like a WWE "invasion" of the show. I also like the fact that someone managed to put out a couple of good ECW DVD's to remind us of how great the company was. I'm just relived that [[spoiler:Vince [=McMahon=] didn't buy the company, fire half the roster, have some generic, personality-less monster win the ECW title, win it himself and then loose it back in a pay-per-vew angle with Donald Trump]]. That would have been stupid. !!! TNA * Vince Russo? Never heard of him. * Tara lost her Knockout Division title to Angelina Love through a "[[EasilyDistractedReferee clean]]" pinfall. No lockboxes or pet spiders were involved. * Super Eric? What's that? * They never hired a no-name football player with an explicit no-touch contract clause as a publicity stunt. Said no-name football player with an explicit no-touch contract clause never was a tag team champion, either. ** And they most certainly never had some girl from ''JerseyShore'' appear on Impact for a segment centered around a gimmick based on her show, let alone at the cost of $15,000 for a one night appearance, considering they have [[http://www.cagesideseats.com/2010/9/29/1719902/an-examination-oftnas-appalling-treatment-of-talent more important things to worry

about]]. * RIP TNA, 2002-2010. We hardly knew ye. !!! WCW * Vince Russo? Never heard of him. * David Arquette never won the world title. !!! WWE * nWo invading the {{WWE}}? The nWo never invaded the WWE. ** Admit it, Scott Hall first hitting the Razor's Edge (and JR calling it as such) was an awesome moment. *** True, everything after though never happened. * Speaking of invading, WCW and ECW never invaded WWE, especially without their proper leaders, Eric Bischoff and Paul Heymen respectively. * What's an Attitude Adjustment? Isn't that the FU? ** Actually, it's a glorified fireman's carry used by some jabroni pretending to be JohnCena, and doing a ''terrible'' job at that (Since when does he use "poopy" as an insult?). The guy doesn't even have a [[WeaponOfChoice padlock chain]]. ** It's because JohnCena quit weeks before his {{Wrestlemania}} 21 title match. I heard they were forcing him to change his entrance theme and also his {{delinquent}} gimmick for a modern-day HulkHogan. He didn't liked ''any'' of those ideas. * Contrary to what you may have heard, the cruiserweight title was never held by an old man or a leprechaun. * Vince [=McMahon=] never had a leprechaun as an illegitimate son. ** What's this "leprechaun"? Who's this "Hornswoggle" everyone talks about? * Vinnie Mac also never tried to resurrect ECW as the WWE's "C" show. (Or ECWWE/WWECW as some people like to call it.) ** For that matter the ''WWE'' doesn't exist. It'll always be the WWF to me. * It's nice to see that Vince realizes that young kids are becoming a part of his core audience. In fact he's in talks with NBC to get a new PG-Rated show exclusively for them. I mean there's no way that he'd do something stupid like say, make all the shows PG to the point where... I don't know... Blood is grounds for stopping a match, and someone like, for instance, ''StoneColdSteveAustin'' will get bleeped for saying the word 'ass' on TV! Clearly Vince isn't that stupid. * BryanDanielson didn't get fired for fake choking someone with a tie, in fact, he's still employed with the company to this day. ** [[HilariousInHindsight Uh]]... ---[[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to, nor was this page ever called Discontinuity Professional Wrestling. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

FanonDiscontinuityRadio Note: This is a very subjective trope. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as

seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---* This editor is of the opinion that the very end of the Quintessential Phase of the ''[[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Hitchhiker's Guide]]'' radio show (which attempts to FixFic the fifth book) never happened. Not because he's particularly attached to the [[spoiler:KillEmAll ending]], but because it doesn't make any sense: if [[spoiler:the Babel Fish]] could do that, then firstly it would have done it before, and secondly, [[spoiler:the Bird would have retroactively given Arthur a reason to get rid of it.]] ---[[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

FanonDiscontinuityTabletopGames Note: This is a very subjective trope. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---* Dragons in 4th edition ''DungeonsAndDragons'' ''most explicitly do not'' [[LamarckWasRight inscribe any of the stuff they learn into their DNA]]. Not even if [[OrderOfTheStick the big scary wizard who lives by the coast]] [[AWizardDidIt says]] [[WordOfGod they]] do. ** What on earth are you talking about? First, we're still at 2nd edition, and TSR does DND. Wizards are the MTG guys. *** You missed the Memo. We're at 3.5 now. :) **** At any rate, there's obviously no Fourth Edition, because surely they'd have announced a ForgottenRealms update by now. Right? ***** This just in: Paizo have released a semi-official Fourth Edition called Pathfinder! Took them long enough. *** I loved the "Complete" series. I wonder why it never had anything for psionics? *** Supposedly, somewhere in the official 3.5 material is a base class called the "Monk", which uses unarmed attacks and kung-fu moves. I've checked all sorts of splatbooks, but I still haven't found it. Surely, it must be a well-balanced class with full BAB, and not a steaming pile of useless class features that are completely incompatible with each other. Of course, it might just be a hoax, like the alleged "samurai" class in Complete Warrior. *** Truenaming was a cool idea. Too bad it was never printed, since no one could come up with rules for it that worked. ** ...they don't? But that's ''awesome''! ** Wizards of the Coast still haven't released an update of ForgottenRealms for 4th Edition, and given that they've released another - fairly interesting, admittedly - campaign setting recycling

many of the names (and one or two ideas - but too few for it to look as the actual ForgottenRealms given an update), it looks like they won't. * Published adventures for {{Deadlands}} Classic were pretty consistently good. Especially the Devil's Tower Trilogy. It had a fun MacGuffin, it featured Stone, one of the [[{{Determinator}} best]] [[CompleteMonster villains]] in the setting, there were fun plot twists... too bad there was no third adventure in the trilogy, right? There was some talk about an adventure called "Fortress of Fear", but it was never published. [[{{Discontinuity}} There's no way]] a great trilogy of adventures would be built around a GodModeSue [[RecycledINSPACE from the future]] armed with the only weapon that can harm an essentially [[ImmuneToBullets immortal killer]], with player characters only along to watch the show. Nobody would treat an RPG adventure that explicitly says that the characters don't get to change anything about the plot. Pairing this ridiculous premise with a "plot" composed entirely of incoherent, disjointed scenes that don't form an entertaining story is right out. And it's silly to assume that an adventure would be given more backstory that the characters can't realistically learn about than actual, y'know, story. And [[spoiler: revealing that there are [[FantasyKitchenSink aliens]] behind it all]], even though they don't fit the setting at all... [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial there's no way]] anything would be published for Deadlands that has a weak plot, lots of {{Railroading}}, [[DeusExMachina ridiculous resolution of the conflict]], [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome drops one of the villains]] without ever mentioning what happened to him, despite him being plot-critical earlier on. What would make them publish something like that? Surely not the fact that [[MoneyDearBoy they wanted to introduce]] the Hell on Earth setting badly. * Say, speaking of ''MagicTheGathering''? Remember back in the Time Spiral block, they originally planned to have all the Planeswalkers depowered into mortal wizards who could just move to different planes? I'm so glad that Wizards vetoed that idea! Isn't it great to have such a caring story development team? I mean, you just know that they'd never do anything like kill off a fan favourite character like, say, Jaya off-screen and only mention it in passing. * What's my favourite ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' army? Why, the Squats, of course. I'm glad that Games Workshop is finally bringing them back into the official rules. Took them long enough. Although I must say that I have to applaud them for quietly retconning the Squats out of canon for the time they were gone, instead of deciding to give a giant middle finger to the fans by having them explicitly driven to extinction. ** [[BaseBreaker What are "Squats"?]] ** For some reason this troper keeps readings things about factions named "Necrons" and "Tau", which is weird as the existence of the former would drastically alter the backstory of the setting and the latter would seem painfully out of place and not at all thematically consistant, and no-one would ever think they would be good ideas. ** This troper is glad that the 3rd Edition rules never went away, if it did, the new editions would probably illegalize the Craftworld

Eldar codex rules, making a player who used a craftworld Eldar army, such as Iyanden, very disgruntled. ** I'm just glad that I can still run my Alpha legion cultist army backed up by demons. ---[[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

FanonDiscontinuityTheatre Note: This is a very subjective trope. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---* What sequel to ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera''? ** Every production of ''Phantom'' I've ever seen ends, like the novel, with the Phantom letting Christine and Raoul go off together and then [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dying shortly thereafter]] (symbolized by his vanishing at the show's conclusion). End of story. The Phantom never went to New York, owned an amusement park, or wrote ''vaudeville'' music of all things, and he certainly didn't [[spoiler: sleep with Christine on the night before her wedding to Raoul and then abandon her because he was too big of a coward to deal with the consequences of the act (because that would be a very heartless thing to do, and [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Erik has standards]]). Even assuming Christine would be the sort of person who ''would'' sleep with one man and then go off and marry another, which of course she isn't.]] And Raoul never [[RonTheDeathEater becomes a drunk gambler]] out of a third-rate fanfiction. * [[RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead Rosencrantz and Guildenstern]] live. * ''{{RENT}}'' ended at [[spoiler:Angel's funeral]]. The big ending number was the [[DarkReprise reprise]] of [[spoiler: "I'll Cover You."]] * ''IntoTheWoods'' only had one act. {{Deconstruction}} be damned, I ''like'' HappilyEverAfter. ** This is actually CanonDiscontinuity in some productions. (This troper's middle-school drama club did such a production; he didn't even know there ''was'' a second act until he read about it on TVTropes.) YourMileageMayVary on whether it's CompletelyMissingThePoint or simply a different, LighterAndSofter version. ** It's perfectly valid, called ''IntoTheWoods Jr.'' ---[[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

FanonDiscontinuityVideoGames Note: This is a very subjective trope. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---* When it comes to SuperMarioBros, it goes: ''Donkey Kong'', ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' and ''Mario Bros.'' which all play in New York (fuck the backstory from ''Yoshi's Island'', Mario was born in Italy, then went to Brooklyn, as was the generally accepted canon in the 80s and early 90s), then ''Super Mario Bros.'', ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' and ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' in the Mushroom Kingdom, Subcon and Mushroom World. And that's it. End of story. Are we really to assume that Bowser has a castle and a huge rock shaped like his face in Dinosaur Land, a place where he only went because he followed Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool when they took a vacation? (Or he had followed them if this would have really happened.) And what about the Koopa Troopas? Suddenly they walk on two legs? And the Fire Flower, which looks nothing like the real one, suddenly changes Luigi's clothes to green and white instead of red and white (because, you know, red is the color of fire)? * This Troper keeps hearing a bizarre rumor that you spend almost half the ''{{Halo}}'' trilogy fighting boring space zombies called the flood. That isn't true. You're up against The Covenant and only The Covenant. Also Microsoft realized that gamers are getting tired of the series and decided not to milk it forever. Reach will be the last Halo game. * I'm still wondering what happened to the ''{{Star Fox}}'' team. They certainly didn't split up, Peppy certainly didn't take up the mantle of commanding the Cornerian fleet, and they did not battle a species of space-fish. ** Why do people keep mention some handheld game called Star Fox Command Mission when it doesn't exist? I mean, I keep hearing reference to a horrible...horrible fanfiction sounding story where Fox pulls a Spider-Man (movie 1 ending) on some imaginary, horrible fanfiction Mary Sue sounding character named Krystal, who then runs off to join his adversary and rival and even DATE one of them, uh, Panther isn't it? And then said annoying Mary Sue and her lame antics keep getting brought up by the equeally annoying fanfiction BFF of hers named Lucy, who supposedly is Peppy's daughter--Peppy doesn't have a daughter! And certainly not one he has generic 'misunderstanding' issues with! This sounds far too much like bad fanfiction trying to be a soap opera...there's no one this happened in a game with shotty controls and a horrible difficulty curve! ** As far as this troper is concerned, Pigma and Andrew are still a part Star Wolf, Fox only fought on foot in the ''SuperSmashBros'' series and in the multiplayer of Star Fox 64, Falco certainly never left the team at any point in the series, and there was no game where [[spoiler:the plot is [[HijackedByGanon Hijacked By Andross.]]]]

*** What are you talking about? Star Wolf is Wolf, Leon, and Panther, that's it. And luckily, the fandom's showing more creativity than was expected of them; ''waaaaaaay'' less Wolf x Fox, MUCH more Wolf x Other Members Of Star Wolf. Also, wasn't TheReveal about Wolf's rivalry with [[strike: James]] Fox great? *** Panther? Oh, I know who you're talking about. He was previewed in that Gamecube Star Fox game, right? Gee, it's a shame they sure didn't finish it! ** Team Star Fox consists of Fox, Falco, Peppy, Slippy, Miyu, and Fay. Team Star Wolf consists of Wolf, Leon, Pigma, and Andy (not Andrew). Great Fox? Landmaster? Blue Marine? What are those? Star Fox is two space-based flight (and in the second, mecha) games for the Super Nintendo. ** Why does everyone keep talking about some Krystal person? Surely Nintendo wouldn't make some tacked on love interest for Fox. Of course they wouldn't. Adventure is about Starfox trying to find and defeat Andross once and for all. And at the end of the game Falco and Fox hook up. Starfox has and always will be all male. * ''{{Banjo-Kazooie}}'' never had a third game. The series ended in 2000 with ''Banjo-Tooie''. While there may have been a game by Rare for the Xbox 360 with vehicle construction and usage, it has nothing to do with Banjo-Kazooie. ** That vehicle game was a completely different game. Then Microsoft told Rare to make it a ''Banjo-Kazooie'' game. [[StarFoxAdventures Just like a certain other game Rare was working on before Microsoft bought them, forcing them to scrap it before it could hit the shelves]]. * Likewise, what ever happened to Donkey Kong after ''[[DonkeyKongCountry Donkey Kong 64]]''? All that he's appeared in since is Mario spinoffs. ** There was a ''Donkey Kong 64''? *** I heard about it. Was supposed to be real advanced - with 3D platforming that still retained the linearity and simplicity of earlier games, while even managing to weave exposition into gameplay without having to search randomly to find the next vague objective. I thought that they ran in to money problems and couldn't release (and definitely did not release a free-world game of 'ehh' quality)... shame, because it sounds like it would've been epic. *** In a way, I'm glad The DonkeyKong series is not making a comeback, because, they could do something really stupid like replace all the country enemies with tikis or not have any water levels and they could make it too much like NewSuperMarioBrosWii. *** Isn't it a little too early to call [[RuinedFOREVER discontinuity]] on that? * I heard that there's this great ''Batman'' game called ''Arkham Asylum'' coming out featuring the Joker and lot of other batman villains... too bad Harley Quinn doesn't make an appearance, nope! And she certainly wasn't put in dressed like a ''SoulCalibur'' reject, no sir. No one would be that stupid. ** No, Talia did ''not'' rape Batman; why would the man even say that? He might dislike the Demon Head's clan but he still has enough respect for them not to make such baseless accusations. Sure, Damien's a

little rough around the edges, but Bruce isn't gonna make it worse with that kinda crazy claim. * I'm so glad The Tetris Company was nice enough to not impose some sort of stupid "Tetris Guideline." A proper console ''Tetris: The Grand Master'' game is possible after all! * ''Area 51''? Isn't that a LightGunGame series? Man, I miss that, and what do you mean there's an ''Area 51'' FPS? * [[UrbanLegendOfZelda Schala lives]] in peace in Alghetty in the year 12,000 BC with her brother Magus after being freed from the Dream Devourer after only a few days of captivity in the secret ending of ''ChronoTrigger DS''. ''ChronoCross''? What's that? Oh yeah, it's a real fun game from 2000 that tells an alternate, completely noncanonical side story about the world of ''ChronoTrigger''. Lynx beating Lucca in a fight? Ha! I've read fanfics more plausible than that! ** What? ChronoCross is a sequel to ChronoTrigger, and a good one at that. Didn't you see the ChronoTrigger gang alive and well in the [[GainaxEnding ending]]? That was some good trickery on Square's part. Could you imagine the [[BrokenBase uproar]] that would've occured if they had ''really'' [[KillEmAll killed them off]]?! * PhoenixWright got disbarred and that's the end of it. Apollo Justice works on his own, not with the help of a lawyer-turned-hobo who hijacks the story to be all about himself. ** Who the hell is Apollo Justice? The only videogame attorney I know of is Phoenix Wright, and he definitely NEVER got disbarred. He, Maya and Pearls are still saving the innocent, with help from Edgeworth and Gumshoe. *** Oh, and he started dating Iris again. *** You forgot Diego, he got released on parole after the events of T&T thanks to Phoenix, after his own charges were deemed temporary insanity due to grief. He now owns a coffee shop and helps out as much as he can. **** Don't you worry your pretty little head about Diego. I'm pretty sure that even though he was supposed to be given a softer sentence than death, he still died on his own accord. *** This section of the discontinuity page was dreamt up by Lotta Hart after a large cheese supper; everything in the games happened. She also never dissapeared, and is married to Spark Brushel. * This Troper happily accepts ''[[AceAttorney Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]'', but is irritated that it forces him to accept the bonus case in ''[[AceAttorney Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]''. He has decided to accept the introductions of the relevant characters, but not the poor writing or Edgeworth's CharacterDerailment. ** There were no indications ABOUT AS SUBTLE AS WRITING IN ALL CAPS!!1! that 1-5 IS NOW CANON!!1! in [[AceAttorney Apollo Justice]]. None whatsoever. Not a single one. There was no {{RetCon}} of Edgeworth's reason for leaving. Also, this should already be obvious, but the police officer who testifies in the flashback trial of 4-4 [[CharacterDerailment is NOT Gumshoe]]. * Gee, the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' games are good, aren't they? I wonder why they stopped making the 3D games after Sonic Adventure II... ** Hmm? Sonic Adventure 2? No no...the only 3D Sonic games I remember

are Sonic Adventure and Sonic Unleashed, you know with the games using one of if not all of Sonic's usual and only cast of characters: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy Rose and Eggman. Oh, and Eggman isn't constantly tricked by the 'monster of the week' and remains the final boss...at least in Unleashed. And there is no Chip and no odd Gundam/giant robot like fight at the end. And all the characters have developed into there own and suffered no character development setbacks...oh, and Amy is more of an action girl that Sonic truly and honestly learns to like and later love, not some annoying, creepy, obsessive stalker that constantly confuses him for any male hedgehog in shoes and gloves (how could she when Sonic is the only one?), and constantly chases him around, insisting that he's already her boyfriend and that she's going to force him to marry her... ** ''SonicUnleashed'' exists, you know... *** But ''"werehog"'' isn't even a word, let alone a gameplay element. *** You're being irrational... *** Nevermind. ''Unleashed'' exists, but fortunately, Sonic Team decided to leave out the Werehog stages at the last minute. *** Instead, they had a bunch of lwolf stages, where Sonic turns into a wolf, because playing as a man that turns into a pig would just have been silly outside of ''TheLegendOfZelda''. **** [[WillyFourEyes I]]'m of the opinion that ''SonicUnleashed'' is the ''only'' [[PolygonCeiling 3D Sonic]] game made by Sega. *** What are you saying about a "Werehog"? Half of the game were speedy routes and fights for Sonic... [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome and the other half game is a plataform for Mario]]. The game was the greatest hit of the whole videogame story reuniting the two greatest. Why would anybody want to ruin that kickass game inserting a... werewog? whaverhog? werewug? never mind... * [[SonicRiders Sonic Free Riders]]? There's no Sonic Free Riders. Nope. The last game in the series is [[SonicRiders Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity]]. The awesome racing game with a cool original concept. There were no Riders games after that. Wave and Storm weren't reduced to just being ways for Jet to get complements, and Jet never changed his voice. Vector on Team Rose? That's stupid. Vector's on Team Chaotix. * There's two versions of ''GHOST Squad'': the arcade version with a card slot, and the Wii port. The [[BadExportForYou crappy American version]] is just some dumb GameMod that a wannabe leet haxor made. Said hacker made the Evolution version as punishment for making an abortion of an export. * There was never a ''{{Metroid}}'' FPS for the Nintendo DS, with a poorly done single player mode, and too much emphasis on multiplayer. It would help that it didn't have anything to do with the other ''Metroid'' games plot-wise. * ''MetroidOtherM''? That's an actual ''Metroid'' game? I thought it was a pretty good $50 drink coaster myself! * Ivy in ''SoulCalibur'' remained sexy but reasonably proportioned, as the game did not turn an awesome character into a stripper with ridiculous implants. That wouldn't insult their female gamers (and the intelligence of their male gamers). * [[FinalFight Poison]] is was, and will always be '''[[DroppedABridgetOnHim A WOMAN]]'''.

* ''ThunderForce VI'' got cancelled, a damn shame about that. At least Sega got out the awesome soundtrack! * More games after ''[[SpyroTheDragon Spyro Year Of The Dragon?]]'' No ''way'' that ever happened. ** I know, right? I gues they ran out of level designs... * You know, it's a real shame that they never bothered making any new ''ManaSeries games'' (or doing [[UpdatedRerelease Updated Rereleases]] of old ones) after ''[[NoExportForYou Seiken Densetsu 3]]'', cause those games were pretty awesome for their time. I guess the series as a whole was just TooGoodToLast. ** There was the spinoff ''Legend of Mana'', but that was the ''only'' spinoff. Square certainly did not make any more ''ManaSeries games'' after that. * Suikoden was a great series. I mean sure it only had 2 (or was it 3) games, but they were all it needs! ** 1,2, and 5 were the only games. 3 is a best officially a light novel official fanfiction that no one made a game of, and 4 does not exist. * ''{{Kingdom Hearts 2}}'' was great for many reasons, but mostly because no one ever said "We totally owned you lamers". ** I also enjoyed the fact that they kept the CosmicHorror Heartless as the villains, since the idea of darkness and ultimate evil is much more in line with the FF and Disney manifesto than, say, a bunch of pretty boys with elemental superpowers and a tenuous relation to the plot. I also loved how, should they have been there, they would have posed a credible threat, moved as an organization rather than just have members showing up here and there for seemingly arbitrary reasons, and not put us in a weird place where we aren't sure if they're sympathetic or not. I also love how they kept everything vague, mysterious and wonderful, like a fairy tale, rather than ruin the mystique with a bunch of strange, clumsily written elements retcons that [[KudzuPlot contradict each other and always raise more questions than are answered.]] I also enjoyed how they kept the sense of adventure and self-discovery by keeping exploration a key point of gameplay, rather than having the less-than intricate combo system take over and screw up the magic system. Sorry, I'm still a tad bitter >_> *** Funny, 'cause I remember the game having a lot of the aforementioned stuff, particularly the evil Organization of pretty boys with elemental powers. But what I DON'T remember is a ''musical level in Atlantica'' and a subplot about Cloud, Tifa, and Sephiroth that climaxes in ''another'' cheap optional boss fight with Sephiroth. *** There was a musical level in Atlantica. Shame only "Under the Sea" was the only playable song in that area. *** I squealed to hear the voice of Leonard Nimoy, famous for playing wise men, as the new Ansem the Wise. Even better was how all the Xehanorts were voiced by Christopher Lee, the uber-villain of Hollywood. Wouldn't it just be stupid if that was the other way around? ** There was never a Riku mode in ''Chain of Memories'' that clumsily tried to say that DarkIsNotEvil (which goes against the first game completely) for the sake of having Riku fall prey to the SpecialSnowflakeSyndrome and [[CharacterDerailment ultimately become a

generic emo loner.]] There was only an unlockable event in which you played as Riku and got to take on Vexen, Lexaeus, Zexion, and Repliku. And when Riku did show up in [=KH2=], he sure as hell wasn't running around looking like Ansem! ** Why does everyone keep telling me there's a remake of CoM where Vexen's awesome banter keeps getting cut off midsentence and he takes a level in jerkass? And why does everyone think Axel is so much more moral in it? Silly. They're all complicated. Axel's not good during CoM, and Vexen's not bad. ** In ''Birth By Sleep'', Riku and Kairi were just infants in their worlds, met and blessed by Terra and Aqua to be their successors. Ven's heart was reincarnated as Sora in the end, just as Xehanort was found by Ansem. Sora was "born from Ven's sleep", tied closely together with his nemesis, and his Nobody gained the appearance of his previous body when Kairi restored his rightful one. It all makes much more sense than the theories going around that Sora's heart was individual from Ven's, came in contact and healed Ven's when Sora was just ''born'', and somehow was able to merge with Ven's later as a result, with Sora being aware of this at age 4 but forgetting later. And there was certainly no secret ending saying that everything in the universe is connected to Sora and that Sora can revive everyone who has died and ease all suffering and pain out there. Nomura wouldn't stoop to making such a blatant MarySue of Sora like that, after all. Oh, and the crap going around that all games from KH to [=KH3=] are some sort of interconnected, [[KudzuPlot convoluted]] "Xehanort Saga"? A myth!] ** I remember Sora and Ven being separate people, and I remember Xehanort becoming Terra, but I really liked how they didn't ruin the lightheartedness of the series by having the best friend trio have any stupid falling-outs or get separated in a heart-wrenching way in the end. I'm so glad the secret ending shows Aqua finding poor abused Xion in the realm of darkness, putting to rest all rumors that old racist jerk Ansem the Wise is still alive! I was wowed by the actual questlength time you got in each world, especially when Terra visited the Enchanted Dominion. I was really glad they didn't overdo the difficulty of the ice cream rhythm game or make you do it to an annoying song. I love how they named it "Toontown" instead of something stupid, and gave it a wonderful design. I love all the noncliched Keyblades, too, and getting to meet Pleakley in Deep Space and Laguna in the Mirage Arena! I loved the new combat system, which brought back the same commands used in the console games with the PS2 technology. The story of Pete's banishment was well thought out--he really deserved his punishment, and had to wait a long time before Maleficent sprung him! I squealed when Aqua broke free of the darkness instead of having to wander it for ten years of Fridge Horror on the player. And probably best of all, I love how Ven, Terra, and Aqua didn't have to put up with any sort of jerkass mentor. I mean, the sort that accidentally does all the evil work that Xehanort wants (like trying to kill Ven, failing Terra when he was able to control the darkness just fine, etc.) without much of Xehanort's help, and the game doesn't seem to acknowledge it, trying to paint him as a hero and honoring his memory with symbolism or any of that crap. Especially not

the kind whose hatred of darkness is so great that he'd probably kill Riku if they ever met. Now that would be silly! Oh, and for the record, my heart was warmed when the end talked about the fate of the world being in the hands of "those three heroes," referring to the longtime friend trio of Sora, Riku, and Kairi. [[spoiler: TROPER IS EXTREMELY BITTER.]] ** The best part about Ansem, The Seeker of Darkness, is his deliciously sleazy voice provided by Billy Zane. It was a real treat to hear him again in sequels, especially in Birth By Sleep. Just to be clear, he was NOT voiced by anyone else. ** I was sort of disappointed when Nomura said he was going to end the series after Kingdom Hearts 3...but it's been a great ride, hasn't it? I look forward to seeing the many other projects he can bring his creativity to, like another TheWorldEndsWithYou, or maybe something totally unexpected! Boy, I'm glad I won't be [[CashCowFranchise buying Kingdom Hearts games]] [[FranchiseZombie all my life]] [[KudzuPlot while hoping for resolution that will never come!]] * It's a shame they cancelled Dream Drop Distance. I was looking forward to playing as Sora, Riku, and Kairi during their Mark of Mastery. It was gonna be so great, having her TakeALevelInBadass instead of what I was afraid they'd do, which would be to cut her from this facet of the iconic trio, presumably because she's a wimpy female. * When this troper heard about a game starring the Organization, she was so excited! But what's this poorly-thought out, oddly-titled, {{Character Derailment}} monstrosity people keep talking about? Nomura has been working so hard on making sure that there are no {{Mary Sue}} angst-buckets that become black holes that draw away attention from the REAL protagonist, which should be Roxas. Also, I heard it was supposed to be a wonderful foray into the events of Roxas' life and his reaction to [[spoiler:his "best friend" murdering everyone in Castle Oblivion]] which would ultimately lead to his [[spoiler:defection from the Organization.]] Now, Saix actually [[spoiler:betraying his leader?]] That's so ridiculous! Good thing that never actually happened. ** Also, Xion? Who the hell is Xion? *** Oh, come one. That's not just CanonDiscontinuity, that's ''in universe'' discontinuity. *** I think there was a Xion...but she lived. I mean, what would be the point of making us go through that entire game just to spiral down further and further into depression with Roxas? I love that last scene where they're all eating ice cream together, and Roxas tells them, "I'll be back," before going to fight Riku. It's so great to know he had people he could really trust all along! Also, I'm glad this was able to take a more complex look at the Organization's neutral motives, and didn't try to do anything stupid like paint them as outright evil because the creator happened to be bitter at the yaoi fangirls. (I mean, the yaoi fangirls are making up your profit margin, and some of us, even if we don't like Org-yaoi, like it when they're COMPLICATED like Namine SAID they were.) * ''DrawntoLife: The Next Chapter'' had a very satisfying ending. It turns out that Mari was posessed by Wilfre, who's ultimate goal was to

absorb all the color from the world and overthrow the creator. Read more about it [[http://wattledee11.deviantart.com/art/DTL-2-AltEnding-Challenge-142002855 here.]] * FinalFantasyX had an excellent, if bittersweet, ending, and I'm grateful that Square resisted the temptation to make a sequel. ** I know, right? And they'd especially never ruin Yuna by making her, I don't know, an IdolSinger wearing skimpy outfits and trading her wonderful strength and devotion to her goals for being apparently horribly in denial of the reality of the end of the first game, right? ** What? Yuna's been a Gunner all along, and Tidus was never a playable character who could whine at us; he was an NPC who got more substantial CharacterDevelopment. * In CrisisCore, there was absolutely no such character as Dr. Hollander and no such thing as "Project G." Angeal and Genesis were products of Hojo's experiments and both of them were KilledOffForReal halfway through the game ''before'' the events leading up to the Nibelheim incident occured. Also, we never did find out where Lazard went missing to. My theory is that Cissnei found him and the two of them hooked up, which is why we don't see those characters in [[FinalFantasyVII Final Fantasy VII itself.]] * The only arcade versions of ''GHOST Squad'' that exist are the one with card slots and the ''Evolution'' UpdatedRerelease. Sega was kind enough not to release a crappy watered-down version with four mission levels and four weapons. * What do you mean, Nasir turned traitor? No, the tratior was some random solider. Nope. {{FireEmblem}} also never released the sequel to Path of Radience, and Ashnard's dragon lived happily ever after with Eva. And Ike, Soren, Zihark, and Ranulf lived happily ever after with each other as lovers. ** No, Nasir did turn traitor, but Ena and Raijion do live happily ever after. They did make a sequel but Ike wasn't obscenely buff and Micaiah has purple hair, better stats and a pet bird who was the goddess Yune in disguise, who in part Four shows herself physically rather then adding a sue trait to Micaiah by possesing her. and Mist and Rolf's voice actors didn't suck so much. * TombRaider Legend was so underwhelming, plus it ended on a cliffhanger that never got resolved! It's probably for the best, though. Could you imagine if they made a sequel where Natla returns, Lara's mother becomes a zombie and half the story was released as XBox360 exclusive DLC? That would be just ''stupid''! * Some time after ''[[{{Knights of the Old Republic}} Knights of the Old Republic 2]]'' the protagonists of both games returned home and, after groveling apologies to their respective crews, got on with their lives. They did not get poofed out of existence so LucasArts could hawk an MMO. "Revan never returned from unknown space", my ass... ** I'll see it and raise you. In this Troper's family, Revan is a woman, Exile is a man. Furthermore, Carth and Canderous (still in clandestine communication with one another) got tired of waiting and re-joined forces to find 'em and haul them back - like it or not! Never returned? Glad that ended up on the cutting room floor. That's as bad as the alleged last five seconds of QuantumLeap. *** I have no idea what are you both talking about. Male Revan fell in

love with Bastila, followed her to the Star Forge, killed Malak and conquered the Republic. While doing so Revan regained his memories, so he made his empire stronger and then crushed True Sith. The story ends with Revan ruling his Galaxy Empire with Bastila as lover/apprentice/Empress (Of course the tradition of apprentices killing their master is no longer exists - what a waste of human resources ). Lightside Ending? What is it? Ah, yes, you mean Juhani's {{DyingDream}}... Or was it Joley's? No matter. ** I'm sorry... What was that about a ''sequel'' to KnightsOfTheOldRepublic? Man, that would have been great. Too bad BioWare never continued the series. Obsidian? What do they have to do with KOTOR? * Man, TheElderScrolls IV: Shivering Isles was great, but whatever happened to that game they were going to make set in Cyrodiil? I was really looking forward to exploring the equatorial rainforests, learning about the conflicts between the Nibeneans and the Colovians and all the other political intrigue you'd expect in the capital of a continent-spanning empire, and seeing the huge canalled Imperial City in all its splendour. I just hope they don't end up releasing something with a landscape ripped straight out of How to Make a Generic Fantasy Landscape, all the political intrigue neutered, and an Imperial "City" the size of a small village. ** What? Dude, that game did come out, and it's great. It ends with Mankar Camoran dead and his plans to summon the Oblivion Gates thwarted for good, Martin being crowned as the new Emperor of Tamriel and taking the throne, and everyone celebrating. That's how it ends. It most certainly never involved a metaphorical [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] GainaxEnding. Just an awesome coronation. * The cell phone game ''Surviving Hollywood'' didn't break up Kate and Mike over something ridiculous just to pair her with Tony. After all, she forgave him immediately for doing the ''exact same thing'', so why would they put in a DoubleStandard for the sake of [[StrangledByTheRedString using the red string]]? Besides, the episodes leading up to that one made it very clear that they loved each other and wouldn't let anything get in the way. And Sallie had long since dumped Tony, so there was no reason at all for her to get angry at Kate. No, Mike and Kate are happily married, and they occasionally travel the world together in between movies directed by Tony, who settled down with Sallie after his crush on Kate finally faded. Chelsea and Iris remained in the picture as good friends of the four (although Iris took a while to cool down), and all the other major and minor characters stayed friends with them as well (except for Mr. Green -- Timothy and Lisbit, however, made {{HeelFaceTurn}}s). All in all, everyone lived happily ever after. ** No, no, no...TenchiSolution! * After Midna broke the Mirror of Twilight and disappeared forever, [[TheLegendOfZelda Link]] woke up... ** What do you mean? The Mirror of Twilight never broke. Link, Zelda and Midna spent the following years working together, ensuring a peaceful coexistence between the Twilight world and Hyrule. *** Exactly what I meant. The sequence we saw at the end of the game was a nightmare, after which Link woke up with a start, turned around

to see Midna right there next to him, and went back to sleep with her in his arms. Awww. (THEN see the whole abovementioned Link/Zelda/Midna sequence.) *** Yeah, wasn't that scene so beautiful and sweet? It still makes me misty-eyed. Too bad some defective copies cut off the ending before that point. * On the subject of Zelda, [[MajorasMask Tael went up into the moon with Link instead of Tatl]]. They wouldn't give him that nice character development scene and then just ignore it, right? * ''{{La-Mulana}}''[='=]s [[BonusLevelOfHell Hell Temple]] treasure is...nothing. Yeah, that's it. The 35th and final room is a completely empty room. The feeling of accomplishment is enough. The [[spoiler:[[FanDisservice Skimpy Swimsuit]]]] is but a hack made by some troll. * ''EliteBeatAgents''[='=]s "Let's Dance" stage ends with the Colonel keeping all the money to himself and forgetting about his gold-digging wife. * You know, it's too bad they never made a sequel to ''{{Mercenaries}}''. That was a great game. * I wonder why they never made a Punisher game after ''ThePunisher''. * The ''SoulCalibur'' series never had any console-specific bonus characters, and there's no way the creators would put [[StarWars Jedi]] into the game. ** The Soul Series stopped at 2.5, when Talim defeated Zasalamel/Abyss. No other characters were introduced after Raphael and Amy simultaneously beat down some Korean guy's punk ass, before getting purified by Kilik. * [[FireEmblem CANAS WAS NOT KILLED BY CONTINUITY ERRORS.]] THE END. * Man, I'm so glad that ''PhantasyStar'' continued after ''End of the Millenium'' to focus on the long-term effects of not having the environmental control system in place and the obsolescence of a solar system while the good people of Algo are struggling to live. Otherwise they would have to totally negate every principle of story development in the PhantasyStar series, possibly by making a string of really stupid MMO's based on some stupid plot twist in the third game (which coindidentally also does not exist.) * The FinalFantasy Series? Each one takes place in a new universe. There have never been any direct sequels. Such a shame. Square also quit while they were ahead with X, realizing that any changes they tried to make to the series would never please the UnpleasableFanbase. (With the possible exception of the many GaidenGames. Those two secret characters in DissidiaFinalFantasy? Completely original, although [[RitiTroll I]] wonder why the music doesn't fit in with the rest of the Jazz Lounge-ish original stuff.) ** Final Fantasy X? I'm still waiting for Final Fantasy VIII! *** VIII? The seventh game was Final Fantasy Tactics, right? That game was great. You know, I heard there's a hidden character named Cloud, but I just can't find him. *** You, fellow troper above me, are MadeOfWin. It's a shame indeed that the only FinalFantasy game that has been released after this one is Dissidia. And about Cloud, it's just your imagination: that was just the first name a bunch of {{Gackt}} fanboyish writers

[[MyFriendsAndZoidberg ... and Tetsuya Nomura]] tought of when discussing about the character who would be the protagonist in the beta version of VII (you know, that game "released" before FFT). * ''{{Rayman}}'' didn't meet psychopathic Bunnies that have fixations on toilet humour and parody, he just continued to have adventures with his probably-gay friend. * Wow, having [[TheHero Asbel]] and [[CuteBruiser Sophie]] hook up at the end of ''TalesOfGraces'' was a stroke of genius! I mean, how often do you see such an [[StarCrossedLovers impossible]] yet [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming ultimately well-done]] romance? For a second, I was afraid the game would end by [[StrangledByTheRedString forcing]] Asbel with the much-less interesting [[TheScrappy Cheria]], and that they would hook up with little logic or setup. But hey, this is the ''Tales'' series. They gave us great couples like [[TalesOfSymphonia Lloyd / Colette]] and [[TalesOfTheAbyss Luke / Tear]]. Why would they disappoint now? ** [[HoYay Asbel and Richard]] are such a great couple! I am so glad they didn't hook up Asbel with Cheria. ** [[TalesOfTheAbyss Luke/Tear]]? I love Luke/Tear! It was so heartwarming how she always stood up for him, and I knew they were meant for each other when she apologized to him on the ferry, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming showing that she knew him better than anyone, even Guy]]. It takes a strong character to face the fact that her beloved brother became a horrible murderer, and I loved how Luke and Tear stuck together and helped each other get through it all. It's great to see a romance where the characters actually respect and support each other. Wouldn't it have been terrible if she'd been [[InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers replaced by an emotionally abusive pod person]] who constantly insulted Luke to make herself feel better about her own inadequacies after Akzeriuth? The Tear Luke loved would ''never'' have pinned the blame for Van's actions onto Luke. * ''[=~Tetris: The Grand Master~=] 4''[='=]s version of Arika Rotation System is going to have move reset? Ha, what kind of a sick rumor is that? * If you ask [[{{Tropers/Tovarishch}} me]], [[{{Resistance}} James Grayson]] never did [[{{BLAM}} ''what he did'']] with Raine Bouchard in that basement; therefore, he just went to Paris, [[spoiler:killed Mallery for being a selfish coward, euthanized Raine]] and settled back as a British Army officer. And the Chimaera never overran the Liberty Defense Perimeter in Resistance 2. * There are only eleven official TheKingOfFighters games. To think that a championship team could be decided with a simple five-stage time trial...Herr Bernstein will have none of that, no sir! ** The game you are describing is a [[ObviousBeta beta test]] that got a disk release because they had no game to attach the beta code to. They called it XII so people would buy it. * The only ''SpyroTheDragon'' games are ''SpyroTheDragon, Ripto's Rage, Year of The Dragon'' and ''Heroes Tail''. Bianca only appeared in 3..Bianca only appeared in 3...I swear she only appeared in 3. ** Heroes Tail? * I've done it! HundredPercentCompletion of ''SuperMarioGalaxy2''! With the completion of [[spoiler:"The Ultimate Test"]] I have all

[[spoiler:241]] stars! ...what's that? [[spoiler:"The Perfect Run"]]? A [[spoiler:242nd]] star where you have to do it all again with [[NoDamageRun only one health]] [[NintendoHard and no checkpoints]]? There is NO SUCH THING. Stop trying to spoil my victory with your vicious lies. [[spoiler:...[[HeroicBSOD * whimper* ]]...]] * Remember GodOfWar: Chains of Olympus? The fight with Morpheus at the end was ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome incredible]]''! However, some people think that there was no fight, and the developers decided to shoehorn in another plotline with Persephone and Atlas. What they don't know is that that was a completely different game. * There were only 2 GameboyAdvance Castlevania games. Mighty Kombat claims to be doing a lets play of a game that is not a Castlevania game. It was some unreleased game called Harmony Of Dissonance. After all, who would make a Castlevania game with overly bright graphics, ridiculously easy gameplay and horrible music? And why do I hear that IGA developed it? What are you people smoking? * What are the [[{{Pokemon}} Hoenn and Sinnoh regions]] that all the kids are talking about? ** Although I wish they'd created more Pokemon, I think that the 151 existing ones are more than enough. ** This Troper LIKED Hoenn even more than even Johto and Kanto, but this Sinnoh? Let's pack a bunch of extra useless in-game features and just tack on some ugly extra evolutions to Pokemon that already didn't need them and completely IGNORE this thing called plot? You must be dreaming. ** Unova does not exist. It was just a bunch of horrible fan sprites someone claimed to be canon. Black and White are only rumors with a bunch of features Nintendo really should implement if they ever decide to release another Pokemon game, which is unlikely. *** Kanto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Unova definitely exist but I'm sure glad they didn't make a generation with awful looking Pokemon loaded up with horrible stats. They certainly did not cripple the region they were supposed to be showing off by tacking on Kanto at the end of it leaving both regions feeling like they're lacking in something. They certainly did not give the new Pokemon of the region the short end of the stick by featuring the original 151 far more then them and even throwing a bunch of them out to the very end of the game where there is very little reason to use them by then anyway. *** Unova does exist. However, Game Freak definitely gave evolutions to the Pokmon of previous generations that seriously needed them. *** What's an Unova? IsItSomethingYouEat I mean, I know an Isshu, but certainly that can't be the same thing, nor could it be some crappy English translation. And once Black and White hit stateside, I really hope they don't mess up a ton of the names or even the Yin-Yang theme of the legendaries... *** EV training does not exist. It's a lie though up by StopHavingFunGuys to make us feel like n00bs. * It's really a shame MegaManBattleNetwork ended after the third game. Wish they'd make a fourth, no way they'd screw it up with lame and overly repetitive [[TournamentArc Tournament Arcs]], not Capcom! * PerfectDark Zero doesn't exist. * For some reason, I keep hearing about these weird "Ultimania" things

that Square-Enix supposedly released to supplement the ''FinalFantasy'' games. Too bad they never really existed and aren't really canon, especially since they were never translated into English. * So they apparently remade the first Game/MegaMan game for PSP. It's a good thing that they didn't add any new Robot Masters, huh? ** Actually there was one new robot master, Time Man. The Japanese version had another one called Oil Man that was removed from the American version. ** [[{{DontExplainTheJoke}} Way to overlook]] [[CompletelyMissingThePoint the sarcasm, genuis]] * I heard this weird rumor they were giving TeamFortress2 a massive back-story ... must have been some FanFic that got a lot of press. I mean, what kind of insane games developer would write a story involving AbrahamLincoln, a legal battle over gravel mining, lifeextension technology in 1890, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking kangaroos]] anyway? Oh, and the Engineer never cut off his hand. Just because he can build a mechanical hand doesn't mean he will. * [[{{Iji}} The Komato]] are and have always been evolved dinosaurs. Seriously, with that build, what ''else'' could they be? Certainly not something with the same common ancestors as humans and apes... * [[{{Castlevania}} Sonia Belmont]] [[InvertedTrope totally existed]]. And she absolutely founded the Belmont clan. Also, Dracula's real name is and has always been Vlad Tepes. Leon Belmont? Matthias Cronqvist? Who are those guys? Must be fancharacters. * SquareEnix really confused me with how they number the FinalFantasy games I mean FinalFantasyI to [[FinalFantasyIII III]], [[FinalFantasyIV IV]], [[FinalFantasyV V]], [[FinalFantasyVI VI]], [[FinalFantasyVII VII]], [[FinalFantasyVIII VIII]], [[FinalFantasyIX IX]], [[FinalFantasyX X]], [[FinalFantasyX2 X-2]], [[FinalFantasyXIII XIII]]? Anyways, I'm still glad that they're decicated to creating good games instead of numbering them like normal and creating other, [[FinalFantasyXII inferior]] [[FinalFantasyII ones]]. ** Nonono. You're close, but mistaken. The numbering goes I, III, IV, VI, VII, IX, X, X-2, XI, XIII (plus Tactics, Tactics Advance, and Dissidia). XIII gets some criticism I find odd though- why do people keep talking about this "Hope" kid? No such character exists. And Sazh, awesome though he was, shot himself in the head after seeing his son turn to crystal before his very eyes, in what is easily one of the FF series' most gutwrenching moments. *** No, there are only three games: [[FinalFantasyI FFI]] on the NES, with [[FinalFantasyIV FFII]] and [[FinalFantasyVI FFIII]] on the SNES. The supposed third and fifth games are actually spinoffs which expanded on the Job System from FFI. The games that apparently came out after those? They don't exist. * Just ask this troper about the latest Sonic game. He'll only respond with "FanGirls are what caused Sonic to end." This pretty much applies to any video game. * ''SyphonFilter 3'' and ''Logan's Shadow''. The former is mostly a [[MissionPackSequel mission pack]] of prequel flashbacks, and has canon [[ContinuitySnarl continuity problems]] (Mara is [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat shot in the head]] at the end, but comes back

in the fourth installment), the latter is a [[PostScriptSeason postscript]] cash-in. * FinalFantasyXIIRevenantWings never happened. * It's a shame we never got a MegaMan 9: nowadays' technology could make it so awesome. It certainly wouldn't be a ROM hack of a NES game, nor would it be made to look like one, because that would be just stupid. ** Yeah, as ridiculous as a Mega Man X7 made with that same technology you're talking about: CGI, 3D, a multiplayer game... because of course, [[SarcasmMode those were features present in each and every Mega Man game and that's what it is about]]. Why having kids play BanjoKazooie, when you can technolyze your favorite platformer [[JumpingTheShark at the time you ran out of ideas]]? But now that I think about it, what's that Mega Man X7 people keep talking about? I just can't seem to find it as part of this universe. *** And now that we're speaking about MegaManX... Repeat after me: '''[[TheScrappy AXL]] DOES NOT EXIST'''. He never did, and he never will be [[TheWesley given a role as a plot important character]] of the last games which [[PlotHole were supposed to give the X-verse a tie-in]] to the [[MegaManZero Zero saga]]. Thank god he's just the MartyStu type of character from a bad, amateur FanFic, don't you think? * Man, The [[{{DevilMayCry}} Devil May Cry]] series is awesome, Although it is a bit weird that it went straight from Devil May Cry 1 to Devil May Cry 3 with no Devil May Cry 2... * It's weird that they named the sequel to ArTonelico CrossEdge instead of ArTonelico2: CrossEdge, isn't it? It's a pity they got rid of much of the well-loved cast and changed the location, but at least most of the new characters were interesting instead of completely unsympathetic. It's also a pity there's no new [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome song magic]], but we all know that {{Gust}} is a company that writes [[AtelierSeries strong female characters]] and would never do something as disgusting as making them strip, and ''forget'' writing a BrokenAesop that claims that child prostitution is actually A-OK! * I'm saying it right now -- ''{{Portal}} 2'' is going to be amazing, but, that's only an alternate continuity. In the ''first'' continuity, Chell actually got to ''escape'' the Enrichment Center, not [[spoiler: be dragged back inside that nightmarish hellhole by a [[NothingIsScarier unseen mecha.]] She's earned it, dammit!]] * There are no ''BloodyRoar'' games after the second. There was a simplified fan game for the Playstation 2 and that was it. There was certainly no ''BatmanAndRobin''-type Bloody Roar games that killed the franchise and destroyed its reputation. * Despite its flaws, the Wii sure is a great console... let's just be happy they didn't decide to bundle the consoles with a mediocre sports game that would use motion controls exclusively, in a way that just makes you flail your arms around, and would seem to set the standard for what others [[DidNotDoTheResearch would imagine Wii games in general to be like...]] because that would just be a stupid idea. And even if they did, there's no way they would think of making several even worse spin-offs, or, god forbid, a sequel! No, that's just silly.

* [[@/SoWeAteThem I]] actually liked the SonicTheHedgehog series, even for a little while after the 2006 port. While I love all the games that were released during the Gamecube era and before, in terms of storyline, I draw the line at SonicAdventure 2. It just seems the best place to end it, with all the CharacterDevelopment everyone recieved; Shadow found a cause he believed in [[spoiler:and sacrificed himself for its sake]]. Rouge had been implying she would give up her hobby in favor of settling down, Eggman for once seemed to be rethinking his life's mission, the entire cast seemed to have matured considerably. It was the perfect note to end it all on... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Plus, it was before they gave Rouge that]] [[SonicHeroes unflattering costume change.]] * Who else here's currently obsessing over ''MortalKombat9''? Great game, isn't it? Very fun. The story mode was a nice addition, too. I just want to ask who wrote that TrollFic where Sindel kills everyone at the end? I can accept that she recieved a power boost, but the game obviously shows that the heroes were able to get their act together and beat her as a team. They did ''not'' all stand around casually taking her on one-on-one and getting killed from stupidly wimpy attacks, and you can bet that Liu Kang never lost hope in his cause. I'm looking forward to the next game, so we can see them all taking on Shinnok. That's gonna be ''awesome.'' * I'm so glad that Drakengard ended with Caim and Angelus earning their happy ending instead of making five endings that got progressively worse and instead opted with an odd human/dragon pairing rather than having the dragon sealed away only to be made evil in some nerd's ''sequel'' with replacement sues and having the world practically end. So happy they DIDN'T do that and let the psycho man and the dragon try to live through their PTSS for character development. * I'm surprised that it took them seven years to realize they needed to make a sequel, or rather a prequel, to DeusEx. I mean, you'd think that they'd start working on a sequel pretty quickly, considering the success the game had. Then again, they'd probably ruin it by dumbing down the RPG elements, making all weapons magically use the same ammo, enormously shrinking down level sizes to the point where they're too small to navigate, and not deciding which ending in the original game was canon. Let's just hope this prequel coming out soon doesn't make any of those blunders. * Good thing Square Enix is still delaying the release of FFXIII. Hopefully, when they clear up all the confusion, it won't be a linear game that lacks all the features of a fully functional RPG such as different dialogue choices, mini games, and an overworld map. There is no FFXIII-2 either. Square Enix is actually listening to the requests of their fan base and working on remakes of Final Fantasy VI and VII instead. * I am really looking forward to this new AssassinsCreed game where Desmond gets to do some assassinating for once. Thos Ezio and Altair blokes are surely interesting but Ubisoft wouldnt be dumb enough to release interquels with them recounting the stuff we already have seen them doing. * I really love Persona 3 Portable and how they added a female

counterpart to the game. I especially loved the ending where she used the powers of her S-Links to create a seal to keep Nyx sealed away and that Shinjiro, out of love for the Femc, offered to sacrifice himself to power the seal instead of her so she could live. After all, despite surviving bullets via a magic pocket watch,he only had about a half year left to live due to the medicine that he, Revolver Jesus and his Strega friends were taking to control their personas. After the battle, everyone kept their memories and showed up at Mitsuru and Aikihiko's graduation. The ending song was NOT of Aigis singing on how Femc died and Femc fell asleep in Aikihiko's arms because she stayed up all night singing karaoke in the mall. THE END [[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

FanonDiscontinuityWebcomics Note: This is a very subjective trope. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---* As far as I know, Ellen of ''ElGoonishShive'' was ''always and truly will be'' bisexual, as in attraction to ''either'' gender, not some bullshit about someone ''[[NoBisexuals who's only interested in women]]'', because (and I feel [[IncrediblyLamePun Punfully]] justified to say this ;P) that's just [[{{Wallbanger}} gay]]. ** I remember El Goonish Shive. It was a great comic. It's a shame that Dan Shive ended it after Painted Black to move on with his life. Apparently, he'd just run out of ideas- get this, he was going to make Grace's birthday party last more than a year worth of updates! Good thing he decided to end it at the top of his game. * There was no point in ''{{Misfile}}'' where the main Ash / Emily / Missi plot was taken over as the main focus, especially not during that story's most compelling point at that moment, by the plight of some random psychopath who came out of nowhere and his shrew of a girlfriend. This storyline would not have ended with [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop the implication that cars are more important than the people you love, either]]. This troper also likes to think there are only three angels as a part of the plot - Rumisiel, Vashiel, and Cassiel are it. There are of course others in heaven, but only those three have been a part of the story. * This troper prefers to think that the cast of ''PennyAndAggie'' only ever consisted of the titular characters and Karen. ** T Campbell never spent over five months on the IdiotPlot ShaggyDogStory "Dinner for Six"; it only took a few weeks, max, in real-world time for Nick to see Charisma's true nature and break things off for Aggie's sake. Similarly, Campbell ran "Minjung" as a completely separate short-run webcomic; he knew better than to unduly prolong the suspense over the Penny/Rich plot by shifting for an entire month to a story that took place in an entirely different

culture and with an entirely different cast of characters from ''PennyAndAggie''. Also, the WillTheyOrWontThey motif involving the title characters never stretched out into a YoyoPlotPoint; instead, it was resolved shortly after Aggie's dream-realization, in "The Lady and the Tiger," that Penny loved her. (In order to avoid [[{{Natter}} Discussion On The Main Page]], I'll forego mentioning ''how'' it was resolved. To each their own Discontinuity on that matter.) * ''SailorSun'': The whole saga was just a dream of Brad's. ** Alternatively, Honey and Brady are not the product of a one-night stand that Bay doesn't even remember and was ''not'' [[XanatosRoulette set up to the finest detail]] by the people she worked for. * ''TheWotch'': Anne was able to separate Mimg Mei and Prof. Sakura, having him realize his mistakes and adjust his life for the better ''and'' letting Ming Mei live her life. Afterwards he moved somewhere else. It also happened to the ''Cheer'' girls/boys, [[EpilepticTrees thus leading to Joanna and the others being real girls and the jocks to not be jerks anymore]], thereby erasing all UnfortunateImplications. Also, Scott and Ivan are returned to normal by Miranda, who realized the mistake of her ways, and Julie is undecided as to whether she wants to go back to being a girl or staying a boy, then deciding for the second option. * For this troper, my example of this trope, relating to the webcomic SexyLosers, has to be spoiler marked out, for people's safety. [[spoiler: Natsuki did NOT die. She was NOT fucked to death by Kenta's mom, the urn containing her ashes was NOT used by Kenta's mom as a dildo, and she did NOT visit Mike in that parody of AChristmasCarol. Also, she, Kenta, and Kenta's mom had a threesome.]] * Man, ''{{Homestuck}}'' was such an awesome comic. Why'd Andrew have to drop it before we got to see what the ectobiology process was? ** At least he was kind enough to give us a short prequel starring the trolls, ending with a very fun Flash minigame called Alterniabound. My only question is, what's the deal with this "Vriska Serket" fantroll everyone's talking about? She wouldn't fit in the comic at all. Surely Andrew wouldn't sink so low as to create a CompleteMonster VillainSue just to piss off his fans, and even if he did, they would most certainly not get an irritatingly vocal fanbase blindly defending them. Just like he wouldn't dare upset the fans with pointless ShipSinking or killing off fan-favourite characters like Bro. And even if the comic did continue, Eridan would never have been [[CharacterDerailment derailed]] into a traitorous psychopath. ** What? Equius and Nepeta never died. And even if they had, there's no way it would be at the hands of clueless, lovable Gamzee. Gamzee would never do such a thing, even if he did somehow run out of his pies. It's not like those pies kept him from becoming a murderous psychopath or anything. Gamzee remains the Faygo loving juggalo we all know and love, while Equius and Nepeta are very much alive. In fact, none of the trolls died. Especially not the popular ones like Tavros or anything. Hussie would never do that to his fans! I swear, the things these fans come up with. * Remember ''{{Megatokyo}}''? That crazy, apocalyptic webcomic where an {{Otaku}} in denial and a CloudCuckooLander from the US arrive to Japan and make every single wacky hijinx they can think of? Yeah,

awesome comic. But there's one thing that bothers me: how did the story suddenly switched, from chapter 3 to chapter 8 and on, skipping the chapters in between?? Because, I mean, there's [[NoJustNo no way]] Megatokyo could have turned into a poorly made, harem-type soap opera where [[OutOfCharacter characters suddenly stop showing the personality]] they just builded for more than 300 strips [[{{Flanderization}} without any logical explanation]]. * Oh man, the resolution to ''{{RPG World}}'' sure was awesome wasn't it, I sure am glad that the creator didn't turn into a whiny little pussy and prematurely cancel it. That would have been horrible! ---[[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

FanonDiscontinuityWebOriginal Note: This is a very subjective trope. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---* For this troper, ''NeoPets'' ended shortly after Meridell's release. It was cool for a little while, but then the site tragically went belly-up as it disappeared beneath loads and loads of [[MerchandiseDriven merchandise.]] ** Seconded in essence, but let's change the cutoff point to the second Meridell storyline, because that was the shiz. * [[LinkarasAtopTheFourthWall Linkara]], who fights and wins against all sorts of comic book abominations, did not let himself be beaten and tied up by Bennett the Sage. He was not stupid enough to have posted a fanfic that stole a plot from ''Series/DoctorWho'' when he was 13, and if he was, then he took it off the web long before he became a comic book reviewer. Linkara did not swear or give the Sage the finger. The Sage did not take 4 punches to the head without taking a scratch. ** What are you blabbering about. Linkara reviews comics. I mean, it would be silly for a show focusing on amusing comic reviews to have piss-poor pseduo-action in it, wouldn't it? * [[{{Kickassia}} That whole mess]] down in Nevada was just a masshallucination caused by too much FanDumb. TheNostalgiaCritic never became competent enough to take over a country. [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] never became a KnightTemplar who almost had his best friend killed. Film Brain did not become a hyperactive YesMan lapdog for the Critic. ''[[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] is '''not''' Insano.'' That's just crazy. So it must all be a hallucination. ([[CrowningMomentOfAwesome One hell]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny of an amusing]] one, though.) * I haven't had time to fully draft a better scenario, but [[GaiaOnline H2K9]] DID NOT END THAT WAY. IT DID '''NOT'''.

** Of course it didn't. After a massively epic battle that ''certainly'' spanned more than just one page (and wow, did anyone else have doubts the art team would spring for twelve full pages and a splash? Kudos, guys and gals!), the appearance of one lone earthworm shattered the delusions of both demigods, simultaneously draining their power (because it's based on their belief too, y'know) and robbing them of anything to war over. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5505134/1/Song_of_the_Earthworm Kind of like this.]] And then [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5505926/1/Empty_Handed this]]. Because the best way to end an epic war is with an epic fight and a {{Tsundere}}. ** On the subject of GaiaOnline, you know that massive overhaul of the ''zOMG!'' intro? The one that removed the entire train station, did a horrible and incomplete job of providing the all-important crash course in Gameplay 101, and worst of all obliterated the main setup for TheReveal? Well, it never happened. There was no such overhaul. None. [[TwitchyEye * twitch* ]] ** [[ThisIsSparta Johnny. K. Gambino.]] '''[[ThisIsSparta Is. Not. Dead.]]''' Given his history of being NotQuiteDead, this may well be canon, but until he comes back, I'M RETCONNING IT! * ''StrongBadEmail'' ended beautifully with "email thunder" and its numerous {{Continuity Nod}}s. It's nice to know that Strong Bad will never fall below the point where he resorts to pointlessly cruel gags like, blowing up the Lappy or ridiculing Strong Sad every week. ---[[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

FanonDiscontinuityWesternAnimation Note: This is a very subjective trope. The visceral response to FanonDiscontinuity can baffle other fans who don't take the event as seriously, or even *gasp* like the event. In short, do not delete things off the page solely because you disagree with them. ---* ''TheSimpsons'' ended with its 9th Season. Nuff Said ** The final shot of the series was of the Simpsons leaving New York City as "New York, New York" plays in the background. "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" is the best GrandFinale in the history of television. Thank God it ended when it did; if they'd have gone on even one episode longer they might've done something stupid like an episode where it gets revealed that Principal Skinner is really some guy named Arman Tamzarian. *** Even the townsfolk of Springfield [[CanonDiscontinuity agree with that]]. ** I know numerous people who believe that the Simpsons lost nearly all of its charm after season 5. I happen to agree with them in retrospect.

** For some reason, nine years after the show ended, a video game was made featuring the show's characters. *** Really? I don't remember any such game. ** There has been talk of a [[TheMovie feature-length movie]] for many years. With anything after Season 9 unable to sustain a coherent plot for 10 minutes (let alone an entire episode), I doubt a 90-minute movie is the next logical step. I'm glad they didn't go ahead with the production. *** What are you talking about? The way I remember it, they made a feature-length film years after the show ended. Now, if only I could un-see the subversion of PeekABoo... ** Ah... in 2003, there was a game of this called ''{{The Simpsons Hit and Run}}''. [[GreatPikminFan This troper]] heard that there was going to be a ''seventh'' level that follows tree house of horror episodes, complete with zombies! However, zombies were over used in ''The Simpsons'', and the level looked hard. Six levels were just fine. ** As sad as i was when it ended with "Simpsons Tide" a reaal heartwarmer where Homer finally showed his love for Bart, as exited was I when the Simpsons returned for the onetime-special Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind 9 years later. I am only glad they did not use some sort of Science-Fiction memory machine in that episode and limited it to Homer struggling with himself and his guilt. Also have they ever found that lost episode where they made some big reveal about Skinner? It was supposed to air after "The City of New York vs Homer Simpson". * Kim got the last line in ''KimPossible''. She's the titular character after all, and thus deserves the last line (like Lilo got in the finale of ''LiloAndStitchTheSeries''). It was not given to Dr. Drakken, the villain. There was also no silly episode where Kim got her mind wiped and nor did she spend most of one episode in stupid outfits after her old one was wrecked. This editor would also rather pretend that the there was no {{Aesop}} delivered about ''having'' to fight Dr. Drakken with old technology in that Amish episode (but hey, I enjoyed that episode). ** There was no episode involving Ron's dad becoming sycophantically (I ''cannot'' belive I spelt that right first time) obsessed with Ron not thinking he's a hero. ** Isn't it awesome that after [[TheLibby Bonnie]] had her hysterical breakdown in Homecoming Upset, [[ActionGirl Kim]] [[{{Karma}} walked away grinning?]] *** No, it wasn't awesome! Remember, Bonnie became a lot nicer to Kim after "Bonding"? Hell, the two have actually gone on missions together a few times (and might I say, they make a very sexy team, though I see why they had to pair Kim up with Ron). Now, what happened would've made a lot more sense if the writers had done something stupid like give Bonnie AesopAmnesia after "Bonding" and Bonnie went right back to being as mean as ever, but we all know that didn't happen, right? ** Kim and Ron getting together was AllJustADream. It was actually Josh in the last season. The writers made a typo, the animators didn't know until too late, and the rest is history. ** And Bonnie and Junior stayed together, of course. Just cause the pairing wasn't mentioned again doesn't mean they broke up.

** And Ron managed to hook up with Tara. Kim helped Ron prepare for his date with her and, aside from the Monkey Ninjas attack, had a wonderful evening which ended with a peck on the cheek. Despite the new challenges their respected relationships bring, Kim and Ron's friendship remain strong as ever. I mean the writers would never [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot waste a perfectly good opportunity]] for CharacterDevelopment, right? * Incidentally, [[StarWarsTheCloneWars Anakin never had a padawan name Ahsoka]]. ** Either that, or she dies horribly, but not before [[TheForceUnleashed Galen Marek]] gets to see and (and copy) that reverse Shien grip... ** I am glad there werent any follow-up episodes to Hostage Crisis that were so randomly thrown together BigLippedAlligatorMoments that hurt you when you watched them and Quinlan Vos still has a cameo to do in which he doesnt act like Anakin with dreadlocks. * ''SpongebobSquarepants'' only lasted 3 seasons and ended with a movie. ** Well, maybe there was ''one'' more season after that... ** To expand on this, Spongebob and Patrick somehow managed to make Squidward completely snap one day. Squidward kills both of them and when the cops arrived on the scene, he shot himself to avoid capture. Afterwards, nearly the entire city celebrated the deaths of the sadistic sponge and his moron sidekick. Meanwhile, Mr. Krabs was put in Prison over corruption charges. ** Triton? Who is he? King Neptune only has one child, a daughter named Mindy, who is next in line to the throne. Also, he ''is'' the same one later seen in TheMovie, albeit now suffering hair loss (he is over 5000 years old, after all). ** In a similar vein, ''TransformersGeneration1'' lasted two seasons and ended with a movie. There were no further seasons in which Rodimus Prime [[CharacterDerailment became a jerk]]. *** Wrong, the movie ended with Optimus Prime doing the sensible thing for once and [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim firing a shot through Hot Rod to kill Megatron once and for all]]. Starscream became the new leader of the Decepticons and was quick to hammer out a ceasefire deal with Prime. *** While we're at it, I'd like to point out that the Unicron Trilogy did ''not'' wrap up with Prime defeating Megatron through ThePowerOfFriendship. That would be, if I may be un-PC for a moment, ''incredibly retarded''. Personally, I never thought that Hasbro would ever let the Decepticons ''win,'' but the 'Cons deserved it and I'm glad I lived to see the day. * As for ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Jet [[spoiler: didn't die. He ''might'' be in a wheelchair, but he certainly didn't die]]. Killing characters off-screen via WordOfGod is bullcrap and I don't acknowledge it. ** They didn't 'kill him offscreen,' they clarified his death, there's a difference. *** The term is GoryDiscretionShot. ** Avatar had no season 3. It was tragically canceled after season 2's cliffhanger, and we will never see all the pointless, trite filler,

the characters exaggerated to hallow, bland shells, awkward dialogue, and poorly resolved plot points. *** What are you talking about? There was a 3rd season, and it had a really epic finale. Too bad it only had 10 episodes, I'm sure they could have come up with something to bring it up to 20 like the other two seasons. Surely the other 10 episodes wouldn't have been pure filler, or something stupid like that. ** [[spoiler: Combustion Man]] is alive too. He's too awesome to have been killed. In fact, he not only survived but got another metal limb. To increase aforementioned awesomeness. Also possibly learned Alchemy. ** And I'm certain that they wouldn't have left any unanswered, plot driving questions like WHAT HAPPENED TO ZUKO'S MOTHER?!...and they certainly wouldn't have Zuko ask about it and then NOT have the fans hear the answer... ** This troper is quite satisfied with the series' finale. He's even more satisfied with the live-action film. The decision to have it directed by Tarentino was pure genius. Can you imagine if it was done by some disgraced hack like Shyamalan? *** I'm unsure if it was Tarentino who directed the movie but I'm positive than it was Jerry Bruckheimer who produced it. ** Ty Lee was [[spoiler:at the Jasmine Dragon with everyone else after Zuko's coronation]]. It just wouldn't seem right for her to be left out. (Tiny detail? Yes. Bugging the hell out of me? Oh yeah.) *** Yeah, really! You cannot have Mai there just because she's Zuko's girlfriend yet not have Ty Lee to be there too. **** Also, there is a cut to a sad, somewhat lifeless Azula in a straight-jacket during Fire Lord Zuko's speech about hope and healing, giving it double-meaning which seems fitting enough. As evil as she was in the past, having Azula reveal a disturbing FreudianExcuse and then suffer a [[TearJerker soul-crushing]] VillainousBreakdown...and never show her again afterward...That would be just too cruel. ***** And Ty Lee was there, being a champ and helping rehabilitate her poor, deluded friend. Which is why she wasn't at the Jasmine Dragon. * ''{{Gargoyles}}'' only had two seasons and ended with the episode "The Journey", which was the last one of season 2, not like some people think the first one of a "third season". There's no such thing as "third season", no sir. ** That's CanonDiscontinuity. * The all-time best episode of ''TheRealGhostbusters'' was JMS's masterpiece, "Midnight on the Lady M", which was the first animated cartoon ever to win the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation. Also, the series never made an episode in which the Ghostbusters traveled on the Space Shuttle to a nonexistent space station and met a bunch of parodies of ''StarTrek'' characters who kept saying Egon "reminded them of someone", especially not for airing in 1987, i.e. during the hiatus between the ''Challenger'' tragedy and the next shuttle flight. No, sir. * [[{{Aladdin}} Jafar]] never bothered with returning and you can't tell this troper otherwise. ** What are you talking about? Aladdin never had any spin-off movies for Jafar to return too... * The movie ''LiloAndStitch'' only has one sequel, ''Stitch has a

Glitch'', which, while not as good as the original, still has some great moments and, overall, the same feeling. There was NO anvilicious, mediocre TV series populated with [[FlatCharacter onedimensional new characters]] and cliched villains (and pre-existing characters becoming one-dimensional), nor two other movies associated with the TV series. * This troper refuses to acknowledge the Hit Entertainment ''FiremanSam'' episodes due to Elvis being turned into a complete blockhead and the addition of the Flood Family to appease the politically correct brigade. * ''{{Futurama}}'' only had ONE movie; Bender's Big Score. ** Movie? Futurama had movies? No it didn't. ** So wait, it ended with [[spoiler: THE WHOLE FREAKING UNIVERSE BEING RIPED APART]]? That's pretty scary... ** Futurama ended with [[{{Shipping}} actor!Fry and actor!Leela]] kissing. i don't care what any of you say! ** "The Late Phillip J. Fry": whoo, the writers sure dodged a bullet. While it was a bit of an AssPull for the death of the universe to turn Farnsworth's forwards-travelling time machine into a backwardstravelling one, it was certainly better than anything else they could have come up with. Though I'm not sure if a TemporalParadox was created or not; ''someone'' had to leave that message for Fry in the year One Billion. SequelHook! * After her small cameo in the finale of ''DannyPhantom'', Danielle was indeed present at the celebration of Danny, thus suggesting the Fentons took her in. After all, the writers wouldn't skip such an easy way to tie up a loose end in the episode, right? ** This troper is at the opposite and would rather that little CopyCatSue have [[spoiler: died]] in "D-Stabilized". In fact, she rather she didn't exist at all. "Kindred Spirits" was a great episode, but what clone? There is no clone; there's only two half ghosts: Danny and Vlad. *** Couldn't agree more...I mean I certainly don't remember a CopyCatSue named Danielle. Being a half ghost is unique and I'm sure the writers wouldn't stoop so low as to add a bad fanfiction like CopyCatSue done to DEATH in Danny Phantom fan-fiction into actual canon! ** Vlad did not get smacked by that asteroid in the last episode. No, he flied away in the depths of space in all its poetic tragedy, ending his chapter with emotions, not undeserved comedy. ** Danny and Sam never had any feelings for each other and definitely didn't end up together. Danny and Valerie finally became an official couple right after the end of the episode. *** Were we watching the same series? Danny and Sam stayed friends, Valerie vanished, and - in a risky move for a kids' show - the vibe between Danny and Jazz remained. I knew her resemblance to MJ wasn't an accident! *** Of course Sam and Danny ended up together and then there where another 4 seasons of awesome with Sam becoming even less of a Mary Sue than she was and Tucker hooking up with Jazz while remaining a main character. *** Whaaa? There wasn't a season where Sam and Danny got together and

the plot lines began to revolve around them and only them to the point that it became sickening to watch and somehow made the show loose what little enjoyment it had as they awkwardly hinted the obvious that they liked each other over--and over-- and turned Same into a borderline Mary Sue (takes a breath)...so how could they bombard us with more seasons of that crap only they're actually together? Just like the show CERTAINLY didn't the drop the ball and quickly tie up what could have been great future storyline plots like Danny's old suit that Vlad perfected in a waste of a cliche` episode that had his sister Jazz completely out of character and destroy the suit in a completely lack luster way! Nor did they leave certain things unresolved and not bring back awesome villains like Dark Danny... * ''TheFairlyOddparents'' special "Wishology" did ''not'' happen, and therefore Trixie never kissed Timmy. Why would she do that anyway? She clearly always hated him. ** Bullshit. She always secretly liked him. The few episodes where she was a complete snob with no hints of a deeper side underneath indicate that the creators like to brainstorm new episodes after a long trip to the bar or nightclub. ** Jorgen was lying when he said he was going to hit the ResetButton; either that or he changed his mind after the movie ended. All episodes aired ''after'' Wishology take place ''beforehand''. ** No, you're all mistaken. "Wishology" happened, and Timmy kissed Trixie and they started dating. Tootie was involved in the events, eventually decided IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy, and decided [[CharacterDevelopment to try to find happiness without relying on Timmy]]. After it was all over, the Fairy Council decided to make contact with humans openly to try for peaceful coexistance. Crocker and Vicky preformed {{Heel Face Turn}}s and joined Timmy and his friends and parents as agents to keep the peace between the realms, there was no LaserGuidedAmnesia, and that was the last episode. ''Ever''. Also, there was no episode about Trixie going batshit and trying to kill Timmy, and her {{tomboy}} nature was a big part of the Timmy/Tootie/Trixie love triangle, along with [[ASharedSuffering the shared suffering]] of Vicky between Timmy and Tootie, giving a good and well thought out love subplot to the series. They certainly didn't ignore both of these elements in favor of {{flanderization}}, that would just be stupid.-Tropers/MichaelJJ *** Also, who ever started that rumor that Cosmo and Wanda had a son? That would be stupid. ** And nobody would ever even consider making a live action movie with Timmy dumping his godparents for a BeautifulAllAlong Tootie. *** Oh, definitely. Besides, how could Tootie be in the movie when she's been placed into foster care and is undergoing intense therapy? * Don't you all remember that great last episode? It was called "Bad Heir Day," and at the end of the episode Butch Hartman proved he had been listening to the audience, and let Crocker keep Poof as DJ. Of course, DJ turned into a human to be more like Crocker, and forgot all about his parents and godbrother. Sure, Timmy was rather sad about it, but after Poof turned human they could no longer track him down and find him, and only know that he is alive but not a fairy. But if, by chance, the series is continued again, Poof would be a sub-sub-

character who only appears with Crocker, and NOT a main character who goes to some dumb fairy school with Foop. * [[@/GreatPikminFan I]] know ''TotalDramaIsland'' had some flaws: Ezekiel did get too far into the game, Owen's early loss was way too predicable (though justified, he looks like the guy where over exposure to him would get [[TheWesley really annoying really fast]]), and Duncan could have stayed longer and become an antagonist. But still, '''why was there only one season?''' They could just do a ''Total Drama Rain Forest'' or ''Total Drama Desert'' with new characters and possibly some returning if the writers can't think of enough. It's not like the later seasons would bomb by dissing fan favorites, I mean they would ''never'' [[TotalDramaAction remove Cody and Noah who are loved by the fans but lost early, or Eva who also lost early and needed more screen time]]. And they would ''never'' [[TotalDramaWorldTour shove in a cliche and unneeded love triangle and have fan favorites Bridgette, Lindsay, or Izzy lose early and add unnecessary songs each episode]]... right? ** Ezekiel got really far? Pfft, no man, you're getting him confused with NOAH.... * [[{{Tropers/pagad}} This troper]] is in the middle of watching ''SamuraiJack'', and has decided that all the "comedic" episodes (like "Jack and the Farting Dragon") didn't happen. Or maybe they were AllJustADream. How can you follow tales so heartbreaking and poignant as "Jack Remembers the Past" and "Jack and the Monks" with a story about a farting dragon with MontyPython-esque [[TheDungAges Dung Ages]] peasants? In any case, this troper is filtering out all these unnecessary episodes which are thankfully outnumbered by the many SoCoolItsAwesome episodes. ** Samurai Jack would never end an episode with a baby dragon just burning everything and leaving the actual dragon completely out of the ending. The true episode was Jack fainting from the dragon's stench and dreaming the whole episode up, along with that episode where he was eaten by a two-headed worm thing that granted wishes. It never happened. * ''SouthPark'' ended with the ''Coon & Friends'' trilogy. Also, Mr. Garrison never had a sex change. * In ''FamilyGuy'', [[spoiler: [[strike:Lois]] Peter really killed Stewie, it wasn't a simulation, and that was the last episode. EVER.]] ** Incidentally, that episode was at the end of Season ''3''. Because, you know, there were only 3 seasons. *** There certainly weren't any later seasons in which all the characters suffered from ridiculous amounts of {{Flanderization}}, the Long Gags got drawn out to more than 5 minutes, and [[{{Anvilicious}} Brian kept dropping Anvils]] in every other episode. ** Cleveland never got remarried and moved to Virginia. He simply went on a journey of self. ** I thought it ended after "Peter's Two Dads". "Drunken Irish Dad" was the perfect way to end the series. ** Surely it ended with the story of how Quahog came to be, with Griffin Peterson vs. King Stewart the Turd in a contest to win Lady Redbush's heart. * Remember that part in ''CloneHigh'' when Abe and Joan got together,

Ghandi had his choice of any lady he wanted, and Cleo was left all alone while JFK and Ponce made fun of her? That was awesome. * The ''InvaderZim'' episode "Gaz Taster of Pork" was never meant to be canon - it was made as a joke episode intended for the enjoyment of the staff (outside of Jhonen Vasquez because of somewhat being {{jerkass}} ), but due to some dumbass intern it got sent to Nickelodeon and the people involved with the DVD. Dib never held the IdiotBall and Gaz never made that many death threats end of story. And therefore it's noncanonicity disprove any ideas that Gaz is evil! Stop making hatefics! ** Also, Dib never became the main character for the second half of the series. That'd be stupid, after all, since we all tune in to watch the silly screaming alien man and his dumb robot, not Kid Mulder. ** No, no, Dib needed some airtime. He did not turn into a complete moron and stopped caring about his plans falling through, however, like some idiot pessimist. YOU'RE MAKING IT UP!! * ''LionKing 1 1/2''? It doesn't exist. Nope. There are two ''Lion King'' films and a Timon and Pumbaa TV seires. END OF. ** You're confused, my good sir. There was no Lion King 2. Lion King 1 1/2 was the name of the awesome self parody; even the title is a joke, becuase 1 1/2 implies that there WAS a Lion King 2. Which there wasn't. *** Considering Nala and Simba had a son in the first movie (seriously look at the coloration) Lion King 2 never happened. *** Yeah, really. There was NO Timon and Pumbaa TV series. Nor did those two get way too much cameo screentime in HouseOfMouse. One movie centering around them was enough. * Isn't it great that Disney didn't milk the hell out of ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'' with, like, a spin off TV show or anything? ** Are you kidding? They made an awesome show out of it! I especially like how they kept the show set at Kuzco's palace instead of something stupid like, I don't know, a [[HighSchool high school]] or something. * {{Barnyard}} was just a movie. It ended with the birth of baby Ben. No [[{{Back At The Barnyard}} televsion show]] was ever made. * [[{{Fantasia}} Chernabog]] never showed up on ''HouseOfMouse''. There was no episode of him admitting to being [[VillainDecay afraid of the dark]]. * A ''BeautyAndTheBeast'' Christmas movie that takes place ''during'' the events of the original film? Never heard of it. Surely even Disney would shy away from such an awkward attempt to milk more money out of an established masterpiece... * ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' is a great show. Baby Doll never teamed up with Killer Croc. Hohoho that's absurd. Baby Doll was only in one episode in the DCAU. Everybody knows that. * Babs and Bruce never, ever dated in the DCAU. Ever. ** Absolutely whole-heartedly agreed. Because if that ''had'' happened, it would have completely tainted the way I see ''BatmanBeyond'' and the DCAU as a whole. ** Not to mention the silliness with some fans insisting that Terry was Bruce's son. Fortunately, the writers realized that would cheapen their relationship with such a over-used ploy in an otherwise excellent episode.

* A sequel to ''{{Mulan}}''?! What are you talking about? * Whaaat? Ariel and Eric having a kid (that then ages 12 years)? Pfft, it's like you're going to tell me that Ursula also had a horribly cliche "forever-in-my-sibling's-shadow" sister. Away with you and your foolishness. * ''{{Sixteen}}'' ended with a [[spoiler: heartwarming scene in which Nikki's parents see how much Nikki's friends care for her and decide not to move, and that's that. There's absolutely no way Nikki would ever throw more than a decade of friendship away by turning down their offer and moving away from them anyway]]. Nope, no way that would ever happen. [[spoiler: What a happy ending, huh?]] * I absolutely refuse to acknowledge the "Vilgax" that appeared in the ''Ben10AlienForce'' Season 3 premiere, as the real Vilgax. ** Alien Force? Never heard of it. I think your thinking of some dumb ''Ben10'' FanFiction. ** This Troper does not talk about Ben 10: Alien Force (Or, if angered, will rant about it). ** I do remember a rumor 2 years ago that there was gonna be a sequel series, but it never really happened. Oh well, at least we'll always have the live-action tv movie that was surprisingly decent. I'm glad the director managed to work in the 3 (sadly) underused Halloweenthemed aliens along with other fan favorites to make a sound 10. I also liked how it revealed Ben's secret identity to the world, man, why wasn't this put in theaters! * There were only three episodes ever completed of the second season of ''InvaderZim'', all of which are double the lenght of the average episode, and a few scripts, and the full outline of a two parter and movie if they got that far, but ended on of their scripts with [[DownerEnding Zim dead, and Dib left in the control of his arch rival for the rest of his life.]], thus earning its TooGoodToLast status in her eyes. * I can't wait for that new Quagmire spinoff! Wait, what's this about a Cleveland show? Certainly everyone knows that you don't give a spinoff to the most boring character on a show! Certainly Seth [=MacFarlane=] isn't that dumb! * Teen Titans had seven seasons. One season was devoted to a character arc for Starfire, and the last explored the origins of Slade and his myserious desire for an apprentice, which somehow links him to CuteMute Jericho. ** Nope, it only had six seasons: The first belonged to no one, just having the gang gel as a team and deal with the awesome that is Slade, the second was Beast Boy, though Terra actually stayed dead and totally never came back in a lackluster of a series finale, the Third was Cyborg's, the Fourth was Raven's...though the Trigon saga was played a bit darker and straighter and totally didn't end on a rather lack luster note...and the fifth season ended up being Robin, with the appearance episode happening mid way through and leading to Slade finding Jericho, who is still his flipping son. And doesn't die. And doesn't have a batshit insane sister... * There was no show named ''AllGrownUp'' and there was no third ''{{Rugrats}}'' movie. Tommy grew up to be the adventure loving mechanic he is in the timeskip episode and Lil is still quite alike to

her twin bro and messy, like that episode. Susie has nothing to do with singing. ** Who's this "new Rugrat" they keep talking about? Rugrats had four babies; Tommy, Chuckie, Phil and Lil, and they had the toddlars Angelica and Susie. If there were "new rugrats," they certainly wouldn't be a brother for Tommy or a sister for Chuckie. And the two movies were funny, the first one with the four babies and Angelica getting lost in the woods and Tommy and Chuckie fighting, as well as the sweet second movie where they go to Paris for a vacation and [[spoiler: Chuckie gets a new mommy. But why do so many people think Kira had a daughter?]] Too bad the Rugrats never met the Thornberries, but atleast they won't grow up and have a [[AllGrownUp spin-off series which was similar to a dumb old sit-com.]] * This troper wonders why they left Kaa out of Disney/TheJungleBook. I suppose his BadAssMentor role in the books wouldn't fit with the film's FAMILY tone. Oh well, better to leave him out than turn him into a creep pedophile who sings whole songs about molesting children before finally eating them that would traumatise some children enough to discourage them from watching the film for up to a whole decade. After all, it is a '''FAMILY FILM.''' * You know, Disney may have made some horrible sequels to their classic films, but at least they never made a painfully mediocre, LighterAndSofter, ClicheStorm sequel to TheHunchbackOfNotreDame. * Aversion: Your humble contributor once had a friend complain about [[WinxClub Musa]] saying something ''really'' bad about guys. I later pointed out that this was in fact a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BJ8PJynRn0 4Kids change]] and Musa had originally said nothing of the sort and that she should just ignore the [=4Kids=] change. Her response basically amounted to, "I don't like it either, but it did happen, so I can't ignore it." * Who is this Chase Young people keep talking about in {{Xiaolin Showdown}}? I recall the main villain being a bumbling but still somewhat capable albino geek named Jack Spicer. He most certainly did NOT get backseated into a status as the kickable dog and major butt monkey who never got any sort of help at all. And that episode where all the villains actually stopped fighting EACH OTHER so they could beat on him, only it was Kimiko disguised as him? Never existed. All a lie. Chase Young the filthy dragon-eater isn't real, he's likely just some pretty illusion conjured by a lonely 1500+ year old ghost hag. Who incidentally never got her body back after the SECOND time it was destroyed. ** Chase Young was the villain in the second season. He never appeared beyond it, though. * ''{{Tangled}}'' was one of the best Disney movies ever, but it's kinda sad that Flynn was KilledOffForReal while Rapunzel ended up in an ArrangedMarriage with some last-minute addition prince. True, it would have been a bit too obvious if Flynn came back to life and he and Rapunzel ended up together, but ''c'mon''. * It's weird how Disney released {{Disney/Cinderella}} III: A Twist In Time without having a Cinderella II in the middle. Oh well. At least they never got the crazy idea to make a fraudulent sequel to {{Bambi}} sixty years after the original.

* In Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, Goofball never existed, Bloo never acted like a JerkAss, Goo only appeared once, Peas never existed, and Cheese was never seen since his debut episode. * ''XMenEvolution'': Kitty never got back together with Lance, and she and Kurt became a couple after they finally worked out the raging {{UST}} between them. What the heck is this nonsense about Kurt hooking up with [[ShallowLoveInterest some chick named]] [[RelationshipSue Amanda]]? Even if it did happen, surely it wouldn't last, right? * ''TheLandBeforeTime'' was a pretty good movie, all right. I'm glad they didn't make any sequels - that would have [[{{Sequelitis}} really ruined it]]. * ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' had a great last season, but why does keep getting the facts wrong? That girl in tea shop, Jin, was NOT forgotten about, Zuko told her to flee Ba Sing Se before the Fire Nation invaded causing her to believe that there was still some good in him, which causes her to find the Gaang, join them to the Fire Nation where she eventually convinces Zuko to make a HeelFaceTurn, Mai? PFFFT. Yeah, they had a brief thing but everyone knows that she never really loved Zuko and betrayed him, revealed herself to be a spy for Fire Lord Ozai, got involved in Zuko's fight with Azula until Jin showed up, Then Jin and Mai fought, Mai asked her why she bothered defending Zuko which led to Jin's CrowningMomentOfAwesome, a ''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason Why You Suck]]'' speech which contained the greatest ''CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming'' in Western Animation history, I don't have to tell you what happened, you can '''NEVER''' forget that scene, and Mai was defeated, and imprisoned away with Azula. Katara? She was with Sokka, Toph and Suki, invading the Fire Nation fleet, where she actually '''''did something''''' instead of watching Zuko's fight blankly. also Sokka didn't lose his sword and ''actually used it''. Aang decided not to shave off his hair after Katara told him he looked cooler with it, After Ozai was beaten, Iroh became Fire Lord so Zuko could travel the world with Jin to find his mother, There was ''20'' Episodes, not ''21'', '''Emblem Island Players''? Everyone knows that a was mediocre fan animation, Aang and Katara kissed under the sunlight, which acted as a transition to a DistantFinale of their wedding and the birth of their first son, after that, they went to the balcony where they kissed all those ago, they're there with Baby [[AvatarTheLegendOfKorra Tenzin]], Sokka, Suki and then Zuko and Jin showed up with their baby with Zuko's mother behind them, they all smiled at each other, looked at the sunset and they all lived happily ever after. [[SureWhyNot Also, Ty Lee married Haru]]. * I remember the phase 3 story revolving around the {{Gorillaz}} album called "Plastic Beach." [[TheHeart Noodle]] [[CharacterDerailment didn't become]] some generic, revenge-filled, silent protagonist; or if she did, the writers knew to develop her character by allowing us to see her reflect on her loss of innocence. Russell's got more development other than anger at Murdoc, and it certainly had nothing to do with him merely becoming a giant mode of transportation for Noodle. Murdoc never went from often having more focus than the others to practically robbing the spotlight from them at all times. And

[[TheWoobie 2D]] NEVER became a [[{{Wangst}} angsty,]] [[DeadpanSnarker snarky little prick.]] He may have tried to stand up to Murdoc, but would instantly revert back to his sunny disposition (much like he did when The Fall came out). I know, the story couldn't be fleshed out due to budget reasons, but these weren't the characters I fell in love with...well, here's to hoping for a Rise of the Ogre follow-up that cleans up some of these elements. * Pocahantas didn't go to England and fall in love with John Rolfe. John Smith recovered and came back to America where they lived a long happy life together. ** Who started that rumor that Disney made any "Pocahantas" movies. If they did, [[DidNotDoTheResearch the facts would have been mixed up,]] and something stupid, like the ages probably would have been changed to make some dumb love interest with Pocahantas, in real life a preteen at the time, with- ohhhh, John Smith, who was a thirtysomething year old man. * DextersLab was a sad two seasons. There was no reboot series, and Mandark's parents are never seen. That would be absolutely ridiculous. ---[[TroperTales/FanonDiscontinuity There was never an index page to return to. Troper Tales? what's that?]] ----

FanPreferredCouple * [[{{Tropers/HG131}} HG131]] ** ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Buffy/Willow. Between the heaping amounts of subtext, the [[{{WAFF}} awwwwwww]] factor and my being a YuriFan, it just seems way more right. I'm also a fan of any combination that you can make with Buffy, Willow, Faith and Dawn, including threesomes and foursomes. They all work together. * {{Tropers/Cameoflage}}: ** ''{{Narbonic}}'': Dave/Lovelace and Helen/Madblood. I always thought those pairings were cuter together than the rather blah Helen/Dave. In particular, sabotaging Dave and Lovelace's relationship didn't win Helen any points with me. {{Troopers/RandomChaos}}: ** ''{{Ben10}}: Gwen/Ben, This troper faverouit paring of all time. He Runs the DA group for them http://bwen-group.deviantart.com/ {{Tropers/ElvenQueen}}: * ''{{X-Men Evolution}}'': Kurt/Kitty. I've always thought this pairing was much, ''much'' better than Lance/Kitty and Kurt/Amanda. The fact that the latter two pairings both seemed like a case of [[Main/StrangledByTheRedString Strangled By The Red String]] does not help matters. {{Tropers/GirlInGlasses}}: {{HarryPotter}}: I'm not a Ginny hater by any means, but I have a soft spot for Luna/Harry fic. I like Ginny in the books, but she does seem

to bit a bit RelationshipSueish at times, and I hate her in the movies because she is such a flat, uninteresting character. Oh, and Snape/Lily is one of the two OTPs I've ever had, but if they got together, we wouldn't really have a plot. And I like the heartbreak of it all. {{Skins}}: I preferred Cook/Effy. Freddie was too boring for me. In Gen 3, I prefer Mini/Franky to Franky/Matty, but I don't think that's where the writers are going with that. {{Tropers/TheTalkingToaster}}: {{Chuck}}: This troper massively ships Chuck/Casey, though less so from S2 onwards (when Sarah suddenly developed some character). Also Chuck/Awesome. ---I always thought [[Main/FanPreferredCouple the main page]] should have got together with BetterThanCanon.

FanRemake * ThisTroper (one day) wants to remake the {{Marathon}} Trilogy in the Source Engine. * Tropers/{{Miru}} wants to remake SpongeBob Battle For Bikini Bottom. It will be a crossover, and perhaps run on Source. There will be Chao Garden. * This Troper is going to do a live action version of the final scenes of DeathNote. * This Troper hopes plans to write a {{Hentai}} based on {{Uncharted}} 2. ---FanRemake: Source. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FantasticNuke * [[@/{{Peteman}} This Troper]] had a Forgotten Realms campaign where Beholders were helping Githyanki clear out Underdark Illithid settlements (as well as whoever else struck the Beholder's fancy) with the remnants of a long dead war god. They functioned much as fantasy nukes. * Locate City. [[MinMaxing You know the rest]]. * A forum role-play this troper was involved with was heavily based off of {{Okami}} ... eventually, someone got the idea that [[MagiBabble channeling the direct essence of the setting's primary deity]] would literally be a thermonuclear weapon. This troper blames late-night AlienSwarm binges for something this ludicrous. <<|TroperTales|>>

FantasyKitchenSink * [[@/WhiteRoseDuelist This troper]] was in a ModernFantasy TabletopRPG where all of the major religions were correct. The

characters personally met a number of angels including Gabriel and Michael, the Wiccan Horned God and many types of TheFairFolk, among others. * [[@/{{Icalasari}} This troper]] is working on a game that pretty much is this (although with proxies in the case of deities), to the point that people in it accuse other people of worshipping false gods, working with demons, etc. * [[@/{{Bookhobbit}} This troper]]'s current universe has, let's see, ghosts, vampires, zombies, golems, faries, dwarves, elves, dragons, ghouls, brownies and boggarts, changelings, anthropomorphic personifications, spirits(different in some ways from APs), gnomes, gremlins, werewolves, and an inadvertently-created new race currently known as Monsters. Oh, and there's probably a pantheon of gods hovering around in there some place. 'Magic' includes traditional sorcery, alchemy, voodoo, etc. All of this is intentional, mind you. I just like FantasyKitchenSink. * [[@/{{NarniaRanger}} This troper]]'s current WorldBuilding project includes Talking Animals, Oni, Eastern Dragons, Tokkaebi, Garuda, Rakshasa, Kitsune, Samurai, Kirin, TheFourGods, Dragon Kings, Sharkmen, Kappa, Turtle Islands, wizards, witches, Tikbalang, Aswang, and the Chinese Zodiac. It's intentional, as well; one of my main influences is TheChroniclesOfNarnia. * One of This Troper's stories was going to involve vampires, werewolves, and faeries banding together to defend humans from the zombie apocalypse. Troper has since seen the wisdom of dialing it back a bit. * [[@/{{Endlessness}} This troper]] is writing a roguelike which will involve pretty much everything he can think of. Too bad that it is in DevelopmentHell. * [[@/TitoMosquito This troper]]'s own [[TheVerse universe]] has [[{{Mayincatec}} Aztec warriors]], {{snake people}}, demons, mutants, [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual metahumans]], pirates, angels, superheroes, God, pantheons of gods, two versions of {{the Grim Reaper}}, aliens, ninjas, time travel, supercomputers, witches, [[ActionGirl normal teen girls]] and [[ActionMom mothers]] who can [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower whip people's asses]], magic, Ki, among others. * All of [[@/{{Pastylover2}} this troper's]] works has aliens, vampires, werewolves, superheroes, dark dimensions, time travel, monsters, ghosts, split personalities, BadassNormal, giant spiders, immortals, dead people who are not really dead and demons. ---Go looking for God, Osiris, Buddha and the Flying Spaghetti Monster in the FantasyKitchenSink. <<|TroperTales|>>

FanWank * SonicTheHedgehog has all sorts of terrrifing FanWank concerning Angel Island and Knuckles. ** First, several bios for [[SonicTheHedgehog Knuckles]] stat that he

is the last echidna in the world. So that means [[SonicAdventure Tikal]], [[SonicStorybookSeries Sinbad, Sir Gawain]], and the many Ecdinas from SonicChronicles '''ARE ALL DEAD'''. *** This Troper had it set that the Echidnas from Sonic Chronicles are a different variety and that Knuckles is the last of his variety. Tikal, Sinbad and Sir Gawain are all spirts, the latter two being of past lives of Knuckles. **** Perhaps they literally ceased to exist because of Silver's time thing. ***** I have also come to a conclusion that the guys who wrote the bios did not do the research. ***** Chronicles probably is non canon. *** Second, Sandopolis and Red Mountain was probably built by Echidnas. The Hydruro must be echidna ghosts. knuckles is being chased by his own realtives, ''even the above mentioned''! **** I'm not too sure about Red Mountain, but I do agree about Sandopolis **** Third, Marble Garden has figural human heads. Human conquest, anyone? ***** Eggman conquest * [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Icalasari This Troper]] did research into what the beasts are. According to the research, Raikou is based on a thunder spirit (the raiju (thunder animal or thunder beast)) which can take the form of several different animals, one of them notably being a tiger. Entei is based on the shishi, or stone lion. And Suicune is most likely based on the Kirin, or parts of it (the kirin being an amalgamation of animals, it only appears in areas ruled by a benevolent and wise leader, and can walk on water. Suicune constantly flees in the games, only facing you (in Crystal, Heart Gold, and Soul Silver) when you are either close to being or are a Pokemon Champion, and with how the games keep having your character praised as a friend to Pokemon, and the fact that one would have to be a good strategist (in the game universe) to be a Pokemon Master, well, that covers both portions required). The appearances are also uncanny

FarewellMyFriend * [[AcrossTheStars This troper]] and her best friend. It's gotten to the point where our friends call us married (he's a guy) because we bicker LikeAnOldMarriedCouple. Longest it's lasted? About a week. * This troper mediates stuff like this all the time. It doesn't help that everyone has dated each other or is crushing on each other. Unfortunately a couple have become serious, and one of my friends absolutely despises me now for god knows what. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FascinatingEyebrow

* DokEnkephalin: I had a girlfriend who, when I first met her, was completely unable to arch a brow, and found it to be a fascinating and attractive ability in others (I'm rather proud of my own brow-arch.) Perhaps her skin was too tight? It was years before she was able was able to move her eyebrows independently, but she was thrilled with herself the day she was finally able to pull off an arch. It was quite sexy, so I was pleased as well. * This troper can do this. Just not on purpose. * This troper can do it, but she can only arch her right eyebrow. ** When did I get a opposite gender clone? ** Same for [[{{Tropers/Illusionist}} this troper]], only with the left eyebrow. *** Here too, but she did train it when she was younger. I think I just didn't care enough when my left did arch to make my right arch too. * This troper knows a person who ''can't'' do it, but decided to fake it [[SpecialEffectsFailure using her finger]] for a play we had to make. Particularly, in this one line that went on like "shall I..(eyebrow)bring someone?". [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The rest of the cast never got tired of watch that.]] * [[SkarmoryThePG This troper]], all the time, even when inappropriate. Especially when inappropriate. But oddly enough, only the left one. * Among his friends, [[Tropers/SabresEdge this troper]] is known for doing this. He's normally a DeadpanSnarker, so he channels his LargeHam tendencies into his eyebrows. Apparently things get kinda weird when he [[UpToEleven arches both eyebrows while frowning]]. * This troper only found out recently that not everyone can do this. ** Ditto. * I can do a move I jokingly call the "alternating Spock eyebrow", since I can move both eyebrows independently. People often comment that it's an amazing trick, and that someday my kids will say, "Mommy, mommy! Do that thing with your eyebrows!" Combine this with my epic eye-crossing skills and it's an awesome (though headache-inducing) party trick. The funny thing is: this is perfectly natural to me, and I cannot imagine how people can't move their eyebrows. It's as much a mystery to me as my eyebrows are to them. * This troper is the only member of her family who can do this. As one of the biggest DeadpanSnarker in the family, I use this to my full advantage. Especially whenever my brothers do something stupid. *[[{{Tropers/Screennameless}} This troper]] has actually possessed misaligned eyebrows since birth. She likes to joke that she looks permanently skeptical. The explanation? No human body is perfectly symmetrical, but this troper's entire right side of her body is noticeably "lower" than the left by a few centimeters. It's most obvious in her facial features because her eyeglasses allow for easy comparison. The right eyebrow is aligned with the top rim of her glass frames. The left eyebrow is about two centimeters above the rim. * This troper ''taught herself'' to do this during the course of an afternoon in front of a mirror. Since she can also wiggle her nose side to side, she knows she's got pretty strong facial muscles. * [[{{Tropers/ABadDriver}} This troper]] does this all of the time.

With both eyebrows. Is it any wonder that he abuses it when he [[DeadpanSnarker Snarks?]] [[LargeHam Or when he]] [[ChewingTheScenery does something worthy of]] {{BRIAN BLESSED}}? * I've actually been asked if I sculpt my eyebrows. No, they really do grow [[http://imageshack.us/f/651/001auh.jpg/ like this]]. Coupled with my [[BadassBeard fierce mutton chops]], the effect is striking. * I have had a teacher who's eyebrow arch is infamous among the students at her old highschool. It helped that the same teacher was the biggest Deadpan Snarker in a school with over 50 faculty members. * Averted with me, I can't raise my eyebrows very well at all. I've practised and I can do it a bit sometimes, but it nearly always involves having to squint my other eye slightly (can't help it). I'm hoping I'll just randomly be able to do it one day...

FashionableAsymmetry * This troper, who is a fan of FingerlessGloves and arm warmers, has a habit of wearing either only a single glove or mismatched gloves (sometimes different lengths). Usually because wearing those particular mismatched gloves is more comfortable than either matched pair, or because I was wearing two gloves before but one hand got uncomfortable faster than the other. I've also occasionally left the house wearing two different colors/patterns of Converse (once on purpose to see if my friend noticed, once just because I wasn't paying attention when I put my shoes on). * [[HappyFork This troper]] once went to the movies with his family directly after picking his father up from the hospital for lack of anything better to do. Having not been in a hospital since I was young, it sparked some childishness in me and I ended up stealing a hospital glove. I combined that with a monocle and [[NiceHat kickass hat]], and, needless to say, I was more Asymmetrical then Fashionable. The glove did come in handy with the popcorn, however. * {{Tropers/Mary}} likes wearing mismatched [[ZettaiRyouiki thigh highs]] with her skirts. She also likes to put her hair into one ponytail on the side. "It's not half a pigtail, it's twice a ponytail! ...I know, it doesn't work that way." * ThisTroper has a puppy whose ears were asymmetrical when she was still very young. One week one would be down, the other sticking up, the next week it would be reversed. It wasn't fashionable so much as irritating to those with OCD, but eventually the ears righted themselves. * MutantRancor here. A while back, I saw an acquaintance of mine wearing one pants leg rolled up, with tall striped socks. She was wearing one Converse Chuck (on the side with the rolled-up pants leg) and one girls' dress flat shoe. I intended to ask her if she was going for [[TitleDrop fashionable asymmetry]], but didn't get the chance. * [[@/{{Bisected8}} This troper]] has a first aid kit on [[CrazyPrepared one side of his belt]]. Sometimes he also wears a handwrap on one side of his had to make inking easier while drawing (since the best way to do it is to keep your fingers still). * This troper's cat is a tortoiseshell, which means she has patches of different colors all over her coat in no particular order. She is a

beautiful little cat. * A feather on one side of a hat? [[NiceHat Can be pretty nice]], as [[Tropers/SabresEdge this troper]] can attest. A feather on [[UpToEleven both sides]]? Now you're just being silly. Not the only time either: my Scout troop used red epaulets; the summer camp I worked at had green ones. What do you do when your troop arrives and you've finished two weeks of staffing? Answer: you confuse the hell out people as you walk around with [[TakeAThirdOption one red and one green]] epaulet. I call it Boat Lighting (MismatchedEyes). * I like to wear one yellow glove and one pink glove in cold weather, and always wear odd socks * I sometimes wear my hair in one ponytail on one side(kind of like [[{{Pokemon}} Misty]]). Many people has commented that this is pretty cool. * This troper's brother showed up to an Ugly Sweater party with a teal and pink, asymmetrical Zach Morris-looking sweater. And managed to pull it off, the bastard. * This troper frequently wears mismatched socks (mostly out of laziness), including, on at least one occasion, one black sock and one ''[[RefugeInAudacity rainbow-gecko-print]]'' sock. Astonishingly, nobody ever notices. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FashionHurts * This Troper tried many, many times, but high-heeled shoes left her feet some and half-skinless ''every time''. * [[Tropers/{{Seiryu}} This troper]] works at a fashion retail store (don't judge), and as part of the mandatory dress code, I am required to wear shoes without any symbols or names on them. The only shoes that fit this description that I can afford are Vans. And I hate these shoes. They're plain, they have no arch support, and they feel two sizes too small. And yet, my managers are impressed with my fashion sense, and I have gotten multiple compliments from friends and family for wearing those damn things. * When This Troper was younger, she had a pair of pajamas that had something pointy and sharp in it. Turns out, my mom accidentally left a pin stuck in the pajamas. She got it out, though. * This troper loves heels, but the highest she will wear is 3 inches. Any higher will make her feet hurt. * This troper typically wears sneakers. He's only worn high-heels once, when he was five years old.. They hurt and he could barely walk in them. For his middle school graduation, he wore flats (though he'd rather have worn loafers). They were one size too small, which he didn't notice until he began walking with them outside.

FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother * This troper babysat a pair of siblings, 2 years apart, and the little boy said he was going to marry his big sister, and they were

going to have baby kittens. Nevermind not marrying your sister, this troper couldn't convince the boy that people don't birth kittens. * This troper has two younger brothers who are twins, and she remembers clearly when they were around seven and used to say they would marry each other so they could live together forever. It's a funny case because they're both males. I don't think they were aware of what a marriage actually means, of course. Although it did get a bit weird with time, seen as they still want to live together forever and are constantly jealous of each other. I try not to think too much about that... * [[MandoKnight My]] sister was like this to me when she was little. As per the trope, it was more cute than creepy/Squicky. I'm still one of her "more favorite" brothers... ** [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean And then what happened?]] * This troper's male cousin used to have a claim to be in love with her when they were both tiny. It led to such adorably hammy moments such as him exclaiming dramatically, when told he had to ride in a separate car on a trip to the zoo, "But I want to ride with my love!" He also swore up and down he would marry me when we grew up. Fortunately, he grew out of it. * When this troper was six, she told her parents that she would marry her dad if they ever got divorced. Instead of laughing about it and telling me that marriage wasn't like that, my mom asked me, very seriously, if I liked my dad like that. It was creepy, but then, Mom's a hippie who takes things too seriously. Oh, and once I had to explain to my eight-year-old cousin what "gay" meant. She used to live in Massachusetts, and when I told her that it was legal there, her first reaction was, "So I could have married my mommy?" * This troper's sister proposed to her cousin at the age of 6, his response was "We aren't old enough yet, sorry." * This Troper proposed to her older half-brother when she was four. I gave him a ring shaped like a fish. By the end of that week I was demanding the fish ring beack because I found a cute kid at school I wanted to marry instead, because his mom has a pink car. * When I was about six years old, I met two of my big cousins for the first time. They were in high school. I promptly declared that I loved them and imagined marrying one of them when I was older. Fortunately, I never said that out loud so my family can't tease me about it. * This Troper's brothers both do this. It comes across as very, VERY sqicky. ** Are they little kids? Then you really shouldn't think of it that way, the squick is something you are putting in to it that doesn't actually exist. On the other hand, if they are older than... yeah. *** One of them is nine, and he knows about the birds and the bees. The younger one was more innocent. They've stopped now, I think they were just going through a phase. * This troper and her older brother got along horribly when they were younger (luckily they're friends now). When this troper was little, she thought it was because her brother was in love with her and secretly wanted to marry her and be king of Unicornland with her someday that he was mean to her. He was just jealous of her. ** Also, her 32-year-old half-brother (from her dad's first marriage)

seems to be awful fond of her. When she was younger, she absolutely despised him for no apparent reason (she once wrote "We don't really like you!" on a Christmas card to him). When he'd phone, her dad would always yell "K*** ! Your favorite brother M*** is on the phone for you!" and she would go [[BerserkButton berserk]]. Luckily, though, she grew out of it. * This Troper said this once when they were four, only regarding a cousin who was also four. They were in church though, and told it every adult who came near. Mother was quite embarrassed. * This Troper has a vague memory of proclaiming to her father that she'd marry her older cousin one day. No one seems to remember, so I'm safe from being teased. * This female Troper's five-year-old sister currently wants to marry her. I kindly explained that sisters don't do that, but she's persistent. * [[Tropers/TheTallOne I]] wanted to marry my dad when I was little. I remember I made him a ring out of a twist tie, and had a 'wedding.' I (obviously) grew out of it, and am now incredibly {{Squick}}ed by it. My parents thought it was really cute, but I want BrainBleach just thinking about it. ** This Troper did that too, and is now extremely squicked out by it. However, she didn't announce it and was just extremely possesive of her father. [[{{Squick}} *gag*]] * When this troper was a very little girl (4-5 years old) she somehow had it in her head that she was engaged to her cousin and would have to marry him when they grew up. This was probably from watching the Disney ''Sleeping Beauty'' too many times (arranged marriage plot) and the fact that the cousin lived near her so they used to play together a lot. * This female troper's 3-years-younger brother wanted to marry his mother and would grab her boobs when she talked with other men. Then he wanted to marry his female nursery school teacher and gave her presents. Then he wanted to marry this troper herself and ''ran after her trying to kiss her'' which creeped her out immensely. * CandyEntrails' 7-year-old cousin once expressed her desire to marry him and have, like, 10 children. Much laughing ensued, including some from the cousin. * When my brother was 7-8 years, he told my mom he wanted to marry her. Of course, considering his age, it was just cute instead of squicky, and we all just laughed. * As a child, this troper explained quite clearly that she would grow up to marry her father. When family members asked what would happen to her mother, the answer was always a boggled 'Well duh, Mom will marry my brother!' It felt quite symetrical. * When I was 6 I wanted to marry my cousin, who was my age. We were both really shy in grade school, & it seemed like we matched. I grew out of it when I was 9. * This ''female'' troper wanted to marry her mother when she was three/four. She vaguely remembers a proposal [[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels while she was taking a bath with her]]. [[{{Squick}} Brrrr.]] * This troper's little brother, when asked who he wanted to marry when

he got older said her. Also, this troper's friend when she was 5-6 declared that she wanted to marry her younger brother. Her brother replied with disgust, and the friend told that him 'he'd understand when he got older'. * One of this tropers cousin once said to another one of his aunt's that he wanted to marry her when he was little. * This troper once had a dream that she married her brother and that they were the King and Queen of this fantasy kingdom. Cue the next morning where she's telling her mom. "But you can't marry your brother! It's completely wrong!" My mom got very squicked by it, despite the fact that I was only five at the time. * This troper used to play a game with her cousins where they were all married to each other. Her older cousin got to marry her little brother, her younger cousin got to marry her younger sister (as they were the same age), and she was the priest who married them. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint And then she grew up and found out girls can't be priests in Catholicism.]] ---Father, I want to marry the [[FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother main article]]. <<|TroperTales|>>

FauxActionGirl * [[LeighSabio This troper]] kind of is one of these. Despite being in both tae-kwon-do and weight training, she is horrible at both, hinderingly wimpy, and unable to run a mile in under thirteen minutes. ** But as long as you and no one else thinks your gender is an excuse not to try as hard, or expects less of you because of your gender, you're not this trope; you're in the process of CharacterDevelopment. *** As of playing foosketball in weight training today, I may have just been upgraded to full ActionGirl status. * [[@/{{Xandriel}} This troper]] ends up with a lot of these in RPs. I'm more comfortable playing female characters, but I don't want to end up god-moding or outshining anyone else, so I usually just let the others win fights. Maybe I should just stick to StaffChick types. * In my personal animal FanFic, a female cat named Wolf is a highly trained ninja personally trained by the best ninja in the world. She even bested him in a fight. However, lately she has been reduced to cowering from a fight and constantly forgetting her ninja training. ** A cat... [[FridgeLogic named Wolf]]? * This troper has been training in martial arts for more than 10 years, but is dead-afraid of the prospect of ever getting into a real fight for fear that she would turn out to be one of these. * This troper, though considerably powerful and has had a few months of kickboxing training, still is extremely nonathletic and wimpy.

FauxlosophicNarration * Tropers/{{Excel-2010}}. I find it's actually very easy to use this as an escape. For example, whenever I'm forced to call on artistic

abilities I don't have, instead of trying to draw ''something'' to satisfy the instructor, I write a contradictory sentence as small as I can on the top of the paper and [[ContemplateOurNavels try to rationalize it on the way down]]. When it's time to submit, I have something on the order of 1200 words on a 8.5"x11" sheet of paper that makes little sense unless it's read from the top, which only the most dedicated will ever do. Since the entire spiel is improvised, it's likely hard to read. I recommend this only against people who are famously or contracturally compulsive. Sometimes I go to art panels in conventions and write this down for the peace and quiet and as a writing exercise.

FauxYay * I did this to my friend around the girl my friend has a crush on. What's better? He escalated it [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean]]? * Me and my friend do this just for laughs. And people buy into it, all the time. * This troper does it with her friends all the time. Non-theater people usually don't realize we're just acting. ** Same for [[{{Bookhobbit}} This troper]]. * This troper attends a gender-separated school, and both groups get up to this all the time. You may commence completely unwarranted nosebleeds. It's mostly for kicks and giggles, though things have been known to get awkward. * This troper was having problems with [[TheLibby the resident popular girl]] flirting with the guy she liked so one day (partially because of a dare) in the middle of class I went up to her and shouted "I love you!" and hugged her. She and most of the grade were notably freaked out but I became a hero amongst my group of friends. Oh and since it was middle school for some reason people actually believed it to be true. Also for some reason my teacher didn't really care. * Not sure if it counts, but this troper, upon notcing that all her other friends were pairing off, immediately started to act all snuggly with her single friend just to freak everyone out. The friend went along with it, for the record. * [[TsundeRay This troper]]'s friend was planning on pretending to be gay for April Fool's Day, with this troper proposing to be the pretend boyfriend. It didn't come to fruition, though. ** Not quite the same, but yesterday (April Fools Day) this (female and otherwise asexual) troper sent a message to a female friend confessing my love for her. In my mind, I was thinking that she would be less likely to laugh in my face (erm...avatar, since it was online?) if there was a possibility of it all being a joke. She then stated that she was bi, which I took as an actual fact, which it wasn't, forgetting what day it was. Oh well, [[TheMuppetMovie you can't live with 'em, you can't live without 'em.]] * Have you ever been called "gay" as a generic, uncreative insult that doesn't mean anything? Whenever someone says this to me, if its a guy (and it is ''always'' a guy) I just say "[[CampGay Really? Thats FABULOOOOUUUS!]]" and hug them if they are close enough that I don't have to walk over.

** You win, sir. * People acting this way for attention is a BerserkButton for [[BigBlue This lesbian Troper.]] ** [[{{Tropers/Haldo}} Ditto.]] Especially since it usually involves enforcing stereotypes. * My friends do this all the time, but their acting is way over the top and sometimes lapse into a Shakespeare-ish drama featuring the [[{{DamselInDistress}} Dude In Distress]] and his WhitePrince. * Occurred in This Troper's high school marching band with both genders-- the color guard and some of the female woodwind players for LesYay, and some of the low brass for HoYay. It was always played for laughs, but one occasion was most memorable: before the yearly trip (on which we were going to an amusement park as well as a competition) our director [[ShipperOnDeck mentioned that he always liked the park because he could find out what]] [[CrackPairing wacky couples]] ensued. We were all a bit weirded out by this; cue the low brass section deciding that every time they passed the director in the park, they'd jump on each other. * [[DokEnkephalin ThisTroper]] does it whenever someone tries to tease him with a potentially gay situation and expects the knee-jerk ewwies that het guys are supposed to do. For example: A girlfriend set up a pic of me with another guy and before taking the shot, said "Look, it's a picture of my gay friends!" Well, she got a shot of me groping his package and licking the side of his throat. She later informed me that he really ''is'' gay, and a little turned on. I had to laugh, because ''she'' was the one embarrassed about it! (I really have no shame...) * This Troper does it to his friend - but only when his friend's girlfriend is around. His girlfriend has, on more than one occassion, told me to keep my hands in her sight at all times. * This Tropes does it on a certain forum he's frequenting, just for the lulz. He leaves "I LOVE YOU" messages on random people (of the same gender)'s pages; when someone comments on another person's "gay" signature, he pipes in with "I LIKE that kind of signature!"; and even outright stating "I'm gay"... on April Fools' Day. It's far too fun. * This Troper isn't sure if this counts as a Troper Tale, since he was not involved in any way other than seeing this on TV. However, there was a generic talk show (all I remember is that there was a white female host to the show) that had a segment on a woman and her lateteens-to-early-twenties daughter who pretended to be a lesbian couple on order to avoid being hit on by guys. He caught this bit maybe a decade ago at the latest... * This troper was at the mall today with my also-female friend, and we were, as usual, acting wonderfully gay (it started as gag for our friends, but continues in our private time-still just for kicks). We were sharing a milkshake (drinking from two straws, faces a few inches apart, looking into each other's eyes--yeah, it was a little too strong even for me) and generally being les when some guys approched us. I'd looked at them, table ooposite of us, a couple times, just cuz the public kept giving us weird looks and it was fun look around and see...... but I guess it looked like we were being flirty and acting les FOR THEM, and they wanted our numbers. Ensue awkward "no

thanks..." * This Troper. Horribly so mostly because he's pretty much a walking embodiment of ForTheEvulz. * (From a male troper) ...and then there was that one time a friend of mine slept over and we spent the whole night flirting with each other and jokingly trying to get into each other's pants (in between bouts of true confessions, him complaining about people, me talking about my ginger fetish, and him trying [and failing] to convince me that he knocked up his extremely conservative girlfriend). It was...quite a bizarre experience to say the least. We agreed never to speak of it again, for obvious reasons. Off-topic: Dude stole my [=iPod=] and changed my Facebook status at one point. * ThisTroper has had to do SEVERAL double takes at the guys in her youth group. They all do this, as a group. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF. THEM. It's like some kind of unstated rule. * This troper does this by some sort of weird habit with all her friends. She goes from normal (actually closeted) bisexual to EVERYONE GET IN MY PANTS. It's worst with her [[FiveManBand group's]] [[TheChick girliest member.]]They often flirt, pretend to be a couple,and in general [[MainSquick creep]] everyone out. They've even changed their relationship status to "It's Complicated" on Facebook. * Often done in my group of friends in order to weird out one member of the group who is very traditionally homophobic. He generally reacts with a combination of disgust, exasperation, and [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]]. ** Recently the same troper and a {{Bishonen}} friend were at a sleepover with a couple of (platonic) lady friends. They were aware that the girls were both [[YaoiFangirl Yaoi Fangirls]], and [[GayBravado teased them the whole night, hugging, stroking, groping, even almost kissing a couple of times]]. Needless to say, the girls were ''beyond'' turned on more than once, the less restrained one actually had to change her underwear. Most surprising/disturbing of all though, the troper actually got a little turned on himself once or twice. Enjoy ladies. * This Troper and her boyfriend do this to make each other jealous. He and his friends are all over each other in front of me, and in front of the class. And so my best friend and I hold hands, say 'I love you' and almost kiss. Whistling and clapping from teenage boys ensue, much to the annoyance of my boyfriend, who always loses. * This troper and her friend do this for shits and giggles. She calls me her boyfriend, steals my jacket, and will glomp me without warning if my back is turned. * It would probably surprise people how often this happens with LDS Missionaries, all behind closed doors of course... * This troper does it for the laughs with all of his male friends. I like to keep people guessing, and it certainly stops my parents from asking about girls and generally nosing in on my life. * [[{{Tropers/Screennameless}} This female troper]] was nicknamed Faux Beau by one of her female friends. The term originated from a time we went clubbing. She couldn't escape a drunken man and signaled me to help her. I grabbed her hand and yanked her out of his grip, which is usually enough, but when he started to stagger after us, I pulled her

into my arms, gave him a shove, and snapped, "Back off my girlfriend!" Never mind that I'm the straight one and she's bi... ---Oh! Have you met my new girlfriend, [[Main/FauxYay Main Page]]? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FavoriteTrope Let's take a break from [[PetPeeveTrope negativity]] and show that TropesAreNotBad. ---!!!Organized alphabetically by troper handle. * TroperTales/{{Favorite Trope A-C}} * TroperTales/{{Favorite Trope D-F}} * TroperTales/{{Favorite Trope G-K}} * TroperTales/{{Favorite Trope L-N}} * TroperTales/{{Favorite Trope O-R}} * TroperTales/{{Favorite Trope S-T}} * TroperTales/{{Favorite Trope U-Z}} ---Go back to [[SugarWiki/FavoriteTrope Favorite Trope]]. We know you love it. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FavoriteTropeA-C [[foldercontrol]] [[folder: {{Agent Alpha}}]] * BadassBookworm * BadassCrew * RuleOfFunny * RuleOfCool * DeadpanSnarker * FirstPersonSmartass * PsychoForHire * PrecisionFStrike * AntiVillain * VillainProtagonist * EarnYourHappyEnding * CombatPragmatist * KnifeNut * FiveManBand * FourTemperamentEnsemble * PowerTrio * ActionGirlfriend * BattleCouple * GenreSavvy * MagnificentBastard

* TheChessmaster * SurvivalMantra * KnightInSourArmor * UrbanFantasy * CharacterDevelopment * HiddenDepths * {{Deconstruction}} * {{Reconstruction}} * LargeHam * EvillyAffable * AffablyEvil * LesYay * WarriorPoet * And so many, many more... [[/folder]] [[folder:Anomalocaris]] * BadAssGrandpa * BigDamnHeroes: Though I hate typing out the trope name... * BossBattle: By far my favorite parts of any video game, especially with [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome awesome music]]. * BreakingTheFourthWall: Especially if it's a [[MetaGuy specific character]] who does so. * ButtMonkey * ChewToy: Hilarious to me. * CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Also annoys me, but sometimes the mistakes are just too hilarious to be angry about, like "[[IAmNotShazam Met]][[RougeAnglesOfSatin rod]]". * CrowningMomentOfFunny: Face it. We all love to laugh. * DivideByZero: Slowly becoming overdone/too well-known for my liking, but I still find it hilariously [[LogicBomb wrong]]. ''0^0'', on the other hand, takes this UpToEleven, but most people don't realize it. * EldritchAbomination: Everything about them, provided they're full of AlienGeometries and [[DivideByZero wrongness]]. * EvilIsCool: Villains really do tend to be great characters not in ''spite'' of their evilness, but ''because'' of it. * GoodBadBugs: I love Super Metroid for this reason. Rarer in newer games, but at the same time the few glitches tend to be mind blowingly bizarre or funny. * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Especially if accompanied by an IronicEcho. * LargeHam: Of course. * MemeticMutation: How ''do'' I shot web, anyway? [[DoABarrelRoll Press Z or R twice]]? * NonStandardGameOver: Especially the kind you [[ShmuckBait just can't resist doing]]. * ScaryScorpions: They're just plain cool. Of course, as my name suggests, I'm also fond of anomalocarises. * SlippySlideyIceWorld * StockPuzzle: Especially when given a twist. * TooDumbToLive * VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: The kind that you want to do just because of the punishment, like [[LegendOfZelda attacking Cuckoos]] or

shooting teammates. [[/folder]]

[[folder: AtlasEXE]]: For all the tropes I hate, there are some that just fill me with glee: * LargeHam: Known for making an otherwise bad movie watchable and a good movie even better. I love hams of every kind. * Stripperific: All you prudes who scream sexism can kiss my ass. It's also on my pet peeve tropes list, but I still enjoy ladies in sexy outfits. * CombatPragmatist: Guy with a sword! The answer: use a gun. And if that don't work, [[TeamFortress2 Use more gun]] * Fanservice: Provided they make the game first and then add the fanservice, [[DeadOrAlive not the other way around.]] * RuleOfCool: Because Realism is not always interesting. * BoundAndGagged: I'll admit, I'm a bondage fan. You happy now? * MaleGaze: Because someone else mentioned FemaleGaze. That, and I enjoy pissing off the politically correct. * BestBossEver: Whether it be awesome music, being fun to fight, awesome character involved or a combination of the three, Epic Boss Fights get my blood pumping. * CrowningMusicOfAwesome: I believe that a good soundtrack can make a good movie/game even better. * AcceptableBreaksFromReality: I would personally kill to have a hyperspace arsenal. * BigFriendlyDog: I love dogs, especially my Bernese Mountain Dog at home. * MemeticMutation * PapaWolf: It's refreshing to see a father that cares about his children for once. * BiTheWay: We've got plenty of straight and gay characters in fictions, so how about some bisexuals that are not depraved rapists. * VirtualPaperDoll: What can I say. I love to customize my avatars. [[/folder]] [[folder:{{Arcadiarika}}]] * BadAss: In all shapes, sizes, personality traits, and genders. * BalloonBelly: I will have to admit that I'm...fascinated...by this trope. Shut up. * ComicBookFantasyCasting: Imagining an actor who is the physical basis for a character is a bit interesting. * CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Because there isn't anything more enjoyable than a favorite character doing something BeyondTheImpossible. * CrowningMusicOfAwesome: ...except for this one, where listening to good music is more enjoyable. * FetishFuel: Sometimes I jam-pack this trope in my stories, whether it's intentional or not. Something for everybody! :D * GuiltyPleasure: See [=~So Bad It's Good~=] below. * LampshadeHanging * ShownTheirWork: Research is fun. Period.

* [=~So Bad It's Good~=]: Watching something stupid/fun that's far more enjoyable than the serious stuff. * WhatTheHellHero: Is the hero messing up? Call him/her out! Don't hesitate to do so! [[/folder]]

[[folder: {{Azzamacazza}}]] * StuffBlowingUp * FunWithAcronyms * OurMonstersAreDifferent * StockSuperpowers * HelloInsertNameHere [[/folder]] [[folder: {{BearyScary}}]] Because TropesAreNotBad, I'll list some of my favorites, as well as some of my favorite things that have been [[IncrediblyLamePun all troped up]]. * Acrofatic * AwesomenessIsVolatile: The [[VitriolicBestBuds vitriolic best bud]] to BeyondTheImpossible. * BeyondTheImpossible: It'll punch your face off, steal your boy/girlfriend and you will nevertheless have to resist the strong urge to thank this trope. * CrowningMomentOfFunny: Especially the TVTropes wing. Don't know where to start on TVTropes? Try here. * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * CrowningMusicOfAwesome * DidNotGetTheGirl: Or [[FinalFantasyX boy]]. * DivideByZero: *''splat''* [[IWannaBeTheGuy You jumped on a number]], [[IWannaBeTheGuy you retard]]! * DudeShesLikeInAComa: '''Not''' the trope itself, but the name. * JerkWithAHeartOfGold * ''Left4Dead'' * MemeticMutation: [[BadDudes Are you a bad enough dude to read all of these pages]]?: * MemeticSexGod: That sound you just heard came from your pants. They want you to go here. * MostAnnoyingSound: A guilty pleasure. * ''MyImmortal'': Because it's [[DisSimile tragically hilarious]]. The page image? I don't know who made it or where it came from, but it is MadeOfWin. * Narm * OffModel: Another guilty pleasure. * PlayerPunch: Pure TearJerker material. * RobLiefeld * SoBadItsGood and, if you're feeling brave, its DarkerAndEdgier cousin, SoBadItsHorrible. Please use responsibly. * UncannyValley: With lots of great links to some truly cringeworthy material, like the technical version of SoUnfunnyItsFunny. * VillainousGlutton

* WTHCastingAgency [[folder: {{Beholderess}}]] * Badass (Well, who doesn't love them?) * ColdBloodedTorture (Ok, ok, I admit it, it's a bit of FetishFuel for me...still, like to see the hero prevailing over everything, even that) * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming (Excuse me. Something in the eye...) * DarkIsNotEvil (Because it isn't. But is cool) * DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu * EarnYourHappyEnding * FriendlyEnemies * GuileHero (Because brains>brawn) * HeelFaceTurn * HonorBeforeReason (Well, I'm hopelessly romantic) * HumansAreCthulhu * KnightInSourArmour * LovableTraitor * MadeASlave (Ok...another FetishFuel) * IncorruptiblePurePureness (Yes, I like it when people are able to stick to their convictions and keep kindness in their hearts no matter what) * TalkingTheMonsterToDeath (It's much more fun that just beating them to death with a heavy object!) * Tricksters * WorthyOpponent [[/folder]] [[folder:{{bettername2come}}]] * Adorkable * DreamingOfThingsToCome * GettingCrapPastTheRadar * HeterosexualLifePartners * IHaveYouNowMyPretty * IncorruptiblePurePureness * MamaBear and PapaWolf * NoFourthWall, LeaningOnTheFourthWall, BreakingTheFourthWall * RefugeInAudacity * StalkerWithACrush * TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive * VitriolicBestBuds: Type 2 [[/folder]] [[folder:BigBlue]] * BrickJoke (Will always make me laugh for about five minutes.) * EarnYourHappyEnding (I love a happy ending, and even more so if I'm not sure I'm going to get it) * CooldownHug (I don't care how cheesy it is) * TheLinus * CheerfulChild * AmbiguousInnocence (The reason [[PeterPan Peter Pan and Wendy]] is one of my favorite books.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther * BaitAndSwitch * ParentsAsPeople * {{WAFF}} (I'm a sucker for a good d'aww moment.) * BreakTheCutie * HoYay and [[HoYay LesYay]] * TomboyAndGirlyGirl / SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan (Goes with the whole HoYay / [[HoYay LesYay]] thing.) * KissKissSlap * SlapSlapKiss * {{Tearjerker}} (I love a good cry) * MusicalEpisode (YES.) * BabiesEverAfter (I can't help it. My estrogen is insatiable.) * VitriolicBestBuds * FriendlyEnemy * PunchClockVillain ("Mornin', Sam." "Mornin', Ralph.") * GirlsLove (BoysLove too, but GirlsLove is generally better written) * ButchLesbian (Yo.) * ToyShip (D'awwwwwwwwww. But please, let's keep it clean.) * {{Shotacon}} * EruditeStoner * SomethingElseAlsoRises * MeaningfulBackgroundEvent * MayDecemberRomance (''Boy howdy'') * CoolOldGuy * GrumpyOldMan * CoolOldLady * ScrewPolitenessIAmASenior (noticing a pattern?) * CurseOfTheAncients (dagnabbit!) * RetiredBadass * HowDareYouDieOnMe * ThePowerOfFriendship * PleaseWakeUp * GettingCrapPastTheRadar * BewareTheNiceOnes * DumbMuscle [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Bisected8}}]] * MuggingTheMonster - One of the ones I launched. Of all the tropes I made pages for, I like this trope the best. I love the irony of it. * UsefulNotes.DigitalDistribution - Another of my own launches. Some of my best non-fiction (i.e. best) writing. * MagnificentBastard * {{Metrovania}} - My favorite VideoGame genre. * TheCaper - I love seeing plans slowly emerge, particularly if the protagonist is subtly mocking the villain as they pull off XanatosGambit after XanatosGambit. * XanatosGambit - The same satisfaction as above. [[/folder]] [[folder: BlackSheepGirl]]

* CrapsaccherineWorld: Always interesting * PatrickStewartSpeech: It makes me feel warm and fuzzy. * EarnYourHappyEnding /WorldHalfFull: Nothing more inspiring than seeing the heroes pull through after everything being seemingly hopeless * HeelRealization: The concept of a paradigm shift fascinates me * FishOutOfWater: * HumansAreFlawed: Because it's true * OverlyLongGag: I know it's cheap humor, that doesn't change the fact that it's hilarious * LampshadeHanging * DeadpanSnarker * BrokenMasquarade: All forms are welcome, see HeelRealization * TheUnmasquedWorld: Again, paradigm shifts are fun * MagicAIsMagicA: Always good to have * CloudCuckooLander: * FightingFromWithin: I always like to see this and seeing them prevail is always a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. * JustifiedTrope [[/folder]] [[folder: BlackWolfe]] * AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever * BigDamnHeroes: A dramatic, last-minute entry by the heroes is always welcome. As long as it's not a complete AssPull. * HotAmazon: [[MemeticMutation Hot Amazon is hot]]. * LampshadeHanging: Metahumor can be refreshing. * LoveableRogue: Always wanted to be [[StarWars Han Solo]] as a kid... * OverlyLongGag: Don't ask me why, I just love these. * SaveTheVillain: I like my heroes to be heroic. Sometimes that means holding the IdiotBall because, hey, HonorBeforeReason. * TheChessmaster: When used well, it's a lot of fun to watch this guy ([[DistaffCounterpart or gal]]) work. * ThirtyGambitPileup: Again, if used well. * XanatosSpeedChess: Watching a couple of [[TheChessmaster Chessmasters]] go head to head can be a blast. [[/folder]] [[folder: Blade Wolf]] * FourStarBadass * ColonelBadass * SergeantRock * AuthorityEqualsAsskicking * TheRival (Personal favorite. Every good character needs a strong Rival.) * ArchEnemy * TheDragon * TheLancer * TheBigBad * SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny * SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwesome * SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming

* EnsembleDarkhorse * MagnificentBastard * FiveManBand * FiveBadBand [[/folder]] [[folder: BoldAsLove]] * LampshadeHanging: I attempt to apply this to RealLife * EarnYourHappyEnding: Just makes the ride more fun * XanatosGambit: Ain't nothing like a well thought out plan [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption unlike the other option]] * GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave: I'm quite partial to a certain foxy [[{{Aerosmith}} grandpa]] * ThisIsSPARTA!: INDEED! IT! IS! * BaldBlackLeaderGuy: That guy rocks * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: All man! Some people need this * DiscriminateAndSwitch * TVTropesAsAGatewayDrug: cracked.org * ZanyScheme: I may or may not watch DisneyChannel to get my fix of theses * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Make the everyday EPIC! * FridgeBrilliance: The best trope in my opinion * HetIsEw: HoYay and LesYay is where it's at * LargeHam * GettingCrapPastTheRadar * {{Unfunny}} * TemptingFate * DoingItForTheArt * {{Metaphorgotten}} * CrazyAwesome * CloudCuckooLander * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking * DeadpanSnarker * ParentalBonus * EpicRiff: Like a good hit for me * CakeEater: I'm one of these big time * EnsembleDarkhorse * HiddenDepths * BreakingTheFourthWall * ButNotTooBlack: When averted of course * CharacterDevelopment * BeyondTheImpossible: Great even better when mixed with * RefugeInAudacity: So crazy some deny it even happened * ScrewDestiny * FetishFuel * DeconstructiveParody * BuxomIsBetter * TheWorldIsJustAwesome: It is... * SophisticatedAsHell: The only way to truly get your m*therf*cking point across [[/folder]]

[[folder: {{Bookhobbit}}]] * NoFourthWall * LadykillerInLove- What? Don't look at me like that. * ScaryShinyGlasses * SteamPunk * BadassBookworm * AxCrazy * DeadpanSnarker- Who doesn't love 'em? * {{Tsundere}} or {{Kuudere}} * SpockSpeak * {{Metaphorgotten}} * BluntMetaphorsTrauma- Actually, I like most tropes dealing with metaphors... * MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels * EarnYourHappyEnding * CardCarryingVillain * AntiVillain OR AntiHero. Both rock, in my mine, despite the overuse of the latter. * NobleDemon- Because calling them out on it is funny. * GettingCrapPastTheRadar * SerialKiller * BunnyEarsLawyer * ThePowerOfLove and/or ThePowerOfFriendship- Yeah, yeah, I know. I only take occasional breaks from cynicism to enjoy it. * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking [[/folder]] [[folder: BroDiddley]] * EarnYourHappyEnding (You'd better fuckin' earn it). * BittersweetEnding * DownerEnding * PoweredArmour * MechanicalHorse * InASingleBound * {{Telepathy}} * {{Unobtainium}} (Helps me to justify the four above). * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome * BirdRun * In FetishFuel and/or Porn: ** IKissYourFoot ** FootFocus ** TickleTorture * BadassPacifist * SoBadItsGood * RiskStyleMap [[/folder]] [[folder:BrogaGlas]] * ActionSurvivor * AnyoneCanDie * ArtificialLimbs * BadassBystander

* BlackAndGreyMorality * DeathOrGloryAttack * {{Eyedscreen}} - Oddly enough, ''only'' when it isn't used on a character's eyes. Over a climactic showdown, this is solid gold. * [[GentlemanAdventurer GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!]] * HopeSpot * [[LargeHam H]][[IncomingHam A]][[WorldOfHam M]]. * LeParkour * PunkPunk - All variations welcome. * SceneryPorn/ SceneryGorn * ShownTheirWork/ ViewersAreGeniuses/ GeniusBonus/ ExpospeakGag * StupidJetpackHitler/ Ghostapo * TechnologyPorn * TheOphelia * {{Yandere}} - D'awww! * ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld/ CoolAirship [[/folder]] [[folder:Calamity Jane]] * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation * AmericanRobot: OH YEAH! * ArtEvolution * BeyondTheImpossible: Almost always accompanied by a 'THAT WAS THE COOLEST THING EVER!' [[{{Squick}} Unless it goes in the other direction.]] * BrickJoke: guaranteed to get a laugh out of me. * CastOfSnowflakes * CrazyAwesome * CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Yes! * LittleMissBadass: Something wholeheartedly awesome comes out of a place you ''never'' expected it to! ''EPIC WIN ENSUES.'' * MadeOfExplodium * PinkBoyBlueGirl: Heteronormativity is fine. Shaking it up a bit is fun. * PureAwesomeness * RousseauWasRight * StuffBlowingUp: Makes me giggle like a maniac. * ThereWasADoor * {{Unicorn}} [[/folder]] [[folder:Camroc G]] * AnalogyBackfire * AnimeHair: With a few exceptions... *cough* ''[[FinalFantasyX Seymour Guado]]'' *cough* * AskAStupidQuestion * AtomicFBomb * CharacterDevelopment * CrowningMomentOfAwesome: And... * CrowningMomentOfFunny * DoubleEntendre * EvilLaugh: There's a reason it's so popular.

* FatalFlaw: Those Ancient Greeks got it right. * FlawExploitation: A very clever trope, if used well. * FreudianExcuse * HotBlooded * KirkSummation * TeenGenius: Probably because I was one. * LampshadeHanging: Possibly my favourite of all. * LimitBreak * LovableRogue * LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: As long as they develop them properly. * MagnificentBastard * {{Mythopoeia}} * OminousLatinChanting * OrchestralBombing * ShutUpHannibal * ShutUpKirk * ShutUpKiss: ''[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming D'awwwww.]]'' * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: I just really like this trope for some reason. * WorldBuilding * XanatosGambit [[/folder]] [[folder: Carls493]] * ArtEvolution * {{Badass}} ** BadassAdorable ** BadassArmfold ** BadassBeard ** BadassFurry ** BadassMustache ** BadassNormal ** MemeticBadass ** TookALevelInBadass * BuxomIsBetter: My primary FetishFuel. [[{{Ptitleem16myh5}} Yeah...]] * {{Crossover}} * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMusicOfAwesome * CutenessProximity * ElementalPowers ** PlayingWithFire ** MakingASplash ** DishingOutDirt *** GreenThumb: Plants or dirt, both can apply for Earth. ** BlowYouAway ** AnIcePerson: This can sometimes apply for either Water or Wind. Do you prefer freezing wind or frozen water? * EnsembleDarkhorse * GrowingTheBeard ** MegaCrossover ** MassiveMultiplayerCrossover * {{Moe}}: To varying degrees. Compare AzumangaDaioh's {{Moe}} Factor

to LuckyStar's and {{K-ON}}'s. * RuleOfCool * RuleOfCute * SuperMode: The [[DragonBall Super Saiyans]] and [[{{Expy}} Super]] [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] are some of my favorites of this trope. * TestosteronePoisoning * WidgetSeries [[/folder]] [[folder: chaosbydesign]] * {{Affably Evil}} * {{Knight Templar}}/{{Well Intentioned Extremist}}/{{Anti Villain}} I love a sympathetic villain. They're more interesting * {{Anti Hero}} Okay, so they're done a lot. I still like them though. * {{Growing the Beard}} * {{Anyone Can Die}} Makes things more interesting when nobody has immunity. * {{Punchclock Villain}} I like the different approach to evil this one often has; also they're often funny. * {{Lady of War}} I love seeing an elegant woman kick ass. * {{Action Girl}} Hell, I love seeing any woman kick ass. * {{Genre Savvy}} * {{Dangerously Genre Savvy}} I love an intelligent villain. * {{Magnificent Bastard}} Come on, who doesn't love them? * {{Character Development}} * {{Deadpan Snarker}} * {{Bi the Way}} Not enough of these. * {{Badass Normal}} There's really something to be said for kicking ass without superpowers. * {{Foe Yay}} Because it's fun. * {{Cool Old Guy}}/{{Cool Old Lady}} * {{Noble Demon}} * {{Deconstruction}} [[/folder]] [[folder:Cliche]] * AffablyEvil (Wanna create a greater dischord between the villain's evil deeds in constrast with appearance? Invoke this trope. In fact, a polite villain tends to seem just that more evil) * {{AFGNCAAP}} (Yes, your player character lacks a set character. It's called using your imagination) * AntiVillain (Unlike the overused and somewhat [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] AntiHero, this trope still adds a lot of character depth in its various incarnations. Most of all, it's a reminder that antagonists have feelings too, a good moral for humanity) * BadassNormal (because it shows anyone can be a meaningful contributor to the cast, not just a [[ChosenOne "select few who possess the predisposition"]]. * BewareTheNiceOnes (I have a thing for bipolar personalities like this) * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass (How shockingly awesome is it to see that bumbling fool maul on big bad baddies threatening the rest of the

team? This is one trope that rarely gets tiring to see) * EnsembleDarkhorse (the producers may underestimate the importance of support characters, but it's great to see the fanbase does not) * FridgeLogic (It's fun figuring this stuff out) * JerkWithAHeartOfGold (it's really touching to see a tender heart behind a harsh facade. Bonus points because it [[AuthorAppeal reminds me of me]]. Related: HiddenHeartOfGold) * MagicalGirl (I adore the general optimistic spirit of the genre, okay?) * MercyInvincibility (Oh, the horrors of having this trope subverted) * MinionWithAnFInEvil (unrealistic, but very much the RuleOfFunny) * RousseauWasRight * ShutUpHannibal (Way to stick it to the villain, man, or woman) * StoicSpectacles (are awesome) * TradeSnark (In our commercialized world, use of this is fun and appropriate) [[/folder]] [[folder:Counter Blitzkrieg]] * {{Reconstruction}}: I had it with all these deconstructions thinking it's cool and edgy, I want my old tropes back. * DistressedDamsel: For some reason seems to be getting a lot of hate and liked to be used as a synonym for bad writing. But really, what's so bad about it? I actually like those old fairy tale stories. * RescueRomance: Ditto. * BlackAndWhiteMorality: Why not? It may not be realistic, but that's why it's called fiction. * TheCape * {{Eagleland}}: Type 1. [[PatrioticFervor Go America!]] * CompleteMonster: While it's nice to have AntiVillains or villains to committed a HeelFaceTurn, sometimes it's better to have a villain who completely irredeemable. * HeelFaithTurn: Contrary to the anti-religious, religion can be something that saves people from not only the depths of Hell but also the depths of Hell on Earth. * AlternateHistoryWank * NeutralFemale: Please, while TheHero is fighting the BigBad stay the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] out of the way. For some reason, FanDumb missed the point and bashed this tendency like there's no tomorrow. Well, I for one thinks that staying out of the way, which would keep yourself safe and also prevent [[NiceJobBreakingItHero hindering the fighting hero]], would actually be the friggin' sensible thing to do. * HonorBeforeReason * HappilyMarried * YamatoNadeshiko: The traditional Japanese idea of the ideal woman, as is mine. And I'm not even Japanese. [[/folder]] [[folder:{{Crowley}}]] - RuleOfCool is in full force, here. * BadassGrandpa * TheCape ([[AntiHero Antiheroes]] are nice, but...) * EarnYourHappyEnding

* GlowingEyesOfDoom * GogglesDoNothing * HumongousMecha * LawfulGood (Ties up with TheCape.) * RedEyesTakeWarning * TransformationSequence (Yes, {{Padding}}, I know.) * WingedHumanoid [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Cukeman}}]] * BreakingTheFourthWall * MagnificentBastard * NoFourthWall * ThereWasADoor * ...and probably a number of others I can't think of at the moment. [[/folder]] ----

FavoriteTropeD-F [[foldercontrol]] [[folder:{{DalesKaine}}]] * CurbStompBattle: The word itself sounds so badass. * ShutUpHannibal: Because I'm so freaking sick of villains rambling about their motive and crap. That's what I would do in most case. * AntiVillain: There's something about villains with heroic motive that draws my interest. * NobleDemon: Bit similar to above * MoralEventHorizon: I don't know why, but finding a reason to absolutely hate a character is so exciting. * CompleteMonster: There's nothing more satisifying than to see this kind of guy getting his/her ass handled. * PracticalYetAwesome: Because life just can be so. * DissonantSerenity * HighOctaneNightmareFuel * TearJerker * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming [[/folder]]

[[folder:{{Demetrios}}]] * Cloudcuckoolander: Because that's me. :) Okay, maybe not as much as the characters on the page, but it is a lot of fun. [[TheElderScrollsThreeMorrowind A bitter mercy, perhaps, but mercy nonetheless]]. * LargeHam: I don't speak as loudly or over-the-top as the examples on the page, but I do speak very dramatically. It always catches the audience's attention the best. :) * IncorruptiblePurePureness: If I was in one of those IWishItWereReal scenarios, I would ''so'' be a Paladin. * IncrediblyLamePun: For puns that are incredibly lame, we sure do use

them a lot. :P * PatrickStewartSpeech * Whichever trope describes the way the [[{{Warhammer 40000}} Eldar]] speak. Look, I know [[ManipulativeBastard the Eldar aren't the nicest folks around]], and their women are nowhere near as nice as they are attractive, but I love the super-poetic way they speak. :) * ValuesDissonance: I know this might seem counter-productive, since this trope is usually presented as a bad thing, but I enjoy reading about differences between cultures, both real and [[FantasyCounterpartCulture fictional]]. [[/folder]] [[folder:{{Dinru}}]] * AerithAndBob - ...what? * {{Tsundere}} * ItWasHisSled - ... [[/folder]] [[folder: DivineRose125]] * ActionGirl ** ActionMom ** ChefOfIron ** CuteBruiser ** HotAmazon ** HotChickWithASword ** LadyOfWar ** LittleMissBadass ** NeverMessWithGranny * [[MomentOfAwesome All]] [[FunnyMoments the]] [[HeartwarmingMoments Crowning]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome moment]] tropes. * {{Adorkable}}: Who says nerds can't be cute? ** NerdsAreSexy: Oh yeah... * AerithAndBob: Makes things a lot more interesting. * AngstWhatAngst: It's okay to angst a little, but don't do it ''all'' the time! * ApologisesALot * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther * {{Badass}} * BadassGrandpa * BadassPreacher * BadassAdorable * BewareTheNiceOnes * BigDamnHeroes * {{Bishonen}} * BoisterousBruiser * BreakingTheFourthWall ** LeaningOnTheFourthWall ** NoFourthWall ** LampshadeHanging * ButForMeItWasTuesday * CharacterDevelopment: Because it's really good to see that. * CheerfulChild

* ChewingTheScenery ** HamAndCheese ** HamToHamCombat ** IncomingHam ** LargeHam: The hammier the character, the better. ** WorldOfHam * CloudCuckooLander * CoolOldGuy ** CoolOldLady * CostumePorn * CrashIntoHello * CrazyAwesome * CreepyChild * DanceOfRomance * {{Determinator}} * DroppedABridgetOnHim: I don't care if it's part of UnfortunateImplications, I love it and it's really funny (in fiction anyway). * DudeLooksLikeALady * EarnYourHappyEnding: I'm an optimist at heart. * EnsembleDarkhorse * EvenEvilHasStandards * EverythingsCuterWithKittens ** EverythingsBetterWithBunnies ** EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies ** RidiculouslyCuteCritter ** EverythingsBetterWithPlushies * FiveManBand * FridgeBrilliance * GenkiGirl * GenreSavvy * GentleGiant * GodIsGood * GoodFeelsGood * GorgeousPeriodDress * HappilyEverAfter: I love these type of endings. * HappilyMarried: We don't get things like these anymore... * HeartIsAnAwesomePower * HeelFaceTurn * HoldMe * HotBlooded: I love these type of characters. * HotScientist * HugeGuyTinyGirl / TinyGuyHugeGirl * IWillWaitForYou * IncorruptiblePurePureness * {{Keet}} * [=~Let's Get Dangerous~=] * LittleMissSnarker * LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: I love shows that has a lot of characters. * LongHairedPrettyBoy * LoveAtFirstSight: I am a sucker for this.

* LoveConfession: So sweet... * LoveRedeems * MamaBear ** PapaWolf * ManicPixieDreamGirl * MagnificentBastard: Because they're just plain '''''awesome'''''. * {{Megane}} ** {{Meganekko}} ** BrainySpecs * TheMessiah * {{Moe}} * MostWonderfulSound: That makes the game really awesome. * {{Nakama}}: Of course. * {{Narm}} ** NarmCharm * NinjaMaid * [=~Noblewoman's Laugh~=] * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Because heroes beating the crap out of villains = awesome. * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou * OppositesAttract * PimpedOutDress * ThePollyanna * ThePowerOfFriendship: I love it when people overcome all obstacles. * ThePowerOfLove: Same as above. * PluckyGirl * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld * RealMenLoveJesus * RealMenWearPink * RebelliousPrincess * RedOniBlueOni * ReincarnationRomance * RetiredBadass * RousingSpeech * RousseauWasRight * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething * RuleOfCool ** RuleOfFunny ** RuleOfCute ** RuleOfSexy ** RuleOfGlamorous ** RuleOfRomantic ** RuleOfFun * SceneryPorn * ScrewDestiny * ShutUpHannibal * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan * SleepCute ** LapPillow * SnowMeansLove * SpoiledSweet * SureWhyNot

* TeacherStudentRomance: Because I'm a sucker for that type of thing. * TeamMom ** TeamDad * TeamPet * TechnicalPacifist ** ActualPacifist ** BadassPacifist * ThemeMusicPowerUp * TomboyAndGirlyGirl / SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan / PinkGirlBlueBoy / PinkBoyBlueGirl * TookALevelInBadass * ToyShip: Just as long at it doesn't turn out to be [[{{Squick}} squicky]]. * {{Tsundere}}: Or more specifically, the type B ones. * VictoriousChildhoodFriend * VitriolicBestBuds * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome * WholesomeCrossdresser: I really love these type of characters. * WideEyedIdealist * WiseBeyondTheirYears * WorldOfCardboardSpeech * WorthyOpponent * TheWoobie ** IronWoobie * YamatoNadeshiko * {{Yangire}} * ZettaiRyouiki [[/folder]] [[folder:{{DragonMaster}}]] * FiveManBand * FragileSpeedster * LightningBruiser * HenshinHero * TransformationSequence * TransformationTrinket * TheStarscream * BadassTeacher * OurDragonsAreDifferent * LivingMotionDetector * BadassBookworm * CulturedBadass * TheGunslinger * MagicalGirl ** ... what? * ActionGirl * CuteBruiser * HeroAntagonist * SteamPunk * AffablyEvil [[/folder]]

[[folder:Eddie Van Helsing]]]] * LadyOfWar: There's nothing like a classy lady with a sword -- unless she can sing, too. * HotAmazon: Thank you ma'am. May I have another? * MagnificentBastard * AntiVillain * DarkerAndEdgier: When done right, the results are awesome to behold. * XanatosGambit * HeroicSociopath * VillainProtagonist * {{Meganekko}} * MegaNeko * HotLibrarian * NerdsAreSexy * MoreDakka [[/folder]] [[folder: {{emeriin}}]] * ActionGirl * AlterEgoActing (fascinates me) * AttractiveBentGender * BiTheWay * BoundAndGagged * BrainsAndBondage * BreakTheCutie * CreepyChild * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfFunny * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * DistressedDamsel (but no DamselScrappy-dom, please) * EarnYourHappyEnding * EstrogenBrigadeBait (as long as he's not ''just'' there for fanservice) * FetishFuel * FetishFuelStationAttendant * FridgeHorror * {{Guyliner}} * HighOctaneNightmareFuel * HoYay * IncestYay * JamesBondage (same thing as the DistressedDamsel; don't be the DamselScrappy) * JerkWithAHeartOfGold * LauncherOfAThousandShips * LargeHam (BrianBlessed, I salute you) * LesYay * MeanCharacterNiceActor * Meganekko * MissFanservice (same thing as her SpearCounterpart) * NoYay * PerverseSexualLust * PetTheDog

* RealMenWearPink * SelfDeprecation * StepfordSmiler * {{Squee}} (adorable!) * SuicideAsComedy (because of issues, I tend to like it better than people trying to talk seriously about it and getting it wrong) * TearJerker * ThrowTheDogABone * TroubledButCute * {{Twincest}} * UnkemptBeauty * WhamEpisode * WhamLine [[/folder]]

[[folder:{{Entan}}]] * MythArc * GirlsLove * LadyOfWar * TheHighQueen * BadassBookworm * ActionGirl * WomensMysteries * MistressAndServantBoy * SchoolgirlLesbians * LovelyAngels * GirlsWithGuns ([[GirlsAreJustBetter noticing a pattern?]]) * JigsawPuzzlePlot * NerdsAreSexy * WhipItGood * {{Gayngst}} (I'm in a weird place with this one. I really fucking love Delicious Lesbian Angst, but in mild-to-moderate amounts. Too much and it just becomes yet another type of pandering, and frankly offensive.) * EarnYourHappyEnding * {{Tsundere}}/{{Yandere}}/{{Kuudere}} * MetaGuy * MadArtist * TwoFistedTales * WeirdScience [[/folder]] [[folder:Ettina]] * EarnYourHappyEnding - My entire sense of purpose in life depends on the belief that RealLife can be like this if good people are determined enough. * XanatosGambit - Particularly when done by the heroes, and you can see their reasoning throughout so it isn't just an AssPull. * GrayAndGrayMorality - I like ambiguity. BlackAndGrayMorality and WhiteAndGrayMorality work too if they're done well. * GenreSavvy - If they're GenreSavvy without Lampshading or

BreakingTheFourthWall. This is part of why I like heroes doing {{Xanatos Gambit}}s, because they're usually GenreSavvy. [[/folder]] [[folder: [=~Excel-2009~=]]]. * ADayAtTheBizarro * ActorAllusion - For some reason, references to dudes are always funny. * AllThereInTheManual - I love authors who go out of their way to explain every last detail of their fictional universes. Better them than the [[EpilepticTrees fans]]. * AntiquatedLinguistics * BadassNormal - Designing these characters is much more challenging than creating superheroes. * ChewBubblegum - The greatest PreAssKickingOneLiner ever. * ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike - Writing negative reviews about shows I feel deserve them is a great way for me to relieve stress. * ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch - [[HypocriticalHumor As long as I'm the one doing it.]] I'm pretty good at faking having watched something, even if all I know about it comes from the FanDumb. * CrowningMusicOfAwesome - I listen to songs from video games around other people [[GeniusBonus only if they wouldn't guess it came from a game]]. Most of them are orchestral or electronic arranges of such songs. One of my mom's favorite songs is a piano arrangement of the Theme of Love from ''Final Fantasy II''. * LittleMissSnarker - I want to see the result of a fight between [[GalaxyAngel Vanilla H]] and [[BlackCat Eve]] before I die. That's all I ask. I have the former as a {{MUGEN}} character, but... * DeadpanSnarker * DoingItForTheArt - I want to see passion in your art. The more enthusiastic you are about pushing your art as close to perfection as possible, the more I can appreciate it. Even if your work turns out to be SoOkayItsAverage, I'll still remember your dedication to make your show all it could be. * ExpospeakGag - My favorite language exercise. I use this all the time to ask permission for things I would never be allowed to do otherwise. I'm going upstate to attend a technology in popular culture symposium[[hottip:* :Anime convention]], dad. I'm studying film, after all. I'm a regional champion of making things [[BetterThanItSounds better]]/[[DarthWiki/WorseThanItSounds worse]] than they sound. * SugarWiki/FictionIdentityPostulate - More than any other, this trope is what inspires me to create any fiction at all. * FinalExamBoss - The action in a game can't really come to a head if it doesn't invoke all previous knowledge. I'd hate for any skill to be wasted. Just make sure it isn't shoehorned in. * GeniusBonus - Crossovers are fun to me because I know where most of the characters come from and my siblings don't. * HeyItsThatVoice - One of the main reasons I enjoy watching cartoons. I think every big voice actor should have an OVA that [[ActorAllusion pits all of their roles in a battle royale]]. [[AzumangaDaioh Yomi]] vs. [[{{Persona3}} Mitsuru]], [[RieTanaka anyone]]? * HypeAversion - See my userpage.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne * InsistentTerminology - She's not Laura Bailey, she's '''''Miss''''' Laura Bailey. He's not Azuma, he's '''''The''''' Azuma. I also write my dates in European order just to be different. I also spell and pronounce certain words wrong intentionally just because I like how they sound or roll off the tongue better than the right way. I could go on but this list is long enough as it is. * LadyOfWar * LargeHam * MagicAIsMagicA - I'm writing up a system of magic myself that I plan to use in my own works. I love any large-scale system that's used extensively as a plot device. The more extensive and consistent it is, the better. * MeaninglessMeaningfulWords - A primary component of the Calwellian Method. * {{Metaphorgotten}} - These never get old. * NiceJobBreakingItHero - More often than not, I get in trouble for doing what I thought I was supposed to be doing. Watching others get it for doing the same is one my favorite recurring themes, whether played straight or for laughs. * TroperTales/PetPeeveTrope - Pointing out stuff I hate in television shows is somehow much more cathartic here than in my own blog. * {{Retraux}} - Video games in particular, but I love any authentic callback to an era far past my time. * SelfDeprecation - Even though (or perhaps because) I loathe political humor, I appreciate and respect politicians who take time out of their schedule to appear on comedy shows just so they can laugh at themselves. * ShoutOut - It's funny because I'm the only one who gets it. * ShownTheirWork * SpellMyNameWithAThe - Spell it with a hyphen, too. My generic name is The-Excel which was established in 2005, but I use years in places where my name can easily be changed out. It started with Excel 2004, gained the hyphen in Excel-2006 to visually shed OldShame and continues to ruin wikis since Excel-2008. If you see any names that don't normally have a "The" in a Main entry, it was definitely me. ** Incidentally, the entry reads "Some people want you to put a 'The' before their name. Avoid these people." Not bad advice considering my views on certain properties that seem to be overwhelmingly popular here. * SteamPunk * SurprisinglyGoodEnglish * ThemeNaming * TitleBin - The ridiculous and excessively clever names for many tropes is one of this site's biggest draws for me. * TitleDrop * UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny - See GeniusBonus above. * {{Unfunny}} - There are few things I love more than middle-age-toold people trying to act street. * WordSaladTitle * ZeroWingrish - My second favorite language exercise. My favorite kind of Engrish is [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish the kind that still makes

perfect grammatical sense]] but still would make any English teacher cringe beyond redemption. [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Falconfly}}]] * StepfordSmiler * DarkReprise * TheStoic * ShownTheirWork * DepravedBisexual * GiantFlyer * FeatheredFiend * LightIsNotGood (I got really addicted to this trope) * OurDragonsAreDifferent * OurAngelsAreDifferent * GodIsEvil * VillainSong * BoysLove * WhatMeasureIsANonCute (subversions, obviously) [[/folder]] [[folder: FlametailVonKarma]] * AffablyEvil * AllLoveIsUnrequited * AnyoneCanDie * AxeCrazy * CloudcuckooLander * CompleteMonster * CrackPairing * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfFunny * CrowningMusicOfAwesome * DarkIsNotEvil * DefrostingIceQueen * DownerEnding * EpilepticTrees * GambitPileup * HeroicSociopath * HighPressureBlood * IdiotHero * JerkAssFacade * KillEmAll * KillItWithFire * {{Kuudere}} * LightIsNotGood * LoveChart * LoveDodecahedron * ObliviousToLove * PsychoForHire * RalphWiggum * RedOniBlueOni * ShrinkingViolet

* TearJerker * {{Tsundere}} * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids * {{Yangire}} [[/folder]] [[folder: FourthDerivative]] * AngstySurvivingTwin * AntiVillain * Arcadia * BittersweetEnding (Or beginning, or middle.) * BrotherSisterIncest (That's right, I said it. And I ''know'' I'm not the only one.) * CrowningMusicOfAwesome (I'm very likely to forgive most other flaws in a work if it has excellent music.) * DeadLittleSister * DefeatMeansFriendship * DreamApocalypse * IllGirl * IWillWaitForYou * LotusEaterMachine * MayflyDecemberRomance * {{Nakama}} * ParodySue * RoadMovie (Somewhat related to WalkTheEarth) * SceneryPorn * SnowMeansDeath (Especially when combined with...) * SnowMeansLove * SympathyForTheDevil * TearJerker (See below.) * {{Utsuge}} (I'm rather infamously a complete sucker for what a friend of mine calls "Depressing Japanese Things.") * WalkingTheEarth * WeAreAsMayflies * WildMassGuessing / EpilepticTrees (One of my favorite pastimes.) * TheWoobie * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds [[/folder]] [[folder: FreezairForALimitedTime]] * AntiVillain (It's quite a feet to make me sympathize with someone and still want them dead) * AwardBaitSong (...What? I grew UP on the movies that made that trope!) * BunnyEarsLawyer * EarnYourHappyEnding * EpilepticTrees (I love a good zany theory) * EverythingsBetterWithPenguins * KingOfAllCosmos * KnightsTemplar (They're more interesting) * LevelAte (Om nom nom) * MinionWithAnFInEvil (You always feel kinda bad for those guys... and

they're funny.) * {{Mons}} * NerdsAreSexy (Because the ARE, dang it) * NothingIsScarier * OurMonstersAreDifferent * SurrealHorror * WidgetSeries [[/folder]] [[folder: FruityOatyBars]] * {{Adorkable}} - [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Willow]], [[{{Angel}} Fred]], [[Series/{{Heroes}} Hiro]], I wuv them! * AntiVillain * AscendedFanboy * TheAtoner - I just can't get enough of them, partly because of my own personal issues and partly because they tend to be both woobies and BadAss. * BadassAngster * BiTheWay - Hi, we exist and we're normal people! Well, umm, some of us are normal people. * BlackAndNerdy women, who are sadly rare in media. * ButchLesbian portrayed positively (not "eww" and not implying all lesbians are butch). Underrepresented, and welcome. * TheChessmaster * {{Cloudcuckoolander}} * DeadpanSnarker * TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything * DoingItForTheArt * DoorStopper if it's any good - I love a book I can jump into and live in. * EstrogenBrigadeBait * GambitPileup * GenderInvertedTrope - induces my feminist squee. * GettingCrapPastTheRadar - thumbing noses at censors is so much fun! * GoodBadTranslation - SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB. * HotLibrarian * HotScientist - [[Series/{{Heroes}} Mohinder Suresh]] and [[{{Xenosaga}} Shion Uzuki]], be mine. * HurtComfortFic - There, I've admitted it. I love scenes of a woobie getting emotionally or physically hurt and comforted by another character, whatever the medium in which they appear. It's a combination of "awww" with FetishFuel, and the chance for some interesting CharacterDevelopment to boot. * JerkassWoobie - Characters who are jerks for a reason are fascinating (and often quite realistic), as long as the narrative and other characters don't totally disregard their jerkiness due to FreudianExcuse. * JigsawPuzzlePlot * TheKnightsWhoSaySquee * LargeHam * LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters - I love ridiculously complicated works where you need a glossary to keep track of everyone.

* MagnificentBastard - of course. * MatzoFever - Half the people I've dated or had crushes on in RealLife have been Jewish, even though I'm not. * MythArc * NarrativeFiligree * NerdsAreSexy * {{Retraux}} * SophisticatedAsHell * StarCrossedLovers - I admit it, I'm a sucker for tragic love stories that make me cry. * SurrealHumor - [[HomestarRunner "I was raiiised by a cup of coooffeeee."]] * ShownTheirWork * {{WAFF}} done well. * TheWoobie (*hugs*) * YamatoNadeshiko with a core of steel. [[/folder]] [[folder: Fudogg]] * AnyoneCanDie and AllDeathsFinal * BlackandGreyMorality * CompleteMonster: Villains should be villainous. They are called ''villains''. Their acts should be horrendous. The audience should hate the villain and want nothing more than to see them get what they deserve. * CrowningMomentOfFunny: Sure, why not? :) * DarkerAndEdgier * DeadpanSnarker * LastVillainStand: Is there anything more satisfying than a climatic battle to the death? * DisneyVillainDeath: Cliche or not, a villain plummeting to their doom just feels very climatic to me. * EarnYourHappyEnding: If (and only if) it's done well. If done well, you just might want to jump up and cheer. If done poorly, through the use of some AssPull, you end of with the series finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender. * EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies * EvilIsCool: It's true. They've got the best songs and there's a good chance the best designs, costumes. Plus, 7,8,9 times out of 10, they're more interesting than the hero. * HeyItsThatGuy and HeyItsThatVoice: I like seeing actors that I know in films and hearing voices that I recognize. * MythArc: I agree with Wicked223. While two 11-minute cartoons can be enjoyable, there is nothing there. There is no story. * TheWoobie * VillainSong: They always have the best ones. Always. * GettingCrapPastTheRadar * LoadsandLoadsofCharacters: When I write, I love creating new [[strike:characters]] villains. * HoistByHisOwnPetard [[/folder]]

FavoriteTropeG-K [[foldercontrol]] [[folder:Garanik]] * Most of the evil to good on the HeelFaceIndex, to be honest. Specifically: * LoveRedeems * TheAtoner * GoodFeelsGood I've just always loved the idea of good prevailing. I might be a little on the Idealist side of the [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism sliding scale]] * BoomHeadshot * {{Mons}}: I might be a little addicted to {{Pokemon}}. * BountyHunter: Samus from {{Metroid}}, mostly * PowerArmor: for the same reason. * {{Determinator}}: Something that I always thought was cool. [[/folder]] [[folder:{{GigaHand}}]] * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming (Sometimes, I want a good sulk) * CrowningMusicOfAwesome (Gives you something else to enjoy about a movie/video game) * DarkIsNotEvil and the [[LightIsNotGood opposite]] (Gives variety to the protagonist's abilities) * LogicBomb (Logic is a hobby of mine) * MegaManning (and of course, the [[MegaMan trope namer]]) * OverlyLongGag (Not all the time, these things are hard to get right) * ScrewDestiny (Especially if the world is heavy on the BecauseDestinySaysSo) * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill (Disagree, and I'll [[DisproportionateRetribution stab you in the heart, empty 20 magazines in your brain, drop a whale on you then proceed to nuke said whale]].) [[/folder]]

[[folder:{{GREGOLE}}]] * ActionGirl ** BlackMagicianGirl ** CuteBruiser ** CuteWitch ** MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily * AerithAndbob * AffablyEvil * AffectionateParody * AnimalReactionShot * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking * AwesomeMcCoolname * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther * BadassTeacher - I'm the child of one.

* BecomingTheMask * BeyondTheImpossible * BiTheWay - Bisexual people can be fun. I would know. * BloodyHilarious - I'm a Troma and Peter Jackson fan. * BunnyEarslawyer * CloudCuckooLander * CrazyAwesome * CreepyChild * CrowningMusicOfAwesome - While a "good" trope in and of itself, I'm a person who places a lot of epmhasis on musical score, so it touches a special nerve for me * CuteMonsterGirl - To a certain extent. That is to say, I like cute female monsters who aren't blatantly different from the rest of their species. I like monsters and I like girls. What's not to like here? * DarkIsNotEvil - Being a creature of the night and something of a minor goth, I have a fascination with this trope. * DeadpanSnarker - I do this in front of the TV myself. I like when a series catches on. * EarnYourHappyEnding - I love a happy ending, but the whole thing is much stronger when I watch the protagonists work their way up to it, against adversity. * EatsBabies - I love children, so nothing makes me instantly root against someone than learning they like eating them. Is that messed up? * EverythingsBetterWithIndexes - I like animals. * FetishFuel - I'm a human being with a libido and an interest in fiction. I confess, I like an occasional bit of carnal appeal in my stories. ** BareYourMidriff ** MagicSkirt ** MinidressOfPower ** MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily * FreakyIsCool * FriendlyEnemies * FromNobodyToNightmare * GeniusBruiser - I know some. * GentleGiant * GenreSavvy - It's nice to be able to think on the same level as the protagonists sometimes. * GettingCrapPastTheRadar * HiddenDepths - I like to know even the minor and periphory characters have the love and attention of the writers. * ImAHumanitarian * ImmuneToBullets - I like this trope in almost all my monsters, and in an age where we can't seem to wrap our minds around the idea of something we can't gun down and be on our way, this trope is more precious to me than ever. Which brings us to... * ImplacableMan(or woman. Or Monster.) * ItHasBeenAnHonor * Kaiju * LargeHam - Quotable stories are often the most fun. ** HamAndcheese

** WorldOfHam * Heart IsAnAwesomePower - It IS! * HeelFaceTurn - A good chemistry among the heroes and villains is a good thing, and I like being able to keep that chemistry, even when evil has been defeated. * IKnowYouKnowIKnow - Trying to keep up is half the fun! * LampshadeHanging - Sometimes a story must follow unusual logic to stay rolling. I can accept this if I have to, but acknowledging the weirdness is a welcome way to take some of the load off. *MakeMyMonsterGrow - I don't know what's more fun, the trope or screaming it loudly. * Meganekko ** NerdsAreSexy * Moe - All things in moderation, but when properly handled, an endearing character can add something to a work for me. * MusicalEpisode - I've never met one I didn't love. * MyFriendsAndZoidberg * Nakama - It's touching to see in action. One of my own greatest values. * NightmareFuel ** NightmareFuelStationAttendant ** NightmareRetardant * NoodleIncident * Our Monsters Are Weird - The classics can be fun, but I like REALLY going out of my way to make my monsters unique. * OverlyLongGag * PurelyAestheticGender - While my own views on gender politics basically eqaute "We're the same, get over it", and thus few active tropes can summarize that, this one does nicely. * RammingAlwaysWorks - Dramatic and fun to watch. Why let reality get in the way? * RealMenWearPink * RefugeInAudacity - Somewhat meta, but my fondness lies particularly towards in-story examples. * ScrewYouElves - SuperiorSpecies is NOT one of my favorite tropes. >_> * ShutUpHannibal - Extra points if you're caustically snarky * SissyVillain - The sissier the better, especially when played for laughs. * StarfishAliens * StrangeMindsThinkAlike * TearJerker - I'm an emotional person. * TheSummation * ThrowTheDogABone * TitleDrop - Make it as blatant and out of nowhere as possible! * TrappedInTVLand/Cyberspace * TheUnfrozenCavemanLawyer * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome * WingedHumanoid * WorldOfCardboardSpeech * WouldHitAGirl - Down with the outdated social moors! [[/folder]]

[[folder:{{Grognor}}]] * AffectionateParody * HeelFaceTurn * {{Determinator}} * LargeHam * DanGreen * BrooklynRage * VoiceActor [[/folder]] [[folder:AGuy]] * {{Badass}} * BigDamnHeroes * ColdSniper * DefectorFromDecadence * EscortMission (in cases where the thing to be escorted can defend itself and doesn't suicidally move ahead of you) * FallenHero * IAmSpartacus * InsigniaRipoffRitual * KidHero * LockAndLoadMontage * NeverMessWithGranny * NintendoHard * TheCavalry * TheManyDeathsOfYou * TookALevelInBadass [[/folder]] [[folder: HappyMan]] * AffablyEvil: because villainy isn't incompatible with politely * BadassLongcoat * CuteWitch * EarnYourHappyEnding * ElementalPowers * FaceHeelTurn / HeelFaceTurn * FiveBadBand: it's great to see that villains do understand the importance of teamwork. * FridgeBrilliance * TheGunsliger: if you think that swords are cooler than guns, then you need to read ''TheDarkTower'' * HotAmazon: love women who can kick ass * HumongousMecha: Robots are cool. Giant robots are even cooler. * InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha * LargeHam: what? it's funny! * LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: variety is the spice of life. * MagicalGirl: they are incredibly charming ** DarkMagicalGirl: even moreso than the previous. * MechaMooks * RescuedFromtheScrappyHeap: this trope indicates two things about the writers: 1. They LISTEN to the fandom, and 2. they CARE for the show.

* RousseauWasRight * ScrewDestiny * StuffBlowingUp: because explosions are funny. {{Bomberman}}, you're my hero! [[/folder]] [[folder:{{Haven}}]] * MundaneUtility * ItRunsOnNonsensoleum * WaveOfBabies * DidAKoreanPersonDie * RuleOfCool / RuleOfFun [[/folder]] [[folder:heartlessmushroom]] * AmusementParkOfDoom * AztecMythology * AngstWhatAngst: Its alright to feel hurt about the past, but dont let it control your life * BadassNormal: Seeing someone who has no super powers beat the living snot out of someone who has is simply awesome to behold * BerserkButton: When done right * BountyHunter * DeadpanSnarker: also known as Mr Lampshade * DidYouJustScamCthulhu: You can tell how awesome and dangerous a MagnificentBastard if he/she pulls this off. * EldritchAbomination: Bonus points if its appears in an otherwise family friendly universe. * EstrogenBrigadeBait: Minus the troubled past, thing * EvenTheGuysWantHim * FlyingBrick playing a villain role ** SmugSuper villain is a good idea too * GeniusBruiser * HumanoidAliens: The more alien the better. [[StarfishAliens just not too much]] * LargeAndInCharge * LetsGetDangerous * LovecraftianSuperpower * ShirtlessScene and FanService: I love a bit of hotness from both genders * StarfishAliens: Those who can pull out plausible emotions on these guys deserves a medal * StormingTheCastle * TechnicalPacifist * TheChessmaster and his [[MagnificentBastard evil twin brother]] * TheTrickster: Im a sucker for this kind of characters. * TookaLevelInBadass * ZombieApocalypse [[/folder]] [[folder:HighFive]] * GettingCrapPastTheRadar

* HeyItsThatVoice * HoYay, HoYay, HoYay. By far my favourite - I can enjoy otherwise terrible shows because of it. * SassyBlackWoman. Yeah, I know. [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Honeybrown1976}}]] * NostalgiaFilter * DeadpanSnarker * GettingCrapPasttheRadar: The sneakier, the better * [[MsFanservice Ms. FanService]]: Thank You! * EstrogenBrigade: Yummy, yum, yum * HotDad * HotMom: I love company. What can I say? * CrowningMusicofAwesome: When the rhythm's right, it's right * CrowningMomentofAwesome * CrowningMomentofFunny * DeathbyRacism: When a bigot dies, an angel gets its wings * AcceptableTargets: I'm sorry; but, some groups need a good poking fun of (as long as racism, sexism, anti-religion, etc is not part of it) * BabyGotBack: Self-explanatory * {{Older than they look}}: Self-explanatory * {{Fetish fuel}}: Yum [[/folder]] [[folder:Hopeless Romance]] * DanceOfRomance * JustFriends * LoveConfession * MarryForLove * OppositesAttract * LoveAtFirstSight (I'm such a hopeless romantic.) * AnimalReactionShot (It's funny.) * DoubleEntendre * MagnificentBastard * PimpedOutDress (They're always fun to stare at) * CoolOldGuy * CoolOldLady (Especially when they're sassy!) * CharacterDevelopment (Obvious. Growth via Character Development is always wonderful to watch.) * TeenDrama (When it's relatable instead of over-the-top.) * FridgeBrilliance * CrowningMomentOfFunny * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * CrowningMusicOfAwesome [[/folder]] [[folder:{{Icarael}}]] * AffectionateParody * AmbiguouslyGay

* {{Angrish}}: Great for a laugh. * AntiVillain * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking * BigBad[=/=]BigGood * BigDamnHeroes, GunshipRescue, TheCavalry-- Something in reinforcements arriving in time to kick ass strikes a chord deep inside me. * BeyondTheImpossible * {{Bishonen}} * BiTheWay * BoysLove * BrainsAndBondage * CampStraight * CompleteMonster- Because some villains work better, or only work, when they're ''really'' evil. * CoolVersusAwesome * CrazyAwesome * [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Moment]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming of]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Anything]] * CuteShotaroBoy: For the [[{{Moe}} adorable]] factor. * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu * DroppedABridgetOnHim * EldritchAbomination * EvenEvilHasStandards * FetishFuel-- Err.... yeah. ** DiamondsInTheBuff ** DudeShesLikeInAComa: [[GuiltyPleasures ... I have issues.]] ** InnocentFanserviceGirl: And the GenderFlip version, the InnocentFanserviceBoy. ** MarshmallowHell: The best hell of them all. ** {{Meganekko}} ** NaughtyTentacles ** ScrewYourself ** SexyShirtSwitch ** ShirtlessScene ** TwinThreesomeFantasy ** WholesomeCrossdresser * FunctionalMagic: It's fun to see how many ways you can justify the existence of magic without copping out and going "AWizardDidIt". ** GeometricMagic ** HermeticMagic ** VancianMagic * FutureBadass * GirlInABox * GoodIsNotDumb: Don't ever confuse goodness with naivete. * GoodLookingPrivates * GreyAndGrayMorality: I like it when both sides have good and bad points. * HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Just to see if I can scare myself. * HoYay-- Because gay subtext is fun. * HumansAreGood

* HumongousMecha * KnightTemplar, WellIntentionedExtremist, HeWhoFightsMonsters- I can empathize with them, since I sometimes think like they do and I can appreciate their aims, even if their actions aren't very "good". * LargeHam ** WorldOfHam * LovecraftLite * MagnificentBastard * MoreDakka * MyFriendsAndZoidberg * NobleDemon * NoodleIncident * NoodleImplements * PeopleJars * PoweredArmor * PuttingOnTheReich: [[CompleteMonster Say what you will about]] ThoseWackyNazis; you can't deny those uniforms look pretty good. * RousseauWasRight-- I believe that most people have a reason for what they do other than malice, most likely [[HanlonsRazor incompetence or ignorance]]. * RuleOfCool * RuleOfFunny * SpiderTank * TankGoodness * ThePowerOfFriendship * ThePowerOfLove * ThePowerOfTrust * TinTyrant * UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans * UpToEleven * WhiteAndGrayMorality * WorldBuilding: It's really fun to work tiny details into your world that make it unique. Now the problem is translating the text to pictures... * WorldOfBadass * Anything on XanatosPlannedThisIndex. * YaoiFangirl: Again, YaoiFanboy. Besides, I like their pervertedness. * ZombieApocalypse [[/folder]] [[folder:{{Imipolex G}}]] * {{Faust}} (seems to me a pretty deep archetype) * BunnyEarsLawyer * RandomEventsPlot (should be used more, I think) * GoMadFromTheRevelation * AboveGoodAndEvil * CrapsackWorld * HannibalLecture * BrilliantButLazy * WhoWantsToLiveForever * {{Gorn}} (although it depends on the exact nature of it) * TheLibraryOfBabel

* TheLostWoods * MostCommonSuperpower (I'm allowed one turn-on trope) * AbsentMindedProfessor * BadassLongcoat * AfterTheEnd * DarkWorld * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking (good for a chuckle) * {{Doorstopper}} (my perpetual goal is to write one) * WalkingTheEarth * CrossoverCosmology * MadArtist * ReclusiveArtist [[/folder]]

[[folder: {{improbabilityx}}]] * BavarianFireDrill * CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon * FlatWhat * INeedToGoIronMyDog * ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne * MyFriendsAndZoidberg * NoodleIncident * PuffOfLogic: How I want to die. * SarcasticConfession * ShutUpKiss * TheSoCalledCoward * ThisIsForEmphasisBitch * UnusualEuphemism * VerbalBackspace [[/folder]]

[[folder: {{Ingonyama}}]] * AcceptableBreaksFromReality: A '''must''' for anything I read/watch/play. Realism is for the real world. * IncorruptiblePurePureness: It comes in all kinds of flavors...you don't have to be a milksop to be incorruptible. And when it's mixed with {{Badass}}ery, [[{{Squee}} well...]] * HoYay * AmbiguouslyGay, StraightGay, HardGay, WordOfGay...anything that isn't CampGay is awesome to me. Heck, even a little camp gay is fine, as long as it's not overblown. Just don't make a habit of [[BuryYourGays burying them]], or I will be [[BerserkButton very put out.]] * HomoeroticDream: Well, I ''am'' a SlashFic writer... * GladToBeAliveSex: Yup. Total FetishFuel. * VisualEffectsOfAwesome * [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Moment]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny of]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome ANYTHING.]] Of course these being subjective, everyone's gonna say that and mean different things, but still, there it is. ^_^

* CallingTheOldManOut: Because I have father issues. * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Feeling sorry for someone is one thing. Being sorry for them and '''afraid''' of them at the same time? Beautiful. * IronWoobie: Same thing, basically. I cannot ''stand'' {{Wangst}}, so these folks are the ones who hit me the hardest. * CaffeineBulletTime: Because it's ''funny.'' * MagnificentBastard: The best kind of villain, and sometimes [[TheMentor mentor]], is the one you love and hate at the same time. * TheDogBitesBack: Sensing a theme here? I'm not big on helplessness, even from the designated victims. * AffablyEvil: Just because you're destined to take over the world and usher in a thousand years of darkness doesn't mean you have to be a dick about it. * PetTheDog: For reasons mentioned above. * HeyItsThatVoice: I have several favorite voice actors who I've trained myself to recognize. Gives me a little {{Squee}} of joy when I hear them in something new. * ThisisSPARTA: Sometimes this can be a fantastic mode of delivery, other times deliciously cheesy. * FlatWhat: Thank you, [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Raven]] and [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfT heDamned Doctor Ten]], for being so brilliant in your flatness. ^_^ * CloudCuckooLander[=/=]CrazyAwesome[=/=]ObfuscatingStupidity: Because the best kinds of brilliance are the ones you never see coming. * GentleGiant: at least half my favorite characters ever are either this or... * WarriorPoet * GeniusBruiser: I likes 'em smart and I likes 'em strong. ^_^ * BadassBookworm: I likes 'em smart and I likes 'em capable. ^_^ * DoingInTheScientist: Because not everything should have a rational, reasonable explanation... * MagicAIsMagicA: ...though it ''should'' always have rules. * ActionGirl * YamatoNadeshiko * EstrogenBrigadeBait * SatanIsGood (though I'm not big on GodIsEvil) * GreyAndGreyMorality * GreyAndWhiteMorality * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids * '''ScrewDestiny'''. Oh so very much. * RuleOfCool * RuleOfFunny * RuleOfSexy, at least where the guys are concerned. I know, I know, DoubleStandard. Shut up. :p * NerdsAreSexy * HollywoodNerd * CoolSword * DoesntLikeGuns (Well, I don't...) * GunsAreWorthless * ElementalPowers

** PlayingWithFire ** AnIcePerson ** DishingOutDirt ** MakingASplash ** ShockAndAwe ** BlowYouAway ** GreenThumb ** LightTheWay ** DarkIsEdgy ** WindsOfDestinyChange ** and of course, [[strike: WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway]] '''HeartIsAnAwesomePower!!!''' * {{Nakama}} ** AFriendInNeed ** ThePowerOfFriendship ** ThePowerOfLove ** ThePowerOfTrust ** ThePowerOfRock (OK, I'm done!) * HeelRealization ** HeelFaceTurn ** HelpFaceTurn * HealingHands: Too few ComicBooks understand the importance of an inhouse [[TheMedic medic.]] * GoodFeelsGood * ReasonableAuthorityFigure ** BigGood (We have '''plenty''' of UltimateEvil running around out there, the other side kind of needs some love too) * EvilCannotComprehendGood * BelligerentSexualTension * DeadpanSnarker * BuffySpeak (beats the holy hell out of TotallyRadical!) * SceneryPorn * WideOpenSandbox: Nothing beats the thrill of exploration. ^_^ * ForHappiness (My personal motivation, and creates way more fun characters than ForGreatJustice!) * GoodIsNotDumb: I have a genius IQ and subscribe wholly to the RousseauWasRight trope. Living proof. * WorldHealingWave: Instant CMOA and CMOH, just add this (when it's deserved, of course!). * And best of all, EarnYourHappyEnding. 'Cause hard work ''should'' pay off. [[/folder]] [[folder: InsanityPrelude]] * [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Moment]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming of]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Anything.]] * BeyondTheImpossible * WhiteHairedPrettyBoy... eheh... * MagnificentBastard * FanDumb (it provides endless [[SnarkBait amusement]].) * BadAss anything

* VideoGameCaringPotential * WideOpenSandbox * EverythingsCuterWithKittens * FreudianSlip / DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything / DoubleEntendre [[/folder]] [[folder: Insano]] * Adorkable: I actually count as one sometimes. * AffablyEvil/ EvillyAffable: Never know when these guys are gonna snap. * AntiHero: 'Cause they're darker than most heroes. * AntiVillain: Cause they're lighter than most bad guys. * TheAtoner: 'Cause these guys are some of the most sympathetic. * BadAss: For obvious reasons. * BeyondTheImpossible: Oh, how far can the escalation go... * BigBad: The villain does [[TheVillainMakesThePlot make the plot]], after all. * TheChessmaster: No explanation, too obvious. * CrazyAwesome: Being cool in the strangest ways. * CrossesTheLineTwice: It's funny, dude. * CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Oh yeah. * CrowningMomentOfFunny: AHAHAHAHAHA!!!! * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Aww... * CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Because soundtracks add to the mood. * DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Taking advantage of story conventions makes a character cooler and even more deadly. * DarkIsEvil: It's a classic. * DarkIsNotEvil: But change is always welcome. * DeadpanSnarker: I live with plenty of these. * Determinator: Won't be stopped. Which makes them totally {{Bad Ass}} * EarnYourHappyEnding: They're not for the weak-hearted. * EldritchAbomination: I'm entertained by the otherworldly. * EnsembleDarkhorse: Stealing the show and looking good at it. * EvilIsCool: Uh, yeah. * FaceHeelTurn: Always keeps things interesting. * FallenHero: They're usually very sympathetic, and provide a good contrast to the heroes. * FromNobodytoNightmare: Reminds me of where evil can come from. * GeniusBruiser: Knows a few. * GenreSavvy: It's nice to have someone who recognizes story conventions. * GuileHero: Since when do villains have to be the smart ones? * HannibalLecture: I love these, especially when they work. * HeelFaceTurn: It's actually pretty nice when the bad guys turn good. * HeroicSpirit: The iron will of the good guys is sometimes the only thing that keeps me from rooting for the villains. * HeroKiller: Kicking around the protagonists like dogs. * ImplacableMan: Nothing ever gets to them. * ItHasBeenAnHonor: Shows the respect held by two characters between each other. * KirkSummation: The heroic version of the {{Hannibal Lecture}}. * LampshadeHanging: It's funny when this happens.

* LargeHam: OOOVERRR THE TOP! * LightIsGood: Another classic. * LightIsNotGood: Because these villains are very unique. * LightningBruiser: Knows a few of these, too. * LoveRedeems: Of course it does. * MagnificentBastard: Because they're unbearably cool like that. Bonus points if they're also a {{Complete Monster}} * ManipulativeBastard: I like the kind of people that can get into your head... * Nakama: A great value in stories and real life. * NoodleIncident: Makes things funnier and more mysterious. * OhCrap: I like seeing people squirm like that. * PatrickStewartSpeech: Because [[HumansAreSpecial we are special]]. * RefugeInAudacity: It's funny when people do that. * RousseauWasRight: I still think people are inherently good, too. * RunningGag: If funny enough, may cross with {{Overly Long Gag}}. * ScrewYouElves: I will never ever believe in that "{{Superior Species}}" crap. * ShutUpHannibal: It's awesome when the heroes refute the villain's lectures. * TheSummation: Summing things up is indicative of the character's intelligence. * ThisIsGonnaSuck: Making "oh crap" snarky. * WellIntentionedExtremist: I like their goals, and sometimes even their methods. * WhatTheHellHero: It helps to get called out for [[KickTheDog kicking dogs]]. * WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Because they're cool. * WouldHitAGirl: Done this before. * XanatosGambit: Because it shows brilliance. * XanatosRoulette: Because it shows more brilliance. * XanatosSpeedChess: Because it shows both brilliance and adaptability. [[/folder]] [[folder: JapaneseTeeth]] * AccidentalInnuendo * BeyondTheImpossible * CoolVersusAwesome * FanService (What?) * MundaneUtility * MundaneSolution * NinjaPirateZombieRobot * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome [[/folder]] [[folder:JohnQuixote]] * EnsembleDarkhorse * BadassNormal [[/folder]] [[folder: JuiceBoxHero]]

* CloudCuckooLander * DeliberateValuesDissonance * WallBangHer * FoeYay * BrainsAndBondage * ...okay look, SexIsInteresting. * {{Deconstruction}} * Passing TheBechdelTest * FlowerFromTheMountaintop * TheLostWoods * UnreliableNarrator * {{Yandere}} and {{Yangire}} * GratuitousForeignLanguage [[/folder]] [[folder: Kahran042]] * AffablyEvil / EvillyAffable * AffectionateParody * AlienSky * BigBadassWolf * [[BreakingTheFourthWall Breaking]], [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Leaning On]], or PaintingTheFourthWall * BrickJoke * ChekhovsGag * ChessMotifs / TarotMotifs * CloudCuckoolander * Crowning Moments, whether of Awesome, Funny, or Heartwarming. * DarkIsNotEvil / LightIsNotGood * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment * DiscontinuityNod * {{Dissimile}} * EarWorm * FairyBattle * FoodPorn * FridgeBrilliance / TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything * FridgeLogic, if only because it often begets Fridge Brilliance. * GameplayAndStoryIntegration * GayOption (I might not take it, but I like at least knowing it's there.) * GeniusBonus * GrayAndGreyMorality / BlackAndGreyMorality / BlueAndOrangeMorality * HaveANiceDeath * HoYay * HotChickWithASword * KindheartedCatLover * LemonyNarrator * MartialArtsAndCrafts * MassivelyMultiplayerCrossover * MeaningfulName * MythologyGag * NonStandardGameOver * NostalgiaLevel

* PlotCouponThatDoesSomething * PunchClockVillain * PuzzleBoss * SceneryPorn / SceneryGorn * ShownTheirWork * SignificantAnagram ...a gray hymning tarantella wish. * SpoofAesop * StealthPun * StylisticSuck * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial * ThrowTheDogABone * TitleDrop * VillainSong * {{Wackyland}}, especially the former TropeNamer. * WorstNewsJudgementEver [[/folder]] [[folder: KaiYves]] * ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts- I love it when someone actually remembers them. [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Keeyla}}]] * AnimalStereotypes * AntiHero * BeastAndBeauty: My absolute favorite romance trope. I think it's freaking adorable. * BigLippedAlligatorMoment * CrowningMomentOfFunny * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * CursedWithAwesome * DarkIsNotEvil * EarnYourHappyEnding * EnsembleDarkhorse * FridgeBrilliance * FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire * GentleGiant * GettingCrapPastTheRadar * GlamourFailure * HarmlessVillain * HilariousInHindsight * IAmWhatIAm * LampshadeHanging * MamaBear / PapaWolf * MemeticMutation * {{Narm}} * OppositesAttract * PetTheDog * ReluctantMonster * SceneryPorn * StarCrossedLovers * TomatoSurprise

* VillainsOutShopping [[/folder]] [[folder:Keltik]] * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMusicOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * {{Tearjerker}} - Basically, anything that gets emotion flowing. * {{Metafiction}} * CloudCuckooLander - And an example of one! * MindScrew - I enjoy thinking about what the hell is going on, rather than just knowing. * JigsawPuzzlePlot * ThemeMusicPowerUp * ThisIsADrill * AnachronicOrder - Done well, it plays tricks with you, gives you bonuses for paying attention, causes dramatic irony, or just gives you the pieces of the puzzle in the wrong order, so you're forming three corners and the middles without a picture. * {{Badass}}, especially BadassNormal and BadassBookworm * {{Determinator}} * '''''LargeHam''''' * BreakTheCutie * BewareTheNiceOnes * MundaneUtility * ClassicCheatCode * EpicRocking * CuteBruiser * And many, many others that I can't remember the names of right now. [[/folder]] [[folder: Killer BOB Dole]] * CompleteMonster (I actually don't hate a lot of these villains. They come across as more darkly awesome to me.) * AntiVillain (When written well.) * EvenEvilHasStandards (It's cool to see a villain get horrified by an even nastier one. Which is probably why I like Complete Monsters so much.) * VillainSong * BadAss * SerialKiller (There's something compelling about a murderer who you know is going to strike again.) * Griefer (I know, it's mean, but some of the videos they post are really funny.) * PunchPunchPunchUhOh (These usually lead to awesome fight scenes.) [[/folder]] [[folder:KillerClowns]] * BadassNormal: Wits, strength, and sheer determination are earned, not given, and thus far more impressive than any superpower. Especially when they're used to defeat foes who ''do'' have superpowers.

* CrazyAwesome * CutLexLuthorACheck * {{Deconstruction}}: Less so than {{reconstruction}}, though. * FaceDeathWithDignity: Preferably by uttering some variant of the following: ** AsLongAsThereIsOneMan ** FacingTheBulletsOneLiner ** IDieFree ** MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning * TheFettered * GallowsHumor: Has saved my sanity on many occasions, and the best way to deal with things going wrong. * GirlsLove: GirlOnGirlIsHot is, at this point, a mere side-benefit; I'm a softie like that. * GrayAndGrayMorality: Life is complicated. People who do things ForTheEvulz are rare, and usually don't pose much of a threat because SanityHasAdvantages. Most people are trying to provide for themselves and the ones they hold dear; while acknowledging this does make telling a good story harder, if done well it makes it so much richer. ** Exception: this rarely ends well in ProfessionalWrestling. * HeartIsAnAwesomePower * IronWoobie * KnightInSourArmor: Yeah, the world's not always perfect. {{Wangst}} won't make it any better, and neither will [[HeWhoFightsMonsters becoming little better than those who ruined it]]. These guys know that when the going gets tough, you have to [[Film/{{Zombieland}} nut up or shut up]]. * LadyOfWar: The market is so oversaturated with {{stripperiffic}} heroines it's boring. * LargeHam: It's always good to enjoy your work. * LethalJokeCharacter: The best kind of character. * PrecisionFStrike * NobleDemon: A part I frequently play. * RealMenWearPink: A wonderful source of both comedy and HiddenDepths. * {{Reconstruction}} * SanityHasAdvantages * ThouShaltNotKill: I've talked to a few {{shell shocked veteran}}s in my time, and one thing is clear: RealityIsUnrealistic. Killing people is amazingly hard in RealLife, especially when you can clearly see your intended target, and it has all sorts of [[BadDreams side]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone effects]]. This trope looks like HonorBeforeReason, but it's really TruthInTelevision. ** Exception: If the hero has been [[WhatMeasureIsAMook butchering mooks]] left and right, he might as well give their leader the same treatment. To do otherwise just plants the seeds of MoralDissonance; is the leader of an evil organization somehow a better human being than his underlings? * VillainSong: Always the best sort of song. * WidgetSeries: In videogames; I'm neutral to it in other media types. Don't know why. * WorldOfHam [[/folder]]

[[folder:K Man]] * ActionGirl: What would you rather have a girl who you constantly have to worry about if she will be safe and not kidnapped by meer mooks who you always have to rescue if that happens or a girl who can take care of herself, keep up with you and look awesome fighting beside you? Also CuteBruiser and LadyOfWar by extension. * AutobotsRockOut: How do you make a CrowningMomentOfAwesome even more awesome? Cue the asskicking music. * ArmorOfInvincibility: No matter how strong an InfinityPlusOneSword is you need good armor to kill the BonusBoss. * BadassAdorable: Thank MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha for this. * BadassNormal: People who can beat up super freaks without any powers earns respect in my books. * BattleCouple: Much better than just the guy or the girl fighting. What a great way to spend time together don't you think? * BladeOnAStick: This is a real medival weapon. * BunnyEarsLawyer and by extension CrazyAwesome * CompleteMonster: Kicking the snot out of [[FinalFantasy6 Kefka]] was one of the most enjoyable moments ever in gaming. * CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Epic music makes everything awesome. * DarkIsNotEvil: I happen to like DarkIsEdgy but I'm not evil. * {{Kuudere}}: Calm, cool, collected and awesome. * GenkiGirl: I one day hope to get a girlfriend like this. * LargeHam: [[StarWars POWER UNLIMITED POWWWERRRRRRR!!!!!]] * {{Mondegreen}}: [[DissidiaFinalFantasy TASTY ARROW!!!]] * NarmCharm: When something is funny because its silly * ShieldBash: Who says shields are only for defending? * TheStoic: Great way to add color to a cast or series * {{Tsundere}}: Only if done right mind you. [[/folder]]

FavoriteTropeL-N [[foldercontrol]] [[folder: LadyNorbert]] * LadyOfWar * BunnyEarsLawyer * BerserkButton * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin * ShapedLikeItself * WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway * TeamMom * ThePowerOfFriendship * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * Almost anything in TroperTales * And of course, ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime [[/folder]] [[folder:{{Landstander}}]] * CloudCuckooLander (see also- Jay's Dad on ''TheCritic'', Adam West

on ''FamilyGuy'', both masters of this trope) * FunnyBackgroundEvent * PhlebotinumDuJour - I'm just fascinated by that kinda thing * FemaleGaze - We need more of it! * ShirtlessScene - Of course;) * RefugeInAudacity * DidAKoreanPersonDie * ItJustBugsMe - whining is ''fun''!:) * BittersweetEnding * CrowdSong * {{Calvinball}} * {{Kwyjibo}} - Just reading that page made me fall over laughing. * PrecisionFStrike * TheCoconutEffect - Again, I'm just really fascinated by this and RealityIsUnrealistic. [[/folder]] [[folder: Latte]] * BigDamnHeroes - Makes me want to cheer! * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - Even I get cynical sometimes, and I can always use some warm fuzzies to make it better. * ShutUpHannibal - Also for the cheering. * VillainSong - Because they tend to be the best! [[/folder]] [[folder: LatwPIAT]] * Main/LadyOfWar * Main/Cyberpunk * Main/PostCyberpunk * Main/TheStoic * Main/EmotionlessGirl - Though I prefer it if they intersect with stocism, snarking or the uncanny valley * Main/ViewersAreGeniuses - Treat me like I deserve, you dimwits! * Main/ShownTheirWork - Oh, you have a schematic with dispersion, range, light-lag and intensity calculations for your space laser? Why, yes, I'd like to see those. * Main/ColdSniper * Main/DeadpanSnarker * Main/SubvertedTrope - What? * Main/{{Deconstruction}} - I'm serious! * Main/LoveAtFirstPunch * Main/SlapSlapKiss [[/folder]] [[folder: LeighSabio]] * ActionMom * ShownTheirWork * TheSpock (Ironic, in a way, because I'm the [[TheMcCoy furthest thing from that]]. Or maybe not so ironic, see below) * WhatIsThisFeeling * NotSoStoic * BadassNormal

* HiddenDepths (Done right, not when someone does it in such a cliche way that they're just playing into a different stereotype) * ObfuscatingStupidity (I just ''love'' it when the {{dumb blonde}} [[TheCutie cutie]] turns out surprisingly {{badass}} or intelligent!) * TheSnarkKnight * TheHighQueen * TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask * GodIsEvil * SubvertedTrope * TrueArt (Let me explain: by true art, I don't mean whatever the critics call true art, or whatever's [[TrueArtIsAncient ancient]], [[TrueArtIsForeign foreign]], [[TrueArtIsAngsty angsty]], or [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible incomprehensible]]. I ''do'' mean those works that manage to be universal without pandering to the LowestCommonDenominator.) * ReverseFunnyAneurysm [[/folder]] [[folder:{{LLSmoothJ}}]] * ActionGirl - What? I like girls who can fight! ** CuteBruiser ** LadyOfWar * BreakingTheFourthWall ** AsideGlance ** LeaningOnTheFourthWall ** LampshadeHanging * BuxomIsBetter - What can I say, I like girls with big boobs. * CatholicSchoolGirlsRule - I'm a sucker for this. * CharacterDevelopment - I like my characters to have actual progression, thank you. * ChivalrousPervert * CombatStilettos - Hey, they have potential to become deadly weapons! You're just not thinking far enough. * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfFunny * CrowningMusicofAwesome - This is what will make me look for the soundtrack. * DarkSkinnedBlonde - The perfect woman, [=IMHO=]. And I don't mean the fake kind (You know what I'm talking about). * {{Determinator}} - There's nothing more respectable than someone who works against the odd for their goal. * {{Fanservice}} ** FanserviceWithASmile ** InnocentFanserviceGirl * FridgeBrilliance - It's awesome what you'll find in those unexpected moments. * GettingCrapPastTheRadar - Fuck you, MoralGuardians! * HighlyVisibleNinja - They have their own style! * HotBlooded - They can bring excitement to a fight. * HumongousMecha - They're just cool! * LargeHam - Can make an otherwise-dull show exciting. * MixedMarriage - I don't see why there isn't more of this, honestly.

* MsFanservice - The only ones who are annoyed with this are usually [[EstrogenBrigade the ones]] [[DoubleStandard who have no problems with the]] [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Spear Counterpart]]. * PlatonicLifePartners - ''[[{{Understatement}} Really]]'' need to see more of this, '''especially''' without the RelationshipUpgrade. * RuleofCool ** RuleofFun ** RuleOfCute ** RuleOfSexy ** RuleOfGlamorous * ShownTheirWork - Makes it more appreciative when you know this isn't just made up or an AssPull. * Stripperific: All you {{Straw Feminist}}s screaming "sexism" can [=STFU=]. Especially if [[{{Hypocrite}} you're]] [[DoubleStandard the ones who say nothing]] if it's from the guys (Hercules, He Man, etc.), especially the [[YaoiGuys Yaoi Kind]]. * ZettaiRyouiki * ThemeMusicPowerUp [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Loracarol}}]] * All of the Crowning Moments. All of them. * {{Fantopia}} * {{Loracarol}} * {{Tearjerker}} * TroperWorks/TheSharedUniverse (Got to Pimp it somehow. X3) [[/folder]] [[folder:{{Luceia}}]] * AlternateTimeline * AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield * BadassLongcoat * BadassLonghair * BeyondTheImpossible * BishonenLine * BloodKnight * BoysLove * ButForMeItWasTuesday * ChewingTheScenery * [[Main/OurElvesAreBetter Elves]] * ElegantGothicLolita * EvilLaugh * EvilMeScaresMe * FoeYay ([[Series/DoctorWho Doctor/Master]] [[Main/OneTruePairing OTP!]]) * FutureBadass * FutureMeScaresMe * GambitPileup * GirlsLove * GodIsEvil * HasTwoMommies * HamAndCheese

* HamToHamCombat * HaveWeMetYet * HoldingHands * HomosexualReproduction * HonorBeforeReason * HoYay * ImpressivePyrotechnics * IncomingHam * InLoveWithYourCarnage * InterplayOfSexAndViolence * IntertwinedFingers * KidFromTheFuture * KnightInSourArmor * LadyOfWar * '''LargeHam''' * LipstickLesbian * LivingForeverIsAwesome * MadeOfExplodium * MyFutureSelfAndMe * OneWingedAngel * OminousLatinChanting * OrgasmicCombat * PlaceBeyondTime * RageAgainstTheHeavens * RapunzelHair * SatanIsGood * SexIsViolence * StableTimeLoop * TemporalParadox (When handled in an intelligent manner. [[Main/TimeyWimeyBall Which is rare]].) * TimeCrash * TimeTravel (When done intelligently in a way that makes sense and is internally consistant.) * TheFettered * TheMcCoy * {{Ubermensch}} (When of the Fettered variety) * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic * WorldOfBadass * WorldOfHam * XanatosGambit (yet not as much as...) * XanatosRoulette * XanatosSpeedChess * YouCantFightFate (When used in time travel plotlines.) * YouGottaHaveBlueHair [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Malygos}}]] * AntiVillain: I prefer my villains complex. * Badass: Who doesn't love badassery? * BadassAbnormal: Love it, though not as much as the next two. * BadassGrandpa: Don't mess with this old guy.

* BadassNormal: Hell yeah. You use magic, I KICK YOUR ASS WITH A SWORD. * BatmanGambit: See Xanatos Gambit * TheChessmaster: Qe5. Checkmate. * ChessMotifs: Love chess. * ColonelBadass: Fuck yeah. * DeconstructedTrope: I am just that cruel of a person sometimes ^_^ * {{Determinator}}: Fuck yeah. * DiscOneFinalBoss: As long as it's executed well, it can be extremely awesome. * {{Fanservice}}: DON'T JUDGE ME. * GambitPileup: Best. Trope. Ever. * MagnificentBastard: Because epic win results. * ManipulativeBastard: Magnificent Bastard - Chessmaster = still good. * WoobieDestroyerofWorlds: Love it. I don't know why, but..I just do :) * XanatosGambit: Because it is pure win. I love it when characters are able to come up with win plans. * XanatosSpeedChess: See Xanatos Gambit, but cooler and more realistic. [[/folder]] [[folder: ManWithoutABody]] * {{Retraux}} * GeorgeLucasThrowback (Except for, oddly, ''StarWars''. It's just me, Sir Alec Guinness, and [[{{Queen}} Freddy Mercury]].) * {{Anthology}} (Particularly if there's either a lot of connectivity between stories, or a really good FramingStory) * SoBadItsGood ** {{Camp}} * GodIsGood * EverythingsBetterWithCows (Because it is.) * {{Deconstruction}} (But only a well-done one. I like art that makes me think.) * VillainProtagonist * MemeticMolester ([[TheBigLebowski Eight year-olds, Dude.]]) * SerialKiller * RaygunGothic ** {{Zeerust}} * BodyHorror * UglyCute * TheGrotesque * MagnificentBastard (Don't we all love these guys?) * EmpathicEnvironment * SnowMeansLove * CultClassic * AntiquatedLinguistics * DastardlyWhiplash (Which I see almost as a fashion plate.) * YouTubePoop * ClusterFBomb (Fuck yeah.) * SmallTownBoredom (Provided the character is allowed to leave without the author calling them [[AndThatsTerrible a bad person]].)

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend (Not in an "Isn't it sad?" way, but in a "Ha ha! Cry some more!" way. Romances between childhood friends are [[PetPeeveTrope disgusting]].) * EarnYourHappyEnding (Despite some of my other favourite tropes, I'm a sucker for idealism.) * TropeName (Because of A Reason.) * LargeHam (But only when that's how the character ''should'' be played) * JustAMachine (When it ''is''. [[/folder]] [[folder: MarkLungo]] * CastOfSnowflakes: It's good for the creators, it's better for the audience, and it's more like RealLife. * TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything[=/=]FridgeBrilliance[=/=]ShownTheirWork[= /=]ViewersAreGeniuses: It's great when creators use intelligence in writing their stories--and even better when they don't assume that ViewersAreMorons. * EarnYourHappyEnding: HappilyEverAfter can be implausible and {{Glurge}}y, and I usually hate {{Downer Ending}}s. This is the perfect balance between them. * GoodFeelsGood: And why shouldn't it? ** BeingEvilSucks: The corollary to the above trope. * MultinationalTeam: Especially if the creators take care to avoid NationalStereotypes. * NerdsAreSexy: I'm one myself, after all. * StartOfDarkness: A good villain always has a convincing motivation... ** MotiveRant: ...and is able to explain it. *** ShutUpHannibal: Of course, a good hero always can always explain why the villain made the wrong choice. Forcefully, if necessary. (By which I mean a counterargument, not a punch.) * ThouShaltNotKill: A necessary trope for my favorite fictional heroes. * ZeroWingrish: Always amusing trope this is! Laughs are dependable! [[/folder]] [[folder: MetalmanJWily]] * {{Cloudcuckoolander}} -- It's what I am and if I changed my roommate would be wanting her cloudcuckoolander back. And it's almost always the endearing trait of a favorite character of mine in canon. * BadassBookworm -- I love them. I know more than one in my real life. I am one in my real life. * RuleOfFunny * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfFunny * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * ClusterFBomb -- Something I am known for. Something I adore. * ShownTheirWork -- Because I -WILL- call you out if you don't. I'm looking at you SMeyer. * BreakTheCutie -- Because I am so horribly evil sometimes.

* MegaManning -- Do you expect a Mega Man fan to NOT have this trope as a favorite? * TakeThat * {{Tsundere}} * {{Twincest}} * RapunzelHair -- My favorite human male characters have this. Case in point [[KingOfFighters Duo Lon]]. * TookALevelInBadass -- My favorite characters often do this. [[/folder]]

[[folder: Mistermister]] * ActionGirl * AffablyEvil * AerithAndBob * TheAragorn * All the {{Badass}} tropes, but mainly ** BadassAdorable ** ColonelBadass ** BadassBookworm ** BadassGrandpa ** BadassNormal ** LittleMissBadass: Probably the one I like most out of all these. * BloodKnight * CompleteMonster: It makes it all the more enjoyable to see them come to their end. * CowardlyLion * CurbStompBattle * FantasyKitchenSink * GambitPileup: Even more '''YES.''' * GoodParents: I'm surprised at how small this trope is. * HappilyMarried: So warming. * HeroicSociopath * HotChickWithASword * HumiliationConga * MagnificentBastard * ManiacMonkeys: For some reason, I always liked seeing alien monkeys as a race of bad guys, mostly because I don't like seeing [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent reptiles used instead.]] * RatedMForManly * SchizoTech * SlapstickKnowsNoGender: I'm not sexist or anything, but it's so refreshing to see a female character as the ButtMonkey in these times. * {{Steampunk}}: YES YES '''YES.''' {{Clockpunk}} is also very good. * XanatosGambit: Yes. * XanatosRoulette: ''YES.'' * TheWorfEffect * WorldOfBadass: Oh yeah. I always make sure that whenever I make up a new world, everyone is at least able to hold themselves in a fight. * WorldOfHam [[/folder]]

[[folder: MonsterDog]] * CrowningMomentOfAwesome - Especially where regards the MythBusters. * RefugeInAudacity - I could fill a whole TroperTales page with these. * ScrewySquirrel - My inspiration and my muse. * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill - Truly. * MoreDakka - Especially when combined with ATeamFiring. * {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - Here it is, thirty-five minutes after goobling, and nothing is furning! * BunnyEarsLawyer - I can't wait to finish my CPA education so I can be a Bunny Ears Accountant. * DeathByGenreSavviness - Because lampshades should be used for asphyxiation purposes. * GadgeteerGenius - I can't be the only one who REALLY wants to nail Lucca from ChronoTrigger, can I? * NoodleImplements - A key part of my favorite stock joke - "It's amazing what you can do with (various bizarre Noodle Implements) and too much free time." * CaughtWithYourPantsDown - My very favorite personal Troper Tale came from this trope (the one about the girl and the cheap line that worked.) [[/folder]] [[folder: MrEtaoinShrdlu]] * HungryJungle / TheLostWoods - the fact that I [[TheOtherRainforest kind of live in one]] may have something to do with this * PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad - not the trope, but works that satirize it * SadistShow / KafkaKomedy * TakeThat * WhatMeasureIsANonCute - once again, works that make fun of it * WideOpenSandbox [[/folder]] [[folder: Mr.Zimpy]] * {{Villain Protagonist}} * {{Hero Antagonist}} * {{Anti-Hero}} * {{Anti-Villain}} * {{Byronic Hero}} * {{Tragic Hero}} * {{Designated Hero}} * {{Designated Villain}} * {{Villain Song}} * {{Batman Gambit}} * {{Thanos Gambit}} * {{Xanatos Gambit}} * {{God is Evil}} * {{Satan is Good}} * {{Crapsaccarine World}} * {{Did Not Do The Research}} * {{Video Games}}

* {{Wild Mass Guessing}} * {{It Just Bugs Me}} * {{Good is not nice}} * {{Light is not evil}} * {{Dark is not evil}} * {{Nightmare Fuel}} * {{High Octane Nightmare Fuel}} * {{Affably Evil}} * {{Evilly Affable}} * {{Yangire}} * {{Yandere}} * {{Who you are in the dark}} * {{The faceless}} * {{The voiceless}} * {{The Spook}} * Just to save space, lets say the entire fucking website [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Mswordx23}}]] * AtomicFBomb * AudioErotica * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Because it's used ''everywhere'' on this site! * {{Badass}} * BadassBack * BadassLongcoat * BigDamnKiss * BigFancySword * BigFreakingGun * BigWordShout * BrickJoke: One of the best kinds of gags. * CallBack * CensorDecoy * TheChosenOne * TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight * ColdOpen * ContinuityNod: This troper ''loves'' continuity. * CrazyAwesome * CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Of course. * CrowningMomentOfFunny: Laughing until you run out of breath is always welcome. * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: D'awwwwww. * CrowningMusicOfAwesome: A show/movie is nothing without kickass music. * DeadpanSnarker * {{Determinator}} * DontSaySuchStupidThings * DopeSlap * EvilIsSexy: GuiltyPleasure * ExtremeMeleeRevenge * {{Fanservice}}: FreudWasRight indeed. * FightScene: This troper loves these

* FlatWhat: For some reason, I find them ''really'' funny. * GambitPileup * GetAHoldOfYourselfMan * GettingCrapPastTheRadar * GilliganCut * GonnaFlyNowMontage * {{Gorn}}: [[CompleteMonster ...What??]] * GoshDarnItToHeck * HelloNurse * HeroesPreferSwords * HeroicSecondWind * HesBack * HypocriticalHumor * IAmNotLeftHanded * IdiosyncraticWipes * IGotBetter * IncrediblyLamePun * {{Irony}} * IveHeardOfThatWhatIsIt * {{Jerkass}} * LampshadeHanging: All time favorite! * LesYay: [[AllMenArePerverts ...What?!]] * LogicBomb * MemeticBadass * MemeticMutation * MsFanservice * {{Ninja}}: Ergo, InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja. * NinjaPirateZombieRobot * OhCrap * OrIsIt: The End...? * PrecisionFStrike * PrepareToDie * {{Pun}} * PureAwesomeness * TheReveal * {{Revenge}}: Oh, '''YES'''! * RightBehindMe * RuleOfCool * RuleOfFunny * SarcasmMode * ShipTease * ShoutOut * SpiritBomb * {{Squick}} * StealthPun * StuffBlowingUp: Who ''doesn't'' like this? * SubvertedTrope: I love these, and it gets even better when it's a DoubleSubversion. * TakeThat * TearJerker * TemptingFate * TerribleTrio: Ergo, GoldfishPoopGang, IneffectualSympatheticVillain,

and other related tropes. * TheRalphWiggum * ThisIsGonnaSuck * TimeTravel * TooDumbToLive * TooMuchInformation * TropeName: Explanation. * WhamEpisode * WhatAnIdiot * WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome * ZigZaggingTrope: I love it when a trope can't decide where it wants to go. [[/folder]] [[folder:{{Mullon}}]] * XanatosGambit (Who doesn't love a good complex plan) * {{Cloudcuckoolander}} (Always good for a laugh) * DeadpanSnarker (As long as they are more on the funny and less on the bitter) * CompleteMonster (Probably because of a dislike of the FreudianExcuse) * {{Stripperiffic}} (What, I'm only human) * {{Fanservice}} (See above) * EarnYourHappyEnding (I don't like the BittersweetEnding, but I want the HappyEnding to be an achievement) * TheChessmaster (As long as they're not a SmugSnake about it) * VictoriousChildhoodFriend (Since they know all about each other and have for a long time, it seems most natural to me) * GiantEnemyCrab (Usually an interesting and creepy enemy) * GenreSavvy (It's like a ShoutOut, but with the character being smart) [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Mysterynovelist}}]] * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfFunny * CuteShotaroBoy * HoYay--in small amounts. * ISurrenderSuckers * NightmareFuel--sometimes; ironically enough, this troper is a total scaredy cat! * ShownTheirWork * TemptingFate * ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs * TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty * {{Tsundere}}--sometimes * WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs * WhosLaughingNow * XanatosGambit [[/folder]]

[[folder:Mystik]] * BoredWithInsanity - No clue why I like this one so much. Maybe it makes a character just seem that much more awesome... * CelibateHero - The [[UnfortunateImplication implications are certainly a whole lot better than]] GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex. It's easier to sympathize with a character who isn't a slave to their hormones. * CloudCuckooLander - I know full well of the thin line between Genius and what is percieved as insanity, and I get optimistic about people who seem absolutely crazy (not stupid). It takes [[UnderStatement a ''lot'']] to make me optimistic. * CoolOldGuy / CoolOldLady - Maybe it's because I can actually believe these characters have the intelligence and life experience to pull off whatever it is that makes them so cool. Which leads to... * GreyAndGreyMorality / BlackAndGreyMorality - A much more thought inducing scenario than BlackAndWhiteMorality. ** Particularly since one person's [[BlackAndWhiteMorality Black and White]] is another person's [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Blue and Orange]]. * ManipulativeBastard / TheChessmaster - Say what you like about the moral implications, anyone who can pull this off is frankly awesome in my book. ** MagnificentBastard takes it UpToEleven. If he is at least MorallyGrey rather than a CompleteMonster, I will love this character. * OlderAndWiser * OverprotectiveDad - As a teenage male, I canhonestly tell you that this guy's actions is usually a lot more justified than you think. * TheDumbledore * TheStoic - Can be done very, very well to make a character I envy and/or find ridiculously awesome. Though if the point is to dehumanize the character, I won't be laughing. * XanatosGambit - When it is used more deeply than the typical handwave for the villain staying ahead. ** GambitPileup - Though it is hard to pull off without seeming silly. ** XanatosSpeedChess - When used by a MagnificentBastard and done believably, this is beyond awesome. [[/folder]] [[folder: nacho47]] * GrayAndGrayMorality: I like when it isn't clear who is the bad guy and who is the hero. * DarkIsNotEvil / LightIsNotGood * VillainProtagonist * AntiHero * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Because it is. * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin * LargeHam * MagnificentBastard * BigDamnHeroes * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking [[/folder]] [[folder: Nasuella]] * AnimalStereotypes (Subversions and aversions, to be exact.)

* AntiVillain * BigBadassWolf * BlindIdiotTranslation * DeconstructiveParody * DoingItForTheArt * EarnYourHappyEnding * FunnyAnimal (''Especially'' if done well.) * GettingCrapPastTheRadar * IAmWhatIAm * KillerRabbit (Any animal can be dangerous/badass. Yes.) * NinjaPirateZombieRobot * OurMonstersAreDifferent * RuleOfCool / RuleOfFunny / RuleOfFun * SelfFulfillingProphecy * ShirtlessScene (I'm shameless.) * ShownTheirWork * ShutUpHannibal * SophisticatedAsHell (Love wordplay in general, but this is easily my favourite.) * VillainSong * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome [[/folder]] [[folder: ncfan]] * ActionGirl: Namely, I like these: ** BadassPrincess ** DarkActiongirl ** LadyOfWar ** NeverMessWithGranny ** PregnantBadass ** Subversions of RealWomenNeverWearDresses ** RebelliousPrincess * AntiVillain: Especially a Type IV. * BadassNormal * BattleCouple * BewareTheNiceOnes * BigDamnHeroes * BodyguardCrush: There are two examples from CodeGeass that are just so freaking ''cute''. * TheChampion: We all want one of these. * CharacterDevelopment: Don't we ''all'' love this one? * CoolOldLady * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfFunny * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * CrowningMusicOfAwesome * DeadpanSnarker * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu * EarnYourHappyEnding * EvenEvilHasStandards * FireForgedFriends * FridgeBrilliance / FridgeHorror: Because I'm twisted.

* GenreSavvy * GettingCrapPastTheRadar * HiddenDepths * HonorBeforeReason * IGotBetter: Sort of a love-hate relationship; I love it when a character I like does it. * JerkWithAHeartOfGold * KnightInShiningArmor * LargeHam * MagnificentBastard * OddFriendship * ParentalBonus * ShutUpHannibal * ThrowTheDogABone * XanatosGambit [[/folder]] [[folder: NeoSilverThorn]] * CrowningMusicOfAwesome * RuleOfCool * ThemeMusicPowerUp (''The Calling'' and ''Deja Vu'' from TheWorldEndsWithYou never fails to get me pumped.) * ScaryShinyGlasses (I swear by this trope even today. As do several members of my family.) * EducationThroughPyrotechnics (Two friends are utter pyros. As was most my sophmore chemistry class.) * TrouserSpace (Technically Vest Space for me, to the point where I've referred to the last pair of vests I've owned as "Vests of Everything.") * {{BFS}} (Because I'm not big on guns, but when I go for guns, I invoke...) * {{BFG}} (On a HumongousMecha scale, thank you.) * HumongousMecha (My obsession in life) * InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Nerdspringer}}]] * ShownTheirWork * GenreSavvy * ConversationalTroping * JigsawPuzzlePlot * RuleOfFunny * MagicRealism * FantasyKitchenSink * RobotBuddy * TheMultiverse * {{Cloudcuckoolander}} * FantasticRacism * CrossoverCosmology * GambitPileup * OntologicalMystery * ArtificialHuman

* TheyWalkAmongUs * AllOfTheOtherReindeer [[/folder]] [[folder: NewKidOnTheBlock]] * ActionGirl ** HotAmazon ** LadyOfWar ** LittleMissBadass ** CuteBruiser ** HotChickWithASword ** BadassPrincess ** BlackMagicianGirl ** DarkActionGirl * {{Badass}} ** BadassNormal ** BadassAdorable ** TookALevelInBadass ** BadassPreacher (Who says a pastor can't be badass?) ** BigBadassWolf ** ColonelBadass ** WorldOfBadass ** OneManArmy * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan * GodIsGood * '''{{Adorkable}}''' * AngstWhatAngst * GoodFeelsGood * TheMessiah * IncorruptiblePurePureness * BigDamnHeroes * CreepyChild * CharacterDevelopment (Of course!) * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan (As long as the sensitive guy isn't considered a "wimp" by the FanDumb, and the manly man isn't portrayed as a {{Jerkass}}.) * TomboyAndGirlyGirl (As long as the girly girl isn't either an obnoxious [[TheLibby Libby]] and/or bashed by the FanDumb for being feminine, and the tomboy isn't a StrawFeminist.) * PinkBoyBlueGirl * BoobsOfSteel * MsFanservice / HelloNurse (I'm a shameless bastard. XD) * GirlOnGirlIsHot / GuyOnGuyIsHot (See above.) * ShirtlessScene (Gah... StupidSexyFlanders!) * CloudCuckooLander * GenkiGirl * {{Keet}} * ThePollyanna * ChasteHero * MagnificentBastard / MagnificentBitch (They're so freaking awesome!) * AssholeVictim (I love it when the jerk gets what's coming to him / her.)

* ApologisesALot (Because I think it can be very cute.) * CampStraight (Hurray for breaking gender stereotypes!) * ShrinkingViolet (Although I ''hate'' it when the male version is portrayed as the ButtMonkey.) * CreepyChild (I've always loved creepy little kids.) * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld * VictoriousChildhoodFriend * {{Yangire}} * LargeHam * AffablyEvil * IncrediblyLamePun * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething * '''NerdsAreSexy''' * CoolOldGuy * CoolOldLady * BadassGrandpa * NeverMessWithGranny * MamaBear * PapaWolf * {{Moe}} * EnsembleDarkhorse * TheWoobie * {{Nakama}} * TeamPet * TeamMom * TeamDad * ThePowerOfFriendship * StupidSexyFlanders (Unfortunately, [[YourMileageMayVary or thankfully]], I happen to be extremely prone to this trope...) * RealMenWearPink * RealMenLoveJesus * CutenessProximity * TookALevelInBadass * SlapstickKnowsNoGender (Down with the {{Double Standard}}s!) * AerithAndBob * SpoiledSweet * MatzoFever * LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters (Because I'm a character whore.) [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Nonexistent Troper}}]] * {{Adorkable}}: What I aim for. * PinkBoyBlueGirl: It helps that I'm not very manly myself. * {{Cloudcuckoolander}} * DeadpanSnarker: As long as there's idiocy abound, then there will always be a niche for these men and women in society. * LightIsNotGood: After all, one cannot judge vice based on appearances. It's also probably because corrupt light-wielders are more likely to be... * WellIntentionedExtremist: Because very few people believe that what they're doing is wrong unless they're being forced to do it. * ActionGirl: And LadyOfWar for a change of pace.

* BadassAdorable, CuteBruiser: Aww, you're just the cutest thing- wait a second, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu did you just punch out Cthulu!?]] * PintsizedPowerhouse: See above. * CuteShotaroBoy: A cute exterior ''and'' a fairly dignified personality? Sounds good to me. * LittleMissBadass: Blame [[{{Film/Kick-Ass}} Hit-Girl]]. * XanatosGambit: Shows that the BigBad has really done his homework. * {{Magitek}}: Magic is cool and technology is cool, so why not mix the two? * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass * CrowningMomentOfFunny * AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: [[DistractedByTheShiny *Is distracted by the shiny*]] * EldritchLocation, {{Bizarrchitecture}}: There's just something special about a surreal location. * QuirkyMinibossSquad (and WolfpackBoss by extension,) DualBoss: [[ThePowerofFriendship The Power]] [[{{Narm}} of]] [[SonicHeroes Teamwork]] knows no alignment. * LargeHam: I just love these guys, especially since I verge into this trope occasionally. * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Dramatic [[MemeticMutation potato chip eating]]? '''F*** YEAH.''' * {{Deconstruction}}: Can make for some pretty interesting premises. * {{Reconstruction}}: A nice way to put a new spin on an old or cliche trope. [[/folder]]

FavoriteTropeO-R [[foldercontrol]] [[folder:{{Peanut}}]] * MarySue * TastesLikeDiabetes * RuleThirtyFour * PornStash * LargeHam * EverythingsBetterDeepFried * BreadEggsMilkSquick * BigLippedAlligatorMoment * EverythingsCuterWithKittens (weird, I'm more of a dog person) * ItJustBugsMe * SweetDreamsFuel * Oh, by the way, is this for your favorite tropes toread on TvTropes (like the list above), or the favorite tropes to see in fiction? Just let me know... I AM sorta squicked by some Rule Thirty Four stuff. [[/folder]] [[folder:PentiumMMX2]] * {{BFS}} (I like using gigantic swords in games) * BowtiesAreCool (I wish I still had my bowtie)

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome (Because everything is made better with an epic soundtrack backing it) * {{Meido}} (To me, this is the DistaffCounterpart to a bowtie; it's equally as cool) ** NinjaMaid (What's more awesome than a lady kicking ass while dressed like a maid?) * MoreDakka (Bigger guns are always better) * WholesomeCrossdresser (It's a great source of humor) [[/folder]] [[folder:PhoenixdaughterAM]] * {{Reconstruction}}: That should be a great indicator. * EarnYourHappyEnding: There must be trouble! But everything works out. * CuteShotaroBoy: ...*blush* * NiceGuy: ...are so hard to find. * WarriorTherapist: Espically the 'heroic' varients. * DanceOfRomance * ThePhoenix * OurMermaidsAreDifferent ** MermaidProblem: A mystery! Theory, even they don't know and it's an event when couples figure it out. * HiddenDepths * HeroicBSOD: Best paired with... * GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Rounded out with... * HesBack * SayMyName: [[GuiltyPleasures An indulgence]]. Speaking of which... * LargeHam * HeadbuttOfLove [[/folder]] [[folder:PhoenixFire]] * {{Antihero}} * BadassAbnormal * BadassLongcoat: Probably obvious from [[DGrayMan some]] [[FullmetalAlchemist of my]] [[DarkerThanBlack favorite]] [[TheDresdenFiles series]]... * BlessedWithSuck * DarkIsNotEvil * DeadpanSnarker * DisabilitySuperpower * ElementalPowers * GenreSavvy * GreyAndGrayMorality / BlackAndGrayMorality * GuileHero * HeartIsAnAwesomePower * LethalHarmlessPowers * MagicAIsMagicA * MundaneUtility * SophisticatedAsHell: Probably because ''I'' talk like that. * TheStoic and StoicWoobie [[/folder]]

[[folder: {{Pinata}}]] * {{Badass}} (of any variety, but preferably female as you'll see below) * ActionGirl * CuteBruiser * LadyOfWar * AntiHero * AntiVillain * AssholeVictim * BlackAndGrayMorality (noticing another pattern...) * DeathByIrony * DisproportionateRetribution * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill * {{Fanservice}} * FanserviceWithASmile * HadakaApron * PlayboyBunny * GoGoEnslavement * CatholicSchoolgirlsRule * {{Gainaxing}} * AbsoluteCleavage * {{Stripperiffic}} * AnythingThatMoves * MyGirlIsASlut * LesYay * SchoolgirlLesbians * LipstickLesbians * PaleSkinnedBrunette (This, to me, is the embodiment of physical perfection.) * ContemptibleCover * AnyoneCanDie * AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs * TheDeterminator * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfFunny * BloodyHilarious * HighOctaneNightmareFuel * {{Squick}} (yes, really) [[/folder]] [[folder:{{Praetyre}}]] * CompleteMonster (Rather ironically) * SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny * SugarWiki/CrowningMusicOfAwesome * DepravedBisexual * DepravedHomosexual * JigsawPlot (Love it, for all the reasons mentioned in the article) * MagnificentBastard * MillionMookMarch * MonsterClown * MythArc (I like series with overall plans, rather than alternating

adventures) * RiskStyleMap * RuleOfFun (I generally love one of two approaches when it comes to realism. One is it make it a strong case of ShownTheirWork and effectively create an extrapolation or simulation of what you are depicting, the other is to go all out silly (such as the physics of {{Fallout}} or TeamFortress2.) * ShownTheirWork * SissyVillain * TheSummation (I like seeing all these plot threads come together in a spectacular fashion. It's like setting up a great firework show- the payoff is after you set them all, and carefully) * XanatosGambit (I love complicated, intricate plots that take us places to places and are planned with great precision by a great mastermind) * XanatosRoulette (Ditto) * VillainousCrossdresser (Because it's ''[[RuleOfFunny funny]]'', dang it) [[/folder]] [[folder: Premonition45]] * ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll: When done well, like in ''BackToTheFuture''. * AirInAGString: Speaking as a violist, I've known lots of awesome girls in orchestra. * AlasPoorVillain / AntagonistInMourning * AndTheAdventureContinues * AntiVillain ** PunchClockVillain ** WellIntentionedExtremist ** WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds * BadassBookworm / GeniusBruiser * BewareTheNiceOnes * BigDamnHeroes * BreakTheHaughty * [[ThisIndexWillBeImportantLater Chekhov's Index]] * CelibateHero: A man doesn't have to be a casanova to be badass. * ChewingTheScenery: When done well. * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfFunny * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * CrowningMusicOfAwesome ** EpicRiff * EarnYourHappyEnding * EnemyMine * EvenEvilHasStandards * FanService / FetishFuel ** GoGoEnslavement: Two words: [[ReturnOfTheJedi Slave Leia]]. * FridgeBrilliance * FriendlyEnemy * GadgeteerGenius * GeniusBonus

* HeartwarmingInHindsight * HilariousInHindsight * HonorBeforeReason * LetsGetDangerous * MagnificentBastard * MamaBear / PapaWolf * NeutralGood: My favorite Good alignment. * TheObiWan ** ObiWanMoment * PatrickStewartSpeech * ThePowerOfLove * RousseauWasRight * SceneryPorn * ShownTheirWork * ShutUpHannibal * StepfordSmiler * TearJerker * ThrowTheDogABone: It's good to see unlucky characters get a break. * TookALevelInBadass * UnpopularPopularCharacter * VisualEffectsOfAwesome * WhatTheHellHero: If the hero's acting unheroically, let him know! * TheWoobie ** IronWoobie ** WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: I know [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment I listed it twice]]. That's because [[BlazingSaddles I like it]]. * WorthyOpponent [[/folder]] [[folder:PrivatePrinny]] Well, not everything is bad, here is a list of the tropes I like! * ActionGirl: Except when the woman is a shallow misandrist, of course. * ActionSurvivor: A normal person able to survive catastrophes and bad situations is better than a superpowered badass. * AffablyEvil: Being a villain and also polite and charismatic are not opposites. * BumblingDad: Well, I find these very adorable and funny, of course, when they are not treated like crap and they have a good heart inside. When he is used to show us how cool and intelligent is the mother, I puke on it. Examples of likeable [[BumblingDad bumbling dads]] are [[FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] and [[TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] before their massive {{Flanderization}}. * CombatMedic: Im really tired of fragile healing females. * CompleteMonster: I really love this type of characters, of course, if they are well written, are fearsome, repulsive, merciless and cause [[EvenEvilHasStandards horror from other pussy villains]] Also, I really like complete monsters when they are people who looks innocent and delicate, but are ruthless and rotten in the inside. Bonus points also, if the atrocious villain is female and subverts [[CloserToEarth Closer To Earth]], [[HighHeelFaceTurn High Heel Face Turn]] and other

stupid tropes about the inherent goodness of women. I salute you, [[DarkStalkers Bulleta/BBHood]]! * DarkActionGirl: I prefer them over the heroic ones, because I love aggresive action heroines. I also love EVIL villainesses who are not slaves of the HighHeelFaceTurn. * DeadBabyComedy: To me, the best type of comedy, far better than shitty sitcoms (unless the sitcom in question is a DeadBabyComedy, like FamilyGuy), because, to me, this comedy shows us the hypocresy of our society, that tell us its okay to laugh at [[AcceptableTargets some people]] but its not to do this to [[UnacceptableTargets another people]]. Also, I love to see politically incorrect things being mocked, and shows like [[SouthPark South Park]] are my favorites. * EarnYourHappyEnding: Instead of whining about how hard and unfair life is, fight for your believings and dont give up. This is far more realistic than tropes like [[DownerEnding Downer Ending]], [[ShootTheShaggyDog Shoot The Saggy Dog]] and relatives. * EldritchAbomination: Im a fan of abominations from the uncanny abyss who mock nature and cause terror in humanitys heart. * EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins: Well, as you can see if you read my nick, I love penguins... * FaceHeelTurn: This can provide a great conflict among heroes. * FromNobodyToNightmare: One of the better villain sources. * GoodBadGirl: Every trope subverting the idiotic [[AllWomenArePrudes All Women Are Prudes]] is welcomed in my house, but this is one of my personal favorite, because its very realistic and shows than a woman who likes sex is not a nazi. * GroinAttack: When the man in question is a complete dick, its very satisfying to see his balls getting crushed. Too bad this trope is generally used with the wrong guys. * HeelFaceTurn and HelpFaceTurn: When they are well written, are believable and the character in question are really a good person, but he/she is just misguided (for example, when the character are the son of the bad guy or really thinks the villain have a good goal), or is really remorseful for his acts (and dont try to justify their behaviour with a ridiculous excuse) or is a [[PunchClockVillain Punch Clock Villain]]. When its this way, the redeemed guy or gal is a wonderful example of [[CharacterDevelopment Character Development]] bonus points if he or she make something awesome in form of an [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic Sacrifice]] or something else. On the other hand, dont expect me rooting about someone going to the side of good if he was a [[CompleteMonster Complete Monster]] or a monumental son of a bitch and the good guys just forgive him. This a gigantic [[DethroningMomentOfSuck Dethroning Moment of Suck]] to me, and yes, [[HighHeelFaceTurn females are included]]. * HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Im a fan of survival horror games. * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: One of the best forms of [[CharacterDevelopment Character Development]] in my opinion. * LadyOfWar: One of my favorites, women that can fight and also are elegant and refined will surely gain my heart. * LittleMissBadass: Because a little girl who can kick your ass and laughs at you in the process is very, very cool. * MascotMook: I really like [[SuperMarioBros goombas]], [[MegaMan

mets]], [[DragonQuest slimes]], [[FinalFantasy tonberrys]]...they are very cute and charismatic. * MookFaceTurn: Yes, most of the time, mooks are just people and you can just talking instead of ramming with a sword yelling like a moron. * PluckyGirl: Because I like brave and determined heroines, so very much, this is also one of the best things to do with a [[TheChick Non Action Girl]]. Among these are my favorite girls, like [[FairyTail Lucy]]. * PuzzleBoss: One of the reasons I like videogames like [[TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]] and {{Metroid}} * ThatOneBoss: Because they give me an absolute epic fight and I feel incredibly good when I beat them. Of course, when defeating the boss in question is more about strategy and skills than [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard cheating]] * ThePollyanna: A really admirable type of character, one of the reasons I love [[SouthPark Butters]] especially in the Raisins episode. And dont forget [[ElfenLied Nana]], one of the most amazing pollyannas ever created. * ShutUpHannibal: When someone has guts to counter TheReasonYouSuckSpeech gave by an asshole, humiliating him or her in the process, its just a CrowningMomentOfAwesome to me. * SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Yes, I find funny (very funny) when girls are hit and [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished their beauty IS tarnished]] because Im sick of guys getting slapsticky beaten whereas women are free from it during decades, call me a CompleteMonster if you want, [[CardCarryingVillain I will be proud]] * StrangeGirl: I prefer this type of female characters far more than our cliched CloserToEarth TokenMinority superwomen, thank you. * WhosLaughingNow: Its also absolute amazing to see a [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkey]] beating the crap of his tormentors. * TheWoobie: To the point that Im waiting for bad things to happen to the character to feel sorry about him or her. Dood! [[/folder]] [[folder:{{PurePurity}}]] * Main/{{Incorruptible Pure Pureness}}: I like very pure-hearted characters because they shows us how to stand up for what is right and good at all times. * Main/{{Virgin Power}} * Main/{{Mary Suetopia}} * Main/{{Princess Curls}} * Main/{{Ojou}} * Main/{{Mystical Waif}} * Main/{{Yamato Nadeshiko}}:Polite, modest, and feminine characters are a joy to see. * Main/{{Spoiled Sweet}}: Although these characters may be a bit prissy, a lot of them tend to be sweet. When these characters are well-developed, there is a good balance of flaws and virtues. * Main/{{Purity Sue}} * Main/{{Mary Sue}}

* Main/{{The Chick}} * Main/{{Actual Pacifist}} * Main/{{Moe}} * Main/{{Princess Classic}} * Main/{{The Ingenue}}: Naive characters make me smile. * Main/{{Shrinking Violet}}: As a Main/{{shrinking violet}} myself, I like seeing these characters because I can relate to them very well. * Main/{{The Power of Love}}: Love is very powerfull, meaningful, and beautiful. * Main/{{The Woobie}}: They tend to make me sympathetic towards them. * Main/{{Be Yourself}}: Because people are constantly expected to be everything but themselves. [[/folder]] [[folder:{{Rainbow}}]] * TheStoic (especially female) * SchoolgirlLesbians * EdibleThemeNaming * AerithAndBob * CuteBruiser * DarkIsNotEvil and LightIsNotGood * ForeheadOfDoom * MultinationalTeam * StellarName * WholesomeCrossdresser * TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse * StereotypeFlip * AwesomeMcCoolname * FunetikAksent (I like reading characters that have obvious accents, or even if it just says that a character has a thick accent. The use of this trope in the ExcelSaga manga is what makes me squeal over Sumiyoshi and his little sister.) * EverythingsBetterWithRainbows * EverythingsBetterWithSparkles * EmotionlessGirl * KidHero (I don't care if it's unrealistic, I like stories about kids who save the world, especially magical girls.) [[/folder]] [[folder: ARandomSerf]] * CrossesTheLineTwice * Crowning Yadda Yadda Yadda * EvilLaugh * EvilSoundsDeep * GettingCrapPastTheRadar * LargeHam: Specifically, when applied to villainy and villainous music. It's just so...[[EvilTastesGood delicious.]] * NothingIsScarier: When done right, it really is. * OhCrap * OminousFog * OminousLatinChanting * OminousPipeOrgan

* RuleOfFun * VideoGameCrueltyPotential * VillainSong * VoiceOfTheLegion * WhamLine, especially when it elicits an OhCrap reaction * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Reimu}}]] * AcceptableBreaksFromReality, and [[RuleOfIndex other related tropes.]] * AddedAlliterativeAppeal ([[AtopTheFourthWall I love alliteration.]]) * BadassNormal (oh so much) * BeautifulVoid * ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth * CrowningMusicOfAwesome * ElegantGothicLolita * EpilepticTrees * FetishFuel (well, duh.) ** DressedToKill ** GeekyTurnOn ** {{Meganekko}} * FridgeBrilliance * HeartIsAnAwesomePower * JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind * TheLibraryOfBabel * LittleMissSnarker * {{Magitek}} * MindScrew * SceneryPorn * ShoutOut * StuffBlowingUp * WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs [[/folder]] [[folder: RitiTroll]] * ActorAllusion: When done well. It can be worse than MemeticMolester if it isn't. * DopplegangerCrossover: Again, when done well. Which I haven't seen much of. * Come to think of it, a lot of my favorite tropes are based on them being done well. [[/folder]] [[folder:RobinZimm]] * AbandonedArea and subtropes * ActionSurvivor (''so'' much) * AwesomenessByAnalysis * BadassNormal (see above) * IncorruptiblePurePureness[=/=]HonorBeforeReason ** TheCape ** KnightInShiningArmor

** KnightInSourArmor ** TheLastDJ * ClosedCircle * EarnYourHappyEnding * EverybodyLives * FirstContact * IndyPloy * LateToTheParty * MundaneUtility * TheOner * OntologicalMystery * OverlyNarrowSuperlative * UnaccustomedAsIAmToPublicSpeaking * VirtualPaperDoll * WhatDidIDoLastNight * WhatYouAreInTheDark [[/folder]] [[folder: Rosebud64]] * {{Bishonen}}: I have a thing for pretty boys. * IJustWantToBeSpecial: This trope ''totally'' applies to me, and its nice to know I'm not alone. * TheHighQueen: Beautiful, smart, ''and'' powerful? Yes, please! ** LadyOfWar: Same as above, but can kick ass. ** HotAmazon: When the LadyOfWar-or really, any ActionGirl will do-is attractive ''because'' she's {{badass}}. * WishFulfillment: Goes without saying, really. [[/folder]]

FavoriteTropeS-T [[foldercontrol]] [[folder: SapphireFlame]] * Badass * CrowningMomentOfAwesome and its subtropes ** CrowningMusicOfAwesome- Because you can't rock out to the OTHER type of [=CMoA=] ** CrowningMomentOfX, in general, actually * DeadpanSnarker- Probably because they remind me of myself * EarnYourHappyEnding- I personally think that this is probably ''the'' most satisfying type of ending of all. * FetishFuel- Yes please * GagDub and GagSub * GeniusBonus- I'm unfortunately lacking in higher level education (hey, I'm young) so ViewersAreGeniuses just confuses me, but I ''do'' like it when someone at least acknowledges that some viewers aren't morons. * '''LargeHam''' * MagnificentBastard- Even while I'm hating their guts... I'm still impressed with them. * OhCrap- This ''never'' gets old. Ever. I dare someone to prove me

wrong. * RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap- I've always admired writers who don't take the [[PutOnABus easy way out]] and work towards making their characters likable. * RuleOfCool- [[LaserBlade Laser Swords]]? {{BFG}}s? [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Galaxy-sized Mecha with massive drills]]? Yes please. * ScrewYouElves- It's just so satisfying to see someone say "up yours" to the Mary Sue race. * SuperweaponSurprise- Particularly Types 1 and 3, since it tends to lead to [[OhCrap another trope I like]] * TheToblerone- We need more of these, really. * TooDumbToLive- When played for comedy. * XanatosGambit- I admire anyone who manages to do something this clever [[/folder]] [[folder: SaraJaye]] * BoisterousBruiser * Crowning Moment of anything * LadyOfWar. Perfect mixture of badassery and femininity. * LampshadeHanging. Always good for a laugh! * {{Shorttank}} * GentleGiant. A lot of my favorite male characters are these. * TeamMom and TeamDad * EverythingsCuterWithKittens. Because it's true. :P * PokeThePoodle. Something about a nice person trying to be evil and failing tends to be hilarious. * HoYay and LesYay, but not to the point where HetIsEw. * BreakTheHaughty if it's done well * AnyoneRememberPogs. I'm a sucker for campy nostalgia! * ThePowerOfFriendship. Because I am a sap. * SpaceWhaleAesop. Bonus points it [[SouthPark it actually involves a whale going into space.]] * SpoofAesop, because they're usually hilarious. Like this one here: -->'''ORSON:''' As you can see, kids, there's a lesson to be learned from this story. -->'''ROY:''' Yeah. You don't repay money you owe, a dinosaur squishes your head. -->'''ORSON:''' That's pretty much it. * RelationshipUpgrade and by extension, VictoriousChildhoodFriend. I'm a sucker for these kinds of relationships. * RescueRomance if it's done well. * {{Nakama}}. * GettingCrapPastTheRadar. Someday I must ask these writers their secrets. * CoolOldGuy and CoolOldLady, mainly because growing up [[FamilyMatters Estelle Winslow]] was one of my favorite TV females ''ever''. * BadassGrandpa * '''LargeHam'''!!! * {{Kuudere}}

* JamesBondage if it's done well (I quite like seeing the gender roles reversed, but if the girl's ''only'' motivation in taking a level in badass is True Love and nothing else that's no better than the age-old DistressedDamsel device) * RealMenWearPink: Because manliness is not measured in eating nails for breakfast or kicking six asses per minute. * ZettaiRyouiki * CloudCuckoolander: They're just so much ''fun''! * NightmareRetardant: I dunno, I just...really like when something is too ridiculously funny to actually give me nightmares. XD * NarmCharm * IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: Only when it's done well, though. If it's one of those "oh noes, my one true love is going RAWR and attacking me at random, I must snap her out of it with my magic kiss/cry and flail until the magic fairy godmother gives me shiny magic powers to stop him!" scenarios, I'll pass. * HilariousInHindsight: "Oh hey, this character just made a reference to rainbow-colored monkeys. * 4 years later* Hey, the star of that new show about the rainbow-colored monkeys looks familiar..." * {{Ensembles}} and CastCalculus on the whole: From a fan's standpoint, they're fun to watch. From a writer's standpoint they're fun to play with. Specific favorites are FiveManBand, FourTemperamentEnsemble and ThreeAmigos. * DanceOfRomance: Especially when accompanied by a good song. * BreakingTheFourthWall and other Fourth Wall tropes: It's just good classic fun! * StylisticSuck and its subtropes: Cause sometimes you're just in the mood for a good old HamAndCheese-fest. * SleepCute and LapPillow: Be it platonic or romantic, these never fail to make me squee and melt into a puddle of happy. * GoodIsNotDumb: Because it stomps the idea that only ~edgy~ antiheroes and villains have any brains in their heads, and that good people are stupid and gullible and easy to trick. [[/folder]] [[folder: ScionOfGrace]] * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * CrowningMomentOfFunny * CrowningMusicOfAwesome * GuileHero * TheTrickster and associated tropes, particularly BugsBunny and ChaoticGood * ActionGirl * MagnificentBastard * All the [[BadAss Badass]] tropes, particularly BadassNormal and TookALevelInBadass * LetsGetDangerous * LivingShip * MundaneUtility * GenreSavvy * HeartIsAnAwesomePower - It totally is!

* {{Reconstruction}} * TheStoic * LargeHam - the Trope page for all the Ham tropes is guaranteed to make me smile, as are the Large Hams themselves. * EarnYourHappyEnding - It makes it that much happier. * MostWonderfulSound - So many in real life... * {{Nakama}} - I has it. * PapaWolf * MamaBear * HappilyMarried - We need more of these, dangit! * BelligerentSexualTension * WhatMeasureIsANonCute and WhatMeasureIsANonHuman when they are subverted, inverted, or averted. * CharacterDevelopment * DeadpanSnarker * DarkIsNotEvil * GoodIsNotNice - Especially when it's clear that Good is still ''good''. * HeelFaceTurn * FridgeBrilliance - I love discovering the scope of the writer's genius. * ThePowerOfLove * NoodleImplements * ThrowItIn - accidents sometimes work out better than all the planning in the world. * SceneryPorn * IntoxicationEnsues * CloudCuckooLander - I love these people. They are MadeOfWin. * CrazyAwesome * CelibateHero - I firmly believe there are way more important things in the world than sexuality. * HappyRain * {{Determinator}} - because after all, my first literary love is [[TheLordOfTheRings Sam Gamgee]]. * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking as well as BreadEggsMilkSquick - they're just funny. * LawfulEvil * XanatosGambit, XanatosSpeedChess, ThirtyGambitPileup, and... IndyPloy. [[/folder]] [[folder:SerenitySquid]] * AbsentMindedProfessor * AerithAndBob * AmazingTechnicolourPopulation * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking * AwesomeAnachronisticApparel * {{Badass}} ** BadassBeard ** BadassBookworm ** BadassDamsel

** BadassNormal ** CulturedBadass ** LittleMissBadass ** WorldOfBadass * BatDeduction * BewareTheNiceOnes * {{Bifauxnen}} * BoisterousBruiser * {{Camp}} * CardCarryingVillain * CargoShip * {{Cloudcuckoolander}} * CoatHatMask * CoolOldGuy * CreepyChild * CyberCyclops * [[DidYouJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu Did You Just Have Tea With Cthulhu?]] * TheDumbledore * EldritchAbomination ** HumanoidAbomination * EmergentHuman * EverythingsBetterWithBunnies * EverythingsBetterWithLlamas * EverythingsBetterWithMotorcycles * EverythingsDeaderWithZombies * EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods * EyepatchOfPower * FawltyTowersPlot * FourTemperamentEnsemble * FracturedFairyTale * TheFrizzle * GambitPileup * GeniusBonus * GeniusBruiser * GogglesDoNothing * GoodIsNotDumb * HappyRain * HaveAGayOldTime * HoYay * {{Hellhound}} * HurricaneOfPuns * InsectoidAliens * LadyOfWar * '''''[[LargeHam LARGE HAM!!!!!!!]]''''' ** HamAndCheese ** HamToHamCombat ** WorldOfHam * TheLibraryOfBabel * LooksLikeCesare * LovecraftLite * MediumAwareness * TheMessiah

* MinoredInAsskicking * NeverMessWithGranny * NinjaPirateZombieRobot * NoFourthWall * NoodleIncident * PlanetEris * PunchClockVillain * RatedMForManly ** TestosteronePoisoning * RealMenWearPink * RenaissanceMan * {{Retraux}} * {{Rule of Cool}} * {{Rule of Funny}} * SceneryPorn * SoBadItsGood * StealthParody * StuffBlowingUp * StylisticSuck * '''''[[ThisIsSparta THIS! IS! SPARTA!]]''''' * TricksterMentor * UglyCute * UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny * VoiceOfTheLegion * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome * TheWonka * YiddishAsASecondLanguage [[/folder]] [[folder: ShadowQueen]] * BadAss * DemonicPossession- I added the picture there. * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen * HighOctaneNightmareFuel- I'm always trying to get that creepy pic of the Tails Doll on there. But they say it's a meme thing. What about Notability? * VideoGame/PaperMario * WorthyOpponent- I also add the pic there. * XanatosGambit [[/folder]] [[folder: ShotgunNinja]] * AlternateCharacterInterpretation * {{Asexuality}} * CloudCuckoolander * CrowningMomentOfFunny * CrowningMusicOfAwesome * FanPreferredCouple * HeroicSociopath * MisaimedFandom * ShrinkingViolet * ThemeMusicPowerup

[[/folder]] [[folder: SilverMoonDance]] * EarnYourHappyEnding: Happy endings are better when you ''work hard'' to get them. * {{Nakama}}: This one needs no explanation. * MamaBear and PapaWolf: It's nice to see parents that actually ''care'' for their kids. * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: It's fun to spot those dirty jokes and wonder how they got away with it. * [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Moment]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Of]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Anything]]: Everybody loves crowning moments! * VillainSong: They always have the best ones. ''Always''. * LaserGuidedKarma: It's nice to see villains get what they deserve. [[KarmaHoudini Guess which trope I absolutely despise]]. * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: It's always hilarious. * FridgeBrilliance: I just ''love'' the feeling I get when I realise how well thought-out something is. * CallingTheOldManOut: Tired of your AbusiveParents giving you hell? Don't be afraid to let them know you ''you'' feel! * WhamLine: The more shocking it is, the better. * StuffBlowingUp: It always gets a chuckle out of me. * TheDogBitesBack: Hats off to karmic retribution! * FaceDeathWithDignity: It's pretty heartwarming to see someone in peril calmly accept their fate and go through with it. * PreMortemOneLiner: Can be a CrowningMomentOfAwesome if pulled off right. * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Who knew [[DeathNote eating a potato chip]] could be so awesome? * DeadGuyJunior: Aww! He remembered his dead father/friend/mentor/whatever! * GeniusBonus: Heck yes, [[TheWorldEndsWithYou Sho Minamimoto]] and his [[GoodWithNumbers calculus jokes]]... * RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Nice to see that the creators care about the show and actually ''listen'' to the fans. * SorryILeftTheBGMOn: It can be freaking hilarious. * EnsembleDarkhorse: Minor characters deserve some love, too! * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: I ''love'' cute animals. * LargeHam: Let's be honest here - who ''doesn't'' love hammy characters? * WhenSheSmiles: Hold it. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming I've got something in my eye]]. * ShownTheirWork: Do research when writing - it'll do you a world of good. * VideoGameCaringPotential: It's pleasant and rewarding. * VideoGameCrueltyPotential: On the other hand, torturing Sims is ''fun''. * TheWoobie: Most of my favourite characters went through a lot in their lives, what more can I say? * HolyShitQuotient: I just like going "OMGWTFBBQ" every once in a while.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Sometimes, I ''love'' scaring the s**t out of myself. * EverythingsCuterWithKittens and EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies: You know it's true. * CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Though it can be annoying, some of the mistakes are fun to laugh at. * DoingItForTheArt: I salute creators who understand that money isn't everything. * InherentlyFunnyWords: There are some words I can't say without cracking up. Which is ''great''. * SeldomSeenSpecies: I like it when smart creators avert SmallTaxonomyPools. [[/folder]] [[folder: SiriusLoveGirl]] * HoYay * EveryoneIsBi * ManlyTears * PsychoElectro * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou * BadassBookworm * BadassLongcoat * BadassNormal (Can you tell I like badasses and badass things?) * HeterosexualLifePartners * FastballSpecial * JerkWithAHeartOfGold * NobleDemon * MeaningfulEcho * Meganekko * ItHasBeenAnHonor * Leitmotif * WorldOfCardboardSpeech [[/folder]] [[folder: SMsoldier]] * PowerofFriendship- What can I say? I am a sucker when it comes to a bonding of friends. * CrowningMomentOfAwesome, Heartwarming, and Funny- Looking at those moments brighten my day. * GettingCrapPastTheRadar- My favorite type of humor because it's like FridgeBrilliance: It's funny once you realize what it meant. The people behind the works can be crafty when they want to be! * NightmareFuel and HighOctaneNightmareFuel- I can be bit of a scaredy cat at times, but I do like to scare myself sometimes. * FridgeBrilliance and FridgeHorror- I like to realize the brilliance and horrors of different works. * CrowningMusicOfAwesome * MamaBear * PapaWolf * WidgetSeries- It feels so good to watch a series that's funny and trippy at the same time. * {{Nakama}}

[[/folder]] [[folder:{{Solandra}}]] * ActionGirl * BecomingTheMask * BewareTheNiceOnes / LetsGetDangerous * BreakTheHaughty: Ahhh, karma. * Bruisers of the [[CuteBruiser cute]] and [[GeniusBruiser clever]] kind. * CharacterDevelopment * CloudCuckoolander: Probably because I'm sort of one myself. * CovertPervert * DeadpanSnarker * EarnYourHappyEnding: I agree that this is the best type of ending if pulled off well. * GenreSavvy * HappilyMarried: As long as StrangledByTheRedString doesn't come into play. * HoYay * LoveRedeems: Hey, I'm a romantic optimist at heart! * {{Kuudere}} / {{Tsundere}} / {{Yandere}} * ShownTheirWork: Self-explanatory. * StepfordSmiler: Because I am oddly ''fascinated'' by what can be concealed/waiting underneath a flawless, porcelain-perfect exterior. * TrueLoveIsExceptional: Once again, so long as StrangledByTheRedString isn't seen in the vicinity. * WellExcuseMePrincess [[/folder]] [[folder:{{SonicPanther}}]] * AxCrazy * BlackAndGrayMorality * GreyAndGrayMorality * HeterosexualLifePartners * HoYay * EveryoneIsBi * HaveAGayOldTime * TranslationTrainWreck * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * EnsembleDarkhorse * StraightGay * EpilepticTrees * ChaoticNeutral * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome * BadassPacifist * SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion [[/folder]] [[folder:StardustRain]] * ActionGirl * AliensInCardiff * AlternateCharacterInterpretation

* ArcWords * BadassBookworm * BadassLongcoat * BecomingTheMask * BilingualBonus: mostly because I get the good end of it. * ButterflyOfDoom * BreatherEpisode: they can really come in handy during those emotionally intense marathons. * [[ThisIndexWillBeImportantLater Chekov's Anything]] * CerebusSyndrome (when done right, like OrderOftheStick, because I like deeper plot and CharacterDevelopment. When done wrong...you get cancercancercancer) * {{Cloudcuckoolander}} * CrowningMusicOfAwesome * {{Cyberspace}} / {{Metaverse}}: I love the social constructions of the internet and I love media that explores the imagination and limits of it. * {{Deconstruction}} * EarnYourHappyEnding * FacingTheBulletsOneLiner * FandomNod * Hoyay / FoeYay: I like my ships mind-screwy and full of delicious tension. * FiveManBand * FunnyAneurysmMoment: I'm not masochistic, just an appreciator of irony. * GenreSavvy: it's always nice to see someone who knows what's going on. * GeniusBonus * HiddenDepths * HoistByHisOwnPetard * IronicEcho * JigsawPlot * LaResistance * LateToTheParty: figuring out what the hell happened before is half the fun. * LastStand * TheLibraryOfBabel * MagnificentBastard * MindScrew: okay, maybe I'm a little bit masochistic. * MultinationalTeam: the preciously few times when done well and avoids stereotypes. * MythArc * MyFriendsAndZoidberg * {{Nakama}} * NotSoStoic * ObfuscatingStupidity * PaintingTheFourthWall * PuttingTheBandBackTogether * SceneryPorn * ShownTheirWork * SteamPunk

* StraightGay * SlashFic * SugarApocalypse: one of my favourite webcomics is ''BreakfastOfTheGods''. * TimeTravel * TitleDrop * TookALevelInBadass * TwoLinesNoWaiting * UrbanFantasy * XanatosGambit, XanatosSpeedChess [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Starscream}}]] * DeadpanSnarker * MamaBear [[/folder]] [[folder: Stevobread]] * AffablyEvil * AlasPoorVillain * BadassNormal * BattleCouple * BigDamnHeroes * BloodKnight * BossBattle * BreatherEpisode * CrowningMomentOfAwesome/ CrowningMusicOfAwesome * DanceBattler * {{Determinator}} * EmotionlessGirl * EnsembleDarkhorse * EvilIsCool * LampshadeHanging * MagikarpPower * ObfuscatingStupidity * ShrinkingViolet * SpockSpeak * StalkerWithACrush * TheStoic * StudentTeacherRomance * TookALevelInBadass * {{Yandere}}/ {{Yangire}} [[/folder]] [[folder: StongRadd]] * ClusterFBomb - "Fuckwad" is an UnusualEuphemism for "Stupid motherfucker who can't fucking shut the fuck up for five fucking seconds". * CrowningMomentOfX in general * MindScrew - He's a mindfuck himself. * NoodleIncident ** NoodleImplements

* PrecisionFStrike * TookALevelInBadass * UnusualEuphemism * YuriFan - He might be one himself. [[/folder]] [[folder: Stoogebie]] * {{Adorkable}}: I'm totally in love with this trope! * AmbiguousGender: A MindScrew for sure, but no less fun! * AntiHero: Maybe it's their darker characterization that makes them more relatable, or the fact that DarkIsNotEvil, but either way, they make the best characters! * AntiVillain: Like the above, but it gives you a good reason to root for them! * BadassAdorable * BadassBookworm * CrackPairing: Because it's funny! * CrazyAwesome: Because normal-awesome just isn't enough! * CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Who doesn't '''''love''''' this trope!? * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Same as above! * DeadpanSnarker * FetishFuelStationAttendant: It depends on the character, but also on how you define "fetish," but I definitely like having a few! * {{Moe}}: For someone who frequently enjoys action-adventure with [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]] and {{Fight Scene}}s, I can't help but gush over a character that makes me wanna '''hug''' them!!! * MoeCouplet: When two people look so cute together, you just can't help but love it! * {{Pettanko}}: Because flat chests ''are'' sexy! ** PetitePride * ShipTease: Not an avid shipper, but I tend to do this in my fanfics here and there, if only to shake up the readers with some "ship service". Also, it lets two characters interact without them turning into an OfficialCouple. * TheSmartGuy * VitriolicBestBuds: Nothing says best friends like two people dishing out verbal abuse to each other! * TheWoobie [[/folder]] [[folder: SunnyV]] * MindScrew - I don't know why, either. * {{Tearjerker}} * JigsawPuzzlePlot * CastOfSnowflakes * GirlsWithGuns * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - Self explanatory. * TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture * {{Cyberpunk}} - I want this genre revived so ''very'' much. * HighOctaneNightmareFuel - See MindScrew. * CrowningMusicOfAwesome [[/folder]]

[[folder: {{TacoNinja}}]] * AdultChild * BadassAdorable * BadassNormal * BiTheWay: Bi people are awesome * BigEater * BigBadassWolf * BigDamnHeroes * BigLippedAlligatorMoment * BreadEggsMilkSquick * BreakTheCutie * BrokenBird * ChivalrousPervert * CloudCuckooLander * CrazyAwesome: The best kind of awesome * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMusicOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfFunny * {{Determinator}}: My favourite show is {{One Piece}} - You can see where that one comes from. * HeroicBSOD * HoYay * EroticDream / HomoeroticDream * JerkassFacade * KubrickStare * {{Kuudere}} * MyFriendsAndZoidberg * {{Nakama}} * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown * NightmareFuel * NightmareFuelStationAttendant * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: I am one myself. ^_^ * PapaWolf * RuleOfCool * RuleOfFunny * StraightGay: Please... quit it with the rainbows and limp wrists... I'm sure many people are sick of the stereotype. * ShoutOut * TakeThat * TallDarkAndBishoujo * TallDarkAndHandsome * TroubledButCute * TheWoobie: I am one. Pretty much all of my Woobie characters are based off of me. * TheLibby: Since I have dealt with them in real life I enjoy seeing them getting whooped in fiction. * UglyCute: See {{Oddworld}} to find out where my obsession began. * WorldOfHam: HAM IT UP! YOHOHOHO~! (A world made out of ham sounds mighty tasty too). * YaoiFangirl: I am one (except Yaoi sucks).

[[/folder]] [[folder:{{Tadaru}}]] * {{Angrish}} * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking * BadassBookworm * BeyondTheImpossible * BigNo * BreadEggsMilkSquick * BreakingTheFourthWall * CloudCuckooLander * CrowningMomentOfAwesome, CrowningMomentOfFunny, CrowningMusicOfAwesome * DeadpanSnarker * DrivenToSuicide: Only when it doesn't happen to him. * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin * FMinusMinus * HundredPercentCompletion: Love/hate with this one, actually. I like games that keep track of completion, but going for it can me nuts. Especially with a certain popular series that forces you to go to events to get the Mons you need to achieve it. * KyuAndDanRanks * LargeHam * {{Meganekko}} * MetalSlime * OhCrap * OverlyLongGag: The longer, the better. * OverusedRunningGag: There just is no such thing to him. * PinballScoring: If done right (i.e. actually uses the lower digits and not just in the alternate manner of keeping some other count). * RefugeInAudacity * RuleOfFunny * SecretTestOfCharacter: Only in fiction; not in RealLife and especially not when it's done to him. * SelfDeprecation * SelfReferentialHumor: Both likes it and he can sneak it into just about anything, including this sentence. * StatGrinding * StuffBlowingUp * TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything * ToiletHumor, {{Fartillery}}, {{Gasshole}} [[/folder]] [[folder:The Tambourine Man]] Because they fit my worldview: * BeingEvilSucks * GoodFeelsGood * HeelFaceTurn * RosseauWasRight * EarnYourHappyEnding * GrumpyBear (cynicism does not make you smart) Because they tend to be funny:

* NoodleIncident * NoodleImpliments * EpicFail * LethalChef * DoorJudo Others: * YouAreNotAlone * WereSoProudOfYou * MarathonBoss * StuffBlowingUp * ThePowerOfTrust * InstantRunes * EvolvingAttack * GuileHero * ThirtyGambitPileup (particularly comedic examples) [[/folder]] [[folder: The Toon Geekette]] * AffectionateParody * AutobotsRockOut * AudioErotica * BoisterousBruiser * CloudCuckooLander * CrazyAwesome * EarnYourHappyEnding * HappilyMarried * HilariousInHindsight * ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne * LargeHam * MachiavelliWasWrong * MamaBear or PapaWolf * {{Reconstruction}} * {{Retraux}} * RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap * ShutUpHannibal * TheSongBeforeTheStorm * SophisticatedAsHell * TheUnfunny * VillainSong [[/folder]] [[folder:ThatStrangeGirl]] * DesignStudentsOrgasm: Ah yes, I have a fondness for clean and colourful art concepts. * PlatonicLifePartners: In a society where romantic is shoe horned into most media, these are a joy to find! * WhenSheSmiles ** CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: When WhenSheSmiles is combined with this, I'm sold on the series. * FridgeBrilliance: Aha-moments are awesome! * StarCrossedLovers * EarnYourHappyEnding

* BittersweetEnding * KnightInSourArmour: Yes, I have a thing for bittersweet settings and tropes... But also... * MoeAnthropomorphism: I love this trope so much! Everything can be made cool and interesting if you anthropomorph it. * HollywoodPudgy: Because most of it says "No, it's okay. You're perfectly normal the way you are." [[/folder]] [[folder:Thexare]] * GrayAndGreyMorality * WellIntentionedExtremist * AntiVillain and AntiHero * NobleDemon ** The above are for related reasons. It is very rare for me to appreciate a CompleteMonster in a work, and nearly impossible for me to write one. The way I see it, if some of my readers want the "bad" guy to win, that means I'm doing something ''right''. * PaleSkinnedBrunette * LadyOfWar ** Um... [[AuthorAppeal another related pair]]. * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: I enjoy playing with it. [[ArsGoetia Andromalius]]? Callsign of one of the most morally rigid mercenaries in space. Thanatos? He's far more concerned with [[OurDemonsAreDifferent his kind]] than yours, but he's their ruler; it's kind of his job. But despite the fact that in general they're relatively nice, they can and will kick your ass if you give them a reason to. [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Timber}}]] * FutureMeScaresMe * FutureBadass * GenreSavvy * DeadpanSnarker - helps that she herself is one * {{Bifauxnen}} * HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct * VetinariParadox * RefugeInAudacity * HeroicBSOD * BeyondTheImpossible - and kick reason to the curb! * EducationThroughPyrotechnics * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill * ThirtyGambitPileup * NoodleIncident * EpilepticTrees * ScaryShinyGlasses * ThemeMusicPowerUp * LotusEaterMachine * MagnificentBastard * LargeHam * PaintingTheFourthWall / BreakingTheFourthWall / NoFourthWall

[[/folder]] [[folder:{{Tjatter}}]] * AntiVillain * AmbiguousGender * AnyoneCanDie (and to some extent KillEmAll) * {{Asexuality}} * {{Backstory}} * BadassNormal (Magic and superpowers are overrated.) ** BadassBystander * BigBadFriend * BiTheWay * BreakTheCutie (I might be a bit sadistic. Especially if it leads to BewareTheNiceOnes) * BreakTheHaughty * CharacterDevelopment * ChekhovsGun * FoeYay - Pretty much the only pairings I'm interested in shipping. Could have something to do with me being asexual and more interested in people beating each other up rather than hugging and kissing. I ship to achieve anger and awkwardness, yay! * CombatPragmatist * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass * CrowningMomentOfAwesome (is it possible not to like that trope?) * {{Determinator}} * GreyAndGrayMorality (Good vs. Evil is overrated, too.) * HeterosexualLifePartners * JerkassWoobie * KnightTemplar * LastStand * MindScrew * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown * OntologicalMystery * PaintingTheFourthWall * ParentalBonus (Because it's awesome when re-watching childhood movies) * ScienceFiction * LateToThePunchline * UnreliableNarrator (I really wish I'll be able to pull this off succesfully as an author one day) [[/folder]] [[folder: TrickyPacifist]] * ActionGirl (when done well, obviously) * ActualPacifist (when not depicted as a [[StrawmanPolitical straw pacifist]] or killed off, which is usually the case) * AntiVillain * BadassBookworm * BadassFamily * BadassNormal * BadassPacifist (naturally) * BadassPreacher

* CasualDangerDialog * ChaoticGood * ChaoticNeutral * CharacterDevelopment * TheChessmaster * ComedyThroughSuperiorFirepower (though it'll be the death of me one of these days) * ContinuityNod * CrazyPrepared * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * CrowningMomentOfFunny * DarkIsNotEvil (damn right) * DeadpanSnarker * {{Deconstruction}} * {{Determinator}} * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu (take ''that'' Elder Gods--or are they the good guys? Ahn, I don't care) * EarnYourHappyEnding * EverybodyLives * FacingTheBulletsOneLiner (I may go down, but I'm going to get in one last [[DeadpanSnarker smart remark]] before I do) * FridgeBrilliance * FutureBadass * GagDub (hilarious) * HandicappedBadass * HannibalLecture (particularly if it's applied by someone other than the villain or applied ''to'' the villain) * HeelFaceTurn (Especially when it ''doesn't'' involve RedemptionEqualsDeath) * HeelRealization (can be so satisfying) * HesBack * IGotBetter * IndyPloy * InsultBackfire * ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne * LadyOfWar * LaserBlade * LeaningOnTheFourthWall * LemonyNarrator (TerryPratchett is one of my favorite authors) * LoveRedeems * MagnificentBastard * TheMessiah * MythologyGag * NeutralGood * [[NiceGuy Nice Person]] * PrecisionFStrike * {{Reconstruction}} * RousseauWasRight (naturally) * SaveTheVillain played straight * ShoutOut * ShownTheirWork (when it isn't boring, anyway)

* SubvertedTrope (especially when it's a subverted cliche) * SweetDreamsFuel * ThePowerOfLove (you heard me) * ThisIsGonnaSuck (cavalier is awesome) * ThouShaltNotKill * TookALevelInBadass (so satisfying) * {{WAFF}} * XanatosGambit [[/folder]] [[folder: TromboneChild]] * HumansAreSpecial * HumansAreBastards * HardGay (those guys are ''hot'') * EveryoneIsBi * BiTheWay * DepravedBisexual (Thank you, [[{{Torchwood Captain]] [[EvilCounterpart John]] [[AnythingThatMoves Hart]].) * DepravedHomosexual * EveryoneIsGay * SlashFic * YaoiFangirl * EvenTheGuysWantHim * EvenTheGirlsWantHer * BrainyBrunette * FieryRedhead * ActionGirl * EvilCounterpart * MirrorUniverse * BunnyEarsLawyer * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfFunny * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * TearJerker * TheWoobie * AffectionateParody * TakeThat * DeadpanSnarker * NightmareFuel * FetishFuel * DisneyAcidSequence * PowerTrio * FiveManBand * BadAss * BadassLongcoat * BadassBookworm * AntiHero * MagnificentBastard * MusicalEpisode [[/folder]] [[folder:{{TsundeRay}}]]

* AxCrazy * BulletHell * ChallengeGamer - Specifically, meeting (particularly in RealLife) other gamers who are this. "That guy is playing ''[favorite arcade game that most players play casually]'' at a not-casual level! [[strike:[[FanHater He has no life!]]]] [[FoeYay I wanna get to know him...]]" * CharacterDevelopment * CrowningMomentOfFunny * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * DeadpanSnarker * DefrostingIceQueen * TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything * [=* =]{{facepalm}}* * HarderThanHard - Sometimes, for shits and giggles, I turn up the difficulty all the way up to see what it's like. * HelloInsertNameHere - Part of the reason I'm enjoying playing ''DevilSurvivor'' right now--it adds to the immersion factor. Bonus points if the protagonist is also a HeroicMime. * IThoughtItMeant and IThoughtThatWas * KnifeNut * Exceptions to PacManFever - I've seen PacManFever played straight so often that whenever someone is accurately depicted playing a video game (particularly a real one) at a high level, I get pretty impressed. * TastesLikeDiabetes - '''HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG''' * [[{{TroperTales/PerverseSexualLust}} Troper Tales: Perverse Sexual Lust]] * UnexpectedShmupLevel * {{Unfunny}} * WeaknessTurnsHerOn * {{Yandere}} and {{Yangire}}: [[NightmareFetishist ~_^]] [[/folder]] [[folder: {{Tyrekecorrea}}]] * OhCrap * TakeThat Especially in children's media. SesameStreet got HighSchoolMusical good. * ScrewThisIndexIHaveTropes * DeadpanSnarker * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * IncrediblyLamePun * CrowningMomentOfFunny * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CallingYourAttacks * ByThePowerOfGreyskull * TheMessiah I love them so much. * ArsonMurderAndLifesaving * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome * WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs * GetAHoldOfYourselfMan * PunctuatedPounding

* ThrowItIn * SureWhyNot * HarpoDoesSomethingFunny * ThisIsSPARTA * LightIsGood * {{Determinator}} * MoralityPet [[/folder]] ----

FavoriteTropeU-Z [[foldercontrol]] [[folder:{{Umbee}}]] * HighOctaneNightmareFuel * {{Gorn}} * BedlamHouse * AIIsACrapshoot * EldritchAbomination * LesYay * HellIsThatNoise. The most reliable source of NightmareFuel out there. * EverythingsCuterWithKittens. Because it is the absolute truth. * CrowningMusicOfAwesome * MindScrew * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic. Or at least, parodying it. Same with... * TrueArtIsIncomprehensible * DeadpanSnarker * SummersFamilyTree * ILoveTheDead * EyeScream. [[NightmareFetishist By this point, you should be noticing something.]] * SerialKiller * SoBadItsGood * HamAndCheese [[/folder]] [[folder:WeepingWillow]] * BadassPacifist * BilingualBonus * CallingTheOldManOut * CoolOldGuy and CoolOldLady * DarkIsNotEvil * EarnYourHappyEnding * FightingFromTheInside * FridgeBrilliance * GeniusBonus * GoodIsNotDumb * HeroicWillpower * HonourBeforeReason * IAmWhatIAm

* IncorruptiblePurePureness * ShownTheirWork * ThouShaltNotKill * WiseBeyondTheirYears [[/folder]]

[[folder:{{theweirdwarrior}}]] * CoolOldGuy * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * ADayInTheLimelight * HeroicBSOD * BadassInDistress * EnsembleDarkhorse * MagnificentBastard * CompleteMonster: These are the guys (and gals) where you just LIVE to see them get what's coming to them. [[KarmaHoudini Go ahead and guess which trope I absolutely despise.]] * CloudCuckooLander * FixFic (when the creator of something takes a huge misstep; don't get mad, get even!) * HighOctaneNightmareFuel * CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming * AwesomeMomentOfCrowning * XanatosSpeedChess * UnwittingPawn * ShutUpHannibal * HeelFaceTurn * FaceHeelTurn * MissingMom * TeamMom * NiceHat * FromNobodyToNightmare [[/folder]] [[folder:{{Wheezy}}]] All of these tropes can be jaw-dropping when done well: * SceneryPorn, especially in animation and VideoGames * EldritchAbomination * SoundtrackDissonance * A dash of HighOctaneNightmareFuel can liven up any series. * {{Nice Hat}}s * [[SubvertedTrope Subversions]], [[AvertedTrope aversions]], and {{Deconstruction}}s. * ShownTheirWork * SurrealHorror * SilenceIsGolden, when used in moderation. Not to mention the obvious ones, like Crowning whatever of Awesome, etc. [[/folder]]

[[folder: {{Wicked223}}]] I don't usually come across something that makes me wanna cheer. These are the things that do. * AncientConspiracy: If it's done right, and is a central part of the story, you can't go wrong with one. * ArtEvolution: Yay, the art's not ugly anymore! Drinks for everyone!! * ColonyDrop: There's nothing not awesome about dropping a friggin ''planet'' on something. * CombatPragmatist: Fighting dirty? No honor? Pshaw. * CurbStompBattle: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOOK AT THE N00B GET PWNEDAhem. I especially love it when the recipient is a SmugSnake. * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu: You did? [[BadAss Guess what you are now.]] * DoNotAdjustYourSet: The concept is very good and all, but what I love is the ''name''. It's just... wow. * EarnYourHappyEnding: It's so much more satisfying when you have dive down into despair to reach the other side. * HannibalLecture: Watching someone getting {{Mind Rape}}ed with words is just awesome. ** ShutUpHannibal: Watching said [[MindRape Mind Rapist]] getting utterly chewed out is even MORE awesome. *** WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Watching them tear themselves down while doing so is ''transcendently'' awesome. * MoralEventHorizon: What's that? I'm allowed to hate this character now? ''Excellent.'' * MythArc: I ''hate'' shows without overarching plotlines. ** ContinuityCreep: See above. Screw ContinuityLockout, it's called an episode guide, you lazy bums. * WellIntentionedExtremist: You're so much more entertaining when you have a coherent goal in mind than just KILLKILKILL. * WhamEpisode: Because I love to go [[{{HSQ}} OMGWTFBBQCHIKN]] while watching a show. [[/folder]] [[folder:WitheredRoses]] * AntiVillain * BadassBookworm * {{Bishonen}} * BunnyEarsLawyer * ChivalrousPervert * {{Cloudcuckoolander}} * CrowningMomentOfAwesome * CrowningMomentOfFunny * DeadpanSnarker * ElegantGothicLolita * HeterosexualLifePartners * HoYay * LargeHam * LastSecondWordSwap * Rule of anything * SexyBack

* ShirtlessScene * SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion * ZettaiRyouiki [[/folder]] [[folder:{{Zfish9}}]] * XanatosGambit: I love these. I love seening a plan go off without a hitch, or have a plan with many many backups to make almost any problem irrelevant. * TheChessmaster: Goes with XanatosGambit, Naturally. * GroundhogDayLoop: I have an obsession with time travel/manipulation of time. This trope is one of my favorite uses of it, when done well. * CrowningMusicOfAwesome: ...oh sorry. I was too busy listening to the music to notice that the boss killed me. * BigDamnHero: You just got to love these moments. as long as they're not [[AssPull ass pulls]]. * DeadpanSnarker: [[HilarityEnsures For teh lulz]] * BreakingTheFourthWall: once again, for teh lulz * LampshadeHanging: Hand in Hand with the previous one * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Bonus points if it was a show I saw when I was little and I'm rewatching for the crap they snuck in. * GenreSavvy: I love it when the characters have a clue on what's happening. It's also why I dislike horror movies. No one has a [[PrecisionFStrike F*cken]] clue how to live. * BreakTheCutie: Hello [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Higurashi!!]] * HolyShitQuotient * EnsembleDarkhorse * EarnYourHappyEnding: No fun if they're given the happy ending now, is there? * MemeticMutation [[ZeroWing All Your Memes Are Belong To Us!]] [[/folder]]

FavouritismFlipFlop * This troper has a classmate who does this ''all'' the time, and always for her teachers. We'll be doing groupwork, someone will have a suggestion and she will immediately veto it. The teacher happens to overhear and say it sounds like it could be a good idea, which leads to her "Yeah, that sounds ''awesome!'' Let's try it!" (Repeat five times daily.) ---Going back to FavouritismFlipFlop is a terrible idea! Oh, Jane thinks it's good? It's a great idea!

FearOfThunder * ThisTroper has had a dog that completely freaks out during thunderstorms, demands to be let inside and hides under the table. ** This troper has two cats - one of which is fine with thunderstorms

as long as she's indoors and dry, but the other becomes almost paralyzed with fear and usually hides under the nearest piece of furniture, shaking violently, if anything so much as sounds similar. She's a rescue cat, so we theorize something awful happened to her as a kitten to bring this on. ** This troper has a rescue cat who was originally found in a storm has no problem with thunder. The dog who has been pampered and spoiled literally his whole life has extreme freak outs and needs to be right underneath the nearest person. ** This troper's rescue dog has panic attacks in response to any loud ''bang''. Thunder, fireworks, balloons being popped... We're pretty sure this is due to some past trauma, but as his previous owner lied to the rescue shelter we'll never know exactly what. ** This Troper has these problems with her dog. ** [[{{Attackrat}} This troper]]'s rescue dog hated thunderstorms, but hated the idea of seeing his family in danger even more. Cut to one cloudy afternoon, where instead of cowering on the porch as per usual upon hearing a storm approaching, he ''herded us inside.'' This included [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming planting himself in front of my mostly-deaf grandmother, who was mowing the backyard and couldn't hear the thunder over the lawnmower, and refusing to let her continue until she realized something was wrong.]] I miss that dog. ** This troper's grandma's dog is afraid of ''wind''. ** This troper's cat used to be fine with thunder, but developed a fear of it for some reason. She crawls around almost flat on her belly and hides in the basement mewing. ** This troper knew a dog that ''gnawed through a metal cage'' to get inside because she was so terrified of thunder. If she was inside, the thunder would make her go insane and want to get ''out''. The only way her owners could get her to calm down during a storm was to freaking sedate her. ** The reason why dogs are freaked out by Thunder is because the dogs sense of hearing is much higher than a humans. Thus if they hear something that is loud to a human then it is MUCH louder to a dog, ergo. they want to hide away to somewhere quiet, unfortunately this means that since the thunder is so loud they can't escape it, so they freak out. ** This troper had a dog that was afraid of lightning and thunder because, when she belonged to my step-grandpa, lightning had set their house on fire. * This troper has a friend that has this phobia. She has her reasons though. * Subversion:For whatever reason I woke up in my parents bed next to my brother (get your mind out of the gutter). I was woken up by the thunder, and but surprised to see my brother, but he thought I was woken up and frightend by the thunder. * This troper is scared spitless by thunderstorms. The lightnig is awesome, but the thunder is so loud and painful on her ears that she's come to cringe at the mere mention of tunderstorms. Even as a teenager, she was brought to tears at the roar of thunder. * I'm pretty sure I got my phobia at age 10 when my friend was showing how to get from my house to hers... and she took off at the first

boom, almost too fast for me to follow. Of course, this happened in an area I wasn't familiar with. * This troper tried to condition a gf out of fear of thunderstorms, but she was terrorized of them, trembling the entire time, whimpering and startling at every flash or thunderclap. And it made no sense; she grew up in a major city with tall buildings and taller lightning rods to guarantee protection. I grew up in open desert plains and I've always gotten a thrill out of thunderstorms since I was a toddler. But I didn't make much progress with her phobia, the best I could do was keep her intermittently distracted until the storms passed. * This troper has been struck by lightning. Twice. First time hurt like a bitch, but the second was kinda fun. ** You are made of freakin win. * This troper, as a young kid, used to be absolutely terrified of thunderstorms. Growing up and experiencing a few big ones while coming through completely unharmed has conditioned him to the point where he looks forward to them. * My fourteen year old sister, who is otherwise mostly reasonable, is deathly afraid of thunder. I keep telling her to grow up, but she still freaks out. She ''has'' gotten better lately, though. * Subverted in this case, this troper LOVES lightning and thunder, and literally {{facepalm}}s at the fact that her sister is fine with lightning, but terrified of thunder. Really? One you can hear, the other makes you the main dish at a barbecue. Still don't get it. * This troper is scared of lightning but not thunder. This stems from the fact that someone told her a story, when she was like 9, about people being burnt to a crisp by lightning. Thunder is more of a relieve, since it means that yet another one missed her. * [[Tropers/{{Dallenson}} This troper]] only has this fear during the night, alone, in the dark it make it acary, last night (when this edit was made) There was a storm at around 12:00 PM but the sky glowed orange a bit (From the City lights) It wasnt to scary * [[PurplePantherGirl This troper]] ''hates'' thunder. One time in class, a storm started and I leapt three feet in the air and landed on the desk. * TruthInTelevision for [[MagmarFire this twenty-year-old troper]], IN SPADES. It probably started when, a few years ago, lightning hit his house (twice or thrice) ''in the same year.'' One of those times, it was even on a clear day--sunny and everything, if he recalls correctly. * This troper is terrified of storms while in a vehicle or at home, but absolutely fascinated and thrilled by them when she's anywhere else. This might have something to do with the fact that she was struck by lightning when she was in first grade, while standing at the end of the long driveway of her house, and sitting in a car and then a bus immediately afterward. * I'm only worried for my poor computer's sake. Otherwise, it's a nice light show. * This troper used to fear thunder in his younger years. Now he only gets scared by it if it's due to a lightning strike that's really up close (like when strikes right at the house's window). * This troper is, after a stint of 2 to 4 years without a good thunder

storm, afraid of lightning. He'll probably get over it just in time for his new fear of catwalks to kick in. * This troper is afraid of thunderstorms. Not as much in the day time, but they're scarier at night. Luckily, I live in an area of Southern California that rarely gets thunderstorms. * This troper is deathly terrified of thunder. Ironic given as I don't mind lightning at all and actually think it's rather pretty. It's to the point where I'll even try to run out of a classroom during class. IN COLLEGE. * This Troper didn't think much of it, but whenever a loud clap of thunder catches her by surprise she ducks and cries. It evolved to full on phobia of thunder AND lightning when a large storm hit, the power went out, and she was left all alone with no matches for candles. Twas a dark and scary night... * This troper, for absolutely no reason ''at all.'' * [[{{Tropers/LunarDance}} This troper]] has been terrified of thunder and storms in general ever since she was little. This troper happens to live in north-central Texas. When I was a kid, one day we were put under a tornado warning while I was still in school, so they had everyone huddle up in the hallway. My mother came to pick me up from school early, and as we were walking back to the car... well, we still have debates on what exactly happened: she claims that we [[TooDumbToLive took shelter under a tree]] when lightning struck it, while I remember as it hitting a tree across the street from where we were parked. I think the whole thing kind of traumatized me, because I still get really jumpy and antsy during thunderstorms... to say nothing of what happens when the tornado sirens go off. ''That'' puts me in full-on panic attack mode. Eesh. My cat's the same way too, she runs and hides at even the tiniest rumbles of thunder. <<|TroperTales|>>

FeeFiFauxPas * A common assignment in psychology and sociology courses is to commit one of these deliberately, then write about the reactions. Usual suggestions include standing too close to someone in an elevator and sitting down to a meal and chatting with random strangers in a cafeteria. This troper ate a banana sideways, ear-of-corn style, in front of his girlfriend's parents, while said girlfriend, in on the scheme, tried desperately to not burst out laughing. * This Troper had one of those assignments, and he wore a giant Russian style hat everywhere. He got a lot of weird looks. * A drama class at this tropers college had a similar assignment. This troper decided to carry around a big black umbrella all day and only open it indoors. He also affected the following VerbalTic. ** Bell nuts Good morning how are you? Monkey trumpets ** BTW, nobody caught on that I wasn't in the class. * This troper does it all the time by accident. He also has some strange fashion choices, including wearing goggles (only when he thinks he'll get away with it) and wearing a tatty old denim jacket

(which he's repaired himself in places) along with a blue waistcoat (because it has so many pockets). * While at a religious friend's house, I started in on my food, as it looked delicious. I complemented the chef, and received many, many horrified looks from her family, as I had eaten without saying grace. I just about crawled under the table, I was so embarrassed. ** And thus why religious families annoy [[MalachiteDragon this troper]] to no end. It's food. If you wait, it's gonna get cold. You can pray to your money-grubbing invisible man in the sky if you wantI'm takin' care of more worldly concerns first. *** Your blatant disrespect of family tradition and religious beliefs is very telling as to the nature of your character. **** (Not the same troper as above) So is [[TakeThat your criticism.]] And, yes, [[{{Jerkass}} mine,]] before anyone can counter. *** It takes less then half a minute to say grace. I'm not exactly religious myself, but geez. Show a little respect. *** To be fair, not every religious family says grace. The family had no * real* justification to be all that mortified if they had not informed that troper of that custom. Alternately, they could have taken it upon themself to say grace first. Incidentally, this troper agrees with MalachiteDragon on the food getting cold thing; he was once asked if he wanted to say grace, to which he declined, and cracked a joke of the food-getting-cold nature. This actually subverts the trope, believe it or not - he knew the family were ''just being courteous'' - he knew them to be irreligious, but they didn't know he was as well and didn't want to commit a FeeFiFauxPas themselves. *** Original Poster, here: The reason for my embarrassment had more to do with the fact I knew that the family was religious, and I forgot. We're actually both Catholic, except they're far more devout than my family. And they're lovely people, and certainly weren't trying to guilt or shame me, it was an honest error on everyone's part. We were also eating with a priest. * [[{{Odile}} I]] was eating dinner with my family when my step-mother mentioned something about her father. I can't even remember what she said about him, only that I replied with "Because he was a [[DirtyCommunists Communist]]? The table went dead silent and my stepsister got up and stormed out of the room. As it turns out, yes, it was because he was a Communist, so it wasn't entirely a FeeFiFauxPas, but that was the most awkward silence I've ever had to endure. * [[{{Phartman}} I]] spent some time working the door at a small casino, where part of my job was to greet every customer who walked in (I tolerated this because they let me carry a revolver), so what did I blurt out to the overweight black guy who walked in wearing suspenders and a red beret? "Hey, ''[[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6E1v1F7I9Fc/Rz2PvRUqEI/AAAAAAAAA6I/qv7UpUl8aZk/s400/14235__rerun_l.jpg What's Happenin']]''?" He nearly died laughing. * This troper is edgy about strangers getting into her personal space. In France, it is customary to kiss people on the cheeks, even people you met two hours ago, as a form of greeting. These two facts collided somewhat disastrously on a school trip. ** This troper had a Spanish housemate at uni a couple of years ago -

she (as all Spaniards would) insisted on introducing herself with that. Our landlord and landlady were similarly greeted when met the first time, to which the landlady commented "Well that's not how it's usually done here, but...". This troper just about managed to keep a straight face. * A friend once said "hey, long time no see" to a blind guy, and after apologizing and talking to him for a while she said "see you later" and then covered her mouth with her hand to avoid saying anything else after that. ** Interesting. I have a blind friend who uses "see" metaphors all the time because it's just the way people normally talk. She would probably have just laughed it off had that happened to her. ** In my experience, most blind people are so used to this being a normal part of speech that they aren't concerned about it, and many or most use these expressions themselves. Does tend to make the sighted people talking to them self-conscious about it, though, which is probably a good thing. ** People who live with disabilities for a while generally don't care when you bring it up. In American Sign Language, the sign for "I heard" (as in, "someone told me") is to point to your ear. * A friend once related a story about how he was absentminded in a supermarket when a woman with a baby stroller walked by and without thinking he said 'wow, what an ugly baby'. How hilarious. * This troper had a friend who was trying to hook up with this girl he was working with. She mentioned that her dad was a teacher at his school(and mine was well) and asked what he thought of the school. My friend answers rather casually until it came to this one gym teacher who had a vendetta against him. My friend goes on an on about this teacher, how effeminate he was, how my friend thinks he's secretly gay. Keep in mind this is before he even asked who this girl's father was. Needless to say, he didn't get the girl this time. * [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} This troper]] ended up paying a bit of...ahem...an excessive compliment to a woman (we'll call her Tall Girl, because she's a bit taller than [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]]) whom he thought it was only JustFriends [[{{OlderThanTheyLook}} (possibly in her late twenties or early thirties, though she looks a bit younger than that)]] ... --> Me: I actually think that, [[{{Asexuality}} were you not interested in anything]], [[{{ThatCameOutWrong}} I'd at least consider making you my girlfriend]]... --> Tall Girl: I've never had that said to me before... --> ''Tall Girl hugs [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]]'' * '''Further:''' Perhaps she wasn't as asexual as I had assumed; the next day that I met her, she was acting a little ''too fondly towards me'' (we didn't hit it off then) - but it was a bad move, considering Tall Girl is not only a single mother ''to a severely autistic daughter'', but she also has quite a few anxiety issues as well as likely having a low self-esteem...an inversion of DamnedByFaintPraise all-around, and [[{{LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces}} possibly leading to]] [[{{PoorCommunicationKills}} severe headache and/or heartache later...]] However, she is still the sort of person whom [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]] would feel very much like

[[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} being close to]] - even if her charm is more of being TheWoobie than anything else - but OverprotectiveDad and MamaBear tag-team would disagree wholeheartedly with anything such, but fortunately [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]] hasn't seen her in a while. [[{{ProperlyParanoid}} But he's always wary though...]] * This Troper was making fun of The Last Airbender with a group of friends, and shouted out "BRING ME YOUR ELDERLY" (a la Slumdog!Zuko at the South Pole) just as an elderly couple walked past. Needless to say, he was mortified. * This troper came home one day in seventh grade, and her mother asked her what she was doing in Home Ec. This troper replied that she was learning about young children and caring for them. Her mother jokingly asked if she learned about spanking them, which this troper misheard as "shaking". She wasn't paying very good attention in class that day, and thought that SIDS had something to do with Shaken Baby Syndrome. That led to SIDS being brought up and the discovery that her mother's twin brother had died of SIDS. Cue end of jokes and beginning of awkward silence. * This troper recently ate in a school canteen with a number of friends. Having a habit of wrapping his leg tightly around the table leg when eating, he was mortified to find that he had wrapped his leg around A leg, but it was that of his limerent object, not of the table. * This troper stumbles into them now and then, but one in particular that came to mind happened in High School. While waiting for the class to start, I turned to a friend of mine and asked if he wanted to play a quick game of chess. To which he said sure. Now, knowing that White always goes first in Chess and not everyone else knows that, I tended to try to claim it at the beginning and did so with my standard "I'll be white, you be black." Suddenly I heard the other kids in the room burst out laughing and, in the middle of putting a piece on the board, looked up at my friend who was THE ONLY BLACK KID IN THE ENTIRE SCHOOL (And everyone knew it) who simply stared at me silently for a moment or two before saying "I don't want to play anymore." and walking to a seat. THEN I realized what I said. ---Go back to FeeFiFauxThumbISmellTheBloodOfAnEnglishman...I mean FeeFiFauxPas...ahem... ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FeigningIntelligence * This Troper bluffed his way to an A in AP English because he was able to make up crap that sounded intelligent. * I did better in Pre AP World History making junk up than I did when I knew what I was talking about. * Gentlemen, welcome to every day of my life. Only thing it doesn't work for is math and you can copy those answers. * This troper works with a girl who is dumb as a rock, yet constantly acts and even thinks she is much smarter than she really is. This has

lead to such memorable phrases as "tuberculosis is leprosy of the lungs." ** Well they kinda do the same thing, somewhat, a little bit... ** And the bacteria that cause the diseases are fairly closely related. Both are Mycobacterium. *** [[DumbassHasAPoint ...The hell?]] * This troper took a [[strike:crash course]] WikiWalk on StarWars, of all things, to impress a male best friend. It actually worked as long as he did most of the talking. * [[TheTallOne I]] am fairly intelligent, but there are many things I'm simply uneducated about. I tend to act like I know everything, and it's actually fairly easy to call my bluff, though few people do. I can be an InsufferableGenius, so maybe people simply don't want to deal with me being pissy. ** Likewise, I am (or so they tell me) pretty smart, but poorly educated on a shamefully wide assortment of topics. I usually try to make up for this by inferring common-sense conclusions (a.k.a. "facts") whenever discussing a topic of which I don't have formal knowledge. It works more accurately and more often than you'd think. PlayedWith, somewhat, in that I am, generally speaking, more interested in interpretation than fact. * [[SaTi1984 I]] more or less got through all the schools in my life using this technique, with varying success, but once [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome managed to get an A]] in elementary school at a history class, although I had literally no idea of what I was talking about. * ThisTroper greatest fear is that he has unconsciously been do this his whole life and that everyone he know had humouring him 'oh he thinks he is normal' sort of way. yes i have security issues, how ever did you guess? ** ...are you me in male form? I just use big words in my daily speech so I don't forget what they mean and because they sometimes have better rhythm than regular words. ** I sometimes do this because I forget the shorter words. They get stuck on the tip of my tongue. * To use this trope in Speech and Debate Extemporaeneous speaking is to survive. You have thirty minutes to research a subject and need to make a five to seven minute speech on that subject. It isn't uncommon (for me at least) to have found nothing after a half hour and know literally nothing about your subject. Try faking for five minutes straight. * This troper has come into agreement with actual students of philosophy that philosophy is the ability to talk a lot about nothing using fancy words. * This is why i always pick extremly obscure topics for topical talks. For example, when everyone had to talk about a common teenager-issue, i picked Hikkikomori. Since everyone only knows what I tell them, or some basic facts at the most, it doesn't matter if I invent some details. Please note that this technique was adopted mostly because of the jerks in my class, who enjoy asking really detailed, complicated questions to anyone holding a presentation, hoping they won't be able to answer them and thus appear uninformed.

* I got 19/20 in a debate by just knowing what two or three web pages said about nutrition. The team I was up against all got 15/20 or less... the problem is both of my partners knew nothing about the subject and hence the total mark dropped to 39/60. And we lost. This is a case of the trope not working for my partners. Which is sad, seeing as how by just ''understanding'' a little bit of my topic to be able to explain my point, I got 19/20, and "didn't even use notes" (because I made it up on the spot). Point is, it worked for me because I actually knew what the fancy words meant, but if you're dumb enough not to look up the meaning of the words you're using, you're screwed. * I am actually a fairly intelligent person (try playing me in Trivial Pursuit), but I've learned a few tricks on how to improve that image. The best way I've found time and time again is to read the Wikipedia article on the next class lecture the day before, skim it and a couple of its links and find something that would not be common knowledge. Then, day of the class, ask a question on it. "So, when you talk about the Divine Right of Kings, is it similar to the idea of the Mandate of Heaven in China?" This makes you look intelligent in a number of different ways with only having a cursory knowledge of the issue at hand. For one, it makes you look curious, which is much more liked by teachers than those who just show off; for two, it makes the teacher think you've already learned about this; for three, if you ask a question the teacher doesn't know the answer to, you look ''smarter than the teacher''. Just a warning about using this, though: It's an ''augmentation'' method, making someone with a decent amount of intelligence look like they know far more than they do, rather than a direct faking of knowledge. Trying to do this without any knowledge of the subject ''will'' make you look like an idiot. ** This is downright evil! * [[Tropers/SlvstrChung This troper]] is fairly sure his coworker does this all the time. The coworker [[TooDumbtoLive pretends he can read]]. This troper is preparing his two weeks' notice. ---This Hyper-Spaced Connection will tranport you in return to FeigningIntelligence. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FellOffTheBackOfATruck * According to my dad, this actually happened to him once when he was in junior high. He was biking home with some friends when a truck drove by and a big box fell out. Inside that box? Dozens and dozens of kitchen knives. He and his friends took them home, where his mother called the company whose name was printed on the boxes. They thanked them for reporting it and let them keep the knives, reasoning that they were probably damaged in the fall. Apparently didn't stop them from being damn high quality knives, though. To hear dad tell it, those knives lasted ''forever''. * Shipping companies often have to deal with cargo that has being damaged in some way that the customer refuses to accept it (sometimes just a torn box, a couple dented tin cans in a crate, a bolt that has

fallen off and turns up in the bottom of the box), so they turn around and sell the refused merchandise directly to their employees or members of the public "in the know" at drastically discounted prices in order to recoup cost. The reason for the "damage" may well include the box in question falling off the back of the truck. * [[Tropers/{{Nemica}} This troper]] used this phrase when someone asked a friend of hers (an [[LetsPlay LPer]]) asked him about where he got a specific game. Made hilarious by the fact that it was a free online game that happened to be on a server only the two of us knew. * In Peoria Illinois there's a store called UFS. UFS stands for Unclaimed Freight Service. Apparently it's things that were meant to be delivered but never picked up or refused. This included a surprisingly vast and cheap selection of many spirits. Upon explaining the idea behind the store, a friend became confused and asked "So, all this stuff fell off the back of a truck?" * This was apparently where much of the stuff my Uncle gave us came from. As a child I blindly believed him. * When you father runs a terminal for a shipping company you get access to a good amount of random stuff in the same way as the above UFS. When my friends would ask me where the palate full of 2 liters of coke or huge tub of plastic green army men came from I'm sure the way I matter of factly said "Nobody claimed it at pick-up" smacked of this trope. * Most stuff that "FellOffTheBackOfATruck" is either A: damaged B: refused by the receiver C: Overage (shipped too much), or D: Someone screwed up in another way. I work for a trucking company, so we'll occasionally get all sorts of interesting stuff. A whole pallet (92 cs) of Egg Nog one year (bleh), pallet of clementine oranges, potatoes, chicken, turkey. Shippers aren't perfect, and sometimes they ship too much of something, or something the customer didn't order, something the customer just doesn't want anymore (usually they got it cheaper elsewhere). Rather than pay to ship a few cases back the shipper will say screw it and write it off. * Watch out for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam scams based around this]], in particular the speaker van scam. They tell you a line about getting extra boxes, having the boss say to get rid of them, and pretending they are [[BlatantLies high-quality being marked down heavily.]] * A friend of this troper's brother once managed to get hold of dozens of pairs of Nike trainers. Exactly ''how'' they "fell off the back of a lorry" (to use the British version of the phrase) was never established. * This troper's brother works at Target. The store got a shipment of some kind of sandwhich that was supposed to go to a Super Target. Rather than pay to ship it to the proper location, they grabbed some cookies and stuff off their own shelves and offered the employees free lunch. ---Oh, this link here? Don't worry, nothing wrong with it. It just FellOffTheBackOfATruck, that's all.

FemaleSuccessIsFamily * This troper once made a [[TheBaroness baroness]]-like character to play VampireTheRequiem whose only motivation was to have success on her own. She was a [[DiabolicalMastermind Ventrue]] childe of a male [[TheCaligula Prince]] (yeah! I know it's redundant) that only succeeded because of HIS influence and machinations. Even when she was alive she was only remembered for being daughter of her father and wife of her husband. She managed to [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] it and as the time passed by she developed [[FetishFuel dominatrix tendencies]], and not only [[IHateYouVampireDad killed her sire]] but also ascended to prince(ss). Sad thing is, she was [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity completely insane]] when that happened. Her name? [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Regina]], [[MeaningfulName of course]] * This troper got subjected to this a lot at a former job, where most of her coworkers were married women with children of varying ages. Although they were usually pleasant to troper, she was often not taken very seriously because she didn't (and in fact can't) have children. ** Interesting story, yet that's not what this trope is about. (Succes is having a family vs. Succes due to male relationships) * This seems to be my family. So far we have my Mother (never worked or owned a house, never married, Her only son is her biggest accomplishment), Grand Mother (married and cheated on, never worked, only owned a home due to her ex husband feeling guilty, her biggest accomplishments were just having two kids). My Grandfather's second wife (never owned a house, never worked, only accomplishment was two kids and was also cheated on). The only other woman is her daughter (never owned a house, not married yet, has worked before but i think is already on welfare and is nearing her late 30's). Women in my family don't seem to amount to anything. I don't think it's strictly because of this trope, but for most of them so far, that has been their only successes. * I don't know if kids watch too much tv or if this is inherent but yesterday the nine year old I babysit shouted to the boys she was playing with that she's not anyone's sister or mother or daughter. * Subverted with my mother, thankfully. She is a teacher and already worked at Petrobras, greatest Oil Company here in Brazil, I think. Not the true example of a successful woman, but she isn't to be underestimated. My cousin also seeks to subvert this, as she wishes to study and work out of country, her current aim being Japan([[ApocalypseHow Good luck]] [[DespairEventHorizon with that]], [[ItGot Worse I think...]]). Played straight, however, with my paternal grandmother. Not only she, as far as I know, never worked and stayed married with someone she didn't like for most of my father and aunt's lives(Keep in mind that my grandfather was, as far as I know, a CoolOldGuy, though some of my dad's stories reveal he wasn't a CoolAdultGuy or ReasonableAuthorityFigure), but she seems to be TheFundamentalist of this trope, her entire life revolving around cleaning her house over and over and over again, and usually travelling with her rich sister/my grandaunt(Another Subversion of

this trope) and her fancy houses when she's tired of my father([[TakeOurWordForIt Who unfortunately has to live with her and nothing more should be said about this rather unpleasant state of past events]]) and me. She's an crone of a past age and hates my mother for working out of house and generally acting to what she truly thinks. And for raising me in some other way than [[DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff spanking the life out of me for every perceived crime against God's Rules of Children Raising]], said crimes being trying to talk with my cousin during lunch/dinner([[SeriousBusiness Which she thinks should be all silent and blessed, much like her obsessive care for the house and other people's lives within it]]) or use the computer instead of go play with non-existing friends or just being plain different from what she was as a kid(By the way, she IDOLIZES her father, who was a successful businessman in bus travelling and, now that I think of it, might actually be a reason to double subversion of my grandaunt's success, cause she simply inherited most part of his riches, I think...). Frankly, I don't think [[DyingAlone she'll even make emotional impact when she dies]], cause that woman just killed every possibility of me seeing her as a family member worth mourning over, and I might just fake sadness and crying so my father won't get shocked and think me as CompleteMonster, though I think he WILL understand my LackOfEmpathy. [[ItGotWorse Actually, she might be an example]] [[BeyondTheImpossible were the Female couldn't succeed even in Family Regards!]] My previously mentioned aunt is well on this path too, for many flaws she gained from my grandmother. ** And now, there's my maternal grandmother, who is a polar opposite in personality to my other grandma, but I have my doubts on whether or not she plays this trope or subverts it. Right now, she's retired and all her kids are adults now. While my grandfather still works a lot, she seems to just stay on the house all day, reading or something. Still, I heard stories of her working till my uncle was born and she's a more ReasonableAuthorityFigure than my grandpa. It is more likely justified for two reasons. One: she raised my mother, uncle and adopted aunt while my grandfather worked all day, so it's not like she had much space. Two: She's an old lady, so she's not as active as she was back in the day. Still, I think she's [[CoolOldLady one hell of]] [[NeverMessWithGranny a grandmother]], who's travelled and learned a lot! [[NoodleIncident Even a thief on the refused to steal from her]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny and called her]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "Lady"!]] On a similar note, there's my maternal grandaunt(Grandfather's side), who is very rich and was City Councilor once. Yep, most women in my family tend to subvert this trope. * This troper would probably count as a subversion, if it's not at least played with. True, I inherited my smarts from my dad's side, but only thanks to ''genetics''. To be honest though, my family isn't exactly "wonderful" on either side, in terms of, uh, "success," be it [[BrilliantButLazy paternally]] or [[TakeOurWordForIt maternally]]. However, I've got some of my poetry published (and won a contest with it), and I'm taking up Tae-Kwon-Do, which isn't exactly something my relatives do. Also an aspiring artist, somewhat-decent singer, and currently writing a book. ----

Sure, sure but you're a just a woman so go back to FemaleSuccessIsFamily and tell me about your dad. Man, ''he'' was awesome! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FeminineWomenCanCook * I probably am a subversion. I absolutely loath cooking. I like baking a pie or something like that, and I like eating food, but I hate cooking diners etc. I was once told by a female classmate that boys would probably not like me because of that. I laughed in her face because of this ridiculus assumption. I will find me a man that can cook and likes it, thank you... * This. This is me. I'm an Independent Successful Career Woman, and I have a grand total of about three recipes that I can pull off. (We eat out a lot.) * Inverted in my family; my mother is a rock climber with an adoration of long, challenging walks and quite manly clothing, and a dislike of dresses, fashion, and the feminine, I'm a lesbian and not of the lipstick variety, and my sister is never home so she doesn't count, and yet we all cook quite well. * On the other hand, a Canadian exchange girl described my mom as "one of those ol' fashioned moms who know how to cook". * This is me as well. I can bake potatoes and make cake and brownies from a mix. I have made passable cookies, but other than that I eat a lot of frozen things and sandwiches. * [[FreezairForALimitedTime This troper]] is a real-life subversion. While she's very tomboyish (Heck, she pretty much only hangs out in the VideoGame sections on this site), she's also a pretty good cook, and she would probably {{squee}} herself to pieces if she ever met [[GoodEats Alton Brown]]. ** Objection: this troper's a heterosexual male noncook, but would do the same thing. ** [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper]] is pretty much this, minus the Alton Brown, haha. Also, my friend's mom, who's basically a second mom to me and a lot of other people, [[{{TheLadette}] drinks, smokes, curses like a sailor, loves anime...]] and is one of the best damn cooks I know, good enough to have been one of the top 10 chefs in Louisville before she had her car accident. * This troper is the ultimate subversion of that: she's pretty tough, she grew up on a farm and hauls bales, pulls rye, and isn't afraid to take on a boy in a fight. However, not to brag- but I am a very good cook and one of my friends once called my triple-chocolate cookies "orgasm-worthy." I also second the [[{{Squee}} Alton Brown squeeing]] of the above troper. * This troper's mother is a subversion of the Independent Successful Career Woman type. At one point in her life she was going to work in a restaurant, but academics called. * This troper is a tomboy who cleans up nice when she sets her mind to it; but she is proudly an awesome cook. She's convinced her boyfriend

to try spinach, and has had people repeatedly ask to be adopted. A few years ago, she baked cookies from Thanksgiving to Superbowl Sunday, and people would start asking for them around Labor Day. * This troper, an Independent Successful Career Woman who deals with massive computerized lighting rigs and creating her own * very* precise recipes for blood, guts, and [[TooMuchInformation anything else you can think of from horror movies]] for a living...burns microwave dinners. And this is a heartbreak to her uber-cook father-now and when I was a growing up, my dad did ALL the cooking. * This troper's mom can kick your ass and doesn't take shit from anyone, and makes some damn fine pumpkin bread. * Proud to be a subversion! This troper (Hazuki) is a "chapstick lesbian" (halfway between butch and femme) but loves cooking to an almost unhealthy degree. Luckily she's also very into health food, so the deliciousness coming out of the kitchen isn't lethal in the long run. Come the holidays, however, beware the spinach pie...even all fat-free cheeses and whole-wheat crust don't help when you can eat 3/4 of one of them yourself ;-; * If [[DarkInsanity13 this troper]] put her mind to it, she could probably be a decent cook. She's just too damn lazy to really make anything. It doesn't help that her friends think she's a LethalChef under the belief that she's out to kill everyone. * This troper is an unusual sort of subversion-rather than being butch or Successful Career Woman, she's the shy and geeky engineering student who's acing her math and science courses. She's also a pretty good cook, especially good, old-fashioned Southern food. Sometimes she thinks her friends only tolerate her for her biscuits and cornbread. * While [[{{Lockea}} this troper's]] housewife mother and {{troubled but cute}} younger sister can't cook, she and her father are both excellent chefs, most well known for inventing inexpensive family meals. Of course, since this troper is a self professed girly-girl at a male dominated engineering school, this may be a subversion, or just going along with the flow. * Subversion for [[{{Malchus}} this troper's]] family--it's the father who cooks and he also owns a restaurant business. This troper's younger brother has also become interested in baking. This troper's mother, while mostly traditionally feminine, isn't much of a cook. * This troper fixes her own bicycle and cares not for clothes, but can pretty much whip up anything with a recipe as a guide and make it delicious. She's also a total slob. Many people have commented on the irony. * Subversion for this troper. I'm proud to call myself a tomboy and I can cook up a mean steak and pot roast (better than my mom's according to my dad), and my classmates have told me that my secret recipe banana fritters are to die for. * [[{{Leradny}} This troper]] is the feminine half of an identical twin pair. She learned the basics of cooking surprisingly well (particularly in French cuisine) while her sister is indifferent at best. A twist: this troper flails around mentally whenever she has to ''say'' the names of the things she cooks and just goes to said sister for help on pronounciation. * [[{{Night}} This troper's]] girlfriend has occasionally admitted

embaressment that he is the better cook of the two. * [[{{Pichu-kun}} This]] rather [[{{Tsundere}} tomboy]][[GamerChick ish]] troper cannot cook. Though,subverted,due to the fact I've only cooked once. Chocolate cookies in her Real Meal Over,for Christmas. They turned out somewhat burnt,and it they would have been worse if her mom hadn't helped. I can most likely cook,but I'm too scared to [[ScareEmStraight try]]. * [[{{Lullabee}} This troper]] can kind of cook. I'm not up to cordon bleu standards, but I can make salmon, various pasta dishes, cookies, cakes... My younger sister, who's much more of a {{Tomboy}}, can't make a single thing from scratch and is terrified of putting things in the oven. I'd made a pie from scratch at her age. It might not spring from the fact I'm more girly than she is so much as that she's never had to do so much cooking because she's had me around to do it. * This troper's wife is an uncute tomboy. She's also a Ph.D chemist, a highly competitive runner, an elite equestrian, and chair of the Chemistry Department at our local university. Oh, and did I mention she's fit and strong enough to lift a hay bale with either hand? And yes, she is an excelent cook... but I end up doing most of the cooking because she just doesn't have the time! * In an interesting subversion, in this Troper's household her father does most of the cooking, though her mother can certainly cook (is it anything that she's a successful college professor?). Anyway, said troper and her sister are both good cooks, and obsessed with food. * I play it ''straight'' even if I'm a tomboysh lesbian and a good cook. My Latino mother and her family (three aunts and a grandmother)think that if you don't teach your girl how to cook you have failed as a family forever. So they put all their energy into making me able to bake cakes and do elaborate dishes. They suceed, and I'm glad. * Um, no, [[{{MiraShio}} I'm not the most feminine troper]] out there. But I can totally cook. * Double-subverted by [[GentleGiant my roommate's dad]], who's the most dedicated cook in her family. As such, my roommate and her mum bought him a big, shiny chef's knife as a gift. It terrified him too much for him to ever use it. Apparently, girly guys can cook, too. * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} This troper]] is a subversion, in being an [[TheLadette adult tomboy]] who can cook just about anything (even making oven fried chicken and meatloaf for my family (not bad for a [[GranolaGirl vegan]])). My current specialty is veganizing my favorite baked goods (chocolate chip cookies, pumpkin bread, etc.) by substituting bananas for the eggs (which works especially well in the pumpkin bread). * [[{{Clevomon}} I]] can not cook. I have been laughed at by the guys who live on my floor when I asked if you're supposed to peel the carrots before cooking them. I have been forcibly stopped by my RA when she decided that she was afraid for my safety when I was trying to chop sweet potatoes. My personality? Closer to DitzyGenius than tomboy, but the trope generally holds. I stopped wearing skirts (more because of dislike of pantyhose than anything) when I graduated high school. I'm trying to learn now, if only so that I'm not a laughingstock of my floor anymore.

** If you bought the carrots from the store, it's usually a good idea, since the sprays stores use to keep carrots fresh will make the peelings taste bitter. If you bought the carrots at the farmer's market and they HAVEN'T been sprayed, washing them off will usually do. Taste the carrot first. If it's bitter, peel. * [[JillBug This troper]] is fairly mannish and doesn't mind not being your stereotype of "feminine", but likes to see what she can whip up in the kitchen and considers herself a pretty good cook. An evening in the kitchen for her usually involves a lot of slamming plates around, kicking the oven and Gordon Ramsay-style swearing, but no one has ever told her that her efforts weren't appreciated. * My mom's cooking is mediocre at best... But my dad's an excellent cook. * [[Troper/TheToonGeekette This troper]] is somewhat of a subversion, since I usually fall somewhere in between TomboyAndGirlyGirl, yet I can cook and bake pretty damn well. It helps that pretty much ''everyone'' in my immediate family, man or woman, feminine or masculine, is a good cook. * This troper is another tomboy who can cook! On Christmas and Valentine's Day she made impeccably decorated sugar cookies, each one different from the last. She meant to for Easter but forgot. Anyway, cooking is way fun. Feminine guys, masculine guys, in between guys and feminine girls, masculine girls and in between girls should all do it and not pass it off because it's too "girly". And if you make it, you get to lick the spoon! * [[{{Mouser}} Straight example here]], or at least I like to think so. I graduated from culinary school, often cook at home, and aside from having geeky interests and not being very sentimental, am very girly. * This, tomboy, Troper is practically incapable of cooking. Her girly sister, on the other hand, is a pretty good cook. On the other hand, this Troper is the unofficial baker of the family - something her sister has trouble with. * [[{{Tropers/Katsuhagi}} I'm]] a fairly butch lesbian, but I seem to be pretty well supporting myself with my own cooking. I can also make pies and deserts pretty well. It helps that my mom and dad are both pretty good, even if dad mainly sticks to grilled cheese. * [[Tropers/IronicMouse This troper]]'s sister is a subversion. She is halfway between TomboyAndGirlyGirl and is a great cook. Her chocolate chip cookies are to ''die'' for. * This troper is a man. This troper's sister is quite the tomboy (she did long haul trucking). We can both cook very well. * Subverted for my family. My dad loves cooking, and when we're at his house, we often get to taste lots of new and exciting dishes. My mom, on the other hand, mostly seems to make the same 12-15 simple dishes over and over again. ** Also, I'm kind of tomboyish myself, but I'm great with all kinds of [[SweetTooth desserts, cookies and snacks]]. My carrot cake is pretty awesome, for example. * The women in my family are all more likely to burn food than the men. Even i barely know how to operate an oven and i have never burnt anything. I also know a 25 year old woman (straight, attractive,

girly, etc) who has never cooked a meal in her life. * Living breathing subversion here- a GirlyGirl who is a great cook...when she isn't being a CordonBleughChef with an odd love of honey and mayonaise, oftentimes together, * Main/{{This troper}} subverts this trope. I am very feminine but I lack a lot of cooking skills. I tried baking cupcakes but they got stuck to the paper foils and did not look nice but they tasted good. * This troper is considered by many to be quite tomboyish (with bits of girly traits tossed in), but I completely lack cooking skills---I can't even whip up macaroni and cheese on my own. Strangely enough, the only thing that I do know how to make are cookies and relatively simple french desserts. * Strange case with me; total girly-girl who wears nothing but dresses and loves [[AllGirlsLikePonies typically]] [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals "girly"]] [[AllWomenLoveShoes things]]. I also love to bake (And I'm not too bad at it, if I do say so myself), but anything that isn't from The Baking Bible and the like seems to [[GoneHorriblyWrong go]] [[LethalChef horribly]] [[EpicFail wrong]]. I think it's an experience thing; I've baked since I was a child, but I'm still slightly afraid of the combination of sausage meeting frying pan. * This Troper is definitely a subversion. The first time she was picked to provide snacks for a group, everyone was surprised that she could bake, and she has suspicions that it might be due to the whole ButchLesbian thing. Besides baking more or less perfectly (seriously; when she makes items involving fruit her mother asks her if she counted the individual pieces of fruit) This Troper can cook ratatouille, chicken, salmon, pork tenderloin, Indian and Thai curry, several Italian pasta dishes, pancakes, waffles and French toast. And makes a pretty good Caesar salad dressing. * This troper isn't very feminine but able to cook. However, she learned all her best tricks and recipes from an old boyfriend. ---Go back to Main/FeminineWomenCanCook, or to [[Main/LethalChef The Rest Of Us Can't]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FetishRetardant [[foldercontrol]] [[folder:Behaviors]] * When a girl, er... [[SouthPark queefs.]] I know that in some [[{{Understatement}} very]] good positions, or after vigorous fingering it can be hard to avoid * {{Tsundere}}s. I don't get how guys can get turned on by a girl being totally bitchy and telling them to get lost, what big losers they are, etc. If anything, that kind of girl would just make me feel worse about myself than I already do. ** Indeed. Acting like a bitch/idiot can turn the most beautiful woman into a hag in two seconds flat.

** [[{{Crion87}} This troper]] thoroughly agrees with the above. ** This troper would respectfully like to say that not ''all'' tsunderes are type A, and the point of a tsundere is to have more dere than tsun in order to ''not'' make her look like an abusive bitch that's being described. The people above are taking a type A tsundere to the extreme, where there is so little dere it doesn't even balance out. A tsundere's behavior is not supposed to be so incredibly harsh (let alone ''abusive'') that people lose all affection towards her. ** It's a YMMV thing, for me the type you describe crosses the line twice. *** [[MightyKombat This troper]] would like to blame recent anime exaggerating or outright misinterpreting Type A Tsunderes from "girl who's cranky and is a bit of a bitch but ultimately has a soft side" to "Psycho killer bitch who beats up on the hapless IdiotHero or ChivalrousPervert or ShrinkingViolet boyfriend for little to no reason and [[KarmaHoudini still gets away with it]], because the boy [[DoubleStandard deserves it for some contrived reason]]". In either case, I don't really like Tsunderes anyway and would much rather have [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei Ayanami]] or hell, even Saito if I could. ** What's weird is that in real life I don't even bother with Tsundere types but in fantasy settings they're the ones I go for. Usually the ones that seem to cross the line twice oddly enough. * [[DesertDragon This gay troper]] hates meeting a hot guy who proceeds to open his mouth and let out the nelliest CampGay voice outside of San Francisco. He doesn't necessarily want a HardGay or someone "straight-acting" (* shudder* ), but he doesn't want to be the "butch one" either. If he wanted that kind of dynamic, he'd date a girl. ** I don't mind guys with sissy voices (as I am also gay). However [[ExorciseTheGirl this troper]] is turned off by guys with smaller hands than him. * This troper loves his yanderes, or he would if any would be yandere about him, but any with self-destructive tendencies really turn me off. By all means, be destructive against me (no double standard there, Ahem) but due to my own overprotective tendencies it really makes me feel like a failure. * This Troper never understood the [[GirlOnGirlIsHot "girl-on-girl"]] thing. To me, it's as gross as two guys. ** Would you happen to be a woman? ** [[UnfortunateImplications And what's wrong with two guys?]] *** I don't think the original troper was saying anything against homosexuals, just that it's not his cup of tea. Kind of how a gay guy might feel watching straight porn. *** If the troper that posted that was a girl, then maybe she's just not into [[YaoiFangirl that]]. If it's a guy, then he just doesn't want to see guys sexing each other up, perfectly understandable. *** This (female) troper seconds the original post. Two guys or two girls, either way, ew. She has also never understood HetIsEw. * This Troper just gives up trying to watch porn if a guy starts slapping his partner with his dick. It just looks silly. * Anything involving pain, including nipple pinching. * This troper saw a sort of nipple-rubbing scene, but with

AnimeAnatomy. Seriously, what? * Belave it or not for this trooper, lesbians. Yes I'm a man. * For this troper, frenching. She has never gotten the appeal of having someone's slimy tongue writhing around in your mouth. It's just gross. ** This troper finds it alright, but still thinks tongue/tongue contact is a bit weird. Mostly unavoidable, and not outright gross, but not as pleasant as tongue/lip. * When I hear/see/think of a threesome-"couple", I immediatly try to work out logistics where everyone has the same amount of fun, work and feels comfortable. Same for positions with funny names. * Ya wanna know how to, ah, [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean break my "sword"]]? Start violating the boundary between the genders. Crossdressing, shemales, [[DroppedABridgetOnHim Bridget-dropping]], and you cross the like into {{squick}}y NauseaFuel. I know some people like it, but for me... NoJustNo. ** I second this but with one slight difference. Even though MTF crossdressers are super fast fetish retardant for this troper (and sometimes if it's like Sailor Bubba it's more gross-out humour than anything). Anything other than "biological female who dresses boyish and nothing beyond that" is as big of turnoff for me as it is for you. * I would assume that there are women out there who finally get the hot guy, only to have him suggest her sister join them. Many guys have the fantasy of having two sisters at once, I'm sure the sisters are usually not as excited about the idea. * For this troper, the entire concept of oral sex...ew. * The whole idea of using "other holes" in general turns this troper off (not that [[AllWomenArePrudes the idea of "the old-fashioned way" really turns her on]], either...). Can't people just stick to kissing and cuddling? * Passionless people lose my attention, big hands lose my attraction, stalking is unattractive, negativity is also unattractive * Belching. This troper actually REALLY thinks it's attractive when it's [[BiTheWay a man]], but when a girl does it, it just totally [[{{Squick}} squicks]] him out. This probably has to do with the fact that this troper's mother and sister do it a lot (loudly) and I associate female belching with them, hence it being a turn off with girl but not guys (I never had any male influence in my house until after my sexuality developed). Though I'm aware that, on a whole, eructations are major [[FetishRetardant Fetish Retardant]] for most people regardless of gender. * [[{{Folt}} This troper]] doesn't like gay sex in general and have never understood why HetIsEw. {{Tsundere}}s and {{Yandere}}s are also pretty big turnoffs, but there is one thing that hits my BerserkButton more than anything else: Netorare/NTR/Cuckold! For the uninitiated, this is basically porn where a character's girlfriend or boyfriend is taken away or seduced by another, often through rape (though boyfriends getting taken away is pretty rare from what little netorare I've read). I just can't understand how people get off on that, and the seducer is almost often a CompleteMonster! For me it's really really [[{{Squick}} disgusting]]! * Sweaty men walking about shirtless. I thought this objection stemmed

mainly from seeing my overweight relatives during family beach trips, but it turns out I can't stand either the sight of even my more wellbuilt guy friends going about without shirts. Maybe it's the sweat factor. Or just the idea of seeing more of them than I ought to on most days. * [[FairyDreamer This troper]] is turned off by any guy who is a flirt, has his pants hanging or is shirtless. The last of those three is the least worst, but it's still a big turn off for me. Also, no offense to anybody, but this troper finds any kind or porn or hentai disgusting and just does not see the interest. [[/folder]] [[folder:Characters]] * This Troper has a thing for [[HeroesWantRedheads redheads]], [[RealMenWearPink girly-looking dudes]], and has a serious [[TheWoobie comfort-reflex]] for {{Stepford Smiler}}s. Yet, there's something about [[TalesOfSymphonia Zelos]] that's completely FetishRetardant. Probably the fact that he's a HandsomeLech, but the jury's still out on that. * This troper finds every trailer of Bayonetta more horrifying than the last. She looks less like a character and more like a Frankenstein's monster-style mishmash of fetishes. ** [[FetishFuelStationAttendant That's the idea.]] *** I thought she looked like Sarah Palin. *** And that's the horrifying part... * This tropette has a thing for [[HospitalHottie handsome]] [[MadDoctor yet crazy]] doctors, and [[WholesomeCrossdresser crossdressing]]. However, this one picture I saw of Medic in a skimpy nurse outfit made me gag. ** Well, this troper can't play team fortress 2 anymore, I hope you're happy. *** OP Here. I took the link down to prevent others from sharing that fate. * Miranda from [[MassEffect2 Mass Effect 2]], not only is her face.....odd but her entire personality just turns this troper off. ** This Troper agrees, but Miranda is nothing compared to Jack. Maybe it's the lack of hair, maybe it's the overused tattoos, maybe it's because she's a crazy bitch, but she has always been a major turn off for this Troper. Tali on the other hand...let's just say I hope we get to see her face in ME3 * Am I the only one who finds [[CaveStory Curly Brace]] decidedly unsexy? I'm sorry, but the UncannyValley in her dialogue portrait ruins any hotness for me. She looks like she's about six years old, but the fandom treats her as a MemeticSexGod and there's a fair bit of {{Fanservice}} in the game. [[FlatWhat What.]] * One of this tropers biggest fictional crushes is SheHulk, so when I learned she was in MarvelVsCapcom3, my immediate response was "HELL YEAH!", only to find out she's being voiced acted by the mom on WizardsOfWaverlyPlace. Now when I play the game and hear her voice, [[FanDisservice I will have the joy of hearing a middle aged woman from a mediocre Disney channel sitcom. nice.]] ** Wait, WizardsOfWaverlyPlace mom? But...but...she's [[HotMom hot!]]

*** [[YourMileageMayVary If you like middle-aged women.]] **** Hot Latino middle-aged women who really don't even look middleaged. ***** After a quick look through the site, I have now come to the conclusion I am alone in my dislike of how she looks. [[FetishFuel I'm glad SOMEBODY can still]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean get off]] by SheHulk. * This (female) troper thinks [[{{Pokemon}} Gothitelles]] are REALLY REALLY UGLY. Shame, because Gothita is kind of cute in a weird way, and Gothorita is really pretty, but then they had to go and ruin the line with [[http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/3/38/576Gothitelle.png this]] hideous Pokmon. Why, Arceus, why?! ** Um... what differences between gothorita and gothitelle make gothitelle ugly? This troper sees gothitelle as just a more grown-up gothorita. Sure the hair's different as is the "dress" ([[FridgeLogic what exactly would clothing-like appendages on pokemon translate to if they were real creatures anyway?]]). The face however looks the same. So what's so ugly about it? * In the 2011 {{Film/Thor}} movie, when Thor is standing in the rain and trying his hardest to pull Mjlnir out of the ground, muscles all flexing every which way...EW! Still trying to figure out what's hot about a dirty, muscle-bound man grunting and straining like he's constipated. Thor's face is pretty cute (though he could use a shave), but that overmuscled body is NoJustNo for {{Tropers/Sandy87}}. [[/folder]] [[folder:Kinks/Paraphilias]] * Scat fetish my bleeding eyes there are people who have a scat fetish. * [[{{Tropers/Chaos009}} This Troper]] REALLY hates the [[RapeIsLove rape]] that's so common in Japanese erotica. Bonus points if the rapee looks like s/he's twelve. Give me aggressive sexuality any day of the week if it's consensual, but nothing is more disgusting than seeing a small, vulnerable girl/uke getting violated by a stronger man. * Many forms of incest. I've warmed up to {{Twincest}} a little bit (damn you [[{{Vocaloid}} Kagamine twins]]!) and I don't mind {{Selfcest}}, but ParentalIncest = [[FamilyGuy I need]] [[HeroicBSOD an adult!]] * Vore. There's just something about ''[[NightmareFuel eating people/being eaten, whole and alive,]]'' that I will never understand when it comes to sexualization. ** Speaking of which, this voreaphile troper (who doesn't understand it, either) is instantly turned off when hard vore or any sort of cooking practices enter the picture. *** Totally agree, for the most part. I can understand it, but hardvore is just totally meh. Most vore involving furries too (but not humans). ** This troper doesn't find vore all that interesting either. ** This troper discovered vore at age twelve or so, before realizing that I was supposed to be aroused by it, and doesn't find it arousing at age seventeen, thanks to...well...the inevitable end result. ** Strange thing: this troper has spoken to a couple of Vore

enthusiasts who seem very sympathetic to his joke that "vore" can just as easily be called "bore." Though having tried a few role-plays of the sort, one guesses there is sympathy for not ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch. * Inflation. You know what happens when you over-inflate a balloon? Now apply that to a person. * I'll never get why [[BrotherSisterIncest pairing up siblings]], especially {{Twincest}}, seems to be a turn-on. (The same goes for [[ParentalIncest other]] [[KissingCousins forms]] of incest, but I'll focus on the ones I see most for now) Yet, it seems that a character has a brother or sister (ESPECIALLY it's it's a [[{{Twincest}} twin]] of the [[{{HoYay}} same gender]]), some fan will pair the siblings up. ([[{{Shotacon}} Legal]] [[{{Lolicon}} age]] doesn't seem to be a problem either in some cases.) Am I the only one that's simply [[{{Squick}} squicked]] by this?) * This [[NightmareFuel little post]] on a yaoi forum I once visited: -->Well, you know how both Boy A and Boy B were... into self - harming and cutting right? That's their bedroom kink/fetish. Having the other... slicing up their lover, but in a sesnual, sexual way. Like to Boy A and Boy B, they used their self - harming to get rid of negative feelings and weight on their shoulders. So when they... bloodletted on one another, it was to cleanse the other of negative impact and... share their blood, to become one with each other. ** ... [[FlatWhat What.]] * After watching [[http://mrstiff.com/movie/bound-trinity-post-getsflogged-_1106398 this]], this troper doesn't know if he should be aroused or want to beat that JerkAss with a [[ImprobableWeapon shark lit on fire]] then [[TheWoobie take that girl somewhere safe, comforting her with a blanket and a cup of hot cocoa]]. * This troper is open to a lot of different fetishes. However, it is nearly impossible to find any porn based on any fetish that doesn't over-emphasise the subject to the point that it's ridiculous and/or {{Squick}}y. Want a little bit of domination/power play in your porn? It's nothing but one person humiliating, name-calling, physically abusing and completely dominating the other. Like the CatholicSchoolgirl look? It's all are-we-sure-shes-eighteen borderline paedophilia. How about a [[HelloNurse Nurse's]] outfit? Cue examinations and a plethora of bad medical puns. Sex that's passionate and a little bit rough? Misogyny, pain, screaming and pseudo-rape. Fancy a little anal? Super-close-ups on horrifically stretched rectums. Interracial? Lots of racism. Small boobs? Board-flat chests that don't look fully developed. Big boobs? Terrifyingly massive blimps. It's like the porn industry collectively forgot what subtlety was. A litte added spice is great, it's when you throw the whole bottle in that problems arise. [[/folder]] [[folder:Parts]] * ANYTHING involving butts. Just...eww. ** I don't mind the occasional cheek-tease, but don't care for anal focus. That's where sh* t comes from, people! ** Most forms of anal sex not only turn off, but '''disable''' this

troper for a while. Just too disgusting for him. *** ''all'' forms of anal sex don't make me think of how pleasurable it is - it just makes me wonder why they don't wind up with e.coli after doing it. * Asses are NOT sexy. They're just weird. Same thing goes for oral sex. Squick. And guess what. I once had a boyfriend who liked to grab my ass and tried to talk me into letting him go down on me. You can imagine how long that relationship lasted. * This troper LOVES butts by themselves, whether they're [[BiTheWay a girl's or a guy's ass]], but 50% of the time, the actual anus itself just looks utterly disgusting. Not all the time, as I said, but if it's been used frequently... blargh. * [[FootFocus Bare feet]]. Don't ask me why, it's just been that way since I was a child. * I'm 19, I don't understand the foot fetish and find large breasts to be disturbing (mostly when they're gi-fucking-normous). I said it before and I'll say it again, men who adore breasts the size of my pillow and bigger are overcompensating for something (either in their pants or their sexuality). ** I agree. Whenever I see those pics drawn of GagBoobs, the first thing that I think is "My god, that poor girl's gotta be in so much pain." * This Troper does not find large breasts sexy simply because both his mother and his sister have large breasts and they complain about the associated problems, namely the back problems and the fact that there are not that many sexy bras for women of that size. * Anything related to buttsex. Butts are not sexy to this troper. Especially not anything going in there. * The vagina and the penis, if photographed/filmed the wrong way, or if they've been well used, can look ''really'' gross. * Breasts. While I appreciate the way they form a feminine contour on a clothed woman's body, I just can't get over the fact that they're living drink dispensers. We are creatures with built-in drink dispensers hanging off of our bodies! Even the men! How is that anything other than pure BodyHorror? * Abs on a man. To me, they just look really painful. [[/folder]] [[folder:Physical appearance]] * This troper has a thing for girls carrying men, but if said girl is ugly, fat, or taller than the guy she is carrying, then it rapidly goes from {{Squee}} to {{Squick}}. ** The muscle mass required to carry a man is usually impossible for a women unless they are pretty big. *** It might be easier if the guy's a [[NoodlePeople Noodle Person]]. ** It seems a bit odd that you specified "ugly". One would think that seeing an ugly person (in the eye of the beholder) act out your fetish would automatically be FetishRetardant. * Shaved chests. It makes grown men look like jailbait. ** Bless you for that. Bless you. ** I third that. Nothing like an all natural CarpetOfVirility. ** Ironically, many people prefer a completely shaved pube for the

exact same reason...that and any amount of visible hair is pretty gross on a woman unless it's her head. *** I'm ok with hair on a woman on 2 condition: She has less body hair than me (her head can have as much as she wants). That means no armpit, chest, back, or facial hair and her pubic hair should be trimmed (not shaved, trimmed) if it looks like Don King's head. ** [[MmmKay This troper]] feels the exact '''opposite''' way with ''hairy'' chests, like SeanConnery and ChuckNorris. G-g-g-g-g-god... *** Definitely agree. Hair is disgusting. As a matter of fact, if you would go ahead and use a depilatory over 92% of your bodies, gentlemen, that would be great. *** JChance more or less agrees for both sexes. Not an age thing, there are plenty of other ways to tell someone's pleasantly postpubertal, it's just that...well, the shape of the human body is a wonderful thing, and hair is a needless complication. Still, this is mostly for images (still or moving). In RealLife, as long as we're not talking "carpet" or "afro", hair removal is like makeup to him. It looks nice, but it's not necessary, particularly when it'd just be too much of a pain. *** This Troper agrees as well. For me a hairy chest is a major turn off. *** Also in agreement. Body hair (for the vast majority of people) is just... not pleasant imo. **** Agree with this too. I don't like body hair on either gender(the exception is a barely noticeable thin layer of hair on your arms). Especially hairy pits... eeeew. *** [[{{Tropers/Sandy87}} This (straight female) troper]] agrees: no hairy guys. She doesn't mind a guy having hairy legs (isn't turned on or off by it), doesn't really care about armpit hair either (so long as it's not shoved in her face), and isn't bothered by short, light hair anywhere. However, if a guy has long, dark hair anywhere besides his legs or head, especially if it's also curly, she finds it gross. Her feelings are that if she wanted to date a gorilla, she'd go to a zoo and climb in the cage with one. Double negative points for beards, and ''triple'' for PermaStubble (anyone here fancy making out with the sandpaper display at your local home improvement store?). * For This Troper, pregnant women. She isn't entirely sure if it has something to do with her own general aversions to it, but she never understood why it was supposed to be a turn on... * This probably seems tame compared to the rest of this stuff, but this troper has great disdain for breasts that are [[GagBoobs disproportionate to the rest of the body]]. I don't mind if they're a little bigger, or huge because you're larger, but your bust size ''should not be twice that of your hips!'' * I have no clue how any man can be attracted to huge boobs (personally, I believe those guys just over-compensating for something). * Very large breasts are simply distracting. And I'm a guy * Due to [[SalFishFin This Troper's]] ([[CovertPervert mostly]]) [[AccidentalPervert accidental]] [[ThanksForTheMammary familiarity]] [[ForScience with the subject]] [[IncrediblyLamePun at hand]], he finds that larger breasts tend to lack symmetry and perk, as well as

have this dreadfully un-sexy "bag of pudding" texture, so anything from around 24B-30C is in his official "Sexy Bust Size Range" *** ''24''B? **** rereads post, {{Face Palm}}s* [[EpicFail Well, I feel sheepish...]] Did I say 24? I mean, like, 30... ish... * This troper sees massive mammaries and thinks [[{{Squick}} "Oh! Ow! Her back!"]] * In fact, I occasionally feel kinda guilty for liking [[{{Pettanko}} small]] [[ACupAngst breasts]] since other people online start thinking I'm one of those creepy perverted Lolicons. * Small breasts are beautiful and perky. I don't see what the other guys see in huge breasts, but it really is mostly about presentation, not size. * Pictures of attractive women (usually models or pornstars) with significantly older or ugly men. The DoubleStandard regarding it is silly; [[KavorkaMan an ugly man with a lot of attractive women]] is regarded as lucky, a player, etc., but liking a not-so-attractive woman apparently means you have bad taste. ** Every "Touch Of Grey" hair color commercial. EVER. The man looks 50-60-ish, with his salt-and-pepper hair, and his wife/girlfriend/whatever looks 35 at most, thanks to hair color that completely covers the grey and plenty of Botox (the other option is that she ''really is'' young enough to be his daughter...). * [[{{Alrune}} This tropette]] is unable to do the private-partspiercing thing. I'm sorry, I can't do that, it simply turns me off quicker than a rabbit running from a fox. ** This troper's not wild about any piercing (earrings are okay, but anything else gets weird), but ''especially'' not in private parts. How a shard of metal being stabbed into someone's nipple is supposed to be sexy I'll never know. ** Piercings or tattoos, since they're both painful and done with sharp objects. [[{{Tropers/Sandy87}} This troper]] likes her men neat and clean, with as little body modification as possible. * Nail polish and makeup, I just find it nasty. ** Thank you! Makeup is so gross- especially base. Who wants to smear cake batter on their face? *shudder* ** Makeup, piercings (other than ears; those can be really nice)... I like a girl with an all-natural body. * Thongs. Just something about someone's underwear intentionally riding up their ass that makes me say "no". ** Seconded. It brings to mind [[NauseaFuel some bad images of what gets on them.]] * Tattoos, unless they're of the pretty, flowery variety. Lower-back tattoos are a double-minus. ** Tattoos, period. ThisTroper grew up in a time where people who had tattoos were either military or bikers and you very seldom saw a woman with one. It's made him afraid to date because the odds of meeting someone '''without''' one are now 50-50 at best. (There may be also a possibility that it's an extension of a fear of clowns he had in his youth extending over to any sort of make-up or marking on skin whatsoever.) ** Thank you! Tattoos are so frickin' prevalent in porn it makes me

sick. I know they're considered to be an "I'm over 18" tag, but they're so gross! ** I don't like tattoos. On anyone. Ev-er. They never age well with the person that they've been grafted onto. The colors never last. * One thing that tends to bug me about hentai fanart of women: the guy tends to be UGLY AS ASS. I don't care if that [[ThisLoserIsYou overweight, fugly, and excessively hairy otaku is supposed to be the viewer]], if you must force a guy on some hot yet poor girl at least make the guy somewhat attractive. * Both extreme ends of the weight scale; too big, you look like a beanbag full of pudding. Too skinny, I'm scared I'm gonna break you in half like a twig if I wrap my arm around you. General rule of thumb: if you have to bend at your waist to see your toes, you're too fat. If I can ''[[NightmareFuel see your ribs through your skin]]'', you are too skinny. * This bisexual, female troper has a thing for fem!dom. But dear God, does every site like that have to be "hot" women in leather dominating some fat, middle-aged guy? I don't really want to have to just get my "pretty boys being objectified" fix from poor twinks getting tortured, thank you. * Anybody, or anything, that dresses in vulgar clothes in order to look "sexy". * This male Troper likes girls who look kind of boyish - you know, small breasts, small hips, short hair. When I see someone good from behind and it turns out to actually be a dude... ew. FetishRetardant. * This Troper likes women wearing eyeglasses. The retardant often happens when I start looking at a nice series of pictures of a cute bespectacled girl and the glasses come off before any articles of clothing. Not interested, sorry. * The "porn star" look. Porn stars are meant to be FetishFuel and not fetish retardent, but artificially-"perfect" breasts, plastic-looking skin and way too much makeup by half are absolute turnoffs. * School uniform costumes that are extremely skimpy and slutty (the tied-off blouse, the short, short skirt), violate my WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. Sorry, not interested. * [[{{Tropers/MightyKombat}} This troper]]'s pet hate in regards to this sort of thing: [[{{hermaphrodite}} FUTANARI]]. the last thing I wanna see when I look up hentai is for one of the women to suddenly reveal a raging horse cock long enough to function as a viable weapon, thank you very much. If I wanted to see THAT, I would look up a yaoi doujin or hell, a standard hetero one. ** Amen. ** Now i want to see a fight using those as lightsabres. Why yes i do frequent 4chan. *** Makes them slightly more palatable at least. In any case, I don't want to see the woman pull down panties/skirt/whatever and instead of a reasonably pretty crevice, out pops [[ICallHimMrHappy Mr. Happy]]. Some of them get just plain gross too, and at times when a hentai image LOOKS sexy enough you suddenly notice one of the girls has a dick and its like the goddamn FedEx arrow, impossible to unsee. *** [[{{Tropers/VoltraTheLively}} This particular troper]] can deal with them to an extent... but if it looks like the artist carved lady

parts into the man parts, expect that page to be 'x'ed out as quickly as possible. Also, futas trying to impregnate themselves. WHY? ** This troper thinks that sort of stuff is just plain ''hideous''. I think it best fits with the tropes UncannyValley, {{Squick}}, EldritchAbomination, NauseaFuel, and HighOctaneNightmareFuel. Ugggghhhhhh..... why do people find that erotic? I find myself wanting to get a tums or Pepto Bismol whenever someone in RP reveals themselves to be herms. However, I learned that if you say that you find that stuff FetishRetardant, people may often accuse you of being homophobic or intolerant or anti LGBT because you dislike herms. No, I just find it disgusting. * Ridiculously skinny women in real life. Whenever I see them in porn and they get... [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "rough"]] with their partners, I keep thinking she's going to snap in half any second. Not to mention that I really don't like seeing their bones. ** I see what you mean. I'm okay with slim women but there's a difference between "perfectly slim" and "looking almost like a bliddy corpse". Ironically most of Britain may seem to agree what with some recent controversy over the (Legitimately fatal) dangers of being a "Size Zero" model. I'm happy with a fair bit of chubbiness as long as it looks cute and not repulsive. And I'm good with a nice thin woman as long as she doesn't resemble a [[LegendOfZelda ReDead]]. * This bi troper is turned off by midget girls with large breasts. ** What about midget guys with big dicks? ** Same troper from above: it depends on the guy. If the guy is way too short for me (And I'm only 5' 3''), then no. A little bit short and that's okay. * Muscle-bound body-builder types completely turn off {{Tropers/Sandy87}} (see the mini-rant in the "Characters" section on {{Film/Thor}}). She likes her men [[{{Bishounen}} slim and slender]], thank you. A tiny, ''tiny'' amount of deltoid muscle, just enough to hide the bony shoulder point, is nice, but '''no more!''' ** [[@/{{endlessness}} This troper]] is turned off by overly muscular women in porn. A little amount of muscle is a Good Thing (tm), but after a point this easily goes from FetishFuel to Squick. * This troper hates the general appearance of the vast majority of mainstream porn actresses. An unsexy breakdown: ** Ridiculously tiny outfits that reveal as much skin as physically possible. Sometimes less is more. A fully-clothed woman can very easily be sexy. Wearing nothing but a thong and stilletos is not. ** Excessive amounts of make-up and nail-polish. ** Huge breasts. ** Fake tan. ** Hair that has clearly been dyed blonde. [[/folder]] [[folder:Words]] * A lady friend of mine hates it when her partners speak during sex, she says it's a major turn-off. My brother says that a partner licking his ear is all it takes for him to [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean go soft]] and lose interest. * For this troper, any use of silly or childish euphemisms for private

parts (coochie, beaver, ding-dong, ta-tas, hoo-hahs and pretty much anything else with a hyphen) in what is supposed to be a sexual or romantic scene ruins the whole thing. ** My partner and I each have our lists, of words not to be used during the act and words not to be used ever. ** Relatedly, this other troper has been blasted right out of "turned on" into "derisive laughter" by linguistic {{Level Breaker}}s in written porn. Whether it's Purple Prose or deliberately coarse, stick with it! ** For that matter, "dirty talk." I know the names of all the body parts involved... having them repeated over and over doesn't turn me on. If it makes people sound terribly unrealistic, it's a LevelBreaker. * In the written form, any use of the word ministration(s). When one is reading [[ADateWithRosiePalms rather quickly]], it registers as menstruation, thereby grinding all mental functions to a halt as one is {{Squick}}ed, realises what the word actually is, and then goes looking for different [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean entertainment]]. * Anyone calling their sexual partner 'Daddy'. It sounds incestuous and borderline-pedophiliac. Cue squick. ** Thank you. ** If it's supposed to be a cute, fluffy fic then completely thirded. If it's supposed to be creepy and fucked up, then it's awesome. * Anyone referring to themselves as having been a "bad, bad [gender]." It's just...blarg. * Here is a list of words that smut authors use too much. Each has this effect on me. In no particular order: ** Lotus ** Velvet curtains ** Love button ** Cleft ** Mancherry ** Mancarrot ** Happy stick ** Throbbing <whatever> ** Meat pole ** Stiff mast ** Awaiting dampness ** Pulsating <whatever>. Pulsating walls gets a special mention. ** Massive drill ** Private parts ** Naughty bits ** Lady parts ** [[LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami Man-thingy]] ** Spread nether lips ** Parted "fuck-me legs" ** Steaming love juices ** Honey. If something tastes like rancid chicken, why do people keep calling it honey? ** Bitter milk ** Manjuice *** [[@/SoWeAteThem I]] second those. All of them. I'd also like to

nominate the usage of "cum" as a substitute for the noun "orgasm," especially when used in the plural form. It does not make the scene sexy, it makes the author sound like a {{lolcat}}. *** Tripled with some of those. The first three are awful, as well as the last three. Steam just sounds so wrong when associate with some things, and if anybody ever referred to my member as a "mancarrot", I'd go into a hysterical fit of laughter. Also, anything sexual that has "happy" in it is just a total turn off to me. * For this troper, any use of the word "throbbing" in a lemon fic is a major turn-off. * [[{{Tropers/Dwessie}}This here troper]] Completely hates not only when girls call their boyfriend/husband/whatever-the-hell "Daddy", (The exception being Haruhi and Tamaki in [[{{OuranHighSchoolHostClub}}Ouran]]}, and I ESPECIALLY hate significant others calling each other babe or baby. This is my stand on it. * "Daddy" is the name I shall ever only use for the man that helped my mom make me, and that is how it should be, "Baby" is what the humanoid you and your mate spawn is called, not your mate, if they are a baby, then they are too young for you. Also, calling anyone "Babe" who isn't a pig or a big blue ox is also a turn-off, as it implies that they are only loved for their looks. * For some reason, this troper hates the phrase "love making". She has no clue why, but it annoys her to no end. * I doubt that the scenes with hookers in ''GrandTheftAutoIV'' were supposed to actually turn anyone on in general, but hearing one of those bitches suddenly yell, "GRAB MY TITTIES, YOU FUCK!" in the middle of the act... NoJustNo. * ... Anyone else find people who call their girlfriend "bitch", "hoe", or "whore" disgusting? It's just... something you shouldn't call the girl you love for me. [[/folder]] [[folder:Subjects]] * Yaoi. Just yaoi. This troper has seen so much of it in her 18 yers on this planet and wishes it never happened. Why are some girls so turned on by watching men kiss, lick, have sex with, ect. with other men!? ** The same reason a lot of straight guys like lesbo porn. If bishie = sexy, then 2(bishie) = 2(sexy). Although as a gay man, this troper finds yaoi disgusting for [[{{Uke}} entirely]] [[RapeIsLove different]] [[UnfortunateImplications reasons]]. Have any yaoi writers ever even ''talked'' to a real gay person? ** No they don't, and they're all female writer. The point of Yaoi is to be porn for not yet sexually mature girl who are too young/uncomfortable with their sexuality to enjoy het (or lesbian) porn. But two real, living, breathing males making out is a totally understandable healthy fantasy. ** [[{{Tropers/Chaos009}} This Troper]] finds the whole {{Seme}}/{{Uke}} dynamic the most objectionable. I'm not saying that all instances are WRONG, but there are millions of other types of relationships. Not to mention how so much of Yaoi is a standard

formula of [[SparklingStreamofTears tears]], [[LuminescentBlush blushing]], [[{{Gayngst}} angst]], and [[RapeIsLove rape]]. UnfortunateImplications much? And good luck finding a story that [[RealityIsUnrealistic deals realistically with homophobia and society...]] ** I disdain Yaoi, or should I say SlashFic in general and avoid it like the plague because of CharacterDerailment. My explanation for yaoi fangirls is that it's less intimidating with two men rather than a situation with a man and a woman whom they may not identify with. Go fig. * [[Tropers/{{Wheezy}} This troper]] finds [[{{Rule 34}} licensed character porn]] to be a huge turn-off. It's not even a "you're ruining my childhood" situation - just that something about the blatant CanonDefilement kills all attraction he would've had to it. ** Seconded, to an extent. There are certain manga and shows I won't look up anything on, but the stuff I do, I will only go for if it pays at least some attention to canon and characters. (Among things I'd like to tell certain writers: [[{{PokemonRubyAndSapphire}} Jirachi]] does not just pop the heck out of nowhere, [[SonicTheHedgehog Shadow]] is not [[AzumangaDaioh Sakaki's]] SpearCounterpart, and [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji and Asuka]] ''would'' be out of place in an [[{{Grindcore}} Intestinal Disgorge]] song, thank you very much.) ** This troper thirds that. If it's of one of his favorite characters, like [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Sokka, Toph,]] and anyone made by {{Disney}} or {{Pixar}}, it becomes straight-up NauseaFuel, and in special cases like [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Nia]] [[TheWoobie Teppelin]], it evolves into NightmareFuel. [[BerserkButton DO]] [[HeroicBSOD NOT.]] [[ThisIsSparta BRING UP.]] [[CompleteMonster ANTISPIRAL]] [[NaughtyTentacles TENTACLE RAPE]]. ** Fourthed. And when Rule34 makes an ActionGirl that I love into a subby cumslut while the skinny, pretty guy that she tops in canon turns into a ugly/goofy-looking rapist, I feel like fucking screaming. * On a somewhat related note - the way most people are squicked by [[{{Lolicon}} porn of 10 year-olds]], [[Tropers/{{Wheezy}} this troper]] is squicked by porn that looks like it was '''drawn by''' 10 year-olds. He doesn't expect his wank material to be GeofDarrowquality, but he at least needs to see eyes that line up, body parts that are correctly sized and placed, and a background or two. * For this troper: stuff goes to this ''very quickly'' when rape [[RapeIsLove is]] [[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt treated]] [[RapeAsComedy as]] [[RapeIsFunnyWhenItIsMaleOnMale anything]] [[RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale else]] by the characters. If there's rape in the porn, okay, but regardless of [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief everything]] [[MST3KMantra else]], that's what it is. * This gay troper is put off by gay porn where one (or both) of the guys are straight. ** Wouldnt they have to be bisexual maybe my views on this are wrong but if they have sex with a man but also women they are bisexual if it is gay porn and they arent they could turn down the role or not apply. ** You must have to avoid a lot of m rated fanfiction, then.

* This troper is ''constantly'' asked to do these "Seduction RPs" or help write some "Seduction" story where the guy is seduced. It's not that I'm gay or anything (I'm Asexual and genophobic.) but they all go the same way and I'm not interested in 'em. And I'm '''''always''''' asked to play the female. I'm a guy in real life - what in the fuck do '''''I''''' know about seduction? * [[IdiotPlot Idiot Plots]]. I can understand having a simple plot, or no plot at all, but when the plot and porn are allegedly of equal importance and the plot runs on stupid...It's kind of hard to enjoy the porn when all you can think of is the many logistical errors that led to it. (Depressingly, this troper seems to be in the minority on this) ** You're not completely alone. I agree, a simple PWP is far better than some ridiculous, long-winded, pointless lead up. * For this troper, any porn with pregnant women. It's rather [[IncrediblyLamePun inconceivable]] for him. * Something I've mainly noticed in FurryFandom that just kinda creeps me out, even when it's well written or drawn, is when married guys (and it's usually guys) either write stories or draw art of their and their wives' fursonas getting it on in all these wildly kinky ways. And oh yeah, these married guys also seem to have a vast appetite for both straight and gay porn not involving their significant others, too, which comes off as vaguely insulting to her IMHO. I don't mind furry porn, I don't mind their bragging about how much they love their wives, even if half of the stuff they save is of sex with completely anonymous women and men, but [[WhatAnIdiot just how smart is it to show it off for anyone to see?]] * Porn videos that spend ten minutes on blowjobs then two on sex. You know some of us like blowjobs but for me watching them gets old and boring REAL fast. * This troper is okay with yaoi. Not a fangirl, but she doesn't mind it, as long as its well written And then, two words. Shota. Yaoi. DO NOT WANT!!!!!!! * It is maybe due to cultural ValuesDissonance, but [[{{Tropers/AdeptusAlpharius}} this Troper]] utterly despises Japanese Erotica in general. I just fail to see the appeal of [[{{Lolicon}} pedophilia and the sexual exploitation of minors]], [[{{RapeIsLove}} the fetishizing of rape]], sexual humiliation of women, bestiality, [[{{NaughtyTentacles}} squid porn]] and other [[{{MoralEventHorizon}} "acts"]] any sane human would regard as an atrocity. [[{{DoubleStandard}} And yet people are complaining about stuff like]] ASerbianFilm or {{Irreversible}}. [[{{TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter}} Which is a shame as there are many hot Japanese actresses]] I would like to see in a porn flick that isn't marketed towards closet rapists and other people in ''dire'' need of counseling. ** This very same troper would consider many, ''many'' entries of the [[http://fetishfuel.wikia.com/wiki/Fetish_Fuel_Wiki Fetish Fuel Wikia]] rather as {{Squick}} and NauseaFuel. Full stop. * This tropette is a long-time YaoiFangirl, but I can't stand it when I read a fanfic with CharacterDerailment. I want my bishies to be in character, damnit! That's what makes them (And the yaoi.) sexy! If I

wanted a super-generic seme/uke combo, I would look at some OC writing. [[/folder]] [[folder:Other]] * Porn with the audio replaced by almost anything, resulting in some serious SoundtrackDissonance. No, I don't want to listen to a rap song about asses while looking at asses. That, or solo porn in which the cameraman talks. ** For [[{{Tropers/Wheezy}} this troper]], solo porn in which the girl talks also usually falls here, especially since amateur camgirls [[BrainlessBeauty almost never have a way with words]]. ** After watching an artistic porn movie (something Blake), my words for my wife were "I feel bad for the guy who had to play Improv saxophone to this for over an hour." ** Porn with cheesy music is a major turn-off for [[@/{{endlessness}} me]], sorry. * Pretty much any form of hardcore pornography for this troper. It's nothing but sex scenes involving disgusting close-ups of certain body parts going into other body parts, which is about as arousing as a medical textbook on human reproduction. ** Ditto. Most of this troper's live-action porn collection is solo and softcore, which he tends to go after more than the usual cock-andpussy variety. Currently he's trying to find some soft videos of a particular pornstar, and when 99% of the results you get are hardcore, cue HypeBacklash. ** Same here. Most porn, written or drawn, either bores the hell out of me (90%) or is plain {{Squick}}y ([[CaptainObvious 10%]].) I spend a lot of time searching for something that I might find interesting, but usually what I find is "right idea taken to a too-hardcore level.") * Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance". The cross-dressing gay dudes were confusing enough, but you add in those weird clothes, and the auction, and that guy with the thing on his jaw, and the [[spoiler:setting him on fire and fireworks bra]] and you just, you just...I don't even ''know''. ** But . . . but . . . it's pretty! ** This was more or less intentional on Lady Gaga's part. The video was a mish-mash of FetishFuel ''and'' NightmareFuel, so naturally it would seem like FetishRetardant to a lot of people. *** LadyGaga does intend to turn you off though. She's said it is the point quite a bit. As for the cross-dressing guys, I believe you are thinking of the video for 'Alejandro.' **** Nope. I mean the backup dancers. Unless they cast tall, broadshouldered women. Good dancers, though. I normally don't mind androgyny, but it seemed they were aiming for less "attractive ambiguity" and "faceless mannequin". A sort of androgyny UncannyValley, if you will. * Most of the mainstream porn, for this troper. ** Also, he doesn't dig the entire porn actress thing. He'd rather have something that feels more real than a person designed to be perfect and to look 'hot'.

** This troper finds a good fraction of porn actors (both male and female) to be somewhat on the ugly side. *** Yeah, the thing is if you're ''really'' pretty you can get better and more acceptable jobs than in hardcore porn - but porn can't take "normal" people, so most of the actors and actresses look like they're living on the edge of UncannyValley. ** This female troper finds most of mainstream porn being nothing but the woman putting a show to the point of getting ridiculous. Not to mention, guys in Straight porn are never very attractive. * Anything, absolutely anything overdone. Even the things I find to be ''very'' sexy under normal circumstances get a certain squick factor when exaggerated. Like the artists on DeviantArt whose galleries are more like very blatant ads for their preferences. And don't get me started on the time that I stumbled across a YouTube video in which this guy was talking about a fetish that we both shared. Only...he really hammed up his sounds of orgasm, and I couldn't decide whether to laugh or gag, so I quickly X-ed out of the window. Guys, that is not sexy. That is freakish. * Bad grammar, spelling, etc. I'm reading to fap; I shouldn't need to use seven methods of critical analysis to understand what the hell's going on. ** Same for this troper, but for video. Do you want me to enjoy a video recorded by a guy who was fapping while recording with a crappy cellphone camera? * Same poster as "inflation": Likes the concept of yaoi, and thinks shotas are cute. Shotas having sex (with other shotas or no)? Bleeaaaaagh. * Anything with body fluids. Spit, piss (not to mention the squickier stuff)... ** This. Spitting during sex is disgusting. And using it as lube is not only gross, but YouFailSexEdForever. * This Troper apparently has odd fetishes. I often trail off into describing getting best up by a woman, hunted down, taller girls, etc. and I get odd looks. One time, at church camp, in the guys' cabin, a guy was jokingly asking things like "Who here is dating a crazy girl?" or "Who is dating a stalker?" I said "I wish..." Cue rants about how "you do NOT want a stalker following you around!" from every guy in the cabin. People in the south are just NOT creative. :P * [[SoWeAteThem This troper]] has a few anti-kinks of his own: ** I have little-to-no WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief when it comes to {{hentai}}'s [[ArtMajorBiology unrealistic approach]] [[YouFailBiologyForever towards biology]]. There's a very thin line between "hot naked chick" and "[[EldritchAbomination cthuloid horror.]]" ** For some reason, [[{{Miss Fanservice}} fanservice girls]] backfire in {{Fighting Game}}s. I can't help but wonder how they get out of matches with their dignity and body parts intact. ** Excessive misogyny. Now, some degree of sexism is almost inevitable in porn, but when it starts getting really degrading, all potential for arousal is lost. *** With you 100%. My tastes attract people who have Issues With Women, and it's a huge turn-off

** Foot worship. I'm sorry, the song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYpbWP_ctuA "Alabaster Street"]] pretty much killed my ability to take it seriously. ** Anything I don't think everyone will survive. Yes, ''do'' apply the TethercatPrinciple to this sort of thing. ** Anything involving teeth. I worry about things getting bitten off. ** LimitedAnimation in {{Hentai}}, especially CG stuff. I'm sorry, but it makes them look more like a collection of hinges and less like people. ** Anything in which the sexual organs are far too large. * This troper gets very squicked out by porn where the camera... well, ''zooms right up'', {{if you know what I mean}}. I'm sorry, but I do not need to see it that close. Also, porn where they swear too much. I always felt that was sort of crude. * [[PantyShot Panty shots]] for this Troper. ''ArcadeGamerFubuki'' (or at least the MarzGurl review of it) didn't help. There's also oral, French kissing (Get your tongue out of my mouth!), incest/{{Twincest}}, pedophilia, and girls that are so skinny that they look like walking skeletons. * The absolute single biggest bit of FetishRetardant for this troper is stupidity. Not merely being TheDitz - that can be cute, same with being a Cloudcuckoolander - but just being flatly stupid... oi. (Stupid is different from ignorant. You can teach the ignorant; stupidity is a willful thing.) * Excessive amounts of saliva in...well...anything. It's gross to look at. * This troper has so many [[FetishRetardant Fetish retardants]] it would require a HUGE list. But the ones which really disgust me are porn in general (Yes, every type of porn, strip clubs, thongs, nudity, ABDL's...and the just the ones giving me immediate freakouts... * Strip Clubs. Not because of anything that happens inside, but the simplicity of it: You get in, you get turned on, then walk out without being allowed to express your desires of the seductresses in there. Like a long foreplay without the happy climax. For money, at that. In this case, i think the use of a prostitute is much more justified and less depressing in the long run. ** I agree, [[DidNotDoTheResearch despite never having been in one]]. * Smoking. Instant deal-breaker. I simply cannot stand the smell of a cigarette smoker's breath. There is nothing that turns me off more than seeing an attractive person take out a cigarette. I even hate letting relatives who smoke into my house because the entire house stinks for hours afterwards. ** Yes to this. You see a pretty girl when you're out and then they light up. Yuck. * Straight Male troper here. Here's some stuff I dislike ** Yaoi, but being a straight male, i suspect that's to be expected. ** 'Expansion', AKA fan art that makes attractive female characters huge fat abominations. I don't like ridiculously skinny either, but thats just gross. ** Ridiculously huge mammaries. I like small boobs ** Poop, farting, and the like. ** I have a foot fetish, so this may seem weird, but I can't stand the

sight of foot jobs. The penis is not a sexy thing. *** [[MindlessSelfIndulgence All the people that you meet, here on Alabaster Street... THEY WANK YOU WITH THEIR FEET]]--Oh. Sorry there. Anyway, I second that. And yes, that song is at fault; ever since I heard it, I cannot take the footjob seriously anymore. ** like wise, blow jobs. ick. This one I don't mind irl, but i don't like seeing it. * This troper likes threesomes---two girls and a guy, both in porn and real life. This troper does not like going to his favorite porn site, cuing up a threesome...and seeing a girl who looks just enough like his sister-in-law to invoke a certain uncanny valley effect. If I ever wanted to quit masturbating for any reason, that would be my go-to video. Just. WRONG. All I could think was "that's my brother's wife and nephew's mom...I mean, I know it isn't her, but..." Squick-tastic. * Despite not liking to wear jeans myself, this troper loves when a girl is wearing a pair of jeans and takes them off to reveal [[VaporWear that she isn't wearing anything under them]]. So while looking for such examples of porn, I happened across a video titled along the lines of "girl farting in her jeans". Despite the less-thanpromising title, I decided to check the video out, partly out of [[BileFascination some kind of morbid curiosity]], party out of the assumption that the farting in question might have been one goofy moment in the video that I could skip over to get to the good parts. Long story short, [[{{Squick}} it wasn't]]. This troper would like to believe that what he saw wasn't meant to be porn, but something about the video itself wasn't telling me that I was right. * This troper has noticed that in the vast majority of straight porn, and a good chunk of gay porn, the person on the receiving end of the dick WILL NOT SHUT UP. Sure, the occasional "ooh yeah" or if I'm feeling kinky, "fuck me with that big dick" is fine. And if they had a sexy voice, I wouldn't care if they talked nonstop. But the problem is.... THEY DON'T. In fact, most of the voices are as un-sexy as possible, and they seem to be on a continuous stream of passive moaning and [[ClusterFBomb cluster f bombs]]. Straight porn is probably the biggest offender of this, as the way the women moan is often so over the top yet uninterested, as well as them often saying incredibly dumb things and [[CaptainObvious stating the obvious]] ("oooh yeah your dick's in my cunt! OOOH YEAH YOUR DICK IS MY FUCKING CUNT FUCK YEAH!"), that he cant help but just start laughing. * This troper can't stand looking at a female nude when the woman's face isn't in view. Be it that she isn't looking at the camera or the image cuts off at her neck, she could have the [[ShesGotLegs best]] [[BabyGotBack body]] [[BuxomIsBetter ever]], but without a face to go with it, this troper is less aroused and more [[ParanoiaFuel worried that]] [[ButterFace she's not as attractive as the picture my lead one to think]]. ** This troper would like to second that. Faces are the most attractive part of the body. Who wants to have sex with a faceless body-doll? *** The thought of that in a literal sense goes beyond fetish retardant and into high octane nightmare fuel territory. * A far-too-common occurence in porn for this (male, straight) troper:

Two people are having sex. The woman is attractive, it's all good and sexy. Then suddenly, the camera cuts to the guy's sweating, snarling, grunting face and ''stays there'' for what seems like an eternity. '''Why?''' I'm clearly watching the video to see the pretty naked woman, why on Earth would you think I would want to see nothing but the face of some guy having sex? Especially because it greatly raises the risk of [[{{Coupling}} Eye Slippage, and therefore Lower Whiplash]]. Double negative points if the guy in question is uglier that the girl, as is also far too prevelant (when I see Hot Girl/Ugly Guy, I'm suddenly too busy feeling sorry for the girl to be aroused). * "Lesbian" porn, where the girls clearly aren't into each other and aren't even pretending like they are. Usually consisting of the two of them staring "sexily" at the camera, caressing toys and doing that weird toungue-licking-not-quite-kissing thing. Yawn. * [[{{Catfight}} Catfights]]. Nothing wrong with a DesignatedGirlFight, but when it is played for FanService it doesn't turn me on. * This troper has a saliva/drool fetish. In fact it's the first fetish I ever had. But so much saliva related porn is [[Squick DONE HORRIBLY WRONG]]. The line between turn on and [[NauseaFuel horrible turn off]] is thinner than a thread. Sometimes I felt both from the same video. The only ones that have done it right are the ones where it's unintentional or played for laughs. Too much saliva porn makes the girls drool like a St Bernard with their tongues hanging out or doing other weird unsexy things (and to second what another said, I hate the porn star look too so she has to REALLY do it right to overcome that, and they never do), it's so unsexy that it becomes funny. What I like is when a girl simply just doesn't swallow her saliva and continues to act normal despite that. I like the way a girl's voice sounds with a lot of saliva in her mouth (but oddly enough it's the biggest turn on if she's talking about normal every day things). Basically a 10 minute Vlog where a naturally pretty girl just simply doesn't swallow her spit while she's talking. But I must be the only person in the world who that'd be a market for. * Herms. I find them to be HighOctaneNightmareFuel, {{Squick}}, NauseaFuel, UncannyValley, and EldritchAbomination. This isn't ''just'' something I see in the FurryFandom, I find that stuff all over hentai. But I honestly do '''''NOT''''' think anyone who likes herms so much would '''''want''''' to be a herm. I really don't want to sound homophobic or anti transgender, but to me, you're either a woman or a man. * My friends love to roleplay stuff with me. The problem is, they assume I'm into that stuff too, when I really only tolerate it to be more mature than them. * I hate it when depressing background music plays in hentai. I can't find any satisfaction in it when I feel like I'm about to burst into tears. [[/folder]] ---Go back to FetishRetardant and - OH GOD! YOU CALL THAT SEXY!? ----

FictionIdentityPostulate * [[{{Tropers/Lalalei2001}} This troper]] had this happen to her own story, an OldShame StarWars fanfic that nonetheless had some good ides, if the resulting fic someone else made was any indication. ** [[http://boards.theforce.net/The_Saga/b10476/17714368/?30 Exhibit A]] ** [[http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/17749788/p1 Exhibit B]] ----

FightFurYourRightToParty * It didn't happen to ''him'', exactly, but [[{{Hremsfeld}} This Troper]] knows someone who was in a moshpit, along with a dude in a chicken suit. All night long, everyone was trying to knock down that one dude in the chicken suit, and all night long chicken man kept shrugging them off. Until this troper's friend got accidentally punched and crashed into the chicken dude, knocking said poultry-clad party-goer over. Yes, the only person to knock the dude over all night did it on accident after getting punched. Even better? Because this troper's friend crashed into the chicken at the right angle, all his momentum was transferred to the bird. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome He didn't even fall over]]. * One of [[{{Smerf}} this]] troper's (rather large) best friends went to Sacuracon dressed as a giant panda. He got glomped every 5 minutes. At the end of the day, his only regret was that they were all underage. Taking a break to get something to drink at a nearby supermarket: "Clean up, panda poo on aisle 3" over the loudspeaker. * At Warped Tour, [[{{Valex}} this troper]] didn't just see animals, he saw giant bananas and teletubbies. It was amazing. ** Guess there's just something about The Warped Tour... The one time I went I saw a rat dancing on stage with one of the bands... Granted they were the mascot for for an anti-smoking campaign who apparently wandered away from the booth (I'd seen them earlier with a sign about cigarettes sharing ingredients with rat poison), but still... * One friend who hosted parties liked to put on a giant bunny costume, with a gas mask. The first time [[DokEnkephalin ThisTroper]] saw it, he danced on the balcony while manically setting things on fire. I tried to get a picture that I thought was perfectly captioned because someone had written on the glass door "Nobody Understands Me!", but unfortunately it didn't capture so clearly. At another party, I followed two bunny suited friends with a video camera while they molested the grand landmark statues of Atlanta -- statues that the next day were corralled with police tape. * This troper dressed as a chimera at a recent anime convention, and carried a sign that read "I can has bellyrub?". She got over 100 bellyrubs, earscratches and hugs, and a few people made out with her snake tail. Some innocent bystanders who were staying at the hotel gave me looks like you wouldn't believe. ----

I can't hear you, this party's too loud! You said you want to go back to [[FightFurYourRightToParty Fight Fur You Right To-]]...is that dude in a hyena outfit? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FightSceneFailure * [[Tropers/FuzzyBoots I]] did a short VHS film of a fight scene for a high school project with a friend. We start out with choreography, but quickly got bored and just started messing around for it, me using my years of martial arts experience to be able to stop my punches and kicks with only light impact and my friend playing up being the MightyGlacier by slowing his punches and no-selling mine. It was absolutely hilarious. Then it started showing up in everyone's films, if only for non-existent "Fight Scene Choreography" in the credits. * I've done two in the last year alone, once during my 2nd dan karate grading (which was done in secret during a kids grading I was doing) my instructor had me and another dan grade up to do some stick work, it resulted in me smacking my self between the eyes while going full speed with a pair of escrema sticks. the seccond was during my 1st dan aikido grading where after doing several dozen well executed knife taking techniques, only when it came to the one technique I was being watched doing and stabbed myself (lucky it was a blunt training knife) * This troper was in a high school production of ''PeterPan'' as an Indian, and we got to the finale when the Indians storm the pirate ship. All of us ran onto the stage, but only a few got a crack at the pirates (I remember fake-punching with someone and them not noticing). * Edgy once made a student film called "Who Stole My Pocky?" that end with the main character fighting the one who stole the pocky in a fantasy cosplay battle. I made the mistake of only using wide shots and the fight scene looked terrible. This is my OldShame.

FigureItOutYourself * [[Tropers/{{randomfanboy}} This troper]]'s Computer Graphics and Design teacher runs on this trope. He directly said to the class "I am not a teacher. I just show you 1% of the program and you learn the rest yourself." * [[Tropers/{{DalekKanNoladti}} This troper]]'s academic advisor is this way. If I send him an email or ask a question he doesn't want to answer, he just ignores me. [[{{Jerkass}} Jerk]]. * This troper is both loathed and loved for this at his school. He acts as a tutor for other people in his classes but refuses to answer questions where the person could very easily look it up. On the one hand people consider this an annoying trait. On the other, the same people have admitted that this method does help them on tests and the like.

* For This Troper, it depends on the person. Anyone at school I will help to the best of my ability. However, since my 3-years-older-thanme brother is a complete JerkAss, he gets this trope. And for some reason, can't possibly think of why. * This troper's father's answer to bloody EVERYTHING. ** Are you me?! * [[Tropers/{{LoneCentrist}} This Troper]] ends up doing this to his brother quite often with most computer problems or video game problems. * This is precisely what I told my brother when he wanted to know how to work the stove. ** Man, I'm all for working out things without getting help, but not when those things involve fire. * This troper actively defies this trope--most of the time. The rest of the time goes like this: -->'''Person:''' Tell me!\\ '''Tropers/RedWren:''' I don't know how to explain it to you.\\ '''Person:''' Then tell me how ''you'' think of it.\\ '''[[WiseBeyondTheirYears Red]] [[CloudCuckooLander Wren]]:''' [does so]\\ '''Person:''' [blank or downright disbelieving look]\\ '''Tropers/RedWren:''' [shrugs or says IToldYouSo] * This troper tells most people looking for help with homework/classwork to, "Figure it out on your own. It's all in the textbook, and you should have been paying attention to the teacher." She averts it when it's her crush asking, however, and becomes [[{{Tsundere}} the advisor]]. ---We'd tell you how to get back to the main page, but we'll just let you Figure It Out Yourself. <<|TroperTales|>>

FilkSong * This Troper and her brother did that a lot when they were kids, making up lyrics about Pokemon to Genesis songs. * [[{{Scifantasy}} Guilty as charged.]] See the Main/ShipSinking entry. Yes, I'm the same Scifantasy. In addition, check out the "Rich Fantasy Lives" video linked from the main page...I'm the one on the right--no, not the woman doing the ASL poetry, the guy in the light blue. It's a long story about how I was on a reality television show and talked Tom and Rob into letting me sing "Lives" on the air, and it got on--though it was pretty butchered by editing--and never mind. Just--yeah. Filker, part of the community and all, right here. * Everybody who has heard of that ''Joy to the World'' song with {{Barney}}-themed lyrics, raise your hand. Now, hands up those of you ''[[HandsGoDown who have never sung it yourselves.]]'' * [[CountDorku This troper]] has written several - such as a version of "I Want It That Way" (actually based on the Weird Al takeoff, but the same tune) based around /tg/, a few lines of an {{Eberron}} version of "Khe Sanh", and having perverted Coldplay's Viva la Vida

into a song about IWannaBeTheGuy, is now turning a certain {{Animaniacs}} take on the Mexican Hat Dance into "[[EldritchAbomination Abominations]] of the World, brought to you by Yakko [[HPLovecraft Lovecraft]]!" (Things get sillier towards the end, with abominations including Japan, Pikachu, Unix code, Batman, and [[strike:Furby]] wait that one fits.) The best verse so far: -->Cyyyyynothoglys Rhogog\\ Amatsu-Mikaboshi\\ Tiamat Apophis Typhon\\ Azathoth Daoloth\\ Nyogtha and\\ Rlim Shaikorth Ithaqua Dagon. * MeganPhntmGrl: I've written probably upwards of 100 filk songs since early adolescence, culminating in my current project of relyricizing the score of ''TanzDerVampire'' in its entirety to the plot of a ''{{Watchmen}}''-based RP campaign. (Not to mention [[http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QG02YV1B "Radioactive Jonny"]], a song about Dr. Manhattan from Laurie's POV set to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib4hdKFBHOU Kurt Weill's "SurabayaJohnny"]].) * One of this troper's lecturers dabbled in what could probably be classed as filk. Not only did he make two Albums, 'Songs for Cynical Scientists' and 'More Songs for Cynical Scientists' (both recorded at Cold Spring Harbor) but he regularly performs one of his songs, written specifically to cover his lectures, for his undergraduates at the end of his lecture series. A video of him performing is actually available on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bGIhI5Fcgo YouTube]]. * [[DarcDiscordia My]] entire sophomore year of high school was spent making these with a friend of mine. We must have done the entire discography of System of a Down. Most of the resulting songs were about ninjas. * It wasn't so bad, back in the 90's. [[{{Tropers/Eddurd}} This troper]] browsed through a few {{Usenet}} newsgroups, making occasional comments, and every now and then composing a brief little verse. Then I started reading WebComics, and making comments, and got a couple of positive comments in return ... and that's when it began. The ''*shudder*'' SelfImposedChallenge. Is it actually possible to write one (or more) [[FilkSong filk song]]s every day? Current record: 278 consecutive days. Current total filks: over 1500. * This Troper has done a few and probably shouldn't have. Blame the Christmas rum for a {{Firefly}} edition of "BannedFromArgo" (including Book winning a fortune cleaning out the local gamblers, Mal and Inara giving the planet a pornographic show, and River spiking the local booze with something more mind-altering). There's no excuse for the GalaxyRangers version of "Threes" and the RedDwarf riff on the MST3K theme. * This troper will filk any song that decides to haunt her. So far, that has only been 2, but it was fun to rewrite "Kokomo" into a dark song about where her favorite vampires had been. * Anything this troper contributes to fanfiction.net has, and will be song-filks. I think they're crappy, but I admit that I only write them when I have an annoying {{EarWorm}} stuck in my head.

* This troper writes Firefly filk to the tunes of traditional seafaring-related songs: ** [[http://tmoh.deviantart.com/art/The-Firefly-Serenity-190456737 The Firefly Serenity]] ("The Bonnie Ship the Diamond") ** [[http://tmoh.deviantart.com/art/Eavesdown-Docks-190467949 Eavesdown Docks]] ("Shores of Botany Bay") * [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=gq4qlwe2pr961g3aookj zv5v&page=634#15846 A Warhammer 40000 Emperor's Day carol]], to the tune of "I saw three ships". [[{{Tropers/Chabal2}} I]] noticed "Emperor's" and "Christmas" had the same number of syllables, [[HilarityEnsues and, well...]] * Me and my brother once made a song about a horrible room we lived in on vacation, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome to the tune of Rickroll]]. Currently, we're working on a song about blueberries. * This Italian troper is an emulation enthusiast, so he wrote and sang [[http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SOZX6HZE this song about emulation]] to the tune of Articolo 31's ''Domani smetto''. * This troper sometimes gets bored and changes the lyrics of random songs to be about whatever she is interested in at the time. This can include {{Harry Potter}}, current events or her theatre group. ---[[TheBeatles Get back, get back, get back]] to the page for FilkSong... <<|TroperTales|>>

FinancialAbuse * [[@/JusticeReaper My]] father is subjecting me to this at this time. It's of the "take your kid's money without considering his worries about how he'll pay his personal taxes" variety, especially since Dad seems to have personal issues with the Government's payment of his housing trust money to him. The last time we [[strike:talked]] argued about it, he told me flatly not to talk to him about it again. Subsidizing his past business ventures has contributed to this, as well. * [[Tropers/NaomiLawliet This Tropette]] absolutely REFUSES to become a victim of this. (switch to first person) I study like absolute HELL and have only gotten ONE B since my freshman year (I'm a almost a junior in High School), I take THREE hard classes when most are only doing one or two, and I want to go to an Ivy League school or Oxbridge and study hard. As soon as I GET THE HELL OUT of my parents' house, I will go to college and medical school, then pay my parents back as soon as I can. Why? I'm sick of obeying stupid rules and I want to follow my own rules. As soon as I'm done with college, I want to live in London, New York City, or Vancouver and be independent forever. ** Are you me? ** I freakin' love you. * This tropers sister was in a 'really' bad, emotionally abusive relationship back in said sisters highschool education, after returning early from a exchange program to Japan said sister pushed

the issue to leave the relationship and was able to escape what would have been a horrific future with an otherwise dreadful man. Since then this tropers sister has researched such forms of abuse so as to be more aware of this...and has in fits of bad taste, joked when her now husband questioned or attempted to forbid her expenditures on certain things she was putting money towards. * This troper's parents have her checking and savings accounts linked into the "family accounts." They control where her paychecks go, whether or not she is allowed to access her own money, and they often take out money for themselves, unannounced. If she dares to try to bring it up, she is quickly rebuked that it is for her own good, and that she is so irresponsible that she wouldn't be able to take care of her money by herself. * This troper had a girlfriend whose family controlled her with money and prescription drugs. The couldn't let her make any independent decisions, even to support the ones that weren't recklessly immature or purely lashing out in rebellion. She had two talents that she was extraordinary at, training horses and stripping. The first they wouldn't take seriously in spite of the amount and value of the business potential, and the second is what she did for money every time she tried to escape their influence. ----C'mon, Mom and Dad, stop subjecting me to FinancialAbuse already! -----

FindingABraInYourCar * This reminds {{Tropers/Vorpy}} of the time when she bought her first car from a used car lot. After tending to it, cleaning the seats and upholstery, she looked under the seat and found a purple 36C pushup bra. It was strange to find it in nearly mint condition, the only thing wrong with it is smelling like a car. It was in her exact measurements as well. Was this a gift from the previous owner, pure luck, or a forgotten relic that longs to be with it's last wearer? Either way I washed it up and kept it (like me, of all people, is going to deny free clothing). * Winter 2004, living in the military dorms of Hill AFB, this dude once found panties in his truck bed under the snow. Not 2 months later, he found a different pair of panties in the truck bed again while cleaning out the snow. He used the two finger-tips at arm's full length distance grasp to carefully pick them up and throw them away. * Does finding a bra in your backpack count? * Inverted. I often remove my bra after work as i drive home (im an Acup, who needs bras anyway?) and they are often found later by passengers in my car. * At this troper's school, someone found a pair of panties under the table in one of the male math teacher's classrooms. A few days later, they vanished. Nobody knows what happened.

FingerGun

* [[Tropers/{{Bronzethumb}} This troper]] went to a production at the local Uni being run by some friends, involving dramatic performances, art installations and a huge smattering of HoYay {{UST}} between the two emcees. After all the "scheduled" events had finished, the emcees decided to resolve the tension with "carnage": a five minute FingerGun battle royale between ''all'' the performers and ''anyone from the audience who wanted to jump in'', set to R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)". [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome It was awesome]].

FingerlessGloves * This Troper has three pairs of fingerless leather gloves; one normal pair, one with little air holes on the knuckles, and one with a bunch of studs on the top. Usually you can find me wearing the studded ones all the time, 'cause there awesome. * This Troper likes fingerless gloves for shooting. They come in real handy when its cold. * This troper is a big fan (she has four pairs: short and lacy, short and knit but too goth in coloration to really qualify as hobo-style, and two colors of striped arm warmers). Finger-covering gloves dull tactile sensation -- although I'm enough of a glove-whoore to buy them anyways (as accessories, I mean, not for practical [[BuffySpeak winter-type]] reasons) if they're cool enough -- but my palms tend to sweat, and... well, sweaty hands kinda stick to smooth surfaces. Like laptops. And steering wheels. And mice, or at least my particular mouse. Thus, fingerless gloves are the best of both worlds. ** This troper is currently searching for a pair of black leather ones, but unfortunately, no shop in Brazil sells them. * This troper has an older sister who severs the fingers of her old gloves, and also knits fingerless gloves, and will buy them i she can find them. The calls them her 'Hobo Gloves' and will even wear them around the house * This troper has a trademarked pair of black ones. She wears a pair literally every day to school. Once, someone else wore them to school, and I was told by at least ten completely serious people that the other person had taken my gloves. * I used to have a pair of these to protect my hands when handling the ropes on a boat trip. I can't for the life of me remember where they went. * Anyone (myself included) who has played clarinet in a marching band knows the true power of fingerless gloves. ** Some flutes may need to cut the fingers off their gloves as well, depending on the design. In this troper's band, most of the flutes do it anyways just because it's easier to keep a good grip on your instrument. I also have a feeling that I know the above troper... ** Everyone in this (different) troper's marching band cuts the fingers off of their gloves, even if they're in the brass section. It's just that cool. ** Oh, see, the brass players in my old high school band thought they were too cool for fingerless gloves. All us woodwinds kknew the truth: They weren't cool ENOUGH. (BTW, CLARINETS REPRESENT!)

* This troper was waiting to meet his girlfriend one day, leaning against a building drinking hot chocolate, wearing fingerless gloves and a rather quaint little bobble hat. When I asked a passer-by the time, he cut me off with "sorry, I don't have any spare change". Oh, how we both laughed when I explained I wasn't homeless! * This troper has at least (at last count... there may be more) four pairs... a pleather bikeresque pair, two different lace pairs, and a fishnet pair. [[PerkyGoth Naturally, all of them are black.]] * This troper has cut the fingers off at least two pairs of gloves, as well as two pairs of toe socks, and has also bought at least one pair that started out fingerless in the first place. * This troper keeps a pair of synthetic fingerless gloves for cycling, to prevent huge callused patches on his palms from the handlebar grips, and ends up combining them with full-fingered gloves in winter to try and stop his fingertips getting frostbite. * This troper has also been a long-standing fan of fingerless gloves, but has only owned a really good pair since April 2009 (which he wore pretty much constantly through to the end of winter) -- other pairs of fingerless gloves were either too old with holes or too small and tight. Fingerless gloves are just generally very popular in this troper's location (Melbourne), with guys and girls alike. * This troper normally despises all gloves, because of how restricting they are (not to mention, it's difficult to feel things correctly with gloves). Naturally, fingerless gloves are the best option for this troper (arm warmers of come kind make a close second); that, and [[RuleOfCool they look cool.]] * There is a boy on this Troper's bus that wears fingerless gloves. * [[{{Deadbeatloser22}} This Troper]] wears a black fleece pair when cycling. Even when it's topping 20C. * This Troper has multiple pairs, including a pink and black striped pair with skulls on them. * This Troper used to have a pair that he made out of socks. What you do is you cut off the foot portion of the sock, leaving only the ankle/leg portion. Then you cut a hole in the side for your thumb. Then, you sew the end together in three spots for the fingers. Or alternatively, if you're lazy like me, you just cut the thumbholes and put 'em on. * This troper bought two pairs, and stopped wearing them because [[AwesomeButImpractical as cool as they looked, they really restricted his fingers' movement.]] * This troper bought some knit red-and-black-striped fingerless gloves to wear when running cross country, left them in her backpack pocket when the season was over, and found them again a few months later when going through her backpack because she was bored after finishing a test. She wore them the rest of the day and got all kinds of compliments. Now she wears them all the time. * [[GalenDev This Troper]] used to wear Fingerless Gloves while riding a motorcycle, but has since changed over to full-fingered gloves. He will occasionally wear [[MetalGearSolid Solid Snake-like]] shooting gloves with the index and middle fingers cut out when at target practice (though why the middle finger was cut out baffles this troper to this day).

* This troper loves them. She doesn't both buying them, however; she simply cuts finger openings in socks that have holes worn into their soles. She currently has five pairs, as well as a few 'lone wolf' ones. * Thanks to my love of ''Boombox'' by Main/TheLonelyIsland I want to wear them, but I'm concerned that I'd end up looking like a tool. * [[TenderLumpling This troper]] has a pair that she made by snipping the fingers halfway down on a pair of purple, kid-sized winter gloves with skulls on the backs. I didn't cut the fingers completely off because of the optical illusion: I have enormous palms and short, chubby fingers, so covering the palms and a little bit of each finger evens them out. * I was walking in our High School's hallway, wearing fingerless gloves one day, when a random passerby decided to inform me that, and I quote: [[InsaneTrollLogic "Wearing fingerless glover increases your chance of getting AIDS.']] ....How on earth does that work? ** Fingerless gloves are really, really [[{{Rule34}} sexy.]] ** [[FetishFuel Seconded.]] * This troper has a few pairs, both woollen and leather (the style of driving gloves with no cover for the back of the hand). He tends to wear them to hide the fact he tends to clammy palms, and because soft leather is excellent for grip, especially when practicing fencing techniques, or when carrying a staff. Also, combined with a sharp black suit and robes, it looks ''[[RuleOfCool bad]][[BadAss ass]]'' * This troper buys those cheap childrens' gloves specifically to cut the fingertips off. She can't sketch with gloves on. * At one point, ThisTroper owned a pair of gloves with a fold-over mitten flap. Flap on, they were mittens. Flap off, they were fingerless gloves. I was told they were made for skiers who don't like to have their fingers completely covered because they don't get a good grip on the ski poles. Then the mitten flap allows them to warm their fingers back up once they're done. (Oddly, however, the thumb is always covered, probably because making the flap large enough to also cover the thumb would make the mitten difficult to use.) ** This troper has a pair of those, but with a flap for the thumb. They're great for texting in the cold. * This troper created a pair out of some skiing undergloves with the fingers cut halfway through, with velcro on the fingernail portion. All 5 fingers fold back and stick out of the way, or I can wear them as full gloves. * Subverting the 'snobbery' case, {{Tropers/Morgulion}} has a black leather pair without any decoration used for shooting practice and martial arts. * This, along with a knit scarf and a certain hat, makes up this troper's "Orphaned British Paperboy" look. * This troper has a really nice black, blue, and white pair that she uses for cycling. Two hours after she bought them she fell off her bike and would have scraped her hand pretty badly if not for the gloves. * I have a few pairs-i have fishnet ones that are pink, white, black and yellow (the black ones and the yellow ones go up to just below my elbows), and wooly ones which are yellow and black striped and orange

and black striped. * This troper wears his pair every day, and every once in a while, some snobby elitist will ask the question, "What are THOSE?" Oh, these little things? They're called gloves, you may have heard of them before. * This troper works in one of the biggest fiber stores in his state. He also has a mother who can spin and knit amazingly well (or at least proficiently, which is more than he can do). The end result is Twinedknit [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiviut Qiviut]] and Mohair fingerless gloves. Said gloves are durable as Hell and warmer still. Shame he can't wear them unless it's forty below out. (Then again, it is Wisconsin, it happens at least once a year. Sometimes in May.) * This Troper has chronic hand/wrist pain (years of computer and restaurant work will do that). Compression gloves do wonders to alleviate the pain, but look awful. Fingerless gloves do a GREAT job of covering the compression gloves, and lining the wrist braces she'll wear during a flare-up. Favorite pair? Knit hemp, tye-dyed in rainbow colors, purchased from [[http://www.tyedye-everything.com/ Tye-dye Everything]]. * This Troper has worn the thumb, index, and middle fingers out of several pairs of full-finger gloves while working as a lighting tech getting an average of 10 weeks out of a pair before the fingertips wear through to the point of being useless - and now just buys fingerless or framer's gloves (framer's gloves = half-fingers on the thumb, index, and middle fingers, and full-fingers on the ring and pinkie - best of both worlds!). * This troper has Raynaud's syndrome and tends to type a lot. She's had to get medical clearance to wear fingerless gloves at at least one job. * This troper has a character who wears these- to cover up a wound on his hand while at the same time being useful for sex. * This Troper has 28 pairs of fingerless gloves and is planing on getting much more. * [[{{Team Yami FTW}} I]] effing LOVE fingerless gloves! They're comfy. Even my winter gloves convert from mittens to fingerless gloves! * [[Tropers/NorthRaider This troper]] learned how to knit just to produce piles of these. [[TakeOverTheWorld World Domination]] Via Fingerless Gloves is imminent! (Cue EvilLaugh) * This troper collects them and is currently on the lookout for a rainbow pair. Any ideas where I might find such? * As a child, this troper mutilated countless pairs of regular gloves (the "countless" figure being on account of her spectacular ability to misplace things) so she could wear these. This was mostly due to her avid Pokemon fandom. * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} I want a pair.]] I blame Pokemon. They just look... so cool. :D * [[Tropers/ObsidianGhost This troper]] has two pairs, both for practical reasons, though I do admit [[RuleOfCool They look pretty good.]] One pair is for winter, since I can't operate in cold and I hate not being able to feel what it is I'm doing, and another for working out and riding my bike, since it's pretty unpleasant to have a

mass of calluses on you palm. * This troper only ever wears fingerless gloves as I find full finger gloves uncomfortable. I usually wear a pair of black leather rappelling gloves with padding on the back (much like those seen on SWAT officers and such in films * This troper has a few pairs. She wears then simply because she likes them. * This Troper has a pair of black ones with a skeleton hand in silver. She wore them all throughout winter, and many teachers complimented them. Funny thing was, the year before she had gotten in trouble for wearing them to school... * This Troper uses a leather pair of these in place of handwraps when hitting pads in Muay Thai. Much quicker to put on and stow away. * This troper wears [insert boring and pointless description of gloves] fingerless gloves. Aren't I special? * I can no longer draw properly with a fingerless glove on my left hand, I wore it so I wouldn't smudge my work. It didn't work, but I now wear them so much I can't draw without them. ---Keep your hands warm with FingerlessGloves. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

Fingore * This troper was running through a door and slammed it on his fingernail. Not too bad, until it bruised underneath, started to come off, and finally came off entirely. It grew back eventually. * [[DRoy This careless troper]] was very prone to this when he was young, although they are actually toes. I would always run around the house (when I wasn't allowed to go outside, that was) and bump into doorsills. Not pretty. * I was making egg rolls today. I was slicing green onions with a really sharp knife, and ended up slicing off a chunk of skin and a good fourth of my left index fingernail. It didn't hurt that much, but it bled all over the place and the bandage makes typing awkward. * I was three years old and playing in the backyard while a relative was trimming the hedges with a pair of hedge clippers they weren't paying too close attention and I was a bit quick and got in the way, the hedge clippers cut the tip of my middle finger on the right hand down to the bone, I still have most of the feeling lost above the scar * This troper is a Knife Nut, and my mom was trying to stop me from becoming one when I was younger. For my 12th birthday, I convinced her to get me a set of X-Acto knives and some small pieces of wood to try my luck of carving. She agreed, mostly because I have Aspergers Syndrome (long story short - your brain is wired differently, so you're smarter than normal) and it was my birthday. I had been building up my skills with the knives, when a very good piece of advice slipped my mind for just a few seconds. To whoever reads this, if someone says not to point at yourself when you have knives, power tools, and other potentially dangerous stuff, LISTEN TO THAT ADVICE.

Within the span of three seconds, the knife slipped from the wood, and since I had changed the blade not even two minutes earlier, the knife went through the skin on my left middle finger like a knife through hot butter, and almost as if it had been filmed in slow-motion, I could SEE the blade making a bulge in my skin, dragging down the flesh and tearing it open. When it finally exited my finger, the pain caught up with that last bit of skin being cut through, and it literally snapped like a rubber band being cut in half. I was then left with a hole about a half inch in length running down my finger. It may have been small, but it hurt like hell. So after bleeding and screaming for fifteen minutes while holding a paper towel over the wound, I finally calmed down as my mom put the knives away. When the healing began, I could literally peel open the skin and see the small layer of fat under my skin, with the pink inner flesh and even a tiny nerve visible. I did eventually get the knives back when I was 14 and needed them for a school project, and with a scar on my finger like some kind of morbid "reminder ribbon", I managed to get said project done without an injury. I still collect and sharpen knives though. ** I posted this to HighOctaneNightmareFuel a while back, by the way, so if you've seen it before...yeah. * This troper used to work for a veterinarian. Among other things, she assisted the vet during surgeries. When she first started the job, she was rather naive and did not realize how the operation to declaw a cat worked. As mentioned on the main page for this trope, the cat's toes are removed at the first knuckle--and at this vet's office (not sure about others) this is accomplished with a tool that crushes them off, rather than cutting them. This troper refused to participate in any declaw operation after the first. That was almost ten years ago, and to this day, any time she hears someone mention declawing a cat, they are subjected to a lengthy and graphic lecture on all the reasons why they shouldn't. (If you really must declaw a cat, laser declawing is a relatively humane alternative with a much less stressful and risky recovery period.) * I once tore off enough of my toenail that it ended up bleeding all over the place. So, this might be...toe-gore? * This troper has a mental disorder that causes her to compulsively pick/bite the skin off her cuticles... and then eat it. Not as grotesque as some of the other things mentioned on this page, but people seem to think it's gross enough. * This troper has run into this quite a bit. When she was very young, she fell down the stairs and got a piece of wire stuck through her finger in the process. It skinned part of the bone. She knows someone who put her finger in a pencil sharpener when she was a little kid, and no, it did not get sharpened. It got shortened. She knows someone who got their finger practically torn off, save for a bit of skin, by a horse (This troper THINKS she said it was a horse, but can't quite remember). * This tropette's science teacher apparently gave herself frostbite from liquid nitrogen. And then [[TooDumbToLive shattered her thumb]]. In front of the whole class. [[spoiler: She's shoved a hot dog into the finger of her glove]]. * [[{{philipnova798}} This troper]] Has had several minor cases of

this most often accidentally (Mostly on his right hand) but probably the most amusing was when he was Younger, he sat ON TOP of his index finger (while normally wouldn't have hurt, he was siting on top of his toy box and sat on said finger unwittingly), and while no permanent damage was done, (The was a bruise under the fingernail for at least a month and a half afterwards) it still was a rather wince-inducing moment. * In one of this troper's college classes, we used a paper cutter, one of those machines that cuts fifty to a hundred sheets at a time, and involves a pneumatically driven blade coming down to cut through the paper. To drive home the point that we needed to be absolutely sure our hands were out of the path of the blade when it came down, our teacher told us the story of a student a decade or so ago who didn't pay attention to where her hands were, and ended up having some fingers chopped off as a result. Not pretty.

FireBreathingDiner * Subverted by [[DaNuke Da_Nuke]]. He met a bunch of Arab guys who decided to play him a prank by making him eat something that had incredible trainloads of ''harissa'', a Tunisian paste of chili peppers and spices. But little did they knew, that back in Mexico, Da_Nuke often had gastritis from being already so numb to chili he used to eat ''that'' much... ** Also subverted when he ate an habanero while dining with the Senegalese. A woman looked in ''absolute'' horror as he ate the chili... and great awe and surprise filled the room when he declared: "In Mexico I've eaten hotter stuff!". * There used to be a Thai restaurant where ThisTroper lives that was notable in that it was possible to order food with insane levels of pepper. While it only caused the people eating there to feel like they were breathing fire, it also caused physical reactions (depending on the person) such as flop sweat and ''projectile tears''. I am not making this up. * The subversion sounds an awful lot like me and a friend - we both LOVE food that bites back. ** I went to a sub shop that had various hot sauces available, and got to chatting with the guy making my sandwich. I asked to sample one of the sauces, then dabbed a sample of it on my finger to lick rather than having it on my sandwich. I found the sauce to be fairly strong, but I wasn't screaming in pain like many other diners - and Sub guy was concerned that I hadn't reacted much. ** I went to a chili contest and had to sign a waiver to get a sample of one recipe. Taste was nasty bitter, but the heat was deliciously brutal. It was hotter than the above hot sauce, and would probably make a good sauce. ** My friend got into a pepper eating contest against a Mexican, and won without even trying. She'd probably enjoy doing lunch with Da_Nuke. * First time I went to a particular restaurant which serves Tibetan food, I chose a kind of chilli meat dish. My family warned me that it'd be really hot -- I waved away their concerns. It ''was''

incredibly hot -- almost painfully so -- yet somehow still delicious. I've been back there many times, but I've never ordered that particular dish again. ** One time when I was 5 or 6 we went to Chuck E Cheese for my brother's birthday. I went to take a piece of pizza and my dad said it was spicy and would "cause my mouth to light up like a Christmas Tree". I ignored him, took a bite, and it was indeed spicy. For about 7 years I avoided spicy things like the plague until one day I decided to try something spicy and actually liked it. * This troper's grandmother accidentally ate a large glob of ginger, thinking it was marmelade. The resulting facial expression was hilarious. ** My mom (who is a total wuss when it comes to spices) did the same thing with candied ginger. She thought "oh, ginger candy. Can't be all that spicy." She took a bite, got this ''look'' on her face, and literally threw the bag at me. Seeing as I use Thai peppers in my regular cooking, the ginger didn't bug me a bit. * [[PentiumMMX2 This troper]] once made the mistake of pouring one dipping cup of Domino's Pizza Hot Sauce onto his burritos for lunch. I didn't figure it'd be too hot...but I soon learned otherwise; it was super hot. Needless to say, I never did that again. * Years ago someone that doesn't know about TroperTales pages once touched her face after cutting some green peppers (couldn't remember the type). Minutes later she was writhing and crying in pain as the sensation of having her face and eyes being burned alive took effect. * Whenever I go out to eat I get something spicy (with a few exceptions). * This troper's uncle once ate a huge mouthful of wasabi, thinking it was guacamole. Needless to say, [[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensued.]] ** So did [[Tropers/SoWeAteThem mine]]. * When [[{{Allronix}} This Troper]] was smaller (about 11), and hadn't caught up to the "yeah, I'll take a shot-glass of insane" level of spicy, I downed a glob of Sriracha straight. Oh, it ''burned,'' but it was sweet and tangy, and too good not to have again. * Subverted somewhat with [[@/{{TehNubkilr}} this troper]], who has developed increasing tolerance to capsaicin, and barely notices anything under 80000 SR. He's itching to try Sichuan cuisine to get the same rush he used to get from Thai peppers and tabasco (which is now tasteless to him). * [[Tropers/SoWeAteThem I]] know a pal who keeps a bottle of [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce pure capsaicin]] lying about for [[NoodleImplements reasons]] [[CrazyPrepared unknown]]. * The British can make some serious holy-shit chili con carne. About ten years ago, I was in England with his family and I ordered a Yorkshire pudding with aforementioned not-soup. Cue screaming in pain. My dad ate the chili and I sort of managed to get the pastry down eventually. That said, these days I'm pretty damn near immune to this trope, so I may have to go back for a rematch. If only I could remember the pub we had that at... ** A favourite trick to play on visiting American students used to be to invite them to put plenty of mustard on their burger. * I had some particularly spicy wings once, after boasting that she

could handle it. Less than a minute later, she had drained her glass of water, her mother's, her father's, and was in the bathroom drinking out of the sink. This repeated several times throughout the meal. ** That was your first mistake; water just makes the burning WORSE. *** Milk, honey. Milk or beer; water is for when you want to ''enhance'' the burn. *** Although it does impart a delightful sensation of heat running down one's throat. * My brother once dared him to eat his entire chunk of wasabi at a Japanese restaurant. To this day, the mother of the two insists the younger sibling turned completely bright red during the worst of the effects. * Here's a weird example: I ordered the very unspicy Mac And Cheese at Panera Bread. I made the mistake of accidentally swallowing it whole without any kind of cool beverage around. My mom said that my face was scalding red. All because of choking on macaroni and cheese. * This troper's mother once preached at a Mexican-American church. There was a potluck dinner after the service, and she was assured that a specific pot contained "the gringo chili". More like "the prank-thegringo chili" -- it was the hottest thing on the table. * [[Tropers/SukiSelfDestruct My]] mother loves telling this story: she was hanging out with some friends at a Japanese restaurant, having something with wasabi. In comes her friend who sees the huge dish of wasabi, exclaims "GUACAMOLE!" and takes two fingersful and sticks it in his mouth. HilarityEnsues. * [[Tropers/Smerf This]] troper loves his hot stuff. Once, he at a glob of wasabi the size of his thumb (actually, twice, now that he thinks about it). He's tricked two old roommates into eating his hot sauce (left them in tears), and actually has a t-shirt from a hot wing challenge (12 of their hottest wings in 6 minutes. I did it in 4:34. I've had hotter). * I freaking love hot stuff. My family and I, in lieu of pizza one Saturday night, ordered hot wings from this local bar and grill type joint. I felt like becoming this when I took a bite. I choked down two (where I can usually get down five or six in one sitting) before giving up. My father later approached me and said they were too hot for him, too. He and I are both of the ''if we are not crying, it is not hot enough'' school of thought. If it's too hot for us, it's too hot for most human beings. * In this troper's hometown, there's a restaurant that serves a "Hotter Than Hell Burger." It has multiple types of peppers in it and "[[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce Atomic Ghost Sauce]]" made from ghost peppers (and they also serve it on hot wings). This troper ate one once, and while it was ''the'' hottest food he has ever eaten, it was absolutely delicious. -----''FIRE!!! FIRE!!!'' Somebody get an extinguisher to put out this FireBreathingDiner! <<|TroperTales|>>

FiringInTheAirALot * ''Counter-Strike.'' '''TERRORISTS WIN.''' Seeing as your gun is hitscan, i.e. the bullets will never come back down to earth, and seeing as your ammo gets replenished next round, why wouldn't you?

FirstKiss !First kisses at adolescence or later (i.e., when we "officially" had "those kinds of feelings"): * [[{{soojinyeh}} This Troper]] had it with at 13 with a black guy my family didn't like because he was black and Asian society is racist. I couldn't tell him that though, and he thought I had been with him to get back at an old friend of mine. * Interesting example with this troper. I was helping a friend of mine(whom I met during a crash into hello a few years back) learn this dance for a play she was in. Anyway I guess she got a little excited during the dance and I accidentally slapped her ass while we were dancing. Cue us staring into each other's eyes. Apparently she was really turned on by the dancing because she suddenly hugs me and proceeds to give me a kiss I'll never forget. * This troper lucked out (in a way). After years of not trying hard enough to get a girlfriend he found himself being flirted with by the waitress at a restaurant. This went from chatting to horny drunken phone calls (from her) to finally her forcibly making me find out how disgusting Long Island Iced Teas were. She asked if she could stay at my place, I agreed (completely oblivious), got back to my place, I collapsed on my bed (dead tired), she laid down next to me and... stuff happened. On one hand I wasn't drunk enough to do anything that got me slapped. On the other hand I was still all about "saving it". And apparently I need to use "less tongue". * This troper's first is described in detail on the PostKissCatatonia page...basically, the cliffnotes version is that my best friend of five years/StraightWillAndGrace guy/HeterosexualLifePartner and I were playing adorkable, awkward HighSchoolSweetHearts in the school play. Come opening night, he decided to forgo kissing me on the cheek and pulled me into an all-out dramatic kiss AWalkToRemember style in front of a huge live audience, reveling the crush he had had on me the past year or so. Due to his [[{{Wangst}} emotional issues]], [[IfICantHaveYouNoOneCan clinginess]], and [[StalkerWithACrush invasion of my life]] and due to my ManiacPixieDreamGirl tendencies and (though we didn't realize it at the time) [[IncompatibleOrientation latent homosexuality,]] it destroyed our friendship. He is the first and only boy I will ever kiss, and I don't really count it. That was my sophomore year in high school. My REAL first kiss (i.e., with a girl) did not happen until my sophomore in college, with a girl who probably does not even remember my name. * This troper's was awkward to the point of humorous. She was 14 (still is) and she and her boyfriend sat there for about 15 minutes going back and forth saying how awkward it was. * [[JohnnyBGoode This troper]] had his in a game of Truth or Dare with a friend. Despite being one of the most perverted of my friends, I

felt physically sick for a while afterwards. In a semi-inversion, I still count it because I think takebacks are cheap. And because, as I said, "girlfriends come and go, but nakama last forever" and it created MemeticMutation for the phrase "chicken skins" * This troper's first was from a drunk guy at a pride parade, who he didn't push away fast enough. The next day, he tried to reclaim his right to a first kiss, and ended up getting drunk, skipping school, and making out in a park with a guy who had a girlfriend, and a girl who had a boyfriend. * Don't worry, this troper is 19 have a steady income and a own apartment, is the nicest bloke in the neigbourhood, looks badass but no kiss or girlfriend...yet. * This troper wishes desperately, desperately that she could get the rights to her FirstKiss back. As her official glowing-neon-sign first kiss was completely unsolicited and [[{{Asexuality}} from a person who I was neither particularly close with nor at all attracted to]]. As well as particularly, er, inelegant. It also made it nearly impossible for me to relate on an emotional level with people outside my own family [[ParanoiaFuel without being perpetually paranoid]] and uncomfortable. Yeah, admit it. Kissing sucks. Of course, when I told the only person I knew I could trust about it... I found out just how MamaBear my CoolBigSis can be. (Admittedly, this has roots in a [[RapeTropes previous incident]].) * This troper's first kiss was with possibly the only person as meanspirited and evil as he is. The difference between them was that she wanted other people to like her, so * dump* goes this troper. That just sounded like a poop joke. Oh well. * This troper gave his girlfriend what she later said she wished was her first kiss. It was ankle-deep in the Atlantic Ocean, in the middle of the night, in February. ** You didn't have second thoughts about it? Because it sounds like you had [[IncrediblyLamePun cold feet]]. * Mine? A ShutUpKiss in the middle of trying to say, "Yeah, I don't really know how to kiss." Turns out it's not that hard. ** if it's not that hard, you're not doing it right. IfYouKnowWhatIMean * This troper intends to guard her first kiss with anime-characterlike ferocity and not give it up until she finds someone she likes very, very much who likes her equally as much. She also hopes to preserve her unkissed state until at least sixteen although, being fifteen and a half, that would not be difficult. * [[ARandomSerf This troper]] can tell you that hoping to preserve your FirstKiss and pursuing acting are mutually exclusive. Still haven't given an I-mean-it kiss, though. * [[{{Turtleducks}} This troper]]'s first kiss was at the Christmas formal. Her (now ex) boyfriend being the emotional-less rock that he was, she had to get her own first kiss. It was wet and sloppy and not nice at all. * This troper's gay. [[HilarityEnsues She attempted to prove herself bi by dating a guy, her sophomore year of highschool]]... he was her first kiss. It was in theory romantic, to be sure - they were waiting for his ride home to show up, on her front porch, with fireflies all

around... BUT IT FELT LIKE A SLUG WAS ATTACKING MY MOUTH, OH GOD. Turns out it was his first kiss, too. ([[{{Squick}} And he hadn't brushed his teeth at all that day....]]) * Unfortunately, this troper had her first kiss with the man who ended up sexually abusing her when she was twelve years old. But she later reclaimed this on her sixteenth birthday when her (now-ex because he turned out to be a creepy bastard) boyfriend took her out for a walk in the park, named it after her and kissed her under the trees. * This troper's first kiss was somewhat awkward, though still very nice: Sitting on a park bench, gently taking the girl's chin and turning her to face me...and then discovering that I had not a clue how to kiss someone. The girl made up for it (I was her third boyfriend), but it was still a few weeks before it was actually comfortable. I also had what I like to call my Second Kiss, for no other reason than it had the exact same First Kiss qualities as the actual first one: after going away to college and (temporarily, as it turned out) breaking up with my first girlfriend, I was hanging out, late at night, in the room of a female friend who seemed (I say seemed because I had/have never, ever, ever been good at reading emotions) to have a thing for me, and the following happened: I sat up, turned to look at her and just sort of...fell into it. Thirty seconds later, we were sitting on her bed with incredibly silly looks on our faces. * This troper's first kiss was his (then) girlfriend's first kiss. Awww.... ** Might have been for me, if you don't count the drunken kiss at a party with the village bicycle before... * This troper's first kiss happened in an odd way, she was led (sorta, she went very willingly but was still led to the spot of no security cameras) with arm around her waist (and this troper's hand wasn't on his ass at all, no) behind a staircase at school, was promptly pressed against a wall and ended up with a hand up her skirt. Cue a very happy troper. Thank god the security guard didn't find us. * This troper's first kiss was with the first person she dated, at one of her oldest friends' sweet 16 birthday party, from the girl who ended up cheating with her ex-boyfriend. Incidentally, it was also the only time they ever kissed. (This troper doesn't remember the exact first time she kissed a boy, but she is pretty sure it was more romantic than that and also more awesome.) * This troper's another one whose first kiss was less than epic: it was during a game of Spin the Bottle at some party at age 15, with a girl he barely knew. His first "real" kiss (i.e. not prompted by a party game) wasn't until three years later in his first year of university, with a guy he kinda liked who was already a friend (and they stayed as "just good friends", incidentally). ** Kepping the less than epic register: This troper first kiss was at the age of 13 years old with a 3 years older girl she barely knew in a friends partym because I was just willing to know how it was. It was pretty good, tought. * By the age of fourteen, this troper was a nervous wreck about her relationships - it seemed to her [[AllLoveIsUnrequited all love was unrequited]]. Her history of LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces included several stupid crushes in middle school, a

RomanticTwoGirlFriendship that she never managed to turn into SchoolgirlLesbians, a failed homecoming date whom she dumped with the line "it's not you, it's me" from twenty feet away, and an attraction to an upperclassman who was dating YamatoNadeshiko[=/=]RomanticFalseLead. At her side during the last two of those is a OneHeadTaller DeadpanSnarker... who turned out to be a type A {{tsundere}} with tender feelings towards her. What harm, she decided, could it do to play ManicPixieDreamGirl for a little while? Cue ClassTrip and the boy's recovery from his belief that he cannot date her just because she's a freshman... * This troper first kiss was in a tent at a field hockey tournament, with the girl having a boyfriend, and both of us being slightly drunk. He didn't find out her name until after half an hour of making out. While these may not seem like ideal circumstances, this troper doesn't regret it one bit. On a side note, he was supposedly better than her boyfriend. * This troper's first kiss was with a girl who was high on over-thecounter drugs. It was amazing at the time... wanted to commit suicide later. To this day, she still asks "Do you really think I would have done that SOBER?" * This troper's first kiss was about as epic as he could've hoped for. He'd been dating this girl (his first girlfriend, coincidentally) for about two weeks, and had had several quite romantic moments with her, but couldn't get up the nerve to go for it (since, you know, he'd never kissed anyone before). We were walking to Subway one day after school, taking a shortcut through a back alley. Suddenly, she says, "You know what? Come here," pushes me against the back wall of the nearest building, and starts making out with me. Everytime I do something wrong, she would stop for a moment, say, "No, you do it like this," and we would continue. Did I mention it was raining? And she was wearing my hoodie? And the only reason we stopped was because a car came along and honked at us? As an aside, she still occasionally mentions how she "taught me well." Like I said, suitably epic. * This Troper's first kiss was stolen by a perfect stranger at a club after some one-sided flirting. It's just as well that she's not concerned about romance or sexuality, or that might've been cause for some angst. As things are, it was just kind of obnoxious. * I'm a girl, and my first (and only!) kiss outside the family was during high school, from another girl who was just so happy that I gave her a Christmas gift. I was frozen in shock for about three seconds, After thinking a bit about it, I realized I was so frozen and the kiss was so fast that I wasn't given enough time to conclude if it was enjoyable or not. Oh well. Good thing I'm asexual. * This troper's first kiss was with [[GreenDay Billie Joe Armstrong]], and she got it by just asking politely. In her mind this was giving her first kiss to someone special to her (and such a big deal that she got caught up in the moment [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud and told him she loved him]]). He reciprocated (out of pity, she's sure, but it was still nice). Then again, he was 37 and probably [[YoungerThanTheyLook couldn't tell this troper was 16 at the time]]. ** That is awesome! Wow. Billie Joe has my birthday (off topic, but whatever). That is truely an awesome first kiss story!

* This troper, who never had a girlfriend, was kissed on the lips at his 10 year high school reunion by an ex-classmate he'd always thought was very cute. She'd been drinking. Hmm... * This (male) troper had his first kiss with his (also male) best friend. I'm straight, he had just then figured out he was gay. It was....awkward. To say the least. * This troper was a straight-laced {{Geek}}, who had a severe crush on another one. After several semi-dates where we studied languages together, we were watching a movie and he just reached over, moved my head, and kissed me. This troper was positive that she wouldn't have a boyfriend before college, and so her feelings oscillated between "OMG I GOT KISSED" and "I can't feel my tongue..." * This (gay) troper was at a party before I was properly out. A girl was coming on to me fairly heavily and finally I just told her I was gay. She didn't believe me and asked for proof just as the resident gay walked past. He was drunk and I was definately getting there so we made out. I was stopped middway for using too much tongue and practically got applauded afterwards for making out with someone who was very much out of my league. The girl disappeared while we were doing it but seemed ok the next day and is now one of my best friends. * ThisTroper got her first kiss at age 17 during the post-Prom gathering of her friend's house. Her date was a good friend of hers and they realized each other's feelings and got all cozy. Originally, they were going to kiss at the end of Prom (from what he told thistroper) but it didn't work out that way due to nosy friends. So we went along our way and while watching K-Pax at our friend's house, it happened. The thought process went like this -- "Oh so this is what it's like...hmmm...wait a minute! THIS IS YOUR FIRST KISS! HOLY CRAP!" and then I announced to my friends the next day that I couldn't say I was "17 and never been kissed" anymore. * This troper's first kiss was on a cliff, at sunset, on the last day of summer vacation, with a childhood friend. the next day I realized just how steriotypical teen movie it was. * This troper got her first kiss in the rain...<3 * sighs* * This troper's first kiss was given by (or perhaps taken by) a certain boy with hair the colour of gold and blue eyes and a tongue piercing and a mouth that tasted of pineapple, at the age of fifteen. He was beautiful. Unfortunately, I never got his name, but I will remember him always, from the messy hair to the stupid Fugazi t-shirt. * This tropers first kiss happened a week before she turned 13 with her first true love. It played out a little like one of those cheesy teen movies. He had asked me on a whim who I'd kiss out of our class and I said him. Then he took me outside, we sat on a bench and he asked me if this was true. I tried to make up an excuse to save face, failed and said yes. It ended up as a sort of semi-ShutUpKiss, with him saying "Really?" and me replying "Yes." ...... pretty good for a first kiss to (if a little bit tongue-y for a 12 yearold.) * [[{{Laur}} This Troper]]'s first kiss was at 16 with her childhood friend. It was not a great kiss at all, and it was probably because she didn't really have feelings for him. Also, he just had no technique. She however had a lovely FirstKiss from a girl a year later. She's also glad she was her current boyfriend's first kiss. Not

AllLoveIsUnrequited. ;) * [[{{Mhwal}} This Troper]] had his first kiss at 18. After a very long walk with my then-relatively new (and still current) girlfriend, I picked up my dad's van and we bought tickets for a late movie. We ended up sitting in the van and talking while we waited for the movie to start. Some time later, she admitted that she'd wanted to kiss me there. I replied that there were better places for a first kiss than the parking lot of a movie theatre. Just over a week after the movie, after another full day together, that first kiss happened... in the van, in the parking lot of the Subway across the street from the theatre. It was much BetterThanItSounds. It's a very fond memory. * Officially, I've had my first kiss (and many, ''many'' afterwards). But in retrospect, none of them count as ''that'' first kiss. * This troper had her first kiss weeks before she turned 15, with her first boyfriend, who was two months from turning 14 at that time. If not as epic as others, it was cute. It was on the beach, in a starry night, and we had just become a couple. :) * My first kiss was in a photobooth at a Westfield. I was fifteen, and I had recently come out of the closet, and my best friend was trying to set me up with her bisexual friend by goading us into kissing for the photo. It worked. We were together for quite a while after that. At the time, though, I was so nervous that it totally caught me by surprise when she slipped her tongue into my mouth, and I think I accidentally bit her, because I remember her telling me, "My tongue is not a chew toy!" before kissing me again. It really is the CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming as far as my relationships go. * This troper's first kiss was both awful and amazing - but mostly awful. She was in London for New Year with several friends, including her best friend (the other half of a set of PlatonicLifePartners), and both of them got stupidly drunk on the train down. He was trying to kiss everyone, almost, but only this troper would reciprocate (she has harboured romantic feelings for him for a long while). He kissed her very poorly numerous times that evening, clinking her teeth and biting her lip, to the point that no other kiss this troper could possibly have will ever be that bad. However, the fact that it was him gives it a positive edge - yes, this troper is a sad person. * This troper's first kiss was when she was 18, from her first boyfriend, while they were at the theater seeing IronMan2. It was ''really'' nice, to say the least, and may or may not have led a bit further... However, a couple of weeks later? He dumped her in the middle of an anime convention, immediately developed a crush on another girl he had just met, and has since told this troper that [[WrongGuyFirst he]] [[BreakTheCutie regrets ever having met her]]...LoveHurts [[WasItAllALie indeed]]. * This troper got his first kiss at 16(and is still 16). It was with the girl that was the first girl I fell in love with. It was January of this year. We had been together off and on since July of last year. What had happened was that we had got back together that week, and on that day school was almost over, and we were in the band hall(we're both in band, well she used to be) she had told me to come into the woodwind room, where she hugged me for what felt like minutes, then she kissed me. It was great but we ended up breaking up the next

Monday(it was Friday), but she is still mmy closest friend, and we almost got back together again, but thats another story. * [[Tropers.SoS This 17 year old troper]] got his a couple of months ago. One Saturday, he went for a walk around town, feeling very lonely. This was made worse by all the exceptionally PDA-happy couples he saw walking too. He returned home, and got on Facebook, and started chatting to a girl he hadn't seen in several months, on a whim. Surprisingly, they kept talking for about 8 hours, culminating in them agreeing to go on a date the day afterwards. They met up as promised, and went to a small park. Things felt natural, right, even. Despite his apprehension about never having done it before, they kissed. And it was wonderful. Shame it didn't even last two weeks :( * My FirstKiss was rather romantic, if not slightly melancholy. We had both turned 15 two months ago, and were currently enrolled in the same driver's ed. He had met my parents on the weekend and it was a Monday. My parents had told him that we could hang out together, but that they didn't want it to be official until I turned 16, which meant 10 months of waiting. My then boyfriend (sorta) and I sat down on the stairs after early release from the class. Earlier, he had told me there was something he wanted to give me, but when we had alone time earlier, he chickened out. So there we are, sitting on the stairs, and he asks if he can kiss me. Of course I say yes, and he kissed me every so softly. We kissed five more times, still softly and sweetly, though getting longer each time. The last one was funny, though, cause my best friend came in the room, and I wanted to kiss him again, so I asked her to pick up a piece of trash on the ground which would require her to turn her back on us. Suffice to say, we are not together anymore, but we are best friends and tell each other everything. * ThisTroper didn't have his first kiss until he was 22. Although it was with a girl that he was hoping he'd get to kiss at some point, she was drunk and doesn't seem to remember anything about that night. Didn't help that she was dating someone else at the time, as I found out later. * This female troper hasn't had one yet (unless you count me kissing a guy on the cheek after a pretty-much date), but that's not the point. When I was at camp last year, a guy I knew who was about 16, though looked around 12, told us he had never kissed anyone. One of the other people I knew, (who's a dude who had already had his first kiss) proceeded to rape the other guy's mouth, so his first kiss would forever be with a guy. It was kind of mean, but is still remembered as being pretty damn hilarious. The first guy has since had his "real" first kiss and refuses to count that one. * [[Tropers/DVBen This troper]] fondly remembers his first kiss at the age of 16. It was on a sunny afternoon in May, in a boat, which was in the middle of a small lake. Why did this troper pick that particular setting? Because the girl he kissed really liked the song, "[[TheLittleMermaid Kiss the Girl]]" * I was 16 and was kissing a girl on whom I had a crush for a year. Perhaps I was a bit too [[DoggedNiceGuy persistent]] over that time rather than attractive to her; we lasted approximately 21 and a half hours. Before and after that day, nada. * Twenty years old, the waterfront, the strike of New Year's Day,

fireworks in the background. Now happily dating. Awww. * Exactly 40 days ago, the week before Halloween I went to a corn maze with my best friend, who I've only known for about a year, and her youth group. She and I stayed close in the maze with our arms wrapped around each other. When it ended, she and I went back to her house to watch a movie, {{Creepshow}}, fitting for the holiday. After saying hello to visiting family members, we head downstairs and start watching. After "Father's Day" ends, I ask her if she wants me to give her a back massage, which I'm pretty good at. She gleefully says yes and I start. It's ten minutes later, and it went from a back massage to an almost full-body massage. I'm starting to feel her up, she's loving it and then turns around and says "You're not trying to hard are you?" I'm about to say "Wha?" when she leans in and starts to kiss me. We keep going for the next twenty minutes. Now she and I are dating, planning on marrying each other and she loves the fact that I am literally the nicest, most polite guy she's ever known. * My first kiss happened at a Thanksgiving party with someone I didn't even know. He was my best friend's cousin and boy, was he gorgeous! We kept giving each other glances until he said "hi" to me. And then after that, he gave me a kiss right on my lips. He stole my second kiss and my third one. I'll never forget it. I never saw him again after that day. * Is it weird that I'm a 20 year old [[BiTheWay bisexual]] {{Bishonen}} who's never been kissed, and doesn't plan on it until the right person comes along? * March 5th, 2011. This troper went on her sixth date with her unboyfriend. Near the end, when my parents were on their way, he starts giving a long awkward speech and I know what he's trying to say. He basically asks me to be his girlfriend again (he had tried two months ago), in his characteristically adorkable, nervous way. I say yes. He asks if he can kiss me (and before anyone starts saying "eew," please note that I *love* that he asks me. I'm glad he doesn't feel like he has a right to touch me in whatever way he wants. And I also think it's kind of sexy :x) and I say yes. I'm nervous as fuck at this point because I've never been this physically close to a person (that's why this is in "first kiss") and he leans in and kisses me fast. It was wet, I got a little bit of his spit in my mouth (am I like halfway to first base then?), and I didn't really feel much, but I was like "oh my God, I just got my first kiss." He had this really dorky smile on and he said "I feel happy now." Then we had a hug which was really nice (I could feel his heartbeat ffff). Awkward first kiss is still great. * This troper had his first kiss a few weeks before his 19th birthday, and would kind of like to do it over more romantically. Both participants were ''extremely'' drunk, and although the girl was nice, she was probably not the best person to get involved with in that way. * This troper's first kiss came after a few missed opportunities, one of which entailed, the last night of summer camp, a girl I had been hanging out with for a while asking me "Do you want to go make out?" I assumed she was joking, and said no. She wasn't. My actual first kiss came at age 17. I was in a park busking (playing guitar for

donations). A pretty girl sat down and listened to me play for a while, and requested a couple of songs, which I happened to know. While I was in between songs, she got up to leave and says "If I had money, I would give you some, but I don't so I will give you a kiss instead", and so came this troper's first kiss. He was so surprised, he just barely managed to reciprocate before she broke the smooch off. * This troperhad her first kiss on her first night at university. Needless to say she was quite drunk and it only really happened because she's bad at saying no (I've got no better since then), I prefer not to count this. * This troper, Edgy, got his first kiss from a girl (age 17) he was dating when he was 18. We were just hanging out at her house watching TV and we were cuddling. We looked into each others eyes and suddenly, she kissed me. We started making out and later she said I wasn't a bad kisser. The first kiss high didn't last long though because by the end of the week, I found out she was making out with a different guy everyday that week and she got a boyfriend, who was 15 years old. I was crushed and it kind of broke me, but that is [[TroperTales/BatmanGambit another story]]. * @/{{SunnyV}} had hers with a random guy she just met at the end of a shoddy high-school performance of a play adaptation of PrideAndPrejudice (hint: this is usually a terrible idea.) He was a friend of a friend, and since he lives an hour away from me and neither of us can drive, we won't be seeing each other very often. It...was kind of a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, actually, as it came right out of left field, was quite out of character for me and I've scarcely mentioned it again. * This Asperger's (officially diagnosed, so don't think I'm making it up) troper's first kiss on the lips came in adulthood. Specifically, his 10-year high school reunion. An attractive female ex-classmate who he'd always liked since middle school was very drunk and kissed him on the lips right in front of her husband (who he'd known since elementary school). Unfortunately, he has celiac disease and being kissed on the lips by someone who'd been consuming gluten (which is also in beer) carries the high risk of making him sick (look it up if you don't believe me). Impressively, she understood right away without him having to explain and told him to just wash it off, which he promptly did. He got somewhat sick later anyway, but still, damn. He can no longer say he'd never been kissed on the lips. !First kisses in childhood: * This Troper had his first kiss at 6 years old. At a wedding (naturally, not his own). While the cameras were pointed at him (he was ring bearer, the girl was a flower girl). Embarrassingly, his parents STILL have the photo, and its pretty much one of the first things they show to guests. ** Do you still know the girl? That also sounds like it was a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. ** [Different troper here]...If it were a work of fiction, it most certainly would be, but I can't see that as being much anything other than [[RealityIsUnRealistic humiliating]]. Unless, of course, you happened to be the victim of a ContrivedCoincidence?

* This troper first kissed a girl (can't remember if it's on the cheek or the lips) that he had a crush on, in third grade while standing in line. Oh, [[ToyShip childhood crushes]]... * [[TheTallOne My]] brothers swear my first kiss happened when I was three or four, with a [[WholesomeCrossdresser boy who wanted to be a girl]] with a long-standing crush on me. I do not remember the incident at all, and count myself as 'unkissed.' * This troper's first, and to date only, kiss was in a nativity play. Me and the girl in question were very close friends and were as close to boyfriend and girlfriend as two people could be at six. She was playing Mary and this troper was playing Joseph, and this troper kissed her during the final scene (which wasn't part of the script, he assures you!). He is still teased about this by his parents twelve years later. * Mine happened when I was about 10 years old, at the house of my childhood sweetheart. I'd got my younger siblings to go play hide and seek. Of course, they were under the bed of the girl, so they popped out from under there just after we kissed. She ended up moving away soon after, and the last I heard she'd had 4 kids before she was 18. * This troper is 15 and at the point in her life where she is ready to kiss a girl. VERY ready. So ready that looking at almost any one alive makes for an unbearably awkward desire to just go for it. Too bad this troper already HAS a girlfriend who lives thousands of miles away and probably won't be available for kissing until this summer, and then will go away again for who knows how long. I love her to death, and I'd never cheat, but for God's sake I WANT TO PUT MY LIPS ON SOMEBODY'S FACE * This troper had hers in pre-K, then the boy choked her later. I have masochistic fetishes now, yay. * This troper's first kiss was in kindergarten with her "boyfriend." Ahahah, I rather wish I had known better that that wasn't real love in my elementary years. I stopped "going out" with kids after elementary ended, and told myself to wait until I was sure I liked someone. Not that I've not kissed someone since then... Truth or Dare makes me do things. xD * My first attempt was a fail. End of a movie (in theater), both of us agreeing that the film's ending could have been less abrupt, I mention that there is always a way to make a better ending, lean in and... yeah, basically get nothing but air, and a bit of her cheek. Cue me being awkward (well, more awkward. First date ever, for both of us actually), and saying that it was a fail. She said it wasn't fail, it was nice. I ended up making up for it later (and no that does not mean making out). To everyone out there: Taking the gentlemanly route and asking if your date wants you to kiss them works quite well. If yes, then you know what to do. If they say no, well, maybe they aren't ready yet. * This tropette's first kiss, well more like lip-rape was at age 6 with her neighbor (also 6). His brother made us play wedding, and as soon as he said "kiss the bride" the boy kissed me for 4 minutes, barely letting me stop for air and a few times tried to slip in tongue, if I could be a born-again lip-virgin, I would

---You soiled [[FirstKiss my first kiss]]! FOREVER! Now I can never give it to the one person I wanted to! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FirstNameBasis * [[RayAyanami This college-attending troper]] has had a couple professors that allow their students to address them by first name. For this troper, that and said professors also being attractive women that look to be in their 20's or early 30's makes things a little too comfortable for comfort. ** Subverted with his close female friend, who always calls him "Raymond" and never "Ray." He's only seen her write his name as the latter once. * In Israel, teachers are referred to by their first names. Cue me trying to find out their last, and it's impossible. ** Really? I've found out the last names of all my teachers very easily. Except for one, but that's more because his last name is impossible to spell and pronounce. I had to sit down with his son for fifteen minutes when he coached me on how to pronounce and spell it. * At this troper's summer camp, it was less a measure of how close we were and more out of necessity. One year, there were about thirty of us in a group together, and there were about five people who were the only ones with their first name, so we all fell into the habit of calling mostly everyone by their last or full names. A few years later, more people stopped coming back every year, and it became easier to use first names without confusion. * [[{{sgrunt}} This troper]] is on a first name basis with far too many professors in his department. Perhaps it's a sign he's been around too long. * This troper will likely always be referred to on a first name basis. The reason. My last name is Wahsquonaikezhik and people upon seeing it either say; A variation on "How they *** do you pronounce it?", Make some attempt at pronouncing usually screwing up the first four syllables out of a possible five. Although I sometimes joke to my friends about getting a job that runs on last name basis. * This troper attended a Quaker college, where the idea of "simple speech" extended to "no titles," so all professors and administrators were on a first name basis. * This troper's father is on first name basis with everyone because no one can figure out how to pronounce Psk on the first go unless they're Serbian or insanely lucky. Ironically, in an inversion of the firstname-equals-serious-business thing that applies to most people, it's when you call my dad by his last name that he knows something's gone wrong. * As far as this troper knows every school on the Pacific island where he's living and working at the moment is like this. Given that most of the teachers are ex students (some of whom just finished school last year) and many students are related in some way to teachers it just doesn't make sense to call them 'Mr./Miss or Sir/Ma'am.

* This troper arrived in college unprepared for the level of familiarity. Every professor instructed us to call them by their first name. But, as a human being, I slipped and called one professor sir... Which just led to a worse faux pas... "Please, Sir is my father. Call me Jim." "Sorry, sir... but you are old enough to be my father!" Fortunately, he had a great sense of humor. * There is a strange variant of this in this troper's school. While most people go to FirstNameBasis when they are close, in my school, they go to LastNameBasis. Example, If my best friend had the name Gloria Howards, I would call her Howards instead of Gloria. It's a strange thing. * In The Netherlands and Germany, it generally is considered ''more'' intimate to call somebody by their ''last'' name, as long as you skip titles like "mister" or "miss". * This Troper works for a law firm which, for the sake of this tale, we'll call Fox Redfield. It's a ''major'' firm in its field. The firm was founded by Mr. Fox1 back in the 30s, and currently Mr. Fox2 and Mr. Fox3 work here. Mr. Fox2 is in his 80s, has argued before the Supreme Court, and is basically one of the most important lawyers in his field in the city, if not the country. I work in the IT department but, for various reasons, my office is just around the corner from his. For the first six months, when I passed him in the hallways, I always said, "Good morning, sir." (Or "evening" or whatevs.) He eventually quietly said, "I've never felt like a 'sir'. Call me David." I've never actually managed to do so. * In the military, this is ''HIGHLY'' frowned upon for people in the same chain of command. Nevertheless, this troper's wife is in this status with his commander (This troper is an E-4, and his commander is an O-6). * Upon high school graduation, I and my group of friends decided we'd be addressing our old teachers by first name. Our literature teacher would facetiously have none of this ("No! You can't call me Alan until you're a junior in college!") while the Model UN teacher had been embracing this behavior halfway through senior year, before we had even made this decision. * [[ShadowOfTheSun This Troper]] prefers to go by his first name among people he talks too on the internet, mainly because his handle is too long to easily type. * [[AcrossTheStars I]] attended a Catholic high school, but became very close to my senior religion teacher. Almost immediately after graduation, she all but ordered me to call her Sara - whereupon I confessed that I had been thinking of her as Sara since the middle of the school year. ** Inversely, our theater department had so many Elizabeths that they all went by some variation on their last name, except for one, who was simply "Liz". Like I said, Catholic high school... * My class has two teachers. We call the one we get on Fridays 'Tom'. * All teachers in this troper's middle/high school were a first name basis. Many substitutes became offended when we refused to address them by their last. And now, in college, I find it easier to call my profs by their first name. * This troper goes to the local alternative school, where we call all

of our teachers by their first names. * I've attended the same church all my life, and have found it hard to switch to FirstNameBasis with my parents' generation. Sure, I'm nearly thirty, but these are people who taught me Bible stories and used to change my diaper. * In college, my philosophy teacher gave us no choice but to call him by his first name. In fact, if he caught us calling him "Professor [last name]", he'd call us by "Student [last name]". * A foreign classmate of this troper does this all the time, which confuses people when the person she's referring to is known by [[OnlyKnownByTheNickname nickname]] or [[LastNameBasis surname]]. * As noted on the main page, in Sweden the custom is to use first name in casual situations. However, during junior high, one of my classmates started adressing everyone by their last names, because he thought this would make him look cool and non-conformist. He stopped fairly soon after... because it just made him look like a pretentious fool. * When one of our school's drama teachers became pregnant, she was temporarily replaced by an {{Expy}} of Mr. Schuster from Glee; handsome, young, musically talented, and the definition of "cool". Everyone began to view him as a friend and confidante as much as an instructor, and at the conclusion of the last play of the year he told the seniors that they were now allowed to call him "Joe". * Standard for a few high school teachers and college professors this American troper's known. Oddly, it's also been true for almost every job he's ever worked in: with the (usual) exception of ''the'' boss, people referred to each other by first name, even if they were in a superior position, to the point that he didn't even know some superiors' last names! ** Amusingly, one high school teacher preferred to be called by her last name, but said she'd allow us to call her by her first name on the condition that we name our firstborn child after her (she wanted this in writing). No one had the guts to take her up on this. ---Go back to FirstNameBasis, [[ReportSiht Report]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FirstSnow * ShamelessSelfPromoter {{dotchan}} once drew [[http://www.dotchan.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=1441 a picture]] titled exactly that. * Back when {{SKJAM}} was in the Air Force, stationed near Oxford in England, a new recruit arrived on the only day there was substantial snowfall that winter. He'd lived all his life in the DeepSouth and never seen real snow before. He did not react well, going blue in the lips and fingertips, and refusing to come out of the barracks except to work and eat until spring. * This troper goes to college way up north where we get a lot snow fall and pretty severe winters. Every year when in first snows in October all the students from warmer states or countries run outside

to see the first snow and take pictures. However by late November when we already have over two feet of it they stop loving the snow so much. * Sort of happened to this troper. When he was a little kid, he used to live in the ''very'' cold city of Nancy, France, and thus, he was no stranger to snow. The memory mostly faded away, but was briefly reminded by a once-every-100-years snowfall in Guadalajara, Mexico. Then, at age 22, he got to experience a rather uncommon snowfall in Paris. [[SnowMeansLove Snow Means The City Of Love]] indeed! * Around here it only snows once every seven years or so. I was five when it first snowed here, but my first time was when I was only 1 or 2 and my parents were visiting friends in Colorado. * This Troper used to live next door to a family with a two year old. When the two year old saw snow outside their window for the first time, he got so excited he ran out the door before his mother could grab him and put clothes on him. A few seconds later, the toddler is standing barefoot in snow and crying because he just now realized how cold it is. * This Troper's cousin grew up in the South and never saw a snowflake in his life...and then he went to South Dakota for university. In winter semester. Poor guy. ---Go back to FirstSnow.

FishingForSole * [[PollyNim This troper]] once caught a shell by somehow catching the hook in a hole. That or somewhere out there there's a fish with twisted sense of humor. * Not necessarily junk, but the biggest catch I ever made while fishing... was a log. * [[FyreNWater This troper]] and her mother used to go fishing a lot. Besides fish, they also caught sticks, reeds, and random junk. One time, her mother lost a pole when an unattended line hooked a large fish. Two weeks later, while fishing in the same spot, this troper was reeling in something huge. She pulled up '''the very same pole that was lost two weeks prior.''' . ** The same thing happened to [[PentiumMMX2 this troper's]] grandpa, except he caught his lost pole a few hours after it was lost; with the fish still on the hook. * Not sure if this count, but my father once reeled up a sea-horse that somehow was curled around the hook. * I've never caught boots although I have reeled up giant a metal spring and occasional tree branches. * [[DialgaX This Troper]] once reeled in a perfectly usable set of diving goggles. And a totally unusable fishing rod. * This troper was once out fishing with his Dad and brothers, and when we were getting ready to leave a spot, the anchor was being especially problematic to get back up. After much pulling we were finally able to get it back up into the boat with a car tire attached to it. ---Catch a line back to FishingForSole.

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FishOutOfTemporalWater * Not sure if it's totaly accurate for here, but grand-relatives. It seems there are older people who just remain stuck in a specific point in time. We've all heard of or had that grand(insert relation) who just seemed to never quite be in the present. Had a great uncle and aunt whose house looked straight out of the 60's. After he died, aunt literally lost her mind to Alzheimer's. ** Now that you mention Alzheimers, this troper visited recently his 93 years old affected grampa. He mistook me for one of the neighbours he had when he lived in the countryside 60 years ago and asked me where I had left my horse. He then tried to excuse himself because he had to go to a hospital in another city to look after his daughter: an aunt of this troper that died of a flu in the late 50s, when she was 5. * This one's more of an object than a person. One of the cafes at this Troper's college has a computer tucked away in a corner. A computer that looks like it fell out of a time portal from 1995. It actually still works, although you can't really access anything beyond the college website on it. I sit near it between classes and at least once a day I hear someone walking past say "Check out that old computer! I can't believe it still works!" ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FissionMailed * [[TsundeRay This troper]] had an accidental Fission Mailed moment, ''in RealLife.'' In physics class, his professor offered to email final grades to students who emailed him for them. Well, this troper did that, and the professor emailed him his grade: C. A few minutes later, he emails a correction saying that his grade is actually an F. Cue HeroicBSOD. Said troper emailed the professor asking just how that's an F, and the professor emails back, saying that the F was a mistake and his final grade is still a C. ''Phew.'' * This troper had a major Case of Fission Mailling today. To hand in assignments into my University, you need to go through a program to get approval and clarify that you aren't plagerising. However, when I looked this morning, the site with the program said the dead line had passed. HeroicBSOD followed by a freak out followed as I knew I couldn't hand the thing in otherwise. Luckily it turned from Mission Failed to Fission Mailled when the Lecturer pointed out that they were the ones who had been at fault and accidentally set the date 1 day early. As the above said ''Phew.'' * This Troper was GameMaster when me and a couple of friends did a MassEffect -based DungeonsAndDragons -type RPG and hit them with a CrowningMomentOfFunny on the Virmire mission: Joker had lost the nuke back on the Citadel, and so I included a '''literal''' FissionMailed

which had a FedEx starship land on Virmire carrying the nuke. * [[@/{{Tadaru}} This troper]] once received an assignment with back a check and "1/14" written. Many of us including this troper freaked out and thought that meant we got 1 out of 14 points (there were even about 14 problems on the page), but the check was just a check and 1/14 was January 14. * This troper got a joke email saying he got an F - in a class once. Due to ensuing panic, I did not quite see the minus. He then sent me an email saying "I mailed you your fission." This teacher was [[CloudCuckoolander weird.]] ---It doesn't look like you can get back to Fission Mailed after a--Oh, there's a [[FissionMailed link]]! ----

FiveBadBand You know those five nasty guys you met or wrote about? Here's a page to enter them on. ---* ThisTroper (Ambar Son of Deshar) once drafted the outline for a ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' fantasy AU/ DarkFic in which the major villains had come together to form one of these (yes it's as bad as it sounds). Looking back, it had the FiveBadBand set-up almost to a tee. It was set up as follows: ** TheBigBad: [[AristocratsAreEvil Viscount]] [[{{Necromantic}} Maximillion]] (Pegasus). masterminded a civil war in order to gather enough souls to bring back his wife. ** TheDragon: [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Captain Ryou]] (Bakura), ScarilyCompetentTracker, EvilCounterpart to one of the heroes' friends (the real Bakura), and collector of souls. ** TheEvilGenius: [[TortureTechnician Marik]] [[SquishyWizard Ishtar]], provider of {{Magitek}}, and keeper of the dungeons; eventually [[TookALevelInBadass leveled up]] into a PersonOfMassDestruction OmnicidalManiac DragonWithAnAgenda following Bakura's death. ** TheBrute: [[ImplacableMan Odion]], who was immune to magic, and Marik's [[TheDragon dragon]]. ** TheDarkChick: Ishizu, who in this fic was kept sedated by her brothers, and used for her fortunetelling powers. ** SixthRanger: Noah Kaiba, TheUnfavourite step-brother of TheRival, and a ruthless (though not PsychoForHire) mercenary contracted by Maximillien after Bakura's apparent death. * In a bizarre series of short stories this troper is writing, the [[VillainProtagonist protagonists]] are a FiveBadBand in training, attending a ''school for supervillains''. Said characters are: ** TheBigBad: Kuriko X, [[LightIsNotGood light]]-[[LightTheWay manipulating]] OnlySaneMan and [[EvilPrince Evil Princess]] ** TheDragon and TheEvilGenius: Ywen, [[StuffBlowingUp bomb-throwing]] TeenGenius who [[MinionShipping has the hots for Kuriko]] ** TheBrute: Punch, a [[DumbMuscle none-too-bright]] beefy guy with

some [[DumbassHasAPoint surprising insightful ideas]] ** TheDarkChick: Waspy, a [[BigCreepyCrawlies insect]]-[[MindControl mind-controlling]] [[PerkyFemaleMinion Perky]] [[AmbiguousGender Androgynous]] [[PerkyFemaleMinion Minion]] * From the same troper as the above, Kuriko's group's less-seen [[TheRival rivals]] (but not PsychoRangers): ** TheBigBad: C. K. Shun, Kuriko's [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter superior]] and [[TheUnFavorite more loved]] but [[IllGirl terminally ill]] [[CainAndAbel older sister]] who she was TheStarscream to, with [[DarkIsEdgy darkness]] [[YinYangBomb and]] [[LightIsNotGood light]] at her beck and call ** TheDragon [[DragonInChief In Chief]]: Beastly, a [[HiredGuns mercenary]] and Shun's not-quite-[[TheStarscream starscream]] who can can mutate parts of his body into [[PettingZooPeople that of various animals]], but [[IAmAMonster is obviously a "freak"]] due to a recent ModeLock ** TheBrute and TheDarkChick: Hush, a [[TheTeamNormal perfectly normal]] GenkiGirl whose [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaur mount]] puts the "badass" back in BadassNormal ** TheEvilGenius: Teridax, a [[{{Bishounen}} particularly handsome]] GeniusBruiser [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens alien]] with CombatTentacles (and [[BewareMyStingerTail tail]], [[PrehensileHair hair]], and [[OverlyLongTongue tongue]]), [[TrueNeutral whose only real concern is]] [[TheLibraryOfBabel his archives]] * I've got several, so I'll list them as is. First are the Seleucids, a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warrior-like]] [[TheEmpire empire]] that's a merge of the [[{{Bleach}} Arrancar]] with the [[StarWars Mandalorians]]. They act as the first major antagonists for the first half of the series, having started an imperialist war that ruined the majority of the world: ** BigBad: [[EvilOverlord Salvatani]] [[WorthyOpponent Solustro]], the [[TheEmperor Supreme]] [[ImplacableMan Imperator]] over the Seleucids and their most powerful fighter, and although he was a straight-up thug in his youth, Solustro's mellowed out rather considerably, maintaining a sense of honor and respect for his opponents. At the [[BadassGrandpa age]] of 185, Solustro acknowledges that he's lived a full life, but in an era of peace, he realized that if he continues lazing around as a ruler, he'd die a "boring" death and be remembered as the "do-nothing" leader. To get a more fulfilling end to his life, he chose to declare war on the Rangers and their Directors, leading a global campaign of imperial conquest all over the world expand his empire and provoke the Rangers to mobilize for war. ** TheDragon: Jiolo Vetralga, the Vice Imperator, leader of the entire Seleucid military, just after Solustro himself. Youthful, almost effeminate, Jiolo started off as a shy, polite CuteShotaroBoy, who eventually grew to become a cocky, sarcastic snarker of a muscular {{Bishonen}}, that still retains his shyness and has a rather outgoing demeanor. Extremely quick at learning, he adapts easier and faster to most situations than many other Seleucids. ** EvilGenius: Jhermu Gullondoh, the Field Imperator (commander of the infantry and artillery), known for quick thinking and accelerated learning capabilities, so he's the main tactician for the Seleucid

military overall. *** [[BadassBookworm Wemphem]] [[AcePilot Diorliyern]], the Aerial Imperator (commander of the air force), an excellent dogfighter with quick-thinking kill tactics, but his strategies don't work as well when he's surrounded by enemy dogfighters. *** [[SocialDarwinist Enthrack]] [[LawfulEvil Televenue]], the Naval Imperator (commander of the navy), a master at ship-to-ship combat tactics, but the slow-moving Seleucid battleships tend to take too long to get into position, so his strategies end up requiring nearperfect conditions and surroundings in order for him to win; he has good ideas, but bad timing, so it's usually draws or stalemates with his battles. ** DarkChick(s): An AmazonBrigade of {{Stripperiffic}}, [[ImplacableMan Imperator-level]] DarkActionGirls. Put bluntly, these lovely young ladies are the most likely replacements for the current Imperators, in the event that any of the current Imperators were killed. [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Nireddel]] [[CoolBigSis Siqueires]], [[HairTriggerTemper Asceli]] [[PluckyGirl Seddaloh]], [[ChineseGirl Sunsayu]] [[DeadpanSnarker Coussoule]], [[AmbiguouslyBrown Miela]] [[HotAmazon Sakhule]], [[DarkSkinnedBlond Amalia]] [[MamaBear Tesirie]], [[ElegantGothicLolita Ciruyu]] [[WhipItGood Trinslec]], [[ClingyJealousGirl Seyly]] [[ZettaiRyouiki Naulvurhn]] and [[GenkiGirl Lilynette]] [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Kiyasai]]. ** TheBrute(s) - The heaviest hitters of the Seleucids' EliteMooks: [[SmugSnake Puhm]] [[BigBadWannabe Dolvyu]], [[TheFatalist Neph]] [[LawfulNeutral Andrecus]], [[ClippedWingAngel Hosch]] [[MightyGlacier Kubreumue]], [[NeutralEvil Sedren]] [[NietzscheWannabe Vuhlslhar]], [[LightningBruiser Treme]] [[PsychoElectro Dundretch]], [[SissyVillain Pplo]] [[CampStraight Hunnurlu]] and [[AnythingThatMoves Sahne]] [[TheHedonist Gengruel]]. * Same troper as above. Next is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive proestablishment]] [[KnightTemplar director cabinet]]. Although they've already made their moves decades before the Seleucids marched along, these guys take over as main antagonists once things slightly calm down with Solustro: ** BigBad: [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Daniel Devlin]]. A textbook racist doubling as a greedy money-lover, Devlin is a paranoid, but cunning corporatist, who manipulated his way to the top and carefully made sure that he stayed in power for longer than his term allowed. Think [[Babylon5 President Clark]] merged in with the amorality and greed of corporations in the states, Dick Cheney's cunning and callousness, RushLimbaugh's incendiary remarks and hypocritical projection, [[HarryPotter Cornelius Fudge]]'s paranoid fear, and GlennBeck's crazy conspiracy theories. ** TheDragon: [[KnightTemplar Ashley]] [[GeneralRipper Naedrenth]]. More intelligent, powerful and proactive as a fighter than Devlin, with an extremely strict, cold and professional demeanor. ** EvilGenius: Benjamin Hopplendale, the one that did all of the manipulations and plotting for Devlin in order to get the latter promoted, as well as the one that maintains the power and influence of the Devlin Cabinet. Doubles as a DragonInChief. *** Matthew Nosolen, a well-mannered neat-freak that prefers not to

get dirty by fighting on the front lines, acting as the main battle tactician. ** TheBrute: Richard Vodusten, an impulsive, merciless LeeroyJenkins, with crooked cop tendencies, that prefers to use MoreDakka than actual tactics. *** Marvin Achelope, another GeneralRipper that acts as the primary enforcer, either as a peacekeeper, DrillSergeantNasty or a battle combatant, for the Devlin Cabinet. Wallace McCraynle is another greedy, moronic, desperate shill, who cheats a lot to maintain power and pretends to be for the people in order to gain support. ** DarkChick(s): Brenden Tupulani, a powerful and arrogant, but paranoid egomaniac. Mitchell Anoretti, a cheating coward with an egotistical, borderline narcissistic streak. Evan Quarreler, a moronic, self-important proxy leader (think GeorgeBush merged with SarahPalin), meant to rally the general public into supporting a supposedly populist commander, when he's actually just a greedy, moronic shill. * Same troper as above; next are the [[AntiVillain Scimitars]], a secret society of vigilante EmpathicWeapon users. Their goal is to restore peace by wiping out every single major warring faction in the now-CrapsackWorld of Earth, while persuading the public to discard leadership branches (government, corporation, religion and military) and go only for a more community-based society. Unlike most of the other bands here, these Scimitars are more complex, even likable, but aren't extremist - just somewhat misguided: ** BigBad: [[EstrogenBrigadeBait Arvelle]] [[TallDarkAndSnarky Thrincher]], a stylish, flippant and jovial young man, who serves as the main ringleader of the Scimitars. ** TheDragon: [[{{Ubermensch}} Steven]] [[TheFettered Dronheld]], the main spy, with a HandsomeLech demeanor that allows him to recruit female members. Known for leading the group when Thrincher is unavailable, acting as the unofficial ringleader in public to throw their enemies off of Thrinchers' scent. ** EvilGenius(es): [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Kaname]] [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Sekulow]], Dronheld's girlfriend. The female leader and main tactician of a criminal organization that serves as the Scimitars' main attack force. [[AffablyEvil Thraqour]] [[LawfulEvil Veschroom]], a well-mannered, charming gentleman with elemental manipulation. ** DarkChick(s): [[MsFanservice Seiryu]] [[CombatSadomasochist Satsuishi]], Arvelle's girlfriend. A sadomasochistic sexpot that acts as the main recruiter for male members, but with some insecurities about relationships in general. [[OfCorsetsSexy Luxa]] [[TheVamp Quadrille]], a calm, laid-back young woman that seduces men and women alike for information, but she ''does'' care for her 'customers' and colleagues well-beings alike. ** TheBrute(s): [[ChaoticNeutral Randy]] [[DeadpanSnarker Roholhu]], a cocky, short-tempered snarker with the best offensive physical strength. [[LawfulNeutral Jatsuchu]] [[WorthyOpponent Kutsuemon]], a brutal and ruthless BloodKnight, but spiritual and honorable swordsman. * Same troper as above, with the final FiveBadBand: Marauders. These

guys are the resident HumanoidAbominations, where they end up taking the already [[BlackAndGreyMorality dark]] series [[MoralEventHorizon even]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel darker]]. ** BigBad EvilGenius: [[DiabolicalMastermind Zayosuke]] [[MagnificentBastard Azaran]], an [[TheChessmaster intelligent]] and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] scientist that studies and experiments on Seleucids and Marauders, thereby developing ways for them to advance and evolve, while simultaneously finding ways to get his own power as a Marauder under control. Through his experiments, he was the one that 'created' the Seleucids as a new evolutionary line for Marauders. Furthermore, he was the one that allowed Solustro to become Supreme Imperator, but the latter was ''not'' an underling; the two were in a BigBadDuumvirate stage. Even further, he founded the same corporation that the pro-establishment Devlin initially worked at before [[TyrantTakesTheHelm taking the helm]], and while he took advantage of how badly Devlin screwed things up, Azaran ''loathed'' Devlin's inept policies, absurd prejudices and dickish personality traits. ** TheDragon: A NeutralEvil HumanoidAbomination, think of [[EvilIsSexy Aarnalu]] [[TheCharmer Rothage]] as an EvillyAffable merge of [[{{Bleach}} Aaroniero Arruruerie]] with [[OnePiece Donquixote Doflamingo and Marshall D. Teach]]. Adding in an [[EstrogenBrigadeBait attractive humanoid form]] and [[AudioErotica an alluring voice]], plus a dash of [[AffablyEvil mock politeness with amicable charm and wit]], and you've got a nicely baked contender for EstrogenBrigadeBait. ** EvilGenius: Jagreque Henthelew is a half-human half-insect abomination with an insatiable hunger; flesh is his preferred dish, while plants are eaten to stave off starvation. Something of a virus, Jagreque instinctively scans the DNA of what he eats and applies useful evolutionary upgrades to himself, ensuring that he grows deadlier with each victory. In fact, the more people he eats, the more of a personality he can develop. When alone, Jagreque serves as an infiltrator, blending in with the environment to keep hidden; he uses these tactics to sabotage structures and cannibalize individuals one at a time. In a straight-up fight, apart from excellent strength and speed, he can quickly adapt to whatever situation he's thrown against, and learn from whatever he experiences (or sees his opponents experience), incorporating them into his tactics. Outside of combat, given his aptitude for quick learning, Jagreque acts as a scavenger, salvaging and crafting raw materials for Azaran's machinations. ** TheBrute: [[CombatSadomasochist Vaunedor]] [[BloodKnight Zhaletch]] is a sadomasochist that deeply respects pain, to the point of finding it "sacred". However, he only harms an individual under a specific set of circumstances: liberally harming people out of spite, threat or thrill is viewed as a stunt for amateurs to him, for example. Instead, when he harms someone, he's marked them for what he views them to be, from worthy enemies or good allies, to superiors or underlings, and equals or lessers, depending on the amount and level of pain inflicted. Before he injures a person, he briefly takes on a praying stance and chants a short phrase ("Astride upon them the greatest gift of divinity."). Refusing to get injured is seen as sacrilegious by

him. Vaunedor views combat to be the "most divine" form of inflicting pain; in his view, combat is a form of expression, and what a person's views on their opponent is determined through the amount and level of pain inflicted. However, he finds it extremely low for someone to inflict pain emotionally or psychologically, as it "perverts the mindset of an individual and corrupts the practice of pain." ** DarkChick: Nacquinna Telaudae and Anraiyyel Crowsehlu. ** SixthRangerTraitor(s): [[TheAtoner Rusoldo]] [[RetiredCompleteMonster Rupert]] [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Alemdrake]], the only one that regrets participating in the [[MoralEventHorizon Marauders']] [[WarIsHell Crusade]], seeking to redeem himself by helping those that he helped to harm in the past, but he keeps his status as a Marauder a secret, to avoid being executed. * In this troper's [[Literature/IgnorantArmiesClashByNight story]], he has the following FiveBadBand of VillainProtagonists. They are working for a "Eurasian alliance" in a war against America and its allies in the year 2103. ** BigBad / EvilGenius: [[TheChessmaster Dr. Alexander Hsieh]]. An AsianAndNerdy ManipulativeBastard scientist in his fifties, he controls a secret government research facility. ** TheDragon: [[MookLieutenant Lt. Sergei Andropov]]. He works for Hsieh as an [[EliteMooks Elite]] MookLieutenant, in command of the West Russian Special Forces elite division of soldiers. ** TheBrute: [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Col. Ana Flores.]] A Centroamerican colonel, she doesn't really fit most of the Brute stereotypesbut she's the one with the guns and men, and the others pretty much consider her dumb muscle. ** DarkChick: [[BrokenBird Lance Cpl. Nguyen Thi Kim]]. She was captured by Partisans seeking to retake Texas from the Eurasian Alliance, and was tortured, raped, and starved for six months before EAA soldiers rescued her. Hsieh hopes to use this against the Americans, as he believes she will want revenge. ** TokenGoodTeammate: [[TheMedic Sgt. Volody Dyakov]]. A WRSF medic, he is one of the few genuinely good people, putting himself in harm's way to try and save a fallen comrade and trying to comfort Kim. ** TagalongKid: [[AsianAndNerdy May]] [[WideEyedIdealist Wu]]. She signed up in order to help the EAA win the war, but wasn't really [[WarIsHell right about what that entailed...]] * This troper, in creating one of her (many, many mostly unfinished...) stories, accidentally created on of these. See, first I had a villain with electric powers, then I needed another villain for my protagonist to defeat, so I made a guy with earthquake powers. Then, one of my friends gave me a suggestion for another villain to add when I told him about it (orginally a demon, changed to a human possesed by a demon), and his character fit in surprisingly well. But then I decided that the demon guy wouldn't really be evil, but was being controlled by another guy, the real BigBad. And ''then'' I needed to give an example of another person in my protagonist's school system having been taken away by the government and being sent to the BMAHS (Bureau of Metahuman Affairs High School), and I decided that the other girl, who had fire powers, ended up being a villain. So, in

the end we have: ** Skoteinos: the BigBad, a [[{{Telekinesis}} telekinete]] and [[MindManipulation mind controller]]. He wants revenge on basically the whole world for rejecting him, which stems from [[FreudianExcuse his mother having to give him up for adoption as a baby]]. ** Inber: TheDragon, a shapeshifter with some control over water. A fourtheenth century Muslim alchemist, who, in his studies, accidentally released a demon which fused with him when he tried to exorcise it. Now effectively immortal, and in complete control but with a demonic appearance, he searches for a way to release the demon from himself so that he can finally die. Has a HeelFaceTurn in the end, after Rosa (the protagonist) snaps him out of Skoteinos' mind control. ** Seismos: TheBrute, he can cause earthquakes, both small enough so as to be barely noticeable, and the huge kind that can cause hundreds of deaths and millions in property damage. Needless to say, he likes the second kind better. He's really kind of lazy, though, so he doesn't do much villaining unless he needs to. ** Dr. Ohm: TheEvilGenius, with control over electricity. He actually killed Rosa's father nearly eight years before, which I am planning on using for a PrincessBride shout out, as her last name is Montoya. ** The Phoenix: A girl about the same age as Rosa, with control over fire. She used to be a popular girl who went to the same school, but when she got sent to the BMAHS, she decided that she didn't want to be a goody-goody sugar-sweet heroine, and did a FaceHeelTurn. She's going to be a DarkerAndEdgier counterpart to Rosa, whose superhero identity is La Aguila, Spanish for The Eagle. * I've actually tried to come up with a possible FiveBadBand where it looks like all the members seem to fit a cetain role but really fit another. It's rather simplistic right now, but here's what I have so far: ** TheBigBad - EvilOverlord and the official leader of the group, but mostly uses force and fear-tactics to accomplish any goals and [[DiscOneFinalBoss as it turns out]] is really [[ThePawn little more than a puppet]] of his [[ManBehindTheMan so-called]] [[BastardUnderstudy subordinates]] (Really TheBrute, but at least an aversion of OrcusOnHisThrone) ** TheBrute - Appears to be a menacing bruiser type, but is really a GentleGiant only working with the group [[AntiVillain against his will]] (Really TheDarkChick, with traits of TokenGoodTeammate and SixthRangerTraitor) ** TheEvilGenius - ManipulativeBastard ManBehindTheMan (Really TheBigBad) ** TheDarkChick - JokeCharacter ([[LethalJokeCharacter Really]] TheDragon) ** All that leaves is some way for TheDragon to shift to EvilGenius * I really don't want to put the "Nerd Pride Gang" of my school up here, especially considering I'm one of them, but to tell the truth, we REALLY don't fit FiveManBand... ** TheBigBad is Tomasz, who's the nerdiest and the least liked by the others. He gets this spot as no one really dares challenge him to a nerd-off. Simon and I hypothesize that he's really a killer robot - he

certainly doesn't display much emotion. He's very arrogant, and his personality is along the lines of AIIsACrapshoot. He's also TheRival to me, as we constantly try to outdo each other in lessons. ** TheDragon is Robbert, a total Otaku and the most socially awkward. He's not especially bright, but he does play along with Tomasz' crackpot schemes and ideas. However, [[WildMassGuess I'm beginning to wonder if he actually supports]] [[TheStarscream Simon's plan for world domination.]] In the end, though, I'm sure that I can convince him to stay on my side... ** TheEvilGenius is Simon - a cynical, megalomaniacal boy with glasses. He's determined to take over the world and install a "Simocracy", making him TheStarscream as well as TheEvilGenius. He also veers into TheChessmaster occasionally, especially during Religious Studies lessons. ** I'm TheDarkChick. I'm a balance of all of the others - maths nerd, otaku and science geek. However, I'm ALSO CrazyPrepared and a WalkingArsenal - I can turn anything in my pockets in a weapon, I'm DangerouslyGenreSavvy, and I have a sword in my bedroom. None of the others know it, but I'm a CovertPervert and a YaoiFangirl too. ** Finally, TheBrute is Dark. She's more of an Otaku then a nerd, but she still counts. Why is she TheBrute? Because she's the tallest and strongest, and could definitely take any of us in a physical fight so long as she doesn't let me get my weapons. ** We're not especially organized, as none of us except Robbert take any of Tomasz's ideas seriously, Simon's too insane for anyone to listen to, Robbert's easily lead, Dark tends not to get involved, and I just let things happen. And yes, there DOES appear to be a plot with us! It's mostly Tomasz having stupid theories and daring us to do the impossible, Robbert going along with it, Simon working towards the Simocracy, Dark's mysterious illness, and me... well... [[LauncherOfAThousandShips getting annoyed by all of the shipping that seems to go on with us]]... I mean, it's not as if I LIKE any of them... [[EveryoneCanSeeIt especially not Robbert...]]

FiveManBand * My group of friends in my math/science class work well as an example. ** [[TheHero The Hero]]: My friend Nate. Hes very.. charismatic, loud, and often disruptive during class . But we love him for it. Hes the redhead of our [[BlondeBrunetteRedhead Blonde Brunette Redhead]] group (Nate = redhead, Blake, Edgar , and myself = Brunette, Blonde = Paul.) ** [[TheLancer The Lancer]]: Me, but I also kind of overlap with the Smart Guy. Im a [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snarker]], [[GenkiGirl Genki Girl]], [[BlackSheep Black Sheep]] of the group, being the only girl (and the only Asian) in our entire [[FiveManBand Five Man Band]]. Im also the [[CloudCuckooLander Cloud Cuckoo Lander]], which has earned me the nickname Space Cadet. ** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Guy]]: Edgar. Hes a shy, chubby guy who just goes along with what everyone else is doing. Hes the youngestacting of the group, and spends more time actually doing his classwork

than goofing off. ** [[TheBigGuy The Big Guy]]: The oldest of the group, Blake. He is quiet and can give you a [[DeathGlare Death Stare]] like no other. Blake has gotten into many fights over the year weve all known each other, but he is soft at heart. Hes best friends with the Chick Magnet. ** [[TheChick The Chick]]: Paul. Also called Pauly, Polly Pocket, Jim, and an assortment of other nicknames. Hes the kind-hearted, softer one in our group. Because of that, hes also the [[ChickMagnet Chick Magnet]]; and a bit of a [[ChivalrousPervert Chivalrous Pervert]].

* This troper's alternative rock band works as a fairly literal [[FiveManBand Five Man Band]]: ** [[TheHero The Hero]]: Me, the lead singer, chief songwriter, and keyboardist. I tend to direct practices, schedule shows, and propose which songs we should record. ** [[TheLancer The Lancer]]: One of the two guitarists; he writes many of the songs with me. We often disagree and have fairly different styles, but they sound really nice with one another. ** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Guy]]: The drummer, oddly enough. Also a bit of a [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snarker]], he looks and acts like a stereotypical nerd and has MANY creative ideas. ** [[TheBigGuy The Big Guy]]: The other guitarist. Though extremely skilled, he is very, very quiet and does little else but play guitar and act stoic. ** [[TheChick The Chick]]: The bassist. Because I write most of the basslines, he doesn't do much to contribute to the band. However, when the whole band is in an argument, he's usually the one to propose what the compromise should be. * My clique of friends/D&D players fall into this quite nicely. ** [[TheHero The Hero]]: My friend Gerrit, he does lots of the typical leader stuff, and we agreed that he leads us in case of something going bad. He's a bit of a WoobieHero though. ** [[TheLancer The Lancer]]: Our friend Ben: Whereas Gerrit is a minor nerd, Ben is a major one, of the Otaku brand. Generally ends up as a second in command to Gerrit. ** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Guy]]: Me. I'm the only one of us with a laptop, and I'm pretty brainy besides. ** [[TheBigGuy The Big Guy]]: Dillon, who's very, very tall. ** [[TheChick The Chick]]: Alex, Dillon's girlfriend, fits the Chick role perfectly. She's definitely TheHeart of the group. ** [[TheSixthRanger The Sixth Ranger]]: Raven, Gerrit's girlfriend, doesn't fit anything else. * This troper has had used to know four people who were in an academic group with him, and they fit a FiveManBand ** This troper- The Hero ** The joker- The Lancer (my Red Oni) ** The nerd- The Smart Guy (usually read or played Warhammer) ** Tomboy - The Big Guy

** Girly GIrl- The Chick *** I did this with dogs too. After the Big Guy and the Smart Guy were KilledOffForReal we bought the Lancer, fitting Three Amigos. Finally, The Chick was killed off too, leaving Foil. However, there was a SixthRanger, so now we're a FreudianTrio, with TheSixthRanger as McCoy (and the TokenGirl), TheLancer as The Spock (disobedient and can convince you to do anything) and me as The Kirk. &D* In [[{{Cosman246}} my]] Japanese class, there is a FiveManBand...I am TheSmartGuy and possibly the ButtMonkey.... * This troper considers himself the smart guy of the group though everyone else says I'm the Hero for two reasons: 1)I'm essentially the unofficial leader and 2) we already have another guy who is as smart, if not more so than I am. My group also strays very close to a five token band with my lancer/heterosexual life partner being black, our resident big guy being an Asian girl who is, ironically, the smallest of us(she's 4' and weighs 110 lbs and can flip me. For reference I'm 6' and weigh 170 lbs), and our smart guy is an Indian boy who transferred here when we were in fourth grade. We even have a recent sixth ranger addition who's a mexican boy. My GF(the chick) and I are the only white people in the group. * [[{{Space Wings}} This troper]] is TheChick out of my group of friends. I alomost got offended when I was told this by our TheHero, but I soon found out that you don't always have to be a chick to fill the role. * [[{{Otempora}} This troper's]] French class last year. I was TheSmartGuy. However, now we have three {{Sixth Ranger}}s, one of whom is TheScrappy. Sigh. * Out of all of this troper's friends he is probably [[TheLancer The Lancer]](also the most competent), [[TheHero The Hero]] even stated that my [[DeadpanSnarker boring cynicism]] is the perfect counter to his ADHD. * This troper is either TheBigGuy or TheSmartGuy. It's difficult to tell, since we're all pretty bright... * This troper is, of course, convinced he is the Hero, since one of my best friends would make a textbook Lancer. My girlfriend makes a great Chick, so the other weirdo (well, weirder than the rest of us) could be relegated to Smart Guy. * This troper and four friends were all in a car on the way to a restaurant. Someone suggested that it felt like we were on a quest, prompting a very long drawn out discussion of just who fills what role in the five man band. We ran into problems choosing which of the two girls (one of which was me) was the chick, considering neither of us wanted the title, it became a competition to see which of us was less girly. We arrived at the restaurant before we could resolve that issue. The waitress was the Sixth Ranger. ** How much did you sort out? * This troper has four good friends that he basically considers [[{{Nakama}} siblings.]] They've certainly all but been adopted into the family. If I'm TheHero of the equation, then each of my pseudosiblings fit quite nicely into the other four character archetypes. For any of my other groups of friends, however, I'm TheSmartGuy. * [[GwenStacyWannabe My]] {{Nakama}} has more than 5 people in it, but

there is a basic core group of three guys and two girls. I guess my boyfriend is TheHero, his best friend is TheLancer, the other guy is TheBigGuy (not so much in literal size but he's very strong), and it's debatable whether I'm TheChick or [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]. I'm thinking maybe the latter, which puts the other girl in TheChick role. (Interesting subversion, though, in that TheChick likes TheHero but TheHero is going out with [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]].) * [[{{Griffinguy24}} This Troper]] has a number of friendship circles that can be considered Five Man Bands. Among his college grouping of Asperger's sufferers, he's TheHero, the lone girl is TheChick, and while of his four other friends, he can delineate TheBigGuy and TheSmartGuy (smart being very relative, we're a bright bunch), it's hard determining which is TheLancer and which is the SixthRanger. ** Of his high school drama club, he was TheSmartGuy among the seniors (and spent the previous year as a {{Main/Sidekick}} to one of his upperclassmen friends) ** In his oldest group of friends, a group stretching back to middle school who are actually attempting to make a video game, which sadly has no [[TheChick chick]], he's TheLancer. TheHero is the man who's actually designing the game we're making, my best friend since grade school is TheSmartGuy, and another friend is TheBigGuy * Our particular group of 'tards (TARADOS FTW!) is pretty big, but has two core groups as 1st gen, ie. the ones that came before we arrived and 2nd gen, ie. us freshmen. ** First gen has TheHero and pseudogod of us, TheLancer & [[TheChick Chick]] condences in a long-&-very-straight-haired, overly enthusiatic dude, TheBigGuy who's actually pretty short but can pull off some pretty impressive stuff, TheSmartGuy in the one that has progressed our uni classes the quickest (ie. hasn't failed) and a bunch of [[TheSixthRanger Sixth Rangers]] as drop-ins and whatnot. ** Meanwhile, freshmen includes TheHero, me as TheSmartGuy, two [[TheLancer Lancers]] (one for me and another the TheHero. xD) and a bunch of [[SixthRanger Sixth Rangers]]. No [[TheChick Chick]] though. >.> * In my high school marching band's trombone section, [[TromboneChild This Troper]] was TheChick and TheScrappy for my freshman and sophomore years. During my junior year, I was one of two rival [[TheLancer Lancers]]. My senior year, I was back to being TheChick and something of a SixthRanger. But there were 14 (and later 17) people in the section, so we had quite a few [[TheScrappy Scrappies]] over the years. I think I was the only one to be RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap. * This troper's school's 'karate club'. TheHero and TheLancer switch roles, though, depending on who has the Idiot Ball. There's also the [[TheSmartGuy Smart Girl]] and the ActionGirl-slash-TheBigGuy. I'm somewhere between TheScrappy, TheChick, and the TeamPet. * Although the group is getting larger, the church youth group for which this troper is the advisor was a FiveManBand over the course of the last year. The kids even all have titles. The oldest member ("the General") is a combination of TheHero and TheSmartGuy. The slightly younger boy ("Pieman") is a combination of TheLancer and TheSmartGuy. The older of the two girls ("the Admiral") is a combination of

TheChick and TheLancer. The youngest member ("the Giver of Free Hugs") is a combination of TheChick and TeamPet, with some comical TheSmartGuy thrown in for good measure. They form a tight little {{Nakama}} and have a SixthRanger in the form of a kid who can only join the group when visiting his non-custodial parent. Troper, of course, is the TeamMom, with some elements of TheChick. * Let's see, in school after going through most of my time as a Loner, I joined made friends with a group. In my eyes I started as TheChick, got upgraded too TheSmartGuy and eventually ended up TheLancer or TheHero as I got louder and more confident. In the class after that I suppose I was TheSmartGuy in a band without a clear Hero. After that I was TheChick and now I'm back to being TheSmartGuy. * This Troper is the only girl in her Five Man Band so she became The Chick but through Character Developement(or Derailment)she becomes The Lancer. * My group of friends is usually larger than five, but they're fairly easy to place into groups. Oddly, we really don't have a [[{{The Hero}} Hero]], as the most confident out of all of us is definitely TheLancer; he's apt to go against any group plan just to play devil's advocate. We all have a bit of TheSmartGuy in us, although there is one of us who more fully fits the trope than the others. TheBigGuy of the group is actually a girl, completely unassuming until she picks you up and tosses you. Her boyfriend is one of our everchanging troop of {{SixthRanger}}s, who is also TheJerkass, unfortunately. As for myself, I'm usually a mixture of TheChick and TheSmartGuy, and I'm ''definitely'' TheButtmonkey. It's actually a pretty cool position for someone who almost can't be offended. * This troper is TheLancer/half of TheSmartGuy, her slightly more academic friend is the other half, her BFF is TheChick, her athletic friend is TheBigGuy, and pretty much everyone else is a SixthRanger. We had a [[{{TheHero}} Hero]], but she became TheScrappy and TheWesley and left. Oh, and this troper's brother is the TagalongKid and TeamPet. * This troper has sorted all the characters in her RP group into FiveManBand and FiveBadBand. It's possible she got something wrong, because apparently, the BigBad and TheChick are in love, TheBrute and the EvilGenius have a love/hate dynamic, TheHero nearly killed the Chick, TheBigGuy looks like a redhead Maleficent, and TheDragon is the OnlySaneMan. * This troper is the plucky comic relief to his friends Hero, chick, big guy and action girl * One group of friends that {{Wild-card}} frequently hang out around in school consist of six people. Since one of them doesn't actually go to our school he is the SixthRanger, we have a Hero who invites us to his place most often, a geninue SmartGuy, just a weird one, and ThisTroper and his brother might both qualify as a Lancer and a Sidekick. Sadly though, TheSmurfettePrinciple hasn't gotten TheChick to join our group. * [[{{Be}} This troper's]] FiveManBand is also his RockBand - Pistol Glory Kill, totally look us up. In canon - yes, we have a fictional canon - he's the Smart Guy despite being the drummer; the lead singer is our Hero and the lead guitarist the Lancer, with the bassist being

the Chick and the other guitarist the Big Guy. * This troper, despite being female, is almost always the Big Guy, due to generally being a lot more powerful than her friends. The only reason she isn't the Hero or the Action Girl is because she's too lazy to take the initiative and would rather just be told what to throw and how far to throw it. * This Troper's group of close friends has six members (including herself). When I first found out about this trope, I tried to apply it to us. Some roles were easy (We have a clear SixthRanger, one of us is TheHero by default and I like to think of myself as the SmartGuy), but some proved difficult. Our hero has no clear lancer, and no one wants to be TheChick even though we are all female. BigGuy is possible to find but not so clear cut. * In his trope-savvy group of friends, they didn't really have a Hero, which was funny. They had a clear Lancer (a guy with generally good intentions but tends to lean on hating humanity), a Smart Guy, a Big Guy, and a Chick (a guy, oddly enough). Due to this Troper's attitude and view of the world, he was voted in as a Hero, though he thinks himself more of a Smart Guy. Guess this is a pretty good example of a DesignatedHero. Of course, the way I view the world (and my dreams) have always invovled me being heroic, so it's not like it doesn't fit. * [[TromboneChild This Troper's]] family. My mom is TheHero, my dad is TheLancer (though occasionally it flips), I'm TheSmartGuy (I remember everything and analyze situations), my brother's TheBigGuy (he's good with his hands), and my sister is TheChick (she's affectionate and worries about everyone all the time and always thinks about other people first). Our dog is the TeamPet. * Me and some kids on my bus fit this trope. Sometimes. There's one Hero, two Lancers, a Chick, and a Sixth Ranger/Deadpan Snarker. I'm the Smart Guy, but one of the Lancers views me as the Scrappy. * Oh.... Wow. I just realized my grade 10 class was five people. TheHero (odd, but charismatic guy), TheLancer (a bit of a goof, gets this title by virtue of being the 'second'), TheSmartGuy (probably myself - also the odd-person-out in many things), TheBigGuy (and how!), and TheChick (the only female, who also fits the stereotype). * This troper is part of two very different five-man bands and is the smart guy in both of them; the first is composed by his school friends (The Hero being his best friend, a very egocentric guy; the Lancer is the Hero's best female friend and usually the more mature person in the group; the Big Guy is also a musician and the Chick is the group's more morally minded member), the second one is composed by his "geek" friends (The Hero is the less socially awkward one and the most mature; the Lancer is the funny laid back yuri fanboy, the Big Guy is his brother and the oldest one of the group and the Chick is a yaoi fangirl meganekko). * This troper was part of a FiveManBand during Middle School. I was TheLancer, my friend David was more of the adventurous TheHero, TheSmartGuy was Nate, TheBigGuy was Chuck who loved playing baseball and Adam was a male version of TheChick. * [[TromboneChild This Troper's family]] is a FiveManBand: my mom is TheHero, my dad is TheLancer, I'm TheSmartGuy, my younger brother's TheBigGuy (though he's only like 5'8'' and one of the skinniest people

I've ever known; he has the GentleGiant's temparment), and my younger sister's TheChick (she's by far the most affectionate: she doles out hugs as often as most people say "hello"). Our dog is the TeamPet. * This troper is contemplating his own four man band. He's the Lancer / TheSmartguy, and his three friends go as follows. Our Chick is the Hero, and the lone girl, while being an action girl. We have a big guy who really is just slightly stronger than us. And we have the blond boy whose a year younger than us that is the comic relief kid and our Heroine's...err, sort of her TeamPet. * ThisTroper, a moderator at a forum, is still trying to assign all of her fellow moderating team members into FiveManBand slots. So far, the admin is TheHero (obviously), she's TheLancer, the second moderator is TheSmartGuy, and... She's still hasn't decided which person is TheBigGuy or TheChick, the third global moderator or one of the regional moderators. She has the other regional moderator is TheSixthRanger though. * [[{{Lockea}} This troper]]'s {{Nakama}} fits this surprisingly well, despite being all female. She's {{The Hero}} on account of being the oldest, with her snarky and bossy sister as {{The Lancer}}. {{The Smart Guy}} is played by the brainy best friend who is borderline {{otaku}} at best. {{The Big Guy}} and {{The Chick}} are our pet [[{{Schoolgirl Lesbians}} lesbians]], one of which is quiet but extremely masculine and the other one being feminine and friendly, also the peacemaker. * This troper is TheLancer. His best friend is TheHero. This troper's cousin is TheBigGuy despite being the shortest in the group, has the most muscle. His other friend is TheSmartGuy and the last friend is TheSixthRanger. * This troper serves as The Hero in his Five Man Band. His His best friend is the The Smart Guy, his brother is The Lancer, his first cousin serves as the Chick while her brother serves as the Big Guy. On occasion his third cousin tags along as The Sixth Ranger. * [[DaNuke Da_Nuke]] pretty much grew up with Five Man Bands: ** My high school friends are the "Sacred Five". My best friend was TheLancer, my other best friend was TheBigGuy (he loves basketball and tennis), while TheSmartGuy (a psychologist) and the TeamPet (currently a film director apprentice) parted ways after high school. I was TheHero ^^ ** The electronics major has a [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Kyon]]-grade DeadpanSnarker as TheHero, a calmer DeadpanSnarker as TheLancer, a BoisterousBruiser basketball jock as TheBigGuy, a big, friendly nerd as TheSmartGuy, and the token engineerette as TheChick (being her the ''only'' girl in a major full of men). I, being friends with them and from the telecommunications major, am the TagalongKid. ** The company where I got my first job worked like an extended FiveManBand. The boss was TheHero, the engineering manager was TheLancer (being this a network solutions company), the hauling dude was TheBigGuy, the engineering department were {{The Smart Guy}}s, the manager and the salesgirls were {{The Chick}}s, and shortly before quitting we got two {{Sixth Ranger}}s at sales. I was one of the Smart Guys. * This troper is TheSmartGuy, her girlfriend is TheChick, her friend

from high school and now law major is TheHero, another old friend turned forensic science major is TheLancer, and for reasons no one can remember, we picked up a music major from Massachusetts (the rest of us are from south of the Mason-Dixon line) who's been our SixthRanger. * This Troper and co. make a great FiveManBand. My cynical, conservative friend is the hero, I am the Lancer (except I am much less level-headed than him), My humungo friend is The Big Guy, My big friend is the smart guy, and the littlest nerd is the chick. Oddly enough, I'm also in a band with five people. * If one can accept this troper as the Chick (a bit of a reach but he's generally the emotional one), his set of friends fall pretty nicely into this: The Heroine, The Lancer (Heroine's best friend, pessimist), The Big Guy (plays Football and is the little brother of the Heroine.), The Smart Guy (Actually bigger then the big guy, but certainly weaker and less in shape. Total computer nerd.), and The Chick (just a friend who's highly affectionate. Because the Gods know I am not socially adept). * [[{{Aela}} This troper]]'s table in her beloved Latin class was so much of a FiveManBand that they even gave each other ''nicknames''. She was TheSmartGuy. The guy who lead all the class discussions (because "that's just what he did") was TheHero. TheLancer was the serious, studious opposite of TheHero. TheBigGuy was 6'3". And TheChick was actually a guy. ** Come to think of it, her lunch group also qualifies: she's once again TheSmartGuy, and the only other girl in the group is ''definitely'' TheChick. TheHero is one of the weirdest and most charismatic people she's ever met, and TheLancer is TheHero's opposite (unassuming, clownish underachiever) -- and also a complete ChivalrousPervert (we've dubbed him [[Series/DoctorWho "captain of the innuendo squad"]]). Our BigGuy is a CloudCuckooLander. We all are, to some extent, but he's the only one who's brought a ''ukulele'' to lunch. It's an interesting group. * This [[BrutticusForce Troper's]] Scout Troop feel into this in the early years. The Senior Partol Leader was TheHero, being the oldest, and [[TheCaptain highest ranking]]. Our Assistant Senior Patrol Leader was undoubtedly our Lancer, but also a subversion, as he was the first of us to get our Eagles and now sits comfortably at 70 merit badges (at age 15, no less). Our Smart Guy was our DeadpanSnarker, and I was the Big Guy, a role I shared with our sixth ranger. And then there was our "Chick" who is still the most mellow of us, and prevented infighting. Sadly, this is all in the past, and I am the only one who remains, training the new scouts. * [[Gilboron This Troper]] has four friends who, together, form a five man band. One of them is a hero/smart guy crossover, another is a lancer/big guy crossover, another one who is a guy but basically plays the role of the chick, another who is a smart guy but with the personality of the team pet, and I am the eccentric smart guy. * I'm currently running a D campaign (3.5), in which there are five main players, plus a Sixth Ranger (plays an elf ranger) who just showed up last session. We have a human cleric of Heironeous (The Hero), an elf rogue (The Lancer), a (nerfed due to being overpowered in 3.5) tiefling wizard (The Smart Guy, and a second Lancer as well),

a dwarf fighter played by the only female in the group (The Big Guy), and a half-elf druid who doesn't really seem to fit any category (possibly another Hero?). * In this troper's group of friends, she is a combination lancer/smart guy, being smart and not quite as athletic as their hero, an artsy, charismatic girl. Then there's our 'big guy by default' who is, again, a girl- sarcastic to a fault, stoic and somewhat strong, maybe not physically. And our chick would be our peppy, outgoing, emotional galcompletely unathletic yet blessed with the MostCommonSuperpower and unfairly gorgeous hair. * [[KingSonnDeeDoo This Troper]], with her six friends, makes up one of these. Said troper is {{The Smart Guy}} (or girl, in this case), with two guys switching/sharing the role of {{The Big Guy}}, a slightly serious and focused girl being {{The Hero}}, a completely crazy girl fulfilling the role of {{The Lancer}}, an all-round nice girl fullfilling the role of {{The Chick}}, and another guy being {{The Sixth Ranger}}, but determined to think that he's {{The Scrappy}}. * None of my three closest friends from high school contest my role as the de facto [[TheHero hero]] and overall [[TheSmartGuy smart one]]. While there isn't a true leadership in the traditional sense of the word, I'm always the one to call the others out on their increasingly stupid antics. I once told my closest friend (TheLancer) that "I'm [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Batman]]" (from a particular [[SaturdayNightLive Celebrity Jeopardy]] skit), to which he quickly replied "well, I'm ''[[TheBatman the]]'' [[TheBatman Batman]]." One of them, an artist, fills the role of TheSmartGuy in my stead and another is [[TheBigGuy big enough]] to round out the package. ** Sometimes our group transforms into a FiveBadBand if the situation calls for it. * This troper has been in a few [[FiveManBand Five Man Bands]]...in his original group of friends, he was at first TheLancer before becoming TheSmartGuy. After a falling out with that group, I became TheSixthRanger for another group (though I sometimes fill in for TheSmartGuy or TheLancer). With my group of online friends, I'm TheLancer. * This troper has just been recruited to play TheChick / Manager / Interpreter to an actual 5-man rock band. TheHero and TheSixthRanger / TokenWhite are obvious; the others are expected to show tropey tendencies as things develop. * This troper is probably TheSmartGuy of her FiveManBand. * This troper's friends fit exactly into the slot of a FiveManBand, with this troper as TheHero. The only problem is, none of this troper's friends ''are friends with each other'', and two of them (TheSmartGuy and TheChick) actively hate each other. * This troper's Dungeons and Dragons group can definitely be considered a Five Man Band. My roommate (who is a KavorkaMan and a WeirdnessMagnet) is the Hero. This troper (who, as a law student is generally the {{Unfunny}} and OnlySaneMan) is the Lancer. We have a Smart Guy who is a slightly awkward mathematical genius with a penchant for memorizing entire books. We TWO Big Guys - both of whom are girls! One is a rugby playing middle school teacher, and the other

a big goofy pharmacist. The pharmacist's boyfriend is a cross between the Chick and a team pet. We even have a Sixth Ranger who acts, essentially, as the lancer's lancer. ** The really interesting part is that these are the roles we play in real life. When we game, the roles are different: our Smart Guy is the DM, our Hero always plays Big Guy, the Lancer (me) plays the Hero, and our Chick plays the lancer. Our sixth ranger usually plays the Smart Guy, the pharmacist Big Gal becomes the Sixth Ranger or the Chick. Our rugby-playing Big Gal usually still plays a Big Guy, but she's new to roleplaying - we expect she'll cross-class soon. * Since we don't really have five people in our FiveManBand, this troper has to take on the roles of TheCaptain and TheSmartGuy. * This Troper is actually in quite a few Five Man Bands and in each one, he plays a different role. In his main one, he's defintely the Lancer. In his secondary one he's the Smart Guy, and in his third one, he's the Hero. * This Troper's has his best friend as the hero, His other friend as a Neutral Evil big guy, His brother as a sort of the Chick and himself as a sort of combination of The Chick and The Smart Guy (pretty damn smart but tend to get emotional and is also a teensy bit feminine) * This troper alternates between the Smart Guy (arguably the most intelligent, often comes up with the cunning plan) and the Big Guy (so ridiculously tall that the rest of the group look like halflings in comparison) depending on what's happening with the rest of the group. His best friend is the Hero (the one who decides which cunning plan to follow) and normally the focus is on his ongoing attempt to get with the Chick who has so far managed to turn him down a grand total of five times. The Lancer is locked in a love triangle with both the Hero and the Chick. Interestingly this troper is currently seeing the Lancer of another Five Man Band, and the pair of them find all this great viewing entertainment. * I'm probabbly the hero or the Lancer (depending on perspective) my friend is the Lancer/Hero (Perspective), another of my friends is the Big Guy (more in size than strength), I double as smart guy, my small friend is the scrappy and my explode-y friend is the Sixth Ranger. I geyss you could count either the girl I like or a girl who we talk to a lot as the Chick, but that's up for debate. * [[{{Taelor}} I]] considers himself to be the ChaoticNeutral Lancer[=/=][[TheSmartGuy Smart Guy]] to a NeutralEvil VillainProtagonist. Our Nakama includes a [[TheNapoleon diminutive]] ChineseGirl with [[KnifeNut a fondness for sharp objects]] (TheBigGuy), and a [[TheQuietOne guy who doesn't talk a lot]] but is also probably the least insane member of our group (TheChick). There was also this one kid who no one liked (The SixthRanger[=/=]TheScrappy), but he stoped following us around after TheHero publicly humilated him in front of a live audience. * This troper and a group of his friends (who, for the purpose of this confidentiality, we'll call Frank, Bob and Alex). Unbeknownst to each other, we all ended up applying to the same university, and worked out that we could easily form a crime-fighting FiveManBand (Though without TheHero) ** Frank - TheLancer. He's our technical support, and will build us

our very own van. ** Bob - TheSmartGuy. Plans to do Forensic Sciences. He'll analyse fingerprints and DNA evidence. ** Alex - TheBigGuy. He's a black belt in 2 different kinds of martial arts. ** Which, unfortunately, leaves this male troper as TheChick. * ThisTroper has been a part of not one but two [[FiveManBand Five Man Bands]]. He shifted from TheBigGuy to TheSmartGuy, and the only other member of both went from TheHero to TheLancer. ** Undergrad band *** TheHero: Aspiring English teacher, black belt, and practicing Pagan. Something of a local celebrity for his [[RobeAndWizardHat distinctive coat, hat, and walking stick.]] *** TheLancer: Science major with some anger issues and reculsive tendencies. Counterpoint to TheHero in that he was the most technology oriented of the group in his free time. *** TheBigGuy: Multimedia major who took martial arts with TheHero. [[TheWorfEffect Less experienced in martial arts]] but probably physically stronger. Something of a GeniusBruiser if only for the higher education setting. *** TheSmartGuy: English major, with a focus in linguistics. Took great pleasure in listing and classifying all sorts of information. Considered TheChick at first, but got progressively icy and [[SituationalSexuality discovered she preferred girls]] during a lengthy relationship with a man. *** TheChick: Majored in elementary english education. Far more gentle nature than the others. ** Post graduate band *** TheHero: Mechanic in the Marines. Future parents-in-law treated him like the Second Coming. Always something hulking in heavy armor like a Knight or a Warblade in DungeonsAndDragons. *** TheLancer: Previously TheHero. Somewhat bitter about becoming TheUnfavorite while he was away. Always the Wizard in DungeonsAndDragons. *** TheBigGuy: Employee of the martials school TheHero attended before going off to college. Nice guy, but notorious for speaking or acting without thinking. Dated TheChick for a year. Always a front-liner in DungeonsAndDragons. **** [[TheBigGuy The Other Big Guy]]: Railroad worker and something of a JonasQuinn, as he began dating TheChick within a month after she broke up with the previous [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]]. Always a martial class in DungeonsAndDragons. *** TheSmartGuy: TheBigGuy of the undergrad group, but physically outclassed now. One of two members to even consider something higher than a bachelors. Typically the "research guy" in most matters. Without TheBigGuy, finds increasingly finds himself as the OnlySaneMan in the room. Tries to fill party holes in DungeonsAndDragons while typically serving as comic relief. *** TheChick: Works in retail. Has never made it a secret she's wanted a baby for some time. Always plays elves who serve as TheStraightMan in DungeonsAndDragons. * This troper and his friends fit into a FiveManBand oddly well, and

these traits are most noticable when we're all on X-Box Live. (To keep it confidential, this troper will simply identify them with the first letter of their screennames) ** TheHero: H, who will always lead the charge and is the guy everyone turns to for making group decisions and hosting the games. ** TheLancer: G, who also doubles as TheSmartGuy, plays support for TheHero of the group and will often have the most information available. ** TheBigGuy: N, shamelessly. He will always clamor for the best and most powerful weapons, will make a beeline straight for the enemy and start hitting them as hard as possible, and who could care less about strategy. ** TheChick: Y, a very laid-back and level-headed guy who has a knack for putting things into perspective. ** We'll often be joined by a wide variety of [[SixthRanger Sixth Rangers]] drawn from our pool of associates, but they tend not to fit into any of the roles particularly well. * I sort of fill a combination between The Lancer and The (male) Chick. The group really lacks a Smart Guy since we all fill that role. In another group, I am The Big Guy/Hero. * In [[WhiteArchmage This Troper's]] case, we're all Literature majors so we're (supossedly) all [[TheSmartGuy Smart guys]] yet we (the closest 5) manage to form a FiveManBand anyway. ** TheHero: Somewhat laid-back girl who, when not taking leadership herself, usually has it thrust into her hands. ** TheLancer: Gets along best with TheHero but they usually have differing points, and tends to be second-in-command; female, too ** TheSmartGuy: Also the comic-relief, oddly. She's got the highest grades of us and is the first we call to review our papers. ** SixthRanger: Most laid-back of all but still smart; mostly TheQuietOne and, oddly enough, the youngest, she often overlaps with TheSmartGuy. ** TheChick: This Troper; gets along with everyone and usually exhibits traits of TeamMom and TheHeart. Only male save for... ** TheBigGuy: not exactly a friend, mostly a TagalongKid with shades of CovertPervert, would be the SixthRanger if he hadn't left uni... * [[{{Pinkbaron}} This troper]] is TheChick doing lead vocals within the context of her band. I was formerly TheSixthRanger doing back-up vocals until the one of the lead singers decided to quit the band unexpectedly. * This troper belong to an aarray of different five man bands through the years, here is the line of the most important of them: ** Primary School: back at primary school, at first was me and my brother, usually when we were alone fo face agains our BigSister, we could have been at first ThoseTwoEvilGuys, but we have been more of CainAndAbel, a cousin of ours joined us, making as PowerTrio of ThreeAmigos, eventually another freind i used to got to school together become our smart guy and another one wich was older than us became the Big Guy (wich he managed to later one become the hero, my brother the lancer), eventually i and my brother grew apart and unfortunaly i'm no longer part of the group. ** Early Hich School: this troper unfortunaly doesn't remenber quiet

well but if i'm not wrong my cousin and i and my smart guy freind returned joining with some other menbers wich one was ax crazy (sometimes i see him as the ace) with a vast troop of sixth range * This Troper was The Chick at first because she was the only girl but soon became the Lancer in The Five Man Band. With her best guy friend as The Hero but in her opinion, if she was The Hero, he would be The Chick. * [[Tropers/{{Joelly}} This Troper]] and his buddies fit into this ''creepily accurately'', given that most of us play the appropriate instrument/s (though we sadly do not have a band... well, not one with all of us in it): ** TheHero is my best friend, a blonde haired and blue eyed HotBlooded ChivalrousPervert (plays guitar and sings); ** TheLancer is me, a black haired (and [[BlackEyes eyed]]) DeadpanSnarker DepravedBisexual (I play guitar and bass); ** TheBigGuy is a six feet, seven inches [[MightyGlacier bodybuilding]] dude ([[AllDrummersAreAnimals plays drums]]); ** TheSmartGuy (doubling as TagalongKid) is the aforementioned bodybuilders [[TheSpock irritatingly]] LiteralMinded best friend ("doesn't like" music); ** TheChick is [[RelationshipUpgrade my girlfriend]], both TheHeart and the OnlySaneMan (plays keyboard and sings); ** and TheSixthRanger is an (often absent) HotBlooded IdiotHero buddy, who [[TedBaxter thinks]] he is TheAce. (Plays bass.) * [[Tropers/{{shadowpaw13}} This troper's]] group of friend. We have: ** The Hero is my best friend, a hyperactive keet and somewhat of a cloudcuckoolander (only a bit of one) ** The Lancer is my other best friend who is also hyper but more down to earth ** The Smart Guy is me, the perky goth artist ** The Big Guy is my little sister who is tall for her age and a genki girl ** The Chick is my little brother the tag a long kid with a hair trigger temper ** Team Pet is my dog who likes to follow us everywhere * This troper's [[{{Nakama}} major friend circle]] consists of one of these (plus [[strike: one]] two). ** TheHero is my bro, a nerdy, level-headed plotter (with the occasional backbone problem) who is generally the ringleader of our bunch (or, often, [[GameMaster the GM]]). NeutralGood. ** TheLancer is yours truly, a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] go-getter, [[ButtMonkey prone to accidents]] and occasionally [[BuffySpeak can't phrase something well]]. The RedOni to TheHero's BlueOni. LawfulNeutral. ** TheSmartGuy is our SophisticatedAsHell counter-culture aspiring musician, often dead-set on powergaming, exploits, and all that-mostly [[ForTheEvulz because he can]]. ChaoticGood. ** TheBigGuy is our resident [[GeniusBruiser jock/nerd crossbreed]], an avid WorldOfWarcraft & LeagueOfLegends player and a textbook example of BrilliantButLazy. ChaoticGood. ** TheChick is TheHero's [[DungeonMastersGirlfriend girl]][[HeroesWantRedheads friend]], a FieryRedhead with an obsession

for Pokemon and similar franchises. Foolishly believes [[TheLittleMermaid Ariel]] to be the best [[DisneyPrincess princess]] when it's [[AuthorAppeal clearly]] [[{{Disney/Aladdin}} Jasmine]]. LawfulGood. ** [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} The Cloudcuckoolander]] goes to our last member, a [[TagAlongKid younger bloke]] whose mind always seems to be elsewhere. Generally unpredictable, with a history of [[WalkingTechbane computer trouble]]. ChaoticNeutral. ** [[SixthRanger The Sixth Ranger]] (or in this case, seventh) is a ''colossal'' LargeHam who hasn't become a formal part of the group-''yet'', thus making him a case of IncomingHam. Boisterous and has a [[PhotographicMemory startlingly good memory]]. LawfulGood. * In this troper's men's choir last year, the bass section seemed to fit the trope quite nicely. ** TheHero: John, while not the leader of the group, he is essentially TheEveryman and the most likable person in the section. ** The Lancer: Chris, he was quite the DeadpanSnarker and was the sections second-in-command. ** TheBigGuy: PJ, physically the strongest and has the lowest voice. ** TheSmartGuy: Rob, the leader, and for good reason. He was the most knowledgeable about music and probably the smartest one in the group. ** TheChick: *sigh* me. I was the weakest physically and had the least amount of music skills. I was (and still am) the voice of reason and the OnlySaneMan. ** TheSixthRanger: Matt, despite not being in the section, he was friends with every member and became a bass that year. * In this troper's (ZeoR95) RS class we discovered that our table managed to fit this trope very well (using first initials for confidentiality) ** TheHero: A, only by process of elimination, as everybody else fitted another trope ** TheLancer: M, for being of a good alignment, but just not bothered to be good and for being the coolest out of us all ** TheSmartGuy: Me, H for being the smartest, most nerdy of us all ** TheBigGuy: C, for being the most violent, HeroicSociopath ** TheHeart: S, for being the nicest of us ** TheScrappy and TheBumblebee: J, mostly the Scrappy, but we call him The Bumblebee to make him better, not that he likes it, though. * This Troper has played most of the roles at some point in his life. ** TheHero: Of my game development team. ** TheLancer: Provides a HotBlooded foil to the more level-headed leader of my first voice acting group, and a more snarky one to my LoveableSexManiac buddy who Admins my most frequented forum. I also provide this role in my family (Mum being TheHero and TheChick who keeps us together, Dad being TheSmartGuy who always has the answers to everything, my little bro being TheBigGuy on account of being the most physically active of us, and me providing the hot-blooded enthusiasm and [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer simple approach to problem-solving]]). ** TheBigGuy: To my main circles of friends at university, due to being physically taller than most and a ''lot'' less reserved than the various [[TheSmartGuy Smart Girls]] and [[TheLancer Lancers]]. GentleGiant is very much in effect. As is LargeHam.

** TheSmartGuy [=/=] TheLoad: During highschool. Didn't do much except read books and avoid people. ** TheHeart: To my second voice acting team. Also doubles up as a TeamDad, on account of being one of the older members. * This editor's family would count. [[TheAce Dad]] is TheHero, Mom and I are both TheLancer, I'm TheBigGuy (Dad even calls me that!), my sister is TheSmartGuy, Mom is TheChick, our dog Samson is the TeamPet, and our SixthRanger is my sister's boyfriend, [[SixthRangerTraitor at least for now.]] * [[MrSheen This troper]]'s group of friends fits pretty well into the five man band categories: ** TheHero (female): RedOni law student / waitress who basically brought the group together. ** TheLancer (male): Laid-back BlueOni foil to the heroine. The rest of the group constantly [[ShipperOnDeck ship]] them, but they both insist WeAreNotAnItem. Yeah right. ** TheBigGuy (male): GentleGiant, despite being a [[{{Understatement}} well-built]] mechanic and amateur boxer. ** TheSmartGuy (me, male): DeadpanSnarker, barman and aspiring writer. VitriolicBestBuds with the big guy, even though he could easily crush me if he wasn't such an EmotionalBruiser. ** TheChick (female): The ultimate TeamMom, frequently calls the rest of us "kids", even though she's technically one of the youngest (only by about a month, though). ** SixthRanger (female): Quiet, shy newcomer who was [[AwfulTruth recently revealed]] to be TheWoobie, and now gets endless affection from the rest of the group, and has [[BigBrotherInstinct become]] the big guy's {{protectorate}} and the smart guy's [[PlatonicLifePartners platonic life partner]]. * I attend a club for teenage girls with autism/Aspergers, and we form a Five Girl Band: ** TheHero: Thyme([[WhoNamesTheirKidDude yes, that's actually her name]]), who started the club. ** TheLancer: Kiya, Thyme's best friend. ** TheBigGuy / BoisterousBruiser: Emily, who's as smart as she is strong, and could easily kick your ass. Definitely the most outgoing of us. ** TheSmartGuy: That would be me, though it's hard to say, as we're all pretty smart. I'm just the most bookish. ** TheChick: Sophie, the quietest and the kindest of the group. * I have a Six Man Band (here to be referred to by nickname) ** TheHero / KillItWithFire : Red ** TheLancer / TheSmartGuy / ManipulativeBastard : Green ** TheBigGuy / MoreDakka : White ** TheChick / MagicKnight / ActionGirl : Blue ** TheSixthRanger / ActionGirl : Black ** The Other Sixth Ranger / MoreDakka : Yellow * This troper even manages to include this with some of my friends, the first four happens to be the core group. ** TheHero: Myself ** TheLancer: My goofy friend ** TheSmartGuy: Kyle

** TheQuietOne: My friend who rarely speaks ** TheSixthRanger: TheBigGuy of the group ** TheChick: One of my friends who's a girl * In a game of {{Pathfinder}} [[Tropers/ElodieHiras I]] am playing, we almost have a five man band: ** An halfelin bard able to [[MusicForCourage boost us by singing]] and also not too bad with a rapier and proficient with a short bow (TheHero) ** A thief really interested in money, good at backstabb, and from the most powerful country around (TheLancer). ** A druidess not really good at battle due to low combat stats and abyssimal die rolls, but able to heal us (TheChick). ** Me, a female wizard with no damaging spells but with a few StandardStatusEffect, from a nomadic tribe where [[MismatchedEyes heterochromia]] is believed to be the sign that the child is destined for the mystic arts (A SureWhyNot moment from my DM) ([[TheSmartGuy The smart girl]]). ** While we don't have any [[TheBigGuy big guy]], we have [[TeamPet my cat and our druidess' puma]]. * This troper's Five Man Band works like this: ** [[TheHero Robert]] is our local leader, if only because he's the binding force in our group. A lead guitarist, he's rather deep [[EverythingsBetterOnDrugs on]] and [[EruditeStoner off the stuff.]] He's also a (partially unwilling) chick magnet. ** [[TheLancer Melissa]] is one of Robert's sidekick and [[LittleMissSnarker sarcastic girl]] as well as the one who balances our stoner hero. ** [[TheChick Mariah]] is our local empath. She's a [[ShrinkingViolet shy girl,]] but is really fun and pleasant to be around. She has (in typical fashion) liked [[TheHero our hero]] [[CannotSpitItOut forever]] but [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend he's had a rather long string of girlfriends.]] ** [[TheBigGuy Jade]] is (aside from me) the tallest of the group. She's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech very good with words,]] but seems to [[SplitPersonality alternate]] between cold-hearted [[TheSnarkKinght "Snark mode"]] and her caring, happy-go-lucky personality. However, she does more damage with [[GagBoobs her... um... endowments]] [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey rather than]] her [[TheWoobie fists.]] ** [[TheSmartGuy John]] is great with arguments. He's a member of Model UN and is a [[GenreSavvy very smart dude,]] but he tends to [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections screw the system]] and get away with it either because of his [[BrilliantButLazy latent smarts]] or ridiculous lucky streak. ** [[SixthRanger This Troper]] ended up joining in towards the end of 8th grade year. I also give a lot of advice, but I am generally [[OnlySaneMan the only one with foresight and common sense]] or [[TheSmartGuy smart guy territory.]] They've been friends for years, so I was rather [[LateToTheParty out of the loop]] and got stuck with that position. ** [[TagalongKid Paul]] is definitely [[TheScrappy the lowest member on the totem pole.]] He was quiet when he came to our school in freshman year, but when we became sophomores he turned into the

[[JerkJock Jerk Jock of our circle.]] * My brother once set up a game on Roleplay Gateway (said game folded due to writer's block, but anyway), where the accepted cast of characters could've formed a dynamic along these lines. This is how he saw it: ** Emily Elliot ({{GMPC}}) - Adventurous, cheerful-yet-impulsive young girl [[ActionGirl skilled]] at [[TheMario both]] [[HeroesPreferSwords sword-wielding]] [[MagicKnight and]] minor [[ElementalPowers Rune magic]]. TheHero clearly enough. ** Rorikt Selestat ({{GMPC}}) - DeadpanSnarker (borderline IneffectualLoner) with a MysteriousPast, somewhat of an AloofBigBrother to Emily, and definitely seems to know [[HiddenDepths a lot more about what's going on]] [[OlderThanTheyLook than he should]]. Easily TheLancer in terms of personality, but in terms of [[StaffChick magical power]] he's more reminiscent of TheMedic or even TheChick. [[DistressedDude Plus he gets kidnapped alot]]. ** Anaya Northwood (created by ''Ashleigh Jaye'') - Quiet wanderer with traits of the EmotionlessGirl, fights with a [[{{BFS}} Big Freakin']] [[FuumaShuriken Shuriken]] and the only purely physicalbased party member. TheBigGuy ability-wise if not in any other way. ** Telos de'Tarni (created by ''Dziva'') - Sassy street thief, the closest thing the game had to a FemmeFatale, and grew up in the most futuristic realm in the story. Also able to use [[FunctionalMagic 'black magic']] and possessing [[HeroSecretService numerous connections]] throughout the [[NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters underworld]]. Best fit for TheSmartGuy (There was also MadScientist in-training Xander Knight, whose player never gave his username and left before the game could begin, somewhat disqualifying him). ** Hazen Torek (created by ''On Your Mark'') - An (adopted) aristocrat with a [[NeutralGood moral code]], easily the most [[DarkAndTroubledPast emotionally sensitive]] and [[HonorBeforeReason insistently noble]] out of the five. Despite not being a NonActionGuy, could very well be TheChick (His original draft was more along the lines of TheHero, but the GM, a touch sensitive himself as he was, wanted to avoid SpotlightStealingSquad amongst the players and insisted a rewrite). * This tropettes five member College Republicans club can easily fit this trope: ** The Hero: Kim, who was the club president before she graduated. ** The Lancer: Brooke, her best friend. ** The Smart Guy: Gaitlin, Kim's fiance and a chemistry major at the time. ** The Big Guy/Smart Guy: Cameron, who was also the 'Tech Head'. ** The Fifth Ranger: Me, because I joined the club relatively late in the school year. * One of my Bleach fanfics expands on the existing FiveManBand by a complicated margin, half of hich double as Lancers for Ichigo or Rukia: Tatsuki Arisawa, Homura Shizuku, Senna Kisaroku, Ikumi Unagiya, Matsuri Kudo, Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, and [[TheAragorn Ashido Kano]]. Alternatively, the extra members form their own FiveManBand: ** BigGood: Ikumi Unagiya, ringleader of her own Fullbringer crew and CoolBigSis for the surviving Modsouls.

** TheHero: Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck. ** TheLancer: Senna Kisaroku, with a backstory similar to that of Ami Shiba from the Vizard Trilogy by An Origami Fish. ** TheSmartGuy: Ashido Kano, who holds an astute knowledge of Hueco Mundo and the Arrancar, being a practitioner of survivalist guerrilla tactics. ** TheBigGuy: Tatsuki Arisawa, a Fullbringer with an ability that merges martial arts together with brute force. ** TheChick: Homura Shizuku. ** SixthRanger: Matsuri Kudo. * Aishido ends up getting his own FiveManBand during his time in the limelight: ** BigGood: Kukaku Shiba, the leader of the Tonozetsu, a vigilante movement comprised of former Shinigami officers and counterparts, later forming into a coordinated resistance army for the Rukongai, now developed from a slum district into an organized village. ** TheAragorn: Sarin Kurosawa, formerly the lieutenant of the 9th Division, currently the Tonozetsu supreme commander. ** TheHero: Ashido Kano, returning to the Soul Society from exile as a WildCard; a dangerous vigilante, a future revolutionary, a helpful sleeper ally, or a prodigious candidate for the captaincy? ** TheLancer: Sojiro Kusaka, an ex-lieutenant for the 10th Division, with his own gripes over the Soul Society's machinations. ** TheSmartGuy: Ginjiro Shirogane, Renji's predecessor and the main supplier for the Tonozetsu; Matsuri Kudo, hard-working and responsible, with an interest in reading and writing; Maki Ichinose, a master at using his enemies' tactics against them with his Nijigasumi Zanpakuto. ** TheBigGuy: Susumu Hirasago, the ex-lieutenant of the 7th Division and the leader of most Rukongai gangs, who prefers brute force over tactics; Fujimaru Kudo, a lazy slacker that happens to have obtained bankai. ** TheChick: Miyabi Seitetsu, a former 3rd Seat noted for her promiscuity and prostitution rings. * This tropers 5 man band has been a 5 man band for almost 4 years ** TheHero: my cousin Leslie mainly because shes older than us. shes very outgoing and doesnt really care about peoples opinions about her. ** TheLancer: my friend Dante hes kind of a jerk a pervert and manipulative but is otherwise pretty awesome ** TheBigGuy: my sister Kina she doesnt really talk so much unless you get on her bad side shes also kind of like leslie. also she [[CuteBruiser once knocked out 2 guys by]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome tripping them and punching them repeadetly]] ** TheSmartGuy: me. they admit im way more smarter and creative then them... they are so nice to me ** TheChick: my friend nina who usually claims that she only hangs out with us [[Hikikomori because she needed more friends]] * Back when I was about nine and had fantasies going on adventures with favorite characters, I imagined [[AscendedFangirl me]], [[LittleMissSnarker Angela]], [[UpperClassWit Jorge]], [[ThePowerOfRock Achmed]], and [[CloudCuckooLander Maria]] as one of

these. We were even called the Five Musketeers. Here's where we fit. ** The Hero: Me! (Duh.) ** The Lancer: Angela Delvecchio/Jorge Garcia. (She was my favorite female backyard kid, but she and Jorge could switch roles depending on the story.) ** The Smart Guy: Jorge Garcia/Angela Delvecchio. He knew a lot about finance-enough to impress my mom, who's a finance professor-which is pretty obvious from a boy whose dad is an accountant. [[{{Megane}} The glasses didn't hurt either.]] However, he and Angela could switch roles depending on the episode. ** The Big Guy: Achmed Khan. A rockin', LargeHam, wild, [[{{Keet}} genki guy.]] Pretty manly, especially compared with the [[MoeMoe adorable]] Angela, [[{{Adorkable}} nerdy]] Jorge, and [[ManicPixieDreamGirl girly]] Maria. There's one episode where he introduced Jorge to RockAndRoll. ** The Chick: Maria Luna. Loves pink and ponies. The [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl girly girl]] to Angela's {{Tomboy}}. * There are also the PunkRock kids at school. They are ''not'' a FiveBadBand (well, [[JerkAss Melanie]] [[SubvertedTrope I'm not so sure about...]]), because [[CaptainObvious that refers to teams of villians]], not dark people, and DarkIsNotEvil. Let's see.... ** TheHero: Beverly, the DeadpanSnarker, [[RoseHairedGirl rose haired]], {{Bifauxnen}} (sometimes, her ElegantGothicLolita wadrobe makes her look feminine sometimes.) Likes the AvengedSevenfold and LinkinPark. ** TheLancer: Melanie, an asian punk IceQueen. She's an interesting case of TheLibby-she puts down other people (like me) but while most libbies look like "pop chicks" or supermodels, it's unusual to find a libby who looks like, oh, let's say, Kelly Osbourne. But my school is "where you can be yourself" so it's not at all unusual to find people interested in the punk subculture. Her birthday is today BTW. She is also the TokenEvilTeammate, everyone else in the group is nice. ** TheSmartGuy: Grace, an [[AmazingTechnicolorHair orange-haired girl]] who likes Edgar Allen Poe and TheBeatles. She's also a {{Bifauxnen}} and speaks in a classy accent. ** TheBigGuy: Julian. A BadassLonghair GentleGiant overlapped with DarkIsNotEvil who loves TheBeatles. ** TheChick: Dan. A NiceGuy who's pretty skinny, and complemented on my cut-up shirt I'm wearing right now. He has long-ish hair that's [[AmazingTechnicolorHair sometimes dyed.]] He likes TheBeatles and {{Nirvana}}.

* My four friends and I may be arranged like this: ** The Hero (or more accurately, the Anti-Hero): Me,obviously; always with some thing to do (but usually a crazy idea that others don't see plausible) ** The Lancer: My friend Vero, who is more down to earth than me. ** The Chick: My friend Wendy, writing fairy tales. She is also a Girly Girl. ** The Smart Guy: My friend Ana (I qualify as well, but...) ** The Big Guy: My friend Silvia; even though she is in fact the shortest, she is tough and rude. She is also a Tomboy. * This site has me seeing the FiveManBand everywhere I go. But the easiest one to pinpoint would be the IRC roleplay adventure where I now spend most of my free time: ** TheHero: Deoxys. ChaoticGood or NeutralGood, depending on the episode. Used to be [[{{Casanova}} pretty active]] with his NaughtyTentacles [[KavorkaMan despite his appearance]], but that's changed more recently due to Jessica. Has a legendary (in-universe) weapon, the Blade of the Southern Cross. Also has a city-sized TransformingMecha, the Neo-Colossus, as his flagship. Bit of a ScienceHero, something of a galactic conqueror (the good kind, not the EvilOverlord type) but left his Empire to find a proper Empress. Also counts as the BigGood following his promotion to [[GuardianOfTheMultiverse Commander-General of Westrider]]. ** TheLancer: Mewtwo. LawfulGood, originally bordering on LawfulNeutral until [[AdoptTheDog saving two androids, one shut down due to a suicide mechanism following his dismemberment and the other alive and begging for help, from brainwashing at the hands of]] [[CompleteMonster Manfred]], [[GodIsEvil the Golurk ruler of a pocket dimension that]] [[WretchedHive only had a brothel in it]], and reviving and repairing the shut down one. Easily ticked off, but ultimately still heroic. ScienceHero. ** TheSmartGuy: Dr. Johnson. LawfulGood. Deoxys' best friend and second-in-command for a long time. An Alakazam, with somewhere around the typical intelligence for the species. ScienceHero, even more than Deoxys or Mewtwo. Saw right through pretty much every trick the enemy had right from the beginning, and came up with the "backup plan" that ended up becoming the first adventure of the story. ** TheBigGuy: Genesect. ChaoticGood with signs of ChaoticStupid. DumbMuscle, bordering on TooDumbToLive sometimes. But he's got a good heart, which makes up for his utter lack of a brain. Once played as TheDragon to an AntiVillain after a fight with his "uncle" Deoxys, and proved himself to be a HeroAntagonist in that role, even managing to get the [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter "bad guy's" daughter]] to fall in love with him. ** TheChick: Jessica Finch. ChaoticGood. Deoxys' girlfriend, ArtificialHuman, her dad was the predecessor to Genesect's former AntiVillain boss and was the same type of guy due to being a clone of the same MultiversalConqueror, she was developed in the image of the MultiversalConqueror's long-dead daughter[[hottip:*:It's a really long story going back about a million years]]. ActionGirl.

* I myself have a FiveManBand: (we're all [[JerkWithaHeartofGold Jerks with hearts of gold, mind you]]) ** TheHero: My buddy Chris, who is also a bit of a {{Casanova}}. If you know him, he's a pretty decent dude, but he can be an ass. If we were an actual group of protagonists, he'd definitely be an {{AntiHero}}. Recently, however, he's [[CharacterDevelopment changed, now that he's found someone he actually cares about]]. ** TheLancer: I myself, since I am very much his polar opposite and do not think similarly to him in most situations. I'm a {{Gentle Giant}} and [[TechnicalPacifist a bit of a pacifist.]] ** TheSmartGuy: My friend Thy (pronouced "tee") who is a bit of a CovertPervert. ** TheBigGuy: My friend Jose. He's big, he's strong, he's got decent intelligence, and he's [[BoisterousBruiser quite boisterous]]. ** TheChick: My friend tony, since he complains a LOT. But he also can become the co-{{smart guy}} if the situation is correct. * This troper's main circle of friends fit this quite well. For the sake of anonymity, each is referred to as a color that fits their personality. (Note: The colors are based on an existing set of characters. Cookie for the person who guesses it.) ** My twin brother Green is TheHero, a master of the ImprovisedWeapon, and my Red Oni. ** My friend Orange is TheLancer, a pacifistic anarchist who occasionally lapses into AxCrazy territory. Very religious and political. ** I'm Blue, TheSmartGuy and often a CloudCuckoolander. ** My friend Red Is TheBigGuy, who proudly refers to himself as a meat shield and randomly goes on berserker charges at a slight provocation. ** Violet is Green's girlfriend, and TheChick. She keeps the rest of us from killing each other, and is scared of Orange sometimes. *** Green here. Violet fits the role further as The Chick due to the fact that barely a week ago Red attacked both Blue and I after taking away his headphones (see above). She Is the only reason he didn't end up with more than a fractured knuckle. ** Others who have variable roles: *** White: At first glance seems to be TheAce, but occasionally acts like a selfish prick, believes himself to be unbeatable in a fight *** Black: Acts like a Jerkass toward everyone except Red. *** Yellow: The only atheist in our group, tends to strongly antagonize Orange. *** Indigo: Generally serves as a mediator when Blue isn't available, often random. * This troper's family of 5 is a FiveManBand. ** My dad is TheHero, the one who basically leads the family. ** My younger brother is TheLancer. he argues with dad a lot, but they can work well together. ** My other younger brother is TheBigGuy. He is the most agressive, and also the strongest. ** I myself am TheSmartGuy. I'm the best in school and the most intellectually-oriented. ** My mom is TheChick, who tries to keep the family from fighting.

Also an ActionGirl. ** We also have a TeamPet. * This troper's dogs are like this: ** Benji is TheHero, being the one to start bark-fests and growl to stop ones he doesn't approve of. ** Norman is TheLancer, often not growling and is a lot lazier than Benji. ** Ivan is TheBigGuy, since he is the largest (and oldest) of the group, as well as being very strong and not a huge fan of playing. He also growls and barks the second-most (only beaten by Benji). ** Oscar is TheSmartGuy, quickly doing the most logical things when he isn't playing. May also be a bit of [[{{TheBigGuy}} a big guy]], since he is ''extremely'' strong at holding a rope in his mouth (but he's the youngest and smallest of the gang). ** Chester is TheChick, simply because he is extremely prissy. My mother nicknamed him "the prissy dog". * This troper and his group of [[{{Nakama}} nakama]] fit this perfectly, traveling places together and even totaling five people. However only [[{{TheBigGuy}} The Big Guy]] and [[{{TheChick}} The Chick]] are male. ** [[{{TheHero}} The Hero]] is [[{{HotBlooded}} hot-blooded]] and very active, coming up with ideas and making the rest of us run to keep up. ** [[{{TheLancer}} The Lancer]] in contrast is calm and collected as well as [[{{TallDarkAndBishoujo}} tall, dark and bishoujo]]. ** [[{{TheSmartGuy}} The Smart Girl]] is the smallest member of the group and also the one who tends to figure out the logistics when we all travel. ** This troper is [[{{TheBigGuy}} The Big Guy]], being the largest and strongest member of the group and tends to [[{{TheStoic}} not show much emotion]]. ** [[{{TheChick}} The Chick]] tags along with the rest of us and spends a lot of time talking about [[{{LoveFreak}} love and peace]] * This Troper and her friends at school fill these roles fairly well: ** This Troper's oldest friend (10 years, and I'm 15), who I will call by her initial L, is TheHero. She has the closest any of us have to a DarkAndTroubledPast, and she's good in a crisis - people will usually listen to her, and with good reason. She's also smart (most of us are, as we go to a school for gifted-ish high school kids), sometimes [[BrutalHonesty painfully honest]], and has a quirky but hilarious sense of humor. However, she tends to underestimate herself, which is why she needs encouragement from... ** TheLancer, who I shall call A. Much crazier than the somewhat downto-earth L (you do not want to see A when she gets hyper), but also a caring TeamMom kind of figure. Gets along with just about everyone. ** TheBigGuy is F, who is ironically the smallest of the main band, physically speaking. Don't let that fool you. She is living proof that [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong Mother Russia (along with spending her middle school years at a charter school that is, if she is to be believed, hell on earth) Makes You Strong]]. Tough, smart, and just a little AxCrazy, God help you if you mess with her or someone she likes. She does, however, have a soft side and plenty of HiddenDepths, [[MysteriousPast but we're still trying to figure out exactly what

they are]]. ** I, E, am TheSmartGuy (F could fill this role too, but I could never be TheBigGuy, so this fits better). Fairly self-explanatory: I'm pretty academically oriented, know a lot of random facts, and have a good memory. I also tend not to get emotionally involved in most situations, preferring to analyze them instead. This means that, rather than actively disliking people, I tend to just sit [[SmugSnake smug]] and secure that I know what makes them tick. I laugh way too much and have been described as "always flustered," which fits the "nerdy and awkward" part of this trope. ** TheChick is N (it could also be me, but this was the only way that all the roles are filled, and we fit equally well). She's usually the [[OnlySaneMan one rolling her eyes at the antics of the rest of us.]] She also organizes us and [[WhatTheHellHero calls us out]] when we're being stupid, brings us out of bad moods, and is usually the one to settle arguments (mostly between or at least involving L or F, as A and E don't fight much). ** We also have a SixthRanger, H, who is a year younger than the rest of us and so goes to a different school. She is a close friend of A (who used to go to her school), L, and E (both from ballet class), but she has met F and N several times. She will be joining us at our school next year. She is an IllGirl, TheLinus, and a Dojikko, as well as one of the best examples of a CloudCuckooLander I've ever seen in RealLife. ** Our TagalongKid is another student, C, who acts like a CheerfulChild and [[OlderThanTheyLook looks like an overgrown preschooler.]] She's quite smart, so we view her as something of a BadassAdorable. * [[@/BlakeDiamond This Troper]] has gained ''three'' [[FiveManBand Five Man Bands]] so far. Listed in cronological order: ** ''Band One'' (elementary/middle school, and the only group to have nicknames): *** TheHero: '''[[UnluckyEverydude Me]]''', [[RookieRedRanger only by default]]. *** TheLancer: '''[[TheAce A-Man]]''' (Coolest kid I know, and one of my closest friends) *** TheSmartGuy: '''[[WarriorPoet Will]]''' *** TheBigGuy: '''[[ScaryBlackMan Geo]]''' *** [[TheChick The Chicks]]: '''[[ShrinkingViolet Carolina]]''' and '''[[ActionGirl D.D.]]''' *** SixthRangerTraitor: '''[[PsychopathicManchild Drew]]''' (Backstabbing piece of sh**) ** ''Band Two'' (High school) *** TheHero: Still me. Again, only by default. *** [[TheLancer The Lancers]]: ''A-Man'' and '''[[KavorkaMan Al]]''' *** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Guys]]: ''Will'' and '''[[NiceGuy Mikey]]''' *** TheBigGuy: '''[[ManChild Tyronne]]''' *** [[TheChick The Chicks]]: '''[[TokenLoli Megan]]''', '''[[PerkyGoth Nadine]]''' and '''[[HeroesWantRedheads Cally]]''' *** [[SixthRanger Sixth Rangers]]: '''[[TheStoner Cory]]''' and '''[[CampGay Wes]]'''

*** [[SixthRangerTraitor Sixth Ranger Traitors]]: '''[[DeadpanSnarker Nathan]]''' and '''[[BrattyHalfpint Kenneth]]''' ** ''Band Three'' (Work) *** TheHero: '''[[BigGood Pat]]''' (My boss) *** TheLancer: '''[[CoolBigSis Christine]]''' *** TheSmartGuy: '''[[SuperOCD John]]''' *** [[TheBigGuy The Big Guys]]: '''[[BigBrotherMentor Darian]]''' and '''[[JiveTurkey Eli]]''' *** TheChick: '''[[FagHag Rachael]]''' *** [[SixthRanger Sixth Rangers]]: '''Brandon''' and '''[[SpotMonkey Monkey Z]]''' (Zack) *** TagalongKid: [[DemotedToExtra Me]]. * [[{{Tropers/Brick3621}} This Troper's]] section in marching band in his junior year has evolved into this: ** TheHero: Wes ("East") ** TheLancer: [[DeadpanSnarker Me]] ("Amadeus") ** TheSmartGuy: Hugh ("Sasquatch") ** TheBigGuy: [[TokenMinority Byron]] ("Salt") ** TheChick: Riley ** SixthRanger: Jack ("Pepper") * [[{{Tropers/FruityFruitCups}} This Troper's]] friends in her Summer P.E. class have evolved into one. She assigned everyone roles, and so far, everybody likes their roles, especially TheChick. ** TheHero is fairly calm and collected. She paces herself when she runs, unlike everyone else. Major ShipperOnDeck for This Troper and TheLancer. ** TheLancer is PlatonicLifePartners with the Hero. He's a DeadpanSnarker with an emphasis on the deadpan. Has recently became This Troper's running buddy, since they run at about the same speed and pace. It only leads to more ShipTease in-between the two, even though This Troper jokes about her position in the FiveManBand and how she'll get paired up last. ** TheBigGuy isn't really close to everyone, but he was given a spot because he was the only one who fit the qualifications. Bigger than everyone else, and stronger. He's a NightmareFuelStationAttendant. ** This Troper is TheSmartGuy. She's not the least athletic of the group, but she is the one who remembers the details of what they're supposed to do that day. She's also the one who finishes the required packets first and gives everyone else the right answers. TheChick likes to joke around and call This Troper her 'love rival' for the Hero's affection. It creeps out both This Troper and the Hero. ** TheChick is the least athletic of the group. She's also an {{Otaku}} and the CloudCuckooLander of the group. She was the one who was the most excited about getting the roles, and tried to assign everyone power ranger colors. ** TheSixthRanger is this Troper's HeterosexualLifePartner. She's TheQuietOne, and doesn't really fit in with the rest of the group. ---Back to FiveManBand: [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers It's morphin time!]]

FiveRaces

* [[Tropers/DaNuke Da_Nuke]]'s friends once thought the different majors from his college fell nicely within the Five Races archetype: ** Businessmen and lawyers are '''Mundane:''' the most common ones in college. ** Chemical, industrial, food and mechanical engineers are '''High Men:''' rich, knowledgeable and party lovers, like Mundanes would like to be. ** Electronic, computer and network engineers are '''Stout:''' they spend all their days and nights at the labs doing the hardest work in college. ** Philosophers and psychologists are '''Fairy:''' they're wise beyond their years and always come up with sometimes... interesting... ideas. ** Designers and architects are '''Cute:''' weird and quirky. *** I'd just like to comment that most philosophers ThisTroper knows only ''think'' they are wise beyond their years. :) ---Tropers/FarseerLolotea has been working on a fantasy setting for some time now: * Humans are Mundane. (And, on an off note, have several ethnicities that go beyond being PeopleOfHairColor.) * One [[TheFairFolk fey race]] are High Men (with notes of [[FantasyAxisOfEvil Eldritch or Fallen]]). * A race resembling Japanese ''[[{{Youkai}} oni]]'' are Stout. * Two other fey races are Fairy (and one is based on an African "elf" concept, the other has minor innate fire powers). * A semi-aquatic [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnome]]/[[{{Hobbits}} halfling]]-type race are Cute (until you rile one and get kneecapped). ---Tropers/AwesomeZombie22 has [[FiveRaces ten]] [[FantasyAxisOfEvil races]] in her idea of a Sci-Fi/Fantasy: * Humans are Mundane. * Robots and Elves are High Men. * Cyborgs are Stout. * Sprites are Fairies. * Microfolk are Cute. * Elves and Humans are Humanoid. * Robots are Fallen. * Trolls are Savage. * Devils are Eldritch. * Imps are Crafty. ---This troper worked out that the four main pets along with humans form this. * Humans are Mundane * Cats are High Men * Birds are Fairy * Fish are Stout * Dogs are Cute. ** He also created [[ISpyFantasy I Spy Fantasy]] and used this set.

---American racial politics seems like this, with "Hispanics" being considered a race, even though you can usually tell an Argentine from a Mexican. ---Dwarves, elves, men, hobbits and fairies, come over here to the FiveRaces! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FiveTokenBand * Four dogs I've owned make an animal version of this: [[CaptainObvious I'm human]], TheChick and TheLancer are bearded collies, TheSmartGuy is a border collie, and [[TheBigGuy The Big Gal]] is a greyhound. * One of [[AlasDearCoriander this troper's]] groups of friends consists of 3 blacks (2 from Trinidad, one from the south), 2 whites (one male, one female) an indian, a hispanic, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and me,]][[AsianAndNerdy a walking stereotype.]] * In a story [[RedneckRocker this troper]] wrote once, he unintentionally created a [[FiveTokenBand six-member]] group without realizing it: A half-Asian girl who'd been studying martial arts since she was little; the son of an Army brat who looked like [[TheVentureBrothers Dean Venture]]; a bisexual semi-androgynous [[SubtleGenius biophysics scholar]] who I based on Freddie Mercury; a clone of Jaime Pressly with a different hair color; a bass guitarist who's proud of his Southern heritage; and a girl who combines PerkyGoth traits with TomBoy fashion (who is SOOO not [[PlatonicLifePartners the Southern guy's boyfriend]]). * This troper's friend group from daycare during middle school consisted of: A blue-eyed-blond Catholic, a short, Woody Allen-esque iconoclastic Jewish boy, a ([[GirlNextDoor lovely]]) GranolaGirl who was piously Jewish, an Irish-Danish-German WASP and a pudgy, jolly African American boy (with the unfortunate initials "BS"). * This troper's high school lunch table consists of myself (a German Jew), a British Jew, a Korean boy, a Chinese boy, a Bengali boy, a Mexican boy, and a Brazilian-Chinese boy. We're waiting for the wheelchair kid to come over. * My group of friends is something like this. A muslim girl, an african girl, a hispanic girl, an indian guy, and me who is white but BiTheWay. * This troper and her friends have a very un-PC habit of taking note of who's at the table and usually making a comment to the effect of, "We have two gay kids, an Asian, a black kid, and a southerner. We need to break someone's kneecaps and get them in a wheelchair!" * This troper's circle of friends are all white, but they fit the trope otherwise, including a tall geeky kid (me), a virtuoso pianist with a beatnic outlook on life, an amateur film artist, a GranolaGirl,

a jock, a theater guy, a Goth tomboy, and a feminist. * This troper's group of friends is about as diverse as it gets: Me, a Swedish WASP, a black baptist, a Vietnamese Bhuddist, a Chinese Catholic, a Hispanic Catholic, and an Indian Hindu. Like most tropers above, all we need now is a wheelchair bound kid and we're set. ** [[WaitWhatWoah Wait wait wait wait]] are swedish A.S.? * This [[StraightGay gay]], [[TwoferTokenMinority black]] [[DesertDragon troper]] is in Job Corps, and his four roommates consist of an Asian, a Latino, and two white guys, one of whom is bi. The coincidence was not lost on us. ** Did any TokenShipping happened with Bi-white roommate? :3 ** (Original poster) God no. He was cute but kind of a douchebag, and a teenager while I was in my early 20's. * This Troper in Job Corps was the token Caucasian, always found with one or all of the following: Native American, Philippine, Black, Hispanic. * This troper has been for the past two years or so part of a group consisting of two blond-haired, blue-eyed, pale-as-heck kids (one's Norweigan); an Indian girl who is borderline anorexic; a half-Asian boy descended from the Medicis on his mother's side; a girl who is [[TwoferTokenMinority white, Chinese, black, and although she isn't Philipino at all has fifty Philipino cousins]]; a Jewish boy; and the HollywoodAtheist girl with ''[[TelevisuallyTransmittedDisease amniotic band syndrome]]''. Totally honest... and guess who has the luck to be the last one?. * This troper is the generic, middle class white guy in the FiveTokenBand, which is also composed of an adopted asian kid, a pair of rather short, blonde hair blue eyed twins, an asthemic, femenist, right wing girl, and a hippie. * This troper's circle of friends includes: A Catonese girl who's a bit of a cloudcuckooclocklander, an Indian boy who's grasp of the English language is limited and is called, "Curry Potter" (don't worry, he likes it), two white kids, and several African Americans, one being myself (who happens to be extremely snarky and selfdeprecating. And is always, ALWAYS, confused to be Asian or Hispanic.) * This troper's Lego Pirate crews took this to such an extreme that I called them the [[EqualOpportunityEvil Ridiculously International Pirates]]. The three crews, at their peak: ** The first crew's captain was a [[TheSpeechless mute]] Dutchman with an [[HandicappedBadass eyepatch, hookhand, and pegleg]]; the first mate was [[HuskyRusskie Russian]], the Quartermaster was Greek, and the cook was a grim, scarred Italian; The crew's entertainers were an Englishman, his Dutch assisstant and a musician from [[CanadaEh Nova Scotia]]. The rest of the crew was a Norwegian, a Frenchman, a German, three Englishmen, a [[EyepatchOfPower one-eyed]] [[ViolentGlaswegian Scot]], and an English-Dane, as well as three monkeys and an [[WildSamoan Islander]] who later retired. ** The second crew was led by a hook-handed Englishman; the first mate was Icelandic, Quartermaster was Finnish, cabin boy was English; the rest of the crew was an Egyptian, an old blind Englishman, a Welshman, a Polish woman who disguised herself as a man, a Spaniard, an Albanian, a Portuguese man, and an Islander woman who retired along

with the Islander from the first crew ([[TokenShipping they got married]]). ** The third crew consisted of Asian pirates, led by a hook-handed Chinese man. The rest of the crew was two Indians, a Mongol, and a Japanese ninja pirate. ** Other recurring characters who were not part of the crews were a Swedish bellringer, an elderly English castaway, an English ladypirate, and a [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Finnish dancer]]. Keep in mind that these stories are set in the Caribbean during the late 1700searly 1800s. * This troper is a Juhuro/Russian Jew, militarily inclined, devout Jew. His friends include an extreme left wing Ethiopian Jew, a lower class white guy who fancies himself a thug, a vietnamese boy who speaks in broken english, a handsome, blonde haired, blue eyed Celtic jock and an upper middle class, militarily inclined W.A.S.P. * An Englishman, a Russian, a Chinaman and a dyslexic go to the same university and discover that due to course timings they have to spend three years working together on all group assignments. * My high school academic teams are like a 20 token band. We have mostly white people, of course, but we also have 3 Indians(from India), 2 Latinas, 6 black people, one Vietnamese kid ''and'' a disabled kid(he has cerebral palsy). * This Caucasian English agnostic troper's school friends in high school were a Russian Muslim, a British guy whose family came from the Bahamas, a Korean nerd and a Korean idiot. * This troper (white nerdy Christian girl) had three roommates who were a Filipino transfer student, a pagan hippie girl, and a bisexual Hispanic. We joke that all we need is to find a wheelchaired girl to complete the set. * [[{{Ozzie}} This troper]]'s journalism class in high school was a lot like this, to the point of being stereotypical. There was him as the white editor-in-chief, the black guy who wrote the sports section, the [[TwoferTokenMinority black girl in a wheelchair]] who tended to write about music and concerts since she was a DJ in her free time, the Hmong girl who, as it was a primarily Asian school, wrote about the actual school news, and the kid whose first language was not English (but I was always too polite to ask his actual ethnicity) that wrote about local and world news. * In middle School ThisTroper was part of a token PowerTrio, we all liked to write and that was pretty much all we had in common. There was the friend that was Asian, Boy crazy and a total Fangirl, the friend hispanic friend that was a tomboy, took autoshop and was a dedicated writer of horror stories, and me the white ShrinkingViolet /CuckooCloudLander. * BlueLantern2814: my groups of friends in my first school included one girl, one black guy, one asian guy, and myself who is gay (but in the closet), plus 2 or 3 others white guys... come to think the black kid was a NotTooBlack... god, my life is Cliche. o.O * This troper's group at the beginning of high school consisted of a Muslim, a Hungarian, a half Filipina half German, a blonde, blue-eyed white Australian, an American with bright orange hair, and myself, a black-haired, brown eyed, white Australian with glasses. Over the

years we added new students to the group, including 3 dutch girls, a Korean, an Islander, a Kiwi and a gay boy. All we needed was a Jew and a kid in a wheelchair and we could've ticked all the boxes.

* This Troper used to have maths textbooks that would include the (to her young and sheltered eyes) weirdest names in existence. God forbid that Jane and Mark split sweets between them, it had to be Yin-zi and Hassan. ** The best part about this is when the Asian kids in the class can tell you the names are nonsense, or at least really, really unlikely spliced together names from all over the continent like "Chang Pak Ali" (which is Chinese-Korean-Arab, by the way). ** This troper had a math textbook where the kids used to illustrate the story were usually named Kimo and Mauki. On the other hand, the textbook ''was'' from Hawai'i. ** [[ThisTroper This Canadian Troper]] always figured that the reason math books had such, er, ''diverse'' names, was because they were printed in Toronto, where there really were a large number of people with those names (This Troper and his class lived in Northern Ontario, where the biggest differences in names were Pierre and Peter). Our classmates and teachers would constantly {{lampshade}} this, and we were allowed to skip over the names or replace them with something vaguely pronounceable. *** This troper lives in Toronto. Overly diverse names are still overly diverse. * As a second grader, this troper had a math problem once asking about "how many Jersey cows are there?" Being from a suburb and not realizing that Jersey is a ''breed'' of cow and not one of the "ethnically-diverse" names she had grown used to, she quite foolishly wrote "Jersey has 5 cows." (At least the answer was correct). ** Would that mean that [[{{Joisey}} it]] now has six cows, if you count [[JerseyShore Snooki]]? * This troper used to be amused by IT database worksheets featuring Alice, Bob, Charlie, Chang and Abdul. * And This Troper ran into the (not unlikely but unusual in her school district) name Jorge so often in her math text, she started wondering if the word problems were meant to be a long, long story. * This troper recalls text books that apparently wanted to represent elasticities that they had invented on the spot. The best I recall was Alica and Saragon sharing marbles. * [[GwenStacyWannabe This troper]] is greatly amused by the fact that this year's math textbook contains names such as [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Haru]] and [[{{Daredevil}} Elektra]], [[AerithAndBob as well as more "normal" names]] like [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Jack]] and [[BatmanBeyond Terry]], and [[ICallItVera Vera]]. ** This troper's housemate is a Maths teacher, and has written a ''lot'' of these sorts of things. One of his worksheets was about teaching ratios, and distributing things among (usually) three people; some of the groups of three people including [[PushingDaisies Ned,

Chuck and Olive]], [[{{Chuck}} Chuck, Sarah and Casey]], and three from the cast of ''TheWorldEndsWithYou''. (He has also privately admitted that the TWEWY people were basically tokenism.) ** This troper swears he once had one of those questions where Alice and Mutembe were ''brother and sister''... * This Troper once encountered a book about small changes you could make to lead a better life. One recommendation was making sure that you had [[BlackBestFriend a friend from each ethnicity and religion]], and a friend who was disabled. * This Troper's mathbook had a problem featuring a guy named Sven, but in the illustration [[BlackViking he was black]] ** That would be "Life's Little Instruction Book", wouldn't it? Yeah, this troper has that, too. (It also says, incidentally, "[[FunnyAneurysmMoment Fill your gas tank whenever it drops below three-quarters full]].") ** Not to mention that if you had a friend from ''each'' ethnicity and religion you'd have more friends than most people have at all. *** What do you mean there are more ethnicities than american, european, asian, black and hispanic? Are you telling me there are also more religions than the big five? (Choose your big five: Are you including all hindu religions, jainas or the two chinese?) *** What is it you say? There are religions ''other'' than Christianity, Judaism, and Islam? Blasphemy! * One of the textbooks I've used featured a photograph of five happy children in a classroom. Two blacks, a Hispanic and two blond Caucasians. A pity it was supposed to be a New Zealand classroom. * This white troper is actually the minority in her school, and shares classes with people born in Africa, Somalia, and Turkey, as well as an Asian girl and several people of mixed race. * On the other hand, this trope can look even narmier than it already is if you grew up in a less diverse area. This troper was unused to seeing anyone besides able-bodied white and black people as a child, so it didn't take her long to figure out the concept of token characters. She's also heard some older folks from the backwoods claim they never even ''saw'' a black person face-to-face until they were in their twenties. * This Asian troper never found these so jarring until her father retired from the Air Force and her family moved to predominatly white Kentucky. * This troper didn't find it odd at all until she moved from an extremely diverse neighbourhood to the edge of the Navajo Reservation. She'd known Asians, blacks, handicapped folks, and whites -- but had never met a Native American before. Now suddenly, there's just Navajos, more Navajos, even ''more'' Navajos, and a few token whites. * Coming from a troper that has pretty much always lived in diverse areas, this trope doesn't seem so narmy. He lives in Florida, which he guesses is pretty diverse, because he's always seen blacks, whites, Hispanics, Latinos all around, and a few Asians here and there. He has also seen some Middle-Eastern and Indian folks occasionally, as well as a couple of Native Americans. He will say that there is undoubtedly a white majority in the area he lives, however. * This Troper never thought this was an unusual trope either, I grew

up in a neighborhood that was equal parts Mexican, Chinese, Korean, and Filipino, and ended up later moving to another neighborhood that was about equal parts Mexican, Armenian, and white. Did I mention that my dad is Irish American and my mother is from El Salvador? * Groups like this are ''extremely'' common at this troper's high school; for example, my circle of friends includes an Indian, a Pacific Islander, a half-Russian, half-Japanese girl, two white people, three black people, two Filipinos, three Hispanics, and an AmbiguouslyBrown girl whose stated ethnicity changes on a weekly basis. And between us, we nearly run the gamut of religions as well, with Hindus, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, and atheists all represented. * This troper lives in a very-multi ethnic part of Britain, and to her its werid for everyone to be [[MonocromeCasting monocrome]]. * This Troper lives in the suburbs in Minnesota, yet my lunch table my freshman year of high school still consisted of one Chinese boy, two Black boys, a bisexual girl, an Atheistic girl (me), [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and one white boy]], who as far as I know doesn't fit into any minorities. Unless you count the fact that he's the only non-minority at the table. Strangely, we actually subverted every stereotype generally applied to us, except for one of the black boys with [[BlackAndNerdy Black and Nerdy]]. I think this trope is why every time the yearbook people took pictures at lunch, they had to get a picture of our table. Make the school look more diverse. * When this half-Hispanic troper was little, they had a group of friends that consisted of a [[TokenLoli younger]] Indian (India) girl, a black girl, and a [[YouHaveToHaveJews Jewish]] [[TheOneGuy boy]]. The Jewish boy also had another friend who was AmbiguouslyBrown and [[SixthRanger hung out with us sometimes]]. Then this troper moved and made almost [[MonochromeCasting only white friends]], although they came close to going to a school near an Indian Reservation where they might of made some Native American friends. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen sigh...]] * This Troper's friends include the sketchy hooligan (she climbs churches and picks locks in her spare time), the Jewish-descended lesbian, the Jewish girl, the hyper Cantonese girl, the exceedingly pale [[HolywoodAtheist Holywood Atheist]] who's a year older than everyone else, the [[AmbiguouslyBrown mixed race]] boy, and the token non-token white boy. There'd probably be a disabled kid in the group if it wasn't for the fact we attend a very small private school that doesn't currently have one enrolled. * This Troper's group of friends. Dear God. We have a nerdy Chinese adoptee,an equally nerdy half-Filipina-half-black girl who may or may not half been born in the US, a Romanian, a Brit (who recently switched schools), an Alabaman (we live in upstate New York), a lowerclass white girl who's moved from apartment to apartment all her life, and a middle-class white girl who is the only one born in the town we all live in. So yeah. (Also, though she's not in our main group as much, I have another friend who was born in Tanzania.) * This troper is in a {{Token Trio}}, a straight Vietnamese girl; a bi, half Japanese, vegan girl; and this troper a white, gay, freakishly tall, vegan boy.

* This troper's high school group of friends consisted of a white Catholic American, Asian twins (one of them gay), a Filipino guy (due to the absence of a Token Black Guy, we joked that he took the spot due to his skin color), a Russian immigrant (the troper himself), and the intermittent addition of an Indian and a Jewish kid. In college, this troper knew a guy who was a one man Five Token Band: Asian by ethnicity, raised in a foster white family, listens only to hip hop and hangs out almost exclusively with black guys, and is also gay. * This troper's middle school takes this to its logical conclusion. Pick a person from a group of people. 85% chance they'll be black, Muslim, Hispanic, Asian, or Indian. For the record, this troper lives near DC, so It isn't very surprising. * My group of friends. Corey's Jewish and has special needs, just like me (technically I'm half-Jewish, bt I lean more towards Jewish), Mike's (probably) Hispanic/Latino, and Matt's Jewish and CampStraight. * One time I was going out for burgers with 3 of my friends after a class, and I realized that our group contained exactly one Hispanic, one Black, one Asian, and one white (me). I commented on how politically correct our group was when we got there, and there was much laughter. We were one head short of a five-token band, but that's because none of [[TheChick the girls]] were able to go. * This happens a lot in fanfic I beta read. Unfortunately, it crosses over with ButNotTooBlack, ButNotTooForeign and other steretypes quite frequently. * Not completely, but this troper most often ate lunch in high school with a Korean and a black guy (this troper's white). Occasionally, we were joined by a half-black, and an Indian. * This troper's Nakama is this. A black gay [[TheOneGuy boy]], a blind Jewish girl (also our token straight kid), the lesbian [[TokenWhite token white]] girl, and me (a bisexual, Native American/Hispanic, autistic girl). * This troper's group of friends includes two black girls (one of whom is a lesbian), one guy who I was never entirely sure what race he is, two Hispanics (one of whom is also Jewish and bisexual), and one other Jew who is also half Arab. ---You look like you'd be the ideal member for a FiveTokenBand. Why not sign up and encourage diversity? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FixFic * This troper is currently working on one for [[{{Karin}} Chibi Vampire]] in which Karin becomes a true vampire. While I don't see it as "fixing" anything so much as a "what if" story it still might fall into this category. * This troper has been at work on an 'adaptation' of the "All Hail Megatron" series that is something of a FixFic. It's about a quarter of the way done, and not too many people are complaining about it so far. He's also working on an AlternateUniverse version of the Unicron

Trilogy that's met with acclaim, but has worked towards a more mature tone (though not DarkerAndEdgier), has tried to [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap make certain characters more palatable]], and has presented the Decepticons as anything but AlwaysChaoticEvil. He'd post a link if anyone's interested. ** [[Tropers/DarkSoldier This troper]] is rewriting TFTM to make it more of an entertaining story, cleaning up a lot of continuity in the process. I'm making the conscious decision to include [[SignatureStyle Furmanisms]] where appropriate, avoid making Daniel TheScrappy, and paying respect to scale (hey, somebody has to!). Since I'm in art school right now, I'm hoping to actually produce my version. ** Weird. I was planning almost the exact same thing with ''Main/TransformersEnergon'', mostly making characters more palatable (Kicker and Ironhide are now VitriolicBestBuds and BashBrothers, Tidal Wave doesn't say his name every three seconds, Alpha Q has an actual plan) and giving everyone funny lines (ThePrincessBride and TotalRecall references featured). Regrettably, that fic was lost. * This Troper's sister is currently writing an [=~Avatar: The Last Airbender~=] fan fiction where the Gaang meets a lost tribe of air nomads after the Sun Warriors but before the arrival of Sozin's Comet * This troper, after several years of trying to make sense out of the continuity (or lack thereof) in ''TheLegendOfZelda'' and its many sequels, wrote what was intended as a FixFic to sort out the details. With a little AppliedPhlebotinum and ThePowerOfLove. It actually works, provided you don't regard timeline theories as SeriousBusiness. * This troper wrote a FixFic that kept [[FormulaOne Ayrton Senna]] from dying when he did. Unfortunately, as a firm believer of EquivalentExchange, she did that by killing off Michael Schumacher instead. * [[Tropers/ParadoxicalFrog This troper]] is planning a rather ambitious one for KannazukiNoMiko. [[VaporWare Details forthcoming when she actually starts writing the bloody thing.]] ** Let me know when you do! That sounds awesome! I myself don't have any plans for a FixFic, but I like reading them. Some of the better known ones might be the 'Make Season Six Happy' challenges that arose in the BuffyTheVampireSlayer fandom. * This troper once had a plan to write one for, of all things, the campaign that came with ''NeverwinterNights'' (with the simple aim of making the plot ''work'' and making everyone smarter; the butterfly effect would take care of the rest). Then it became a crossover with ''[[BaldursGate Baldur's Gate]]'' and ''NeverwinterNights2''. And then she got the idea to put take the resulting core story and put it in a completely new setting. And ''then'' a bunch of bizarre influences started kicking in. The resulting chimera has yet to be written, but it definitely isn't a fanfic anymore. * WordOfGod is that [[BatmanBeyond Delia and Deidre Dennis]] are not related to the Joker. This troper refuses to believe it and wrote a brief one-shot featuring an incognito Harley Quinn living a quiet life with her young son -- the twins' future father. * [[@/TitoMosquito This troper]] is planning to write a series of Hawkman fanfics which "restores" Katar and Shayera Hol's Silver Age history. Starting with a [[YearZero Year One]] story of Katar and

Shayera's first arrival to Earth. The Thanagarians' first encounter with the Golden Age Hawks. Rewrite most of their PostCrisis DorkAge stories. And a few other one-shots. He's also planning to [[PatchworkFic blend elements]] of the [[JusticeLeagueUnlimited JLU Hawkgirl]] with the comics Hawkwoman. * One day, this troper will write a FixFic for ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. The plan is simple: If ''{{Nanoha}}'' was {{Magical Girl}}s mixed with SuperRobotWars, this fic will be {{Magical Girl}}s mixed with ''[[JojosBizarreAdventure Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]''. Two words: [[GuardianEntity Witch Stands.]] * No offense to anyone here, but I have a bias against these types of fics. I'm not seeing it that much in this section, but I've seen it on the net before. It always comes off as a fan thinking their personal fanon is somehow better than the established canon created by the artist, and they seem to do it in such a smug way. They don't say, "This is how I wish it was done...", they say, "To fix the horrible plotting and clearly inferior pacing, blah blah blah..." Then they write it so that there are [[RonTheDeathEater Death Eaters]] and [[DracoinLeatherPants leather pants]] abound. No, your favorite pairing didn't happen. No your #1 character isn't how you imagined. There's nothing wrong with not liking the way something turned out and writing how you'd it to be. But the entitlement gets so ridiculous that it put me off. I'd love to see some fic where this is done well though. * I am in the middle of writing a fix fic of Frank Beddor's ''{{The Looking-Glass Wars}}'' trilogy, a series I hate with all my heart. Basically, what I'm trying to do is write a story that actually manages to be faithful to Carroll's Alice books, and without any of Beddor's horrible smugness. ----

FlamingSword * [[http://www.luxotica.com/education/howtomake/sword.php This]] website shows how to make your very own fire swords. Enjoy. * Hey, ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability, so...This editor once went to a Renaissance faire that featured a fire show. At one point, the performers covered swords in wax and lit them on fire. Then ''they had a swordfight with flaming swords.'' It was undoubtably the coolest thing I've ever seen. (Then, for the closing act, the loser (his sword burnt out first) ignited a torch ''with his breath''. Needless to say, this was one of my favourite attractions.) ** It's also possible to do this with Oust sprayed heavily on a sword and lit on fire. It leaves a patina on the blade, but it is truly awesome. ** A flaming sword fight? I'm sorry, but if anything was cooler than that (maybe a real flaming sword fight to the death?) the world would explode, then the chunks of the world would come back just to implode, then explode again. *** A flaming sword fight to the death between [[{{BadassLongcoat}} Badass Longcoats]]. OH SHI**** With Tits.

***** Nonono. It's a duel to the death between THREE badass longcoats. One of them is a badass action girl. (And ergo, has tits.) Two of them are badass scarred-up tough guy longcoats, and are also in love. Time to set out for the moonbase yet? ***** I'd say that the three of the four {{BadassLongcoat}}s wielding flaming katanas would be an ActionGirl, a [[{{Bishonen}} pretty boy]], and a scarred RetiredBadass, all of whom are in love with each other. The fourth would be SamuelLJackson. ****** Samuel L Jackson would not use a flaming sword. He would use a flaming gun that fired flaming bullets. The rest would deflect them with the swords. ******* How about three of them with flaming swords and one with a flaming ''[[SinisterScythe scythe]]''? ******** Now you're just being silly. ********* No they're not, the bishie can carry the scythe. ********** The action girl gets a flaming katana, the bishie gets a flaming scythe, the retired badass has a [[ChainsawGood flaming chainsaw]] and a [[SawedOffShotgun flaming sawed of shotgun that shoots flaming bullets,]] and Samuel L Jackson gets a [[RevolversAreJustBetter flaming revolver that shoots flaming bullets.]] All of whom (except for Samuel L Jackson) are in love with each other. *********** No, Samuel L. Jackson would be in love with himself, for only Samuel L. Jackson is a badass enough motherfucker for Samuel L. Jackson. *** StaffChick in the background TookALevelInBadass and jumps in with her staff on fire when the guys gang up on the ActionGirl for a moment. Cause we need some LesYay or GirlsLove in there too, and BewareTheNiceOnes moments are awesome. **** All combatants (except Samuel L. Jackson) suffer an increasing amount of ClothingDamage as the fight progresses. **** Flaming Abraham Lincon shoots the StaffChick with Flaming Tophats from a Flaming cannon. **** The world hasn't imploded yet, keep going. **** HumoungousMecha with Flaming Tanks Akimbo,each equipped with flaming eleven barrels that fire Hellfire flaming bullets,joins midbattle and causes the ground to transform in lava? **** .... *** If you're wondering why we stopped here, it's because all the tropers who were writing this fell into the cracks of reality their awesomeness was creating. Just goes to show, you CAN be too awesome. **** Nonsense! They just went BeyondTheImpossible and created a new reality that can contain this awesome! * Not quite a sword, but one section of a fire-dancing performance this troper saw was half fire dance and half quarterstaff duel. And it was awesome. * This troper often enjoyed designing AwesomeButImpractical weapons (usually just on paper, of course), several flaming swords (along with various methods of delivering fuel and ignition) included. * This troper once bought a knife with a plastic handle. He then set the handle on fire, melting it. So it was a flaming knife for about five minutes. Now this troper uses it as a throwing knife and calls it

"Dyrnwyn". ** Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth... * This troper was also at a Renaissance faire which featured a sword swallower. This was an inversion, as he told a story about a young critic who said it was fake, because the swords weren't very sharp. The swallower told him if the swords were sharp, he'd cut his throat. To which the boy replied, "Then set it on fire!" It didnt happen. * This troper once had a fight using branches wrapped in ignited alcohol soaked rags. You can choose to believe that if you want to. * Somehow, this troper once made mental acrobatics that went from "set a sword on fire" to "set a '''baseball bat''' on fire". Most likely highly dangerous, but how's that for a mental image? ---Cut a swathe and blaze a trail back to FlamingSword ---<<|TroperTales|>>

Flanderization * This troper knows a girl whose quirk/unlucky trait is that she often gets physically hurt by strange things. This was a great source of fun, until she exaggerated it to get attention. Now she can blabber for hours about what weird things that did damage to her that day, and if someone just touches her, she screams "ouch" just for hell of it to pretend she's physically hurt. It's getting quite annoying now. * This troper's younger sister. When she was a child, she was a weird, quiet ShrinkingViolet. By the time she reached 13-14 years old, she went through a rebellious stage, which turned her into an antisocial, sado-masochistic loner, who only listened to dark music, until the age 17, when she wasn't just a rebel anymore, but almost turned into a cold, [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]] person, with a strange passion for [[MadScientist science]] and [[NightmareFetishist scary, nightmarish things]]. Now she's an adult and one of the most freakiest persons this troper has ever met. * This happens to my main characters quite often. * When we were kids, my bro was a bit of a loner. When we were teens he sometimes had mood swings. Now he is a Tsundere as well as my AloofBigBrother. * [[@/{{Shaon}} This Troper]] managed to dramatically change one of her roleplaying characters from an immature but good-hearted illusion goddess with a mischievous streak into the feared Paranesia, Goddess of Illusion, whose secondary motivation (after shooting another god in the face with mind bullets, of course) seems to be [[MemeticMutation 'for the lulz']]. Of course, the second character is far more fun to roleplay and I haven't quite gotten the hang of making a character that ''doesn't'' fall down the slippery slope of being a callous asshole. * This troper loves acting and role playing, specially pretend to be one of those "right wing nuts" a la Rush Limbaugh in a really exagerated way: I would say some of my quotes, but it would be

considered "hate speech" XD ** On the internet? Of course not! ** Update: I've found a girl who does the same thing, but instead of being a "right-wing-nut", she's acting like a "left-wing-hippie" a la Michael Moore (I think I'm in love XD) ** I think I've met someone like you, except it's actually a bit more scary: They actually act like a right-winged-nut as a joke, but instead of it being a flanderized interpretation, he just writes down what his dad says and says it word-for-word. And these quotes are sostupid they make Sarah-Palin look like she has a brain and often so hostile they make Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh look like pacifists. (ie, suggesting that they re-open interment camps for muslims and liberals, ''[[DudeNotFunny standing up and CHEERING]]'' when that Arizona congresswoman was shot...) * This troper somehow managed to flanderize ''herself''. In kindergarten, she was kinda spacey and a bit dim, but nowadays she is ''really'' spacey and ''really'' dim. How did that work? * [[@/{{Igordebraga}} This troper]] saw a Flanderized version of ''himself'' portrayed by a classmate in a theatre improvisation (another classmate was also taken as a role in said play... but played more faithfully). * [[@/{{Cliche}} This troper]] suggests that self-{{Flanderization}} tends to happen especially in the teenage years when you're trying to fit in somehow. He personally attempted personalities varying from TheHero to {{Jerkass}} to punk rebel. Of course, he eventually grew out of it and realized that it was best to BeYourself. ** Happened to me too...I was the WackyGuy starting way back in elementary school, but later in high school I realized I hated being the WackyGuy, and what made it worse is that I actually was not very funny. I should have listened to all those WesternAnimation shows I watched as a kid that told me to [[BeYourself be myself]]. ** You're exactly right. At around thirteen, fourteen, kids definitely Flanderise themselves. In my case, the fact that I was a bit of an outcast, naturally quite pale and my friends liked Punk and Metal music led me to become the grade goth/emo. In hindsight, it was really stupid, because I wasn't happy that way, and I was really just lying about a lot of the music I liked in order to fit in with that group of people who didn't reject me. Ironically, they like me a lot better now that I'm honest about who I am, even if that means we don't like the same things. They don't care; friends like you better when you don't lie. * In [[@/{{Nomic}} this troper's]] school we had an tradition that the highschool students on their last year would make a play where they would play the roles of the various teachers with extreme flandarization. * The final act of an improv group in this troper's local area is "A Day In the Life Of," in which they grab a random person from the audience, have them describe their daily routine, and then have the troupe act out that day while flanderizing everyone involved. I was incredibly amused, when my father was picked one time, at how they handled the family supposedly "foraging" for breakfast in the morning (the entirely family jumping around the room like animals on the hunt)

and my mother frequently going away on business trips: -->'''Flanderized Father''': (wakes up, turns over, and sees his wife) HONEY! You're home! * When this troper entered high school, she was a little bit ditzy and shy. Now, nearly at the end of high school, she seems to have one foot in Cloudcuckooland at all times, and can barely talk to people she doesn't know without having a miniature panic attack. * One of this tropers former friends was a nerd who was slightly religious and very shy but it took a lot to get him angry, but unfortunately as the years went on and he was constantly bullied he became a full blown religious fanatic and a complete spazz to the point where you couldn't talk to him without him throwing a fit and talking about the bible. * This Troper's D&D characters are heralded among his gaming group for their distinct and slightly neurotic personalities. Some of the group wish to try playing as the characters. Cue horror when Thamion, a borderline JerkAss Gray Elf with healthy respect for the law was turned into an amoral KnightTemplar who firebombed an entire city for "harboring a fugitive". * Years after her RPG ended, this Troper realized that she had managed to flanderize her main character from a BadassNormal with a sensitive side into a clingy, emotional mess. It was a very embarrassing thing to realize after the fact. * At this Troper's college, the graduating seniors are treated to skits of themselves presented by the freshmen, which tend to feature affectionate Flanderization. * When this troper was young, he was intelligent, but had a short temper and could occasionally be a bit odd. Now, he's a rather dim CloudCuckooLander with a HairTriggerTemper. * [[@/{{Midna}} Me]], probably. In middle school, I was a little shy, was sometimes funny, and a little bizarre at times; now, in high school, I tend to avoid group work if it's at all possible, tend to release a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky comment]] whenever possible, and often say [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} strange things]]. Near the end of middle school, I discovered my PerverseSexualLust for [[TheLegendOfZelda Midna]], which wasn't any stronger than just the occasional warm fuzzy feeling; it quickly became something that was pretty blatantly love, with lots of cuddling and tears, happy and otherwise. (This process would later repeat itself with [[AzumangaDaioh Osaka]].) * When this troper entered HighSchool, he was an extremely shy and quiet kid with a tendency towards awkwardness. In an attempt to stand out from the crowd, he took that awkwardness and flanderized the hell out of it, becoming the kid that everyone knew because you never knew what crazy thing he was going to do next. Nowadays, he's integrated the flanderization into his personality more evenly, resulting in a very honest, uninhibited individual who is supremely comfortable in his own skin. * One of this troper's first characters went through a really weird timeline. She started, naturally, as a MarySue for the Naruto fandom. Then I met my best friend, we RP'd, I realized how Sueful my character was, and tried to give her social awkwardness and sociopathic

tendencies to tone it down. It sort of worked, but as I slowly grew geekier and more cynical, the character turned into more and more of a psycho, along with my best friend's character, and she was [[GreyAndGrayMorality the closest thing to a villain I had]]. It's [[RuleOfFunny usually entertaining]], but since most of the others had multi-dimensional personalities, I've been trying to de-Flanderize her a bit with backstories and such. No FreudianExcuse, but some insight as to some of her quirks. * This troper, in a Skype call with some fellow tropers, posted a link to pictures from his vacation. Said fellow tropers started browsing through other pictures in his Photobucket account, and on spying some {{yaoi}} pictures, proceeded to joke about how this troper was gay. It got a little worse when they spotted pictures of female models, and theorized that this was to throw off his friends (because after all, [[NoBisexuals if you like men then you cannot like women]]). Then they changed the topic of the Skype conversation to "[this troper]'s Sexuality." * A guy that's friends with my guy friend had sexual jokes very low on his list of things-to-do. Now the same guy can't go through a day without saying at least 10 sexual jokes or pretending to masturbate. It's enough to drive us all crazy and turn him into an immature idiot. * When this troper started high school, she was a slightly bi-curious, even-tempered girl, who was attracted to [[{{AntiHero}} antiheroes.]] Now shes a relentlessly cheerful [[{{AnythingThatMoves}} pansexual]] who lusts after EvillyAffable [[{{CompleteMonster}} Complete Monsters.]] * This is probably one of the most extreme examples one of this troper's former friends started out as a bully who loved to torment other kids but eventually I convinced him to change his ways and he became much nicer, from the first through fifth grade he was an average kid with similar interests to mine and very athletic, but by the sixth grade he became a morbidly obese idiot with poor hygiene and a very irritating laugh and was absolutely obsessed with me to the point where I began to suspect that he was gay as he never left me alone and wouldn't stop staring at me and he seemed to have no interest what so ever in women, he was so stupid that he forgot things he used to know and often said very idiotic things, thankfully now that I've graduated I don't see him much anymore. * This Troper had a boyfriend, whom for the first time she kissed him (and only the first time) inexplicably smelled like smoked ham. I made a joke about this to a friend, and we decided he was keeping a piece of ham in his lunch. It went from this, to keeping a baggie of ham in his pocket at all times (naming it hammy and secretly eating it, then replacing it so no one knows he ate his beloved pet), to his siblings replacing his shampoo with pig lard, to him keeping ham scented insence and a pig shaped ham-scented candle in his room. Now we've finally decided he's a ham-themed super hero. Believe it or not, this isn't mean spirited and this troper harbors a crush on him to this day. * This Troper's 9th grade science teacher started out as a pretty regular teacher who didn't like talking, likes you to have your homework, wants you to pay attention, etc. But by the end of the

second term, she was a mean spirited bitch who got mad (and stopped the class) everytime someone got up to throw something away, someone whispered to someone else, gives detention when you didn't do homework, when someone would be writing instead of listening her, she would stop talking and say we'd rather goof of than learn, and make us figure everything out on our own. Because of her unnecisary stopping this troper began calling her the Axl Rose of science. * 0dd1: I sit with a couple of people, one of which is a huge video gaming geek and the other of which seems to be on a perpetual sugar high. They once seemed to be so much more well-rounded to me. * This troper has a friend who was mildly annoying the first time they met, and since then has become ten times more annoying, somewhat idiotic, and strangely, the only person who is ever caught breaking the rules at my school. * One of the [=NPCs=] in a D&D campaign [[@/ARandomSerf this troper]] participated in had terrible luck and could hardly appear in a session without being horribly injured or killed at least once. He would always grin and bear it, maybe attempting a joke or two. By the end of the campaign, he was an out-and-out masochist, with natural 1s on attack rolls being treated as deliberately sticking crossbow bolts into his arms. ** Also, at one point my friends and I discussed what our Flanderized versions would be like. * This troper realizes that if you don't know much about an aspect of someone's life, it seems like Flanderization. I'm sure we've all had that moment when we find a friend is totally opposite us in personal viewpoints. And we all drift away from old friends, especially if they have [[DrowningMySorrows harmful tendencies]]. When I was a kid, my neighbor's father always seemed nice to me, if a bit simple, but the more I saw of him, the more I saw he could be very curt and rough with his kids. That same father had a wonderful daughter who was [[WiseBeyondTheirYears absolutely brilliant]], but sometimes she would give in to a guilty indulgence of "girly" things because maybe she didn't get the childhood she really [[AdultChild wanted all the time]]. Maybe someone should've told her that she doesn't have to be only smart, that she can be a girl, too. Growing up, I've almost lost friends who I never thought would ever try to [[SuicideIsPainless do what they did]]. These days, I've often noticed the local suck-up seems to be a bit light in the loafers, if you know what I mean. At first I thought it was just a [[AmbiguouslyGay streak of lavender]], but now he seems to be out and proud. Then again, one of the very first times I met him, his boss told him he loved him, to which he replied it's "more than mutual." Maybe he was joking. Either way, I'm glad to see he no longer feels the need to hide his sexuality. My current neighbor was just the same. He seemed a good natured, if a bit too traditional, creepy 50s style, dad. I never saw him much, but then it turned out he was actually a surprisingly devout Christian and part-time MoralGuardian. Who knew? Then again, maybe I can understand these. After all, most acquaintances we see, what, maybe 23 minutes a week? Who is to say we really know them? * Students of the University of the Philippines have been Flanderized as a school full of {{Jerkass}}, {{No Indoor Voice}} Activists.

[[{{JustifiedTrope}} Justified]] in a sense because UP students [[{{ThisIsSPARTA}} WANT! TO! FUCKING! CHANGE! EVERYTHING! ESPECIALLY! THE! MOTHERFUCKING! GOVERNMENT!]] * [[{{Etheru}} This Troper]], [[ApologizesALot constantly apologizing]], demonstrates utterly moronic behaviour, his love of video games can reach nigh stupid levels, among other things. * This troper knows a certain troll on GameFAQs who would go around calling the FinalFantasy series and all of Square's other games "horribly cliche interactive movies", but only Square's [=RPGs=]. The troll at the time didn't hate ''all'' [=RPGs=], for he was a bit fond of Pokemon and FireEmblem (well, MOST of them). Eventually, his hatred of FinalFantasy spread to practically '''every''' RPG in existence, even calling ''DragonQuest'' an interactive movie. * When he started 7th grade, this editor wanted to [[AManIsNotAVirgin grow up too fast]] and he was a bit [[YouAreWhatYouHate homophobic]]. Two years later he became the [[AnythingThatMoves pretty cool guy]] he is now, who [[DepravedBisexual swings]] [[AnythingThatMoves both sides]] proudly. * This troper flanderized the DeadpanSnarker side of himself ForTheLulz in order to annoy one of his friends. It worked and it now is one of his most appreciated quirks. * [[@/{{Anomaly}} This troper]] has experienced both actual and perceived Flanderisation. The first case: when I was young, I switched from my first name to my middle name to escape an annoying nickname. I now have ''fourteen'' separate names (and counting). The second case: though I don't believe it myself, everyone I know perceives me as TheSmartGuy. This has been flanderised to the point that people gave me knowing looks when the top score was announced... for a test which ''I didn't even take''. * One guy i knew for years was a total ass. over time, he became more of an ass * Good lord my mother, without a doubt. Years before, she only exhibits a few annoying traits that weren't exploited much. Such as brushing teeth, when to go to school, etc.. Now, these traits are fully expolited to a ridiculous extreme to the point where she can't go five minutes without yelling. Always talking about safety that always involves gory descriptions, i.e. don't hit the back of your neck or it will break and you can't breathe and die. etc.. And even when I'm typing this sentance now she nags about getting off very violently. In fact, though this may sound strange, she '''plots''' ways to start an arguement. I'm starting to wonder if my mom likes the feeling of arguing towards another person and finds it enjoyable. * This troper has observed that a good six to eight times out of ten if you ask people to role-play and imitate others...they flanderize them. This troper knew a counselor who often had her patients do that, and he showed her the ''{{Daria}}'' episode, "Psycho Therapy". When they got to the part where Helen and Jake Role-played each other, she belly laughed ''so'' hard. She said that her patients do that all the time. (However she won't tell me the specifics of what they do to respect their privacy.) * [[{{Tropers/Neves783}} I, a Troper and hopeful novelist]] used Flanderization to create my characters. Specifically, I took the most

outstanding characteristics of people I encounter (in Real Life, of course) and used those as the defining traits of my characters. Cases in point: ** A school rival's love for sports and ''mild'' aversion to girly stuff has been flanderized into Corporal Gerard Russel, an [[{{StrawMisogynist}} extremely sexist]] officer who loves guns. ** A former high school crush's seriousness into Chief Irina Pavlova, who is {{The Stoic}} taken {{Up To Eleven}}. [[spoiler: Or is she?]] ** An American schoolmate's charisma into Rachelle Hannaway, a [[{{Eagleland}} very loud]] [[{{HotBlooded}} American girl]] [[{{PlayingWithFire}} who can wield fire]]. ** A schoolmate's love for {{Purple Prose}} poetry into Domingo Irving, the {{Big Bad}}'s [[{{TheDragon}} dragon]] who is a major {{Large Ham}} that always delves into {{Sesquipedalian Locquasciousness}}. * Inversion: This troper used to LOVE video games. Then he became a fan of pretty much everything except RealLife. * This troper, being somewhat emotionally demonstrative and cursed with a neutral facial expression that is somehow always interpreted as sad/angry, was Flanderized into a whiny emo kid who cries all the time for many years. To combat this, she engaged in some selfFlanderization and turned up the volume on some quirks she'd prefer to be known for, such as [[CloudCuckoolander choosing to disregard reality much of the time]], [[DeadpanSnarker keeping up a constant MST3K-style sarcastic commentary on everything]], and [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness using big words.]] For the most part, it's worked. * This troper's big brother was an extremely bright, well-rounded kid in high school who had all A's, was captain of the chess team, played basketball, and hosted Poetry Night. He was as good at creative writing as he was at math. Nowadays he focuses solely on theatre and generally tries to be the Bohemian starving artist who looks down on holding a regular job. * This troper has it, in some measures: ** In public, this troper is often very happy-go-lucky and acts very goofy, for the sake of amusing others and shielding himself from unpleasant experiences. At some point, this troper was freaking out about losing something important, and everyone being amazed he could act so distressed and/or emotional about the situation. ** At home, due to the amount of sibling abuse and this troper's pacifistic nature, his brother almost expects him to be a wimp, unable to even defend himself. [[OhCrap That is not the situation.]] * This troper's old "friends" slowly flanderized themselves to the point where if I were to look forward from the past, I wouldn't recognize them. One who used to be kind of shy and nice around others, but loud, [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] and fun around her friends became a ShrinkingViolet with a soft-spoken, never "mean" disposition (which should be obviously fake to anyone who's known her personally). The other used to be fairly interested in video games, the internet, and the occasional anime, and she was a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold good friend who would tease others mercilessly.]] She is now majorly [[OccidentalOtaku obsessed with anything Japanese and will actually

use "kawaii" to describe things]] and threw away her sometimesoffensive personality to become [[PuritySue a kind and gentle soul who wouldn't hurt a fly.]] In her eyes, she is un-hate-able, cuter than a stuffed animal, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking her falsetto sounds realistic]]. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Anyone who says things that shatter her happy little fantasy of being perfect will be tormented passiveagressively.]] ---Go back to {{Flanderization}} before it becomes even more extreme. ----

FlashBackBackBack * Real-life example: This editor once saw a class assembly where flashbacks were symbolized by someone walking across the stage rubbing their head, saying "Flashback" and walking back. Arguably the best bit. * This troper may be alone in this, but our...interesting...high school chemistry teacher brewed up a jar of nitrous oxide on the last day of class. He was pontificating to another student just as the stuff kicked in for me; and, yes, the last word I heard went echo, echo, echo. ---Click [[FlashBackBackBack here]] to go back to the main page, page, page...

FlatWhat * A friend came up to me and said he would be joining my Drama class. This guy is insanely... well, he's the only kid in physics class with a "Questions Limit" on him for the year. My reaction was exaggerated "WHAT." * My most recent one: this was my reaction when my sister told me why that one dude on the show I'd never watched was called "[[JerseyShore The Situation]]". ** [[FailOSuckyname Who the heck calls themselves that without that reaction?]] * You'll hear a number of different flat whats out of this troper: there's the disbelieving, I-require-confirmation what, as well as the say-that-again what. The most dangerous is what I call the [[{{Aladdin}} Jafar]] what - when you go from zero to explainyourself-right-the-fuck-now volcanic rage in the space of one word. * [[@/{{Psyga315}} This troper]] said this when he had heard on a fourm that ThePirateBay's newest plan is to launch a server into space to avoid the law. ** [[CrazyAwesome THAT IS AWESOME]] ** I just spent about a minute sitting here and just staring at that sentence. That's how awesome it is. ** [[SelfDemonstratingArticle what is this i dont even]] * [[Tropers/HermanTheGerman I]] express myself like that quite often. Most recent example from a conversation between me and my girlfriend: ->She: They're making an Ocean Dub of [[DragonBall Kai]] now. O_o

->Me: wat I justify my reaction by saying that we already have too many editions of DB Kai as it is. * [[@/{{sandacapo}} This troper]] often deals with that after oversleeping. Here's how it goes: ->Roommate: Are you going to work today? ->Me: Yeah, why? ->Roommate: What time do you have to be at work? ->Me: Noon ->Roommate: It's 11:30 ->Me: WHAT? ->Roommate(enunciating it louder and slower as if I am deaf): It's ELE-VEN-THIR-TY. ->Me: WHAT??? ->Roommate(enunciating it louder and slower, clearly ignorant of the {{FlatWhat}}: IT'S. E. LE. VEN. THIR. TY. * I work as a Maths tutor. I get this [[UNderstatement a lot.]] Both from students who don't get it and fellow tutors when marking work and trying to figure out exactly what said student was thinking. * This troper does it rather often. It usually goes like this: ->Classmate: *Says something that I'm sure was perfectly innocent in context, but really shouldn't be taken out of context* ->Me: I just started paying attention now. What? * A FlatWhat was this Troper's reaction when he read the page on this wiki about Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. ThirtyGambitPileup and Mindscrew so BeyondTheImpossible, ''I actually refuse to recognize Tsubasa as canonical in the CLAMP universe''. ** [[FlatWhat What.]] * [[Tropers/MonkeyPhysics I]] once spent three hours running around my department at uni at the behest of one of the postgrads in my lab. On returning to the lab, I was informed by another postgrad that said supervisor was currently at a conference in Hawaii. Guess what the next word out of my mouth was... * Just finished a seemingly-normal book where the happy ending is thanks to thousands of ''bees'' flying over and stinging the bad guy who was about to kill the protagonist. Bad guy is not only dead; he looks like someone ''set him on fire.'' The bees also miraculously and completely healed the protagonist's debilitating illness. There was no reason, no evidence that this was even remotely possible. And no one in-universe seemed to find this turn of events odd. Honestly, I barely even registered my own FlatWhat, my brain had shut down due to the absurdity of it all. * This interesting exchange between my friend and I about a [[AxisPowersHetalia Hetalia]] doujin: --> Friend: "So Alfred ate Francis at the end! --> Me: [[FlatWhat wat]] * This trope is my first impression of human sexuality class. * This troper has a friend who she has recently talked into watching Yu-Gi-Oh (and only the 4Kids dub). Said friend is not so good with the...stranger pairings, so... --> Friend: Hey, what's the pairing name for Joey and Yugi? --> This troper: That depends. Is Joey possessed?

--> Friend: What? Oh, I dunno. Does it really matter? --> This troper: Yes. --> Friend: ...wat. * From one of my friend's drawings: --> [[http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs36/f/2008/261/f/8/What_we_need_by_T1mig i.png "You know what we need?"]]\\ "What?"\\ "A giant, talking bunny."\\ "What." * [[@/{{Tadaru}} This troper]]'s response to [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/04/malawi-bill-proposesfart_n_818674.html this news story]]. * Tropers/{{Excel-2011}}. I prefer a loud, uninflected "'''Why.'''" while holding up or pointing at something that puts me in this reaction. * This is the reaction I had upon seeing an anonymous review on a FullmetalAlchemist fanfic in which the reviewer stated they blamed Trisha Elric for Al losing his body. * [[@/{{Seiryu}} This troper]] actually ''aims'' to get this reaction out of people. Most recently: -->'''Seiryu''': Hey. I'm gonna go down to the girls' house and sing KatyPerry [[ItMakesSenseInContext until they kill me.]] Wanna come watch? -->'''Friend''': ...What. * I had to combine this with precision f strike after seeing this BLAM http://megavideo.com/?v=I6EQZASR, I've never seen Axis Powers Hetalia before, I assume its not all like that though. * This was my reaction when I read that there was a $23,698,655.93 book about the genetics of flies. * Ths troper had ''two'' after watching the end of the Series/DoctorWho episode "Day of the Moon". If you've seen it, you'll know it was for a good reason. ** Seconded. * This Troper's reaction when she learned of the million dollar iPod / iPhone application that [[{{TooDumbToLive}} 8 people bought]] before it was removed by the App Store. Literally, a flat "WHAT." * This troper's reaction when he heard that a [[http://www.pennyarcade.com/comic/2010/10/29/ Penny Arcade comic]] [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/paramount-plots-nextanimated-pic-194394 had been optioned by Paramount Pictures.]] ** Seconded. * ThisTroper when she discovered [[LEGOCityStories LEGO: Grand Theft Auto]] was going to be a real game. * This Tropers reaction to YellowSubmarine. I watched it with my boyfriend at his house, and it opened to...Dancing shoes. We had to turn off the movie at the beginning of "Hey Bulldog" because I was to confused, and every five minutes would be me saying "Wut.". * In a recent game of {{Pathfinder}}, I played with an {{expy}} of [[{{Sonichu}} Christian Weston Chandler]] in a quest to discover all the pieces of enchanted armor, with the three of us rotating DMing duties. "What." eventually became the CatchPhrase of the adventure.

Some examples of this player's behavior that elicited such a reaction: ** In his first act as a player, attempting to rob a prostitute and responding to their threats with sexual harassment. Upon being attacked by 7 knife-wielding whores, he ignored their flailing stabs and responded with more sexual advances. ** Deciding that the Thieves Guild of the main city MUST be hiding in the sewers, based on no information whatsoever, and going hunting in the sewers for their headquarters. ** Attempting to cause a distraction to allow him to steal an artifact during a solar eclipse that lasts for 10 minutes by running to a village an hour from town and setting a fire in a barn, then trying to run back. ** As DM, creating a massively obese town baron who forces all of his guests to eat massive feasts with him and has his handmaidens attempt to give them sedatives so they can be raped. Upon leaving this town, the baron announced a massive drinking party/orgy for the entire town. ** Blatantly telling the party the exact location for the next artifact to find with no effort or adventure beyond attempted rape. ** Throwing 100 goblins across a bridge at us, and then skipping the entire battle scene, including the finale boss battle, because we told him that it would take too long to kill 100 goblins. ** Insisting that he saw an NPC cheating in a drinking contest with a PC and ''throwing a knife at him''. ** Attempting to skip various parts of the game, including attempting to insist that he forced himself into a baron's palace and was now running from the guards without bothering to try and roleplay ANYTHING about how he got in. ** Trying to steal a boat by trying to shoot a guy tying up his boat with a bow. Without hiding or anything even vaguely intelligent. ** Inventing various items (including a wallet full of counterfeit gold/covered in sleeping potion and a mousetrap in his pocket) without roleplaying acquiring them. ** Constant attempts at godmodding [=PCs=] and [=NPCs=] because he thought the situations would be "funnier". ** When being told that he was in a town where the baron was attempting to ascend to godhood through forced worship and it was EXTREMELY heavily hinted that talking about other gods or saints would get you in trouble, walking into a tavern and shouting "THE BARON IS NOT A GOD!" over and over until the guards came so he could ask them to take him to the baron (planning to offer his services as an assassin). He got the shit kicked out of him. ** After being mercifully allowed to live through the beating due to insistence from his cousin, standing outside the city gates and shouting "THE BARON IS STILL NOT A GOD!". He got shot in the head. And so endeth the tail of [[AerithAndBob Chuck the Elf]]. * When this Troper read [[http://christwire.org/2011/06/comiconexpected-to-bring-rape-crime-satan-and-furry-anal-sex-to-san-diego/ THIS ]], the reaction was a big, flat "WAT". I only read it yesterday. And then I proceeded to fall over laughing. * Had a big one of these a few moments ago after watching the 3rd episode of season 4 of {{The Sopranos}} [[spoiler:after watching Janice Soprano fuck Ralphie Cifaretto in the ass with a vibrator]].

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FleetingPassionateHobbies * [[SabreJustice This troper]] has struggled with either [[{{Otaku}} comical obsessions]] or this trope all my life. I blame the [[UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome Aspergers]]. (yes, legit diagnosis) * I do this CONSTANTLY. One week it's MapleStory, then it's writing FanFiction, then it's working on making an RPG, then it's ''playing'' an RPG, then it's back to the stupid FanFiction again... and being so intent on each that I end up spending 8 hours a day on whatever my current hobby is. * I do this too, but frequently the reason I abandon the hobby is because I hit some sort of snag. The hobbies range from translating card games and RPG modules into Hebrew to geohashing to filk. I always keep my old hobbies "on file", however, ready to be revived at a moment's notice. * [raises hand] [[{{Seanette}} I'm]] very prone to this myself, oscillating around various crafts, computer games, reading up on various topics (including some serious FanFiction reading binges), and sudoku. Like the troper above, however, I do tend to revisit former interests periodically. This tends to lead to packrat tendencies, since I'm reluctant to give up stuff for one interest when I shift to another, because I'm sure I'll be coming back. ** I can identify with that, myself. Since my childhood, I've gone through many [[TitleDrop fleeting passionate hobbies]], as well as wanting to be many different things. Now and then, sure, I revisit my old interests. Some of them provide comfort since they've been with me since childhood (Riverdance, Sailor Moon, Harry Potter). At the moment, it's Phantom of the Opera. But as you noted, I'm something of a packrat myself -- it's very hard to let go of things associated with the interest, since I'm sure it'll end up revisited at some point. * Let's see here. Drawing, painting, photography, digital art, pottery, bass guitar, guitar, trumpet, judo, baking breads, shooting... I'm sure I could think of others. It runs in the family, my parents have between them had biking, beekeeping, writing, model trains, watercolors, various musical instruments, and so on. ** ditto for this trouper, though trumpet is replaced by piano, shotting for keeping betta fish, and i do not play the bass guitar, and there are still about 500 things I would like to try out some day. * This troper's best friend is the trope incarnate. He calls each of his hobbies "projects," and they usually stem from his desire to know as many skills as possible, useful or not. Unfortunately, he can never sit still long enough to get good at most of them. In the time I've known him, he's gone through such things as painting, cooking, nerf gun modding, skydiving, ''making actual guns'' (the legality of this

venture aside, he and another friend found plans online and succeeded in making a working holdout pistol), making video games (the one he got furthest on was based on the collective works of Dr. Seuss), martial arts of various forms (this one seems to have stuck, primarily because myself and our two mutual best friends are also practitioners), canoeing, building camps (like pioneer settlements) in the woods, sewing, making masks, tabletop [=RPGs=], and most recently, playing the piano. He's also liable at any time to get distracted by whatever video game crosses his path, and go on marathon all night sessions (both Bioshocks, Borderlands, Oblivion, Baldur's Gate, and Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts have all done this to him). * I can't seem to maintain an interest in actually ''doing'' any given hobby -- I do generally stay interested in it in the abstract, and/or maintain a vague desire to learn the skill -- for more than six months to a couple years. Like the above troper's friend, it stems partly from wanting to learn how to do as many things as possible. I tried kayaking at summer camp and loved it then but haven't kayaked more than once or twice in the nine years since, a year or two ago I was into rock climbing for about six months, I started learning to play guitar once but didn't get beyond the basic chords, at one point I was obsessed with DDR and then dropped it for ''RockBand''... Some of them are cyclical, particularly video games. I'll play them enthusiastically for a while, drop them for no adequate reason, then pick them back up again after anywhere from a few months to a couple years. (Or several years, in the case of ''{{Lemmings}}'' and ''LogicalJourneyOfTheZoombinis''.) And this isn't even getting into the stuff I keep ''wanting'' to learn but never bothering to even start on. I probably get this trait from my dad, who also seems to frequently pick up new hobbies. * This troper's ex-best friend was like this. She went from obsessing over ''{{Naruto}}'' to ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' to ''StarWars''. I strive to not be like this since I like to finish things that I start. * This troper's like this a lot. Pokemon, writing, various casual video games, and various forums tend to be the big obsessions for me, but there have been others. I'm just starting to note a cyclical nature, too... * Pokemon, Civilization, Sid Meier's Pirates, [=RPGs=], any really good online game... and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth... * I'm like this. Writing is the only real constant for me. * [[Tropers/SanaMae This troper]] does this a lot. It was considered an event worth celebrating when I stayed in a fandom (WickedLovely, for the record) for a year. Given that I also write FanFiction, this tends to manifest through AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder, {{Schedule Slip}}s, and DeadFic. * I'm into {{Sonic the Hedgehog}}. Pretty simple right? No. Prior to Sonic I was into {{Disney}}, {{Phineas and Ferb}}, {{Toy Story}}, a couple Nick Jr shows, {{Kim Possible}}, {{Bolt}}, the Jonas Brothers(that one was about three days long) and more that I can't rememeber. Sonic has happened before, and has probably been the longest as it's been goiing on for over two and a half years. Along with that the characters I'm into seem to change from day to day. I

have a set group of characters I like but which one I'm actually obsessed with changes constantly. One morning it'll be the Babylon Rogues, then that afternoon Team Chaotix, then Knuckles until I go to sleep, then back to Team Chaotix. Along with that I have quick little hour long interests that change all the time. If I start reading about abandoned amusement parks, I'll want to keep reading and I wown't be able to get enough of it, but I'll forget about it within an hour or two. * I was into [[MagicTheGathering Magic]] until i couldn't afford it. [[WorldOfWarcraft WoW's]] probably a better example since I'll bounce between months of playing it straight then get burned out and stop playing for months. Lather, rinse, repeat. * In my earlier years my passion shifted from Star Wars to Pokemon every few years, mostly because of a Pokemon game being released when there was no Star Wars movie this year and vice versa. It now is a fairly normal mix of attention to more than those two topics but when I am discovering a new subject the entrance to those fanbases can get unhealthy. ---Go back to FleetingPassionateHobbies before you lose interest.

FlexingThoseNonBiceps * This happens to be a stock joke in [[{{Tropers/Tinweasel}} my]] workplace, especially when done by me. * [[Tropers/AdamS This Troper]], being 5'7" and 115 lbs, is in pretty good shape, and has decent muscle definition, but very little actual ''muscle''. ** This troper is the same, if you add 2 inches and 20 pounds. His friends play along. * [[Tropers/MegTheMaggot My]] brothers use this joke frequently. They tend to whip their biceps out at any moment, saying "Welcome to the gun show!" They are well aware they're built like toothpicks. * This troper was like this until he started working out, then reverted to his natural stick figure. Currently he has the ability to invert his biceps (and abs, while i'm at the flexing of non-existant muscles) * This troper does this constantly. When he started doing actual exercise, he very nearly died of shock when doing the 'fake' flex. ---[[Main/FlexingThoseNonBiceps Check that link out]]. It's beautiful. ----

FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome * This troper met a girl who dealt with her depression by writing stories. After she was put on medication for said depression, she lost her story-writing creativity. * This troper has an intelligence quotient that his psychologist declined to classify, claiming it would require a specialist to

accurately gauge (in other words, 201 or higher). He also has two friends. These facts seem to be related, since the two friends in question are simply the two people he hasn't frightened off in normal conversation. ** Sounds like a textbook case of IntelligenceEqualsIsolation. Your experiences feel familiar to this troper, and he feels sympathetic. (He finds it almost impossible to deal with having more than two friends, anyway.) * This troper's ex was never the most stable girl, but we loved one another more than anything and we joked about getting married. Once she was put on medication she stopped loving me. Maybe i was just a crutch, maybe it was the emotional suppressant nature of the meds, maybe it was chance timing. In any case if she's happy, then I will wait until she needs somebody for comfort, and I will afford her that much, no strings. * This troper is autistic. Through the application of ThePowerOfLove from a girl who believed in him and wanted him to emerge from his shell, he became almost subclinically functional. Then the girl left. Complete reversion to previous state after six years of her love and compassion: About two months. * This troper is a schitzophrenic with manic-depressive tendencies. Whenever she's around her best friend, everything goes quiet, and she can almost feel sane. * (Feeling compelled to break the pattern), there's a troper who-despite having a long and varied history of mental illness--had never been bipolar, but had an approximately two- to three-week bipolar episode, with rapid cycling but mania predominant. His loved ones were frightened by his uncharacteristic demeanor (ordinarily he has schizotypal personality disorder: so introverted, he's [[LonersAreFreaks completely incapable of becoming part of a team]] of co-workers, and therefore subsists on disability). Not that he'd become impulsive to an alarming degree: merely far [[LifeOfTheParty more gregarious and talkative]] than usual. The short-lived symptoms having been caused primarily by a temporary prescription drug interaction, the troper steadfastly refused his psychiatrist's insistence he should take an antipsychotic as a mood stabilizer. He was (by this time) getting back to normal...or, as close as possible. Also, he has cardiac arrhythmia. So did his mother--who'd had bipolar disorder (which she'd successfully kept secret from everyone but her husband, while alive)--and while taking the aforementioned neuroleptic, her heart problems became much worse. (What did all the events have in common? The use of powerful, mind-altering prescription drugs!) This was the troper's most-rational argument for avoiding the mind-numbing medication. But mostly, he found mania exciting and enjoyable; he didn't '''want''' to take a drug that'd clamp down on feeling happy. His creative efforts blossomed while manic, and though-like Charlie in ''Algernon''--he knew it wouldn't last, he wanted it to last as long as possible. If not for the mania, he'd never have possessed sufficient forcefulness of purpose and will to refuse his psychiatrist's recommendations. (He's now much more stable. As for the wordiness? That's been a lifelong problem.) * This troper recently caused an instance of WeWantOurJerkBack: He

typically is a sarcastic, cynical BloodKnight, who goes out of his way to piss people off, and is usually nice only to his friends, whom he also has a habit of {{Troll}}ing in a friendly way. In English he sits to the right of a friend, who we will call 'EP', and to the left of a person we will call 'RC'. This troper does not like RC, and RC does not like him. One day, RC was in need of a piece of paper but was out, and so asked EP for a piece. As this troper had his notebook out at the moment, he gave RC a piece of paper, and simply said "Here" in a polite tone, so as to save his good friend EP the trouble. EP was scared by this, and this troper [[{{Troll}} proceeded to act polite and friendly to goddamn everyone while around EP]], [[ForTheEvulz for shits and giggles]]. * This Troper has been diagnosed with severe Depression and once went on Lexapro to control his Depressive fits. Things were great for a time, but as the dosage was increased, the life began to drain from him. After a few months, he was little more than a living robot. This caused him to stop caring about his College grades and he pretty much had his last year ruined by this. Naturally he no longer takes it, but the damage has been done. ---Go back to FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome. Temporarily. ----

FloweryInsults * On the crude side, but [[Tropers/JChance I]] once described a former co-worker as "a jumped-up half-smart little redneck prick with a serious hard-on for the sound of his own voice."

FluffyTheTerrible * This editor's mother had a neighbor who named her adorable, delicate, little kitten Fluffy Ninnity. As if TemptingFate, little Fluffy grew into a large, vicious, territorial tomcat who would beat up every dog in the neighborhood! * [[{{Sciatrix}} This troper]] once fostered a very large, black, intact pit bull with a head the size of a cinderblock. He looked very intimidating. She named him Mr. Giggles. ** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast 'Mr. Giggles'? ]] ** Actually we've just discovered that she's a Caucasuan Mountain Dog, which means she fits the trope to the T. People look at us with shocked expressions when we tell them her name. * This troper's grandparents own a toy chihuahua named Sissy. The dog has been known to run off solicitors - following them for blocks, if they happen to be on foot. And viciously bite anyone who dares stick their hands through the windows of his grandparent's van. Vicious little critter. * This troper's friend used to have a cat named Snowball, who once beat the crap out of the next door neighbor's Rottweiler. The ensuing phone call from the next door neighbor was said to be hilarious. * This troper used to have a pet named 'Sweetheart', who grew into a quarter-ton long-horned bad tempered cow who started to wreak havoc in

our farm. * This troper once had a tank filled with all sorts of fish, including a happy little tiger barb that she named Sunshine. Despite her size, Sunshine went on the antagonize all the other fish in the tank, even going so far as to eat away at one goldfish's side ''until its internal organs were showing.'' Then she got [[KarmicDeath caught in the filter and died]]. ** Tiger barbs are fairly aggressive, and become even more so if they have no companions: they should be kept in groups of five or more, or this sort of thing will almost certainly happen. Poor goldfish... * [[@/BooBooBob This troper]] has 2 Ball Pythons named [[PunnyName Lucille and Melon]]. ** This other troper has a snake named... Fluffy. But she's a corn snake, so really not very terrible. ** Ball pythons tend not to be particularly fearsome either, especially if raised in captivity. [[@/{{Scrounge}} This troper]]'s sister has one, and, at his suggestion, named him [[PunnyName Monty]]. Monty is a four-foot-long scaly hug. * [[@/GwenStacyWannabe This troper]]'s aunt worked in a lab of some kind. There was apparently a shrimp in the lab's decorative fish tank, which was named Stripey. Turned out, ''Stripey was carnivorous.'' They put a fish named Spot in there, and he was gone within a week. * Though not really a cute name, this troper has come across at least one person who named their Gyarados "Magikarp", and all of their other threatening Pokemon had non-threatening names. It was very, very annoying. ** [[Tropers/{{Flameblight}} This troper]]'s Gyarados is named "Hime" as a reference to another game. So in other words I have a vicious giant sea serpent named "Princess". ** This Troper named her Red Gyarados Superfish. I've also met people who named theirs Carl, Lucille, Mimi and Snuggles. ** This Troper didn't catch the shiny Gyarados, having already caught a Magikarp and raised it into a Gyarados (I'm very practical about these things, and I simply didn't need it). Said Gyarados was indeed named Fluffy. The hilarious part comes considering I named my Togepi [[DeathbringerTheAdorable Deathman]]. ** This troper caught a level 18 Magikarp with the intent of raising it up the two levels necessary to get a Gyarados. She named it Frederich, just because she couldn't think of anything. When he evolved, she ran halfway across the map to get his name changed to Izanagi, because she didn't want to snicker every day at having a Gyarados named Fred. * On a web-based role-playing board, [[@/FreezairForALimitedTime this troper]] plays a character named Fluffy -- a giant, weapons-toting DoAnythingRobot in the form of a huge metal squid with bladed tentacles. Despite his appearance, though, his name is actually fitting -- he's a sweet guy prone to engage in fits of WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove, and he has a pet llama named Little One. I am not making this -- oh, wait. Yes I did. * ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzqi1bfflDg ChubbChubbs!]]'' * This troper used to frequent a message board where a man-eating plant was kept in the corner. The plant's name? Snuggly.

* This troper's sister has a HUGE St. Bernard/German Shepard/Great Pyrenees/Wolf mix that is large enough to lick the counter with a slight tilt of her head and gigantic paws. The dog's name is Cinderella. * This troper's response? A Rottweiler named Boo Boo. ** Does it help that I'm occasionally referred to as [[@/BooBooBob Bob the Babyfaced Barbarian]]? * Somewhat subverted: this troper knows a Doberman named Katie. The subversion lies in the fact that Katie is still a puppy, so she's not scary yet, however given that people tend to automatically avoid Dobes, she'll probably get there eventually. * I have a Beagle named Buddy. He's incredibly paranoid and barks at all kinds of stuff (sometimes when napping, he'll get up and bark spontaneously before going to the window to find the target of his barking). Oddly, he spends a lot of time sleeping. * This Troper remembers someone who had a white German Cottontail that would attack anything living! As in KillerRabbit attack! it was extremely funny, but also extremely painful! What was its name? PRECIOUS! * This troper used to catsit for the fattest, ugliest, meanest cat she'd ever met. It was deceitful, too - rub up against you, purring like an engine, then take a chunk out of you if you tried to pet it. Its name was Whiskey Whiskers. * This troper knew a sheep named Dandelion, he was bottle fed and brave compared to the other sheep in the ranch. He had great fun tossing people around when they were herding sheep. My mother was forced to wear skirts for a month since she had such a huge bruise on her back. * [[@/GalenDev This troper]]'s youth featured a large Tarantula named Fuzzy ('cause, well, they really are very fuzzy creatures). ** Similarly, an old science teacher of this troper's had a tarantula named Rosie. ** As does Denver's Butterfly Pavillion. * This troper's mother has a slightly neurotic poodle named Bonnie. Bonnie has killed not one but two Chihuahuas of ours. So Bonnie is not so much neurotic as psycho, and [[{{Idiot Ball}} why she wasn't destroyed is beyond me]]... * This troper and her sister found an abandoned kitten who was so tiny that her head was the size of a bottlecap, and they named her Lulu. Lulu is now full grown and once in a while jumps on the 60-pound dog's back with her claws and rides the shrieking canine around, as best we can figure out, FOR FUN. * This troper owns an adult male Rottweiler. His name? Kitty. * This troper's mother owns a cute li'l kitty named Scamper. Who will pounce on literally anything. * This troper's pet is a large and very aggressive Maine Coon named Boo. Boo is very affectionate and lovable to the troper, but is liable to attack anything that moves in her presence - including open refrigerator doors, this troper's bicycle, and this troper's girlfriend the first time he brought her home (they've gotten used to each other by now, though). * Of the seven cats this troper has had, only two were not a straight

use or inversion of FluffyTheTerrible. Hobbes, the friendliest cat you'd ever seen, and Tiamet, who for a few years was a peopledespising terror (though she is leaning towards inversion). All the others were severe victims of naming dissonance. * This troper owns a dog named Mickey, as in [[{{Disney}} Mickey Mouse]]. He's incredibly jealous and will bark and bite at anything that competes for his master's affections. [[SubvertedTrope This doesn't work very well, since he's a Chihuahua.]] * This Troper once had a cute little parakeet named Sweetie Pie. We believed it to be evil incarnate, as it attacked our other parrots which were four times its size, dive bombed our cats, and bit so hard he drew blood several times from us. We also had an adorable little kitten named Mittens that grew into a huge, battle-scarred cat which would regularly chase the neighborhood dogs. * This troper's cousin owned a Pomeranian named Moe who was very vicious he would bark and growl all the time, and try to bite you when you got near him except when he was in a good mood, as he got older he mellowed out and became very lazy and frail and would only grunt when you pet him before he eventually died. * This troper has a mean catfish that had to be placed in a separate tank because it ate a few goldfish. It also seems to scare me sometimes. Its name is Binky. * This troper has heard of and encountered several of these Fluffies: ** Her father once had a pitbull named Chocolate, which was beautiful and unusually small, but ripped apart a hardwood deck trying to get me and snapped a 3-inch thick link of a reinforced iron chain. I was glad when a deer killed her. ** Bo was this troper's dad's pet grizzly bear, whom he walked at night in D.C. He was a cub but still... ** Baby Girl. Her father's pet wolf, who was shot and killed by police after stopping 4 men armed with shotguns. ** Daisy. Her father's pet cow. Who had been sold 10 times and returned after terrorizing her new owners. And chased her father across a cornfield and knocked down the front door of the house. ** Pearl. A beautiful white Clydesdale. Who on occasion killed sheep by kicking them in the heads ''just for the fun of it''. We lost a total of 16 sheep. ** And Bebe. This troper's dad's pet raccoon. He loved kids and he would sit up on his hind legs and beg for candies from neighborhood kids. One man said he was going to feed him to his Rottweiler. Bebe beat up said Rott and proceeded to maul the man. When he called the police, a little boy walked up to the 'deranged' animal and fed him an ice cream sandwich by hand while the raccoon begged. ** It's official - your father is [[HarryPotter Hagrid]]. * Lady Marmalade (Marmals for short): scariest cat to ever walk the earth. Pretty sure if she was in the bathroom SamuelLJackson and ChuckNorris would decide to pee outside rather than take her on. * This troper owns a cat named "Trouble", or more affectionately known as "Shit Head", "Turd", and "Stupid Cat", because she is the exact embodiment of this trope. A cute and beautiful Calico who will randomly bite you until there is blood. She used to walk up to your legs and start attacking them.

* [[Tropers/ZiggyStardustForever This troper's]] cat, Scooter, is completely schizophrenic in terms of behavior. One moment, she's snuggling up next to you and purring, and the next, she's trying to bite your hand off! Lately, [[Tropers/ZiggyStardustForever this troper]] has taken to calling her, "[[InspectorGadget Mad Cat]]". ** [[Tropers/ZiggyStardustForever This troper]]'s other cat, Vinny, however: Despite being the bigger and stronger of the two, he's about the sweetest, most affectionate ball of fluff you'll ever meet. Shame he doesn't get along with Scooter, though... * This troper's parents, when they first married, had a cat called "Tinker" - it was a sheer nightmare for anyone, except amazingly, to his dad. No-one else could get near the cat at times without being jumped upon, and many a cattery would refuse to house the cat for a second time. Yet to this troper's father... the cat was an absolute soppy. He could carry the cat around on his shoulders like a child. * This troper has a hamster named Sparky. Sparky gets very jealous whenever he doesn't have this troper's full attention, he suddenly bites for no real reason, he terrified this troper's brother a few days after we got him by screaming and lunging at him, he is systematically destroying his own cage by gnawing it to pieces (far more so than any other hamster this troper has had) and is capable of some truly epic temper tantrums. Of course, to this troper, he is her adorably evil little fluffball baby and she loves him to pieces, even if he does seem to have a taste for human flesh. * This troper's cousin has a miniature pincher named Mini, who is the rudest, loudest, most annoying little brat this troper has ever encountered. And when Mini gets together with other dogs, even if they're twice her size, she turns into the dog equivalent of the DrillSergeantNasty. There's a reason I call Mini "Devildog". * My family had a Black Lab named "Shamri Shomar" when my brother and I were young. She wasn't mean, and in fact was very fun-loving. But when we were in the yard, everyone coming within 10 yards would get a growling DeathGlare that stated quite clearly, "One wrong step towards these two and I will ''end'' your shit". It sounds like a Fluffy name to English speakers, but apparently means "Black Guardian" in Hebrew. * This troper's cousins used to have a rather large dog (I'm not sure what breed, but it was big enough for a three year old to ride) named Pookie. She was also rather aggressive, and my aunt and uncle had to have her put down because she kept biting people and attacking other dogs in the neighborhood, eventually killing one. * Our Maine Coon, Nutmeg, is pretty friendly to everyone, until she gets pissed. She once got in a fight with another cat (a cat who lives outside and has claws vs. a spoiled housecat who has no front claws and sleeps 22.5 hours a day. I wouldn't bet on the latter in most cases). Our cat (the lazy one) began beating the other cat into submission, then, when the other cat tried to flee, Nutmeg chased her down and delivered more hurt. The only damage the other kitty did to our cat was a minor scratch. ** [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome She also jumped on the back of a bird that was as big as her as it took off and killed it in mid-air.]] My cat is awesome. * [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in this troper's roleplay. The group

had previously locked a [[Left4Dead Hunter]] in a room, and threw the evil mastermind trying to engineer the zombie apocolypse to it. After it had smeared the villain's insides across the room, they put a [[RestrainingBolt violence-preventing collar]] on it... and named it Irving. * Had two pets like this. First off was a rather small tomcat named Moonbeam. He had this amazing tendency to tear chunks of fur, skin and all, off the neighbor's huge tabby. Also, we had to hold him when there were bears because he would try to go out and chase them off. I wouldn't be surprised if he could have, seeing as once we heard coyotes in our area, he disappeared for a few days, came home with a torn ear, we never heard any coyotes anymore. Second was a small female Siamese Fighting Fish named Plecia. I swear to you, this girl thought she was a rottweiler. Had her in a divided tank with two males, when suddenly she and one of the boys started being mysteriously beat up. Turns out that she had found a way into his portion and had been tearing into him whenever she got the chance. When I replaced him with another male, all trouble stopped. Oddly enough, the male she'd been fighting with was the only fish older than her in the house. * This Troper used to deliver pamphlets in her local area, and as a result used to encounter many of the neighbourhood dogs. All of them were pretty friendly except for one Aussie Blue cattle dog that used to charge the fence and bark incessantly, following me the length of its yard, and once, when the gate was open, almost chasing me up the street. My fear lessened slightly when on one of these occasions the owner called the dog inside: "Jingles! Here, Jingles!" One can assume it was a Christmas present, maybe...? * This Troper's wife adopted a rather large stray, who it turned out was still an incredibly hyperactive Lab/Bloodhound puppy. Our daughter wanted to name him "Flower" after the skunk in {{Bambi}}, but Mrs. Troper wasn't going to let that happen. The first name that popped into her head was "Fluffy", and the dog responded to it, so that became his name. She quickly regretted this, as she wanted the dog to have a more threatening name, in case his size, athleticism, rowdiness, and huge teeth weren't enough to scare away potential attackers. So, he became "Fluffy Savage". He was once a scary dog to own, though his personality trends more "Fluffy" than "Savage" these days. * Shimei ("Spot" in Japanese) is my sister's massive white tomcat. I still have the scars from when I tried to move him one day. He hung on and bit down hard, right through the sleeve I'd wrapped around my hand as a precaution (I knew his reputation). * This troper's aunt used to have a a huge (don't know what breed) named Fifi, who eventually had to be put down for biting and hospitalizing people. * This troper's mother was attacked by a vicious dog named Tinkerbell. * This troper's dog is this trope incarnate. She is a 16-year-old Pomeranian named Tiki. She is a neurotic, crazy thing who barks at absolutely nothing, is scared to go out her dog door for no reason, snaps at me and any other unfortunate person to cross her path when she is in a foul mood. ''Buttt'', it could be a bit of Fridge

Brilliance there in her name, if you interpret Tiki as being like a tiki torch or a vengeful tiki goddess. * Not a real pet, per se, but this troper's Hydreigon is named Fluffy (specifically after [[HarryPotter Hagrid's pet cerberus]], but also to invoke this trope in general). It has 4 perfect IV's. Two of them are Speed and Sp. Attack. * Inverted trope; this troper has two kittens, who are basically little balls of cuddley fluff. Their names? Millions Knives and Legato Bluesummers. Back to FluffyTheTerrible, if you're ''sure'' it's asleep. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FlushingToiletScreamingShower * This troper has several stories involving this trope: ** The house his mom lived in was one of the old ones where this could happen. Naturally there were several stories of people doing this, mostly unintentionally. ** He attempted to do it to ''himself'' to see if it actually worked (In the nineties), only to find that one, it didn't work when the toilet across the hall was flushed for some reason, but it worked when he flushed the toilet in ''his own'' bathroom while in the shower. ** Also, when his grandparents moved into a newer house, they attempted this as a test of the (At the time) state of the art water heater. Believe it or not, it actually only worked if you ran the dishwasher or the washing machine. ** At the dorms, the freshmen are often rather curious to see if it works. Needless to say, it didn't seem to work, unless you somehow got everyone to flush every toilet at once. * Happens at this troper's house. This troper also has a little brother with a medical thing so he has to go to the bathroom every 15 minutes unless he takes his meds, which he absolutely refuses to take. I only shower when he's not home :P * This troper makes sure to turn off the washing machine before showering, due to it causing wide variations in water temperature and pressure. ** Oh god do I hate getting in the shower only for someone to turn on the washing machine mere seconds before I start to apply the soap. In those times, I question whether there is a God as I either fight off hypothermia to take my shower or wait 10 minutes until the shower is once again safe for human use. * This happens a lot to me, due to sharing a bathroom with a floor full of other girls. Subverted in that I never ever scream, I just kind of wince and lean out of the stream of water until the cold stream stops. * [[Tropers/TheGDude I]] did this accidentally to my father as a kid once. * I live in a two-story house with friends, and every few days or so someone's toasty shower becomes a scalding nightmare.

* Odd aversion here- when somebody flushes the toilet in my house, the water doesn't get cold... it simply stops. * [[{{Tropers/Penzy}} This tropette]] has this happen too much. One of the most prominent examples was when her brother (infamous for doing this) flushed the toilet. Since she was expecting this, she grabbed the towel off the towel rack and waited for a few minutes. She left the towel on the counter adjacent the shower and hopped in. Then her MOTHER flushed the toilet. I now know what it's like to be a noodle in boiling water. * This troper has been in the shower when someone else started doing laundry a few times. He was not amused by the sudden frigid temperature. * This doesn't happen at my house, but at my boyfriend's apartment it does. When I'm going to the bathroom after waking up and he's in the shower, sometimes I'll be so tired I forget and flush only to hear "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" * In [[{{Tropers/Orihime}} this tropette]]'s home, it happens ''all'' the time when the laundry's being done. ---Hey! I'm in the shower here! Don't you ''dare'' flush that toi[[FlushingToiletScreamingShower AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FlyCrazy Admit it. This has happened to you a maddening number of times. Take solace in the fact that it has 15 days to live ([[SadistShow unless it's female, which means she has a full month]]). ---* In [[LandDownUnder Australia]], it's ''seldom'' a single fly. ** In [[IronScope my]] case, it's rarely more than one at a time. But there are SO MANY TIMES that flies pop up... [[SanitySlippage *twitch twitch*]] [[AxCrazy KILLKILLKILL]] * At [[JapaneseTeeth this troper's]] high school, one of the teachers got so annoyed by a fly that had been in his room all day that he put a $5 bounty on it. There was also the time a bee got into the room, prompting the class to divide into one group that screamed, and the other group that began hunting. * This troper refuses to sleep in the same room as a live fly or spider, because they ALWAYS bite. They have to die before this troper can sleep. The same with the shower, although he's willing to wait for the steam to make them drop dead. * Ever had a ''hummingbird'' flying around your head? This troper has. You don't want to kill them, 'cause they're hummingbirds, and hummingbirds are really awesome, but goddamnit they sound like the world's biggest bee when they're flying right next to your ear. * Once, this troper's class went of a field trip. Somehow, when we stopped for lunch, about 15 flies flew into the bus. When we got back on the bus after visiting our destination, those 15 were joined by at

least 30 more. It was disgusting. The whole ride home was one giant war against the flies. * Try moths from OUT OF NOWHERE. Every night or so at least five end up in my bedroom! * There are two types of flys in our area: Small ones which like to sit and are quiet and Big ones, at least as big as your fingertip which buzz as if they were directly next to your ear instead of the other side of the room. The fat ones are harder to kill because they never stop flying and when they do only very short and not enough time to hit them. They also leave some of the nastier messes when killed. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FMinusMinus * A teacher at this troper's high school was known for giving negative scores on work that he felt deserved less than a zero. ** A kid in my eighth-grade social studies class got a -2 on a quiz. Got every question wrong and forgot to put his name on it, which was automatically two points off. * I'm not sure if this is the same in all of the USA, but at my high school they would grade some people as "X" if they scored less than %50. (F was at 65) ** Nope, your school did things wrong. The correct way is A = 100 90, B = 89 - 80, C = 79 - 70, D = 69 - 60, F = The rest. *** It's not "wrong" it provides extra information. Definitely not standard though. * This troper's fifth grade teacher threatened to give a student an "F Pluh" which is apparently half way between an F and an F+ . * This troper had a classmate in sixth grade who got an "F+ " on a creative writing assignment; our teacher said [[RefugeInAudacity the sheer craziness of his ideas]] just managed to wedge the atrocious plot, grammar, spelling and writing a few inches out of the abyss. Sadly I don't remember the specifics. * My school offers Es, for those who don't even get credit. ** Where this Troper lives, we don't have Fs but Es. It's not that bad, considering they are exactly the same. It was pretty hilarious when this troper's father had testified in another part of the country and had this conversation; -->''Father:''I had never had a D or an E. -->''Man:''Who the hell gets Es? -->''Father:''| _ | * [[Tropers/{{Nemica}} This troper]] remembers an occasion where a teacher openly said that one of my classmate deserved a G. * [[Tropers/{{Cheeseypoofs}} This Troper]] and her friends loled and loled when we found out that in the new grading systems, they had split the "F" category to "F+ " "F" and "F-". It wasn't so funny when she got many an F- in Geometry/Algebra 2 the next year. (Not for the semester, thank God) * This Troper once had a teacher who had As, Bs, Cs, and Ds with the standard values, but then followed with Es, Fs, Gs, and so forth. One

student actually got an H- on a quiz. * This tropers brother once handed in, as a piece of classical civilisation coursework, at a very upperclass independent school: a blank, torn piece of paper, with a few coffee rings on it, and a tomato and grease stain from a hamburger. His grade? U Minus Minus. * This troper's father's friend was caught egging a hated teacher's car. If he got a D- on his final exam, he would've passed that class. What did the teacher give him? You guessed it. F+. * This troper's Spanish teacher had an [[NoFairCheating antiplagarism]] policy that was as follows: If you cheated on an assignment, you didn't just get 0 points, you got ''the negative of the assignment's maximum score.'' Theoretically, you could have a grade as low as [[BeyondTheImpossible -100%]], though after 1-2 cheated assignments you'd probably be in administrative trouble. * Once, in grade school, our teacher gave us a test with 112 questions. She had us grade each other's papers, and subtract 2 points from 100% for each question missed. You guessed it - one poor kid missed 106 questions and ended up with a -6% on the test. ** Shouldn't that be ONE point per question missed? * At this troper's school, there once was a teacher who'd give grade 1 for a test without mistakes, grade 2 for up to three mistakes, grade 3 for up to six... usually, the German school system has 6 as the lowest grade, but he went so far to give some students a 9! * This troper's university had a policy that for every day late you handed in an assignment without an authorized extention, you would be deducted ten points from your grade -- e.g. if you hand an an assignment that would otherwise have got 70/100 two days late, it'd be reduced to 50/100. However, one of my housemates misinterpreted the rule and thought it was 10% of your overall mark deducted for every day it was late, and so handed an assignment in ''three weeks'' late, thinking that if he gave in a very good piece of work, it'd still pass even with the deduction. Result? The assignment got 65/100... which, with the deductions, gave a final mark of -145/100. Needless to say, he never finished his degree. ** Shouldn't the professor have simply not accepted it after it was 10 days late? * In graduate school, this troper had a professor who was known for being a {{Jerkass}}, as well as having strong opinions on certain subjects. This troper took the opposite point of view, and decided to write an essay arguing his case. The literal grade he received: A minus minus minus minus (yes, with four minuses marked on the essay sheet). In other words: I really hate your position, but I don't have the justification to grade you lower. * During a rather pessimistic conversation with a friend about GCSE results, my friend commented that she thought she was probably going to get a U (in other words, a failure) in science. To which I replied, "I'll probably get a Now I Know My ABC." (She and I actually got a B and an A respectively) * This troper dares you to get 105% on an Emergency IQ test. The extra 5% is for creativity. * This troper's 5th grade teacher threatened her with an F Pluh. Not quite as bad as an F but not as good as an F+. This grade was assigned

to someone else. * My school has NP, if you get NP, It basically means you didn't do anything, AT ALL. * This troper suggested that his school replace the F grades with T for "Try again." * This Troper had this [[RankInflation inverted]] on a test. It offered generous extra credit to start (20 points on a 100 point test.) He got 115% on it. Then, due to the difficulty of the test, the professor ''curved it so an 85 would be 100%'' which meant that his 115 was a [[UpToEleven 135.3%.]] He literally wrote [[RankInflation "A+++"]] on his test. * This troper was once playing a round of golf that was going, to put it nicely, [[EpicFail quite poorly]]. On the fourth hole, Following a particularly bad tee shot that went off to the middle of nowhere, an approach shot that overshot the green by a huge margin, a chip from there straight into a sand trap that took four tries to get out of the bunker and right into a sand trap on the other side of the green and a club tossed a fair distance into the air (all this on a par 3, mind you) I ultimately just gave up and picked up the ball. While I started counting srokes my brother stopped me, "Too late, I already put one of those sideways eight thingies on the scorecard." * Hardly common, but in England, if you score less than 40%, you'll get a U. ''Owch.'' * This troper has heard a story of someone who went to my school who got -1/10 on a chemistry quiz because he complained about it when other people were taking the quiz. * I got D- - in one subject on my school report. I would have asked if this is even possible but I didnt want to push my luck because I was already expecting a F. ---[[FMinusMinus Back to the main article, or you get another F--.]] ----

FoeYay Goddamn bastard, thinks he's so clever with his [[DeadpanSnarker smart remarks]] and his [[SmugSnake smirking]] and those [[WhatBeautifulEyes gorgeous eyes...]] ---* A noir series I'm writing is full of this. It adds to the tension of the plot. * This troper and one of her, well... we're sort of friends, but the fact is we just kind of snark at eachother all the time and honestly, sometimes I just hate him. My other friends insist that we're secretly flirting with each other. Yeah, right. ** Are you me? * This troper and her first [[InNameOnly 'boyfriend']]. Subverted in that he wasn't nearly as interesting as she'd been led to believe, and she immediately redirected her frustrated [[{{Tsundere}} tsun-tsun]] side into an attempt at YamatoNadeshiko-hood, [[BatmanGambit

effectively losing]] ''[[BatmanGambit his]]'' [[BatmanGambit interest as well]]. Let that be a [[AnAesop lesson]] to you young'uns; occasionally, people actually ''do'' hate each other. * This troper had an antagonistic relationship with a certain member on a forum she used to be on -- I'd call him a bigoted asshole, he'd call me [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad a touchy feely politically correct whiner with no sense of humour]]. If I knew this kid in real life, I'd probably find myself strangling him. Then I found myself a little too... intrigued. My following-him-around-to-catch-him-in-theact-of-being-a-dick turned into a bizarre sort of admiration, for his skill of being able to push every single one of my buttons at once while still acting like a pompous prick. Over time it softened into a more FriendlyEnemies sort of affair, his hatred-spewing growing less idiotic over time and me becoming less thin-skinned about things, but if I'd met him in real life... I'd be a lot less torn. (Or a lot more, IfYouKnowWhatIMean.) ** [[{{Squick}} Gross.]] * [[{{Taelor}} This Troper]] has come to the conclusion that his archnemesis from high school was actually expressing his latent homoerotic lust for him, especially since they used to be friends before his enemy suddenly decided to turn into a major dick. It guess it doesn't help matters that he typically retaliated to his foe's JerkAss behavior with a healthy dose of MindScrew (pun intended). * This troper encountered Surprise!FoeYay unexpectedly: A particular person on a particular forum became my [[EnemyMine arch-nemesis]] of sorts almost immediately, mostly due to our opposite opinions (Decepticon vs. Autobot, Conservative vs. Libertarian, Pie vs. Cake); we even had team-ups on occasion against [[JerkAss those more obnoxious than even him]]. Then one day I went to check out some books at the campus library while wearing a Decepticon t-shirt, and was greeted by a guy with an Autobot shirt checking his email. A casual glance confirmed his username, and without thinking I shot off a line from our last argument. The result? We're still nemeses, but offline we're more like {{Punch Clock Villain}}s (neither one of us probably counts as a hero). * This troper ran an RPG based on original Grimm's fantasy/folklore, with a bit of bondage culture. This encouraged Foe Yay in pretty much any antagonistic relationship, from guards and bandits, to hunters and barbarians, to courtly intrigues, to inter-Kingdom conflict. This was somewhat influenced by Sociolotron, where Foe Yay quite often dove into the explicit. * This troper, a [[{{Pokemon}} Rocketshipper]], for a while had FoeYay with Dodgemaster Tim, notorious anti-Rocketshipper and webmaster of the satire site Pokemopolis. Why? Oh god, why? Well... for a while, she was intrigued by him and his hatred. What was it about her beliefs that made him tick, exactly? So, she joined the forums to see if she could become friendly enough with him. She started to find him entertaining. Charming, almost. And if there's one thing that makes this troper love a man, it's that he can make her laugh. She was disturbed by this. Deeply. But she still wanted to see if she could befriend him. Several months later, she realized how deep his hatred was for her kind, so she stopped laughing, left the forum, and got

over it. She now realizes what a fool she was and what a jerk he is. * This Troper didn't quite have Foe Yay, but instead had an extremely Foe Yay-ish moment with a friend. This friend and I wrestle. A lot. Extremely violently. Often to the point of extensive bruising and mild bleeding. One night, this happened. ->''I pin her, straddling her.'' ->Me: You know, if we ever hooked up, we would have the craziest, hottest sex. ->''She flips me, counter-pinning me, her now straddling me.'' ->Her: Or if we were the type to act on our intense attraction to each other. ->''Long pause while we stare at each other... then go back to wrestling.'' Closer to Slap Slap Kiss, but still amusing. (The Kiss part came the next day. And yes, it was every bit as hot as I'd imagined.) * [[{{Pichu-kun}} This Troper]] recalls [[UnknownRival ''hating'']] two fellow female students,one in 4th grade and one in 5th,because they were so... So [[MarySue perfect]] in all the classes,and had so many friends. Today,around 2 years away from graduating from elementary,I wonder if I was [[{{Hoyay}} crushing]] on them. * Apparently suspected between this Troper and another girl in her class once. This other girl has had a few boyfriends, has more friends than this Troper and often gets 8-10 out of 10 on tests. And still she complains about not having a boyfriend and not getting good enough grades and about being fat, while this Troper has only had reprociated love once in first grade and sometimes gets JUST enough points to pass the test, not to mention that there's a flippin' 20 kgs difference between us in weight, me being heavier (early puberty had some sideeffects... besides, people've accused her of mild anorexia warning sometimes). Anyways, she's the closest I've come to have an enemy within my class (with so few people it's hard not to be at neutral terms with everyone), to the point of my dad accusing her to be the cause of another girl bullying me - our rivalry was so visible! Then one time in class, she started to complain about getting an 8. One of the guys started to critizise her and then went on to say to himself that "... and *insert troper's name* LIKES that girl! I just don't get any of 'em!". I heard this and then went on to tell him that I really hated her... which I don't. I just get the urge to punch her when she starts whining about anything, and she's thankfully not done that so much lately within my hearing range. And even IF I'd liked her ([[BiTheWay and that would be possible]]) she's the straightest and probably girliest in our class. * This troper's first meeting with her now-fiance consisted of us both shouting and arguing with each other to the point that the professor was worried physical violence would break out as we argued over a point in European History class, and it was by no means the last time it happened. The professor actually asked us what happened when all of a sudden we stopped yelling at each other at the drop of a hat... * On a forum this troper used to frequent, the hostile tension between him and another member (he was sort of a DeadpanSnarker repeatedly pressing this troper's BerserkButton to delight in the results) was so well-known that a resident artist of the forum both volunteered and

was ''requested'' to draw Foe Yay yaoi between the two. * No personal story, but it didn't seem fitting to put it on the main page. The first thing this troper does when introduced to a new show is decide whether she likes it or not. The second thing she does is figure out which of the heros she's going to pair with the villain. This is only partly done to freak out her friends. * This troper experienced a real life example.There a boy she hated who ran around with his friends causing havok,wannabe gangsters.He stole her sled.She chased him with a butcher knife. He stole her bike?She called the cops and led them right to his backyard where it was being held and watched hi mother beat him in the street.he shoved her in front of a spouting fire hydrant and watched her skid across the street on her shoulder. She sicced her 2 pitbulls and her cat on him.Then one day he had her meet him behind an abadoned house.This troper brought a baseball bat. he kissed her.Apparently the reason oys terrorize you is becasue they like you. This troper DID not return the favor. ** Pitbulls!? Butcher knives!? Yikes. * ThisTroper went to high school with a kid who was, essentially, a {{Gender Flip}}ped RichBitch. When her dad heard about said RichBastard's JerkAss-ery, he suggested that maybe the guy just ''[[{{Squick}} liked]]'' her. * Any time this troper is at an arcade and he sees someone not only playing a game that he likes and is played casually by 95% of players, but [[ChallengeGamer playing it very well]], he developers an interest in that player and wishes to get to know him or her. The attraction usually never reaches non-platonic levels though. * This troper's Spanish teacher and her friends accused her of liking this guy. I can't stand him, but it seems like some people think we are dating. * This troper and a girl in her British Lit class got into a debate every. single. class. We didn't plan it...I never once lay awake at night thinking "Geez, I wonder what are the possible interpretations of this passage from "King Lear" so whichever one SHE goes with, I'll argue the opposite point of view." It just happened that way. The next semester...by shear chance...she ended up in my Modern American Lit course. The first few weeks we were engaged in our usual rivalry, but by the time we were discussing "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" outside of class we realized somewehre in there we had [[GeekyTurnon bonded through our mutual love of literature.]] Even when I kinda hated her I did think she was as hot as hell, though, but I'd eat my toenails before I told her that. * Two of this troper's friends (let's call them A and B) would always argue and bicker in whichever class(es) the ended up in. B always makes fun of A, who is quite passionate and vocal about her strong, political, beliefs. Bonus points whenever there was a group project where they inevitably ended up together since for some reason, A would always partner up with B. It eventually got to the point where most people thought they were together (they really weren't). Even our Biology teacher said that they argued like an "Old Married Couple." * [[{{Crion87}} This troper]] couldn't stand his OlderThanTheyLook now ex-girlfriend before he got in bed with her. He still has

[[strike:some hatred toward her]] [[{{ArchEnemy}} ''actually, I utterly DESPISE her'']]. She may have been TheFundamentalist and thus opposed to his NewAgeRetroHippie self (minus the Retro Hippie bit) but in [[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} that scenario]] she was awesome. * [[{{LatwPIAT}} This Troper]]'s knew a girl who left to go to a boarding school once. We were, notably both quite similar and diametrically opposed to each other (She accused me of being too cynical; I accused her of being too idealistic) and owuld frequently get into arguments. Just before she left, my friend suggested that I run down the stairs and kiss her. I replied "Because clearly, our frequent arguments are a sign of repressed attraction." to which he of course replied "Yes, clearly!" Not being much in touch with my emotions, I've never figured out whether I really ''did'' like her. * This troper had a guy in her french class that always seemed to have some kind of grudge against her. If it wasn't teasing and snarking remarks, it was ignoring and glaring. We were both at the top of our class so we always ended up together when it came to discussions or projects that required teamwork, so most of the time, we were snarking, shouting or giving each other the cold shoulder. Everybody seemed to take this as sexual tension. Even the teachers. * Quite a few of his peers suspected that [[LiquidUranium this troper]] had a FoeYay relationship with his rival. [[WrongGenreSavvy If we had been actors in a romantic comedy, they'd have been right]]... but unfortunately for all involved, [[SubvertedTrope this trope was '''brutally''' subverted]] when said rival [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections used her family's influence]] to have a respected colleague and friend expelled from her position on our school Academic Decathlon team. Needless to say, after [[MoralEventHorizon that incident]], my friends learned to stop [[BerserkButton telling me these stories]]. * This troper may have engaged in full blown Foe Yay with two different men over the past semester. The first one was rather nice at first, but then later on, it really turned into him being my "antagonist with benefits". However, that's something she liked about him. It [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean made things more fun]]. He now has found someone he cares about now though, and she's happy for him. With the second guy, we were in the same roleplaying group and it wasn't just our characters that were at each other's throats. Our favourite thing to do was (and who knows, probably still will be) to insult each other on a regular basis. He really brings out the [[{{Tsundere}} tsuntsun]] in her, which hasn't happened as well as this since she was about 16. However, things really became interesting at a rock society night, where, after a lot of drinking and a lot more sniping, he pushed her against a wall and kissed her. She'll leave you to take a wild guess as to what [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean happened afterwards]]. * [[{{Eisenblume}} This Troper]] is a frequent debater on the Christian side of several religious fora. On one of those he and a jewish girl often happened to interest ourselves in the same threads and almost always would end up heavily arguing with each other. We have both conceded on points and have both won arguments, something that is rather unusual in religious debates, very much especially so on the web. After a while we contacted each other on per private

message and it resulted in us exchanging addresses, real names and realizing we lived too far from each other for dating to work. * This Troper knows two people who seem to have a FoeYay relationship with eachother. one is a very cynical DeadpanSnarker "C" and the other is the WideEyedIdealist who is NotGoodWithPeople "G" and This Troper is his only friend. C (who happens to be gay), constantly teases G about him believing in ghosts and aliens, his poor social skills, and anything else he can think of. G is completely disinterested in people anyway, but gets angry at C for teasing him. C clearly fancies G, mainly due to how he once told everyone that when nobodys around, G likes to dress as a woman and is into bondage. This isnt true although I found that comment to be FetishFuel for me. I am a bit jealous of C as I know what he wants, and I am secretly in love with G, my best friend-even though I know that I stand a better chance of being in a relationship with him as its never going to happen between G and C as G isnt gay. * This troper met a lovely young gentleman in philosophy club. Anytime we talk (or anytime we even see each other) we launch into a snark session which eventually degenerates into petty bickering and long, rambling philosophical asides. The guy is a walking tribulation. Utterly insufferable. If I say up, he'll say down just to spite me. He's [[TheSnarkKnight a bit sour]] and the philosophy club's OnlySaneMan, I'm something of a Cloudcuckoolander and aspiring [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Manic Pixie Dream Dude]] (not really working so far) and yet he was the very first to call me on the morning of my eighteenth and wish me a happy birthday. It was... surprisingly touching. I believe my reaction was, "Why... you ''sweetheart''." Doesn't hurt that he's not exactly bad-looking, either. * This troper had an odd metaphysical example during the middle of her freaking literature test after reading a poem about two "lovers" who were determined to free themselves from the the suffocating expectations of the other. And then the question asks, "Is this poem about: a) lovers b) friends c) rivals..." and I forget after that because the first thing that flew into my head at c) was "foe yay", at which point I promptly smacked my head loudly onto my desk, earning myself quite a few odd looks. It was as bad and distracting as it sounds. * Borderline example: This troper cannot see her best friend's sister for two minutes without getting into a screaming match with her. Sister has also exposed herself to troper multiple times. One day she was following Troper and her friends to the movies, shouting obscenities at them. Cue Troper saying "I'll be ''right'' back," and turning to chase after Friend's Sister. Sister ran away, still shouting over her shoulder, until Troper pinned her against a nearby house, held her by the wrists and deliberately put her face about two centimeters from Sister's. Sister started to freak out, thinking Troper was going to kiss her, until Troper kissed her on the cheek, let her go, and calmly walked back to her friends. Whiiich led to... -->'''Friend's Sister:''' Do you have a crush on me or somethin'?! ** Borderline? That sounded like a [[YuriFanboy yuri fanfic]] to me. * In school, I never seemed to have crushes on people who were nice to me. The girls I liked were always ones who were bitchy or mean to me.

I didn't like everyone who was like that, obviously, but, well, what can I say? I guess I kind of liked it. And with at least one girl there was definitely BelligerentSexualTension. The odd thing is that, now that we're friends, there's no attraction anymore. We're like sisters. No more FoeYay. * [[{{Tropers/Feinoha}} This Troper]] wonders if anybody else noticed some of the subtle FoeYay between [[OlderThanTheyLook Alice]] and [[{{Pettanko}} Marta]] from TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld. Alice uses a cute Nickname "Mart Mart" is obsesses over Marta a lot. While Marta (when she is not fighting Alice) is frequently talks about Alice. * This Troper has constantly been in fights with a kid she's known since elementary; constantly arguing and is the only person to openly despise. So why is it that people accuse us of liking each other? * This tropette was in a recent RP with one of her friends where his goody-two-shoes character was a prisoner and her evil character had to watch over him. Cue [[JustForPun puns]] and [[FoeYay 'advances']] from his character, [[BerserkButton annoying the hell]] out of hers. The violent side of her [[{{Tsundere}} deredere]] attitude came through...[[OrIsIt or was he]] being a bad {{Dogged Nice Guy}}? * One of this troper's old high school teachers was very antagonistic to a certain guy when they were in high school. They are now happily married. * Either subverted or double-subverted with a girl this male troper knew in middle school. She would always insult me, spread rumours about me, say that I was talking to my imaginary friend whenever she caught me talking to myself, etc... but she was popularly rumoured by the school to have a crush on me. I never got to find out her reaction to the rumours, as I do not recall anyone mentioning them in front of her. The way I see it, though, even if she did have a crush on me, then whether she was expressing it or hiding it, she sure picked an awful way of going about it, and I probably would not want to go out with someone so obnoxious and rude anyway. * This troper has [[UnknownRivals rivals in terms of schoolwork]], always girls too. He's [[ChasteHero aromantic]] so he doesn't get crushes. However he tends to get psuedo-crushes, not yet squishes but still a romance-like feeling. This feeling has also occurred to him when in relation to this girl who loathed him very much for no reason. * Subverted for this troper. For each school I've went to, there have been one boy I don't like in my class. Elementary, middle and high school. The first two were just annoying and immature, the third one was a arrogant fanboy. For each one of them, I've got at least one comment on that I [[FoeYay probably actually like them]]. ...[[NoJustNo No. Just no.]] * A friend of mine ("M") is familiar with a celebrity ("E"). He constantly goes out of his way to remind us of E's negative traits and actions. It is at least moderately known in the fandom that E utterly despises M. [[hottip:*:This would all make a lot more sense if I could say who they are, but I'd rather not violate their privacy.]] So of course, I ship it. And M's [[BerserkButton reactions]] [[{{Angrish}} when]] [[BrainBleach I]] [[FlatWhat mention]] [[SickAndWrong that]] [[NoJustNo are]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny priceless]] :D

* This troper just finds it silly, especially with the Hatedom of JustinBieber and ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. You hate the person so much, you wish death on him...yet you talk about him at almost every single opportunity? You hate Stephanie Meyer so much, yet you read all her books and have seen all the movie adaptations of the books? It seems like they're doing ''something'' right...you're spreading word about them. It also seems kind of silly how you hate stuff that's not made for your demographic. All those 20-year-olds who seem obsessed with JustinBieber...no offense but with how obsessed you are with Bieber and Edward Cullen, that's just ''creepy''. ** I would personally love to paraphrase what you just said to reply to the next YouTube comment that bashes Twilight or Bieber, but I'm afraid of the flame war that would ensue. ** See FanDumb and Hatedom for more in this vein * A non-sexual example: This trooper has a {{bokukko}} friend, an alto, who has a relationship like this with tenors. Not one tenor in particular, but anyone trained in that range. One second she'll rant about how its so unfair that their voices have such a range and how she hates them for their voices - and the next second she'll be cooing over the lovely ranges of tenors, how gorgeous they sound, etc... [[WildMassGuess My mind is]] that she's jealous of the tenor voice and wishes she had one herself. * This troper's reading ''{{Othello}}'' in English class. Her [[OneTruePairing OTP]]? Cassio/Iago. * This troper used to have this friend. A beautiful and smart girl. This troper fell in love with her and at the same time a conflict of epic levels started between them. FoeYay ensued, but in the end they stayed on ill terms with each other. * This tropette had a friend while they were in high school. We would always snark at each other and it was easy to get either of us on edge. So what do our friends do, they start saying we're in love. We got used to it after a while, but then our class mates found out. And they taunted him ruthlessly (they weren't brave enough to pick on a girl, thank goodness). It all ended when he moved to an entirely different state, but to this day people STILL bring it up. * This troper seems to be a magnet for this. A lot of the people who don't like her have had Foe Yay moments with her (either boys or girls)at some point. For example, in one lesson I once had to sit between two of the people I don't like (both girls)- they both sat pretty close to me, literally touching distance close, started saying suggestive things, and carried on that way for the entire hour... I'm pretty sure that to an outside viewer it looked like they were suggesting a threesome. I'm surprised that no one actually noticed. I'll grudgingly admit that they're both hot stuff, even if I hate them both- most of the people who I end up having Foe Yay with are attractive... I'm not whether that's a good or bad thing yet. ---Don't worry, someday you'll [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean take him down.]] In the meantime, go back to your [[StalkerWithACrush stalk-]] I mean [[FoeYay reconnaissance.]] <<|TroperTales|>>

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FoodAsBribe * This BigEater [[@/GamerFromJump troper]] will often trade work, particularly tech support, for food. Especially [[http://www.bojangles.com/ Bojangle's chicken]].

FoodFight * It's really more of a {{Food Slap}}, but this troper, tired of being constantly bullied and laughed at by a boy in her 8th grade math and science classes, decided to take revenge by pouring a whole milkshake down the back of his favorite shirt. In spite of the three days of detention that followed, victory was in favor of this troper. * My high school no longer has those huge vats of ketchup in the commons anymore. Why? Ketchup fight. (They left the mustard, though...) * [[ChicaMusica This troper]] desperately wants one of these. But all attempts to have one have been thwarted by the higher ups... * [[PacSol This troper]] once started a food fight in a church. To say that the preacher was just a little annoyed would be an {{understatement}}. * This Troper went to a wedding that ended up like this * A local school nearby actually had a huge food fight that led to cancellation of prom. The person who started it said he did it because he never sees this happen outside of tv. * Sophmore Year My Class had a Food Fight It started Half-Way through Lunch me and my Friends just got up and went out the emergency doors with about 3 other tables of Kids, 5 minutes later Our Class Advisors are Standing on Tables yelling at all of us. Our punishment was the lost of our ring dance and whoever participated had to clean the cafe before next lunch period. * Last year a food fight was started the last day of school on one side of This Troper's cafeteria, during which his side hid under tables while he just put his hood up and continued eating. * This troper was caught in no less than 3 food fights in eighth grade. Yes, THREE IN ONE YEAR. * This troper went to youth camp one year where instead of using food, we used the foil that covered the food. Guess who's youth group started it. [[spoiler: Ours.]] And guess who's youth group was voted (jokingly, of course) "Most Likely To Get Kicked Out". [[spoiler: ''Still'' ours.]] * This troper's uncle inadvertently started one in junior high--he threw a banana at his brother, and somehow it turned into a cafeteriawide food-''brawl''. Needless to say, my grandparents were not pleased. * My younger brother's biggest dream is to experience this. I've been thinking of staging one for his birthday.

* So it's elementary school, and one way or another a food fight breaks out. It lasted for all of a minute, before the principal came in. Well, really, there was about five seconds of hearing exclamations of "it's the principal!", then out of nowhere an orange flies right towards him, smacking onto the wall not two feet away from him. Then complete and utter silence overcame us all from a collective OhCrap. * This troper hoped for all of middle school that there was going to be a food fight that he could take part in. Sadly, he was diappointed as somehow no one decided to start a food fight, even on the last day of school. So, my first day of high school, ready to take on the world, and what happens? I hear some kid scream from across the cafeteria [[NoIndoorVoice "This food tastes like shit!"]] and then throws his food towards the table next to him, only for them to retaliate and begin the first food fight I'd ever take part in. Since it was so unexpected on the first day, it continued for a good 20 minutes before it was finally stopped. * This troper's middle school had a (not so secret) plan to start a food fight on the last day of school. But OBVIOUSLY the teachers heard about it... there were cops there who would arrest anyone that would start it. So... no food fight dream... D: (Though, I did fantasize many times that someone would open their chocolate milk, throw it foot-ball style, and splatter everyone underneath its path.) * Schools tend to have students suspended for starting or participating in food fights, but that didn't stop one idiot who didn't want to take his World History SOL. This troper was sitting one table away from him. Unfortunately the fight turned very bitter when a quarrel between some students and an administrator turned physical... we even made the (very local) news: http://www.wjla.com/articles/2011/05/fairfax-county-policeinvestigating-possible-assault-food-fight-at-centreville-high61305.html * [[Tropers/TropicalSnow This Troper]] had one with cake and ice-cream in her fourth year. Students were given it as a celebration of the school's anniversary, but we decided it tasted awful and decided to put it to better use. The ENTIRE school from first to seventh year was involved. It was fantastic!

FootnoteFever * I suffer from this, and I don't care. I haven't quite gotten to the level of the TerryPratchett metafootnote, but I'm close-I have twice put footnotes within footnotes. * This troper is already addicted to parenthesis (as well as dashes something he learned on TheOtherWiki - for variety). But while doing a work for diagramming class, he decided to employ footnotes in his texte. Causes being avoiding an overly large text, providing context, and for most of the notes, cracking jokes. ** This troper is exactly the same way, for exactly the same reasons. Though they're usually dryly sardonic notes on the subject rather than jokes. * Whenever this troper reads footnotes on this site, he reads them in [[DigimonAdventure Tentomon's]] voice.

* I take a long time to read a book asigned at my school because they are 1) Not in my origanal language and 2) usually clasics with up to 5 footnote's a page.

FootPopping * This troper's high school had an epidemic of this back in her seventh grade year- for ''hugs''. I don't think any of the huggy, affectionate groups of teenage girls realised how odd it looked, but... d'aww. Also, we all know a couple that does this. It's genuinely sickening. Please, tell. ** This troper's roommates have informed me that I am the female half of said couple. Oops. * This troper unconsciously does this whenever she hugs someone. * This troper hates being off balance, and never ever does this. Which led to confusion on the part of an ex who assumed it would just happen. * This may already have been to some extent a DiscreditedTrope by the late 1970's; ThisTroper remembers watching a theatrical production in high school in which the two romantic leads kissed during one scene, and the girl popped her foot to huge laughter from the audience. (Actually, the joke likely mainly was that the people involved in the scene were, in real life, among the school's best-known couples.) ** On the other hand, ThisTroper has seen the trope played straight in reality a couple of times. For instance, last year he was at an anime convention, standing in line for one of the events, when he saw a couple kissing; the girl was FootPopping. * This troper realized, while swimming with her boyfriend, that you can foot-pop with ''both'' feet while supported by the water. She supposes you could do it on dry land too if your guy was strong enough, but [[WeaknessTurnsHerOn she likes 'em skinny and]] {{Bishounen}}. * This troper does it on the rare occasion she gives, rather than grudgingly receives, a hug. Mostly because my hugs are more like slightly weaker [[TheGlomp glomps]]. ---Get swept into the loving arms of FootPopping. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FootsieUnderTheTable * [[@/JusticeReaper I]] did this once, with a close female friend of mine, at a university campus library. Unfortunately, the desk we were sitting at wasn't quite conducive to leggy access, and engaging in the foot play meant I'd have to sit at a rather awkward angle in my seat. * This Troper was once told by her 6th grade Social Studies to "stop playing footsie" with the boy sitting nex to her. We weren't actually playing footsie; we were kicking each other. ** So you were fighting under the table, then?

* This Troper and an old friend used to try and kick each other when class got boring. Don't know or remember whether it was footsie or not...it was only 5th grade... ----Go back to playing FootsieUnderTheTable. Just try to keep a straight face above it. -----

ForbiddenFruit * This troper does tech support for DSL modems, and there are five words that make him cringe every time: "I ran the CD and..." This CD is inside a sealed cardboard envelope that's marked, "'''DO NOT RUN UNLESS INSTRUCTED BY A TECHNICIAN'''" because it will create errors in the modem (it's only used for a specific situation that doesn't apply to most customers). It's actually relieving to hear this, come to think about it, because then the customer's problem is easy to identify and fix, but still. ** Common problem with IT: If you give someone a new device and some sort of storage medium, he or she will almost invariably run the medium, apparently because the ditz thinks that he/she ''needs'' to run the medium for the device to work properly. At the company where a friend worked, the IT guys used to take all the [=CDs=] from the packaging of company laptops before handing them out for this exact reason. ** At the lab where [[@/{{Endlessness}} this troper]] works, some memory modules were damaged after a lightning strike. They were tagged "DEFECTIVE! DO NOT USE UNLESS YOU LIKE SYSTEM CRASHES!". A few hours later, someone saw those modules and thought it would be a good idea to install them on their workstations. Cue an endless supply of Windows crashes and Linux kernel panics. Or, worse, on the computer that controls $5000 worth of test equipment (it is an aging, slow Pentium 4 box which has not seen a Windows reinstall in 4 years, becoming an EldritchAbomination on its own - but it does well, as long as you DO NOT USE IT for anything other than controlling the equipment). * During a fantasy roleplaying game this troper played in, the GM managed a particularly good use of this trope. The party found itself in a room with two doors, one of which was guarded by an invincible, uncorruptible swordsman. The party spent almost an entire session trying to figure how to defeat, bribe, and/or trick the swordsman in order to get through the door. When we finally managed it, we found that behind the door we had spent all this time obsessing over was a small closet filled with cleaning supplies. Behind the OTHER door was a room filled with blue mist capable of turning the players into gods... * This troper has a friend who will not look twice at a girl... until someone tells him "You should stay away from her, she's crazy/her boyfriend will beat the crap out of you/she's a vampire". Then he's utterly fascinated. * This troper is tasked with bar training all new employees at the coffee shop where she works. The very first thing she does is point to

a button on the espresso machine and say, "Okay, I know it says 'push'. Really don't push it." The next thing she has to do is grab the new hire's wrist as their hand heads unerringly for the button. "See, the ''reason'' you shouldn't push it is that is causes all the pressure in the machine to drop to one atmosphere and we won't be able to use it for an hour. So don't push it." * "Don't fall for best friend's girlfriend, don't fall for best friend's girl-oh bollocks..." ---ForbiddenFruit [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment is forbidden!]] [[ShmuckBait Keep out!]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ForceFeeding * When my stepfather was about five years old, his big sisters (he has three) tied him down and force-fed him rice pudding until he threw up, and then some more. He still can't stand even the smell of it. * This British troper was visiting a Californian friend for the first time since we first met in England, and was taken out for a meal at The Old Spaghetti Factory. Due to CulturalDissonance, I have never been to restaurants where serving double portions on a plate is normal, nor have I ever had to ask for a doggy-bag at the end of a meal, because English restaurants generally serve portions large enough for just one meal; if you're hungry/greedy, you have to order additional food. Also, by extension, it's generally expected that a diner finishes their meal in its entirety, leaving only bones and other inedible parts--wasting food is uneconomical and bad manners, especially when someone else is paying for your meal. So I attempted (and somehow succeeded) to force down a gigantic 2-meal portion of chicken fettuccine, placing regularly England-appropriate etiquette above my health and the ability to sample the restaurant's famous cheesecake afterwards. My fellow diners, all native Californians, were surprised that I didn't realize the meals were intentionally sized to leave leftovers that could be boxed and later eaten as another meal. Much embarrassment and Pepto-Bismol ensued.

ForeignCussWord * This Troper's friend is a master of swearing - first she lets out a two minute long stream of Polish curses, then she smoothly changes to English, takes a deep breath and recites a list of Swedish, German, Finnish, Japanese, Italian, French, Spanish and ''Latin'' swears, without repeating herself. Well, Polish does have a lot of swearwords... * This Troper Teslashark studies in an international school in beijing. The preferred cursing languages of most students are English and Korean. I can curse in french and spanish because any male teacher who knows a second or third language will happily share the information. One friend always shout "SHI-" when he is wasted in games

but always hold back the last letter so we can decide ourselves whether he wants to say "shit" or "shiba"(Korean for asshole). Another kid likes to call his enemies [[EverythingSexierInFrench con]]. Any of the non-Chinese students will learn at least one Chinese curse word within a month. * This troper's mother cusses in Italian when she gets annoyed. The two that she uses are "Migna!" and "Stunata!" The former is usually directed at this troper and her siblings, and the latter at bad drivers. She's not exactly sure what they mean, or how bad they are. * This troper cusses in GratuitousJapanese a lot, often under her breath so no one can hear her. She hasn't refrained from telling people to shut the hell up ("urusai"), however, and relieves stress from dying on video games by shouting "kuso!" Her parents are a bit worried that she's hurt herself, usually. * [[TheTallOne My]] Spanish teacher actually taught us all of the Spanish curse words in the first few days of class. I'm the only one who consistently uses them, though. * This troper has a habit of cursing in german, russian, and sometimes even ''[[http://draconic.twilightrealm.com/ draconic]]''. [[OhCrap Kwi vobit]]... * This troper has created a fictional language in which he frequently curses. * This troper's Latin teacher will only teach you the *really* bad swears once you've been taking Latin for five years (You start in middle school), but believe me, is it worth it - the Romans loved to curse a blue streak a mile wide). As part of year four (which is really year six... it's weird) you translate Catullus 14, the first line of which translates to roughly, "I will violently sodomize you, make you my slave, castrate you, and orally rape you." Catullus was NOT fond of his critics, to put it mildly... * Sometimes, pressing this troper's BerserkButton is an invitation to being cursed in Russian, Mandarin, Italian, Arabic... A batchmate of his even lampshaded this. * This troper was raised by other relatives in Russia. His mother is just a third-generation American. Whenever he says something to himself in Russian, she gets all offended and acts as if he's swearing at her, even if he's saying something like "Where are my keys?" But for some reason she never picks up on it when he actually is swearing, as long as he says it in a personable tone. * This troper occationally uses Mando'a. It helps when less than a handful of people actually speak it. I also throw it bits of Klingon, Na'vi, and English when I feel like making a point. Anyone who knows me knows that I wont cuss unless I absolutely have to, so when I do, they listen. When it's in English, they listen harder. * [[{{Crion87}} This troper]]'s father, having worked in the oil industry for quite some time in Azerbaijan (a little-known Third World ex-Soviet state next door to [[{{Qurac}} the Islamic Republic of Iran]]), uses some sort of either Azeri or Russian insult (something pronounced like "aye b'leh" or something, but anyway saying it is swearing - I don't know how to spell it...) * This troper often shouts "Merde!" when annoyed. Also, he enjoys calling his friends "merde-tete".

* [[{{Sionnach}} This troper]]'s Irish teacher has taught her class most of the Irish swear words, but stopped at "plamasa". He told us that the closest thing he would be allowed to say to us would be "sweet-talker", and considering that he already told us the words for whore, bastard, idiot and fuck, we could only wonder... * This Troper has a friend who speaks many different languages-French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Dutch, Italian and one other one I cant remember, and he teaches me all the foreign swear words he knows. * I don't know what it looks like written, but my Mom told me the Slovak word for shit, and I told her I was going to try and use it from now on. All she said was 'not in front of your great aunt.' ;) * This Troper used to swear in English all the time. Now he cusses in foreign languages in order to save the English ones for when they really need to count. * This Troper can cuss a blue streak six miles wide in Swedish, English, German, Spanish, Croatian, Malay, Cantonese and Finnish, and is working on Japanese and Basque, and does so frequently. He is also very fond of attempting to translate untranslatable obscenities. * This is actually why I started learning so many languages. I can curse in my native English, Russian, Latin, Spanish, Japanese, German, Tolkein's various ConLangs, and even my own conlang. * This Troper particularly enjoys saying 'Concern yourself with your own bloody sh!t' in Irish Gaelic. * This Troper knows various curse words in Spanish, Italian, and Croatian. After learning of some Latin insults and curses, this troper also plans to use them because there's a sharply decreased risk of anybody understanding it than any language that's spoken on a daily basis in a country. (IE: Who are you more likely to run into? A fluent speaker of Spanish, Italian, or Croatian? Or a fluent Speaker of Latin?) * This Tropes is native from a spanish speaking country, and when she gets annoyed at her english speaking friends, she tends to say things like 'Ve a que te den por detras', o 'Djate de joder'. * As an Irish speaker who lives in an area of Ireland where less than 10% of people speak Irish, this troper manages to get away with this a lot. Quite handy for teachers. * This troper is trilingual (English, Chinese and Malay, in order of proficiency). He can curse in practically all of the Chinese dialects, and get into a swearing match in over half of Europe, the whole of North America, and a good chunk of Asia. He's still working on the Vietnamese, Japanese and Russian swears. * I don't normally use this trope when swearing (which is often), but in public I use German, Russian, and French curse words. * This Troper learnt a bunch of curse words in various languages. Her mother has no idea that she has cursed her cousins in every language she can curse in. She even mixes them toghether, to further the ammount of hatred in every one of them. No, I do not get along with them, thank you for asking! * There's a bar outside where I live called Che's Lounge. I told my friend one time that it was Lakota for penis. Not a curse, but still funny. * This Troper's standby swears are in German; Finnish when I'm

extremely angry. I've even been known to string together both conversational and vulgar German, Finnish, and English when I'm really mad at something. * [[Tropers/PutYaGunsOn I]] say "KSH" under my breath when I'm mad. ([[GratuitousJapanese Slurred version of "Kuso".]]) Also, even though this is still English, it's British English rather than American English so I'll still put it here: [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries I say "bugger" and "bollocks" a lot too.]] * I probably (hopefully) once misheard a mother calling her son a "puta." That's just mean... * This troper has a fanfic where one character can speak a foreign language, and I often have to say he just "swore in that language" instead of putting down the words. Why? Because he speaks Egyptian. As in the ancient dead language that uses hieroglyphs. It's hard enough to look up translations to use with the spattering of words that actually ARE Egyptian in the fic, let alone search for translations of curse words. * This troper took her DVD copy of the Transformers 2007 movie to her high school Spanish teacher to have him translate some of the things that one Hispanic army guy was saying. My teacher couldn't catch all the words that were being said, but the basic translation of what the guy said when the other soldiers gave him a rough time for speaking Spanish was "Man, that really rips my ass." * [[Tropers/KatanaCat This Troper]] can swear in German, English, Japanese, and French. She usually sticks to Japanese when she feels like it (mostly saying "Kuso!" and "Shimatta!" when doing badly in a video game), but will revert to English in a fit of rage/frustration before going into Angrish. Her dad used to invoke this, too, but one time when he was playing the piano(?) and cursing up a storm in German led to him being called "Herr Shist Mund!" (Not sure if I spelled it right, but it means Mr. Shit Mouth). ** I believe that would be spelled "Herr Scheiss Mund", the double-s being an es-tset. * This troper, born and raised in the {{Deep South}}, used Swedish curse words almost exclusively until she actually moved there, to the point that when her classmates started speaking, the only words she understood were 'jvla', 'fan', 'satan' and so forth.... * This troper plays WorldofWarcraft. Her US guildmates were rather fond of using the Mexican "pendejo" over live-talk chat during raids, thinking that it wasn't being understood by her, until she asked them why they were calling each other "pubic hair" (the US English equivalent usage is "asshole") and then hauled off with quite a bit of Mexican cussing alternatives of her own, complete with translations. They stopped using the word after that. * This Troper doesn't use that many Foreign Cuss Words (he doesn't really curse much regardless) but those he does include the Japanese "kuso" and "baka-yaro" and the German "Scheiss", or more often "Scheiss Gewehr" (which basically means "shit gun" and is remarkably similar to the word for shotgun, "Schiess Gewehr"). He also might start working the Finnish "perkele" in, mostly because it just sounds awesome. He also uses variations of "bugger" frequently as most Americans, himself included, don't really mind British swears.

* This tropette knows a guy who, when upset, [[ClusterFBomb mutters a string of obscenities as long as your arm.]] When he runs out of English, he lapses seamlessly into French and keeps going. It's amusing when it's not directed at you. * This troper once encountered a World of Warcraft UI called, you guessed it, MerdeUI. And overhears "pandejo" every day in school. * What a load of sh&#464; (&#23630;) does this troper say under his breath. It smells and sounds like what it is to the dropped T. * This Mexican troper has lately resorted to saying "shitfuckmerde" in a quick fashion when he's getting frustrated. * After spending hours talking to a Finnish person this troper's new favourite swear word is perkele. * This troper has been known to use Mierda quite a bit. Including in a text to a friend who was on holiday in Tenerife, but I'd forgotten that and asked if she was going out for a drink. * This Troper tends to use the word "Perkele" and (If British English counts as "foreign") "bollocks" and "bugger". She also uses the word, "Kuso" and "Merde" every so often. * This (Canadian) Troper considers himself somewhat proficient in French, and has a tendency to say "Merde" or occasionally "Putain" under his breath. When ''[[BerserkButton very]]'' annoyed, this tends to become a very Qubcois "Tabarnak!", despite him otherwise using European French. He also feels the need to speak almost entirely in French when in French class, complete with profanity than no one notices. * This troper frequently uses "putain" and "merde" when speaking in either French or English (his native language). Go back to ForeignCussWord, quick, before he figures out what you just called his mother. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ForeignFarewell * This troper encountered a subversion: she and the gentleman were both Canadians, but when she bowed out of a night out with fellow backpackers because she had to catch a train in the morning, he grabbed her around the waist and kissed her on both cheeks. "What? We're in France, aren't we?"

ForeignLookingFont * [[SilentHunter This troper]] saw Arabic looking font in an jewellery souk. In ''Dubai''. * This troper does this in roleplays when a character is speaking a different language * This Troper has a Sonic the Hedgehog shirt ([[http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/3113300754_9b6d2d9844.jpg]]) which seems to feature Japanese writing on the top. The top actually just says "Sonic" in a Japanese-looking font. The bottom also says Sonic, but in actual Katakana.

** [[Tropers/{{Sandy87}} This troper]] has a similar shirt, but with Pikachu. <<|TroperTales|>>

ForeignQueasine * Has anyone ever had chitterlings (aka "chitlins")? Versions of them are popular in Latin America and Asia. Here they're just a slave tradition that black people perpetuate ''even though we aren't slaves any more''. ** Kishkes, from Ashkenazic Jewish cuisine, are based on the same principle, only made from the innards of cattle instead of pigs (pork parts wouldn't be kosher) and stuffed. ** Chitterlings (the small intestine of domesticated animals like pigs) are Latin American and Asian food? Since when? Funny, this troper is fairly certain they're a traditional British/European food, a remnant of the times when people used ''every'' part of an animal they had butchered. In Germany, the term for them is ''Kaldaunen'' or ''Kutteln''. *** Ditto. In Spain they're called ''callos''. *** [[{{Freezer}} This troper]] calls them "delicious"! *** This troper who's never had them before is thinking they sound like crispy fried sausages without filling... *** This troper has never known any black people who eat them, just her (whitewhitewhite) maternal family. *** Actually, eating them is more like eating rubber or a bunch of chopped-up tentacles, they are chewy and pretty bland. If they come in a good sauce, they are not bad - but it is definitely a case of "our ancestors had nothing else to eat, but why should we eat it?" *** In Chinese culture, intestines and other innards are often served, even in modern restaurants inside big cities. Pork intestines are often marinated in soy/5 spice broth or fried, livers roasted or sliced and used in soups, home style. This Troper also enjoyed rooster testicles, unborn chicken eggs (which is basically a mild tasting yolk inside a thin membrane, fatty goose intestines (a delicacy of roast goose restaurants in Hong Kong), to name just a few. ** If I recall correctly, it was Chris Rock who noted how much "Soul Food" is in fact "What Massa Let Us Eat." It is argued that a great many 'delicacies' elsewhere in the world originated under similar circumstances (sushi as survival rations for Japanese fishermen for example). *** Not exactly. That would be onigiri (that's different dishes, by the way, onigiri are made without the vinegar) and they're not actually limited to fishermen. And sushi really originated as a way to preserve fish by pickling it in a vinegared rice. But then people just loved the taste of the rice itself, and fish became more of a garnish. ** Actually, in many cultures have a tradition of eating offal and so called "nasty food" independent of history of slavery or oppression. In the old days, if you kill a pig/chicken/cow, its not a frequent event and so you use all the parts available and preserve the parts you cannot finish right away for tough times. Some of these traditions

are carried over to the modern age. Limited resources, more than slavery, has driven the offal-eating traditions. Then there is the fact that offal is often delicious. For example, fatty goose or duck liver, known as foie gras, has been enjoyed since Ancient Roman times. *** File under here the urban legends of laws saying prisoners/apprentices/students/day labourers are not to be fed salmon or lobster more than X times per week. **** That legend is actually true. Lobster was considered a bug and not proper food way back then. If they only knew how much they go for these days.... * Speaking of disgusting food from the United States, if anyone ever offers you Rocky Mountain Oysters ''do not eat them''. They are not oysters. They are, in fact, testicles. From a bull, usually. ** Quite on the contrary, if you are offered Rocky Mountain Oysters, by all means order seconds. They're awesome. Don't let squeamishness turn you off of this incredible dish. *** Though if the second serving contains "oysters" that look considerably smaller than the first one, please ensure the torero ''did'' survive that corrida you just saw. ** When this troper's mother was in college, she waitressed at a restaurant that served Rocky Mountain Oysters. One ignorant diner asked if they were on the half-shell. His friend leaned over and whispered what they actually were... the guy freaked out. ** Ditto "prairie oysters." Possibly the squickiest part of all is that they're not taken from bulls that have been slaughtered, but simply castrated. So the animal whose testes you're munching on is likely still alive. Yeah. *** There's a delightful scene in Steve Hickenboch's ''Holmes on the Range'' where a bunch of farmhands are castrating the young bulls to create this year's crop of steers; they consider this a high point because of the resulting mess of prarie oysters. **** Aren't prairie oysters a kind of hangover cure? Raw egg yolk, vinegar, pepper, tomato juice and Worchester Sauce tossed into a cup and then swallowed in one gulp? Might be a case of Name's The Same... **** That's a Bloody Mary, isn't it? ***** The Bloody Mary tends to have vodka in it. And no egg yolk or vinegar. It may be used as a kind of hangover cure, if you believe in hair of the dog. * Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang wanted to bring dried reindeer meat into space, but NASA banned it because it would {{squick}} the American public. He had to take dried elk (moose) meat instead. Then again, this and horse meat aren't disliked because of their foul taste, but because some people have sentimental views of these species. ** Just for the record, reindeer is really delicious. ** Just what is the big idea about forbidding reindeer meat? What do Americans think reindeer are raised for? To draw sleds where everybody has a car and/or snowmobile? No-one would sing a word about Rudolph if the Nordics didn't eat the animals for dinner. ** Surstrmming is a Swedish food people are liable to find disgusting for non-sentimental reasons. It consists of fermented Baltic herring, and has a very strong smell.

*** It's banned on the airlines, as decreased pressure on the plane can burst the cans. And the last thing you need on a plane is a leaky can of rotten fish. *** In defense of the people who invented the stuff, it should be noted that the water in the Baltic Sea is brackish, getting closer and closer to fresh water the further north you go. So with salt being an expensive (and exotic) commodity, the locals had to come up with an alternate method of preserving their food, and fermenting it turned out to work. It's really ''not'' rotten - it just smells that way. *** Another Swedish (and Norwegian) fish speciality which seems custom-made to induce {{Squick}} is ''lutefisk'' - dried cod softened in lye and water. Has the taste and texture of fish Jell-O. Thankfully for most foreigners (and Minnesotans), both surstrmming and lutefisk are highly seasonal dishes. **** It does not have the taste and texture of fish Jell-O. It has the taste and texture of ''rancid'' fish Jell-O. This is an important distinction. **** This editor is a Minnesotan. He likes to describe Lutefisk as "something Lutherans eat... as penance for their sins." ***** Didn't [[APrairieHomeCompanion Garrison Keillor]] beat you to that? ****** Exact words are (in a character's words, but still): ----> Every advent, we entered the purgatory of ''lutefisk'', a repulsive gelatinous fishlike dish that tasted of soap and gave off an odor that would gag a goat. We did this in honor of Norwegian ancestors, much as if the survivors of a famine might celebrate their deliverance by feasting on elm bark. ** Another one to chalk up to sentimental views: rabbit. It's delicious! *** Not always for sentimental reasons. While apparently once popular in Australia it is no longer possible to find. Though they're getting more resistant every rabbit in Australia carries the disease myxomatosis. It was deliberately introduced to the Australian rabbit population to reduce their numbers and simultaneously took it off the plate. No one wants to eat diseased meat. **** Which is pretty stupid, since the Myxoma virus doesn't affect humans, and most wild rabbits in Australia are by now immune to it anyway. Admittedly, a rabbit suffering from this disease develops gross skin tumors and depending on species pneumonia and haemorrhagic fever. But who eats wild rabbits these days? As with all wild animals, you should worry more about internal parasites like Trichinosis. **** Absolutely possible to find, it's usually imported. ***** Besides, why worry about Rabbit when you can have Kangaroo, Emu, Beetle Larvae, MORE Kangaroo, Tortoise (in some of the off-coast islands and surrounding nations, Snake... I could go on. *** Rabbit is highly subjective even amongst those that like it. This troper has heard everything from "TastesLikeChicken" to "No, it's way better than chicken." ** Chalking up another one for sentimental values: dogs, a cheap delicacy in Northern China and Korea, one step away from infanticide in the Western World. However, unless someone tells you what the meat is beforehand, you will probably confuse it with beef.

* Ask [[Tropers/PropaneNightmare me]] about his trip to London and Paris in March 2011. In Paris we stopped in at a cute little place called La Bonne Franquette for dinner one night. I could rave on about the Escargots and the Boeuf Bourginon. However, before desert, all 30 people at the table were subjected to this wonderful Brie. It smelt like it was left out for 30 days. You think that's bad, it tasted... Well, let's just say calling it Foreign Queasine is being nice. I remember I couldn't even swallow the whole chunk in my mouth, so I ran to the bathroom and spat the rest out and flushed it down. Then again, a yummy French style chocolate cake followed. * Capybara is normally eaten during lent in Venezuela (the Church considers it a fish thanks to a conveniently misleading report from 16th century missionaries) and in Peru it is not unusual to eat guinea pigs. *** This troper's dad told her about a pet rabbit he had as a child. One day he came home and his dad had cooked it for dinner. **** ...Why? If it died of natural causes (such as illness), it is far less likely to be safe to eat than if it was slaughtered. And if it was slaughtered... [[MoralEventHorizon It was a pet]]! (Unless you mean it was during a period of famine, and it was that or starve. Not that I'd wish famine on anyone, even retroactively, but ''please'' say truthfully that it was...) ***** I'm probably just telling myself this to restore my faith in humanity, but maybe they were raising it for food and the troper only thought it was a pet... ** This Ecuadorian Troper also eats cuy and guinea pig (and finds it delicious). It's not unusual to squick the exchange students with this food...Oh, Jack you must absolutely eat cuy! To be fair there a few Ecuadorian who are squicked after seeing a fried rodent on their table. ** Likewise you can eat Beavers. They live in water, so they must be a fish, and therefore permissible. *** They also have a scaly tails. *** [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean Mmm... Beaver...]] ** The Other Wiki says there are projects underway to introduce guinea pigs as a meat animal in third-world African nations, since they're easy to raise, take up minimal space, and of course breed like rodents. * For decades, British schoolchildren have been either disappointed or relieved to learn upon their arrival in France that frogs' legs and snails are ''not'' commonly eaten. ** Fried frog legs are something of a specialty in parts of southeast Louisiana. They're much better than they sound, tasting like a pleasant mix of chicken and fish; same goes for alligator meat, too. *** Gator tail is really good. So is turtle, actually. Salty though. *** Fried frogs are also a traditional dish in certain parts of Italy. *** The grapevine snail, a large brown garden snail, is eaten in Germany, though not as often these days. This troper would rather eat snail stew than a raw oyster. ** Frogs' legs, maybe not, but snails are pretty common. This troper doesn't think they are much more disgusting to eat than seashells...but would still be perfectly happy to ditch the snails and

just eat the delicious garlic butter that goes with it. ** Other French dishes that may traumatize British schoolchildren: the ''tripes a la mode de Caen'', basically stewed beef stomach, and the ''tete de veau'', which translates as "calf head". *** Tripe (which is basically the same food as the first of those two and even shares the name, bar pronunciation) is pretty common among Britain's older population, such that it is likely that most British kids have at least ''encountered'' it, if not directly partaken thereof themselves. Incidentally, this troper wouldn't eat it if his life depended on it. Same goes for black/blood pudding. Or the head of any animal you could name. ** This French troper has never quite understood why people find the idea of eating frogs so disgusting. Or rabbits (which are way more common, by the way). *** The French in general are every bit as resourceful as the Chinese when it comes to eating everything possible -- take a look at a French cookbook written in France (like ''I Know How To Cook'' or ''The Complete Robuchon''). Add enough wine and mirepoix, and a French cook could make a tasty ''daube'' out of a pair of rotted-out Doc Martens. *** Rabbits aren't disgusting, they're cute and fluffy and cuddly. It's the same aversion as dog or horse meat. **** Stick it on a plate. As long as it's the flesh, and there are no eyes or heads to stare accusingly at me while this troper eats, it's all good. **** This Troper has no problem eating "cute" animals. The fact that they're adorable while alive and absolutely delicious when cooked only doubles the love that I have for them. *** I don't find frog's legs disgusting, but their smallness makes me wonder if it's practical. Wouldn't it take more energy and time to prepare them than it would be worth nutritionally? I can't say much being from the country of doughnut-bacon-cheeseburgers with mayo, but I've always wondered about the logic of going after small creatures for food. How is this worth it nutritionally? I understand a cow. A cow is big and can feed many people. A frog, not so much. This is also my problem with insects; it just seems like a lot of effort for very little payoff. I'm not squicked; I'd gleefully try both crickets and frogs legs because I've heard they're great. But I don't really "get it", so to speak. ** Not so for Louisiana-style frog legs; bullfrogs are friggin' huge. * Kimchi, a spicy Korean dish similar to sauerkraut, is fermented cabbage laden with spices. Few non-Koreans appreciate that precise combination of spicy and aromatic. ** Technically speaking, Kimchi is a blanket term for a variety of pickled vegetables, the spicy cabbage version being the most common. Other varieties include spicy pickled greens, pickled bean sprouts, pickled potatoes, and, well, pretty much any other vegetable you can pickle. Kimchi isn't necessarily spicy. ** What are you talking about? I'm from a white family, and we all eat Kimchi, and many of my friends, of all ethnic backgrounds, like it. It's just pickled and spiced, no grosser than sour kraut. ** I'm not Korean either, and I actually prefer Kimchi to sauerkraut. Sauerkraut is just, well, sour; Kimchi's flavor is more complex and

less likely to induce tongue revolt. ** This troper is American, white, and a smidge finicky about her food sometimes, so when she got hyperactive over kimchi one of her friends mistakenly thought she was talking about "some kind of candy". ** This troper is Korean, and he'd like to tell that two of the most common kinds of kimchi are napa cabbage and turnip. And there are three types of them; spicy (the most common), "white" (not spicy), and watery (fermented in water, could be spicy or not spicy). ** Kimchi has gained plenty of popularity outside Korea in recent years. It's [[BigInJapan ubiquitous enough in Japan]] that some Japanese have mistaken it for their own (forgivable mistake; Oriental societies have experimented with seeing what they can get away with fermenting for centuries, and Japan is no exception whatsoever... see below, for instance). Rumors that it boosts the immune system have made it a big seller in many parts of Asia during some of the past years, what with all the pandemic scares. ** This troper had a Japanese roommate with a Korean best friend. Coming back to a room smelling distinctly of kimchi and not knowing what it was was ''horrible''. ** This troper's Korean mother sometimes makes a soup consisting of spicy kimchi, cubes of tofu, and bits of meat, usually beef, sometimes pork, sometimes whatever cuts of meat we forgot in the back of the freezer. The heat of cooking, combined with the bitter/spicy of the kimchi renders the meat safe to eat and quite tender too. * Natto, of course! The Givemeblood fansub of ''MagicalPokaan'' describes it as "Japanese fermented soybeans with a sticky, slimy texture, an appearance similar to excrement, and a terribly pungent smell and taste". ** A similar variety exists in Korea, where people eat it boiled in stews and call it ''cheonggookjang''. Seems like the thing actually tastes better when cooked in stews. ** This North American troper has eaten natto, and found the taste quite pleasant. Very reminiscent of a well-aged cheese (which is also something of a cultural/acquired taste). The texture however, was pretty much intolerably slimy, and rendered it effectively inedible. It's worth noting that natto is far from universally popular even in Japan. *** This Troper has a favorite Japanese place, where the chef would put chopped kimchi and natto together as a dish. I was squeamish at first but the owner offered me a taste (wrapped in a sushi roll) and i was hooked. * Corn smut is usually considered a pest in most of the United States, rendering all the infected grains useless. But in reality, if you cook them while still tender, smut-infected grains have an earthy, mushroomy taste. Got any doubts? Ask any Mexican how ''huitlacoche'' tastes like. ** Interesting the entries for natto and corn smut are right next to one another. SchlockMercenary gives us [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080808.html smutto]], a delightful excursion into the nature of the blending of cuisines. Or an argument for segregation. Lampshaded by the ever-insightful Sergeant Schlock: "And you just automatically give this to people who

say 'number two.'" *** Lo and behold,[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1q_e6dEoWk someone actually made it]]. ** It doesn't help that huitlacoche comes from the Nahuatl for "raven filth". Then again, the Aztecs considered maize stalks parasitized by huitlacoche to be a ''good'' thing. In fact, they'd often cut the bases of some maize to make it ''far more likely'' the fungus would get in. Truth be told, the major reason macro-agriculture loathes huitlacoche outbreaks, no matter how few stalks actually get hit, is because the processors break the fruiting bodies and spread the pitchblack spores over the entire harvest. Said spores are almost impossible to clean away, and render the cobs ''much'' uglier, and so pretty much unsalable. Maybe if they had the foresight to manually seek out, cut down, and harvest the fungus-hit stalks, ''then'' massharvest the rest...Then again, the usual scale probably makes this untenable. * Apart from ''polbo feira''/ ''pulpo a la gallega'' (boiled octopus slices seasoned with paprika), ''sepia a la plancha'' (grilled cuttlefish) and assorted seafood delicacies, Spanish cuisine also offers ''criadillas'' (bull testicles), ''callos'' (cow stomach) and ''madejas'' (sheep's intestines, wrapped around thin slices of its stomach). ** Brought from Spain and seasoned with local spices, Mexico has its own version of ''callos'' called ''menudo.'' ** Boiled octopus is a common seafood dish in Europe. Now, eating the poor creature ''raw'', its tentacles chopped up while it is still alive, as they do in Japan and parts of Southeast Asia... [[NoJustNo Just No]]. This troper has seen numerous comments about how the suckers of the still-writhing tentacles cling to the teeth. *** Not Japan, Korea. As Anthony Bourdain AND Andrew Zimmern demonstrated. This troper find it inoffensive. ** Similar to the above, the people of the Spanish Caribbean, particularly those from the Dominican Republic, have a dish we call "Mondongo." It's essentially every part of a cow's digestive system, including the stomach and intestines, rather chewy, and in this troper's Dominican opinion, particularly tasty. *** Sounds similar to "Andouillettes", which are tripe sausages popular in Normandy, France. They taste like a cow's stable smells. * Mmmi is a traditional Easter food in Finland. Its colour and texture resemble something produced by a person with bad case of diarrhea, and at least for this troper, the taste is quite unpleasant, too (not as bad as one might expect, though). ** It's common to sprinkle some sugar or pour some milk on mmmi. ** Mmmi tastes great with vanilla ice cream, the taste becomes slightly milder and more refreshing. * Durians are gigantic fruits native to Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries. While many people from those parts enjoy them, [[YourMileageMayVary just about an equal number don't.]] To the point where durians are banned in buses, airlines and hotels, among other places. The smell of durian can best be described as pulverized zombie feet folded into rancid excrement, though Andrew Zimmern, mentioned above, once described durian as tasting like "rotten, mushy onions".

** Note that this is only the smell. The taste is lovely. Anthony Bourdain calls it "like eating sweet raspberry blancmange in the lavatory." The bans are all due to the awful smell. ** Stephen Fry describes the durian thus: "A stench straight from Satan's anal ring, but a taste from an angel's sugared nipple." *** Odd, because both times I've tasted Durian it's tasted like rotten, mushy ass. Of course, the fact that the second tiem I tried it it was formerly frosen and the first time I tried it it was in Instant Pudding form may not have helped things. ** There is a common joke among Chinese about someone smelling a gas leak, only to find out upon investigation that a neighbour is eating durian. *** A former coworker of mine claims to have stunk out an entire Singapore hotel's ventilation when he took a durian back to his room. ** Similarly, ''balut,'' a snack food in the Philippines. Basically, it's [[{{Squick}} a fertilized duck egg that's hardboiled just days before hatching, so that you can see and even ''eat'' an almost fullyformed duck fetus.]] ** Speaking of queasy Filipino food, how about Dinuguan AKA "Chocolate Meat"? It's only nicknamed that because it just ''looks'' like it's in chocolate. It is really a very savory stew of blood and meat simmered in a rich, spicy gravy of pig blood, garlic, chili and vinegar. Yum! *** This troper is Filipino, and laughs at the ''FearFactor'' baluteating segment, yet he can't bear to try dinuguan. * British black pudding (or blood pudding, blood sausage) is sometimes cited as a cause of this in foreigners, especially Americans. It's actually quite nice - but then there's the example which squicks out even the British, a seriously considered government plan after WW2 to use excess (human) blood in the blood banks to make black puddings to ease the food shortage... ** Oh come on. I call BS on this one. Blood has a very short shelf life, so any excess would be lost as natural wastage. Also, blood is separated into packed red cells as one product and plasma - which contains the coagulative agents needed to make black pudding successfully - as another. Not even to mention the ''massive'' taboos on cannibalism in European culture. Urban myth, and then some. Although, I would be happy to be proven wrong if you have ''any'' evidence whatsoever... ** I quite enjoyed it when I went to Scotland. For me, it wasn't so much the blood that grossed me out. It was the congealed fat. ** For the record, the traditional recipe calls for pig's blood. *** This is common dish in Sweden too. It is said it was born out of necessity, as the oft starving populace looked for ways to use ALL parts of the farm animals... ** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding Blood sausage]] and similar dishes do exist in many countries. * It doesn't get any [[{{Squick}} squickier]] than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu casu marzu]], friends. It's hard to believe that the Sardinians consider this a ''delicacy''. ** To quote the below article, ''it's banned in the one place where people actually want to eat it.'' We can't make this stuff up, folks. *** Okay, the description of the food itself is bad enough, but the

article also states that the maggots can launch themselves up to fifteen centimeters when disturbed... that you have to shield your eyes while eating... and that if you don't want to eat the maggots live, you can stuff the casu marzu in a plastic bag and listen to the maggots jump around trying to escape - when the popping stops, they've all suffocated. ([[NightmareFuel I'm not sure I want to go to bed now]].) **** In addition, there is some risk of enteric myaisis, or intestinal larval infection. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and bloody diarrhoea. Piophila casei larvae are very resistant to human stomach acid and can pass through the stomach alive, taking up residency for some period of time in the intestines and causing stomach lesions and other gastrointestinal problems. The larvae have powerful mouthhooks which can lacerate stomach linings or intestinal walls as the maggots attempt to bore through internal organs. ***** What's truly [[CrossesTheLineTwice hilarious]] is the statement that "Casu marzu is believed to be an aphrodisiac by local Sardinians." We '''really''' can't make this stuff up, folks. * [[http://www.cracked.com/article_14979_6-most-terrifying-foods-inworld.html 6 most terrifying foods in world]], an article from Cracked.com. It includes Balut and Cazu Marzu, but actually explains what they are, how they're made, and has four other hellish concoctions people are actually willing to put in their noise hole. ** Similarly, the blog [[http://www.thesneeze.com/mtarchives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php "Steve, Don't Eat It"]] covers the author's adventures in queasine. Entries include huitlacoche and natto, among other horrors (caution: language is in PG to PG-13 territory and may be {{NSFW}}). ** Cracked revisits Queasine in [[http://www.cracked.com/article_16951_6-most-sadistic-dishes-fromaround-world.html this article]]. Though the {{Squick}} isn't so much that the foods are disgusting; the [[ToThePain methods to prepare the dishes]] are what place them in this trope (and possibly NightmareFuel). This Chinese troper (who has eaten and enjoyed nearly everything mentioned in the following entry and quite a few of the other items in this section) prays that #1 on the list is fake; it's that sad. *** Unfortunately, it's real, and exists (can't say it's "popular" or "common" by any stretch) in China. Except that, as mentioned, part of the fish is fried (the head, gills, heart, etc., are left alive and flopping while the lower 2/3rds are cooked). The vast majority of native Chinese won't touch it, but apparently enough will that it is served in some places. *** The original intention of doing it this way is to demonstrate freshness. You know its fresh when its still moving. In days before refrigeration, it would be important. **** I think they're referring to the donkey being eaten alive, which sounds too horrifying to be real. * Chinese foods: Those black preserved eggs; stinky tofu (not bad once you get past the smell and apply the right sauce); various organs of cow, pig, and chicken; seaweed; swallow nests; the list goes on. The old joke goes that if it has legs and isn't a table or has wings and

isn't a plane, a Chinaman will eat it. Or did it specify Cantonese? Those people eat things other Chinese consider odd. ** It's specifically the Cantonese. And not as common as you'd think. Like a weird speciality dish in America (think chitterlings or pigs feet or pork rinds or something). You can get it, but many people wouldn't go near it with a bamboo pole. None of the Guangdong locals this troper knows have ever eaten dog or cat or snake or whatever before...and had to be talked into going with him to try some. ** This troper is Cantonese. We have a proverb "If its back points to the sky (basically anything that cannot walk upright) is edible". So yeah.... ** Some Chinese food would be quite palatable if it wasn't for the smell, like fermented bamboo shoots. ** Chicken feet... Just Chicken feet and FROG LEGS served with a lot of toad. * shudders with horror* *** Chicken feet are quite tasty, actually. *** For added {{Squick}}, consider that the birds' nests in bird's nest soup are made from ''saliva''. Eat up, kids! *** Consider also, that cooked swallow's nest by itself has no actual taste, and so aside from the alleged health benefits it's enjoyed only for its texture. **** Its very good for your skin. **** A similar saying goes that if it flies, swims, or crawls, it'll be found in a creole dish. *** This troper was watching an InSearchOf type show talking about the ''"Lousianna Swamp Monster"''. They agreed with me that it must not be real... there are no cajun recipes for it. * Similarly, there is a common joke that Japanese food is whatever didn't run away fast enough. Or, more likely given the geography, swim away. * When this troper went to China, she saw something called snake wine. It's essentially dead snakes in wine. But wait! It gets worse. She also saw GIANT MILLIPEDES the size of her forearm and huge killer wasps in wine as well. Apparently, these people have a giant hive and they pick up the dead wasps to drop in their wine. They use it for medicine. Dunno if they drink it or not though. * Haggis. While the meal itself doesn't taste that bad, knowing what it's made from has been known to cause people to lose their appetites. As a friend of this troper put it: "It's good, just don't watch them cut it for you." ** When celebrating Burns' Night with some friends with university a few years ago, one of them timidly asked what went into a haggis. This troper replied "The heart, lungs and liver of a sheep, mashed up and boiled in its own stomach". The girl is now a vegetarian. *** The strange aversion to offal always left this troper dumbfounded. Why eat one part of the sheep, but consider other revolting? *** It should be noted that the sheep's stomach has been omitted in haggis production for quite some time now, with sausage casing used instead. Still plenty of lovely internal organs (and the frequently forgotten, but very important, oatmeal, suet and onions) though! *** Depends on where you get it from. Both times [[{{Smerf}} this]] troper has had it, it's been made in a sheep's stomach. However, in

the United States, they aren't allowed to use the lungs because the FDA doesn't consider lungs to be food. * More horrors from the Ashkenazi kitchen: p'tcha/galla, the gelatinous abomination that has caused thousands of Jews to wish they were Sephardi. * From ''Cherokee Cooklore'', a mostly safe cookbook but for the following gems: ** Blood Pudding (catch blood, salt it, add fat and pepper, and boil.) The British Isles version has oatmeal in it, making it theoretically similar to haggis, and it's rather tasty, but ThisTroper couldn't get past "ew, I'm eating an oatmeal blood clot". *** Russian version substitutes buckwheat for oatmeal and add intestines for casing, making it a sausage. ** Yellowjacket Soup (actually, it's the grubs. I imagine getting the grubs is more distasteful than eating the soup.) ** Fried Cicada (Doesn't sound too bad, until you've taken a really close look at a cicada.) ** Opossum (the author remarks that most people can eat only a little of this dish, on account of the grease content of possum meat.) * American popular culture likes to make fun of British Cooking. We remain somewhat mystified by this, coming from a culture that mixes sweet and savoury in quite a frankly {{squick}}-inducing fashion. ** Speak for yourself. French toast loves bacon. *** Don't forget the pancakes and sausage with lots of maple syrup. Mmm! ** Reginald D Hunter; [[QuiteInteresting "You know that any country that invented Marmite started trying to make food taste good after everyone else."]] Stephen Fry; "This is coming from a nation that has Spray-on cheese?" *** Spray-on cheese was at one point rumoured not to be allowed in the food section of British supermarkets due to our equivalent of the FDA deciding it didn't contain enough food, and was in fact closer to floor polish. *** Yeah, well, only the British Isles could have bred Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, and Nigella Lawson. With the stuff you guys try to pass off as authentic British cuisine, you need high-octane talent like that to make up for it. **** You consider them talented? I consider them overpaid obnoxious toffs who murder traditional British recipes and patronise and condescend against anyone who, heck, might like to cook food ''their way''. *** "The English are a curious people; they have a hundred religions, and only one sauce." - Voltaire ** In all fairness, our mockery has more to do with the names of British dishes than the dishes themselves. * snerk* Spotted Dick. * snerk* ** The sweet and savoury thing wasn't so much a squick as bafflement when, on my first visit to America, I was presented with what appeared to be my main and dessert on a single plate and faced with the assumption that they be eaten simultaneously. However, I didn't take long at all to get over the culture shock. * A popular Spanish delicacy is Concha Fina, a shellfish resembling an

oyster. What's so gross about that? It's served and eaten ''live.'' Just squirt a lemon on it and when it starts to wriggle, pour it down your throat. ** This Troper is Spanish, and had no idea this dish existed until now. And wants to throw up. *** The best scallop this troper ever tried was alive just seconds before it was cut from its shell. It's easier to get it out if you kill it first, though. *** Freshly opened seafood is always the best. Why do you think they have the oysters unopened in front of you at a oyster bar? this troper used to live in Boston and i watch them open, put it on a bed of ice and i slurp. From open to down my throat under 30 seconds. ** Speaking of, oysters are commonly eaten raw and live, at least in the USA. ** Speaking of live seafood.... Ikizukuri. [[http://www.cracked.com/article_16951_6-most-sadistic-dishes-fromaround-world.html See it here if you're mad enough. Brought to you by Cracked so probity not safe for work.]] [[ClusterFBomb Or anywhere else for that matter.]] ** This troper has the fish variation AND the lobster variation. Same principle with the lobster: fresh cracked and sliced for the sashimi. The legs and the antenna of the lobster would still be moving when it reaches your table. * A drink, actually, but same basic idea. From Southeast Asia: Kopi Luwak, which is coffee brewed from coffee beans shat out of an Asian Palm Civet. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak I couldn't make this up if I tried.]] ** Speak for yourself. It's widely-considered to be the best coffee in the world and as TheOtherWiki notes, it's the most expensive in the world. *** This troper has tried it and found it to be delicious, despite its origins. * Water roaches from Southeast Asia. ** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethocerus_indicus The essence alone]] can cost up to $100/ounce, due to the rarity of the beetle. * Roasted tarantulas, from South America. * Roasted locusts glazed with honey actually sounds tasty. ** Honey locust is another name for the carob bean. St. John couldn't eat bugs, as they are unkosher under Levitical law. * Check that one again. Locusts are among the only kosher insects. Mainly because they hop and fly rather than crawl in the dirt. ** Honey itself can get a little icky if you think too hard about the production process. * Centuries ago, insects were eaten in Europe, too (they're related to crustaceans like crabs and lobsters, so why not), although this went out of style. Since the 1990s, a few speciality restaurants (one in Paris) have tried to bring edible insects back into the public mind. There's even a line of colourful (and transparent) lollipops for children, with various dead insects and scorpions inside. ** Those are also popular in China. I stared at them in all when I saw a friend of mine eating them. Then again, I've never been all that squeamish.

** Care for a [[http://www.lazyboneuk.com/categories/Edible-Insects-/ chocolate ant]]? * A lot of species that were once eaten in Europe in centuries past have dropped off the menu: bear, swan, mole, squirrel, beaver. Beaver was actually classified as fish by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages (it swim in water, right? Close enough), so that monks were allowed to eat beaver during Lent. ** Oh, the AccidentalInnuendo. ** There's a butcher in southern England who sells squirrel meat, in an attempt to revive tradition and to offer incentive to hunt the American Gray Squirrel, a foreign invader species which was introduced to England and is threatening the native population of red squirrels. *** For "is threatening" read "has pretty much wiped out"... *** And the Walkers Crisps 'Do Us A Flavour' contest features Cajun Squirrel as one of the six finalists. While there are no actual squirrels involved in the recipe, if the flavour is successful it might encourage people to try the real thing. * Sushi still seems to be a squick factor for some, even after the invention of the California roll (which contains cucumber, avocado, and * cooked* imitation crab meat). A step up from sushi is ''fugu'' made from the potentially toxic blowfish, which about seven restaurants in the United States are licensed to serve at any given time. Most squickworthy of all is probably ikizukuri -- sashimi made from ''live'' fish, served with the heart still beating. ** Sushi is very mainstream at this point, and anyplace near the sea has hundreds sushi restaurants. I've always preferred to have my sashimi alone with rice on the side, and I have never found it slimy. Trust me, high quality salmon sashimi has a natural almost buttery taste, and Tuna has a very steak like texture. ** Apparently this is really bad, it's the third time it's been mentioned on this page. :P ** Note that sushi does not necessarily mean RAW fish. It merely means fish wrapped in rice. Sashimi is raw fish. Properly cooked, sushi is delicious. Uncooked, a bit slimy and with bad texture. Still pretty nice. (Tempura sauce makes ANYTHING tasty!) **** Uhm, no. ''Makizushi'' is fish (most regularly) wrapped with rice and then kombu seaweed. ''Nigirizushi'' is a slice of fish on top of a rice block. They're both still sushis though. *** If your sushi is slimy then you've been had -- the fish (or rice) is already old and probably unsafe to eat. Also, technically sushi doesn't mean fish at all -- it's just rice with sweet vinegar. Raw fish is just a common garnish. ** And if you get poisoned from eating it? Well, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu#Preparation That Other Wiki]] says that treatment involves being fed with ''charcoal''. Still brave enough to eat? *** Then you'll die a rather pleasant death: fugu poison is somewhat narcotic and gives you a high while slowly killing you. *** If it helps any, charcoal is a common treatment for poison - it's great at absorbing harmful substances. (See ''The Anubis Gates'' by TimPowers, where a character survives [[GrandTheftMe being placed in a poisoned body]] by devouring several pieces.)

*** To summarize, Fugu is made from the flesh of the blowfish, whose skin and liver--but not the muscles--contains Tetrodotoxin(the one Haitian shamans used to make zombies), a neurotoxin potent that a pinprick's worth of the stuff can kill you (and the death is rather nasty too: it slowly paralyzes peripheral muscles from your fingers and toes until it reaches your diaphragm, whereby you slowly chokes/asphyxiates to death. It does not affect the CNS so your are conscious throughout the ordeal, can it can take you 12 hours or more to die, there is no antidote, so treatment involves hooking you to a respirator until the toxin degrades). HOWEVER, being liscenced to prepare fugu in Japan takes 4 years of training, and the final exam involves the chef preparing a blowfish and then ''eating'' the results. So it would probably be fair to assume that your fugu chef is always competent. *** Also note that ''a well made'' dish of fugu contains a ''little'' bit of poison, just enough so that your face goes a bit numb, if the paralysis starts radiating down, do get a doctor. * On a related note, this troper loves sushi, but can never stand ''wasabi''. It looks like a paste and might've been made from somesort-of-a-radish, but it freaking [[TastesLikeFeet TASTES LIKE MARKER INK]]. Oh, and it's hot too. ** The "wasabi" served in Japanese restaurants around the world are often fake, just ground up common horseradish with green dye. The real stuff comes from Japanese horseradish, which the chef would shave/ground with a paddle made with coarse snake skin and usually already applied to the sushi (specifically nigiri) pieces he serve you. High end sushi places dont really give you the plate for soy and a green lump since the chef is supposed to have perfected the flavor before it landed in front of you. *** Real wasabi doesn't attack your mucous membranes with as much gusto either; it provides a pleasant, lingering sweet-hot taste. * Hawaiians, for some reason, love poi. It's a purple paste made from pounded root that looks and tastes just like wallpaper paste. ** The taro root (which poi is made from) is also a Chinese vegetable which is popular for Cantonese winter stews. Its not served pounded into a paste though. ** Some even like to leave it out to "ferment" (mold) for a few days for a more sour flavor. ** Hawaiian poi, thankfully, is an aberration -- it's made all over the south Pacific, but only in Hawaii do they ferment it. * Coddle, a traditional Dublin dish made with boiled bacon, pork sausage, potatoes and onion is popular with the Dubs but has left others shuddering in horror on hearing about it. It is served absurdly hot and tastes delicious. ** This American troper wonders how on earth anyone could shudder at that. She is practically drooling. ** I know. Maybe it's because the Irish make up the second largest ethnic group in the US, but that sounds delicious. *** Probably the person shuddering is a cardiologist. This dish does sound tasty, though. ** This Yank would like to know what the hell the American troper 2^ is talking about!? You don't ''boil bacon''!

*** You do. Most smoked bacon in the world is boiled (or at least parboiled) before smoking. * Let's not forget hkarl. A traditional Icelandic food, it's shark that's been buried and left to ferment for up to three months, then dug up and dried for another four to five. I've read that it smells and tastes strongly of ammonia. ** Ammonia smell is from ''original'', unfermented shark -- it's a peculiar feature in Icelandic sharks. The whole fermenting stuff was actually invented to reduce ammonia content in shark meat to barely unpalatable and not actively poisonous levels. ** And at least it won't kill you outright like some other northern dishes. * If you ever hear how soy sauce is made at home, you'll probably never eat it again. ** Eh, what's a little mold, yeast, and a crapton of salt between friends? *** Sweet soy sauce has palm sugar added :D. ** If this squicks you out, you may want to stay away from wine, beer, and yoghurt as well. * Step one to creating pressed duck: strangle a duck to death to avoid losing any blood... hey, where are you going? We haven't even mentioned the duck press! ** Seeing as you haven't mentioned it I will. The duck is roasted with a selection of the choicer innards (the liver, heart and kidneys) plus all the blood still in it, fillets of duck are cut and added to your plate, and then the heart, liver, kidneys and the remainder of the carcass is crushed in a solid silver press, the blood and juices added to Armagnac in a chafing dish and served over the fillets as a sauce. And the filleting, crushing and sauce-blending is done at the dining table so the guests can rejoice in the sheer spectacle of it all, whether they want to or not. You can find a recipe, press and all, in "From Julia Child's Kitchen". *** And let me tell you, its DELICIOUS. *** I guess not too many people kill and clean their own turkeys, or make their own real giblet gravy, these days. It's practically the same damn thing, just with a duck. ** That makes that line in {{Ratatouille}} where Skinner threatens to put Linguini's head in a duck press even more squicky. * Nobody has ever mentioned chilli pepper yet? In South East Asia (particularly Indonesia), they use this to create a chilli paste called "sambal". These vary from "more sweet than spicy" to "running around the camp for a week (in search of a toilet)". Oh and by the way, the last quote is from TheAgency tv-series. ** To put it in perspective, this troper served a quarter teaspoon of it to his South Indian roommate's uncle, and even he (accustomed to South India's hot spices) had difficulties handling it. ** On the other hand, this Sumatran troper has difficulties adjusting to living in Java because the sambal is not spicy enough. ** PBS TV chef Ming Tsai appears to be obsessed with the stuff; any time he needs hot sauce, he goes for the sambal. * In Australia you can get Emu, Kangaroo, Camel and Crocodile steak. ** Um, yum? This American troper is somewhat curious as to why those

are on this list. ** The Australian aversion to eating kangaroo is actually something of a problem, since changes made to the outback's ecosystem have caused the kangaroo population to explode far beyond natural levels, and alien crops such as beef and mutton are harmful to the environment. *** The recent Russian ban on the kangaroo meat import due to some technicality (it's a staple in sausages) is rumored to cause a stir due to fears that it will lead to the aforementioned environmental problems. If we are to believe some sources, Russia imports up to 70% of all Australian 'roo exports. ** Aversion? Most people this (vegan for strange reasons) troper knows would jump at the chance to try some 'roo. The stuff is quite healthy too. ** Don't forget Vegemite, it is basically a salty yeast extract that is a by product of alcohol manufacture! *** Many Non-Australians find it foul. That's mainly because the first time they try it, they are given a spoon full of it to down, normally as a prank. Unless you've become accustomed to the taste, you don't want to be downing a whole spoon of it. It whacks a punch. ** Kangaroo and emu meat doesn't taste that must different from chicken or beef, tbh. *** 'Roo is similar to a lean beef, but more of a gamey taste. Try 'Roo sausauges for an introduction. *** Kangaroo doesn't taste bad, but the meat's rather dry even in the best circumstances, so it's best to have some good sauce handy to go along with it. * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg Century eggs]] are basically eggs that have rotted for a few months, which turns their yolks green and their whites brown. People eat them. ** They aren't rotted, they're lye-pickled. It does't make them less visually unappealing and soapy, though. See lutefisk above for similar lye-pickled stuff. ** When cooked, it tastes extremely benign. This Troper when living in Boston has a favorite Malaysian restaurant. They serve the black egg as part of a mixed appetizer plate. The owners know i live the stuff so every time i come by he would send a whole plate (a couple of eggs, sliced) over. I enjoy making my friends eat it. Eventually it become a sort-of initiation ritual: If you want to be our friend, eat a slice of black egg. ** I'm a Canadian born Chinese who used to hate century egg until I actually tried it now I think it's effing delicious. Try it "raw" with soy sauce or cooked into a congee. Though there is a sour taste if eaten along with sweet stuff like Coke. Seriously, it's probably the least "weird" weird food us Chinese eat. * Queasine often ensues when Swedes, Danes or Norwegians try to replicate Viking-age or Stone-age cooking. This troper was involved in an outdoors attempt that involved pre-grilled meat (to prevent the worst-case scenarios) with vegetables that was wrapped in salad and put on a bed of glowing coal in a hole in the ground and then covered with soil. Needless to say, the end result tasted like a mouthful of meat-smoked dirt. ** This sounds to this New Englander troper like a Lobster Bake gone

horribly wrong. * Kiviak is an Inuit delicacy which is made by cutting open a seal, stuffing it with a few dozen seagulls, and burying the seal in a shallow grave for as long as a year or two. You think this sounds bad? Wait until you find out how you eat it - you extract a seagull out of the seal, rip out its tail feathers, and suck out the fermented, liquefied innards through its ass. * There is a special sub-section of Chinese cooking known as 'live cuisine'. It involves taking an animal - say, in this case a fish. You carefully cut the fish so it's paralyzed, gather the internal organs in a bundle and wrap them in cotton, put a damp towel over the head of the fish, and fry it in a wok. Once the body is cooked, you serve and eat the fish. Which, after all that, is still alive. ** [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Four times]]. * Barbecued, or deep-fried, rats, anyone? ** Including [[{{Discworld}} rat-onna-stick]]. ** [[VGCats IT's A RAT FLAIL]]! * Squirrels are a major delicacy in the Appalachian mountain area. Especially the brains. * Stuffed pit-roasted deer carcass. Mmmmm... ** That sounds absolutely delicious. ** Yeah, sounds like you're describing a Deer barbecue of some sort, which sounds fantastic. what are you, british? * Two words: Foie Gras. Especially when you read about the horrible ways the ducks are prepared. ** Actually, force feeding is not painful for ducks, so this troper doesn't think it's any more barbaric than factory farming. And Foie Gras is one of the most delicious foods there is, period. *** I'm not so sure the result is much fun, though. This troper saw a comparative photo of a normal duck liver and a foie gras liver. Normal liver: dark and glossy. Foie gras liver: pale and ''very'' drylooking. Are we sure the duck wasn't suffering some sort of pain from a now malformed liver? *** The ducks are extremely unhealthy, physically deformed (their livers protrude from their skin) and presumably in horrible pain. *** Geese naturally gorge during winter, unsurprisingly, and seasonal foie gras has been successfully made out of free-range geese. The ''gavage'' process was developed, apparently, as a way of getting foie gras year round. *** Foie Gras has a long and treasured history that stretched back to Roman times. It is This Troper's top 10 favorite food. *** Cruel, nothing. I've seen ducks being gavaged, they literally ''run'' to the person doing the force-feeding when its time, mouths open and necks straightened out and everything. There's nothing more cruel about foie gras then there is about any sort of carnivorous food production. * Huhu grubs from New Zealand, apparently they taste like chicken or peanut butter. * [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two words]]: [[http://www.badcandy.com/candies/dubbelzout/ dubbelzoute drop]]. ** There is more than one kind of salted liquorice. The less salty kinds, such as munten, are actually quite delicious (if you like salty

stuff... [[AccidentalInnuendo don't read into that too much]]). On the other hand, double-salted liquorice can get stuffed. ** The best types are the "salmiak" licorice, which is processed with ammonium chloride, and gives a strong ammonia taste. The stuff is both completely foul and disturbingly addictive. ** I used to eat boullion cubes like candy, as a kid (surprisingly, my blood pressure hovers around 112/80). I absolutely ''despise'' licorice though, so dubbelzout is out. ** This (German) Troper imports licorice from Denmark because German laws forbid the sale of licorice over a certain ammonium chloride level (which Danish licorice easily tops). Which goes to show that the law has no idea what's delicious. * Just about any food where animal blood is the main ingredient. * Kiwi-fruit skin. It's a fruit with fur, and quite edible. ** With the added bonus of looking like an orphaned testicle. Is good, though. ** Oh, the skin is edible? I've always eaten it anyway because I'm too lazy to skin it, but people tend to look at me funny. * Kefir is a gelatinous dairy product from the Caucasus mountains, with a texture like stringy lumpy yoghurt. It's alleged to help you live longer, but considering that real kefir contains dozens of strains of ''living'' bacteria and fungi -- so very lively that a lump of kefir, kept moist with milk, will actually ''grow larger until it divides like an amoeba'' -- it might not be worth it. ** I'm pretty sure they're all of the benign variety. Or did you forget that ''we'' have more than a few strains of bacteria in our digestive systems? ** Yoghurt is the same, didn't you know? They just filter the bacterial goo before packaging, just like all commercial kefir makers do. ** Also, it's incredibly common to eat other types of fungi straight (or on salad or on pizza or...). Personally, I find the live kefir "grains" delicious, so it's good for me that I can grow it so easily. * The song "Alouette", which you may have learned in French class, and originated from Canadian fur traders, is about plucking out the feathers of a lark in preparation too cook it. "I'm going to pluck your head, and your heart, and your lungs, and your brain, until you're a bloody torso." {{Squick}}? * Chinese drunken shrimp - ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. You get the LIVE shrimp in a really strong liquor, and eat 'em still alive. Gee, I wonder if any cannibals ever tried that tactic. ** I dont know where the above troper experienced it, but when This Troper had the same dish, the shrimp is fed the liquor in a glass pan and then killed by cooking it in the liquor (flambe, if you would) so they are cooked. ** I've seen a variation at a barbeque. You cut the top off a can of beer, put live shrimp in the can and put it on the grill until they're cooked. I didn't have any since I was a kid and afraid of alcohol, but it sounded delicious. * Interestingly nobody mentioned BRAIN so far. Yes. There are people that eat brains. Not so much anymore, because of diseases. ** Well, we just call them "zombies". (They are still people. Just

dead. Or not.) ** In southern China (Cantonese), there was an old wive's tale that if you eat brains, you get smarter (or get better grades because of enhanced brain power). Its the same reason people eat penis and other sexual organs in China, because the apparently the belief is to eat the part that you want improved, part-for-part. ** Mmmm.... Kuru.... ** Actually pretty common in the southeast United States: [[http://www.shopfoodex.com/rose-brand-pork-brains-milk-gravy-p34778.html pork (pig) brains.]] I've seen these cans in several large chain grocery stores; never tried it myself, but I'm told brain has a slightly gritty texture, and is ''extremely'' greasy. *** This troper has eaten brains (yes, [[BetterThanItSounds from a can]]) and has never noticed grittiness. Then again, they were scrambled. With eggs. ** Also not uncommon in Germany - as any Northern German will tell you when Braunkohl (lit. brown gabbage; kale) season rolls around. The cabbage is served with a sausage made of BRAAAAAAAAAAINS. * There is the famous Spartan black soup, about which foreigners said it was probably the reason Spartans didn't give a damn about dying in battle. Spartans said you had to swim in the ice cold Spartan rivers before eating it, and which Gulliver tasted, and could not get down a second spoonful. Not surprisingly, the recipe didn't survive. * Kopalhem, a Chukchi and Nenets "delicacy", related to the aforementioned kiviak, probably takes the cake. It is basically a meat preserve, consisting of large lumps of fatty reindeer or whale meat buried on the shore and left for several months. Cold and the anaerobic conditions prevent rotting, so meat decomposes slower, via enzymatic autolysis and some anaerobic bacteria. The crown goes to this dish because, unlike most other entries here, which are merely just disgusting or simply unfamiliar, kopalhem is ''actively poisonous'' to everybody who is not used to it. This is because putrefying meat gives off higher amines, mainly putrescine, cadaverine and neurine, which could be acutely toxic to the uninitiated. The arctic nomads, who use such techniques to preserve their meats, could eat it because they are usually given small doses of it since infancy and thus developed tolerance to the toxins. ** And the taste isn't really good too -- smelly, rancid and soapy. * Try explaining Camembert to an American - it's a delicious cheese covered in an edible, quite tasty type of mold. ** Wait, what? It's just about like Brie, but a bit more sour tasting. ** You don't need to go as far as America to find people who abhor the idea of mouldy cheese. [[ToddTheT1000 This troper]] is British, and won't venture further than cheddar, red Leicester or mozzarella as far as cheeses go. If it smells like feet or looks off, it should be thrown away. Don't get me started on cottage cheese (aka baby sick which is more or less what it amounts to...curd and whey), either. * Or the German dish of Mett - raw minced pork meat, served with onions, pepper and salt, preferably on a rye bread roll. There are even Germans who view this with suspicion; others love it. A similar dish (but with more ingredients) is sold in neighbouring countries as 'Filet Americain'.

** In This Troper's hometown, it's called "Firemen's marmalade". And it's * delicious* . * British Stilton is a "blue-veined" cheese. The blue veins are... mould,grown from spores added at the time of production. [[http://www.stiltoncheese.com/making_stilton Then]]: -->At about 6 weeks of age each cheese is pierced with stainless steel needles to allow air to enter the body of the cheese and activate the blue cheese mould and so commence the magical veining process. ** This troper doesn't mind the mould as much as the unholy amount of salt they add when making it. Broccoli and Stilton soup ''is'' delicious,though. * Finnish liquorice; to quote the Japanese; "tastes like toilet!" It tastes and smells like ammonia, and is one of the most delicious liquorices this tropes has ever eaten. * This troper can testify that sliced, pickled jellyfish is delicious. * ''Soucril'' is a dish commonly served in the region of Antananarivo, Madagascar (and possibly other parts of the island). It's delicious, if you manage to get your mind off the fact that you're eating a soup made with various vegetables and ''thinly sliced bull penis''. * [[{{Crion87}} This Australian troper]], should he go to New Zealand again, will have to try some possum (which is to Kiwis like rabbits are to Australians). If pressed, he may consume horse (though he has never had to, and never ''has'' in fact, though he's less {{squicked}} by the ''idea'' than most of his kind). Lesser example - he has eaten escargot (that is, garliced snails) and found them to taste like squid - yummy. ** For that matter, this troper will never understand why people are so {{Squick}}ed by squid. It's pretty yummy, particularly when fried with the right herbs and spices. * [[{{Ravvie}} This troper]]'s friends were absolutely repulsed when they found out that Braunschweiger (one of her favorite foods) is pig liver sausage. Conversely, her English mother is completely squicked out by biscuits and gravy- to the point where it's almost a running joke. ** Mmm. Braunschweiger. ''* Homer Simpson drool* '' That's been a favorite of mine since...well, since not too long after I passed those first few diaper-wearing years. Also, did your mother initially know that British "biscuits" are equivalent to American "cookies", ''and'' vice versa? If not, that would explain the now-running joke. *** Not quite. The biscuits I'm talking about are more scone like in nature. Oh, and she ''still'' can't understand doughnuts for breakfast either. * , * This troper can eat ''balut'' like nobody's business. But ''dinuguan''? I'm Filipino, and even ''I'' go "fuck that!" ** My mother's native Filipino; when I asked her whether she ate ''balut'' when she was younger, she got this queasy expression on her face. Granted, it might be because her family used chicken and not duck eggs (she doesn't eat any products made from chicken except flavouring, broth etc.), but she ''has'' said that she wouldn't want to eat it. *** This may be due to a cultural reason: Balut is considered in some areas to be for men only.

* In Norway, whale and seal meat is available even if some foreigners find it repulsive (the entire charismatic megafauna thing again), reindeer are kept for the meat, and horseflesh is sometimes eaten, usually as part of dry sausages. ** There's a reason for 'the megafauna thing'. Whales don't reproduce fast enough to maintain a harvestable population for industrial purposes. ** Horsemeat is quite popular in the world, and is indeed best for the cold-smoked dry sausages. ** Newsflash - all reindeer are ultimately kept for meat in all the Nordic countries. That's the primary reason they are raised. They're cheap to keep too, feeding themselves for the whole summer. The whole thing about pulling sleds is just a minor side benefit, especially in the days of cars and snowmobiles. There wouldn't be Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer for the Americans if we Nordics didn't eat the damn things. Guess when they are often eaten? Christmas. *** Though that's a modern thing - the Sami (Lapps), like most nomad herders, mostly kept their animals for milk and its byproducts. Killing off more than a few of each herd each year is inefficient, and if you are an inefficient nomad you starve to death. Nowadays, however, reindeer herding is modern ranch farming, like beef cattle. *** Not quite - though it's getting more common. As mentioned above, traditionally, and still quite often, the reindeer are actually set free into the forest for summer. They are then herded back together when the first snow comes as a joint effort by all the herders in the area, who recognise their own by their ear-marks, and keep them in for the winter months. The tradition isn't very old - only about 300 years. Before that most of the reindeer were wild, and were just hunted by the Sami, who kept only a few tame individuals around. * There is something called ''kakashere-prklt'' in Hungary. The literal translation to English for that would be ''rooster's balls stew'' (the pun possibilities using a different word...). ** A favoured delicacy in the vicinity of the Hungarian city of Miskolc is... ''sour cherry soup'' ! Well, that's not so bad... *** It ''isn't''. * Hungarian food. If I really wanted to squick out tourists I would cook our traditional "pig slaughter" beakfeast... It's main ingredient is the pig's blood. And I'm surprised that noone mentioned "pacal" yet. We tend to eat most internal organs. First rule of "peasant cooking": Waste not! * Iceland has hkarl, which, prepared traditionally, is shark that has been decapitated and gutted, buried under a layer of sand and stones for 6 to 12 weeks, then cut into strips and hung for several months. The end product reeks of ammonia. In an episode of ''The F Word'' host Gordon Ramsay ate some with stomach-turning results. ** The shark is simply one part of traditional Icelandic queasine, which is traditionally enjoyed at least once during the Icelandic "Thorri" season (late January to early February. Other items on the menu include; ''sviasulta'' (lamb head-cheese), ''lundabaggi'' (jellied sheep fat), ''svi'' (singed whole sheep heads) and ''hrtspungar'' (pickled ram's testicles). * The French are known for eating horse (though the Italians consume

the most per head), frogs and snails, and dog is actually regularly eaten some places on the continent, at least in Slovakia. In some parts of Italy, fried frogs are a traditional dish. ** There's only one village in Slovakia, where slaughtering dogs annualy for a special dish is common - Valask. Some rural areas in the Czech republic have the same weird tradition, but instead of dogs, they use ''cats'' (humourously covered-up by referring to cat meat as "roof rabbit steak"). * Many cultures include offal in their traditional dishes, but there are fewer ones that would consider bird saliva and shark cartilage as expensive delicacies. ** One of the cultures that ''does'' serve bird saliva and shark cartilage is Japan, where they are known as the less Squick-y swallow's nests and shark fins. However, [[AzumangaDaioh cayenne pepper is NOT exotic and in fact EXTREMELY spicy.]] [[HiccupHijinks And can cause]] [[HilarityEnsues hilarious and hard-to-cure]] [[HiccupHijinks hiccups.]] * Many Americans are {{squick}}ed at a favorite British meat pie filling: steak and kidney. Black Pudding (a sausage made of blood and fat) garnered a similar response. ** Blood sausages are a staple in a surprizing number of countries. *** In Finland, blood pancakes and (in northern regions) soup with potatoes, pork and something made out of blood, beer, rye and spices. The latter is extremely ''LoveItOrHateIt'' dish. * In the Philippines, Balut probably doesn't taste bad, but I suspect the main {{squick}} factor is the fact that it's a duck fetus. And there's ''dinuguan''. The main ingredients are pig's blood and intestines. It's more like a spicy stew than some outlandish bloodbroth, but the "pig's blood" part can still cause squeamishness. Also, the blood is ''black.'' And not for [[BlackBlood that purpose]]. ** We eat ducks, and we eat eggs, why should we be squeamish about an intermediate step? *** From foreigners I've talked to, it has more to do with the fact that the chick inside the egg is fully formed (with beak, feathers, and closed eyes) that looks as if it's begging you not to eat it. Doesn't bother me, though. *** Never having had it, I imagine it would be annoying trying to eat the meat off the bones. A full-grown duck is big enough that it wouldn't be a problem. I didn't like fish for a long time just because the spikes were annoying; I imagine this would be worse, since the bones would be harder. Or do you just eat it whole, bones and all? ** Similarly, one of the principal ingredients of the Balinese dish ''lawar'' is fresh pig's blood. * Honeypot ants. They're a type of worker that just chills out on the ceiling of the tunnels, storing food in its butt section. Generally they only live in the desert, they get to be about the size of grapes, and some people eat them, the food is some kind of sweet nectar or something. ** Those ants are known to be eaten by [[UsefulNotesOnAustralia Australian Aboriginals]], along with witchetty grubs, a favourite for {{Squick}}ing out other Aussies. ** Lemon ants are eaten in Ecuador. They're extremely small rainforest

insects that actually do taste faintly of lemon. * Chinese consider cheese to be "rotten milk". ** Considering that many cheeses are the result of bacteria breaking down proteins and sugars in milk, it's not that unreasonable of an assumption to make. *** This is doubly bad, since many southeast Asian cultures are not all that big on milk to begin with; Europeans are a bit of an aberration in that they (usually) retain the enzymes allowing them to digest lactose past infancy. ** The Chinese have 100-year-old egg as a delicacy, we've got nothing on them in the rotten food department there. *** Only they are neither 100-years-old, nor they are rotten -- they are pickled in straw and lye for several months. Though they are indeed something of an acquired taste, just like another lye-pickled "delicacy" -- Norwegian ''lutefisk'' (dried cod, reconstituted and cured in soda lye water), which Norwegians themselves jokingly call "a penance before God". *** Want to watch someone used to 100-year old egg squirm? Ask them to eat the egg and immediately drink Coke. Ghastly. * "Sweetbreads" (internal organs like the thymus gland and pancreas) aren't considered acceptable by ''most'' Americans except regionally, and then seldom at the same time. "Sweetbreads" are a big source of vitamins for people with no access to citrus fruits, though. ** More amusingly, plenty of people don't know that sweetbreads aren't types of bread. * It can be tough keeping kosher and eating in restaurants in the Southern US, where a meal isn't a meal until they throw a ham-hock into it. ** Similarly, Lithuanian cuisine has this habit of taking traditional Jewish dishes and adding bacon. * In Montana, we have a annual "Testicle Festival" that attracts rowdys and malcontents from all over looking for that extra shot of testosterone from properly-cooked bull testicles. ** [[TheSimpsons More testicles means more iron!]] * Haggis (the heart, lungs and liver of a sheep boiled in its own stomach) is the subject of such widespread Squick that it could be considered a trope on its own. ** Which is damned odd, considering that it basically tastes like a light-textured version of cooked ground beef, and looks pretty much like that, too. I swear, Americans can be such cowards... *** I'd describe its taste more as a cross between ground beef and pate. *** More like pate-flavored oatmeal with too much black pepper. *** I didn't mind the taste, I just didn't like the texture all that much. ** This one is particularly annoying when you realize that people who get all haired-out about haggis have no problem eating ordinary hot dogs and sausages. After all, what, exactly is a haggis? It's just a [[FreudWasRight BIG f*** ing SAUSAGE]]! ** Most people are squicked out simply by the description because so many people forget to mention that it's all ground up like a sausage along with onions, garlic, and barley. Once you tell them that the

sausage-eating types might give it a shot. *** That's exactly how it was explained to me when my friend convinced me to try it. It really wasn't bad; only problem was that it was made with like triple the amount of onions that anything could ever possibly need. * Sheep's Head Jelly is eaten in Iceland. It's ubiquitous enough that the endcap freezer units in grocery stores there will sometimes have two-packs of frozen sheep's heads in plastic bags. * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czernina Czernina]] is a soup from Poland made of Duck's blood and lots of different fruit (plus some noodles). * To some cultures, drinking extrusions of modified sweat glands containing natural proteins and sugars is shocking in the extreme. To others, it's delicious and nutritious milk. More specifically, humans are just as capable of drinking milk (or making products of the milk) produced by several different mammals - cows, buffalo, goats, horses, camels, yaks... the list goes on. Any given specific milk, however, can have this reaction to those not used to having it (admittedly, goat's milk can be an acquired taste). ** Justified because there's a thing called lactose intolerance. In Europe, people with this are a minority. In other cultures mentioned, they're, well, the ''majority''. ** Other foods that are favorites in Western culture can be {{Squicky}} in other parts of the world. Cinnamon, for example, tastes absolutely revolting to many sub-Saharan Africans. *** Interesting that milk and cinnamon are mentioned together here. This European lactose-tolerant troper has hated milk since childhood (though enjoys many milk-derived food products like cheeses and ice cream). He would also much rather eat 60-year-old wallpaper than anything with cinnamon in it. ** Lampshaded on ''RedDwarf'': Holly: "Plus it, (dog's milk) lasts longer than any other kind." Lister: "Why's that, then?" Holly: "No bugger'll drink it." ** Milk is [[@/{{endlessness}} This Troper's]] Brown Note. Specially warm milk, just the smell is enough to make him sick. Amusingly enough, milk-based foods, or even coffee with milk, give him no problems. * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple Scrapple]] is frequently described as "every part of the pig but the oink", which should mean that the gray, gelatinous loaf of pressed cornmeal and offal tastes horrendous. It's delicious. ** For certain, exceedingly generous definitions of "delicious." But there are those who consider liver a delicacy, and those who consider it an [[StockYuck abomination]]. *** It tastes awesome with maple syrup and eggs. *** [[EldritchAbomination That's... I mean...]] ''syrup and eggs''??? **** Furriners. You put the syrup on the scrapple, not on the eggs. Though I'm sure there are a few oddballs who like their eggs sweetened too. Also, for those of you who've never tried maple syrup, it's nowhere near as dense as, say, golden syrup. *** MALFUNCTION. Faith in Humanity corrupted. Reboot and try again. * Roasted and sliced horse penis is considered a completely acceptable

inclusion into some Asian meals. In parts of Mongolia, boiled testicles are a semi-common food. When you live on the most barren land in the entire world, you have to save all you can of a kill. ** Culinary penis is Pizzle. *** An Asian market not far from this troper stocks bull pizzle and pig uteri. Any ideas how best to cook these cuts? **** Not sure about the pizzle, but the uteri would probably be ''really'' good sliced into strips or chunks maybe an inch across, then sauteed with crushed black pepper, garlic and a little lemon juice. Oh, and butter, lots of butter. **** Butter makes EVERYTHING taste better. * In most of South-east Asia durian fruit is considered absolutely delicious. To most of the western world it tastes like it smells like week old rotten garbage. ** It smells bad to most of the South-east Asians, too; there are plenty of photos floating around the Net of the signs posted in public places showing a durian with a red line-and-circle "no" symbol across it. It's said that you don't notice the smell while you're actually eating the fruit; but everyone else is nauseated by it, even if they like eating durians themselves. *** Actually most SE-Asians consider the smell of fresh durian tolerable if strong or even pleasant. It's only after the scent's lingered for a few hours that you get universal revulsion. ** This might account for how some Asian grocery stores smell to an American shopper. * Around the world, guinea pig is cutesy household pet. In Peru it's a common meal. ** I raise you a dormice in Slovenia or at time farm-grown rats in some countries. ** According to The Other Wiki, there are projects to introduce guinea pig farming into some third-world countries, as guinea pigs take up little space, are easy to feed, and of course breed like rodents. * Rabbit. "You ''ate'' Bugs Bunny/Thumper/other famous rabbit?!" Yes. Tastes like chicken. ** Rabbit is ''delicious,'' especially fried. ** This Troper likes to think of game pie as Bambi, Thumper, and Daffy pie. *** [[{{QI}} Just remember to eat vegetables too!]] * The Midwest has the Brain Sandwich, pig (formerly cow) brain breaded and deep fried served on a bun. Most people won't make it to the "deep fried" part before losing their appetite, it's actually quite tasty. ** In Germany, a popular meal during autumn is ''Braunkohl und Bregenwurst'', which is boiled borecole a.k.a. green cabbage with a sausage traditionally filled with minced cow brain and herbs. (In some regions, the ''Braunkohl'' is instead called 'Grnkohl'', but it's the same plant, which has to be picked after the first frosty night.) These days, what with Mad Cow Disease, the sausages do not contain actual animal brain anymore, though. ** [[BrainFood BRAAAAINS...BRAAAAINS...BRAAAAINS]]!!!! * ''P'tcha'', popular with Eastern European Jews, basically consists of calves' hooves, boiled until gelatinous, then stewed with garlic and boiled eggs. About as appetizing as it sounds.

* Apparently Squirrel is delicious with a plate of spaghetti according to my father. Though some seem to be a bit grossed out at the idea. ** In Britain there's been a movement to convince people to eat squirrel; partly because of the health benefits (apparently it's quite lean and high in nutrients of some sort) and partly to protect the (now endangered, native) red squirrels from grey squirrels (which originated from the US and happen to be wiping out red squirrels through competition while at the same time damaging the forests). * Marmite. * Like squirrels, pigeons are an urbanized animal/pest most Americans would balk at eating. They are eaten in Europe, North Africa, and China. This humble troper tried some on a trip to Morocco, and yes, TastesLikeChicken. ** Although this troper would never eat urban wild pidgeons, because they can be flying plague pits. Plus, they have ticks. Better stick to domesticated pidgeons. * An indigenous Andean (If I could remember the exact tribe) beverage is fermented using...''human saliva''. ** Ahhh, ''Chicha de Jora.'' The Incas used it as ritual liquor, and it can be found in the Andean regions. Delicious stuff, comes in (at least) two varieties, sweet and sour; and carries quite the punch. This Troper, who appears to be impervious to Tequila, got knocked down with only two glasses. It is damn good. *** Utterly wrong, Chicha de Jora is just fermented maize... with as much alcoholic content as beer or wine. Masato is what the original poster was refering to and as a Peruvian from the coast I see how you are confusing a beverage from the Andes with a beverage from the Amazon and find it amusing how providentialism acts... Masato is from the jungle and Chicha de Jora is from the mountains, indeed in Peru the more East you go or else the more you drift from major cities the more queasinous food becomes but gastronomy-wise Peru's urban dishes are quite laureated wherever they are known. * Another food commonly eaten in the American South is opossum. It's greasy, but tasty enough. * This troper was on the other end of this. He was in Holland, watching an Australian movie. There was a scene where a bloke cooked up a pot of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saveloy saveloys]]. The whole audience made gagging noises and a few people covered their eyes. It just made me really miss saveloys. ** ...Have your classmates never seen sausages before? * This Floridian troper is quite fond of fried gator bites. Add a bit of lemon juice to it, and it's great. Venison (deer) makes excellent chili; I've been handed a chocolate-covered cricket and didn't balk at all when my friend told me what it actually was. And yet I want to gag every time my mother (of mexican descent) mentions menudo or fries chicken gizzards/livers. I will not ''touch'' any sushi that isn't a California roll or a shrimp, either. Me being me, though, the most outlandish thing I've ever eaten, by my standards, is Oysters Rockefeller, and by God it was delicious. ** Seconding the gator-bites-are-delicious. If you're in the South, EAT THEM. Especially since the gator population has rocketed to pest levels these days and the population could stand a tourist-induced

dent. *** Thirded. *** This troper tried gator on his recent vacation, it was a bit chewy but otherwise good, I wouldn't mind putting in it my normal diet if I lived down there. * Nutria is served in some places in the Deep South, as they're a bit of a pest species. Supposedly they're very low in calories, or fat, or something. * One day, this troper's mother lamented that she'd accidentally bought lamb chops instead of pork chops. This troper is a fairly BigEater, and despite feeling a bit saddened about eating a baby animal before it got to do anything useful, assured her mother that she'd try it anyway. ''It was one of the best pieces of meat she'd ever '''eaten'''.'' A bit greasy, but with a great texture and delicately sweet flavor. * This troper ordered a ramen combo that had nattou as a side dish. The nattou made him wish he had not done that. * On my trip to Japan, I didn't know how to read menus, so I had some misadventures, including: ** the convenience-store curry that had ''bacon'' in it ** the curry sauce and fatty pork udon that had a slick of oil 1cm deep on top ** the udon with bone-white grated yam lovingly topped with a raw egg. The texture was just ''wrong''. ** On the other hand, the onigiri were delicious, even the ones with cod roe. *** Don't knock the raw egg - ramen topped with raw egg yolk are DELICIOUS. **** Not when lukewarm and you're still feeling nauseous from eating curry with bacon two days before. * This Chinese Troper once invited his friends to dinner. It went over fine after they finished freaking out over the chicken. * Within some cultures here in South Africa, Mopani Worms are considered a delicacy. They're the larval stage of some or other beetle that are killed and dried (the heads are removed). Apparently they taste like chestnuts, but I'm not planning on finding out if that's true. * Something of an aversion: this troper had to explain repeatedly to American students at her UK university that "Toad in the Hole" did not in fact contain toad. * This American Troper is quite perplexed by the apparent English resistance to peanut butter. One of my favorite sandwiches is peanut butter and bacon on toast. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it. * For much of America and the rest of the world, Southern food. Lots of fried food, lots of biscuits, lots of putting those two things together and adding gravy. * This (European, not Australian) Troper is thoroughly grossed out by the idea of eating beef - not because she's vegetarian or anything, she just thinks it tastes DISGUSTING. On the other hand, crocodile and kangaroo are quite delicious to her... in barbecue, at least. * Rattlesnake. Yes, they are sometimes eated at Rattlesnake Roundups in the South of the U.S.A.

* This Troper was once taken to an all-you-can-eat buffet in a little town on the Gulf coast of Texas. A regular patron of the restaurant explained: "If you take something and you like it, take a little more. If you take some and you don't like it, put it back and don't ask what it is." * This Troper made takoyaki at a party, and most people were quick to chicken out as soon as they found out what one of the main ingredients was ([[spoiler:octopus]]). It didn't help that they weren't made properly, so they resembled small stuffed mushrooms rather than neat little spheres. Some people thought they tasted good, though. * [[Tropers/GamerFromJump My]] third day in Hong Kong had a welcome dinner for all of us exchange students and our local colleagues. One of the courses was chicken, not such a bad thing, except that the ''head'' was on the platter with the rest. "Please excuse me..." * All authentic Mongolian food. The stuff you see at those grills that claim to be Mongolian isn't actual Mongol cuisine, because actual Mongol food is sort of an acquired taste. Firstly, almost everything is made of meat and/or milk. Secondly everything ends up having the aforementioned fermentation Squick mentioned above; milk wine, 'halfcheeses', fermented milk from female horses, and of course chunks of animal fat you're expected to eat instead of ignore as in the Western world. And of course salted milk tea. Though the degree of queasiness present varies with people, there's usually something that can be pulled out that will manage to induce this in a foreigner. * This American troper recalls feeding foreign exchange students one of our cherished childhood foods in high school. The look on their faces when their palates encountered the mix of crunchy peanut butter and grape jelly of their sandwiches betrayed their diplomatic response when we asked them how it tasted. * Sashimi is this to my mother, and Japanese cuisine as a whole became this to my father when he went on a business trip to Japan. * This USian troper isn't much of a hot sauce fan to begin with (which perhaps isn't unusual per se, but there's some major hot sauce obsession in US cuisine), but finds sriracha (a Thai import that's slowly becoming ubiquitous here) particularly unapproachable, due to its smell of fermented peppers, garlic, and [[TastesLikeFeet toxic waste]]. ** Funny, because this troper adores Sirracha and loves to use it as a ketchup substitute any chance he can get. Of course, this could come from being an Arizonan, born and bred, as we are natural lovers of all things spicy. * This Canadian troper is puzzled by the apparent disgust of her American pals over poutine: it's french fries, covered in cheese curds, and topped with hot gravy until the cheese melts. It's delicious alone and delicious with beer, why do people get squicked by it? ** This American troper had to try it twice to appreciate it. It's hard to explain, but it is addictive. ---Go back to ForeignQueasine with an open mind. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

Foreshadowing * After some Chemistry practicals, I had a bit of iron (III) oxiderust, to the normals- stuck to my hands, and noticed with a chuckle that it looked a bit like dried blood. Sure enough later that day, I GOT A NOSEBLEED and had to catch all BLOOD in my HAND before I could get some paper... * From a work-in-progress MegaCrossover FanFiction: the specific chapter will be titled "[[ExcitedEpisodeTitle Filler or Foreshadowing? Fate and Yuuki's Kareoke Showdown!]]" when it finally gets written, and instead of filler-fest, I decided to see exactly how creative I could get with using the songs the characters would sing to foreshadow future events. My favorite? Fate (yes, [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha that Fate]]) singing [[NanaMizuki her seiyuu's song]], Eternal Blaze. Yuuki (original character, and a {{Digimon}} who loves to sing), goes up on stage to join her. It's pointed out that while Yuuki is very good at mimicing male voices, he can't do female voices - until a certain point in the story. While it later turns out that the "voice" comes from the consciousness of another character trapped within him. By using her voice, Yuuki is letting her possess him for a short while. In the kareoke chapter itself, another character calls attention to the translation of a certain line of the song that Fate lets Yuuki sing: "Transcending time, you are my angel of light, who fully accepted my mournful memories." Later, when it turns out Yuuki is the [[BondCreatures partner]] of a Kingdom Hearts character, as was the person inside him (yeah, [[MakesSenseInContext this made much more sense in my head]])...

ForeverWar * [[{{Tropers/Chabal2}} I]] often set up these kinds of scenarios in DawnOfWar, by exploiting the upgrade that allows you to build the basic Ork unit for free. Set up all your huts and forts to autoproduce sluggas, set rally point to just outside the conflict zone, and watch the green tide come and go, endless waves of blood spilled for your enjoyment.

ForgetsToEat * This Troper often does not get hunger feelings, and only realizes the need to eat when her stomach starts complaining. She also forgets to eat without a set schedule, leading to 'a snack and dinner' when not at school, or more commonly, being too lazy to get a snack and sleeping through dinner. During long school vacations, she pretty much lives on candy and water. * This troper on occasions. He has been known to get so engrossed with whatever project needs his attention that he only notices he has to eat when someone else goes by with food. * Although this troper can't eat for about an hour after she first wakes up, lest she gets ill, she usually tends to forget to eat until

about 4-5 in the afternoon. As a result she usually has "meal" instead of breakfast, lunch, or dinner. ** I have the same "can't eat for about an hour" problem, and frequently get absorbed enough online, with a household project, etc., that eating just doesn't occur to me. I think my record is realizing I'd been up and busy for about 10 hours and had not yet eaten anything solid (was taking in liquids). I'm not really an "organized meals" person for the most part, but tend to graze throughout the day. ** Both of you. Stop being me. ** All three of you, try foods which contain lots of water in the morning. Like fruit. (Or cucumber and/or tomatoes, if you call them vegtables.) Stay away from bread or cereals or stuff like that early in the day. Did I just give you FridgeBrilliance?? :D I hope so. * One day, I was in "flow" -- a state where burning genius turns an artist into a creating-zombie -- finishing a music video, when my step-father left to pick up dinner. I was finished by the time he got back and starving after not having eaten for hours. So when he started distributing everyone's orders, I asked what he got me. Taken aback, he told me that when he asked me, I said I wasn't hungry and didn't want anything. ''{{facepalm}}'' * [[@/{{Kriegsmesser}} This troper]] often forgets to eat if he's focused on something. He makes up for it by being a BigEater the rest of the time. * @/{{Nomic}}'s brother often blames him for being quilty of this trope. Usually it's not so much that he forgets to eat but that he eats enough biscuits in-between mealtimes to not be hungry. Altho sometimes he has forgotten to eat something and noticed only when his stomach starts loudly protesting. * Quote from this troper, an hour after having dinner. "Oh dear, I just realised I didn't have breakfast." He then had breakfast. * This troper is a painter, and will often enough get caught up in his work, and well, it happens. * This troper suffers from a bad case of programmer's trance. His personal record is three missed meals in a row. He then started using an alarm clock... it seems to work. ** What, that's it? * [[@/{{Mabus}} This troper]] usually forgot to eat at college while online--aided by the limited lab hours, but complicated by the equally-limited cafeteria hours. * [[@/{{Mysterynovelist}} This troper]] is a constant offender of this trope when she's on the internet; ironically enough, she's a BigEater. * This Troper was in a computer graphics class, when the teacher announce that it was time for lunch, none of the guys flinched. I was the only one who took a break to eat! * This troper frequently skips lunch. Usually happens during the holidays/at the weekend. * This troper forgot to eat dinner twice because of [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife this site]]. Heck, I haven't had dinner yet tonight either. Also, I've forgotten to eat breakfast on one occasion for no reason. * [[@/SovietKitty This troper]] does this a lot. She concentrates so intently that she can actually heat up a room by a good five degrees.

Once she gets going, nothing stops her. ...This article just reminded her that she hasn't had breakfast or lunch, today. Seriously. * I once forgot to eat for four whole days. I still have no idea how I managed to do that. To be fair, I was horribly jet-lagged at the time. * [[@/{{Pinata}} This troper]] has a tendency to do this. In fact, he just now remembered to get breakfast. * I once forgot to eat for two whole days. "Luckily", my body made up for it by making me faint at work and led to everyone thinking I had an eating problem. [[SarcasmMode Thanks, body]]. * This troper, due to the ridiculous hours (who the hell in college eats dinner before 7 PM?) of the dining halls on her college campus and the distance from her dorm often simply doesn't eat meals. At least this year she had an excuse -- last year one of the dining halls was ''in her dorm'' and she still skipped one or two meals a day. On the bright side, she ''lost'' weight freshman year instead of gaining it. At home, she ''still'' often doesn't eat because she doesn't want to deal with the cleanup. * [[@/PurplePantherGirl This Troper]] is usually an extremely greedy person and ExtremeOmnivore, but on more than one occasion (I.E. when I get a new [[TheSims Sims]] game) as I never eat breakfast, I end up not eating until dinner. Oops. * This Lurker gets into programming trances for several days and considers eating a pesky chore during this time. Several liters of strong black tea and a glass of yoghurt should be enough for a day, right? ** A ''glass'' of yoghurt? *** Sounds like one of those above people is American while the other is European. Bonus points for guessing who is which. *** Well, since this American troper lives partly on black tea (the other part is coffee; people tend to drink my stock of black tea ><) and frequently drinks yogurt as well (yes, from a glass), my bet is that the first one is the American. * This Troper forgets to eat all the time, regardless of how interesting the thing I was just doing was. * This troper, who is normally a BigEater , at one point while deep in a project, ate four meals in a week, filling the gaps with unfiltered John Silver's and coffee. * This troper will often forget to eat when I'm focused on something or maybe just because I don't want to eat. During high school I developed an absurdly high tolerance for hunger because I had the last lunch period. It also let me lose a ton of weight with literally no effort. * This troper once forgot to eat for an entire day and when she went off to Taekwondo, she nearly fainted because of the lack of energy. * This troper often forgets to eat normal stuff, especially on weekends and holidays. That is, she'll spend the whole day drinking cup after cup of coffee, maybe munching on some random snack, but then she'll realize it's 5 AM and she's had nothing but five cans of coke and some cookies in the whole day. ** This Troper's record is three days without food (Third day? [[spoiler:Thanksgiving]]). Admitidly, he takes a bit of cream (well, milk) in his coffee, and very much continued drinking copious amounts

of that. Said troper averages out about one meal a day (sometimes more, usually less), and usually not even a very large meal, and very simple fare at thatsomething like just a single bowl of cereal my meal for the day (my father jokingly commented I had the stomach the size of a walnut). Used to weigh ''180lbs'' when I was ''ten''. Twenty, and now at ''135lbs'' . On a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction#Effects_on_Humans near-starvation diet]], though this isn't on purpose. In my case, however, it has more to do with having a suppressed hunger response. I have not been hungry in years. Not that [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes]] isn't going to get me killed soon enough because of this. * A kinda tragic example. This troper's mother was rushed to the hospital when she was 13. She and her sister were left alone for 4 days. This troper sat upright sitting in the window waiting for her to come home and forgot to eat AND sleep for 4 days. She snapped out of it when her aunt came to take her to live in north Carolina. Where her mother was pronounced dead after two weeks. Heroic BSOD. Sniff... ** Do you want a hug? * This troper has forgotten to eat several times. Why? [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Take a wild guess...]]. One instance years ago is directly associated with [=SimCopter=]. * This troper's brother has, on three occasions, ended up vomiting because he went too long without eating. All three times, he only neglected to eat because he was to busy playing laser-tag, having a water balloon fight, etc... * This troper has a friend who simply forgets to eat. She doesn't actually do anything exciting or fun during the day to make her forget, she just doesn't remember that eating is something everyone needs to do. You'd think that the piercing pain in an empty stomach would remind her, but she apparently "doesn't get hungry." Ugh. * This troper was too lazy to feed herself one day, and she had Taekwondo at the end of the day. She almost passed out because she was so exhausted. * As of writing this this troper's done this two days a row. Should probably stop doing that, if only for my health. * This Troper has done this during NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). This was because she was on some god-forsaken psycho diet pill, which, among other things, 1) completely eliminated the need to sleep, 2) impaired my judgment horribly, and 3) got rid of my typical hunger response (that is, lowered energy and blood-sugar crashes. I don't get hunger pangs most of the time - if I did, it wouldn't have been as much of a problem.) Combine that with the fact that I was writing a novel, aaaaand... * I don't forget to eat so much as I tend to put it off as long as possible, because it's boring and I'd rather work on other things. * [[@/{{Cameoflage}} This troper]] once went 24 hours without eating anything bigger than a granola bar (my TrademarkFavoriteFood) because I went to bed hungry -- mainly because I was too tired to care at that point -- and then proceeded to sleep for at least twelve hours, possibly closer to fifteen. And, defying the purpose of breakfast, I never have an appetite right after I wake up; it usually takes at least an hour before I feel hungry, frequently even longer. I only

noticed the problem when orneriness brought on by stealth hunger caused me to get into a pointless argument. More commonly -- usually I don't go ''that'' long without eating -- I forget to eat because I'm either engrossed in some new thing or just ''don't feel hungry''. Like, the last time I ate was about seven or eight hours ago, and I only feel slightly hungry. Although my stomach is making gurgly sounds. * [[@/{{Felius}} This troper]] never ''forgets'' to eat. His internal hunger signs are quite noticeable. He frequently is too lazy to get up and get something to eat though, even if it's merely going to the kitchen to get a piece of bread. * * waves little flag reading "Me Too!"* I mostly blame it on the fact that I rarely to never ate lunch for most of high school, preferring to hide in the library and read TerryPratchett books instead of dealing with the ludicrously loud, hot, and crowded lunchroom, but now I'm usually hungry for two meals a day at tops and occasionally forget to eat even when I ''am'' hungry. ** Hey [[@/TacoNinja I]] do that too! The cafeteria at my college is always unbelievably crowded and loud so I either forget about lunch altogether or sneakily eat in the library while reading (it's ''heaven'' when I get away with it). * This troper, despite loving food of all kinds and being a BigEater when it -is- mealtime, oddly fulfills this trope as well simply out of having so many other interesting things to do. * I'm hyperglycemic and with the high blood sugar, I'm just generally not hungry. I eat more by time than by hunger... longest I've gone was four days, at which point a blinding headache and yarfing every time the thought of food entered my head didn't help much. Ended up eating a spoonful of apple jelly at a time, holding onto it as long as I could then another until I was balanced enough to eat something more solid. Now, I try and keep a schedule, eat about an hour after I get up (6pm, work nights) and again at midnight... Vacations mess me up. :P * This troper left his home for college about two months ago. When visiting his family, his mother noticed that he managed to lose 3.5 kilograms within that period. Mind you, that the troper is 180 cm in height, and already weighted a mere 57 kilos when he left. When his mother asked if he had anorexia or something, this troper simply stated that he did not enjoy the act of eating, and would rather spend his time and money on manga and videogames. Because of this, this troper is now weighed every time he visits his home, and is really going to have it if he ever dares to lose a single gram again. * This troper, on the other hand, while he does not often go for long without food (unless you consider half a day or so, and about two mealtimes missed to be long) only manages to do this because he more or less constantly reminds himself to eat. When he's engrossed in something like the Net or gaming, he has to remind himself to get up and get himself something to eat, if only some sort of snack that can be consumed as he goes. This is revealed by the fact that he has remained in the same weight range for the past 2 or so years, despite going through puberty. * This male troper tends to do this and fall into irregular eating

patterns whenever he's living alone. Hey, food requires focus, and I have a habit of focusing on things (this site, for one). ** Funny, little off-topic troper tale: I was eating some toasts while reading this page. Then, exactly when I was reading the statement "food requires focus", the honey I had on the toast I was just holding started to drip off the toast (as I was apparently holding it at an angle), onto my hand and my chair... So you could say, the validity of that statement was demonstrated to me just the moment I was reading it. * Food? Right, that's that thing you do to not die, huh? @/{{Neep}} once forgot to eat lunch, went on a twenty-mile bike ride for an afternoon amusement, came home to go out to dinner with his family, and nearly fainted while waiting to be seated at the restaurant. Apparently coming close to passing out makes your vision tunnel until you can't see anything. * This troper. Laziness + inability to cook + video games is a really bad combination. * This troper's brother is a BigEater, but when he gets a new video game, he holes up in his room and forgets to eat unless we (my family and I) tell him to eat. This troper averts this and PoopSocking, by pausing the game (or letting my character getting killed), to go eat, go to the bathroom, etc. * I used to forgot to eat in high school. Well -- my record is a bit more than 24h when I skipped several meals, have meeting during lunch break and then have break cancelled to finish earlier. However if I have routine of eating missing it even for an hour.... * This troper, during freshman year at highschool, didn't eat anything big for a whole month without any sideeffects... Then again, I hardly ever ate and I hardly ever eat. I don't really know why. Maybe that's why I'm only like 5'5 and weight 115 pounds. Eh, who really knows? * ThisTroper is the [[BigEater Family Garbage Disposal]] but has entire weekends on two meals, if only because he works for Campus Food Services and eats with his break. Still, a combination of being a night owl and focusing too much causes this. He sleeps through breakfast, and writes/plays computer games/programs until he realizes he's been in there too long and needs to eat. Civilization has on more then one occasion stopped this troper from eating all day. I just needed that one more turn! * [[@/ThisTroper SilverShoelaces]] ForgetsToEat frequently. She isn't even busy most of that time; she's just never hungry. It has led some people to believe that she is anorexic (which is true in the technical sense that she is never hungry), while she is really a BigEater when she does remember the feeling of hunger. Sometimes. She eats because the food is good, and not because she's hungry. But because of that and the fact that her hunger signals never reach her brain, she has actually gone to the trouble of putting meals into her planner and setting an alarm for them. * Happens on and off to [[@/{{Bookhobbit}} this troper.]] A couple of months ago she went so long without eating that she passed out for a couple of seconds, throwing her mother into a worried frenzy. She also makes herself wait at least six hours between meals, which means that most of the time she's not thinking about it. A normal day constitutes

her not having breakfast until at least three or four hours after she gets up, and very frequently not at all. Doesn't usually forget dinner, though, since she cooks for the family, and they remind her. * [[@/{{Lullabee}} I]] do this only on very rare occasions -- when I was on my ADD meds, I did it a lot more often, but now I've stopped using them, I've discovered I [[BigEater really like food]][[hottip:* :Yet I've hardly gained any weight. Huh. BigEater: also TruthInTelevision]]. However, my roommate does this ''all the time''. I regularly have to point out to her that it's dinner time, and when she has a lot of work to do, she sometimes skips meals on purpose. Geez. * [[@/{{Lazarus}} I]] began doing this when my family life started becoming less than friendly, and I started avoiding sitting at the dinner table. At some point, I became used to eating a single meal, somewhere near 4pm, but always in a social context. Nowadays I don't have much of a social life, so I eat toast sometime in the morning, and that's all. Eating alone is too boring. On the upside, when I have someone to talk to while I eat, I eat the equivalent of four or five meals at once. And then sleep a lot. * [[@/{{Kinitawowi}} This troper]]'s cousin, uncle and uni mate all need significant prodding to eat anything, and even more prodding to eat anything remotely substantial. The uncle regards himself as a grazer who resents the concept of meals as a chore. The cousin (the uncle's son) ''wishes'' he was a grazer - and claims to be - but it's more that he simply can't be arsed to eat (there's a suspicion that he may be anorexic). The uni mate... probably fits the concept of the trope most accurately, usually forgetting food due to computer addiction. * This troper frequently forgets to eat - sometimes for a whole day. * [[@/CyberBlade This Hypoglycemic Troper]] has this problem. And since not eating can result in headaches, chills, paleness, shaking, any combination of those (and more), he really has tried to be more careful these days. * [[@/SladeJT This Troper]] does this as well. Most commonly I miss breakfast and maybe lunch. My personal record for number of meals missed in a row was five: I did not eat one day and almost had nothing the next. There was no excuse for that. I was just involved with video games, computers, and good novels. * This troper has this problem when she doesn't have a set schedule (i.e. she's not in school). And usually, it's not so much that she forgets to eat, more that she procrastinates on it because she's so engrossed in reading/surfing the web. * This troper honestly loves to eat, but with a combination of intense focus on things I'm doing at a time and an irregular work schedule (I work graveyard), I often end up just eating once a day because the time just zooms on by. It's probably the only reason I haven't become really big, and I'm big already. My brother, on the other hand, is rail thin and also forgets to eat many times. He's even admitted that he doesn't really like eating much, and it's something our mother constantly frets about with him, to the point she'll be wringing her hands at while he's at school wondering if he's even eaten. * This troper if she gets in to online games. This is why she can't

play them anymore. * This happens often to this troper, but sometimes she notices that she has forgotten to eat but decides it doesn't matter. Being a little awkward about how much she eats and weighs, she usually thinks missing a meal or 2 doesn't matter. * Often deliberate with [[@/{{neves783}} This Troper]], using the unused lunch cash to buy counterfeit trading cards instead. * This troper is both a college student and an actor, and occasionally makes it worse by taking studio art classes. So she'll often have class, then run over to the next building to get some work done in the ceramics studio, then get carried away there and make it back to the theatre just in time for call, and next thing she knows it's halfway through the second act and she's wondering why she feels kind of not well. (This year she remedied the problem by hiding a stash of ramen and a pair of chopsticks backstage.) * This troper, frequently. Overweight since childhood, she was forced to endure crash diets against her will at various points growing up. This, instead of leading to weight loss, instead led to her no longer feeling hunger and getting used to functioning with very little food. This, coupled with the more typical reasons for this trope (ie, becoming so engrossed in an activity that everything else falls by the wayside), leads to this becoming a rather serious problem. Her first sign that she should eat something is generally when she gets so light-headed she can't stand. It's gotten to the point where her friends, instead of greeting her with something like "Hi, how are you?" almost always say "Have you eaten yet today?" ** And if you say no, They will forcibly drag you to the nearest food source, as someone just did to me today. * This troper sometimes forgets to eat, sleep, and sometimes even go to the toilet (he didn't wet himself, his bladder just sort of gave up trying to pee) because he was doing something on the computer. He also forgets to watch his favorite TV shows because he's doing something on the computer, forgets to ''do something else on the computer'' because he's doing something on the computer. Hell, during school he started doing something on the computer that he probably shouldn't have been doing, and he forgot to stop doing it when the teacher came round for a look. * This Troper refuses to skip breakfast, but during the last musical as a high-school techie, I found myself skipping half of lunch and dinner to get more done. Not good when you're already working 15-hour days, counting classes. * This tropette tends to do this when she's gotten herself into a new anime, fandom, researching, writing, or basically anything else that involves any amount of concentration...It also gets her yelled at. * This Troper, who is an avid WoW player, is thankful that his mother comes in to remind him to eat when he doesn't leave his room for several hours. Even if his stomach is digesting itself for sustenance, he won't notice it himself as long as he's in a raid. * [[{{ICantThinkOfAWittyName}} This troper]] is an inversion. No matter how engrossed she is in something, or asleep, she always wakes up/realizes she needs to eat at the exact time she needs to. Cue weird looks from family when she's deeply asleep on a couch, then, with no

prodding whatsoever, sits straight up and proclaims "where's my food?" It gives some people a sense of [[{{Narm}} slight Narm on her part]]. She doesn't know why (or '''how''') she does it...she also knows the day and relative time instinctively. She's creepy, man. ''* shudders* '' * This Troper often does this for days on end. Not helped by the fact that she never really ''gets'' hungry... or the fact that [[IllGirl she's already rather sickly as-is.]] She's been hospitalized several times because lack of energy has made her illnesses way worse than they have to be. * sigh* ** [[CorporealWolf This Troper]] has been known to accidentally skip lunch now and then, leading to a family in-joke stating that he sustains himself on video games. * This troper just barely averted this;she was so caught up in a pm conversation that, if her mother hadn't come in and told her how late it was, she would have forgotten to eat dinner. * This Troper has NEVER had this problem, and has a low tolerance for hunger. Her mother has the WHOLE FAMILY on the Atkins Diet despite only HER needing it -.- Do the math, and add in that said Troper has some sort of medical condition (currently Hyperinsulinemia, though is wondering if it's something else due to various other symptoms and lack of others) which makes it worse. ** This Troper would also punch people out if they call her anorexic. *** DON'T CALL ME A STICK YOU ******* s! * FALCON PAWNCH* **** This other troper just read that as "Falcon Paunch" and feels rather horrible about it. * This one takes a certain kind of stimulant for symptoms of ADD, which has the unfortunate side-effect of suppressing one's appetite. Couple that with the medication making me focus on my work and a preexisting love of MMO's, and we have a troper who can't even remember to eat the noodles he put on the stovetop 2 hours ago. * I'm the one who put the message at the bottom of the trope page. Yes, I had done so. * Several times, this Troper will get online mid-afternoon, and next she looks up its midnight, and all she's had was a cup of coffee and a poptart this morning. Then she decides to add a few more trope examples and maybe watch another episode of anime, thinking she'll throw something in the microwave at two. She actually does about half the time. * This troper has a tendency to forget breakfast, forget to buy lunch, not eat anything when she gets home, and then not want to eat dinner because her metabolism never kicked into gear and she's not hungry. She does this during the summer when she has no schedule, too, frequently realising she should eat, going out into the kitchen, and making herself a cup of tea instead while completely forgetting what she came out for in the first place. * This troper normally oversleets and skips breakfast. Then only eats when prompted by others or headaches. Of course, constantly drinking tea helps make the headaches take longer to kick in and spreads meals further apart. * This troper has the 'not hungry when you first wake up' problem, which doesn't help when I work or have class early. This usually leads

to grazing and/or liquid meals between classes or on my break. My first real meal of the day often comes between 5 and 8. * [[@/{{ChutneyProphet}} This troper]] tends to go for hours and hours without eating, than realize that she is starving and devour everything in sight. Skipping a meal or two is quite commonplace for her. Like many others who forget to eat, her case is often caused by her getting thoroughly absorbed in a project. She actually looks forward to moving out because then, and only then, will no one pester her about her eating habits. * This troper, who hates to waste food, has a friend, that whenever he comes over to hang out, this troper has to remind him to clear his plate so that a plateful of food doesn't go to waste for nothing. * [[@/{{Clae}} This troper]] used to skip lunch and dinner a lot (and now still does it on occasions) when working on stuffs those need great concentration (ie. drawing and difficult homework), and she is usually already too tired to eat by the time she is finished. Due to her health problems, her parents gave her quite a hell when they found out about it. * @/PhoenixFire: Food? What is this "food" you speak of? * [[@/{{Gerusz}} This troper]] frequently goes 16-24 hours without food. If the sugar input (by the means of espresso shots that probably qualify as poison in most countries) is right, he doesn't really need to eat. When he does however, he is a BigEater (and a SupremeChef). * As a rather shut in individual, and someone who spends the majority of his day writing or playing vidja games, my stomach has shrunken to the point of being able to go days without food without really noticing. This pisses off my overweight mom to no end, and my granmda has suggested I write diet book based on how I mange to do it, though it'd pretty much consist of a single page with the words "Play Tetirs" on it. I also somehow manage to subvert it though, cuz when I DO get hungry, I could basically spend all day eating non stop and never be quite satisfied. I'm like a werewolf, since it only eat once in a [[IncrediblyLamePun blue moon]], and I keep bothering everyone to get me take out and pizza, and I don't get hairy or [[MetaphorGotten crave the blood of the innocent.]] * [[Tropers/MonkeyPhysics Yon troper]] does this not because he's concentrating on something - it's more due to his brain being almost perpetually [[CloudCuckoolander out to]] [[IncrediblyLamePun lunch]]. * I get so caught up in writing and drawing comics that I tend to forget to eat. The longest I've ever gone without food was three days... I think. I dunno, the memory's a bit blurry. Anyways, its gotten to the point where I suffer dizzy spells, and my sister refuses to let me leave the house without a snack or two. I'm trying to get into the habit of carrying snacks in my pockets so that this kind of thing doesn't happen. * This Troper(Zloke) forgets to eat and sometimes sleep when working on schoolwork, stories for table top rpgs, or when just reading a really interesting book. * This Troper forgets to eat and drink while playing on the computer. If there is something to drink at the PC I'll drink it, but if there isn't is it not so much of a problem either. * This Troper says hi. Mostly happens when she's on the computer or on

the TV. Case in point, I spend 29 hours straight working on a story idea. This trope happens a lot on campus too but gets subverted there as she often has a snackbox on her person. Sometimes, though, [[DoubleSubversion she forgets the presence of the snackbox.]] * I have a tendency to forget to eat, but usually I can remind myself enough; it's not that I get distracted, it's that certain medications suppress my appetite. If it goes on for too long I'll either get to the point of "wow I'm shaking" or I go and eat a house. Even then, I don't eat breakfast or supper really; instead of the traditional 3meals-a-day I have giant 3 p.m. (or 15:00) lunches or tons of snacks all in a row. It's meh. * My friend's parents were considering getting my friend's younger brother an apartment in the city when he was in high school, because they lived quite far from the city and were getting tired of driving him back and forth to school and soccer practice five days a week. However, they had to remind him to eat on a daily basis, and thus decided against it out of fear that he would starve himself to death out of absent-mindedness if left to his own devices. * My years in high school (the school cafeteria food in my Swedish high school was free, but vile) taught me how to ignore hunger for hours on end. Nowadays, when I realise that I'm hungry when I'm in the middle of something ([[WikiWalk Wiki walking]], for example) I plan to ignore it until I'm done with what I'm doing, but after ignoring it for about half an hour, it kind of... goes away and I forget about it. When the hunger returns in full force between six and ten hours later, however, I need food ''right now'' or I'll go all shaky and practically collapse. * [[Tropers/{{Seiryu}} This troper]], [[BlatantLies once or twice.]] -->'''Friend''': When was the last time you ate? -->'''Seiryu''': I have no idea. Probably breakfast. -->'''Friend''': Oh, okay. -->'''Seiryu''': Yesterday. -->'''Friend''': '''''GO EAT!''''' * This troper has forgone eating so many times now that any strong smell of food leaves her nauseous. * This troper has a full load at high school and a local community college and often forgets to eat while trying to keep up with the workload, often for twelve to eighteen hour stretches. * [[Tropers/IcyDragonPolaris This troper,]] much to the dismay of his female friends. I could go for a couple of days without noticing, except I find myself in possession of a VerbalTic after the first 10 or so hours (namely, "God ''damn it''") * Food has never particularly interested this troper (not in a mentally ill kind of way, I'm just not fussed), so he often forgets to eat food that's ''right there'', or just doesn't even consider eating for hours at a time before suddenly realising after about ten hours that, yeah, maybe I should eat something. * How did I lose ten pounds? I went on the "I'm going to grind a few levels on this RPG, finish a few chapters on this book, and edit this article -- ''then'' I'll eat" diet. I ''love'' food, too... * [[@/{{Fishsicles}} this troper]] forgets to eat, sleep, check his webcomics, anything if given a sufficiently interesting programming

project. When I finish, I eat everything in sight, pass out, and then [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking spend about an hour sifting through my RSS]]. * [[@/{{MeiYouMayo}} This troper]] calls this the "Show Diet". Dancing, singing, and otherwise running around a lot all day? Check. Choosing between healthy sit-down meal and going to rehearsal? Check. Refusal to eat junk food because of vegetarianism and commitment to losing weight? Check. * [[{{Alynnidalar}} This Troper]] readily and willingly eats (and eats a ''lot'') whenever a real meal is provided, but when left to her own devices, tends to forget. A large part of it is that I don't notice myself getting hungry until I'm ''really'' hungry, so if I'm distracted by anything else--reading, listening to music, [{TVTropesWillEnhanceYourLife TVTropes]], and the like--I simply won't notice time passing. Out of concern for my health, I'm always sure to eat breakfast on days when I have to go to school before lunchtime, but there's been more than once when, after being home alone all day, I get to supper and realize I've only had two cookies, a handful of chips, and a banana since supper the night before. This leads to problems when I try to do physical exercise like bike riding and forget I've had less than 500 calories or something the entire day... * This troper has long since lost count of how many meals he's missed because of browsing tvtropes (or Wikipedia, or ImpishIdea, or the university library...) * [[{{Tropers/MoonageDaydream}} This Troper]] has the same problem as many of you-- the Internet and homework distract her so much she'll just not realize that she should probably get off her ass and eat something. She'll eat like a cow when at home and her mother calls her for dinner (her family's big on the whole "sit around the table" thing), but when she's at college... * This Troper and her father are both frequent victims of this trope. It goes something like this: "Oh, work/the internet is very absorbing... Hmm, I think I need to use the restroom. Ohgodtheroomisspinningohsweetmotherofjesus WHERE IS THE KITCHEN?" We both joke about it all the time, but the problem is that our tempers also tend to get a bit short when hungry, which leads to a lot of yelling at bad computers before realizing "Hmm, maybe I'm [[GenreSavvy just hungry]]." * This Troper very often has an incredibly busy schedule (a cappella/theatre rehearsals, classwork, meetings, etc.), and thus sometimes get so absorbed in all the things she has to do that she completely forgets to give herself time to eat. After about 12 hours I start to get headaches and my hands become shaky, and around then I figure out that I need food. * This troper doesn't go to the crazy lengths of some of the other people here, but I have been accused of being an anorexic multiple times now, due to my tendency to never eat at school. Like, ever. The last time I've eaten during the hours of 9.00-3.00 was months ago. I think, however, I make up for it by eating a lot at home. It would explain why I'm so fat. * You know you're a sad case of this when the only thing saving you from [[BigEater gluttony]] is {{sloth}}!

* This Troper used to be on ADHD medication, in ninth grade. Ever since then, I won't know I'm hungry until I'm weak and shaky. I often get preoccupied with classes and writing, so of course she forgets to eat. It's especially bad in the summer when storms are frequent. And yes, this troper has been underweight, and is now on the very small end of "healthy weight." * This tropette is perfectly capable of spending hours readins, watching television, or computering without food, bathroom breaks, and only occasional water. Many a time her mother has come home at 8 to ask 'What did you eat for dinner?' for the reply 'Oh. Um....' * Averted: I almost never forget to eat, but when I do I can only miss two meals before feeling dizzy on account of my hypoglycemia. I also like the break from schoolwork my meals afford me. * Funny enough, the bit about the ADHD meds applied to me - I would forget to eat or simply not be hungry. Once I cold turkey'd the meds, my appetite became the stuff of legends. Or at least, the common joke amongst friends. * This tropette is simply not hungry sometimes, and the rest of the time I lives on tea and coffee (I commented on something above; if you scroll up, you'll probably find me). I've been known to grab a cup of coffee/tea/cocoa (depends on what's available), skip lunch, and sleep through dinner. * This tropette [[HeavySleeper slept through breakfast.]] Apparently, her brother, father, and mother all tried waking her up, and only got: "Eh..." ---Go back to ForgetsToEat, and... wow, are you sure you're alright? ----

ForgotICouldFly

ForgottenBirthday * In a real life subversion, this troper's sixteenth birthday went completely unacknowledged by her friends and even her parents. This was the biggest in a long line of disappointing birthdays, but nothing quite compares to the feeling of being completely forgotten about. ** Sounds like You need a Hug and I reminder that ''{{YouAreNotAlone}}'' * In Real Life, this has happened to This Troper on more than one occasion. It's really not that big a deal. People ask for forgiveness, and you give it. Not worth getting upset over. * My friend's family gave her one small crappy present for her birthday, then shipped her off to my house. She spent the entire 3+ hour visit whining about how her family forgot her birthday. She seriously did not see the surprise party coming. 0.o * This troper has worked hard for the last 10 years to get his family and friends to forget his birthday. * Ehhh... Nobody ever forgets hers, but this troper has woken up and

forgotten it was her birthday and didn't know until she was wished a happy one. * This troper's friends completely forgot about her birthday last year and instead proceded to talk about another friend's birthday (which happens to be two days after my birthday). I decided to mess with their minds and not bring it up, so that when somebody else mentioned it, they'd feel embarrassed and ignorant. It worked. It was cruel and I manipulated their emotions, but they deserved it. ** You ''{{Magnificent Bastard}},I Salute You! * Hell, I'm so absent-minded I almost forget ''my own'' birthday most years. It's just another day in the end, an arbitrary line in the sand. * This troper birthday was once forgotten by everyone who was on her birthday party guest list considering the party was on her actual birthday and the troper was (turning) eight... Yea not a pleasant childhood memory. * I've seen this played completely straight. I was asked by a friend's mom to take her out for coffee at about 4PM on her birthday. When I came to get my friend, she was furious that her family had let her birthday pass without even acknowledging it. Of course, there was a huge party waiting when she went home, and she was completely surprised. I really wanted to yell [[GenreBlindness "Have you never watched TV?!!?"]] but [[NoodleIncident that kind of thing has gotten me in trouble at least twice.]] * This happened two years running, for this troper's 16th and 17th. Both times, this troper was among the people who forgot. Being at boarding school didn't help - there weren't parents to remind her when she woke up. It was only when she got a text from her mother the next day asking how her birthday went that she remembered. "It was my birthday yesterday!" and "Hey, did you know I can drive now?" were this (British) troper's phrases of choice. * This troper doesn't care about his birthdays, but he's never forgotten it. He has, however, forgotten he was a year older. Also, he doesn't bother remembering other peoples' birthdays, or most holidays for that matter. * Me and my friend were chatting on MSN late at night, at around 1am. I mentioned to him "Hey, its your birthday tomorrow" and when he woke up he thought it was his birthday as he forgot that 1am is the next day. He forgot his birthday on the real day, til his mum told him "Happy Birthday" and gave him a present. * People I know(even family) always forget mine. Doesn't bother me that much even when I was a kid. * I always feel awkward telling people "My birthday is in x days!" so I just don't bring it up unless they ask. This often leads to people forgetting it, even people who've known me for ''years''... My sixteenth was the worst though, since literally EVERYONE except for my parents forgot about it. * This troper was once told by a friend that she wouldn't be around for my birthday. When told that my birthday was the day after we had to get our schoolbooks, she asked when it actually was. Upon telling her, she insisted that I was lying. * This troper experienced a subversion when she turned eighteen. Her

JerkAss father didn't forget her birthday per se, but rather used the occasion as an excuse to have a party...for the members of his union at work. She celebrated her eighteenth birthday with a bunch of drunk men she didn't know who had no idea it was her birthday. (Possibly for the best, since they didn't know I was legal...) * This troper's family totally forgot her fifteenth birthday. After a week of waiting for the surprise party portion of this trope to take place, she finally mentioned that her birthday had been forgotten to her parents. Their response? Her father said, "Don't get so worked up about it; your birthday isn't anything special." Her mother's response? "I don't know if you've ''earned'' it." ** Sounds like some Stiffings come Fathers Day and Mothers Day are coming up.Thats what We call ''{{Laser Guided Karma}}'' * This troper's sixteenth birthday was forgotten by her friends until she told them, which sucks because this troper remembers their birthdays. But then they threw an awesome surprise party for her (even though this troper didn't want one) so it kind of makes up for that. Now a couple of her friends are already asking her what she wants for her birthday. * This girl has an obsession with her birthday (February 14th!!) and, since most of the people she knows remember it, she can't stand being asked when her birthday is in this new school... * My mother has completely forgotten that her own birthday was in a few days. What's strange is that she was talking about my upcoming birthday at the time. Which happens to be on the same day as hers. * My twenty-first birthday felt rather anticlimactic. Only two people said "Happy Birthday" to me that day, and the "party" that was held a week later (yeah, I know, I really shouldn't expect much at my age, but still ...) fell flatter than a CD (the best present I got was a book I'd never heard of). Even now, some people ask for a reminder of how old I am and appear completely surprised when I mention I'm 21. (And no, there was no drinking party; that said, I don't drink. Almost none of my friends helped celebrate, let alone remembered. And if you're wondering whether my parents remembered .... [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye well ...]]) * This is the trope that turned [[{{Tropers/Pittsburghmuggle}} this Troper]] on to TVTropes. I've always thought this was the lamest desperation plot (even since childhood), and when a friend directed me to this site it was the first I looked for. [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife The rest is history.]] * There really isn't anyone who gives a damn about this troper, and most birthdays after the age of ten (with the exception of her bat mitzvah) have gone unacknowledged. ** I think You need to get directed to the ''{{YouAreNotAlone''}} Tales section * This troper happens to hate birthdays and its social conventions, never tells the date not even to its closest friends, and encourages the few who know and family to just ignore it. What happens next? To dismay of the troper, every person he knews remembers, even people who normally forget special dates....I'm the living inversion of the trope? * This troper's highschool included everyone's birthdays in the daily

announcements... except hers. Also, the past two birthdays have been my parents buying me a pizza and then sending me to the movies by myself. * ''Frostsabre.'' Probably due to this trope, the first e-mail I received from my mom (whom I have not met since God knows when) had something like "What presents does [troper] want?" And it was not on my birthday, it was on my dad's. * Has happened to this troper before. Probably doesn't help that I never mentioned it, but this troper 1. Doesn't really mind since he doesn't really care about his birthday, and 2. April 1st is a horrible day to have a birth day on * This has happened to my mother's family frequently, as a brutal subversion. This was basically because my mother's parents didn't care for condoms or birth control, had no way in hell to raise the number of kids they had (SEVEN!), and they really didn't care. I remember, a few years ago, we got a cake for my mother's youngest brother, who was in his early to mid-forties by that time. Before eating the cake, he noticed that it was the first birthday cake he'd ever gotten. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it were the same for his four other brothers. * Played straight and subverted with this troper for the past three years. Played straight primarily as my family is usually busy and my birthday is in the middle of summer. Subverted in that I've even been forgetting it. * This troper actually forgot his own 16th birthday. No one else forgot though(if they even knew about it). * Played straight with my great-aunt and her 85th birthday party. Granted, she wasn't entirely sure she was right about the date, due to her senility regarding her sense of time, but she apparently was [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior cussing out her daughter]] in Spanish the whole time in the car on the way to the house where it was planned. Probably the best Real Life CrowningMomentofHeartwarming I have ever was seeing her tear up at relatives who had traveled from all over the state to celebrate with her as the mariachi band we had hired played in the background. * This troper remembers his birthday but forgots every single one of his family member's birthdays, including his mother's. Oh, did he mention his name is ForgetfulJones? ---If you head back to ForgottenBirthday, try to at least ''pretend'' to be surprised, okay? ----

ForgotTheCall * Inversion in a skit my 8th grade class put on- one of the boys fell, hit his head, and got up thinking he was Batman- to the point where he thought his clothes were Batman's costume, and any time someone new walked in, he would yell, "IT'S THE JOKER!" and try to run away. In the end he hit his head again, and when someone didn't realize he had and finally called him Batman, he started spinning around- "Batman! Where?"

---We need you to save the day again! ForgotTheCall? ----

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ForHappiness Yes, there really are people like that. ---* Too bad we can't think of any at the moment. ** More like [[@/KatanaCat the one who started this page]] was having trouble describing her beliefs. * This is more or less how my moral code works, since I tend to judge actions based on their results rather than the principles behind them, and I try to compromise in conflicts whenever possible. Since I'm not a hero though, this doesn't mean that I can always provide it... ** In other words: I'm pretty much ok with everyone, as long as they're not hurting themselves/others. * Half of the anons on GaiaOnline in recent events. Particularly the love it or shove it valentines event and 2k10 christmas event. * This Troper's father is pretty much this. As long as he is left plenty of time to nap and read, he'll do pretty much anything to help anyone (provided it doesn't look like it'll hurt them later) and spoils this troper, her friends and half the friendly drunks in town completely rotten. ** Which leaves this troper with an inferiority complex about the size of the Moon, because she would very much like to be like this too but unfortunately inherited her mother's volcano-esk style temper. ---Go back to [[ForHappiness main]]... FOR HAPPINESS! ----

ForInconveniencePressOne * Due to a horribly ill-conceived student rent system in the housing estate I live at, you are required to pay one term of rent at a time: about 1200 pounds. You are required to do so by debit card. A payment that big flags on the bank's computer as suspicious, and you get a call from a bank computer that goes something like this: -->"Hello, this is the Natwest fraud detection service. We need to verify your identity. In which month were you born? For January, press 1. For March, press 2. For June, press 3." '''[2]''' "Thank you. On what day of the month were you born? For the 11th, press 1. For the 14th, press 2. For the 22nd, press 3." '''[1]''' "Thank you. Please input the last three digits of your security code." '''[*** ]''' "Thank you. Does your mother's maiden name begin with the letters - J - O? If yes, press 1. If no, press 2." '''[1]''' "Thank you. On Friday - the - 10th - of - January - you spent - 1200 - at - a shop or supermarket. To confirm this transaction, press 1. If you are unsure, press 2." '''[1]''' "Thank you. On - Wednesday - the - 8th of - January - you withdrew - 20 - from - a cash machine. To confirm

this transaction, press 1. If you are unsure, press 2." '''[1]''' "Thank you. On - Tuesday - the - 7th - of - January - you spent 13.51 - at - a shop or supermarket. To confirm this transaction, press 1. If you are unsure, press 2." '''[1]''' "Thank you. On Monday - the - 6th - of - January - you withdrew - &10 - from - a cash machine. To confirm this transaction, press 1. If you are unsure, press 2." '''[2]''' "Please hold for an operator." ** I feel so sorry for you! That is ridiculous! -->[You hold for ten minutes while annoying music plays. Occasionally the computer comes back to remind you to keep holding. Eventually you hang up out of frustration.] * When it works, it's brilliant though. Take our local Tesco store. "If you want to hear a recording of our opening times, press 1. If you want to talk to someone, press 2." >2< "If you want to talk to the pharmacy, press 1. If you want to talk to the Audio-visual department, press 2..." One button press later and the pharmacy pick up the phone, or the AV department, or whatever. The system thus screens out everyone just ringing to see if the shop's open and dispenses with the bottleneck of one or two receptionists. * This troper knows a guy who used to work for a company with one of those until recently. He had such a bad habit of trying to provide good customer service that eventually his bosses started looming over his shoulder to make sure the customers weren't getting any real help. * Just recently, This troper had to go though this. He was chilling in his school's library when his two friends asked him to make a call regarding some tickets for a concert. They couldn't handle it for some reason, so I called, the guy that answered had no info, gave me a number for the head office. That number reached a message telling me that the head office changed numbers, which gave me ANOTHER number. Eventually, I did get a answer...in the form of an "[[BerserkButton Automatic Call Representative]]." Naturally I waited, and waited...and jumped through numorous hoops. Then somehow when I said the name "Stereos" for the band name, it got "Rhianna" ... I almost chucked the phone straight at the wall. * This Troper is a Pharmacy Technician who specializes in insurance issues. This leads to spending a few hours on the phone each day as the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Powers That Be]] won't let us have internet access. I could write a book. Of late, yelling "REPRESENTATIVE!!!!!!11!!" into the phone until the robot relents and a real person answers seems to do the trick most of the time. Not always, the real evil ones (like Medicare) will say "____ is not a valid option" AND TAKE YOU BACK TO THE START OF THE FIRST MENU if you screw up a button press. * Optus has a horrible way of making you see how many credits you have. Listen to a person talk for a minute, lose 2 dollars credit...You can Press 1 all the times you want and you won't get any information you actually phoned for. ---To return to EpicFail, press one. To return to SelfDemonstratingArticle, press two. To return to TroperTales.AttractiveBentGender, press three. To return to

ForInconveniencePressOne, press 1 1 7, followed by the pound sign.

FormerChildStar * I could talk in full sentences when I was two years old. Had a lot of energy, was healthy, a leader, and very well liked throughout my vast group of acquaintances. When I hit 8 she suddenly turned into the school nerd, only being friends with the other school nerd, and CantCatchUp ensued with physical activity, as I barely ever did any playing outside, turning me into a relatively strong girl with incredibly low endurance. I was also pretty high up in my piano class, and did a few concerts. When I was 12, I went to an English-speaking country where my 99% average went down the drain as I had to learn English and the content simultaneously. Currently in high-school, struggling with an average of 70%-to-80%, suck at PE, no one listens to me and only have a group of 4 friends regardless of what school I'm in. I've been called brilliant but lazy many times, before it was just "Brilliant". I've learned how to play the clarinet, the guitar, and the trumpet, yet somehow my music grades are always below 70%. I've always been great at math, and somehow I barely passed half the tests this year. So Yeah, I went from being a child prodigy who everyone liked, played at piano concerts, and had perfect grades to being a below-average teen with average grades, somewhat behind in her extra curricular work. ** Are you me? * I was very clever as a child-taught myself to read a few months after turning three, and was ahead of everybody else in my class at school. I got every question right on any piece of work the teachers set. Then other children caught up, by the time I was in HighSchool I was still clever, but a more average kind of clever. My exam results were usually B's and C's even though I was predicted to get A's. Now Im in college, my grades are mostly D's, and Im no longer the clever one in the family as my sister, who started off average, became really clever and is now one of the best students in her school.

ForTheEvulz * [[{{neoYTPism}} This troper]] is convinced that a fair bit of bullying could only be explained by this. How else do you explain the behaviour of a girl who would repeatedly call me a crybaby whenever catching me cry, say I'm talking to imaginary friends whenever catching me talking to myself, spread rumours about me, etc.? How else do you explain the guy who repeatedly blocked the gate by which I walked home, and told a bunch of little kids that ''I'' was the bully, just to get them on his side against me? How else do you explain a bunch of people in the classroom taking a lot of things from a substitute teacher's handbag and throwing it on my desk just before she came in, just to make it look like it was me who did so, and how else do you explain nobody in the classroom even said it wasn't me? This is just what's happened to me, and isn't getting into the increasingly disturbing cases of bullying described on the troper tales not only of pages like KidsAreCruel, but even of seemingly

disconnected pages like TheUnfairSex. ** Why d'ya think {{troll}}ing is so popular? (Besides pseudoomgevilpcgonemadstickittotheman-ism?) ** I agree. They say that insecurity plays a part in it, but [[Tropers/WaxingName I]] believe that most bullies are so "secure"[[hottip:*:not being sarcastic]] that they have to boast it through bullying. * The reason I play the Sims, plan world domination, watch James Bond films to see where the villains went wrong (Aside from the obvious: "here's meh plan cuz you'll die anyway lol.") But why? Because I'm bored and could use some Vitamin Evil... * This Troper plans to take over Mars and rule over pocky farms, all the while doing dastardly plans...that really don't do that much. Yeah, I fail. * One conversation [[{{Tropers/Marr965}} this troper]] and his friend had fairly recently: --> '''Me''': We should kidnap a year eight. --> '''Friend''': No, we should kill them all. --> '''Me''': No, we should kidnap a year eight and take him to a maths lesson. --> '''Friend''': Wouldn't that scar him for life? --> '''Me''': EXACTLY! * Meh, sometimes this troper does things purely for this reason. [[MoodSwinger That's when she's not being either]] a GenkiGirl or a ShrinkingViolet or something, though... * This Troper tries to avoid being evil for the sake of it, but sometimes ''it's just too tempting''. He has a Jekyll/Hyde sort of complex, where he in general loves being helpful to people, being nice and all that - but there are times when his nasty side wants a shot at the Steering Wheel. It rarely elevates beyond griefing in games, unless there is an AcceptableTarget (Someone he hates). Sadly they are rare, as they prove a great way to vent desires for Evulz. * I know [[TheLibby a girl]] that for no apparent reason will spread the most vicious lies about people she's barely even spoken to. She tried to tell everyone in my school that I hated a student because he had epilepsy! Everyone knows her for being belligerent, rude, and hurtful.

ForumPeckingOrder * This Troper had a very unique experience during a forum [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TroperWorks/GundamSEEDTheLongW ar RolePlayingGame.]] For a long time the GM abused his powers and basically used the RP to stroke his ego. At one point, he had become so fed up with the negative energy being directed to him and the apparent lack of need for him that he attempted to delete the entire RP. He only partially succeeded though. Needless to say he was denounced and replaced, from then on referred to as "He who should not be named." * At one point on a forum I was on, I was just a regular member who had been on years, but I was mistaken for mod a few times, as the mods and admin didnt really bother too much. I was the one who looked after

newbies, answered members questions and had some knowledge of how the forum is run (and i had 100000 more posts than the admin and mods did). Eventually the admin gave me admin powers and quit. I do a better job of it and I shut up the annoying clique of members who were so mean to new members, deleted the spam, tamed the trolls and banned the really bad trolls....I do a better job of it. * This trouper and her RP friends got fed up with the insane creator of a chat after she would contently kick us, then expect us to admin as if nothing happened. After the fact she created a new chat in which the four admins control. Somehow everyone but the original creator transferred with us because we were loved that much, and the creator of the chat was hated

ForWantOfANail * I had the choice of going to one of two universities, UWE in Bristol or Portsmouth uni. No other university would accept me for the course I wanted. After visiting the campuses and hearing a bit more about the courses, I decided to go to UWE. A year on and a lot of things have happened in my life, I've become integrally involved with the drama society (we're going to take something I helped write for up to Edinburgh) I've met people who have changed my viewpoints on life, I've had an attempt at love and failed miserably... Twice... yet I'm still friends with those prior love interests, and I've even organized who I'm going to be living with for the next year. Parallel to this I've discovered an old school friend of mine has gone to Portsmouth and has started work on a sitcom. It's got me wondering, what if I went to Portsmouth instead? Would I be involved with this sitcom in any way? Would I actually have properly found love? Would I have found friends I liked and trusted enough to live with? Would it simply be a matter of trading the stage for the camera? Who knows what would have been different if Portsmouth had seemed slightly more appealing that one day I visited. * So very much with this troper. 3 years ago, my parents adopted a little boy from Guatemala who could speak English but could not read (well, he just turned 4). The board games he could play were limited, and we all got sick of them after a while. My dad then heard about the simplicity of the Wii and decided to pick one up. He also bought my first Mario game- Mario Party 8. I decided to look Mario up on Wikipedia because a) I had once seen an episode of The Super Mario Bros Super Show, but then I forgot it so i felt I had a duty to remember again and b) ''we had no idea what was going on.'' After that, I became addicted to Mario. I then joined a Nintendo Fan Club on a favorite forum of mine. After a while, someone linked to an article on the Super Mario Wiki. I joined, got hooked, joined the accompanying forum, got hooked on that, and dwelled on the forum. After a while, someone posted a topic called "Have you ever sent an email to [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] and linked to Strong Bad's article on The Homestar Runner Wiki. I clicked the link and found (and became addicted to) Homestar Runner through the wiki. Makes me wonder what would have happened if my brother could read when he was adopted.

* {{Tropers/sabrinadiamond}} If MY mum arrived at the hospital on time and my CreepyTwin brother didn't come out months earlier, I could've ended up a normal girl- instead of having many DisabilitySuperpower... IJustWantToBeNormal (cries)... ** Sorry to hear this. ** It happened to a distant cousin of mine that is slightly older/younger than me (not sure, since I never asked to his parents, but the year is the same and I was born during the summer too). When he was a new born, their parents were on the litoral, the ambulance didn't arrive in time when he had a stroke, I guess. Now he has cerebral palsy, and can't speak, can't study, can't eat and go to the bathroom by himself. * My mom and dad only planned for us to live in our Seattle home for five years, and then move somewhere else, possibly out of state. Then in October 1986, just as the five years were up, Dad was diagnosed with leukemia, and passed away a couple months later. Had he survived, my history would have been very different. ** Later, in 5th grade, I got a really bad teacher, who was later convicted of child molestation. I almost transferred to an alternative school, but then we decided to go back to my former 4th grade teacher. * My friend was only born cause her mom took a day off school, if she had gone to school, she would not have met her dad, and had my friend and her brother and sister. * A pretty sad one from This Troper...She was supposed to call her friend whom she haven't see months,but she lost the number.The only person she could think of who had it,was a guy she was in feud with so she gave up.Fast forward week later - said friend takes his own life.She wanted to ask him if he would like to move with her to the UK for work,and change the environment we lived in.Well,in the end she met his brother on his funeral and after few months of weird stuff happening went with him instead.And also it was a damn huge {{Character Development}} for her and other people (something like [[spoiler:Kamina]]'s death to his friends) * If I hadn't been a lazy bum who never finished her biology labs, thus me being unable to taking the regents and subsequently wandering around Manhattan in depression, I wouldn't have met the girl who would become my best friend. For further awesomeness, I am going to be the witness when she gets married and the godmother for her kids. * My mother probably could have gone to college if she wanted to, but choose not to and got a job instead because she wanted free time to hang out with her friends. If she had chosen to go to college, she wouldn't have gone through several secretarial jobs before winding up at a company on Wall Street where she met the man whom she would eventually marry. Therefore, if my mom had gone to college, I would not exist. ** Same troper here, I just remembered another incident after my father died. My mom went to the movies alone one night, and when she came home, went to check her email and found an email from a cousin of hers whom she hadn't heard from in a long time. If my mom had ignored that email instead of answering, both our lives would have been drastically different. * Clueless, this troper was using his father's computer (he has no

problem with that) and was listening to some music, specifically some of the band Scorpions. I didn't realize that my sister's Last.fm was still running there. Two days later, she asked me if it was me listening to Scorpions at said PC... the songs were suddenly on her list. The point was, ''the band suddenly got to first place of the week's most listened bands''. * Thanks to my sister getting a C in sixth grade, [[EducationMama my parents]] freaked out big time and rather than doing the sensible thing like hiring a tutor, they decided to move to the hellhole we've been living in since 1996 just for their so-called blue-ribbon schools because they figured good schools = good grades. I had fantastic grades before we moved, after we moved they dropped like a rock, and that's just for starters on how messed up my life has been since I was ten. (In case anyone is wondering, my sister's grades did not improve after we moved. If that's not irony I don't know what is.) [[BrokenBird On my worst days]] I sometimes wonder had my sister not gotten that C whether or not I could've gone to achieve the two childhood dreams of mine - attending UCLA and studying to be a veterinarian. * This Troper's entire Internet Life (so to say) was entirely dependent on a single Image Search performed on Google on a whim because he was into Metroid Prime at the time. This allowed him to find his first forum proper, which led to deviantART, which lead to several other forums, friends and interests. All of THAT was reliant on his brothers deciding to get a Super Nintendo when he was 4, which led to this Troper becoming a huge Nintendo Nerd. Several times he wonders how things would've turned out as if he hadn't performed that fateful Image Search or his brothers had gotten a Sega console instead, or nothing at all. * [[{{Tropers/Anderling}} This Tropette]] was twelve years old and into HarryPotter in a big way. Bored, I decided to do some googling on that, but the Dutch websites weren't any good, so I decided to check out some of the English ones. I found an amazing RPG-website in English, joined it despite not being entirely familiar with the language and spent a fair amount of time on there. I met my best friend [[AliceAndBob Alice]] there, and she introduced me to fanfiction, which I took a liking to and started to write myself, deciding that I'll someday publish a book. Later, my HP-fanness started to fade, but I heard some of my friends on that website were setting up a Literature/{{Twilight}} RPG, which I joined as well. I met my other best friend [[AliceAndBob Bob]] there. The three of us Alice, Bob and me - are [[{{Nakama}} as close as anyone can be]]. We cheer each other up and share news with each other before we talk to anyone in real life. Bob and I actually talked each other out of suicide. However, if not for that one afternoon where I decided to google for English websites instead of Dutch ones, I never would have met my best friends, would never have gotten better at English, would never have gotten into writing, and possibly the most horrifying of all, might actually have gone through with suicide. * Let's set some background for this lovely story. My mom was a popular girl and had many past boyfriends--in fact, she never saw herself settling down... Much less marrying! However, there was one

boy throughout her life she could almost see herself ending up with. This boy she dated on and off from eighth grade to right after college. And probably would've continued to do so if not for one fateful night... ** Her and her boyfriend went to different colleges and were not averse to splitting up and dating others before getting back together. In fact, quite often after a break up they would simply return to each other and whichever one last had a relationship would drop that one to get back together. Then the cycle would repeat. On multiple 'off' times she dated another man we shall call Bob. Bob was on a rugby team and mom quickly befriended the players on the team, hanging out with them often. ** Well, not too long after college there was a party and most of those team members were there. Mom had gone with her roommate but her roommate tired before her and had to leave early. Mom called the on/off boyfriend to come by the party, maybe pick her up, get back together--that kind of thing. He said he'd try. Mom waited and waited but he didn't show up--however, since she knew most of the people at the party, she knew she could get a ride. She wasn't mad he hadn't come--as he hadn't promised anything. This isn't the nail. ** The nail is who mom rode home with. She rode home with one of the rugby players--one she considered a good friend but had never really thought of dating. After he dropped off a couple other of his friends, they drove to some remote place and talked (literally just talked, I asked) for hours--she says until six in the morning. And then he asked to kiss her and she obliged. ** However, they couldn't get together because he didn't want to upset Steve who still liked my mom who mom was no longer dating. Mom was heartbroken--like she'd never been before, to her surprise--and, after a week passed, her and that friend DID get together. Shortly after, the on/off boyfriend called, hoping to get back together and, as you can guess, she said no. ** The friend who took her home and who she ended up with--that's my dad. And she assumes that her on/off boyfriend had been trying to cut ties with another girlfriend before getting back together with her-and was just too late. ** And, of course, if my mom and dad hadn't gone to that Tech game and watched them win... I wouldn't have been... conceived in the aftermath of celebration. *cough* And if I had never been conceived... Well. Let's see. I would've never met a dear friend of mine (who I shall call A) and if we had never become so close in preschool, neither of us would've joined Girl Scouts to stay together and become friends with B. And if I had never been friends with B, I would've never gone to the middle school I chose to go to and become friends with C. If I had never become friends with C, I would've never remained on a site I chose and become friends with D and E. All of these people, of course, I consider very precious and who consider each other very precious. ** Oh. And then my Nana and Papa. They met because my Nana was friends with a girl my Papa's friend's friend had dated and they were invited to a party that my Papa went to and since Papa was one of the few with a good car, he ended up driving them around and began talking with my Nana... And. Well. You can figure out how that ended.

* Two of [[Tropers/DynamiteXI my]] goals right now are to get a college degree and go into the CoastGuard as a commissioned officer. So far, college has taken me a while, with me taking three years off because of some rude professors at my college (I graduated high school in 2004, and I was ''supposed'' to graduate college in 2008). But through hindsight, I still wonder what would have happened if I'd gone to the Coast Guard Academy instead: I'd have my undergrad degree, I'd have my commission, I'd probably be stationed somewhere, I'd be (at least) a Lieutenant already, and I'd be using the GI Bill to pay for a Masters Degree. All plusses, right? And then, when I think about all of that, I think about all of the friends I met through my current college and hometown, and how there's practically no way I'd know any of them if I'd gone to the Coast Guard Academy. And ''then'', I wonder about all of the friends I would have made in the Academy and through the CG, and if I'd be married with kids yet, etc. You really end up living with the choices you make in life, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. * [[Mikethefoxhog My]] entire relationship with my girlfriend. If I hadn't logged onto some random chat site at the exact right moment, or I hadn't been trying to sing [[Portal Still Alive]] with random strangers, or she hadn't joined in, or she hadn't managed to wrestle her MSN into adding me at the end of the conversation, or she'd been from a different country or too far away to meet up, or we hadn't decided to do so soon after, or her mum hadn't let her, or my parents hadn't been away (fairly sure they'd never let me meet anyone from the internet), we would never have fallen in love.

FourFingeredHands * [[{{Tropers/Pittsburghmuggle}} My mother]] tells the story of a quiz in a math education class she took in college. The extra credit question, the professor said, had never been answered correctly in any of his classes. The question was about [[TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone buying X many tons of gravel from Mr. Slate]]. Mom decided to do it in base 8 because cartoon characters have four fingers per hand. The next class the professor congratulated her on being right. * [[Tropers/StFan This troper]] has seen, in the office of a doctor specialized in hand surgery, a pair of framed pictures showing a reconstructed hand with four fingers (one a palm, the other a top of the hand shot). It looked impressively "normal", to the point you have a hard time determining which finger is actually missing (my guess is the little finger, but I can be wrong).

FourIsDeath Note that this must be four being in some way evil.

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* [[DevilsAdvocate This troper]] obsessively rates every movie he sees on IMDB. Although the movies I've rated (over 700 of them) cover the entire range of 1-10, over 80% of them are 7, 8, or 9. (I attribute this partly to the fact that I genuinely like most movies, and partly to the fact that I like to think I'm pretty good at judging whether I'd like a movie from the previews and avoid the ones I'd hate.) * [[DarkInsanity13 This troper]] is under the belief that nothing is perfect and always needs improving, so she almost never gives out "Perfects" when asked to rate something. She's fairly good at judging what she would and wouldn't like based on either short previews or just a glance anyway, so it doesn't matter. * [[PacSol This troper]] has a four point scale in the opposite direction: he prides himself on making even a 6/10 in his book earned with obscene amounts of blood, sweat, and tears, and if he ever gives anything a 9/10 or better, a [[SeenItAllSuicide Seen It All Suicide]] may be in order. ** This troper has had college professors like that. It was even on the syllabus. * [[NegativeZero This troper]] averts it by either not giving a score (like ZeroPunctuation), or using a scale that tops at 50 and bottoms out at -50. This means that a 0 is average and a 45 is really good, but some people [[ViewersAreMorons are too thick to understand this]] [[FanDumb and constantly yell at me for giving a low score]] [[YouFailLogicForever even though a 45 comes out to a 95%.]] ** Uh... wouldn't a 45 come out to 90%? *** -facepalm- No, 95. * ThisTroper hates having do condense a review into x/10. While he's happy to have a "fair" ratings scale (so far games have fallen between 3 and 9, with the latter signifying pretty damn good games), he hates this trope due to feeling under pressure to give higher scores for games. Of course, it's All In His Head. * [[{{Magus}} This troper]] rated sources for a summer job and most of them were 7-10 out of 10. Justified because he picked out the sources himself, and he wouldn't contribute a poor one. * This troper generally uses the "really high or really low" x/10 scale. (though I generally only rate really low on movies I don't like." Most reviews fall from either 1-3 or 7-10 (ocassional 6s for "rent, it only costs a few dollars and you might find something beneath the flaws"; the reason being that I rate based on how entertaining it is, and there is generally never anything that is bad enough to not warrant a rental (6-10) that I can actually find enough enjoyment in to give it a score around 4 or 5. I also don't see why people think that a 10/10 means "the best game ever, period." I think that a 10/10 means that a game/movie/whatever has no flaws, or those flaws are so incredibly minor it doesn't matter. Yes, maybe I could objectively say that game X is a 9.8 instead of a 10 because it occasionally has graphical popups and it once reused a single room in two different places, but reviews are supposed to tell people whether or not they like it; saying "10/10s aren't possible" is incredibly pretentious; when I see somebody using small decimal points to say that a game isn't perfect, or giving a game they say they loved in all respects a 9/10 just because they don't think a 10/10 is possible, I

find they've lost track of what reviewing is supposed to be about. * [[{{Moogi}} This troper]] is guilty of this trope. Because he is so easily entertained, he generally rates almost everything as having at least a 6/10 if he uses numerical ratings. * When this troper first discovered heavy metal, he was so impressed with some songs that he had to knock a star off all his previous ratings in order for five stars to do the new songs justice. * [[{{Dryhad}} This troper]]'s university asks students to fill out staff reviews in each class at the end of semester. I'll invariably give 7-9 in everything unless I was ''extremely'' unhappy with the teacher. Then they might get ''four''. * I wonder just how much they were in Bitmap Bros' (magic!) pockets, then - after many many years of having seen various reviews of how excellent this game was (that I couldn't justify spending 30 on a shoot-em-up for), I got hold of it in an emulator... and it's awful. One of the worst (supposed) bullet-storm vertical shooters I've ever given up on. Yes, the graphics and sound are pretty swanky (if you ignore the ST version being all in shades of orange and metallic blue), but the gameplay is terrible. Particularly when Xenon I was such a joy to play but comparatively ugly. 8.8/10 would be extremely charitable, let alone 10/10. ** I think this entry belongs in {{Hype Backlash}}. * Deliberately averted by [[{{MRL}} this troper]]. I don't think most people are genuinely capable of articulating exactly why something deserves an 8 instead of a 7 in a clear and consistent fashion; logically, that would be arguing that something is "slightly better than the average good thing", and that's a pretty nebulous description. I really disdain the use of ".5" and ".8", and so on -then it's a 100-point scale, and I doubt there's anybody who could honestly say what makes something an 8.8 instead of an 8.7. I use a 5point scale, with no halves and no 0, with the expectation that ''most'' things are going to get a 3, with 2 and 4 being worse and better than average, respectively, and 1 being just plain awful with 5 being great. Not perfect, or "the best", just great. The scale has enough range to provide some flexibility in degree, but is small enough that the differences between one point and the next are clear. * [[{{Twentington}} This troper]] is guilty of this. I write for a music review site which uses a five-star scale for singles and albums, and have never gone below three-and-a-half. ** To be fair, I usually ask to review songs that I know I like. And my editor has ''very'' similar musical tastes, so he often recommends stuff he knows I'll like. * This goon does not belive in the FPS. He will review his stuff in accordance to how one would grade Univerity work. 5/10 is a pass but it's the lowest pass possible (Bleach Bount Arc), 10/10 is for masterpieces without pier (Tezuka's Metropolis, Tetsuwan Atom: AstroBoy), 8/10 is great but flaws prevent it from geting 9 or 10. * [[@/RedWren This troper]] rarely rates stuff below a 3/5 or 6/10, because if it's really ''that'' bad, she doesn't finish it. * This troper was so pissed off about that that and the general overscoring of hyped games that he started writing his own reviews (destroying any immersion by constantly making notes and screenshots

while playing as a sad side effect) with a scale of 1-10, but with 5 being the "not that bad, but not good either". Currently, the lowest is "Yo Frankie!" at 1/10 (to be fair, it was an alpha version, 0.0.7, but it was treated by the game's website like it was finished) and the highest is "Sonic 3 & Knuckles" at 9/10 (which, in retrospect, may be a bit too high). Too bad nobody cares about my opinion, as evidenced by the lack of readers. * This troper rates the movies he's seen (and clearly remembers, because some I watched when I was too young) on IMDB. Most (in fact, over 500 of 900 and some!) are 7 or 8. His grades on Gamespot are equally high, with only 2 games not being 6 or above (both not for being bad per se, but because he got sick of them - though one he didn't even finish, he lost to the final boss and didn't bother to try again). * [[Tropers/ThirtyTwoFootsteps This troper]] used to review video games for his own site, and he and the other writers did their best to avert this - on a 0-10 scale (originally 1-10, until ''BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing'' [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible forced us to change the scale]]), 5.0 was average. We'd regularly get complaints about the scoring system from people more used to the Four Point Scale - particularly galling was that a C grade in school was around a 70% in their district, and thus that should be average. The counter was traditionally that 5.0 was ''literally'' halfway between terrible and excellent, and the reason why a C grade is around 70% is because you really should be learning at least 70% of the material taught in school to be able to get along in life. That said, there was also complaining that we were extremely reticent to give out anything above a 9.3 (the all-time highest score, 9.6, was earned by ''[[KatamariDamacy We Love Katamari]]'' - we literally saved 10.0 for the Perfect Game that we never could find). ---You should really check out [[{{Main/FourPointScale}} Four Point Scale]]: 8.5/10! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FourTemperamentEnsemble * [[@/PhoenixFire I]] used to hang out in a group that consisted of a GeniusDitz {{Keet}}, an introverted perfectionist, a kind and sensitive artist, and aggressive, short-tempered me. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity tended to ensue. A lot.]] * [[Tropers/JackOCrow I]] hang out in one. I'm the sanguine , my [[TheLancer friend]] is choleric, and another [[SnarkKnight friend]] is the phlegmatic. And another [[TheHero guy]] is phlegmatic II. * My three siblings and I fit into them. My older sister is sanguine, my brother is choleric, my ''older'' older sister is melancholy, and I'm phlegmatic. * [[Tropers/TroperAlmighty I]] used to have one. There was [[TheHero well-known me]] with no driving personality, [[TheLancer a joker]] with a [[HairTriggerTemper Hair Trigger Temper]], [[TheSmartGuy the

smartest boy we knew]] who was normally to be found playing Warhammer expansions or reading, [[TheBigGuy a giant of a girl]] who was always wisecracking, and [[TheChick a feminine girl]] [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl and counterpart to the other one]] who was caring and quiet, but had a tendency to come bottom in most things. * Once I made a new group of friends at college, we turned out to fit this pretty well. ** Sanguine: My roommate, who is always in good spirits, likes to joke around, and is definitely the most optimistic one in the group. Shows elements of Choleric as well due to his commitment to future plans (Navy SEAL, etc.), but still impulsive and carefree enough to fit Sanguine quite well. ** Choleric: My roommate's friend, who is constantly busy with his marketing organization, bent on advancing his career. He's charismatic and energetic, but he's also arrogant with a bit of a mean streak, which makes him annoying at times. ** Melancholic: That would be me. I don't make any effort toward partying or getting laid- I am practical above all else, and try to ignore emotions when making decisions. I'd say I work efficiently rather than hard, but I can't deny being a brooding worrier. ** Phlegmatic: My roommate's best friend. He's lazy and proud of it, yet his intelligence allows him to coast through his classes with little trouble. He's pretty laid-back and tends to live his chill life in the "now." * This tropette has this (sorta) with her parents. My mom is ''very'' [[HotBlooded choleric]], my [[DeadpanSnarker dad]] is [[ManipulativeBastard very]] [[TheStoic much]] [[TheSpock phlegmatic]] (though he has a ''massive'' CutenessProximity), and I'm either [[CloudCuckoolander sanguine]] or [[TrueNeutral supine]] with [[TheSmartGuy shades of]] [[TheChick melancholic]]. ** Not sure where I fit in, but I like doing these ensembles in my stories. This page actually helped me come up with an OriginalCharacter who rounded out a FourTemperamentEnsemble with [[EdEddandEddy the Eds]] as the phlegmatic. * Me and my Nakama are this. ** One of my friends is completely insane. His theme song (that he made up) consists of the words "Burning Children" repeated over and over. He is also obsessed over airplanes, weaponry, destruction, death, and animals. He is an optimistic insane large ham. He is the Sanguine of our group. ** My other friend is the comedic relief of our group, making jokes at everything. He also can concentrate on his job if needed too, but can spend that time just messing around if he is allowed. He is the Choleric of our group. ** My third friend is the most sensible person of our group. He is generally emotionless (when everyone hates you for no reason as a gag, calling you a demon for the most trivial of things, you sort of have to) and is also the most neutral person I know. He isn't particularly lazy, but can be relied upon. He is the Phlegmatic of our group. ** I myself am the melancholic of our group. I work for perfection, accept nothing less than it, and generally try to surpass everyone... even at their own games. I am the genius of my group and generally

care only about the task at hand. I also tend to suffer from bouts of depression/not caring about anyone. I am starting to lose my depression, and am slowly heading into huge ham territory. I am still the melancholic though. ----

FourthDateMarriage * This troper married his wife after having known her for only two days, and we've been married for 7 years. ** Seriously? I must know the story behind how that happened. * This troper has a relative who makes a habit of this-- three marriages, all ended, all of which took place a month or less after their first meeting, and one of which lasted less than three months. * There might be some element of cultural differences. I know of at least one college (Brigham Young University) where engagements after one month of dating is not considered extremely odd. It is considered atypical, moving a little fast, but people are not stunned by it. (Although people at BYU are known to go on multiple dates a week, so a month of dating could mean 10 to 15 dates. I know one fellow who went on three different dates in one week with three different girls. This same fellow has had two dates in one day on three different occasionsthe whole BYU student body is dating crazed). ** True, this is quite common in such conservative religious communities, compared with the population as a whole. For many young adult Americans at this time, it is quite "normal" to have sex with someone after knowing them less than a month. BYU students, being Mormon, are not supposed to have sex outside of marriage. And since they're in a relatively closed community (a college campus), it's very difficult to break that rule without being discovered. So if two people decide they want to have sex, they have to run off and get married first. ** Sex isn't the only reason people get married this early. It's culturally acceptable to do so. And in a religious community where a large portion of the people are of the same religious and cultural background, many of the major things (such as which service to go to on Sunday, can we have kids or not, general worldview, etc.) are already agreed upon. It becomes more a matter of personality and personal interests, which can make things a great deal less complicated. ** This Troper is a freshman at BYU and I consider getting married after a month extremely odd. I don't think I'll ever be able to comprehend that one. *** Same here. I also think that getting married as a freshman is way weird... not that it's stopping my cousin at all... *** From what I have heard, even at BYU that is becoming less common. Still, within the Mormon community as a whole, my wife and my courtship of an entire YEAR (that was just before the engagement!) seemed long to some of our friends . . . who were telling us after two months that it was inevitable. *** This Troper has two friend who go to BYU and one of them proudly proclaimed on her facebook wall "I've been at BYU for an entire

semester and am not engaged yet." * [[{{Zordauch}} In my case]], it was meeting her online in September and actual dates occurring only on a once-monthly basis. I'm not sure whether the weekend we spent together counts as one date or several. * This troper knows multiple people who swear that they ''knew'', within the first few dates, that it was love and the other person was "the one" - and to their credit, everyone who's said this is not yet divorced. However, in each case, they didn't actually marry the person until much later, so who knows. * One of my cousins married a guy 2 months after meeting him for the first time. (He is also in the army and has been away from her for most of the marriage.) * My parents got engaged after a month, and they have been married for over 20 years. * This troper's brother subverted it. The first girl he dated became his high school sweetheart. However, he did not end up marrying her until twelve years later or so. * My parents met in the beginning of June and were married at the end of August of the same year. Granted they had a lot in common and were older. But then my husband and I met and were vague acquaintences for a couple of years, then the fall after he graduated (I was a sophomore), we started dating. A month and a half later we both agree that we'll eventually get married. The actual marriage didn't take place until after I graduated 2 years later, but we'll have been married 6 years this summer, together for 8. * This Troper's grandparents lived in a tight-knit polish community where the elders arranged dates between the teenagers, you were expected to decide if you liked a person or not within the first four dates. (of course, most of the couples got married a year later) * This Troper (male, 20) was proposed to by a 31-year-old Jewish woman at a bus stop in Dublin. The vows would have been a little awkward as we never knew each other's names. I politely declined and hopped on the first bus that arrived. I think she was on speed. * This Troper's parents married after about two or three dates (granted they knew each other before that - my mom was working for my dad, and he apparently fell in love within the first week of employment). * This troper's parents married after a quick summer romance; they're married 36 years as of November. * This Troper's parents married about two months after their first date. This Troper's younger sister loves bringing this up constantly, teasing our folks with the idea that she'll rush into marriage too. * At our third date, this wonderful lady said that we were going to get married. I was openly taken aback by her certainity. However, we got engaged two weeks later and married another six months later. Now we have been married for almost twenty years and have three kids. (My mother told me that she had had a similar experience with my father. They were married for 52 years until she passed away.) * My parents only knew each other for a month before they got married. Over 25 years later, they've had three kids and are still happily together. * Sort of subverted in the case of my cousin. He and his wife hooked

up pretty fast and lived in the same house...but it took them a ''decade'' to make it official. We couldn't help but to ask ''why'' during the wedding. * This Troper's story goes thusly, in the first Person. I met my wife at our military training base (1). She went off to her assignment, I remained in training. A mutual friend went off to the same assignment. I called our friend, to see how things were, and my wife takes the phone from our friend. Conversation ensues. I wind up taking my vacation at her location (2). She takes vacation at my location (3), during which I propose. She separates from the military, comes to where I'm stationed (4). A couple of weeks later, we're married. * This troper and the boy that is technically her fiance are something of a subversion. Yes, we have only had four dates. But those four dates were stretched out over a period of well over a year, and we've known each other for two years. * This troper's parents courted for a week before getting engaged. They have been married for 40 years this summer. Her big brother also courted his wife for two weeks before getting engaged. They've been married seven years. Until coming to college, I thought this was how it was done normally. * I knew within a month of meeting my husband - after only "three" dates - that he was the one for me (17 years later, I love him more than ever!). My aunt says she knew that she would marry my uncle within their first conversation. My parents only knew each other a few weeks, too. My parents marriage lasted for 40 years, until my father died; my aunt & uncle are still married. * Notably inverted by this troper. My GF and I have been together fifteen years today, and there are no marriage plans anywhere to be seen. ** TakeYourTime! * This troper participated in an RPG, where two characters moved ''very'' quickly in their relationship. They went from being complete strangers with seemingly nothing in common to being exclusive, living and sleeping together, in a matter of (RPG time) 2 weeks!(And it was still questionable if they actually had any common interests.) It was (sort of, but not really) justified as the characters were both teens (16 and 19), who were operating on the premise of "together for 2 weeks = together for 2 years". * Happened to my parents. When my dad first met my mom, he instantly fell in love with her (but it didn't happen to my mom, she just thought he was a cute guy), knew she was the one, went back home (he lived in Florida, mom lived in West Virgina, dad was a truck driver), broke up with the girl he was currently seeing at the time, packed everything up, and moved near where my mom lived. Granted, it took him three months to ask my mom out (because he was so shy), but my mom says that after the third date, my dad told her that he loved her and proposed marriage to her. My mom politely declined, saying that she wanted to wait til after high school (my mom was only seventeen and my dad was twenty-five when they got together). Come Christmas, dad proposes again (with the consent of my grandfather and grandmother) and mom accepts. They elope five months later (mom had to go to the doctor because she had her tonsils recently taken out, dad took her

and they decided to run off and get married, only my mom's best friend and her two step-cousins knew about it). Cue to twenty-six years later, they're happily still married and have three children and a grand-child :). * My parents dated for six weeks before getting engaged, then got married after another six weeks. Granted, it took him a while to convince her to ''start'' dating in the first place, but the fact remains, they've been together for 20+ years now. * My parents met in December, got engaged in February, and got married in September (all within a year) - and have been together a good few decades. Also, two of my friends got engaged after a month of being friends and roommates (before they'd even gone on their first date) and then had a three-year engagement before getting married a few months ago. And people wonder why I think I'm going slow with my boyfriend, whom I plan to move in with after six months. * According to this troper's parents, they knew each other for about a month before getting engaged (although the engagement itself lasted about four to six months). One suspects that the fact that they were living abroad (and apart from their respective families) at the time may have had an influence. * It seems that the great majority of cases that this trope applies to occur solely to the troper's parents. Aside from the handful of GenerationXerox cases presented above, this troper in particular wonders if such things would happen these days, let alone end up in a [[HappilyMarried happily married]] [[HappilyEverAfter ever after]]. ** This troper did. Connected through a matchmaker, three dates, and then it was a proposal. We are currently five years and three children into the marriage. Granted, we're not yet at HappilyEverAfter, but if we were, you'd have to ask yourself [[DeadPersonConversation how this entry]] [[ScareChord got written]]. *** Not [[HappilyEverAfter there]] yet? [[spoiler: [[MurderIsTheBestSolution Want]] [[ScareChord to?]]]] * This tropers non-boyfriend if he had his way we would've been like this. * This troper's parents got married after 3 months of dating. My dad's room mate/close friend and his now wife call it to this day "the date that John never came back from", as he spent the night after their first date and came back the next day. In very little time my father had basically moved in. For extra points, my mother had just gotten out of an emotionally abusive marriage and my father was a troubled rough around the edges Social Services worker. They both claim it was LoveAtFirstSight, and this apparently runs in the family. My grandmother and grandfather on my mom's side met on a blind date and got married roughly 3 months later. * Not only had my parents only known each other for four months at their wedding, but my father was twenty years older than my mother and had been casually dating a woman for ten years. After meeting my mother, he asked the woman about marriage; she said there was no rush. He wished her a nice life and left. She had a new man before the month was out, so he obviously didn't break her heart. Still, both sets of parents were taken aback, especially since my father was only five years younger than my maternal grandfather. They were married for

seventeen years before his death. * Troper met boyfriend online (she lives in Dublin, he was in the Netherlands), saw him for the first time five months later when he came to Ireland just to see her, and married him two weeks afterwards, having put in for the marriage license before they'd even met in person. We're still together after three and a half years. Troper's grandparents married after knowing each other for only three months, so perhaps it runs in the family? * My fiance and I were engaged just a few weeks after we began to date. We're getting married next month. It seems to run in our families - his parents were married after only a year (engaged after just a couple months), and my father proposed to my mom just two weeks after they got together. My fiance's parents have been together for 35 years and my parents, though now divorced, were together for lucky number 13. * My drama teacher from high school told us his parents had the strangest marriage. Two weeks after the first date, they got married, and have been married 30+ years, and have yet to argue. On the gay side of the equation, two of my classmates (lesbians) moved in together after dating for about four months, and they'd already been essentially living together after about half that time. No clue on whether it'll last, though. * Probably the hardest aversion ever with my high school calculus teacher. He married after living with the woman for ''thirty-seven years.'' But hey, at least he was completely certain he loved her by that point! * My parents knew each other for a few weeks, dated for three weeks, Dad popped the question, Mom accepted, a few months later they were married, and 28 years later they are still HappilyMarried. Their other kid, on the other had, has been engaged for about 3 years and still has about 6 months till the wedding. I'd rather go from meeting to marriage even faster than my parents and literally fulfill this trope, but apparently in all of the cultures I belong to, only Y chromosome holders may initiate things, and I don't have one of those. ** On the one hand, I'd tell you that cultural standards without solid moral backings are arbitrary; on the other hand, I think it would be a good idea to TakeYourTime. I wish you the best. * Zig-zagged with this troper's cousin and her now-husband. They met through an online dating site and chatted for almost a year before meeting. After the first face-to-face date, he went home, woke his twin brother up from a sound sleep, and told him, "I just met the woman I'm going to marry." His twin said he was crazy, nobody could decide that after one date. But since my cousin was the wait and see type, it took two more years to convince her. They're coming up on their third anniversary and just welcomed their first child. * This troper was introduced to a friend of the gentleman she was dating at the time and immediately knew he was cute, he was trouble, and he would be very very significant. This troper did not believe in love at first sight at the time. Only once before had she reacted like that to a stranger - a habitue of her favorite goth club who was fond of wearing a distinctive smiley face Dr. Seuss hat. She had never introduced herself then, but did meet her then-boyfriend's friend.

When the gentleman she was dating dumped her some time later, she ended up essentially living with his friend due to a housing issue. When she got her own place, he lost his and moved in with her. This troper and the friend will celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary in a few months. He still has the hat. * This troper, a former Boy Scout, went on a trip to the capital of Austin with his troop. One of the older Scouts made a game where he'd propose to random girls that were passing him, and he used a ring made from a dollar. One of those girls had actually given him her number. * My grandparents met, courted, and married within six weeks. They had six dates... Technically going over the limit, but still. :) My grandfather was going off to Vietnam, so it's not like they had much choice. They've been together for over fifty years, and they are just the sweetest couple I'll ever know. * My parents met each other on a blind date, went on about four dates together (only a few months) and then my mom backed my dad into a corner, put his fist to his face and said, "Marry me or else." They've had a few rough spots, but are still married today! * My mom and dad met in November of 1987, started dating in March of 1988, and got married in June of that same year. They have been together since. :) ---You want to go back to Main/FourthDateMarriage after knowing it for HOW LONG? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FreeTheFrogs * This editor remembers a girl from his class who demanded that the (already dead) frogs be given a proper burial, rather than let them be dissected. We didn't. * This Troper's high school bio class gave us a choice between dissecting a cat or a piglet. Most of us opted for the piglets, who were comparatively guilt-trip free... and then the commercials for "Babe" started airing... * This troper's class was full of people with evil senses of humor. We got to name our piglets, and "Babe", "Wilbur", "Snowball", and "Clarice" (after the Hannibal book), "Hen-Wen", and "Jodie" were big hits. ** Hen-Wen? MadeOfWin for an [[PrydainChronicles obscure literary reference]]. ** In my class we removed a fishes lung, and held it to its head so it looked like a mohawk... and then took pictures ** We were encouraged to name our pigs; my lab partner and I, once we'd sexed (determined the gender of) the pig, gave her the name [[TheMuppetShow Miss Piggy]]. * This troper remembers when pigs were brought into the classroom for an extra-credit dissection option. The entire class refused. This, however, had less to do with the fact they were pigs (some students had been looking forward to it), than with the fact that when we got a

good look at them, it seemed the formaldehyde had apparently failed somewhere along the way. * This troper dissected only non-mammals in his biology class: frogs, fish, squid, crawdads, worms, and other creatures. No TV show ever wanted to "Free the Fish". A cat would only be dissected at the high school level. * This troper dissected a ''bee''. ** I've always wondered how dissection of something small enough to be (partly) destroyed by the attempt would work. *** Steady hands, sharp tools, and ideally a dissecting scope. This troper has removed the salivary glands from several fruit fly maggots, though the maggots didn't exactly stay intact in the attempt. * This troper, despite having a degree in biology, only had to do animal dissections when he got into graduate school. * This troper has never understood this trope, since at his elementary/junior high school, the sixth-grade frog-dissection was a week-long, annual tradition, that we'd been anticipating since fourth grade. * This troper's class dissected a cow eye in Junior High, which were from already slaughtered cows. There were no hard feelings for cow nor eye. * This troper dissected a lot of stuff in her high school biology classes, but never encountered anyone who refused on ethical grounds only on gross-out grounds. To be fair, a lot of people's first experience was with a cow eyeball, which can squirt unexpectedly when you cut into it. * Dissection was an optional extra when [[{{Weaver}} this troper]] was doing AS biology, one which they didn't take, not least because while on the two occasions that dissection occured in class we only dissected parts of animals, the time we did the fish head was enough to trigger a major {{Squick}}-out and I knew that a frog or something would be too much (on the other hand, when we did the pig heart I was downright scalple-happy). * This troper's school was fairly dissection-happy, and to be frank, I [[NightmareFetishist relished the experience]]. However, what I did not relish was having on one occasion the only lab partner in the class who had to go sit at the far end of the table and hyperventilate the moment I started cutting and actually needed her help, and on another, a lab partner who skewered our finished dissected frog on a probe and made it dance while singing [[CrossesTheLineTwice "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gaaaaaaal..."]] * This troper's grade 12 class did cane toads. The teacher suggested we all catch and bring our own. There was very little protest about this, considering that in Australia we're pretty much encouraged to wipe them out. People did, however, object to it on disgust grounds... because the teacher forgot to put them in the freezer, or preserve them in any way. Eeeww. * At this Troper's old High school, they dissected pigs one year. No one complained about the "suffering pigs", but the hallways in the science wing STANK to high heaven! The next year, they did sharks, which smelled little better. * This troper's high school dissected ''chicken wings''. Afterwards,

the biology teacher mixed up the remains with curry. Those who visited during lunch the next day were given chicken curry (with rice too)! ** T.T. did a similar thing in middle school. We dissected chicken wings fresh from the freezer section. * This troper's tuition centre was directly above a rat-infested eatery. Her teacher, when in need of rats for a live demonstration, would go downstairs and catch rats. Yes. Really. For some reason none of us really know, they wouldn't bite or attack him. He'd go and give them a shower with shampoo, no less, and blow-dry them... then the poor rat would be fattened up on leftover pizza and chicken wings before being cut up in class a few weeks later. However, he'd only do this for the seniors. ** For the juniors, there was a memorable incident when we had to study units of measuring and stuff. Usually this was a boring chapter, and he knew it. So what he did was pile the class into his van and drive us all out to a pond full of frogs. We were told to catch frogs and measure them. A boy brought back snails from the pond in a jar to class and fried them on the projector. Although this troper's grades remained average all the years she was there, and her parents insisted that she change, this troper never left, because he actually made class ''interesting''. * This troper refuses to dissect animals,even at the stake of ruining her perfect science grade. Though,I am perfectly fine dissecting online ones,which were once alive but..One saves many. * This troper loves dissection, but his favorite thing to dissect was the sheep eyeball because, once you slice it open, there's this waferthin layer of shiny, metallic film called the "tapetum" at the back of the eye that looks like mother-of-pearl. How pretty! * This troper has a friend who, when her biology class had reached a section with rather detailed and graphic descriptions of abortion techniques, refused to read it because of how much it disturbed her. However, our teacher was totally okay with this, making it a real-life subversion. * This troper was the only member of the seventh grade science class to opt out of dissecting a fetal pig (on gross-out grounds, rather than ethical reasons), and privately cheered when his sophomore biology teacher said that the delivery truck was delayed and that there was no way the frogs for dissection could arrive before the final. * This troper's grades dropped in biology one year because she refused to dissect a cat. Yes, it was gonna be dead already, but... dude, it's a cat. [[KindheartedCatLover I have them at home]], [[NauseaFuel I DON'T WANT TO SEE WHAT THEIR INSIDES LOOK LIKE!]] * The first time [[{{Luna87}} this troper]] refused to dissect an animal was when her 11th grade class was dissecting rats. When I expressed disgust, boy did I get heckled ([[{{Jerkass}} "hey, you wanna hug the rat?"]]). But I'm glad I stuck to my guns. * [[{{Farmelle}} This troper]] distinctly remembers cutting the eye out of a fish head to examine it. Made funny due to the fact that me and my partner, a blonde fellar, were the only ones in the room with a dark sense of humor -- screaming was going on all over, mostly by the girls. (When the guys heckled them due to this, we pointed out that

they didn't even have the [[IncrediblyLamePun guts]] to cut in the fish at all, upon which they backed off.) She remembers this exchange particularly: -->'''Troper''': ''(with bloody hands)'' Do we have any napkins? -->'''Teacher''': No. -->'''Troper''': ...Well, do we have to keep the lab coats clean? -->'''Teacher''': No. -->'''Troper''': ''(idly wipes hands on lab coat, to the disgust of others)'' ** After that, she also suggested writing things like 'lol', 'hi' and 'help' on them. Her partner came up with the winning suggestion: 'The Hunt For The Brain', with a little star next to it. Possibly because, post-eye removal and examination, we had nothing to do for a while, so we messed around looking for the brain. When we had found it, this exchange ensued. -->'''Partner''': So now what? -->'''Troper''': Stab out the other eye from the inside. -->'''Partner''': ''(does so with a battle growl)'' Oooh. Gory. ** ''[[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor Good times]]''. * [[{{MiraShio}} Mira-chan]] was at first thrilled to learn they would be dissecting frogs. When the day came, she started crying out of pity for the frogs (one of whom she named Fred). She was later joined by a friend of hers. A day later, this conversation took place: -->'''Senior (who happened to be her eventual LoveInterest)''': Hey, I heard you cried while your class was dissecting frogs. -->'''Mira-chan''': Yeah... well, I felt sorry for the frogs! -->'''Senior''': Why? Were you thinking of me at the time? * This troper was rather worried about having to dissect a cat in his comparative vertebrate anatomy class, because he owns and adores cats, but soon found the concept not really scarring after all. The smell, particularly with the sharks, was a different matter, and will haunt him for the rest of his life. An entire semester of rushing to the convenience store to eat something to get the taste of offgassing formaldehyde out of one's mouth is hard on the wallet and the waistline. * Not really dissection, but a rather more serious situation. Back in High School, this troper remembers a crazy lab teacher that insisted on doing the weirdest experiences with animals. We once had to impregnate a female rat with a dog's sperm. Oddly enough, it worked, but the babies were weird and too small and died right after birth. This troper still has no idea of what exactly happened, though, because she was too busy protesting. Yes, I failed the class. ** I would've found that fascinating, personally...granted, I'm a weirdo. ** What!? ** Your teacher sounds very much like an awesome teacher. FOR SCIENCE! * I used to go to a small private school where the only large room was the entry foyer. Guess where all the dissections took place. I failed Science class that year because when the piglets were brought in for dissection, I promptly ran to the washroom and threw up, because while I can stand some squick in a movie or video game, in real life, I'm extremely easy to squick. The Principal didn't help, as she was just

like 'be a man'! It's kind of hard to be when one throws up at the mere scent of the subject in question! * One year in 10th grade Biology, we dissected a sheep's brain. That actually went really well and squick-free...until a close friend of mine and my lab partner suddenly grabbed half the brain and began chasing me in circles with it, while laughing like a loon. Though I suppose kinda encouraged him by alternating between giggling and squeaking...The professor wasn't amused. ** Another time, we dissected fetal pigs. I didn't protest much (though my friend did) but when the time came to hack it up, my conscience suddenly bit my ass and I felt horrible...And I ended up singing softly to the pig every now and then while slicing it's throat/stomach and such to distract myself and not barf....people got really creeped out. * This Tropette has participated in dissecting worms, frogs, a sheep's heart, and a fetal pig. I say 'participate' because I'm EXTREMELY squeamish, so I mostly read the instructions and handed things to people. The worst dissection was the worms, mostly because they smelled the worst. Everything else was relatively odor-free. * When this Tropette did frog and cow heart dissections in 8th grade, she poked each once with her glvoes on, then retreated to the other side of the table and did everyone's paperwork. No one seemed to mind too much. The frogs weren't that bad (though things went a little south when her partner started to dig the brain out...) but the hearts went bad fast as two boys started ''throwing pieces of heart'' at each other and the guy in her lab group started playing with the valves. This [[UnderStatement wasn't]] a very well-behaved class... * [[{{Neakal}} This Troper]] was tempted to free the live frogs kept for dissection during high school but did not. I went in to the lab during lunch break and could have just taken the frogs and released them but I chickened out after a teacher walked by. Plus, I wasn't the most popular person and I was afraid of being found out. I guess my problem was that they were alive. Couple years later I dissected (already-dead) rats in the university lab with very little {{Squick}} and, in fact, enjoyed myself quite a lot [[NightmareFetishist (maybe a bit more than I should)]]. And this is despite the fact that I love rats and have experience with them as pets. ** That said, part of my enjoyment also came from the reactions of my classmates, some of whom were acting hysterically. * This Troper is a total carnivore that have no problem [[LetssMeetTheMeat meeting the meat in RealLife]] and have ocasionally kill the dinner herself (only chickens and guinea pigs tough). As a girl she enjoyed [[NightmareFetishist a lot]] doing dissections that's why she was often the partener of a shy vegan boy that absolute love animals and accepted doing all the paperwork, once we had to dissect a female bird I accidentaly open it's colon and my partener had to leave the room. Funny thing now I'm studying Portuguese Literature and he is studying Biology. * We only dissected frogs in 8th grade biology, but to make up for it they arrived live. The science teacher had an old sauerkraut crock (with lid). Place one handful cotton wool in crock, soak with ether, add frogs, cover and wait till they die. Then realize there are no

windows in the science labs (poor building design) and that the teacher forgot Step One: Turn on vent fans. * I was always torn. On one hand, I'm a pretty hardcore NightmareFetishist who finds the sight of dissections to be interesting, but on the other hand, I'm also a hardcore vegetarian who is dead-set against killing animals for most purposes. * This troper had the [[SarcasmMode good luck]] to be the last to pick a frog, and managed to get a very big, very pregnant frog. I had to ask three classmates and the teacher to help me paralyze it. Even then, when it had been opened up and ready to be thrown away, it mustered enough strength to jump at my classmate. Hysterical screaming ensued. * We dissected sheep hearts in 10th....I starting humming some Sweeney Todd. ''My lucky friends, till now your shine was merely silver. Friends, you shall drip rubies. You'll soon drip precious rubies.''Then I got stab happy when we were done. Heh. * This troper did some awesome dissections while getting a master's degree in marine biology in Boston. We dissected all sorts of invertebrates fresh from the docks or the tidepool (many still alive, but anesthetized). The squid became my year's eventual mascot, the sea urchin's insides quivered disturbingly, and the lobster's claws were quite tasty. * This Troper had to dissect a starfish and a frog in high school. My sister had to dissect a cat. The dissection doesn't bother me so much as that the animals used for it are basically raised to die and be cut up. Or maybe I'm just a cat (and frog!) lover. ---Back to Main/FreeTheFrogs ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FrenchJerk * Tropers/RadioactiveZombie - Knowing several people who have been to France for varying length of time and have been treated quite well, they're pretty cool. Now, on the other hand, he's heard some lessthan-favorable stories about French ''Canada'' from Yanks... and English Canucks. ** This English Canuck agrees about Quebecois (or some other Franco Canucks). They can be very snobbish/eliist. *** The people that this troper met in Quebec were very nice except for the owner of a ship who was rather elderly and shouted at one of her friends. * This Troper has met several. If one of my best friends wasn't French and one of the sweetest people you will ever meet, believe me when I say my opinion of the country as a whole would be very, ''very'' low. ** "Several" don't stand for the whole country, if that wasn't obvious. *** I know, that's why I pointed out my best friend as the saving grace. I'm aware that several people don't represent a nation, however I do study psychology, so I said that 'my opinion of the country'

because I was keeping in mind that humans tend to take the 'if one red is green then all reds are green' point of view, even if we're aware that that's not true. In fact, I only said the double 'very' to emphasise how rude those people I'd met had been. Not as Frenchmen, just as people. No offence meant. * This (American) Troper worried about this a lot before her school trip to France. Said trip turned out to be one long subversion, with everyone she met very polite and patient with her practically nonexistant French. Some cashiers at a Paris Claire's even spent twenty minutes trying to help she and her friends locate a famous bookstore, speaking English the whole time. 0.0 ** I had a similar experience this summer. I was in England studying abroad, and everyone there kept telling me how rude and awful the French were. One guy literally used the phrase CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys. But when I went to Paris for the weekend, I found everyone to be really nice. The rudest guy I met there was from Idaho. * This (Canadian) troper was recently in Paris, and actually found French people to be really nice. However, on my first night, I tried setting a wakeup call, but all to no avail due to phone problems. I tried one more time to have a French accent ask "Whut happened." (the typo is deliberate because of the accent) After about two minutes a knock on the door occured and I opened it to find a big tall black guy standing. He asks "Whut wer ye douing wiz ze telayphun???" I responded "I was just trying to set a wak--", which is when he cuts me off with "Luhn how teh uze ze telefon! If ye dun no how to uze ze telfon, neveh uz ze telefon again!!!" and walked off. However it is definitely funnier in hindsight as I've told it to almost everyone I know and it's gotten big laughs. The poor guy kinda felt sorry in the coming days as he had an "Okay, maybe I went too far" facial expression every time we encountered. ** Same troper here. Before that incident, I had been at the hotel bar and asked for an Amistel. The woman was clearly pissed off because there was no change. Our amazing British tour driver comes up and asks for a coke, and she goes "No, I dun give ze coke cuz zer iz neu change." After a minute, he goes "Do people pay you to be this rude?!?!?!?!" which just got a gigantic laugh out of the group. *** Same troper again. I will also note that I expected the French to not take kindly to my Canadian French, however they very politely slid into English. * Subverted and played straight for this American troper in England. As someone who never met an actual Frenchman until starting at an international school, I didn't know what to expect. The first French person I met was not only a jerk, but also a pervert on many different levels. (''Please'' stop asking me about my sex life, and ''please'' stop groping that girl there.) However, most French people I met after him were very pleasant and wonderful people! * Not sure if this counts, but my mother claims she was once thrown out of a store because she wasn't French, so it's easy to assume the workers who threw her out were French. * Both subverted and played straight with my best French friend. I'm a latino girl studying in France said best friend is a nice girl

interested in others cultures and willing to help me improve my French. But try to criticize French [[LesCollaborateurs history]], culture or [[FrenchPoliticalSystem politics]] and she will talk you to death about the Grandeur de la France, and watch out your etiquette while eating or she will make you do so. * I usually make friends with my ex-gf's boyfriends, but this one guy insisted, no matter how hard I tried, on being the quintessential ass. So much so that he took satisfaction in me pointing out the stereotypical French prickishness. He drove like a dangerous madman just to terrorize and anger everyone in and around his car while bragging about how much he pays for car insurance. He scored music for video games while showing complete contempt for gamers. He hated France and the French, but hated everyone else at least a little bit more if not a ''whole lot more''. Not a topic arose that he couldn't troll contention out of. Just being witness to his over-the-top assholishness cast a pretty blaack shadow over my exgf's judgment. * When I went on a class trip to France a couple of years ago, we had a layover in Chicago... where the people we came in contact with were rather rude. One subway worker yelled at us and basically called us idiots when we had bought the wrong tickets, as a result of the person we asked originally running off while we were still asking question. In France, on the other hand, everybody seemed genuinely kind and willing to help out if we were looking for something. * Subverted and played ironically straight by acquaintances of this troper. One of her students, who's mother is french, is the smarmiest, stubbornest, biggest asshole of an 11-year old she's ever met. The mother is the sweetest woman alive. * [[Tropers/TheRedRedKroovy This troper]]'s mother allegedly experienced this while in Paris. She had nicer things to say about people from the South of France, though. * Averted mostly outside of Paris when I visited France. Most people were very nice and I even got complemented on my French once, as bad as it is. The people in Paris did seem a bit frostier, though. ---I may be zee FrenchJerk, but zin my native tongue, ''les trangers sont tous des [[{{PrecisionFStrike}} merdes]]...'' <<|TroperTales|>>

FreudianSlip Tell us all about your Freudian Dicks here. ** I mean Freudian Slits. Uhh...Freudian Lips. *** Slips! Freudian '''SLIPS!''' *** ...[[RefugeInAudacity Penis.]] ---* Who hasn't actually called their teacher 'Mum' by accident? This troper did, but he said it in his home language (of Bengali), so my teacher didn't understand the language freudian slip. Phew. * My female English teacher: "A Tale of Two Titties." Laughter ensued * This troper was explaining the Big Dig project in Boston. Somewhere

in the course of the conversation, he referred to it as the Big Dick. Said troper doesn't know what that was all about, but it certainly put an end to the conversation. * This troper's friend was at this troper's house, and said friend was in said house for the first time, so said troper was showing said friend around. Said friend had been saying "Mmkay" (emm-kay) to everything this troper said. Eventually, said friend was meaning to say "You know, sometimes I say mmkay." What came out was "You know, sometimes I say I'm gay." Cue laughing fits after a second or two. * This troper, instead of saying her dog's name, said "[[TouhouProject Alice]]." * [[FreezairForALimitedTime This troper]] could be the ''textbook'' definition of a Freudian slip-er. While discussing dinner plans for the evening, one individual proposed coffee an sandwiches. She ''meant'' to reply to this: "It's been a long time since I've had some nice, hot coffee." What she actually said? "It's been a while since I've had some nice, hot '''sex.'''" She's still not sure how this happened. Chances she will [[NeverLiveItDown ever live this down]]: Absolutely none. ** Was it by any chance due to the [[GrandTheftAuto Hot Coffee]] scandal? * This troper accidentally pulled one of these at work. City Council meetings are held monthly, and it's my job to put together the presentations for them. Cue me calling up a contact in the city manager's office to get the files she wanted shown, and tell her: "It's that time of the month again..." * This Troper was watching a Sean Connery James Bond marathon with her parents, who were both discussing the villainous aspects of ''Blo''feld and Odd ''Job''. A predictably awkward Freudian Slip was...slipped and this Troper had to leave the room due to the ensuing awkward silence. She re-entered 2 seconds later and everybody had a good laugh. ** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint What's so awkward about "Oddfeld"?]] * In an archaeology lecture, we were discussing our dissertations and what the best kind of layout and presentation is, naturally the hardcover dissertations were the best or as one of my friends said ''"It's nice to have something long and hard to hold onto"'' It wasn't long before we all burst out laughing. ** In a more traditional fruedian slip, my brother's singing teacher said ''"Take deep, powerful breasts"'' ** This troper saw a teacher make a similar slip in front of the ''entire school'' in a speech about the recent Sports Day - "Everybody tried their breast - ''best!''". I like to imagine he muttered to himself "[[TheSimpsons well that's it, I've lost them forever]]" afterwards. ** My school's new principal, in her first speech addressing the school, stumbled over the word 'success' in a very [[TheSimpsons Simpsons-esque]] manner, blurting out 'sex' and 'suck' multiple times before regaining her composure. It was almost too perfect. * This troper's Torts professor once drew a shotgun on the board. After everyone burst out laughing, he looked confused until he turned around to look at the "shotgun" again.

* If Freud was right about it being your subconscious saying it, then my subconscious is a schizophrenic woman who doesn't quite understand English. Stupid spech impediment. ** Oh, the irony. * [[AssumeAVirtue This troper]] once had one on a University Psychology exam. As it turns out, the top of the hierarchy of needs is "self actualization", not "self gratification". He never wrote an exam in pen again. * This troper's friend was giving advice to another friend who just had a fight with his girlfriend. The advice: ---> "Just buckle down and hope for the breast." ** That sounds like perfectly reasonable advice for that situation. * Once, when [[SharmHedgehog I]] was playing ''AnimalCrossing: Wild World'' with someone, he misspelled "you guys" as "you gays". Also, during sex ed, I walked into the classroom, and on the chalkboard was "breast development". This happens to me a lot. All he needs is a ticket to MarshmallowHell and he'd be living the high life. * At the very first and very last practice for TheDiaryOfAnneFrank at my school, where I played Mr. Dussel. The first time, I accidentally read the word "clockwork" as "cockwork". The last time, I joked about someone pushing for a revision and said "pussing". * Reportedly, a friend of this troper's once walked up to the girl at the counter and asked "Can I have ''your'' [[FreudWasRight mother]]?" rather than asking for the drink. * This troper had a classmate who had at one point meant to describe a girl he saw as "a really hot chick" but instead everyone heard him say "a really hot tit". He refuses to admit it even to this day. * This troper has two frequent ones; spelling the word 'beast' as 'breast', and mis-spacing 'I doubt it' into 'I doub tit'. ** at least that's better than what I saw in IRC once. someone had a pen emergency and left saying "ACK! BRB! PENIS LEAKING!" * Once while I was playing SSBB with my sister I tried to ask what would happen if I turned the enemy yoshi into an egg while it was turning her into an egg, unfortunately it came out as "What would happen if I ate him out before you got laid" cue awkward silence * Once, I was taunting my HandsomeLech friend about his fruitless flirtations... and accidentally said "Flirtless Fruition." It wasn't embarrassing, but sure as hell funny. ** That's really closer to a {{spoonerism}}. * Any troper who's played Trivial Pursuit will know that at least one Science & Nature question has 'organism' as its answer, ''not'' 'orgasm' as this troper blurted out as a young boy during a family game. ** This troper's biology teacher made this mistake while writing notes on the blackboard. You can imagine how understanding high school students are in that situation. ** this troper had a bio teacher that gave the class a list of vocabulary words which included cell with the definition "the primary functioning part of an organism." the student she had read that aloud was the ADD Poster Boy of our year, he read it as "orgasm" in front of the whole class. ** A written version happened in this Troper's biology class. As the

teacher who marked the paper noted: one does not want to have a ''microscopic orgasm''. ** One question was, "Which pair won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962?" To which my grandmother declared, "Masters and Johnson!" (The sexologists. The actual winners were Watson & Crick.) * [[KingSonnDeeDoo This Troper]] was answering the phone once, and as she reeled off her phone number (as she does when answering the phone), instead of the number 'six', she said 'sex'. Cue stuttering, and a cry of 'S-six! I meant six!'. Thankfully, it was just a cold call, so there was no one on the other end. ** A more recent example, said troper was once again answering the phone, and earlier she and her family had been discussing prostitution ({{It Makes Sense In Context}}). So when she answered the phone, the 'four' turned into 'whore'. This Troper is very thankful the person on the other end was understanding. * This troper was attempting to discuss the LoveDodecahedron at her school (she wanted to make a little diagram of it), and instead of saying "make a chart of all the attractions" she said "make a chart of all the ''erections''". * This troper tried to say that her friend might be part of the dying breed of redheads, and ended up calling her "baby" instead of saying "maybe". [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued.]] * This Troper remembers an incident involving two of her friends; Friend 1 was helping Friend 2 (both female, btw) look for fake breasts for a costume she was trying to make--Orihime from Bleach, if I recall correctly. After going to several different stores and having no luck, they decided to try Lover's Package. Before going into the store, Friend 2 turns to Friend 1 and says, "Maybe it would be a good idea to ask an employee first to see if they have any--that way we're not wandering for twenty minutes looking for something that's not there." Friend 1 agrees and proceeds to march up to the young woman at the counter and asks, "Excuse me, do you have fake boobs?" The lady at the counter (who as rather small) looks up at Friend 1 and gave her this blank look before replying, "Well, if I do, they didn't do a very good job." 1 finally catches her mistake and tries to cover it up with, "Nooooo!! D: I mean, do you SELL fake boobs?" They were out of stock that day. * Recently, this troper was having lunch with a couple of girls who were talking about the latest scanlation chapter of {{Naruto}} and managing to sound sane enough that I felt safe in engaging them in conversation. Now, I'm no fan of it but I'd loosely followed the story up until a few months prior when I just got tired of where it seemed to be going. What were the the first words out of my mouth: "I stopped reading Narutard..." Fortunately, instead of erupting into fan rage, they started laughing. * [[{{Skazka}} This troper]] had a particularly awkward one at an anime convention. I was enjoying my first visit to the maid caf there and playing ''Trouble!'' (yes, the board game) with a particularly sweet hostess who happened to have a lot of facial piercing. Upon which I attempted to compliment her. Unfortunately, I'd just been at the ''Host Club'', where all the (very male) hosts had some sort of cute scruffy beard or sideburns or soul patch to enhance

the bishie-{{squee}}... and I was very tired... and so I told her, quite frankly and admiringly, "I just love your facial hair!" There was about a minute of ''dead silence'', before her response was to rub her chin lightly and say "wait, what?" And I immediately went bright red and had to explain myself. Crowning Moment of Awkward. * [[LeighSabio This troper]] was searching the web, and found a blog ranting and raving about someone I actually look up to. It had a quote from her that they were totally twisting the meaning of, and so [[CloudCuckoolander out loud to myself]], I exclaimed "I never said that!" meaning, of course, "''She'' never said that." But I swear I am not living vicariously through unhealthy levels of admiration of this individual who shall remain unnamed. I SWEAR! ** [[LeighSabio Same troper]], different slip. I am happy to have you know that one episode of StarTrekTOS was called "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E1SpocksBrain Spock's Brain]]", not, as this troper once called it "Spock's Boobs." Again, fortunately, nobody heard me. [[OrIsIt I think]]. ItMakesSenseInContext. I SWEAR! * The ''Arch Deacon'' of a nearby cathedral was heard yesterday, at this troper's school, referring to the erection of Jesus Christ. Oh dear. * [[DicloniusLilium This lurker/troper]] was going out to dinner for a "end of eighth grade" celebration (in her district, you celebrate the end of middle school like graduation) with her family. We were talking about the number six for some reason and instead of the word "six" she said "sex". It's been lost to time because of [[CloudCuckoolander her ability to say odd things on a regular basis.]] * This troper, who suffers from AllLoveIsUnrequited while trying to become a VictoriousChildhoodFriend. Said friend recently came back from a 9-month vacation [[SheIsAllGrownUp all grown up]]. The following sentence, word for word, came up: -->'''Troper:''' Wow [friend], you look really boobie-full. Uh, bootyfull. Damn it, I'll just go over there now. ** Same Troper, different girl. At the beach. This girl had gotten her bellybutton pierced since the last time he saw her. He commented on it. He said "nipples" instead of "bellybutton." Furthermore, this girl was [[KissingCousins his cousin]]. * This kiwi troper once accidentally referred to 'Guy Fawkes' as 'Gay Fucks'. Loudly. In History class. And today, one of my friends said this while we were getting sushi. "I love sperm- er, semen''salmon!''" * At my girlfriend's birthday party, meeting her friends for the first time, a ''completely non-Freudian'' slip occurred- accidentally replacing the prefix "hetero" with "homo". Oops... * [[{{Lurkerbunny}} This troper]] was once writing a Livejournal post where she mentioned the RobinWilliams movie ''Moscow On The Hudson''. In the film, Robin is a saxophone player, and this troper was trying to write about that, but she kept typing "sexophone". Of course, to anyone who knows this troper's FanGirl tendencies, this should be no surprise... * [[{{Pinkbaron}} This troper]] and her brother [[CainAndAbel are not on very good terms]], to say the least. But she had to fight for him during her speech about inclusion of special-ed students in regular-ed

in her Communications class. She said something along the lines of, "If you side with me, there is a chance to improve my brother's failfuture." And in a more hilarious moment, a six-year-old had written a thank-you note to the cast of the school musical reading, "You gays were awesome". * [[{{Evilpenguin556}} This troper]] tried to explain why his rented shoes had gum on them after coming home from his senior prom. What he meant to say was, "There was '''gum''' all over the place." You can probably guess what he said instead. * [[{{Azure012}} This troper]] was once telling a friend about failed attempt at defeating Vanessa, a [[MostCommonSuperPower well-endowed]] boss in the game ''Luminous Arc''. Said boss always encounters your party with a pair of large monsters in tow, and a general tactic they like to use is surrounding one player character and offing him, then moving on to the next until the whole party is decemated. "...And there goes my last party member, crushed between Vanessa's massive breasts..." "..." "...''Beasts''! I meant to say ''beasts''!" * Dyslexic [[SovietKitty troper]] will never be held accountable for any of these, as she is very innocent-minded and could easily say something like this just by getting syllables mixed up. Haaa. * [[DaNuke Da_Nuke]] once posted on a forum about the evils of ''schoolgirls''... er, I mean, ''homeschooling''. * When This troper was in 6th grade, his science teacher was teaching us about mineral cleavage and he typed in Cleavage on Google Images. Without [=SafeSearch=] on. The fact that he has a bit of MemeticMolester status among the students makes it worse. * This Troper was on a camping trip with her family, and she and her mother was were watching while her brother and dad set up the tent. She was making all sorts of comments with a strange accent that consisted mostly of adding an 'H' sound after any and all 'S' sounds. Turning her attention to the fact that her brother was holding a wooden spike and her father wasn't, this Troper commented, "[Little Brother's name] ish totally shafe from vampiresh. But Dad ishn't shafe from vampiresh. Nope. Dad is a ''shitting'' du-" ...When she was twelve. ** Actually, [[BringMyBrownPants that sounds like it'd be semiaccurate.]] ** Similarly, as a kid, This Troper once said something about an "Itchy-Bitchy Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini", to which a friend said "''What'' did you say?!" * This Troper was reading a Zagat's review of a restaurant and trying to tell his parents that the place had "soft booths." But he was wearing his retainer and it sounded more like "comfortable soft boobs." They've not let me forget. * [=* =] {{TsundeRay}} sucks a [[{{winterwyn}} wyn]] into bed <[=TsundeRay=]> WAIT <[=TsundeRay=]> i meant TUCKS ** <+ [=TsundeRay=]> People who are in technical know-hows are sucks anyway. <+ [=TsundeRay=]> s/sucks/dicks/ * This troper was in a conversation with some friends about giving a friend a nickname. Somewhere along the way we started talking about how she'd be a good judge (long story). I was trying to volunteer for the position of prosecutor when this came out...

-->''Me'': If she's gonna be the judge, I wanna be the prostitute...Wait...Oh god... * [[{{Slamexo}} This Troper]] was talking to a friend who had been recently spending time with a new friend when they weren't sharing breaks: -->So, what've you been getting off to with Kim lately? ... UP TO! What've you been getting UP to! * This troper has had...many...''many'' instances of this. One that sticks out in memory is when she was getting up to her normal {{Cloud Cuckoolander}}y, and said, rather loudly and in front of her parents, 'I'll throw down with you!'. Except it came out 'I'll '''go down''' on you! Wait, fuck." She said it to her ''sister''. And she's also apparently subconsciously racist, because when getting riled up again and randomly spouting nonsense, she happened to laugh and say, 'I'm not stupid, I'm just black!'. And then the little white girl that she is nearly died of a heart attack. * This troper once accidentally kicked a girl (though not very hard, and she was fine afterwards), and said "Ohmigod! I didn't mean to kiss you or anything..." * This troper once, many years ago, when playing the original Smash Bros, found himself always going after one player on Sector Z. This player was playing as samus and had gone with the dark coloring, making him almost invisible. When he asked 'Why are you always going after me,' said troper responded, 'Because you're black!' Cue frantic denials of racism. * Once, at a Jamba Juice, I ordered a MANGA and orange smoothie. I felt like my nerdiness levels had gone over 9000.... * On the way to school assembly, I narrowly squeezed between a girl on crutches and another person. My friend said to me, "Don't walk into the cripple, damnit!", to which I replied, "I didn't walk into IT, I went around IT." * This editor slipped one few hours ago when discussing about the horror movie I saw ---> '''Me''': I hope that I will get some tonight * {{Beat}}* SLEEP! I hope to get some sleep! * This troper is prone to this when it comes to things he dislikes. Once he referred to Mormonism as "Moronism". Another time, he referred to the ''All American Rejects'' as the All American Retards * Me whilst talking to my sister's Friend (who was a girl) ---> '''Me''': "Tea might seem like a bit of a Fruity drink to you, but Screw me if... (mean''t to say "But damn, if it isn't good'') ...Wait, what did i say?" * At her birthday party, [[{{Latia}} this Troper]] had her male friend read the story "Guts" from {{Haunted}} outloud. Much Squickiness ensued, of course, but while another friend and I were discussing it later: ---> '''Me''': I hope it didn't seem too gross to you, especially the whole 'calamari' thing. ---> '''Friend''': Ha, don't worry, I liked it, although it got pretty gross. ---> '''Me''': Yeah, although really the 'guts' thing didn't get me off as much as all the masturbation did.

---> '''(pause)''' ---> '''Me''': ....''put'' me off. * Several years ago when the new Star Trek movie was still rumor i was discussing the possibility that it would be a prequel with Spock and Kirk at the academy, but what came out was "Kock and Spirck"... * [[{{Azukar}} This Troper]] is the only male staff member at an Australian public school, which by coincidence had not had a male teacher in a few years. He spent his first year being addressed as "Miss" or "Mrs" as often as "Mister", especially by the younger students, who understandably had never addressed a male teacher before. He makes a strong point of never, ''never'' letting it slide, as he plans to work at the school for at least a few years yet. * This Troper was once in a discussion about the different ways people approach relationships and began a sentence, "Well, I'm not the kind of girl who.." cue much laughter. This troper is male. * This Troper was talking about the show Queer As Folk with a friend, explaining the plot of an early Season 1 episode: "And then David asked Michael to move into him - WITH. Move in WITH him!" * From a texting exchange: ---> '''Him''': So what time is practice again? ---> '''Her''': (Intending to say "Six") Sex. ---> '''Him''': Wait, what? Really? ---> '''Her''': Yup! See you there! :) * If I see a Tom and say 'Hello Tom', I try not to say 'Hello [[TheWombles Tomsk]]' * This troper accidentally sat in gum the other day. A little aggravated that I couldn't get it off my pants, I went to one of my friends to vent about how some jerk left gum on the bench in our senior lounge. For some reason I ended up saying, "Guess what! I just sat in some cum!". Hoo, that was a fun afternoon... * This troper was talking to a male friend before class one day, when the friend said something unbelievable. I can't remember what, but it prompted a "You're fucking kidding me!" Guess which word I forgot to say. * In a written form of this Trope. My writing managed to make "slick" look like "dick". The teacher noticed... * While having a discussion about television stations, this troper referred to the Fox channel as House. I suppose it doesn't require stating which show she bothers to watch on that channel. * A long time ago, this nerdy troper was in high school, studying a play. Her teacher decided it would be better to have someone act the lines, so she and another student had to go to the front of the class and read them out loud. One of her lines was: "I love [name]". Of course, he said the name of her crush instead. * This troper and her mom and sister were randomly looking stuff up about manatees. The following occurred as this troper read to her younger sister...the sad thing is, I was trying to NOT to make a FreudianSlip as I read it. >__> ---> '''Troper''': The manatee eats several different orgasms-ORGANISMS. ---> '''Mom''': * starts laughing uncontrollably* --->'''Sister''': ...?

* [[{{Joerc45}} This troper]] recalls an [[CrowningMomentOfFunny absolutely hilarious]] situation at church where one of the members of our congregation was speaking on the podium and let one slip in the following sentence: "We must strive our best to build a strong sexual relationship with God". He realized his error and promptly apologized, but his sons began [[NeverLiveItDown taunting and mocking him after the session was over.]] XD * My mother has a funny story relating to this. She was at the doctor's for prenatal care, and it was near the end of the pregnancy. The doctor gave her a list of things she shouldn't do, ending with "And no [wags finger in a manner that implies naughty things]" My Dad, being a wise ass at times, asked "Tennis?" Prompting the doctor to ask, "Oh, you play sex?" * Whenever this troper tries to write secant shorthanded, 9 times of out 10 she'd end up writing 'sex' instead of 'sec'. * Though not of a particularily sexual nature for this troper... one time, when I had been watching a fair bit of Disney for a while, someone with the surname White called the house asking to speak to my mom, and after I walked over to her to tell her so, the conversation went like this: --->'''Troper''': You're wanted on the phone! --->'''Mom''': Who is it? --->'''Troper''': It's [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]] - er, I mean... ** Fortunately, my mom didnt seem to notice. * I have a very.... boisterous family. We have more laughs sober than most people do drunk. One night at a restaurant, the whole family was roaring with laughter about something or other, as usual. Noticing some odd looks from the wait staff, my father decided to apologize if any of the other customers were complaining. However, he ended up saying, "I'm sorry. I hope we're not disturbing the other ''patients''." Needless to say, the laughter didn't stop after that. * This troper once blurted out [[FurryFandom "Yiffy"]] instead of "Yippee" whilst talking to a friend. * This troper occasionally blurts out long bursts of weird [[FreudianSlip Freudian slips]]. For example, "important" once became "vomit". Another time, "pumice and radiation" became "pornography bread". There's also one post at a message board thread discussing ''Series/DoctorWho'' Series Fnarg where he mistyped "River Song" as "[[PortmanteauCoupleName River Pond]]", prompting a flood of links to yuri fanfics. * Oddly while This Troper was typing in the title of this trope he accidentally typed out "junk grabbing". ** How do you even DO that?!? * [[{{Tropers/Shinykins}} This troper's]] English teacher has had two instances of this. Over the school announcements, while meaning to say "second", she instead said "sex". A mixture of shock and [[{{HilarityEnsues}} laughter ensued.]] Again, over the school announcements, while saying the abbreviation of the school's name, she instead said "[=MFs=]". [[{{HilarityEnsues}} Cue more shock/laughter/witty comments from the science teacher.]] * This troper was using her iPod Touch to chat with a friend on

Facebook. When it was time to leave, she mistyped "Listen, I gotta go" as "I gotta ho". HilarityEnsued. * This troper clearly remember one time his mother said "necrophilia" when she meant "narcolepsy". ** This troper made that mistake once. In middle school. It was embarrassing. * This troper was in an irc channel where we were contemplating why people spend real money to buy things like clothing in MMOs such as MapleStory. We started joking around about making a shopping MMO where all you do is buy stuff. This troper suggested that when someone creates a nude patch for the game, we add a section of the store to buy porn. Except he misspelled "add" as "ass". ** In that same channel, we were discussing Starbucks, and I said the only thing I ever get there is a frappachino. Forgot the r. "That isn't cream..." *** Ah, you must be where Mike Judge got the idea in Idiocracy. * I have almost typed "duck" with a different first letter several times. ** If you had a buck for every time your luck with 'duck' went into the muck... * This may just be wishful thinking on This Troper's part, but when we were discussing a scenario in a book where one character gets her friend to talk to the boy she likes, my crush said, "So, I could ask [crush's friend] to talk to [Troper] for me... wait." * At high school, I was a friend of a teacher who had directed a play and was among the several classes whose teachers were invited to attend and watch the play for the period. In the end of the play there was a guy whom, after a long string of chance meetings between himself and others (or others with different people they had histories with in the past), he eventually came to a woman who was on the streets asking for money. She turned out to be a news reporter in disguise trying to test people to see both kind and selfish people, and she went on a date in the end with the guy, who, in the end, made a quote that went something along the lines of hoping for good things for tonight and many nights to come. When I went to see the teacher later in a break, we talked about how the play went and the other feedback they got from everyone else and they commented about how I thought of it. I told them I liked it, and mentioned about the guy in the end and his quote, which I mentioned as "getting lucky". Unfortunately, while I meant "getting lucky" as in "being fortunate or gaining luck", ''their'' mind [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean went quickly into the gutter, and yeah...]] The rest of the conversation went south and needless to say it ended very fast. * this troper's new science teacher was teaching us about the scientific method by example. His problem of choice? finding a date for friday night. at one point, when he got to reasons as to why the "experiment" would have failed, he said"...maybe she already has a girlfriend...!" then he realized his mistake [[CrowningMomentOfFunny and the class cracked up!]] ** ....Why did the class find that funny? *** "Maybe ''she'' already has a ''girl''friend." * This troper was on an IM chat with her best male friend, and he had

asked for a certain math homework problem, as he had forgotten to bring home his textbook. She meant to type "Gimme a sec." but it came out, "Gimme a sex." He still hasn't let her live it down. * [[{{Tropers/ptitlepgy6ymio}} 0dd1]]: While waiting at a bowling alley for a few people, I asked my friend Craig when his girlfriend would probably be with us. He responded, "Melanie said she's on her way." Melanie is a completely different girl who goes to school with us (and who he had gone to school with for years before I'd ever even met him; he also supposedly really hates this girl). Needless to say, he was extremely embarrassed about it, and nothing more was said about it the rest of the evening. (Note: The names used in this example have been fictionalized to protect the innocent.) * I once attempted to say (referring to a character in the film version of ''{{Watchmen}}'') "Veidt's really hard to draw". What came out was- complete with unintended stretching of sounds and pauses"Veidt's really... haaaaaaaaot." Thankfully, this particular case of PerverseSexualLust was already well-known to all parties involved. * This may have been the case with a girl in this (German) troper's English class. She had to say "I'm busy", but pronounced it "boozy", which sounds to Germans much like "Busen", our most colloquial term for "boob". * Once, I was watching TV and my mom needed me in the kitchen. My response? "Give me a sec. Actually, give me a lot of secs." * On a forum This Troper belongs to, another poster was talking about his feelings for an ex-girlfriend. He meant to say "The memory of her still ''lingers'' in my mind" but he made a typo, his spellcheck autocorrected, and what was posted was "The memory of her still ''lingeries'' in my mind". Who could pass up such a beautiful opportunity for a pun? Of course I responded: "I suppose she wears Freudian slips?" * This Troper had one happen not to long ago. Discussing with a friend how to send an umbrella through the mail, using the one I had picked up in Japan as an example. What did I say? "Well, let me tell you how I got it through condoms..." * My parents are not fond of the idea of me going to art college, and one day my dad asked me during lunch what I was planning in getting my B.S --sorry, my ''B.A'' in. [[{{BlackHumor}} I was amused.]] * [[Tropers/YamiNoIzanagi This Troper's]] platoon for CAT was practicing for Creative Marching a few days ago. Our sequence involved reciting the Cadet's Creed, so when our choreographer was reciting it... --> '''Choreographer''': Unity is the beginning! Sex is the ending! (everyone present laughs) --> ''*someone points mistake out*'' --> '''Choreographer''': NO NO WAIT! I MEANT SUCCESS! SUCCESS IS THE ENDING! * [[{{Tropers/Smerf}} This]] troper used to work at an auto parts store that would do free battery and alternator tests. Sometimes, we would get rather hot young ladies in with car problems. Once, I managed to combine check and test into the same word. "Well, we can chest your alternator for you. Uh, wait... that came out wrong." * This troper does not have a very high opinion of {{Mark Millar}}'s

work, which might be why she once accidentally typed "Mark Anus" into google. * This troper was writing her Environmental Science notes while running on about four hours of sleep, and she was trying to write the word "insect." So she managed to mix up the s and the c...thank God she caught it in time. ** Same troper: I was playing Mario Party with a friend and I tried to describe a mini-game as "March of the Penguins: the demented version." The word version came out kind of garbled, and wound up sounding like "virgin." After realizing this both my friend and I started laughing. * One that I am rather embarrassed about was during lunch just last Tuesday. A couple friends and I were sitting around eating, the usual. When one of my friends asked, "So hey, |Troper|, how is Odd Job in that new Golden Eye game?", "I don't like blow job that- er..." after a moment of awkward silence one of my girl friends says "Why don't you have a girlfriend again?". {{Hilarity Ensued}}. * An Internet friend asked if there was a "nude button" in the forum chat. He meant "nudge button". * i had one that was incredibly nonsensival and i will NeverLiveItDown: me and a coupple o friends ere talking movies and more specifically that brad pitt was a good actor and he was awesome on IngloriousBasterds and then we started talking about the wome and we started saying who was better: Shoshanna or Bridget it came to something like this: -> '''Friend 1''': c'mon everybody knwos Shoshanna is the sexier chick i mean just look at the eyes -> '''Friend 2''': are you kidding she's just to thin. bridget on the other hand...hey (looks at me) what do you think about it? -> '''ThisTroper''': well, personally i like Women like Brad Pitt... (cue crazed look from my friends ad endless teasing with teh gay) for the record i'm not gay. NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat * This troper was eating lunch when one of his friend commented: "I like your hair cunt-I mean cut! Hair ''cut''!" * In middle school I was reading a passage out loud from a science textbook. I made the orgasm/organism mistake. To be fair to me I was wearing braces. * In '''ThisTroper''''s Japanese class, we were learning the word "kan" for "public building." While writing on the blackboard, the teacher misspelled the translation and wrote "pubic building" instead. * In middle school, this troper accidentally wrote "Horny Clinton" rather than "Henry Clinton" as an answer to a test question. * Non-sexual example: I once called Wario Ware "Wario War". Which sounds like it could be a cool game, actually. * I am in middle school where a lot of kids are pretty sick-minded and this happens pretty much everyday. In my group of friends, you will never live it down. Also, when it happens to the teachers, everyone always says, "well I know what Mr/Mrs _____ is thinking about!" and then we all have a good laugh. * This troper managed to do this while typing. ''Over and over again,'' the exact same slip up. --> '''MB:''' So, what's that fic you were talking about?

--> '''Troper:''' Just a sex --> '''Troper:''' I MEAN SEC --> '''MB:''' Lolz, okay. --> '''Troper:''' Anyway, KK's not even- dammit, just a sex --> '''Troper:''' DAMMIT ALL, I MEAN SEC, ''SEC'', '''''SEC''''' * This troper's Italian teacher once remarked that a classmate was out taking his driver's test, and his girlfriend, who was also absent, was probably there to give him moral support. However, it came out sounding a ''lot'' more like "give him oral support." [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued.]] This troper had to explain it to the teacher, because she missed it entirely. * This troper and her friends were talking about Freudian slips when one of her friends accidentally said "Freudian ''strip''" instead of Freudian slip. * This troper was trying to get his friend(who wasn't allowed at his house) out the door quickly before his father returned. I was saying "Yes. Yes. I understand" without caring what the idiot was talking about. Then, because I was so used to saying the same to my father, I blurted out "Bye. I love you." Luckily, he had closed the door right before that last bit. * I was looking for my slippers, and trying to quote ''MyFairLady'', asked my mother: "Where the devil are my strippers?" * I added the ''AllInTheFamily'' example to the main page ("Edith doesn't want to go to her class reunion without Archie, but changes her mind when she finds out that her old crush, Buck Evans will be there. When Archie hears this, he decides he will go too.") and accidentally wrote "his old crush". Rather appropriate. * Not sure if this counts, what with all the sexual examples here, but this troper accidentally called his mother by her actual name instead of "Mom". * Just now, I was talking to my uncle, who joked that I was high. I stared at him like I was gonna hit him, so he said, "Don't hit me, you hit me real hard earlier." ([[BadassBookworm I did.]]) I had meant to say "If anyone's high, it's you", but insteadI responded, "If anyone's [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean ha]][[SomethingElseAlsoRises rd]], it's you." * This troper is very much guilty of this but at least it leads to[[HilarityEnsues]] a few examples my friends tells me to stop wasting money on whatever me your white.....Crap I mean right! Next i start listing genres I have on my ipod [[GrindCore]],Grunge and, hard cock....Wait I mean [[HardRock]]! * [[Tropers/{{Gunarao}}]] just had one while editing a page. While writing about an affair, he almost mentioned the details of the scandal had been made pubic. * This troper knew a girl in high school who, in retrospect, likely had a thing for him (though he never believed it at the time) One time, during photo class while working on a photo of this troper, said girl stroked the screen / picture of this troper, and said something about "doing more with my love"... yeah. (Sadly nothing ever came of that since she already had a boyfriend and then moved away, but it was still a big Slip and this troper is still not sure what she actually meant to say.) * The other week "Hamlet: Price of Denmark" came out as "Hamlet:

Prince of Darkness" for this troper. And everytime he writes the word "public" in an essay, it comes out as "pubic". ** So, how much? * A few years ago this troper and his sister went to a store to buy Ice cream. I found a new type with taste of Cinnamon, so i told her. But instead i told her that there was a taste of '''Rabbit cock'''. * This troper was talking about how he sucks at Badminton, but can serve with both hands. He meant to say "ambisuckstrous", but instead said "ambisextrous". ** Well, at least [[CampGay I was half right]]. * One time my mom tried to offer my cousin a blowpop. You should be able to guess what came out instead. * This troper has two friends, a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold boy]] and a [[CuteBruiser girl]]. CuteBruiser once kicked JerkWithAHeartOfGold in a... [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean place.]] Today, I almost did the same thing to him ([[BlatantLies by accident, of course]]), and it brought back that memory. When JWAHOG complained about it, CuteBruiser retorted with, "I didn't mean to [[ThatCameOutWrong kiss]] it!" My laughing and yelling "[[LampshadeHanging Freudian Slip!]]" probably did nothing to assuage her embarrassment. * This troper had one while watching a video of ''Winnie the Pooh'' with her mother. What she meant to say was " you never give tigger a hammer". what ''actually'' came out was "[[PrecisionFStrike You negger give Tivver]]" *{{beat}}* cue uncontrollable laughter* ---Go rack to FreudianSlip. ...BACK! I MEAN BACK!

FridgeBrilliance * This troper was running across town, visiting the third recruiter to figure out opportunities in the US Military. He was really angry about having to speed around town to find an open recruiter, and wondered why the hell he was. Then he realized: It's the first thing I've done to control my life ever. He had a big smile on his face that day. ** Wait, what? Joining the military, becoming the equivalent of a {{Mook}} and having your morals and sanity warped is controlling your life? **** Wait, what? Joining the military means having your morals and sanity warped? ***** ...A little. A normal person is going to hesitate to do things that a soldier ''needs'' to do--killing would top this list in most people's minds, but honestly, that moment where you see someone's hand get shot off and you hesitate for a second or two? You're dead now. Or someone on your team is. ****** Exactly. A moral person wouldn't kill people unless they had to and wouldn't go LOOKING for people to kill. As for the sanity part, PTSD and other things. *** But wasn't every BigBad once a {{Mook}}? **** No, not always. But sometimes. Not that that's a good thing. ***** Thanks for being [[JerkAss Jerk Asses]], tropers. Nice to know that EVERY SOLDIER EVER is a psychotic brainless killing machine. ****** And we Finnish have an unwritten rule in the Army: Do NOT leave

your friends and fellow finns behind. Get them to safety at all costs. And you call us mindless killers? ** This troper thinks that he means that, since he chose to join the military in the first place, and is striving to do his best, that that's why he's in control of his life. ** [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Erm, guys...]] * The TroperTales page for HeroicBSOD starts with an incomplete sentence and ends with "Sorry, where was I?" The more examples are put in, the longer the gap gets. So the more Heroic BSODs people have, the longer the BSOD of the page is! * This troper has a pet {{Jerkass}} that constantly tells him things like "GET THAT PUSSY!" in spite of the fact that, from this troper's view, troper is more of a loser than [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]]. Then this troper realized that his behavior towards a lot of women can be described entirely with ChivalrousPervert, and the ones that don't openly hate him for other reasons are perfectly fine with that and may hold a romantic interest in him. {{Jerkass}} seems like less of a {{Jerkass}} and more of a CaptainObvious now. * This trooper had some fridge brilliance on himself when he decided to name his Goth charter [[ShrinkingViolet Violet]] [[BrokenBird Raven]] ** This different troper had FridgeBrilliance in regard to your entry. At first I thought you misspelled "character" as "charter." Then, [[http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Articles/TypeTradingCards/11-012004.htm I found out that there is a font called Charter]] that is also listed on the same page as the font Franklin Gothic! Clearly, this was a sly obscure reference to this fact! * This troper's Nakama tried to plan a surprise birthday party for one of us. Things were planned and announced, but the day came and went and no one had managed to get anything more done, either due to poor planning or forgetting. The birthday girl in question? [[TheHero The one who organizes everything]]. * My friend posted this on facebook: "Don't listen to facebook statuses. They're written by idiots and always lie to you." I originally just thought that it was him calling himself an idiot again, then I remembered what exactly this sentence was and realised that it's a logic paradox, not a self critique. * This English troper is a quarter Irish from his mother's side. He hasn't really paid that part of his heritage much heed, though he did start listening to ThePogues recently. Nobody really paid that much attention either. However, my grandmother seemed pleased that I was listening to an Irish band... I couldn't quite figure out why. It wasn't as if she listened to that sort of thing herself. Then I remembered that my grandad, her husband, the man she loved and raised a child with, who's been dead for thirty years, was Irish... So [[TearJerker Yeah]]. * This troper was filling out a housing application for a roommate this fall. One of the questions was "Would you be willing to room with a gay, lesbian, or transgender person?" His automatic answer was yes and he didn't think about it until he realized that there was almost no way the housing department would know whether someone was gay or lesbian. In fact, they could only have put that question there to find

out if the person would be okay rooming with a transgender person. A roundabout question yielding the answer they need, without potentially outing someone who needs to keep their transgender status a secret later on. ** I'm sorry, but what? *** FridgeLogic: I'm sure there are plenty of straight/bisexual/asexual people who wouldn't mind rooming with gays, lesbians, or transgender people. Basically, I'm ~guessing~ that the original poster was arguing that asking whether someone is ''okay'' with rooming with a gay or lesbian person is a sort of [[TakeAThirdOption third option]] between directly asking whether someone is gay or lesbian (which may not be "legal") and potentially creeping out people who wouldn't want to room with gays or lesbians. **** No, what the original poster meant was this: The housing department had a transgendered person that needed a roommate. But since they can't ask "Are you okay with rooming with a transgendered person" (it might out the transgendered person somehow) they instead asked about transgendered people ''and'' gays ''and'' lesbians, making it seem like they were asking about hypothetical situations, when they were actually investigating a specific case. **** While I understand what the original troper was getting at (assuming it was what the four-bullet poster directly above me said), there ''are'' places (including and especially in the U.S.) where, while one cannot actually be contractually "[[ButThouMust asked]]" about sexual orientation in case of discrimination, it's legal or even required for any openly gay or ([[NoBisexuals in some places]]) bisexual people to be placed in rooming where their roommate is aware of their sexuality. This is ([[YourMileageMayVary in some places only supposedly]]) both to keep a pitiable homophobe from having to share a room with an emotionally disturbing gay/bi person and to keep a pitiable gay/bi person from having to share a room with a dangerous homophobe. Assuming the original poster is accurately versed in the relevant laws and rules governing the area where the housing was, and the housing committee didn't word the question in such a way just to be as thorough as possible, their interpretation has a good chance of being correct anyway. * I was planning out a MegaCrossover Fanfic, and was trying to decide on a [[TheReveal "Reveal"]] for the source of [[HaruhiSuzumiya]]'s powers, as well as a way to add the godess Inazami [[spoiler: (otherwise known as the ManBehindTheMan of Persona4)]] to the cast for the GrandFinale. I considered making Haruhi a mortal incarnation of the godess Ameratsu. Realizing that I knew next to nothing about Japanese mythology, I looked up Ameratsu on Wikipedia, and it said that that (at least in some versions of the story) Ameratsu was the daugter of Izinami and Izinagi. * Greatest discovery of my life: Christmas presents are brick jokes. ** So are year book quotes, at least if you use them to make private jokes that inevitably won't even make sense to you anymore by the time the yearbook's actually out. * [[@/RedWren This troper]] is constantly discovering fonts of inspiration that she didn't notice she'd been drawing from. And also even stuff like ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' [[HitlerAteSugar can make

good points]]. Finally, and probably most importantly: [[KidsAreCruel they]] honestly didn't understand, and so saw no reason to change their behavior. * This troper often gets FridgeBrilliance with badly written works (coughcoughTwilightcoughcough) where there are things which actually do make sense - the writer just wasn't good enough to communicate that. Case in point: the other boys' fascination with Bella. Meyer gives a good explanation (basically, she's something new and different) but it comes off as just one more facet of the MarySue which is Bella. In the hands of another author, this could have worked. * A bartender is someone who tends to a bar. * This Troper had just read [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2009/11/20/200-ode-to-minions/ "Ode to Minions"]] and started to wonder why they had said "Dodongo disliked smoke". Then she remembered something - in the earlier games, you had to defeat them with Bombs. Bombs cause a lot of smoke. ** There's more to it (same Troper) - why was that ReDead playing the taxes (aside from making them sympathetic)? They were alive once, you know... *** Me again. In the end, a very famous "villain" turns out to be singing from personal experience. So why does he ask the plumbers who are listening to put their hats on their hearts if they aren't in the crowd in the first place? Considering that they enjoy [[GoKartingWithBowser having races against one another]] in a friendly way, it becomes even weirder, doesn't it? Well... would YOU go listening to a song (aside from those with lots of screaming, but this is more peaceful) sung by someone who has that monstrous voice that he has in canon? It seems plausible that he wanted to let somebody dub it so it could become popular, making the Bros. guilty, and wanted to see if his minions liked it. * In Texas, American and Texan history are taught as separate grade school courses. When this troper was in fourth grade, the teacher started the Texas History unit by asking the class "Did we win the Battle of the Alamo?" Every student but one answered 'no.' Years later, I realized that he had answered 'Yes' ''because he was Mexican.'' * This Troper had to read ''ASeparatePeace'' when in high school. Long story short: it's the story about a pair of friends who go through trials due to one friend's jealousy of the other (and there's some other stuff not remembered due to it being a good, long time ago). Well, this troper ''loved'' that book until she got to the end to find out that [[spoiler: the more popular friend dies by bone marrow leaving his broken leg after being set wrong, reaching his heart and causing a heart failure. It just seemed like a completely ridiculous way to kill off the character]] and most of the other students in the class agreed. Later though, when having to read ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_Literature_Like_a_Profess or How To Read Literature Like a Professor]]'' for another English class, that bad opinion of ''A Seperate Peace'' did a 180. [[spoiler: This was due to a chapter (though said realization and change of opinion didn't occur until 2-3 chapters later) on how illnesses and

deaths are always symbolic and ones dealing with the heart tend to relate to relationship issues; Finny'd died because of the insecurity his friend felt concerning their friendship, a far more fitting end to the character in this troper's opinion.]] * This Troper saw [[http://www.zazzle.co.uk/gone_fishin_tshirt235506070471658222 this shirt]] and she was like 'whut...' but then she read the description * In several places in the US it was legal for landlords to refuse to rent property to certain people based on their race, but illegal to advertise that fact. (i.e. you can't post an ad that says "white people only".) So if a landlord didn't want to rent to a racial minority, he'd have to tell the prospective tenant that ''to his face''. * This Troper was skimming through the Troper Tales list.While scanning through the alphabetically categorized section,he realized something funny.Specifically between the placement of The CompleteMonster page and TheMessiah page.In order to go to the CompleteMonster page,you have to go down,but to get to TheMessiah page you have to go up.I know its not symbolism,but it was funny already to me,because CompleteMonster is on the left,and TheMessiah is on the right. * This troper has a "Kids Celebrate America" CD, which she enjoyed when she was five (see: IReadItForTheArticles.) But she didn't really think it was special or anything (except as entertainment) and didn't know who were behind [[MariahCarey Hero]], [[JohnLennon Imagine]], America, or [[TheBeatles Yesterday]]. Then she got interested in JohnLennon after seeing how much he had in common with-don't kill me for this-KanyeWest. She found the CD Halloween 2010 and decided to listen to it after remembering that John had a song on that CD...it was like being five all over again. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Some moments are definitely worth treasuring.]] [[HeartwarmingInHindsight Those songs have been classics ever since.]] I definitely should've valued my childhood more. * I'm well aware of and annoyed by the bursts of insanity that are a characteristic of [[AvatarTheLastAirbender my preferred fandom]], sometimes on this very wiki. Being both a [[ButtMonkey Maiko]] shipper and someone who greatly enjoyed the third season, I have quite a lot of haterade to endure from the majority of fans. I just realized why a lot of people deride the third season (''allegedly'' for being full of "episodic filler"), when I absolutely love it: ''It's got Maiko in like every other episode and they're all just butthurt Zutarians.'' Ahh, fandom. Can't live with you, can't live without you... * I love {{Goldfrapp}} a lot. Mainly, I love the songs from their middle three albums (''Black Cherry'', ''Supernature'' and ''Seventh Tree''), though I adore ''Felt Mountain'' and don't mind ''Head First''. But I realised a while ago that I love ''Felt Mountain'' a lot more than I thought I did, and then I started wondering why, given that the music is very trippy and the lyrics are almost completely incomprehensible- and then I realised, that's exactly why I love itthe music's perfect for relaxing, and incomprehensible lyrics make me laugh. * This troper was going about every day life as it should-boring and

normal-when this troper suddenly realized what song this troper was listening to. A Korean pop song by a certain nine-poepled girl group. This troper realized the lyrics were brilliant. Then this troper suddenly felt like throwing up. * 3.14 flipped horizontally looks like "PI.E".[[hottip:*:For those not well-versed in mathematics, 3.14 is Pi rouned to 2 decimal places.]] * This troper's mother has a plant growing on a plastic cup just on the side of the kitchen's sink. Actually, it's not a plant at all. It's just a sad little leaf with a long green branch that keeps being alive because the cup is filled with water. This troper [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny just noticed]] this night after the plant has been there for '''2 years''' that the cup is actually a promotional cup for {{WALL-E}}. * I felt pretty giddy seeing [[{{Tangled}} Rapunzel and Eugene]] added to the "So Close" segment of California Adventure's World of Color. The second time watched the clip, I realized they came in on the line, "almost believing this one's not pretend." I suddenly remembered Mother Gothel warning Rapunzel that Eugene might not really love her, and ultimately being proven wrong. * This troper has been told by my friends that I yell whenever I talk to them,but told I talk quitely to people like my parents,teachers,and the adults around me.At first I was confused why I yell at my friends instead of talking and then it hit me-My friends are just my friends.I talk quietly and respectfully to my parents,teachers,and the adults around me because there the authoritive figures in my life. While I'm aware that they should have my respect,subconsicously I don't respect them because they have no authority over me once so ever. They can't control my actions or punish me for mouthing off.Though I do use an outside voice on them,I cherish them and am now talking calmy upon hitting realization of this fact. * Years and years ago, this troper used to go to after school care, not a bad place, but there were a few hearing impaired children attending from another nearby school, the attendants there had some volunteer students, troper included, learn sign language to help them around a bit (mainly to alert them to afternoon snacks, playground time, et cetera.), and to help us practice gave us a song to sign to. Around a month ago, brilliance set in when the song came around on the radio again, it was Ronan Keating's "When You Say Nothing at All" key lyrics being "You say it best, when you say nothing at all..." * When I first started using [=MacOS=] and saw that inactive apps' dock icons bounce when they want your attention, I assumed it was just a cutesy thing the designer came up with. Years later, I observed someone else's Mac that had been set to auto-hide the dock. The icons were bouncing ''into view'' from below the bottom edge of the screen, so you can still see them when the dock is hidden. ---Suddenly, FridgeBrilliance makes perfect sense! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FridgeHorror * There is a website called Parsimonious that puts up free downloadables for The Sims. On one thumbnail for a woman's dress, the woman is seen with a toddler, a baby... And a brownish thing that looks suspiciously like [[NightmareFuel a baby]] [[MoralEventHorizon corpse...]] * In this troper's school, there is a Science teacher who, every year, tells the story about how he accidently killed his cat by dipping it in a flea bath made for dogs. This troper always thought it was odd that he told the story every single year since it happened, horrifying each new class and basically ensuring that they dislike him. . . then I realized he's probably punishing himself for the death of a beloved pet by making people hate him. [[TearJerker Damn]]. ** Why do they hate him? He made a fucking mistake and admits it. Assholes. *** Another Troper can see both sides of the issue. It is more likely that it was a big mistake and that he's punishing himself. But there's a chance that most people in OP's school aren't very trusting of people they don't know. They might figure that [[InsaneTrollLogic "he's a Science teacher, he should know scientific stuff, he should've known what would happen to his cat... THAT MONSTER!!]] Which is FridgeHorror in itself. Sorry if I made it worse for you guys... * So [[{{Tropers/Gancena}} This Troper]] just read this story on [[http://www.givesmehope.com/ GivesMeHope.com]]: --> "In the elementary school near my house, there is an loving teacher who serves as a safety crosswalk officer for the children going to school. One day, a drunk driver was speeding down the street. I witnessed her jumping in front of the child in its path and was killed. The child was not touched. Her courage and love for these children GMH." ** The FridgeHorror comes in upon rereading the words "I witnessed her." There's a tiny chance this could just be an [[UnfortunateImplications Unfortunate Implication]] from bad phrasing, but I doubt it. The storyteller ''saw this woman die.'' Sheer MoodWhiplash and NightmareFuel to boot. *** Oh it could be worse. Maybe the narrator was actually the Drunk Driver all along, and reciting this story out of a guilty conscience. ** And you know, the whole fact that the (presumably pretty young, as he was in elementary school) kid also saw the woman die. ** Of course, the complete lack of verifiable details in this person's story suggests that they were neither witness nor driver because ''the whole thing was made up''. People fabricate "inspirational stories" all the time, and if a crossing guard really died leaping in front of traffic to save a child from a drunk driver, you'd think we'd be able to get some google news hits on the subject. See also: snopes.com/glurge *** Or that they didn't post identifiable details about a traumatizing experience on the Internet. Also known as "common sense". **** Providing a verifiable detail about a news item, such as the name of a town, is not the same as providing personally identifying information. More importantly, if a crossing guard was killed by ''leaping between a child and a drunk driver's speeding vehicle'', it

would have been in the news, and google would have some record of it. Which google does not. * The day after watching the EAT DA POO POO meme, this troper went to the bathroom. When he realized what that guy meant... ** I thought it was kind of obvious the first time. What did you think he was talking about? * If the abundance and popularity of "I don't care if I'll go deaf by 30, I listen to music at max volume anyway" and [[ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow "If my music's too loud, YOU'RE TOO OLD!"]] groups on {{Facebook}} are any indication, by the time this 21-year-old troper's generation is about halfway through the average lifespan, ''a plurality, if not a majority of it, is going to be deaf.'' Ages from now, clear hearing beyond one's adolescent years is going to be not the norm, but a ''blessing.'' ** Listening to it too loud for too long or with headphones on is stupid, but otherwise, it's not too dangerous. ** Well, one would hope that the next generation would learn that," hey, hearing is pretty nice. I don't wanna end up deaf like my parents." Keep in mind that acquired traits (i.e. blown eardrums) aren't genetic; a parent who turns deaf from physical damage will not have a child who is deaf. ** [[OlderThanTheyThink Keep in mind that hearing loss among young people has been a problem ever since music players could have their volume adjusted]]. The reason it hasn't become an epidemic is because most people are smart enough to realize that being free to play your music loud is not worth the long-term damage. * When this troper was younger he had a pet rabbit. We felt he was lonely in the back garden so we gave him a football (soccer) ball to play with. Sometimes this troper used to play football with him, but he often noticed that he would mount the ball and jerk all over it. Now, in his innocent six-year-old mind this simply seemed like nothing out of the ordinary. Years later he realised that he was using the ball to masturbate. He remembered because his train of thought lead me to question why the ball was sometimes wet on a dry day. HE HANDLED THAT BALL. ** If it makes you feel better, it could just be that he was marking the ball has his. Your rabbit may have mistaken the ball for another animal as he's seen it move on many occasion. Male (and even female) rabbits will do this to each other as part of their dominance rituals. In fact, females are more likely to do the mounting outside of breeding season as rabbit society is matriarchal. ... I just made it worse, didn't I. * This troper saw a girl wear a dress based off [[SesameStreet Elmo]] for Halloween and looked innocent at first, but then you see what she's wearing on her head. It seems like [[BodyHorror Elmo had his face scalped clean off (from the eyes to the nose) and made into a hairband]]. No, seriously, this is an actual costume. * [[{{@/Nakayama90}} This troper]] bought the ''ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'' books (the original, Stephen Gammellillustrated versions), and when paying for it, joked with the cashier about their classification as children's books. A look at any of Gammell's illustrations will make anyone question why. Look at the

illustrations, and then let the horror sink in. ** You know what's worse? When I was looking at the page, I realized I have memories of reading it. Also, I remember not thinking it was scary. * [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} This troper]] had wished that he would end up with the habitual and physical opposite of his (ahem) [[{{Understatement}} slightly pudgy]] ex-girlfriend [[{{EmoTeen}} 20something pseudo-goth, pseudo-emo]] [[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel}} Twilight fan]] [[{{LandDownunder}}from a similar area and same country as he]]. Thinking through the most likely implication, [[{{BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor}} if that wish comes true]], his next girlfriend would in theory be a GenkiGirl Kawaiiko [[{{ThirtySecondsOverTokyo}} Japanese]] girlfriend who will [[{{TastesLikeDiabetes}}be the cutest woman he will ever]] [[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} know]]. This troper doesn't know whether to class this as a subversion or a straight example, which is beginning to break his brain... ** Or she might just be a quiet Christian housewife type. Terrifying, aren't we? *** I've dated a Christian housewife type before. Possibly one of the most terrifying things I've ever put myself through. ** Wouldn't she also not be a she? ** Also he'll breathe carbon dioxide, eat human waste, excrete food, and drink fire. *** Let him (somehow) reproduce and many of our modern world problems will be solved. Also, drinking fire would turn him into a (kind of) awesome super hero. *** Eh, [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]] wasn't quite expecting such a LiteralMinded response... [[{{HypocriticalHumor}} probably should have expected that from]] [[{{TakeThat}} all you fellow]] [[{{TVTropesWillRuinYourLife}} Tropers]]...any-hoo, onto a less NauseaFuel example of FridgeHorror, the likely origin of TheLoveBug some MadScientist [[{{ThoseWackyNazis}} from the Third Reich]] built a custom-built VW Bug around [[{{GraysSportsAlmanac}} a computer from the distant future]] [[{{AIIsACrapshoot}} that could pass the Turing test]] - possibly in hopes of building more...well, [[{{StupidJetpackHitler}} military-minded and more malevolent machines of war]] (um, was that an alliteration?) [[{{ChirpingCrickets}} * crickets* ]] - anyway, the thought of Herbie being a (thankfully) FlawedPrototype of a [[{{StupidJetpackHitler}} Nazi robotic tank army]] is FridgeHorror (YMMV) but - well, at least for Herbie's sake he was boxed until sometime after the war when an American businessman purchased him from a car yard not knowing his true origin... * This isn't FridgeHorror, but the closest that I will come to it. [[@/Seamaid96 I]] happen to be 14 years old, and I'm in a school where it seems like most of the girls have a harder time to accept anybody who is retaking their year (this was demonstrated as a guy had to retake his year and come to our class - the guys accepted him as a friend while the girls started to talk shit about him as soon as any boy was out of hearing range). I was the first to, ahem, [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean look more like a grown-up woman]] in my class. A while ago I was getting along with a friend of a friend when she asked

me what year I was in. When I answered, she said "oh... so you're in ''that'' grade..." with a pretty disappointed voice, and we never have spoken with each other ince our school musical was performed. One of the make-uppers said that I look elder than I am, thinking I was 16 at first. I then started to think about why girls who are elder than me seem to be more interested in getting to know me than people from the same grade. My conclusion? ''The reason that so few girls from my age want to get to know me is that I look as somebody who has retaken a year'' (which I haven't). My looks are the sole reason that I don't have many same-aged friends out of class! The horror becomes lessened because I can get to know other people, but still... ** Same Troper as above has also come to think about something else. One of my friends has a filled schedule all the time, and says that people are starting to think that he hates them because he never invites others to his place nor can accept to come home to somebody else. Then, many months later, I came to think of this statement. I have an almost empty schedule and simply can't seem to think of something interesting to do at my place, therefore never bringing my friends home. To make things worse, I'm somewhat shy and won't go to the cinema unless I'm asked to (I have an annoying habit of leaving half-way through no matter how good it is, unless friends are with me), so it's not exactly easy to make the situation better. ''There is no way of looking at it without realizing that it's my fault that [[ParanoiaFuel everyone but my family might actually hate me]].'' {{OhCrap}}! And my life wasn't feeling as bad until now, too... *** This troper sympathises: he lives in a place about ten miles from his school, which makes going to visit a friend out of school somewhat difficult, especially as the bus service only runs from 7AM until 7PM (or 6PM in the winter). Add the fact that I'm somewhat poor at communicating, which makes for few friends, and you'll probably understand why my weekends tend to be made of listening to music, reading books and sitting in front of a computer. The fact that my hobbies are somewhat strange doesn't help (case of point, I'm a parttime morris dancer). * This Troper once saw, at a thrift store, an unused 50th anniversary photo album.(Probably more Fridge Tragic than Fridge Horror...) ** I'll just pretend that some friend accidentally bought it for a couple on their 40th anniversary, because there are several ways this could fall deeply into the realm of fridge horror. ** Or they got it as an anniversary gift from the other or someone else and A) Never bothered to use it before dying of old age or cleaning out the attic, or B) already had another and donated/sold the spare. ** It's also common for thrift stores to get overstock from major stores. Similar to the above, it could have been given to a couple who simply thought that it was cheesy/useless/what have you. * I have friends who are on Danbooru. I'm on there too, and have an account with one of my main online handles (which said friends do know) as the username. My favorites, which span the SFW/NSFW spectrum, are fully visible to anyone who can view my account. Now, do the math. ** Eh, it's Danbooru. Some people happen to like the hentai pics on that site. And there are a lot.

* A fictional and therefore definitely funnier example happened to [[Tropers/LadySylvan this troper.]] While playing [[{{Civilization}} Civ IV]] as Germany, she set about developing the Manhattan Project before another civilization could. After it was finished, she glanced at the in-game date. The year was 1906. In this universe, it's before World War II and even World War I, and ''Germany has the nuclear bomb.'' OhCrap. ** Of course, a Germany that was prosperous and didn't suffer through WW1 likely wouldn't have the Nazis come to power. *** Although it would've been SOME kind of socialism. That political philosophy was all the rage in the civilized world. **** Except that socialism is the opposite of National Socialism. Do you mean fascism? * This troper was pondering a little too hard one day after thinking over the female body cycles. Upon this pondering, she came to periods. Every so weeks eggs try to be conceived and fall, and thus, die. These eggs are the building blocks of human life. These eggs are babies. Every time you have your period, ladies, you are killing babies. ** It happens to sperm too, m'lad, even if you don't choke the chicken. ** Not exactly. Gametes are inanimate. They're cells, components of another organism, not organisms of their own. Egg and Sperm cells that don't combine will never be anything and will just die off like any other cell. Skin cells, for example. It's like saying anyone who gets a sunburn and peels is a mass murderer. ** Not no mention that eggs have absolutely no nervous system, nor any kind of self-sustaining habilites. So, an egg is NOT a baby... it is not even "alive" by most definitions of the word. ** Still, if you're one of those pro-lifers who believes that an embryo is a person, the fact that 25% of pregnancies are miscarried within a month of conception counts. All those deaths, and in most cases the mother never even knew she was pregnant. ** Unless it's fertilized, it's not even a potential baby. Women aren't "killing" anything by having a monthly period. If you want some ''real'' Fridge Horror, take your statement and think about what a woman would actually have to do to avoid such a philosophical murder rap, and that would be to have her body in a constant state of pregnancy starting with the onset of puberty, since you don't ovulate when you're pregnant (assuming pregnancy even occurs, since even with regular sex and ovulation, it doesn't always happen). Pregnancy can take a big physical toll on the body, especially if a woman doesn't have access to proper prenatal care. I would say that she would have to be constantly pregnant up through menopause, but with that many pregnancies she'd probably be dead long before she reached it. Then consider that human females are born with all of the eggs they're going to have, which is a lot more than 20 or 25 or however many pregnancies her body can sustain. Using your logic, she would die and take hundreds of "potentials" with her. Oh, and she'd also be leaving a whole slew of actual, existing people, some of whom would be too young to care for themselves, motherless. Better yet, avoid the Fridge Horror all together by cracking open a biology textbook every now and then.

*** Couldn't you lot have responded without the faint condescension? **** No, because the comment was kinda stupid. Sorry. **** Where I come from, women's reproductive rights are being attacked relentlessly. It has gotten so bad that some lawmakers have even attempted to introduce bills that would require a criminal investigation into ''miscarriages'', for Pete's sake. I think a little "faint condescension" in the face of such misconceptions (no pun intended) about how the female body works is a very mild reaction. **** While you have a point, and I completely understand your point, it's still incredibly rude to have a go at someone for this. They were just pointing out the fact that eggs are one half of the beginning of life, and so it's kind of creepy to realise that whenever you have a period, that's your body's way of telling you that a possible baby wasn't created. They weren't telling us that it is wrong to have a period, and they weren't telling us to be pregnant all our lives. It was an observation. However, it could have been worded a whole lot better, and I can see where the offense comes from. * This troper was just talking about what Naruto's and Sakura's kids would be like. Super strong ninjas with huge amounts of Chakra that get mad easy. They would destroy the town. ** The super strength thing is a -learned technique-, LamarckWasRight does not apply here. * When I was a child a woman held a pet funeral for some kids in my neighborhood whose cat had died. After the "service" she said we were all welcome to come see the cat at her house whenever we like, and gave us the address. This did not seem strange at the time because I was a little kid, but it just hit me the other day that this woman was keeping DEAD ANIMALS in her HOUSE. ** That is what most people would do when they get their animals cremated. ** How do you know she didn't have it stuffed? * A while ago this Troper read a rather bad {{Discworld}} fanfic, so OOC it made her think "[[ChaoticEvil Carcer]] wouldn't do that!". She left a review commenting on the OOC-ness and moved on. Then it hit her: There are people out there who try to pass off things [[CompleteMonster Carcer]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards wouldn't do]] as kinky sex. D: * Shmups (and related genres) in arcades. {{Fighting Game}}s generate profit at a continous rate thanks to {{Tournament Play}}ers whoring them out. But as for shooting games? It's the opposite. As one spends more time with a game, the less credits he or she will burn trying to beat it with each successive attempt, and thus the less profit the machine gets. Populate an arcade with serious shooting game fans and no one else playing those games, and you have a recipe for logarithmic profit. In layman terms: '''good shmup players are bad for arcades.''' ** What, are you married to a Ms. Pac-Man machine? How is this fridge horror? *** Agreed. This isn't a Fridge Horror, but merely an interesting economic thought experiment that probably doesn't even hold up in the real world due to the likely small number of people who are THAT great at SHUMPS... * This troper was reading the BiggusDickus page when she arrived at

the example about the roleplay character who had a six-foot cock. Her initial response was 'WTF? OK, that's just weird'. Then later, she was brushing her teeth in front of a mirror and it hit her exactly how big six feet really is... urgh. * I was listening to [[{{Digimon}} Puppetmon's]] ImageSong one night and I thought it was cute.... until I looked up the translated lyrics. He's singing about [[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel}} killing people with his mechanical forest while he thinks of more ways to kill people]]. What a great song to go to bed to.... * [[{{Tropers/SoWeAteThem}} I]] once read all 24 chapters of a gutwrenchingly horrible piece of erotic fiction entitled "Lesbian Land 2250," which I am honestly surprised does not have a page here. One of the characters had [[spoiler:[[BodyHorror three-inch]] [[FetishRetardant labia]]]]. Given how psychotic the rest of the story was, I shrugged this little detail off... for a while. After this specific detail was brought up in a partial spork on Weepingcock, I decided to look at my collection of minidiscs as a reference. It was a very stupid move on my part. ** That really isn't as crazy as you apparently think. Some cultures would consider that attractive. It's just that the standard Western Porno aesthetic most of us are used to favors the opposite look. ** Another case from me: Dad was not necessarily a tidy person. His apartment was a noxious wreck, let's leave it at that. We had guests from other apartments, once for a steak dinner and once because Dad locked me out while I was doing laundry and left the complex. (He kept the bathroom window open, and the place was designed so one could go from room to room through the windows.) I just came to two separate realizations, and I don't know which is worse: That they had seen inside of Dad's apartment and could easily have set events in motion that got me out of his care, or that they didn't. * A lot of conservative people (a variety of MoralGuardians included) oppose same-sex marriage. You know what other kind of person would agree with them? Your typical [[{{Imageboards}} /b/tard]]! ** [[SarcasmMode Oh me oh my! Stop the presses! This is BIG NEWS!]] *** It might surprise you to hear that the idea that /b/tards and your typical conservative have things in common is Fridge Horror isn't actually new. This troper recalls reading of an event where Rush Limbaugh saying negative things about the Furry Fandom on his radio show, at which point some of them leapt at the chance to say things like, "If you hate on us then you agree with Rush Limbaugh!" to their detractors, /b/tards likely included... * When I first saw the music video for LadyGaga's "Alejandro", I was mildy disturbed, but couldn't figure out exactly ''what'' it was that disturbed me. It took me a while to realize that out of all the [[MindScrew bizarre]], [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic weird]], [[FanDisservice freaky]], ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel messed-up]]'' stuff going on in that video, what I found most disturbing was... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the bowl haircuts]]. [[{{Squick}} That probably says something]] ''[[{{Squick}} very]]'' [[{{Squick}} interesting about me]]. * I once caught a chipmunk with one of those special cage traps, and then released it at a park later that day. On the way home I realised

it might have been a mother chipmunk, and I just left a bunch of baby chipmunks to starve to death. I don't relocate chipmunks anymore. * While reading through the NeverWasThisUniverse entry, I came across the mention of ''Dark Mirror'' and had a vaguely creepy though occur to me. What would be scarier (mostly for a religious person, I suppose) to discover in a MirrorUniverse -- seeing how much the Bible had been changed to create a moral justification for the good/evil swap, or finding out that there had been [[HumansAreBastards no changes at all]]? ** For at least less intelligent fundamentalist types (think the worst American evangelicals), it would definitely be the former, as in the latter the Christian is likely to simply point and say, "Look how far these crazy fuckers twisted the words of my precious bible!", of course failing to realise the bitter irony of that statement... * So Friend A and I learned from Friend B (a gay male) that Friend C (a straight male) had asked to, ahem, [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "compare the size of their flagposts"]] with him. As Friend A and I were on a booze run, we started to slowly think about details behind the logistics of comparing flagposts, when we came to the horrible realization that you can't really [[{{Squick}} compare flagposts at "half-mast"]]. The conversation didn't go any further than that. * This troper grew up watching Tamil movies (she is Tamil herself) where the hero must save his girl from being forcefully married to her "maamaa" or "machaan" because her parents want it. Being 7 years old, she focused less on the dialogue and more on the action. It only occurred to her a few years later, when she realized that "maamaa" meant uncle and "machaan" meant cousin, thus meaning that in many cases the hero was saving her from acceptable [[KissingCousins incest]]. Cue agonizing scream of what her culture was up to. ** If it makes you feel any better, the fact that they movie portrays the hero ''saving'' the girl from that shows that Tamil culture is willing to change things. * This troper played a game of ArkhamHorror 2 weeks ago and thought the game was scary enough...then this troper realized that the terror level should have went up a lot sooner than they would have ltiked and should be [[YouAreAlreadyDead devoured]] a long time ago ** Yeah, in the first few games you play of that, you generally only make it by the skin of how much you're willing to overlook rules/ explicitly cheat. Yog Sothoth has yet to voice an objection over drawing another mythos card. * You know those Vuvuzelas from the World Cup? Is Tinnitus like hearing those 24 hours a day? [[FateWorseThanDeath EEK!]] ** Well... no, not really. It only kicks in if everything is silent, or low on noise. I have it mildly, and it's just a slight ringing noise when everything is silent at night. But my aunt... she has it MUCH MORE OFTEN, it's LOUD, and sometimes it sounds like GRINDING METAL. My mother says it's a miracle she remains cheerful. * This troper was tricked into headbanging with his mouth open. His friend told him not to; [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything guess why?]] * I went to my first public-speaking college class a couple days ago. The teacher, while introducing herself, said "Oh, by the way, here's an interesting fact about myself: I decided to come in here and share

my birthday with you all." Everyone gave the obligatory "awww"s for a couple seconds and then the class continued. Later, as I was driving home, I had a realization - "Wait a second, today is ''September 11th!''" Damn, that sucks. ** We call 911 for emergencies... * This troper was watching [[TheLazerCollection The Lazer Collection 3]] and laughing at it... up until the part where Detective Randal is [[spoiler:revealed to be Dr. Octogonapus' son.]] All of a sudden out of nowhere it hit me... who the hell was Randal's [[spoiler:mother]]? * The Looney Labs card game for BTTF gave me this. The goal of the game is to change history so that you, a descendant of one of the BTTF characters, exists. For example, Verne Brown has to make sure the trilogy goes the way it should, while Tiffany Tannen has to cause 1985-A to come into existence. Fun times, right? Well, to win the game, you have to change November 5th, 1955, and make it so Doc never invents time travel. Please remember, your player character is most likely the result of someone getting their hands on a time machine before procreating. So in order to win, YOU HAVE TO ERASE YOUR OWN EXISTENCE. (Not to mention, the player characters may be fighting to erase each other in the course of the game. . . .) * This troper finally got around to listening to ''SufjanStevens's'' ''Illinois'' when he got to the song ''John Wayne Gacy Jr.'' Although the name sounded familiar, he just chalked it up to some old jazz musician. But as the song went on and mentioned clowns, death, and little boys, he started wondering who John Wayne Gacy really was. After the song ended, it hit him. John Wayne Gacy was a serial rapist and murderer! And he realized that after remembering that he had looked the man up on TheOtherWiki a long time ago. * {{@/Tidal_Wave_17}} is an aspiring artist and writer. His right hand is one of his greatest possessions. (Not masturbation jokes, please.) His mother, her parents, and her great-grandparents all have arthitis in their right hand. My mother started to have it when she was in her ''thirties.'' That means, as soon as I get close to the big 3-0, I can expect my hand to start shaking whenever I try to draw... ** I'm an artist, and my mum has Glaucoma. Which means that I could end up losing my vision. Thankfully, I'm also a fairly good writer--I think I'm better at it than being an artist, truth be told--so I have that as a backup plan. --@/{{Jonn}} * Way back when, people thought of Hell as being alone in darkness forever. Then Dante's Inferno came along and created the Hell that we all know: fire, the devil, etc. That is what a history teacher of mine told me. About 5-10 minutes later (while he was talking further about Dante's Inferno and people's reactions to it) the fridge horror kicked in: for me, being alone in darkness forever is way scarier than being tortured by the devil and burning in hell. * So a friend of mine is writing a casual futuristic fantasy series. At the end of one "book" [[hottip:*:(quote marks because it's posted online and because each installment is too short to be an actual book)]], the characters find out that the Big Crunch is happening, and they have to stop it. They succeed, because one of them turns out to be the long-lost descendant of a goddess who never passed on her powers (ItMakesSenseInContext). Over a year later, it hits me. Imagine

being in a universe where the Big Crunch is happening. Astronomers will find out that the universe is shrinking. Soon after that, people all over the world, perhaps the galaxy, will be aware of it. The next (and last) week or two of everyone's lives will be spent with the constant knowledge hanging over their heads that ''the universe is about to '''end'''''. And that there is ''nothing anyone can do about it''. ** Umm...I'm not an astronomer, but does a Big Crunch really only take one single week? I always thought it's just as slow as the Big Bang (i.e. the time it took for the universe to expand this far will be the time it takes to fold back together again) *** It might, but it probably wouldn't be noticed until long after it began. And the Earth isn't exactly at the center of the universe. Maybe a couple weeks is still an underestimate, but the point is that however long people had to live, they would have that weighing them down. Try knowing you only have a month, a year, even ten years to live before the universe itself collapses in on you. Kind of a creepy little thought to have around. * In [[Tropers/MegTheMaggot my]] first playthrough of DragonAgeOrigins, I was a female city Elf, romancing Alistair. He ended up sacrificing himself, and I left Ferelden with Sten in the end game. As I didn't get Sten's sword back, he is going to be executed as soon as he returns to his homeland. [[SuicideByCop My character]] [[DrivenToSuicide essentially]] [[TagTeamSuicide killed herself]] [[TogetherInDeath in grief]]. Major TearJerker, right there. * A popular story told, mostly to children from Asian families, (from my experience) is that if you eat the seeds from a fruit, a tree will grow on your head. Nobody believes these stories of course, but what if it did? That tree would be putting down roots ''into your brain''. ''They'd be in'' ''[[EyeScream your eyes!]]'' ''[[TheWickerMan YOUR EYES!!!]]'' * This troper was a freshman in college when he learned of the escape of a boy in his late teens that had been kidnapped and held captive in a couple's house, chained to their fireplace for several years. The horror came later, when he was discussing it with his mother who mentioned that the boy had escaped and sought help at a local gym. Looking into it further, this troper discovered that he had ridden his bike to school past the house where the boy had been captive for at least two years, and would have been a teenage boy regularly passing that house at predictable times around the time the teenage boy was originally kidnapped. * This troper has been interested in art and art history from a very young age, but did not have the best reaction to seeing Francisco Goya's "Saturn Eating His Children" (Google it, [[{{SchmuckBait}} if you dare]]). It made her cry the first time she saw a print in middle school, and she's had very bad reactions to it ever since, having majored in a field where art history classes are required. Well, said troper recently started reading [[{{HPLovecraft}} HP Lovecraft]]; her latest venture into his works was "Pickman's Model", where the narrator meets [[{{MadArtist}} a man]] who paints very hellish subject matter, only to find that [[spoiler: the man was painting these nightmare creatures from photographic reference]]. While looking for

paintings from the Romanticism movement, troper found 'Saturn...' again, and freaked out... And then she remembered the Lovecraft story and [[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel}} began playing the 'What If...' game...]] * There is a Mind and Body exhibition on the third floor of the Melbourne Museum. In a little corner, there is a wall of children's drawings of people. Naked people. [[{{Squick}} With detailed adult genitalia.]] The FridgeHorror sets in when you realise that children drawing detailed geitalia is a sign of sexual abuse. The exhibit even mentions that children usually draw people as stick people with no genitalia. [[{{Squick}} Oh]] [[{{GoMadFromTheRevelation}} God]]. ** ''Or'', they might just have a healthy attitude towards sexuality, like a family where the parents don't care if their kids see them naked when they come out of the shower, or who told them about the birds and the bees early on. * The Freeze-By-Time version is what this trooper experienced. He had seen the Salad Fingers episodes six or five years ago, from episodes 1 to 5. He did not loose any cool. Now however, he is wondering how bloody unaffeced he could be, to such a nice little series of psychological horror.. * I once ran a CallOfCthulhu campaign where the story was that Azathoth had bored of his entertainment and had begun to destroy the universe, and all the EldritchAbominations were trying to stop him by amusing him in various ways. A minor god, Erkaotz, gathers thousands of people from Earth and gives them reign over a pool in which all of history plays out, and they can jump in and interfere with the timeline, while Azathoth watches their exploits. The campaign ended early, before the players even had a chance to discover any of this, and it ended as reality began to crumble and die around them. It was only until a few months later that I realized I had effectively let Azathoth ''destroy that universe''. * I recently told two of my best friends I have Aspergers on facebook chat. My friend in mexico city, friend A took it really well and told me she [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming always thought of me as a cute normal boy]]. My friend in town, friend B said he always knew I had something. But now that I think about it, I remember some of the pranks he played on me like; put salt in pop and tricked me into drinking it, often not letting me go to lunch with him and the rest of my friends in a car with them, him and my other friends not inviting me to their nearby houses for school lunch breaks, calling me gay often for no reason or when I didn't like like a certain girl and laughing his ass off when a [[JerkAss friend of mine]] [[GroinAttack punched me in the groin]]. After thinking about this, how the hell long did he know he was picking on an autistic? [[ParanoiaFuel He's never told me.]] ** Unless there are several redeeming qualities you did not mention, what you described does not sound like a friend. * This troper liked a very catchy and upbeat song, "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People, and I assumed that the lyrics, which I couldn't make out, must be something upbeat too. When I looked up the lyrics, I realized that it was about a school shooting, one that targeted the kids with fancy sneakers. Sneakers just like the ones that most boys

at my high school wear. Sing it with me, "All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet!" * So back when I was five years old, walking home from the bus stop, I heard another girl - about my age, maybe a year older - talking about some teenagers doing something that made no sense to me. Seventeen years later, one of those random memories pops up and it dawns on me [[AttemptedRape exactly what she meant]] when she said they "tried to pee in her butt". * This troper was doing research for school essay on D-Day. He was looking at quotes given by soldiers about the first few minutes and wanted to find one describing the heavy machine gun fire they had been under, but couldn't find any. After wondering why, it hit him. Anyone under that kind of heavy fire had died. This troper went to bed a little depressed. * Just looking at the whole "psuedo" harem dynamics makes this troper scared about getting an actual harem. Living with a bunch of girls or at least constantly interacting with them without the opportunity to hang with guys. When you talk to other guys they either snub your friends or question your sexuality. Seeing how you spend more time with girls that you are either gay or very domesticated and not really a man. Sure it's nice to have a few girls to call your own but spending too much time with girls as a guy can be a bad thing as this troper painfully learned. * Try to imagine what lies beyond the boundaries of the known universe, which theories say is finite. Does space exist beyond that boundary? Does time exist? And are all of the theories that brilliant scientists and physicists who have labored to come up with explanations even right? Trying to imagine what lies at the beyond the edges of the known universe is like trying to contemplate what nonexistence feels like. There's a reason why the human brain can't imagine something like that: if we could, we'd probably go insane. * When I was 9 years and had just started using the Internet, I came upon some chatsite where you could also play games and such, and go into two-person rooms for the games. It was really fun, until there was some guy asking me if I wanted to try [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "cybering"]]. Not knowing yet what the term meant, I said "ok, what is it?" then he explained it as "You write things like: "I walk into the room and hug you", and naughtier things". Not knowing what he meant by "naugthy" either, believing it was nothing bad, and because I was pretty bored and had some time to kill, I said: "sure, let's try." After a few posts(luckily, it hadn't got to the [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean bad parts]] yet) he for some reason asked: "How old are you?" I said I was 9, and he said "you're too young" and left. Several years later, with more knowledge about terms like these, I suddenly remembered this conversation... and I [[{{Squick}} realised what he had been trying to get me into.]] I'm pretty relieved he asked for my age that early now, because [[{{Lolicon}} otherwise...]] * Had a rather terrifying thought recently- What if there is a gay gene? And what if science develops a way to detect it in the womb? Aborting a gay child would be [[TheFundamentalist an act]] [[HeteronormativeCrusader to be praised]], even in America ** [[SincerityMode Don't worry, there is no such thing as a gay

gene.]] ** It's a combination of societial and biological factors, but nobody knows what any of them are. Even if homosexuality could be identified biologically or even "cured" (shudder) then it still wouldn't stop it entirely due to the societal factors. Anyone with enough intelligence to figure out what causes homosexuality, even if they were homophobic, would also have enough to know it would be impractical to try to rid the world of it. * More {{Squick}} than horror, but a pre-exam (chemistry) discussion about which questions we intended to answer yielded the comment "meh, fuck polymers". Halfway through the exam, I realised that thanks to the invention of the condom, people do indeed fuck polymers. Goddamnit! * While reading this very page, I had to go unlock the door to let my sister in after she got home from a school dance. I am the ''only'' person awake in the house right now, and could just as easily been asleep when she knocked on the door, thereby leaving her to freeze in more than a foot of snow. * I take notes for a fellow in class who's blind, and while I was curious as to how it happened, I was also too shy to just ask him outright. It came up in conversation earlier today that he went blind from an apparently obscure eye disease, as opposed to something a little more... sudden like a car wreck or being born with it, and my face dropped pretty quick in realization that he had [[InvoluntaryTransformation gradually lost his vision]]. As an artist who pretty much depends on her sight, I find this horrific. * This troper had a strange one: after reading one particularly horrifying chapter of FullMetalAlchemist (well, according to everyone else), I listened to Dead Skin Mask by Slayer. He almost shit a brick when he realised that [[spoiler: the "Get me out of here" said in the song's last chorus is pretty much what Nina would have been thinking when her dad fused her with their dog.]] Needless to say, he did not sleep too well that night, but [[TooDumbToLive that's probably what you get for listening to Slayer before you go to bed.]] ** A longer (and Squick-inducing) one that requires some background. When this troper was five, I shared a bath with my four year old sister and the five, seven and nine year old daughters of my dad's friend (BrainBleach is available here before continuing). Twelve years later, my dad brought up this tale and (hopefully jokingly) suggested to me and the eldest daughter(as me and his friend's eldest daughter were the only two there) that we share a bath again. This troper immediately refused. [[{{Squick}} She didn't respond.]] I hope it was loss of words and not what it looked like... *** Honestly, I think you are reading too much into it. She was probably uncomfortable and you took care of it by responding. I'm sure your dad was just being nostalgic about when you were that young and innocent and was just joking. * this troper, whilst watching Hetalia, realized something while watching the episode where russia easily destroys Busby's chair. Himaruya said he wanted to make it clear that the chair broke because Russia was more evil than it. That chair took at least 60 lives! so imagine what kind of stuff russia has done!!!

** Um... Russia a country that's been around about a millennium. MUCH worse things have been to him or by his leader's hands then 60 lives. * This troper and her friend were discussing a WMG for GregoryHorrorShow--the idea that both Guests were there because they'd attempted suicide. (Yes, I'm the one who put it on the page.) My friend said that, because Second Guest smoked and drank, she thought she'd attempted suicide by overdosing on pills. The next day, it hit me: [[spoiler:by the end of the season, the Second Guest is a permanent member of Gregory's family, thus becoming a guest forever. In order for that to happen, she'd have to actually be dead. Considering she's unmarried, she probably lives alone...meaning that when she took all those pills, she [[DyingAlone died all alone.]] Or worse, because she was so focused on work, she might not have had many friends...meaning the body would just be ''lying there, for days.'']] '''GAH!''' * This Troper recently listened to This Is Halloween again when he realised just exactly what "I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?" refers to, cue him being terrified of being alone and asking said question for maybe, just maybe, a spirit will pop into existence for the sole purpose of haunting him. Also, "I am the wind blowing through your hair.". That means that every single time a gust of wind blows through your hair, a dead persons spirit has flown past you. If so, then what is a tornado, hm? * FullMetalPanic: Takuma dislikes pain, as is evident by the reaction he has to being grazed by a bullet. If he dislikes being in pain, ''how did that tracer get put into him?'' I now have images of AxCrazy Shinji tied down, howling in pain as his own friends implant something in him...''[[NightmareFuel damn.]]'' * [[Tropers/DJay32 This troper]]'s life has a LOT of Fridge Horror in it. At a young age, his brother tried to talk him into getting a.. well.. there's no easy way to put it. His older brother asked if he could suck the troper's... yes. The troper said "No," and thankfully, his brother backed off. This was in the middle of the night, too. What would have happened.. if... bah. No. I can't think of it. I need Brain Bleach. ** The same troper has been through several.. rather violent incidents throughout his life. The one he will talk about here was rather recent as of writing. Couple months back. [[spoiler: His mother strangled him,]] and later said she was [[OffingTheOffspring trying to murder him.]] She only did it out of sheer stress and being drugged up on medication, and she only stopped because she wasn't ''that'' far gone. ..but what if she had taken one pill too many? ** In English, this troper read the original script of Romeo and Juliet. When watching the animated version, half way through, just after the sex scene it hit her. Romeo is fifteen. Not that bad? Well, then it hit her again. Juliet is twelve. *** ''And'' it was fairly normal for the time. * There was a Firefly fanvid set to "Wires" by Athlete. It was posted on Youtube, and I found it on the vid-maker's website, but it was removed and I couldn't remember the editor's name. It was about Simon's devotion to River. [[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3315502249890157635# I found it again]], and for the first time

realized that the slash in the description name meant [[IncestSubtext something different than what I thought]]. And now one of my favorite songs and vids is ruined. * This Troper once had an extremely disturbing nightmare about an [[AxCrazy utterly insane]] woman who constantly referred to herself as Mommy. In the dream, 'Mommy' [[ColdBloodedTorture abused both this Troper]] [[MindRape and her 'siblings.']] While she isn't too fond of her real mother, this Troper realized just a few days ago that her real mother constantly referred to herself as Mommy... * After this Troper read Daniel Quinn's ''The Man Who Grew Young'' ([[http://www.ishmael.com/origins/tmwgy/preview/ excerpts]]) and saw everyone in the world catch MerlinSickness, willingly restore nature, and embrace primitive technology, I couldn't help but think that women and African Americans ''allowed'' white men to take away their rights, and even made speeches and movements about how society would '''benefit''' from the oppression of their people. Someone please tell me the world can't really rewind after the apocalypse! * This troper is reflecting on his hobbies, and it hit him: If he wasn't into anime, cosplay, or video games (his main interests), he'd do more programming. So the best solution to his productivity problems? ''Completely erase the former three interests from his mind.'' * [[{{Tropers/Kadorhal}} I]] was playing ''Left4Dead 2'' with my friend, on a custom port of No Mercy from the first game before Valve got around to it. It was a decent port, with some uncommons only showing up in certain portions of certain maps. Mudmen from "Swamp Fever" showed up in the sewer you go through just before you enter Mercy Hospital. --> '''Coach:''' Mudmen!\\ '''Friend:''' that's not mud\\ '''Me:''' ''({{beat}})'' OH GOD! * [[Tropers/{{Mousy677}} My]] mother is a pilot. I only recently realized why this was unsettling, when I started flying gliders a bit more. * In what could be an exaple of Fridge Horror, I just read through then entire Real Life page for this trope and found most of it to be incredibly cool. Does that make me a NightmareFetishist or CompleteMonster in the making? * This troper has fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, and had it really bad in her freshman year of high school. At the time, though, I thought it was mono. I was talking to the Principal who was very rude, but she mentioned that her sister had something like having mono all the time. This lady kicked me out of school a few weeks later, essentially for my illness. This lady KICKED A GIRL WITH (possibly) THE SAME DISABILITY AS HER SISTER OUT OF SCHOOL. So the question... how the hell did she treat her sister? * Based on the Alternate Universe discussions on the real life page, I guess I can add this- during the cold war, a well-known psychic predicted that one of two submarines would be lost at sea. One still hasn't been found... and the other had my dad on it. In an alternate universe... * You know those snarky "statistics" people put in their signatures on

forums and such, like "98% of teenagers would die if _____"? Well, a couple friends of mine were actually discussing those in a serious fashion, mainly how that kind of drastic population decrease would benefit the economy (freeing up jobs, scholarships, etc.), and suddenly it hit me: while the economy may benefit, the societal detriment would balance it out, if not outweigh it. People, especially women, would be expected to have children, likely as many as possible. Homosexuality would be even more stigmatized, perhaps even to the point of becoming a criminal offense, and if the public ever got wind of asexuality ([[@/ProgenyExMachina this troper]]'s ingroup), it would happen there too. People already think gays are a sin against God; imagine the mayhem and frenzy if people started thinking they would be the cause of humanity's extinction by not reproducing! Laws would most likely be made forcing people to enter heterosexual relationships regardless of orientation or desire. Going by clear patterns of human behavior that have exhibited themselves from the very beginning and still persist today, such a severe population upset would inevitably blind people enough to bring social progress to a screeching halt and send it careening backwards in the name of survival. ---Good God, I just realized how terrifying FridgeHorror actually is! No way I'm sleeping tonight. ----

FriendlyEnemy * Really, going into middle/high school assuming everyone to whom you are cordial falls under this trope makes the entire experience much more pleasant. * Original Fiction Example: In this troper's story, the BigBad Japheth, is a [[CardCarryingVillain self proclaimed]] ChaoticEvil [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal]] HumanoidAbomination. Yet list of friendly things he did to TheHeroine whenever he wasn't scheming include: ** Meeting in a cafe and talk about day-to-day stuff, like movies and books or latest celebrity gossip. ** Baking a cake ([[FoodPorn very, VERY delicious one]], no less) for TheHeroine's birthday. ** Helping her with her homework and project or even tutoring her for a while. ** Pulling the strings so her favorite park won't be demolished. ** indirectly helping her out when she's in a depression fit. ** [[spoiler:[[NewTransferStudent Transferring to]]]] her school, much to her shock. *** In fact, he's so friendly that people around her even say that he's more friendlier than many of her real friends. He always excuses himself saying that if she is too busy with her schoolwork, she wouldn't have time to deal with him.

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* It's probable that most of us have experienced this at the hands of parents, siblings, or friends. It's also probable that most of us have done it to others. ** So true. For example, this troper has a [[LikeBrotherAndSister good friend]] who seems to have to do this to her on a daily basis.... And then starts running before I can [[ArmorPiercingSlap slap him silly]]. ---Hee hee hee ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Stop that! Hee hee hee ha ha ha! Oh, I'm gonna get you [[FriendlyTickleTorture back]] for that! Tickle tickle tickle! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FriendsRentControl * I live alone in a decent 80 m^2 apartment. I don't have a job. My folks pay for it. I know, it's embarrassing. * My great-aunt had a nice apartment in central Stockholm. Thanks to an inflexible rent contract from the '40s, by the end of her life, early '00s, the rent was pretty much symbolic - the next tenant had to pay one many times higher.

FriendToAllChildren * [[Tropers/{{Faislittlewhiteraven}} This Troper]] despite her best efforts and being utterly terrified of any kind of resposiblity is one of these. Just resently, after just a single conversation with a girl and boy selling rosemary up and down her street, now somehow has those two kids and a fair number of their friends visiting me on odd days of the week asking to play my video games. And that's not even getting into having to escort (in the guardian sense of the word) two of them through the local festival because they got lost and ended up buying all the festival stuff they wanted as well as pleading with random stallkeepers to lower their prices so I could afford two pairs of mittens for them when the tempreture decided to randomly plummet... (One lovely shop owner we eventually encounted did, and even gave the two little spoiled-rotten troublemakers free beanies~ To say I am grateful is an understatement.) * [[{{EPIC}} This Troper]] aspires to be one, especially to male younger relatives who are at ''at least'' nine years younger than him. ** {{Subverted}}. Once you find out I don't like my immediate family, we can talk. * [[Tropers/{{randomfanboy}} I]] cheerfully admit to irrationally hating everybody over at the TroperTales/ChildHater page. ** =( We don't hate YOU. *** No, YOU don't hate him. I do. *** I myself, have a love/hate relationship with him. ** Unless you're a child. * [[Tropers/{{Sneebs}} This troper]] was a reading tutor for several years, working with ESL and learning-disabled kids. At the time [[{{GrumpyBear}} he was bitchy about it]], but he has since realized that kids are a-okay, and will go out of his way to be nice to them

and help quiet them down when they get crotchity (plus, it makes him look like a hero to exasperated parents when he can get the little wailing kiddies to pipe down.) * [[Tropers/{{GwenStacyWannabe}} I]] may be something of a subversion, feeling rather awkward around most children, but hoo boy, if you do ''anything'' to harm a kid in ''any'' way, you have lost my respect forever and I start fantasizing about coming after you with an Uzi. ** For a moment [[Tropers/{{ILikeCrows}} I]] thought I had written this in my sleep. * This troper. It doesn't matter if they're brats, or shed snot whenever they laugh. She'll do anything to make them smile. Seriously. She once stood on her head on a tall ledge on a crowded street and sang a bunch of songs, while making her legs dance. If you have heard her sing you'll understand why this would be a bit embarrassing for her. The kid loved it. The {{Innocent Bystanders}} did not. * [[Tropers/{{TheTallOne}} This Troper.]] Friends have described me as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, which [[HiddenHeartOfGold I actively hide.]] But bring out a baby or little kid, and I will go full MamaBear and start playing tag or doll house or chatting or whatnot. * Children usually ''love'' this troper after a few minutes. Small children tends to be scared of him at first, given him being unusually tall and a constantly frowner, but after the initial hesitation, they're all over him. It works mostly because this troper suffers from an extreme case of child-related CutenessProximity. * Played totally straight with this troper and his father both. Children start grinning and giggling as soon as they lay eyes on us. Dad is much better with them then I am. I tend to stay away from them. I don't dislike them or anything- I'm very much looking forward to having children of my own. It's more that... I'm a big, strong guy and I sometimes lose track of my own strength and I give myself living hell for it (I accidently poked my girl in the eye three months ago and I haven't forgiven myself for it.) I treat kids like their fragile little masterpieces that will break if I'm too rough with them and I'm really quiet around them. Yeah, I'm a real-life GentleGiant... That's part of what made my girl fall so hard for me :D * Frequently happens to this troper, who often finds children -- and more often, teenagers -- much more interesting to hang out with than grownups. She recently had a friend comment that "I've always thought you'd make the best mom...you seem to have a natural ability to communicate with children." * This troper loves kids. They're so much nicer than kids my own age and just adorable. She will go and talk to one if they're making a fuss. I even played moral support for a four year old who was getting her ears pierced. My siblings hate it when I do things like that, but it makes me happy. * [[Tropers/{{EddieCurrent}} My mom was abusive]]. Kids my own age treated me like shit until I hit the middle of high school, so I became the unofficial kooky older brother to a lot of kids. I have both the care for all kids thing and the BerserkButton going. Do not hurt kids near me. At the very least, I'll be putting a very persistent bug in the ear of several cops. * This troper has a soft spot for kids. I absolutely hate hearing

anything about a kid being hurt in anyway. I always treat kids as kindly as I can. Taking care of my baby cousin for a short time, my aunt says that I do a good job. I bet that a few people I know believe that I'll be an excellent mother when I have kids. * This is the reason I volunteer at a kid's afterschool club. I think a lot of the time I'm having as much fun there as they are, because they're just so interesting to be around. I'm pretty childish myself, so I tend to get on quite well with them, even if they do think I'm weird. They still like me * This editor is one. A grumbling, growling, snarky and sullen one at that but kids aren't bothered in the slightest. * [[Tropers/{{Animenutcase}} This troper]] doesn't exactly go out of her way to play with kids, but most of the time she finds kids easier to deal with than people her own age. And I feel that people who abuse kids have a special place in Hell. * [[Tropers/{{DreadHeadNeo}} This troper]] has been known as a magnet for kids. Seriously, one time I was at San Jose airport waiting for my plane when these parents were holding their kid which I only glanced at and smirked at, the child laughed at me and then attempted to leap out of their parents arms and the most they did was able to pat the afro I had at the time. Then there's kids from church and all of my younger cousins and my nephews whom just stick around me and want to play. This always makes me the defacto babysitter in any of those situations. * This Troper, training to be a teacher, loves kids, and they seem to love me. * [[Tropers/{{MiraShio}} Mira-chan]]'s LoveInterest often hung out with younger students more than with his own classmates. This has earned him the nickname Pedoperv from Mira-chan's best friend. Now Mira-chan herself is well-known among the kids in school. * [[Tropers/{{DomeKen}} This Troper]] likes children. Childrens like This Troper back. * I am a good with children. My friend has a friend who has a little girl who is very shy. I had only known this little girl for a few hours, and somehow found myself playing with her. She wouldnt let me go for the rest of the day. * [[Tropers/{{Surenity}} This troper]] enjoys the company of kids once they're about six or older, any younger and they tend to drive me up the wall unless they're in a calm mood. I suppose that makes me a Friend To Some Children. But despite being in my 20's I can still play Hide and Go Seek Tag with the best of them. I'm also the sort of go-to cartoon guy to my younger cousins and my niece. * For some reason, kids love this Troper. He used to work in a daycare, and some of the kids with separation anxiety when handed over to anyone else in the room would, on seeing him, wriggle until their parents put them down, toddle over to him, and hold their hands up to be picked up. It was rather heart-melting. On top of that, his 4, 7, 9, and 12 year old cousins apparently worship the ground he walks on, the oldest constantly asking him to come to his baseball games and such. (Which this troper would totally do, except for the seven hour drive.) * This troper doesn't especially like children, but will tolerate them

when she has to. Guess who they love the most? -_- Being respectful to everyone generally makes kids like you, I guess, because they feel as if you're equals(?). * Kids usually find This Troper to look kinda scary. But if they strike conversation with him they end up finding him pretty friendly to them. People seeing this often end up thinking of me as a kid in an oversized body. * Somehow, kids seem to sense that I'm an adult who's never quite grown up, and flock to me as halfway between 'big-brother' and 'uncle'. I must admit it never fails to bring a smile to my soul. * This troper loves kids, and kids love her. I don't even have to do anything and children love me. About four years ago, I volunteered with some kindergartners and they always, when permitted, would run up to me and {{squee}} "MISS MEGAN!" and I'd find myself buried by little kids. These days, only half the class is still at that school, are currently in the third grade, and still mob me when they see me. One of them will hug me but not my mum, who works at the school. Most of them {{glomp}} me first then my mom. Kids and pets for some reason just love me, even the ones that don't like other people that much. Parents adore me, my classmates.... not so much. * I perfer the company to people younger then me to people my age. My aunt and Uncle try having me as a baby sitter since thier two year old loves me to the point he cries when parting. Aparently I have this effect on a lot of cousins and that they nag about me for days after family visits, one remembers at the age of two that I gave her piggy backs every year for four years. * This troper loves children and so does her (I/me) mother. However, I sometimes think my mother takes this trope a bit too far. By that I mean she can't watch the News anymore because if she sees ANYTHING about a child being abused/killed/molested (such as the Zahra Baker case), she'll fly into a [[UnstoppableRage rage]] and spend days cursing the perpetrators into oblivion. * This troper's mother has pointed out that she has exhibited many signs of maternal instinct since early childhood, rushing up to younger children and babies when they cried. Recently, she herself has begun to realize (and swear to herself) that if she ever comes across anyone picking on the young, she'll [[MamaBear GRIND THEIR BONES INTO DUST!!1!!]] No, seriously. This troper sees you hurting a child, she will annihilate you. * [[Tropers/{{Arnoldmcguire335}} This Troper]], due to having UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome, is automatically this. (After all, I am super nice to all.) But hurt a kid in front of me, or at least insult one in any way, I will go in anger and not stop until the person says sorry to the kid. By the way, many kids treat me like I'm an older brother/dad to them when they always are with me. Same goes with the toddlers. ----Go play with the kids over at FriendToAllChildren. ----<<|TroperTales|>>

FriendToAllLivingThings * Almost to a Buddha extent with this troper. He has repeatedly opted to throw pest creatures outdoors than to kill them. This backfired on him once when the mouse got loose. Our cat got him though. * Animals seem to flock to this troper's younger sister. At one point during a recent animal assembly at her middle school, she had: a wallaby sitting on her desk right in front of her; a lizard on each side of said wallaby, staring up at her; a hedgehog curled up in her right hand; a corn snake coiled around her head like a crown; a baby opposum clinging to her shirt (and trying to crawl down it); a ball python wrapped round her neck; a skink resting on her left wrist; a tarantula crawling up her arm; and an owl and a parrot on either shoulder. Mostly all at once. * This troper herself is a bit of a subversion with dogs (and less often, cats); the only difference is that ''she'' approaches ''them''. ** This other troper is much the same. * Happens to a small extent with this occasional troper. Cats usually come to me for a petting or try to adopt me. I've had a couple of cats jump into my car as I open the door. Dogs, on the other hand, really don't like me. * [[{{Tropers/Idler}} This editor]] seems to attract animals. I tend not to act too friendly towards them, partly because dogs intimidate me and partly because I don't want to stroke them for fear of germs. * This troper tries to be one. With increasingly low degrees of success. ): * [[Tropers/GwenStacyWannabe This troper]] finds herself being constantly tailed by dogs, and, to a lesser extent, cats. My best friend's cat in particular, as he is absolutely terrified of everyone, but will come up and sniff me. * This troper has only ever been accidentally hurt by three animals to date - mostly because the dog was playing too rough, the cat was freaked out, and the police horse bit the front of her, er, chest, while pulling her out of the way of an oncoming car. Other than that, they are on very good terms with her. ** ...Wait, WHAT. Please expand on that last one. *** Seconded. Enquiring minds need to know. * Nearly all cats love [[Tropers/RedRajah this troper]]. When I first met the man who became my husband, he told me not to be offended if I never saw his cat as she was "very very shy". Two hours later, the cat was sleeping on my chest and purring like a fiend. ** ... are you me? My fiance's cat (god rest her bitchy soul) slept in my bed just 24 hours after he first brought me on a trip home from college. * This troper often finds herself being followed by birds. Heck, when I was eating lunch outside, an EAGLE landed next to me and was friendly. I gave it some of the stale meatloaf my Mom gave me. It had too much tomato in it anyway... :P * [[Tropers/AceOfScarabs This troper]] has a strange affinity with Christmas Beetles, Jumping Spiders, and [[CrazyCatLady cats]]. The beetles tend to gather in my room at night (occasionally killing themselves on my fan, but they still keep coming), the spiders aren't frightened by my presence except for sudden movements, and the cats

are mostly affable and sometimes quite friendly, especially when I'm alone (one mother cat wasn't afraid to let me see her kittens!). * this is me with dogs as well as most forest animals as long as I don't make any sudden moves * [[{{Tropers/Scrounge}} This troper]] used to be on good terms with animals back in High school. He even managed to get a ''wasp'' to perch on his finger on cue once. Sadly, he seems to have made a FaceHeelTurn at some point, as cats seem to run away from him now. * When [[{{Tropers/Earnest}} I]] was really young, ten or less, my dad took me to a stable and I wandered off a bit. I saw a big, nice horse, Zarathras, and petted him on the head when he lowered it towards me. Later, my dad told me the he had come worriedly to look for me because he was a wild, untamed horse to the stable man. Apparently, after meeting me his demeanor changed completely from then on. I'm sad to say I've mostly lost the ability, though I've yet to be on the hatelist of any animal I've encountered so far. I even stared down a cat once! * [[{{Tropers/Momonga}} This troper]] tends to soothe animals, and (with a few exceptions) they are happy to let her interact with them. One time, a dragonfly perched on her hand. This probably has less to do with troper being somehow special than the fact that she adores animals and they seem to realize she will provide ear scratches/stomach rubs/etcetera. She loved to share a package of almonds with the squirrels on her college campus, who ate from her hand. She sings to animals, too. Seals seem to enjoy Mozart; rabbits like Puccini. * Many people know [[{{Tropers/Seiryu}} this troper]] as Dr. Doolittle. 'Nuff said. * This troper spent summers on her uncle's farm as a child, and her mother tells stories about walking into a room and finding her surrounded by animals including cats, dogs, rabbits, chickens and the occasional lamb. * This troper had a gf with just a miraculous way with animals; she could have any one of them come up to her and eat from her hand. She was a talented equestrian with a great rapport with her horses (I couldn't call her a horse whisperer because I don't exactly know what they are, but if it requires an odd talent, she sure has it.) She's also had wild animals live in her home, and she's been defended from an attacker by his own attack dog. Personally I only have a way with cats; anyone I've lived with who had a cat, that cat has become ''my'' cat, even the aforementioned girlfriend's. * I was waiting for my friends to show up at a park, and made friends with a Squrriel. It even let me cuddle it which is very unusual and was temped to take it home. I seem to be friendly for other animals too, especially cats and dogs. * According to him, this troper's brother is a friend to all living canines. In eighteen years he's never been bitten or encountered a dog that didn't like him. He's currently convinced that Rottweilers are all big softies due to him stopping to pat a stable's guard dogs and them acting like a bunch of friendly, bouncy goofs in his presence. It has been pointed out that if the dogs always acted like that then they wouldn't be guard dogs. This troper has a theory that it might be due

to him having the same effect on dogs as [[DiscWorld Captain Carrot]] has on people, he thinks all dogs are lovely, the dogs know it, and they can't help but want to prove him right. ** Apparently it's not just dogs, other members of the animal kingdom apparently love my brother, a good example being my nan's cat who usually refuses to sit on someone's lap unless they have a particular cushion on it. Guess who's the one exception to the rule. Ironically, my brother doesn't actually like cats. * This troper's husband. Animals just love him, even animals that don't generally like people. * Dog must have held a secret election, chose me as their leader, and then forgot to tell me. The buggers won't leave me alone! But it's okay, I like dogs. * A one-time instance, but this troper recalls her vegan friend attracting ants to herself while we were doing homework during a typical night at a summer college prep program. * Is [[Tropers/JuiceBoxHero this troper]] the only straight example here? * this troper has a way with most animals that is uncanny, to the point she has people claim she can talk with them. with a few exceptions she gets along very well with almost every animal she interacts with, the only exception being one horse that was abused to the point they only trusted their new owner and one crazy rooster that attacked everyone and everything. she's even had a wild crow almost land on her and taught one bantam rooster to fly on her shoulder on command in one try. * [[{{Tropers/fidheallir}} This troper]] experiences this all the time-- memorable occasions include having wild birds voluntarily ride on her hands or shoulders, being deliberately approached by baby snakes, and followed by a large number of cats, dogs, goats, and squirrels. She wisely decided to go into a field biology career. * [[{{Tropers/Pichu-kun}} This troper]] has a love for all animals,no matter what species,ironiclly however she tends to be nervous around them.. Except with [[CatsareMean cats]],I dislike domesticated cats. Probably because I have a horrid allergy of them,and I have little socialization with them for that reason. And due to the fact they ''eat'' all her favorite animals,for fun. * [[{{Tropers/Heleentje}} This troper]] has a way with animals, which can partially be attributed to the fact that she grew up with them (as in literally from birth), and partially to the fact that she just isn't aware of any danger she might be in. She has a turtle that likes being petted, and didn't know it could bite until the vet warned her, eight years after she got her, and has played with a parrot that, according to the owners, bites everyone it doesn't know. (for the record, the parrot did bite, but not very hard and only because it was startled by someone else.) She's mostly a cat person though, and has the (sometimes unfortunate) tendency of somehow getting cats to follow her around wherever she goes. * This troper once had a wild vole come right up to her and sit in the shade provided by her knee to groom itself and eat a snack. Then it touched her leg inquisitively and went back to the rodent trail it had been following. Also, while not as extreme as a few examples on this

page, animals get along well with her. Especially canines and rodents. * This troper has a slightly evil version. She gets along well with bees, wasps, and hornets. She's had them crawling all over her, multiple times, and not sting! * This troper is something of a subversion, animals like me, and I like them and cuddle with them, but I'm alergic to dogs and cats so my eyes will water and I'll start sneezing uncontrolably. * My Mother was like this. Every pet that we had were strays that just came up to her. * This Troper is a bit unusual, in that the more disliked an animal is by the general population the more likely they'll prefer my presence. I've been kissed by a slug, used as a perch for countless flies and wasps. Snakes, turtles and other reptiles calm down when I'm around and I have never been bitten by any I've picked up save one extremely stressed out corn snake who let go once I asked them to. I've also never been bitten by the countless spiders I've moved so they wouldn't get squished by other humans, even the black widow didn't mind me. It does extend to more popular animals like dogs and cats, many owners have commented on their surprise when their "doesn't like new people" pet seeks my company. She's talked with wary-of-human ravens, and has had wild birds seek her out while playing a wooden flute to sing along, who then flew away when other humans came to see what was going on. She's also had a wild fawn run up her trying to get away from a dog. ** Bawwww, slug kissies :D *** It was awesome. X3 * This Troper's dad falls into such a role, much to her displeasure, partly because he keeps rubbing it in her face by telling her about or showing her the latest wild animal that came to him of its own volition. Having had to deal with this since childhood (This Troper herself being a case of [[AnimalsHateHim Animals Hate Her]], yet starting out as an aspiring FriendToAllLivingThings) has turned her into something of an animal disliker (with a few exceptions), which seems to anger her father in return. * This troper's dad is like this with most insects, especially bees. He'll grab angry trapped hornets from our screen and pet them before letting them go outside. He also has relocated several hives without being stung once. Annoying for this troper who is deathly afraid of bees and will go into panic attacks as her dad shows off the latest bee perched on his finger. ** [[MemeticMutation Bees.]] [[{{Batman}} My god.]] * This troper's friend is very afraid of most animals, even cute fuzzy puppies. Despite this nearly all animals love her and try to jump into her lap, climb on her shoulders, perch on her head, etc. * I subvert this trope for the most part -- whether or not even a ''cat'' will come to me depends on how much it likes me. Whenever an animal is around that everyone else considers a pest, though, I'll be the first to suggest some manner of humane removal. * Eheh... [[Tropers/{{Animenutcase}} This troper]] bawls when she sees those ASPCA commercials about abused animals. My mother thinks it ought to be illegal to show them, but she does feel that there's a special place in Hell for people who abuse animals. I agree. We have

three dogs (two girls, one boy). The boy was undoubtedly the alpha male in his litter, so he thinks of himself as the king of the house. As a result, he snaps (read: bites) at me when I try to pick him up when he's doing something he's not supposed to. He doesn't do it to anyone else. I think he's realized that I won't punish him. I seem to have become the favorite of one of our girls for some reason. Like the boy, we think it's because she's noticed that I've never been intentionally rough with her. Our youngest... is happy to have attention from anybody. I'm not sure if my reluctance to be rough on our dogs is an example of this trope, or if I'm just subconciously more wary because of an incident at age four when a dog decided it wanted its jaws and my face to become friends. * This Troper's best friend loves all animals, yet doesnt like people, except for me. * I have two cats, one of them loves me to death. Other than that, I've only met one dog and one cat that didn't like me. The dog that didn't like me just happened to be a wiener dog. There was this one time when I was the only girl on a bike ride of five. I was in the lead, and we just happened to pass a yard with a dog in it. The dog looked at me with an almost smile, and barked at the rest of them. I have a habit of making friends with cats outside some times too. One time while in Spain (in a town with my family's last name no less) this cute tabby cat approaches me and is so friendly with me, you could have sworn that the cat was mine, not a stray or cat that was just "on the prowl" or something. * I may be more of a FluffyTamer, at least when it comes to things with too few or too many legs. I thought everyone could get bugs to crawl onto their finger so one can put them outside, but maybe not. And garter snakes are so cuddly! When I was very small, I went crab fishing with my family, including my aunt, uncle, and cousins, and was one of the only people who knew how to pick them up. * This troper is extremely good with animals. Granted, he's been clawed by cats at least twice (once because I stared at the cat for too long, another because the cat was freaking out as I carried it down the stairs), and bitten twice, once because I stared at small yappy dog that didn't like to be stared at) and once by a horse because he wanted a treat. The only animals that really run from me are ones that I haven't gotten to know very well. When I was little, I once stroked a peregrine falcon! * This troper, to some extent. Animals seem to be able to tell my moods perfectly, so this trope seems to only be true when I'm happy, in which case every animal loves me. When I'm upset they fear me like the plague. Part of it seems to be that I've always been very laid back, even when I was a kid I was never that super energetic like all the other annoying kids and animals, especially cats seem to find my calmness comforting. * [[{{Tropers/Joerc 45}} This troper,]] definitely. I have two pet cats who love me to death. ^_^ Whenever I visit friends or family members with pets, they seem to fall in love with me and become sweet and playful around me, even the shyest ones. * Where can this troper start? It's a two-way relationship. I work as a foster home with several rescues, and have gone to pull animals,

spending time in the toxic homes of animal hoarders to convince them to surrender animals. As a toddler I tamed a feral cat who no one else could touch (she is alive and well as lives with me today). My friend's animals tend to tail me around and love me, and I've had abused, people-shy dogs insist on sitting on my lap. Animals bond easily to me, and even strangers have commented on this and told me to become a vet. I plan on working with animals, although not in a medical context ({{squick}}). As I write this, two infant kittens are sleeping on my chest. ;) * This Troper is a straight male example of this trope to an extent. It also appears to be a two-way street. To date, the only time I have ever been "attacked" by stray dogs has been when they'd race up to me and start jumping up and licking me, or the like. This Troper's life was even saved by one such incidence. While standing and waiting for a bus, a medium sized black dog can racing up to me, and started bouncing around me, so I went to a nearby set of steps and sat down, and started petting her while waiting. Seconds later, a car doing well over the 40 MPH speed limit (probably around 50 or so) suddenly lost the tread to one of its tires, which flew off and slammed into the wall of the building I was in waiting in front of - right about where my neck would have been if I was still standing up. And then a few weeks later, Mythbusters demonstrated that at 45 MPH, that tread could have gone through a glass window and STILL almost literally taken my head off... * Despite being a rabid meat eater, this troper manages to be this at times. Since I'm a bit of a kuudere, people are rather confused when I get annoyed at them for torturing and squishing all those cute, innocent, widdle buggies. * [[@/BlakeDiamond This troper]], way back in his early years (I think I was 5 or 6 at the time) found a morning dove in his backyard. Not really thinking about it, I put my hands down next to her in an open cup position, and she jumped right in and looked at me. I was so amazed, I took her into the house to show my mom (the bird remained calm even while I was walking). Of course, Mom told me to get rid of it, so I went back out and let it go. It flew out of my hands in the most cinematic "release the doves!" way, that it earned me the nickname of "Young St. Francis". 13 years later, that nickname's come back to haunt me (in the most humorous way possible). A flock of ducks, a family of geese, 1 quail, and ''four'' great egrets, have all made their home in the canal in our (new) backyard. Everyday, either myself or one of my parents go out to feed them, and the last time I went to feed them, the alpha goose actually ''walked toward me and met me in the middle of the yard''! I'm not sure if I should've been flattered or [[BringMyBrownPants crapped my pants]], but either way, the birds have definately picked up my "Young Frank" aura, they and dont plan on leaving me alone anytime soon. ** Update time. That one family of geese has turned into '''four''', and we've gained two great blue herons and a night heron. Needless to say, my family and I have gained a miniature Wild Kingdom in our backyard. * This troper seems to attract cats. I've had two cats that supposedly dont like people purring. One was licking me and rubbing me and all

sorts of things. Also, I'm a vegetarian, wont touch anything made of animals, have boycotted multiple places that do animal testing, and practically burst into tears whenever someone kills a spider. Spider terrify me. * This troper has only ever met one dog that didn't like him. Being disliked by that dog made this troper so sad that he cried. * This troper's mother is an ace with all animals. Her calm, firm demeanor tends to calms them; and it doesn't hurt that she has large hands, which are particularly helpful with smaller animals, given how easily she can hold them. She's particularly good with birds, becoming a fast favorite of a cockatiel we recently brought home without even meaning to. ---Go back to FriendToAllLivingThings. And take all your animal friends with you. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FrivolousLawsuit * Law professors tend to have a few amusing cases up their sleeves for when they forget what they were going to say during the lecture (or it's really boring). Here's a few [[Tropers/HouraiRabbit I've]] heard: ** Tort: The (UK) Magistrates Court once heard the case of a man who tried to bring a claim against Prince Charles for trying to bombard him with gamma rays. [[spoiler:The case was an example of how the court has the statutory power to dismiss claims like that immediately.]] ** International Law: An apocryphal tale - A man once tried to sue {{Satan}} for "putting obstacles in his way". The judge rules that since Satan is the Prince of Darkness, he enjoys [[DiplomaticImpunity sovereign immunity]] and cannot be sued while he is still in office, which is unlikely to end anytime soon. * My mother was recently called to jury duty for a FrivolousLawsuit case. Basically, a guy got hit by a door while staying at Holiday Inn, and was trying to sue the hotel.

FromACertainPointOfView * [[Tropers/{{Tabs}} My]] sister has been biking to school without taking a lock with her, arguing that her bicycle won't get stolen because it only happens to new bikes (using mine as an example). So one morning, I decided to take it to scare her. Unfortunately, while hauling it out, the school principal noticed and asked me what I was doing. I said, "Do you know [sister's name]? Anyway, she called me earlier. She's going to get a ride home today instead of biking." (It's true. After I take that bike, she's going to need a ride.) ** Couldn't you have found a way to teach her a lesson that DIDN'T involve equivocation on your part? * In Spanish class I was asked where my mother was as a question to determine my Spanish skills. I answered, in Spanish, that she was in

Oklahoma. Well, yeah, she's buried there. ---Clicking on [[FromACertainPointOfView this link]] will not take you back to From a Certain Point of View.[[spoiler: It will, however, take you to "From A Certain Point Of View." Capitalization!]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FromTheMouthsOfBabes * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} This black troper's]] kid brother (8 years old) recently asked our journalist father why "no brown people were Republicans." * Having two kids in the family (six and four years old respectively) this editor has witnessed this quite a lot; generally this kind of talk is hilarious but on occasion it can be surprisingly insightful. * Oh Lord, did [[@/SoWeAteThem I]] put my parents through hell in this regard. Not as bad as the toddler at my day-care whose first words included "bitch," but still. I don't remember much, but one particular event I still find hilarious: My dad had on hand the soundtrack to PulpFiction on tape, which we both loved to death when I was a kid. It featured clips from the film, I should mention. We'd quote the lines a lot(the "whose motorcycle is this" bit was a favorite). This culminated in me, at the tender young age of five, shouting "Any of you fucking pricks move, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of ya!" on the local railway. ...Yeah, he gave me the talk after that one. * i was in Philadelphia for the weekend when i was like 8 or 9 or something, we were in a decent hotel but had taken some time to go shopping. i com from a town of three hundred people at most in upstate new york. que me asking in a really loud voice "what's with all the black people." my mother and i had a small talk afterward about the civil war. * This troper is 17 but probably still freaked out his creative writing teacher a bit when he was able to tell her the definition of "Lolita". * This might not be a real example because I heard this when I was a child. I was in grade one, and there was a female classmate. There were hints she knew more than a first-grader should know, but one time after school, we were in the sandbox. She asked a series of questions typical of marriage fantasies. I was just going along with it. Then she asked (paraphrasing, I'm reaching my memory 11 years): "Do you want to have sex?" The context was the future, but I said yes. Then went: "Wait, what's that?" Then a first-grade girl gave me detailed description of the act. This was also in front of several middle school students. This probably explains my SexIsEvil attitude as an adult. Sorry for the [[AuthorFilibuster filibuster]]. * Once when I was playing a game demo of Batman Arkham Asylum a little boy was watching me he looked to be somewhere about 7-10, anyway when I beat the last henchman Batman delivers a karate chop to his neck and he lies on the floor motionless and twitching and the boy says "Holy

shit you cut his head off!" * When this troper was in first grade, she was given a vocabulary assignment to rearrange clumps of letters into words. She arranged one of the letter clumps into "shit" when it was supposed to be "this". For some reason, her teacher gave her 100% on it. * This troper and her four siblings were playing Disney Scene It. When she (19 at the time) had to ask her second-youngest sister (17) a question, instead of the real one she asked "What Disney film stars five naked men?" as a joke. The youngest sister (age 6) guessed "Holes?" She had no idea why we were all laughing so hard. -->Child: Head on back to {{From The Mouths Of Babes}} here. -->Parent: Don't kids say the darnest things?

FrothyMugsOfWater * As part of some forced method acting This Troper, who was a technical advisor for a school production of ''Jeckyll and Hyde'', once mixed up a concoction of pickle juice, tonic water, and cough syrup for the potion Jeckyll makes to turn into Hyde. * For [[Tropers.ReikoKazama this troper]], Coca-Cola mixed with blackcurrant syrup (the Cascade Ultra-C stuff) will do the trick. XD Sugar highs are so FUN! ** Oh, and when it's been left in my drink bottle for so long, the apple juice that my mum buys for me can turn fizzy. For some reason. [[FanFic.MyImmortal it mkaes m type liek trara gilezbuy wen i drrink it adn i talso make me laff lik kkrazzy 4 sum reasoin lol.]] * This troper's brother when he was a kid once filled an empty beer can with water, walked up to our mom while drinking it and she promptly freaked out thinking her 10 or 11 year old child was drinking alcohol. ** This Troper's brother once staggered into class drunkly with a water bottle wrapped in paper towels so no one could see what it really was, and slurred incoherently while taking swigs from it. Needless to say, he got in a lot of trouble for that....) * This Troper does not drink, and only makes any effort to look it at family parties - so pomegrante juice in a wine glass, water for vodka, etc. But somehow she still manages to feel drunk and then hungover the day after if enough people around her become intoxicated. ** If there's enough of them, you're probably breathing in vapors from their booze-breath. You're just such a lightweight that that's enough. * This troper was once in a production of {{Shakespeare}}'s ''The Tempest'' that replaced wine with Red Bull. The 11-year-old playing Stephano drank ''[[IntoxicationEnsues three]]''... ** This troper wants to see how that performance went. ** Similarly, this troper can personally attest to the effects of drinking about nine cans of soda in less than three hours. *** Six litres in less than one hour, of Dew nonetheless. I thought I was going to die from an exploded heart. **** The LD50 of caffeine is 192 mg/kg. Six liters of Mountain Dew contains 929.89 milligrams of caffeine. Unless you contain less than 5

kilograms of mass, that's nowhere near a fatal amount. ****** Unless you are somehow an outlier, like if you have an unusual metabolism, an underling heart defect or are on other drugs. ** Same [[@/SpiriTsunami here]], although not first-hand as my body is used to stimulants (prescribed for ADHD). On the other hand, I myself experienced a notable subversion shortly after getting to college when someone offered me the rest of their Red Bull. Only after buying a Red Bull myself some number of days later did I realize exactly why I had thrown up shortly afterwards -- Red Bull is not supposed to taste like that... *** On a more typical note, I have been known to go IntoxicationEnsues after drinking... absolutely nothing, actually. Just staying up too late will work fine. I write a [[GameOfNerds baseball blog]], and the final third of the entry for this year's 15-inning All-Star Game is... rather surreal. Other ways in which I've played this one straight: non-alcoholic beer. Quite often, actually. I like the taste. And, yes, I'm still underage (although in many parts of the world, I wouldn't be.) *** I'm the same way. The more tired I am, the more hyper I act (Every once in a while preceding a NonSequiturThud). Caffeine, however, calms me down (I have ADHD...) * [[http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080323 /WDH0101/803230608/1981 Some high school kids in Wisconsin]] threw a root beer "keg party". The police were not amused, since they only discovered the key word "root" after doing breath tests on everyone present. ** This troper's fraternity throws a root beer keg party every fall during rush week (which is dry according to college rules). ** BACCHUS (a group that promotes safe drinking) on this troper's campus is loved for bringing a root beer keg to the May Fete picnic every year. *** Where are these places? I fucking love rootbeer. '''''TAKE ME. I'M YOURS.''''' * This troper has been in drama for some time now, and appreciates the dramatic catharsis of symbolic action. Which translates into getting a big ol' bottle of sparkling lemonade to drink when depressed, hardboiled detective style. He also mixes fruit juice and energy drink cocktails. Shaken, not stirred. * This troper comes from a family somewhat laid back about alcohol use ('which one of you kids wants to try a little of mom's red wine?') but not ''that'' laid back. Now that she's much older, when she feels particularly moody or rebellious, she'll practice her non-alcoholic drink mixing with a martini glass, Lignonsaft from Ikea, water, and ice. In a subversion, I once unknowingly participated in the smuggling and consumption of alcohol at her high school campus. A friend was bringing in an assortment of chocolates from a school trip to Europe for lunch, which I carried to the commons for her. Later, when I came back, the candy was significantly diminished-- except for about seven or eight bottle-shaped chocolates of substantial size. Me apparently being [[GenreBlind contractually genre blind]], I'd jumped at the chance for "hey, chocolate!" without even thinking that "hey, alcohol-

bottle-shaped hollow chocolates with copious bitter liquid inside" might just equal "alcohol". I ate them almost ''all'' before realising on the second to last that "hey, this tastes weirdly like Triple Sec!" And then I checked the wrappers. IntoxicationEnsues indeed, the rest of the day. * This troper doesn't drink alcohol, and was once at an event which was strictly one-beer-per-person. There was a limited supply - hand stamps were involved. When people saw her drinking [=J2O=] (fruit juice that comes in a very beer-shaped bottle) she was asked no less than five times how she'd evaded the stamp. The funny part? These drinks are ''orange''. ** [[@/{{Bisyss}} This Troper]] has mistook [=J20=] for alcohol before, most jarringly when he saw a 3-year old kid drinking it. *** Given the beer bottle-like design, I think it's ''supposed'' to make you look like you're drinking alcohol. As for the orange colour, Reef is about 4% ABV. * This troper has been offered wine at family Christmas parties since he was 16. He has always turned it down in favor of Sparkling Cider (the fact that he can't stand the smell of alcohol plays a part too). ** Same Troper recently spent two hours working with two other guys on a project for school, only getting the break through we needed in the last ten minutes. As it was Friday, this troper offered to by drinks... from the vending machine. He then declared that only programmers would toast success with a 20 oz. bottle of Mountain Dew. * While in this troper family there is always alcohol, there is one drink and only one drink whose scarcity may cause permanent separations, and fights to death: Tonicol. (A local vanilla soda, sold in northern/western Mexico.) * At university, this troper once noticed some people filling drink glasses in order to celebrate a doctoral disputation. The funny thing about it was that the drink they poured was not champagne or sparkling wine or anything like that, but ''store-brand fruit-flavoured fizzy drink''. Keep in mind that this was intended to be served to people well over the legal drinking age. ** Graduate students are very, very impoverished. *** And some universities are humorless about drinking on campus without licensed servers. * This troper is known for actively seeking perfectly benign drink mixtures which resemble something entirely different. My two favorites thus far: a proper mix of any cola with Sprite looks exactly like beer, and combining apple juice with regular Mountain Dew tastes surprisingly good... but looks disturbingly like urine. ** One of this troper's friends once pointed out to me (and I didn't notice it until they did so) that Lipton Green Tea, my favorite noncarbonated drink, was visibly identical to urine. This has not kept me from drinking it, however. Though I do now find it perversely amusing that it looks the same coming out as it does going in. * Subversion: ThisTroper's troper friend drinks no alcohol. At certain party they were serving hibiscus water to kids (red,sweet and sour) and cranberry juice with vodka to adults. She went with hibiscus water, up to a time when she takes a sip and says "this doesn't taste like hibiscus at all". Lulz ensue briefly, before one of us rushes

into the table to prevent a kid serving from the jug. ** This troper being the said friend in question believes that bigger lulz ensued once we realized the kids were drinking the "hibiscus water" on the party. One have to give more credit to bratz though, as most only took one sip, realized the water tasted "funny", and just threw it away. Pity as beating the piata would have been 5 times more entertaining ;) * This troper has an addiction to Manhattan Specials, which are apparently only sold in New York, impossible to get anywhere else, and ''really'' hard to find even in Queens (which, for non-NYers, is just one bridge away from Manhattan). They come in glass bottles with metal twist-off caps and look disturbingly close to dark beer. The twist? Manhattan Specials are ''coffee soda'', made entirely from coffee, carbonated water, and sugar. In that order. And yes, they are strong enough to cause CaffeineBulletTime. * This troper has, in fact, gotten drunk on water. Yes, ordinary water. The experience was complete with all the normal effects including a hangover afterwards. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication This is a real thing]] that can happen when someone drinks enough, and the experience was enough to turn him off of alcohol for life. ** [[@/{{Octane}} This troper]] has as well (it was a ''very'' hot summer that year), though, being part-Irish, will inevitably still drink beer. * Once, when this troper was in High School, she got drunk on a 2 Liter of Mountain Dew Code Red. Also, she doesn't drink alcohol, but does drink Mexican sodas that, with their glass bottles and bright colors, look like some varieties of wine coolers. She's waiting to get called on it... ** You would love the "Tonicol" original bottle then, it very easy to confuse with beer ;) ** This troper has fond memories of the days when he could walk into his workplace with a full 2-liter bottle of Mountain Dew and leave at 5:00 with an empty bottle... and still sleep like a rock that night, to do it all over again until Friday. This troper also giggles over the fact that the phrase "mountain dew" originally referred to moonshine, until the people who made the original non-acoholic carbonated beverage co-opted the name. And thirdly, given the herbal derivatives and combinations found in various "smart" drinks, it is possible to spark a weekend-long argument about whether these "natural" additives are more dangerous than a few frothy mugs of MassBrewed American *cough* "beer". This troper will happily join you in lining up 99 different bottles of microbrew on the wall... *** Hey, that explains the hillbilly on the bottles of Throwback. * This troper was once walking around his neighborhood with a friend of his carrying bottles of Fitz's (a soda company from St. Louis) Root Beer. We happened to take off the labels, and we were stopped by my friend's uncle who jokingly asked where we got the beer, an annoying housewife speaking on the phone in her minivan, and some teenagers asking us where we had gotten the beer. * This troper was involved in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar where the cast loathed the stage manager. On the final night, he made

some rather graphic threats about what would happen if anyone did anything stupid onstage. In retaliation, the disciples pulled an elaborate prank (details withheld. You wouldn't believe it.) involving fake real wine at the Last Supper. According to one of the technical guys the stage manager nearly had a heart attack. Revenge is sweet. ** Oh, but we ''would'' believe it! We would! Tell us! * This troper was in a high school production of a Spanish play involving a character with a hip flask. Of course the hip flask's contents were filled with colored water. The catch? Come on, we were high schoolers -- the actor had poured it out before the show and filled it back up with rum. People kept commenting on the realism of his performance... ** Ever heard of "Aguas locas? * [[@/{{Orihime}} ThisTroper]] was around 10 years old and once went out with her cousins. The eldest of the group (who was around 18 back then) had brought some cans that were... different from the sparkling beverages ones she also was carrying along for us kids and was suspiciously careful and secretive when handling them. When she wasn't looking, the troper managed to sneak closer and take a sip... and had to spit it out since it was SO bitter. And that was the tiny silly little troper's first experience with beer. * Inversion(?): Someone a friend of this troper's knew once put rum and a few other alcoholic drinks in a Dr. Pepper bottle and brought it to school. Not one teacher commented on it, since Dr. Pepper is sold at the school. * This troper's college had an 'Alcohol Awareness Week', and in the cafeteria they were serving free "Mocktails", mixed drinks that were orange soda and Sprite with splashes of fruity syrup and a lime wedge. This troper got into a debate with the people serving them over the logic of demoting one drug (alcohol) while promoting another, more addictive drug (caffeine). The argument ended like this: -->'''Teacher:''' Well, you don't endanger the lives of others every time you drink a Mountain Dew. -->'''This Troper:''' Maybe YOU don't. ** Wait, which one of those items has caffiene? *** [[ShrugOfGod The Mountain Dew, of course.]] *** I think he meant in the Mocktail... [[DidNotDoTheResearch Sprite has always been Caffeine-free, don't you know?]] *** Incidentally Mountain Dew doesn't have caffeine in Australia. *** More proof Australia is freakish and possibly evil. *** [[@/DeVos This troper]] has been reading this page in mounting horror as the idea of a nation having a drinking age of above 16 is inconvenient and above 18 is frankly barbaric, and just fell off his chair laughing. There are nations where you can vote, own a car or gun, have a child or serve in the armed forces but not drink, and its the idea of no caffeine in the Mountain Dew people have a problem with? I'm so glad I've never lived outside of Europe. **** It gets better. At least in Ohio, your parental guardian can give you alcohol while you're under 18, but when you turn 18, you lose that guardianship, as you are now an adult, sort of. However, you still can't drink on your own until you're 21, [[{{Catch22}} leaving a three-year gap in which you can't drink]]. So... what are you in those

years? A kid? Adult? Teenager? Something else? [[ShrugOfGod Errr... we dunno.]] * This troper had just come back from lunch (eating the sandwich during the walk back) and was sitting in the back of the lecture hall drinking IBC root beer, which comes in what looks a lot like an unlabeled beer bottle, especially in that dimly lit room. Another student who passed by saw the bottle and said "Having a beer during class? You got some balls!" * This troper was in a play that required him to take shots of whiskey onstage. Since having actors consume hard liquor onstage is never a good idea, it was substituted with water and iced tea crystals. In a bit of EnforcedMethodActing, it was never the same consistency twice, resulting in genuine reactions. * This troper's had bought an iced green tea from a coffee shop before taking a test at college. She had the tea with her during class, in a clear plastic cup, and the ice had melted. Someone asked her if she was drinking white wine. * This Troper has been known to drink more soda than he should when he is feeling down. Complete with putting my head down on the table and clutching the bottle. * This Troper loves his bottled root beers from cafes more than anything else in the world. Only Dad's and Henry Weinhard's is palatable for this troper. If not on beer, coca cola with syrup is also a suitable replacement. ** ...coca cola with syrup? ...you mean like waffle syrup? ** No, like soda fountain syrup. Chocolate, vanilla, orange mixed in with the cola syrup. Yummm..... (I'm guessing you're too young to remember soda jerks. Back when being a jerk was a job and a good thing!) * The class of 2008 at this trooper's High School set up root beer pong in the gym as part of their senior prank. The Principal, who happens to be a nun, wasn't ammused. * There's a candy store near This Troper's school that sells wax bottles, two inch tall bottles made out of wax (duh) and filled with snow cone syrup. So we pooled our money and bought 66 of them. We each got 22. I'm not allowed in the candy store anyore. * ThisTroper has a tendency to mix stuff like coke or pepsi with various colorful non-alcoholic drinks such as various flavors of fanta. Been asked if it was beer countless times. Also, when I was 4 I drank what I thought was the remains of someone else's lemonade. Of course, it wasn't. * This troper regularly runs Dungeons & Dragons games while drinking alcohol. Yes, she can get tipsy at times. However, she can't have caffeine, but she also can't have DIET soda due to artificial sweeteners making her loopy (rare is the bodega that sells non-diet, gold label soda). One time a gaming buddy thought he'd be helpful and bought her diet Sprite. She's been more coherent after five servings of alcohol. * The College this editor attended took over a farming college near the town; the farming college went from having a student bar to enforced temperance. They replaced it with a ''coffee bar'' - and here's the kicker - it only opened from '''18:00!'''

** That's 6:00 P.M. for those of you who don't know military time. ** Military time? Good Grief. [[@/DeVos This Troper]] has had dozens of civilian jobs were people give you odd looks if you don't use 24 hour clock reverences when asking the time. There is noting inherently military about using 24h notation. The again, I've had jobs with beer in the vending machines. Although I love being British you have to admit those dastardly Germans do some things right. Like beer in the lending machines and lager sold at Mc Donald's. This difference in national laws caused some fun when, a long time ago when I couldn't have been over 17, on a school trip in Austria (Saalbach) where the legal drinking age was 16 This Troper ran into some American students of a comparable age. I was an experienced skier and had my parent's permission to ski without the supervision of my teachers and was stopping for lunch. With my lunch I had a large weibier and could not convince the yanks in question that it was NOT a foamy mug of water. So I went and brought a litter of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroh Stroh 80]] to prove that no one was going to prevent them buying booze. Then their teachers arrived and prevented them from buying booze. LOL * Once at a wedding, this troper switched his sparkling grape juice with his mother's wine. She never noticed. * Trope sustained: It's illegal to drink or be inebriated on the set of a motion picture, a fact [[@/DokEnkephalin this troper]] did not find out until the third night on the job as an extra. There was a LOT of downtime waiting between shots and a lot of bottled water to drink, and at one point I stepped into a bar to [[UnusualEuphemism recycle some of it]], and on the way out asked the bartender to add a little vodka. She decided to fill it up ''completely'', and I returned to the set swigging my frothy bottle of water, and no one was the wiser. I tipped well. * When this troper was in college, he learned that scattering lots of empty IBC Root Beer bottles on the floor of his room and lying down right before the weekly clean room-check was actually not such a good idea. ** This troper used IBC bottles as a legal (and tasty) stand in for beer bottles for taping a "mess after the party" scene. * "Mocktails" are popular at parties put on by this troper's school or organizations which are restricted by school rules. This troper recently went to a party which went an extra step and dropped skittles in certain cups as stand-ins for roofies in a drug awareness exercise. * Not really what I do, but I'll put it here because it's not what the creators did. In the StarTrek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles," Chekhov drinks vodka. He pronounces it with a Russian accent, so it sounded a lot like "water" to me. Scotty's line dismissing it as "soda pop" made no sense to me. ** Well he is Scottish. That stuff is flavorless compared to scotch. ** [[MemeticMutation it tastes... GREEN.]] * Once, this troper's little sister was drinking some iced tea in a beer jug. (I don't know the details.) Unfortunately, it was kind of frothy. Dad walked in. What do you think he thought? * This Troper was at a party hosted by her cousin. She really wanted me to try some nasty "caffeinated" beer. So, I took the can, poured

the contents down the sink, rinsed it out and filled the can with orange soda. * [[@/MutantRancor This troper]]'s ''entire family'' is a subversion: At every year's New Year's Party, we toast the new year with wine glasses -- filled with sparkling grape juice. Or occasionally some other kind of sparkling fruit juice. No alcohol is ever involved (this troper's entire extended family doesn't drink) but it sure would look like it to anyone who doesn't know. ** This troper doesn't have a full family of subversion, but does enjoy a champagne flute full of sparkling white grape juice during a celebration. * This Troper's mother is a pastor who at one point was youth pastor for a local church. She once walked past several of her teenage students sitting on the steps drinking [[http://www.rootbeerreviews.com/brews/images/barqs.jpg Barq's root beer.]] out of silver cans. She paused and asked them if they were drinking beer. One quick-thinking jokester held up his can with a thumb casually held over the word "root," and said, "Yup. Barq's Old Tyme Beer." She laughed. * [[@/KingSonnDeeDoo This Troper]] is Teetotal. However, on a particular New Year's Eve party at her house, she'd been drinking J20 the whole evening, and towards the end was feeling kinda tired. Her mother brought a camera out, and several pictures were taken. Upon viewing them the next day however, said troper found one which had been taken of her - in which she looked drunk to high heaven (tired, remember?), whilst holding a mysterious bottle (of which the label was obscured) with a strange yellow liquid in it (J20). [[HilarityEnsues Many laughs were had by family and friends.]] * This Troper was once at a get-together (everyone was underage, by the way) where one of his friends was on the phone with his parents. As soon as he had told them that there was no alcohol, someone nearby opened a can, causing him to frantically tell his parents that it was a Coke. It really was, but it was still an awkward and hilarious occurrence. * This troper's sister always used to hand me a can of Beer so she could drag over my dad and go "Hey look, your son is drinking!", to which my dad always nonchalantly pointed out I don't drink. a few years later, this is still the conclusion you can reach seeing me with a beer, I only drink the hard stuff because I'm simultaneously a natural heavyweight and it tastes better. * This troper was in an RPG. One of the characters, a Russian, carried vodka everywhere. When anyone asked him what it was he would say "It's just a little water." [[DontExplainTheJoke He explained]] the BilingualBonus, but not before getting a character who didn't know the "water" was vodka to drink way too much of it. * [[@/JET73L This troper]] has a tendency to act out the Film Noir Depressed At The Bar scene with a glass or bottle of root beer or creme soda or a bottle of Mountain Dew, knowing the value of symbolic catharsis as do many tropers above. Since he gets [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything loopy in a too-mellow way]] when tired, caffeine-free sugared drinks make him [[IntoxicationEnsues even loopier and]] [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin in want of more sugared

drink]] until the inevitable crash[[hottip:*:But we have no "hangover" trope... To the YKTTW page!]], and caffeine just mellows him out even more, the few parties he enjoys enough to stay at typically end with him effectively more drunk than any of the alcohol-consuming adults. (Additionally, he used to drink [[FrothyMugsOfWater hot sauce]], especially from shot glasses or as part of a GargleBlaster from a tequila shooter, until he stopped to avoid taking much more damage from pepper burns.) * [[@/MalachiteDragon This Troper's]] little sister inverted this way back when she was 5 (and I was 6.) We'd been visiting our greatgrandmother's house to celebrate the fourth of july, and we're sitting outside and having fun and yadda yadda... I'm not paying attention at the time but my little sister walks right up to my mother. ''While my mother has her eyes directly on my little sister'', she picks up our mother's wine cooler and takes a big, long drink. You can see the gears grinding in mom's head... *grrrr..grrrrr'''''DING!'''''* "GWAAAAH NO *snatches wine cooler back*" * @/{{0dd1}}: Half the time when INeedAFreakingDrink, I go with...caffeine-free CocaCola. ...*gulp--ah!* That hit the spot. * Amperschwa has had little experience with liquors. Now, I do love to obfuscate stupidity and act drunk at school when I'm not, but when I am, most people would most likely [[{{CryWolf}} dismiss it as a lie.]] * This troper has been sober for 13 years but doesn't want to be the [[StopHavingFunGuys killjoy]] when out with his friends. Thankfully, the bartender understands and pours my Pepsi into beer mugs for me. * This troper was visiting a friend of the family when she was six, and hung out with their 10-year-old nephew. She was rather shocked when I pulled out a cigarette and lit it, and nervously asked if he smoked. "Sure" he replied, before peeling off the paper on the 'cigarette' and eating the chocolate inside. * This troper hates the taste of alcohol, which other people find so strange to the point that her -parents- try to make her drink at gettogethers. She does pretend to drink when partying with her friends though, and have made it through quite a few drinking games without drinking more than a few sips. ** This Troper is the same way. I can't stand the taste of alcohol. My Aunt once drunkenly tried to get me to drink. She wouldn't take no for an answer from me and my dad backed my up. I was 24 at the time hehehe. * At this Troper's high school, some kids talked two teachers into playing Water Pong. The students were soundly beaten. * Inversion: A common trick at this troper's college is keeping vodka in water bottles. * This troper and her favorite cousin get hyper, giggly, and slightly slurred whilst drinking sparkling grape juice. We also like candy cigarettes. * This troper doesn't drink (he did it only three times, with single glasses of champagne, on New Year's, and didn't like it very much) he usually justifies by saying he's bad enough sober. Yet as far back to High School people are trying to get him drunk, getting even worse during college (worst of those: senior insists on me having a drink and insists to the point of annoyance; when we cross paths again, I

throw water on her, and her sister throws beer on me; ''I'm bad enough sober!''). But more to the point of the trope: a classmate of this troper once drank a vodka-enhanced soda without knowing (prompting the class drunk which caused this to cheer: "I always wanted you to get you high!"). The troper himself almost fell for this, because he forgot he was holding his own soda cup - his two classmates watching it laughed copiously - promptly spitting, and shortly later comparing himself to Bill Clinton with a certain herb. * This troper did this during an exam at college. He brought the usual exam-snackfood: an apple, a double sandwich, and a Jack Daniel's bottle. Filled with apple juice. He got some weird looks from the examinator, let him tell you. * This troper likes to keep a lot of shot glasses around because they're the perfect size for taking medicine and mean I don't have to commit to an entire glass of orange juice or what have you. Problem is, that is a tad difficult to explain when you're eighteen, American, and don't live with your parents anymore. * This, underaged, troper always drinks [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta_(soft_drink) Maltas]], especially in the summer. She usually just [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything gulps them down]]. Her dad has made a few comments about how she would make a good drinker. Which is ironic since she plans on never drinking alcohol. Likewise, this troper once wondered why when her family was making a toast why couldn't they use egg nog so she could toast too. She also has an affinity for juices and milk. * This troper was just in a production of ''TheWildParty'', and for liquor we used empty liquor bottles filled with water. However, some of the bottles hadn't been washed out very well, so some of the water actually did taste like alcohol -- not enough to actually get us drunk, fortunately. (Or unfortunately, depending on who you ask.) ** Another theatre tale from the above troper: I recently appeared in ''TheRockyHorrorShow'' as one of the phantoms. During the first act, I ate some popcorn on stage, which made me thirsty for the rest of the act. I didn't have a drink with me, so during intermission I decided to steal a sip from somebody else's. I found someone's water bottle, poured a little into the cap, drank it...and was shocked when the "water" turned out to be vodka and started burning my mouth. Thank God I didn't take a big swig of it, or I could have been one tipsy little phantom! * This trope was inverted by [[@/{{MiraShio}} my]] upperclassmen as well as my classmates. They all smuggled beer the same way -- filling bottles of green tea with it. No one can tell the difference without smelling the beverage. * This troper shares a very silly joke with her professors during any sort of major festival. She always comes into class with a tall bottle and several classy plastic cups, and pours out several glasses of what looks to be champagne to share with the staff, telling them it's the good stuff. It's just a really good brand of sparkling apple cider. Sadly, due to what it looks like, the professors usually wait until the end to have some, but it's always hilarious to see their faces when I ask for a bottle opener before showing them exactly WHAT I need it for.

* They sell sparkling water at Starbucks that may qualify, if you don't look at the bottle for too long. This was an indispensable "prop" when [[{{Usagi}} this troper]] decided to {{Cosplay}} as [[TheAlcoholic Lusca]] from {{Enzai}}. * This troper once took a Japanese course in college where we had do skits and were encouraged to bring in props. Two of my classmates once brought in a pack of bottled root beer to stand in for beer during their skit. After class, the guy who brought them asked if anyone wanted one for the road and began handing them out. Cue our teacher freaking out...she thought he was passing out bottles of actual beer to underage classmates. We had to explain to her that root beer was non-alcoholic. * This troper had a good time with this trope as well back when i was still in Junior High. We was making a skit for a chrismas show that the last years have to do, and my character was a stoner with a drinking problem, hence we found an old 1 l whiskey bottle and filled it with earl gray tea, gelatin, and a third thing (which i can't remember) so it looked just like a creamy whiskey. doing each skit of 5 minutes i drank a full bottle, cue funny looks from the audience. * This troper was Lamar in a performance of Godspell and the "wine" was actually Vimto. Hilarity Ensued on the second (and last) night when I drank 4 litres of the stuff before going on stage (well, more "before going to the lighting box", but still...). * I had a college roommate who got totally wasted on SUGAR COOKIES.(I made them so I know they were just regular cookies)She was raised a total health nut. I convinced her to eat some junk food at a totally G-rated party. She ate like a dozen cookies and stated acting all loopy and eventually passed out. She had told me she had a freaky metabolism and after that I believed her. The ironic thing is Im a nondrinker who people were always trying to convince to drink. * This tropers GI cousin was yelled at and nearly got in big trouble for drinking on duty. He was drinking rootbeer in a glass bottle. * My high school gave out champagne flutes as prom favors. Subversion in that, unlike some examples I've seen, there was no explanation or excuse for this. Much wisecracking ensued. * In high school, my friends and I used to get together at one house for New Years', and our drink of choice has always been sparkling grape juice. One time, the host's father accidentally brought down a bottle of real champagne. She and I noticed, gave each other "oh crap" looks, and then she had me quickly run it upstairs again before someone else saw it. * This troper played a major role in a short film, where his character was supposed to take a handful of aspirin pills in several different shots in the same scene. Someone in the production decided to skimp on the budget, and instead of getting sugar-water placebos decided to use sweet-n-low pellets. This troper had to eat roughly 100 of them before the shooting day was over. He'd much have preferred actual aspirin death would've been a better substitute for that awful, awful taste. * This troper witnessed an inversion when I was at my first D&D session with a new group pf players, n a dorm. Three of them kept suspiciously sharing sips from a bottle of Chocolate Milk. I didn't know for weeks if they were kidding or trying to hide their Baileys

from the RAs. It was the latter. * A hilarious subversion at an Elementary School Christmas Picnic ** This is in Dubai, which is supposedly Alcohol Free (but not really) *** '''Mum:''' Okay, who wants some kid's champagne (aka sparkling grapejuice)? *** '''Siblings:''' Me, me! *** '''Troper:''' Wouldn't it be funny if it was [[{{TemptingFate}} real champagne?]] *** '''Mum:''' Hahaha it would. *pouring drinks* *** '''Troper:''' Although we would probably get kicked out. *** '''Little Sister:''' *sips* *** *beat* *** '''Little Sister:''' Mum, are you ''sure'' this is kids champagne? *** *others drink* *** '''Troper:''' Oh my god, it's real champagne. *** '''Mum:''' Whoops. ** Needless to say, we all had a great laugh once we got home. But at the picnic, we basically just hid the bottle in the cooler for the rest of the event. * This troper was a licensed mixologist (meaning that, in theory, he could have legally worked as a bartender) for a number of years, in spite of being a complete teetotaler. * I know a kid who drank [[BottomlessBladder two Orange Crush cans, three Coke cans, a bottle and a half of Dr. Pepper, a glass of water]] and [[CaffeineBulletTime a large bag of Twizzlers.]] He acted almost drunk, staggering around the halls laughing crazily and finally almost passing out. It was ''hilarious''. * [[@/{{MaeWesting}} This Troper]], while disliking the effects of alcohol (and resultant hangovers), loves the excuse it gives [[{{CloudCuckooLander}} her ]] to [[{{PlayingDrunk}} act like a loony in public]]. It leads to a little confusion when she's dancing on a table and her friends realise she's been sipping water all night. * This Troper's school absolutely prohibits thermoses or unopened water bottles in school for exactly this reason. The only exception is when the weather is so dangerously hot that any sane person would call school off... ''then'' they allow water bottles. Oh, how helpful. * This troper witnessed an inversion in the last class of her spring semester, a three-hour evening class: a student brought a liter bottle of Schwepps, and was informing his neighbors that it was really a giant gin and tonic. Well done, sir. * This troper's brother once bought some "juice" from a store without anyone (including this troper's brother) knowing it was alcohol, despite being in the same bottle as wine. [[{{TemptingFate}} He jokingly remarked that if it were actually wine he would be drunk after a single glass.]] However, he figured out the "juice" actually was wine before he finished the glass due to the smell, preventing him from actually getting drunk. * [[{{Tropers/Marr965}} This troper]] has been mildly drunk due to doing chromatography (note to self: remember in future that butan-2-ol fumes are incredibly intoxicating.) ** More to the point, this troper gets drunk off parties. Not the stuff drunk at parties, the parties themselves.

----How about another round of cold [[strike:beer]] [[FrothyMugsOfWater water]]? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FryingPanOfDoom * This tropers mother has expressed a preference for a fajita skillet over a frying pan due to the lighter grip and... It's probably best I don't continue. * This Troper heard of someone in the news who hit a burglar with a frying pan. * This Troper has a family story that goes a little like this. "My Great Grandfather (or some-such) came back from World War 1 a drunk. (could you blame him?) Well anyway, he set up his own still in the basement of his house. Now, my Great Grandmother was a good Christian, and she could not stand to see her husband like that. One day, he came upstairs drunk as anything, and he twirled her around and planted a big ol' smooch on her. Well, this was enough of that! She grabbed her skillet (a big cast iron thing that weight nearly twenty lbs) and whacked him across the head with it, and knocked him out with one blow. Well, he woke up on Sunday, and as his wife was going to church he thought he might go along as well, and he became a Christian that very day." Spoken in the good ole colloquial accent. * I was in a sporting goods store and in the camping section was GIFUCKING-NORMAS frying pan (the pan was 2 feet in diameter and the handle was around 3, but it doesn't actually weigh that much). This is litarally a FryingPanOfDoom. ** This troper used to work on a trail-building crew, and among the common loan supplies from the conservation corps was a truly enormous cast-iron skillet. * This Troper's Uncle is the victim of a frying pan incident involving his aunt (the troper's not the uncle's). how? He has the evidence of a permanent bump ''square on his forehead''. * While never having seen this in action, aside from fiction, I did get an interesting piece of advice from my sister-in-law that she got from one of her relatives "Heat up the frying pan before you hit him with it" * At a family reunion, there was a stray dog trying to eat all of our BBQ food. I was the first to react, cuz I saw him coming. My weapon? Wok. Sadly, the poor things couldn't take the impacted... But we had a nice little lunch in it's honor. We named him Spicy. * Variation: I made a story where this dude used a pressure pan to defend himself from a robber...that turned out to be his best friend... * I did an improv exercise in which my partner was threatening me with a knife in kitchen. My immediate response: "I'll see your knife and raise you a cast iron frying pan. Now which do you think will hurt more?" Said with a pretty good imitation of Tranquil Fury. It was unanimously decided that my mimed weapon was more dangerous than his

mimed weapon. ** [[@/SoWeAteThem My]] drama class had gag frying pan of doom. It was rigged to make the sound of a piece of metal striking a person quite forcefully by means of a mere tap on the head. * A friend of this troper once ran a Deadlands game in which of the characters was a sturdy frontier wife. Who once drove off a werewolf with a frying pan. "Git out'n mah kitchen, ya mangy varmint!" *WHANG!* A very good roll, and presumably the spending of many fate chips, had the werewolf running away and yiping frantically. * My Grandad (who is pushing 80 at the time of writing) has a story from when he was a young [[BritishCoppers Cop]] where he answered a domestic disturbance call and had to try and talk down a very drunk and angry husband. After a few failed attempts he started to get angry at my Grandad, when all of a sudden *whack* he collapsed to the ground. Behind him stood his wife, Frying Pan in hand. Grandad excused himself and left. * This troper's class was told a true story by his teacher once about two boys who were best friends. One day, in cooking class, they apparently came to a heated disagreement over something or another, and one twanged the other in the head with a frying pan. His retina detached and he was left permanently blind in one eye. Needless to say, they weren't best friends after that. * I have an [[FaeryTaleOnline FTO]] character whose weapon of choice is a copper frying pan. It's very effective, at least at crushing small animals. <<|TroperTales|>> If you don't go back to FryingPanOfDoom ''this instant'', I'll hit you with one! D:<

FullFrontalAssault * All the adults/teenages in this female troper's family sleep nude, especially in the summer. When female troper was sixteen, she was awakened one summer night by [[NightmareFuel a neighbor boy standing on the roof]] [[BeingWatched and staring into her window, having full view of troper's body.]] The resulting scream woke up troper's father, [[PapaWolf who charged into her room and ran straight towards the window, towards the Peeping Tom]]--wearing not a stitch of clothing. Neighbor got an eyeful of [[FanDisservice 5 foot, eight inches of big, burly, chubby-stomached, hairy man.]] The neighbor boy got off the roof ''really'' fast after that. ** Part 1 of that story is creepy as all get out... (peeping tom I mean) - Part 2 is hilarious and awesome. ** [[FridgeLogic Aren't you guys... kind of asking for it, sleeping nude with no sheet, that close to the window, with no blinds?]] *** That's like asking if a woman is asking to be raped because she's wearing provocative clothing and toning it down. It's her house; she can be naked in her house if she wants, and no one has the right to peep at her. Can you explain why the neighbor was peeping FROM THE ROOF, anyway? * A terrifying incident from my teenage years - I had friends over, we decided to order pizza being as we were playing D&D and thus needed

munchies. This was fine. Except then the cousin of the DM bet the DM he wouldn't answer the door naked. Said DM is short, fat, and most importantly HAIRY EVERYWHERE (something I never wanted to know...). Yes, he did go through with it. Being as it was my house I spent half the time face-palming and wondering "With friends like these...". * The dorm I had lived in during my first year of college had communal showers and loads of pranksters, so every once in a while, residents who did not keep an eye on their towels and clothing while showering would wind up [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside walking back to their rooms with everything in full display]]. When someone tried to pull this prank on my old roommate, however, my roommate noticed what was going on, jumped out of the shower, and applied justified amounts of violence upon the prankster while stark naked. Never again was he the target of one of these pranks. * I (and a number of other bystanders) once saw a stark-naked man beating the crap out of a bicyclist outside Park Street Station in Boston. I have no idea why this happened; I figure either the naked guy was AxCrazy or the bicyclist stole his clothes. At any rate, yes, I called the cops. ---Put some clothes on before you head back to FullFrontalAssault!

FullNameBasis * There are 4 Laurens in one of my classes. I call them all "Lauren *insert last name here*" ** Also, I know 3 Williams. One is called William, one is called Darth Will/Will, and one is called Billy/ [[{{All-Powerful Bystander}} Innocent Bystander]] * My drama teacher used to be the tech director. We called him Seth then. Now he's Mr. Cohen. SO DIFFICULT TO CHANGE. I find myself calling him "Seth Cohen". * I actually have a few friends who are often referred to by their full names, though I don't really know why this is. ** It's probably because some people have names that are just really dang fun to say. I know exactly one person who is frequently referred to by her full name, because it just is the sort of name you can't waste by not saying it in full. * Truth in Television for this troper. For some odd reason people just love calling her "Sara Brewer" (or butchering her name into "Sara Brew") instead of just "Sara". ** Truth in Television here also, although not personally. This troper went to school with one person who was always John Minor, and knows a girl whose full name is so freaking adorable, EVERYONE calls her by it. Even her parents. ** This troper also went to school with a Johnny (never John) Minor, who was also always referred to by the full name. ** This troper has this trope somewhat applied to her. Much to her consistent annoyance, people in her school call her "Emmy Vaughan" (Please read in the most obnoxious accent you can think of) instead of

"Emily Vaughan". ** [[{{morgana006}} This troper]] purposely used FirstNameBasis with a kid from highschool after noticing that everybody used FullNameBasis with him. * [[{{Nomic}} This troper]] sometimes refers to people he respects with their full name. How often he does it depends on the person. The ones he does it most often are some of his professors (the rest he refers by last name) and the girl he's in love with. Sometimes he refers his friends like this, altho usually only when introducing them to other people. * This troper and our friends consistently refer to our other friend as Cameronberry. or GodBerry (Don't ask). * [[{{Xaris}} This troper]] knows [[OneSteveLimit four people named Joe.]] Each of them are referred to differently, one is Joefro, another is Joefus, the third is nicknamed Jet Fuel Joe due to an [[NoodleIncident unusual situation with jet fuel from his job at an airport]] and the fourth is referred to by his full name to differentiate from the first two (the third lives in a different city and doesn't know the other three.) It was slightly confusing at first. ** This troper went to high school with a class that had [[OneSteveLimit 10+ Laurens and Stephanies, respectively]]. Either LastNameBasis or this trope were invoked to tell them apart. Then there's the people whose names, while comparatively unique, were never uttered without their surname. (This troper still has them listed first and last name in her phone, despite knowing only one person with said name). Not to mention the three Kevins that were in the marching band, who either invoked this trope or were referred to as 24-Kevin, [[JamesBond Double-O Kevin]], and [[BenTen Kevin 11]]. * To this troper, FullNameBasis ''must'' be invoked for any and all people with [[AlliterativeName alliterative names]]. * This Troper's name is James Brown. He is referred to as such, and is obligated to follow up with a performance of 'I feel good'. [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore EVERY. TIME.]] * This troper has known two different gentlemen who were always referred to by full name and full name only, for no particular reason. You couldn't just call them Jon or Jesus or call them by nicknames. Nope. * This troper does this whenever he's talking about somebody not involved in the conversation, even if confusion regarding the subject is impossible. * This troper got the habit of learning people's full names (which sometimes shocks classmates) because of a teacher of his who called anyone by the complete name. And frequently he's seen people known by "name + surname" to distinguish when it's a PlanetOfSteves. * This troper gets this a lot. Due to her all-girl school having a ''huge'' number of students named Bea, with at least five in her very grade level alone. Unfortunately, she is also one of the less popular girls, and is thus ''always'' referred to by her full name...even by the teachers. * Happens to this Troper frequently, if not, always, much to my dismay.It doesn't help that both my first and last names are very short, and I'm one of the very few people in my school with the name

"Tom". * This troper remembers a friend with the name of Roosevelt Jackson III. Now say it like you're introducing a pro wrestler or a celebrity. The same way it was read when he was introduced to a group. He stood up and waved. We eventually stopped calling him by his full name and just called him RJ3. * The majority of this troper's high school averts this trope, instead relying on first names only and nicknames. Although, this troper and a good friend of mine definitely play this straight. The easiest way for anybody to tell if there's something wrong with either of us or if we're pissed or etc., is when we stop calling the other by our first and last names and say just the first name. The strange thing is that it's not even intentional and neither one of us can even remember why we started doing it. * This troper doesn't engage in it much herself, but many of her classmates refer to themselves, friends, and siblings by their full names, although it is easier to recall "Sam Webb" than wondering who "Sam" is in relation to the speaker. * This Troper often does this with most of the people he knows, Notably his work colleague Jake, who is always loudly addressed as [[ThisIsSparta JAKE MAIDEN!]] * This Troper's first name is El, and so everyone in my Spanish class thought it was hilarious to refer to me by my full name. By contrast, my Mandarin teacher refers to me on a LastNameBasis because saying my name in the middle of an otherwise Mandarin sentence apparently throws her off too much. However, the nickname lives on in my annoying siblings. ** That probly gets you a lot of fangirls. * In college, this troper knew a guy named Michael Berry. Everyone called him Michael Berry. No one called him Michael. There were maybe 1 or 2 people who could get away with calling him Mike, but it always sounded strange. * There's a kid at this troper's school named John Reese. Nobody calls him just John. Everyone just calls him John Reese. * This troper has alot of this, and LastNameBasis. There are two Jons I know, and I usually refer to both just by their last names (unless I'm talking to their siblings). One of the Jons has a brother named Matt. There are many Matts. I normally give them FullNameBasis treatment. I only know one person named Ethan, but me, and some other people usually refer to him by his full name, or his nickname. (But the nickname is mostly just us crew/drama kids). I know only one Tyler. I think the number of people who refer to him by his first name and those who call him by his full name are half and half. I have a hard time thinking of him as anything other than his full name. People rarely refer to me with FullNameBasis. I'm normally referred to by my first name, or one of my nicknames. A couple people I know call me by my facebook name, but I gave myself a different last name for facebook. If people don't know better, it sounds like a full name. * The majority of this troper's high school are called by their full names. If not by everyone, then by at least one person. ---My friend ReportSiht and I wish to return to FullNameBasis.

---<<|TroperTales|>>

FullNameUltimatum * I insist upon being referred to by my full first name, and sign all of my school papers with my entire name, including my middle name. (This is because my last name is so long, it takes up an entire line by itself. When I got into middle school, I was forced to write it on all my papers, so it's mainly to piss off my teachers.) * Several characters of mine - a strange and probably lawsuit-worthy cocktail of the {{Expy}} (of [[KingdomHearts Organization XIII's]] members), CompositeCharacter (literally, as they're half-clones, or composite clones, of two Org. members each), SpinOffspring and SecretProjectRefugeeFamily tropes - use this and a bit of a variation; if they get called by their "parents'" names, they're in more trouble then if they're called by their own full names. * And when this troper's grandmother was ''really'' mad, she'd start adding in the names of other relatives, just to have a longer name to call. * This troper's second grade teacher would do this. She was freaking terrifying. ** This troper's ''high school'' English teacher (and newspaper advisor) would do it too. Age did not reduce the scare factor one whit. * This troper's mother gave the ''dog'' a middle name just to make it easier to yell at. ** This troper did that with her guinea pigs. Normally, they were Swirly and Scooter. When in trouble, they were Swirlington Merlin The Third and Scooter Alfred O'Boots. * This troper's friend (aka Team Mom) does this to me whenever I'm up to something mischevious... ** Are you me? Though, when my friend does that to me, it's mostly to get me to [[CloudCuckooLander pay attention.]] * ANDREA ALEJANDRA KANONNIKOFF!!'s father used to do it...a lot...when she was a child...the funny thing was that even the neighbours could hear it sometimes so they'll call me by my full name all the time as a joke. * This mothers averts this trope because she's afraid people could do voodoo of us. Yeah... ** Related-- this troper has a friend whose father (possibly grandfather, I don't recall) bestowed on them all in addition to their usual full names, a ''secret'' name that will never be revealed and so cannot be used against them by magical means. This does lead to the conclusion that if said father/grandfather ever ''really'' wants to Middle-Name them... * This Troper gave her daughter two middle names, possibly so she will have some kind of MercyLead in the future. * This troper, as a mischievous child, was often referred to as "Margaret Mary Frances-Catherine!" It should be noted that only the first two names are mine - Frances (or Francis) and Catherine are my

parent's Confirmation names. (We're Catholic.) Now that I've been Confirmed, I have become "Margaret Mary Theresa of Avila!" * Parodied by @/DaisyChain's mother. Since neither I nor my brother have middle names, everytime our mother uses the FullNameUltimatum she just invents the most [[EmbarrassingMiddleName utterly ridiculous]] one she can think of. For this reason, my brother doesn't really take her seriously any more. * This troper does it to her friend to pull her out of her silly justbeen-dumped depressions. * Played very straight by This Troper's mother. Since I have a pretty unusual and long middle name ("Wilhelmine" for those interested), she only ever included it when I was in ''deep'' trouble. * Ah yes, @/{{Aeiouna}} has very (not so fond) memories of "Erika Megan!" in her mother's voice... she even still uses the middle sometimes to this day! I'm 23 and have been out of the house for three years! * This Troper's father would use her ''Hebrew name'' when he was angry with her (or just jokingly angry). * Averted in that @/SovietKitty's parents are too mellow to bother with this, and her difficult-to-pronounce first name and long, Russian middle and last names more or less ensure that no one else will. This is good, as she is very sensitive and would probably cry at something like that... * While it doesn't happen to @/{{Raikage}} (my mom just usually screams my first name at the top of her lungs), my aunt does this to my younger cousin ''all the time''. * @/{{Quillpaw}} can guage just how pissed her mother is by the length of the name. A stern first name is pretty pissed. A first and middle name means I'm in deep shit. First, middle and last name (which has only occurred twice that this troper can remember, but she may have blocked the memories) means she has my grave prepared out back and [[{{Understatement}} it will not be pleasant]]. * This troper's mother never did that exactly... it was when she started yelling in Spanish that you knew you were in deep shit. * This troper is often called one of his many nicknames at home and at school to the point that being called by even his first name by his parents elicits a joking response of "Am I in trouble?" * This Troper's mother once used her middle name at random. My heart filled with fear, and I was desperately trying to figure out what I had done...only to find that my mom was just telling me dinner was ready. * This Troper's Grandma will try to do this, but she mixes in the names of other family members so it somewhat ruins the effect. * I do this a lot when I'm angry. It's not much of an 'ultimatum' though, because generally, HilarityEnsues. * Both of this troper's children's middle names were deliberately selected for their mouth feel when shouting the child's full name while angry. * Oddly enough, my maternal parental unit never uses my middle name. She made it up, so any chance utterance requires an explanation to randoms. Which derails tellings-off. On the other hand, she has a fairly ordinary middle name so I frequently use this on her.

* This Troper's father subverts it, addressing him or (more commonly) his younger brother as "(First name) (Middle name) Ratbag", to express anything from amusement to mild annoyance. * This Troper admits freely that her parents use her full name when annoyed. Thank God it's only happened a handful of times in my entire lifetime. My siblings, on the other hand, use it ''all the time.'' * {{Tropers/Luna87}} is quite annoyed at having two middle names. "Ashleigh [[{{Embarrassing Middle Name}} Morgan]] Victoria!" just makes your parents sound so much angrier than it would with just two names. * This Troper, to this day, still runs over a mental list of everything bad he's ever done when he hears his whole name and suspects it is the reason for his instinctive mistrust of the government. * This troper actually isn't that scared when she hears her full namethough it's just one step below doom. It's when her mother giggles a little too much she knows she's in some deep shit. * This troper didn't hear this much because she was never much of a trouble maker. When her parents did use both first and middle name, she KNEW she was in trouble, because normally not even her full name is used by them. When "Em" suddenly becomes "Emily Lynn" she knows she's in trouble. ** On the other hand, that troper (same as above)'s older sister was much more prone to getting in trouble and throwing temper tantrums, but she doesn't recall her being called by her first name more than once or twice... * This troper says her father's full name when he's being a goofball. * This Troper's parents calls her by her full name all the time, even when she's not in trouble. It annoys her to bits, mainly because it sounds much too formal to her, and it sounds like she did something wrong all the time. * BRIANNA KATHRYN!! No last name, just first and middle. It's never led to more than a strict shouting at, but just typing it makes this troper's hairs stand on end... Actually, wasn't until my teens that I realized that people could actually be so angry as to use a full name... * This troper has a guide for her mother's anger level: First Name/Nickname: Mostly just curiosity though I still give a guilty response, First + Middle Name: I've done something that needs correction, Full Name Ultimatum: A mental ClusterFBomb for me and trouble ensues. Doesn't help that I have an EmbarrassingMiddleName... * Since I have a VERY long name, mine is a strange subversion. I know I'm in deep dog crap when my mom calls me "girl' * @/{{Azaram}} always referred to this as a 'redneck apocalypse'. * Oh, come on: who ''hasn't'' experienced this trope for themselves? * No so, here in Australia, where everyone is too lazy to say a ''First'' name properly. If it's more than one (or one half-) syllable, it's going to become one (or one half-) syllable in no short time. ** I've experienced in Australia... but my parents aren't from here. ** Actually, from the experience of this Aussie troper, that just seems to make it - or at least the milder version of this trope -

''more'' prevalent. Given that most people are typically known by a diminutive form (if your name doesn't have one, then one will be invented for you and inevitably stick for life), when a relative/partner/friend/co-worker actually uses your full first name you know it's serious. Let alone when they use your entire name. * Averted for those who don't have a middle name. Yes, we exist! ** That's okay, some of us have two. We can average out. ** This Troper has a very long, four part, difficult to pronounce name, which mixes two different languages, so has rarely had family members willing to use the whole thing; by the time it's done being said they're too tongue-tied to do any scolding. Usually they just resort to yelling. *** This Troper's daughter has two middle names, though her brothers each have only one middle name. This leads to some interesting discussions about how the girl has four "levels of being in trouble" while the boys have only "three levels". **** Some kids actually attempt to gauge how angry their parents are by how many names are being yelled out. At one, they're peeved, at two (usually first and middle, but sometimes first and last) they're angry, when you hear all three, run like the wind. * If your online friends are privy to your real name, it might be a "real name ultimatum" (which might, therefore, overlap with FirstNameUltimatum, since they don't need to use the whole thing to indicate that you're pushing your luck), depending on the sort of conversations you have with them. * This trope is inverted in [[RussianNamingConvention Russia]], since Russians have {{patronymic}}s instead of proper middle names, and "given name + patronymic" is the standard form of address in a formal setting, especially when the speaker assumes an inferior position (that is how people normally address their teachers and bosses). So the parent addressing the child using the patronymic would actually sound unusually respectful, rather than threatening. ** Not true. This Troper is Russian, and both my parents and my (also Russian) friend's parents use this, name + patronymic + last name as expected. I think it's the tone that makes the respect vs. threatening distinction clear. * I pity poor [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Oatway Charlie Oatway]] if his parents ever did this. Sorry, that's Anthony Philip David Terry Frank Donald Stanley Gerry Gordon Stephen James Oatway. ** Wait...none of the names he ''actually had'' was Charles? [[FlatWhat What.]] *** Hes not even an aristocrat. His parents were big fans of the Queens Park Rangers, and gave him the names of the entire starting lineup in the year of his birth. * This troper is only called her full first name when her mom is serious. First and middle in a stern voice when in trouble. Bonus points for having the middle name "Kei" (after possibly one of her father's favorite anime characters from the late 80s). One of the meanings of "Kei" is "Rapture". * My sister and I reversed this. Although we usually--like most American kids--called our female parent "mom", when she made us mad we called her "mother". Actually, we spent so much of our childhoods

being angry at her that at this point we pretty much just call her mother all the time. * I dated a Wisconsin girl in college who had no middle name. Her Okie roommate was croggled by by that, & immediately asked how she could tell if she was in trouble with her folks while growing up if she had no middle name. * This troper has the first name Jonathan and goes by Jon. While he can't recall his parents ever using his full first, middle, and last names in anger, he heard all three syllables of his first name enunciated plenty: Jon-a-'''than'''! * Not so much used for ultimatums but to get the attention of somebody in the house or in a crowd (we all have pretty common first names and are pretty bad listeners). The number of times I have shouted my parents full names across a crowded space is embarrassingly large. * [[@/{{Sakan4k}} This Troper's]] mother does this, but instead of the middle name being the clincher, it's the last. When my dad pretends to be mad at me, he adds his middle name after my own middle name. * @/{{Homemade psycho}}'s group of friends have 4 levels of ultimatum to work with: Diminutive of Nickname (normal mood), Full Nickname(annoyed/Listen, this is important),Diminutive of real name (pissed), Real name (Run like hell).I guess this could extend to Full name,but no one has messed up enough to warrant that (yet) * This troper's former choir director once jokingly shouted at a friend of mine, who had just jumped over the risers in a single bound and made a lot of noise in the process: "[Name of friend], since you don't have a middle name, I am going to make one up ''specifically'' for occasions like this!" * I've never had my full name called out. My family usually refers to me by nicknames, so merely using my real first name is enough to let me know I'm in trouble. I imagine it helps that my name contains four syllables: Ah-Lex-ZAND-Ruh!! ---Jonathan Quincy Troper! Stop goofing off and get back to FullNameUltimatum '''this instant!''' ----

FullyClothedNudity * Due to the fact that i treat wearing boxers the same way i do wearing swim trunks, ive had a few times in my life were i was screamed at by someone who walked in and i didnt even know what they were upset about until they said something

FunForSome * A friend of This Tropers dad is a ''light house'' nut. He meet a couple of like-minded individuals every month trading stories about visiting light houses, listening to the fog-horn from different light houses and trying to identify from which light house it came from (???). He is also a painter. Guess what his favored subject is... * ThisTroper sometimes watches ''Ad Darb'', a kids' GameShow on

AlJazeera, despite not speaking a syllable of Arabic. It's all wonderfully surreal. ** [[@/{{endlessness}} This troper's]] university subscribes to a newspapers database with a collection of newspapers from all around the world. Cue this troper reading a newspaper from Iceland, even though he knows nothing of the Icelandic language. ** This Troper does the same thing with just about any Japanese or Korean gameshow/childrens show/sitcom/what-have-you. * Wikipedia was intended as an encyclopedia as well as a reference, unique in that anyone can edit it. I use it to look up such illustrious topics as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman,_Turkey Batman, Turkey]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_disk_collecting AOL disk collecting]] * I used to watch nothing but the TV Guide Channel. Not for the minishows that aired on the top half of the screen, but for the listings themselves. I rarely cared about choosing something to watch; I just liked watching the show titles scroll. ** I used to watch the satellite Pay-Per-View trailers loop. I'd leave it on for hours. I wasn't even really watching them; I just liked having it as background noise, for some reason. (I was about thirteen and had far too much time on my hands.) * ThisTroper has been known, from time to time, to listen to the right whale report on NOAA Weather Radio, despite the fact that the latitude and longitude coordinates don't mean a whole lot to me. ** [[@/{{endlessness}} This troper]] and air traffic control. * [[@/{{endlessness}} This troper]] can have a fun day with mathematical/physical tables, datasheets, circuit diagrams, research papers, manuals, old technical books and collecting old software (not limited to games). * Documentaries. While everyone else in the room is half asleep or confused about what the hell it's talking about, I'm at the edge of my seat. On that same note, I use heavy metal music to block out other noises when I want to get to sleep. I'm weird. * Weather Sirens. I grew up in dreaded fear of them but now I find them fascinating and I look up videos of them on youtube, go out on walks on the monthly test days, etc. I'm a fan of other holdovers from the Cold War/The Threat of Nuclear Armageddon, such as radioactivity/hazmats suits and Numbers Stations. ** You're not the only one, apparently. I took a look around YouTube, and there are hobbyists who buy old Thunderbird sirens and tinker with them in their garages. The comments sections are filled with people trading technical specs on them. ** I wasn't sure what a weather siren was, so I looked it up on YouTube. Somehow, it seemed quite natural for me to alt-tab back to TVTropes and [[FunForSome continue reading with that siren blaring, as though it was soothing music]]. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that I have fond memories of a similar sound mysteriously emanating from the forbidden forest at the edge of the property I lived in as a small child. (The forest hid a quarry, and the siren would sound whenever they were blasting, but I didn't know that at the time.)

* 8-track tapes are fun for [[Tropers/DynamiteXI this troper]]. For kicks, I have a woodgrained 8-track deck hooked up to the line-in port on my computer, and I rip MP3's with Audacity for use on my iPod. The tape deck itself serves as the monitor stand, and with some TLC on my part, it's possible for me to get as close to CD quality sound as a magnetic tape from TheSeventies can manage. Why spend $10-$15 on a classic rock album when you can buy the same album for 99 cents at a thrift store? Yes, I'm as crazy as a loon. * This troper (who may have mentioned this in another Troper Tales page, but it doesn't seem to exist anymore) has a strange habit of collecting and hoarding pencils. At school, I carry well upwards of fifty at all times and put them on display whenever possible, all meticulously sharpened and sticking up out of the front pocket of my bag. I don't know how this started; I think that one day, I brought about six pencils and laid them out on my desk, and people kept commenting on how many pencils I had, so I thought, "I'll show you a lot of pencils!" and brought a whole pack the next day. People kept asking to borrow pencils, so I had to start buying more, and then more people asked, so I had to buy ''more'', and I eventually just ran with it. This has earned me the nickname of "Pencil Fairy" in some circles. ---Are you a fan of goofy blurbs? You've got a hobby that's FunForSome. Maybe you should collect butterflies, instead. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FungusHumongous * This editor finds this trope PURE (i.e. HIGH OCTANE) NIGHTMARE FUEL. It certainly doesn't help that mycophobia isn't particularly common, so everyo0ne seems to take every opportunity to get me near mushrooms. ** [[Tropers/ArtFever This troper]] feels your pain.

FunnyAfro * Throughout {{This Troper}}'s high school years, one African-American student in particular was noted for having a large, well-kept afro. The afro itself became such an integral part of his appearance, he given the affectionate nickname of "Bush". * ThisTroper had a friend who gained the nickname "Fro" because of his huge white-boy afro (a look that only works on Caucasians if they're blond, which this boy was). We only reluctantly had to start calling him by name (usually ''[[LastNameBasis last]]'' [[LastNameBasis name]]) in senior year, when he ditched the afro in favor of a ponytail--which looked kind of strange, as his hair was still rather curly. * A good friend of this troper something of a natural afro (that he can't get rid of, no matter how hard he tries, short of shaving his head) that everyone constantly comments on, occasionally referring to his afro instead of him. His nickname is Jewfro. He assures everyone that he is not, in fact, Jewish. It doesn't help that his hair has a

[[SouthPark smidge of red to it and his name is Kyle.]] * [[SovietKitty This troper]]'s daddy has a 'fro in his ''wedding picture''. Despite being the source of many giggles, he actually looked very handsome with it. What the heck happened to said handsomeness, she'll never know. * The only reason why this troper doesn't have a 'fro is because I was bribed out of it for an Xbox 360, so it was a nice trade. Let's just say that people were a bit shocked when they found out I cut it. * This troper has naturally curly hair which does its best impression of a lion's mane when worn unbound. She caught no end of grief for it in school. ** This Troper has the same problem. One time, when I was cycling to school, a little kid said to his mom: "Look Mom, she got an afro!" [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued]]. * This troper is a fan of his friend's Fro on Facebook. * [[SharmHedgehog My]] dad has an afro wig in his closet. Also, my favourite song in the world is "[[SgtFrog Afro Sergeant]]". * My [[KilroyWasHere friend]] has a small, brown and curly afro. He says it is obviously a ''dimensional gateway''. * My friend had an afro and one game he let people play involved throwing (non-sticky, of course) things in it and see if it'd stick. When he shaved it off, I didn't recognize him. At. All. I was wondering who this weird guy was and how he knew my name. When he told me who he was, my first action was to move my hand over his head, shocked stupid. * I am this trope. It's because of a combination of black & white genes that somehow created an implacable, immutable Afro. If you attempt to straighten it, I look like Don King. It's [[MadeofIron made of [extremely fuzzy] iron.]] * This troper's older brother has an afro that he's been growing for about a decade. Its size is pretty impressive. * My friend's boyfriend got a perm recently to get an afro. Reactions: ->My friend: Screamed no. ->Me: Left the room to have a good laugh. ->Another friend: Liked it, but still laughed. ->A different friend: Laughed for about two minutes without breathing. * This troper's friend has a bright red one. * this troper has one, and has heard every joke there is about it" i lost my parakeet, is it in your hair" and " hamster head" among them. oh, and one more thing- she doesn't have a drop of African blood in her.( her mom's a family historian.) her friends have taken to calling it a " mormfro, as this troper is Mormon. * This Troper knows several people with afros. Apparently, afros are public domain in the same way an obviously pregnant belly is. One kid finally shaved his fro because people wouldn't stop petting it. * This Troper's afro and trying to see can I get it to [[TheBoondocks Huey Freeman]] levels. * This troper had a friend in school who had one of these... until an accident with this troper and a bunsen burner... let just say he no longer had one after that event * In one of this troper's Speech and Debate competitions, a kid from another school asked all the other competitors in the room to join his

Facebook group, "My Jewfro can get more fans than the Jonas Brothers." * At my high school, there is only one kid with an afro. He's had it for several years now, and the one time he shaved it, nobody recognized him In fact, all most people know about him is he has an afro and everyone calls him Jewfro. Many don't even know his name. * One of this troper's friends has a jewfro, which is also referred to as a giraffro because of his height. Another friend of his even drew a picture of a giraffe with an afro, labeled it with his name, and gave it to him for his birthday. ---[[Main/FunnyAfro Nice 'do]], dude. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FunnyAneurysmMoment * This troper has a a picture of his dog asleep on top of a bright colored beach towel. He just realized [[DarkReprise that was the towel he lay when the vet put him to sleep.]] * One night, this troper randomly decided to pick up a magazine that featured an article on Jack Lalenne (sp?), thinking to herself "how is this guy still alive?". She looked at her volutes homepage the next day to find him dead. * [[Tropers/LoneRonin This troper]], in the course of discussing cases of companies doing shoddy business practices with a friend declared that "if companies could find a way to make money selling poisoned milk to schoolchildren and thought they could get away with it, they would!". Guess what happened about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal two weeks later...]] * This troper had wrote part of a short story, a long time before 9/11, where the opening scene involved a whole skyscraper full of hostages was blown up. I just remembered it while reading this article. * This Troper hopes he hasn't put this in the wrong section, because its sort of a Troper Tale and a Funny Aneurysm Moment. When I was starting out as a wrestling fan in the late nineties, I did a great Ultimate Warrior impression, and could recite several promos by heart. I had finished reciting the Wrestlemania VI promo when I found out about 9/11 ** Oh, and to clarify, the promo is about Ultimate Warrior hijacking Hulk Hogan's plane on the way to Wrestlemania and "Taking it into a nosedive" * This troper had a cat named Yoda who weighed over 15 pounds. I as a joke I put my thumbs under his front legs, moved them around, made it look like his heart was beating and said "Look, Yoda's having a heart attack!" He was found dead in the kitchen three hours later. * This troper saw joke boxart of "{{beatmania}} IIDX USA Style" several years back, when the [[NoExportForYou Japanese]] [=PS2=] ''beatmania IIDX'' releases were up to 6th or 7th Style. A few years later, ''IIDX'' got a [[{{Americanitis}} pitifully unsuccessful North

American release]]. ** I see your near-useless US release of IIDX and raise you one prediction of a certain highly-disliked DDR SuperNOVA Extra Stage as a song in IIDX GOLD. I did not, however, predict it would be the normal One More Extra Stage. This troper almost got screwed out of a BMS (basically an IIDX simfile) competition until the rules were amended to allow submissions made BEFORE this was discovered to not be affected, and (if memory serves correctly) the song (Fascination MAXX) was still disliked. * Prior to the start of the current war in Iraq, this troper was talking with several classmates about the possibility of a war. This troper reassured his classmates, "Don't worry. Bush isn't ''that'' stupid." Guess what happened a week later. ** No offense, but many Americans seemed to have suffered from the [[CriticalResearchFailure failure to listen to what]] Bush was saying about being a 'war president' in his campaign. Just sayin'. * [[TheGreatUnknown This troper]]'s father had a RunningGag with him as a child when they visited the pool that he'd float on his back, looking peaceful, only for this troper to jump in and "startle" him moments later. He'd also had a prior heart attack. Well, when the big one did come, he suddenly floated onto his back, and this troper thought he was joking around...until he didn't respond. He died hours later. This troper doesn't find that at all funny any more. * Similar to the ''Armageddon''/Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' one on the main FAM page, [[PaulPower This Troper]] won a science-writing competion with a friend (and several other teams across the UK), the prize being a two-week VIP trip to NASA's Kennedy and Johnson Space Centres. At one point we were directly underneath ''Columbia'' while she underwent maintenance, and under strict instructions not to touch the tiles, because of the hazards that sweat and skin oil would cause on reentry. All I can say is: it wasn't us (Columbia flew in space (March 2002) between our April 2001 visit and the accident (January 2003)). * After ''The Dark Knight'' this troper can never look at the side of Aaron Eckharts face the same way again. Especially in ''Thank You for Smoking'' at 15 to 16 minutes in when the left side of his face is covered in shadow. * This troper was once in his schools music class, and such had to play for the whole school during just before the summer break. Since nobody in the class wanted to sing the lyrics, the teacher ended up doing it. He died of a blood clot that summer break. The song he sang just before everyone left? "Knocking on Heaven's Door" * During a Politics lesson, we often keep up to date on general news. One topic was a charity run in which Jade Goody collapsed due to exhaustion. Our teacher went: "Class, I've got good news and bad news: The bad news is that Jade Goody is still alive." At the moment of writing this she's on her deathbed. I wonder how he feels now. ** And now she is dead. * This troper had a friend in P.E who we called "Peanut" after "comments from the peanut gallery". We would be making jokes and laughing to the point of crying and the moment he opened his mouth it was like someone shot a kitten or something. Everyone stopped laughing

and stared. We started calling them 'Peanut Moments'. * [[DialgaX This Troper]] was on the train mission of ''VideoGame/PaperMario: The Thousand Year Door'' and Ratooey's Nitro Honey Syrup had been stolen, along with two other passengers' jewelery (a gold ring and shell earrings). Ratooey warns that if his product and the jewelry were combined it could [[spoiler: blow the train up]]. This troper would have paid no attention to it except for the fact that the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings 2004 Madrid Train Bombings]] occurred at roughly the same time he was on that mission. * This troper remembers as a little kid that he and his dad in the late 90s would frequently start Flight Simulator and practice flying into the Sears Towers for fun. After 9/11...... * This troper and her mom used to make jokes all the time about their (neutered) cat's lack of masculinity, not helped by the fact that his original owner named him "Sweetie Pie." Little did they know that gradually he was getting urinary problems worse and worse (they excused his urinating on furniture to his being p***ed off: he is a very strong-willed, somewhat aggressive cat, and so they thought he did that ''only'' to p*** them off), to the point where they had to send him to the animal emergency room after the urinary problems escalated to the point where he was almost dead and hadn't urinated in a few days. This troper and her mom will never make those jokes again about Sweetie. ** Your story doesn't quite have a punchline, unless you've left something out of it? Since one treatment for severe blockage in cats is perineal urethrostomy (amputation of the penis). * One troper managed to inflict one on herself through a fanfic she wrote for ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' which contained a throw away line about how "anyone else would have lost their arm for that" describing GrumpyBear Kurogane's thought process. A few chapters later in the manga, [[spoiler: guess what happens to him? Yup. He loses an arm.]] * This troper remembers saying to her Politics teacher in college a couple of years ago something about how if Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, he'd be compared to John Major, due to the lack of economic stability in either of their terms. The Politics teacher laughed at her at the time, but... * This troper's sister, at the age of five, announced that she hated the family dentist and "I hope he drops dead." Nobody thought much about it, other than to scold her for saying something so awful. Two days later... * This troper sat up for an entire night writing a long essay which was intended to be black humor, about Kurt Vonnegut, mentioning death, suicide, injuries, and his advanced age and pessimism, to post online. Upon waking, posting the essay, and then clicking over to the news feed, the first story was about his death that day. Needless to say, the essay in question is now the lowest-rated on said site. (It begins with a quotation from Slaughterhouse-5 about "pulling corpses up like easter eggs", just to give you an idea of the tone.) * This troper lives in Florida and when Hurricane Katrina hit Florida as a weak Category One, we got the school day off. The next day me and

my friends made several jokes about how wimpy Hurricane Katrina was. The next day it hit New Orleans. ** This troper also lives in Florida and also experienced Katrina firsthand. The family had no power for a long stretch of time (little TV, cold water, sleeping with no air conditioning, etc). This troper lost his position to complain about the power outage once the hurricane hit New Orleans. * [[SciFiChica This troper]] and her brother are quite close, and talk all the time. My freshman year and my brother's junior year in high school, we were having a conversation about suicide and how we didn't think anyone we knew could ever kill themselves. We discussed a little bit about the various methods of suicide, and decided hanging yourself was one of the more horrible ways to go. ''The next day'', we went to school to find out that one of my brother's best friends had hung himself, and another friend did the same thing but fortunately did not succeed less than a month later. I don't even need to tell you guys that . * This troper has an intentional, one during a tabletop RPG, set in the end of the 19th century. Somme NPC make a racist comment about a Jewish bank, to which my character respond: ''"Oh, please, stop with that racism! Antisemitism is irrelevant today, and [[ThoseWackyNazis has no future whatsoever!]]"''. Of course, that supposedly was 50 years before WWII... One of my friends consider this one to be HarsherInHindsight, the others were quite amused with the dark humor. * This troper's mother often tells of how she and her family were stuck on a small Mediterranean, Catholic island on holiday once. They arrived on some festival on a Saturday, so all the shops were closed, and they couldn't get any food. The next day was a Sunday, and in a Catholic country, this meant the shops would all be closed. My Aunt flippantly says that what with all this, "the pope will die tomorrow, and the whole island will go into mourning." I don't think I even need to finish the story off here, but, well, he did. * This troper remembers being on a RPG forum talking about how "Gary Gygax is one of the grand old men of the gaming industry" -- minutes before going to another thread and learning he had died earlier that day -- which happened to be DM's Day (a completely unofficial holiday among gamers to recognize [=GMs=]). ** This (completely unrelated) troper had written a piece of [=DnD=]themed poetry for class ''literally the day before''. The final version included a dedication. * Browsing around the internet a few years back, I came across an old forum, with a discussion about office fitness and taking the stairs to work. Post I read was "No way I'm taking the stairs to work, I work on the 105th floor of the WTC, I think I'm entitled to take the lift." It was dated September 10th 2001. * This Troper's friends now call him a Harbinger of death. Two days before Arthur C. Clarke dies, he made the following comment after reading one of his books: "Arthur C. Clarke? Isn't he dead?". Case #2: He saw a kid he knew walking in the hall and said "He's going to end up badly." He shot himself a week later. The last case involved the Troper saying "I wonder who is going to die this year in our school so the Journalism kids have someone to dedicate the yearbook to." The

Troper discovered upon entering the school building that a girl had died in an accident over the weekend. So... yeah. ** This Troper was one evening reading a bit about Arthur C. Clarke on the internet and watched [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLXQ7rNgWwg this]] video, where he reflects on his life at his 90th birthday. Then it gave This Troper a heartwarming moment. Merely '''hours''' after watching the video, Sir Arthur C. Clarke died. As The Troper watched it again his eyes became wet when Clarke said "thank you and goodbye". *** Do you have any {{Death note}}s I could borrow? * This troper's family were driving home, listening to The Bee Gees. Happily, my mother exclaims how great it is that all of the Bee Gees are still alive. A few days later, Maurice Gibb dies. Congrats mother. * This troper attended a shadow cast of ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' the day Bernie Mac died... during the scene where the Criminologist sets the scene for Brad & Janet driving to the castle, one of the floorwalkers suddenly yelled, "Is it true you were Bernie Mac's pharmacist?" Which replaced his usual line of "Heath Ledger's pharmacist" to get the Criminologist to reply, "It's true also..." This troper didn't even know Bernie Mac had died. And found that floorwalker at the next week's show to see if he knew. "Oh, yeah, that's why I said it." Lovely... ** [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]]. The floorwalkers at this troper's local RHPS showing [[DeadBabyComedy do this on purpose]] by using the name of the most recently deceased celebrity in the line "Hey Riff, show us ____", when Riff is about to reveal a skeleton inside a grandfather clock, with some of them subverting the {{Too Soon}} trope by then innocently inquiring "Too soon?" after the groaning of the audience. ** This troper's friend apparently did not know Billy Mays had passed away until after I did the above shout-out, appropriately filled in. Nor did she know of the existence of the whole "Hey Riff, show us [dead celebrity!]" at all. It was... interesting. * On the day of the Columbia disaster, this troper was really upset about what had happened. At one point she saw a newspaper with a headline about something in Iraq and shouted very loudly "I don't care what happens to Iraq!" * In September of 2008, [[{{Lurkerbunny}} this troper]] was gleefully watching ''{{Futurama}}'' and thought how awesome it would be if they did a ''MorkAndMindy'' reference (hey, maybe even have RobinWilliams himself do a guest voice!). A couple months later, ''Bender's Game'' came out... [[DethroningMomentOfSuck this troper will never,]] '''[[DethroningMomentOfSuck ever]]'''[[DethroningMomentOfSuck , watch]] ''{{Futurama}}'' [[DethroningMomentOfSuck again.]] ** Also, two weeks after I finished my ''FamilyGuy'' fanfic ''TroperWorks/DeadConnieSociety'', which contained a running gag about people's disbelief that JOLT cola (and other sodas from the company) are still being made, [[http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20091029/BUSINESS/910290 322/Fizzling+ Jolt+ Cola+ may+ close I find out the company might go out of business]]. FML. * Two days before Hurricane Ike hit, [[{{Pinkbaron}} this troper]] posted on her blog on how the hurricane messed up both Coffeehouse and

the homecoming dance. But what really put the icing on the cake was "Usually whenever a hurricane hits Houston, the worst we usually get is strong winds and the streets being flooded". Good lord... * This troper found an old card inviting "Veterans of the World War" to a ball. In December of 1941. I swear. ** In that vein, the WWI memorial in Washington DC is hugely depressing. Not only because it's kind of forgotten and rundown, but also because it's dedicated to those who fought in "The War to End All Wars." * As I told before in GallowsHumor, father died on Christmas Eve (his sister died three days before, but still), and the day before, sister was dressed all in black, saying that she was going to mourn in style. At the moment, it was a joke, but shortly after he died, it was fitting the trope to a T (ItGotBetter, as much as it could get, though). * This troper's family were all over at the grandparents' house a few years ago for a party, and took a family photo - kids, Mum, Grandpa and Grandma. Because there wasn't enough room for everyone to get in the shot otherwise, Grandpa is kneeling on the floor with his hands behind his back. This troper joked that he looked as if he was about to be executed. We put the photo up on the mantelpiece and thought nothing more of it. Last year, Grandpa died of stomach cancer. The troper tries not to look at the photo these days. * This troper's younger sister went to the same school as Liam Neeson's younger son. This troper and her mother once looked through the school's phone directory to see if it was true, and it was; she remembers her and her mother laughing and joking that they were going to call the listed phone number and put the number in their cellphone contact list. Looking back, it isn't quite as funny now that Natasha is dead. ** This troper's husband, lightheartedly, before turning off the computer and going to bed: "I'll just take a quick look at the BBC News website in case anyone famous has died or anything." And... He felt terrible, because he isn't the type of person who normally makes that kind of joke. * This Troper was having a bad allergy day a few days ago and her father joked that she should say "SWINE FLU!" every time she sneezed. Two days later, This Troper went to the doctor because it was starting to feel worse than just allergies. The tests came back positive for Influenza Virus A. She finds out today if it's Swine Flu. (Update: It's not.) * [[SquarePegRoundTrope This may not be the best example,]] but having lived with a roommate who somehow believed [[{{Jerkass}} H]][[DeadpanSnarker o]][[AntiHero u]][[HeroicSociopath s]][[DrJerk e]] was a desirable role model and attempted to ''emulate'' him at all possible times, [[HypeBacklash the entirety of the show]] has become a Funny Aneurysm Moment for this troper. It's a shame, as it is a fun show to watch, [[{{Deconstruction}} but you wouldn't really want to live with him, would you?]] * Only last night I experienced one of these retrospectively - at pretty much the same time as the authorities believe the Brazil-France flight in the early hours of June 1 crashed somewhere in the Atlantic

Ocean, I was listening to the Electric Six album Flashy, one track of which - Transatlantic Flight - is a darkly humorous song about....you guessed it - a transatlantic flight crashing into the sea in the middle of the night. To make it worse, this morning as I was doing some grocery shopping (prior to hearing about the crash) I was singing said song to myself as I walked around Tesco. I * wondered* why I was getting odd looks when I sang the line "In the event of a water landing, you can use my body as a flotation device"... * Ibaez, a Spanish artist, drew a comic a few years before 9/11 in which a plane crashed against one of the Twin Towers (You can see it [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7aPjVR6Tj2c/R1NAUU2FLVI/AAAAAAAAAGs/PA_54V UBajU/s400/mortadeloTorresGemelas.jpg here]]). Subverted in that most Spanish people, having a pretty dark sense of humor, thought it made that comic funnier. * This troper used to like the movie ''Singles'', until he impregnated his girlfriend (complete with RealLife "you can't be pregnant"/"if it's blue, we have the talk" scene), who subsequently lost the baby to miscarriage as a result of a car accident. * When Michael Jackson announced his new tour, the breakfast show presenter on this Troper's local radio station cracked a joke about how he most likely wouldn't show up for any of the gigs. * LEXicon712: Yesterday i was editing the BillyMays article and putting in all these products and stuff. Now he's dead, and I feel guilty. * I'm a voice actor, but I caught a cold a few weeks ago, losing most of my voice. One day I was watching a few BillyMays commercials with my niece, and she wanted to hear my impression of him. I promised I'd let her hear it after my voice got better. Whoops. ** Similarly, I saw a Billy Mays commercial, I was like, "Sheesh, not again!", days later, I was devastated that he died! * This troper was playing ''DragonQuestVIII'', and saw that the Magical Evil Staff was knocked away from the person it possessed, and landed near a dog. I joked with my sister that the dog was gonna turn evil now, [[spoiler:which I thought was really funny up until the dog went on a killing spree, starting with the guy we just saved.]] * This troper once said, half-jokingly to her sister, that said sister had "Kirky hands" when she kept trying to put an arm around my shoulders. As in, [[Film/StarTrek Captain Kirk, professional ladies' man]]. (I'm normally very cuddly, but occasionally too much close contact makes me uncomfortable, since I've got a difficult time reading if someone's coming on to me or not. Not that she would be, ew.) Then I began posting the fic I'd been writing, where that particular incarnation of Kirk's hands-on approach to social intercourse (putting an arm around someone's shoulders and leaning on them, when slightly drunk) unintentionally provokes rape flashbacks. Now that we're both aware of that scene, it becomes hella uncomfortable. ** Also, for my sixteenth birthday, a friend of mine made me a video with an introduction (in the style of the Criminologist from ''RockyHorrorPictureShow'') stating it'd be a birthday I'd remember for a ''very'' long time. This was the birthday where no one showed up at my birthday party (including the folks in the video, since they

were twelve hours away at college) and I sobbed uncontrollably for two hours straight. Still a very cute video, but it makes me cringe. * This troper knew a kid in fifth grade whose father had cancer, and wasn't doing very well and had just gone to the hospital. During recess one day, she said, "Do you swear on your father's life?" when the boy told her something, and one of her friends said, "His dad's in the hospital right now, don't say that!" while the boy laughed it off. About two days later, the boy's dad died, and this troper felt horrible for the earlier comment. * [[{{Gerusz}} This troper]] drew once a comic in which the GrimReaper killed the PM of his country. Guess who resigned shortly thereafter... * [[{{Ronnie}} This troper]] ''was'' working on a crossover RealPersonFic that had [[LiloAndStitch Pleakley]] finding out that the MichaelJackson we know is an alien criminal who's been holding the real Michael hostage since after the filming of Moonwalker. [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Cue MJ's real life death.]] ** ItsBeenDone. That was the plot of a segment (sort of) from an episode of RobotChicken. * Two days before Walter Cronkite died, this troper was reading his Wikipedia article and said to herself "Isn't it great that he's still alive?" ** Also, she wrote an X-Men fan-fic wherein an OC and Kitty Pryde discuss the Challenger disaster, with the OC saying "Everybody who goes into space know they might not make it back, Kitty." And currently, in the comics, Kitty Pryde is trapped in a giant missile hurtling through endless space... * This troper's mother had been in the hospital with leukemia for several months, and after recovering from a few bacterial infections, was on her last round of chemotherapy and close to a bone marrow transplant that stood a fair chance of curing her. On Friday of that week, my aunt and cousin asked if I felt okay enough to attend a play with them. My response: "Mom's gonna be fine, so will I." [[TearJerker And then she died the next morning.]] The family picnic she had been dreaming about upon her release is [[DarkReprise now going to be her memorial service.]] * This troper's great-aunt and uncle moved away from Miami to a small northern town years ago, thinking it'd be safer for their children and further from things like violence and drugs. As far as I know, all but one of them have had [[UnderStatement trouble with the law]], and one's suicide was likely inflicted by her alcoholism. * A play our old church did had a family friend playing a cancer patient who dies and goes to heaven. Several years later, she herself now has cancer. * [[AckSed This editor]] regularly squats down on top of a chair. At my anime club's screening,I couldn't quite see the screen,so I perched on the edge of the seat in the aforementioned squat. I noticed a few looks,then someone said,"You sit like [[DeathNote L]]!". A year or so later,I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. Joy. ** As [[CrazedNinja a fellow aspie]], I'm left wondering how this is a FunnyAneurysmMoment. If that were me, I'd be [[HilariousInHindsight laughing all the way to genius school.]] *** Because getting diagnosed as depressive at the age of 14,psychotic

at the age of 22,playing up the quirky parts of your personality in order to appear harmlessly eccentric so as not to chase people off and perpetuate the loneliness when you go back to [[BritishUnis university]] at the age of 26,then getting compared to an anime character whose personality is the definition of "quirky and eccentric loner",which you see as some sort of achievement in this endeavour and a milestone in making friends,''then'' getting the diagnosis just ''after'' finals,instead of at the beginning of my course when I could have been helped with exams & taught some social skills in order to make friends and not been so depressed all the way through it is the very '''essence''' of a FunnyAneurysmMoment. .... Does that answer your question? Good. * "Doing a [name]" (it is a specific female name, but I will not write it out here) was a running joke in this troper's circle of friends, and meant that a girl would get the guy she wanted by pretty much clubbing him down and dragging him into bed. When the "trope namer" suddenly went psycho, started moving around with no focus, taking their daughter with her and ending up with sole custody of said daughter in what seemed to be some very shady court decisions, it stopped being funny. * There was an awesome-in-hindsight kid at [[AMereServantOfGod my]] high school that everyone made fun of... I think because he was somewhat slow, though nowhere near the level of mentally retarded. He was friendly to everyone, and he had a lot of money, but was always willing to share it with anyone who asked to borrow. Even when people teased him to his face, he just kept smiling. One Friday, the class is talking about funerals. Kid asks the teacher if she thinks she would cry at his funeral. I lean over to my [[HeterosexualLifePartners best friend]] and whisper something along the lines of, "I don't think anyone would." At the time, I lied to myself and managed to convince myself that I wasn't saying anything bad about him, merely making a humorous observation about how much people liked him. Me and my friend laughed at the time, but it became a lot less funny once I was given the news over the weekend that those words I heard him say in class were the last ones I was ever going to hear from him. * A friend and I were talking about watching KillBill on the weekend. One of us jokingly said "I wonder how many times people have to watch it before Bill actually stays dead!" Guess who had died by the time I logged back online at home. * The day before Billy Mays died, this troper was watching television with a friend and made a joke concerning the man's lack of an indoor voice. Oops. * This Troper made an 8-minute affectionate parody movie for an extracurricular activity in school once. One of the skits was a Billy Mays commercial parody. This movie was made one or two weeks before his death. This Troper can't bear to even watch it anymore...because the actor who was 'Billy' was none other than This Troper. ** You should watch it. Billy would probably have found it hilariously awesome. He seems like the "Party at my funeral" kinda guy. * This troper and her friend were cheerfully singing [[HarryPotter Draco and the Malfoys']] "My Dad is Rich" during art class, the chorus of which features the lines "my dad is rich, and your dad is dead".

Guess what our dads were, and what our classmate's dad was? * When this troper was little, she had a friend. They would play Army Men videogames, or something like that, and they had tons of fun. One time, the friend ran over a plastic armyman with a tank; the armyman had been looking the other way. This led to a quote that was used and laughed at quite a bit between them: "I killed him! He didn't know!" About two years later, this troper was informed by her mother that the friend had been riding in the back of a pickup truck, and had fallen out right before it started moving. He didn't make it. This troper was eight at the time, and so was her friend. This troper cries whenever she thinks about the joke now. * Aversion. This troper is only 13, and and who was thus too young at the time of 9/11 to feel bad, so he finds things like the first exemple on this page Hilarious In Hindsight. ** 0_0 I was even younger than 13 and felt bad. Possibly moreso because my dad worked at the WTC, but still. * Last night, this troper posted an anecdote with {{Scribblenauts}} where he took care of a cat and, despite being a cat lover, decided to be sadistic and try to kill it because it was more interesting that dragging it to the delete box. This afternoon, he heard that his stepmother's cat died... * On the day MichaelJackson died, [[{{MiraShio}} I]] heard a friend's complaints about her boyfriend. Since said friend is pretty young, I told her to wait "even if your cardiac muscles are getting crushed". And I also kept whining during Math class that I felt inexplicably deppressed. This is a subversion, seeing as it had already happened in my country's time, but I didn't know about it then yet, so... [[OhCrap oops]]. * This troper had a friend create a montage video of an incredibly fun summer during college. Many of us watched it in our group and laughed and laughed. A week after sending all of us a copy he died after being struck while riding his bicycle. They played it at the funeral and it is now to heart wrenching to watch. * This Troper was reading this very page, when an ambulance pulled up outside his neighbours house. He later found out his neighbour had died of an aneurysm in the brain... while This Troper was reading this page. * This troper knows that this is almost unproveable, but will swear to his dying day that this actually happened. On the afternoon of September 11th, 2001, this troper's FOX affiliate ran two episodes of ''TheSimpsons'' at 5 PM EST, as it had done for some time. The episodes: "Fear of Flying" and "The City of New York vs Homer Simpson". ''Both'' Episodes were pulled partway through their run, and for about half an hour, ran a black screen as opposed to posting a third episode. You can believe this or not. ** Not all that surprising really. On 9/11 this troper counted five entire channels that went out to a blank screen or a screen with a message of condolance, including the cooking channel. ** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJbB4MwTON8]] * This troper, having recently watched the first two arcs of ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', now finds "Happy Halloween" signs and greetings to be rather creepy.

* This troper had febrile seizures when she was a baby. Her friends, being huge fans of DeadBabyComedy, don't really treat anything as sacred, so they would occasionally joke about this. (And in all fairness, I did too.) Flash forward to this summer, when this troper had her first seizure in almost twenty years and was officially diagnosed with epilepsy. Even these friends won't touch this joke now. * On a school trip sometime last June, This Troper was talking to her friend, and the conversation turned to Michael Jackson. The aforementioned Troper announced loudly, "Oh, him? I thought he's been dead for months!". Her friend said that no, he's still alive, and we both laughed. About a week later... * [[{{Seiryu}} This troper]] (who will now talk in first person) and his grandmother had one of those "inside jokes" about how when she dies, she's going to go kicking and screaming. We shared the joke at least as far back as when I was 14. She died when I was 21, after battling lung cancer. She went unconscious, and died 15 hours later. No kicking, no screaming. * This troper's old high school was ''terrible'' about lock-down drills. Every time there was a drill, which was completely random, no warning, and no announcing "Just a drill!" the whole class would be talking loudly, laughing, cracking jokes...The troper let slip during one drill that [[CompleteMonster she wished they had a REAL intruder, so they'd learn to shut the hell up.]] Two weeks later...we had a real, dangerous intruder. ** Similar to my school, except it turned out not being a real intruder but a hired actor...whose [[TheCatcherInTheRye Holden Caulfield]] impression really didn't help make him seem serious. * Many years ago, when I was like 8, me and my friend were talking about something and I off handedly said that "epilepsy" was a cool sounding word. Guess who was diagnosed with epilepsy? ** As a bonus to the above story, I was working on a research paper in 9th grade and joked to a friend that it was the first project I actually took really seriously and I would still end up not turning it in somehow (I had a tendency to not turn things in). I had my 1st seizure a short time before the due date and ended up not turning it in because I was in the hospital at the time (and I had a SadistTeacher). * A more short term one: during a trip we were driving through Wyoming and passed a state trooper who'd pulled a car with out-of-state plate over. We were saying that "the crooked bastards only pulled out-ofstaters over because they can't fight the ticket, so they'd probably pull you over because they don't like the color of your car." At the end of that sentence guess what we saw in the rear-view mirror (hint: it wasn't an ice cream truck). It wasn't because the cop didn't like the car's color though. ** I have absolutely no clue, please, PLEASE elaborate! *** Different troper here: judging by the structure of the anecdote, my guess would be the cop didn't like the color of the people ''inside'' the car. * [[TroperTales/SeinfeldianConversation This]] SeinfeldianConversation with [[{{Heatherly}} my]] siblings (which was had in 2002) became a lot less funny and a lot more sobering in 2008, when Grandpa Fred

really ''did'' die. * In the middle of the "MJ is Dead Twitter Freakout", this troper tweeted "Hey, at least we still have Billy Mays, right?" which seemed like a perfectly hilarious yet horrible joke at the time, but just became painfully depressing three days later. This troper also may have joked about Michael's death the night before it occurred... and he does not openly joke about famous people dying anymore. * This troper's brother-in-law was helping her study for a U.S. History exam, and to explain the Open Door Policy of China he used the analogy of US and all the European nations swarming China and looking for a hole to stick their respective dicks in. Fast forward a few years, this troper is now into Axis Powers Hetalia, and she suddenly remembers that lovely analogy. The mental image conjured by it is far more disturbing (and probably fetish fuel for many) when there's a human form to ascribe to all parties involved. * This troper once played piano, as well as the upright bass (I still plays the bass, and will stop referring to myself in the third person). Once, coming out of a piano lesson, my teacher told me, that, with enough work and practice, I could get gigs in famous jazz bands and the like. Me, being a fan of jazz and having recently seen Maynard Ferguson in concert, said, "Yeah, if Ferguson's not dead by the time I'm old enough, I could play in his band!" Guess who died the next morning. * A couple of days before Claude Lvi-Strauss died, this troper was thinking to himself, "Wow, this guy's almost 101!" * Not quite as dramatic as the others. This troper posted regularly on fictioncentral.net for nearly four years. Having to deal with university and a sudden influx of reviews meant I had to stop responding to the reviews I had been given. Most of the reviews read 'can't wait to read more later' and my general response on my author's page was 'I'll get around to responding at Christmas.' fictioncentral is closing its doors as of December. * This Troper remembers a time as a kid when she saw a certain film. She recently rewatched said film out of pure curiosity, and noticed some things. Like, the villain's name being very similar to her ex's. And their nicknames being the same. And the fact that there was a joke in the film about one of the things that caused her to start dating the guy. In fact, it was this joke that caused her to rewatch it in the end, leading to cries of, "What the F***?" and "Okay, let's just not go there, shall we?" * This troper had a dream where he came across a female classmate he hadn't seen since middle school, and she put the moves on him. The next day in RealLife, he looked her up on {{Facebook}}, and learned that she has a boyfriend. * This troper read this on his girlfriend's twitter feed "I love my man (this troper's name)! He's real and down 2 earth. He's exactly what i need." The following week, I found out she slept with another man. * This troper used to have a cat with a lot of flab, and often joked that there was so much of it the cat could get shot/stabbed/viciously attacked in the gut and everything would just bounce off. The cat was killed by a dog who slipped its collar. His stomach was torn open.

* A while ago I began wondering if AvengedSevenfold had started on their new album and when it was going to come out, but the internet had little info on it. A few days later my brother told me that their drummer, The Rev, had died. * This troper was on a message board for King of the Hill. The dscussion was who was the worst voice actor. I responded with Britanny Murphy, as during the last several seasons, her voice just became screechier. A few hours later, I found out she was dead. * This troper wrote an editorial for his journalism class about how it was a bad idea for kids to have to take a benchmark test a month before our state's biggest test of the year. Guess what's happening at our school now? * [[{{Abrulz}} This troper]] was telling his brother about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi Tsutomu Yamaguchi]], the guy who survived both the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki bombings. My brother was shocked he was still alive. The following day, we found out he was dead. * The other day, this troper was lamenting his nick name "Denim Dan" to a friend, mostly because I seldom wear my denim jacket in favor of my leather trench coat. They playfully sudgested that my nickname instead be "Columbine Dan". The next day, there was a shooting at the local Farming Supply Store. * This troper remembers reading a blog about the level of gore people wants to see in the next CallOfDuty game. One of the comments, posted around May 2009, said that if the player is walking through an airport which has been the site of a mass shooting, he'd expect to see a lot of blood and some missing limbs. * Throughout the Impel Down arc in One Piece, I had always joked to myself, "Y'know, it'd be pretty funny if after all that, [[spoiler: Ace dies.]] ...yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. * When i read some old sonic comics, is saw moments that feel uncomfortable now but were supposed to be funny then. for example, Sonic saying "I thought this was supposed to be a funny comic book!" It happened years before CerebusSyndrome kicked in. In Sonic R, the sphinxes on the Regal Ruin track are shaped like Knuckles. Then three years later, we find out about Knuckles's past. In adventures of sonic the hedgehog, a lot of charecters get their underwear exposed for laughs. In the 3D games, we get [[PantyShot Panty Shots]] of amy and cream. then an issue of the comic made fun of Sally's oultfit. then Sally's breasts got bigger, and we met [[MsFanservice Rouge]] and [[NaugtyTentacles Chaos]]/ * Doesn't involve death (thank goodness), but still an example: This troper has a good friend and former coworker who once got a pair of fortune cookies with lunch. One of them read "The possibility of a career change is near." A month or so later, she moved to another division in the same workplace. A few months after that, budget cuts eliminated her job. ** After the division switch, it was funny. After the job loss, it was tragic. * This Australian Troper often liked to make jokes about people getting drunk and passing out only to wake up in a bathtub of ice and

one less kidney, then his mother told him about a friend of a relative who went to thailand recently, got drunk, disapeered with some of the local girls only to reappear at the airport the next day..and promptly die an hour later on the plane, subsquent autopsy revealed that ''both'' his kidneys had been taken (aparently the human body can survive for up to 2 hours without them) * Possible future example: This troper is a Muppet fan, and, as of now, Jim Henson and Richard Hunt died in the early 90's, Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson are retired (although they do occasionally still work on Sesame Street episodes), which led to me at one point saying, "Well, at least we still have Zoot," referring to the last Electric Mayhem member from the original lineup (as of the second season, in Janice's case) who still has the same performer from then. If this trope proves truthful (hopefully it doesn't), we can expect to see something happening to Dave Goelz in the near future preventing him from performing. ** Also, this (same) troper and another member on a fan forum have both had dreams involving Jerry Nelson's death, so there's another possible future example. * This Mexican troper recently watched the Disney classic, [[TheThreeCaballeros The Three Caballeros]], and it was hard for him and his brother to see the Mexico's scenes: such a beautiful and peaceful place. Of course, my country always had its problems, but in the light of the recent events, like the war against the drugs and gang violence, it's painful to see that once upon a time, Mexico was...a little different, not anywhere near to be perfect, but different... * A week before it happened, [[TopHat I]] was talking to my partner in Spanish class and he mentioned something about being an only child, and I then told him how much it would suck if I was an only child... * In early 2009, this troper would sometimes mention, to his schoolmates, how MichaelJackson looked almost undead. He also finds it eerie that the last concert he wanted to perform, [[AuthorExistenceFailure before he died]], was called "This Is It". * In the spring of 2009, this troper began a relationship with one of her close male friends. On the day they began this relationship, the male friend's ex-girlfriend began harassing him repeatedly via call/text and calling this troper a lot of ''very'' undeserved names. This resulted in the friend trying to downplay the nature of the current relationship, and as soon as she got home she burst into tears. Her mother, in an attempt to calm her down, said something along the lines of "Look on the bright side - he likes you! Save your tears for when there's really something to cry about". And the next morning, there was. It turned out that the harassment from his exgirlfriend, as well as other buried issues, had caused this troper's friend to be [[DrivenToSuicide driven to suicide]]. * There was this troper's friend, who used to sing out loud [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QuXKirNX3I&feature=related this song]] (let's translate some of the lyrics: 'how much I want you to live, that your eyes were never closed forever and be looking at them, eternal and unforgettable love, sooner or later I'll be with you for us to keep loving each other...' or something like that. I'm no pro at

english, you know?) , but so cheerfully that she made it hilarious. A year later, all of her classroom sang that very same song...on my friend's funeral service. [[TearJerker And this time it wasn't funny.]] * At music camp, we had a series of games to keep us all amused. One of these games was 'pin the nose on Michael Jackson'. The next day... we were told that he died. Needless to say, we felt a little guilty. * This female, queer, and happily taken troper went to her male, straight, and single best friend's apartment. Getting his roommate at the door, the roommate called the best friend with "HEY, LOVER BOY." Completely out of left field, [[OneThingLedToAnother One Thing Led To Another]]... * [[Tropers/{{Nemica}} This troper]] recently stumbled about an old BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor forum topic. --> '''Other forum guy''': I'd like to live on Iceland. --> '''[[Tropers/{{Nemica}} This troper]]''': You live on Iceland, which is destroyed by a volcano. --> So yeah. * Talking to a friend about music, specifically Avenged Sevenfold's Bat Country: -->'''Friend''':they'd be good if they killed hteir singer or just went instrumental'' -->'''Me''':.... -->'''Me''': Their singer died... ** Actually he's very much alive... Did you mean their drummer? * My grandmother always looked after our family, making sure we kept up on housekeeping and had bought groceries and so on. When she came down ill this troper joked that it would be good practice for when we don't have her puttering about after us anymore. A week later we found out she had severely progressed cancer and only a few months to live. It was ADayInHerApron, only the day turned out to be forever. * This tropers grandmother got sick and had to go to a rest home to get better. She had gotten sick before, and had gotten better, so he thought nothing of it. After a week of visiting her, he told himself "I wish we didn't have to come here anymore". Because of school, he didn't have to go back to the rest home for three whole days. The day before he was going to go back to visit her, guess whose father came home to give him some despairing news. * In this troper's high school years, a classmate didn't want to sit through philosophy class and stated jokingly that he wished the teacher got into a car accident so that we left school early. Guess why the class was canceled about two hours later. * This troper is fond of the game Plants Vs Zombies. The Dancer Zombie is an obvious homage to Michael Jackson. Imagine this troper's shock when her younger brother, upon playing the game, starts gleefully crowing "I killed Michael Jackson!" * This might count as an example: Back in college, my best friend and I had a radio show on the campus radio station. We lost our show thanks to a professor who didn't like me (ScrewedByTheNetwork on the college level). On our show's [=MySpace=] page, we had listed (as one of our heroes) a certain comedian who, by happenstance, would face a similar situation a few years later...[=~Conan O'Brien~=].

* This troper took her turn signing a card for her nephew's 20th birthday. She wrote, "Next year will be better," alluding to his 21st birthday, when he would be able to drink. He'll never have one. * My ex-girlfriend and I were extreme supportive of each other through college, I had elected for a very hard 5 year Dual-BS+Single-MS degree program while she took a very smooth and standard liberal arts degree program. I recently found an IM log between us that went: -->'''Her:''' Slow down or you're going to burn out and end up in a Happy House(a mental hospital). -->'''Me:''' After everything I've been through you stand a better chance of cracking than me. ** Two guesses which one of us ended up in a mental hospital with Borderline Personality Disorder and sever stress based delusions before graduating? Second guess doesn't count. * Relatively light version: [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/gamecube/915781gamecube/reviews/review-104725 a GameCube review]] lists big Nintendo series saying "These guys are to Nintendo what Tom Cruise is to Paramount." Considering the review is five days after [[http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/22/news/newsmakers/cruise_paramount/ind ex.htm him getting kicked out by the studio]], is either a CriticalResearchFailure or a review with bad timing. * This troper's dad's birthday is on September 11. * This troper was forced to attend a relative's wedding a few years ago at which the entire family was reunited. As we all sat around the dinner table at a local restaurant, I took to amusing myself by singing Stephen Lynch songs. Upon receiving a compliment from an uncle I have never been too close to, I confidently renewed my verse with the song "Grandfather Die" (you can probably see where this is going). When he turned away in what seemed like disgust, I shrugged and figured he was just being hypersensitive. Next day: --> '''My cousin''': "You ''do'' know grandpa has cancer, right?" (They had just recently found out) * This troper just happened to be listening to [[{{Chicago}} Cell Block Tango]] right as she read the news of Greg Giraldo's death. He was one of my all-time favorite stand-up comics. Somehow, hearing "he had it comin'/he only had himself to blame" just doesn't have the same ring to it anymore... * When this troper was in college, he had a friend from a different school come to visit him. Hanging out in his dorm room, his friend saw the book the troper was currently reading for fun, and started to laugh. "You read about the most obscure things!" he said. "Why would anyone ever care about this?" The book: Ahmed Rashid's history of the Taliban. The date: September 8, 2001. * This troper is a real-life version of a CoincidenceMagnet. I've been called a "harbringer of death" and some "blind" people think I'm a na'vi fan. [[hottip:Some think...:I'm a [[{{Avatar}} na'vi]] {{Terminator}} who wants to either "show a message to" or "purify" humanity. Ironic, I support the right for humanity to survive.]] ** This year, every time I called 2012 "religious bulls***t", something happened. Haiti earthquake, earthquakes in North America, and family deaths ("my family is dying").

** The most prominent of my examples was after my history class, me, a few of my friends, and the teacher had a political discussion about ''our dependence on oil'', alternatives, and referencing ''A World Without Oil''. We all probabably "prophesied" this, but I think I jinxed the future when I mentioned the term ''Unobtanium Wars'' (as a reference to ''{{Avatar}}''). A few weeks after the class final, BOOM, The Gulf of Mexico disaster. --> Me: Why is that we are having these...fan nickname..."Unobtainium Wars?" --> Teacher: "Unobtanium Wars?" (At that time, he didn't see ''Avatar''.) --> Me: Well, unobtanium = Oil --> Friend: You'll see it in the movie. * One day, this troper's sister took a quiz on Facebook and got the result: "Anger management problem" (it was a "What's Your Problem" thing, if I remember correctly), and I joked "Sounds just like my crazy-ass sister" (she's kinda eccentric). She was recently admitted to a psych ward against her will, and was said to have, you guessed it, anger issues. In her defense though, I would be pissed off if people suddenly tell me I'm this and that when I ''know'' I wasn't like that at all in my life, but after reading that post and making that comment, I feel like shit just remembering it. * This troper watched ''{{Titanic}}'' on September 26th, 2010 -- the day that Gloria Stuart (who played Old Rose) died. Very strange when I saw the news article later that day. * [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] had one of these unintentionally in his most recent story. As the characters began to head toward the enemy's stronghold, the BigBrotherMentor of the [[FiveManBand Three Man Band]] was joking about how TheLancer should be wearing armor instead of her [[{{NinjaMaid}} maid costume]], because it'd be hard for their foe to take her seriously when she's dressed "like a ''SailorMoon'' reject". A few chapters later, she was killed in battle from an attack she could have possibly survived ''if'' she had been wearing armor at the time; which really killed that joke from earlier. * [[AuntZelda This troper]] wrote a ten-minute play two years ago which featured a character who was concealing his inoperable cancer from his friends and family. This past summer, her own grandmother died after a battle with cancer; she'd been hiding how bad things really were from everyone until the final weeks of her life. Suddenly this troper doesn't want to touch the play with a ten-foot pole. * When [[NintendoNate25 this troper]] and his family were on our last stop from home on a road trip, my mom was in the motel room watching a special on E! about celebrities who had plastic surgery, and they were talking about MichaelJackson. When we got back home two days later, we went to our local Target after dinner. In one of the isles, I put on one of the work gloves and jokingly said "Look. I'm Michael Jackson". The next day, we found out that he had just died. Yeah... * Not as bad as the other examples but it still counts. This troper and her best friend were jokingly discussing in class what I would do if she died, after me reassuring her that she would not die any time soon. A day later, this troper's best friend was attacked with a knife and was threatened with death. Suddenly the jokes seemed much less

funny. * Arguably minor: This troper was listening to the Slayer song Eyes of the Insane a few times ([[EarWorm]]s catch on fast for me) one day, and I got bored, so I got up to get something to eat. That song became a lot less fun [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Hood_shooting when I saw what was on CNN]]... * ThisTroper had just read the AzuMangaDaioh Omnibus as of 1/13/2011. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_shooting This]] had occurred and one of the characters in the manga happened to be a young 13 year old who wanted to study abroad in America... * This troper and his group of friends often hang out during the day at the university center, and on the second floor is a circle, with a railing surrounding it because of a roughly 20ft drop. Often we would joke about the "Pit of Death" for laughs, until one of the group members tried to climb over and commit suicide. We've stop calling it that since. * In a response to the question, "What freak accident would destroy your city?" posted online, this troper flippantly responded along the lines of, "A major conflagration not stemming from a wildfire", back in 2009. (This troper lives in southern California where there's been plenty of wildfires the past few years.) It seems a little less funny since [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion that pipeline explosion in San Bruno]]. * This troper attended the University of Oklahoma in Norman, and has a tendency to take online "all about me" surveys but responding in a snarky manner. In a survey I took in March 2010, I replied to the question "Do you drink water?" with "No, I drink whatever passes for it in Norman." Nine months later, [[http://newsok.com/norman-waterslevel-of-chromium-6-is-200-times-californias-proposedlimit/article/3525174 cue this study]]. * I was at a David Byrne concert in 2004 where he [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this trope in the introduction to "Life During Wartime", saying the song was "more inappropriate now than it was then." * I once saw a cute YouTube video of a skunk acting silly...then I read the description. The skunk was acting that way because it had a debilitating neurological condition, and it was later put down. ** That reminds me of when I tried to watch YouTube on a very poor internet connection. It could take minutes to watch a few seconds of video. Still, I soldiered on, and one day, I clicked on a video of one-eyed kittens. As usual, it took forever to even start, so I read some of the comments. One of them talked about how the video had a creepy narrator over it. I got so freaked out, that I had to close the tab and go somewhere else. ** Actually, a more fitting version of this trope involves the video of a cat who often wears an open-mouthed expression. A comment on the video claims that the poor cat's jaw is dislocated. * A friend from my high school once came to a show that my band played on her birthday. I'd written this new song that I decided fit how we felt about school at the time, so we played it after singing happy birthday to her. That was the first time we played the song, the last time was at a show she didn't come to. A week after that show she committed suicide. The song? It's called "I'm So Dead" and it's about

those times when you're so overwhelmed by school or work or whatever that you just want to kill yourself. * Late last October 2010, this Kiwi troper who lives in Dunedin, NZ had remarked on her wall on Facebook about having no choice but to "canter to Canterbury" (region where Christchurch, NZ is) next year. A couple others made other puns on the name, including "just don't get buried!". Guess what happens on 22 Feb 2011 in the Canterbury area in NZ? [[TearJerker Sniff.]] ** I was annoyed with my friend because he hadn't turned up to our weekly Skype session on the 16th, so I sent him an email citing that nextearthquake.com predicted an M4.3-M6.3 earthquake would occur on/around the 22nd of February, and that if this happened it would be primarily his fault for having failed to turn up on Wednesday... * My friend in a Touhou group used to bear the nickname of 'Radioactive Loli', granted by me, since she is the youngest. Now she has radiation poisoning... cue me kicking myself. ** May I know how this radiation poisoning came about? * A bunch of my friends on a wrestling board used to make fun of Wilford Brimley and his pronunciation of diabetes. Last week, one of my friends went to the hospital with a heart attack scare, and finds out he's diabetic. Suddenly our jokes seem a lot less funny. * Back in high school, one of this troper's best friends was a high stress workaholic. The running joke in our circle was that he'd have get an ulcer by the time he was 25. It turns out we were wrong. He was 26. * Due to a crappy Goodwill bike with horrible steering, this troper's mom always wound up riding in a slanting direction until she usually hit the trees around our neighborhood. Since she was never hurt at the time thanks to riding at a low speed and being able to use the brakes, my dad joked that she kept "crashing into the magnetic trees" (he's not a {{Jerkass}}; our family is just fond of self-deprecation and such - like how I joke that I might be the head garbageman someday due to my dropping out of school). We all laughed about it for a while, but a few months later when she winds up suffering from a torn meniscus due to that bike and had to go to the hospital... DudeNotFunny. * [[CloudCuckoolander This troper]] and [[TheSnarkKnight a friend]] somehow ended up joking around a lot about "taking out Japan" when discussing bad anime, and [[DisproportionateRetribution creative ways of doing it such as dropping the moon on it,]] 'cause the moon is kind of a jerk anyway. Of course, we weren't being serious. Cue the largest earthquake in Japan ever hitting that night. * This troper and some friends were looking at anime a couple months ago and I joked that Yuugi's extreme case of AnimeHair was the result of an otherwise harmless mutation caused by the radiation of the bombs dropped on Japan in WW2. Now it seems like just a matter of time before the nuclear reactor damaged during last Friday's earthquake will have a full out meltdown.... * This troper felt bad after the earthquake in Japan, so he grabbed his screen recorder, played some [[TouhouProject Touhou Hisoutensoku]], and made a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXAMcYo41l0 video]](albeit, he

focuses more on Reitaisai's delay) of him fighting Tenshi Hinanai, a character who causes earthquake with Utsuho Reiuji. Her power? Nuclear fusion. Cue the nuclear problems. * I don't know if it counts but might as well put it here. Last November (2010) this troper was discussing about the oppression and corruption of the Arab World (long history), even claiming Gaddafi was the least bad of them. Cue February and March (2011) and.. [[Understatement I got proven wrong]] * This anonymous troper co-wrote a short pointless story with her friend back in 2007. It was set in 2015, and one of the lines mentioned a "Big Bank Crash of 2010". ...we were a year off, but...yeah. * When I was a child, ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers''. While Tommy's [[MagicalNativeAmerican heritage]] wasn't a big deal until late season 3/[[LongLostSibling early season 4]], Tommy was the only ranger to support the bad guys. Not a big deal, right? Well, then I was studying American Indian involvement in World War II, and Goebbels claimed the Sioux were Aryan, believing Indians didn't have much loyalty to America. The Sioux, and indeed most American Indians, disproportionally serve in the United States military. Always have, since the Spanish-American War. World War II showed the first Indian to hold a general rank since the Civil War, and Interior Secretary Harold Ickes [[HeWhoFightsMonsters suggested that maintaining the cultural and even racial purity of Indians was a matter of national security]]. WrongGenreSavvy indeed, if not GenreBlind. ** All of which is its own FunnyAneurysmMoment after [[AxCrazy Jeff Weise]]. * The rumors about {{Pokemon}} Generation 3 remakes quickly stopped being funny speculation and turned into uncomfortable territory for me, at least, after the earthquake and the tsunami, which were more or less like Groudon and Kyogre getting ready for another fight. Especially not with the joke I made about Regirock (obviously another Gen3 Pokmon) having a uranium addiction, which was a joke at the time but ceased to be so once Japan started having nuclear plant meltdowns after the disaster. * Once, when this troper was watching television, a {{Billy Mays}} commercial came on. Annoyed at the length of the commercial break, I yelled, "Die Billy Mays, die!" Guess what happened a few days later. * This isn't funny at all, but here we go: In 2002, while watching some story about the Osbourne family (as in, Ozzy Osbourne) on television, I was suddenly struck with a thought about Sharon Osbourne: "''What if she got colon cancer?''" Which she actually did develop and thankfully recover from shortly thereafter. * My friend's father recently died of cancer. When she got back from seeing him, she saw me minutes after I was on this page, and she mentioned how he looked like he was over six feet and 90 pounds. I had just read the part about Ayds, making this page a SelfDemonstratingArticle! * While not to the same degree as many of the others on this list, back in '07 this troper was writing about a dystopian Australia, and jokingly suggested that it would occur as a result of an economic collapse following the election of a Labor government. Following the

GFC, this seemed a little less funny... * This troper used to live in New York City, and would often visit the World Trade Center when he was a kid. One time while my family was standing around outside, I was pretending to be an airplane (I was around 5), wasn't watching where I was going, and accidentally ran headfirst into one of the towers. Yikes. Apparently my parents caught it on tape, but it was lost many years ago. * When I was 7 or 8, we had just gotten a new cat. For some reason (I think it may have been april fool's), I ran to my mom saying "Mom! Mom! Diablo's in the dryer!". Of course, he wasn't and she scolded me for it. Anyway... cue 2005. Right before getting ready to go out, I had heard something loud banging in the dryer, and when it stopped I heard muffled meowing. I yelled to my mom, and... well, you [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel really]] [[YouDoNOTWanttoKnow don't want to know]] [[TearJerker the rest]], other than that [[CaptainObvious she died]] and I was traumatized. Though it should be noted that the cat that ended up dying in the drier was ''not'' Diablo (he's alive and well, as of writing), but another cat named Emma. * Summer vacation 2010. I throw out an offhand comment about my brother Chris not coming to my birthday parties anymore to my mom--not because I didn't like him, it was just awkward to talk to him. Cue my birthday, 2011. He dies due to a gunshot from two dorks in a car. Since then, I keep telling everyone I still have two brothers. Either that, or verbally beat the stuffing out of people who even mention him in front of me. Go back to FunnyAneurysmMoment, which is pretty funny. ->''(a few years pass)'' * DudeNotFunny. ----

FunnyAnsweringMachine * Similar to the troper below, Tropers/MirageKnuckler's answer machine is this: "Well, you found me. Congratulations. Was it worth it?" in GLaDOS's voice. Most of the people who call me don't get it, (or they ask if I'm a girl) but some reference it with other quotes from {{Portal}} in their messages. * [[Tropers/{{Goodyfun}} This troper's]] family has played a lot with this. One time we were going to do a message with my sister and I fighting ferociously in the background, but decided against it in case it sounded too real. * This Troper knew a guy who recorded a song with the the standard Answering Machine phrases to the toon of "Camptown Races" (Sorry but I missed the phone, Do-da Do-da/ Leave a message at the tone, Oh the doda-day). * This Troper has a GLaDOS answer machine that goes something like this: -->''Thank you for calling the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. Please leave a message for [subject name here] before the nerve gas takes effect.''

* Charlie Brown has a cousin whose message goes like this: -->'''Him''': Hello? -->''2 second pause, to allow the caller to...'' -->'''Caller's typical reply''': Hey ____, it's _____. -->'''Him''': Oh hey, what's up? -->''7 second pause, to allow...'' -->'''Caller's typical reply''': Not much... (insert conversation here)... -->'''Him''': Oh, really? -->''As the caller responds to this, the default machine message starts.'' -->'''Phone''': At the tone, record your message... ** One of this Troper's friends had a similar answering message, but he went beyond and above the call of "funny" and answered his calls exactly the same way the recorded message did. This meant one had no way of knowing when he was actually there. * This Troper had a friend who recorded our school choir singing a three-minute song, with her yelling in the foreground about how she wasn't at her phone, and set it as her message. * This Troper's voice mail from college: "Hello. You've reached the (name of school) Psychic Hotline. We knew you were going to call. (changing voices to sound like a badly edited set of recordings)Today you will/suffer a/gruesome/death. (back to normal voice) While you're waiting, please leave a message." * Call this troper and you'll be told that "Troper and her husband are at home, we're just screening our calls because there's someone we're trying to avoid. Leave us a message, and if we don't call you back, it's you." * This troper recently had a "Gangsta" persona address his missed calls, but recently changed it to a British butler, A la ''FreshPrinceOfBelAir''. * I have changed my answering machine's message many times. Among others, these were the highlights: -->"Hello! We're not at home right now, so please leave a message on our new answering machine. Come on machine, let's hear that beep. *pause* Come on boy, you can do it. Come on. Come on. *pause* OH COME ON! FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, BEEP YOU STUPID MACHINE!" *beep*. -->(Starts out normally but gets progressively slower) "Hello. I am the... answering machine. Unfortunately, I'm... running low on... batteries. I'll... try to remember... your message... but... I'm... very... scared... and... it's... getting... very... dark..." *beep*. -->"Hi! We're actually at home right now, screening our calls. Just leave a message, and if you're someone we want to talk to, we'll call back. If we don't... Well, can you say "hint"?" *beep*. * My old voice mail messages: -->Spoken as [[StarWars Yoda]]: "Troper's line you have reached, yes! Too lazy he is to answer your call. But a message you may leave at the sound of the tone, and get back to you he will!" -->Spoken as [[TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]]: "Tricksy little Hobbitses wants to leave messages for master Troper, does they? Gollum, gollum! The beep, it burns us, precious!" * My friend's consisted of "Hello? Hello? Oh, that's right, I'm not

here right now..." It has been that way since eighth grade, but damn if the first hello doesn't still get me. * This Troper has one that soliciters call back just to hear: -->You've reach the voicemail of This Troper, at the tone please leave your name, number, high school locker combination, social security number, blood type, favorite ice cream flavor and favorite animal. Messages without all this information will not be responded to, message more than 5 seconds in length will not be listened to. * This troper gets comments on this one a lot, especially since she never answers her phone and therefore gets left a lot of messages. --> "Leave a message and I'll kill you." * This troper's best friend once recreuited me to help record an answering machine message designed to make the listener think that she was in some horror-movie esque situation. It started off with her saying "Hi, this is [name,] I can't come to the phone right now, or maybe I just don't like you" before I banged on the door to make it sound like someone was outside before screaming "He's here, oh my gosh, he's here, he found us!" and then "Get down, get down, he'll see us," before more various sounds of someone trying to break in while we panicked and then said "if you hear this message, listen carefully, we need you-" before screaming like little girls as another friend said in his 'creeper voice,' "I've got you now, my pretty." * This troper left the following message on his official militaryissued voice mail: "This is SFC Troper's voice mail. You can leave a message if you'd like, but I hardly ever check my voice mail, so you'd probably be better off calling back or sending me an e-mail instead. I always check my e-mail, so that's probably the best way to get hold of me, instead of leaving a message I probably won't hear for a couple of months." * [[Tropers/{{Pita}} This troper's]] father used to have one that would go: "(In English)Hi, this is ____, I'm not available right now, please leave a message after the beep and I'll call you back. [[BilingualBonus (In Hebrew) Hi, this is ____, if you didn't understand what I previously said, we're not that close anyway.]] * After playing a certain video game, I decided to edit my voice mail to: Hello? This is the Fridge. The Voice mail is on holiday, so leave a message on myself. thanks. >beep< ** Are you [[Tropers/SlvstrChung this troper]]'s ex-girlfriend? (Probably not; she doesn't play video games.) * (Really Corny British Accent) Hello. You've reached the Sunshine Funeral Home. We are sorry that there is no-one here to take your call, but please leave your name and number and we'll be sure that some'''''body''''' will get back to you. * This troper and her brother both recorded a fairly standard message between them: -->'''Troper''': Hello, you have reached the [family name] house. -->'''Brother''': We are not home now, but after the beep, leave a message. ** The reason it's funny is because it was recorded when we were roughly in the elementary school age. This troper is now an adult and her brother is nearly one himself. This troper will forever recall the time her boyfriend got the answering machine and later asked her "Who

was that who recorded your message?" * This troper has a friend whose answering machine message is him talking about all the different things he could be doing when away from the phone, with long pauses between each one. One of his friends called him and thought that he was just fooling with him and trying to get him to stop talking.....until he heard the beep. * "Hi, it's ThisTroper. I can't do the usual right now, so leave the usual after the usual." (Inspired by my dad's "You can't reach me. You know what to do.") ** That's somewhat related to my father's answering machine. "Hello, you've reached the (last name) residence. I'm sure you know what to do, I won't bore you with the details. Thank you and a have a wonderful day." * This troper's voice mail message used to be "Hello...Fooled you, didn't I?" After at least 4 different peeved messages demanding that I change it, I logged in to my voicemail to do so, and proceeded to fake MYSELF out with the message. * Most of the customers of the store I work in are contractors. One guy has this on his ''work phone'': -->"Hello, you've reached ________ with ________. Don't leave a message, I'll get your number from the caller ID and call you right back." * This troper's answering machine instructs the caller to leave a message after the 'oink' followed by cute pig noises. In addition, she recorded it when she was in the sixth grade so her voice sounds comically juvenile. * This troper used to have a message which opened with some [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krBQF_y8GB8 hilariously off-tune fanfare]] from ''CivilizationIV'' (skip to 2:20) and went downhill from there. But then his dad made him change it. * This troper's grandmother used to have a recording that was apparently interrupted in the middle by the cat, so there were various meows and "hey, get off there"-s in the middle. Especially funny because she was a mean, small-minded, humorless schoolmarm type. * This troper's old cell phone had George's answering machine message from Seinfeld. Her mum hated it. * "Hi, you have reached <number>. You have one minute to leave something interesting. If it impresses me enough I'll call you back." ** And from a friend: "(little girl's voice) Christopher and I are fighting right now. We'll get back to you when we're done." * Directly ripped from the [=DVDs=], "[[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus And now for something completely different. It's--!]] [[FunetikAksent Thisuh Turopear's Answering Machine-uh!]]", followed by two seconds of the theme before being cut off by, "Right, enough of that. It's silly. Message, beep, you know the rest." * This troper has considered switching his message to "I'm sorry, you have not reached [[{{Expy}} Captain Amazing-man's]] cellphone. This is the phone of Mild-Mannered Troper, who looks [[ClarkKenting a lot like me if I wore glasses]]. Oh, and if you are currently a victim in the dastardly deeds of Dr. Nefarious, my sworn foe, well, um... can't hurt to leave a message with Troper and hope he can find me in time. * 'Hello, you have reached the Household household, please leave a

message, your name and number, and we will decided if your call is important enough to us. <beep>.' * This troper's answering machine starts out normal, then just after 'leave a message' my friend in the background yells "YOU'RE IN THE WRONG LANE!!!" and a loud crash is heard. * This troper uses "Hi, you've reached Troper, I can't answer the phone right now, so leave your name, number and bank details and I'll get back to you as soon as I've cleared out your account." Her ex used to have (to the tune of "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow") "I just got into the bathtub, I just got into the bathtub, I just got into the bathtub, so I can't answer the phone! But I will call you right back, as soon as I've scrubbed my back, I just got into the bathtub, I just got into the bathtub, I just got into the bathtub, so I can't answer the phone!" * This troper's cell phone voice mail says, "Though you tried to reach me on my cell phone, it appears you have instead caught...[[EvilSoundsDeep MY MAILBOX!]] [[EvilLaugh MWAHAHAHAHA!]] Well, you know what to do!" [[MoodWhiplash The last line is said in an absurdly happy voice.]] * This troper's family's answering machine has gotten increasingly funny since we got Caller ID. ** "Hi! You've reached the (name)s! We may be screening calls, or we may just be ignoring you. In either event, we're not picking up." ** "Hi! You're reached the (name)s! If you're a telemarketer, go away! Because we're not gonna answer the phone anyway!" * When I was little our answering machine used to have a recording of the "Busy, Busy" song from Veggietales. We had to change it as it was too long for those who lived out of town and phoned frequently. ** Busy, busy, terribly busy. Much much too busy for you-o-o! * this troper's Brother once had a phone message set to the tune of "oops i did it again" by Britney spears. "oops i did it again! I'm Not here right now! so leave me a message!" * My friend's used to go something like, "You have reached KGB Headquarters. Please express dissent at the beep and you will be purged as soon as possible." * I have a rather grumpy friend who recorded something to the effect of "Hi, I see you have attempted to reach me! Feel free to leave a message after the beep. I might get back you.... I might not. Ja ne!" (the last two words are said in a frightfully cheerful voice). Ja ne is essentially "Later!" in Japanese (its short for jamatane, which is like saying I'll see you later today or something similar). I used to call him just to hear it. His auto reply is also a clearly cheerful telling of "congratulations! you have just downloaded [a virus, I forget what he called it], h@ve... a nice... d3@th.." * This Troper remembers hearing that someone recording an answering machine message to the tune of "The Keel Row" (local song, for those wondering). If I recall correctly, the message went like this: --> "Thank you for calling, for calling, for calling. Thank you for calling, but we are not in. Can you leave a message, a message, a message. Can you leave a message and we'll get back to you." * [[Tropers/ProdigalDaughter This Troper]]'s family had a thirtyminute long ansaphone message for about a day which began with this

troper, fairly young at the time, saying "Mum? I think I dropped the bananas on the phone. I don't know if they did anything...." and continued on to Mum making dinner and Dear Sister explaining something very enthusiastically (we have since forgotten what). * [[Tropers7@/{{MiraShio}} I]] had the idea to get our phone's answering machine message from ''FamilyGuy''--yes, [[AlanRickman that answering machine message]]. Mom loved the idea. * When this troper moved in with her friend at college after said friend's old roommate had moved out, we kept getting calls asking for her old roommate. One guy calling for her even ''hit on me'' when I told him I had no idea where the girl was. My friend eventually got fed up with this situation and left a message stating: -->"Hello, you have reached [troper] and [troper's friend]. If you were trying to reach [old roommate], she does not live here anymore. We do not know where she is or what she is doing, so please do not ask us. On the other hand, if you were trying to reach [troper] and [troper's friend], then leave a message at the beep!" * For a long time This Troper had a voicemail message that went "The person you are attempting to reach either cannot or does not wish to answer the phone right now. His other number [NUMBER] does not have caller ID, so if you wish to try that it will tell you if he is genuinely unavailable or just avoiding you." Of course, I did have caller ID on both phones, so I could successfully avoid people... * this troper had a message that went, " Hi, you've reached the Lastnames, we can't come to the phone right now, so leave a message at the sound of the duck.*loud 'quack' sound made by a wooden duck call* * My friend's answering machine message (that he recorded himself), used to go "Hello, you've reached the the (Last Name)s, please leave a-" *sound of his siblings making lots of noise in the background* "SHUT THE FUCK UP, I'M TRYING TO RECORD THE MESSAGE!! Uh, please leave your message at the beep." * A friend of mine used to have this as her voicemail: "Hi, my name's Gran and I live in Lule. (Town in northern Sweden)". Thing is, her name is Anna and she lives in Uppsala, eastern Sweden. My father, calling her when we were supposed to pick her up at the train station or something like that, was not amused. * One of this troper's friends used to have a "you woke me up" message as his voicemail greeting. Fooled me the first time I heard it. * This troper's cell answering machine is this: (But most people don't call & leave messages now, they text. T_T) --> Hello and welcome to <last name>'s morgue, you stab 'em, we slab 'em! Unfortunatly we are busy with a housecall right now, but if you leave your name and number we'll get back to you as soon as we can! Thanks you for calling. * [[SammiJ This troper's]] message is, "Hello, you've reached the Borg. We're not in our cube right now, but if you'll leave your name and star system, we'll assimilate you as soon as possible." * This troper's parents used to have an answering machine that went "HELLO? HELLO?? Ah fuck it, I can't hear a thing!" courtesy of their flatmate trying to make a call. * This troper recorded a message for one of his friends in the style of [[DonLaFontaine Don LaFontaine]]:

-->In a world, where [friend] can't come to the phone right now, one man... or woman... must leave their message after the tone! [Friend's] Callback! Coming soon, to you! * For the longest time, this troper would get this message when she called her father's cell phone: "Hello. You have reached the voice mailbox of" [cue troper's sister: "Quick, say your name!"] "Troper's Dad. Please leave a message at the tone ... " He kept it until he got a new phone. ---''Believe it or not, the main page is [[FunnyAnsweringMachine here]], please leave a message at the beep!'' ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FunnyBackgroundEvent * This troper was at a Lieutenant Dan Band concert at USC. At one point, during Journey's "Don't Stop Believing", the trumpeteer, behind the main event, started to use his trumpet as an air guitar. * This troper is currently in production of a musical that involves a meaningful scene taking place in a poor village around several campfires. He and his partner sit at their campfire in the background miming passing around a bottle of something and acting increasingly drunk, but subtly, to the point where we get 2 or 3 people who notice it period. * This troper envoked this in a production of Through the Looking Glass. This troper played the White Knight and in a scene where the White Queen was talking to Alice, he would play games with the pawns in the background. Sometimes he would fence them, (including a pretty awesome moment where this troper managed to spin a sword out of a pawn's hand and catch it) some times he would play rock paper scissors, and sometimes they would play patty-cake, but it was usually subtle enough not to be too noticeable. * This troper was at a Tapes N Tapes concert... okay, snuck into a Tapes n Tapes concert my sister was at, and started throwing his jacket off and yelling "WHOO! FREEBIRD!". My sister didn't even know it was me. * This troper witnessed a news story that inverts this, where it was [[HarsherInHindsight a funny one turned unsettling]]. It was a news report of a college basketball player (whose name escapes me, unfortunately) who had died of an enlarged heart that caused a heart attack, but not before he made one final score before dropping and dying. As it cuts to an anchor man describing a different game taking place, there was one player who done a similar shot to the late player's last throw and, not just him, but ''another'' player had both fallen after the shot (the one who threw the shot had the other guy fall on top of him). Normally it's amusing with how they fell (the way they plopped down and all), but considering the story that came before this and how close it mimicked the late player's final act before death, it was freaky despite nobody reacting to the two until both of the fallen players eventually stood up again, unharmed. * This troper is in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream playing

the Funny Background Event character Philostrate. Usually this guy, from what I can tell, is delegated to just kinda standing there in the background. But my director gave me a large amount of freedom to make the character into a living Funny Background Event. ** Fitting, because Philostrate can be seen as a counterpart to Puck in the "real world". In every production of ''Midsummer'' I've ever seen/been involved in Puck funny-background-events Oberon in every scene they're in together. * In the production of ''TheMerchantOfVenice'' that I was in, Salarino (played by [[CrosscastRole my sister]]) became the ''king'' of these: ** While Lorenzo soliloquizes about the letter that Launcelot (played by me) has brought him, Launcelot waltzes up to Salarino and gives him a ''big hug''. (Up to this point in the play, the two characters are complete strangers.) Salarino backs away slowly... ** Gratiano, Salarino and Solanio enter, all attired for the "masque", except that Solanio's mask is on upside-down. In the middle of Gratiano's speech, Salarino notices, gives Solanio a withering glance, and turns the mask right-side-up for him. ** After Jessica throws the casket full of money down to Lorenzo, Lorenzo realizes how heavy it is, and hands it to Salarino, who spends the rest of the scene trying to palm it off on the other characters. At one point Gratiano takes it, buckles under the weight...and hands it back. When Jessica comes down, she and Lorenzo have a little "moment", staring into each other's eyes...until Salarino coughs loudly. Lorenzo rolls his eyes and takes the casket, and they all leave. * On another note, I read about a production of ''Merchant'' where, after Bassanio says, "Why, I were best to cut my left hand off/And swear I lost the ring defending it," Launcelot shows up and, eager to help, pulls out a knife and hands it to his master. Cue Bassanio (and the nearby Antonio) looking appropriately freaked out at the idea of actually going through with it. * The IB Music class at my school did a little dance/skit/thing to I Bought Me A Cat. Tree #3 (who has green paper plates on his hands) occasionally dances in a very amusing way. A funny foreground event is the Hen got in the Cat's way and got stepped on. * When this troper was three years old, she was in a Christmas musical at church. She doesn't really remember it, but her mother assures her that instead of singing, she mimed everyone else's part for the entirety of the show. * A bunch of my friends posted a video on Facebook. The best part of the video? Watching their brother play with a pillow in the background.

FunnyMoments General warning: you had to be there. * This Troper was in Summer Camp and the head counselor started singing a repeat after me song. Most of the songs were ho-hum but these verses made me crack up * ORIGINAL ''"I said a Boom-Chicka-Boom!"''

''"I said a Boom Chicka Boom!"'' ''"I said a Boom-Chicka-Rocka-Chicka-Rocka-Chicka-Boom!" ''"Uh-Huh!"'' "''Alright!''" * BATMAN(overly gritty voice) ''"I said a Boom-Chicka-Boom!"'' ''"I said a Boom Chicka Boom!"'' ''"I said a Boom-Chicka-Rocka-Chicka-Rocka-Chicka-Boom!" ''"Uh-Huh!"'' "''WHERE IS SHE!?"'' * JOKER (Heath Ledger voice) ''"I said a Boom-Chicka-Boom!"'' ''"I said a Boom Chicka Boom!"'' ''"I said a Boom-Chicka-Rocka-Chicka-Rocka-Chicka-Boom!" ''"Uh-Huh!"'' "''You wanna know how I got these scars?''" * This troper recently acquired a Dr. Who audiobook, and noticed the individual tracks were named by the first few words of said track. Cue nearly spitting my tea over my screen (and an undignified yelp of "Great A'Tuin up a POLE, did I download Dr. Who PORN?!") as I noticed a track named "Out Your Cum"! Turned out it was "Out You Come", but written as if with a heavy accent. * What could be best described as a "Prank Gone Wrong Gone Right As Hell" began as thus, the best friend of [[K2Misfit ThisTroper]] Will, noticed a girl leaving an ''open'' bottle of Coke on our table and walked away. Cue Will telling nobody to look under the table as he takes said bottle and wipes the mouth of the bottle with his '''NUTSACK''' and we wait for the girl to take the bottle back to her table and we patiently wait for her to drink. Brandon, a borderline JerkWithAHeartOfGold was at that table and about to drink, but we warn him that Will messed with it. More time goes by and Brandon forgets and walks towards us in a combination of "up yours" and auditioning for a Coke commercial as he takes a big swig. Cue BigNo turned into raving, fall-off-the-bench laughter when he throws up from either the taste and/or remembering and avoids us for about a month as we literally laughed all the way home. * At the dorm Christmas party, a bunch of us starting singing Christmas carols. However, we were emphasizing certain words to make them sound smutty. One guy finally snaps and yells, "Stop making Chistmas songs sexual! 'Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus'- ''DAMMIT!!!''" As the entire room collapsed in laughter, he just glared at us and said, "I hate you all." * This troper was at a very boring talk about SATs. When the speaker was having technical difficutlies, his mom said that the microphone seemed to be malfunctioning. His reply: "Good". * Typos can produce so many CMoFs, but the one that made this troper laugh herself insane was after she linked one of her friends a page on TV Tropes (ForeignFanservice, I belive), he said STERO'''TITS''' AHOY! He said he meant to say Sterotypes, but I just laughed myself to death instead. * I was either eight or nine when I was in a shoe store with my mother

getting new shoes for school. One of the employees, having finished with his last customer said, "If anyone needs help just holler." Just as he said this a guy walked in and without a moment's hesitation went "AHHHHHGH!" The employee without missing a beat turned to face the guy and said, with a totally straight face "Yes sir, how can I help you?" My mother and I along with everyone else in the store (it wasn't a very big store) were laughing our asses off. To put this into perspective, this happened about 30 years ago, and has stuck with me all this time. ** Another moment the above troper just remembered. I was walking with a friend of mine one night and we were talking about religion and how someone had tried to convince him that his religious beliefs were wrong because they weren't the same as theirs. I said, "Personally I don't give a shit what you believe in. We have this thing in America called Freedom Of Religion. I don't care if you believe in God, Bhudda, or ''Vorgo the Corruptor''..." My friend started laughing so hard he fell to his knees and we both laughed for a good two-three minutes. Good thing it was late at night and no one else was on the streets. ** And yet two more that spring to mind. When the first ''Blade'' movie came out, during the climax, when Blade kills Deacon Frost by making him explode (and if you haven't seen the movie I'm not explaining it), I said "Now who's gonna clean all that up?" Cue the whole theater laughing, including the group of friends that I came with. ** And for this last one to work I have to explain for those unfamiliar with LARP (Live Action Role Playing), specifically for Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse, when it comes to the use of powers instead of acting things out we use the old Rock, Paper, Scissors technique. So on with the [=CMoF=], a group of us were playing Werewolf, sitting around a fire, at a friends house, which was in a trailer park, and everyone was required to do a check for awareness (an enemy was sneaking up on us). So everyone does the rock paper scissors throw. Cue everyone throwing paper except this troper who threw rock. Note that this troper was the only black player surrounded by a bunch of white people standing with their hands thrown out in front of them, and me with my fist held high. At night. Around a fire. In a trailer park. * This troper had a friend who was renowned for keeping his pockets filled with anything he thought might ever come in handy, as well as a few completely random items. One day, someone jokingly asked this friend if he carried an elephant around too. Cue friend wordlessly fishing in his pocket and pulling out . . . a tiny plastic elephant. It was hilarious. * I am blessed with family and friends who have strong senses of humor and many [=CMoFs=]. My brother and I went with my sister and brotherin-law to an amusement park. One of the roller coasters had a knob in the crotchinal region to hold on to. I said "Grab on to what you hold most dear." Cue my brother-in-law reaching over to grab my sister's chest. ** My best friend walked into trig one day and said he was going to turn on his graphing calculator and press enter, which would call up

the last entry, and that that would be the meaning in his life. -->'''Calculator:''' Hi! I'm your calculator and I hate you. ** Unbeknownst to either of us, someone else had programmed it to say that by coincidence. ** My brothers and I were watching JP: The Lost World with subtitles (don't know why). -->''Helicopters are aproaching Good Guy Base Camp'' -->'''Subtitles:''' Low rumbling -->'''Kelly Malcolm:''' "What is that?" -->'''middle brother:''' "It's low rumbling! Can't you read?" ** Easily the funniest thing he has ever said. * When this troper was at a bank to deposit a check, he and the teller had the following exchange: --> '''Me:''' I see you've had some security upgrades since the robbery. However, there is one more thing you can do. --> '''Teller:''' What's that? --> '''Me:''' Arm the employees. --> '''Teller:''' What if I have a bad day? * Way back in fourth grade, a classmate of [[TheWeirdo this troper]] brought the classroom down in an unintentional moment. The teacher had written: "Look at these numbers" and a list of numbers, plus some questions. Halfway through the exercise, the classmate goes: "Teacher, I'm watching the numbers, and nothing's happening to them...". Cue the class laughter. * [[PentiumMMX2 This troper]] has had multiple examples of this over the years, but to save space, he'll narrow it down to the one he found the funniest. It happened when I was being forced to watch BarneyAndFriends buy his younger cousin one time. It was torture at first, but then I accidently turned on the closed captioning, which made it much more bearible with how [[RougeAnglesOfSatin horribly spelled]] everything was (One that was amusing was "Humpy Dumpt sat on a all, Humpty umpty had a great fa. All the King's hoes and all the King's men coulden't put Hump together again!") * I was telling a joke once, and my friend interrupted by bursting out into fake laughter at the very beginning. I calmly told him, "Fuck off." At which point the entire class started laughing their arses off. They laughed more at that than the joke itself when I finished it. * This troper's friend is fond of OhMyGods, usually with fictional characters she thinks are awesome enough. She's also recently read all of Bleach within a short amount of time and is obsessed with it. Normally when she uses OhMyGods she keeps the 'my' in, but earlier today while we were sitting on the bus she missed out the 'my'. [[FreudWasRight It came out as "Oh Aizen!"]] An unknown girl sitting behind us continued with "Don't ''stop!''" Unknown girl, on the slight chance that you happen to be reading this, we love you and think you deserve [[CrowningMomentOfFunny this crown.]] * My friends and I do this often, obviously. One quote in particular sticks out: "Heat it with fruit power!" (Said by This Troper over the phone to friend while friend was making a veggie burger of all things.) * A while ago in English class, the subject was 'power'. My teacher

was talking about how power could be abused, and then she asked for examples concerning herself and a friend of mine. People suggested that my teacher could give my friend extra marks, or not take off marks from work, for example, and then this conversation occurred. --> '''Student''': Maybe (Teacher) could ask (friend) to come here, to this room, alone, after school, and--> '''Me''': ''(Student)!'' --> '''Entire class''': * cracks up and laughs for ages* --> '''Student''' * completely red and embarrassed* : NO! I ''meant'' that (Teacher) could ask her to come here for extra tutoring! * Back in high school, this troper went with a few classmates on a school-funded trip for SAT practice. We stayed at a house our teachers had rented that was right on the beach. During a break, we decided to go down to the shore, and we had found a Frisbee in the garage, so we were tossing that around. At one point, this troper tossed it for a classmate to catch, only to have one of his friends ''throw a rock at the thing and shatter it in mid-flight''. ** Here's another one: this troper had some of his friends over for a video gaming session. Somehow, my younger brother is chasing one of my friends around the house. I chased after them to get them to stop, but then my friend runs back into the room everyone else was in and closes the door. My brother, however, was looking over his shoulder at me, so he ran right into the closed door at full speed, resulting in a very loud BANG. Everyone else nearly died of laughter. * Some set up required for this one. In London, where I live, a common slang word is bare (pronounced Bear), meaning a lot of. My friend and I were talking about P2P, and my friend mentioned that one of the upsides of BitTorrent is that you can "download bare shit at the same time." Hilarity ensued. * This is actually a somewhat mean and very juvenile example you'd have to be in high school to find truly funny, but when I was in Biology as a sophomore, we were watching a video on the digestive tract when a kid at the back ripped the loudest, longest fart I've ever heard in my life, and at the end of it muttered, very quietly "Oh no, it squirted." As this kid was the kind of arrogant JerkJock nobody actually liked, this resulted in the entire class cracking up--until the stench literally drove us out of the classroom, it was so horrible. It was one of the inner rooms and so had no windows, and when the teacher opened the door to let it air out, the stink literally ''wafted into the hallway''. For the rest of the year the guy was known as Fartzilla, and was followed everywhere he went by whispers of "Oh no, it squirted". All the kids he'd picked on tended to regard it as a kind of divine LaserGuidedKarma. In a non-mean example, my senior year our high school president's last name was Crowley, which prompted a lot of people to sing the Ozzy song 'Mister Crowley' when he went past (he was a big Ozzy fan, he didn't mind). When his name was called at our graduation ceremony, almost the ''entire class'' started belting it out in chorus. The teachers were pissed, but we loved it. * Said once this troper professor: "Once upon a time, teachers were used to enter in a class met only by mute terror, setting a reign of fear. Now we have to talk with the parents, with the psychologist, and

we have to look at the student socioeconomic equilibrium and ''for fuck sake''." * This Italian troper, thanks to Highschool, had to study Leonardo da Vinci in History of Art. The lesson, anyway, was nothing less than classic thanks to a little talk about Leonardo's efforts in cooking. -->Prof: "He wrote a book on manners, too. He said that you couldn't talk during dinner or lunch..." -->Troper: "Having a personality is ''baaad''." -->Prof: [...]"He invented an eolic slice-eggs" -->Student: "Eolic slice-eggs?! What the... did he invent a stoningbeans too?!" -->Prof: "Yeah, well, you try to invent something!" -->Troper: "Can we use ''Hamsters''?" -->Student: "My God... the truth is that Leonardo da Vinci works for Ebay!" -->Troper: "He's alive and makes knives that slice and dice!" -->Prof: * she throws a chalks against my head* ** This troper lives near Venice and had once to go there to visit her cousin. She (the troper) hates Venice with passion, but surely the city left some nice memories... -->Uncle: "How much will it take from here to the Accademia?" -->Barman: "Half a hour, usually." -->Uncle: "And if we take a shortcut?" -->Barman: "Half an hour, 'cause you'll get lost." ** Of course, we did. -->Cousin: "Oh, mister? What is the way for the Accademia?" -->Mister: "To the right." -->Cousin: "Thank you." -->Troper: "Yeah yeah. Lady? I'm sorry, what is the way for the Accademia?" -->Lady: "To the left." -->Troper: "It moves! The city, it moves when you turn your back! [...] Look at this! Look at this! Logic wants that the fastest way from point A to point C is by B, but here? Noooo! The fastest way is DEFGHIYWZ!" ** Discussing the future of Venice. -->Cousin: "I think I heard, once, a british man asking why we didn't just let the city crumble." -->Troper: "The answer is 'because then where would you go on holiday?'" ** And now, for something completely different, school! -->Troper: "Let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go" -->Friend: "Stop running! What's your problem?!" -->Troper: "There wasn't a single moment in this morning where my brain wasn't in pure agony! It was a genocide! Innocent brain cells where killed by a psychotic man babbling about ''Cicero''!" ** And the last one, this time not really about me but about our professor who had entered the classroom just when we were arguing: he calmed us down and gave us some ideas, ending with this fantastic statement. -->"It really isn't that hard, you know, you just have to ask nicely... of course, you'll always make a fuss about everything but

that's because you're ''females''." * This troper, two friends and a teacher trying to understand what the hell a monk is. -->Friend1: "Yeah, well, monks, they're married to God." -->Teacher: "...No." -->Troper: "They're divorced!" -->Friend2: "They're widowed!" -->Troper: "They ended up with house and children thanks to a good lawyer!" * This troper and two of her friends... let's call them Rin and Len... were having a conversation about gay Muppets (don't ask) when this exchange happened: -->Len: "What about Elmo?" -->Rin: "Elmo's gay too, because he loves Mr. Noodle!... Or maybe he's just bi." -->Len: "All bi people love [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean Mr. Noodle!!!]]" -->Me: * hysterical laughter* -->Rin: "..." -->Len: "[[DeadpanSnarker Penis]], Rin." -->Rin: "Oh." ** Okay, the fact that you're calling them [[{{Vocaloid}} Rin and Len]] makes it that much more hilarious. * This troper was watching Shutter with her father in the scene where a woman discovers her husband secretly participated in a rape just as he walks back into their apartment. -->Husband: "I brought cheesecake!" -->Dad: "Is it rape flavored?" * This troper has a friend with a heart of gold, but he can be a bit on the slow side. While in the car, driving toward the store, the song "I lean like a Chollo" came on. The following conversation took place, names have been changed to protect the innocent. --> Troper: This always bothered me, but wht's a Chollo? --> Friend: It's those long pieces of Fried, Mexican bread they sell in the store, covered in sugar. --> Troper: * Dead silent* ....That's a CHURRO. --> Much laughter ensued. * This following exchange occured in history class, while two of my obnoxious guy friends were fighting over Julius Caesar and whether or not he was a good guy. --> Friend One: You know what, he was not a cool dude! --> Friend Two: Yes he was! --> Teacher: Guys, be quiet. --> (something that sounded like, Now those are good weasels. Something similar to that.) --> This Troper: Wait, did you just say weasels? --> Silence. Teacher begins to break out laughing. ** In my defense, this troper was laughing her head off, and did not hear what Friend One really said. To this day it is still a mystery. ** Plus this little gem between my friends. They were arguing about who knows what. --> Friend 1: Don't blame the Mexican! --> Friend 2: Don't blame the white girl!

* This troper's uncle was run over by a goat. Run over. By a goat. ** Also, this troper once threw her shoe at the floor in frustration, ''missed the floor'', and ''hit her brother in the '''kidney''' with the shoe''. Since he deserved it for making her late to work by stealing said shoe in the first place, this might have been a case of AccidentalAimingSkills. * This troper was filling out summer camp forms, when he and his dad came across this... --> Me: "Are you immune to Hepatitis B?" What do they think I'll be doing there?! --> Dad: What are you talking about? --> Me: Hepatitis is an STD! --> Dad: No it isn't. --> Me: It's not? Oh. ** My brother and sister who had been overhearing this cracked up * This troper was talking with his mother and said "Call me an old timer, but I can't make head or tail out of On Demand. That's a bad sign right there. Seventeen years old and already confused by technology." * [[{{Tofu}} This Troper]] is your average KillerGameMaster. Sometimes, I would give them [[BreatherLevel easier dungeons]] but they would still take the most blatantly stupid routes they could. End result was me constantly mourning my lack of a Clue Bat. Come Christmastime, one of players gives me a very strangely shaped gift. I unwrap it- it's a baseball bat with a label from a label maker that reads, "Clue Bat". --> Me: Aw, Gay Elf, you got me something to hit you with! --> Gay Elf: I was rather hoping you would use it on someone that wasn't me. * Google anything you don't get. One day, my friend and [[{{Quarma}} I]] were trying out a text-based Pokemon game in MSN that let us make up Pokemon and Attacks. We played a few times, with me using a Snorunt, [[SamAndFuzzy Mr. Stabbs]], and a [[PennyArcade DeepCrow]]. He used a Rotom, a Leafeon, and a Sandslash. For our fourth battle, he decided to use a Pointy Stick while I chose the [[AceAttorney Blue Badger]]. This is the entire battle. -->Blue Badger: Let's play! * pulls out a gun and uses Bullet To The Face* -->Announcer: CRITICAL HIT! ''Blue Badger'' used '''BULLET TO THE FACE'''! ''Pointy Stick'' took '''897''' damage! -->Pointy Stick: * One Hit KO'd!* -->Quarma: ... -->Mike: ...[[FlatWhat WHAT]]. ** [[{{Dallenson}} This Troper]]: Hey that MSN game sounds Interesting, Can i have your Email so I can Tag along? also do you mind if I bring [[{{Cavestory}} Along two Robots]] * This Troper had a strange R.E teacher for the last 3 years. He had rather ... weird methods of keeping in control ie. The wig of Shame. It invovled the person who had done something shameful putting on this massive afro wig and the rest of the class pointing at them and saying "Shame!" Another favorite was to make a person go hug a tree. It was

hilarious. We liked Mr D, he let us watch cartoons in class and showed us Breakfast Club when we were 12/13. ** Same Troper from above. One day myself and a friend were completely hyper, it was a half day and we had left at lunch. This Troper and her friend ended up skipping past our local swimming pool, over a bridge and through a park singing "THE HILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF PANTS!!!" while another friend was behind us facepalming herself and saying "I don't know them, I've never met them in my life before." while we stopped and started hugging her randomly. It was fun. * When [[{{Aver}} I]] went out camping with my cousins, we somehow(I don't remember how) ended up talking about bad ways to chat up somebody. Since I have incredibly lame humour, I repeated one from a recent commercial("Nice shoes. Wanna fuck?"). Ever since then, the words 'nice shoes' have been a euphemism for wanting to sleep with someone between me and my cousins. Cue me, a few months later, working in my mum's practice(she's a doctor), sorting all the files alphabetically, close to the consulting room. Suddenly, the door of the consulting room opens and an old man walks out of it and says exactly to me... the famous two words, 'nice shoes'. I just... couldn't... stop... laughing... * So. This troper's family has two cars. And the other day one of them broke down. Won' start. won't even turn over. Just like. Dead. So we sigh, and use the other car. This morning. It died the exact same way. cue parents frustrated and somewhat angry. We call our Dad's cousin to tow us, and we reach the repair shop. we pile into the cousin's truck for the ride home. His car also refuses to start. We sit there for a half second. Then our cousin and the rest of us simultaneously start laughing our asses off. (just so nobody worries, his car did start after that. but the moment was damned funny) * This troper was getting involved in a fight between two of my brothers, and one of them yelled "You stay out of this!" Troper walked two feet to just outside the room. He then rejoined - "THAT'S NOT FUNEE-HEE-HEE..."! You probably had to be there. * This troper had a Humanities teacher who let us watch movies every Friday and was very lenient about the content of the films. One day we were watching Resident Evil: Extinction, and this usually meek troper surprised herself by making an entire room full of mostly minority students laugh by yelling, "No, don't go in there! [[BlackDudeDiesFirst the black guy always gets killed first!"]] when he African-American guy stupidly walks into a creepy dark room alone. * This troper was once an (outwardly) shy, naive 19-year-old shopgirl called, oh, "Elise." (Name changed to protect the snarky.) One very busy, hectic evening, a customer (flirty, God's-Gift-to-Shopgirls kind of guy), read my nametag, gave a big, cheesy grin, and asked loudly, "Oh, is your name pronounced ''ell-LEECE?''" I kept my "pleasant" expression on and said, "No, actually, it's spelled ''Elise,'' but it's pronounced ''throat-warbler-mangrove.''" (...I then discovered exactly what a "frozen smile" looks like...) ** It was my very first successful "zing," ''ever''. And I had MontyPythonsFlyingCircus to thank for it! (I only steal from the best.) The really amazing thing to me at the time was that I both A) thought of using the line on the spot with no preparation, and B)

managed to keep a straight face while doing it (at least until I ducked into another section...where my assistant manager was having quiet hysterics. Luckily, he was also a Python fan). * This troper's sister was doing a movie for a girl scouts project, and she needed to use a banana as a prop. She removed the ''Chiquita'' sticker from the banana, leading my mom to say, "I think ''Chiquita'' has better things to do than sue a pair of girl scouts." Then I interjected "[[NeverLiveItDown Yeah, like overthrow the government of Guatemala]]" * This Troper was playing DungeonsAndDragons. We were in a dungeon fighting a stone golem, which was awoken (from being a statue) by the party's [[ButtMonkey gnome]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext throwing some blood on it]]. Somehow, we took this to mean it was a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot vampire stone golem]]. Our Cleric decided to cast the spell Daylight on it to see if it was affected. Being behind the golem, he reached out and made its ass glow. I quipped, "I guess you can't call it ''Where The Sun Don't Shine'' then." The battle was stopped for the next five minutes due to laughing... ** Nice one, dude! You have my respect. * Why crowning moment is one time, I was sitting at a dinner table with my family, eating. My little brother said that his teacher taught him he couldn't subtract 5 frtom 3. I said [[AceAttorney "HOLD IT!"]] and said that that was incorrect. He said [[AceAttorney OBJECTION!]] And said that I was wrong, and while he did I looked up a problem like 5 minus 3 on Google. I said [[AceAttorney TAKE THAT!]] and showed him the problem, and we returned to eating. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment It was never spoken of again.]] * One time, our community theater group was doing ''JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat''. So, it's hell week, we're all getting a bit punchy. This troper played Potiphar, whose wife was fooling around with the title character. At one point, after catching the two of them together, I sang the line "Joseph, I'll see you rot in jail / The things you have done are beyond the pale!" My entrance comes, I pull my wife away and sing, "Joseph, I'll see you rot in jail / Get your stinkin' hands off my wife's tail!" The director made me do it over. * In Core Humanities 203, we got our midterm assignment, a monstrous 3600-word paper that we had a week to do. The professor, irritated that his students were notoriously poor at properly putting cover pages on their papers, devoted 15 minutes to explaining the format, saying on five separate occasions "and don't forget to put your class section and time on the cover page. What do I want on the cover page? The class time and section. I can't stress this enough. CLASS TIME AND SECTION." Finally, after explaining the rest of the assignment, he said "are there any questions?" Cue my hand going up and saying: "Just one minor technical question." "Yes?" "Did you want the class time and section on the cover page?" The reaction from the professor was epic. He just looked down at the floor, slowly shook his head...and the class just lost it. * For this troper, it was during archery class. We (Me and C) were having trouble deciding what my arrow scored (2 or 3) so we called in another person (G), who had been scoring a five spot.

-->G: It look's like a four to me. -->C: Four? -->G: Oh, sorry, I was just scoring a five spot... --> Me: But I'll gladly accept it. ** And then when I woke up late one morning after a strange dream: -->Mom: So why'd you sleep in so late? -->Me: I don't know, although my dream last night gave me an idea of just how screwed up my subconscious is. -->Mom: How? -->Me: I now feel guilty about eating Easter candy. * This troper's grandfather was a source of many of these. When he was a boy during the great depression, his family lacked plumbing and had to use an outhouse. His oldest brother improvised by cutting a hole into the wall next to his bed to use as a urinal. One night, my grandfather cut off the foot of a chickenhawk they had killed earlier and by yanking on a severed tendon, was able to make it clasp and release it's talons. He then waited outside the hole until his brother used it. He yanked on the tendon, causing the foot to grab his brother's "member". The brother apparently thought it was the family cat, and began talking to it. -->Older Brother: * Eeyyiie! Shoo cat! -->My grandfather yanked it tighter) -->Older Brother: Kitty... -->(Yanked again) -->** &#^@^#@* &#@$ CAT! I'll **** ing choke you to death! My grandfather then let go of the severed foot and ran back inside. * On another occasion, he and a coworker rode tricycles through the Abestos plant they worked at wearing nothing but paper sacks on their heads. * Near the end of this lurker's cast party, the hostess, R, called us all together so we could watch M recieve a present, because she expected M's reaction to be hilarious. It wasn't as all she did was smile while abotu a dozen people stared at her, waiting for something to happen. R's present was a [[{{TheUntwist}} box of chocolate]], which is a special occasion because we never let M have sugar, since it turns her into TheScrappy. [[OhCrap Then M tried to open the box]]. -->Four or five people, this lurker included: [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!]] * [[{{lalalei2001}} This troper]] was in Government class, where we had to do a project on landmark Supreme Court cases. The lights were dim and we were all getting sleepy. Someone went up for his project, and we weren't paying much attention until, at the same time, everyone looked at the top of the page. It said "WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!" in all caps, and ''everyone'' started laughing. * My sisters (Younger and older) were arguing, younger said something and then older walked over and, after a moment, gave this HUGE burp that shook the couch a bit that was directed directly at younger, blew it at her to drive the point home, and walked back to her sewing project. And then we get this gem: --> Younger: I, I think I just died inside a little bit. --> Older: (Pumps arm triumphantly) Score! * I had a talk with my mom a few months back and somewhere in the

middle of the conversation I told her that "I'm too soft to enlist in the military". My mom then walks right behind me, grabs my stomach and starts ''jiggling'' my belly fat while saying "sooooooooffffft" in a really weird voice. I was literally rolling on the floor laughing after she let go. * This wheelchair-bound troper was waiting for the elevator in school with a friend who's arm had been hurting. This exchange took place. --> Friend: Man, what's wrong with my arm? --> Me: I don't know. What's wrong with my legs? --> Nearby Teacher: * raucous laughter* --> Friend: Shut up! * [[DarkInsanity13 This troper]] wishes this was her story, but it unfortunately belongs to her brother (but he doesn't go on TV Tropes, so it's free game). One day, in her brother's class (this being a class of 8th graders), two of his friends (let's call them Ess and Tee) were arguing about something or another. Tee called Ess a dildo (or something to that effect). Ess, being notoriously naive and innocent, didn't understand what a dildo was. Jokingly, Tee told him to ask the class druggie, Jay (also an alias) what it was. Ess took the suggestion seriously and asked Jay. Nonchalantly, Jay replies "your mother's favourite toy". Ess still didn't get it. Everyone in the viscinity ''did'' and subsequently burst out laughing. * This troper once had a very good friend in Theater class who was an amazing actor. For the end of the class, we were all called upon to write our own versions of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet in modern english, then two people would get different scripts and try to make them fit together. Well, this troper's friend came around. He took one look at his script, and promptly tossed it away, deciding to improv the entire balcony scene '''in ebonics.''' Everyone wanted him to stop, including the teacher but we were all to busy falling out of our seats laughing. Some highlights include: -->'''Juliet:''' Hey Romeo, you had better watch out for my father's men! -->'''Romeo:''' Ain't nothin', baby; I'm bulletproof, yo. -->'''Juliet:''' Please, take me away from this place my dear, sweet Romeo! -->'''Romeo:''' Yo, baby, what you say we hop in my 'Rida and cruise around my 'hood? You'd be da best lookin ho around dat place. * While not especially funny per say, it was one of those moments when I finally (after about eight or nine years of trying and failing) made someone laugh with the intention of doing so (my sense of humour is best summed up as crap). Me, my dad and my stepmother were sitting eating dinner (I wasn't particularly hungry, so I had two small salami sandwiches) when I realised how quiet it was, so I said "It's quiet...too quiet." I then shrugged and took a large bite out of my sandwich. The fact I normally start off a boring conversation about film lines with this comment made it particularly memorable, but the fact I showed no interest in the silence made it surprisingly epic (also, I had just finished watching the Doctor Who episode, "The Time of Angels", so silence felt bad: seriously, you try watching it without being unnerved). Also, earlier in said dinner, my dad (who was trying to half a very reluctant bun: he had decided to follow my lead

for dinner for some reason) muttered that it wouldn't go, to which I said, in a rather deadpan voice, "It's a matter of loaf and death". What made it funny in hindsight was I was trying to refer to the Wallice and Gromit short of the same name rather than trying to tell a joke about bread! * This troper was talking with his Dad. Dad was talking about how the ash cloud was going to go over England. I chimed in with "not that they'll notice the difference" * This troper's friend was playing the song "London Underground" during an minor argument two members of my club were having. At the end of the argument, one of them pointed at himself. Unfortunately, he did so just as the final word, "arsehole", was audiable. Hilarity ensured (yes, we all have an odd sense of humour). * My friend takes a sign language class and is stressing about her exam. The other day she said 'AH! I'm going to fail. All I know is; DOG! * action* CAT! * action* FOX * action* ' The expression on her face (think someone eating something sour) and the fact that this LITERALLY came out of nowhere had me laughing for at least 5 minutes. * This troper has a couple, both are puns. ** My friend and I were playing SuperSmashBros Brawl one day when I picked Link and he picked Toon Link. I got the final smash and when I caught him in it near the edge of the stage, I said "you are the weakest link, goodbye". and my friend cracked up. ** this happened during History when we were learning 20's slang and it turned out one of the words was 'John' (which means both toilet and was my name) and every douche in the rome was making bad puns, such as "I'm going to go to the John now!" or "Hey the John won't flush!" when my friend made a joke. -->'''friend:''' Ya know, I think I know why they're making these jokes about you -->'''me''' (getting sick of the bastardized punnery) why? -->'''friend''' Because for some reason you always take their shit. -->'''me''' * bursts out laughing* * My brother and I recieved Wii Music as a gift, and we were about to go through the whole list of instruments in the game. We happened to have a Mii of our bald, sunglasses-wearing marching band director, so we used him as a guinea pig for showing off all the instruments. It started fairly innocently, but suddenly the instrument became "Cheerleader", which placed the band director in a cheerleader's outfit. About half an hour of raucus laughter ensued. The same thing occured for "Dog Suit" and "Rapper". * After running the mile, this troper was asked how he was doing. He replied "I feel like my heart is boxing with my adam's apple, but otherwise I'm fine" * This troper was participating in an online RP featuring an unbelievably annoying GodModeSue who refused to take the hint about keeping his powers (of which there were more every time) down. Comes the time of the epic final battle... And through some sort of divine intervention, he missed the whole thing, from FaceHeelTurn to GainaxEnding to massive fight sequence in between. What really took the cake is that he showed up ''after'' and declared he had killed every remaining {{Mook}} on the field with his latest power.

* This troper has quite a few: ** When watching a video for Tenacious D, she heard JB and said that it stood for Jack Black. This troper's sister, who had seen themovie TenaciousDAndThePickOfDestiny a week before, said "Oh! So that's what JB stands for!" ** Then there was a horse show just a year before where one of this Tropers friends went berserk and ran around hitting people with a giant, inflatable hammer for no reason whatsoever. ** And, finally, in this troper's Chamber Choir class, she and two of her friends were talking about differences in dialect ("water" and "woter" in this case). One of the friends started talking about how people in New Orlean's said "water" and not "Woter" and began saying it was in the southwest... and not south of Missouri where we live. Considering the fact that this friend is a senior, it was hilarious while this troper and her other friend tried to tell her Louisiana was south of Missouri. To make it even better, towards the end of the argument, the friend who was geographically challenged went and sat on the back of the other friend who was laying on the floor, just about dead (not really). * My Friend is an idiot, and one day me and him got into a conversation about computers. So he says right out of the blue, "Ya know, they got computers really well made since 1995, when the FIRST computer was made," I paused, stunned, horrified, I twitched hard, and I calmly told him my breif history on computers (I'm a fucking NERD to shit like that, so when my friends start talking about shit they THINK they know about when they don't) and he gave me that look that said "Jesus christ don't piss him off" his facial expression said EVERYTHING * Anime Expo 2007, this troper and a friend being idots didn't pre-reg and thus had to wait in that immensely long ass line that everyone who was there remembered. So during this we did nothing but sing songs to kill time when in a moment of brilliance he decided to mix Bleach and "A Pirates Life for Me". We finished the song there and had everyone dying but the true CMOF came while we were near I took his cane and busted out with my own rendition of "I Have a Dream" and I had the entire crowd going by the time I said "I have a dream that little white children, and black children, and asian children, and little Mexican children, and Narutards, and Uraharatards will one day go together into the con for glory..." at this point I slam down on the cane and it just breaks off at the handle. I just stare at it and just roll out with "And I have a dream...that there will be a place with some wood glue so I can fix this cane." For AX2008...I was the one who came up with what is now known as "The Cake Joke". * This tropers story happened while he was sitting in English. A classmate (who is my kind of friend: for the story to work, you need to know he has a deep, deadpan voice which makes it hard to hear him talk normally) was feeling pretty bad (I suspect he had got drunk the previous night) and, during the lesson, the class next door was playing a film very loudly, so the teacher told my classmate (who I shall call "James" to spare the innocent) to tell the class next door to turn the volume down. "James", probably due to not listening as well as a combination of the possiblity of being hungover, said

something alone the lines of "I don't have notes on those, I'll get them out my bag." For about fifteen seconds, no one was able to point out his mistake due to laughter. Even the teacher, who has a rarely used sense of humour, was laughing. ** Another one I just remembered. Back when we were studying Death of a Salesman, we were asked to draw a stage diagram of how we would lay out the stage for a production. One person (not "James") drew an actual apron on his stage diagram (he hadn't studied drama and, as such, didn't know that the apron of the stage was the front of the stage). Hilarity ensured. * [[{{Raisapius}} This troper]]'s AP calculus teacher had taken a classmate's phone away for using it in class, and offered to return it back to him if he came back to get it after school. However, he forgot to. The next time we had class, she had given his phone back to him in a small, neatly-wrapped box, complete with a bow. He tore off the paper to find the box also wrapped in a layer of duct tape, which took a while to remove. He then opened the box, took out a bunch of paper wads used for padding, and found his phone... covered in multiple layers of masking tape. Cue laughter and screams of agony that could be heard outside the classroom. * This troper was in geography class when the teacher put on video explaining the water cycle. The video had an incredibly annoying and childish song describing the cycle. The video ended and after 2 seconds of silence, this troper said, [[EightBitTheatre "Well, I'll]] [[BrainBleach never sleep again.]] Cue the entire class erupting in laughter. * [[{{Elmarien}} This troper]] asked for autographs from a few teachers of her school. Results? ** A History teacher stared at the pen, stared at the paper, stared at the troper, and asked "You're going to steal half my soul, aren't you?" ** Another History teacher said "With that and 5 bucks, you can buy a lot of Coke and still have spare money." ** Yet another History teacher asked "You'll sell it to the Devil, won't you?" ThisTroper was playing SuperSmashBrothers (That game generates ''a lot'' of funny moments) with her [=MSTie=] family, with this troper playing as {{Sonic}} and her brother playing as Meta Knight. Meta Knight landed a perfect hit and sent Sonic flying off the stage. This Troper used Sonics' up special attack to get back up on to the stage (for those who don't know, it involves pulling a giant spring from nowhere to hurl yourself upwards). What did my brother say? --->''Brother: NOOOOOOOOO SPRINGS!'' ---> Sonic gets slashed off stage into oblivion I have never laughed so hard in my life, ''I nearly passed out''. The best part? HE'S SEVEN YEARS OLD! * This year in lit class, my teacher was asking us if we had any word examples for the prefix anthro-. Well, I spouted a word that made everyone, including the teacher, look at me like I was speaking Greek. Anthropophagus. It means man-eater. * [[{{Agent Alpha}} This troper]] had one with a role-playing game session, where the GM was giving us an overview of the different

civilizations he'd created for our setting. In one such culture, he mentioned an "embarrassing" religious conflict between two deities, a goddess of the harvest and a goddess of "cold and decay." One of the other players took the term "embarrassing" as a reference to the deities, rather than the conflict itself. And so this exchange took place: --->'''Friend:''' No, I thought you meant embarrassing like one's the goddess of, like, the harvest and bowel irritation, and the other's the goddess of the cold and dudes taking it up the butt. --->* ''Everyone around the table laughs, and just when we're done, I add:''* --->'''Me:''' "Hail [second goddess's name], Goddess of Winter and Sodomy!" --->* ''Cue fresh round of laughter''* ** And since we were playing another RPG based off of ASongOfIceAndFire, the joke gave us a whole new meaning to the line, "''Winter Is Coming''." * This Troper had one when he was sitting through his 2D animation class. I, alongside my class, were listening to our tutor explain things we already knew, when she asked us : -->"How many frames are there in 1 second?" Now, my entire class are a bunch of jokers, and soon we were spouting random numbers pulled from thin air. Then, I have an idea. I simply yell : -->"OVER NINE THOUSAND" The only other gamer in my class and I share a high-five and lots of chuckles. * This troper and her siblings were playing "Scene it" one evening. When her six-year-old sister had to answer a trivia question, She made one up; "What disney movie stars five naked guys?" The little sister's guess? "Holes." No one could stop laughing for the next half hour. The best part was that the sister didn't understand why that was so funny. * This Troper was ina production of Peter Pan, complete with flying harnesses and the lot. So fastforward to the first show, at the moment when Peter and the children are flying around there room and he dramatically flys up and points offstage saying "This way to Neverland!" Well, he was spinning. No one could stay in character. * This Troper usually arrives at school really early. So, one day, because she had TOO MUCH STUFF with her, she had to pause for a moment to reorganize everything so that she could open doors... Well, she heard her friend (who is usually very sensible) singing Space Taxi. This Troper was trying not to burst out laughing, so she was shuddering, then got pissed off, because she dropped the bag dontaining a clay thing, which broke, so went in and yelled at the person singing Space Taxi, who looked extremely confused. * Some night when this troper where on a class trip we stayed in a holiday complex and it was a little late and I saw two girls going on the pavement a few steps away. Suddendly somebody sprang out of the bush right next to the pavement, just in time not to collide with the girls, and ran along. The exchange of the girls: Girl1: Did you see that? Girl2: NO! ** In case you read the Crowning Moments of Awesome Troper Tales, this

was the exact same guy who played real-life Metal Gear Solid with the teachers. * This troper has found in his half-century or so of so-called life that the funniest lines often come not from scriptwriters or gifted comedians, but in the spontaneous CMOF utterances of everyday individuals. Two come to mind: ** In a small company I once worked for, there were two employees who consistently dragged the entire enterprise down -- ignorant, lazy, and worthless individuals. Our boss, who was a somewhat senile old codger (he was also the owner, so his word was gospel) one day let everyone know that he would soon be trimming the staff in the interest of cost and efficiency. We all assumed he would be pruning those two aforementioned dead branches, and that he did. BUT he ALSO simultaneously fired a woman who was clearly the smartest, most productive employee we had! That day at lunch, we were discussing this and trying to make sense of it, when our receptionist chimed in with, "Hell, that's like firing Moe, Larry, and Einstein!" ** Not heard firsthand, but related to me by a friend...in a New York City deli, as the TV on the wall was droning on with wall-to-wall coverage of Ronald Reagan's marathon country-crossing multiple memorial services, one grizzled local, tired of the endless spectacle, loudly muttered, "Jesus, this fucker's been more places dead than I've been alive!" This very non-jewish troper met with a jewish friend in the halls at school, when she said "sup jew"! so, naturally, this black troper responded "sup ni** er". A friend who heard this started laughing, and said "ha! it's funny because SHE'S jewish and YOUR a nig- i mean bl.... African American". to add some sight into this, i'm not even american * This troper is hanging out with some friends (two guys and a girl) in the auditorium rafters during play rehearsal. I go down for a little bit then go back up. I casually announce my return with 'All right, everyone, put your clothes back on.' At that exact time, the girl was about to toss her bra down into the seats. * This troper was waiting in the car outside Wal-Mart late one night, waiting for her mother to come out. There were [[ThoseTwoGuys two]] [[CloudCuckooLander guys]], store employees, outside, putting the carts away. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment And singing The Lion Sleeps Tonight at each other. At the top of their lungs. While running around with the carts.]] This troper had to unbuckle so she could turn around and watch them. * Doubles as CrowningMomentOfAwesome, but while playing a card game, one particularly obnoxious player kept talking shit at the same time, and focused on a guy, who had been knocked out, who had to leave. After some arguing, he bet the player that he would lose, and they put 5 pounds on it. One round later, he was knocked out (Before I was) and laughed out the room. * This troper's family just got a brand new refrigerator yesterday, and her mom was using the ice dispenser on the refrigerator door for the first time. After waiting for the ice to come out of the dispenser for about two minutes (the refrigerator was just making strange rumbling noises), mom got annoyed and opened the refrigerator door to

see what was wrong. As soon as she opened the door, a ''ton'' of ice fell out of the refrigerator. She then started to close the door and ''that's'' when the ice started coming out of the dispensor. * About a week after [[@/{{Liangnui}} my]] birthday party, my dad, brother, and I were sitting around the house waiting for my mom to get home so we could all have dinner. Quite randomly, we decided to pop the rubber/latex/whatever balloons and then we came upon the foil one. [[TheStoic My]] [[TheUnfunny dad]] pointed out that making helium voices was really, really fun back in the day and started to demonstrate as my brother and I stood around [[JawDrop slack-jawed]]. It was awesome and, eventually, we all ended up laughing so hard we couldn't breathe. * Fairly minor, but, considering we were making (actually making, not reading the script for) a (reasonably serious) play best summed up as Cinderella meets Britains Got Talent, worthy of note. Just before the competition started, the herald said, after a drum roll, "I don't wanna be shot." This was so funny that the director kept it in the show. Unfortunately, we only had one performance...and he forgot the line (because the drummer forgot the drum roll). Sadly, it was the best line in the whole show, but we at least got a local rock band to play The Foo Fighters song "The Pretender", which was easily the Crowning Music of Awesome for the whole show (although Knights of Cydonia came close: also performed by the same band). Plus, we had to make the play in 24 hours, so it wasn't exactly expected to be fantastic. This troper has two that occurred during her College-Level English class back in 12th grade. * First one happened on the way back from a field trip. The bus is about to pull into the street and the driver jokingly says "Hold on to your dentures!" Bus pulls out over a bump, causing bus to rock and a student to yell out "My dentures!" Que laughter. * Second happened after a trip to the local sewage treatment plant (the class was a themed seminar, and the theme was environmentalism) and the class was trying to write a thank you note for ####, the sewage treatment worker that gave us the tour. One student makes a comment that "#### doesn't take crap from anyone." This resulted in much laughter and the teacher stating "Well, the bar has been set." * A short one, but this troper was playing [[DarkForcesSaga Jedi Academy]] (Not the same troper as the ones who posted the earlier two [=CMoFs=] involving this game), and was walking out onto a ledge. A Dark Jedi mook lept up onto the platform, drew his lightsaber, said 'PrepareToDie, Jedi'...followed immediately by 'Aaaaaarrgghh...!' as he misstepped and fell to his death. Didn't even have to draw my saber. * This webcam picture. [[{{http://moistplz9.deviantart.com/}} Just look here]] Be warned: that which can be seen cannot be unseen. Now proceed. * Latest [=CMoF=] is when [[{{Tropers.ICantThinkOfAWittyName}} my]] little sister, whom I am beginning despise a little, noted that the night sky is black (Duh. CaptainObvious is usually played by me, but I'm not that dumb!) I turned from the window, did quie an epic KubrickStare over my glasses and stated "LIKE YOUR SOUL." She started

to whinge. * facepalm* DethroningMomentOfSuck minutes later when I tripped on my pajamas and went wheeling into a closed glass door and ended up crying, but hey... * [[{{Peteman}} This troper]] managed to red face one of his friend's brother. I was having dinner with my friend who goes to school out of town, and he brought his girlfriend with her. Because they're SickeninglySweethearts, they tend to do cutesy things all the time. This time, they were doing '''"hi!"''' ''"hi!"'' '''"hi!"''' ''"hi!"'' '''"hi!"''' ''"hi!"'' '''"hi!"''' ''"hi!"''... routine. After half a minute of this, this inspires me to quote ''{{Futurama}}'', "Oh my, it appears she's stuck in an infinite loop, and he's a moron!". While I found it funny (alright, hilarious), the others were almost falling off their chairs. ** I ran a ''DresdenFiles'' RPG Christmas game. We worked in as many Christmas references as we could, had to save Christmas by rescuing Santa, and near the end all the attacks would be said along with rhymes. Stuff like "Your will is strong, but your spirit is unwilling, so surrender now lest I get with the killing", "You're fought with power, but all is not well, goodnight to you, I'll see you in Hell", and when one player confronted Santa about a bad Christmas he had, Santa's reply "I'm sorry my son, if this explanation seems lazy, for that was the year, that [[WeirdAl Santa Went Crazy]]. ** I saw a youtube comment regarding the Watson Jeopardy game that amused me: "At least he didn't ask 'Where is Sarah Connor'". * Maybe it's just me, but five minutes ago I was on the page for Blatant lies, and at the top of the page was a big banner ad for Plenty Of Fish.Com, declaring that I can 'meet plenty of single men in my community online'....And of course right beneath it read 'Blatant Lies', so I wound up laughing pretty hard at that one. * In grade 9 Christian Studies we were learning about how Muslims and Jews believe in the same God as Christians. We had been learning about food webs in Biology 5 minutes previously. When the teacher drew up a diagram with an arrow pointing from 'God' to 'Muslims' and 'Jews' someone yelled "So does that mean that God eats the Muslims and the Jews?' The entire class cracked up, including out teacher. This is one of many Grade 9 Biology incidents. ** Second CMOF of Grade 9 Bio: This kid was paying absolutely no attention, and when the teacher asked him a question he attempted (and failed) to BS his way through an answer. Our teacher proceeded to pick up his textbook and (lightly) whack him over the head with it. A few minutes later after we'd all calmed down, some other kid got in trouble for talking instead of working. And then he tried to argue with the teacher that he was working. Our teacher then said to the girl sitting next to him "I don't want to walk all the way over there, so could you hit him for me?" She responded rather enthusiastically, as did several others at that table, who helped her hold him down. ** Third CMOF of Grade 9 Bio: ---> '''Mr. Hayes''' Robert, stop hitting on Megan and start working unless you want my foot up your rear. ---> '''Megan''' Eww! He is not hitting on me! Besides, I already have a boyfriend. ---> '''Mr. Hayes''' Fine then. Robert, stop muzzling in on Megan's

boyfriend and start working. ---> This was amusing to everyone present because the thought of Megan and Robert as a couple seemed hilarious. About 3 weeks later they started going out and are still together 3 years later. * In my grade 8 SOSE class we were studying tectonic plates, the different layers of the Earth etc. The annoying kid in class asked if it were possible to tunnel directly through the centre of the Earth to the other side. The teachers said 'no, you would get incinerated.' The kid then said, 'What if you completely encased yourself in a giant ice cube and rolled it through?' Everyone started laughing. To make it even funnier, the teacher then said "Nathan, I offically limit you to three questions per lesson. That way, you can have two serious questions and one stupid question per lesson, or around the other way if you so wish. And no, you may not ask anyone else to voice your stupid questions for you." * Grade 11 Bio. We were canoeing across a dam taking light readings and depth measurements as we went. Someone dropped some equipment over the side. So they jumped in to get it back. After surfacing, he started to yell "Holy sh-", looked around to see teachers watching and changed it to: "Holy expletive, that's cold!" * At a sleepover we were playing Truth, Dare, Double Dare, Kiss, Love or Torture. A guy forgot/mixed up a couple and changed it to "Truth, Dare, Double Kiss, Love or... Sex. With a...tree." ** The same guy at his speech applying for school captain: "I'm sure most of you know me as a clown, and expect me to be standing here today with a ready supply of jokes, and perhaps a funny hat. Well, this is the closest I could get. * picks up the school hat and puts it on* * later on in the speech* ...this is the face of a guy who was up til 1am searching for a funny hat." The deadpan monotone he delivered this in made it 10 times funnier. * One of my guy friends was being annoying and and one of my girl friends smacked him in the arm. He said 'violent woman!' but it sounded like he said 'why am I a woman?' It was funny if you were there, trust me. * Something funny happened (that was so overshadowed by the following moment that I can't even remember what it was) and everyone was laughing except one very serious guy. He then said in a perfect deadpan: "That was exceedingly funny." We all cracked up so hard we were almost on the floor and he was still standing there looking only mildly amused at everyone's reaction. * In my Home Ec clase, a cop car drove past the window. We began joking speculating about who it was there to arrest. Our teacher said with a completely straight face: "Well, they can't be here for me; the school doesn't know my real name." * In Modern History we were supposed to be acting out a short skit outlining immigration protocols of the early 20th Century in Australia, i.e. no non-white people allowed in. The first part of the demonstration went fine (keep in mind that this was almost completely unprepared) where the customs immigration guy lets a white guy in with no hassle. The second and third bits (where non-whites were supposed to be denied entry) went slightly less according to plan and a lot funnier.

---> '''Spencer:''' "Hi Jacky." ---> * beat as he realises he's not supposed to know his name yet* ---> '''Spencer''' Er, I mean... who are you? ---> * Jacky hits Spencer over the head with the piece of paper he's holding* ---> '''Spencer''' That's actually a federal offence, but anyway, moving on... ---> * next person walks up, introduction go fine, and then...* ---> '''Spencer''' I'll let you in if you can write 50 words of English. ---> '''Josh''' * writes* I don't like this class anymore. ---> '''Well, since you don't know your lines, I'm afraid I can't let you in. Then again, I don't know my lines either, so I'll just show myself out. * mimes jumping into the ocean and swimming away back to his desk. The fourth and fifth immigrants then (whilst humming Mission Impossible theme music) leapt over the the immigration desk and pretended to invade Australia. * A case of extreme 'you had to be there' but I shall relay it anyway. Two of my friends have constant 'yo momma' battles, which go to ridiculous heights, such as 'So's yo momma's face' 'so's yo face's momma' 'so's yo momma's face's cat' 'so's yo momma's cat's face' fridge's shirt!' and so on and so on adding things until the can't remember what they were saying anymore. On one such an occasion, the bell for the end of lunch rang, which prompted my friend to end this with: "Oh yeah? Well, I've got math next...with, yo momma!" Now, she only said this without thinking because she couldn't think of anything better and it was time to go to class. It took several seconds for any of us, including the person who said it to realise that this was actually a true statement. Her opponents' mother actually is her math teacher, which she did indeed have next. After a good 5 seconds of complete silence, we all started cracking up. * One of my friends tried to say "I've got Biology now" but it came out as I've got Bitrology now." One of my other friends immediately added: "So do I. Now, let us go forth and commence the study of the bisexual tripods." * * In the building called 'CG' standing right in front of the classroom labelled '6'* ---> '''Blonde''' "Which one is CG6?" ---> '''Teacher''' "Perhaps it's the one with the 6 over the door." * ---> '''Friend 1''' * looking at a list of microbes* Why isn't cancer there? ---> * beat* ---> '''Friend 2''' Maybe because cancer is not a microbe? * Randomly, in the middle of an awkward silence, my friend suddenly yells "I keep forgetting; is pregnancy 9, or 18 months?" * Several minutes of hysterical laughter later* "No, seriously, I don't know! Tell me!" She was 16. We've never let her forget it. ** Second blonde moment for this friend. A few weeks later she randomly turns to me and says "Bill Clinton is the President, right?" I just stared at her for several seconds. "Oh, right! It's George Bush!" More incredulous staring. "What?... What?!... Oh. It's Barack Obama isn't it?" I nod slowly. "Shut. Up."

* A guy walks in 20 minutes late to class with no explantion for why he is late. He just looks at the teacher, nods and says "Nice to see you" and walks over to his desk and sits down. Everyone is staring at him in silence. A few seconds later "Nice to see you. Realy, that's all I've got. I'm sorry, I really don't have anything else." He didn't get in trouble. * There's this teacher who is really strict about PDA on school grounds, and she'd just busted my friend and his girlfriend for kissing. So, my friend and his male friend decide to pretend to make out right in front of this teacher's office window. This escalated to the point of them being slammed right up against her window, practically dry humping each other, and moaning/screaming in a generally exaggerated and hilarious manner. The teacher yelling at them made it even funnier, because there was nothing she could do, as they hadn't really broken any school rules. * This troper went to a regional showing of AvenueQ at a theater that served food right to your table/seat. A waiter drops a tray and instead of swearing the guy simply yells out "Hamburgers!". That alone wouldn't be enough but the fact that this happened right before the song ''Schadenfreude'' which includes the lyrics: "Dya ever clap when a waitress falls and drops a tray of glasses?" made it funny as hell. * This one time, I woke up late and I couldn't find a pair of matching socks, so I picked two different ones and wore them for the ''whole day''. ** [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Zat isht nat funny!!!]] * Note that this story was told to me by my mom about her friend's brothr (Lets call him A). A was driving on his way to a business meating and got into a minor accident with another car. The driver of the other car happened to be a midget, and went up to A's car and said "I'm not happy." A's response? [[SnowWhiteandtheSevenDwarfs "Then which one are you?"]]. The midget ended up beating the crap out of him. * This Troper was playing upwords (a bit like scrabble, if you didn't know) and, at the end of every word placed, I had letter combinations that...well, lets put it this way: every letter that is hard to think of a word with, I managed to get at least once a draw. Clearly Douglas Adams runs my universe... * Whenever this troper swears, it is generally found to be funny due to his upper class accent (which he has a habit of dropping into quite a lot: he is not actually from an upper class family, just good with old fashioned accents). * This troper and her 11-year old brother are both very geeky, spending alot of time watching videos on {{That Guy With The Glasses}} and such. One movie we both like to make fun of or make reference to frequently is Tommy Wiseau's {{The Room}}. Everytime my brothers school does a play, I always say before "You should totally just randomly add in * Insert obscure geeky reference here* at some point" but he never does. The evening before his most recent school play I said "You should throw in some random Tommy Wiseau dialogue! I would PAY YOU to do that", He says okay, but I didn't expect him to do it. But at the end of one of his scenes he randomly yelled "YOU'RE TEARING ME APART!" And made his entrance to another scene by going "I AM THE

GENIE OF THE LA--Oh hai Alladin!". It completely threw all the other children off. I doubt any other parents or siblings in the room got the joke, but it had me rolling. * One of my crowning moments (which was pretty damn embarrassing too) happened on a bus on my way to see Eclipse with some friends (I really did not want to do that). Some girls were sitting next to my friends, and they got up, leaving one of their Oyster Cards on the seat accidentally. Being the perfect gentleman I am, I thought I'd run down and give it back to her. Unfortunately, I didn't think how legging it towards someone and jumping down to the deck with a loud thump would turn out. The worse part? She was facing away from me and the loud noise my trainers made as they impacted with the floor combined with my sudden presence must've made her think I was going to 'get' her somehow. (This, by the way, was in broad daylight.) This made her scream. Even the other passengers were laughing as my friends and I slowly turned crimson, them with laughter, me with embarrassment. * One morning when this tropette was taking longer than usual in the shower, her mother left a passive-aggressive (well, more passive than aggressive) note for her on the computer: -->''Even though you use up all the hot water, I still love everything about you'' * Today at assembly our principal gave a long winded speech about how we should strive to be more polite by greeting other students and teachers when we walk by more often. Cue practically every person in the school, including a lot of teachers, mocking the ever-living shit out of this by offering ridiculously over-enthusiastic greetings, complete with maniacal grinning, nodding and sincere handshaking to every single person who came within 5 metres of them. * My grandpa's Crowning Moment occurred when my grandma kept harassing my cousin: -->Grandma: Do you want some cookies? -->Cousin: No thanks. -->Grandma: Do you want anything to eat? -->Cousin: No thanks, I'm full. -->Grandma: Are you sure? -->Grandpa: Didn't you hear the girl? She's full. F-U... L-L. * This Troper knows various [=CMOFs=] involving her friends, because my cricle of friends is... ''[[SurroundedByIdiots that]]'' kind of friendship, but one in particular stands out the most.My InsufferableGenius friend was looking at a pill, a kind of medication that is famous for its effervescence (Sonrisal, I'm Brazilian by the way).One of my other friends warned him of this, and dared him to grind it to dust and inhale it(note that it is ''not'' to be consumed that way,but it did not have any side effect).He didn't hear our warnings, picked a straw and......Cue the scream, ''in the middle of Art class''. * A few years ago, my scout troup's shirts were redesigned. One day, I brought a few friends home, and one of them happened to be wearing his shirt. I hadn't got mine yet, so my mum hadn't seen the new design. Therefore, I asked her to come look, and the following happened: -->Me: * points at friend* "Look, it's our new shirt!" -->Friend: * pompously* "Handsome lad not included."

-->Mum: "Good thing there aren't any of those around then, eh?" -->Everyone: * laughs* -->Friend: * looks flabbergasted* * One year, My mom, little brother and myself went down to the Outer Banks for a vacation. We had just gotten back from shopping when a big rainstorm hit. As we made our way back to the hotel room, a BIG flash of lightning and a powerful roar of thunder hit (we still think it hit the nearby pool). In our confusion, my mom and myself noticed my brother missing, the only thing that signified that he was around was a piece of paper from one of those big toys you put together floating to the ground like in a cartoon. A quick look around and we found my brother racing up the stairwell to our room: The lightning and thunder spooked him so much, he ran for his life! We keep teasing him every once in awhile over it. * The other day my English teacher forgot how to spell 'illegitimate' and, after a few attempts, crossed it out and wrote 'bastard.' The whole class was in hysterics. What was even funnier, was that she has spelled it correctly the first attempt. A couple of lessons later a similar incident occured, in which someone asked what 'dalliance' met and she responded with 'a lovely old-fashioned word for having it off.' More [[HilarityEnsued hysterics ensued.]] * This troper and a friend were out walking along a path that followed some powerlines to a trailer park. We had determined at the beginning of our trek that we would make it all the way there, when we came upon a rather large, rocky, difficult-to-climb hill. After about ten minutes of just climbing this one hill, we arrived at the top.....to find that the rest of the way consisted of nothing but hills like this. Cue this troper screaming [[PrecisionFStrike "MOTHERFUCK!"]] and [[HilarityEnsues Troper and friend cracking up.]] It's now become something of a [[MemeticMutation meme]] between us. * A paraphrased conversation between Candy Entrails and a Jewish friend: ---> '''CE''': That was a really tasteless joke you just made there. ---> '''Friend''': Well, my people were hated, so there's no way we can hate. ---> '''CE''': That's illogical! You're illogical! ---> Just then, my friend coughs. ---> '''CE''': See, see? God is killing you for spreading lies! * Either a CMOF or an example of [[{{Jerkass}} jerkassery]], but [[{{Tropers.Databaseerror}} This Troper]] pulled the 'greatest prank ever' around Halloween of '09. He and a group of friends were planning to go to an abandoned mental institution in there home town, and explore the woods behind it. They also had a connection that could get them into some of the old buildings. Anyway, the main group got a call from the organizing member, who told them that he had met this girl and wanted some 'alone time' with her, and asked the rest of the group to show up roughly half an hour later than planned. Instead, the group showed up half an hour 'early.' They set up in the woods around the parking lot; [[{{Tropers.Databaseerror}} This troper]] was wearing black jeans, a black T-shirt, black shoes, a black trenchcoat and, to top it all off, a Guy Fawkes mask. The other group was similarly attired in all black, and were placed strategically where they could

watch and intercept any runners. The group waited for about fifteen minutes and, sure enough, their friend's car pulls up to the parking lot. [[{{Tropers.Databaseerror}} This troper]] let them sit for a couple minutes, and then exits the woods with a lurching walk. Unnoticed, he jumps the last five feet to the car and slams against the driver's side door hard enough to get the car rocking pretty violently. The instant this happens, the driver yells "Who the f** k is that!" loud enough that 'everybody' could hear him, and they both start making really nervous sounds. The person stationed at the top of the hill then shrieks like a banshee, pulls his hood down, and charges down the hillside, giving [[{{Tropers.Databaseerror}} this troper]] enough time to get over to the passenger side of the car. The vehicle's occupants didn't see this, however, so they thought there were two masked men. At this point, it was difficult to tell whether it was the guy or the girl screaming, but the girl leaps onto the center console and starts yelling "Lock the doors! Oh god, Lock the doors!" at the top of her lungs. The guy does so, and [[{{Tropers.Databaseerror}} this troper]] pulls the door handle just after they lock for effect. The car's driver yells "let's get the f** k out of here!," puts the car in drive, and literally floors it. Their car leaves a rut five feet long in the gravel road as they speed away, and the rest of the pranksters charge out of the woods after them. About two minutes later, one of the pranksters gets out a phone and call the driver, to 'confirm' when the two groups are meeting up. The prankee tells them not to go there, that there's some crazy serial killer in the woods, and that they almost got killed. The pranksters tell them that they just got there and nothing bad happened, so the prankee heads back up. When he arrives, he sees all his friends, the pranksters, standing there in their outfits. The girl that was with him was so mad that she slapped the nearest person, who wasn't even the one in the mask, and starts screaming at the pranksters for being stupid and juvenile. Once the prankees calm down, however, they thought the whole thing was hilarious, and even helped with a later attempt at a similar gag. * This Troper and his friends usually make fun of this one guy. (He's a huge asshole) He's also the fat kid in school. So one day one of my friend goes "Hey how much do you think he weighs?". This Troper replies with "ITS OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!". Cue Laughter throughout the table. * This Troper was in a play, playing an old man who uses a cane. During a break, my friend was trying to catch me after I had been snarking at him and his character for a while. At first, I decide to run away in character, pretending to use a cane. After a while, he starts gaining on me, so I tuck the cane under my arm and bolt. Friend: * still in character* Wait, I thought you needed a cane! Me: The cane is a lie! Friend: * still in character* I'll kill you! Me: Really? Cause I seem to be....Still Alive! * starts singing Still Alive* Yesterday, it was raining and I had to go outside for something, when I got back in I yelled "SHUT UP RAIN!" then shortly after I said "Did I just tell the rain to shut up?" I did get weird looks from family.

* In a camp play similar to Pinocchio, the girl playing the lead came to the part where she transforms into a "Real boy" . she said "im alive and I'm...IM A REAL BOY!" and she proceeded to TAKE OFF HER COSTUME in the middle of the performance. the audience and the cast were cracking up laughing while she stood there in her little pink underclothes looking confused while she was being questioned by the director. * I was playing MassEffect 2 and had just finished Miranda's loyalty mission. Now, whenever I finish a mission, I almost immediately talk to someone, causing the alerts that tell me I have new research data to pause until I get out of the conversation. I talked to Miranda, who thanked me for helping her. She made a flirtatious motion to Shepard, but said that she didn't want personal feelings to get in the way of the mission. After the conversation was over, an alert popped up: "Research Unlocked: [[RagingStiffie Hard]] Shields". This is especially funny, considering [[BuxomIsBetter how]] [[MsFanservice Miranda]] [[BabyGotBack looks]]. * The following took place on a Facebook status: -->'''Friend 1:''' Making magic juice like daddy made when I was 5 :) -->'''Friend 2:''' you don't want to know what makes it "magic" -->[[spoiler: (It's orange juice and crushed up ice.)]] * After the last night of a play she was in, this (sophomore at the time) troper was jokingly referred to as a freshman by one of her guy friends, as she is rather short and the youngest of the group. Later, while talking to [[TheDitz one of her other guy friends,]] the following converstaion occurred: -->'''Troper:''' I don't want to graduate, I like hanging out with you guys. -->'''Ditz:''' Don't worry, you've got three years to go! -->'''Troper:''' [Ditz], I'm a sophomore. -->'''Ditz:''' ...oh. --> Made even funnier when the first friend also forgot I was a sophomore (and that I'm graduating the same year he is) while talking about senior speeches. * This Troper was telling his friend about a Dane Cook routine, that made him laugh really hard, then all of a sudden he stopped, made some gasping noises, then said "[[spoiler:I think I swallowed my gum.]]", cue a brief silence, followed by about a minute of uncontrollable laughter. ** On another occasion, I was playing Tekken with the same friend at a party at school, he was absolutely dominating me with Eddy Gordo, and I had already called him every cuss word and synonym for homosexual I could think of, and after being defeated by him yet again, I shouted "AGH you, fucking....... agh.. BUTT PIRATE!". Pretty much everyone in the room laughed at my inventive BuffySpeak (although of course I didn't tell them that I stole it from Oz). * This Troper recently had two crowning moments. You see, this Troper has a habit of riffing movies while seeing them with pals. He and a pal went to see Vampires Suck and during one scene when a vampire mentioned having the munchies while staring down a human, I joked he wanted a "bag o cheetos." Cue a couple of seconds later in the movie the vampire actually taking a bag of cheetos and snacking on them.

** During the same viewing, when Edward's Dad gave the line that they were a normal American family, "who just happen to lack souls and walk the earth to quench our insatiable thirst for blood" I managed to yell out in the theater, "JUST LIKE REPUBLICANS!". Someone in the theater who I didn't even know laughed at the comment. It was great. *** Holy s**t! I'm not sure, but I think that the person you made laugh was ME! Anyway, my crowing moment of funny happend durring one of the preveiws before the movie. Durring the preview Lady Gaga's song poker face was playing, unfortnately this troper and his friends are fans of Yu-Gi-Oh The Abrigded Series causing me to yell out "BROOKLIN RAGE!" making my all friends laugh. * This troper's family seems to bee a magnet for this trope. One of the more significant tales is the time that a pet dwarf hamster had died, and this troper's siblings had the genius idea to cremate said hamster. By wrapping it in toilet paper. and setting it on fire. On the ledge of the fireplace. Inside the house. Cue burnt fur, charred toilet paper, and the house rule that all cremations must take place outdoors. * This troper had one in her 18th Century Novel class, when our professor was explaining the concept of the romantic novel and saying that Twilight would be considered a modern example of one. One student suggested that the skin of Meyer's vampires further emphasizes the romantic novel's fantastical elements, explaining to the professor, who had never read the books and only knew the basic concepts of the series, that the vampires' skin sparkles in the sunlight. Cue the professor bursting out laughing. * These happen rather often with this troper's cosplay group, but the best has to be when we were all fooling around in the hotel room after a recent convention, and this troper grabbed her friend's [=DSi=] and was playing with the sound recording function. This troper had NO IDEA what to say after a while, so she's just sitting there making noise, and then... ---> ''Friend:'' DURHURR DE DERPA DERRR- *cut off by the time limit of the microphone* ** It was pretty funny already, but then this troper started messing with the pitch/speed options...said friend is now affectionately known as "The Derp Monster" * Oh god, I have so many... ** As a tenth-grader, our french teacher, a NietzcheWannabe with a strange fashion sense (among others, gothic dresses and Satanic TShirts) was talking about a ''very'' nihilistic play and told us exactly those words : "In that play, everything is false and meaningless...", ending her sentence with a melodramatic "...''just like your lives.''", pointing to the classroom. One year later, we still talk about it. ** One year before, we had to do a "circus" performance with a specific theme during the Sports lesson. I - a melodramatical EvilOverlord - was with a friend, a silent and shy KnightInShiningArmor, and we chose as a theme the fight between Light and Darkness. The whole "choregraphy" was quite over-the-top, with flying scarves and fencing with wooden poles while juggling. However, the real [=CMoF=] awaits at the end... It was supposed to be the

defeat of "Light" (my friend) which falls elegantly while Darkness (me) poses triumphally. Except that instead of falling in a noble way, "Light" ''tripped on his own feet'' and fell ridiculously on the floor for our great finale. Of course, I couldn't focus on a victory pose, because I was too busy face-palming and muttering : "I said ''elegantly'' !" Worst part is that we weren't allowed to laugh on scene. Surprisingly, this EpicFail was rewarded with quite a good mark. ** Today, I received a DeathNote. No - not a DeathNote manga, the thing supposed to kill people. Why ? Just because I act a lot like Kira. Then, during chemistry lesson... Some annoying guy keeps interrupting the class saying stupid thinks. I stare at my friend (a few seats away from me) only to see him miming... something... what is he doing ? I take a closer look... He was miming the act of writing something on a blank sheet... and then dramatically slashing the air with his pencil. Thankfully I'm good at holding my laughter... * This troper's American Literature textbook in 11th grade had one. On one page someone had drawn a picture of the teacher in crayon, saying something about how much she loves Moby-Dick. I regret not getting a picture of it. It might not have been as funny if it had been a picture of a teacher I actually liked, though. * This troper recently saw a Youtube video where someone had made {{Sims}} of the [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Gaang]]. In one part of the video, the stove caught fire, and in typical Sim fashion, everyone in the house ran toward it and started freaking out. Including Zuko. You know, the guy who's supposed to ''control fire''. It's not exactly a ''personal'' anecdote, but for whatever reason, it struck me as hysterical. * This troper and his mother were grocery shopping. I was finishing a joke explanation of how I had failed to thwart a supposed plan of hers, and I decided to cap it off with an imitation of [[StarWars Darth Vader]]'s BigNo. But we had just walked into the soup aisle, and... -->'''This Troper's Mom:''' Do you want some chicken soup? -->'''This Troper:''' NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! -->*{{Beat}}* -->'''This Troper:''' ''([[DontExplainTheJoke explains what happened]], then cracks up)'' * In [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} this troper's]] ecology class, a bunch of guys were talking about SouthPark. I asked them "aren't you guys a little old for cartoons?"...[[HypocriticalHumor while reading the Comic Book Guy book from]] TheSimpsons Library of Wisdom. * Today, this troper and her sister were playing volleyball outisde in an effort to avoid our mother. We each chose a character from Invader Zim and somehow managed to play volleyball for at least half an hour while staying in character. She was Zim, I was Dib. Highlights include me turning around and missing the volleyball when my sister yelled "hey look! Bigfoot!" and her calling me a human worm baby and yelling "why must this be?" when she missed the volleyball. Also, my sister wanted to stop playing at one point. I said "you forfeit, you lose." She kept playing. ** Also, apparently she's ''still'' in character. After tasting dental

floss to see if I was right about it tasting horrible (I just got the floss today, so neither of us knew what this random brand of dentist floss tasted like) she reacted ''a lot'' like Zim, including yelling about human germs, flopping around on my bed, and ran into the bathroom to wash the taste out of her mouth, yelling "why must this be?!" The floss really does taste awful. * One time, I was playing [[SuperSmashBrothers Super Smash Bros. Brawl]] with one of my guy friends. He was playing some character I didn't remember, I was playing {{Kirby}}. Every time he knocked Kirby into the air, Kirby puffed himself up and floated back to the stage. ''"Curse you, Kirby!!"'' * This Troper was at her school when the door to our class was locked. I had gotten a fork from this game at school (you put your hand in a box and try to guess what you were touching, and if you were right, you got it), and I wanted to see if I could pick the lock. Whilst doing this, I started to yell, "Come on you stupid ''fooooooooooork''! Why can't you pick the lock? Answer this question, fork! What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the evening, and three legs in the afternoon? A man! You couldn't answer the question of the Sphynxxxx!" the teacher walked up to me, and had her head tilted to the side and giving me a blank stare before unlocking the door.' * "24 YEAR OLD FURRIES FROM CHICAGO, DAVID. 24 YEAR OLD FURRIES FROM CHICAGO." -This troper on his previous experiences with online dating. * My Mum accidentally commented on my sister's Facebook status instead of a friend's status about a TV show, leading to this: --> Troper's Sister is engaged. --> Mum: Missed it - so thanks for the 'heads up'. Being repeated on Thursday night, if anyone's interested. * In this troper's Science class, we were learning about the Earth's functions. We got to one vocabulary word, which was cleavage. The definition of that is "a smooth flat surface". Everyone was holding in their laughter until the teacher said, "Doesn't sound like a smooth, flat, surface". Everyone cracked up so bad. ** Same sort of thing happened to me when I was doing my research paper on Serpentine(asbestos). I was highly confused when one of the things I was supposed to research was it's "Cleavage." * This troper's friends were going on about her date when a (completely awesome) teacher walked by. They announced that I had a date to him and after expressing his happiness, he began to ask questions: --> Teacher: Any college ambitions? (Note: This troper is a junior, albeit a very young one who made the dealine by five days. This is, in fact, quite important.) --> Friend: He's a freshman. --> Teacher: YOU CRADLE-ROBBER! (as friends are attempting to stifle their giggling) I ''like'' it! (everyone starts laughing hysterically) ** And now I can't pass him without getting a thumbs-up and a very weird grin. And my friends keep calling me a cradle-robber, too. * This troper and her eight-year-old sister got into a discussion on the afterlife, and she asked me what you called the opposite of heaven. I responded "Hell, of course" and she was shocked that I had cursed before I explained that "hell" was completely clean when used

in that sense. A few weeks later, she bought an black angel costume for Halloween, and when a couple of guests asked her what she was going to be for Halloween, she responded sweetly, "I'm going to be an angel from hell." Cue shocked expressions followed by side-splitting laughter that spread across the table. ** The teenage years should be fun. * This troper's class is practically a living CMOF. One example: Arcade games are quite popular in our class, and the boys decided to do a Marvel-vs.-Capcom-themed battle, with Tekken characters joining in and fight moves styled after...krumpin'. One memorable moment was when one boy decided to go as Spider-Man. He shot paper webs, and pretended to swing around the room, by aiming his hands up, balancing on one leg with the other stuck up in front of him, and hopping around madly across the room, kicking [[Tekken "Jin Kazama"]] and [[StreetFighter "Dhalsim"]]. * In this troper's English class, we're allowed to eat and drink. One day, one of the immature boys in the class brings a burrito with him to eat. Cue the following: -->'''Boy in Class (Referring to the burrito):'''I wonder how big this is. -->'''Me:'''That's what she said. Then, the teacher heard me and began laughing. Why? The teacher never expects me to hear it, since this troper is usually quiet during class, unlike her classmates. * Back when this troper was in high school she was in an Environmental Club run by a childhood freind and and supervised by one of the most awesome teachers in school. Here a a few moments: The first after school movie night we Watched a bear documentary: Whole group: are...are those bears mateing? Club President: We should take a picture! Teacher: Good idea! *goes to get camera* In the process of pausing the movie, we somehow stopped it, had to restart it, spent an INSANE amount of time getting it back to EXACTLY where we had stopped it the first time, and took a picture with the club members on both sides Making posters advertising said movie night: Random Club Girl: give me a bunch of papers, I can write fast! Club President: remember to spell environmental right! She does not look up at where environmental is spelled the whole time and actually DOES end up making the majority of the posters After we split up to hang them up around the school this occurs: Random Club Girl: I have one poster left. I couldn't find a spot to put it. Club President: Okay give it-you misspelled environmental... We had five minutes before class started and had to do a mad dash across campus to tear all her posters down Doing the school's recycling: I come back into the classroom to return the shopping cart we use to haul stuff * HUFF* *PUFF* "Sorry it took so long...I had to do it alone. Club President: WHY? At the end of the year, I got an award and everyone else got bitched

out The year after that we had co-presidents, one of which was also a fairly good friend of the now former Club President Campus clean up day: I come running down to the club room with gloves, garbage bags, and a rake Where is everyone? Teacher: Oh, sorry about that {other club president} just left I had run down there less than a MINUTE after school had let out and was stuck waiting outside the front of the school in the freezing cold for half and hour for my ride Recycling Day: I'm pushing a friend in the shopping cart and go to open a door when a popular substitute teacher opens it for me and looks at my friend in the cart Sub: I don't want to know, do I? Except for that failed Campus clean up day, we did nothing all semester until the former club president came to visit me and asked about the club...needless to say, that changed real fast... * This Troper once went to Cedar Point with his band class. We walked past Witch's Wheel, it spins you around really fast, and we heard a kid screaming. Keep in mind that there's a really tall ride to the left of it, and looking at that ride while on the Wheel is really disoreanting. Me, being my nice self, yelled "Look to the left!" Cue the screams getting louder 10 fold. * This Troper remembers a German Class when the German Exchanges were over for the week. One person said to another to say something to them. Without checking the dictionary first, he told them he was gay. (In German.) Most people reached for their dictionaries, once what he said was known all around, hillarity ensued. ** And in Drama, we're currently studying Blood Brothers, I forgot how we got there but somehow we were all, even the teacher, talking about vaginas. Nobody SAID vagina, we were using nicknames, until the same guy from above says it. He got a house point for it. * Since the beginning of the school year, this one boy has been annoying the crap out of everyone. He constantly disrupts class by making noises, makes jokes about homosexuality and rasism, and refuses to work because he believes he knows everything in the world. More than halfway through the year, my fed up teacher finally asked, "Who here thinks Noah is annoying?" Every single hand went up within a second. * [[Tropers/Mousy677 This Troper]] has one that (apparently) also counts as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. There are a couple of very messed up girls in my year at school, who never fail to annoy the shit out of ''somebody'', and on one particular day, I happened to just generally be pissed off due to the fact that... well, there wasn't really a reason. Off day. Anyway, I overheard one of the annoying girls say to someone I didn't even ''like'' that much, and was actually just as bad as the bitchy girls, "Go and get a life." I can be the most pedantic person ''in the world'' when I want to, so I just went straight over, and, with a completely deadpan expression, said, "Actually, I think you will find that she does have a life. She is breathing, and, unless

I am very much mistaken, her heart is beating. Therefore, she is, indeed, alive." The bitchy girl then proceeded to inform me that "That's so gay." I replied, "I ''see!'' ''That's'' where I've been going wrong all this time. Being attracted to someone of your own gender doesn't mean you're gay, being ''alive'' does!" [[BeatPanel *Beat.*]] "By definition, that classes ''you'' as gay. At least think through your insults before throwing them at me." You know what teenage girls are like. * This trooper's friends were in a D&D campaign. I don't know the exact details, but somehow, they ended up in a monster encounter around a gazeebo. Cue standard epic D&D monster fight. However, halfway through the encounter, one of the players decides to start attacking the gazeebo itself. The DM tells him to knock it off. The player doesn't. After the third round of the dumbass attacking the gazeebo, the DM graces everyone with this line: --> YOU HAVE ENCOURED THE WRATH OF THE GAZEEBO!!! ** What follows is the gazeebo coming to life and slaughtering the entire party. Mainly because everyone was too busy pissing themselves with laughter. * This troper once had a dream about her [[{{Pokemon}} Exeggutor]] [[BeyondTheImpossible evolving]] [[CriticalResearchFailure into a]] [[OlympusMons Jirachi.]] * A few days ago, this tropers entire English class was talking at once. The teacher told everybody to be quiet, and they all shut up at the exact same time except this troper, who blurted out a perfectly timed, " [[{{MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic}} ...and then I said 'Oatmeal? Are you crazy?]] The whole class stared at her in surprise and a few giggled, but no one seemed to get the jokeuntil the toughguy quarterback leaned over and slapped this troper a high-five, loudly and proudly declaring, All right! Pinkie Pie for the win! * In this troper's art class, the teacher was explaining howe should write up our art history projects, and used Gaugin as an example, and this occurred: --> Teacher: ...He liked to paint his wife. Probably because he was in his thirties and she was thirteen. --> Class: Ewwww! --> Teacher: Anyways, if you were doing Gaugin---> *beat* --> Girl: *snort* ** We couldn't continue the lesson for at least 5 minutes. * This troper was listening to the radio when she heard a voice say something about a deceased donkey. Cue hysterical laughter. * I was in school one day, and it was lunch. I said I didn't like Pizza Hut. Then, a kid named Spencer shouted, "Me neither!"... from the bathroom. * A completely random but amazingly funny thing happened while playing forge mode in Halo 3. There where those gravity things (called Hand cannon [I think]) and my friend was in a scorpion tank. He drove towards one of them while I was shooting randomly and right as I was reloading (Be aware that we where invurnable and had infinite ammo) I turned around right as his scorpion tank went flying and it happened to hit me and I went flying across the map in the lazer zone (I went

this far because we had gravity on 50% and player speed at 300%) We tried to recreate it but we only got that to happen that one time. * I was in a history lesson and someone made a comment [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "My shorts have gone brown".]] * I have one from my work experience. I had a call from a potential instructor who was blind and wanted to know if the system (It was a online school) was able to use screen readers and Braille keyboards. So I called our Level 2 agents for assistance since I didn't know the answer to the question. I asked the Level 2 agent that I got about this and said about the Braille keyboards. The answer I got to saying about it the first time "you mean the keyboard with big letters?" This quickly became a running joke for our team and we just about on the floor laughing so much the first time I told them about this. * An assistant manager at the bank where ThisTroper once worked got a hold of the branch's login at Staples' office-delivery website. He then proceeded to place a series of increasingly strange orders just to see what he could get away with. Finally, the branch manager returned from the break room and asked the entire teller line, "Does anyone know why there are six cases of Cinnamon Toast Crunch in the break room supply closet?" Dead silence, as we all knew who was responsible but were more loyal to the guilty party than to the boss. I served the next customer and said "I can tell you your balance but [[MemeticMutation can you tell me why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?]]" Cue the complete breakdown of order and professionalism among the entire teller line and a whole bunch of confused customers. Thankfully the branch manager was stewing in his office behind a closed door. * This troper, several years ago, was discussing the VietnamWar [[{{Conscription}} draft]] in high school. When the teacher compared it to a kind of lottery, I piped up with 'What do I win?!'. His classmate, with an unerring comedic timing, immiediately replied with - delivered in a complete deadpan - "A million dollars! It's behind those trees; ''Guarded by a man called 'Charlie'''". I had trouble breathing. * This troper was in a philosophy class not long ago. The professor, usually very GenreSavvy, let his guard down and let slip the words "what is love." Without any planning, I and the guy next to me who I barely knew immediately and simultaneously broke out in song. * One day, [[TromboneChild this troper]] and her mother came home from running an errand to find that there was a message in our answering machine. We've gotten a lot of wrong numbers in our day, but they usually say what they're looking for and/or why they're calling. Not this time. The message only contained one sentence, screeched by an older woman: "[[ThisIsSparta I! NEED! A PLUMBER!!!]]" * One time, while I was playing D&D, one of the characters was hiding behind a couch (he didn't trust anyone), my character walks in and calls out that it's time to go. The other role player said "I slowly stand up from behind the couch and say-" He was cut off by my cellphone blasting "Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting!..." It took a good ten minutes for us to calm down. * I was doing math in class one day when a teacher was trying to help an immigrant student. She didn't have a pencil, and reaching over next

to me, she grabbed my pencil out of my hand and erased real quick. This troper got the pencil back, but it took him about five minutes to calm down from funny attacks. * This troper had two times in a math class. The first was after New Years, and the teacher asked if we had a good new year. "I did, until I saw your face." The class was dead silent. The Teacher? "No comment!" The second time was the reaction from a joke, this troper laughing so hard that he couldn't breathe. "So, anyone wanna give him CPR? No? Okay!" The class loved that even more. * This one trope had one of the most embarrassing moments of his life with this scene: -->(Friend of mine, in cafeteria) Hey, man, what do you think about Lance Armstrong's doping case? -->(Me, eating a sandwich) Sorry, man, but I dunno ANYTHING about soccer. -->(Friends on the same table) * WTF? expression* * This troper's class recently did a make-your-own society project. One of the students did a nudist colony. They said "Sex is accepted and totally okay with us". This troper said "And some-times accidental, too." Cue absolute derailment of classroom for five minutes due to so much laughter. * This troper had one in the cinema. One specific comercial for a newspaper had a narrator and, near the end of it, said narrator asks "Are you sitting comfortably?". This troper said "No", and the narrator said "good" as part of the comercial. This had both me, my friend and two guys behind us laughing until the movie was a few minutes in. * This troper once got annoyed at her classmate, picked up his pencil case and flung it at his face. He used a 'karate chop' motion to deflect it, and it came back to hit her straight in the face. The whole class were in stitches and all this troper could do was shake his hand and say, 'epic win, my friend.' * In this troper's social studies class, one of her classmates got interrupted by the PA system when he was trying to show the class his political cartoon. This is what went down: -->'''PA system:''' ''[blah blah blah blah yadda yadda]'' -->'''Teacher:''' Now, [classmate], go ahead and tell us about your cartoon. -->'''Classmate:''' Well, I -->'''PA system:''' ''[blah blah blah blah yadda yadda blah]'' *** The same thing happened in this troper's class, only with a ''teacher'': ---> '''Teacher:''' And the layer below the cornified layer is the granu--->'''PA system:''' *makes a tune to signify beginning of announcement* Boys basketball practices have been cancelled this Thursday due to bad weather. ---> '''Teacher:''' (thinking it's over) As I was saying, the granu---> '''PA system:''' I repeat, boys basket ball practices have been cancelled this Thursday. ---> '''Teacher:''' ({{Beat}}) Again, the granu---> '''PA system:''' Scrabble club meetings will be moved to the

assembly hall until further notice. I repeat, scrabble club meetings will be moved to the assembly hall. ---> '''Teacher:''' *[[GenreSavvy stays quiet and stares at the PA system annoyedly]]* ---> '''PA system:''' ... *makes tune to signify the announcement is over* ---> '''Teacher:''' ({{Beat}}) Finally. Now, as I was saying, the layer below is the granular layer, which---> '''PA system:''' *makes a tune to signify beginning of ''another'' announcement* ---> '''Teacher:''' ... *puts head in her hands while the students burst out laughing* ** A group of This Troper's friends snuck into our high school before the final day of class and attached a radio receiver to the public address system. The following morning, they made some funny announcements with a handheld radio from across the street before getting caught by the teachers. That's not the CMOF, which didn't come until later, when the electronics company hired to remove the receiver realized they couldn't do so without replacing quite a bit of equipment. The receiver is still there and periodically picks up trucker CB radio conversations from the nearby Interstate-10 Freeway, which it naturally broadcasts to the whole school. Anyone who's used a CB knows that truckers can have some rather gross conversations, and did I mention this high school is Catholic? Truly the gift that keeps on giving. ** It seems like the first words to any message over a school PA system are "Please excuse the interruption." It subsequently became a minor meme in my high school for students fed up with being interrupted all day to shout "NO!" whenever this was said. This is not what's funny. The funny part is that it became semi-common to see ''teachers'' doing the same thing! * When this troper was in 7th grade, they had to do some construction on her junior high. When they went in to hook-up the PA system, but they accidentally hooked it up to the Principal's answering machiene. Causing the PA System to play his outgoing message to the entire school. The ''ENTIRE SCHOOL'' busted up laughing for a good five minutes. * This troper had one once in high school band. While the band director was addressing the band, he overheard one of the euphonium players (named Dale) having a conversation with another musician. When the director called Dale out to share his conversation with the rest of the band, Dale said he was talking about how the director's socks were of uneven length. The director politely smiled and said, "Dale ... go to Hell." The director had the decency to give the band five minutes to laugh the incident out of their systems, and Dale took it like a good sport, as if he knew he had it coming. * In yet another PA related system, our schools bells ring for about five seconds of a single continuous beep. The bell for a class change we weren't involved in started to ring at the exact moment our teacher shouted out stop for a reason I forgot... and the bell, for no reason, was cut down to a mere quarter second beep. We didn't stop laughing for a good two minutes.

* One time, in geography class, the professor was using this board where anything written on it is displayed on another larger screen to make it easier for students sitting farther away. He started today's lecture by trying to write down mass movements, but for some reason the first letter didn't make it onto the larger screen, making it look like it was spelled ass movements. Lots of snickering occured before the teacher knew what was going on. ** This troper also has a mother who once taught English to a group of students in Japan. Alot of the assignements she graded were often filled with many grammatical errors but the two that made me and my sister laugh until we cried was how two students ended their essay homework: "After the concert, everyone crapped" and "After the concert, everone gave them the clap (for those who don't know what the "clap" is, in happens to mean a sexually transmitted disease in English) * Earlier this year, this troper starred in a college production of [[AMidsummerNightsDream A Midsummer Night's Dream]], in which the very first scene took place on an Athenian yacht. Close to showtime, we were rehearsing that very scene when our stage manager decided to replace the opening track with [[TheLonelyIsland The Lonely Island]]'s "I'm On A Boat". We must have spent a good fifteen minutes laughing our asses off. * In this troper's social studies class, me and a couple of my friends were studying World War I propaganda posters. One of the British posters had a picture of an upside-down German soldier's helmet and said "Do you want a fern basket like this?" For some reason, there was an equal sign between "fern" and "basket". Now it's an inside joke for us to say things like "I want a fern equals basket!" * In this troper's math class, the teacher asked for the answer to a math problem that was being done as part of a lecture in front of the class. This troper immediately responded with "Over 9000!". The teacher's response caused a large amount of laughter from the class, mainly because the teacher had no idea what she had just referenced. --> '''Teacher:''' [[MemeticMutation What do you mean 9000?]] ** In this same troper's history class, the teacher asked why the Egyptians chose to attack the Nubians. This troper's answer? "Because they're n00bs." The teacher's response? --> '''Teacher:''' No, not because they are "n00bs" and they're easy to "pwn". *** Similar instance happened in a Japanese lession: --> '''Teacher:''' How many kanji do you think there are? * This troper's grandfather once told him of a prank he used to play as a child where he and his friends would hide a wind-up alarm clock ''somewhere'' in the school library, set it to go off at a random time of day, then watch the hilarity ensue as the librarian tried in vain to track down where that mysterious ringing noise was coming from. ** I can top that. In my high school physics class, our teacher knew less about physics and math than any of the students. While screwing off one day, my buddies and I found an entire cabinet full of stop watches (and another one full of slinkies, but that's another story). Said stop watches had an alarm feature. Every day for the rest of the year all 20 or so stop watches would go off simultaneously. She never

found them, which is sad because we didn't even hide them *** Before going on study leave towards the end of Year 11, me and around 25-30 classmates each bought a small alarm clock, set them to random times, and hid them around the school. According to my sister (who is younger than me, so was still at school), they caused a satisfying amount of disruption * In high school, my IB Coordinator/History teacher was introducing the class on the very first day when he was interrupted by the PA. Casually, he reaches toward the clock on the wall/PA speaker setup, which is oddly bent, fishes out a partially stripped red wire, unplugs it (stopping the announcement in the room), and carries on. Cue jawdrops and laughter from the class. He only ever plugs it back in on student request, when a sub comes, or if an administrator is scheduled to visit... And at the beginning of the year, so he can surprise all his new students again. * ThisTroper's high-school English-teacher decided to try a game during the last day of school: everyone got two flash cards, wrote a question on one, and the answer on another. Then, the cards were shuffled among the students. The combination that one student found: --> Why do people go to jail? --> To meet their one true love. ** This troper was kind enough to spout out, "Using the soap!" once the initial laughter died down. The English teacher was doubled over in laughter. * During my Highschool days, during our annual Sports Day Dry Run, we were supposed to unveil our year's Battle Cheer (which we did not have because our year was notoriously filled with slackers). But, that day was one of our team captain's birthday. Therefore, after the "3, 2, 1..." that started all Battle Cheers, out came a rousing chorus of "Happy Birthday". {{Hilarity Ensues}}. * During math class in 8th grade, people were giving tours of our school. My teacher saw them coming and said "Everyone look smart! Butler, hide!" * My school has a tradition of producing a video short for every major holiday assembly in an effort to leave the entire student body in stitches. Two notable examples are [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vivWL6L_q4A&feature=related the Faculty Musical]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfllnbtnAdM the 12 Days of BCA]] (the last one was performed live with the video as background, so you can hear the laughter that ensued; personally, I think that makes it even funnier). * Another cat-related story: One of our family's female felines had a litter of 4, and we kept them all. One, a fluffy orange one we named 'Elvis', was always a bit of a show off. One day, we were cleaning out a walk in closet that had a floor to ceiling mirror on the back wall. By this point, the kittens were at the age where they were little fuzzy terrors, stampeding about the house at all hours. We're cleaning the closet and here come Elvis, sprinting into the closet with his fur puffed, in full super-cute 'Look What I Can Do!' mode. He sprinted full tilt into the mirror, knocking himself silly for a moment before charging out of the closet. No cleaning got done for several minutes. To this day, we still can't figure out why he didn't at least swerve

to avoid the "other cat". * During High School chemistry, this troper once asked (in full smart ass mode) of Sodium Fluoride, "Can you eat it?" The teacher's reply, "Once." * This troper has many of these. Some of the most memorable: ** When my family bought a new German Shepherd puppy, my rabbit was less than pleased. After some weeks in which the dog grew rapidly, my rabbit got sick of this usurper. The German Shepherd bounded up to him, ready to chase him around the yard. The cute, fluffy bunny named Cuddles laid back his ears and jumped at her. She was so surprised that she pulled up short. Not satisfied, however, Cuddles proceeded to actually chase ''her'' around the yard. ** Once, my friend fell asleep in class. No one noticed until he fell out of his desk. Amazingly, he didn't wake up when he hit the floor. The teacher thought he was dead. ** In my pre-cal class, we somehow got onto the subject of how close it is socially acceptable to stand to other people. One boy, who is actually very nice but has no sense of when enough is enough and likes to mess with people, especially girls, said in all earnestness, "Yeah, some people just stand way too close to you!" Without even thinking, I turned around and said in a very loud voice, "Yeah, like ''you''." The whole class burst into laughter. The best part? I'm normally extremely quiet and this was the first time most of them had ever heard me speak. As one boy said, "First time I ever heard her say a word, and it was ''that.''" The teacher actually came over and gave me a hug because she was so amused. Power to the quiet ones. * One day during lunch in high school, my friend said something (can't remember what) to my other friend, who gave a confused stare and said, "Did you just say 'I want to fuck your pizza?'" We all laughed so hard we couldn't breathe. * At This Troper's old school, there was a Christmas Sing-a-long. When we were singing "The 12 Days of Christmas", they put up the Shrek version, even though we were supposed to sing the original. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Ensued]]. * In an English Lit class in college, the teacher had us reading passages from a story. One of the students, normally a [[GenkiGirl vibrant]] girl started reading in a [[CreepyMonotone monotone]] voice made all the better in that the passages being read also had comedic lines. They were read in such a way that they came off as [[DramaticDeadpan deadpan]]. What made this hilarious was that the normally [[TheStoic stoic]] teacher snickered and tried to hide it. One by one the class started laughing as the teacher lost control. Just as things would get under control the teacher would still be laughing which would set off everybody else again. It got to the point that virtually all of us were crying tears and several had to physically leave the room to try and catch their breath. Needless to say, nothing productive was done the final 10 minutes of class. * This troper was talking to the Army recuiter about joining the 82nd and the Major walks out of his office to talk to me personally. After we got past the physical and mental taxs, he got into stories, and this troper's favorite was a jump he did in '76. An Air Force Combat Controller jumped wearing boots, a parachute, and a rifle. There is a

picture of said jump at the Combat Control school in Hulbert Field, Florida. ** I'm assuming you mean "and nothing else?" otherwise I don't get it. * This troper does not have the timing to pull off most 'That's what she said' jokes, but it doesn't stop me from trying. I saw Harry Potter at midnight with a group of friends and we'd been whispering 'thats what she said/your mom' jokes the hours before. At one point, Harry says something along the lines of "I didn't catch it in my hands. I nearly swallowed it." To which, I (accidentally, I meant to say it quietly to my friend) yelled in response, "THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!" The entire front /section/ of the theater burst out laughing. * A friend of this troper once ate three kiwi fruits (skin and all)... and then we told him they were poisonous. he proceeded to phone his mum about this, asking if we were lying or not. (sadly, she told him the truth. she did, however, call him a muppet on facebook later.) * Yet another PA antic. Our room got rung by the PA system to please send a student to the office for something. The teacher is known by the office to be a joker. -->PA: Mr. [Last Name]? -->Teacher: (holding down the button) WHAT! -->PA: Could you please send [student] to the main office? -->Teacher: NO! (releasing the response button, to the student) Go ahead. -->PA: (laughing) Oh, come on! -->Teacher: I don't wanna! -->PA: Please? -->Teacher: What'll you give me? -->PA: (static) -->Teacher: Hello? HELLO! Can you hear me? -->Teacher from down the hallway: YES! * In a History class, we were taking a test, so it was silent when we heard the teacher next door, mumbling, with one line standing out in particular, "''Cyber'' sex." We were all lightly laughing, the normally stoic teacher smirked a little and told us to get back on with our test. It sounded like a question and answer section going on, after a while, and five minutes later, a student shouted "MASTURBATION!" on the top of his lungs. Our teacher's head went down into her folded arms and she was vibrating with laughter. * I guess this is more of a fail at CMOF than anything but....[[{{Tropers/GoateeGuy}} This Troper]] was in an east Asian history class while in college and thought he'd be silly when a teacher asked: "Does anyone know anything about R&#333;nin?" and this troper responded with: "Yeah...there were 47 of them, right?".......Cue silence from the class and a blank why-dont-you-beserious look form the teacher.....also cue an embarrassed sliding into the chair when there was a lack of reaction from the class...{{facepalm}} * My Computer Programming teacher tends to be hilarious. He responds to any "What happens if ____" question asked regarding a test or program with "You fail." He also taped an {{Engrish}} fortune cookie message[[hottip:*:Be patient! The Great Wall didn't got built in one day!]] I had given to him to the classroom's closet's door. But my

favorite is this: Several times, a sophomore girl comes into our class to work on something using one of the computers. She spends her time goofing off with her boyfriend (Who is in the class) or any other people who came in to work on their projects instead of doing the work she came in to do. One time, he logged onto the administrator computer and "overshadowed" her computer from it, typing stupid things onto her project or making her go on weird websites until she noticed that the mouse was moving of its own accord and looked around fearfully trying to find what was causing it. ** One from yesterday, too. The bell hadn't rung yet. Now, when the classroom doors close, you can't open them from the outside without a key. Most of us were in the classroom early, but one arrived about a minute before the bell, and the door was currently closed. He gestured to us through the door's windows to let him in, but the teacher simply waved at him and continued talking about whatever we were discussing before class. Eventually the bell rang, ''then'' he opened the door and let in the student, and told him he was late. * The D&D campaign my friends and I just started had quite a few examples, from threatening to set the king's messenger on fire(repeatedly) to inventing the Aerial Strip club, but by far the crowning moment was this: -->Wizard(Me): That's quite a shiny crown.(To Rogue)Ten gold pieces says you can't steal it. -->Rogue: You're on. I can do that. -->King(DM): I can hear you plotting to steal my crown, you know. -->Wizard: (Bluff check)No, you can't... -->DM: You can't do that... -->Wizard: [[StarWars These aren't the droids you're looking for.]] * This trooper was watching our cat, hoping that she would go into the garage just before we would close it as we were leaving to do something in town, but of course as we were closing it, we urged her to go inside, but of course, she goes the other way, which actually prompted me to more or less yell out "You're going the wrong way!" * This troper got a stuffed rabbit from Build A Bear the other day. After spending a long time trying to come up with a name, my sister suggested "knee slapper" (and then whacked me in the knee with it). She then suggested "Pacific Ocean". This quickly evolved into "Sir Knee Slapper of the Pacific Ocean", which was shortened into SKNSPO (pronounced "Sneeze Poe"). She then started dancing around my room singing "SKNSPO! He danced without shame! SKNSPO! He has a funny name!SKNSPO! He does a bunny dance! SKNSPO! This rabbit has no paaaaaaaaaaaants!" I am scarred for life. * This Troper lives a life of these. XD First one comes from last year at Solo and Ensemble. This troper's friends were sent to get the bus so that we could go get dinner at McDonalds. The two managed to hitch a ride back up to the school on the bus without having to walk all the way back. However, once they got off of the bus to go get our teacher, the bus was pulling away to go back to the bus lot... which was not what we wanted. This troper asked her friend why the bus was pulling away and the friend literally swirled around and began screaming "HEY! WAIT! COME BACK!!!" She even ran after--- not jogged, full out RAN--after the bus in her high-heeled boots. This troper and her other

friend were dying because their friend is a short black girl and just seeing her run after a bus in high heels killed us. ** Then there was another one that still sticks with this troper. She wore a t-shirt that said "Smart Cookie" on it to school. This troper has a friend who's a foreign exchange student from China and she's just so darned cute. She saw my shirt and she said "Oh, then if you're a smart cookie, I'm a... stupid cake." This troper almost fell to the floor laughing. You just had to be there and hear the way she said it. * One day, this troper was playing a Mad Libs game with her best friend. Because we have very dirty minds, the story came out like this: -->Once upon a crap, there were three little pigs. The first pig was very screwy, and he built a house for himself out of shits. The second little pig was poopy, and he built a house out of fucks. But the third little pig was very bitchy, and he built his house out of genuine bitches. Well, one day, a mean old wolf came along and saw the houses. Fuck this shit! he said. I'll poop and I'll bitch and I'll blow your house down. And he blew down the first little pig's douche and the second little pig's douches. The two little pigs ran to the third pig's house. Thereupon, the wolf began blowing, but he couldn't blow down the third little pig's ass house. So he pooped off into the forest, and the three little son-of-a-bitchy pigs moved to Chicago and went into the sausage business. The end. * Me and my group of idiot friends. You might remember us from the [[ThatPoorCar fireworks Walmart]] accident. ---> Lexi: HEY GUYS I KNOW HOW TO PISS EVERYONE OFF AT WALMART. --->Phillip: Begin? --->Trang: [[CompletelyMissingThePoint HEY GUYS I JUST HEARD ABOUT THIS]] [[PandoraHearts AWESOME SERIES CALL PAN-]] ---> Us: SHUT UP! --->Lexi: We could grab one of Royce's fireworks--->Me: Oh oh, how about the streamer? --->Lexi: Yeah yeah who cares. We had more hilarious times, such as the [[YaoiFangirl Alex/Phillip dicussion]], How Trang blew off a cow's tail, us stealing Lexi's fireworks, etc. Good times. * I was playing SettlersOfCatan with my parents. I had a 2:1 Wood port, but I was way behind. My hand was 2 sheep and 2 wood. --->Me: Well, I know I'm screwed... (trades wood for a sheep) ...so I'm going into sheep farming. ** In the end, I had 10 sheep. --->Me: [[TheTake Why am I]] ''[[TheTake doing]]'' [[TheTake this?!]] * This troper's mother is renowned for these, but easily the best one is when we were heading on holiday. We'd stopped at a set of traffic lights, and a bright red convertible had pulled up next to us with a middle aged man in the driver's seat. My mother made a show of studying him for several seconds, before turning to my Pa and stating 'midlife crisis and just come out of the closet'. Cue the laughter from my family. But it doesn't end there. Not a second later, and I

shit you not this actually happened, the exact same red convertible pulls up next to the first convertible. The guy driving it is an exact clone of the first guy. They noticed each other, looked over each other's cars and then did that 'nice car you got there' respect nod. My family was in hysterics. It only ended when the lights turned green and the first guy did a little shampoo hair head toss and floored it. Needless to say, it's an ongoing joke in our family now. * This troper has an amazingly close knit and fun show choir. One day, while learning choreography, one move has to place both hands parallel to the right and left of our head. Our director screams, "If you don't do THIS move, I will KILL you." In deadpan, I say, "So will Madonna. VOGUE, LET YOUR BODY GROVE TO THE MUSIC." Complete with more poses. We laughed for a good ten minutes. I still get quoted on it. Eff yeah. * I tried to paint a creepy painting of a decomposing doll. It looked like a yawning T-rex in a skirt. %%%% %%%% %% This page is at breaking point. No more examples, please. Go to TroperTales/FunnyMoments2 instead. %%%% %%%% * Several years ago, at the middle of the New Years day, my brother and I were standing outside, and he decided to kick around a random plastic bucket he found on the ground. At that exact moment, someone decided to send up some fireworks... which went off just as his foot hit the bucket. [[HilarityEnsues Man, did we laugh!]] To this day, I can't help [[NeverLiveItDown bringing this up from time to time]]. ** Another time, he was in school, doing a word labyrinth puzzle in English class. At first, he didn't find any words, and said to himself: "This is hopeless... it's not like I can just put my finger down here *puts finger down on a random place* and get "window"!" ...Guess which word's first letter his finger landed on. The guy just has a natural talent for those moments, it seems. * In one of my classes in my sophomore year in high school, the (usually pretty cool) teacher had us role play as people at a job, while he played the angry customer. This was done infront of the whole class. At one point I said something alog the lines of "The boss isn't here. If you have a problem, you can explain it to me or leave.", so he replied "well you've got some balls, huh?" I couldn't resist saying with a completely straight face, "Big brass ones, sir." Everyone including the teacher laughed their asses off. To top it off, I got an A. That was the start of my class clown career. * I was reading back through a story I wrote when I was younger which was essentially what I didn't realise was SuperMario fanfiction at the time. Reading it, I came across this gem (names censored as they are the names of real people). I laughed so hard it actually hurt: -->A blue [[PowerGlows glowing]] line zapped from the N64 and engulfed the DS. [NAME]s hands followed. We stood in shock. [NAME]s hands and the DS were gone! -->[NAME] stood in shock. [[{{Narm}} M-My-H-Hands!]] he stammered. -->[[DissonantSerenity Phew. Well now it was over, I thought.]] * [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Four words]]: I Want That Chair. Based on a

comment [[PluckyComicRelief Aneel]], a boy at my school, said, [[NiceGuy Steve]], my teacher, remixed it and turned it into a hilarious song. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRaaj0Kv8XU Enjoy.]] Why does he want that chair? [[spoiler: He likes that chair. Its his favorite.]] * This troper was in the car with his brother when the announcement came on that Irish mob kingpin James "Whitey" Bulger had been captured. -->Brother: What's the Irish mob? -->Me: It's like the Italian mob, but with worse food ----Laugh your way back to {{Funny Moments}} here. See also TroperTales/FunnyMoments2 -----

FunnyMoments2 * In This Troper's Tech class, everyone was viewing a Powerpoint slideshow on their computers that contained instructions on our current assignment. One student was having trouble with his: --> Student: Mr [Teacher]! This thing won't work! --> Teacher: What? (comes over) (takes over the mouse) What is going on with this? --> Student: You made it! --> Computer: (In a weird robotic voice) That does not compute. Cue a "Wtf?" from me and laughter from other students. ** And another one just happened for the above Troper: ---> Me: (Runs downstairs to see what my brother is doing and sees him quickly minimize his screen on his computer) What were you just looking at? ---> Brother: Nothing. ---> Me: That wasn't nothing, what are you hiding? (Sits in the computer chair next to him, while he was sitting on an exercise ball) ---> Brother: ...(Randomly gets up and kicks the exercise ball behind him) Go get i- (Loud crash) ---> Me: Wtf did you just do? (Goes to look) You just knocked over a watering can. ---> Brother: (Uses this opportunity to close the window) ---> Me: (Realizes what he did) Damn you! We had a good laugh over that. * [[Tropers.ShyGirl This Troper]] is like a walking fountain of these, as are her mother and aunt. One day the three of us were discussing {{Marvel}} and I brought up how {{Disney}} had bought it. Somewhat rhetorically, I asked how [[{{SpiderMan}} Peter Parker]] and PeterPan would get along if they ever met. My aunt responded, "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Pleasantly]]." Many lulz were had by all. * [[Tropers.ReikoKazama This troper]] was bouncing her Superball on the computer table (you know, one of those little rubber balls that goes all over the place if you bounce it)... and guess where it just happened to land? That's right, IN MY DRINK. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny

Uncontrollable laughter ensued.]] ** [[Tropers.ReikoKazama Same troper]], was just reading the FinalFantasyVII part of HellIsThatNoise.VideoGames when this happened: --->'''Me:''' ''(reading aloud)'' "The 'Voice of the Planet' when Tifa and Cloud fall into the Lifestream. It sounds like high-pitched [[EpicFail satic]] that almost seems like screami--" ''satic''? *cracks up* ** The thing is, [[MoodWhiplash up until that point]] I'd been completely and utterly [[NightmareFuel freaked]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel out]], and after the epic pronunciation fail, I just couldn't stop laughing. Sooo I basically just [[LaughingMad broke my own brain]] with my worst mispronunciation ever. * My first year of college, I tried to play a prank on some random passerby. I hid in the storage closet next to my room and waited for someone to pass by. Well, time passed, but not people, so I got out. Meanwhile my roommate had been entertaining friends. The rooms are set up so that our room sees straight down the hall, including the closet I was exiting from. One friend, lets call her O, was explaining something to my roomate, X. --> O: *explanation of something none of us remember.* --> Me: *Walks out of closet.* --> O:*Trails off very quickly, soon becoming silence for several seconds while staring at me.* --> X & M: *look down the hall* --> Me: what? --> O: WHAT. The FUCK? --> *cue several minutes of laughter.* * [[Tropers/DarkHunter My]] neighborhood used to have a problem with people driving by and knocking mailboxes off their perches with baseball bats. After several instances of fixing it, my family got fed up and had the mailbox encased in several inches of cement on all sides. A couple of days later, one of our neighbors accidentally left his car in neutral at the top of his incredibly steep driveway. Said car proceeded to roll backwards down the driveway, turn 80 degrees, go right past our next-door neighbor's house and ''slam into the newlyencased mailbox'', knocking the whole thing over. Our neighbor was most apologetic, but my family was too busy laughing at the universe's apparent hatred of our mailbox to be angry about it. * This troper was talking to one of her friends about takoyaki. Cue dirty [[TheLazerCollection Lazer Collection]] joke. Lots of laughs were to be had. * A couple years back when I was at camp, a guy was deliberately trying to get on my nerves by singing Soulja Boy. There was a wardrobe closet thing in the back of the room. This conversation ensued. -->Me: I'm going to shove you in the closet! Guy: I'm not gay! Other Guy: NOBODY GETS INTO THE CLOSET BUT ME! * This troper, for some bizarre reason, has a complete inability to use the word 'sheet' in a conversation. Which led to myself and my wife in the kitchen, while I was making cookies, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment talking about making cookies]], I slipped and said 'cookie sheep'. Cue my attempt at cursing, only to

mess that up as well and say 'sheep' instead of the expletive I had planned on. That only made my wife fall off the counter laughing while I raged about sheep. * During my school's production of ''TheWiz'', the guy playing the Gatekeeper decided to go off-script somewhat. For three nights he was fooled by Dorothy and friends declaring that they will leave a bag of gold outside the gate and walk away, while in reality they go about six feet from the door and wait for him to come out. During his scene in our final show, he calmly walked outside, looked directly at them, and deadpanned "Seriously? ''That's'' your idea of hiding?" It quickly escalated to yelling at the Tin Man for not even attempting to hide (he would stand right next to the gate with his axe aloft), loudly asking "How stupid do you think I am?", and exasperatedly allowing them to go in because "[he] didn't want this job in the first place, [he] wanted to be a theologian" (which was a last minute switch from dentist, prompted by a bribe from a teacher who is actually a doctor of theology). His senior year was his first at the school and with that one speech he became a school legend overnight. ** It would have been much better (In this troper's opinion) if he'd wanted to be [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xToPCaNxaow "A LUMBERJACK!"]] *** [[MontyPython "I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK~..."]] (sorry! I couldn't resist!) * Peteman at a dinner had just met his friend's girlfriend. While the couple were objectively inoffensive, they were [[SickeninglySweethearts excessively cutesy]] with each other, to the point when they were into each other and you were the only three in the room, it was preferable to just leave the room because you felt like a fifth wheel. This being dinner, there was other conversation so it wasn't so bad. However, they were getting into their cutesy schtick, repeating hi back to each other. At that point, I sprung the ''{{Futurama}}'' quote "Oh my, it appears that ''she's'' stuck in an infinite loop, and ''he's'' a moron." The delivery and timing floored everyone under 35. * After surviving the first week of a cursed production of ''AMidsummerNightsDream'', this troper was preparing to go on stage when the actress playing Quince (we used a woman) began to panic. She had been in the hospital with addencitis and had to be recast for the first week of the show. She was freaking out that she would forget her lines and I told her she would be fine and that she wouldn't forget anything. We get out on the stage and I forget my first line. Bear in mind, I'm playing Bottom and need to set the tone of the scenes and I forget my freaking first line. Thankfully, I managed to muddle through the first part of the scene and remembered my lines. Of course, that didn't end our streak of bad luck. During the Pyramis and Thisbe scene, Quince lost her wig when she was supposed to lose her mantle. I picked the wig up and tried not to laugh and continued on with the scene... even when the mantle flew over the curtain and landed in front of me. * My housemates and [[JusticeReaper I]] experienced a moment during our college years. One of my friends was playing an online multiplayer (can't remember the name of it, but it was set in feudal Japan)

in a room nearby, and the rest of us were playing RivalSchools. A match in the latter game was won with the big sumo guy (can't remember his name either), and his win pose had him eating two huge rice balls. As soon as he started doing it, we heard an NPC from the online multiplayer in the next room scream out "OUR RICE HAS RUN OUT!" Cue raucous laughter from all of us. * This troper is an [[AspergerSyndrome Aspie]], and as such i have some major difficulties restraining myself from saying exactly whats on my mind. One such example occured today: ** ME: So you are late. That is not a suprise anymore- but What, you have earrings now?! ** HIM: ..Yes. I have been having them for a long time now. ** ME: Huh. They are harder to notice than your pimples. * This troper, while in middle school, was passing some lockers with a friend. The friend then asked "Do they get bigger in high school?" * A friend of a friend was boasting that he "Sold his soul for these chiselled good looks" a passing woman then informed him he "Should ask for a refund" * This troper was once eating lunch with a group of friends in a classroom. That particular meal happened to consist of reportedly rather disgusting corndogs (thankfully, I brought my own lunch from home). One friend finished hers first, and, suppressing laughter, asked us if we had ever read the label on the corndog stick. (Answer: "None of us has ever gotten that far.") One girl tried to just pull the corndog off the stick, but the first friend wouldn't let her, saying that eating the whole thing first would help her "appreciate the joke." Reluctantly, they all wolfed down the rest of the corndogs, trying to swallow with minimal chewing, and all finished at about the same time. We discovered that the label on the stick read, "Foster Farms," the significance being that we had a well-liked teacher named Mr. Foster down the hallway. Being eigth graders, the message sunk in pretty fast, and we all exploded in hysterical laughter and cries of "We're eating his wiener!" One girl went so far as to remark, "Boy, he has a lot of them," which got weird looks from everyone in the room. This troper has since adapted that scene into one of her stories, but no longer dares touch a school corndog. ** Same troper here, reporting an entirely unrelated (but even funnier) moment. Recently, my family acquired a supposedly pure-bred Bluetick hound that had somehow gotten loose, and the original owner said that he couldn't afford to keep him anymore, but since he loved the dog and wanted him to have a good home, he let us keep him. Apparently, this dog is good for breeding, as evidenced by the fact that he clearly has not been neutered. One day, he decided to waltz into my room and plop down lengthwise across my best sleeping pillow, with his butt hanging off the end. Disgusted, I shouted at him to "get your furry testicles off my pillow!" At that moment, that dog looked up at me with, I swear, pure ''defiance'' in his eyes, and then proceeded to drag himself (again, lengthwise) off the pillow, with his testicles trailing behind him the whole way. Naturally, I washed the pillowcase immediately... * This troper was in math class once, when he got a phone call. His ringtone was "Fanily Reunion" by blink182. For those of you who don't

know, this song is 35 seconds of profanities, culminating in "I fucked your mom." [[CrowningMomentOfFunny EVERYONE]] [[HilarityEnsues about pissed their pants laughing]]. [[BeyondTheImpossible Even the teacher]]. Unfortunately, I also got suspended. * When this troper was in HighSchool, he and some of his classmates were {{Google}} [[http://images.google.com/ Image Search]]ing our names, and he got a girl named [[GirlsLove Yuri]] to try hers. Mild [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Ensued]]. * This troper is notorious for being almost completely tech inept, and for good reason. In an attempt to text her mom telling her she would be staying after school on a friends phone (that she didn't entirely know how to use), she accidentally added a b in front of her name. Attempting to erase it ended up sending the message. Her mom got a text from a number she did not know saying "This is bra". Troper and friends proceeded to have a laughing fit in the middle of the newspaper room, especially after her mom replied (a very confused "What??"). * In This Tropers dnd group we were up against a black dragon, however everybody was rolling crits so it was down in one round. But then our warden (we're playing 4e) decided to intimidate the black dragon to find out where the big bad is, even though we already know where he is going. He rolled a one on his intimidate check and the dragon got pissed off and one shot him. But thats not the funny part, the funny part was when This Troper, a dragonborn sorceror, decided to slide down the ladder to do a {{big damn heroes}} moment, but he rolled a one on his acrobatics check to go down safely and took 24 hitpoints to go to -1 hitpoints. * This troper (henceforth referred to in first person) has a fondness for singing songs based on the context of a conversation. The moment happened while my dad was talking to me about the industrial revolution: --> Dad: "...the first factories that were built were textile factories. [[CaptainObvious People needed clothes.]]" --> Me: "If it wasn't for the weavers, what would ya do? Ya wouldn't hae a cloth that's made o' wool..." * This morning (as of January 14, 2011), one of This Troper's friends wondered what things would be like if people had wireless nerves. One potential problem he suggested would be interference (say, if you punched someone, the person standing next to them would feel part of the impact). Cue This Troper's two other frineds in the conversation wondering what would happen if his parents were having sex. Eventually we ended up with [[BeyondTheImpossible "9:57; 10 days later: the gravitational pull of the moon has shifted. I don't know how, it just has." (keep in mind my parents were '''already dead''' at this point)]] * This is sort of an immature one, though it did happen during middle school five years ago so it was pretty much justified. One of my teachers had a "Jazz Ball" game (not sure which one) on his computer. After playing the game, my friend, who is a goofball, went over to the name files and changed it to several ridiculous and dirty names. Such as changing the names of the game to "Jazz Chick", "Jazz Fuck", "Jazz Pee-Pee", "Jazz Jackass", and "Jazz Balls". I suppose I didn't know

any better but me, my friend, and another classmate who would later become my friend burst out laughing otherwise. ** Another immature one. Yes I do have immature friends, I suppose this makes me the StraightMan of the group. Well a few weeks before Christmas last year me, my same goofball friend that typed those Jazz names, another classmate I mentioned above who became a new addition to my group of friends named Kyle, and some quiet guy who barely contributes and appears, who is similar to [[SouthPark Kenny]] were hanging out by the stair's of our school building coming up with our own messed up Christmas songs with different verses to the traditional ones such as the "Ding Fries Are Done" song. For "12 Days of Christmas", Kyle's verse for the second day was "Two Larry's in a box sucking juice from my nuts" and of course we burst out laughing. The real funny part comes when I come up with the first day verse, I said "and some crack from a marijuana weed" and we all burst out laughing uncontrollably. It was hilarious because I usually never say those types of phrases like my friends do, so they were quite surprised I could say that. I suppose this makes me NotSoAboveItAll. ** My goofy friend might as well compete against all of you to be the king of this trope. Nearly everything he says at least once a day is inappropriate in a hilarious manner, and it really doesn't help that he has a goofy voice and laughter, which would only enhance the goofiness of his comments. Some of the more memorable gems I can remember: "Kyle's a dum-dum", "I see, a hole!" [[hottip:* : It's not what you think, it's a different hole.]] and "Hey! Get your ding-ding out of my game disc!" [[hottip:* : What he really means is my finger :P]]. Yes, we are all in high school. * The secretary at this troper's mom's job had a bit of a mix up. You see, one of the higher-ups told her to print out some reports for a meeting later on. Apparently, the secretary got a bit bored and was browsing some NSFW sites...so when the higher up opened her folder during the meeting she had a folder full of print outs of the secretary's favorite sex toys. * One wet lunchtime, a teacher was telling off some students for running in the hallway. While she was telling them off, another guy came charging through and tried to shove past her. She made him write 15 lines, however he misheard her and wrote 50. * [[Tropers/AdelePotter This Tropette]] is forced by her mother to go to a weekly sex ed class at church. (Yeah. Thanks a not, Mom!) There are four good things about it: the teachers are nice, my friends are there, there's snacks, and there have been some pretty damn funny moments. Today, we were talking about the pros and cons of sex. --> '''DeeDee:''' One positive thing is reproduction. --> '''Natalie:''' Couldn't that be a bad thing, too? --> '''Teacher:''' Okay, we'll write it under both. Any others? --> '''Rain:''' Well, it can make you feel closer and more familiar with the person. --> '''Me:''' ''*completely deadpan*'' Again, is that always such a good thing? --> '''Everyone:''' ''*cracks up*'' ** Made even funnier by the fact that I was only half joking. ** Another one from today...

--> ''We've just watched a slideshow, and were told to write any other questions we had about sex on notecards without our names.'' --> '''Teacher:''' "How do old people get the energy to have sex? They're so slow, so how can they--" --> ''At this point, he couldn't continue, due to everyone in the room (including himself) laughing so hard.'' * This troper is adding this [[http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2050970/ second hand]], but he wishes he saw it in person. -->'''Random Player A:''' "[[Battlefield Battlefield 2]] ripped off Fortunate Son from [[CallOfDuty Call of Duty!]]" -->'''Random Player B:''' "Are you *bleep*ing serious? -->'''Random Player A:''' "Call of Duty came out first! Then this lame expansion releases with the same music." -->'''Random Player A:''' "It's blatantly obvious idiot!" ** Cue [[BeyondTheImpossible EVERY]] [[WhatAnIdiot SINGLE]] [[AchievementsInIdiocy PLAYER]] on the server, including the offending player's own team, ceasing fire to attempt to stop the idiocy, only resuming play after he leaves in an epic fanboy rant. * Last summer, this (female) Troper went to the beach with a group of girlfriends. She overheard Friends A and B discussing their luck with their menstrual cycles and how they hated canceling these kinds of things for, erm, feminine reasons. This Troper chose that moment to try out her English [[LuckyStar Konata]] impression: --> '''This Troper (as Konata):''' Someone's having a blood conversation! --> '''Friend A:''' (without missing a beat, as Kagami) So what if we are?! It's not like you never- *gasp* Don't tell me... --> '''This Troper:''' What are you lookin' at? --> '''Friend A:''' Oh, nothing... ** We proceeded to laugh our heads off (except for Friend B, who had no idea what we were talking about). * [[Contributor/{{Meshakhad}} This troper]] had one in his ''{{Pathfinder}}'' game. We've been running the Kingmaker campaign, which has us running a kingdom (or, in our case, an oligarchy). We still go adventuring a lot to explore new regions and kill things that threaten our people. But a few weeks ago, we ran into a problem we couldn't solve ourselves. Bandits based in a neigboring country were raiding our caravans. As this country doesn't particularly like us, they won't do squat. And if we were to cross the border to kill their citizens, that would be an act of war. So we had to hire some adventurers of our own. We had a laugh when we realized that we had become quest-givers. A couple of weeks later, we [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent played the adventurers we hired]] to kill the bandits. * This Troper was in LA class working on a worksheet. A teacher walked over to our table, and said "That worksheet mentioned you." to one of my classmates. We'll call him Classmate A. The part of the sheet was: ** The man is handsome ** John has a hard time listening to the rules ** Take the baby inside. Classmate A was a pretty disobedient one, remember that.

->'''''Classmate A:''''' ''Cool! I'm handsome!'' ->'''''Me:''''' ''I think she was referring to "Take the baby inside".'' The rest of the table was laughing the rest of the block. My stomach started hurting. And it gets better! Classmate A told another teacher (who was really fed up with Classmate A). When he quoted me, SHE started chuckling. I gave my usual WeaselWords, (I think she didn't believe), and she just left. Leaving Classmate A sitting there. * This troper was eating a salad, when our cat jumped up on the table. It started to look at me as if asking for food, so I took out an onion from my salad and asked "Do you like onions?" Right after that, the cat meowed... [[spoiler:in a way that sounded suspiciously like "no."]] [[HilarityEnsued Take a guess at what happened.]] * This troper and his friend had at least three of these during a school production of "The Nutcracker". Here are said moments, in detail: [[spoiler:A group of mice surround the Nutcracker. After explaining why the mouse army is chasing the Nutcracker, they move in on him.]] Cue my character rushing out of nowhere and asking: -> '''Troper:''' Wait, so the Nutcracker used to be a mouse? That dosen't seem physically possible! A Leeroy Jenkins moment: -> '''Troper:''' Uh, gimme a sec. I'm coming up with a 32.33, repeating of course, percentage of survival. Which is odd, because we've never done this before-> '''Troper's Friend:''' Alright, chums up, let's do this! LEEROOOOOOY JEEEENKIIINS! -> '''Troper:''' *To Clara as he's rushing after him* Just get your toys to help you! *To friend* ''GET BACK HERE, YOU IDIOT!'' And at the finale: -> '''Brothers:''' *To Clara* We're sorry we wouldn't play with you. -> '''Troper:''' *Happily* I'm not. *Cue smack from Troper's Friend* Ow! * This troper had one a few months ago, which also counts as a DeadpanSnarker sort of moment. Sort-of, because it was less of a jab and more of a spontaneous joke. One of my classmates was talking about how she woke up that morning feeling such-and-such, and I randomly said "I thought you [[{{Ke$ha}} woke up in the morning feeling like PDiddy."]] It even got a laugh out of the teacher. * This Tropette had an interesting experiance today. In her first period math class, the teacher was [[CaptainObvious teach and such]] and this tropette's text message tone went off (she forgot to turn her

phone to vibrate). My tone was Japanese [[DeathNote Kira's]] laugh. (You can find it on Youtube easily) So the scenerio plays out as such: Teacher: [[BlahBlahBlah]] *tone starts playing* *teacher looks around confused* What on earth is that? Me: *pulls out phone sheepishly and checks messages* (turned out to be a little cute message from Mom) Class: *WTF faces all around* Luckly, after finding out the message was from my mom and explaining it was of the "I love you, have a nice day" kind of thing, the teacher laughed it off. Made even funnier when another student complained that he wished that his mom would send him nice messages, she only texts him when she's mad. * Almost anything that happens with this troper and her friend at the lunch table qualifies. ** The most notorious is probably the milk gag. Recently, this troper has been getting strawberry milk (a fairly new addition to the lunch selection) with her lunch. The first time, she opened it and bubbles came out the top, literally causing this troper to flinch. Hilarity ensued. Now, every day this troper gets a milk and sees how much it bubbles (more flinches have been had). It's rare that the milk actually gets completely finished. *** And if it doesn't get finished, there may be a syrupy nickel put into it for further LOLz. * This troper's class was watching...some kind of animated Christian movie (I was too busy drawing to care) and it got to a moment when someone was fighting off a guy with a stick in a very action-movie way. Cue my friend singing (In perfect tone):"Go go Power Rangers!" The class laughed so hard that the teacher had to calm us down. * One day, someone's phone went off in class. The teacher said: "What's that? What's that?" I replied: "It seems to be some kind of portable phone." * This troper and his cousins were playing Kemps. For those unfamiliar with the game, it often involves non-stop spouting of non-sequiters. At one point, the non-sequiters seemed to center on moose, leading to this. --> Troper: The moose is dancing. --> Cousin: Can moose even dance? --> Troper and Cousin together: Only a ''blue'' moose. *to the tune of Blue Moon* Bluuuue Mooooose! * After watching ''Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules'' at the movie theater, me and my best friend were waiting for our mom to pick us up. I really had to pee, so I bet said friend $5 that I could hold it in until we got home. Her reaction? "If you pee your pants, I'll be so [[IncrediblyLamePun pissed.]]" (I made it, by the way.) * A few of this troper's best ones: ** Just before a Biology exam we were given time to study in groups. We all turned to the smartest person in our group for a recap explanation about genetics and punnet squares. In the example she used the names of the first two people she saw: "So, let's say Joel is a black gerbil and Sam is a white gerbil and they have babies..." cue all of us laughing too hard for her to finish the question. Better

yet, our teacher overheard us and looked at us like we were nuts and told us that "in no universe is that in any way right." Another hilarious moment related to the same exam was the day before. The same girl e-mailed the teacher to double check the starting time of the exam. She has a habit of asking tons and tons of questions like that despite being a straight A student who doesn't actually have to worry about her grades as much as she does. She had already asked him a ton of questions that day and the time was clearly printed in our schedules, so he responded with 'Go away! Stop harassing me with stupid questions!" She wrote back "You're mean! Answer me!" and he said "You're a pest! Show up any time you like. 5:00 am would be great!" She began to freak out about not having a real answer to the point that I e-mailed him and ''begged'' him to answer her because her freaking out was distracting me from my work. Class ended before he could reply, so she went and waited outside his office at lunch. When he opened the door of his office and saw her waiting in front of him he said "Oh God, not you again!" and turned around and slammed the door in her face. I proceeded to fall over laughing at her kicked puppy dog expression. ** Also in a Biology lesson. A group of boys were messing around with a lock they found lying around. One of them wound up locking to another boy's belt loop, but they couldn't get it off again. For some reason, one guy knelt in front of the other, still trying to get it off. The one with the lock on his belt proceeded to make a smart ass remark along the lines of "that's right, only *insert name here* has the key to take off my belt." At this moment the teacher walks back into the room from behind them so all he could see was one boy kneeling and tugging that the pants of the other boy. He sees them, does a double-take, then slowly leans over and tilts his head with the best 'what the actual fuck' face I have ever seen. After he had leaned over far enough to see what was actually going on, the 'what the fuck' expression lessened only slightly. ** On facebook some acquaintances of mine were spamming up a thread by derailing in into a huge religious debate. One of them was going into a depressingly bigoted rant and was quoting Bible passages. After two comments beginning with 'thou shalt not...' a friend jumped in with the line "Rule three: Thou shalt not talk about fight club." I nearly died laughing, as did many others, judging by the fact that it was liked 14 times. Later in the same debate, the instigator, who had managed to piss off every single one of the 20-ish people involved in the conversation with his incredibly insulting, extremist views, casually ended a long, insulting comment with "Oh, and *insert name here,* you have yet to return my tea" (addressed to the same person who had made the fight club joke.) This was hilarious because a) it was just so absurd for him to casually tack on 'Oi, where's my tea?' to the end of such an offensive rant and b) it had been about 2 months since he first asked for his tea back, so it was so funny to find out that the tea had never been returned, especially since it was a matter we were all aware of but had completely forgotten about. ** The door to my English classroom automatically locks whenever it is shut, so anyone who is late to class or who has had to go out for some reason has to have someone get up to let them in. One lesson there was

a particularly high number of people needing to have the door opened for them, prompting someone to comment "there really should be a knob on that door." The person waiting to be let in was a trouble-maker that the teacher particularly doesn't like, so she says "There is. He's on the other side." Especially funny was the look on his face when he walked in, having no idea why the whole class was laughing at him. Doubled as a CMOA for our teacher. ** In a Modern History lesson we were discussing feminism. Our teacher started to say "A problem with feminism was..." then noticed my friend who was sleeping and yelled his name. We decided this was a much better ending to the sentence than what he was going to say. ** In a Drama lesson someone was complaining about how mean our librarian is, saying "why is she such a bitch?" A guy responds with "She's Kiwi. They make dodgy librarians," (This was the third evil Kiwi librarian we'd had) then a second later he adds "and horrible people." This guy defines RefugeInAudacity so much that it wouldn't have even been slightly funny if someone else had said it. As it was, we were killing ourselves laughing. A really similar moment happened the previous year, also in drama. We were talking about what a bitch the other Drama class's teacher was because of some biased marking we'd witnessed (as in she was unfairly giving her class A's and ours B's because she was the Head of Drama department and had authority of over our teacher, whom she didn't like. So the whole class is really going off about her (we were allowed to by our CoolTeacher) when TheQuietOne contributes to the discussion "She really needs to get laid." Cue shocked silence, because no one expected him to be the one to say that, then much laughter and high fives. ** Conversation just before handing in an English assignment: ---> '''Guy who's smart but never does much work:''' I used the word cantankerous. I deserve an A just for that. ---> '''His friend:''' What does that even mean? ---> '''Guy who's smart but never does much work:''' Its a tank full of cantaloupes, obviously. What the fuck a cantaloupe is, however, I have no clue. * Pretty much anytime a fellow classmate falls asleep in class is funny. No matter how old you are, but the kicker for this troper was, not one-but two kids fell asleep that were sitting next to each other. My high school history teacher has a reputation for 'fall asleep in his class and he will wake you up in a [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment hilarious yet humiliating way]] every time. When someone is asleep in class, we knew because all of a sudden-he would start speaking in a monotone-would either walk up to that desk slam a book on it, kick the desk, or spray them with a water bottle (while still giving the lecture in a perfect [[SarcasmMode deadpan monotone]])...however this one time, he walked to the board, grabbed on of the dry erase markers...and launched it at the two kids who were sleeping while giving the monotone lecture! Best part. The marker bounced hitting the first kid's head-and smacking into the other kid's face. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome PERFECT AIM!]] ** This troper has reversed that. I concentrate best with my head down, which makes me look like I'm asleep. In one high school science class, the teacher tried the "humiliating wakeup" thing which always

makes everybody laugh. He said "(Troper's name!) You still with us?" I whipped my head up and said "Yep!" The class never laughed harder. ** [[CrazyCatLadyIRL This troper's]] Health teacher did something similar to someone who fell asleep once. His head was down, facing right, so my teacher sees that he's asleep, nearly skips with joy, and goes "Hold on a minute!" Returns with what he tells us is a picture of Syphilis. Stands on the student's left side, taps his right shoulder, holding the picture right at eye level. "Hey- hey, wake up." The kid yawns, and then obviously sees the picture, as he then starts screaming "Oh god! Ugh! That's disgusting, why is- AUGH!" The class bursts out laughing, and then he just gets up a minute later, going "Ugh, man, I need to get some water." My teacher just kept grinning and said "Hey, I'm only [[CatchPhrase two months from retirement]]. ** This troper knows of a teacher at her school who got fed up with this one kid constantly falling asleep in his class, so he quietly stopped the lesson, told the class to quietly walk out of the classroom and wait. Then, he turned the clock to something like five thirty, shut off the lights, and woke the kid up after a few minutes. The kid was so freaked out and when he opened the door to walk out to run to practice, he saw the class and they laughed at him. It was quite epic, or so this troper was told. The kid also never fell asleep in that class again. * Fortunately, there's no context involved in this one (if you ''must'' know, it was while someone was trying to find a synonym for an article in the school newspaper, but that really doesn't matter) -->Student 1: [[CatchPhrase To 'inefficient' and beyond!]] -->Student 2: [[ToyStory You are a sad, strange little man]] * My brother and I watched {{Ponyo}}. We like to joke around a lot. 'Nuff said. * This one [[strike:Madlib]] [[HomestarRunner Strong Badlib]] I made is just... wow... No, seriously. I'm a pretty great person. But I saw this one puppet last week and boy was it gray. This smelly guy was at McArby's and he started [[BlackComedy slaughtering them like sheep.]] I was like, 'Phargtl!!!! You're slaughtering them like sheep.' He told me to stop brutally murdering him. I died on his shoes. * This troper was sick one day at school and had a bad case of the coughs whenever he tried to speak to loud. In our humanities class, our teacher was talking to us about speaking in groups or something like that. It went something along the lines of: -->Teacher: Make sure you put the right em-/pha/-sis on the right syllable. -->Me: HRRA! -->(class stares then laughs) * My friend and I were in class when said friend said that a girl was going to stab him with a tampon. That girl was in the class and in the middle of a conversation, so I zoned out when I was waiting for her to finish talking. Then she saw me, and the following exchange happened. -->Girl: (with smile) Hi! -->Me: (snapping out of it and giggling) Did you say you were going to stab him with a--->Girl: Oh, no, no!

-->Both of us: (laughing) * One occurred between me and my cat that I, for some reason, found funny. -->Me: (walks into basement and sees cat walking onto some bags) Hey! What are you doing kitty? -->Cat: (starts digging at bags) -->Me: No! No! Don't do that! That is not where you poop! -->Cat: ... (crouches) ({{Beat}}) -->Me: ... -->Cat: (finishes and walks by me calmly) -->Me: (shrugs) * This troper goes to a social skills group for people with neurological conditions. We were playing Clue when a woman who worked in the building walked in and started talking to the leader. One of the only other people there that day says strange things randomly. He turned to the woman and asked if she ever shopped at Victoria's Secret. We all cracked up while he stared into space. Then, the guy who runs it asked the weird kid what they sell at Victoria's Secret. His response? "Uhh, Shirts, and stuff". We then cracked up even more at his complete idiocy. * Recently, this troper's English class was assigned a project requiring us to rewrite a classic myth in some way. This troper was allowed to do the story of Adam and Eve, and took the opportunity to more or less write a Good Omens fanfiction done in a way that wasnt very subtle if you knew the verse, but if you didnt, you wouldnt suspect a thing. Two paragraphs into reading the story to her class, this tropers old, uptight teacher was literally on the floor laughing. It was the first time this troper had ever seen her smile. * This newbie troper had one recently while chatting with one of his friends. Here's how it all went down. -->VK: Sometimes, I wish I was a cherry pie. -->Stormpaw: Yeah, and then I would eat you. -->ST: OHMIGOD DON'T EAT HER -->Stormpaw: Why -->ST: IT JUST SO HAPPENS I AM A CHERRY PIE {{(Beat)}} -->Stormpaw: Great, now I have to eat both of you guys. * This exchange between this troper and her Spanish teacher: -->'''Spanish teacher:''' ''(five seconds after I woke up from an impromptu nap)'' [Troper], were you just sleeping in class? -->'''Troper:''' [[BlatantLies No.]] * At a summer camp where this troper (same as above) went to, one of the girls at the camp accidentally threw her pug (Webkinz) plushie in a tree. * This troper had a couple while working on a high school play: ** First, just before a dress rehearsal, I was sitting near a group of about five people. They were talking about how in science class, they tried to remove an eyeball from a dead pig with a spoon, but the eyeball popped. Before I could stop myself, I piped up, "Did the pig's name happen to be Popeye?" Cue thirty seconds of lolz. ** Later, while the actors were getting makeup, a friend of mine (we

shall call him Steve, though that's not his real name) was talking about a game of Charades he played in drama class earlier that day. The person up front had done two motions: one involving waving their arm to imitate water, and one involving clapping their hands together and putting their head on it to imitate sleeping. Steve immediately shouted out "WET DREAM!" From what I could tell, hilarity ensued. (For those wondering, the actual answer was "water bed". When Steve demonstrated for us, I thought it was "sleeping with the fishes".) ** One actor provided several CMoF's. First off, during a practice (not a dress rehearsal though), he was supposed to say "I was eighteen in World War 2!" However, he ended up saying "World War 3" instead. Every time he said that line from then on (even during the live performances), he would hold up two fingers so he wouldn't screw up again. *** He also said "seared" instead of "sired" two or three times (especially funny when you consider that the line was "The children I have sired") and particularily hammed it up during one scene, where his instructions were, no joke, along the lines of "Be a spotlight hog". One time he just walked around. Then he did weird dance moves. Then he started wiggling his butt at the audience. He became a CMoF legend in our crew. ** The last one that comes to mind was during an actual performance (the second or third of six, I might add). One actor was onstage and was supposed to say something along the lines of "moonlight swims and motorboat races". He got the words scrambled, and what came out was "moonlight races and motorboat swims". He paused for a second as the audience (and about 75% of the backstage crew) started laughing, but kept going with it. I nominate him for a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. * One from the weekend. This troper's stepfather was out of town, and the day before he was to come back, this troper had just finished his tea and started on his stepfather's bottle of Pepsi. Almost immediately after the troper opened the bottle, this happened: -->'''Mom''': You know, you've done pretty well at not drinking [REDACTED] Pepsi the last few days. -->'''Troper''': A''hem''. ''(Holds nearly full cup up for her to see.)'' Almost as soon as I stop pouring this-->'''Mom''': -I say that. ''(Laughs, leaving the room.)'' -->'''Troper''': ''(Smirks.)'' * [[@/AwesomeZombie22 This Troper]] had two incidents while shopping with her dad. ** One time, her dad wanted to pick up some maple syrup, and did so with style. He jumped up, grabbed the handle, and spun. Then he dropped it and there was syrup ''EVERYWHERE.'' Showing us exactly why RuleOfCool is impractical. ** Another time, her dad was buying liquor. This conversation then ensued. --> '''Dad:''' Alright, I think I'll get a Jack Daniel's. --> '''Me:''' Are you gonna [[{{Kesha}} brush your teeth with it?]] --> {{Beat}} --> '''Dad:''' Dammit, now I'm not sure if I want it anymore. * I was in my university class with about 15 other students (it was a small class.) The conversation got sidetracked somehow, resulting in

the professor jokingly ruining the end of famous movies. The conversation went roughly as follows. -->'''Professor:''' [[ItWasHisSled Rosebud was the name of his sled.]] [[LukeIAmYourFather Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father.]] -->'''This Troper:''' [[CaptainObvious Titanic sinks at the end!]] -->'''Uproarious laughter''' * I'm on my laptop doing whatever. My brother is watching the intro to [[MassEffect Mass Effect 2]]. Note that he also has the Queen album ''A Night At The Opera'' playing. Cue massive laughter as we watch people getting killed while "Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon" and "I'm In Love With My Car". Also, we laughed at Commander Shepard floating in space and being revived to "You're My Best Friend". * A couple of years ago, my friends and I were [[DungeonCrawling playing a round]] of [[TabletopRPG Dungeons and Dragons]], run by our [[KillerGameMaster "friend"]] and we get owned by a bunch of Ogres who offer us a chance to surrender. Low on hitpoints, and not wanting to [[TotalPartyKill roll new characters]] after a whole night's worth of levelling, we surrender and are taken to their camp, where the DM has us all roll ordinary d6s. [[DoomMagnet Naturally, I]] roll a one and my character is [[CannibalClan killed, butchered]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking made into an ingredient of their turnip soup]]. After a [[RulesLawyer lengthy discussion]] about rescue and such, the DM makes it clear [[MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours that the party has to escape]] on its' own, the Ogres offer everyone a bowl of me+turnip soup. *** [[SquishyWizard First guy]] takes a look at his hit point total and accepts the soup for a few extra HP, prompting my [[DeathGlare death glare]]. Second Guy also agrees, prompting my [[WhatTheHellHero WTF look]]. Third & fourth guy also take a bowl and i say [[SarcasmMode "Well, I'll have a bowl too"]]. *** Guy number two looks me in the eye, dead serious and says: "You can't eat that, [[CompletelyMissingThePoint your character's an Elf for F*ckssake!!"]]. We rolled on the floor laughing for ten minutes, and he's [[NeverLiveItDown still getting ribbed for it]] to this very day. * At the end of my aunt's wedding shower my mom asked if my aunt wanted the rest of the soup we'd made. She said no, and, acting on impulse, I pretend I'm talking into a radio and say, "That would be a negative, Ghostrider!" The whole room stares at me for a second, then everyone cracks up. ** watch Top Gun and you'll get it. * At my school we have readings, where the entire grade can read things they've written. Anyway, this one kid gets up, and starts reading his story, which starts with a sort of philosophical rant about why apples are compared to the earth. He finishes by stating(paraphrased), "Why are apples always compared to the earth? Why are apples so goddamn special? I mean, you bite into one, and then juice spills all over your chin... THAT'S NOT A METAPHOR! THAT'S A FUCKING PENIS!" [[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensues]], and all the English teachers present look incredibly stunned. The kid then begins shouting a long stream of curse-words, trying to yell over the entire grade's laughter and the bell. Several English teachers still look

stunned, and the rest have burst out laughing. it was a CMOA for the kid. * This Troper and her best friend were driving home from the library one day and discussing the books we'd borrowed. Said friend (whom I shall refer to as Maria) had with her a how-to-draw manga book, which she owned an abundance of. She admitted she couldn't draw for the life of her and only liked to look at the pictures of cute anime girls. Cue me singing at the top of my lungs, [[AVeryPotterMusical "Maria can't draw! Maria can't draw! Maria cannot draw! She only reads books and she cannot draw, even if she's reading a how-to-draw book!"]] ** Marry me. XD * This Troper is one of the executives for her school's Anime Club. One day, This Troper brought in {{Gunslinger Girl}} to show the club. We were watching a scene where one of the girls training her sharpshooting abilites by shooting at cardboard cutouts of people. One of the cardboard cutouts she shot at had an {{expy}} of [[{{Fullmetal Alchemist}} Maes Hughes]] on it. This Troper went to the back of the room to tell her guy friend about it, since he's a fan of FMA. When she gets to her friend (who I will call "D" to protect the identities of people involved in this CMOF), he says this: ->D: "What is Hughes doing in this anime?" Cue hilarious discussion on how Hughes [[spoiler: got killed]] by a Loli. * This Troper was playing the immortal game of Spoons and a couple of examples come to mind: ** My cousin jumping on the table trying to get a spoon and ending up breaking the table. ** Me faking out the entire table by reaching towards the spoon then taking my arm back when I only had two of the cards. ** There was a spoon missing and everyone suspected me and my mom reached in her shirt sleeve and pulled out a spoon. *** Wow, are you me? Or my dad? Because he does that fake-out thing every single game... * This Troper has gotten quite possibly one of the most epic ding-dong ditches ever; she went to see who it is and there stood a cardboard cutout of Hannah Montana. * Upon seeing a public service announcement against texting while driving, the message being "Is that message worth reading your last message?", she decided to check her phone, only to find the last message she'd received simply said "I'm hungry." * This Troper has a few gems. ** He was sitting around the lunch table with his friends when one of them bitchs about how a teacher dresses like a ginantic bull-dyke. Another friend turns to her and ask, "What's a bull-dyke?" while the troper is drinking orange soda. Needless to say, the soda nearly drenched everyone at the table. ** Same group of frineds: We're all sitting around the lunch table discussing with one friend (who had missed that class) about what we learned in Health Class. We had been talking about friends with benefits when she says that she and her boyfriend had that relationship. We all pause for a moment before one of the troper's friends says "Repeat that please." To which she replies "He has a car,

I don't. He takes me to school." After wiping our brows and explaining what we meant, the same friend who wanted to know what first frend meant said "You shouldn't tell people things like that, you'll get eaten out." And that was when the dam and we all started laughing even harder. ** Another favorite came when a friend said that when he took over the world he would establish stricter laws on the promiscous. One of our said promiscous friend's replied, "Okay, when he takes over the world, who's moving with me to Canada?" This troper remembers a few from years ago. ** When my niece was two, she swore for the first time...in a church. She was trying to sit down in the crying room (a room where mothers and grandmothers can take babies when they start to cry so as not to disturb the congregation) and missed the seat completely. She shouts "Fuck!" and my mother is embarrased. She tells me about a few days later and I say "Smart kid, she used it in context." ** Another church related moment came when I was listening to one of the readers tell us about end of summer festival the church has every year. She was saying "festival" and yet I kept hearing "testicle", I turn to my mother and she heard it too. My first response was "I don't wanna buy those." ** But the greatest one of all came in the home of my prim and proper grandmother. This is a woman who, in 72 years of life, has only swore once and doesn't like dirty or demented jokes. My mother has my niece on her lap, and my niece has made a habit of grabbing the crucifx around my mom's neck, putting it in her mouth and blowing on it. My mom finally gets tired of this and shouts "You're supposed to kiss Jesus, not blow him like a horn!!!" Well, I burst out laughing and the best part about this is my grandma started laughing too which made me laugh even harder cause I did not see that coming. * Back in grade ten Science, the teacher was going over the rules of the classroom. When he came to the eyewash, he said "This is the eyewash. If you get something in your eye, wash it for fifteen minutes." He then paused, looking over the class before continuing in perfect deadpan. "Anyone who turns it on for no reason will be washing their eye for fifteen minutes." * Another one in grade nine English, One classmate (let's call him T) has a thermos sitting on his desk. When the teacher asked for questions, another student, R, raised his hand. ---> ''R:'' I have a question --just what is in T's thermos? ---> ''T:'' It could be tea, or it could be vodka --you'll never find out! ---> ''Teacher:'' (Stern look) ---> ''T:'' I-it's tea... * My cousin had just been introduced to Jedi Academy, on the tutorial he had just killed the stormtroopers and then the sith appeared, cue the following conversation ->HIM:Red lightsaber! SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! ->ME: Yeah... ->HIM:So...what do I do? Figure out some strange puzzle to escape?

->ME:Nope,fight. ->HIM: Oh [BA-LEEP!] * When [[Tropers.ReikoKazama this troper]] was 10, she was playing [[{{MortalKombat}} Mortal Kombat]]: Deception on her PS2. She was using Kenshi, and had just come up against the [[DualBoss Noob-Smoke tag team]] on the Falling Cliffs stage. [[UnfortunateNames Noob]] was leading the charge, and I don't remember how much health either of us had left, but I do remember that I took too long to try to beat him, and a part of the stage collapsed under our feet, sending us both into the {{Spikes Of Doom}} below. Cue me going [[BigWhat "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?"]] and staring at the TV for a while, trying to figure out what the flying [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] had just happened. I can't look back on it now without [[HilarityEnsues laughing my head off]]. ** This just in: [[Tropers.ReikoKazama This troper]]'s ''mum'' had one today, one that I wish I could have been there for (she told me about it on the way back home from school). She was shopping, and she ''fell over onto a pile of tomato soup cans''. And to top it off, on the way to pick me up, the radio was playing - of all things '''"Tubthumping"'''. ''I get knocked down, but I get up again...'' I cracked up when she gave me the details, and it instantly became a [[MemeticMutation meme]] on my part. *** Same troper again, wondering why this got moved. Anyway, here are a couple more: **** Was playing Soul Calibur 2 (just got it today), arcade mode, Talim's Destined Battle against [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Yunsung (or Yunseong, as they're spelling it now).]] Round one, whack whack whackitty whack, wanted to get him out of the ring... and ended up hitting him (face first, mind you) right into a wall just outside of the ring. Laughed for the rest of the match. ***** [=SCII=] again, extra(?) arcade mode with I don't remember who (I think it was Ivy), vs. Cervantes on this stage surrounded by what looks like green water. He did his human torpedo type thing... and it hit me, but [[ArtificialStupidity he couldn't stop himself in time. I just watched him fly right off the edge of the stage and into the]] [[BuffySpeak weird... green... water... type... stuff.]] ****** Yet another one happened a few minutes ago. I'd just gotten out of the bath, dried myself off and put on my underpants ([[FetishFuelStationAttendant nothing on top yet]]), and I was trying to get some moisturizer out of a tube that didn't have very much left in it. So I folded it up at the bottom and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything squeezed, thinking it'd ooze out like it usually did,]] [[FreudWasRight but instead it just... erupted, spurting out all over me, starting from a thin line up my stomach to a relatively little pool of the stuff on my chest, just under my boobs.]] The only other witness besides myself was my mum, and we just... looked at each other for a while before I cracked up. Couldn't stop laughing for a good few minutes. I actually [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder asked her]], "[=~Does This Remind You Of Anything?~=]". She said no, so [[DontExplainTheJoke I told her it was a rhetorical question.]] * This troper and her family were playing Pictionary. None of my

family are great at drawing, so we always have moments of 'what the heck is that supposed to be?' However, when my mother drew a circle with a squiggly line coming out of it, my (then) 11-year old brother knew exactly what it was... "A SPERM!" We were all laughing hysterically for at least 10 minutes. To put it into perspective, this was coming from a boy who still thinks girls are icky and a family which does not talk about sex. (He was wrong, by the way. It was a balloon, IIRC) * I was at a camp for the weekend with my Boy Scout troop.I'm chatting with another scout, and the conversation begins to get a little private, so we go into his tent to talk further. Another scout says, "you guys aren't going to go have gay cowboy sex in there, are you?" The guy I'm talking to says, "No. We're not cowboys". * This troper recently rediscovered her love of Soul Calibur 2, and decided to play a quick Arcade Round as Raphael. I progressed through the stages without incident until I hit Ivy... and for my finishing move, kicked her so that she spun around... and slammed face first into a pillar on the edge of the arena, knocking her out! I gaped for a good thirty seconds. * This troper's father and this troper were having a conversation when this troper ACCIDENTALLY replied in a British accent. FYI, we live in Florida and I've never been outside of the US in my life. I do, however, occasionally imitate a British accent for fun, but never before have I accidentally used it. We laughed for several minutes. * This troper was in the middle of a martial arts class, with everyone practicing kicks and defense in couples when the lights went out. Cue half a dozen cries of pain and a terrified "I'm BLIND!" yell. * This troper was at her friend's house for a birthday. We had some balloons and decided to have some fun sucking in the helium: ---> ''Me:'' You know this stuff is really bad for you, right? Like, enough could kill you? ---> ''Friend 1:'' (squeaky voice) This can KILL you?! ---> ''Friend 2:'' (in a borderline chipmunk voice and in complete deadpan) Well it's either that or cancer. [[HilarityEnsues Cue uncontrollable laughter]] and problems breathing. * Recently, [[Tropers/{{PoptartTan}} this troper]] had one with her friend--we were playing a variant of the Monopoly game, designed by students to help us build our vocabulary. We were playing this with [[ThatOneGuy some other people who didn't contribute to this moment at all]]. I took the playing piece of the hat, and my friend took the piece of the canon, I think. What happened was that you would be asked to give the definition for a certain base/"vocab stem" or give the stem for a given definition (EX: If they asked what "Bi" meant, you'd say two, and if they just said "two", you'd say "Bi".). If you answered incorrectly, you were sent into jail, losing a turn. At one point ''very'' early on in the game, I was the only one not in the jail. This caused me to proclaim, "The only reason I'm not in jail is because I'm {{Batman}}." I added in that I was also a '''hatwearing''' {{Batman}}, mind you, since it was my gamepiece. [[TemptingFate Cue me being put into jail almost right after that.]] This caused me to say. "Okay, so I'm EVIL hat-wearing Batman." My friend joined in at this moment, stating that she was Evil Robin who

Uses a Canon, since she had the canon piece. The prospect of actually playing the game accordingly [[HilarityEnsues pretty much faded off into absolute nothingness at that point,]] since nobody really cared about the gameplay because they were so ''bored''. This left my friend and me to incorporate the unused game pieces into our ever-morphing characters, and the rest thing was basically a real-life version of the WikiWalk. Long story short, we went in there simple human beings and came out as Evil Hat-wearing Batman who Steals Cars and Castles and Evil Horse-riding Robin who Uses a Canon and steals All Your Shiny Stuff. ** Also, this e-mail conversation that just sort of [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment popped up out of nowhere]] (apologies for l33t speak): --->''Me'': AH'LL SLAM UR HAMMAH --->''Friend'': NU!! MY HAMMAH!!! ---> ''M'': WELL AH HAMMAH U WIT MAH PERSUHNAL HAMMAH --->''F'': WELL AH'LL GET MAH SLUDGE HAAMMA! ---> ''M'': FUULED YOU MAH HAMMAH IS RELLEH EN AXE ---> ''F'': *pulls out bazooka* ---> ''M'': FUULED U AGAIN IT'S AN AXE-HAMMAH-BAZOOKA-MEDIEVAL-FLAILCANNON-ON-FIRE-THAT-FIRES-BLEEDING-DINOSAUR-NINJA-ZOMBIE-BATMANS ---> ''F'': OH YEAH? MY BAZOOKAH CAN TURN INTO A TANK! MWHAHAHAHA ---> ''M'': FUULED U 1NCE MOAR IT'S REALLY A ROCKET-POWERED-STATUE-OFLIBERTY-MEETS-EIFFEL-TOWER-AXE-HAMMAH-BAZOOKA-MEDIEVAL-FLAIL-CANNONON-FIRE-THAT-FIRES-BLEEDING-DINOSAUR-NINJA-ZOMBIE-BATMANS! WITH [[DragonballZ KAMEHAMEHA]]! ---> ''F'': dammit. I cant beat a kamehameha... except GENKAI GAMA! ---> ''M'' : FUULED U YET AGAIN U GULLIBLE U IT IS A ROCKET-POWEREDSTATUE-OF-LIBERTY-MEETS-EIFFEL-TOWER-AXE-HAMMAH-BAZOOKA-MEDIEVALFLAIL-CANNON-ON-FIRE-THAT-FIRES-BLEEDING-DINOSAUR-NINJA-ZOMBIE-BATMANS TRANSFORMER! WITH KAMEHAMEHA AND MOON PRISM POWAH ON FIYA ON A VOLCANO ON THE SUN WITH METALLICA ---> ''F'': oh yeah? Well screw you im the hulk. =p ** And now, this one that happened last night. Whilst watching TheSoup, this troper asked her mother to explain what a pap smear was. After the explanation, this happened: ---> ''Mom'': Any other questions? ---> ''Me'': Well, maybe. It'd be a question I already know the answer to, but just something I want to hear you say. ---> ''Dad'': *in a deep, grovelly voice, pretending to be holding a cigarette* And that's what an anal wart is! *** The best part was that he pretended to be a smoker for the sake of pretending to be a smoker. Her mother never smoked once in her life. * This troper asked his friend, an avid hiker if he ever got blisters on his feet. His response? "Hell no. Y'know why? I got DrMotherfucking-Scholls in these bitches. They're all rubber and shit, and they last like months. Shit, it's like walking on puffy clouds made of ice cream and orgasms when you got these things plastered in between your toes." * [[@/{{Dallenson}} This troper]]'s [[Tropers/{{aoirann}} brother]] went to a picnic as [[{{Megas XLR}} Coop]] and when He came home, He played something He dowloaded on his cell phone

[[{{MostAnnoyingSound}} RING RING RING, RING RING RING.]] [[{{Pokemon}} PHONE CALL, PHONE CALL]]. Cue this troper peforming a laugh/cry at the same time. ** From the same troper, He was playing [[{{Darkforcessaga}} Jedi Academy]], It was a {{Crowning moment of awesome}} combined with this, during the mission to Vjun, He Killed a cultist and as the death cam panned to the left [[{{Memeticbadass}} Kyle Katarn]] came in from the right and kicked the cultist, in which the corpes flew into the wall left to him ** This Troper Occasionally plays [[{{Supersmashbrosbrawl}} Brawl]] With his brothers friends, [[{{Fanboy}} and Always choose's]] [[{{Pokemon}} Lucario]] One part started a Household Meme "Gay captain Falcon" and "Falcon! GAY!". ** another, while playing [[{{Scrappylevel}} New Pork City]] He Dared Joey to attempt to [[{{Schmuck bait}} flip the switch on the Ultimate Chimera]], Unintentionally, mark got chomped afterwards, ** while playing on final dest. Mark and I were on there final lives, then as I was preparing a [[{{Limitbreak}} Final Smash]], mark accidentally used a Down air attack as [[{{windwaker}} Toon Link]]..... while theres no platform. Sure this ruined the {{Crowning moment of awesome}}, but this troper was one the ground ** forgot these. At one moment [[{{Left4dead}} zoe--]] [[{{Precisionfstrike}} FUCK!]] Joey was playing shiek and Mark played toon link and Joey Got the Final smash, I avoided it probably but As joey was about to pull it off, Mark tried to use his B move (Which is the bow) Joey saw this and fired the Light bow while saying "Mines Bigger" ** Final, One point Joey got the hammer and I couldnt avoid him in time, And before it hit he said "Hello" * After buying a pair of Aviators, I used them frequently in a distinctively David Caruso-esque fashion, with varying levels of success. My moment finally came, when, after a remodelling of our school, everyone was confused as to where the different blocks were, and I heard this golden exchange from a (really, really pretty) girl I sit with in the library: ** Girl I Have A Major Crush On: I just don't know where any of my classes are any more. I don't know where G-block is, and that's my next lesson! *** Me: (Whips out sunglasses) Looks like this is one more G-Spot... (Puts on sunglasses, stares into middle distance) ...that people are having trouble finding. ''YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH'' (Everyone around bursts into hysterics, including aforementioned pretty (Meganekko, even better) girl, making my day) * So my mother works with a lady whose son is mentally challenged, but still living on his own. Naturally, she has to call her son daily. So recently, she called him up and he remarked that he had caught a troll. Thinking it was a little odd, she decided that he was just imagining things. Still, it stuck in her mind for the next few hours. So she visits her son's house only to find it a mess - couch tipped over, furniture destroyed, a damn battleground. She finds her son in the back bedroom, looking excited with a chair propped up on the

closet door. She asked him to see the troll and he opened up the closet door...to reveal a "little person." It turns out that the poor guy had been a census worker who came to his house to collect the information. * This troper went camping with her best friend, a mutual friend (who happened to be dating one of our guy friends at the time), and my best friend's boyfriend for said BFF's birthday. At one point the guy in the group started rubbing his elbow. Cue the most hilariously awkward conversation EVER. ---> BFF: "Stop playing with your weenus." ---> Her boyfriend: "What?" ---> BFF: "Your weenus. It's the skin on your elbow." Cue endless jokes about our exposed weenuses and playing with our weenus. * This troper and her friends were preparing the camp out in the back garden one yer, but unfortunatly none of us actually knew how to put a tent up. Most of the evening was spent whacking each other with the sticks that hold the tent up, flinging pegs at each other and playing swingball while one friend shouted 'It's raining! We have to put this up! Listen to me! Listen to me! Listen to me!' over and over again. The funniest moment was probably when we were finally getting serious and gathering all the equipment that had been spread around the garden. The tent cover had gone missing and just as this troper asked where it had gone, one friend rammed her way into the center of the group, wrapped up in it and proclaimed that she was a snail. * This troper and his friend were told to keep guys out of the place where we work. Guys we know as dickwads come along, start beating the glass doors in. This troper's friend pulls out a garage door opener from his pocket, and looks up at the lighting fixtures above the guys who just cracked a window. Then he starts to beg me; 'please, can I?' and waving the little remote control around. I get it, and answer back: "Nah, we don't want to kill anyone." All this and our little argument of what we should do is happening in full view of the guys banging on the door. This troper's friend was such a convincing actor, that the guys 'bought it' and ran off, thinking something'd drop on their heads or something. The friend's reputation among the guys in our area as a BadassBookworm and being CrazyPrepared helped (he has a satchel with a wrench, knife and medical kit in it, among other things.). We had to get replaced because we were laughing so hard. ** Also, an incident back in highschool which we have dubbed [[FateStayNight 'Unlimited Chair Works']] where we were stacking chairs, and someone pushed him a little too over the edge. Cue stream of flying chairs. * So, 9th grade Speech class, we're playing Charades for some reason, except you can only do movie names. It's boys vs. girls. While discussing names, someone brings up Hancock. We laugh quietly and then we actually realize how hilarious it would be, so we put it as one of our names. The first name the girl got? Hancock. We saw her face when she read it, and when she symboled two syllables there were high-5s all around. She gives in and for the second syllable points at a boy, then at the 'area'. The boys side of the room just bursts out in laughter. We lost horribly, but it was damn worth it!

* This Troper's adorable-looking friend Sasha wound up eating a giant turkey leg (in a humorously manly way) at one point. What made it even funnier was that next moment her brother sits down at the table with two jugs of chocolate milk, setting them down on the table as though they were alchohol. My friend made note of this, which led to an awesome conversation about whiskey, turkey legs and starving Buddists in Korea. Actually, there were several Crowning moments here-- Sasha's turley leg was actually a CrowningMomentOfAwesome however-- here's a summary of the conversation about Korea. ** After Arlando sat down with the chocolate milk, Sasha, Arthur (her other brother) and myself started discussing giant turkey legs. Then one of us looked up (there was a plane in the sky) and said something like "Wouldn't it be awesome to just drop food on starving people from a plane painted blue, so it looked like food is falling from the sky?" and then Arlando said something about dropping turkey legs on North Korea, and Arthur pointed out they were all Buddhists there, and since Buddhists are vegetarians they'd be all like "Noooo! why has God forsaken us?" *** Probably unrealistic, but damn funny. * I had recently been having a huge urge to re-watch Mulan, and after doing so had had all three musical numbers stuck in my head. During dinner I pointed this out, which led to a brief discussion (already typed it out five times today so I'm leaving you in the dark) involving Hugh Jackman, at which mom said "he's cute." Unfortunately, this broke my concentration, and I said "Great, you had to mention cuteness and now I'm thinking about that one guy who spent a good chunk of the movie shirtless." which was the truth, except the ShirtlessScene was only a few minutes. I was talking about Shang at the time, damn you my teenage hormones.... Anyway, dad said "he's a cartoon character" and trailing off with my head sinking into my hands, I muttered "Just because he's a cartoon character doesn't mean he can't be hot..." * This guy in my history class was being a real asshole. The bell rang, and he decided to continue being an asshole as I trailed behind him in the hallway. Sleep-deprived, a little bit loopy and therefore in no mood to grin and bear it, I tossed my stuff on the ground and yelled at the top of my lungs, ''[[RobotChicken "TESTICLE ATTACK NUMBER FORTY-NIIIIIIIINE!"]]'' while running headfirst at his midsection like a charging ram. He started to run backwards (rather than dodging sideways) and toppled down a flight of stairs before I could nail him. Cue a stairwell full of [[HilarityEnsues ensuing hilarity]] as the guy rolls into a very suprised and eventually pissed-off teacher. ** Wh- What the hell?! I'm laughing but I have no idea what the hell was just said. * A friend of mine has a MagicTheGathering deck entirely composed of Slivers: Creatures that give every other sliver on the field a tiny bonus. (A few more hit points/attack, the ability to regenerate, etc) The deck is rather overpowered by itself since in a few turns it can pump out massive creatures. We at one point decided to play a three person game. With that one deck. It got remarkably stupid. * A few weeks ago, I was working with two people, one of which I'm a

friend of, and one of which ''hates my guts'' and gets ''even angrier'' when I refuse to treat her as angrilly as she treats me. Me and the friendly co-worker were having discussion about how I have the silly ability to turn anything into a GreenLantern -style Oath. With Angry Worker looking on, Friendly Worker asked me if I could make a Oath based on Angry Worker. I said no. Friendly Worker asked why. I smiled and explained that, unfortunately, DC Comics had already made an Oath based on Angry Worker: '' '''"With Blood and Rage of crimson red, ripped from a corpse so freshly dead, together with our hellish hate, we'll BURN YOU ALL, that is your fate!"''' ''. I had quoted the Red Lantern Oath (Red Lanterns are powered by Rage, quite fitting for Angry Worker.) I laughed my rear off, Friendly Worker laughed his rear off, and Angry Worker got more impotently angry. ** As an added bonus, one of the reasons why Angry Worker disliked me was that I liked being around her mom (who, being a redhead, was nicknamed Lady Red) far more than her. ** Also, I was wearing a custom-made Red Lantern ring at the time, and was able to ''do ring-charging motions while saying it''. * At this troper's school, some of the members of the higher maths class decided to graffiti the teachers register book. She later discovered this and started lambasting everyone, and started to read out some of the names they'd written on there. Most of it was the standard "gangsta" bullshit, until the last one: "10 star general...and Harry Potter". Everyone, including the teacher, immediately burst out laughing like maniacs. * This troper's brother had some scheduling problems at work. He returns home on the faithful evening and the following ensues: --->'''Brother''': But lemme tell ya man, I've had it with this. It's time for change. --->'''Troper''': Time for what? --->'''Brother''': Change. --->'''Troper''': * Channeling [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Chester A. Bum]]* CHANGE?! YA GOT CHANGE?! * During one of this troper's school plays last year, towards the end of the show, one of the characters said "Looks like once again, Smolder couldn't finish what he started." Cutting her off before she could finish the line, one of the technical crew--from the very back of the theater--calls out "That's what she said!" Cue the entire theater, all the actors offstage, and the actors ON stage laughing uproarously for at least five minutes. ** While we're on the subject, this troper recalls an instance during his troupe's production of ''Little Shop of Horrors''. During the scene where Mushnik (my character) is interrogating Seymour about the latter's alleged murder, I crossed upstage, trying to tuck a tiny flashlight into a nonexistant breast pocket. -->Me: Yes, it seems they made a routine investigation into the disappearence of that motorcycle--I don't have a pocket there. There was some prolonged giggling in the audience, which intensified greatly once I tugged the flashlight back out and placed it in the breast pocket on the OTHER side of the jacket. It amazes me that I was able to stay in character with the entire theater cracking up before me--laughing with me, and not at me, as they assured me later.

* This (spectacles wearing) troper has many but one that stands out was when several of her friends visited after school. Bringing in a bottle of coke for our guests, the troper's mother asked her to get the glasses. [[TooDumbToLive Cue the troper blinking at her for about a minute before replying slowly; "But they're on my face..."]] Cue friends and mother dying of laughter, "but they're on my face" has subsequently entered our lexicon as a reply to use when someone asks for something impossible. * In my social studies class, someone mentioned seeing a news article about another teacher/student affair, and my teacher said something to the effect of "There's been a lot of those lately". In a totally deadpan tone I said "They must be in season", eliciting major laughs even from my stone-faced ex-CIA agent social studies teacher. * I just recently participated in a SuperSmashBrosBrawl tourney, hosted at my school. My best friend and I were determined to make it to the finals and face off against one another like old buddies should. It was him and I, playing as Ike and Falco, respectively. It was one of the closest, most nerve-wracking matches ever. We were so evenly matched, that we even managed to get to sudden death. When he tried to end me with a quick side smash, I dodged, grabbed and launched him upwards. Lady Luck wasn't on my side that day...since a bomb came out of nowhere blasting me offscreen, and giving my rival the win by literally a second. What did I scream upon facing defeat? "SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH THE G-DIFFUSER!" * A couple of friends of [=ThisTroper=] have quotes from him written down for posterity. They are "I doubt the Daily Mirror described anyone as influential, it's a four-syllable word', 'Did you just blame not understanding a diss on the speed of sound?' and my personal favourite 'You know, I'll have to be really careful what I say around you now because if I say anything stupid it's preserved for all eternity oh god damnit'. * This troper logged onto MSN after a hard day. My friend opened with a traditional greeting: --> '''Friend:''' Penis. --> '''Me:''' A million dollars. --> '''Friend:''' What? --> '''Me:''' Sorry, I thought we were talking about things we didn't have. ** C. M. o. AWESOME!!!! ** MadeOfWin * This troper was chewing a piece of gum that was annoying to chew and took it out and said "Damn it, the thing gets hard five seconds after I take it out of my mouth!" My 25 year old sister then said "That's what she said." And then we high-fived. * This Troper's brother once coined the hilarious statement "The Pillsbury Doughboy is my roll model." My sister and I still laugh about that pun from time to time. ** I was about to correct your spelling and then I realized it was part of the joke. Well played. * This just happened to this Troper: He, his brother, and his sister were all eating some fast food. Sister was very angry at both of her brothers, and they kept taunting her until she burst out: "YOU GUYS

JUST WANT TO TAUNT ME UNTIL I DIE AND YOU CAN TAKE MY FRIES!" This Troper and his brother started laughing uncontrollably. * This troper was watching someone broadcast himself playing the original ''MegaMan''. Said broadcaster, after getting killed by the Mega Man clone, slammed his controller on the desk (which he usually does when he gets frustrated), but this time, ''the camera falls off''. Later, he attempted ''SuperMarioBros: The Lost Levels'' and, after a panicky moment in World 4-1, climbed the block pyramid preceding the flagpole and, in an act of EpicFail, jumped...into the hole right in front of the flagpole. "Oh shit!" indeed. * First, a little set-up: A friend had slightly injured her foot, and attempted to text my sister the message: "My foot hurts." Unfortunately, she is a very sloppy typist and her cell phone has an Auto-fill-in feature, so the message came out: "My font guru." It was a mildly amusing running gag among our small group for a while, in the vein of "Ha-ha, she can't spell!" Some time later, sister and friend and another friend and I took a trip to the Getty Center, where they had an exhibit of illuminated books and manuscripts from the Middle Ages. We were all staring at one, heartily impressed by the way the scribe had managed to make the letters so uniform and perfect without lined paper or stencils or anything. Suddenly, my sister said "Wow...that guy was a font guru!" Cue riotous laughter. In an art museum. (This also possibly qualifies as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for my sister, for spontaneously coming up with such a witticism.) ** Through the magic of predictive text, this troper has on several occasions asked friends if they wanted to meet up for a riot instead of a pint. Not much of a problem until, so used to leaving it as 'riot', he reflexively set up a Facebook group inviting dozens of people who hadn't met up for some time to meet for a riot in London. Hilarity ensued eventually, once everything had been straightened out. * Several years ago, [[@/FreezairForALimitedTime this troper]] went out and rented the game ''BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg.'' Intriguied, this troper's sister came into her room to watch her play. She watched as this troper played through the first mission, with starts out with the hero as his normal self... shortly after which, he accquires a chicken suit. In WTF Mode, her sister said, exasperated, "''Whhhhyy'' a chicken suit...?" Then, without missing a beat, excitedly: "Can I play?" This troper had to pause, as they both broke down laughing. * [[SeanTucker This troper]] managed to make molecular biology epic. The way of doing this? Yelling out passages from the textbook in a [[NoIndoorVoice voice]] that would make [[ThreeHundred Leonidas]] deaf. It was hilarious. ** [[{{Maniette}} This troper]] also has a science tale, but hers is of her friend. Her year eight science class had some year Nines in it. Said friend was one, and she was asked to read out a passage about organic organisms. [[FreudianSlip Guess what]] [[HilarityEnsues she said.]] * {{Bob}}'s sister had a ''flawless'' moment of JustInTime. After traveling halfway around the world (from Chile to Sweden) to celebrate the holidays at home SHE walked into the living room where I was watching a movie and called out a cheerful "Hello!". The ''very next line'' from the movie I was watching?

-->'''[[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Davy Jones]]''': ''Let no joyful voice be heard!'' * This troper played an online text rpg, and her clan used MSN as a discussion broad/chatting platform. While the clan itself was large, the chatroom group was a small one consisting mostly of the senior members of the plan. One of her senior clanmates roleplayed an angel (wings and all) and one of the running gags is that he always ended up having his wings plucked bald by an even more high-ranking female demoness clanmember for pillow/matteress/quilt stuffing. The demoness was my mentor in the clan, and I was quickly roped in to join the 'plucking' game. Due to my [[{{KnifeNut}} twisted]] and [[{{AxCrazy}} sadistic]] tendancies, piled on with random moments of [[{{DeadpanSnarker}} snarkiness]], I quickly became [[{{EvilerThanThou}} MORE feared]] than the original, and was even called something of the demoness' [[{{LaserGuidedTykebomb}} Mini-Me]]. Another running gag eventually developed where the angel would come to me role-playing [[{{CovertPervert}} hugging my legs or something to that effect]], and I role-play screaming "PERVE!" and kicking him in the crown jewels. The [=CMoF=], however, came from this particular discussion, where the angel attemped to smart talk himself out of another plucking. (Role-play names changed to protect privacy, copied word-for-word from the chatroom) --> '''Angel:''' Actually, I replaced the wings with clip-ons. --> '''Me:''' ''Really.'' --> '''Angel:''' Yep, but go ahead, continue sitting on me. :-) --> '''Me:''' (stands up and kicks angel in the groin) Perve. --> '''Demoness:''' LOL. You've got that coming, angel. --> '''Angel:''' Actually, that part is fake too. --> '''Clan Queen:''' EVERYTHING??? --> '''Angel:''' Yep, knew this would happen. So I left my vital parts at home. --> '''Clan Treasurer:''' LOL --> '''Angel:''' I even replaced it with a vibrating device. --> '''Me:''' Amazing. He's so insecure in his manhood that he needs a vibrator to help his performance in bed. --> ''(pause. Followed by a full page of [=LOLs=] and [=ROTFLs=] from the other members)'' --> '''Me:''' The irony is that this is coming from the guy who boasts of having tons of girls in BANG KOK...your words, angel, not mine...and claims to be a chick magnet. ''(pause. More chatroom laughter)'' On the other hand, maybe that vibrator is helping you with the girls. God knows how'd you manage to land those girls other wise. --> '''Clan Treasurer:''' Lol, angel, that [[{{EpicFail}} completely backfired]] on you. --> '''Clan Queen:''' [Troper] for the WIN! Woot! --> '''Demoness:''' gasp....hahahahaa....can't.....BREATHE. :'( XD Oh god I'm dying. --> '''Me:''' Don't worry. I have an [[{{AnachronismStew}} oxygen tank]] handy. :-) * In eighth grade, this troper was a massive Backstreet Boys fan. One day, in homeroom, a boy started singing part of "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)", and when he got to the "am I sexual?" part,

Troper sang back, in perfect key, "Helllll no." Cue the laughter of a classroom full of thirteen year olds, including the guy who was singing in question. * This troper (KKDW) is a member of forum which is basically one giant CaptionContest and reckons he (along with everyone else on that forum) has achieved several [[CrowningMomentOfFunny crowning moments of funny]] with the captions they produce. My personal favourite caption of all the ones I've produced came about while we were captioning BackToTheFuture. The caption read: ''[[http://zeecaps.multiservers.com/pix/blacktothefuture05.jpg Doc heroically cartwheels to safety!]]'' * This troper was once playing ''The LegendOfZelda: Twilight Princess'' with his little sister watching. During the wolf segment near the beginning of the game, I talked to one of the chickens in Ordon Village...to which my sister raised an eyebrow. -->'''Sister''': Wait...was the chicken just flirting with you? -->[[BeatPanel (Awkward pause.)]] -->'''This Troper''': [[IncrediblyLamePun Link gets all the chicks.]] * I always manage to never be around when my family has these moments, including a time where my father apparently had switched channels with the words being said before and after he switched combining to form a swear. However, a minor moment I had was while MSTing Barney, there were some robots, and Barney had said that they liked to help and dance, after which I said, "and kill!" * This troper has a long history of saying unintentionally hilarious things: ** Once when his family were all gathered around watching television, someone changed the channel to Star Trek: Voyager. The busty cyborg lady Seven of Nine appeared and he said, with a totally straight face, "I wonder if she's cold in that suit." His parents were in stitches. ** When he was much younger, he was playing Super Mario 64 and came upon the courtyard where all the ghosts were floating around. In a loud voice he proclaimed, "LOOK AT ALL THE BOOS!" Which everyone within earshot mistook as "LOOK AT ALL THE BOOZE!" *** [[{{Blackadder}} "Great Boo's up!"]] ** Just last week, he was talking with a friend who was trying to decided how to decorate a box she had. After suggesting some random things (macaroni, newspaper comics, broken glass, etc.), he said, "I know! You should cover your box with HAIR!" Did this troper mention his friend was a girl? Needless to say, [[HilarityEnsues there was much hilarity.]] * I got one in 10th grade Biology. The teacher was explaining chlorophyll, and the non-death of trees in the winter> "See that tree, it's not dead, just sleeping." [[spoiler:"That's what they said about the dog."]] * Partially also a, um, crowning moment of adorable I guess: This troper's family was at a lakeside campsite one summer, just sitting around in front of the trailer, when we all suddenly heard a "plop!" sound. Then another. And another... A few ducklings then fell off the awning and casually waddled off. It was then we realized that they'd been learning to fly and happened to decide that our awning looked like a safe place for an emergency crash landing. To this day the

"kamikaze ducks" are a family private joke. * Because this must be immortalized forever: this troper was recently in a production of a student-written musical about a terrible theater company trying to put on a musical version of ''TheCrucible''. During the first read-through of the very much work-in-progress script, one of the actors stumbled across a typo and said "Proctoris," instead of "Proctor is..." Instantly, the assistant director shouted at the top of his lungs, in what was probably a ShoutOut to ''{{Transformers}}'': -->'''Assistant Director''': ''And once we destroy Proctoris, we can assemble'' '''''THE MEGATRON!''''' ** "Proctoris" and the assembling and/or destroying thereof became the RunningGag of the show behind the scenes for its run. * This Troper belongs to a funny family-if anyone cracks a joke,reactions range from falling off beds to being unable to speak for nearly a half hour. Our [=CMoF=],that is our official RunningGag, is due to my older sister. One day,while on vacation,my father is having a talk with my little sister,most likely about where we would go that day. Suddenly,out of nowhere, older sister runs in,asking in shock and horror SOMEONE IS CHOKING ON A BIRD?! word for word. She honestly thought that someone said something sounding like I Am Choking On A Bird,but god knows what. * This Troper was talking with someone. Then a light above begins to go out. The person he was talking to jokes about this troper having telekinesis. He puts his hands in the air toward the light, and it flickers brightly for a split second. Cue laughter. * [[JapaneseTeeth This troper]] was playing SuperSmashBrothers with some guys in his college dorm, and threw a pokeball with a Moltres in it. This exchange occurred between two of the other players. -->'''Zack:''' What the heck is that thing? -->'''Andy:''' Touch it. It'll give you special powers. -->''* Jumps into the Moltres. Instant death.* '' -->'''Zack:''' You ''bastard!'' ** I nominate Andy for a Crowning Moment of Manipulative Bastardry. ** This troper did something similar to his younger brother during a game of Marshmallow Duel. -->'Touch the skull! It'll kill your opponent instantly!' ** As mentioned elsewhere, [[ShotgunNinja this troper]] has done it with the sword in ''IWannaBeTheGuy''. ** While playing GTA IV: 'The helicopter gets a boost if you press Y.' Can't believe I actually fell for it. ** Same thing happened to this troper's sister in San Andreas: --->'''This troper:''' Press Y, something cool will happen. --->'''Sister:''' You just want me to kill myself. --->'''This troper:''' No, why the hell would they put a suicide button in the game? --->* Y button. Mile-high fall from military helicopter.* --->'''Sister:''' I hate you. ** Similar thing with MGS 3 here. --->Me hanging off bridge. "How do I get up?" ---> Freind "You press X" --->I press X. Cue Game Over screen. Me "Oddly I knew that was going to happen"

** This troper witnessed a Crowning Moment of Manipulative Bastardry while playing ''Left4Dead'' Co-Op. We had a new player with us, first time playing the No Mercy campaign. He actually does really well and we finish the finale and start running to the helicopter pad. Another player, by the name of Evan, convinces the new guy that if you go onto the chopper, you die. He then told the new guy that the only way to win the campaign was to jump off the hospital and that parachutes would open as you were falling. Guess who believed every word? * This troper had one occur in a college course in Ancient Greek. -->'''Student #1:''' So the word for "foot" is a masculine word? -->'''Teacher:''' Yes. Of course, it doesn't mean that women didn't have feet. -->'''Student #1:''' The little mermaid didn't have feet. -->'''Student #2:''' But her father did... -->'''Class Clown who hasn't been paying attention until this point:''' '''KING TRITON!''' -->'''Rest of class:''' ''* goes silent and stares* '' * [[{{Kalle}} I]] had an ''epic'' CMOF during a run of ''MarioKart Wii''. Two of my friends, a guy and a girl, were racing on N64 Bowser's Castle, and the girl was just getting to one of the outside jumps over the pool of lava. Right before she approached the ramp, I said, "Hey, there's a shortcut to your right." She took the path to the right... and ''just'' as she jumped, she was hit by a pillar of flame and plummeted into the lava. I just about ''died'' at the sheer coincidence (though I did get smacked in the arm for my trouble.) * Arguing with my brother over his taunting in early November, he said he would leave the presents out and electrify them so I couldn't open them. My response? "Then I'll ground them first!" Cue bursting out in laughter from my power-plant-working dad and brother. ** One day, I'm in the computer room, listening to the beginning of my brother playing MetalGearSolid 3. I hear things along the lines of "Only you can complete this crucial mission!" I call over, "No pressure!" ** The HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows movie has a moment where the radio begins playing a highly appropriate for the moment song about...well, something sad, I forget the details. I just remember that I promptly leaned over to whisper to my brother [[ShaunOfTheDead "It's on random."]] * This troper has a classmate who does not do so well under pressure. -->'''Teacher:''' So, what can you tell me about this picture of the Founding Fathers? Student, can you tell us anything? -->'''Student:''' (panicking) Uhhh...they're all wearing man-tights! ** Which reminds me... -->Student: "The Cold War was so called because, uuuh, it was very cold..." -->Class: * everyone straights up, horrified* -->Teacher: "It was a... weather thing...?" -->Class: * Frantically shaking their heads* -->Student: "...Yes?" -->Class: * Collective facepalm* * This troper has a friend who proved that you can make any statement hilarious by adding "...''Ladies''." to the end. He demonstrated with

Winston Churchill's famous 'we will fight them on the beaches' speech. ** You're friends with Demetri Martin? Because he has a joke about how you can make anything sound creepy by adding "ladies". * My family has had several of these, especially with my Mum. One day she got bored, and dared me to play "Russian Roulette" with the dog (basically throwing a bottle of water to him, and then he'd throw it back until it burst on one of us) for her amusement. When it didn't burst after a while, she got fed up and took over, at which point the bottle burst, and she got completely soaked. * [[SharmHedgehog This editor]] managed one in Winter '07. My brother was in bed, and then, I slipped on a [[UncannyValley hideous mask]] and jumped out at him. Then, we were laughing about it the next day, and this happened. -->'''Brother''': So, when you jumped out with the mask, I was just like-- ''(absolutely horrified)'' '''''WAAAARRGGGHHHH!!!!!'''''\\ '''Me''': Hey, that was pretty good!\\ '''Brother''': No, look over there! ''(points to the frozen pool, where I see that my puppy Daisy is walking on the ice!)''\\ '''Me''': '''''WAAAARRGGGHHHH!!!!!''''' * This troper lives in Limerick. Her father is from Wicklow. He had a habit of teasing me and my brothers about Wicklow being real civilisation as opposed to Limerick. One year when we were driving to wicklow to visit various relatives, Dad was going on about it nonstop. Then: -->'''Sign:''' Welcome to Wicklow -->'''This Troper's Dad''': "Welcome to civilisation! (Immedietly followed by disgusting smell of someone spreading fertiliser.) -->'''This Troper's Mam''': "Great timing dear." -->'''This troper and her brothers''': Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...(gasp for breath)..hahahahahahahahah....(you get the idea) End of dad's annoying habit. ** I could barely breath after reading that. That is awesome...and very funny. * This trope more or less encompasses the entirety of my family. We all grew up listening to the comedy greats and my father and I are both rabid fans of [[MST3K Mystery Science Theater]]. The most recent one that comes to mind is that I'm sitting in the living room, watching a History channel special on... well, sex in Egypt. My dad walks in, looks quite impressed; the egyptians really, really liked sex. Cue me in full [[SarcasmMode Smartass Mode]]: -->'''Me:''' "Well, yeah! They lived in the middle of the desert... it was either bone or chisel shit on walls all day!" My dad laughed for a good 15 minutes... [[MST3K Crow]] lives in my head, I can't stop going MST on everything I watch. ** Another time comes to mind; Its a commercial break during AmericanDad and a commercial of just...idiotic proportions comes on. -->'''Commercial:''' What do our crackers taste like?" The commercial is so idiotic that my brain shuts down and I don't hear what brand it is. The spirit of George Carlin invades my soul and I begin spouting as soon as it ends: -->'''Me:''' "...Crackers. They taste like fucking crackers! Thats

what ''crackers are '''supposed to taste like'''!'' Its not a fucking mystery!" * [[FreezairForALimitedTime This troper]] has yet another ''SuperSmashBros Melee''-related Crowning Moment of Funny. As it happened, this troper's sister somehow roped her father into playing ''Melee'' with her. This troper was in a different room, but nonetheless listened in to try and figure out how things were going. At one point, she heard (predictably) the sound of her father lamenting a loss to her sister. Her sister said something incomprehensible, to which her father shouted: "WHAT? You mean that's a WOMAN? I just lost to a GIRL?!" This troper chuckled to herself, "Heh. Guess nobody told Dad that SamusIsAGirl." But this was not the [=CMoF.=] That came the next day, when she mentioned this to her sister. Her sister's reply?: "Oh, no! Dad [[{{Mondegreen}} mishead one of the victory screen cries.]] I was playing as [[DudeLooksLikeALady Marth.]]" This troper just about keeled over. * This troper's middle brother has his moments. -->'''Over dinner, age 10:''' "Dad, what's the difference in between a Protestant and a Prostitute?" -->Then, age 12, he runs into the oldest brother's room with a mop, a hefty fellow who was laying on his stomach on his bed at the time. Middle brandishes the mop like a harpoon and howls: '''"BLOW ME DOWN, IT'S MOBY DICK!"''' * This troper's sister once read her a screwball fairytale she wrote about an evil princess, her giant solar-powered mechanical chicken, and a farm girl with an affinity for mutant womp rats on a ride home from the airport. This troper was unable to stop laughing or even breathe properly well after they arrived home. * This troper's ''own'' laughter inspires [=CMOFs=]. There was one time back in high school when I was riding home on the bus. It was a foggy day so people were writing in the mist on the windows. The bus driver randomly yelled, "If you are writing in the fog on the windows, I WILL BE CHECKING FOR SPELLING!" This troper giggled. A small pause... then the rest of the bus burst into laughter. * This Troper has a knack for being able to respond to most serious questions with a lyric from any song I've heard before. -->Bully: Alright, I'm going to take you down-->Me: To the Paradise City where the grass is green and the girls are pretty? -->Friend: C'mon, I'd do ANYTHING for that Poutine! Hell, I'd chew my toe-nails, even! -->Me: I'd do anything for love, but I won't do that. -->Friend: Don't you get it? He's the best. He's THE MASTER. -->Me: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Oliva%27s_Pain He is the master, the devil you see, I've been infected with his disease]] -->Friend: It's time to celebrate! (Just won a Hockey Game against School Rivals) -->Me: Time to Celebrate your birthday, it happens every year, where you eat a lot of Broccoli and drink a lot of beer?

Cue outrageous laughter all-round. ** This troper loves to do the same thing with music, movies, and whatever else is in his mental attic: -->Teacher: Socrates loved to engage his students in dialogue. -->Me: [[BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure He also loved baseball! Billiards! And he loved San Dimas.]] -->Customer: Does this laptop connect to the Internet? -->Me (working sales): Nobody expects the Internet Connection! Its chief weapon is [=WiFi=]! [=WiFi=] and ethernet! Among its capabilities are [=WiFi=], ethernet, and dialup... (in [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Graham Chapman]] impression) Stop that now. This is getting silly. -->My mother: I'm making peanut butter sandwiches. You want yours with grape jelly or raspberry? -->Me: There's only [[LargeHam ONE MAN]] who would DARE give me the raspberry! [[{{Spaceballs}} LONE STARR!]] * This troper was at the J-pop dance of an anime convention with a few other girls. Friend 1 and I stepped out to get away from the otaku BO for a while, and ran across another friend (friend 2) who was shy of dancing, and had decided to wait for another friend. --->Friend 1: You can dance if you want to! --->Me: You can leave that friend behind. ---> * realization, grins* --->Together: Cause your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance then they're no friends of mine! * grab each other in a tango and dance back into the dance* We can dance! We can dance! * This Troper's had quite a few: ** Once this troper's family was cruising along in a car with nothing to do when they spotted a English Sheepdog. Almost on cue, this troper's sister chirps "Oh look! A lambdog!" ** This troper's parents were on a ski hill, and her dad was trying to show her mom a few tricks. "Hey [Name], do it like this!" Swish, swish, swish, SPLAT! Her mom nearly keeled over laughing. ** This Troper was in a evangelistic pantomime production recently with her friends. They had just finished their first performance and were very, very bored. One of the performers (not this troper) had brought her laptop, and the guy who was playing satan in the production was playing some sort of strategy game with penguins on it. Every once in a while he'd yell out "Not the penguins, not the penguins! NO! Did I just kill one?" With all these worry lines on his face. In full satan makeup and costume. All the performers just about wet themselves laughing. *** Maybe he was playing {{Disgaea}}, [[VerbalTic dood]]. ** This is the most recent one. This troper's youth group was having a girls night in, guys night out. She was just about to leave when she stumbled across a few of the guys who had come back early. They were waiting outside. ---> Them: What's taking the girls so long? ---> Me: They're probably trying to scrape all the makeup goop off

their faces. ---> Guy 1: Why do girls bother with makeup anyway? ---> Guy 2: To make themselves look good. ---> Guy 3: Is there anything that they can do to make us look good? ---> Me: * on her way out the door* It's a little to late for you. This troper could here them guffawing halfway across the church. * Only funny if you've seen West Side Story, but... this troper's Music Theory class was doing a 20 minute crappy musical that was full of music puns (the heroine was named Melody, the hero named Major Minor, etc.). We were doing the fight scene between Major Minor and Diabola and hadn't really planned anything out, so they began doing a fake lightsaber fight, which was funny enough, and then someone shouted "WEST SIDE STORY STYLE!" Cue both snapping their fingers and twirling around each other while fighting, and everyone falling to the ground with laughter. ** Similarly (in the vein of "it's funny if you've seen West Side Story"), my old hometown was made up of pretty much 50% Jewish people and 50% Asians. So when throwing around ideas for the spring musical in class one day, my old music teacher said "You know, I've always wanted to do West Side Story at this school, and have it be the Jews versus the Asians." The whole class cracked up. ** Another one related to West Side Story: The performance english class at our school was practicing out in the main courtyard, doing skits and dance routines. This troper's journalism class has a window that looks out on the commons, so we could see the practice. This troper's awesome Journalism teacher, just for fun and out of boredom, organized a West Side Story-style throwdown. Cue the entire journalism class walking in formation around the corner of the building, fingers snapping, toward the unsuspecting drama class. And it was across an empty courtyard, so it couldn't have looked more perfect. The drama class was laughing almost too hard to respond to the "challenge". * At my college, a Resident Advisor gave the students in our dorm a simple "initiation test:" paint her name on her parking space. We naturally balked at this, and instead painted her name on ''every other parking place on campus.'' One year later: --> '''My postdoc:''' It's impossible to find parking places here... they're all reserved by some VIP! * An administrator at my junior high school - let's call her Murdock was not happy ''at all'' when she saw one acrostic poem in the student literary journal. It spelled out MURDOCK IS THE ANTICHRIST. * At the beginning of the ''Twilight'' DVD (no, not [[Literature/{{Twilight}} that one]]; this one is from the year 1998) my mom was watching, while I was on the computer nearby and not paying much attention to anything else: --> '''Mom:''' Hey, Reese Witherspoon's naked. --> '''Me:''' (deadpan and very much female) Yeah, she's naked. Call me when there's a naked man. * [[GwenStacyWannabe I]] happen to be in an honors English class full of very...[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean oddly-minded]] people. Add to that that the teacher is pretty easy-going and his classes are run more like college classes (IE everyone talking out of turn and interjecting

random comments). It's just rife with these. ** We were discussing ''MobyDick'' after having had it assigned to us over the summer, and our teacher happened to ask what it was that Ishmael had lost after the crew had killed their first whale. The ''answer'' was fear, but we weren't very good at guessing and the answers just got sillier and sillier, until finally one of my classmates said (very loudly) "HIS PANTS!" [[HilarityEnsues The class never quite back under control after that...]] ** Just last week he was gushing over an introduction paragraph someone had written for an essay. This teacher has a very specific format he likes us to use: starting with a broad idea and narrowing it down to the specific point(s) of the essay. One of the more...special...people in another class has named this diagram "The [[InherentlyFunnyWords Underpants]] Diagram", because, well, that's how it tends to look when he diagrams it on the board. So, when said teacher was talking about this introduction paragraph, he said ([[LargeHam rather loudly and with much random emphasis]]) "It's PERFECT! It starts up at the band, and goes down to the crotch! [Student], YOUR UNDERPANTS ARE PERFECT!!!" Did I mention the walls of our school are very thin, so everyone in the adjoining classroom likely heard all of this? * This Troper, once upon a time, once had to redecorate the house he lived in with his ex. We had MOUNDS of paint swatches and the very first color we picked was a gorgeous electric blue. Now, because my ex, while sometimes sweet, is EXTREMELY wishy-washy, he kept finding other colors that he wanted to go with. On the night we finally decided on the color we had friends help us out and they, along with my ex, picked that very same electric blue for the living room that was our first choice. When I pointed this out, my ex got all defensive and snotty and uttered a phrase that will live on in infamy... --> '''Ex:''' (all whiney) Bleah, this is the first color we piiiicked, I'm Bob and I have magical poooowers. ** We all howled for about an hour. I still hear it 7 years later. Maybe it's funnier in context. * This troper was on a holiday with two other families and was told to look after the kids while the adults went out. I took them to the park, deciding that I might as well let them enjoy themselves rather than coop them up inside. Well, they were playing happily when the youngest of them comes up and asks me to guard his swing while he went to the bathroom. I said yes, sat down on the swing... not five seconds later, I was surrounded by a gaggle of irritating thirteen year old girls who then proceeded to be as patronisingly sweet as possible, both to me (I was older than them!) and to the kids. Needless to say, I was a ''little' bit annoyed... but not for long. Let me tell you, there is nothing more satisfying than watching a bunch of idiots run screaming in terror from a bunch of under-tens. I swear I didn't tell them to do it. Honest. [[strike:Maybe a little bit.]] * I was at the Manitou Springs arcade, a [[Main/ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin massive arcade in Manitou Springs, CO]], and had a pocket full of quarters. I entered a room and saw a [[Main/{{Tekken}} Tekken 3 machine]]. I decide to play it. I go through the character roster and decide to go with Kuma. I

subsequently win the next seven or so matches with nothing but hitting the punch button over and over again. Why is this funny? Every time I continued with this, I'd yell out "BEAR PUNCH ATTACK!!" [=CMoF=] and proof that EverythingsWorseWithBears. * I was in an argument with a guy who didn't like Speed because Keanu Reeves was in it. Horrified that that someone didn't like a movie I loved so much, I started to defend it. At first I tried to say that the movie brought out 'some' emotion in him, but realised that this was a dud argument before cutting to the main point and saying: "Look, you don't watch Speed for Keanu Reeves' acting." And an afterthought: "You don't watch ANY movie for Keanu Reeves' acting!" ** [[BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure Uhh...]] *** Have you ever seen an interview with the man? That isn't acting, that ''is'' Keanu Reeves! * This troper tends to mash her words together when speaking. A friend pointed this out to me, causing me to attempt to prove otherwise. I had it coming... I was going to say, "I speak PERFECT English!" What came out was, "I speak ''PERPER'' English!" Ever since then, "Perper English" is now a language of its own that consists entirely of words and sentences that I've botched. * This troper's brother has a lot of them, mostly from his and Dad's mission trips to Mexico. Highlights include: the defective chicken (instead of 'brr-b-brr-brr' it went 'brr-b-brr-BWOOO' and five or so seconds after the others), throwing rocks onto the (tin-roofed) outhouse and making another mission-tripper run out screaming, Dad's tin-roof-amplified snoring... comedy gold even years later. * Some background info; This Troper is a kid of divorced parents, and her little brother comes to stay at their dad's on Fridays and returns on afternoons. So, a few minutes after her mother came back with her brother, This troper's brother turned on the air-conditioning, which led to this; --> '''This Troper:''' I just turned this off! The air-conditioner deserves a vacation! --> '''Little Brother:''' The air-conditioner had enough vacation! It had one when I wasn't here! THE AIR-CONDITIONER MISSED ME! ** Another funny moment, after this troper's little brother pissed her off; --> '''This Troper''': [[DissonantSerenity * Smile* [Name Censored], I'll kill you.]] --> '''Little Brother''': Okay- I mean, No, No, NO, No, No, No! * [[FurikoMaru This troper]] couldn't help herself; her Dad was the one who wanted to see TheDaVinciCode in theatres, it was his own fault. At the [[ForegoneConclusion climactic]] [[TheReveal reveal]]: -->FurikoMaru: [[{{Dogma}} So... that would make Bethany... part black?]] -->Furiko's Dad: * loses it to the extent that ''the entire theatre'' shushes him* * [[{{Hydronix}} This troper]] built a Chaotic Neutral Necromancer in {{Dungeons and Dragons}}. It's funny enough that he raises dead to help people, but he died by sacrificing himself to allow others to

escape a deadly situation of Arrow Gang Rape. Then the other team finds a hidden passageway out. Lame for me, but goddamn hilarious for the rest of the group. --> My next characters could deal damage and take damage like a bitch.(both literally, being female) The one thing that kills her...Stat Damage. Her class can't heal it either...or any kind of Status effects for that matter. Yet she heals 250 a turn...with little cost. --> In a different session, every one of my characters died from mostly lame situations. One character almost died stuck in a pillar with a laser beams that attacks when he moves. I, unfortunately, didn't choose a form of Teleport as one of my powers... --> The same character dies later because of a "Touch of Death" ability...because I roll a 19 instead of 20... --> On a different note, and game, in {{Super Smash Bros}} Brawl, my nephew and I constantly get the funniest poses in 1-Player Mode that we, of course, can't take a snapshot of. Huh... * [[DarkHunter This troper's]] high school history class was watching ''Glory'' one day. If you've seen this movie, you know that the opening scene is NOT funny... especially the part where a soldier's head explodes due to being hit with a cannonball. Unless one student decides to shout "BOOM! Headshot!" at that moment. The entire class was roaring with laughter, even the teacher, although she was trying ''very'' hard to look disapproving. ** This troper's 8th grade social studies class watched Glory one day, and the class was so amused by said "headshot" moment that we forced the teacher to rewind and play it several times. After we all had a good laugh, he paused it right where you could see the guy's head asplode - and proceeded to give us a very serious lecture on ethics in the Civil War. It was really meant to be a serious lecture, but I couldn't help but look at the head explosion in the background throughout the entire thing. Nobody could have possibly really paid attention to anything he was saying. It was awesome. ** Similar situation here. Except it was The Patriot" instead of Glory. It was the first main battle scene and one mans head gets taken off by a cannon-ball. For some reason it looked so stupidly fake that I fell off my chair laughing so hard. * This troper's history class was talking about the incident when President Bush got a shoe thrown at him. We were talking about how it should have hit him when one girl decides to say "It's a good thing it was a shoe and not a bullet." We all knew what she meant, but one guy stands up and yells "Who the hell throws a bullet?!" ** The Army, [[http://antiprotester.blogspot.com/2007/08/propagandaof-week.html if you're this woman]]. DidNotDoTheResearch. Personally this troper thinks W got a great moment by ''not'' going ballistic and having his own [=CMoF=]: ---> '''Bush:''' "All I can report is a size 10." * ThisTroper went to see an amateur performance of ''West Side Story'' at her local theatre with her family. It had just gotten to the scene where Tony gets shot in the back as he's running into Maria's arms. It's supposed to be a highly moving moment. However someone in the

cast had thought it'd be a good idea to use a ''real'' gun (filled with blanks, obviously) or at the very least a very realistic fake one. The noise of the discharge was so loud that half the cinema jumped out of their seats and burst out laughing when we were supposed to be in cascades of tears. * This troper's brother was listening to a Backstreet Boy song on said troper's computer when this memorable conversation took place. -->'''Me''': Hey, change to metal or something. -->'''Brother''': * ignores* -->'''Me''': Geez, people would think you're girlier than I am. -->'''Brother''': Oh yeah? Well, you're manlier than I am--WAIT A MINUTE. Much laughter ensued. * A classic exchange, between this troper and her father. -->'''Me''': Ooh, you bought CheeseSticks! What flavor are they? -->'''Dad''': (deadpan) [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment Cheese]]. Both of us weren't able to breathe for about five minutes from laughing so hard. * In this troper's biology class, a girl wrote a love letter that was especially written so it would be relevant to Biology. The letter went something like this. -->'''Letter''': Dear _____, -->You're my sunshine buttercup, the only thing that makes my toes tingle. When I see your face my heart pumps faster, causing a heart attack. You are my adrenal gland my pancreas and my hypothalamus. -->When you're around my thermoregulation goes crazy. You're so radiant like a vatt of toxic waste, you regulate my hormones and nerves. -->I would love to give you a pet name like intracellular parasite and I'll share with you my AIDS, hepatitis and herpes. You're my endotherm to my ectotherm, my central nervous system to my peripheral nervous system. I want to photosynthesise with you. We shall become autotrophs together. -->I love every enzyme in your body, every complex organic molecule, every sex chromosome and of course every genetic disorder. -->Will you be my stomata? This was read out to the class by the teacher. Much laughter ensued. * This troper saw ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' at the Arclight in Hollywood on opening night with his roommate. Because it's Disney (and they apparently don't understand the Hitchhiker's fan base), they attached the trailer for ''Herbie: Fully Loaded'' starring Lindsay Lohan. Just as the screen faded to black after the credits, this troper yelled out a [[{{Futurama}} Bender]]-esque "YOU SUCK!" Cue entire room bursting out in laughter. I still high-five myself when I think about it. * Today, in German class, this troper experienced a {{Crowning Moment Of Funny}}. We were reading out the german storybooks we had made, and everything was rather dull, when all of a sudden a guy a gorilla suit ran in and started screaming and making mayhem. Halfway through, he

lifted his mask, and we all recognized him as a guy who had graduated last year. At the end, he took off his mask and said "Wow. Your gorilla safety rating is negative three. only 1.256 percent of you would have lived. The rest are FUCKED." He kept lecturing us about gorilla safety, and basically ended any chances of class continuing. * A few years ago, this troper's boyfriend was sitting in a desk and acting out the climactic scene from Scarface during his theater class. When he got the the point where Tony Montana screams out the iconic line, he pretended to wave around an imaginary machine-gun and ends up unbalancing himself, causing both he and the desk he was sitting in the crash to the floor. To make matters worse, or funnier, a friend was recording the whole thing and showed it to practically everyone. Good thing he knows how to laugh at himself. * This troper's friend, who is Swedish, made a call on an internet radio show, but initially didn't say anything. The host said something along the lines of "say something, or swear in Swedish." Said friend promply unleashed a Swedish ClusterFBomb. Everyone proceeded to laugh their asses off. * This tropers AP History class is full of them, example: --> '''Teacher:''' So what happened to all the buffalo? --> '''Student:''' Um, er... Westward Ho! --> '''Teacher:''' So the westward hoes killed all the buffalo? * [[{{Lurkerbunny}} This troper]] had a dream that ended with a CMOF. She dreamed she was watching a spoof of ''{{Aladdin}}'', and the hero in it finds the genie's lamp, rubs it, and out comes.... {{Popeye}}. But it gets even funnier: --> '''Guy''': Wait, aren't you supposed to be a big, blue floaty guy? --> '''Popeye-Genie''': Yeah, but King Feature'sk Skyndicate lawyersk are lessk uptight than Diskney'sk. Ag-ag-ag-ag! Besides, I can turn into anything I want! * poof* [[{{Ferngully}} I can be a bat]], * poof* [[HappyFeet or a penguin]] * poof* [[TalkingToHimself or even two penguins]], * poof* [[{{Robots}} or a robot]], * poof* [[MorkAndMindy or the most adorable alien in the universe. Nanu nanu!]] ** The above troper recently had a dream where, after "[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean interrupting]]" RobinWilliams on the set of ''Death To Smoochy 2'', she got called into the producer's office. She decided to use lucid dreaming to get out of being punished. --> '''This troper''': ''(to producer)'' Listen, lady. This is '''my''' dream, and I could just turn you into a muskrat! -->'''Producer''': Do you even remember what a muskrat looks like? -->'''This troper''': ...no. * This Troper has had a couple of [=CMoFs=]. One particular time, she had been at a friend's house, and both had been playing ''{{The Legend of Zelda}}: Ocarina of Time''. Anyway, they'd stopped to have a drink, and for some reason, were drinking with straws. Then, at the ''exact same time'', both troper and friend started bobbing along like Link does, humming Epona's Song. [[HilarityEnsues Laughter ensued]]. * This Troper had an English class where we had to read Moby Dick. Once the announcement had been made that this was the book for the unit, our teacher decided to lampshade the joke. However, we had a rather terrible ditz--about as smart as a box of rocks.

--> '''Teacher''': All right, let's get this out of the way right now. Let's aaaaall laugh at it--Moby /Dick./ Ha ha. --> '''Class''': Heheh. Heh. Heh. --> '''Ditz''': I don't get it. What's so funny about Moby Dick? --> '''Class''': ... ** This situation however became utterly hilarous and left the class unable to breathe once This Troper suddenly shouted at the top of his lungs---> '''This Troper''': HA HA! He said MOBY!! * This troper remembers one time in class where, for some reason that made sense at the time, a woman said "Would you like me to come to class without a bra?" to one of her friends. My response was "Yes!", at which point the whole room burst out in uncontrollable laughter. * This troper and her brother, on the practice of hacking off the limbs of spies before sending them back to their superiors: --> '''Troper''': Yeah, here's your guy back. He'll need to have his ass wiped for the rest of his life. --> ''[[BeatPanel Pause.]]'' --> '''Brother''': Some assembly required. * This troper's AP European History class has many of these. --> '''Teacher:''' (lecturing about Isaac Newton, gravity, how if you drop a bowling ball and a feather at the same time they hit the ground simultaneously) --> '''Andrew:''' (this dumb kid in my class) So if you take a piece of paper, and a metal piece of paper... --> '''Me:''' You mean aluminum foil. --> '''Andrew:''' No, metal paper! I saw it on TV. ** This troper's AP Euro class was equally hilarious. The CMOF came late in the year. Our teacher was an old Greek lady of very ambiguous age; she reports that her married parents arrived in the US in 1910 while claiming to have been after 1945. She had once told us her great-grandfather was a Greek Revolutionary Hero (from 1826). One day she began telling a story that opened with "My great-great-great grandfather--" but was interrupted by this troper interjecting, "Zeus?" Cue laughter for a very long time. * This trooper plays Paranoia and keeps 'To-Do lists' in game and in real life. One afternoon she got them mixed up so her next task for the day turned out to be 'Test experimental weaponry on Communist traitors'. * [[Ronfar/This troper's]] high school has an event called "Class Night" in which some of the graduating seniors put on sketches for the rest of the graduating class to watch. Being one of the more "wellknown" students in his high school, he ended up being in many of the sketches. As usual, this kind of thing is filled with in-jokes that are only funny to people who know what's going on, but here are some highlights anyway: ** For the opening sketch, everyone dressed up in their cap and gowns, while the class valedictorian got up to give a very, very, very, very, long speech. After she begins her speech, the students say a few words in the style of an interior monologue. My quote was "To think I'm missing {{Pokemon}} for this!" (This was back in 2000, and I was the first person in my school to have even heard of Pokemon and bring it

to everyone's attention.) ** Between sketches, when we needed to change the scenery on the stage, we would close the curtain and have me walk slowly from one side of the stage to the other, while reading a book. This was funny because this troper was never seen in public without a book in his hand, and would even walk through crowded school hallways while reading. * This troper once attended a college poetry slam, and one person's poem started out something like this: -->I'm a little teapot, short and stout -->Here is my handle, and here is my-->''Other handle''? -->F*** ! I'm a sugar bowl! ** Complete with putting his hand on his hip, then putting his other hand on his other hip at the appropriate lines. There was more to the poem than that, but it really was all about being disappointed that he was a sugar bowl and not a teapot. * At one point we were extracting DNA from bananas.Someone managed to obtain a very long strand, and the teacher came over, saying "Wow, two and a half inches!" Cue this troper saying "That's what she said." * This troper did acting classes a few years back. Pretty much everyone in the class thought it was just a laugh and only did it to meet people and have a good time-except for our teacher. At the beginning of one class, he went on a long rant about how we weren't working hard enough, and how the other class in town that he taught (made up of children aged 7-11) were actually better than we were. -->'''Teacher''' I mean for God's sake, the guys in the children's class are doing better than all of you, it's embarassing. Your acting is terrible and you aren't taking things nearly seriously enough. -->* very long beat of shame* -->'''Me''' ...We would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids. ** Also, I used to back when I was in school I did Chemistry. It was difficult and extremely boring, to me anyway. So, one day I took out a piece of paper, cut out a square, made my own element based on my name and stuck it on the big periodic table poster in the classroom. The teacher didn't notice. For ''weeks''. Her reaction when she finally did notice made all those dull classes worth while. * This troper misses his Software Design class from college. Mostly because the professor encouraged the practice of CMOF in all his students. ** First, while discussing a final project: --> '''Professor:''' A program only terminates if it is a bomb. (points to drawing of stoplight) This is not a bomb. --> '''This Troper:''' That depends on your definition of 'traffic control device'. ** Later, after being introduced to the MIPS emulator we would be using: --> '''Troper's Friend:''' [[MontyPython I don't like]] [[SdrawkcabName SPIM]]!! ** Other highlights including the professor derailing his own class for half an hour to rant about [[LordOfTheRings Tom Bombadil's absence

from]] TheMovie. ** Finally, in an introduction to Java course (sadly with a different professor), the following exchange occurred: --> '''Professor:''' How would you describe this class? --> '''Troper's Other Friend:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Freaking boring.]] ** Going a little further back, high school produced one particular CMOF that I was indirectly responsible for. I was the editor of the high school newspaper, and my lasting legacy was to be the fact that I dragged the newspaper kicking and screaming into the 1990s by replacing the ancient, hand-me-down [=AppleWriter=] printer we'd produced the paper on for a ''decade'' prior. So naturally, just a few days after the new printer was installed, I'm sitting in a study hall when there's a knock on the door. "Can we borrow your (troper's name)?" Two of the staff writers are standing there, looking sheepish. "Well, you see, the printer, it started making this noise, and then the '''smoke'''..." I '''tore''' down the hallway, not paying ''any'' attention to the teacher who yelled as I went by. I crash into the newsroom to find most of the staff standing there with a cake, and the ''completely unharmed printer''. I had totally forgotten that it was my birthday. * This troper went to a party where a few [=CMOFs=] happened. ** While we were all thinking of what to do, someone suggested the 'Three Statements Game', to which I immediately replied, "Tapioca, tapioca, tapioca." Laughter ensued (though I really don't know why.) ** We eventually started playing Oregon Style Monopoly. One player's first purchase was something along the lines of Devil's Something, and the rest of the game, he referred to himself as Satan and refused to trade his demonic realm. Then, he labeled Jail, Hell. Then, he rolled a double, rolled another double, got a card that told him to roll to stay out of jail, rolled another double, and so went to jail anyways. "Hey, what can I say, I'm Satan." In fact, in that game, there were five people in jail at one time. "We're all very evil." * This troper has had a few moments like this, but his most infamous was when he got the role of Gaston in his company's production of ''Beauty And The Beast'' several moments of funny occured on and off stage- especially seeing as his friend (who's a regular Cloud Cuckoolander) was playing Lefou. The funniest thing that happened was day 1 of rehearsals when the casting director assigned him and the rest of the cast their parts. --> ''Casting Director: You there, you'll be Belle.'' --> ''Troper's Friend's sister: Okay.'' --> ''Troper's Friend: Ding dong.'' --> ''Casting Director: You, you'll be the Beast. --> ''Troper's Brother: Who are you calling a Beast?'' --> ''Casting Director: You silly, you're playing the part of the Beast.'' --> ''Troper's Brother: Oh, alright. --> ''Casting Director: You there, you'll be playing the part of Gaston. How good are you at acting?'' --> ''Me: I'm grrrrrreat.'' (laughter insues) --> ''Casting Director: You'll need to be as boastful and arrogant as possible, can you do that?''.

--> ''Me: Sure. No problem. --> ''Casting Director: Good. Now say that again but do it like how Gaston does it.'' --> ''Me (as Gaston): No one boasts like Gaston!'' --> ''Casting Director: Bravo.'' --> ''Troper's Friend: What part do I play?'' --> ''Casting Director: Because you're funny, you'll be Lefou.'' --> ''Troper's Friend: Umm...what does that mean?''. --> ''Casting Director: It means you're Gaston's goofy idiot sidekick.'' --> ''Troper's Friend: Yay! But what does Lefou mean?''. --> ''Troper's Brother: It means you're an idiot.'' --> ''Troper's Friend: Oh okay. Look, I found a peanut!''. --> * [[{{chitoryu12}} This troper's]] CMOF was in AP American History class today. The class was going over female suffrage, and when the teacher mentioned how some of them, including Susan B. Anthony, thought women were morally superior to men and could make better decisions, this troper let out a loud, high-pitched "HA!" from the back of the room, causing every to turn, stare, and promptly burst out laughing for a good minute. * [[AnthonyMercer This troper]] bore witness to one on the way home from school. We were talking about geography for some reason, and one of us mentioned latitude and longitude. [[TheDitz Connor]]'s response? "What have they got to do with geography?" Blank stares. [[spoiler:"Aren't they those things in caves?"]] * This troper's CMOF came today in Stats class after she declared her sister was crazy... when she herself is known for being a bit... odd. --> '''Troper''': Makes a comment about her sister relating to the problem on marginal error on the board. --> '''Troper's teacher''': ''YOU'' have a sister? --> '''Troper''': My sister, um, the one who goes to this school. --> '''Troper's friend''': Yeah, I know your sister. --> '''Troper''': We're nothing alike! --> '''Troper's friend''': Well, she's normal! --> '''Troper''': No, she's CRAZY! --> '''Class''': laughs like hell. The ENTIRE class. --> '''Troper''': What's so funny? --> '''Troper's friend''': Well, [insert Troper's name here], you're kinda just a little [[PersonOfMassDestruction crazy]] yourself, you know? --> '''Troper''': So? There's nothing wrong with being [[BloodyMurder crazy]]. * [[{{Mysterynovelist}} This troper]] has had numerous of these moments in her life. ** For example, in eighth grade, the vice principal had just finished giving the class a math lesson (he likes stopping by to teach the honors kids math) and had left the room when this troper let out a HUGE sneeze (this troper is notorious for these). The following happened:

--->Troper:'' ''BWACHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!'' '' --->('''silence''') --->Everyone (including the troper): -dying of laughter--->Vice principal (who's just ran into the room): STOP LAUGHING! THERE IS NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT SOMEBODY SNEEZING! GROW UP, DAMMIT! (leaves) --->(silence again; then laughter) * This one time, at computer camp... -->'''K12:''' * while watching YoGabbaGabba* Why is (DJ Lance Rock) wearing spandex? -->'''Ethanol:''' Why ''isn't'' he wearing spandex? -->'''[[{{Pinkbaron}} Myself]]:''' Spandex makes EVERYTHING better! ** And from my Thespian group: --->'''Prop Mistress:''' When you take something from the prop closet, you put it back on the shelf you found it! --->'''Set Crew Guy:''' But there's no virginity shelf! * ThisTroper was sitting with a friend of hers at lunch in college. She doesn't remember what her friend was saying, but her eyes were wandering. She doesn't know why, but they fixed on this one guy about 3~5 tables over. She watched as he lifted his glass of Iced Tea to his lips...only to have the bottom of the glass fall off. No forewarning, just tea all over his tray and a nice round piece of glass sitting on top of his food. Yeah, everyone who noticed what happened were gripping the table to stop from ROFLMAO'ing. ** Several friends of ThisTroper tended to come up with some very random things. High School ones include: *** She and several of her friends did ModelUnitedNations. The teacher/sponsor of the club was rather angry at certain people for not accurately representing their countries just to get a debate over with, so he comes in and says, --->'''Teacher:''' Now I know that you all want to get home and watch....oh what's on tonight? --->'''Random Person in the Back of the Room:''' Buffy! --->'''Teacher:''' All right, Buffy; but you can't.....[insert long annoyed lecture] --->'''Most Club Members:''' * Embarassed silence as he walks out of the room* --->'''Troper's Friend:''' * just as teacher is almost out the door* Good politicians tape their Buffy! --->HilarityEnsues *** Also on a ModelUnitedNations trip, on an 11-hour long plane flight, the rest of the group was asleep on the plane except for ThisTroper. Suddenly her friend, who's completely dead asleep on his tray table, pops his head up and says, "But I'm not Japanese..." and proceeded to put his head right back down again. This became a RunningGag among ThisTroper and her friends. *** This Troper got her own [=CMoF=] in her AP English Language Class. We'd gotten some stupid assignment that included, "Write a contrasting clause sentence using a semi-colon." She had been rather punchy the night before and wrote the first thing that came to her head down. Homework tended to be reviewed by going around the class one at a time in order with the questions in order. After the first two homework

questions, she did a quick count and realized that she was going to be called on for the semicolon question. When she realized this, she sat and grinned. When the time came, she uttered the phrase, "Kids in the back seat cause accidents; accidents in the back seat cause...kids." The teacher just sat there with an unbelieving look on his face, the arc of students closest to her cracked up immediately. One beat later, the next arc of students out cracked up, one beat later, the next, etc. until the girl in the opposite corner of the room was having it explained to her as the rest of the laughter died away. * At Otacon 2008, one of ThisTroper's friends came up with an excellent way of identifying the characters cosplayers were playing. He'd run up to them, feign (or not so feigned) drunk, and ask in a very loud voice, "ARE YOU NAY-ROO-TOE?" * This troper and some friends once went MST3000 while watching Braveheart, without even intending to. As Murren hands William Wallace the thistle flower and walks away, this troper shouted out "You can take my flower, William!" Cue hysterical laughter. * This troper was in a stats class where the teacher once put up the "data" from a (fictional) survey to analyze. The survey was titled "How Many People Have You Had _ _ _ With?" with the obvious "sex" replaced with 3 underscores; the teacher joked that he'd get complaints if he said it. He read it as "how many people have you had blank-blank-blank with?" and such. After a couple times, he said "...had blank with; it's a three-letter word" at which point the resident CloudCuckoolander yelled out "PIE!!" Said teacher burst out laughing in mid-sentence, then scribbled in "PIE" on the blanks and used it for the rest of the class. * When this troper was a junior in High school his economics class about mostly females with a few guys in it (like maybe at best 5 or 6.) One day near the end of class, somebody farted really loudly. 2 seconds after that happened this really good looking girl in my class goes "oops, sorry about that". The class wouldn't stop laughing for about 10 minutes after that. ** On that same note when I was in 9th grade in a earth science class we had a test for finals and my teacher came up with a joke question that they didn't expect out team (the class was split into 2 teams). Here is how it went: Teacher: What is [student's name] shoe size We talked amongst ourselves for an answer (which none of us knew for sure.) Student on our team: His shoe size is 11. Teacher: [Student's name] what is your shoe size. Student the question was based on: 11. Needless to say once he answered the question everyone was laughing quite hard for about 5 minutes. * This troper was in a production of The Pirates of Penzance in high school. Our master carpenter, while not much of a singer, was a student with a prosthetic leg from a childhood accident. Our director agreed to let him join the chorus for the opening scene upon the revelation that this student had made himself ''a genuine wooden leg'' that he could actually wear! CrowningMomentofFunny for the show, and a CMOA for the student.

* [[{{SMDeathwind}} This Troper]]'s maths lessons have recently spawned one. Whilst working through an example question on volumes, our teacher had to draw a shape on the board. The shape he was supposed- to draw was a cylinder with a hemisphere on each end. Suffice to say, he made an... [[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} unfortunate error]]. The minute or more following my (first person is easier) discovery of this can be summed up as such: ---> Me: * Childish tittering* ---> [[{{TheLancer}} Curt]]: Mike, what's so funny? ---> Me: Just... look at the board. * Now laughing at the way the teacher has drawn a diameter* ---> Curt: ... TODD! (Who is halfway across the classroom) ---> Todd: Yeah? ---> Curt: Look at the board! ---> (At this point, pretty much everyone in the class with a Y chromosome is laughing, having seen the unfortunate drawing.) ---> [[{{WideEyedIdealist}} Jamie]]: Why is everyone laughing? ---> Teacher: Yeah, Jamie is right, why is everyone laughing? ---> Tyler: (With a perfectly straight face, in perfect deadpan) It looks like a penis, sir. ---> Todd: It's a double ender! ---> (At least, I think Todd said that last part. I was crying where I'd been laughing so much and was trying to pull my act back together.) ** Oh, god, almost the Exact same thing happened in [[{{Horngeek}} my]] science class when I was in year 7. Teacher draws test tube with paper on the end. Draws quater circles froms ends of paper to sides of test tube. Class breaks down in laughter. * Over at one of my friend's houses, we decided to play one of the Ghost Recon series. One of the optional objectives was to save two peacekeepers, and in boredom, I killed them. This is the following of what happened: --> Joey: What the hell? Why'd you do that? --> Me: (Shifting the FPV to the now dead men)See those guns? That isn't keeping the peace. * In 6th grade, this troper's class had to perform a rendition of the assassination of Caesar. We had just finished reading the Shakespeare play, and the teacher thought it would be fun. We were rehersing one day, and I said to the actor playing Caesar "Beware the Ides of March!" Unfortunately, I was trying a little too hard to make my voice sound spooky. As I was walking away, the other actor asked me "The Ides of WHAT?" I turned around and, in a completely normal voice, screamed "MARCH, YOU IDIOT!" so loudly that they could hear it next door. * This troper has been called "the comeback sniper" because he has on several occasions come out of nowhere with some absolutely hilarious retorts. One of the troper's friends' favorites was when the troper (who is rather small) was being taunted by frenemy (who is rather large). The taunter said that the troper was like "half a person." The troper's reply: "I'd rather be half a person than a person and a half." * This troper once had a tiny fruit thing that grew on a tree thrown

at him by a friend. When the fruit hit this troper, the sound effect was a metalic "ding". This troper is fairly certain his skull is all bone, and that that fruit was all fruit. * This exchange once happened between a friend of this troper's brother and a Jehova's Witness, who was standing at his door doing the usual routine. --->'''Jehova's Witness:''' Hello, can I tell you about God? --->'''Guy:''' Okay, on one condition; while you talk, I'm going to slowly undress myself. Okay? --->'''JW:''' Uhh, okay. * starts talking about God and stuff* --->'''Guy:''' * takes off his clothes slowly, completely dead-pan* ** When he was about to pull his pants off, the JW got uncomfortable and ran for it. * In both a CrowningMomentOfAwesome and this, [[RayAyanami this troper]] watched his friend play ''StarFox 64'', on the upper Venom stage. His friend accidentally slammed into a low-on-health Andrew with her ship, ''killing him.'' ** His other friend was playing ''TheLegendOfZelda: Ocarina of Time'' and had just escaped the collapsing Ganon's Castle. As they watched the {{Narm}}tastic scene of the castle [[strike:crumbling]] folding over and sliding into the ground, said friend, among others, were discussing the cutscene, and he said that the castle crumbling "represents Ganon's penis getting smaller." * This one is a classic between me and a friend of mine. One day while were both in High School we were Mobile Suit Gundam Federation Vs. Zeon on my PS2. Near where we were playing there was this pin cushion that I had used when I was in 8th grade for a home ec class. I had a bunch of pins arranged by the color of the head of the pin. While playing the game my friends mobile suit got destroy. My friend then out of complete randomness grabs the pin cushion and throws it at the TV and the all of the pins in the pin cushion fly in all directions. Needless to say me and my friend were laughing for at least 5 minutes because of that. Needless to say any time after that we found a pin from the accident we would make some comment about it. * So while waiting for school to start in the cafeteria (the student lounge of the new building wasn't done yet) my friends were joking about the new teacher's lounge being like Narnia. Since you can't go in there when you want to.. and then the British Principal walked up. He asked if my friends had looked at the new teacher's lounge yet. Then my friend, whom was currently doing a slow motion hula dance styled arm waving, said in an airy (british!) cloud cookoolander voice "You mean Narnia? I'm not allowed to go there." much to the principals confusion. He then walked away sloowly. ** And another time this same girl having helped the band unpack some new marembas decided to go walking around with her band buddy wearing the boxes over their heads (a la solid snake.) While walking past they met up with the Principal and said "Good afternoon Mr. <principal's Name>!". He then quipped "Well, it's not everyday walking boxes says hello to me." ** Last one honest, so a friend of mine is pretty Goth, and as such wore tripp pants that tended to jingle at any movement. During passing period she was stalking past when the Principal looked around from his

'make sure kids go to class' duty proclaiming (and I quote)"I hear a reigndeer!" Much to her annoyance, and of course our amusement. * While on a trip to see Niagra Falls, this troper's American church youth group stopped at a Pizza Hut in Canada. On the wall there was an ad that read "Pizza Pandemonium!". This prompted a girl who already had something of a reputation as TheDitz of the group to ask "Pandemonium? Is that a Canadian word?". Naturally, she never lived this down, and "it's a Canadian word" became the catchphrase to use whenever something went over someone's head for the rest of the trip. * One of [[{{Horngeek}} my]] friends (I'll call him Jeff. That's not his real name) has the catchphase of "I'll _____ your _____", and at one point, at a pedestrian crossing, another of my friends goes "Press the button, Jeff". The next thing to happen? --> "I'll press your- wait a minute" He now responds to "Press the button, Jeff" with his other catchphase, "That's what she said" * This troper remembers a time when her R.E teacher was checking everyone's homework. He came up this guy who never does his homework (let's call him Bob) --> Sir: Homework. --> Bob: Uhhh....homework?? --> Class: (snickers) --> Sir: Let me guess. You didn't do it. Again. --> Bob: No, sir (shuffles around bag) It's in my folder! It's in my bag! The dog ate it I swear!! --> Class: (starts laughing) --> Sir: (muttering to himself) Why do I bother? Why am I teacher? What possessed me to get ths job? --> Bob: IT'S STUCK IN MY BAG!!! --> Class: (outrageous laughter) --> Bob: THE DOG ATE IT AND IT'S REMAINS ARE STUCK IN MY BAG WITH SALIVA!!!!!! --> Sir: (starts repeatedly hitting his head on the wall.) --> Class: (several people fall off their chairs, clutching their ribs) * Back in 2006, [[{{lee4hmz}} this troper]] and his brother/coconspirator were working on a big project for a Government customer involving training videos. Late one night, after working on QA and debugging for several hours, we decided to watch one of the videos, an otherwise rather dry piece about operating-room safety. At one point in the program, they showed several doctors working on someone's nether regions under a blue surgical scrub, then cut to a shot of a huge, matte-black speculum on one of the side tables. We though about it...and realised that they, indeed, "had spreaders" (a reference to a CatchPhrase one of our other brother's [[MemeticMolester rather perverted joke characters]] used). We both laughed, ''hard'', for at least 10 minutes straight -- a fitting end to what had been the most challenging project we'd ever worked on at that point. * In this tropers college anime club, we were watching the first episode of Yukikaze (only the first episode, since it wasn't in the line-up): --> Me: What's with this homosmexual porno background music?

--> Guy: It's not revealed until later, but those two are gay. --> Club Official: NO SPOILERS! --> * immediately following this, one of the guys in the show opens a bottle of champagne in front of his crotch smiling while the other looks over at him longingly* --> Club Official: Okay, nevermind. --> Club: * laughing hysterically* * This troper's father is a very strict man, who would spank us kids when we were younger. As we got older and acted out, he would say 'You aren't old enough for me not to turn your over my knee.' Well, one day, after becoming an adult, this troper had an unrelated emotional meltdown, and during it, while she was on the floor, her father tapped her with his foot. Just a tap. Her being in hysterics, she thought [[MinorInjuryOverreaction he kicked her and began freaking out more]]. Once she recovered, her father apologized and explained in detail about domestic violence, and said he wouldn't raise a hand against her again. [[BeatPanel After five seconds:]] -->''Troper:'' Hey, Dad, does this mean I AM too old to get spanked? -->''Dad:'' * facepalm* Yes, yes it does. -->Troper walks off laughing. * During my last session of play practice, I developed a bit of a soar throat. The Director, during the wrapup session at the end where she read over notes she kept over the practice, told me that she wasn't able to understand me. Being a teenager, I have to have a smart remark for everything, so... -->Troper: I'm a teenager! Your not supposed to understand me! Hillarity ensued. Especially because several of the other actors were high school teachers. * When [[{{Orihime}} this troper]] was about 10 years old, she and her younger sister were playing an impromptu card game with stickers. My sister had a sort-of "lucky sticker" that was her absolute favorite, so she decided to keep it as a wildcard and promptly sat over it so no one would take it away. Less than five seconds after taht, my sister ''farted'', and LOUDLY. Cue to the troper collapsing in laughter. * So this editor has a cat (an already fully-grown tomcat who adopted her family last year at the time of writing, but that's irrelevant). Both of her parents know cats much better than their kids; in particular, her dad would make quick remarks, a habit the editor picked up quickly. So whenever this cat yawns (a lot), she goes "Teeth!" The funny happened some time ago: While watching the tomcat, she noticed that even though his mouth was closed, some of his teeth were still visible. She went, "Teeth!" ''Right after she said that, the cat yawned.'' The timing of it still gets her. * A continuation from the three examples (the sneezing one) above for [[{{Mysterynovelist}} this troper]]: ** The first one was when she and some of the members of her TRIO (college-prep group) went on a retreat in the mountains; one night the counsilors there decided to tell some scary stories. One of the TRIO members decides to contribute one of his own. Suddenly, the program director comes running and screaming from the shadows, scaring the Secondary Director, who decided to tackle ''me'' (which is ironic because she's 4 years older than I am), causing me in turn to scream.

This in turn made my friend ''jump'' out of his seat and nearly roll into the fireplace. Needless to say, it was a good thing the councilor caught him, or else he'd be a lot blacker than he is now. ** Another situation: This troper was late for her biology class and decided to make a run for it. I managed to reach the door just as the bell rang and wound up slipping on my coat and falling, causing my textbook and some papers to fly everywhere. ** This scenario happened to one of my acquaintances, who has a brother who could not be given meds (even though he needs them) or else some fucked up things would happen. One of the medicines caused him to run into the corner of the room and start screaming that 'the wires' were going to kill us all, and that he would be the lone survivor, reincarnated into a ''tree''. One day, one of the brother's friends spiked his drink. My acquaintance decided to call him to ask where he was. The brother said that he couldn't find his keys: --->'''Acquaintance''': What do you mean you can't find your keys? --->'''Her brother''': I swear, they just got up and walked away! --->'''Acquaintance''': Yeah, right. They just sprouted legs and walked off... --->'''Brother''': ''Exactly''!...What the fuck?! What are ninjas doing here?! Hey, give me back my fucking keys! -walks into the wall repeatedly--->'''Acquaintance''': Put -Brother's Friend- on the phone. --->'''Brother's Friend''': Hello? --->'''Acquaintance''': What did you put in his drink? --->'''Friend''': I can't tell you. --->'''Acquaintance''': What do you mean you can't?! --->'''Friend''': I just can't! ** Last year, in October, this troper went to her monthly TRIO Saturday Sessions. At the session, they'd serve you breakfast before the meeting began. When this troper saw the board director, she figured she had to put her trash away. She got up to walk but tripped on her friend's bookbag strip and wound up landing on her ass, with the trash flying everywhere. To this day, this troper can't laugh at someone else falling without somebody bringing up that incident. * Recently, this troper went snowboarding. The instructor was teaching us how to balance on the edges of our boards, and told us: ---> Instructor: Don't be afraid to fall over. It happens to everyone eventually! ---> Friends: Okay. ---> Me (internally): I wonder how far I can balance before I fall over? ---> Instructor: But sometimes, you have to fall over and if you do it incorrectly, you'll hurt yourselves. I'm going to teach you how to fall over properly... ---> THUMP! ---> Me: Way ahead of yah! * This Troper has one that stands out. She was at an AP Law and Government morning review session, and the teacher was going over media bias and how the media affects politics. One kid raised his hand and started talking about how Jews run the media (keep in mind This Troper is Jewish and lives in a predominantly Protestant town);

nothing that offensive, really, but here's what transpired: ---> Kid: I mean, maybe Jewish people in the media could get mad about an issue and that would make bias. I mean, wouldn't a lot of media be biased because Jewish people run so much of the media? ---> This Troper: Well, give us some credit here. You guys gave us Left Behind, we gave you Seinfeld. Wouldn't you say it's better when we run things? * [[{{this-guy}} My]] 6th grader brother came home from school with this one In study hall, there was a kid name of Alex. Alex wanted to know the definition of the word porno. Alex asked the teacher the definition and she said, "get a dictionary". So he did. Eventually, he found it. And he giggled at it for a few minutes. Then, he kept looking through and found the word pothead and kept finding definitions, all the while reading them out loud. Then, he asked to go to the restroom. The teacher said "no" because he was talking too much and too loud. He started reading definitions out loud again. Then the teacher said he had to be quiet for five minutes if he wanted to go to the restroom. He said that if he had an accident he wouldn't clean it up. And that's when Jade comes in. Jade gets annoyed and asks the teacher for permission to kick Alex. The teacher says, "You can kick him after class." '''''MY BROTHER''''' asks the teacher why she is encouraging Jade to kick Alex in the hallway. Teacher says, "As long as it's not on my watch." Then, Jade said she hopes Alex would explode because he can't pee. Alex says he hopes Jade would fall over so he can pee on her. ''Matt'' then says he hopes both of them would shut up. Later, when the teacher says there are ten minutes before class ends, Alex says, "But then there'll only be five minutes to pee!" Matt yells at Alex that he has to shut up for five minutes and eventually he does. Then, when he's done waiting for five minutes, the teacher says there's a line to the bathroom. I wish I could remember funny stuff in my school :'( * [[MiniKaylee This Troper]] (who will be using first person from here on)was in a CMOF almost a year ago, and was near one that was within minutes of mine. We'll go chronologically here: ** I was hanging out with my family and a large group of friends after a sci-fi convention that we all frequent. It was rather late after the last day of the con had concluded, and somebody (don't remember who) said something along the lines of "Zombies! BRAAAAAAAAINS!". It really just kind of went from there, with people trying to come up with as many words that rhyme with brains as possible. It's really funnier if you were there, but anyway, cue there being several people practically rolling on the floor laughing. ** Now my own: First it must be known that, among my family's friends, I have been know to do weird things like make duck bills with Pringles. Some time after the above Moment, my friend was doing a pan around our group with her video camera. Nothing else was really out of the ordinary. I was sitting immediately to said friend's right,so she had not seen me yet. When she saw me, guess what I was doing? [[HilarityEnsues Nobody could stop laughing for a good few minutes afterward.]] *** The best part? This Moment was completely unintentional on my part, as I had no idea my friend had her camera out.

Nobody could stop laughing for ages. Needless to say, [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued]]. * This troper was unfortunately the butt of the joke in this situation. She and her best friend went to her father's friend Ed's house to watch the 2009 Superbowl. He lives in a lovely little house out in Loganville with this huge yard with a fence on one side to divide between his and the neighbor's house. The Superbowl ends really late so it's dark outside when we leave. Mind you, it's pitch black out there and I drove so I walk over to my side of the car to open it for my best friend. Then I hear from what sounded like three inches from behind me the most terrifying dog bark/snarl in my life. I immediately scream, half-jump, half-run across the front of the car, and hide behind Ed (who is about six foot four so I figured I was safe) all before realizing that there is no werewolf trying to eat me. It was a large dog behind the fence that Ed neglected to tell me was there. Ed and my best friend are now in throes of laughter because I hadn't even turned around to look that the fence was there: I just RAN AWAY all in the span of about two seconds. By the time we drove off, my best friend ''is still laughing her ass off, now unable to breathe''. In my defense, I was the only black person present and we all know that the black people always die first in scary movies. I live by that code. * This troper's best friend wrote a couple of fake!interviews with the Movieverse versions of Scott Summers and Bobby Drake after we saw XMen: The Last Stand that she thought were worth sharing: -->'''Scott''': "Well... I remember kissing, and groping... Then my face started to ripple a bit. At first it was cool, you know-- a little variety. Then I sort of turned into dust. Bummer, really. It probably never would have worked out, anyway. I don't know how she would have reacted to the fact that I... ehm...lacked proper manparts." ('Cause Scott's a pussy.) -->'''Bobby''': "Things were actually pretty cool with us. I mean, I was upset when Rogue first got the operation-thing, but it turned out to be okay... We can touch now, you know? But what we didn't know was that mutant power sort of... returns. So, we were... doin' it, right? And suddenly, I felt that really familiar drain, and... well, there was a definite "Who's fuckin' who '''now''', bitch?!" look on her face. I also couldn't feel my nipples." * My family was off to visit one of my dad's friends, and my mum's disabled, so we had to drive over the parky-gardeny bit behind the flats so my mu could go in. The first thing i come out with is the immortal: * PEDESTRIAN! 20 POINTS!" * This troper's school is full of them: ** In science class, the teacher says the long name of some chemical and a girl goes, "That's a mouthful." Of course, the guy next to her can't resist saying, "I'm a mouthful." Right in front of the teacher. ** In French class, one of my friends fractured a growth plate in her arm because she did something stupid. Now one of her arms is shorter than the other. We have this "Cult ritual" in class that involves putting our arms into a triangle and chanting, "WE. ARE. ISOSCELES." I

informed her that she's scalene because her arms are two different lengths. WE! ARE! ISOSCELES! * You didn't have to be there for this one: In 8th grade, [[CaptHayfever my]] friends & I went to a lot of Trivia Nights around town. We liked hanging out and eating free concessions, and we tended to win a lot (two 1st places, two 2nd, & a 3rd), despite usually playing shorthanded. Anyway, at one of the later ones, as we'd gotten really comfortable with the format & we were already getting goofy at the beginning of the game. The first category was "Animals," and the first question was "What is the largest mammal on Earth?" Without missing a beat, our team WackyGuy shouted ''"YO MAMA!"'' We lost it, as did all of the adjacent tables, while the protor just glared at us like an adult with no actual authority over you will glare. [[spoiler:We wrote the right answer on the response sheet, of course.]] * Another one from [[CaptHayfever me]]: In World History class, we were presenting our projects on the Seven Ancient Wonders. One of my classmates was talking about how his particular golden Wonder was destroyed when it melted in a fire, when a less-bright classmate asked why it didn't burn instead. The presenter began his response as the questioner was still finishing his last word, "Because gold's a soft metal; go back to chemistry class, Einstein!" Everyone but the teacher found it hilarious. * This just happened a few minutes ago, actually. [[{{Usagi}} This troper]] was playing [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic & Knuckles]] (while her mom was watching) and found a little speed booster-thing, but accidentally called it a "Spood-beester". Cue both troper and mom laughing their asses off for a good while. * This conversation, when my brother and I were both little, and watching [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0U5JfGYx4c this music video.]] -->'''Brother:''' Dad, dad! Those are all transvestites! -->'''Dad:''' What makes you think that? -->'''Brother:''' They all have flat chests! -->''BeatPanel'' -->''Me, [[{{Lolicon}} age 6]]:'' I'M FLAT-CHESTED AND I'M A GIRL! ** You were a ''very'' smart cookie at that age. I hope my future daughter grows up like that XD * Extra helping of {{Irony}}: I'm now an adult, with [[MostCommonSuperPower a very well-developed chest.]] * My friends and I were sitting together at an assembly for accomplished students to receive scholarships and awards. One girl was called repeatedly, to the point where I had to exclaim "How many scholarships does she need? She has like, a '''million dollars'''!" Something about the way I said it made them miss the rest of that assembly from laughing too hard. * OK, so [[{{Enlong}} I]] was playing ''FinalFantasyVI'', yeah? And the party came across one of those really annoying lady monsters who use these attakcs to confuse the party, among other things. Eventually, Edgar was the only one left on the battlefield; Cyan was dead, and the other two had fled with a Smoke Bomb. Edgar was Confused, so he thought he was an enemy and the Lady was an ally. Then

the lady-monster used a curse to make Edgar attack his allies. But he was still confused, so he thought the Lady monster was an ally. The combination of Confuse and that curse led to a confused Edgar, still spinning on the spot, ''attacking the lady monster''! Sheer disbelief from my side. Sadly, Edgar lost when she threw lighting at him, but still. * This troper had a CMOF in Spanish class a few years ago, during a review game, which involved running to the board and writing the Spanish translation of a sentence; the first student in the group that was called to finish writing and correct all of his/her mistakes wins the round. This troper's group number got called in one round, but he tripped over a classmate's backpack and landed on the floor. The kicker was, the sentence we were given to translate into Spanish that round was, "My head hurts!" So everybody went from "Me duele la cabeza!" to "''Te'' duele la cabeza?" ("Does your head hurt?") * This troper's AP class had to do a picture-story project on WWI. This troper had already chosen to do it on women's expanding role in society, but her sister heard the idea and stole it. We both started arguing about it, with a friend watching us fight, and my sister told me, "Do it on artillery! You like guns, I don't!" So I shoot back, "What, so you like women?" We both stopped, then...cue all three of us laughing for 5 minutes straight. According to the friend-witness, it was the funniest thing I've ever said. * This troper remembers two times that really stand out. -->'''Teacher:'''Rape comes in many forms, one of which is a simple rub on the arm or thigh. -->'''My neighbour:'''(He immediantly starts rubbing my left arm) -->'''Me:'''RAPE! Oh God, I feel so violated and dirty! ** Another one was during my lunch period, one of my friends had just finished lunch and had left her tray a few feet away, then this cool guy comes walking down the hall(you know, one of those guys who's all dreamy, and infallible and just does'nt seem to have any imperfections) and he steps on the tray, skids a few feet then lands on his ass! Oh my god, it was hilarious and nice to know that he was human and not just an Adonis. *** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Adonis was human too, albeit a very pretty one.]] * For such a dismal subject, rape makes for several great [=CMoFs=]. While This Troper was on a school trip, we were all sitting outside our hotel eating breakfast (it was really only a mountain hostel and was open to one side, so we could hear loud noises in each room on the two floors). One of my friends came running down the stairs to the table, and told us that one of our classmates was on my bed lying on top of his girlfriend and tickling her. "It's called roleplay", one guy sighed, and was corrected by somebody else: "No, it's called rape". ''Exactly at that second'' the guy's girlfriend screamed in a voice that echoed off the mountains. And every single one of us burst into side-splitting, uncontrollable laughter. * This troper once burst into song randomly in science class. She was very tired and she was very loud. The song(sung to the tune of 'I'm a little teapot'): -->I'm a little pot-leaf

-->Big and green -->Here is my stem, and here is my leaf -->When I get all smoked-up -->Watch (drops tune) your eyes 'cause they go bloodshot ** The teacher didn't hear but half the class was staring at me and my two friends were cracking up. * My friend announces the, well, morning announcements at school every morning. During Black History Month, after the normal announcements were over, he would talk briefly about a famous African-American person. One day, as he was talking about one of them, he mentioned that she was forced to work in a brothel when she was young. He said, in front of ''the entire school'', this: "Wow, I wish ''I'' worked in a brothel!" And with that, the announcements went off. The girl doing the announcements with him asked him if he knew what a brothel was. He admitted that he didn't. She replied, "Well, you just told the entire school that you want to work in a ''whorehouse''. * This troper and her friends were playing a game of Apples to Apples. (For the unintiated, it's a game where you have cards with both nouns and adjectives on them. The judge will play an "adjective" card, and you have to pick a noun card that you think is well described by the adjective... or is just generally amusing.) The judge at the time played the noun "Hilarious." The results were bound to be good. Before the judge turned up the cards, one player said: "Everyone? I'm totally sorry." The cards the judge revealed? The first: RobinWilliams. The second: SteveMartin. The last? [=~Schindler's List~=]. Breathing was difficult for about ten minutes afterwards. The apologizer won on sheer DeadBabyComedy value alone. ** A similar tale from [[ARandomSerf this troper]]: Apples to Apples, the judge played "Primitive." The winning card? [[RefugeInAudacity Rosa]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice Parks]]. ** [[JapaneseTeeth This troper]] saw a game of apples to apples where the word was "sensual", and the other cards were all supermodels or actresses...except the last one, which was Confucius. He won. This naturally led to a lot of jokes concerning the guy who picked that card.... ** Any time my friends play this, the phrase, "Oh, I'm going to hell for this one" is heard frequently. ** This Troper plays that game a lot in his social circle. Whenever we get into a situation where no one has any relevant cards (which happens pretty often), we allow each player to make a case for their submission. Which led me to deliver a two minute speech on the spirituality of beets. I won. ** This troper once had an EPIC Apples To Apples game that had several CMOFs (Adjective: "Delicious". Word: "Pokemon"); however, the one that takes the cake will have to be HelenKeller for the adjective "TouchyFeely". * [[{{althechi}} This troper]]'s name (Alasdair), when truncated, sounds highly similar to the letter L. Hence, this bit of hilarity during a Chemistry tutorial: --> '''Tutor''': All right, now we'll move on to question (L)... --> '''Me:''' ''* suddenly looks up* '' Ah-yeeeeeess? --> Cue entire class laughing or groaning.

* This troper had one of these when she was playing chess with her guy friend. --> Random Spectator: "Hey, you guys have the same pieces on the board!" --> Friend: "Yes, but I can move mine in more ways than she can! --> Me: * cracks up* * Okie Dokie my turn. One holiday we (Me, My sister, two of our neighbourswho had gone on holiday with us and their sister (and I think their dog)) were playing frisbee. The frisbee gets to me I fling it at someone. My aim being terrible resulted in the frisbee flying ''up''. following the laws of gravity said frisbee flies straight down to my stomach so I keel over onto the beach sand. * Again with [[{{Mysterynovelist}} me]]. (I have ''way'' too many of these...) This troper was in Language Arts class one day, getting to the end of a book she was reading. Suddenly the teacher yells, "They both die!" "''WHAT?'' This troper screamed in response. "I don't know; but I do know that if someone dies, you're going to be like 'Damn you, -insert teacher's name here-!'" Ironically enough, one of ''did'' die, as this troper found out during lunch. After lunch she stormed to the LA room and yelled at him...while he was teaching ''class''. --->'''Me''': ''(points at teacher)'' You evil, demonic [[SadistTeacher sadist]]! --->'''Teacher''': What did I do? --->'''Me''': Someone ''did'' die, dammit! WTF, man?! --->'''Teacher''': I knew it! ** And with my six-year-old brother: --->[[CuteShotaroBoy Brother]]: ''(looking out the window)'' Hey squirrel! Why are you crouching on the thing [balcony] like that?! --->Me: It can't hear you. --->Brother: SQUIRREL! HEY SQUIRREL! --->Me: -sweatdrop- ''(under her breath)'' Idiot. *** Second one with my brother: --->Brother: (puts hat on backwards) Hey, dude! What's up, ''duuuuuude''?! It's cool, yo! **** What makes it funny is that my mother and I have never said that to him. [[UnfortunateImplications Makes you wonder what he's learning at school]]... * Recently, let's just put it this way: This troper's mother called me in to show the branding on a ham, half of which we ate already. Surprised, I said, "What? There's more ham!?". Everyone was laughing. * In Lit, we went to see a production of Anne Frank. Our teacher was answering questions about the play afterward. A rather naive student asked why Mrs. Van Dan objected to Anne and Peter hanging out in Peter's room. The teacher basically said she thought more than talking was going on. So the class idiot, attempting to be funny says: --> Annoying Student: What did she think was happening? --> Me (in the most disgusted voice possible): ''Holding hands.'' * I am in a cult films class, and the professor was gushing about the soundtrack during a very quiet scene. I went "So be quiet so we can hear it!" She hushed up. Then, ten seconds later, I come down with a LOUD sneezing fit, of seven or eight sneezes, and someone else in the back shouts: [[IronicEcho "Quiet so we can hear it!"]]

* On Valentine's Day at my school, everyone was having a party with a teacher provided karaoke machine. One girl was singing and the teacher said, "When you finish the song, it'll rate you automatically." I overheard and immeadiately burst out, "It'll WHAT her automatically?" Even funnier in context since it was a CovertPervert moment-I was the only eleven year old in a class of thirteen year olds and generally thought to be naive and innocent. * This troper went to the Exploratorium with a friend, and they had an exhibit about cuteness. Basically, it's a survival mechanism because humans are less likely to kill their young if they're small and round, ie cute. Later, when driving home, my friend spies an attractive male member of the species on the sidewalk. --->Friend: Ooo, that guy's cute. --->Me: Small and round... * [[{{hrdcrnwo}} This troper]] (who will now refer in the first person) has one: ** I'm in an acting class at my high school. This is a second-level class and mainly deals with improv. We were doing an improv game where someone stands behind a counter and is a cashier at a store, and the other player walks in with a certain trait (i.e., Valley girl), and the cashier has to mimic it, then find a way to exit. This repeats until everyone has gone. So me, being a {{Large Ham}}, channeled the spirit of the largest ham of them all: Hulk Hogan. I start Hulking up, and say "WHAT'CHA GONNA DO, BROTHER, WHEN HULKAMANIA RUNS WILD ON YOU?!?" The girl on the other side of the counter, probably not even knowing who Hogan is, could only reply with "I... I don't know..." before walking away. * Health class at high school --->Teacher: Does anyone know who's at the lowest risk for STI's? --->Me: Old people, duh. --->Teacher: ? --->Me: They've clearly built up an immunity. * On holiday in France, this troper and his family were taking a tour of a chateau. The female tour guide was speaking, surprisingly enough, in French, so my family and I weren't really paying attention. The person who was paying the least amount of attention was my then 2 year old sister, who couldn't really understand English, let alone French. Instead, she decided to imitate the way the tour guide was standing, with her foot resting against the wall. Standing right next to the tour guide, this threw her, and she had to compose herself before continuing. Cue laughter from the family. And the smug staisfaction only a child can have when people react to something it has done. Incidently I wasn't laughing later when something stung me in the leg. * This troper was doing an EggSitting assignment for health class. At the start of the day, we had to come to class and spin a spinner twice to see what we had in store for us - marriage, sickness, employment, et cetera. This troper was already living in a shelter and worked in retail. When she spun the spinner, it landed on marriage. --->Teacher: Oop. Now you've got to find someone to marry. ** When she spun the spinner a second time, it landed on divorce. --->Teacher: Uh, well, I guess not. ** The best crowning moment came when this troper walked out of the

room and shouted over her shoulder, --->Troper: And I ''still work in retail!'' --->''(everyone in the room bursts out laughing)'' --->Teacher: She still works in retail! ''(laughing harder)'' * This Troper's school was putting on a production of the boardgame Clue. Our drama classes wrote a fantastically funny script, and in one scene Mustard was about to shoot Mr Body. For the entirety of the practice our group used an old, toy flintlock pistol (which looked like a somewhat real version of Jack Sparrow's gun). However the night before the first actual show, we were informed we would be suspended if a realistic-looking firearm showed up, because of a recentlyenacted, well-known policy regarding firearms and firearms replicas. So the night of the production, in the middle of a serious scene, Mustard (played by our resident magician and sleight of hand expert) pulls out a three-foot long, bright orange cardboard cutout of a pistol with "School Board Approved" written on it. The scene had to stop for a solid four minutes so that the audience laughter could die down. ** Hell, that's a Crowning Momement of Funny ''and'' Awesome! * This troper's really trying to make a friend out of this guy I know at school, his name is Zack. His personality is very much a "TheQuietOne" type, made all the more...uh...interesting because he wants to eventually cosplay as [[{{Gungrave}} Brandon Heat]]. So, of course, me being kind of loud and annoying, I'm always trying to get him to talk. Earlier today I asked him, "Say something that's more than two words!" His response? "...I can't." Pretty much all my buddies sitting at the cafeteria table and me burst out in raucous laughter. * My sister recently had her birthday, and her friend gave her a balloon, which is pretty typical around here (we are still in high school). This balloon happened to look like a dolphin. While she still had the balloon, her phone rang. Her ring tone at the time was - wait for it - "under the sea" from ''TheLittleMermaid''. Seriously. * "I have a theory: As the time spent backstage on a production of HighSchoolMusical increases, the probability a given sentence includes a swear word approaches one. I call this theory '[[TourettesShitcockSyndrome Backstage Fucking Coprolalia]].'" The first time I told someone this and they ''actually listened and got it'', one of the two boys fell down on the floor laughing. * While [[Tropers/{{G-Mon}} this troper]] was watching a friend of his brother play ''NeedForSpeed: [=ProStreet=]'', he managed to total four cars in a row. It started with said friend smacking into a light pole and "only" sustaining heavy damage. Then one of the racers behind him hit him and "TOTALED!" His next three wrecks were near the start of the race, including a [[OneHitKill One Hit Total]]. Cue maniacal laughter from this troper. * This troper's C programming professor, towards the end of a lecture, used "whack off" as a reverse UnusualEuphemism for executing a program. * [[{{This-guy}} I]] finally have one. Before Junior prom (to which I did not go), there was an assembly, mostly about drunk driving. One of the presenters was a former Arlington student and track runner named

Johnathan whose memory and motor skills were affected by a drunk driver. In his part, he said, and I quote somewhat exactly, "...If someone you know drinks and drives, then at that point you know they're an asshole." This resulted in a "Sorry, Tom" (the prinicpal's name) a double {{facepalm}} from the principal, an uproar of laughter and a standing ovation. When the principal later spoke, he said that he was glad John got a standing ovation, but disappointed that he didn't. A couple students stood up and applauded, but it was, in the principal's words, "Too little, too late." * [[{{Jinxed Blackcat}} I]] have an interesting one that my parents told about me (I don't remember it). I could read and write by the time I was in kindergarten/preschool (not sure which). And at the school I went to there was no recess until everyone had finished with the page in the workbook they were doing that day. I tended to finish a lot earlier than the other kids so I wound up getting in trouble one day because I was apparently doing everyone else's workbooks as well in a scheme to get to recess quicker! * This Troper was in the final round of a Certamen competition (FYI, Certamen is like Brain Bowl, except focused on the Latin Language, and Roman Culture, history, mythology, etc.) and one of the bonus questions was something that I didn't know. As it turned out, the other guy on my team didn't know either. Since we were in the lead enough for the question not to matter, and because it was the first thing that popped into my head... ** Question: "What Roman emperor was murdered on the toilet?" ** Our answer, after realizing that neither of us knew it: "Pupienus." And yes, that name is pronounced the way you think it is. ** Hilarity Ensues. *** The best part? While everyone, including the teachers, is laughing, our latin teacher said: "He said Pupienus." In the same manner that a middle schooler would. * In biology class, we were working on making models of DNA molecules with beads. This troper's lab partner was having trouble. --->Friend: I can't insert this in! --->Supervisor: You can try another hole. --->This Troper: [[IKEAErotica That's what she said]]. ** And earlier in the same class: --->Biology Teacher: You can always work in a threesome if you like --->This Troper: (Chuckles) He said "Threesome". * Yesterday, this troper's classmate and two of his friends were decorating their senior hats. They wanted to clean off their paintbrushes, and somehow thought that gasoline, as a natural paint thinner, would suffice. After trying to clean the brush, they wanted to see what the gas would be like... on fire, so, being the teenage boys that they are, they set fire to a post-it note as a fuse, but it got stuck to Friend A's shoe after the classmate dropped it and wouldn't go out. By the time they got the fire out, the gasoline in the bowl was merrily ablaze. They watched it burn for a few happy minutes until they realized that the bowl was plastic, and would melt from the heat. Cue [[HilarityEnsues scene involving a fire hydrant turned off.]] Unfortunately, the gasoline in the bowl went flying everywhere from the water pressure and landed on Friend B, who for

some reason kept[[IdiotBall trying to take his burning shirt off even though his arms were on fire and classmate and Friend A kept screaming at him to stop, drop, and roll.]] After a few panicked moments, classmate tripped him, he went down, started rolling, and the flames went out pretty much immediately. When they turned back to the bowl of gas, it had turned into a three-foot-tall pillar of fire. They stood and stared in awe. The crowning part? Right after they managed to put the fire out, classmates mom came out and asked if anything was up. Naturally, they said no, and she apparently bought it, despite the burnt bowl sitting on a table and the smell of smoke hanging around. ** Note: They weren't really using knives to decorate their hats. They were throwing them at an old spray can of white paint after they were done. Predictably, the can blew up, spraying white paint and knives everywhere. * [[{{Mysterynovelist}} This troper's]] friend had one recently in the girl's locker room: --->Friend#1: I now have 998. --->Me: 998 what? --->Friend#1: Nicknames, of course! I've been called Todd, Yessie, Holocaust---->(All my friends and myself just stare) ** My second friend's reaction was especially hilarious because she's [[CloudCuckooLander just]] [[GeniusDitz like]] the first friend. ** Then there was another two incidents in her Language Arts classrooms: *** The first one was during a movie about a dystopia where everyone basically took Rittalin so that they could have absolutely ''no'' emotions (because they believed that no emotions = no war, no suffering, no pain). We reach the part where the [[{{Badass}} protagonist]] is fighting a whole ''army'' of evil {{Mook}}s...and ''winning'' epically. He then pulls out of the giant guns from one of the dead mook's bodies and my friend goes, [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat "Say hello to my little friend!"]] The entire back row is snickering until we reach an even more badass part. *** The second took place when we were talking about the Julius Ceasar (we're reading the play) and the teacher's saying how he married his first wife for money. --->Teacher: Here's this nobody (this is before he becomes famous) who marries an incredibly wealthy and influential girl at the age of 18! It was bound to raise a few eyebrows. It would be like--like me marrying one of Obama's daughters. What would that make me? --->Troper:''(in a serious tone of voice}'' A '''''pedophile'''''. --->(Cue laughter.) --->Teacher: You get what I mean! * [[{{TheWeirdo}} This troper]] had several, but - right now - can remember two. ** One in a class in which the course teacher (it wasn't an university per se, but not high school either) asked for an example of something that belonged to someone, that couldn't be lent. My response: "My lungs". Cue laughter. ** In the same course, different class, a student asked the teacher for an example of incitement to suicide. To which I replied, in a

cheering fashion: "Jump down! Jump down! Jump down!". Cue more laughter and the (usually uptight) teacher replying, while snickering: "Well, yeah, that's right..." * This troper was talking with two friends. She has AttentionDeficitOohShiny, and her friend has ADOD and her other friend has ADDK. ADOD is Attention Deficit... Ooh, Destruction, and ADDK is Attention Deficit Don't Care. --> Troper: * sends off fake nuke* --> Friend 1: Oooh. * turns to look* --> Friend 2: I have ADDK. --> Friend 1: You do realize it's ADDC, right? --> Friend 2: * shrugs* Don't care. * This tropers History class has had several. One day, we were guessing names for the Popes of the Catholic Church around 1000 AD. One girl went to the washroom and the lesson moved to Elenor of Aquitane. A really unsavory character. One guy said, "guess who I want to marry!". The girl bursts in and yells at the top of her lungs, "POPE ALUCARD!!!". Silence, and then a genre saavy girl says, "do you mean Dracula?". The class next door complained about the laughing. * During one math "review period", this troper's teacher busted out Scattergories. The letter was A, and her team agonized over "People who wear suits" before deciding on Agents. Other teams gave (obvious in retrospect) answers, such as air cadets and ambulance driver. D., who had a Chinese accent, read the team's... and the entire class burst into laughter while the teacher gave her team this weird look, saying she really wasn't sure if that's the case. Cue the troper's group blusteringly trying to justify it, at one point saying "They always do in movies", to which the teacher demands proof. After more babbling: --->'''Teacher''': Agents? I thought you said Asians! Even funnier since most of her school, said math teacher included, is Asian. * This troper and someone else both got one on the forums for The Escapist (the site with ''ZeroPunctuation''). When we saw the outfit that Ezio in ''AssassinsCreed 2'' is going to wear, I said "[[CampGay Someones FAAAAABULOUS!]]" and someone else whos name I forgot said something like "I half expect him to start river dancing!". * This troper was eating dinner with her friends at a local restaurant that used a "western" atmosphere and only played country music, the poppy, Top 40's kind that they play on the radio at least five times a day. Said troper started bitching about it, and eventually got fed up enough to say out loud, "I HATE any kind of country made after the 60's!" A friend then turned around, and completely ''deadpans'' "Does that mean you don't support Taiwanese independence?" I nearly fell out of my chair laughing with the rest of our table. * Okay, so this is a total "you had to be there" moment but, whatever. At a Christmas dinner with some coworkers, one of my coworkers was listing all of the members of her family that had birthdays in December. To which I responded, under my breath but completely matterof-factly, "Busy in March, actually." The coworker with the December birthdays, the only one who heard me, burst out laughing. * [[BretheWriter This Troper]] and her friends tend to play card games

at midnight, when we are all cracktastically tired, and thus ordinary things seem really funny. One night a group of about seven or eight of us were playing cards in one of our rooms. The occupant of the room had a stuffed frog, a gift from her "big sister", dressed in a bumblebee costume, which we had dubbed her Bumblefrog. At one point in the middle of the game: -->'''Friend 1: '''* looking up* Oh, I like your Bumblefrog! -->'''Friend 2:''' Did you just say her ''Butterfuck?!'' ** I told that story at a friend's birthday party last month. Later we were having a mock-summit meeting for the Coalition to Conquer Venus, or CCV, and one of our agenda items was voting on the national animal. The Butterfuck narrowly lost out to the kumquat. * This Troper's younger brother was playing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness, and got to the scene where the player pokemon, its partner, and Grovyle were tied to pillars. This troper said "The pokemon will be shot at dawn". We both cracked up * I have many moments like this, all of which will probably mae no sense to outsiders. It was grade 8, and we had to write down a list of African animals (I don't remember why) We had about 20, and couldn't think of any more. Then for some reason, 'polar bear' just popped into my head, so I said it. We end up laughing uncontrollably everytime we hear 'polar bear' or see a photo of one. On a similar note (in grade 10)we were debating with a (male) friend over whether 'yo momma' or 'so's your face' was a worse comeback. Then suddenly, he randomly said (as a comeback) 'Get out of my car!' Needless to say, we were not in a car, let alone his car, and we all promptly collapsed with laughter. And continue to do so whenever anyone else says it. * This Troper's best friend was playing FFVII, and she mentioned that Cloud had an inferiority complex. This troper responded, "Why? Sword [[FreudwasRight envy]]? * This Troper's [[CloudCuckoolander friend]] was in geometry class, and the teacher was talking about circumscribed figures. Not paying attention, he asked "You mean they're Jewish"? * This troper had a college classmate with shaggy brown hair who was constantly getting jokes about looking like Shaggy from ScoobyDoo... He had enough of a sense of humor about it that his costume for the campus Halloween party was just [[LimitedWardrobe a baggy green tshirt and brown pants]]. * Word association in this troper's house: Brrrr-->Your butt is big. It's going to be really problematic trying to explain why I start laughing whenever anyone vocalizes how cold they are. ** Also, when I was about 13, my mother was giving me tips on how to be a babysitter, and warned me to be careful with baby boys when changing the diaper because they tend to "spurt". Cue my 9-year-old sister from the back seat of the car: "That's why you have to wear goggles!" Of course, this would be around the same time she responded to Mom asking her if she wanted something to drink with "A beer would be nice." * [[CheshireGrinne This troper]] and two friends were going to go see a movie around the time that the new Indiana Jones came out. We didn't know what to see, so we turned to look at the huge sign, each of us placing our hands on our hips and settling into a relatively epic pose

that looked somewhat like [[http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3006/3049249046_dc9419a56e.jpg this picture]]. The moment we do this, the Indiana Jones theme begins playing over the speakers in the theater. We gave each other a look, laughed our butts off, and then took it as a sign and saw the new Indiana Jones. * I have this classic: ** My Brother:(to our dad) My brother is smarter than you. ** My Dad: How'd you work that one out? ** Me: Because I can do science me! * Me and my brother were watching the "Wizard of Oz" episode of scrubs, and at the point where JD is sneaking out of the hospital in a body bag, only to get beaten with a fire extinguisher by doug (who thought he was a zombie), my brother literally collapsed on the floor with laughter for the next five minutes. ** ...wait, how is that a Troper Tale if it happened in a show? ** "And then, John was a zombie" * This troper would like to thank her younger brother for helping her create some. Especially this one: The troper wasn't feeling too well one day, and had....the runs. She was on the toilet for a few minutes, while her oblivious brother pounded on the door, demanding her to get out. This troper shouted back her condition and the pounding stopped. Well, it turns out that her brother didn't really believe her. This troper finally finished her business and left the bathroom, only to see that not only was her brother waiing to use it, but so was her mother. The troper's brother ran inside and slammed the door shut the instant this troper left the bathroom. Not two seconds later, we heard a loud "AAAAAAAUUUUUGH!" This troper and her mother cracked up, and her mother shouted to him "Doesn't it smell just like roses in there?" --> ''Troper's Brother'': "NO!" ** This same troper was in junior high, during a test. Naturally it was very quiet, when all of a sudden, one girl sneezed. The funny part? The sneeze sounded like "RAT POOP!" ** This troper's uncle took her to the bank, where it was ALSO very quiet. On her way to the other end of the building, the troper's jacket snagged on a sign on an easel in the middle of the room and the whole thing was knocked over. The resulting sound was EXACTLY like a gunshot, startling everyone in the dead-quiet bank, and causing an old man making a deposit to nearly jump out of his skin. ** This one comes courtesy of the troper's History teacher: A former student had gotten braces, and was battling a cold on this particular day. After a few sneezes shot his head forward, one powerful one made him actually wham his face onto the desk. The student lifted his head, revealing a bloody nose, the beginnings of a black eye, and his lips stuck to his new braces. He then shouted, in a slurred voice "Mr. (Teacher's Name)! I gotta go to the nurse! I look like Rocky!" The whole class began laughing, and it got worse when the student continued, shouting "ADRIAN!" ** The troper was taking a test while the teacher had the radio playing. The Boyz 2 Men song "I'll Make Love to You" came on, but no one save for the troper recognized it. Song continues, and the first line of the chorus starts up. The class starts snickering. As the

chorus progresses, the laughter intensifies. And then the next verse comes on...''Throw your clothes/on the floor/I'm gonna take my clothes off, too...'' And a classroom full of twelve-year-olds fall to teh floor, holding their sides. ItGotWorse when the song ended and an even RACIER song came on...thus prmopting the teacher to shout "That's it, radio's goin' off!" * This troper's friend Rob once had a confused squirrel dart across the street and up his pants leg (he'd been wearing some pretty baggy jeans at the time). While he sadly didn't get to witness the event itself, he did get to participate in the following discussion later on, after the story itself was told: -->'''Friend:''' So, does this happen often? -->'''Rob:''' Well, obviously... -->'''Me:''' Yeah, why do you think they call him Rob "Squirrel Pants" (last name)? -->'''Friend:''' Oh, I thought it was Spongerob Squirrelpants... * There was a storage box in a courtyard behind this Troper's school, where everyone waits for busses. One day, this storage box was removed. This Troper was saying it was made invisible. When one of this troper's friends came by, he walked up to where the box was. He perfectly mimed walking straight into the box, hitting it, and falling over. * I've got one In the best math teacher's class we were waiting to be called down to an assembelly and we were disscussing various things and someway some how I ended up in the front of the class singing areosmith's song DREAM ON with my teachers microphone (crazy prepared or dues ex machana much) to everyone and half way through he walked over to me for me to stop singing instead of complying and handing over the microphone I do a complete 180 and start walking away and now now my teachers chasing me around the class room (while IM STILL SINGING!)I didn't get in trouble and he still laughs about it to this day. * One day about a year ago, [[TromboneChild this troper]] and my mother came home from running an errand and found a message in the answering machine. We've gotten a lot of wrong number messages in our day, but this was the best because it only had one sentence: -->'''Random (probably elderly) Woman''': "[[ThisIsSPARTA I! NEED! A PLUMBER!!!]]" * This troper's brother was doing an impression of Heath Ledger's Joker and totally freaking her out while she was eating carrots. When moving in to "scar" her, he casually asked "By the way, what would you do if I really was the Joker?" She spit a mouthful of carrot bits into his face. "That." * This Troper and his family were visiting Bryce Canyon, and his brother was talking about how the hotel room should be big. My response: "So, we could be staying in an authentic 11th century dung hovel complete with never-before-used plague rats, but you wouldn't care as long as it's big enough". ** Later that same trip, this troper and his family were at a high mountain and his dad was talking about a risk of lightning strikes... -->'''This Troper''': There ain't anything to worry about. Lightning always heads for the highest (notices tall tree sister is sitting

under)... point. * This troper was playing "Apples to Apples" with some friends on the Fourth of July and made what is possibly the best combination ever. The category was "touchy-feely". The card I used? "Helen Keller". ** My grandfather's winning card for "touchy-feely": "Professional Wrestling." I nearly died. * This [[AstraKiseki troper]] is (in)famous on a specific forum for two things, [[{{Lemon}} writing smut]] and [[PungeonMaster running puns into the ground.]] Well, one day, she posts a [[SlashFic story involving one of her male [=PCs=] performing oral sex on another man]], and titled it [[StealthPun "I Am Not Making the Obvious Pun For This."]] After a few compliments about the writing and technique, the person who inspired me to write the story asks [[TemptingFate "Where's the pun?"]] I acted shocked and went [[IncrediblyLamePun "It's your fault]] ''[[IncrediblyLamePun Sacre blew.]]''" Cue my [[EvilLaugh fiendish laughter]] and [[ProducePelting metaphorical tomatoes thrown]]. * This troper and his friends were playing a DVD game called Quip It, which presents you with a scene or a question or something and all the players are required to write down the next line of dialogue or fill in the blanks or whatever. One question asked us to write short dialogue for a scene. Reading the answers, one of them was simply "Eggs? Couldn't not eggs." The player's excuse was that we didn't hear the rest of the conversation, so of COURSE it didn't make sense. Other highlights: ** A fill in the blank question ("Whenever I run out of clean ______, I just _______"). One answer: Whenever I run out of clean laundry, I just never stop crying. ** Same question as above: Whenever I run out of clean intercourse, I just dirty. ** Players were asked to make a caption for a black and white photo of two people fighting with antlers. One answer: "Stop fighting, guys, you're making me go colorblind! " ** Another dub scene: "I brought you this pear." "It's a mango, you dumb fuck." ** Another later game wielded: "A girl who likes to ______ knows how to _____." The best/worst answer? "A girl who likes to cook, clean and suck a dick knows how to maintain a steady relationship." * So this exchange occured in my health class: -->'''Teacher''': Let's talk about the scrotum. -->'''My friend, whispering''': What's a scrotum? -->'''My other friend, not whispering''': NUTSACK!! * [[{{Serenade}} This Troper's]] ''school teacher'' pulled a [=CMoF=] on a ''report card.'' [[{{Serenade}} This Troper]] had ended up near the end of the year, constantly spouting lines from {{Portal}} (([[{{Serenade}} This Troper]] had just discovered the game and loved it)). What did the teacher do? She wrote, and I quote: -->'''Report card''': Have a good summer and remember, [[{{Memetic Mutation}} The cake is a lie!]] * During Church Camp, due to the outcome of a certain game, this troper owed a friend three kicks. For the first kick, I forgot to take my (rather dirty) shoes off, and booted him hard enough to send him

down the small flight of stairs leading up to the cabin (He was ok.) It even left a boot-print on the back of his pants. Cue a few months later when we were back in high school, when he introduced this troper with "Hey, tell them about that time you kicked me down the stairs" * This troper's teacher was trying to teach the class how to play ball-in-a-cup. He yelled out " DON'T DO IT LIKE THIS!!", and proceeded to throw the ball around randomly. After he stopped moving it, the ball actually fell into the cup, at which point we all started laughing. * This troper has an identical twin sister. We were talking about how people mistake one of us for the other, and my sister said "We aren't THAT similar!" then we both burped at the same time. Convincing, right? * Probably not that funny to anyone else but this troper was in creases when at 1am, when deciding to move on from a bench we had been sitting eating some early morning pizza, this troper's friend proceeded to raise his fist into the air and proclaim.. --->'''Friend''': TO THE BANQUET! ...* awkward silence* ...(quietly) I was supposed to fly just now... ** Like I said, probably not that funny to others, but at 1am in the morning when tired, that's pretty damn amusing. * [[{{Magus}} I]] was in my school's improv club when one of the members started playing a game of Yu-Gi-Oh! with another member. The president broke them up, but the first guy started arguing with the second whether or not his (the first one's) deck would have won on a god hand. I interrupted them with: "Hey! Let's have a futile argument about [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries children's trading cards]] for TWO HOURS!!" * Not one involving me, but my best friend Eric. He went to Anime Expo '09 cosplaying Roy Mustang from FMA, his two military buddies cosplaying as Vash the Stampede from Trigun and a squad captain from Bleach. During the closing ceremony the director of FMA came out to speak with the audience, and when the room was completely silent, Eric yelled out, "TINY MINISKIRTS!", which caused the entire room to erupt into raucous laughter, and he even made the director ''smile''. ** IMHO that doubles as Crowning Moment of Awesome. ** Aww, I'll be sure to tell him that once he comes back from his service in the marines. Thank you! ^_^ * Tropers/RedWren's brother was playing Devil May Cry 4 and, [[ItMakesSenseInContext for completely appropriate reasons]], said, "See? It's appropriate to swear when beating up the Pope." ** Incidentally, same conversation, different person: [[{{NOINDOORVOICE}} "YOU ARE CRUCIFYING HIM. YOU ARE CRUCIFYING HIM ON HIS CHURCH'S HOLY SYMBOL!"]] * This Troper's dad, getting rid of the Jehovah's Witnesses (this was over 20 years ago, by the way): He got lucky and managed to spot them coming up the street in time. So, he stripped down to his underwear and put on a bathrobe which he then answered the door in. What did he say to them? "Sure, but I should warn you, we're nudists - so leave your clothes by the stairs and come on in". They ''ran''. * During a conversation about how easy it is to lie on {{Facebook}}, I nearly made my friends die laughing with this:

-->'''Me:''' I consider her {{Facebook}} status about as reliable as a [[TheAllegedCar Trabant]] past its service date. * You know what I did? My sister stole my cell phone, and would not give it back to me, you know what I did? I threatened to talk about TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles; I turned TMNT into an interrogation method! * This troper has a few: ** This tropers guy friend stuffed his gym clothes down his pants during French class. A couple minutes after he does that, his nose starts bleeding. Guess how he tried explaining to the teacher and rest of our classmates when he tried going to the nurse. ** On the 8th grade D.C. trip, I was being silly at the Lincoln Memorial and was standing on one foot. I lost my balance and put my hand on my guy friend's shoulder. He just turned to me and said, "Hey! Don't touch my rippling muscles!" I laughed so hard when he said that! ** There was a tampon out of the applicator on the ground by our lunch table with a table filled with guys except for me. {{Hilarity Ensues}}. * This troper's brother is a practiced DeadpanSnarker. Years ago, while working at Best Buy, he carried a box containing a brand new computer desk out to a customer's car. This box was about four feet on one side, two on another, and about four inches thick. The truly unobservant customer asked, "Do I have to put this together?" My brother replied, "No, sir, just add water." * [[DragonMaster This troper]] has only ever witnessed one CMOF it was in a Japanese class, we were matching stuff up and a friend (let's call her "O") noticed something. ->'''O:''' Oh, look at this! ->'''Me:''' What? ->'''O:''' Okay right "Tori" means "bird" right? ->'''Me:''' Yeeeeeesssss ... ->'''O:''' Okay, and the Labour party are nicknamed ''"Tories"'', and their symbol is a bird! its an easy way to remember! -> ''* Awkward pause* '' ->'''Me:''' O ... The ''Conservative'' party are called "Tories" ... ->'''O:''' Oh, ->'''Me:''' And ''Liberal-Democrats'' symbol is a bird ... ->'''O:''' Ah, ->'''Me:''' O, [[IndexFailure You fail at politics]] ... [[DidNotDoTheResearch forever]] -> ''* everyone starts laughing* '' It should be noted that this friend is actually [[TheSmartGuy very clever]] and this troper is TheDitz out of all his friends. * This troper works alongside people with various disabilities, and as such, a few of his coworkers (himself included) could fill the character type of TheDitz or {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. As such, while it's not common for there to be peals of laughter, it's not unheard of. Some instances which have provoked this reaction include: ** While discussing ''{{Garfield}}'', we hit upon the discussion of what breed Odie was. The coworker with whom I was having this discussion was also wondering about Odie's breed in the movie. As such, he called over coworker #2 (who has the movie on DVD)... --->'''Coworker #1''': Do you know what breed Odie is in the

''Garfield'' movie?\\ '''Coworker #2''': Yeah. It's a dog.\\ (he hasn't really lived that one down, much to the annoyance of Coworker #1 and the confusion of most other people) ** Another conversation involved the "I tried this at home" T-shirt (which features a picture of burning stick figure). This troper, in attempting to describe the image, called it "a person on flames". Yeah, he wasn't entirely with it that day. And yes, the aforementioned annoying slip-of-the-tongue was mentioned immediately afterwards. ** A third conversation involved two separate co-workers. One is easily the most focused worker at the place, but he doesn't really work well with others. Another is a good-hearted, but immature fortysomething. Coworker #4 (the latter) noticed that Coworker #3 (the former) was having a little bit of trouble, and decided to help him. Cue the following: --->'''Coworker #3''': I know how to do this!\\ (this rude response attracts the attention of one of our less-patient supervisors, who walks in stating that #4 at least deserves a thankyou for trying)\\ '''Coworker #3''': Thank you...but I still know how to do this! * A few gems from a D&D game [[{{INUH}}this troper]] recently DM ed: ** First, a character was doing a Gather Information on a woman who wanted to hire the [=PCs=]. Natural 1. "You find out that she's a hermaphrodite." *** This one also had a ReverseFunnyAneurysm when we were discussing it in a crowded school hallway the next week and someone we were passing turned around and asked "''who'''s a hermaphrodite?" ** Second, a character was outside that adventure's [[BigBad Big Bad's]] window, about ten feet away over a drop into shark-infested water. The villain was facing away from the window, having FailedASpotCheck. The player declares that he will jump through the window and sneak attack. He rolls to jump and gets a result that was high enough to reach the window, but not high enough to break through. The player therefore crashes into the window, catching the enemy's attention, then falls off (failed his balance check as well) into the water. * A funeral home called this troper's house one day to ask my father if he would be interested in prearranging his funeral, for whatever reason. He tried to be polite in declining the offer, but when they kept persisting, he finally just snapped at them. --->'''Dad:''' ''(with sarcastic calmness)'' No, you don't seem to understand. I don't want to prearrange my funeral because, you see, ''I am never going to die.'' Goodbye! * [[{{Kasu}} This Troper]] once went to a weekend lock in with his Jewish youth group who had rented out a facility near St. Louis. On Saturday, during the Sabbath period, somebody in our cabin accidentally turned the lights on before we went to sleep... so we were almost resigned to our fate of sleeping with the lights on. Cue one of the groundsworkers. ---> '''Worker''' (turning off the lights) "I'm not Jewish." * This troper had one once on a family vacation. We were eating lunch at a resteraunt in Gettysburg, Pennysylvania, and my parents were

talking about how kids should come with instruction manuals. I leaned over and asked "Hey mom, was my manual lost in shipping?" Cue at least two minutes of hysterical laughter that had the entire room staring at us. ** Another. While this troper was in Europe, he hung out with a select group of guys while we were allowed to walk around. This troper became known among our little group for apparently being able to teleport, because I could walk around almost without a sound. I got a kick out of it whenever I'd walk up behind someone, then say something. They would jump and turn around and ask "How did you get there?" *** Yet another. During the same trip, we were staying in a hotel and we all had to share a bathroom. We enjoyed turning the lights off on one another, and once, while this troper was in there with the door shut, one of his roommates snuck over to the light switch, and right as he was about to turn the lights off, this troper said, loud enough to be heard through the door, "Don't even think about it!" **** Also, when my brother was in high school, he and his class were reading Julius Ceasar. When he told me about it, I promptly responded "E tu, Brutus?" He said, in a very whiny tone of voice, "Why does everyone know that line but ''me''?" * On a local convention, [[@/{{T-Jack}} this troper]] was playing ''Bang!'' with his friend and a bunch of other guys (7 players total). In one particularly memorable game, the friend was the sheriff, plus his character was Willy the Kid (can shoot as many times as he wants). Even though I had four life points and one "Missed!" card, my friend killed me in his first turn, before I had even the chance to start playing. The kicker? ''I was the sheriff's deputy.'' He then killed his other deputy just a couple of turns later. ** Another time, a forum discussion somehow led to the line "[[CaveStory Kazuma]]'s dick: WillItBlend?", to which I was quick to respond "Dick smoke. Don't breathe this!" Many lulz were had. * This troper had one just yesterday. I'm in high school marching band and we practice every week day for seven hours, from 2 to 9. We have this thing we do at the end of practice called "Drill positions of attention" where we list off the things we're supposed to do to do our attention position correctly. It goes like this. "DRILL POSITIONS OF ATTEN-SHUN! FEET-TOGETHER! STOMACH-IN! CHEST-OUT! SHOULDERS-BACK! HEAD-UP! EYES-WITH PRIDE! (3x) Yesterday, we were doing that, and one of my bandmates thought it would be funny to shout the things in my ear. She managed to do it twice before I retaliated and we were on CHEST! Before she was able to scream at me I turned my head to her and screamed OUT!, causing her to jump backwards and double up. It got a few laughs out of the other people and one of the assisstants said "That was ''good''!" * This troper has a friend with a really idiosyncratic sense of humor. One time, while visiting my house after it had been reorganized so the [[http://www.lovesac.com/ love sac]] (what he refers to as a "scrotum") was absent, he shouted "They moved the scrotum, GAY AS AIDS!!" (no offense intended). Another time I was making fun of him and he blurted out "You're just saying that because I'm jewish, aren't you?" (he's 6% jewish on his mother's side). Most of them are "you had to be there" moments, but still darn funny.

* When [[CRBWildcat this troper]] was in high school, one of his friends (who was a bit of a ham) decided to act out one of the death scenes from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet before class. When he "died", he collapsed in front of the doorway out of the classroom. The funny part was that when our teacher got there, he didn't bother asking what he was doing; he just stepped right over him and kept on going without slowing down. * When I was visiting my neurologist, Doctor Brown [[BackToTheFuture (not that Doc Brown)]] he asked me for the name of the people I spent at camp. My response: --->Me: You know I have trouble with names, [[MyNameIsNotDurwood Doctor Black]] * This troper had one at lunch. We were having a strange conversation, when my friend offered another friend the cheese from inside a breadstick. --->Friend: AWESOME! * grabs cheese and puts it in mouth* --->Me: [[TooMuchInformation You didn't even notice what it looked like?]] --->Friend: * spits cheese out onto table* * This troper's English teacher once asked a classroom full of Star Wars geeks to come up with a sentence that correctly used a colon. This troper blurted out, "A communications disruption can only mean one thing: invasion." Cue hysterics. * The only honestly funny thing any teacher has intentionally said was what this troper's biology teacher once said. --->Teacher: With all the over-the-top political correctness, soon the Disney movie will be called "Snow White and the Seven Vertically Problematic Cases" * DragonMaster has a little tale. Basically we're doing ''The Caucasian Chalk Circle'' in Drama. Our Drama teacher gives us a few "How to play the role" tips. I'm playing one of the doctors which means I'm a creep. A friend of mine sparked off this little conversation (Names have been changed to letters) -> '''Drama Teacher:''' No, that's still you, your supposed to be playing a creepy suck-up. -> '''B:''' ''(at me)'' Oooh, you should use your really gay voice! -> ''(laughs from everyone)'' -> ''(beat)'' -> '''P:''' ''(At the same time as me)'' That's his normal voice though, isn't it? -> '''Me:''' ''At the same time as P)'' Which one? * This troper's iPod, constantly set to shuffle, had one earlier today. On the troper's way to his college course, the iPod played "Treat Your Mother Right" by Mister T. The song that played right after that one? "Kyle's Mom is a Bitch" from ''South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut''. * This troper was playing RockBand 2 with friends at a bar, and the singer, getting bored during [[EpicRocking the lengthy instrumental intro]] to Metallica's "...And Justice For All", opted to start singing along with the lead guitar part... in a squeaky Elmo voice. * This troper and his friends taped what happened during their Spare period in grade 12. Many laughs were had. But, the most epic was the

last day of school before exams. We drove in our friend's car to his house for some video games, but on the way back we turned the radio on...well, just [[http://www.youtube.com/user/spectre101#play/uploads/2/5l4H3ZmSWVE see for yourself]] * I was reading through TV Tropes in a college lab when I was browsing a trope list and [[Lolicon]] came up. My older brother sitting next to me asks me what that is, and in the middle of explaining it, my professor who I greatly admire walks by and gives me a strange look. [[TVtropesWillRuinYourLife TV Tropes will ruin your life]] indeed. * This conversation with this troper's best friend (we were talking about a Short Stack concert). -> Friend: Yeah, and he (Shaun, lead singer) winked at my friend.\\ Me: ''Did'' he?\\ Friend: Yeah, and it wasn't an accident or anything- it was a long wink.\\ Me: Lucky her.\\ Friend: Yeah, then he hit me on the head with a bottlecap.\\ Me: * starts laughing* \\ Friend: That ''was'' an accident, I think. I still can't think about it without laughing. * This one happened during 10th grade English class. We were discussing something about how vowels are important when forming words or somesuch, and then... -->'''Teacher''': Can you think of any words that actually have NO vowels in them? -->'''Student''': ...Um, W.W.F.? The class then explodes with laughter. * While playing CityOfHeroes, this troper started fighting some of Nemesis' minions. After beating them, he said (in what he assume's would be Nemesis' voice) "All part of the plan. I knew you would win that fight. You should know by know that [[MemeticMutation it's all a Nemesis plot]]." Cue teammates laughing thier asses off (we were playing in the same room) * A little bit of RefugeInAudacity in this one. [[DrMutton This Troper]] was in Social Studies the other day, and we were playing a "guess the thing" game. So one guy got TheSimpsons for his thing and he said: "They're yellow people". Me being the class smartass/Republican, I called out: "Asians". ** It takes a LOT more than that to be RefugeInAudacity, that was just racist. * This troper and his friend we're walking down the street holding a bottle of whiskey full of apple juice (for drama related reasons) when my friend stumbles and says "This apple juice has gone right to my head", what followed was use in hysterics the rest of the way making people think we were actually drunk, which made us laugh even harder. * A CrowningMomentOfFunny for Pokmon episodes on YouTube. I was watching the climax of the Hoenn arc on the [[{{Pokemon}} Pokmon]] anime on YouTube, which (for those of you who don't know, don't remember, or don't care) basically summarized to "Giant weather titans having an epic battle with funky weather changes and insane people in

the background". The 'giant weather titans' in question were Groudon and Kyogre, both of whom can change the weather to extreme sunlight or pouring rain, respectively. Just as the battle begins and everyone is getting drenched by rain (courtesy of Kyogre), what should pop up on the bottom of the screen but a ''storm warning for the uploader's area of residence''? The uploader insisted that it was entirely coincidential, but it was funny for any Pokmon fan who happened to be watching. * This Troper works in the library. On his first day, one of the librarians explained that novels labeled "heroine" go in a separate section. He asked "Does this have anything to do with affirmative action?" * [[{{Orihime}} This troper]] enrolled once in an uni course about TheSeventies and its history. The time drugs came into the equation, the lecturer asked "have any of you had them?". Almost all of us said "no, wtf" (dunno about others, but the troper's never had them)... except one girl who said "well, let me tell you about the time I ate some brownies..." and started telling us. Doesn't sound that funny ''now'', but the student told her experience with "happy brownies" in a very funny way, and the OhCrap face the poor lecturer had plastered all the time ''still'' manages to end the troper in giggles whenever she remembers. This troper is a bit of a nerdy kid, and is the butt of a lot of jokes, especially in my Spanish class (let me be clear that they are not particularly cruel jokes, just the "hey look at that nerd" kind). ANYWAY, one (stupid) example is that whenever someone has to walk across the room they veer towards my desk, fake a stumble when they're right in front of it, and act like I tripped them. One day this had already happened several times, an dwhen I saw another kid laughing and walking directly towards me, I thought "What the hell?" and actually tripped him. He landed face first on the ground, with a priceless look on his face, and the entire class coulnd't stop laughing for a good twenty minutes or so. * After a Ring of Honor show a few years back me and a few of the guys had decided to get a drink at the lobby bar of the hotel we were staying in. A few hours in we hear glass shattering and swearing, so, we looked to see who it was and it turned out to be Homicide punching a fire extinguisher while claiming it owed him 20 dollars. While this was happening the police came responding to the disturbance Homicide had caused and had to arrest him but, not before he screamed at the extinguiser that it wasn't over and next time he would fuck him up worse than last time. * This troper's grade 11 history class had four people and the teacher in it. My teacher kept saying "They did a 360 and did something completely different." In this middle of this lecture he stopped and said to my classmate, "Why are you laughing?" My classmate, who is very quiet, said, "If you did a 360, wouldn't you be facing the same direction?" There was a pause as my teacher looked sheepish, and then he started laughing. ** In the same class, my teacher was sitting in a rolly chair that lost a wheel and he was dumped to the floor. There was a pause as I

tried to decide what to do, and then the whole class, including the teacher, burst out laughing. * In the second half of freshman year we read Romeo and Juliet in my english class, probably the same as yours and everyone else's, but anyway, in the first act I read as both Romeo and Tybalt and gave them distinct voices as well as actually emoting during my lines. If you remember from the play, this section includes a scene where the two characters converse (Romeo expressing familial love to Tybalt as he's just spent the night with Juliet, and Tybalt being typically firey as well as filled with obvious confusion). My abrupt switch between the two voices from Romeo's at the moment, somewhat soft-spoken sing-songy voice to Tybalt's fury was so complete and surprising to the rest of the class, they broke into what felt like about 5 minutes of applause and laughter before I could continue. * Unfortunately I'm going to have to reveal my name for this to work... Everyone calls me Greg, but it's short for Gregory. I'm a huge nerd, currently in the process of applying for a place to study Mathematics at university. I'm a very curious person in general, and prone to shouting ForSCIENCE at unexpected moments. Then I started reading the TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression rulebook, with its Staunen Inspired- consumed by an obsessive curiosity for the world. Their nickname? Grigori. * A couple of this troper's experiences. ** His mother, after a dinner-table discussion of the word "bromance", coined the word "broneymoon". Everyone present cracks up. ** A conversation while reading a 4chan thread about battlecries. -->'''Friend 1''': How about 'For Hookers and Head'?\\ '''Friend 2''': They're Americans. [[AccidentalInnuendo They won't get 'head']]. [[ThatCameOutWrong Wait]]-\\ ''Everybody cracks up'' * This troper was incredibly bored one day in her eighth-grade Algebra 1 class, and found everything ''way'' too quiet. Out of nowhere, she starts singing her own incomplete parody of "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story (which she calls "I Feel Emo") as to explain her frustration at the assignment. The whole class and the teacher started laughing. * A few days ago, my older brother and I were playing air hockey at the local Cici's Pizza. About halfway through the game, older brother starts making [[TheLegendOfZelda the sword-slashy sounds Link makes]]. ''Older brother wins the game with a [[ChargedAttack Spin Attack]], even CHARGING IT BEFOREHAND.'' It was just so well-timed that I was left laughing about it for minutes, unable to even talk. * This troper once set her hair on fire. IN CHURCH. * This troper also had a infamous discussion in her high school Chem class about a story about a teacher having an affair with one of her students: -->Teacher: I mean, how does that come up? Did she go, "D'YA WANT SOME EXTRA CREDIT??" -->Classmate: You know, maybe we should discuss this... after school[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean]]. -->Teacher: ....I'm happily married... Besides, I have to supervise my AP students after school.

-->Classmate: That's okay. They can watch! -->Another Classmate: Talk about Advanced Placement! -->* Teacher put his head on his desk and cried with laughter* * I forget exactly which grade this was in, but in one of my high school literature classes, for extra credit we had an assignment to summarize one of Shakespeare's plays in ten minutes. Most everyone that bothered did ''RomeoAndJuliet'' (since, you know, required reading), but one girl did ''HenryV''. She turned it into the best summary of a Shakespeare play ever. I distinctly remember hearing the phrase "it is ''on'', bitch", turning the Battle of Agincourt into a combination of Risk and {{Pokemon}}, and concluding by saying that [[HoYay the French herald was gay for Henry]]. Shame she could only get three-fourths the points cause she went over ten minutes. * This troper likes to lampshade and/or subvert various storytelling cliches, particularly regarding more egregious centerpieces such as dragons. His favorite subversion of the {{Dragon Rider}} trope will run something like this: ->"Say I'm a seven-ton flying reptile with the ability to breathe fire and that lives in a Tolkien-esque fantasy land. Odds are good that there's a well-stocked armory, a blacksmith, a castle, and/or a stable full of perfectly good horses in every other village or encampment with 20 miles of my forest cave behind the falls. If I'm your free pass to instant fame and adventure, you're probably shovelling horse sh* t for a living and sleeping on haybales for a reason. And no one will miss you if you cash in that pass." * So far his CMOF in this has occured on Second Life. One of the groups is centric around roleplaying dragons and other mythical creatures, all of it about as extreme as your average Disney film (strictly PG material). One day, another member of this group asks in group chat if any dragons were interested in rescuing a princess. Taking advantage of the opportunity, this troper put his wit to work: -> '''Troper:''' Is it a fair damsel? Is she wearing a shiny dress? ->'''Troper:''' Cuz I'll gladly rescues the dress. ->'''Troper:''' They make nice curtains. ->'''Troper:''' If she has glass slippers, those'll be good for tea parties! ** And then to crown it all, another member of the group adds the final complement to the joke: -> '''Member:''' oh yes!!! but must drink the tea with pink finger extended * The first time {{This Troper Katfairy}} saw ''{{Fellowship of the Ring}}'', it was epic. So were the second and third times. The fourth time, when the Fellowship got to Rauros, I looked at the statues and suddenly burst out with: "Stop! In the name of love..." Hilarity did, in fact, ensue. * This troper chased a student teacher out of the class in a multi step process (totally accidental too). This troper asked, "who's your favorite student teacher?" and got about seventy percent of the class to do so as well. Eighty percent got the answer, "I don't have a favorite." Nineteen percent got the response, "anyone who doesn't ask that question," and one percent got the response, "someone at another school". When this troper heard the response, he remarked that he was

lying, and this troper was going to kick the living daylights out of him. At first the student teacher didn't believe it, but after coming back with about two friends, he was convinced. He stopped showing up in this class after about a week of this, so this troper assumes it worked. * I was watching ''SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies'' with a friend who isn't much into comic books. At the moment when Batman got into the rocket, my friend commented "the ship may have manual controls, but Batman can't breathe in space." [[MemeticMutation I'm sure I don't need to tell you what I yelled out at the top of my lungs]]. * I was at a live WhoseLineIsItAnyway show in Seattle, and they were doing Film, TV, and Theater styles. After a series of styles which included {{Shakespeare}} and SouthPark, they began to combine them, starting with [[NinjaPirateRobotZombie Shakespearean South Park]]. The first line was "THOU SHALT RESPECT MY AUTHORITY!" * This troper has an interesting tale to say the least. Be forewarned, it's a bit long-winded. It was at the midnight release of Guitar Hero III. My friend and I rode to Gamestop from his house (on roller skates and a bike, respectively.)Well, we got there and were standing in line. Making idle chit-chat with other people there. After about thirty minutes, a car pulls up and out walks no other than Jesus. Well, it was a guy dressed up like Jesus, but I digress. He proceeds to go to the front of the line and starts to shake hands with people. He does this for a few minutes, people start taking pictures with him and then he just gets back in the car he came from. He sits there for a few seconds and then these two guys come running and screaming out of the store holding a copy of the game. They then get into the car Jesus went into, do a burnout and scream, "We got it first, motherf*** ers!" with Jesus flipping us off and lauging. Not the end of our very eventful night, though. Time goes on, we get the game and take off back to my friend's house. He gets the bright idea to go pick up some Red Bull, to help with our late-night rockfest. We go past the road to his house and stop at a gas station, when we notice that a black car has pulled in behind us. I commence to freak out, only worsened by when the driver got out of the car with a ski mask on and waving about his pistol. I ride off on my bike, hoping not to die of course. While pedaling for my life, my pants leg gets caught in the chain of the bike and tears the entire right leg off and jams the bike from going any farther. I have to hop off of the bike, in the rain, while it's forty degrees outside, and sprint another half mile back to my friend's house. But wait! The black car catches up to me and proceeds to run me off the road, into a drainage ditch. I try to hide myself in a bush down there in the ditch, when the car comes back a third time. The guy rolls down his window and asks me if I was ready to die. I'm on the verge of weeping at this point, to which he laughs and says, "This all just a prank, Happy Halloween!" I was only fourteen, and it wasn't even Halloween yet. In retrospect, this has got to be the CMOF in my life. * [[{{Joshua-san0}} This troper]] has the ability to occasionally use laser guided snarking with usually hilarious results the fallowing is my favorite though: * 'While heading to our church for Easter mass'

-->Troper's Dad(paraphrased): 'I'm thinking of heading to Home Depot after church' -->Troper's Mom(paraphrased): 'Would Home Depot be opened on Easter?' -->[[{{Joshua-san0}} Troper]](paraphrased): 'Well, Jesus was a carpenter' ** Needless to say, everyone in the car was laughing. * This troper was playing ''AceCombat 04'' with his brother once. We began one match flying at each other at top speed. We both locked on, fired a single missile, then pulled up to avoid one another's missiles. It was at that point we crashed into each other, and we spent a good minute laughing our asses off instead of trying to continue shooting each other. ** [[{{Kadorhal}} Me again]], another game example. In one session of ''StarWars: RepublicCommando'', a Wookiee, a bunch of Trandoshans, and my entire squad all got themselves stuck in a doorway. They stood there for a while, unable to move, until Fixer kicks the Wookiee in the ass and it drops dead. * [[{{Ryumaru}} In sophomore year,]] I got to be Vandergelder in The Matchmaker for the fall play (details are in the CrowningMomentOfAwesome TroperTales page, towards the end of Academic Achievements). The pickup rehearsal for that show is one of the reasons that year was one of my favorites. To get an idea of what a pickup rhearsal is, think GagDub applied to theatre. Highlights include getting a {{Glomp}} from several castmates, This Troper getting attacked and [[FakeoutMakeout smooched]] by another girl in the show, hiding behind a set piece to scare another castmate, and a massive case of RefugeInAudacity. All of the girls in the show visited one of the guys' house, disctracted him, stole all his underwear, [[CrossesTheLineTwice left him a]] [[{{Squick}} g-string,]] and ducttaped said underwear to the back of a wardrobe he had to hide in. And yes, [[{{Squick}} he wore the g-string.]] * I (this troper) have a few ** Earlier in the year, it was rally day. I was in class and all of a sudden, this guy bursts in yelling "TO INFINITY AND BEYOND! Oh SHIT!" Then he trips on a wire. As he was trying to get out of the classroom, he ran into the door! After he left, the whole class was laughing! ** During the summer, I was in a play, and me and two other people were doing our parts. The guy who was directing us was also there. I was saying my line, and I noticed that there was a spider floating down on a web. I then hear the director laughing. It turns out that HE saw the spider too, and also saw me saying my line while watching it. ** Last year, I was at a birthday party, and we were having foods, and one was cherries. I dropped my cherry, and I said "CRAP! I lost my cherry to the floor!" Two of my friends haven't let me live that down. ** Last night, I was talking with my mom. I said that my throat needed a break, because I had been reading out loud a lot and my throat was becoming sore. She looked very confused and said "Your toes need a brick?" ** A little while ago, I was telling my mom about the end of the Civil War. I said "As the Confederates were leaving..." She heard "As the Confederates were mating..." ** A while ago, I answered the phone and the guy on the other end

said his name was "Steve Adam," but he had this thick Indian accent. He asked for my mom, who wasn't there. I said she wasn't there, then he asked again, and again, I said she wasn't there. He said someone had called about the computer being slow when it starts up, and popups when we surf the internet. I get my sister to get the phone, because she was on. He asked her if my mom was there. Then he told her the same thing he told me. She said we didn't have those problems, but he said "Listen ma'am! Listen!" She hung up. My mom got back, and we told her about him. A little while later, the phone rang again, I answered, and it was the same guy, except he said his name was "Jamaal." I gave it to my sister, so she could hear. Then she hung up. A few hours later, the phone rang, and my mom got it. She got this angry look on her face and went "STOP CALLING HERE!" Then hung up. Apparently he called a THIRD time! ** On Thursday, I had a performance in a black box theater, and I was waiting outside of it. I heard a guy from another classroom sing "If you love to sail the seas," then another guy joined in "YOU ARE A PIRATE!" ** The performance I'm doing is going to all the middle schools in the area. Once, a girl in one of the scenes was supposed to say "We'll be sitting down and shutting up." The line came out as "We'll be shitting down..." Then she realized what she said. ** My class was doing the performance again, but at a different theater, and it the last part, which is educational videos. So, the narrator was talking about how "all good things must come to an end," and as she was getting into her position, someone laughed. She turned around and said "Who laughed at that?!" ** Earlier in the same performance, we were doing monologues, and I happened to be sitting so I could see backstage. Another student is doing his, and there's a part where he's being a monkey. I happened to look backstage just in time to see people doing the same thing he was. * Various quotes from teachers. You probably had to be there: -> 6th grade art teacher: "Don't draw the sun round! I hate round suns!" -> Math teacher: "Well, I'm not really good at maths, but..." -> Another math teacher: "Well, say you have two parts juice, and three parts vodka... [[MoralGuardians oops, I shouldn't say that when you're under 18,]] [[{{Bowdlerise}} so just change that with soda!"]] -> English teacher(we were making a top 10 list of our choice) "If you make a list over "10 worst celebrities", Justin Bieber better be on there." * On a vacation in , me and my brother were discusing the amusement park we went to yesterday over the breakfast table. When the discussion got to the ghost house: -> My brother(sarcastic): "I was so scared, I peed my pants!" -> Me(just as sarcastic): "And I was so scared I screamed for mommy all the time!" -> Our dad, just as he breaks his fork by accident: "And I was so scared I broke my fork!"

-> *we all laugh* * Another one from the same vacation. Our dad's girlfriend's granddaughter(8 years at the time) was also with us on the vacation, and one day, she accidentally drops one of the cups in the house, and it breaks. She instantly gets told to be more careful and not do that again... only for my brother to mention: "Monkey see, monkey do" ...referring to the fact that Dad had dropped an ashtray a few days earlier. We all started laughing. ** Okay, this one's very "you had to be there", but here goes: At a vacation, me and my brother looked around the room we would have as our bedroom that week... a room with two beds, one at each side, and a shower in the next room... with no door between the bedroom and shower. Then, we looked up at the ceiling, and atarted laughing, as the lightbulb there was oddly-shaped and reminded us both of a secret camera. We started laughing, and then we found out the shower door didn't close completely, and already in easily amused-mode, we started laughing more. The sink on the other side was dripping and wouldn't shut off; laughing. A plunger on the shelf below, apparently randomly; more laughther. After all of this, what did we do? Why, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome make a song about all of our troubles with the room... to the tune of]] [[{{Rickroll}} Never Gonna Give You Up.]] I still remember most of that song. * At a forum chatroom, one of my friends asked everybody if there is a "nude button" in the chat. Then, a few seconds of awkward silence, before he reassures everyone he really meant "nudge button". Many lols and xDs were had. * [[@/AwesomeZombie22 This troper]] was playing Half-Life 2 for the first time after her all-Portal schedule, and her sister was also watching her play. We ran across a few funny instances while I was too busy making Gordan Freeman look like a spaz. --> '''Me:''' Hey! A phone! I'm gonna call someone! (grabs the phone and walks away) I wonder how long this cord is... --> (we notice that I ripped the phone off of the cord, cue laughter) --> ----> '''NPC:''' Quick! Get in here! --> (I run in the room) --> '''Me:''' Hay guys! Whazzup?! Is that a TV? Coolio! I'mma take this! (rips the TV out) WOOOO! I got the TV, let's watch somethi(guards run in) OH SHIT! --> ----> '''Guard:''' Pick up the can. --> '''Me:''' ...YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME! (I pick it up and sway back and forth, bitch-slapping him with the can) HA! (Guard pushes me down) Fine! (utterly fails to put it in the can, causing Guard to slap me) --> ----> '''Barney:''' My name's Barney. --> '''Me:''' Barney? I hate that dinosaur! (picks up a book) DIE! (I start bludgeoning him with the book while he has a conversation on a screen) How the hell can you be so casual about a madman hitting you with a book?! --> ---

--> '''Me:''' Your character's name is Gordan Freeman. --> '''Autumn:''' That sounds suspiciously like MorganFreeman. --> '''Me:''' That's the plot twist. --> ----> '''Me:''' (notices an AbandonedPlayground) Yay! Fun! (gets on a roundabout, trying to push it by walking up to it) --> '''Autumn:''' Try pressing X, I think. --> '''Me:''' (presses X, it starts going) Wheeeeee! (it stops) Awww.... (presses X again) Wheeeee! (keeps on pressing X) --> ----> '''Me:''' (notices an ExplodingBarrel) Danger: Fire? [[TooDumbToLive DUUUR... PULL TRIGGAR!]] (shoots it, it explodes) Again! Again! (shoots another) --> ----> '''Autumn:''' (plays "Paper Planes" by MIA) --> '''Song:''' All I wanna do is--> (I shoot in rhythm with the gunshots in the song) --> ----> (I notice that there's blood in Lamarr's cage) --> '''Me:''' There does appear to be blood in this cage. --> '''Autumn:''' Huh. --> '''Me:''' Wait, it was a she, wasn't it? It's probably just menstrual blood! * This troper's school production of LesMiserables ended up creating several, one that became a MemeticMutation for the entire school. After one show, the cast was hanging around and eating pizza. And then the actress (yes, actress) playing Javert got up on the stage and belted out a duet of "Don't Stop Believin'" with Enjolras, and the rest of the Barricade Boys sang backup. Little did they know, someone was filming... ** The cast also got quite a lot of laughs out of the fact that this troper, who played Javert, was a girl, especially since they decided to have one rehearsal to get all of the many, many jokes out of the way. One of this troper's personal favorites was when she, during an particularly loud argument with Valjean, blurted out "Oh my God, I want you in my bed so bad" with a perfectly straight face, completely in character (well, as much as possible). Then Enjolras (her real-life boyfriend) got jealous. * "I don't pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it collapses, one nation under donuts, divisible with liberty and justice for...!" * This troper's Literacy teacher once had a shitload of word magnets on the whiteboard. None of us could resist playing around with them. Then this one guy (yes, '''GUY''') grabbed five magnets and rearranged them so that they said "pretend I'm a hot girl". * In English class, we were reading RomeoAndJuliet. The teacher liked to assign roles to us and have the class read them instead. In the scene where Romeo is getting mad about being banished and Friar Laurence is getting really annoyed with him, I was Friar Laurence. When the part came where I was supposed to tell Romeo the good points about this (or something like that), I was very tired and had trouble reading the words. So instead of reading from the book, I took a huge

breath and, at the top of my lungs, yelled "MAN UP, [[{{ThisIsForEmphasisBitch}} BITCH!]]" The class erupted in laughter. We never got back to reading for the rest of the class. ** Same troper as above with a new story that happened just the next day. Again, while reading Romeo and Juliet, we were this time acting it out. I was Romeo, and we reached the end where Romeo drank poison. I took the cup, pretended to drink, and started my next line. I stopped after two words to put the cup on Tybalt's dead body (for some reason the teacher put him in there, despite him not needing to do anything) saying "Hold this for me, will you?" and continued reading like that never happened. Then, when I died, I just fell over onto the ground (unlike the others, who kneeled and laid down carefully). I had been training in falling for some reason, so I don't get hurt from deliberately falling onto the ground, no matter how hard it is. The class still found both those events hilarious. * While in a Hetalia RP chat with my friends, Fem!Norway's real life boyfriend came in. After a few minutes of getting to know each other, we had this exchange. ---> Fem!Norway: I can't wait for tomorrow! *blush* ---> Boyfriend: *snuggles you* Tomorrow's going to be awesome! ---> Fem!Norway: Oh yeah. ---> Fem!Iceland: USE PROTECTION! * [[FOX74647 This Troper]] went to Nemacon 2011 (North East Manga and Anime convention in the uk) and the entire event was a CMoA, but it's what I done on the second day of the two day event that made it here. ** During the charity auction, the last item was being sold off. the people on stage said "it's an open bet, what should it start at?". Well i just stood forward, prepaired myself and just shouted '''[[ReadingsAreOffTheScale OVER NINE TTHHOOUUSSAAAAAAAAAANNDD!!!!!]]''' Well, EVERYONE turned towards my general direction. what makes it funnier, is that it all went quiet and my voice was all that could be heard inside the (absolutely massive) main room, and stayed quiet for a few seconds afterward, before everyone burst out laughing. it counts as both a CMoA, AND a CMoF ** TONNES of CMoFs happen at my school. we were playing family fortunes in some spare time we had. the question was "name a type of blue" and one of the other students came up with "peachy blue"...WHAT? *** others include: **** one student on a rockwall barely two metres off the ground, shouting '''I'M 'AVIN' A BABY!!! IT'S A LITTLE GIRL!!!''' which is made even more funny by the fact that the one shouting it is '''MALE''' **** another student that repeatedly keeps getting footballs in the nuts, cue the song "one ball! that is all you've got! one ball! that is all you've got!" * It's a RunningGag between this troper and her friends that whenever one of them would say [[ItMakesSenseInContext "That Was Uncalled For"]], someone would remove their shoe and whack the offender over the head with it. Unfortunately, this troper liked to wear sandals. She's also Australian. Cue the following: -->'''Troper:''' You are so lucky that I'm not wearing my thongs today

D, other wise- ''[Cuts self off]''. [[ThatCameOutWrong I mean, uh...]].\\ '''S:''' ''[Bursts out laughing]'' [[HehHehYouSaidX Oh god...]]\\ '''D:''' ''[Utterly Clueless]'' ...What?\\ '''Troper:''' ''[Cracking up]'' I meant the footwear...\\ '''D:''' What? What's the other meaning?\\ ''[S and Troper exchange looks]'' ** The two of us were too embarrased to tell him outright, so cue a long string of [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "tasteful" jokes]] and [[IncrediblyLamePun terrible puns]]. -->'''Troper:''' Hey S. What kind of string do you need to play on a guitar in order to get a note just above F Sharp...?\\ '''S:''' ''[Catching on]'' You mean a G-String? * This troper's AP US History class was watching ThePatriot, and he and several of his friends enjoyed {{MST3King}} the movie. A few highlights: ** When, during the first RomanticPlotTumor, a young man and his [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend beau]] both end up putting ink into the other's tea (an apparent reference to a prank pulled as children), and after a romantic FadeToBlack scene, both of their teeth are stained. One of my friends chimes in: "[[SexIsEvil See, kids? Sex will turn your teeth black!]]" ** During the same RomanticPlotTumor, the young man asks her father for permission to write to her during the war. The actual conversation went something like "I seek permission to write your daughter." "Oh, to write her?" My comment was simply, "[[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow Is that what the kids are calling it these days?]]" ** Later on, during the second RomanticPlotTumor, the protagonist falls in love with his dead wife's sister. As they kiss, and the entire class is {{Squick}}ed out, ''the teacher'' of all people says simply "Oh, don't worry! [[CrossesTheLineTwice They're]] [[RefugeInAudacity Southerners!]]" * As this troper types, his cat is wiggling his ears back and forth to the beat of the song he's listening to. ** As '''this''' troper types this, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is playing with KungFu Panda 2's audio. We have been laughing for quite a while. * This troper has a few: ** Back in school when me and my friends were about 15 we liked to hang out in the schoool library, because we were cool like that. There wasn't all that much to do in there besides reading and working. Ordinarily that was fine, but for a while we weren't in the mood to do that so we started reading random lines from Harry Potter books aloud and completely out of context. We had lines like: --> "I never touched Mrs Norris!" ** which were CMOF in themselves along with every reference to wands and brooms, but some of the best ones came from reading out lines from different books: --> "Whats that?" asked Harry, pointing to something gold sticking out from under Hermiones pillow. --> Thats Hagrid. ** Another came the summer of 2010 when we were all 19/20. Two of my

friends, let's call them A and B, have birthdays only a few days apart, so they've been combining their birthdays since we all became friends. That summer we all went on holiday together for their birthdays, and most of us got completely wasted that night - except me. Next day the others were hungover, so they spent most of their time either sleeping or complaining about their hangovers. I was downstairs reading, and every so often someone would come down for food or a drink or to use the loo, and we'd chat for a bit before they headed back upstairs. Now, B loves Justin Bieber and at that point was carrying a picture of him in her purse. A and B came down, B ducked into the bathroom and A borrowed the picture and hid it, all in plain sight of me. I think the plan was to give the picture back after the initial explosion and laughs from it, but somehow it turned into a whodunit. B and I had been friends for about 13 years at that point so she ruled me out straight away, but as the whole thing was too entertaining I kept the thief's identity a secret and started giving clues. This included when the picture was hidden in the freezer clues about temperature which B interpreted as meaning someone with sunburn had taken - we were all badly sunburnt by this point - and hidden it in the oven. Probably doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming as she got the picture back when we were celebrating her birthday, the picture placed on her cake and then present with a life size poster of Bieber. ** A couple of others occurred during the same night - the night of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest final. Me and about 10 of my uni friends were crammed into our tiny living room watching it. About half way through the songs one of the guys, let's call him K, opened a new drink - an ale, specifically. It frothed up and right out of the bottle. He drank that. It did it again. He drank that. Repeat for half an hour. This quickly became more entertaining that Eurovision. *** And the other one that night came during the results. I should explain that all of the downstairs windows in the house were fitting with window alarms that go when the window moves or vibrates and emit a loud, high pitched noise for about 30 seconds. One country, Bulgaria, I think, revealed who they'd voted for - 12 points for the UK! The whole rooms cheering and screaming then - EEEEEEEEEEEE! The alarms go off. A second of silence then hysterical laughter. * My middle school Geometry teacher was a walking CrowningMomentOfFunny, and unlike a lot of other teachers, he did it without even trying- he just lived life like he didn't give a crap about what anyone else thought. Some highlights include throwing a calculator at a kid on the last day of school after he'd fallen asleep in class for the hundredth time that year, casually hitting old erasers into trash cans from across the classroom with a golf club, and answering kids questions about how long he'd been teaching by reciting all the names of the Backstreet Boys, claiming that seeing their pictures on every girls binder back in the 90s had burned them into his memory. ---Go back to FunnyMoments. See also [[TroperTales/FunnyMoments Funny Moments 1]] ----

FunTShirt {{Tropers/happymediocrity}}: My mom thought of me when she saw a tshirt that read, "Why do people with closed minds always open their mouths?" So she bought it and gave it to me as a present. ---{{Tropers/Smerf}}: There exists a picture of me from grad school where a bunch of guys (including me) were up in front of the class. On the projector behind us is a slide that just says "Female Genital and Reproductive Function." What's on my shirt? A shamrock and "Rub me for luck!" This was not planned. ---[[Tropers.ReikoKazama Reiko Kazama]]: Being the chocoholic that I am (since [=~Everything's Better With Chocolate~=]), I - naturally - have a pink t-shirt that says "You can never have too much chocolate" on it. The picture? A monkey (I think) with a block of chocolate in its hand and chocolate smeared round its mouth! I say to you now: [=~What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?~=] ---Anonymous: I have a shirt that reads "I'm huge in Japan", which, in the right context, is a ''triple whammy''. I am large in weight, taller than everyone else, and my girlfriend is a HUGE anime fiend. * Yeah, nevermind the [[BiggusDickus obvious joke...]] @/HeartOfAnAstronaut: the secret to winning over sixteen year old brother is buying him a t shirt my bitches" with arrows pointing to the left and outfit for visiting his girlfriend's parents, of the heart of your that says "These are right. The perfect course.

---Ace of Spades: I have a few, but my first and favorite is one that says "If you don't talk to your cat about catnip, who will?" It has a picture of a catnip toy. There is also the one that says "I have gone to find myself. If I get back before I do, keep me here." ---@/Digitalshakespeare: I have one that says: "This Shirt Is Red". It's a red shirt, but people consistently think they've caught me out stating that the text itself is white. ---@/LordTNK: I would really, ''really'', would like a shirt that says that has "Choose Life" on the front, but on the back, it's the opening monologue of ''{{Trainspotting}}''. * {{@/Nornagest}}: I'd buy that. ---{{@/Catfish42}}: While the most fun t-shirt I have has [[CoolCar VW busses (widely known as minibusses)]] on it, I know some people with more interesting t-shirts: a friend of mine has a t-shirt with a pretty ugly-scary looking skull (complete with red eyes and [[FlippingtheBird a rude gesture]]) and the words "Punk`s not dead". When asked in school wether we could think of clothes that might cause

offense, he listed it as example. Another friend (a girl this time) has (at least) one t-shirt that reads "You have to kiss many frogs to find a prince". With a picture of a frog under it. Lastly our former class teacher told us about the perfect t-shirt for teachers: on the front it says: "Be quiet and listen" (for when facing the class) and on the back "Write this down" (for when writing something on the board). We eventually got her one of those as a pesent. ---Unknown: My brother has lots of shirts with phrases, including: * Blah, blah, blah * I'm so bored * I wish I could delete ** homework ** chores ** sister *** His friend said that if he found a wish-granting creature, he'd tell it to "read the shirt". ---{{@/Cameoflage}}: I actually prefer shirts with graphical designs rather than slogans (I have far too many T-shirts from [[http://www.threadless.com Threadless]]), but I own a T-shirt that says "Sarcasm is one of the services I offer" and another one that's got a picture of an ECG where the heart beat, briefly flatlined, then picked up again, with the caption "For a minute there you bored me to death". * @/LurkingBeneath "Sarcasm is one of the services I offer." Fellow troper, we share a shirt. ---@/SpaceJawa: A personal favorite of mine: Napoleon World Tour. Styled like a band tour shirt with Napoleon on the front, and the back featuring "show" dates. Six of them, Toulon through Waterloo, have the months they occurred, while Berlin, Rome, and London are listed below with "would-be" show dates and "Canceled" posted over them. ---@/TromboneChild: I used to have one of those T-shirts that said, "ROCK IS DEAD!! Long live paper and scissors." I loved wearing it because people would just read the first part and get all offended (especially my ignorant classmates). I also had one of those "HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WIZARD?" T-shirts that was a WANTED poster of Sirius Black from the third ''HarryPotter'' movie. A couple of people thought I had Charles Manson on my T-shirt. I wanted a Joker T-shirt this summer, but I was too afraid of the looks I might receive in public if I actually wore it, so I didn't buy it. * @/MaraJade: I have one of those. It has the Joker on the front and 'Why so serious' on the back ---@/DarkInsanity13: I have my own t-shirt designs, mostly based on anime/manga/video games. None of them have made it to actual t-shirts yet, but she's working on it. But I love humour shirts, especially ones with the wearer being made out to be a total jerk (because that's

what [[JerkAss I am]]...or [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold act like]]) or that are insulting others. I recently saw a shirt that said "I'm an optimist." My mother was tempted to get it, despite the fact that it wasn't meant to be sarcastic, but didn't. If anyone's interested in seeing some of my ideas for shirts, give me a shout...somewhere. * Actually, how about a fun button/pin? I have a pin that my mom got that says "Why am I here?" I leave it up to whoever sees it to decide whether or not it's a joke or serious. It certainly gets a variety of answers (particularly from teachers), and the most (and only completely) serious one was a random lady on the street who gave me a whole speech about God and heaven and repenting for my sins. I didn't have the heart to tell her I'm agnostic. ---Skorpy: I love these, and collect them. * As a matter of fact, the world does revolve around me. * I do all my own stunts (Under a running, flaming stick figure, and with added string of superglue stains down it) * I can only please one person per day. TODAY IS NOT YOUR DAY. Tomorrow doesn't look good either. * You know what your problem is? You're stupid. * Today, I am wearing mainly black. * (Altered 'ascent of man' diagram to end with a man hunched over a computer) Somewhere, something has gone terribly wrong. * (Large graphic of a dog chasing a cat) Fast food * (Large graphic of Vader's head inside the Imperial cog symbol from StarWars ) I find your lack of faith disturbing. * A large graphic of a skull and crossed swords. * A black T-shirt with 'Skorpion' on the back across the shoulders, from the local Warhammer40K store's gaming club. * UK Games Day '08 shirt, with a large graphic of a boltgun from Warhammer40K on the back. * The 'PH34R' and 'Ph33r my reality' shirts from the Megatokyo store ---Scebaol:I would like to see an I'm with stupid shirt, only with the arrow pointing up. * This troper has seen it. It really is out there. Biffbiffley: I"d like to see the same, only with the arrow pointing down. I'd wear it tucked in. (Yes I'm a guy can you tell?) ---A Random Serf: I have a few of these, including a shirt that says, "Sometimes I wonder, "why is that Frisbee getting bigger?" And then it hits me," a T-shirt bearing the Longest Insult in Shakespeare, and an in-joke shirt that says, "I've got the tuna and the papaya" on the front and "And how many people are murdered by chickens each day?" on the back. ---@/JethroQWalrustitty: I have a t-shirt that reads "ECILOP 3HT KCUF", it's actually a promotional item for a record label (take a wild guess at the genre). I've been in the situation where I've been wearing it in presence of policemen. Twice.

---{{@/Horngeek}}: My friend has a t-shirt saying "Why be politically correct when you can be right?". Another friend has a t-shirt saying "He's not the messiah- he's a very naughty boy" (We're both Christian). A third has "I love animals... they're delicious". Me? all I have is one that spells out COSMOS from the element abbreviations on the periodic table. ---@/Voidbunny: I once had a shirt depicting a simply drawn cutesy brown puppy. Below it: "If I was your dog I'd run away." I miss that shirt. It was comfy and inspired some chuckles. ---{{@/HeartBurn Kid}}: I absolutely love these shirts. My favorite one reads, "Trust me. I do this all the time." At my old job, a co-worker stopped me and asked, "You do ''what'' all the time?" I replied, "Well... THIS," and just stood there. She thought it was the most hilarious thing ever. ---Latte: I have a T-shirt with "Pickles are cucumbers soaked in evil" very fitting, I love me some cukes, and one with a (rather cute) monster on it. Above him is the text "come to the dark side" and below him and his platter, it reads "we have cookies". My brother also bought me a "WWBD?" shirt with the Batman logo behind it and a Penny Arcade one "Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul." The two shirts I REALLY want? {{xkcd}}'s "Stand back - I'm going to try science and the Order of the Stick one with V's "I am somewhat preoccupied telling the Laws of Physics to shut up and sit down." ---{{@/Noaqiyeum}}: Guilty of collecting not only the t-shirts, but ''images'' of the t-shirts. {{xkcd}} [[http://imgs.xkcd.com/store/imgs/stand_back_square_0.png holds the winner, of course]] (actually, it ties with an shirt I can't find a full picture of), but what I ''really'' want to see is a picture of Darwin in the style of Che Guevara, with the caption ''VivaLaEvolution''. ---{{@/SirFrederick}}: I've been designing and even occasionally selling Victorian-themed Ts for a few years now, [[http://www.printfection.com/frillyshirt over here]]. I'm rather proud of a few which parody common T-shirt slogans, such as the FCUK logo replaced with 'Merdre!' from Pere Ubu. And also that dreadful "I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it" line. ---@/GwenStacyWannabe: One of my personal favorites has to be: "Sometimes I wonder 'Why is that Frisbee getting bigger?' and then it hits me." ---@/KhittyHawk: Absolute fave? "A ninja swiped my homework" complete with ninja on the back. It is the only t-shirt I own that continuously elicits comments. ----

@/ThatOneGuy: Many, many t-shirts like this. "I'm mean because you're STUPID" being the favourite. Others include "My anger management class pisses me off!", "It's hard to show I care since I DON'T", "I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it", "For a moment there you nearly bored me to death" complete with flatlining ECG, and a singlet with a Heartless symbol from Kingdom Hearts that gets more amusing comments than the others combined. Sadly, lack of funds limits the collection. ---Eida: I have one T-shirt which reads "It's all fun and games until the flying monkeys attack." ---{{@/Desertopa}}: I have three shirts which I designed myself, and are therefore the only ones of their kind. One of them is black with white text reading "This shirt, I am too sexy for it." Another one is gray with black text reading "I am powered by SCIENCE". My favorite one is white with a black block across the front bearing vivid rainbow text which reads "PAY NO ATTENTION" * That first remains unique only until I figure out how to get one made. ---Human Fire Hazard: I have in my possession a shirt which reads "It's Okay, I'm with the band". My brother owns one that says "A nicer way to say... YOU'RE AN IDIOT" and behind that is a multitude of insults, such as "One taco short of a combo platter" and "The wheel is turning, but the hamster is asleep." ---{{@/Dark Hunter}}: My sister owns a shirt that reads: "If dance gets any easier, it'll still be harder than football." My friend owns one that reads: "I have gone to find myself. If I get back before I return, please keep me here." My old high school Calculus teacher had one that said: "What part of * extremely long, complicated math equation* don't you understand?" Unfortunately, the best that I personally own simply says "<body>". ---{{@/Yinyang107}}: Kinda boring, considering some of the others on here, but I have one which I reserve for birthdays and Christmas, green with white text which reads "Got Gifts?". * I also have a black-on-white one that says "There are 10 kinds of people in this world; those who understand binary and those who don't." I jacked the words from TroperTales.ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld and had it made custom. * My newest is a shirt, yellow-on-green, which reads "Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup." ---{{@/MikeK}}: I own a shirt that reads "Eat venison - 50,000 coyotes can't be wrong". I do not in fact eat venison, and it was purchased simply because I thought it would be funny to "just happen" to wear it the next time my vegetarian sister came over (she laughed it off). I have worn it in public a few times since, and have yet to be accosted by angry vegetarians. A friend of mine owns a shirt that reads "Bassoon Hero" (in a parody of the Guitar Hero logo of course),

although as far as I know he has never played the bassoon. ---{{@/JET73L}}}: I have a lot of these, though mostly cheap ones and gifts. I have several Star Wars humor ones (most notably "Vader Was Framed," though no "Solo [or Alderaan] Shot first" shirts, a ''lot'' along the lines of "out of my mind, please leave a message," "gone to find ,myself, if I get back before I return..." and the like, and a few science/math shirts ("What part of * long extremely complicated equation* don't you get?"), different forms of the "yes the universe does revolve around me" shirt, and one that combines the two in "Scientific Theory Proven The universe does revolve around me," in an XKCD stick figure/chalkboard style. Have always wanted certain shirts from Megatokyo , XKCD, and Sam and Fuzzy, but never had the money to justify ordering them. ---@/{{Bisected8}}; * <shirt> </shirt> (on the front and the back respectively). * One with a caffeine molecule printed on the front. * AllYourBase ---@/DoctorWorm: About half of my wardrobe is this kind of shirt. My favorites are a shirt with a picture of [[OrderOfTheStick Xykon and Redcloak]] and the text "Sacrificing Minions: Is there any problem it can't solve?", and a shirt with a picture of Che Guevara, who is wearing a Bart Simpson t-shirt. ---{{@/SlackerEmeritus}}: I own far too many of these. Two of my favorites? * Keep staring; I might do a trick * Stop reading my shirt ** I so want this one! The one that got away? * Genius by birth - Slacker by choice ** I caught it. I'm not giving it back; though, sadly, few have the nerve to comment on it. ---[[{{@/Regiment}} This troper]] has: * from Universal Studios: front "Disaster Studios", back "[[GenreSavvy Rule #14]]: [[AlasPoorScrappy The annoying guy always dies]]. * a ''GreatestAmericanHero'' logo shirt * a ''DGrayMan'' uniform shirt ---{{@/Chelsie}}: I have one of these that says "The 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not piss me off". People always ask me where I got it. ---{{@/Magnezone}} proudly sports a... * 'javelinas love people!' shirt. A javelina is a Mexican wild pig, and the illustration shows one of those stick-figure guys in a hiker uniform being chased by a javelina on its hind legs. Under the illustration, in smaller font, it says, "(they taste like chicken)". * A brown shirt with a picture of Annie Oakley on it. The text? "Women who behave rarely make history."

* Ms. Pac-Man shirt - black, with the zoomed-in, pixelated four ghosts zooming around in really bright colors. * My personal favorite: a New Super Mario Brothers shirt, green, with a One-Up Mushroom on it. Underneath are the three legendary words of fun-pickers past... 'GET A LIFE.' * However, there is only one shirt she very much wishes would be made: [[{{Pokemon}} a black shirt with a giant red R on the front.]] ** One of my friends actually made one of those. He wore it along with a FullmetalAlchemist army coat, eliciting jokes about how much more awesome Team Rocket would be if they had Roy Mustang. ---@/HungryMan: I got one that says: "GO! Local Sports Team and/or College" ---{{@/Nettik}}: I own a t-shirt that says "Meat is murder. Tasty, tasty murder." She's never worn it out in public, and never plans to. It makes a great shirt for sleeping in, though! ---{{@/Mariko-chan}}: I own a shirt that says 'Yakamashi'. For those of you who do not live on Hawaii and have no idea what it means, it means to shut up, or be quiet. ---{{@/Nausicaa}}: I have a few of these - the ones I can remember off the top of my head are: * "FrankZappa For President", complete with a picture of the man himself * "Transylvania University", in the style of a normal college shirt * The "I can only please one person a day. TODAY IS NOT YOUR DAY. Tomorrow doesn't look good either" one that was mentioned before. ---{{@/Seanette}}: I have three, all with cat themes: * The one I'm wearing as I type has a cat glaring at the viewer, captioned "Don't Mess With Me!" * Another has a kitten sprawled out napping, cuddling a catnip mousie. Caption: "I don't do mornings". (I'm a chronic owl myself, and my husband working swing shift doesn't help.) * Then there's the cat with fangs bared for action, captioned "STRESSED OUT!" ** Another one that just surfaced in my closet: a dragon, captioned "Why hoard gold when you can hoard chocolate?" (based on a crossstitch design I find amusing) ---[[@/EddieVanHelsing Eddie Van Helsing]] has a t-shirt that says "I am become root, shatterer of worlds." ----

{{@/RiL}}: I had a reputation at my previous job for being the girl with the interesting shirts. My favorite is [="tiny carl jung"=], which is {{Exactly What It Says On The Tin}}, right down to the book of [=Tiny Dream Analysis=]. ---@/BiffBiffley: I wish I had the balls to wear the shirt I'm working on designing. Picture of Elvis with the caption "Promoting black music sence 1935" But I'm a music snob that way. ---[[Tropers/{{Zadia}} Zadia]]: I want a shirt that says "I am the Stig". I also want one of the FCUK shirts (I know someone who has one that says, 'fcuk fashion' and my sister has one that says 'Too busy to fcuk'.) I also own two TheGruenTransfer shirts. One says '100% Pure New Zealand. 0% Airforce. 0% Navy. 100& There for the taking.' The other has written on the back, 'By wearing this shirt, I'm advertising their show and they're not even paying me'. ** The former is on sale in the UK, somewhere. *** Given away free to subscribers of * Top Gear* magazine, I believe. ** A uni friend has an "I am the Stig", got from a shop. I've got one that says "fcuk it". ---Twotall: I have a couple of these, including: * On the front: "Schroedinger's Cat Is Dead", and on the back "Schroedinger's Cat Is Not Dead". Naturally, I wear this to any and all science museums/exhibits/theme parks I can. * A picture of the Milky Way galaxy, with a sign pointing to one of the arms reading "You are Here" * On a black T: "There is a ninja on the back of my shirt". Below this, a picture of a shuriken embedded in my stomach. * "You Are Dumb", written in binary code ---{{@/lnajt}} I have a shirt that, on the back, reads: "Adequate for survival, not for propagation". Next to this is a fish. * The front reads "Slightly to moderately impacted." I think it is meant to be a reference to [[http://www.cnyrpdb.org/ONEIDALAKE/programs/monitoring/bio.asp this.]] But most people don't consider that interpretation. ---Happy Psycho:I made my own T-Shirt a while ago.It reads: Front:So, What is there to do around here?I may have to resort to hurting people. And on the Back:The guy in front is a Psycho. ---@/CountDorku: here's a suggestion for a shirt slogan: "[[KillItWithFire Fire]] + [[ChainsawGood Chainsaw]] = Problem Solved". * [[{{@/Seanette}} I]] would probably buy that one. ** I know I would. ---Purple Panther Girl: I had one that said 'Whatever' (Boring... snore....) But want custom shirts saying: * 'Stupid humans... stupid vampires... We should all be turtles or

something' On the front, with 'The Saga of Darren Shan' on the back. * 'Don't look at ''me'' funny- you're the one staring at my chest' * 'BITE ME' * 'My cornflakes told me you are evil' @/DrunkenGrognard: I've got a couple fun ones, though I've had them long enough that they are in rough shape these days. My favorite is "Error 404: requested shirt not found." followed closely by "Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." ---@/InsanityInside: "It's never too late to begin wasting your life" ---@/LizardBite: My favorite shirt reads thus: "The funniest thing about this shirt is that, by the time you realize it doesn't say anything, it's too late to stop reading. You must be a real loser if you have the time to stand there like an idiot and read every word on my shirt. Great job, you read it to the end, now go away." * I also have friend with a shirt that reads, on the front, "'God if dead'- Nietzsche (1890)". On the back, it reads: "'Nietzsche is dead'God (1900)". * @/MeganPhntmGrl's brother has a T-shirt with the British flag labeled GREECE. ---This editor has one customized that read "My other T-shirt is a {{Badass Longcoat}}". Yes, Thank you. ---@/AMereServantOfGod: T-shirt ideas: * [[StarWars These aren't the droids you're looking for.]] * My imaginary girlfriend is hotter than yours. * I cannot brain today. I have the dumb. * WHEEEEEEEE! * (Front): [[LovecraftianFiction Cthulhu?]] [[MemeticMutation Chuck Norris?]] Nuclear War? Those things aren't scary. (Back): My little sister, on the other hand... * I think I pulled a brain muscle. * (A list of some of the many and varied stupid things that can be found on the internet in the background. The foreground): Stop the web, I want to get off. * (Front): I'm pretty sure what you just described is illegal. (Back): Let's do it! * (Picture of a giant foot behind the letters) [[MontyPython And now for something completely different.]] ---[[{{@/Willbyr}} This troper]] just bought a T-shirt with a pic of [[{{Transformers}} Soundwave]] running a turntable, with Ravage holding a record in his mouth and Laserbeak with a headphone cable in his beak. This ''will'' be worn to the theater for the first viewing of ''Revenge of the Fallen''. ---@/BroSgtVarks; After Serenity was released a number of shirts popped up, including "Joss Whedon is my master now." I also want one with a picture of an SMG on it, with the words "Now I can solve up to 500

problems per minute" on it. ---{{@/Gizbit99}}: This Troper's cousin owns two such shirts. One has an image of a Windows Error pop-up saying "Please smash head on keyboard to continue," and the other (this troper's favourite) says "I am a bomb technician. If you see me running, try and keep up." ---This troper wanted to get a shirt with "This shirt would have a picture of Che Guevara on it, but that would be a clichd insult to a great man" on it, but it wouldn't fit ---This troper has a shirt reading "THIS SHIRT IS ONLY BLUE WHEN I'M THINKING ABOUT DWARVES". The funny part? It's a blue shirt. The notso-funny part, however, is the shirtmaker botched my order, and instead of a bright royal blue, it's a dark near-black indigo color. Kinda spoils the joke. ---This troper owns shirts that say things like 'If you're reading this, Phase 1 of my Evil Plan is complete', 'Don't Piss Off The Voices', 'Sarcastic Statement', and 'Think: It's Not Illegal Yet', and covets a T-shirt she heard about that said 'Stuck in Human Costume: Can't Unzip'. Shirts like that (plus the occasional socks with happy skulls on, strange jewelry, or geeky accessories) are the only reason she would ever go into Hot Topic. ---@/PrincessGwenevere- This tropers' family is filled with these. Such as: * "First thing we do, kill all the lawyers." (With a picture of Dick Cheney with a shotgun) * An error message that says: "We are Microsoft. Resistance is futile." * And my favorite, "Past my Curfew". With Cinderella running home. ---@/PhoenixFire: I have a "Do Not Meddle In The Affairs of Dragons" tshirt, as well as a couple good ones I picked up on college visits: MIT sells shirts reading [[ProudToBeAGeek "Nerd Pride"]], and there was a pretty dang good one reading "Mt. Holyoke Football: Still Undefeated." (Mt. Holyoke is a women's college, and as such doesn't ''have'' a football team.) There's a bunch of others on my wish list, just waiting for some relative to want a Christmas present idea and buy me a shirt that says "[[{{Dragaera}} Shut up, Loiosh.]]" And my brother has a shirt with a little name tag printed on it: "Hello, I'm... An Innocent Bystander." That one has the advantage of being funny even if you don't get [[TheDresdenFiles the reference]]. And, because she is a godless liberal who has a great deal of difficulty not gloating, she wants one that shows a picture of Virginia in blue, with the slogan "AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs." ---{{@/Maniette}}: This troper found a (sadly) men's shirt that simply said "Pwn". Another one she loves, but finds disgusting, is (paraphrased), "Teabag: Apply to Forehead: Repeat". ----

This troper's collection: * The aforementioned (and very common) "I can only please one person a day..." * I may be wrong, but I doubt it. * There are three types of people in this world: Those who are good at math, and those who aren't ([[{{Irony}} This troper belongs to the former. Hence why I bought the shirt.]]) * Know Your Mushrooms (followed by Well-known and not-well-known mushrooms from SuperMarioBros.) * Don't make me go [[TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]] on you! (with images of some Ocarina of Time items) * My Job Resume: Great at Multitasking. Can eat, play video games, watch TV, study, and talk on cell phone all at the same time. * Video Game Addiction: It's when you ask your doctor how many extra lives you have left. * 'Tis better to be silent and thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt. * Geeks Rule (bought at Microsoft) ---This troper has a classmate who wore a shirt printed with a name tag, in "Hello, my name is..." format, that read "Inigo Montoya." Also, in reading this page, this troper has decided she absolutely must make an iron-on of Millais' "Ferdinand Lured by Ariel" with the caption "My Ariel is better than yours." ---Pita: * Buttweiser: King of Rears * A picture of George Costanza in underwear with the caption "The Timeless Art of Seduction" * Amsterdam: Red Lights District * 24 Different Uses for the F Word (With uses such as Etiquette: Pass the Fucking Salt and Philosophical: Who Gives a Fuck) * A favorite combination of mine was an NYPD shirt with stoner pants. People would point and laugh, especially when I had long hair. ---@/LadyNorbert: I have two which are particular favorites. One, from Split Reason, shows [[MetalGearSolid Solid Snake]] in a suit and his trademark bandanna, standing at a podium, with the caption "Snake For President." The other contains Puck's famous line from ''[[{{Shakespeare}} A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'': "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" This was acquired at the local Shakespeare festival in an amusing conversation. -->Me, spotting the shirt: I need that shirt. I have to wear it to work. -->Saleswoman: A lot of people say that when they come to buy it. -->Me: No, you don't understand. ''I work for the federal government.'' (No longer true, but it was at the time.) -->Saleswoman: ...you need that shirt for work. {{@/mehayo}}: While for a short while, the shirts "Do not suffer from insanity shirt" and one reading "By reading this you have given me brief control of your mind." were staples, this troper's crowning

achievement is a shirt reading "[[Series/DoctorWho The Angels have the phone box]]" with a nice big picture of a 50's London police box in the middle. The shirt was made at a customizing store which went out of business shortly after, making it entirely unique. ---Oliveira: My father was a confessed fan of this. I remember a few of them... * On the front: "A gay guy is looking at me". On the back: "Now he's looking away to disguise it". * "Women is like potato chips. You can't have only one." (Yeah, he's a sick fuck like that, don't ask). * "Catastrophe is when your Mother-In-Law is drowning on the beach. Disaster is when the Life-guard succeeds in saving her." * On the front: "Money does not bring happiness". On the back: "Therefore, give me all your money and have a happy life!" * This one he bought to wear only on Valentine's day. It was one that said, in huge letters: "YOUR BOYFRIEND'S GAY. I'M NOT". ** But.. but.. neither my boyfriend NOR I am gay. (Yes I am a guy. I'll let you figure it out.) *** Bisexuals. * A light purple shirt that said "Real men wear pink, but only THE men wear purple". Purple was a pretty effeminate color in Brazil at the time. I, myself, love these too... * El [[ElChavoDelOcho Madruga]] [[MemeticBadass Forever]]. * (A large graphic of a brain with a little sign hanging on it) "Brain out of order". * On the front: "Talk to me if today is your day!". On the back: "Happy Gay Pride day!". * My personal favorite: A Mall Map with various green dots and one single orange dot. Above the map are the words "Zombie Day at the Local Mall", and an arrow pointing at the orange dot says "You Are Screwed". ---{{@/KingSonnDeeDoo}} has a couple: * A picture of a bottle of bleach, wearing [[BleacH Ichigo's]] shinigami uniform, and carrying Zangetsu. * "SAVE FERRIS" (from ''Ferris Buller's Day Off''). * "Cats are like chocolates, you can't have just one!" * "Know your mushrooms" (which I think might have been mentioned above), along with various mushrooms from the [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] series. * A picture of a ribcage, done in a {{Steampunk}} style (complete with bellows for lungs, a large [[BuffySpeak circular-thing]] for a heart, a spine ect.). [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/aab5_steampunk_skeleto n.jpg Here's]] a picture for those curious. ---This Troper has A {{PicturesForSadChildren}} t-shirt with "Making One Continuous Mistake" going around in a triangle. He finds out quietly amusing. >.> ----

* [[{{@/Quillpaw}} This troper]] has several shirts she is well-known for wearing. ** "My imaginary friend thinks you have serious mental problems." ** "I didn't lose my mind. I sold it on eBay." ** A picture of a few pocky stick in the background with the word "ADDICT" printed over them. ** A picture of the main characters from {{Bleach}}- Ichigo, Orihime, Chad, Uryu, Yoruichi, and Renji. I get the most compliments on this one for whatever reason. ** A brand new Kingdom Hearts 2 shirt that she plans to wear as much as possible. ** There are also the ones I want desperately, including pretty much every shirt on thinkgeek.com, and a shirt with a stylized picture of [[KatamariDamacy The Prince rolling a Katamari]] with a caption underneath reading "That's how I roll." {{@/kicking_k}} has quite a few: * "You Will Be Catalogued" is probably the best (white letters on black). She is an archivist. And she uttered the words "I want that on a T-shirt" while watching ''Smith and Jones'' (Series/DoctorWho s3e1) with her brother. Not uncoincidentally, his girlfriend has acquired a similar T-shirt that reads "Allons-y, Alonso!". * She also have a couple from [=ThinkGeek=] including 42 and "Keep Out of Direct Sunlight". She sunburns easily. However, people seem to think she is declaring she is a vampire (this predates [[Literature/{{Twilight}} those sparkly ones]]. * And for total bafflingness, there's the {{ScaryGoRound}} collection, featuring a tea-drinking yeti, a happy calculator, and the Yak Wendigo War. Somehow explaining these (particularly the last) doesn't seem to help anyone. And [[{{@/Cybele}} this one]] has three: * A green ''XKCD'' shirt that has a formula on the back and on the front it says "Science. It works, bitches." * A faded white shirt with someone trapped in a box and below that says "How can I think outside the box, when they won't let me out of it?" * A red VGCats shirt with Professor Oak of ''Pokemon'' saying "Bitch be trippin balls". ---@/FuzzyBoots: While I was living in Ohio, I got one of those t-shirts from JList that has Kanji on the front that translate to "Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend". Absolutely hilarious back in Ohio where one person out of a hundred got the joke. Was mildly embarrassing after I started attending CMU where at least a good third of the population were native speakers... ---This person, who lurks on tv-tropes a lot and so can't really call himself a troper, desperately wants a t-shirt that reads "Got a 'got milk' shirt?", then below that or on the back reads "Got a 'got a 'got milk' shirt' shirt?" ----

This lurker love religious ones i own four: * Nasser (leader of panarabism)with the Obama campaign style "Yes We Islam!" * "Don't Panic I'm Islamic" * "Shake your Buddha" * A very cute pig saying "You christian bastard" ** I saw I guy once with one that had a picture of the cruxifiction... with a caption that said "Men who wear thongs get what they deserve". This (catholic) troper was amused. ---Hoping to one day make a series of shirts that each say "SHIRT" in plain text, each one in a different language. Possibly with matching pairs of jeans. ---{{@/Iambic}}: * "Act Before You Think" (made to poke fun at my high school acting teacher, who of course didn't get it) * A shirt from NASA that reads "It's Not Rocket Science-- oh, wait, yes it is." * A shirt with a picture of an alien abduction that says "New Mexico-Land of Enchantment!" * A shirt with superheroes playing poker (The Thing is winning, Captain America is facepalming) * A shirt with an octopus that says underneath, "Who Wants Four Hugs?" * A shirt with what looks like iPod-dancing-silhouettes, except they're founding fathers * A shirt that says "This Is A Shirt" (made for my production of Hamlet) * A sweatshirt that says "A Pun At Maturity Is Fully Groan" (my friends ''hate'' this one) * Before I lost it, I had one that said "I think, therefore iamb" with appropriate scansion marks * ...and I desperately want the one a couple of the grad students at my college have that says "If you mention the Earl of Oxford one more time I'll stab you in the face." (Why yes I am a nerd, why do you ask?) ---This Troper has several nerdy shirts. One my high school physics class made says on the front, "I know you are attracted to me..." and on the back, "it's Physics" with the equation for the force of gravity of an object. Another shirt from AP Calculus says "Check out that asymptote on that mother function!" She desperately wants the XKCD shirt stating, "Stand back! I'm going to try science!" and wear it to her Chemistry lab someday. ---[[{{@/Ronnie}} This troper]] has a ConspiracyTheorist. His fun Tshirt? "[[TheXFiles The truth is in here.]]" with an arrow towards his head. ---This troper has a philosophy degree. Her favourite sweatshirt says "Live fast, ride hard, and conduct yourself only according to that maxim by which you could will your actions to be a universal law.

[Alma Mater] Philosophy Students' Union: Modus Pwning since 399 BCE." ---[[{{@/Aldrasio}} This troper]] wears [[FunTShirt fun T-shirts]] almost exclusively. Favorites include: * A plain black shirt with a giant white single 8th note on the front. No logos or anything, just the note. This one gets the most comments. * [[http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Produ ct_Code=SMBC-CALCULUS&Category_Code=SMBC "Eul me up, boys, it's calculus time!"]] * [[http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Produ ct_Code=QC-EVOLUTION&Category_Code=QC "Evolution Kills"]] I ''really'' want a shirt with [[http://www.fantasysquareimports.com/Portfolio/FinalFantasyVICodeDW/M aps/WorldOfBalanceLarge.png this]] on the front and [[http://www.fantasysquareimports.com/Portfolio/FinalFantasyVICodeDW/M aps/WorldOfRuinLarge.png this]] on the back. [[@/TheRealCJ This Troper]] makes his own t-shirts, including ones based on [[http://imagechan.com/images/2b15230c5b8fcf5a6e8e5417974200a1.jpg this image]] ---This troper has a shirt featuring Edvard Munch's ''The Scream'' with the caption, "YOUR BLOG IS FUCKING BORING." Her little brother has a shirt with a picture of the two main characters of Bananas in Pajamas... with Osama bin Laden's face superimposed on both. And this troper's favourite, her friend has a black shirt with in tiny, little white print just above the breast area, "Nosey little bugger, aren't you?" ---This troper is British, and her favourite fun shirt requires a moment's explanation. There is a British clothes chain called French Connection UK (see: FunWithAcronyms) who at one point sold a shirt saying "FCUK, est. 1972". This Troper's Old English professor has an identically laid-out shirt saying "CNUT, est. 1018". ---This troper received several of these for Christmas including a pure red shirt with EXPENDABLE written across it or a wheel with Fe written on each spoke, so bonus points for anyone who gets both ---[[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] had several shirts like this, though his favorite is one saying "WARNING: You have the right to remain an idiot. Anything you say can and will be ignored". ---This troper knew a guy who had two shirts with an up and a down arrow. One shirt read "The Man The Legend" and the other "Half Man Half Horse". I'll let you figure out which part went with which arrow. His brother also owns a shirt reading "I am the kid your parents warned

you about". ---This troper bought the PennyArcade [[http://www.pennyarcademerch.com/pat070231.html shoryuken]] t-shirt for his friend's birthday, who immediately declared it the best. Gift. Ever. Cue DeathGlare from his girlfriend... ---This Troper (an avid Twilight hater) saw [[http://www.ktcollectables.com.au/images/buffystakesedwardmale.jpg this]] shirt at a store and promptly bought it. Since then, he has had more than one complete stranger approach him and comment on how awesome the shirt is. ---This lurker has a shirt with "Redneck Stretched Limo" printed on the front, and a picture of a pickup truck with an extra truck-bed fastened to it on the back. Understandably, the shirt is pretty worn out by now. ---I used to have one particular favorite (not sure where it went): You laugh because I'm different; I laugh because you're all the same. * For Christmas, I got one with Captain Caveman leaning on his club, with the text "I'm bringing sexy back." * Also: If you're so {{Goth}}, where were you [[HistoricalInJoke when we were sacking Rome]]? ---This troper used to have one that said "girls are no substitute for a Playstation!", another one that read "Wearing black is not a crime". And one my wife made me for Halloween "Cheap Halloween Costume" (bonus points if you know the movie I stole it from). My wife has ones that read "Alergic to sunlight" (she burns easily), "Do I look like a f%#&ing people person?" and "I'm just one big f#%&ing ray of sunshine aren't I?". My son has ones that read "I sold my soul for video games", "This is my "Don't bother me I'm playing video games" shirt (I wear this shirt a lot)!" with a kid holding a standard XBox/Playstation style controller, and a Guitar Hero/Rock Band style controller. The last one has a rib cage with a video game controller in place of the heart. The ones I never got? "Don't make me get my flying monkeys!", "Your powers are useless against me, I'm wearing my tinfoil underwear!", "I'm only wearing black until they come out with something darker" and "I see dumb people". ---This Troper has a shirt that says "Philosoraptor" with a picture above of a velociraptor with his claw to his chin. That's the best one ---This Troper has a tradition of buying her brother snarky shirts, including but not limited to: * If I agreed with you, we'd BOTH be wrong * Those who think they know everything annoy those of us who actually do * (Graphics showing the evolution of man, leading to a figure hunched over a computer) I have highly evolved skills. * Yeah. I'm that awesome.

* (Christmas tee) 364 days of fun? 1 day of coal? I'll take my chances. * Joker "Why so serious?" shirt ** Also, my best friend loves chick-flicks, I pretend not to and will extensively mock them. Especially wimpy heroines who never seem to be able to rescue themselves. Therefore, said best friend gave me a lovely pink shirt proclaiming "Damsel in distress seeking her prince charming." * This Troper has: ** bite me (with a picture of pacman on it) ** The fairies are my friends ** Neighbourhood witch ** My mummy says im special ** My happy shirt :) ** The voices are telling me to kill you ---This lurker has a Red Dwarf shirt with a picture of Ace Rimmer on it that reads "Smoke Me A Kipper, I'll Be Back For Breakfast". That one is her favourite. Also a Nintendo one that says "Know Your Roots" and a NES on it.My friends recently got me one made that says 'Fall Out Girl' on it. ---This troper has shirts that say '[[ForSCIENCE for SCIENCE!]]' and 'CaptainErsatz to the rescue!' ---This troper has a custom shirt that reads: I shall feast upon the flesh of my enemies! My enemies happen to be cows. ---[[@/DerangedGenius This troper]] is enamored with shirts connected to geek culture or are just plain fun. Included are: ** A Series/DoctorWho shirt referencing [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash Time Crash]]. ** A shirt with the [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] GreenLantern symbol on it. ** A shirt with a large TUNA on it in a parody of the PUMA brand. ** A [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]/anti-[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Twilight]] shirt. ---* [[{{@/Kinitawowi}} This troper's former housemate]] has a velcro Tshirt and a collection of stick-on letters, for "make your own" humorous messages. ---This troper knows an avid gamer who often wears a '+20 Shirt of Smiting'. ---* [[{{@/Kathadrion}} This Troper]] once had one that said: "I'm not deaf, I'm just ignoring you." ** I also want one that says: "I (picture of a pink bat) for both." *** ... and [[http://bisexualindex.spreadshirt.net/i-bat-for-bothA8996883/customize/color/2 here it is!]] ---[[@/DaPatman DaPatman]] has the following shirts:

* One with pictures of computer keys that spell out "CTRL ALT DEL". * One with an image of a game of {{Tetris}} in progress. The player is on level 1. An I-block has been placed horizontally, covering a hole it was clearly meant to enter vertically. The text below reads "EPIC FAIL". * One with a line of [[SuperMarioBros 1-up mushrooms]]. Below and to the right is the 7-Up logo. * And his favourite one has an image of BarackObama holding a Wii remote. Below is the message "Yes Wii can!". The word "Wii" is written in the font used in its logo. * His university Sci-Fi and Fantasy society hoodie also deserves being mentioned. On the back is the society logo: a dragon with the Greek letters psi and phi superimposed on top. On the front is the university's coat of arms, his name, and the phrase "I play Darkness". Play ''Doom: the Boardgame'' with him as the invader player and you will understand. ---bluedragonx has a lot of video game shirts, the most notable being: * Three Street Fighter II T-Shirts: ** One with Ryu doing a Hadoken like in the Super SF2 intro ** An M Bison/Vega "Evil: A Good Career Choice" shirt (the quote is from the original SF2 anime) ** A Chun-Li "Kung Fu never looked so good!" shirt with her doing a very high kick * A MegaMan "Say Hello to my Little Friend" shirt ---{{@/Ozbourne}} has several, but is currently known for her "STOP STARING AT ME!" shirt. Other favourites include: * "Allow me to introduce myselves" * "I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame you." * "I scare my own family." * One she made herself that says "I survived the Apocalypse and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." * "Gone to find myself. If I should get back before I return, KEEP ME HERE." And several more. ---{{@/HappyDuck}} has a ''ton''. Here's the complete list: * "Pluto: Revolve in Peace. 1930-2006" * "An Apple A Day (still leaves you 2-4 servings short of your daily recommended fruit intake) * "Quantum Mechanics" ([[VisualPun with a picture of two repairmen standing in front of an atom]]) * "Palindromes Are Rasemordnilap!" * "Pavlov: That Name Rings A Bell!" * "Hokey Pokey Anonymous: A Place To Turn Yourself Around" * "Veni, Vidi, Wiki: I Came, I Saw, I Edited Collaboratively" * "Irony" (below a picture of the entry for iron in the periodic table) * "Ambiguity: What Happens In Vagueness Stays In Vagueness" * "Scuba Diving: Keep Your Friends Close And Your Anemones Closer" * "There's No Right Way To Eat A Rhesus"\\

Yes, I do indeed have an xkcd-ish sense of humor. ---{{@/KinksyJoebag}} and his friends Have Tshirts from a festival last year with "Wankers Cramp" (A ShoutOut to the GuitarHero episode of ZeroPunctuation) On the Front and our respective nicknames on the back. ---{{@/SgtFrog1}}: My brother has a shirt with a picture of a yellow marshmallow Peep wearing a backwards baseball cap and wearing a thick gold chain necklace. The caption? "Hangin' With My Peeps". My father has a shirt that reads "{{CSI}}:[[OnlySaneMan Can't Stand Idiots]]". And I have a shirt that shouts STOP ANIMAL TESTING! and has a drawing of a squirrel trying (and failing) to solve the equation 2+2. ---{{@/frog753}}: Subversion time! I own no such shirts and have no desire to. I have this odd feeling my mom wouldn't let me wear them anyway, even if I did want to. My rationale for avoiding them is that I'm quite paranoid about people judging me before they really get to know me, and these sorts of shirts lead people to judge the shirtwearer quite quickly. No FunTShirt that I've ever seen really says anything that I'd like to project as my views and thoughts to the world. I much prefer t-shirts from places I've traveled to (or ones given to me by relatives who have traveled places), school shirts from the university store or radio station or whatever, or straightforward polo-type shirts. Incidentally, my ex-girlfriend had at least one FunTShirt that I always felt was completely out of character for her and didn't give the best impression of what she was really like. It didn't help that she had literally no fashion sense and most people really disliked her. Another friend of mine, though, has a bunch, and they really go with his snarky personality. ---{{@/Chabal2}}: I have a feew of these, mostly from trips to the US. My favorite is the one with various images of the DeepSouth (Confederate flag, bulldog, trailer) and the text "You can't take my flag, my dog or my guns... but for a six-pack you can borrow my wife". I also have a beer T shirt (great at parties, since I never drink) and one with Popeye in bling-bling outfit, knuckle rings reading "I YAM WHAT I YAM". ** On a more depressing note, I saw a nine-year-old with a shirt reading "[[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Forget princesses]], [[Literature/{{Twilight}} I want to be a vampire]]. ---I have a shirt with the Yellow Submarine characters printed on. ---This Troper has several, most of which are so worn they're pretty much just rags now, but has a pretty fun one still in decent nick: parodying Tolkien's famous aphorism regarding wizards, it has a hermetic diagram in the background, with foreground text reading "Fuck subtle, get out of my business" ---This troper (Aniuch) once saw a shirt on Amazon reading "Please understand...I only speak Latin!". She now wants it very much, but

wants even more a shirt saying that in Latin. ---@/MtOlivePickles: I was super-fond of these in high school. I had one that said "Just a waitress until I'm discovered" (at the time I really wanted to be a singer/songwriter) and another with "Future Millionaire" that I wore on a college tour. ---@/EnglishMajor: I currently own a ''CalvinAndHobbes'' T-shirt with 3 Calvins with various faces and poses (Evil grin, pulling his cheeks apart teeth exposing face, and his usuall disgruntled look) with the caption: "Every day, I'm forced to add another name on the list of people ''who piss me off!'': Washington DC. My brother, a {{Transformers}} fan, owns a Optimus Obama "Hope" variant with the caption reading ''FREEDOM is the right of all sentient beings''. On my wish list: ** '''P'''eople for the '''E'''ating of '''T'''asty '''A'''nimals ** The ''ElChapulinColorado'' Heart emblem shirt. ** The ''[[http://shop.arteyloqueras.ieasysite.com/productinfo.aspx?productid =MNP-05 Ni Entiendo]]'' T-Shirt (Yes, I'm Mexican-American: for all you ''gringos'' out there it means ''I don't understand'') ---Kavonn: I got a job so I upgraded. :) ** "Touche, o dark master of evil bathrobes." ** "11 cheers for binary!" ** The aforementioned "Schrodinger's Cat is (Not) Dead" ** "Also, I can kill you with my brain." ** "Fluorine, Uranium, Carbon, Potassium" (Look up the periodic table and you'll figure it out.) ** "Come to the dark side, we have cookies..." ** "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." ---This troper (theLibrarian) has a shirt with a picture of the [[StarWars second Death Star]] on it that says "Epic fail" on the bottom. ---@/KatanaCat: I currently have none, but on my wishlist are... ** Written in very small print, "If you can read this, please quit staring at my chest" ** The aforementioned "EPIC FAIL" Tetris shirt. ** An "I see dumb people" shirt. ** A black shirt with white text that reads "This shirt is only black when I am daydreaming" ** [[http://www.threadless.com/product/2017/If_Your_Pants_Are_On_Fire_Bei ng_A_Liar_Becomes_Less_Important This shirt]] ** [[http://www.threadless.com/product/2113/This_Game_Sucks This shirt]] ** [[http://www.threadless.com/product/2090/I_Fought_Off_a_Lion_With_My_B ear_Hands This shirt]]

** [[http://www.threadless.com/product/1808/Supervision_isn_t_nearly_as_c ool_as_it_sounds This shirt]] ** [[http://www.threadless.com/product/921/Video_Games_Ruined_My_Life_Two _Extra_Lives This shirt]] ** [[http://www.threadless.com/product/1756/If_you_can_t_beat_em_use_chea t_codes This shirt]] ** [[http://www.threadless.com/product/8/Ctrl_Z This shirt]] ** [[http://www.threadless.com/product/2259/If_There_s_One_Thing_I_Know_I _Should_Really_Learn_More_Things This shirt]] ---This troper ownes only one, sadly: * "Plan for today: ** 1. Wake up ** 2. Survive ** 3. Go to sleep" * Would love to own black one with white letters which says "Big white text" ---This troper has a shirt of the [[StarWars second Death Star]] with the words "epic fail" written under it. ---{{@/MadaoShoes}} : I have several. ** "Take me to your ruler" [[IncrediblyLamePun with a pencil and pen standing before a ruler wearing a crown.]] ** "Mixing Beets" with a DJ-ing beet. ** One that she made herself: "[[{{Durarara}} Buy Russian Sushi]]" with "It's good!" and "It's cheap!" on the sides. Some examples she's been thinking of: ** Get thee to a nunnery! ** "YOUR STUPID" My stupid what? ** Front: "Be Quiet." *** Back: That's a euphemism for SHUT THE F*** UP! {{@/Zanreo}} I have a few of these, and looking for more! * Shirt with all of Nintendo's consoles * Front: "Really funny slogan on back". Back: A Rickroll picture. * Mario "Guide to Mushrooms" from Brawl In The Family, with a Goomba, Super Mushroom and Toad on the front, and the back shows Mario stomping on the Super Mushroom, eating a Toad and holding a Goomba, with the text "Try again". * "I tried it at home" with a stickman on fire.

[[Tropers.AOTKorby This Troper]] has 3 as of January 1, 2011: * One of the "Life is Crap" line of t-shirts, in which an unfortunate person paddling a kayak finds himself in the pathway of an oncoming battleship. * Souvenir T-Shirt from the new Harry Potter section of Universal

Studios (Ravenclaw, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitches!]]). * And, of course, a Monty Python and the Holy Grail Holy Hand Grenade t-shirt. With full instructions on the back. Epic. Win. ---* This troper has a shirt that says, "My shirt could beat up your shirt." Reactions to that include holding hands in front of chest protectively and "Is that a CHALLENGE?" ---This troper has two tshirts from Kmart with little green men on them. One says 'Well, maybe I don't believe in you' and the other 'In search of intelligence. You're safe' * Also one that's a Doctor Who quote 'I'm making PERFECT sense. You're just not keeping up' ---* This troper has a black shirt that says "GET AWAY FROM ME" in large white letters. ---* This troper has started a trend in her family. She now owns a "Why are you waving? Run!!!" shirt with a size chart of different dinosaurs and a human over the text, a "In Soviet Russia, zero divides by you!" shirt; her father owns a "So long, and thanks for all the fish" and an "In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion," shirt and her mother is getting one (probably history themed) for her birthday. She (this troper, not this troper's mother) is also planning on making some history and geography joke shirts. And yes, this troper's family is quite geeky. Those shirts are all from Snorgtees or ThinkGeek. ---* This troper has a black shirt with the Poison Mushroom from the Mario series and the words "game over" under it. A girl he knows owns a white shirt with a parody of the Intel logo that reads "Bastard Inside", which goes well with her somewhat jerkish tendencies. ---* [[Tropers.SMDeathwind SMDeathwind]]: Quite fond of these. If only getting all the shirts he wants wasn't so expensive. ** "I'm not drunk, I can lay on the floor without holding on!" ** CAUTION: This is Sparta. ** "I'm not an alcoholic, I'm a drunk. Alcoholics go to meetings." ** "Wedding is the only war where you sleep with the enemy." ** "Something somewhere went horribly wrong." ---* [[{{Tropers.Wheelofrally}} Wheelofrally]]: I have a T-shirt that says, as a crude translation, "County archive clerks persecute me" in Finnish. Quite fond of it. ---* {{TBK2000}} here, I have one that says: Y_U AR_ AN ID_OT. (Wheel of Fortune style) Would you like to buy a vowel? ---* [[{{Tropers.Garanik}} Garanik]] I've got a t-shirt with a Cheshire Cat face, and nothing else. It glows in the dark, so when it's pitch black, all you can see are the eyes and the smile. Quite an effect. ----

* [[{{Tropers.TrumpetMarietta}} This troper]] has a shirt that reads "I suffer from cruel and unusual employment." Funnily enough, I bought it at work. I also used to have a shirt with the legend "Sarcasm: just one service we offer." ---* [[{{Tropers.Skysong8}} This troper]] My sister has a shirt that reads "There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who are good at math and those who aren't" It took her two minutes after reading it to actually get it. ---* [[{{Tropers.Absynthe}} I]] own a SherlockHolmes T-shirt that reads "You Can't Handle the Sleuth" and a T-Shirt advertising a staring contest between [[Series/DoctorWho the Weeping Angels and the Silence]]. ---* This tropette's got a few: ** '''Chuck Norris does my stunts''' ** '''I am serious, and don't call me Shirley''' ** '''Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur, happy kitty, sleepy kitty, pur, pur, pur''' ** A shirt depicting Charlie Brown trying to kick the foot ball, reading '''Epic Fail''' ** A shirt with just a chocolate molecule on it ---* One of this troper's Archaeology classmates returned from a holiday in Rome with a black T-shirt. On it was a stick figure wearing a horned helmet and waving a battle axe while standing on the ruins of the Collosseum. The caption read; "When in Rome, do as the Visigoths did; Happy [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(410) Sack of Rome day, 24th August, 410AD]]. IIRC, said classmate was in Rome on the actual anniversary. ---This troper is an atrocious conversationalist. Compliments on her shirts are used in place of actual conversation: * "Hand over the chocolate and no one gets hurt" * "Forget about love. I'd rather fall in chocolate" * ''[below a picture of a very happy smiley face]'' "I hate you" * "...And then Buffy staked Edward. The end." [[hottip:* : Bonus points because a Hot Topic employee complimented it when ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' was first released in theaters.]] * "I do whatever the voices in my head tell me to do" * ''[below a picture of a smiley face with duct tape across his mouth]'' "Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver" [[hottip:* : Very common shirt, but it warrants a mention.]] * [[http://lostinthecloud.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/faeries-aire.gif This picture]]. * "My imaginary friends think I have problems" * Picture of a Pacman screen. Not particularly interesting, but it gets a mention because a girl once chased me halfway through a mall to compliment it. * Picture of a chest X-ray with a tiny, creepy robot in the corner. Personal favorite.

Honorable mention to sister's T-shirt: * [[http://www.imageanime.com/denollobatp.html This]] ---{{Troper/ArchAngel950}}: This Troper has a plain-looking light blue shirt that says "Monday is Cancelled". It's my most popular one. Some on my wishlist: * [[TheSpoonyExperiment "I HEARD that, Curtis!"]] * [[TheSpoonyExperiment "You're in my way, sir."]] * "Wanna know how to keep an idiot busy? See back of shirt." (Same thing on the back, but change "back" to "front") * Graphic of [[TheAngryVideoGameNerd James Rolfe]] holding up a box with the words "I LIKE BOXES" painted on it. * "You have gained 1 Reading Experience." * "I'm an assassin. (Shhh!)" * [[ZeroPunctuation "Pants-on-Head Retarded"]] with accompanying graphic. [[http://davidcrew.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/1256092208236.png?w=949 This, basically.]] * [[AssassinsCreedII "Requiescat in Pace."]] * Graphics that look like bullet holes and/or sword slashes with the text, [[CriticalExistenceFailure "HAH! I still have one HP left!"]] ---Look at my shirt! It says [[Main/FunTShirt Read The Main Article]]! <<|TroperTales|>>

FunWithAcronyms * In a science fiction/comedy story that I'm writing with a few friends, we have the '''U'''nited '''R'''ebellion of '''I'''ndependent '''N'''eptunians '''A'''gainst the '''T'''yrannical '''E'''mpire. * In an RP this troper is participating in, his character has a magitek invention called MODS used to change clothes and weapons. Currently it doesn't have a longer version. * [[TsundeRay This troper]] is thinking of forming a ''{{Tetris}}''playing team called HERO SB, which stands for "'''He'''nk '''Ro'''gers '''S'''ucks '''B'''alls," as a TakeThat to him and The Tetris Company. ** Also, the next TGM game, commonly abbreviated to TGM 4 or TMOR: ''Tetris: The Grand Master 4 - [[strike:'''T'''he '''M'''asters '''o'''f '''R'''ound]] '''[[TaintedByThePreview T]]'''[[TaintedByThePreview he]] '''[[TaintedByThePreview Mo]]'''[[TaintedByThePreview ve]] '''[[TaintedByThePreview R]]'''[[TaintedByThePreview eset]]''. * [[{{Tropers/knife23}} This troper]] had thought of writing fiction, and came up with a special forces group S.W.O.R.D. "'''S'''pecial '''W'''arfare '''O'''perations - '''R'''econnaissance '''D'''etachment" * [[Tropers/LeighSabio This troper]] lives in a district called Arapahoe, which is a covenant community. The management association for the development is out to get us, and only us, fining us for minor things like letting our grass grow too long or at one point even building a ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkah sukkah]]''. For

FunWithAcronyms purposes, I've taken to calling them '''D'''edicated to the '''E'''nduring '''N'''ecessity of a '''S'''ightly '''A'''rapahoe. ** I've also gotten into the habit of making fun of acronyms that aren't already this trope. For instance, calling the ideas of [[http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com/ Ladies Against Feminism]] '''LAF'''able, pronounced "[[IncrediblyLamePun Laughable]]." Or calling those belonging to the ex-gay ministry Love In Action '''LIA'''rs. * This troper knows of a {{nakama}} calling itself the '''Y'''outh '''A'''nd '''W'''elfare '''A'''ssociation. [[spoiler:'''[[ForeignCussWords YAWA]]''' [[BilingualBonus is Cebuano for]] {{Satan}}.]] * [[NotSoBadassLongcoat This troper's]] sneaky Blaster character in CityOfHeroes is named "Agent GEIST", GEIST standing for '''G'''enetically '''E'''nhanced '''I'''nfiltration '''S'''pecialist '''T'''rooper. It also means "ghost" in German. ** Also, in the Mission Editor, he created '''S'''pecial '''P'''urpose '''I'''nformation '''R'''etrieval and '''I'''nfiltration '''T'''eam cyber-ninjas and hulking brutes called '''B'''ionically '''E'''nhanced '''A'''utonomous '''S'''entient '''T'''echnology. ** Also, explaining the "smart" modification for firearms in ''Cyberpunk 2020'' as [=SM4RT=] system: '''S'''ensor '''M'''odule '''[[XtremeKoolLetterz for]]''' '''R'''apid '''T'''argeting and, in the same campaign, corporation named '''Ar'''istide-'''Ma'''rionnaud '''Ch'''emicals '''Am'''algamated. As you can easily guess, the CEO is named [[{{FEAR}} Genevieve Aristide]]. * [[ARandomSerf This troper]] recently finished a MutantsAndMasterminds Matrix-esque campaign titled "The UTOPIA Project," with UTOPIA standing for Unified Techno-Organizational Program Inhibiting Awareness. * This troper was hanging with friends being nerdy and talking about comic books. I suggested we make "nerds" an ancronym, just for fun. It took three of us to come up with: "Never Ever Run Down Slides". * [[{{Kalle}} I'm]] currently writing a piece of fiction where one of the subplots involves a group of soccer-mom MoralGuardians acting out against an [[{{Stripperiffic}} overly sexy]] [[IdolSinger pop star.]] Just for the sake of taking RefugeInAudacity, I gave them the name '''T'''raditional '''W'''omen '''A'''gainst '''T'''een '''S'''exualization. Yes, I'm fully aware that I'm mentally twelve. * This troper went to a (serious) customer service training session when he was in his old job at a housing association. The leader of the session had broken the organisation down into six groups, and assigned each of them a four-word name to make some points. It's an eternal tragedy that the only one this troper can remember now is the housing services staff being rebranded as the '''S'''ocial '''H'''ousing '''I'''mprovement '''T'''eam - the rest were all similar. * An unintentional occurrence in [[{{Pokemonmysterydungeon}} Explorers of sky]], I thought "Why not use acronyms like Team A.C.T. from the first game?", this resulted in "Team D.S." (Dallen A Riolu, and Sparky A Pikachu), the same [[{{NintendoDS}} System]] the game was for * This troper made up a tragic superhero by the name of '''R.A.M.'''

Man ('''R'''edundant '''A'''cronym '''M'''an Man). He goes around stopping those who would dare use redundant words after acronyms, such as "A.T.M. Machine" or "U.P.C. Code". The tragic part is, because he himself is a redundant acronym, once all the others are destroyed, [[HeroicSacrifice he must destroy himself.]] * During [[TromboneChild this troper's]] senior year of high school, I took a Contemporary Issues class. At one point we were studying environmental problems, and our teacher wanted us to create an environmental issues group, and one group of four idiotic boys suggested that it be called "'''P'''eople '''O'''f '''O'''ur '''P'''lanet." * One of this troper's sister's English classes used a vocabularybuilding book called '''W'''ord '''P'''ower '''M'''ade '''E'''asy, universally known as the "W[hi]P-ME." * This troper spent a fair while trying to come up with a sensible string of words to call a government agency S.C.I.M.I.T.A.R. He ended up getting as far as "Strategic Command Initiative" before giving up. ** Strategic Command Initiative for Military Intelligence and Tactical Aardvark Removal? *** Original troper - I said ''sensible''. I found the old Word document, and it actually ended up as "Strategic Command Initiative for Military Intelligence and Tactical Assault Recon". * It's a running joke in this troper's youth group that all we ever do at our meetings is eat. So when it came to giving us a name, I was all for "Catholic Heroes Of Mazenod + Priest" - CHOMP. Unfortunately I was outvoted. * The LGBT society in ThisTroper's university used to be called '''P'''eople '''L'''ike '''U'''s '''T'''ogether '''A'''nd '''O'''ut. It recently changed to '''G'''ay '''I'''n '''G'''alway. ** I don't think this is deliberate, but the LGBT society of SFU us called '''O'''ut '''O'''n '''C'''ampus. ** At this troper's high school, they changed the name from GayStraight Alliance to '''G'''ay '''L'''esbian '''O'''r '''W'''hatever. This amused many people, although the 'whatevers' were not as happy. ** This troper's school has BGLAD: '''B'''isexual, '''G'''ay, '''L'''esbian... something for the A... '''D'''iversity? Nobody even uses the full title anymore, so it's become forgotten. *** Is it '''a'''sexual by any chance? ** [[BretheWriter This troper's]] high school had LEGASY: '''L'''esbian '''A'''nd '''G'''ay...something or other. Nobody actually knows what the full title is, because the principle doesn't want to "offend" anybody. *** Could be '''LE'''sbian '''GA'''y '''S'''upportive(?) '''Y'''outh ** [[{{Revolos55}} This troper]]'s college had the '''E'''merson '''A'''lliance for '''G'''ays, '''L'''esbians and '''E'''veryone. ** This troper came across one organisation using '''G'''ay '''B'''isexual '''L'''esbian and '''T'''rans, which just sounds like a sandwich. ** I recall a conversation/thread where someone's school used ''all'' the names for gay/lesbian/bi/transgender/etc to form an unweildy, ''ten-plus-character-long'' acronym. ** '''G'''ay and '''L'''esbian '''E'''mployees '''A'''t

'''M'''icrosoft. At least it wasn't something like '''F'''riends of '''L'''esbian and G'''A'''y '''M'''icrosoft '''E'''mployees. * In primary school, this troper was subjected to a campaign to eat more healthy food, entitled '''H'''ealthy '''E'''ating '''R'''eally '''B'''etter '''I'''n '''E'''veryway. No, really. With "everyway" all as one word. In a ''school''. * This troper's name somewhat fits this trope as the first 3 initials form the first syllable of the first name, and then there's the last initial, so it's sort of an acronym for itself. ** This troper raises you one; his initials spell '''JAY'''. *** This troper is ''''RSVP''', and thus raises you again. **** This troper looked up her initials and found out EKS stands for Evil Kontraktor Scum. Keep in mind that a few months ago she proclaimed herself Empress of Evil and was going to take over the world with an army of nerds. It was meant to be. ** This troper's ex's initials spelled '''MATT''', which was also his first name. His parents claimed this was purely coincidental. ** This Troper has the initials DEPT. He has taken the name Department. ** This troper's grandmother has the initials HEAD. It was a running joke that it was indicative of the position she held in the school she worked in - the HEAD teacher. * This troper's university refers to the older students who help look after freshers during the first few weeks as '''S'''econd and '''T'''hird '''Y'''ear '''C'''ontacts. Their team leaders are "Big '''STYC'''s". We have yet to think of something for '''TWYG''' to mean, but are working on it. ** Well, '''T'''hat's '''W'''hat '''Y'''ou '''G'''et. * This troper once worked for the Alexandria (Virginia) Transit Company, AKA '''DASH''' When he asked what the acronym stood for he was told 'nothing, it just looks cool on the side of the buses'! They later held a contest to 'populate' the acronym. The winner was '''D'''riving '''A'''lexandrians '''S'''afely '''H'''ome." * This troper once saw a sign on a bank that read "'''F'''or '''I'''mproved '''B'''anking" (with the first letters highlighted). Unfortunately, by the time I realized the unintentional lulz and got my camera ready, the sign had been taken down. * When this troper worked with the Kentucky Department of Highways, he dealt with '''C'''ounty '''R'''oad '''A'''ssistance '''P'''rogram related projects. * This Troper's area has the '''H'''ighway '''E'''mergency '''L'''ocal '''P'''atrol. We see them hogging the traffic lanes all the time, but they've yet to be seen actually helping someone. * This Troper is frankly grateful that her local karate dojo decided against calling its in-school martial arts program '''K'''arate '''K'''ids '''K'''ingston. That would have been bad enough, but considering their members wear white uniforms, and the lead instructor often wears red... * This troper attends a science fiction, horror and fantasy movie society. held every Thursday at her university. It's commonly known as SWAGA...or '''S'''ociety '''W'''ithout '''A''' '''G'''ood '''A'''cronym.

* This troper was part of their high schoolenvironmental council. There was a short campaign to let it be called'''S'''chool'''E'''nvironmental'''C'''ommitee for '''S'''ustainability. * This troper was once a member of the forum clan '''S'''talwart '''T'''roopers '''U'''nited to '''P'''revent '''I'''mperial '''D'''omination. Our clan T-Shirt read "I'm with S.T.U.P.I.D." with an arrow pointing up. * This Troper is part of a TheLandBeforeTime forum. One of the users is called '''L'''ettuce '''B'''acon and '''T'''omato, which is also the abbreviation for '''L'''and '''B'''efore '''T'''ime. * This Troper is writing a graduate thesis on creating an automated system for analyzing the complexity of English sentences. The name he has chosen for the application? '''Sy'''ntactic '''Co'''mplexity '''Ra'''ting E'''x'''pert. Yes, he is a Series/DoctorWho fan... * This troper is part of the Auxiliary Percussion team in her school's Marching Band. Instead of calling ourselves the dorky "Auxiliary Percussion", we have chosen to name outselves '''P.I.T.''' It originally didn't stand for anything, but after a long, intense discussion over a break we were taking, we all decided that it stood for '''P'''ercussion '''I'''n '''T'''ransit, after the mobile cart our instruments are pulled on and off the field on. * This troper was in a Hero System game once. His character wasn't exactly a run-of-the-mill heroine. In fact, she worked extensively with Warren Aerodyne Research Incorporated. Yeah. WAR Inc. It didn't help that Warren Aerodyne ''also'' has a PMC arm in addition to building next generation aircraft. * This troper named a ''{{Paranoia}}'' R&D device - basically a Magic 8-Ball on crack - the "Tactical Assistant and Reconnaisance Data Intelligence System" (or something close to that anyway). No-one got [[Series/DoctorWho what the acronym was]]. * This Troper's science-fiction RPG campaign contains a device called the '''A'''utomated '''C'''ombat '''E'''electronics '''S'''ystem '''W'''ide-angle '''I'''nterference '''L'''ong-range '''D'''ispersal, or A.C.E.S. W.I.L.D. It's a bit of a stretch. * University sports clubs are famous for them (at least in Australia): '''F'''linders '''U'''niversity '''C'''ricket '''C'''lub, '''L'''atrobe '''U'''niversity '''S'''ki '''T'''eam, '''M'''elbourne '''U'''niversity '''F'''encing '''F'''ederation, the list goes on. * This troper used to frequent a chat room where one member's screen name was LMNOP. It wasn't supposed to stand for anything in particular, but it became traditional to greet him with any phrase it ''could'' stand for whenever he came online. Results ranged from "Left My Napkin On a Plate" to, well, "Let's Masturbate Nastily On Policemen". * This troper wrote a short story involving an engineer character daydreaming that he was basically James Bond in space, working for AERO- Astronautical Exploration and Reconnaissance Organization. * This Troper laughed when he first heard there was a drink called Tango With Added Tango. * This Troper ran a d20 campaign featuring a sinister wetworks group, the successor to eight previous such groups. The '''N'''inth

'''I'''nitiative for '''N'''asty '''J'''obs '''A'''gency. * Ministry Of Education = {{Moe}}. This has lots of [[IncrediblyLamePun puntential]] but there are no other {{Otaku}} nearby. * In Western Massachusetts the busses are run by the '''P'''ioneer '''V'''alley '''T'''ransit '''A'''uthority. Not so bad except the groovy Eighties lettering they use makes the V look like a U, and there are a number of people in the area who speak Spanish. * This tropers' german elementary school was called '''A'''dalbert '''S'''tifter '''S'''chule. The acronym was frequently used... * This troper was playing The Sims 2 and had a "self" Sim who had 10s in every skill and personality trait, was best friends with everyone, and so on and so forth. A friend jokingly commented about the character being a '''S'''elf '''I'''nsert '''M'''ary '''S'''ue... * In this Troper's Masters Program, there was discussion of creating T-Shirts to support the English department's society Sigma Tau Delta. The suggestion: Support '''S''' '''T''' '''D''' s * Back at school - PE = Pure Evil and RE = Rubbish Education. * This troper has a general character name: Dirge, which through various acronyms can be anything from a five word ID to a name. (variations: DRG, DRG3, DIRGE, DURGE, DIRG3, D1RG3, etc..) ** And a new one from the camp I worked at: Staff Helpers In Training, or CIT (It was a Boy Scout Camp) * This troper had fun making these up for a story he was writing; including the villain's [[BodySwap soul-swapping]] maching called "'''T'''he '''U'''ltimate '''B'''rain-'''S'''witching '''M'''achine '''O'''f '''[[DoomyDoomsOfDoom D]]'''[[DoomyDoomsOfDoom oom]]" (Pronounced "Tubs-mod") * In this troper's sci-fi GURPS campaign, there was once a cloud of wish-granting nanobots called the '''D'''igitally '''J'''oined '''I'''nterchangeable '''N'''anobot '''N'''etwork, or D.J.I.N.N. * '''F'''un '''U'''nder '''C'''overs '''K'''issing. * This troper, who is a diehard ''[[TheBigBangTheory Big Bang Theory]]'' fan, is currently writing a screenplay that features an organization of cyber-scammers made up of type 1 [[HollywoodNerd Hollywood Nerds]]. Their name? The '''S'''ociety for '''H'''acking, '''E'''xtortion, '''L'''arceny, and '''D'''atabase '''O'''perational '''N'''oncompliance. * This Troper's friend came up some for car companies. '''H'''ard '''O'''il '''N'''early '''D'''estroys '''A'''ll, '''T'''anks '''O'''n '''Y'''our '''O'''wn '''T'''oy '''A'''rsenal. Naturally, Ford has a few. * [[{{Tropers.Xitheta}} This Troper]]'s school had year 10 (sophomore equivalent) mentors for the year 7s called '''F'''riends '''I'''n '''S'''****** d '''H'''igh. We also had year 13 (senior) prefects called '''C'''hildline '''I'''n '''P'''artnerships with '''S'''chools prefects, who were given some training as councillors. Needless to say, there were numerous attempts to create a backronym of '''MUSHYPEAS''' for the younger students... * Years ago this troper came across this funny chain mail in the office, which was about some '''S'''pecial '''H'''igh '''I'''ntensity '''T'''raining. His favorite part, the section for those who want to

become trainers, a.k.a. '''B'''asic '''U'''nderstanding and '''L'''earning '''L'''ecture for '''S'''pecial '''H'''igh '''I'''ntensity '''T'''raining. * The platform of the sitting president of this troper's [[UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} country]] was basically this: '''S'''incerity, '''H'''onesty, '''I'''ntegrity, and '''T'''ransparency. Considering the incompetence of that sitting (or was it [[spoiler:[[PrecisionFStrike SHIT]][[IncrediblyLamePun ting]]]]?) president... * This troper came up with one for his first name (Thomas): '''T'''actical '''H'''umanoid '''O'''perational '''M'''aintenance '''A'''ssistance '''S'''ystem. * This troper and his friend created a huge number for a fake country called Telluria. There was the '''A'''mazing '''S'''ociety of '''S'''ecrecy, the '''F'''lying '''U'''nderground '''C'''astle of '''K'''ings, the '''S'''cary '''H'''ouse of '''I'''nner '''T'''elluria, the '''T'''ellurian '''I'''nstitute for '''T'''rue '''S'''cholars, the '''D'''eadly '''O'''ligarchy of the '''U'''nderground '''C'''astle of '''H'''elpful '''E'''ntities, and many more. * This troper lives by [[CaliforniaUniversity UCLA]]: '''U'''niversity of '''C'''erritos, '''L'''eft at '''A'''londra (a junior college). * This troper's friend works at the Center for Disease Control's National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System, or {{NARM}}S. * This troper's make for RoboticReveal page on PlayingWithWiki: '''A'''nything '''L'''ifeform '''I'''nformation '''C'''ollection '''E'''ntity. * Frequently Unasked Helpful Questions, or FUH Q. * For the longest time, this troper's AP biology class had an unofficial project group: Students Having Intelligent Thoughts. It took 6 months for the teacher to catch on. * I've all ready decided that my KillSat will be called the '''G'''eosynchronous '''O'''utpost '''D'''efense Station. [[TalesOfTheAbyss Indignation]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch!]] * It's a RunningGag among my friends that any time we need an acronym, we somehow manage to fit it into EPIC. Boycotting the school lunch prices? '''E'''xcessive '''P'''rices '''I'''n '''C'''afeteria. Needing a name for the stray cat who hangs around my yard and looks exactly like my cat Pumpkin? '''E'''vil '''P'''umpkin '''I'''mpersonator '''C'''at. * This troper played in a {{Smallville}} RPG set in the MarvelUniverse, with teenaged versions of classic Marvel characters. [[SpiderWoman Jessica Drew's]] scholarship was funded by the '''H'''arvard-'''Y'''ale-'''D'''artmouth '''R'''esearch '''A'''lliance. * This tropers' name is Bart. My name, obviously, starts with an '''B'''. My mothers' name starts with an '''A''', my fathers' name starts with and '''R''' and my brothers' name starts with an '''T'''. Together you get my name again. This led to several hilarious situations. My brother was the first to notice this, so it wasn't intentional. At all. * This troper has a RunningGag amongst friends in a certain chatroom.

Roughly once a month, she earns herself a new "title". As of December 2010, she's currently a '''D'''evourer (of souls) '''A'''sassin '''R'''eaper '''N'''inja '''I'''nformation '''T'''echnology '''G'''irl. * In a rare random/crazy moment in an RPG did a character of this Troper do this and created the '''O'''ld '''H'''ospital '''G'''eezers, etc, etc. It spelled out OH GOD HELP ME! in the end. * This troper has heard some funny ones from his friends: "'''R'''etards '''A'''ttempting '''P'''oetry" and "'''N'''on'''A'''thletic '''S'''port '''C'''entered '''A'''round '''R'''ednecks." * A drama club/group at this troper's school has a rather unfortunate acronym: '''T'''he ''' I'''nternational''' T'''hespians''' S'''ociety. * My science class: '''A'''dvanced''' P'''lacement''' E'''nvironmental''' S'''cience. * When me and my friends play RPG, we call the master's character '''N'''o '''P'''ode '''C'''omigo (''Can't beat me'' in portuguese) or '''N'''ingum '''P'''ode '''C'''omigo (''No one can beat me''). * My all girls school made us take a class called R.A.P.E, that is Religion And Philosophy Education, but now it has been changed to R.A.P, my brothers all boys school had R.A.V.E or Religious And Values Education. Naturally enjoyment is had with these. * My friend went to Cambridge University, which had various sports teams: '''C'''ambridge '''U'''niversity '''F'''ootball '''T'''eam, for example. Hilariously, the '''C'''ambridge '''U'''niversity '''N'''etball '''T'''eam had to be changed to the '''C'''ambridge '''U'''niversity '''N'''etball '''S'''quad, and is the only "squad" at the uni. * A group of Year 9s at my school created a fictional sporting organization: The '''G'''reat '''A'''ustralian '''Y'''outh '''F'''ootball '''L'''eague. * In my last two weeks of high school, our calculus class played kickball outside and someone suggested we start a fantasy kickball team. After a few minutes of back and forth discussion we settled on '''F'''antasy '''U'''pperclassmen '''C'''alculus '''K'''ickball. We were about to make it official and suggested getting T-shirts when someone yelled "Check the acronym!" ---'''T'''he '''R'''ecreational '''O'''riginal '''P'''age '''E'''ntry is [[FunWithAcronyms here]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

FunWithAutocensors * A forum I used to go to censor swears into words like "dishwashing brush". * The forum I moderate in has a whole bunch. Some of them include the conversion of &#9829; to *cut, *spam for the one or another annoying word and corrections for frequently misspelled moderator and admin names.

* The Maury Show bleeps last names and swearwords, but occasionally inserts random bleeps. * A Hetalia RP forum I go to changes "hell" to "Siberia". * I remember back when, on Art of Trolling, the moderators would turn swears into Pokmon. It's rather amusing when you get told to go Psyduck yourself.

FunWithForeignLanguages * The 'chain of translators' version happens in RealLife often enough. This native English-speaking troper, while visiting Greece, needed to know the times for a bus, and managed to enlist the help of a friendly Turkish woman. The Greek bus driver spoke to the Turkish woman, who in turn translated into French, this troper's second language. * This troper's father had a co-worker who went to Mexico with his wife. At the hotel, they misplaced the key to their room, and tried to get a passing staff member to get them a replacement by saying, "Miss, a key!" Unfortunately, the employee heard it as the Spanish word ''aqui'' (here) and had trouble understanding why they kept yelling it at her after she'd already approached them. ** For those who encounter this situation in the future, the word you want is ''llave'' (ya-veh). Or you could mime unlocking something. * This troper's grandfather, while vacationing in Greece, wanted to greet the maid in Greek by saying "kalemares", instead of the correct "kalimera". The maid was probably quite confused at being called a squid. ** A couple who were near this troper's parents in a Greek cafe did the same thing and got a basket of squid with their coffee. * This troper has a classmate who lived in Japan for a few years and speaks both English and Japanese fluently. On her first day at school in the States, she spoke nothing but Japanese. It was pretty danged funny, watching people running around, searching for a JapaneseEnglish translator. [[{{Hilarity Ensues}} Hilarity Ensued]]. And the next day, she was speaking perfect English. * In a court case with which I was assisting (with the probation department), the defendent was deaf, from Puerto-Rico and only knew how to use Puerto-Rican sign language. The court signer only used ASL, so they had a deaf translator for the two sign languages. Everything had to go through two signers and that is much slower than speech. * This troper delivers pizzas and speaks Spanish fairly well and thus often listens in on conversations that the speakers assume are private because a ''gringo'' obviously can't understand them. Most of the time they are quite benign, but a few times he has had the pleasure to stand there smiling as he is insulted and berated for one reason or another, only to watch the horror when they hear, "Lo siento mucho las molestias, y espero que la prxima vez podamos servirles mejor. Que tengan buena noche!" ** A CrowningMomentOfAwesome is yours ** An approximate translation for non-Spanish speakers would be 'I am very sorry for the inconvenience, and I expect that next time we be able to serve you better. I hope you have a good evening!' * Does Braille count as a foreign language? You know, the dots that

blind people pass their fingers over. This troper once saw a couple of emergency instructions with braille translations underneath each. It also had a couple lines saying "If you can read this, you can read it from afar. Stand back so blind guys can get close and touch the lines in braille." or somesuch. Of course, blind people do not need that, so the braille lines underneath say "Sighted people are stupid". * This (Scottish) Troper once found himself trying to get directions (in French) to a barber in Liege on behalf of a Norwegian who happened to have lived, briefly, in this Troper's home town. * This non-Jewish troper speaks Israeli Hebrew (it makes sense in context), though few others know it, and was a guest at a major event where the person to be honoured was a Hebrew-speaking Jewish countryman. Rather impromptu, this troper asked the master-ofceremonies for the opportunity to make a brief speech. Much to everybody's astonishment, he then spoke for two minutes in fluent Hebrew. While getting back to his seat, one buddy asked him: "What language was that?" "Khuzdul", this troper replied. * This troper often likes to confuse the hell out of his friends by writing his facebook statuses and blog entries in an incomprehensible mix of Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and German. Divertido da, aber como kore wa por un tiempo largo ne debes govorit'. Sus druges wa humoroso le encontrarmos nai. Y dare mo werden anata entiende. He can also fake speaking French, Latin, and Italian by speaking Spanish with an accent and inserting what words he knows where he can. * After two years of learning Japanese, this Troper knows enough of the language to write tweets in "Eihongo" (unofficial portmanteau of &#33521;&#35486; and &#26085;&#26412;&#35486;), and use kanji as shorthand in my notes. I can also insult noobs in online games this way, though usually one of two things happens: the chat system doesn't support kana so I have to use romanji, and/or I get called a weeaboo. [[spoiler:My response is usually a [[SuperSmashBros Gooey-Bomb]] to the face, complete with approriate Japanese [[CallingYourAttacks attack-calling]].]] * This troper had, when at middle school, his English teacher tell a story about the other teachers in a trip in England. When the math teacher wanted to eat a sandwich and asked somebody, he was pointed... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich,_Kent the city]]. * An Italian friend doing an Erasmus exchange in France found her directions speaking with a Mexican tourist that happend to understand her more or less because she did Portuguese a and Latin in his youth and a Romanian waitress who knewn Spanish and French * This troper, his mother, and his father all speak fluent Hebrew (father is Israeli, mother lived there for some time). Several years ago, this troper was on a trip in Israel with his mother's family, none of whom speak Hebrew. One night, we were the last people left in the hotel restaurant, and the 12 of us were talking, in English, about the trip so far, the agenda for the next day, etc. A couple of bussers were clearing the table directly behind where my dad and I were sitting, and one says to the other "lets kick these people out already". My dad turns around and shoots back in Hebrew "You know, it is not nice to kick your customers out when you don't close for half an hour".

* This troper finds it ''hilarious'' to confuse anybody who's rude to her when she's in Spain. She speaks fluent Spanish and understands everything said in the regional dialect spoken in the region she usually goes to. But since she speaks English with her family...people don't always know she speaks Spanish. It often ends amusingly. * This Swiss Troper speaks American English without any foreign accent. I also speak German, which is my native language. Swiss German, however, is a lot different from Standard German (to the point of being essentially a different language). We read and write in Standard German, and watch German television etc., so we understand Standard German perfectly, but speaking it is awkward. So - this troper likes to confuse Germans when he's in Germany by reading out orders at (American) fast food restaurants in English, then switching to German after they reply in English. I know, stupid - but fun :P * This Troper's late friend retold a joke that his coach told him where the phrase "brave like sugar" translated into Russian becomes "smellii kak sahar" ---Donde esta FunWithForeignLanguages? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

Furries * This Troper thinks her brother may be a closet furry. We were watching {{Cats}} and when it got to the "Macavity" number, he stared at Demeter and Bombalurina and said "They're cats...it's wrong." * This troper himself just so happens to be a furry. It all started with my fox obsession in the 2nd grade and strong love of cartoons like RoadRovers, SwatKats and IAmWeasel.

FusionFic * This troper likes to dream these up for some reason; try ''KingdomHearts'' and ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''. Kairi is Rika. Sora is Shion. Also: KH and ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', with Roxas and Xion as Nanoha and Fate, respectively. Also, Xemnas as Caro. * This troper once rewrote the original ''StarWars'' trilogy with characters from the ''{{Discworld}}'' universe. It was... surreal. ** Speaking of surreal, there's ''[[http://home.att.net/~dan_s.comments/NGWOSNME.htm Neon Genesis Wossname]]'', a fusion CrackFic which apparently resulted from the author trying to explain ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' characters by analogy with [[Characters/{{Discworld}} Discworld characters]] -Death as Rei, Nanny Ogg as Misato, that sort of thing... ** I once read a similar fan-fic comic with Brawl Characters, if I remember correctly it had [[LegendOfZelda Link Skywalker]], [[StarFox Fox Solo]] and his trusty sidekick [[DonkeyKong Donkey]], try to recover two mechanics [[SuperMarioBros Mario-D2 and Luigi-0]]. Oh and it had a small cameo of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvyvwoi6mrw Max Rebotnik]].

* This troper wrote a ''{{Pokemon}}'' fanfiction with a 20-year-old Ash Ketchum as a main character, starting from the premise that Ash Ketchum and Ash from ''EvilDead'' are the same person. He went on to write a follow-up: a fusion between Pokemon and ''{{Doom}}'' (where the creatures from {{Hell}} are actually Pokemon that can be caught), with elements taken from ''Frontier: {{Elite}} 2'' (for the nomenclature of extraterrestrial locations) and ''TassTimesInTonetown'' (for the popular culture present in that universe). ** Similarly, there has been at least one effort based on the assumption that Kasumi from ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' and Kasumi from ''{{Pokemon}}'' were the same person. *** Link please? This sounds like an awesome distraction for a couple of hours. ** This Troper once made a fusion by taking an early script of ''StarWars'', substituting names as desired (he had Ash in Han's role, mainly because he couldn't get the word "Chupika" out of his head), then built it from there, such as making Droids into Pokemon, and as such having certain Pokemon as your Astromech Droid actually conferred some special attacks to your fighter, like [[strike:Wedge]] Sabrina Antilles surviving so long because her Abra could teleport her fighter out of danger (and into prime shooting positions). *** That actually sounds kind of cool. ** Naturally, one expects someone has written Poke-Zelda. Most of them are probably [[SturgeonsLaw crap]]. At least one of them was well worth wading through the rest and made it to our [[FanFicRecs/{{Pokemon}} recs page]]. * This troper is writing a story that replaces the back story of ''Sailor Moon'' with that of ''{{Exalted}}'' while keeping it modern day (and setting it in Portland, Oregon). Usagi is a Solar named Victoria Sunn. Darian/Mamoru is a Lunar. Most of the inner scouts are DragonBlooded, and most of the outer scouts are Sidireals. ** Sounds very [[CookieCutterFic cookie cutter]]... * This troper has seen both very very good and very, very, ''very'' bad fusions of ''KimPossible'' and ''SpiderMan.'' The downfall of the bad ones is almost universally attributed to combining DieForOurShip and [[RapeTropes rape]]. ** This troper greatly enjoyed one of those. * [[Tropers/{{Mglittlerobin}} This troper]] is currently working on a GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex fusion with Ben10UltimateAlien where Gwen's family died in a plane crash and she was put into a cyborg body and became Major Kusanagi with no memory of her old life. Ben lives in Japan now and is a public hero, Kevin is caught by Section 9 and brought into the group for his expertise. I'm still trying to keep to the spirit of both shows and borrowing a lot of elements of both series. Has even bothered to make characters use profanity 'cause they do in GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex. * I guess this is a good place for [[Tropers/{{Nexus}} this troper]] to pimp his [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4329453/1/Shadow_Realm_Emissary fanfic]], which replaces the characters of [[SuperSmashBros the Subspace Emissary]] with various anime characters.

** I felt the need to deliver a critique- basically, it's a good idea, but some more characterization and fleshing-out of scenes would definitely have been welcome. Also, some of the casting choices were... rather meh, to say the least. For example, when I saw the description of Ryo-Ohki for [[spoiler:Mr. Game & Watch]] I initially thought of "Hello Kitty" which would have been hilarious. Instead of Speed Racer for [[spoiler:Captain Falcon]] you really should have gone with [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]], who would have fit the character perfectly. Not to mention that [[CodeGeass Lelouch]] would have fit rather well as [[spoiler:Snake]], because, well, [[spoiler:Huey Freeman]]?? Really? NoJustNo. I understand your idea, but that one was just out of left field and pretty much threw the rest of the story out of whack. Also, I would've gone with Kuriboh instead of Dark Magician for Pikachu, and I'm a little thrown by how most of the Yu-Gi-Oh! characters are more like their abridged counterparts. One final bit of casting advice- [[spoiler:Gurren Lagann's AntiSpiral]] for Tabuu, mostly because he looks and fits the part far more (and because I have no idea who the hell the guy you chose is). That said, your casting of Sailor Moon, Kenshin, Luffy, Inuyasha, Yusuke, Spike, Shinji, and Goku all fit remarkably well into the pre-existing plot, although I feel kid Goku would have been better than his adult counterpart because the power discrepancies are a bit unbelievable. Also, I have to give you an A+ for [[spoiler:Haruhi as Master Hand]], which is a brilliant and hilarious idea. Basically, I feel that you have an OK start, but I would suggest rewriting it later on, in order to expand the plot and characterization more, and perhaps to look into more anime to find more fitting cast counterparts. * If anyone can possibly explain what led this Troper and several others to fuse ''{{Watchmen}}'' and ''AzumangaDaioh'', please let me know. Well, besides the obvious awesome of [[http://ytpartist.deviantart.com/art/Rorsaka-111415259 Rorsaka]]. ** Well, [[Tropers/{{Hurri}} This Troper]] did that independently on 4chan's /co/ board too. Saved two threads about it as HTML docs on my comp as well. We got down to casting even the minor characters. For instance, the Black Freighter comic is acted out by the various cats. ** Would you expect to see ''AzumangaDaioh'' characters in a ''StarWars'' or ''{{Godzilla}}'' setting? This troper didn't. Then he read some fics by ''X to the Zoltan'' and was promptly and utterly ''blown away''. Link to author's FF.net profile [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/537523/X_to_the_Zoltan here]] in case you're interested; and this troper could not recommend any other fic as strongly as the fusions by this author. * This Troper ''is'' X to the Zoltan, and tickled pink that people are still reading his stuff. * Is this troper the only one who thinks you could remove a lot of the latter season problems from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' if you wrote it in the style of ''JoJosBizarreAdventure''? * This Troper conjures up many a fusion plot, but never follows through. Still, one of (in my opinion) my best ideas: ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' characters in ''OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest''. Yes. Imagine an all-powerful Azula, a depressed, an "I failed the world" Aang, an "I have no powers I am

worthless" Sokka, and an even ''more'' anguished and confused Zuko, among others. And then Toph bursts in and inspires them to greatness and revolution, and awesomeness ensues. * DEFCON1 - HotFuzz and FullMetalPanic. Kaname says "Fuck off to the model village". (YES I KNOW JAPANESE REALLY DON'T HAVE A WORD SIMILAR TO "FUCK"). ** {{Prototype}} and BloodPlus. (It fits, actually. Alex Mercer replaces Saya [he's homeless and is George's friend, but Red Shield has no clue about him). ** IAmLegend and BloodPlus - Riku in Neville's shoes, and Diva's the Ben Cortman trying to lure him out. * RhymeBeat is writing a FusionFic between KingdomHeartsThreeFiveEightDaysOverTwo and PokemonMysteryDungeon 2. Here it is. Comment if you so wish. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5884273/1/Pokemon_Mystery_Dungeon_Explorer s_of_Twilight * {{Treguard}} went back to the 80s for RainbowBrite + SheRa. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2742783/1/Shadows_over_Etheria Found Here.]] Count the ShoutOuts. * This troper's goal is to write three different fanfics mixing {{Kamen Rider}} with selected Western Animations, starting (and hopefully not ending) with [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3931798/1/bMasked_b_bRider_b_DenO_The_Ed _Express this one]]. * This troper read a TotalDramaIsland and SailorMoon crossover that cast Lindsay as Sailor Moon, which was an almost perfect adaptation. * This editor recently posted a fic called "Cinder-Marty." It was basically the story of Cinderella, only with the BackToTheFuture characters. I actually have a passion for this -- I also wrote "Marty In Wonderland," where BTTF:TAS Marty ends up going through Wonderland (in this case, a mix of book and Disney animated, with a bit of American McGee and CBS all-star version added for spice), and I have more classics that are all about replacing the characters with either the cast of BTTF or CorpseBride. * Jason and [[Tropers/{{Dallenson}} I]] have done a roleplay with ** {{Star trek}} ** {{Escape Velocity}}: Nova ** {{StarGate}} ** {{Battletech}}/{{Mechwarrior}} * {{Inuyasha}} characters acting out Disney's [[Film/BeautyAndTheBeast Beauty and the Beast]] is ''freaking'' '''everywhere...''' * One of my earliest forays into Fanfiction is [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5299171/1/Disco_Rising this little gem]], combining [[{{Dead Rising}} Dead Rising]] with [[{{Happy Tree Friends}} Happy Tree Friends]] and some extras thrown in to fill the gaps. Pardon the roughness, it was my first. * This troper is [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6487027/1/Villains currently working on one]] that's got the cast of ''DeathNote'' following the plotline of ''[[{{Series/Heroes}} NBC's Heroes]]'' (with [[{{XMen}} some]] [[{{Spiderman}} other]] [[{{BatMan}} comics]] mixed in there too...) * Take GundamWing. Rip out every character you know, and even the ones

you don't. Replace the five main pilots (and Zechs) with the five main girls of LoveHina (and Keitaro). Sprinkle in other important characters from Love Hina, some from MahouSenseiNegima, and even throw in some FullMetalPanic for shits and giggles. Add about three [[{{OriginalCharacter}} OCs]] just to put some sprinkles on top. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3029504/1/New_Mobile_Report_Shooting_Sta rs Enjoy a cake made of carnage and hilarity.]] It actually tastes better than you'd think, [[YourMileageMayVary at least according to some]]. * This Tropette is currently in the process of writing the first draft of one that is a crossover of the MystSeries and {{Batman}}. The only character replaced, however, is the {{AFGNCAAP}} player character, otherwise known as the Stranger to Myst fans. [[{{WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome}} Who is being replaced with]] TheJoker. * Take the Evangelion setting. Switch out Shinji and Kaworu. Give Kaworu a Kamina-esque personality and {{Prototype}}-esque morphing powers. Make Rei into a gun-toting trenchcoated badass. Have Yui and Gendo divorce and him taking Shinji with him while she adopts Rei. Make the Evas self-aware and sentient, ''NobodyDies''-style. Now take the entire thing and replant it into the Half-Life setting, postEpisode Three. Have humanity being led by a communist government with Keel as president. Upgrade the setting into hard sci-fi space opera with {{Real Robot}}s instead of tanks. [[{{Fanfic/Ascension}} Here you go.]] ** Other ideas from this troper: Code Geass/Red Alert 2, Gurren Lagann/Fallout 3, Evangelion/Earth 2150... * This troper likes doing crossovers with ''FullmetalAlchemist'' and pretty much anything; the concept of a character coming from their own [[TheVerse verse]] into [[FullmetalAlchemist FMA's]] makes for a fairly easy plot device. So far, I have one with ''{{Ed Edd and Eddy}}'' and just published another with ''SoulEater''. The second one has Asura rip open the fabric of space, so now Edward [[spoiler:along with Winry, Envy, Greed and May Chang]] are in Death City, while [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Free]], [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl Eruka]] and [[FusionDance the Mizunes]] [[spoiler:for now]] are in Amestris. I'm having lots of fun with all the [[CrossoverShip shipping]] [[CrackPairing opportunities]]! Not to mention the part about [[GrimReaper Lord Death]] being friends with [[JerkassGods Truthkun]]. * This troper is in the process of creating something he just calls "Metal Gear Sonic". It's set entirely in the Sonic universe, but focuses on a story that is essentially Metal Gear Solid 1, but with sonic characters as equivilants and certain differences in order to throw people off. It takes place a few years after the main sonic series in order to allow characters to fit into their new roles and brings back almost every Sonic character (mainly because Metal Gear Solid has a lot of roles to fill). * This Troper has started the planning progress of a fanfic inspired by the Marvel/DC Crossover from the 90s where characters from both universes fused together, but this time with more than two universes.

The Main characters are [[{{HarryPotter}} Harry]] [[{{StarWars}} Skywalker]], [[{{TheLegendofZelda}} Zelda]] [[{{FinalFantasyVII}} Gainsborough]], [[{{MortalKombat}} Lui Kang]] [[{{Avatarthelastairbender}} The Avatar]], [[{{Buffythevampireslayer}} Buffy Summers]] AKA [[{{SailorMoon}} Sailor Moon]], and [[{{Spiderman}} Peter Parker]] AKA [[{{Freakazoid}} Freakaspider]], as they find a way to get their universes back to normal. ----

GagDub * Gag Dubs are EXTREMELY common in Thai-dubbed movies, which add layers of stupidity rather than intended hilarity (and that's not including the weird titles they give to the movie). Some are so out of context that, as stated, goes into stupidity rather than hilarity. They add gags during intense action/dramatic scenes, and any dramatic pause seem to cry "AD-LIB HERE" for Thai dubbers (and let's not get started on how horrible and unnatural the voice-acting is). The following examples are just a few of the fine selection of the atrocity, and is roughly translated into English. ** During the part in TheLordOfTheRings: The Fellowship of the Ring where the Fellowship reached the gate of Moria, as Frodo figured out the opening password and the gate opened, the dubbed Gandalf ad-libbed "Well I feel like an idiot." ** In 300, during the famous "This! Is! Sparta!" sequence, King Leonidas kicked the messenger down the pit, as the other Spartans slaughtered his bodyguards. As they are falling, one of the bodyguards said this: "OMG how deep is this well? When will we reach the bottom?" Want an epic moment ruined? Ad-libbing can do that! ** In most, if not all movies, some dubbers have a tendency to describe EVERYTHING the character is doing. Imagine this sequence: A security guard is patrolling a warehouse. He walks to another part of the warehouse, and then hears sounds coming from the area he was a minute ago. Running back, he found that all the ware in that area are all mysteriously gone! "What..? Where is everything?" he muttered in amazement. A Thai dub would go like this: "Hmmm quiet night tonight. Oh well, let's walk that way. Well, sure is dark in here. What, what is that noise? I think I should investigate! What?? Oh no, everything is gone! Where is everything?" This can get GRATING real fast. * Before 2010, it was very popular practise in the swedish speaking part of Youtube to dubb The Lord of The rings. It started with one dubb that managed to get a million views, and then [[FollowTheLeader the following came.]] To the point that Dubbs of Other works were even labeled under the LOTR name! Typing Sagan Om in the search bar gives you many dubbs. * I was once playing [[KingdomHearts Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+]] with my brother and our friend watching. In once of the scenes Xigbar and Zexion are talking... there were no voices playing and Japanese subtitles, so my brother and friend decided to do a dub over it. It was hilarious, especially since the friend had no idea what the game was about, and at one point when he was dubbing over Zexion the words lined up with the character's lip movements perfectly, making him say

"[[EmoTeen I'm going to go be emo in my room]]" and walking off.

GallowsHumor Sometimes, the silver lining in the gas cloud is a (subjectively) inappropriate joke. ---* This troper's had one of his best friend's die in a car accident. I felt grief obviously, but I made a remark in my mind that "Oh that's neat, a opening at his workplace!" since he was trying to help me get a job at the same place, there just weren't any openings yet. After that remark in my mind, I slightly snickered and felt disgusted with myself afterwards. * When MJ died, I instantly made jokes. When Billy Mays died, I said "HI! BILLY MAYS HERE WITH HARRRRRRRRRG!!!!" ** My sister's group of online message board friends all but ostracized her for laughing at a Michael Jackson joke - about three days after he died. I still laugh at them. Hey, if they were funny while he was ''alive''... * This troper usually deals with adverse situations like this, due to having a terminal case of HurricaneOfPuns. However, nine times out of ten, [[DudeNotFunny the joke is only utterly hilarious to me...]] ** Case in point: I was at a job interview, and was asked the question "How would you deal with a difficult co-worker?" Thinking it would [[HilarityEnsues be a wonderful way to break the ice]], I [[DeadpanSnarker immediately began with]], "Well, I usually use an aluminum baseball bat..." before giving the straight answer. [[ItGotWorse It gets better.]] I was interviewing ''at a major, wellrespected university''. '''On the day of the Virgina Tech shootings''' (which, for what little defense it offers, I was ''completely'' unaware of, having not heard the news that day). [[CaptainObvious I didn't get the job.]] * This Troper joked about the school shooting in Finland on the day of the event. Yeah, [[DudeNotFunny I know]]. But sometimes it's the only way to not freak out. ** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokela_school_shooting Which]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauhajoki_school_shooting one]]? * In 2005, this troper's dad had prostate cancer. Less than a year later, this troper was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Sometimes, the only thing you can do is make catheter jokes together--and we've both been in remission since early 2007. ** Wow, you guys have balls... which will probably get testicular cancer. *** [[CrossingTheLineTwice Dude]]...[[MoralEventHorizon not funny.]] **** That's a joke, son. ***** Niiice ***** Well, this joke has turned downright cancerous, growing far out of control... ***** Damnit guys! This is the cancer killing [[strike:/b/]] Tvtropes. * [[{{Arc9}} This troper]] recently attended the funeral of his friend's mother. Oddly enough, the friend in question was the one who was laughing the most at the funeral and afterwards, casually

mentioning that the only thing she'd miss would be her snort-like laughter. It should be mentioned that she also really, REALLY hated her mom (heck, she moved across the country to go live with her dad to get away). * ThisTroper broke her leg (both bones at the ankle) last year while sledding down "Suicide Hill", and the process of getting able to walk normally again was long and painful. However, the fact the family took time to laugh about it was what kept her sane the whole time. We'd frequently make jokes about how she shouldn't get into fights with hills because they're so much bigger and heavier, note how silly I acted when on pain meds, and she'd earned the nickname of "crip", and her cane was a "crip-stick". The cruel-yet-funny approach made getting over the physical and emotional trauma much easier. * This Troper, for everything. All the time. I joked about cancer, but it was slightly justified, since my sister had it. [[IGotBetter She got better]]. ** My mother and mother-in-law have both had cancer. Go to a cancer support network sometime and you'll see the kinds of humor that are used to cope with the illness. Dark stuff, but still pretty funny if you're dealing with it together. *** Definitely. When my friend got cancer, I went to visit him one day, and when I walked in and said hello, he shot back with a "Dammit, I didn't polish my head, now it's not shiny enough to be presentable." I couldn't help but smile even though I wanted to cry. * This troper needs to but keeps it inside his mind for fear of being lynched (oh the puns, they just won't stop coming) as they take DeadBabyComedy to whole new levels. ** Are you, by any chance, black? * This troper did a Machan Joke to his mother and her friend, both sprung up at the same time and tried to deliver divine punishment. * [[{{Gerusz}} This troper]] broke a minor bone in his hand (5. metacarpus, to be accurate). The doctor repositioned the bone, and it healed well. Six months later, the same bone got a contusion, but it seemed like it were another fracture. This troper visited the same doctor with it, walked in and said: "Hi, doc! I hope the warranty is still valid after six months for a repositioned bone." He is quite a DrJerk, but laughed out loudly when he heard it. * This troper has a friend who lost his hand while setting off some cheap Mexican fireworks. He's sad he lost the hand, but makes the most of it. For instance: once, when he was cooking something, he put one of those oven mitts you slip your hand into onto his stump, introduced himself to a girl there that he didn't know and held out his oven mitt. When the girl reached out out and grabbed the mitt, he yanked his arm back and started screaming. The girl also screamed. It was hilarious. * This troper combined it with DeadpanSnarker... well a bunch of times, but one in particular was when i was watching ''{{Juno}}''. When that girl whose name I don't remember was chanting "all babies want to get borned" (yes she actually said it that way), I snarked, "Well that's a stereotype if I've ever seen one". [[{{DontExplainTheJoke}} If you don't get it]] YouSuck. ** That, or we just don't like the movie and didn't pay attention.

*** Again, YouSuck. ** I remember her as an [[UnfortunateImplications Asian with English as a Second Language]] * The personal example I always think of when I hear the phrase "gallows humor" happened when my grandfather was dying. My parents and my uncles and aunts were all at my grandparent's house, late at night, and talking about how my grandmother was still at the nursing home with my granddad, even though she had barely slept in a week. My aunt put it quite nicely; "What do you do when your seventy-year old mother won't go to bed?" When there's nothing else you can do, laughing about it really helps. * I do this often, I find that puns seem to be the most inappropriate jokes, but I still love doing it, for instance, after hearing that there were wildfires in Australia, I said something along the lines of "I'm sorry for anyone born and razed there". ** Was this on a forum for a webcomic? I remember seeing someone say that. It was hilarious. *** AwkwardZombie? **** Yeah. Though by now I'm not expecting a response. * Preemptively: This troper was the only one who laughed when the Health Class lady warned her (and everyone else in earshot) not to give CPR to people who were thrashing, cursing, or otherwise making a big fuss "because they're the people who will sue you." Even though you saved their lives. And this troper plans on doing just that. ** Ever heard of Good Samaritan Laws? It's illegal to sue someone for saving your life. Ungrateful [[SoundEffectBleep _______s]]! ** Won't stop the ungrateful shits from trying, I'm sad to say. And then they have the gall to wonder why people are giving them DeathGlares on the streets... *** The Good Samaritan Laws prevent the victim from sueing the person who saved their life- if that person was trained. The reason being that "correct" lifesaving techniques usually involves some sort of bodily injury. For example, you're not doing CPR right if you don't hear or feel ribs crack. * This troper once said to his brothers, who were running around the kitchen while he was washing dishes, "Stop doing that before you slip and stab yourselves with one of these knives. You wouldn't want me to die of laughter, would you?" * This troper is known for her exceedingly ''dark'' sense of humor, especially with her online pals. Some favorites include "Mmm, [[NauseaFuel corpse juice...]]", "AAAAAHHHH [[ThisIsSPARTA my dick is on fire!!!!]]", and "If you ever do that again, [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon I'll feed your intestines up your ass and out your mouth.]] [[OverlyLongGag Maybe I'll stuff some]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice IN your mouth]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for good measure.]]" * This troper's sense of humour is often wildly inappropriate-- which is usually why I keep it to myself. It's often fairly selfdeprecating-- my parents and siblings have all expressed annoyance at how I will slip in a sly joke in the middle of a furious diatribe which is legitimately upset and emotional-- and then I get pissed off when they spot it and laugh. Par for the course: me-bashing, jokes

about Big Gay Teenage Murderers, jokes about fetuses, and personal threats that go [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon waaaaaaay over the top]]. * A couple of days after the 2002 school shooting in Erfurt/Germany, the first 'big' school shooting in Germany, with the media blaming it all on the so-called 'Killergame' Counter Strike, ThisTroper bought a T-Shirt with a counter terrorist from said game on it, as well as crosshair aiming on him and the caption: Player of Killergames! Run as fast as you can. * Father died on last Christmas Eve, aunt died three days before. Okay, it's sad. But the day before father died, sister was dressed in black elegant clothes, and said something along the lines of "I'll mourn in style". It was funny even if aunt died two days before. But then, it became a FunnyAneurysmMoment when father had a heart attack few hours later. Nowadays, we mostly laugh a bit at how much of a ContrivedCoincidence my sister had at the moment. * This troper is fond of using the the threat "I'm going to rip your eyeballs out of their sockets, shove them down your throat, and eat some popcorn as I watch you writhing in pain, choking to death on your own eyeballs" The trick is to make the delivery melodramatic enough so that people will know that you're joking. Of course, when I'm with my friends I can casually threaten them as much as I want, so I don't have to worry about people getting freaked out. * This troper mocked his golden retriever relentlessly when she was diagnosed with cancer, had half her body shaved, and was locked in a cage wearing people clothes so she wouldn't disrupt her stitches. At the time, her odds were still decent. A month later, I kind of feel bad about it... ** Well that's kind of me-- wait, your dog was wearing ''pants!?'' * I do this so much and so often, some of my friends have started thinking I'm some sort of an [[TheUnfettered Unfettered]] CompleteMonster. It didn't worry me at the time, until I myself began having problems discerning whether my words were jokes or had some truth to them. * This troper makes many jokes about his families varied disorders, mostly about myself and my Asperger's. Also, I have made jokes about my sister being Bipolar (not the obvious "Its like living with two different people" one), my dad having Glaucoma, me being of mixed race (black and white, so I show up gray on momochrome), and myself being afraid of stuff in video games (I'm such a pansy). * [[{{Digital-Madness}} This troper]] loves inappropriate jokes and DeadBabyComedy. This, surprisingly, hasn't gotten him into any real trouble yet, mostly because everyone he hangs out with has a similar sense of humor. It could have caused some problems, though, in his English class last year. Let's just say that you should never assume that the teacher isn't pregnant and tell her about the difference between a Cadillac and a thousand dead babies. Of course, she just kind of laughed along with it, but, uhm...yeah. She was just that kind of awesome teacher. Most wouldn't have been quite so forgiving. ** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint What ''is'' the difference between a Cadillac and a thousand dead babies?]] *** I don't have a Cadillac in my garage. *** Okay, but what does that have to do w-- Oh.

* This Tropette can't watch people folding flags without (bitterly) laughing, because at her Grandpa's funeral, they folded the flag wrong, and had to un and then refold it. ** As a member of a USAF Base Honor Guard, we fold flags quite a bit. There are times that flags just don't fold quite right, whether from the material of the flag, there being any red showing, or just because the flag (especially for a funeral) didn't get to a 1-3-5 fold (number of stars visible in each row). I know that, if I were in charge of the detail, I would refold rather than give a family a flag that was not perfect. * When I parked my car in a lamppost in front of a group of my friends, some tried to calm me down by reassuring me the damage was light, and it happened to everyone, etc. That didn't help. What did help, was a friend who walked to the car, looked at it, and said, completely straightfaced: "I think it's broken". That did help, somehow. * [[{{Nomic}} This troper]] does this a lot, probably because he finds it difficult to emotionally connect with tragedies unless he sees the reactions of the people involved, and because he tends to make silly comments about things, even when being completely serious. * When my friend told me Micheal Jackson had only died about an hour or so earlier, the first thing we both said to eachother was "Sickipedia is definitely crashing." * The only time you'll ever hear this troper sing is when an ambulance, fire truck or a police car go by with their sirens on. You'll hear Another One Bites the Dust, Disco Inferno, and Bad Boys respectively. * Within 24 hours of Steve Irwin's death, this troper was singing a version of ''Advance Australia Fair'' containing nothing but the word "crikey". ** When having an entire lesson dedicated to Australia, our teacher started talking about Steve Irwin and his (then recent) death. She asked us if anybody knew how he'd died, to which this troper replied: "The same way he lived: with animals in his heart." * After my grandfather's amputation he would say he was a "foot shorter." Little known fact: Gallow humor gets worse every generation. Friend - "How's your grandfather?" Me - "Dead." I bet he would have laughed! * When asked for his father's address, this troper desperately wanted to give the address for the cemetery he's buried in. Couldn't remember it. * This troper has a bit of a reputation for this type of humor. It catches people so off guard they can't help but laugh. At Thanksgiving dinner for example, I learned that my brother's friend's father had been dead for several years. My stepdad remarked that he would probably end up forgetting that and say something to said friend about him. I felt compelled to give an example. "So what does your dad do?" "Rot." * This Troper loves dark humor. He's got a major skeletal problem and has had several surgeries, so naturally he can make jokes that nobody will want to laugh at. For example, in his dorm one time, his dad offered assistance, and he replied (with no offense intended) "What do

you think I am, crippled?" Silence ensued from his father and his roommate's end of the conversation for several minutes. * As I said on the BreadEggsMilkSquick TroperTales page, I casually joke about the fact that my grandfather tried to rape me with a carrot when I was around 4 years old when he was drunk. ** PAY ATTENTION TO ME * This troper suffers from a host of mental conditions. He jokes about [[GottaCatchEmAll collecting and trading them]] with his friends, many of whom also suffer from some form of psychosis. The day he caught his fiance cheating on him, ([[KickTheDog which happened literally a week before Christmas]]) he quipped on some forums, "Hey, at least I don't have to get her anything this year." * This troper has a rather nasty glasgow smile, or smirk if you prefer, as it's only on the left. Whenever someone tells him to smile, he laughs and says, "Bitch, I'm always smilin'!" * My friend is going to die soon from some sort of brain defect. He made his peace, and now spends his time making everyone feel reeeeeally uncomfortable. Since everyone knows he's dying and that he constantly jokes about it, he knows that everyone he asks is going to answer his joke in the following way...: *** What do you find buried six feet underground? *** -sigh- I don't know... You? *** NO! Buried treasure, you bitch! Way to be insensitive! * This troper's friend once got a phone call for his grandfather, who was long dead. After telling the caller this, they then asked him for his grandmother, who was not-so-long dead. After telling the caller ''this'', my friend, for lack of knowing what to say, asked, "can I take a message?" * This troper simply finds all forms of death funny. It's because if I can find my own HMSN funny, how can anything else bother me? * When this troper heard that BrittanyMurphy died, he was like "Wow. The Grim Reaper must really suck at his job. He took the wrong [[BritneySpears Britney]]." * [[PsychoYoshi This Troper]] loves to combine said kind of humor with [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan smartassery]]. His current favorite line for bad days when his family asks him how he's doing? "Oh, I woke up this morning and wasn't struck by a meteor while I slept. Today is a ''great'' day!" * I tend to have a way with making my sister uncomfortable with the way I joke about the situations we land in. Say that we're home alone, the lights are out, and we've been hearing some odd sounds from under the house. I turn to my sister and say "Hey, wouldn't it be funny if (insert horrible scenario here) happened?" Or I'd at least put on some scary music, saying in a (sickeningly) happy voice "Now we have a soundtrack!!" Her usual response would be "Shut up!" or "Change the music!! Change it now!" It's actually worse when I'm by myself. If I'm in a scary situation, I think of the worst case scenario (no matter how impossible it is) and laugh about it. Trust me, when you have an EvilLaugh like I do, no one messes with you... * This troper came up with the term 'ethics of humour' to describe the thing he doesn't have an ounce of. Jokes about the recently dead? Fair game. Holocaust jokes? Ditto. Naturally, this has led to a few "Crap,

I shouldn't have said that" moments with friends. Nowadays, the only things I won't joke about are things that are really upsetting friends or, to a lesser degree, family members. ''Most of the time''... * evil smirk* ** This troper also has a bad habit of making wildly inappropriate comments at the worst possible time. One time he was staying at a hostel in Germany with his brother and noticed a large non-functional spotlight in the common room by the windows. His brother asked what the spotlight was for, and without missing a beat, this troper answered "finding Jews." * This Troper's grandfather has done this recently. He's old, has a bum leg, shingles, and pancreatic cancer. The doctors have told him he has less than a year, making this a crappy summer. He also just moved out of the house he lived in for forty years into a smaller house (also emotionally wrenching). He said "You might as well put a picture of the old house on top, the new house in the middle, and the local graveyard on the bottom." It made This Troper laugh and laugh and feel so much better. * This troper managed to squick everyone else in the car out by telling them that decapitation was the best way to go, and then launching into a whole thing about how she hoped if her head was missing, someone would go find it, because just having a random head lying around would be weird. * Don't know if this counts as Gallow's Humor, but in class, our teacher was telling us about how some cultures in history treated their dead. We got around to a personal assignment about how we would like to die, and how we want out funerals. the day the assignment was suppose to be turned in, one of my friends was cuaght in an arson crime. I went to go visited him in the hospital, asked him how he was doing, and he told me to go turn in the assignment for the teacher. On his paper, he apparently wanted to "Die in a blaze of Glory" and he wanted to be "Cremated for his Funeral"(he would have changed it, but his hands where bandaged up). * When my aunt was studying arts, the teacher made the class a work about anything they wanted to express. Then, this asian girl that very recently lost her father made everyone make and decorate their own little coffins in class. HilarityEnsues, as some people decided it was a good idea to make windows and have 'coffins with view', or paint them pink with nice little ribbons so it looked cute instead of that 'depressing black'. Then, the male population revealed against this thread and painted the coffins...pale blue. * Right after my grandfather's funeral, I was getting a ride home by a couple of my cousins. Just as we were about to reverse out of the church's parking lot, we almost hit a man walking behind the car. "Watch out", one of them said to the driver, "We probably shouldn't cause another funeral" * This troper is [[BlessedWithSuck blessed]] with a BelovedSmother. One of her ways of dealing with it is snarking about her situation. * This editor, as a fan of both ''GurrenLagann'' and ''{{Homestuck}}'', once made a ''SweetBroAndHellaJeff'' edit based on the former called ''Sweet Bro and Hella Simon''. The exact same day I thought I would make a follow-up, in the actual comic, the

CaptainErsatz of Kamina died, which led to me reliving Kamina's death, and for a while I thought it would be DudeNotFunny, even though it had nothing to do with the scene in question besides involving Kamina. Eventually, though, I decided I'd do a second comic anyway, and even linked to this very page when I posted it. * The military: This Troper as a child was looking at a Browning 50 cal "Liberator" machine gun and made a comment about the name, a middle-aged looking soldier looked at me and said "'Coz it'll liberate you!" and then laughed with his mate. * My grandmother, who is awesome and well-loved, had uterine cancer a few years back. When she underwent a hysterectomy, my dad (her son) joked that she'd been spayed and was now an "it". * Some friends of mine have been using this for years to deal with their mother's illness, which is slowly robbing her of strength. Everyone in their family calls her "Gimpy." ** And when I got a concussion and a bone fracture from a bike accident some years back, "Gimpy" patted my arm and said, deadpan, "You know, you really need to stop being intimate with the pavement." * [[{{Tropers/Kevfent}} This troper]]'s brother once said, "It's freezing out. There are probably some homeless people in the city who aren't going to survive the night." I immediately broke into uncontrollable laughter. * To get the joke, a story has to be told first, so bear with it. [[{{Tropers/Riddlewizard}} This Troper]] had a [[{{Understatement}}very bad reaction]] to a medicine for the stomach bug/flu when he was younger, and his body started to dry out after a few days, causing neck spasms (his neck would lean backwards by itself and have to be ''forced painfully'' into normal position). He didn't know what was going on, and didn't say anything, stupidly enough. When he and his mother were at the doctor again, she told him to bending his neck, and his reply was "I'm not doing this"- at which point, she walked up to the receptionist, pointed him out, saying "See what his neck is doing? ''He'' isn't doing that.", and he got to the doctor right away. Now his tongue started swelling and it was harder to breathe, and the doctors noticed. They had already called the ambulance, so they gave him some anti-allergy medicine. At this point, this troper kind of stopped moving, so his mother held up her hand with all digits extended, and asked the age-old question, "How many fingers am I holding up?" This troper couldn't speak well at that point but also couldn't resist (in a situation threatening death by suffocation, no less) saying "four", waiting for the horrified looks on the faces of his mother and the two doctors, and then saying, "your thumb doesn't count as a finger", at which point, his mother said "[[DeadpanSnarker He's being a smartass as usual]], he'll live". * After going through six months of chemotherapy, this troper was having lunch with a friend when the friend told me that the food I was eating was bad for me. I looked up at him and asked, "So what's it going to do, give me cancer?" * This troper struggled with depression and suicidal ideations for most of her life. She's also the one person in her group of friends most likely to crack a joke about it, while her friends look on in horror. "Why did the chicken crossed the road? To commit suicide and

get run over." * This troper's family is always like this when asked how we are most of us especially my grandfather and me tend to say "well my name wasn't in the paper this morning so it must be a good day" ---Go back and hang out at GallowsHumor. It's not a bad t''rope''. ** Be sure to bring some friends though. It's always more fun to [[IncrediblyLamePun hang]] together. ** BlackComedy thinks you're all being a real [[IncrediblyLamePun noose]]-sance. *** Methinks BlackComedy is rather hung up on its own importance... ---<<|TroperTales|>>

GameBreakingBug * Troper {{Tropers/ungulateman}} had a buggy copy of ''{{Kirby}}: Nightmare in Dream Land'' which froze whenever he fought Fire Lion. Beating him very very quickly worked the first time, but the BossRush level in the seventh world foiled that plan. It also screwed up the colors and made the door into level 1-2 almost impossible to get back out of. * This troper,whom yet to have an account,had a problem with ''{{MySims}} Kingdom'' during Vic's requests. What happened was Vic got stuck on a machine and just stood there when the reward was ready to be reaped. He would just stand there and do nothing while my Sim could not speak to him as this would trigger the "I cant access this!" mood bubble. This probably has no fix and I will have to restart the game. ** UPDATE: It turns out that later the game magically fixed itself after my other character's playthrough * My former best friend and I learned the hard way that you should not try to mess with your games unless you really know what you're doing. In the course of a few hours, we screwed up two Pokemon games beyond repair. An Eevee in his Crystal version was turned into some... thing that froze the game any time its name was shown. Meanwhile, every single wild Pokemon in my [=FireRed=] version was turned into a Missingno, a key item I knew I had disappeared for good, and in general everything went to hell. Even after starting a new save file, the game still freezes occasionally for a couple seconds at a time. ** Now you see why I don't try and exploit glitches. Though I have nothing against reaping the rewards from other glitches that people perform. Does that make me a hypocrite? ** That's how [[@/SoWeAteThem I]] wound up breaking both Ruby and Sapphire. They would crash whenever I looked up the bag. * [[TheElderScrolls The Elder Scrolls]], hehe, where do we begin... ** Especially Oblivion, the game is filled with these, ranging from annoying clipping to not being able to escape from a cut scene and to accidentally receiving a bounty that could never be cleared. *** Oblivion is not the worst offender. [[TheElderScrollsTwoDaggerfall Daggerfall]] has by FAR the worst glitches in the franchise; check out

the amount of entries talking about them. The game even has the trope [[ObviousBeta Obvious Beta]] listed. **** For example, ''The auto-dungeon generator in Daggerfall was so buggy that Bethestha finally just threw up their hands and released a patch that turned on the debugging shortcuts so affected players could teleport around dungeons and avoid falling into the numerous bottomless pits.'' **** ''Resulting in some unbeatable quests (including, prior to the first patch, the story), frequent opportunities to fall through floors and fly around in the Void, and some very confused monsters.'' *** This troper has downloaded the Morrowind patch. Unfortunately, this results in some items being undisplayable, so they show up as GIANT yellow diamonds with white exclamation marks on them. The Dark Brotherhood turn into huge jagged monstrosities. * [[MightyJAK This troper]] was fond of abusing the "save, quit, and reload for full HP/MP" [[GoodBadBugs feature]] in {{Lunar}} Legend, but was unaware of the item duplication/overwrite bug ([[http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/file/560993/22067 sections 11 & 12 in this FAQ]]). He discovered it accidentally after losing some items he worked ''very hard'' to acquire in the [[BonusDungeon Phoenix Cave]]. Having not read that FAQ or heard of this bug elsewhere, ThisTroper assumed this was not a programming error, but a problem with the particular cartridge he had bought used (the case was falling apart and was held together with scotch tape). Cue frustration when ThisTroper bought another copy of the game and [[WhatAnIdiot experienced the exact same thing]]. * This troper was playing [=ADOM=] on a Terminal window, while using a tiling window manager. Something opened a new window up on my current desktop, which caused the Terminal window to resize and break the game. * This troper found one in the early stages of a game he was making with RPG Maker. At one point in the game, there is a pathway that your character is agile enough to jump to, but your heavily armored teammates are not. You can choose to take the longer path with them, or the slower path alone. Unfortunately, he forgot to program in the team reuniting at the end. They get split up not long after, so that's not that bad... But there's a short cutscene where you and the rest of your team confront a villain, have a dramatic moment, and then fight him together. Because of this flaw, the team show up for the cutscene out of nowhere, and then are not present in the fight. This fight is completely impossible alone. It's been fixed now, but when a friend playtested it, it was quite embarrissing. * This troper had a broken copy of the "{{Rugrats}} Adventure Game". Whenever the game was saved, quit, and re-opened, the babies would be locked in the playpen, with all of Tommy's inventory gone, and the screwdriver hidden in the Kangaroo's pouch gone. Thus, Tommy could not open the playpen gate, and the game would be rendered {{unwinnable}}. * This troper encountered a fatal glitch in the Lud's Gate level of ''TombRaider III''. If I saved at the wrong time in the area with the water trench, the underwater switches, and last two secrets, one of the doors would get blocked by an invisible barrier, making the level {{unwinnable}}.

* ''{{Driver}} 2'' had a major Glitch Gremlin infestation, such as certain buildings failing to draw in in Las Vegas, leaving BottomlessPits in their place. * This Troper once experienced an absolutely ''infuriating'' glitch in ''ShadowOfTheColossus''. In one of his later playthroughs, upon reaching Avian, a horrible, unspeakable glitch plagued him. Throughout the fight, for no apparent reason, the game treated all moments of being on Avian's body as Avian being at slipstream speeds. This made the boss nigh-{{Unwinnable}}. Luckily, this troper's sheer skill at fancy-pants acrobatics in the game eventually allowed him to triumph over the glitching motherfucker. This glitch has never reared its ugly head again yet. * I've had this before in... MySims and AvatarTheLastAirbender (the first one) for the {{Gamecube}}. ** In MySims, I was trying to move [[{{Goth}} Raven]] to another lot so that I could put [[MadScientist Dr. F's]] lab there. So Raven came out of her house to tell me that she was going to wait for me to find her a new lot, but she just kept running into her mailbox, vanishing, then coming out of her house again, vanishing, lather, rinse, repeat. I left the game running while I did math homework, and it just kept doing it, but fortunately, I could save while all this was going on. ** In Avatar, the game started running really slowly for no particular reason, and it had never done that before. (I was also playing it on my Wii, but I don't think that makes a difference.) It lagged to the point where it had to stop and show a little box that said it was loading. Then when it went away, the overworld beyond my TV screen didn't load correctly, and Sokka and Aang ended up falling into a black void and disappearing while the game did nothing. I sold the game to Gamestop. * Not totally game-breaking, but this troper has recieved visits from the [[TheAngryVideoGameNerd Game Graphic Glitch Gremlin]] while playing [[{{Raiden}} Raiden Project]] on the PSX. Sometimes when it loads the next level, the graphics come out scrambled, like a dirty NES game. * My sister was playing {{Bratz}}: Rock Angelz for the PS2 once. You can use rollerskates in this game to get around, which my sister was doing, as she ascended some stairs. Suddenly, she cried out. I went to see the TV, and it was totally grey. As it turned out, her character had ''sunk'' through the stairs and into them, with no escape, basically rendering the game useless until reset. * This troper's copy of Final Fantasy VII mysteriously crashes in the cutscene where Cloud and co. are letting Aeris/Aerith sink into the water. Every. Single. Time. * My copy of Fable 3 has completely glitched out to the point where I can't even finish the game. At one point you have to try and stop a robbery and (I think) kill all the enemies except for one. The problem is, none of the other enemies spawn, and the one that does can't NOT DIE. My character always kills him in one hit. What's worse is that when he dies, nothing happens. No events go off, and I can't even leave the building. I don't even know if this is file-specific or not. * You can't beat my one, i dunno anyone who this has happened to. somehow i managed to fall through the floor of reavers mansion while

fighting the balverines and can't get out. i'm watching the woman who's with me fighting them above me but can't get back up. I thought i'd just wait for her to kill them all but no such look, i have to do that. It's weird, the furniture and characters are above me but the black 'shape' of the building, what i'm standing on complete with redish orange 'sky' around me, is directly below it. i can look up at everthing because the floors gone transparent. and if i run to the edge of it (theres not a lot of black walls in my new prison) and over i continuously fall into oblivion except i stop in a falling postion and just hang there. i wish there was a end quest button like fable 2, i used that when i accidentally got locked in a room in a glitch with that game. i thought that one was bad cause i had to forgo the quest i was doing and start over a couple of quests back, now though with 3 i have to start from the begining. I got sooooo annoyed. * This troper has suffered more grief from FalloutNewVegas than anyone else he knows. Almost every file he's created has suffered from a bug that causes vendors to never restock, thus locking him out of the game's best weapons and making ammo hard to come by. Strangely, it's only ever happened to him. * [[@/SoWeAteThem I]] don't know how this happened and hope it never does again: During my first Triple Battle in Pokmon Black and White, I would up with two pokmon fainting in the same round, with the last two left to replace them. The game did not identify that one of them (Sigilyph) was fit to battle, despite being at full strength. Nor did it treat said pokmon as fainted. This meant that I was essentially stuck on the Use Next Pokmon screen until I gave up and turned off the DS. * This troper had a nasty bug in Portal for the PC. I got to the point where [[spoiler: you had to throw GLaDOS' cores in the incinerator]] when all of a sudden GLaDOS said the same thing she says at the very start of the game and I could not move eventually I reset the game to find my save file just started me in the final boss area with everything replaced with a big ERROR! * This troper's copy of [[LegendOfDragoon Legend of Dragoon]] will stop after the the battle against the water dragoon. 1st time i went through the game, i had to do the battle 3 times, while on my 2nd play through, the game will always freeze. * In [[{{Tropers/Kadorhal}} my]] first playthrough of ''ModernWarfare 2'', at about the halfway point of the level "Contingency", I called in the UAV as I was told, it was shot down by a SAM site in the village as scripted, and then everybody just sort of stopped reacting to the plot. Ghost didn't say anything to me or my teammate when he showed up, and the enemies in the base up ahead didn't spawn. I eventually fixed it by [[NonstandardGameOver knifing one of my allies repeatedly to restart that portion]], and ever since then I've always made sure to fire at that SAM before it can take down the UAV. * This troper's first copy of AnimalCrossing: Wild World worked perfectly fine for a couple years. Suddenly, for no apparent reason (that we can prove anyway), it just ''broke''. Walking around on the map? FREEZE. Talking to one of the townspeople? FREEZE. It was rendered so unplayable that she eventually just gave up on it.

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GameGenie * James_S_Pratt: This troper is the creator of two GameGenie codes. One was an infinite lives code for the NES version of ''DoubleDragon'', the other was the code which turned Mario (in SuperMarioBros3) into an indistinguishable purple thing who, when you pressed the jump button, actually ''swam through air.'' Sadly I've lost both these codes, but I would be surprised if somebody else didn't discover them. * [[SaraJaye This troper]] used to swear by GameGenie and even got into the whole code-creation thing, swapping homemade codes with people online and even getting her ''mother'' in on things. (She created a code for Tetris that let you complete a B game, level 9 height 5 in ''one line''.) ---Make a wish for infinite lives and go back to GameGenie. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

GameOfNerds * This troper's an aversion: I like football, basketball, and soccer for the tactical element. * This troper sort of plays it straight. His favorite sport is baseball, and by god he loves baseball. He even loves studying the mechanics of how pitches are thrown, how a bat is swung, etc. But, statistics and facts aren't the only thing he enjoys. He likes them, no doubt, but he loves the competition and the strategy. Most of all, he loves what the game represents. This troper also enjoys watching other sports too, from hockey, to boxing, to gymnastics. * This troper enjoys watching other sports, but baseball is the only one that really ''matters.'' * [[{{Tropers/Aspie}} This troper]] is a subversion. He considers himself a nerd and he does love baseball, but he can't quote statistics or remember starting lineups like the hypothetical nerd on the trope page. He mostly loves to watch the game and cheer for his favorite team, like the typical sports fan. (He'd tell you who his favorite team is, but one look at his troper page should make it easy to guess.) * [[{{Tropers/Cryolemon}} This Troper]] is a subversion in the sense that I like most sports, but mostly only for the statistics / odd facts (except (American) Football, I'm a Dolphins fan and follow it quite closely). * This troper plays it completely straight: I dislike most other sports, but I LOVE baseball for some reason. I like the statistics, admittedly, and I record my brothers' local leagues games, and

calculate averages at the end of the season as a hobby.

GamerChick * For this troper, an interesting case is my friend and Pokemon. Although I could easily beat her as far as battles with high level power houses she is more dedicated to [[SeriousBusiness following the rules]] and would reprimand me for exploiting glitches (I'm not talking about action replay either). She's also played more Pokemon games then me, and has probably memorized the entire list past generation 3 (which was my hiatus until platinum came out). * This troper kind of subverts. She plays some games, but she is utterly terrible at it. This resulted in at least two creepy people on multiplayers, who first wanted her to marry them, because 'she's a gurl and she plays Unreal Tournament zomg' and then apparently had their hearts broken witnessing her god-awful aim. * This female troper has been playing EverQuest and WorldOfWarcraft since she was in second grade (literally, not figuratively), and is currently beginning to get into {{Rift}}. As far as [=RPGs=] and other games go, she has a special spot in her heart for DragonAge, LegendOfZelda, KingdomHearts, FinalFantasy, and anything SidMeier. She ''really'' want's to get into DungeonsAndDragons, but she has no one to play with. * [[Tropers.ReikoKazama This troper]], natch. I enjoy [[{{Tekken}} a]] [[StreetFighter wide]] [[DeadOrAlive variety]] [[MortalKombat of]] [[SonicTheHedgehog different]] [[{{Pokemon}} video]] [[CapcomVsWhatever game]] [[SuperSmashBros franchises]], including but not limited to the ones mentioned, and plan to start on [[FireEmblem a]] [[NoMoreHeroes few]] [[ResidentEvil more]] someday, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment including but not limited to those mentioned]]. (But first things first: my DS emulator fails because it won't load state without crashing, and it won't load in-game saved data full stop i.e. it just dives right into a new game upon startup. ._. On top of that, the random number god hates me: on a previous game almost every random encounter was a [[GoddamnBats goddamn Zubat or Kricketot]], and on my most recent game, my Chimchar was [[SoundEffectBleep *bleep*]]ing ''weak''. Either that or I just wasn't concentrating properly. Either way, I lost ''twice'', both in my first battle against Barry and in a battle against a random boy whose name I can't remember for the life of me. So now I'm waiting 'til I actually ''get'' a DS to play Platinum, and either [=HeartGold=] or [=SoulSilver=].) * This troper personalty knows a 10 year old girl whose unbeatable at Tekken dozens of guys and other girls have played against her only to lose, more people are surprise the fact she's young then a girl. * [[@/CabbitGirlEmi This troper]] has been a Pokemon gamer since Red and Green/Blue. I would play Emerald and Platinum again and again and again until I make the perfect teams. Sure, I've beaten Emerald many teams with either a Blaziken or a Swampert as my starter, but I'll do it again, this time with the latter. And Platinum? Well, since I found out that there are actually ''3'' Shiny Stones (one of them hidden), I plan to have the best team ever.

* This Troper has a friend IRL who happens to fit the bill of being a GamerChick, although definitely not on the curb-stomping extreme. She's regularly demolished in certain games, like Left4Dead, where she'd be just as dangerous as an ally (especially with a chainsaw) as she would be as an enemy. Although this troper admits that he was pathetically trailing behind her score when playing a round of Counter Strike, and that she can generally hold her own in most other FPS games. * This Tropers sister surprised my father and I by turning out to be a huge fan of anything by Bioware, and she plays The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion in windowed mode while checking her FaceBook, and she actually managed to explain the plot of Metal Gear 2 to me, well at least I think she did, I'm still not sure about the last part... ** Metal Gear 2 or Metal Gear Solid 2? I have to ask cause some people still aren't aware that there was a metal Gear series prior to 'Solid'. * [[@/{{Orihime}} This female troper]] is a fan of fighting videogames and can ''so'' attest that. I don't play them just to impress guys in the arcades and am ''not'' a button masher, dammit. >_> OTOH, I temporarily gained a small following during a con ''because'' I was the only girl playing fighting games in the gamer section, so other con attendant were a bit in awe. * ^^* * This female troper is going to enter a SSB:Brawl tournament. And I'll win it, too. >:) ** Try real fighting games :P *** Fighting games are SeriousBusiness. What, are you going channel David Sirlin and talk about "scrubs" and "playing to win" next? ** [[SarcasmMode Exactly, you should have to have at least two extra fingers to be able to use a special move. Simple controls are for casual gamers.]] * [[@/DarkInsanity13 This also female troper]] will play many of the same games as her brother, particularly the fighting ones. She's not particularly good at them, but she's improved from button mashing (she's had to in order to keep up with her much better brother). She tends to get competitive too. She also doesn't play to impress (how can she impress when she's an amateur to casual gamer at best?). That doesn't mean she can't enjoy the occasional game. ** I don't think that would count as GamerChick considering this trope is about the TokenGirl in a circle of hardcore gamers. I might be wrong though. * This editor's sister began to turn into one in college. Which is funny because she betrayed no such tendencies while still living under one roof with all of this editor's games. * [[@/EddieVanHelsing This troper]]'s wife beat ''Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne'' before he did, and borrowed his DS and his copy of ''Disgaea DS'' so many times that he just said "fuck it", let her keep it, and got his own. Now she kicks his ass in multiplayer. * This female troper is really, really good at video games--any kind, really--and is so good, that she sometimes has to give some players handicaps when she plays them in multiplayer. Did I mention that the people she plays are boys who are three years older then her? * This troper has evolved from being a button-mashing gamer to a

decent player even in war games, which she used to suck at. Mostly because you can't button mash in MetalGearSolid and still beat the game in any decent amount of time. She does tend to slip back into button-mashing when she plays Soul Calibur, though. * [[@/KingSonnDeeDoo This Troper]] grew from someone who shied away from video games altogether, into one of these in the early years at her Senior School. Her firm motto with them though, is "Video games are meant to be fun, and as such shiould be treated this way - fun.", which helps make sure that she doesn't turn into a [[StopHavingFunGuys 'Stop-Having-Fun-Girl']]. * [[@/{{Anima}} This troper]]'s cup of gaming tea is usually focused on [[RetroGaming older titles.]] I only own ten games between my Wii and my PS2. However, my emulated titles for NES and SNES run into the hundreds. I'm not talking Mortal Kombat retro. I'm talking Pong retro. It made me a bit of an AngryVideoGameNerd fan. My weird subsphere of interest is [[SoBadItsGood Phenomenally]] [[SoBadItsHorrible shitty]] games, as well as the classics. My gravestone will be marked with "If only I had found that 1UP..." * This editor outright refuses to play Tekken (or any kind of fighting game) with one of his female friends, because she will repeatedly [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown kick the crap out of him]]. She also sucks terribly at MarioParty, GuitarHero, and all those other party games that people tend to associate with video games that girls play. * [[@/{{Filby}} This male editor]]'s female siblings and friends are all into video and tabletop games, and all can kick his butt at anything other than ''MagicTheGathering'' (with one exception who is totally my superior even at that). * [[@/{{Cybele}} I'm]] female, and a gamer, and I'll play anything except sports and racing games. I really am fond of fighting, action, and [=RPG=]s--I need to stop EntryPimp-ing the ''{{Gungrave}}'' page... but... [[GushingAboutShowsYouLike I love it so damn much...!]] * [[@/{{LittleMai}} This Tropette]] is an avid gamer - almost any kind of game, even when she sucks at it -, plays RPG since 2000, and always wanted to be a game programmer. Still wants. She'll get there. * [[Tropers/{{G-Mon}} This male troper's]] twelve-years-younger sister frequently tries to rope him into playing video games with her (either multiplayer or getting her past some part she can't figure out). In fact, sometimes she plays one of his games so much that he gets sick of said game for a while. This may soon happen with his old copy of ''[=~Pokmon~=] Gold''.... (Then again, said troper is concurrently replaying ''Crystal''.) * [[@/RavenBlack This female troper]] was raised on Super Mario Bros., and rarely goes anywhere without her DS in its swank metal carry case. She's also well-known at her preferred [=GameStop=] for her love of [=RPG=]s, [=JRPG=]s in particular. * [[@/NeoSilverthorn This troper]]'s little sister does absolutely nothing but ''mash buttons'', and she'll still manage to beat anyone at just about any game there is, despite the fact she only plays Super Mario Bros. Also worth noting, his girlfriend is adamantly "Not a gamer", but will throw down with a vengeance on Unreal Tournament at the drop of a hat. Makes a guy wonder. * [[@/AstraKiseki This troper]] is the daughter of a woman who played

First Edition Dungeons&Dragons. Due to her having the books when she was a little girl, the troper got into gaming and has never looked back. She apparently is really, really good at gaming. She loves her Pen and Paper and her Tactics games a bit much. * The Director of [[DawnOfWar Dawn of War 2]] at [[http://www.gamereplays.org Gamereplays.org]], a website focused on competitive RTS play, is a woman. * This troper spent some of the happiest hours of her adolescence playing ''TheLegendOfZelda'' and other games on her NES, as well as Dungeons&Dragons in a group where she was the token chick. Her sister, who is seven years younger, used to like to sit and watch her play the video games, and would playfully refer to Troper as "the game master." About a year after she started using that name, ''Captain N: The Game Master'' debuted on television, much to their amusement, and it was a running joke between the sisters that the main character Kevin was just a boy version of Troper. Now in her thirties, Troper plays games on the Wii, [=PlayStation=] 2, NES, Game Boy, and computer, and by a funny coincidence, her husband's name is Kevin. * Fact: Girls are better snipers. There's actually some weird scientific explanation for it too. I am not making this up. ** Different center of balance, maybe? Still, that's freaking cool. *** Better hand-eye coordination, actually. Also better balance, but that's irrelevant. *** This troper is a girl with dysgraphia (a diagnosable lack of fine motor control). So there. *** ...and if the other person had claimed ALL girls are better snipers I'd seen your point, but they didn't. ** Now this troper knows why every girl he comes axross in TeamFortress2 is usually playing Sniper. That's right, both of them. He, on the other hand, prefers MoreDakka over turning into [=xXWikKeDSiKKhaLoSnIp3rXx=] #5 000 003. ** That's definately true for me, however I am the only competent sniper in my all female gaming circle. The others fall into the More Dakka category and leave me to protect their asses when they decide to Leeroy Jenkins my plans (ironically, one of them IS a Jenkins...) ** This troper admits that he turned his niece into a gamer but she hates sniping weapons like the sniper rifle or battle rifle Halo3 but she's downright fearful with close range weapons like the shotgun, energy sword, and especially the gravity hammer. She is near-perfect on grifball where it's nothing but close range weapons. It's not the only game though she loves Left4Dead and her preferred weapon is the AK-47 or the auto-shotguns. She loves games (more preferably the mature games) and she's only ten years old. ** Inverted for this troper and her brother... He's the sniper, I'm the shotgun/[=DAKKADAKKA=]/melee clearing a path in front of him. She still has better hand-eye coordination irl and overall, though, and isn't a completely hopeless sniper, she's just too impatient to snipe properly. * [[@/AdamS This Troper]]'s science class did a set of experiments on this. Our research showed that, on average, girls had steadier aim, although boys had better reflexes. (I, however, was ranked near the bottom in both experiments. Meh.)

* [[@/FalconDoveowl This troper]] is a pretty big gamer. Although she mostly is a big Nintendo fangirl she does happen to get a little offended by the pink DS owning, Nintendogs playing stereotype. She will say though that the big thing that keeps her away from the GamerChick stereotype is the fact that she can probably count on her hands the number of times shes actuly been decent at a game she's played. In short: she is an average at best gamer who just plays for the fun. * This gamer girl took the time to memorize Lucario's moveset, and [=SCHOOLED=] a bunch of year 12s in [=SSB=] Brawl. Granted, she did lose to a guy (using Jigglypuff, which added an amusing sting), but there's no shame in that when you can beat all your male friends. ** Insult not the Jigglypuff for it is one of the pro-est characters that you can play as once mastered. Jigglypuff is considered one of the major veteran characters of Smash brothers. ** [[TierInducedScrappy Except for]] ''[[TierInducedScrappy Brawl]]''. The [[MetalGearSolid big, walking eyeball]] regains its honor in ''Brawl+ '', though. * This troper made a few male friends by admitting that she liked video games. She also got called a disgrace to girls everywhere by some of the girls in her class for the same reason. Go figure. Also, this troper's 13 year old sister beat her 16 year old brother in Brawl using Peach. ** [[@/FalconDoveowl This troper]] didn't realise girls still did that. You should have kicked them in the faces. * This troper is raised by her gamer Dad who introduces her to Sega when she was three years old, until now. This is admitted by her gamer guys friends and is the one whom they're looking for when it comes to talk games since her early childhood until now. * This troper freely admits having been defeated, no, '''crushed''' by a female friend at Halo 2. 50-12. And I was in second place. She was good. * This troper doesn't have any game systems, but has played Sims until hours in the morning when you should be in bed and not be being a cruel overlord. Then there was that time my computer in school crashed, and wrecked the Commander Keen game I was playing online. DON'T TELL MY TEACHER PLZ!1 ** Too late! This troper is calling them up right now! :p * [[@/{{Azvolrien}} This troper]] is cheerfully obsessed with WorldOfWarcraft and {{Pokemon}}, and enjoys [[TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]] as well even though she's never completed any of the games. * [[@/{{QueenOfSwords}} This troper]] loves video games, mostly horror, although she plays most genres except for fighting and sport games. * [[@/FreezairForALimitedTime This troper]] first got her hands on a Game Boy in 1996 and never looked back. Just check out all the games she created pages for and/or [[EntryPimp pimps!]] * This Troper enjoys playing Sniper in ''TeamFortress2''. She also like playing pyro or engie and shes fairly good at all three. ** This troper can be found playing Medic on [=TF2=] with the username [=IttyBritty196=], although most people end up thinking I'm a short british boy until I open my mouth...

* The guys always seem impressed with this troper when they find out that she plays world of warcraft, among other things. She is very much a gamer. * This troper grew up with her gamer dad so is really into gaming, much to the love of many of her guy friends who were surprised when they discovered she loved games and call her the gamer chick of the group. * This Troper has been playing games as far back as she could remember. When she was young, we had to choose between an NES and a Master System (went with NES), and further back, our parents had a couple of Ataris. We also had a computer as far back as 1991, which I got my first doses of text adventures and other fun DOS games on. Jill of the Jungle or Adventure in the Colossal Caves, anyone? I still play a bit of games (need to finish KnightsOfTheOldRepublic, borrowing from BF, I play Dead or Alive, Street Fighter AND Mortal Kombat) and seemed to impress her new group of friends in high school when not only was I a female who wanted to know this small groupof three male gamers, but who wanted to play, and was a furry and, well, female ontop of it. Should I say I'm slightly proud of this? They all have crushes, too. Kind of cute. Too bad I can only date one. I also play a it of Halo and Unreal[=/=]Tournament, a ton of [=JRPG=]s (one of my favorite genres-- shoot me if I say I love Atelier Iris as a whole, and Mana Khemia, Persona and Megami Tensei...), tactics games, and I think I have the whole genre list covered. * No one is as good as this female troper when it comes to survival horror games. Not even her obsessive gamer brother. I also play [=RPG=]s, strategy games, Visual Novels (with and without porn), adventure games, and {{MMORPG}}s. The only thing I don't play is sport games. * [[@/{{KissofCamine}} This female troper]] is a sucker for the classics and for [=RPG=]s. Early interest was brought on by her mother, who is a former Dungeons and Dragons player. * [[@/{{Igordebraga}} This troper]] know a few who play sometimes, but a friend/classmate of his whose cellphone's alarm is the Final Fantasy VII theme takes the cake. * [[@/{{Kuzlalala}} This troper]]'s sister completed a WHOLE lot of games, and because this troper saw her playing ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' and saw some attractive rabbit person, she became a gamer as well. * [[@/{{Darkurai}} This troper]]'s girlfriend is ''trying'' to be a GamerChick so that we'll have more in common. That's worth some points, right? * [[SweetMadness Guilty as charged.]] This troper particularly loves RPG's, platformers/adventure games, fighting games and rhythm/music games, as well as most Nintendo franchises, but is willing to play anything as long as it's fun. (She's pretty terrible at FPS's though.) It must run in the family, because her little brother has even ''more'' impressive gaming skills. * [[@/{{Ghondar}} This Troper]] had his ass kicked in Street Fighter II (a game he has mastered) by his ex girlfriend. She also played [=SW:Battlefront=] and Kingdom Hearts. Current girlfriend doesn't have much patience for games, but she stills remembers when this troper

lost a Puzzle Kingdom match. * [[@/{{TaiCat}} This troper]] is pretty weird case of a gamer chick from Poland- a country where girls only played Mario during their childhood and later considered games as the worst childlish thing ever. Unless they happened to like anime (another rare case) they would despise you heavly for gaming. She plays since she turned 4 (1992, first console Atari 2600) and wasn't much influenced by male members of family as she had only sisters. Once per year she visited her family in Germany who always had all new gaming systems, when she only had cheap NES bootlegs. When she was 7, she used to spend her time and lunch money at arcades, there she saw Tekken for the first time, it made her wish for her own gaming console. At age 9 her mother decided to buy her... older sister Playstation or N64. Because she played both before she convinced her sister for Playstation. And so her 9 years of gaming-torment began. She was always alone with her hobbies, but it gave her some favor from guys in her class. But girls hated her, always reffering to her as annoying kid. She never gave up games though, and later when she was bullied she played more. It was that time when she learned lots of english vocabulary, from games. She also atempted some tournaments where she experienced heavy genderism e.g. 'You were beaten by GIRL?!YOU LOSER'. Until she won 2nd place in Soul Calibur 2 no one rescpected her. After she started to chat on forums, she went for gaming events, parties and conventions where she was usualy only girl. And quote years of pirating, searching, magazine reading etc. There is too much more to tell, but to comemorate her gaming years, she tattooed herself 'Devil' tattoo from {{Tekken}}. After she turned 18 she went to the UK where EVERYONE play games. It is a pity for her that she's not that [[SarcasmMode 'special']] anymore since she's not the only Gamer Chick here, but hey- she can finally play all the games she could never buy before. * This troper's younger sister is a rather better gamer than he is... the only reason he wins races in ''[[JakAndDaxter Jak X]]'' at all is because she's something of a covert sociopath and is mainly in it for the killcount. * While [[@/{{Roxor}} this troper]] was quite capable of kicking the computer's arse in ''OneMustFall'', he never stood a chance against his younger sister in a two-player game. ''Especially'' if she picked the Gargoyle 'bot. Said sister also holds the family's highest score in ''EpicPinball'': roughly 3.2 ''billion'' points on the Super Android table and managed to beat several games this troper ''still'' hasn't beaten on his own without cheating. On the plus side, she makes an excellent team-mate in the two-player arcade mode of ''{{Tyrian}}''. Yeah, I know, we grew up on DOS. * [[@/TheRenaissanceRaver This female troper]] was practically ''born'' a gamer, as her profile will expand on. Her mother definitely qualifies as well, playing D&D in the middle of high school chem class (and getting away with it) and also being GM for the pen-and-paper RPG most of the family plays a number of weekends throughout the year. Both of us also play {{Diablo II}} a lot. * @/{{Miso}} started playing video games at four with some Lion King game. Several years later, she got a few looks of confusion from the boys in her public school class when she said she got GuitarHero for

Christmas. Now, she owns- counting handhelds- 6 consoles. Her Playstation 2, N64, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS are her babies and for the longest time she never left the house without her DS. ** OP here updating. The Xbox 360 is now her baby and she owns a DS Lite in lieu of her broken old clunky original DS (which she was still attached to). She also desperately wants Xbox Live so she can whup some ass in RedDeadRedemption's multiplayer mode. * This troper has been berated by her grandmother to 'get off that damn game'. She takes her G-Pak in favor of a purse, and spends quite a bit of time playing her DS. She plays [[SuperSmashBros Brawl]] and GuitarHero on WiFi, and can hold a decent conversation with the upperclassmen about MetalGearSolid. She can hold her own at CallOfDuty, and has several cheats from [[GrandTheftAuto San Andreas]] memorized by hand. This troper also owns 14 HarvestMoon games. Say what you will, but girls can be just as devoted as the guys. * This GamerChick was once in a D&D group with three other girls, and one guy whose character was a girl (actually, so many people called her a guy that we decided it was either androgynous or FtM transgender). As a result, our (rather large) party contained four female characters and two male ones. * This troper didn't start playing D&D until she went to college-- an all-female college. Now she runs a game in which all but one of the players are female. Gamer Chicks unite! * [[@/{{Iriswings}} This troper]] is a repressed gamer girl. Parents really despise video games, she absolutely lives for them. Sigh... * This troper seems to be better than most guys she plays [=SSB=] against, if only by virtue of having played the game a whole damn lot. She absolutely hates the "Oh, playing against a girl, this will be a boring match" expression she's come to recognize on her opponents. But it makes their eventual "how does she keep beating me?" expression all the sweeter. She's also fond of [=JRPGs=], and always carries a DS around in her purse. * [[@/{{Longfellow}} This troper]]'s little sister is less of a gamer than he is but absolutely loves Pokmon - she says it "defined her childhood" and spent considerable time at Pokmon forums since she was seven (!!) helping people build competitive teams. She's pretty damned talented at games in general, often matching him even when he's put in more time and effort. Drives him crazy. * [[@/{{Crion87}} This troper]]'s first girlfriend was one of these. [[strike: Hopefully his third girlfriend will be too.]] His first girlfriend is back with him now and if he does what he did before, this troper will hope to CrystalDragonJesus that he gets [[CursedWithAwesome accursed]] to attract only [[{{ChineseGirl}} Cantonese]] {{HeroicAlbino}}s. * YOU try being the only girl in a house of boys who do nothing but zone out and play [=XBOX=] every possible moment they are not at work or unconcious. It rubs off on a gal eventually. * I couldn't imagine being married to somebody who wasn't a GamerChick. Luckily, my wife is. She plays different types of games and has a whole different playing style compared to me, but we understand our gaming wants and needs. * This troper comes from geek stock and learned to game at her daddy's

knee, when he used to let her work some of the buttons for Commodore 64 games at the tender age of four. Some of her fondest memories are playing NES games with him, but by the 16-bit era she was more than capable of beating any game she chose by herself. He dropped out of serious gaming around the advent of the 3D era, but I still keep him up to date and bring my consoles around when I'm home for the holidays. *wants shiny lifelong gamer credentials to wear at formal functions* * This Troper cut her teeth on Majora's Mask and Pokmon and hasn't looked back. it was awesome in middle school since I got into pokemon one month before the big craze hit so i pwned everyone who challenged me (except this one guy with a gamesharked mew/mewtwo combo) currently I'm in team fortress two sniping the heck outta the guys. * [[@/TheTallOne Averted for me.]] I'm a girl, and I play video games. Not a Gamer Chick, not a Girl Gamer, not a whatever. Anyone who calls me a GamerChick [[BerserkButton shall suffer the consequences.]] ** Ditto'd. ^_^ * [[@/HighTimeRodeo This Troper]] has been playing games for a while now. I play Baldurs Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Throne of Bhaal. I finished LOZ: Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess this year, beaten Halo on easy and got through half of the last level in Halo on Legendary. Beaten FF VIII, FF VII. I can issue a beatdown to my brother on Super Smash Bros. when in the right mood and I've finished Resident Evil 4 and Seperate Ways on the Wii. Seperate Ways without the Chicago typewriter. Now looking to get into D&D Tabletop Gaming. * [[@/AzureHorizon This Troper]] is an avid gamer, and so is her girlfriend. * This female troper is fairly good at video games and always gets looks when she enters Super Smash Bros tournaments or displays the slightest knowledge about video games. * I'm a girl, and I like gaming. I'm not obsessed, though, so slightly averted. * This Troper's crazy-awesome, very sexy Romanian flatmate. He has yet to beat her at Tekken. Or Virtua Fighter. Or the multiplayer on Modern Warfare 2. He also refuses to play Army of Two with her anymore as the difference in kill-counts was just embarrasing. Although for some reason he's better at Bioshock then she is; God alone knows why. * This female troper only plays video games casually, and doesn't have the skill or patience for anything remotely difficult. Her (also female) best friend in high school was excellent at all sorts of games and loved playing them, so the two of them developed a symbiotic relationship whereby the troper would purchase video games, and ''watch'' her friend play them, because there was no way she could get very far by herself. It worked out pretty well, actually. * [[@/{{X2X}} This Troper]] made his cousin love video games, and she in turn, introduced her kid brother to video games. [[NeverLiveItDown My uncle gives me grief about this to this very day]]. Granted, neither one of them enjoy gaming quite as much as I do (then again, I'm something of a junkie), and she seems to be breaking out of it, but for a good seven or eight years, my cousin was very much a gamer chick. * This female troper's only wish for Christmas 1992 was a Super

Nintendo (sadly, she never owned the 8-bit NES, but had played it at friends' houses). She got it, packaged with ''SuperMarioWorld''. This was her first foray into what would become, as of eighteen years later, one of her favorite pastimes, although she doesn't really play as much as she used to. In 1993 she borrowed a little game called ''The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past'' from a friend of her little brother's, and that franchise became an addiction--she now owns (if the GameCube four-games disc counts, although she used to have the N64 cartridges of ''OcarinaOfTime'' and ''Majora's Mask'' before getting her GCN with aforementioned disc packaged with it) every single ''Legend of Zelda'' game except the newest (as of this writing) one, ''SpiritTracks''. She still owns her N64, has recently found it in her closet and hooked it up, and is now re-playing ''BanjoTooie'', one of her all-time favorite games, although she still hates [[ThatOneLevel Glitter Gulch Mine]] and immediately skips to Witchyworld when she has enough Jiggies. This troper's little brother used to get mad at her playing "his" games, most notably ''{{Goldeneye}}'' and ''1080 Snowboarding''. This troper misses playing ''1080 Snowboarding'', which is probably why the yeti race in ''TwilightPrincess'' is her favorite part of that game. Oh, and when she and her brother shared the Super Nintendo, they had ''Street Fighter II Turbo'' and this troper was always either Chun Li or E Honda just so she could hyper-kick (or slap) her little brother's character into a corner. >:D ** Addendum: I now own ''Spirit Tracks'' and have beaten it. * My best friend (who is a guy) reminds me constantly that I am a girly girl... then he readily forgets once I start kicking his ass in GodOfWar. Love it. * This female troper has started gaming at age 12, and is now going to pursue a gaming career * [[@/{{Belle-Mage}} This Troper]] doesn't play as much as she used to, but in the not-too-distant past, she totally whupped everyone at Pokemon. * I've been playing since I was five and we got a NES. Who taught me to play? My older sister. Together we cover almost all genres of gaming. * This troper has been into videogames ever since she watched her dad play Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (although she admittedly took a long time to wean herself off of games where the player character wouldn't die. Long story). While she would qualify for the confrontational personality, though, she's about average in skill and barely even thinks of her gender; she was actually a bit surprised when her high school's yearbook writers asked her if she had any thoughts about being one of the three girls in a 20+ person 3D animation class. She's learned to ignore "girls don't play games" and "girls don't go on the Internet" stereotypes and maybe even laugh with the others (assuming it's actual joking and not a true viewpoint), where a straight version of the trope would probably explode. Aside from the yearbook thing, though, she hasn't encountered anything odd in real life. * This Troper has written a walkthrough on gamefaqs on a game's most difficult mode and is in the top 20 for said game on a site devoted to

speedrunning video games. She's also one of the ten or so world record holders for a level in said game, though she did it by borrowing the strategy of the others'. She would be pursuing an alternate strategy that might net a .1 second reduction if she weren't too busy trying not to flunk out of college, and if preliminary tests hadn't shown poor results. She is also competitive, defensive of her status as a female gamer, and generally fitting of the stereotype. She is not, however, extremely tomboyish (hates pants, loves kitties, etc.) and is not hot. She also sticks to "kiddy" games because they cause her less problems with her failing eyesight and usually have SoBadItsGood writing. * [[@/{{Insegredious}} This troper]] used to date a Gamer Chick, which he found rather attractive. The trope was oddly subverted, though, during a date at said girl's house: the girl played a fair amount of MortalKombat, and this troper (who practically ''never'' plays [=MK=]) managed to defeat her with nearly every character. * This female troper is the only girl who joins in the rare gaming sessions at her house when her brother has friends over. Of course, part of that is because said brother mainly has male friends. Still, it's quite satisfying to set their characters on fire in ''Four Swords''. This troper is also a [[GaiaOnline ''zOMG!]] player. * This male troper once played a game of {{Halo}} 3 with 2 girl gamers whose gamertags were variations on the term. The other 13 players, all male, spent the entirety of the game asking for pix, tits or gtfo, that sort of thing. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The girls spent the entirety of the game destroying their asses and winning by a landslide]]. * This troper's specialties are [=RPG=]s, Strategy, and Puzzle Games (To add to that, [[BrainyBrunette she is a brunette]]), but that dosen't stop her from pwning you at Platformers and Racing Games. The other genres she is average at. * This troper has owned a game system of some sort since her good ol' Atari. Which had to be given up to receive a Nintendo for Christmas. Which was followed up with a Sega Genesis, on which Street Fighter II (and its various incarnations) were rather maniacally played, the original gray brick Game Boy, and the black brick Sega Game Gear. Current systems? All of the named plus Game Boy Colour, PS 1, XBOX 360 (bought solely to play Street Fighter IV), Wii, and a Nintendo DS that was originally received as a joke; it was pink. And promptly sold to buy a black and red Dragon DS. The most fun ever had been playing fighting games at the roller rink (showing my age there...) and systematically beating my fellow male skaters. Viciously. To the point of having my arms pinned to allow the others to win. (Note: it didn't work.) And I'm a fairly average player. * [[@/{{RoyalFanatic}} This troper]] grew up with video games, and looks for worthy friends to add to her too short list in RockBand and Beatles Rock Band. I don't take the game as complete SeriousBusiness (I hope), and YES, I do know it's nothing like playing actual instruments, so don't come to me about that. I particularly enjoy laughing at the fools who think they can play above their level because I choose Expert, or pick Expert cause "it's the bass", and then end up having problems anyway. If you know your limits and play

to your difficulty, however, I will respect you. * my little sister played my copy of mario sunshine before she could fully talk. She also broke it. * Do card games count? If so, then one of the top 16 Bakugan players in the USA is a girl, a surprisingly girly one, at that. I was too old to enter but can beat pretty much any of the regional champions and ''barely'' beat her. * This troper's best friend literally was ''applauded'' by half her class after she said her favorite hobby was playing Call of Duty and Massive Warfare. She also owns an incredbily awesome Ocarina of Time bag. * [[@/{{Sharysa}} This troper]] enjoys Gameboy games like TheLegendOfZelda, FireEmblem, Pokemon, and Mario. When she's gaming, she gets extremely HotBlooded and constantly fights the urge to throw her Gameboy Advance across the room if she loses. She also plays LordOfTheRings (her favorite character is Aragorn because he's wellrounded and has the most CrazyAwesome moves). * This [[@/SailorEnlil troper]] pretty much grew up with the notion that {{GamerChick}}s are quite a normal part of life thanks to his female cousin being the very person to introduce him to both computers and console based video gaming (and that was back in the 80's!). Thus he was astonished at the discrimination against them (particularly out there in EagleLand; do a Google search on a certain ''Hellkitten'' to find out what it was all about) when internet gaming boomed in the late 90's and subconsiously became a kind of feminist supporter. Still, watching any GamerChick kick the shit out of guys in any video game is an amusing watch. His most fond memory involved a LAN game during a CounterStrike tournament in around 1999 - there was one girl (the only girl in the LAN game) who was so good at Quake3 that when one of the CounterStrike clan leaders challenged her to a one-on-one deathmatch, she simply wiped the floor with his ass, as he only got 1 point the whole game while her score kept climbing. It got funnier when he secretly sent each of his {{Mook}}s one at a time to take his place, only for the poor slobs to get beaten black and blue just the same. This was followed by a multiplayer all out deathmatch game with this troper and the girl taking part as well as those CS clan members. After all the carnage, the girl had the highest score with over 200 points, this troper finishing 2nd with just half as many points, and so on. These days, this troper has a few GamerChick friends who share his passion of playing ''WanganMidnight Maximum Tune'', especially this young friend of his who tears up the track along with her dad and little brother. See this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VjbCED6ayw video of her battling her brother]] to see how good she is. Most recently, this troper is into the GuitarHero games (though still not that good as to play above Easy level), and just a couple of weeks ago watched with his mouth agape a young girl shredding a song in the arcades at Expert level (though not quite as good as [[http://www.youtube.com/user/TheEcstacy TheEcstacy]], but pretty close). * [[@/MattyChanHazel This Troper]] fits this to a T. I played my first video game when I was ''two'', as my uncle had figured out how to teach me to press the fire button (he did most of the stuff, I pressed

fire). The same uncle then gave me a Game Boy Colour and Pokmon Red. To this day, I am a Pokmon fanatic, and I play [=JRPGs=], fighting games, etc. until my parent make me come off the console. I recently had a debate with some of the lads at school about SSBB and who the best character is (I argued for 'Lucario in the hands of someone who knows how to use him', and you weren't allowed to argue for Meta Knight). * This troper is very skilled at Role-Playing Games and Platformers, but she prefers the older ones (SNES era), playing them on an emulator. Subverted in that she would rather do single-player. * This Troper varies in her abilities with games, but plays for the sake of fun. * This Troper plays Pokmon and has gotten every Pokmon now legitimently. Other than Pokmon, I'm considered the best Brawl player amongst her closest friends and the best female Brawl player amongst her larger group of friends. I use Pikachu, and I try NOT to spam [=Down+B=] as much as possible. Also, last year this troper versed two older boys in Mario Kart DS, a game that she never played before and somehow WON the overall challenge. * Although I wouldn't really consider myself a GamerChick, I have beaten a few NintendoHard games on my own, and I like [=RPGs=], platformers, and the occasional BulletHell game when I feel risky. However, I don't really have anyone to compete with (and I don't really want to...) since a lot of the games I have are the ones that the people I know ''don't''. This is what you get when you first played a videogame at a really young age (and I never touched a system again until I was around 8) and your dad encouraged you to play Age Of Empires II. * This troper is a hardcore gamer, though doesn't play to impress the boys (usually). Though I enjoy shooter's like Modern Warfare and Halo, I prefer RPG's like Mass Effect (my current obsession). I'm rather picky about my games, as they need to have an emotionally engaging storyline as well as sound and entertaining gameplay. I've never had issues with male gamers over my gender except with the occasional immature prepubescent on Xbox Live and an incident with an obnoxious 10 year old. ** Funny story actually. A friend of a friend in a party chat mistook me for a boy and asked if I was going through puberty since my voice had a higher pitch to it. His reaction when I explained I was a girl was absolutely priceless. * This troper likes to play video games, but she is absolutely lousy at them. Her sister, on the other hand, is an uber-gamer, and a pretty good one at that! In fact, she (the sister, not the troper) is going to a prestigious college to eventually go into game design. * This troper is like this in spades. I'm a unashamed huge Pokmon fangirl, and I adore Super Smash Brothers Brawl also. I also tend to be a Nintendo nerd. You can count of me having the newest console or Nintendo game the day it comes out. * This troper grew up with two older brothers, so it's pretty natural in my family that I play games. We always looked upon the other as gamers rather than male or female. I grew up on the Sega Mega Drive with about a dozen or more good games and later switched over to the

PC instead when 3D was becoming the norm. We even play various MMORPG's together to help each other. However, since I was a pretty lonely kid playing by myself and didn't hang out much and [[TooDumbToLive in turn also destroyed the two player mode on the console by chewing on the controller wires]], I was pretty shocked once I went to school. None of the girls played games I did. I didn't understand why I can't talk to them about playing a [[SonicTheHedgehog blue hedgehog battling corrupt technology]], [[StreetFighter button mash like crazy]] or [[FinalFantasy wave a giant butcher sword in front of various living stuff...]] [[VideogameCrueltyPotential and still kill a lot]]. I just didn't know that most girls don't enjoy shanking people in the neck. ** Who knew? * This Tropette is a huge Nintendo fangirl, especially RPG's. Turn on SSB Melee and give me Kirby, I will kick everyones ass. * ThisTroper knows at least two gamer chicks from playing competitive Pokmon. My older sister is also a fairly big gamer. * This troper is a gaymer chick that played her first games on Sega Genesis. Under the influence of her older brother, she continues to have a deep love for gaming today and spends a large chunk of those beautiful summer days indoors with the blinds shut in front of her Xbox 360. Strangely, she hasn't come across many fellow gay gamer chicks. * This troper came for the [[YaoiFangirl slash]] and stayed for the fun! Fallout, BatmanArkhamAsylum, Tekken, SSBB, Pokmon, TheWorldEndsWithYou, I love it all! Being called a GamerChick feels weird tho... Can't I be just a gamer? ** I agree wholeheartedly. I'd rather be a gamer who just happens to be female than a girl who has to prove that she is as good as or better than guys when gaming. *** Too bad you're outnumbered by the latter (or at least [[VocalMinority appear to be]]). The AttentionWhore ones are why some people are opposed to all {{Gamer Chick}}s the way right-wing fundamentalists are opposed to gays. Although it's really not their fault either, since they probably wouldn't attention whore so much if there weren't so many white knights around. * This female troper is actually ''studying game design'' and is routinely the only girl in class (being a proud {{Pettanko}} and {{Tomboy}} who [[RealWomenNeverWearDresses constantly wears pants]] and avoids {{Stripperific}} tops helps dissuade most lewd comments). One particularly obnoxious male classmate said, "Girl gamers are like unicorns, a myth!" and the teacher promptly pointed at her and said, "Look, a unicorn!" Thankfully, the nickname didn't stick, but the habit of pointing out, "Yes, there's a chick in class, now can we get back to the StuffBlowingUp, please?" has. * This tropers best gaming buddy during the salad days of the SegaGenesis was female. * To this day, I refuse to play anything past Pokmon Silver on my GameBoy Color. That and Super Mario Bros Deluxe get most of my attention, but the Mighty Morphin PowerRangers button-masher for Genesis, Crazy Taxi on Dreamcast and Mario Kart Wii get a lot of my attention, too.

* Some obnoxious gamer dudes once sneered at me because I was playing 'childish 2-D game with ''cute'' sprites' therefore [[NoTrueScotsman I'm not a real gamer]] (???) (for such snobs, they don't know video games history very well). However, one of them was genuinely curious and asked if he could watch me play. By the way, the 'childish game' I was playing is SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters (Demon Path). His disturbed expression was ''most amusing'' (especially after he learned that I also like survival horror games). * This troper and her dad make a dream team competing at conventions. Our first time we won a tournament and nobody saw it coming. They didn't expect a thirteen year old girl to play for real and that her dad wasn't just humoring her. * Grew up with Spyro and Crash Bandicoot 2. Moved onto PS2 [=RPGs=] and whatnot, then GC. Then onto Halo. Stuck there forever. And no, I do NOT regret my Halo fangirling. I don't often get creepy remarks-hell, most of the time the other dudes don't even notice or care about my gender, regardless if I'm in jeans, or a dress. I'm just, ironically, "bro" to them. Halo fans are weird like that. However, I completely fail at Halo on multiplayer [non-internet connection]. So subversion? * [[@/{{nekoalexa}} This troper]] has either finished a game or dabbled in it. Of course, its mostly been dabbling, since my cousin was the one with all the games, which I borrowed occasionally. I grew up mostly playing Sonic, Mario, Zelda, and Street Fighter games, but have also tried other games, like Guitar Hero, Tekken, and Soul Caliber. I would list all the games I've played in my life, but I'd be here all night. * [[@/{{aylatrigger}} This troper]] has over 70 DS Games (mostly RolePlayingGames), is decent at fighting games (on par with her brother), and has spent over 1500 hours playing FFTA. As well, she plays two games of DungeonsAndDragons every week (one a 4.0 campaign and one 3.5 which she runs). She has been DM'ing for almost half her life. She has also played Cyberpunk, BigEyesSmallMouth, MaidTheRPG , and GURPS. She has started three DungeonsAndDragons groups, one of which went from 3 to 11 people and had at one point 3 girls in it. And all of this she got from hanging around her brothers, who got it from her mom, who played DungeonsAndDragons, MagictheGathering, and Mist. This Troper is also working on making a [[TabletopGames tabletop RPG]] with her brother. * This troper. It's her dad's fault. :P * This troper's ex, though she mostly played ''RockBand'', ''GuitarHero'', ''KingdomHearts'', and ''Left4Dead''. * This Troper is hardcore in both video and table top gaming. Intimidates the hell outta other gamers by the sheer crowning moment of awesome of playing both the English and Japanese versions of games. Also, double D tits, bi, too kinky to torture with a helpful helping of ''FinalFantasy'' (working on beating them all in Japanese), ''WoW'', ''Tekken'', ''EveOnline'', ''WhiteWolf'', ''MetalGearSolid'' ''MagicTheGathering'' and ''DungeonsandDragons'' with a backloggery of over 400 titles listed. Which, by comparison, is smaller than my SF&F/manga/comic book collection. [[{{SarcasmMode}} I am the Geek Queen, hear me roar, mortal boys.]]

* During my early video gaming years on the {{SNES}}, I could never compare to my older cousin, who was practically a Gaming Goddess. Even now, despite being a lot more skilled at the same games, I still can't pull off a SuperMarioWorld or DonkeyKongCountry run with anything approaching the gracefulness she showed at it. Needless to say, I'm of the opinion that female gamers tend to be better than male gamers at dexterity-based games for the reasons mentioned on the main entry. * This troper and her (also female) best friend are like the BlueOniRedOni of this trope. The former loves EasternRPGs and adventure games in general, the kind that puts a lot of emphasis into the story. The latter, on the other hand, loves racing games, football games (she's bought every FIFA release since I can remember), the stuff that's popular; she also absolutely hates cutscenes. This troper's planning to make her play Persona4 for the lulz. * This troper loves gaming since SonicTheHedgehog (yes, the first one), that was the very first game I've ever got.I'm known as the "[[{{Pokemon}} Pokmon]] Walking Encyclopedia", and only one guy answering more than 20 questions correctly on my little question game [[WorthyOpponent (He answered 75, and we just stopped because we didn't know what to ask anymore)]]. I am known for once [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome taking out a team of (mostly hacked,but not all) lvl.100 legendaries with my own Pokmon in their 40/50s.]] * This troper doesn't really like the term "chick" but she does indeed play plenty of video games. My field of expertise, JRPG, Platformer, Puzzle, Action/Adventure and Rhythm games. Currently, I've been mowing my way through the Final Fantasies, I've raised a level 91 Blastoise (my first starter :D) between Red and Crystal, I'm pretty good at DanceDanceRevolution (I can play Hard, that's good enough for me) and I maintain a "games are for fun" creed, which I can happily use to deflate any StopHavingFunGuys annoying ego. This troper is also proud to say she was able to create a female Argonian warrior in ElderScrolls Oblivion, (TakeThat strategy guide) and I was able to even wow my brother with my performance in MassEffect2! It's nice to have a few bragging rights here and there... * One of this troper's friends is very interested in TheLegendOfZelda and KingdomHearts. * Check [[Tropers/GameSpazzer This Troper's]] username. Also, she's a fucking ''god'' at SuperSmashBrothers (any of 'em). * I don't like to be defined by gender, but I can't deny my love for video games. As a kid I was a casual gamer who owned a NES and PS1, playing games like DuckHunt, SuperMarioBros, DrMario, as well as CrashBandicoot, AceCombat, SpyroTheDragon among others. I had a bit of a fall-out after that, and it was only during the early 2007-ish did my game spirit rekindle through PC! Most of the genres I play these days are AdventureGame, ActionAdventure, and [=RPGs=] (BioWare fangirl, ahoy!). And if it isn't because of my overbearing parents, I ''would'' be a full-scale gamer, but they want me focus on my studies and all that. Doesn't stop me from playing in the middle of the night though- on my ''laptop''. I never play for competitiveness though. The reasons I play a video game are mainly 1) for the story and the characters, 2) to escape reality, and 3) because [[RidiculousProcrastinator I like wasting time]]. Heehee. -

Tropers/{{Raverine}} * The single most funny thing about me being a gamer is the reactions of other people. I'm tall, skinny, blonde, and really interested in fashion and make-up, so when I mention my deep love for console games, everyone is unbelievingly assuming I'm talking about stuff like SingStar. Yeah, that, too. But also Pokmon, Professor Layton, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Ookami, Spyro, Super Mario, Kirby, Puyo Pop, Mario Cart, Klonoa, Worms... the look on their faces is just hilarious. * This troper's girlfriend will regularly and embarrassingly pound his butt into the ground while playing SSBB in front of all his friends. * This troper has been a gamer girl all of her life. Played straight when I was the only female member of my school's video game club last year before more gamer girls joined. * [[Tropers/PhoenixdaughterAM Hiya!]] Mostly sticks to handheld games for the safety of my wallet and will try anything expect horror. She knows and will advise people on what not to buy on videogames. Rule Of Thumb: [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames no licensed games. (unless you like the series)]] * [[Tropers/{{Ventisia}} This Troper]] has been a gamer for most of her life. She's been playing the Sega Genesis for as long as she can remember, got a Gameboy Color with Pokemon Yellow and DK Country at age 4, and has never quit since them. Her favorite video game of all time is Sonic the Hedgehog 2, her two favorite series are Pokemon and Sonic the Hedgehog (mostly the Genesis games, 8-bit, Saturn, and Dreamcast Sonic are cool too). She also enjoys Mario, Zelda, Super Smash Bros., Goldeneye 007 (Wii, never had a 64), Kirby, Kingdom Hearts, Carnivores, and various others. She still plays her Genesis a lot, and is eagerly awaiting her Pokemon Black she pre-ordered in July. <3 * Pendulum was here. MassEffect, GearsofWar, Left4Dead, Fable, and LegacyOfKain are her various poisons! * This troper knew a girl who was better at video games than her boyfriend. She was also a {{Tsundere}} in their relationship. * [[Tropers/{{Animenutcase}} This troper]] hesitates to call herself a Gamer Chick. On one hand, she ''has'' played at least one Pokemon game from each generation. She also played a number of other games as child... But can't recall ever finishing any of them. She may be on the way to ''becoming'' one. After playing KingdomHearts (partly because of her curiosity about it, and partly because of the Disney), she has suddenly found herself interested about the FinalFantasy series. Whether or not she'll actually get around to playing one remains to be seen. * [[@/FarseerLolotea This troper]] has played tabletop games ([[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]], ''{{GURPS}}'', ''{{Exalted}}'', and most recently ''{{Pathfinder}}'') for about ten years now, and is currently at work on writing her own setting. She also plays WoW (where she has too many characters, several of them [[CrossPlayer male draenei]]) and ''{{Rift}}'', and belongs to more than one all-female guild. However, she's not particularly competitive, tends only to mention her gender if it's somehow relevant or necessary, and would consider herself about average in skill.

* About a year ago I joined a Steam group for fans of ''{{Touhou}}''; I met about a hundred different people using names of characters from that series, but I only knew one of them for certain to be an actual woman. Despite my usual luck with women(in that the entire gender hates me), we became friends and played a lot of ''KillingFloor'' together, until said usual luck kicked in and we stopped talking to each other. * [[Tropers/TacoNinja Yo]]. Admittedly my favourites are Pokemon, Zelda, Bioshock, Oddworld, Sonic and Okami (they're the only things I play regularly) but you really shouldn't let me online, or play with me at all, I'm nuts whether I'm winning or losing. I'll pick up and play any FPS, old games like NES and Mega Drive (aka Sega Genesis) make me squee. I've had 3 Xboxs, 2 Playstations, a PS2, +5 Gameboys, 2 DSs, a Wii and before that, a Gamecube. You can thank my brother. Oh and I'm working on corrupting my sweet little 8 year old friend, her mother hates the idea of video games but now every time I visit she asks if I have my New Super Mario game with me. It's pretty adorable watching her play, she's so determined just to finish the first level. * [[Tropers/{{Cantaloupe}} Major subversion here.]] I happen to despise the Girl Gamer archetype with a passion, and, though I occasionally dabble in certain, relatively casual games, I usually suck at them. Those I know that fall into this are either total bitches or too [[ManicPixieDreamGirl sugary]] to function. * THis Troper's little sister, since she was 8, has beaten my cousins, my little brother and me in Super Smash Bros. She even won against my cousin in public. * This tropette does spend a great deal of my time playing video games. Yet I subvert this in that since I don't really care enough to bother playing hard difficulties, I rarely ever play competitively or online. (Because you know, [[LonersAreFreaks I play video games to have an excuse not to communicate with real people.]]) However there is one game I break the "Don't Play with Other People" rule with: Soul Calibur IV. I can beat any one at that game. I once got my best friend's boyfriend to scream and rechallenge me again and again until I finally let him win because I was hungry and tired of beating him. * [[@/{{FlamingSwordOfDoom}} This Troper]] has owned nearly every console (NES, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, PS1, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, DS and PC), and loves fighting games (Samauri Warriors). Also kills my sister (also a gamer) and Dad in Halo: Reach. Weapon of choice- rocket launcher or fuel-rod gun. Often criticised for my overuse of the jetpack though. Nothing makes me happer than a strategic discussion of various games with my guy gamer friends, and I will bite the head off of anyone who makes a crack about me being a female gamer. * This Troper has been playing video games since the NES days (was born in 1984) and used to get a lot of criticism from the family because of it. They've backed up since her decision to become a game designer. Not good at a lot of games, and she desperately clings to game guides. But give her a platformer and she will eventually dominate. Her hardcore Halo-playing brother still hasn't completely finished SuperMarioGalaxy2 like she has. That wimp. * This Troper unashamedly owns her Gamer Chick tendencies, to the point where the Frag Dolls suggested she apply for their internship

program. She is still unsure if she should be proud of that or not. * [[Tropers/AdelePotter This Tropette]] is one. She's not very good at Halo or Zelda and the like... but when it comes to {{Mario}}, she can whoop your ass in a second. * This troper's dad introduced her to video games at age two. She is now 23 and can beat him at the same games he first let her play. :) * Due to the influence of an RPG-loving older sister, plus her multiplayer loving cousins, this Troper has been playing video games for most of her life. Her female friends may think of her as a nerd, but her male friends think it's pretty cool. She is more known about her knowledge of video games rather than her skill at them, though. * I've been this since I was really little, when my Dad introduced me to the first Doom game. I grew up playing games like MetalGearSolid and CommandAndConquerRedAlert with my boy mates, and I'm a now huge fan of MassEffect games and have been steadily working through the {{Fallout}} series. I'll also hopefully be taking this to its logical extreme, as I'll start studying games development in September in the hopes of one day working with games! * This female troper was practically raised on computer and videogames. She was particularly good at fighting games, like SuperSmashBrothers and MortalKombat, and also loved RPG games in general. Her earliest fictional crush was Magus from her favorite videogame of all time: ChronoTrigger. It had nothing to do with looks. To be honest, it was his [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome theme]], his flowing cape, and his [[{{Badass}} fighting style]]. You could say that Magus and ChronoTrigger addicted this troper. Since then, she has been a die-hard gamer who loves a nice blend of story and characters along with fluid game play, and has expanded to 3D platformers like the SlyCooper games. Honestly, this troper didn't even realize that female gamers were considered "rare" or unskilled until she hung around too long on TheInternet. * This troper has a (female, obviously) friend that is so good at {{Halo}} that Bungie hired her for it. * This troper first became a gamer after getting addicted to Pokemon when she was 8. Ever since then, her brother (who introduced her to the game in the first place) has shown her adventure and action games, more specifically shooter games. She wasn't too good at first but she's getting better (her aim's not that great). One time she brought home a rented copy of Dead Rising 2 and began playing it. Unbeknowst to her, her brother started streaming said gameplay on his gaming channel. Cue to an hour later, when her brother finally tells her and mentions some of the comments (like "your sis plays zombies games? that's so cool!") ** Same troper as above but with a different story: I have a Gears of War T-shirt that I glomped on the first time seeing it in a thrift store. Nowadays whenever I wear it I usually get comments from guys saying it's cool that I play it. One time when I was in the mall with my mom, a guy who was sitting in a table next to us with his girlfriend and kid noticed it and started talking to me about it, even asking my Gamertag so we could play together. (I said no, considering he was a complete stranger, but it was still kinda cool.) * This troper has been gaming since her stepfather introduced her to

Tekken. I can hold a conversation with another gamer, male or not, about most games. ---When you finish whupping those boys at ''{{Halo}}'', head on back to GamerChick. ----

GangstaStyle * While breaking in his new Bersa .380, this editor decided to fire off a shot Gangsta Style on a lark. It was his only jam out of 150 rounds and the bullet impacted four inches outside of his shot group. There's a teachable moment in there, no doubt. * Although this troper normally aims weapons normally, he has done this a few times just to impress others. The key difference here is that he still held the weapon in both hands, and simply positioned the weapon sideways, aimed down (er, aside) the sights as best as possible, and fired. Not much worse than normal, in fact. Of course, the important difference between that and the normal way it's shown in fiction would be [[OneHandedIsCool the fact that it wasn't done one handed]]. Also, this troper is best at it when using an air rifle rather than a real firearm, due to the recoil. * This troper was mugged once by a man holding his gun like this. He has been mugged three times, and the other two times they held it upright. * I believe while Travis Haley was discussing handgun grips in ''Art of the Dynamic Handgun'' and debunking a supposed trend towards this sort of grip, he explained that the best possible grip for recoil control would be directly behind the barrel -- but that all other grip techniques came about because that isn't available.

GargleBlaster * Vilk: Equal parts vodka and curdled milk. Pretty fun to drink [[CaptainObvious once you're already drunk]]. * This troper has a homebrew DND race with a special kind of alcoholic drink which is a thick syrup considering they're an aquatic race. a popular tale from their folklore talks about how just one cup of the stuff knocked out a group of Dwarves. * This troper, while editing this, is drinking an iced tea, mixed with lemon, that was brewed for 15 minutes, it's got more caffine than coffee,but its not a gargle blaster for me, I've named it the saltie, cause its like a salt water croc death roll. ** same troper as above: don't ever make a granita using lemon iced tea made with boiled soda water and then almost frozen put it in a blender with ice cubes and drink. ** different troper, commenting on the above drink. this troper made the almost the same drink except for a few differences. My version went like this: steep two teabags for 15 minutes, adding a pinch of ginger during the steeping. Pour over ice and stir in a teaspoon of ginger. Very bitter, and leaves a tingly warmth in the back of your throat.

* Take one third Solo or LIFT, one third Cascade Ultra-C blackcurrant juice, and one third Coca-Cola. Pour into a glass and stir, and you have the concoction that [[Tropers.ReikoKazama I, Reiko Kazama]], have named [[ShoutOut Perfect]] [[PerfectDark Dark]]. * This troper saw a drink at a [[SocietyForCreativeAnachronism March Crown]] called Thor's Hammer. It's bacially lemonade but you replace the water with Everclear and Vodka. * In honor of Scotty's drink from StarTrek, this troper and his friends invented a concoction we call [[FunWithAcronyms GREEN]]. That stands for: Gin, Rum, Everclear, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Everclear]], and Apple Schnapps. There's always the joke that the apple schnapps doesn't begin with an N, but after one shot of GREEN you don't care. After three you realize apples are green. * Me and a friend of mine made one on a fateful (well it wasn't fateful at all but fateful sounds just cool) new years eve. It was made of vodka, orange juice, jgermeister, beer, red wine, lemon juice, tabasco, sugar, cola and milk. We concluded that it "tasted like". Interestingly we didn't get a hangover but my friend puked stuff he didn't even eat. ** The Orange Juice/Lemon Juice probably spoiled the milk. * Bored one day in college, several drinks that were available were combined. The I Want To Die ended up combining: 2 shots of grenadine, one shot of 99 bananas, 1 shot of 151, one shot of hot damn, one shot of gin, one shot of amaretto, 2 shots of triple sec, and 1 shot of apricot brandy. There were probably a couple of other ingredients added, as the final product filled a large glass and was a bit over 60 proof. It was expected to be awful (thus the name I Want To Die), but in fact there was NO ALCOHOL BURN. * This [[{{Tropers/casiod}} troper's]] colleague came up with the Stormforce. Everyone knows what a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_and_Stormy Dark and Stormy]] is, right? This is the turbo version. A pint of alcoholic ginger beer, at about 6% itself, with a triple dark rum in it. Very refreshing and drinkable, until they all gang up on you at once after number three and hit you like a hammer. Get a few in before a night out, best way to kick things off. * I like coming up with versions of these for just about any consumable product, my favorite of them being the "big ol freaking sandwich of trash", which is, with a slice of cheese between each ingredient, Bread, ham, bacon, meatballs, sauce, bread, sauce, meatballs, bacon, ham, bread, which is then grilled. I'd add vegetables to it, but it would probably ruin the sandwich even for people who aren't picky eaters. Sadly, these are just ideas that haven't been tried, but I have sometimes tried mixing two sodas together, they always come out tasting grape flavored. ** That sandwich sounds SO TASTY. Too bad it'd be too big to take a proper bite. *drool* ** This troper will have to try that sandwich idea. He also works in a pizzeria, and has seen people order what his cohorts nicknamed the "Garbage Patch Pizza": pepperoni, sausage, ham, bacon, chicken, mushrooms, onions, three different types of peppers, green olives, black olives, broccoli, cauliflower, tomato, and lettuce.

*** Sounds pretty good to [[Tropers.ReikoKazama me]] [[PickyEater if you get rid of the peppers, tomato and lettuce]]. ** YonTroper has actually made the sandwich. It was great, but he had to eat it with a knife and fork because he couldn't fit it in his mouth. He also toasted the bread instead of grilling it, and made sure to butter both sides of the bread. Clogged arteries ahoy! ** The sandwich sounds like some of the entries on http://www.thisiswhyyourefat.com . * This troper, too constantly tries new mixtures of unusual ingredients prepared in different ways. He also has memorized certain ratios of fountain drinks that taste great, or like other drinks, or one drink that requires four crushed habanero peppers per medium-size cup. Often, they require not only the proper ratios, but also to be added in a particular order and manner, or they just taste like a bunch of mixed-up fountain drinks. ** Care to share any of these? They sound interesting. ** I accidentally got something like this: At a local pizzeria, I was able to get a soda that tasted just like stale bubblegum by getting a "shot" (IE I just tap the fountain) from each drink from left to right, then right to left, etc. (repeating on the ends, which were diet coke and Hi-C tropical punch) until full. ** My (Beta Maxis') British stepfather orders his pizzas and Subway sandwiches with EVERY TOPPING THEY HAVE. We can tell which is his by the weight. *** I do that a lot too. ** ThisTroper finds that 3 quarters of a lemon lime drink (IE: Sprite), and 1 quarter cola (IE coke) tastes absolutely fantastic. Usually works better when you get from bottles than fountains, though. ** [[Tropers/MutantRancor My]] family calls these mixtures "hairy buffaloes," and my sisters do this fairly often, usually with lemonlime and pink lemonade, although at least a dozen other mixtures have been tried. ** This troper used to drink half Mountain Dew and half Orange Slice in college almost exclusively - about seven years before Live Wire came out. * Any Hungarian homemade Plinka inevitably falls into this category. One bottle of a Trkly [[{{Gerusz}} this troper]] brought was solely responsible for [[WildTeenParty 8 cases of severe drunkenness in a single night]] on a ClassTrip. * Nothing that dramatic, but [[Tropers/JChance this troper]]'s drinking habits have gotten some startled reactions... he's perfectly fine with neat liquor or nearly so, and tends to pour... generous... measures. * At the Boston-area SF convention Arisia 2009, [[{{Scifantasy}} I]] met the Boston-area Barfleet crew: a group of local congoers who throw wild parties. Their drink of choice? The Yukon Torpedo, affectionately "Y.T." One part Yukon Jack, one part Peppermint Schnapps, and one part grain alcohol. Of course, they wouldn't tell me that part until I'd downed one... ** Later in the evening, a friend and I found ourselves desperately in need of a drink; but the party was shutting down, so they were out of Torpedoes. So they mixed up a "Phasers on Stun." One part absinthe,

one part Bittermeister, one part Jaegermeister. ** Have we met? [[Tropers/{{Cuchulainn}} I]] go to that one every year too, and I'm the one who posted the recipe for Rocket Fuel(a very popular drink at Arisia) on the main page. This last year, me and one party host discussed making it with ''ginger beer'', but that still hasn't come to pass. * Sci-fi convention room parties are ''notorious'' for their attempts to create these. I'm surprised the glasses at Norwescon don't melt with some of the stuff Biohazard and Cult of Backula whip up. Biohazard favors Everclear. Cult of Backula favors Jager or slushies made with Everclear. The Gnomes have home-brewed mead, and the Merchants of Deva's {{Tron}}-themed party had something called "derezzed" - couple glasses and you ''would'' be. * This troper was at a party where everyone was playing Truth or Dare. The birthday girl was dared to drink a drink that two others would make. I don't know the exact ingredients, but it included tomatoes and chili sauce. She almost threw up after a sip, her best friend actually did throw up (I think) after smelling her breath, and I wasn't brave enough to smell her breath. * For your own sakes, never put salt in water, stir it a bit, add sugar, stir that up a bit, and drink it. Don't. ** This troper does precisely that every time she is having stomach issues. 2 quarts or liters *potable* water, 7 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking powder, mixed till everything is dissolved makes a great re-hydration drink. Some people like to flavor it, I find it unnecessary. ** For anyone who wants to avoid the SchmuckBait themselves, it tastes kind of like strongly chlorinated water and a hint of... blue. Not "blue" as in the delicious Slurpee flavor, just... blue. Of varying shades across the tongue. *** Tastes like blue?... You might want to look into a condition called Synesthesia. *** This troper is confused. He just did it and had no reaction other than the standard 'wow, it's possible to make my tap water taste worse than normal afterall' face. * From the Head of Happy Psycho: * My brother occasionally makes drinks from week-old Coke and Irn-Bru. And sells it. People like it. ** I've also had a mix of 7-Up, Irn-Bru and Blackcurrant cordial. * [[Tropers/GGCrono This genius here]] once, on the urging of a friend, created a brew that said friend termed "Super-ade", which consisted of Mountain Dew, a spoonful of sugar, a generous dollop of honey and about a dozen pixie stix. The resultant concoction was... interesting. I could only manage a sip or two before the pretty colors started. * [[{{Tropers/Bluemage}} This Troper's]] personal version of this was to take three of the large pixy stix (the ones in a plastic container about the length of one's arm, and a finger-width wide), mix them into a liter of freshly opened Mountain Dew (best results came from cherry stix in Code Red), and chug the result. The mixing has to be done carefully, or half the bottle will turn to foam in about ten seconds, but the result... tastes horrible, looks either like Code Red or

algae-filled water (depending on which Dew and what Stix wee mixed in), and is usually too much sugar for one person. I can't even drink them anymore, because neither caffeine nor sugar gives me a rush any longer. ** I also was known for taking Nestea lemon iced tea mix and making it with slightly different proportions than normal. My usual rule of thumb was "Fill 1/3 of the cup with tea mix, add water, and stir." The result was more like syrup than tea, horribly strong, and yet very good at the same time. ** Also, mixing garlic powder and chocolate in water tastes ''nasty''! * One of the best aversions ThisTroper has ever seen was when a friend was challenged to a beer-chugging contest, not knowing that his drink was massively dosed with really strong Caribbean hot sauce. The guy not only ''won'' the chugging contest, much to everyone's amazement (we'd tried the stuff, it was ''very'' strong, and he couldn't normally chug worth a damn), but in response to the dropped jaws, he made the comment "Yeah, I tasted the hot sauce, but it was just white boy hot sauce." (This was the whitest guy you'll ever meet.) He didn't pay for a drink for the rest of the night, and got the rest of the bottle. * [[Tropers/DocDragon This Troper]] used to do a lot of mixing of sodas back when he was younger, but the most disturbing thing he ever created was something known as "Rocket-Ade". The primary ingredient was a candy known as Rockets, ground into a powder and mixed with water. The resulting drink produced a thick head of grey foam that was still sitting at the bottom of the glass over an hour after the drink itself had been finished. * Not particularly alcoholic, but if you dropped the abomination that is Vodka and Tang into the primordial ooze you'd probably evolve SATAN. * Back in the 80s, a local SF convention was widely known for the drink menu served in the con suite. (Free, alcoholic, and I never heard of anyone carding ....) I never heard what their recipes for Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster or Diamonddraught were, but I do recall the Purple Pterodactyl -- one part vodka, one part triple sec, one part sloe gin, one part grape juice concentrate (just thaw the cardboard canister, don't dilute), and club soda to the drinker's taste. * A local GargleBlaster kind of drink is called the "Terminator", and consists of a few drops from every kind of alcoholic beverage available at the bar in question. Because of the chemical mixtures involved, this turns out to be a brownish liquid with flakes in it, and drinking it causes the victim to become violently ill very quickly. Predictably, it has been outlawed, and some of the above may or may not be exaggerated. ** Probably rather exaggerated. A student orchestra I played with keeps a bottle of "Unspecified". The last twenty milliliters or so from every liquor bottle gets emptied into it, and people actually drink the mixture at parties. The bottle of Unspecified is never allowed to go empty, and thus contains some fraction from every bottle of liquor the members have ever drunk in the orchestra's fifty years of existence. I never dared trying it myself, but none of my friends

seemed to get ill from it - or not more ill than you would expect from the alcohol anyway. But yes, it is brown and looks rather disgusting. ** As with the top of the page, likely the Terminator has Baileys in it, which probably spoiled. * One of This Troper's friends has a friend who brews various meads for the SCA. One of the most famous is Pixy Stick Mead, which is flash-fermented and combined with said sugary candy. It's been described as "liquid stupid." * This troper makes sweet mead at home. Last winter the heat went out in the garage where the fermenter lives, and one batch of mead formed huge chunks of ice, which I removed and threw out. Since only the water freezes and all the alcohol remains behind, this had the effect of partially distilling the mead. It's still very sweet and tasty, but one wineglass of it has been known to make strong men giggle and fall over. * It's fairly well known that you can make chili vodka by putting some chili peppers in a bottle of vodka and leaving it for a while while the flavour (and the heat) percolates into the alcohol. This Troper has taken it a step further into the bizarre, and made Sichuan pepper vodka. It's a vile orange-yellow colour, smells delicious, tastes delicious, produces a strange tingly sensation on the tongue and then ''makes your mouth go numb'' within a few seconds of drinking it. * This troper once had *9* Long Island Iced Teas over the course of about two and a half hours. Results: Two hours of being very happy, 10 of being violently ill, and about two days to fully recover. [Also note that I weigh 290 lbs, and smaller folks trying this might end up in even worse shape.] * This troper likes to experiment with vodka infusions. After making a rather nice vanilla infusion, she reasoned thusly: I love Dr. Pepper. I love vanilla cola. I will love Dr. Pepper with vanilla vodka in it. She...didn't. Some combination of the alcohol, vanilla, and cola produced a giant glass of something like carbonated cherry cough syrup. (The vodka was really good in Coke or Pepsi, however.) ** She also made a habanero infusion that, after the initial tasting, she herself only used as an ingredient in marinades. At a party, a friend decided he was going to get drunk on Caesars made with it. He says the next day he was miraculously free of a hangover, but his digestive system was grumpy for a week. *** It's not miraculous. Vodka doesn't contain the chemical that causes hangovers. * This troper spent many of her college days determining how well various non-alcoholic substances mix with Rose's Lime Juice. Tastiest: ginger ale (a.k.a. the Freddy Bartholomew). Most surprising: tonic water (makes your teeth ache for an hour). Most pointless: cough syrup (nothing, ever, makes cough syrup better). * This troper's personal gargle blaster is a half-bottle of bourbon or corn whiskey, preferably overproof like Virginia Lightning or Fighting Cock. Binge drinking? What's that? * This troper has a friend who works in a bar. She absolutely hates it when, during a particularly busy period, people just stand there and say, "Um, surprise me!" when she could be serving someone who actually knows what they want. She retaliates by mixing a drink composed of all

the worst-selling drinks, which apparently also serves as a way to get them drunk enough so that they won't come back later that night. * This troper was once given a bottle of something mixed from "British wine, whiskey and fresh cream". It actually tasted better than it sounds, and deceptively mild to boot. Hilarity noticeably failed to ensue the following morning. * This troper had a friend who made a drink referred to as "green death." It consisted of Mountain Dew, the Wal-Mart brand Dr. Pepper, powdered Gatorade mix, Red Bull, lemon-lime concentrate, and a splash of scotch if he was in the mood, chilled and served in an empty SoBe bottle. It had the consistency of pond sludge, tasted like pure fructose, and bestowed an unbelievable energy rush on anyone brave/foolish enough to drink it. This troper had a sip and swears he heard the Starman music from on high. * This troper's buddy once mixed several brands of orange juices/orangeade/Sunny D all in one big cup. He proclaimed it to be diabetes in a cup. This troper on the other hand, just likes mixing V8 Splash juices with Sprite or 7up. * Part of this troper's "if-I-can-get-a-game-of-''{{Paranoia}}''going" scheming includes fitting an R&D vehicle with a hard liquor dispenser that produces these. The current notes on the sole drink it produces... well... the smell will be described as "crude oil, death, and feet" when the Inevitable Button Mashing results in its production. * This troper has a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster random generator program for his ZXSpectrum emulator. Most of them seem quite vile. * [[DialgaX This Troper]] once drank a a large mug of a mixture composed of of salt, sugar, water and straight lemon juice. The results: [[{{understatement}} stomach cramps]]. * ThisTroper recalls, from his days in the [[SocietyForCreativeAnachronism SCA]], a liqueur called "Startwinkle" (or, when describing its effects, "Startwink*thud*"). While he never tried it himself, it was apparently ''much'' stronger than its mild taste suggested. * A certain bar in York used to serve the "Hellshot", an ounce of special reserve absinthe mixed with an ounce of rectified spirit, with an alcohol content of ''nearly 90%''. For those not keeping score, this is a single mouthful of drink with the same amount of alcohol as two pints of beer. It's also strong enough to be volatile, so a nontrivial amount of alcohol gets absorbed directly into the bloodstream through the lungs if you drink it slowly. The mild hallucinations it sometimes causes are believed to be psychosomatic, since absinthe with active levels of the hallucinogenic component is illegal in the UK. Perhaps wisely, there was a strict house rule that nobody was to have more than one of these in a single night. It was banned by the city council but its ingredients ''weren't'', leading to an obvious workaround by customers. * [[{{Tovarishch}} This troper]] once had to drink a particular cocktail called "Moco de Chango" in some bar in Monterrey, Mexico. The whole thing was served like this: A mix of equal parts of vodka, rum and tequila, and some other stuff that has been already forgotten, and flamed after serving. And it must be drank with a straw in a single

suck. When I ordered it, every one of the friends that accompanied me were astonished, to the point that once the drink was delivered, everyone in the table was staring at the shot glass until it got empty. Strangely enough, this troper only had a slight headache the next morning. * [[Tropers/PancakeMix This Troper]] fondly remembers a discussion with a friend over MSN where we decided somehow that "Falcon Punch" would make an excellent name for an energy drink. We discussed the recipe for a while and came up with: 1 Can of Monster Assault, 1 Can of Diet Monster, 1 Can of Jolt, 2 cups orange juice, 1 cup fruit punch, and 3 of those 5-hour energy bottles. He mixed it together in a container and had a glass. Apparently it results in a [[{{Discworld}} Knurd]]-like state of hyperawareness, my partner-in-crimes brother unwittingly took a sip and acted like he was high. The original recipe also included Tabasco sauce, but we could never balance it correctly to make it only yield a spicy aftertaste and not taste like crap. Much enjoyment was had until we opted to invent it's evil alcoholic older brother: Warlock Punch. For this we formulated: Half a bottle of Everclear, 2 cups pomegranate juice, 2 cups grape juice, 2 cups cranberry juice, and 5 5-hour energy bottles. Soda Water for fizz or dilution optional. Neither of us had the guts to try the stuff, so our Canadian friend did the honors and mixed the brew up in a bucket. Then he drank the whole thing. Allegedly, Warlock Punch is quite delicious and simultaneously energizing and intoxicating, rendering any drinker of sufficient quantity apparently insane. However, drinking an entire bucket acts like a powerful laxative that makes everything burn like the flames of hell on the way out. * YonTroper invented a GargleBlaster called the Doom Chug. You start with a carton of chocolate milk, and add a slug of barbecue sauce, three chopped habanero peppers, a quarter of a bottle of maple syrup, one mashed potato, a raw egg, a few grammes of breadcrumbs, a bottle of ketchup and half a container of ranch dressing. Garnish with Cheerios and a broken-up cheese-and-onion crisp, give a good shake, and chug. It tastes horrible. ** Strangely, two of my friends have their own variations. One (the Death Chug) uses Coke as the base instead of chocolate milk, and substitutes a bottle of Tabasco for the peppers. The other (the Doom Gulp) has no mashed potato, uses marshmallows as a garnish instead of the Cheerios, and has the addition of tomato juice. I'd have to say that the Doom Gulp is the tastiest of all the three GargleBlasters we've made. No, we don't do drugs! ** [[Tropers/SovietKitty This troper]] would so drink that, but only without the ketchup. * [[Tropers/JET73L This Troper]] doesn't drink, but discovered a delicious nonalcoholic GargleBlaster in search of a good sore-throatand-stuffed-nose remedy. Take a tequila shooter glass, fill it 3/4 of the way with Louisiana hot sauce (the brand I had at the time was like Tabasco, but hotter except for the aftertaste), fill the rest of it with 2 parts molten honey and one part lime juice (lemon if you like it less bitter), add a bit of salt for flavor if you don't have a sore throat. Mix it with a toothpick before the honey regains its normal viscosity and swallow as much as you can in one gulp. Not only does it

taste delicious (I'd drink them all the time if not for the damage done in the past by drinking hot sauce), but it also clears up a head cold within minutes. * In fifth grade this troper came up up with a drink made with freshly squeezed oranges, grapefruit, lots of sugar and a little lemon juice. [[ItGotWorse Then I went overboard with the green food coloring and named the hideous radioactive-looking concoction]] Super Sewage Sludge. Nobody wanted any, even though it was quite frankly good, if a little too sweet. * There is a drink that this troper has yet to taste, at a bar near where I live. It's composed of tequila, vodka, whiskey and if I remember right, another distilled beverage. Put straw on it, light it on fire, drink before your straw melts. * This troper's mom has a lovely stew of turkey chili, navy beans, cheese, sour cream, tuna, and croutons. It's called Sewers of Paris. If you saw it, you'd know why. However, it's so delicious that it's impossible to not go back for seconds. * In November 2008, this troper and a friend created a concoction from almost the entire contents of a liquer cabinet, it was green so was thus named "The Green". It's now November 2009 and this troper found the bottle half full of the remains of the Green. Except it is now brown. * Long ago I was sitting in my room and decided to mix some stuff together to see how it tasted (I was 14 or 15 at the time). I mixed orange juice, water, a Listerine Breath Strip (those little mints that dissolved on your tongue), and something else. It ended up tasting like apple (which is weird since there wasn't any apple in it) with a mild mint taste. About a year later Kool-aid came out with a flavor that tasted exactly like it, so in a way, I accidentally invented a Kool-aid flavor. ** (Same guy as above) Every time I go to Taco Bell I mix Mountain Dew Baja Blast and regular Mountain Dew, which tastes like regular Mountain Dew with more lime flavor. Just recently Mountain Dew came out with Distortion, which is regular Mountain Dew with more lime flavor. I think I'm going to start getting patents on all my weird drink creations. * [[Tropers/ZootyCutie This troper]] was babysitting her next door neighbor (who was in kindergarden at the time). We were playing with a toy chemistry set (the kind with the baking soda and color tablets that you just add water to), and she got thirsty. Her mom was in the computer room not far from the kitchen, so we got her permission to mix something up. We cleaned out one of the beakers and mixed over half a beaker of Hawaiian Punch, a little less than a 3oz Dixie Cup of sugar (that is not all the way diluted into the drink), and a top-off of tap water together, then put it in the fridge for a few seconds. We named the new concoction "Giggle Juice", because it made our teeth hurt so much that we had to smile and laugh some. The next morning, my acid reflux started to work up. I am never doing that again. * [[Tropers/InsanityAddict This troper]] once asked for a drink at a cocktail bar made of equal parts pineapple juice, coke and rum, since he liked them individually. The result was pretty good, even though it looked like marshwater. Afterwards, he tried to do it himself at a

party, and found that it tasted slightly less succesful, meaning that I drank most of the contents. Next morning, head in toilet ensued. * This troper once drank a concoction of Vodka, Cranberry Juice, Orange Juice, and Lime Juice in one of those tall glasses. Oddly enough, the bartender SOMEHOW managed to get each sticky ingredient to settle in the Vodka, one on top of the other. He called it "The Trafficlights of Hell". I think it should of have been called, "Hello and Goodbye Mr Braincell". * This troper and his friends make one of these almost every time we drink. We mix juices, sugar, and tons of different types of alcohol to produce a sometimes-horrible sometimes-great drink. The worst was when we mixed one up with Absinthe, Everclear, Jagermeister, cranberry juice and a bottle of orange Pedialyte I had left over from a nasty flu. It actually didn't taste too bad and none of us had hangovers the next morning. * This troper did this several times as a kid; from as tame as lemon juice in Dr. Pepper (It was damn good) to as insane as a handful of Sweet Tarts dumped into a small cup of water (It tasted horrible, but didn't make me sick). I've yet to pull off anything as insane as some of the other ones mentioned here, though once I'm old enouch to drink, I might have something more interesting to tell. * There's a tradition, at least among the U.S. Air Force, of the "Dining-In." Part of this event is a concoction called a Grog Bowl. Depending on local instructions, there are various degrees of alcohol in said grog bowl. Many places will have two grog bowls, one with alcohol, one without. The entire point of the grog bowl is for it to be a Gargle Blaster. During the event, people are sent to the grog bowl for violating the rules of the mess, for instance, bringing work matters up during the event. * This troper's specialty salad dressing. Mix equal parts olive oil and red wine vinegar. Add a more vinegar. Mix with Dijon mustard until it's just barely pourable. Guaranteed to clear up a cold with one bowl of salad. This troper is desensitized to vinegar and dijon as a result. For even better results, add a little horseradish. * This troper learned the hard way that caffeine has terrible solubility in soda unless the soda is heated. Cue the creation of a primitive (this was 1989, before even Red Bull was widely available) energy drink involving Mountain Dew, a couple of No-Doz finely powdered, and the kitchen stove. What resulted was a thick syrup that had to be reconstituted either with more Mountain Dew or with plain old club soda (to bring back the fizz), but it had between five and eight times the caffeine of regular Mountain Dew and would be enough to power an entire night and a good chunk of the next day. Eventually we just moved on to amphetamines. * Beta Maxis mixes root beer, any and all available Mountain Dew flavors, grape, and orange soda. Cherry coke sometimes enters the equation. It is BITCHIN'! * For one fateful late night drinking session, this troper created the Bloody Hot Mary, a drink made from the usual ingredients of vodka and tomato juice, but the tabasco sauce was substituted for a special liquid made by boiling the cores of two Scotch Bonnet chillies in sugar water for about 30-45 minutes. The resulting drink has been

described by friends as "like molten lava that makes you drunk." * While visiting a friend who was away at college we attended a frat party. At one point I wandered into the kitchen to witness someone being dared to drink a pink, frothy concoction that had just come out of the blender. I have no idea what was in it (I do remember someone mentioning that there was vodka and fruit punch involved, but other than that no one was really sure what was in it), but the brave soul drank it. It was passed around, I was already drunk so I refused, but it smelled like it would put hair on your tongue. * Non-alcoholic version: Instant coffee "sweetened" with ''corn syrup''. It tasted like welding smoke smells. * This troper's friend told her about one she'd heard suggested, called the Strawberry Surprise. Ingredients? 1 part grain alcohol and 1 part ''pepper spray''. Yep. To use her words, "Tastes nothing like strawberries, and everything like ''hurting''... * [[Tropers/GladiusLucix This Troper]]'s friend recently tried, ForScience, a mixture of Pickle Juice, Mirin (Japanese sweet cooking rice wine), and a splash of hot sauce that he had resulted in the quote, "It makes the roof of my mouth burn. ''You don't have tastebuds there.''" The end result was said to "taste like heartburn." It should be noted that he has been known to enjoy drinking the other components, in sips, on their own. * This Troper once attended a fetish Alice and Wonderland themed party where the bar was serving a drink called the Red Queen. I don't recall what it was comprised of, but afterwards you felt like she'd had you beheaded. * This might not count, but a favored dare drink at this troper's older brother's fraternity is a shot of vodka, set on fire, dumped into a beer, and chugged very quickly. ** Sounds an awful lot like a drink known as a Flaming Dr. Pepper: a shot glass is filled about 90% of the way with amaretto and topped off with high-proof liquor, set on fire, and then dropped into a pint of beer to fizz up the beer. The resulting mixture has to be consumed fairly quickly and apparently tastes very much like Dr Pepper. * This Troper created a drink called The Screaming Crackwhore. The story behind the drink is that at some point at a cast party - around 3 am - someone asked if someone could make them a Screaming Orgasm, despite their inability to remember what was in it. I wound up playing bartender and did my best to follow the directions I was being given by four people. Somewhere along the line - due to a combination of my own intoxication, the argument over just what WAS in a Screaming Orgasm and a lack of proper ingredients, I wound up making something somewhere between a Screaming Orgasm and a Three Wise Men out of vodka, bourbon and rum. As a shot it was awful. But put in a highball glass, topped off with Coca Cola and stirred... it became good. Very good. So for want of a better name, since we took something nasty and made it good with Coke... The Screaming Crackwhore. * [[Tropers/RAMChYLD This troper]] decided to try wasabi tea after hearing it being mentioned in said 8TV advertisement in the main page. He found an old pack of Wasabi in the darkest depths of the refrigerator and boiled it with a Lipton tea bag. It didn't taste too good, and ruined his appetite completely.

* [[Tropers/HackerOnHacker HackerOnHacker]] was staying in a lodge on the Amazon river in Peru, and took a trip with some of the other travelers to visit a shamaness who had lived her whole live in a stilted hut in the river. She had made some sort of medicinal alcoholic concoction and gave the jug for the visitors to pass around. It was an eye-burning, amber-colored fluid with herbs floating about in it. The guide advised everyone only to pretend to sip it due to its potency, and all of them did. * [[Tropers/{{Joerc45}} This troper]] once drank a whole bottle of Everclear, mixed with shots of Bacardi and Brandy afterwards. The predictable happened... ** [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat You died?]] * Here's a good one, and easy to make too. The Bear Killer: Take a shot glass (unless you're brave) and fill with 50% tequila, 50% whisky. Add too much tabasco. Drink! * This troper and her equally stupid friend created an unholy terror called Country Mouse and City Mouse. It's half a glass of red wine mixed with half a glass of screech moonshine. She wouldn't recommend it. * [[Tropers/DaPatman This troper]] is teetotal, but he did once dissolve an entire pack of fruit Polos in about half a litre of hot water (or at least he dissolved as much as would dissolve in that much hot water, then removed the undissolved stuff) and drank the result. He was unable to single out any of the individual flavours, and was only able to say that it tasted of fruit. * This troper was once staying in a hostel in Prague with a restaurant/bar in the basement which specialized in pop-culture-titled novelty drinks. The menu included an actual "Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster", which included shots of raspberry juice, absinthe, Absolut Vanilla and others (Goldschlager would make sense), garnished with slices of lemon. Even got a member of our group who'd opted to stay in his room for the night to come down to the bar, as he's a big Douglas Adams fan. This troper (whose liquor-holding ability varies pretty wildly from night to night) faired all right with it, although a number of his travelling companions, who are ''Irish'', were floored by it, hurling uncontrolably (including ''out of an upper-story window''), or both. * This troper is sometimes referred to as a "beverage alchemist"because he lacks a golden touch. One of his more memorable failures included a combination of vanilla, baking chocolate, confectioner's sugar, and minced serrano peppers in apple vinegar. This mixture, inexplicably, ''looked'' delicious. As for the flavor? One of this troper's friends remarked "It tastes like kerosene. Lit kerosene." ** Confectioner's sugar is cut with corn-starch, which tastes ''terrible''. That's why you either use it lightly or bake it in something. * What this troper has fermented in the name of science projects is likely outright illegal. One of his more notorious concoctions is made with three parts plums to one part brown sugar. Let it ferment in a glass jar for a few months. Unseal occasionally to release the gas build-up. The end result is highly aromatic and can put down a veteran drinker with an Irishman's liver with two shots.

* Five Oreo cookies + Wasabi paste + ketchup + stovetop-melted Marshmellow Peeps = Bitches' Bile (perfect for roommates in a really dim room! Guaranteed to make your friends spewgle!) * A friend of mine once returned from visiting relatives in Ireland with a bottle of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poitin poitn]], and proceeded to make Long Island Iced Teas with it in place of vodka. Descriptions of the effect of two of these ranged from "aaaaaargh help" to "fnrg blrgf plzbrt guhhhh". * [[Tropers/{{Cuchulainn}} This troper]] invented a drink consisting of tequila and ginger beer, called a "Mexican-Jamaican Detente". It's called that because the less pleasant aspects of each somehow cancel each other out, making it ''very'' smooth. The first time I tried this, I had a few too many, and ended up having a freak-out usually only possible with powerful psychedelics. You know that ''MrShow'' sketch "Druggachusetts", where at the end TomKenny starts freaking out, and coming out of his clothes? Yeah, that was me! * Non-alcoholic version: Cranberry and grapefruit juice. Tastes great, but the heartburn is murder... * Chinese Herb Teas, what happens when you combine the strongest herbs and boil it to a dark bitter drink. The perfect punishment for this troper. * A company of Marines who were deep in Iraq when it was really hitting the fan over there came up with a drink to honor their fallen comrades, most of whom were killed by improvised explosive devices. Called, the IED, it contains a shot of 151-proof rum (shock), a shot of Jaeger (smoke), a shot of Goldschlager (fragmentation), and a shot of tequila since most of their members were Hispanic. Mix well and try not to scream. Personally, I failed this last objective. * Cheepest, 40 rubles (1,5$) for 0.7 litres "port-wine" and cheepest, most terrible alcoholic carbonated "cocktail" called "??????????? ????" (Grape's Day). Mix 1:1, drink and get drunk almost instantly. But the hangover is utterly terrible. * The Grog is an old military tradition. Every grog is different, because unit commanders all pour in ingredients that represent their individual units and mix them all together. To cap it off, that Grog is usually mixed in a toilet bowl. This is done in an over the top, highly ceremonious fashion. * Two words: Four Loko. Holy Mother of God, Four Loko, and I didn't even drink it besides one sip to see how it tasted (answer: like Red Bull with a worse aftertaste)! Right after it got banned in our state my roommate bought a bunch of them to try, and the results were epic and the hangovers the worst that crowed of experienced drinkers had ever experienced. They banned it for a reason. * [[TeamFortress2 Entire bar is BABIES!]] My [[HalfHumanHybrid Russian/Polish heritage]] gives me [[IncrediblyLamePun Liver Damage]] [[DungeonsAndDragons Reduction 10]]. Everclear isn't strong, it's ''economical''. Why drink 12 shots of 40% ABV vodka to get buzzed when I can drink [[BeyondTheImpossible 4 shots of Everclear instead]] at the same price? * This troper's friend once accidentally drank a mix of vodka, mountain dew, and some other drink I can't remember the name of by accident, when she realized what she had drank, she gave a quick "Oh

shit." look to me, roughly six minutes later, she was ''[[{{hilarity ensues}} bloody Everywhere]]''. * Fairly vanilla compared to a lot of these, but: this Troper and some friends had won a pub quiz and received free shots as a result...there was a bit of a mix, but a few were this vile mix of vodka and Irn Bru...which was somehow cloudy and tangible. Another time, a friend and I couldn't find anyone to pitch in for a pitcher of Long Island Iced Tea...so we just had half each in a pint glass. Then this: -> '''Friend''': Should we strawpedo this? -> '''Me''': Erm, OK...one two, three, go! -> We do. -> '''Friend, after finishing''': Dude, you actually did it! I only did it because you did it! -> '''Me''': What?! I only did it because ''you'' did it! * This tropette once had twenty shots of Four Horsemen in a row without even feeling drunk. She threw up twice, but remembers the whole night clearly and made it home on her own two feet at about six o clock in the morning, going about life as usual that same afternoon. The only unfortunate side effect of the bender is that the boss of said nightspot has placed a ban on ANYONE but himself serving her alcohol and has been known to place her on strict "fruit juice only" moratoriums at will. ... Oops. (She is also notorious for her coffee orders - quad venti espresso with six sugars, keep 'em coming. Once again... boss has been known to veto her coffee and give her fruit juice instead.) ---Ever tried the GargleBlaster? It's great, you take some grapes, squeeze juice out of some of them, then you suck on the others and put garlic salt on them, after that you get some orange juice, put the grapes in there, and pour it in. Once you've done that, get two screwdrivers, both the tool and the drink, and put some sugar on the tool... ----

GarrysMod * This Troper made an EVIL BOUNCY BALL OF DOOM! It had the ability to track targets from across the map, even antlion kings. ** So it's alot like the "Harmless Companion Cube"? ** Dear lord, don't [[HappyFunBall taunt it!]] * This troper finally answered the Revan Vs. Vader question with Garrys Mod. Revan and Vader go kill everyone. * Freeman on a pink Unicycle holding a human spine is funny, made by me. * This troper played with the bouncy balls, a map with a huge pit, and a nuke mod. It made one heck of a cannon. * Screw all that, this troper made Candy Land in Wire Mod. Unfortunately, it was pretty laggy and had a lot of unnecessary wiring, since Expression 2 didn't have quite all the abilities necessary to make the game less so. * This troper made a wall of toggled guns. Hundreds. Set to shoot

lasers with a slight spread and a range longer than the map itself. All set to one button. There was no way to escape if you couldn't noclip. just a giant wall of green death that sent anything not welded or fixed flying. we had air boat races to see who could outrun it the longest. The most common cause of failure? Massive lag when you looked at it. * 9 AM on GGG Toshkent, and the [[SomethingAwful Goons]] are hard at work building tanks made out of washing machines and bathtubs and garbage dumpsters. Cue 1vs1 battles between the Goons as they fight to the death in these ramshackle contraptions using ACF. * This troper like to amuse himself by having a single door lying horizontally and frozen in midair. On one end, [[BadassPreacher Father Grigori]] armed with his darling [[ICallItVera Annabelle]]. On the other is whatever I feel like making him fight. Combine, antlions, zombies, you name it. * Try using ropes with really "high" negative lengths, like -1000. Probably the two most fun things to do with it are to rope two explosive barrels together and duplicate them, making an explosion gun (or touch the barrels to make them blow up), and roping a ragdoll to itself or other ragdolls, causing it to freak out and fly around, eventually freeze, only to start again when you touch it. * A real problem in G-mod for me at least was the inability to make stable floating structures. Then I discovered that matresses float. Water-world done right shortly followed. * Attatch slammers to an armed nuclear device and you get a far more effective claymore mine. Now if you were to attatch a thruster and carefully launch it from a mount, with the slammer mine on the nose cone and you've got an airbursting nuke. Artful use of the duplicator, the jeep, wooden palletes and the welder and you've got an adhoc TOS-1 Buratino firing nukes/hi-explosive missiles. I could just use the Howitzer programme I downloaded but I've better luck getting G-mod to stop crashing than I have of getting Adv-duplicator (or the majority of my mods) to work properly. * [[Tropers/{{Dallenson}} I]] spend a good amount of time creating [[{{Stargateverse}} Stargate]] networks in Spacebuild maps, I always use the [[{{Stargateatlantis}} Pegasus]] gates for orbital ones, * This troper started off with vehicles and stuff. The first few failed hard, but then came three that worked awesome, one really long, one really wide, and the last big [[ThisIsADrill with a giant drill on the front.]] Then came wiremod. And following that, [[SentryGun rapidfire sentry guns]] and [[DeathTrap exploding]] [[PressurePlate pressure plates.]] ** A year later, [[HoverTank hover tanks]] and player-controlled autoguns that display the driver's health and armor. * This troper used to do this on random servers. I would stick nondescript button near wear everyone spawns. When an unlucky bastard pressed it, it would trigger very fast thrusters on an invisible piece of metal. Right below them. One of two thigns happened: A) I would reverse the thrusters and kill the guy, or B) wait till they hit the skybox and die on impact. This troper has been banned from so many servers for that. ** I would also create the ultimate lag bomb. An explosive barrel with

a dynamite, thruster, and 20 soda cans with long trails associated with them, usually witht the LOLOLOLOLOLOL trail. Again, a lotta bans followed if the server didn't crash from physics overload. Good times. * [[{{Tropers/Kadorhal}} I]] tend to make a small shop with a [[TeamFortress2 RED]] sign above it, referred to as the "Reliable Everything Depot" (though there was a short period where the R stood for [[{{Touhou}} "Rumia's"]] instead). When in this shop, I sell props to other players for any form of currency they can come up with, whether it's useful in-game (like a gun) or not (money props from ''{{Counter-Strike}} Source''). * [[Tropers/VmKid I]] spawned a bathtub with a chair welded into it, and attempted to sit a ragdoll of Father Gregori on it. The result? He falls behind the chair, but still in the tub. The amazing part? By sheer luck, he lands with his arms across his legs as if he was curled up in a ball. The addition of a goofy smile made the scene too hilarious to add balloons to and let fly away. * The Medic from TF2, splattered with blood, sprawled out unconscious in a bathtub. [[UrbanLegends All that's missing is some ice.]] ---* Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* *Loading* Go back to GarrysMod. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

Gasshole * This troper, and probably most, if not all of the other fat guys on here as well. Comes with being {{Big Eater}}s, I guess. * My little homebrew indie comic isn't called ''[[http://www.freewebs.com/smokingcatcomicsandcollectibles/bdcthumbna ilgallery.htm The Belch Dimension]]'' for nothing. The series is fairly fueled by gas. I of course come from a family of gasbags; I am a great belcher, and have been known to clear a room when I bake an air biscuit. I have a cat who also farts when he gets too relaxed (often in my lap); he takes after [[DepravedBisexual his dad]] in that regard. * This (female) troper can belch louder than her boyfriend. ** This Tropette also can belch impressively loud, a side effect of learning how to project her voice really well while in Theater in High School. ** [[GeekyTurnOn That's pretty hot.]] ** Mine actually ''can't'' belch, but I can belch louder than his best friend anyway. And my (female) cousin was known for beating her brothers in belching contests. ** The same with this tropette. Even her boyfriend agrees that she is the loudest belcher amongst their group of friends. She is very proud of this achievement. ** Vids or it didn't happen. * This troper has a few digestive problems, that while not painful or

serious, does cause near constant wind. My friends like to take bets on how many I can parp out in 15 minutes. It's usually in double figures. Naturally my friends know to open every window in the house when I'm around, and toss an air freshener my way. I feel sorry for them when we have to drive across the country. * [[Tropers/CabbitGirlEmi I]] only do this to relieve myself of gastrointestinal distress. It's more often farts than burps. My brother is actually a Gasshole because he burps a lot. * I'm the only man I've ever known to get detention for farting. AP Statistics, junior year of high school, my mom had apparently got a bad batch of bacon that week and I was suffering the consequences of having it left over that morning. Two big farts (well, "big" compared to a normal person's explosive capabilities). I like to call them Little Boy and Fat Man. Anyway, it was a [[{{Understatement}} bit of an interruption]], especially when others in the class were saying it felt like and earthquake as I farted. The dude behind me nearly passed out. And that's just one of my many fart stories. In other words, I've never met a more triumphant example of a {{Gasshole}}. ** Yeah? Try [[{{Tropers/Marr965}} me]] on for size. I can reliably give myself killer gas, by eating dried fruit. I have, on at least one occasion, given myself ''abdominal pain'' through eating dried apricots (the yellow variety). And they ''stink''. They are hideous. I have not yet managed to clear a room, but it's getting there. * This troper was in physics class junior year of high school, while her teacher gave the instructions for a lab. She felt a forceful fart coming on (a bizzare, yet apparently not unheard of, side-effect of...ahem "girl problems.") She tried to hold it in, but couldn't. Her teacher loved to make fun of her students, and seized the opportunity. The teacher looked this troper's way, and then pretended to flail away from the smell. (Even though that particular fart was more loud than smelly.) Everyone was laughing, either at the teacher, the troper, or (most likely) both. This troper felt herself turn beet red, and wished for an emergency trap door to open up under her desk. ** Damn, this teacher is one MagnificentBastard. * This tropette's entire immediate family are all pretty much gassholes (myself included, not gonna lie). ''Even my dog.'' * [[CandyEntrails I]] don't really give a crap if I let one rip. My classmates certainly do, but I don't. * This troper's late father. But thankfully just at home. * This troper's farts usually ranged from Silent But Deadly and somewhat more audible farts, but his personal loudest fart happened in one of the two gyms of his middle school (the one on the bottom floor), shortly after some event in a class other than gym that had us heading there that I don't remember too well. All I can remember about that particular episode of gas-passing was that it was loud enough for the ''whole damned gym'' to hear. * This troper's flatulence is quite embarrassing. She passes gas frequently in the comfort in her home, ranging from Silent But Deadly and Pull My Finger. Occasionally she has to while at school, but she's smart to go to a corner where nobody is and then let go. Her mother is also prone to this, and the dog is the biggest offender. ** Same troper would now like to add her father, whose flatulence has

been more frequent. It was incredibly embarrassing one day when she and a potential LoveInterest were talking and they heard loud, gassy noises coming from the nearby bathroom...she doesn't know if she can ever face the potential ever again... * This Troper's cat. Yeah. * this troper knows a girl who power-belches. he finds it endearing; she wouldn't be her without the burp. * This troper was "infamous" in his high school years for his farting one of the funniest times was a teacher was yelling at me for turning in a late assignment and I let a huge one rip because I couldn't hold it, I have mostly grown out of it and only do it at home now. ** My sister is known for her very loud belching. * [[Tropers/{{Katsuhagi}} My]] roommate has acid reflux, but takes medication for it to stop the pain. This doesn't get rid of the gas, however, so his burps are quite spectacular. * This Troper's little sister, due to a combination of IBS and her near constant crappy diet of cheese, chocolate milk, and processed meat. Yes, she gets teased for it. * I'd been raised to pass my burps as inconspicuously and inaudibly as possible, so it was to my chagrin that my gf thought it was cute to call attention to each one by grading them. Apparently she did this with her children, so now her grown daughter has a proudly roaring, echoing belch. * This troper suffers from that whenever she eats something that leads to such a thing. Luckily it usually happens in her apartment when no one is around to hear her. One day when she was particularily gassy, she managed to count 50 long farts over the whole evening. It was hilarious (at least for her). * Due to an unfortunate experience involving a full elevator and an even fuller tummy, this troper was politely asked to use the stairs when I visited my dad's office. ---Return to the main {{Gasshole}} page. And for cryin' out loud, open a window on your way out.

GatewaySeries * For me, {{Evanescence}} was a gateway rock band. I'm not a huge fan any more, but I have to give the band credit for first getting me away from Kelly Clarkson and Avril Lavigne. * This troper was introduced to anime by the English-dubbed episodes of ''SailorMoon'' when he was a kid - nowadays, edging on 30, the series is still one of his favorite GuiltyPleasures. ** Wow, me too. We should start a band! ** Same here ** This troper was introduced to anime by the original Japanese episodes (with English subtitles). The difference in quality is large enough that I can't consider it a guilty pleasure. * [[Tropers/SeanTucker This troper]], oddly enough, got into anime from this very wiki. First, it was ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', which I loved. Then came ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', which I really, really loved. Then came ''ElfenLied'', along with me pretty much going down

the list on the {{Gorn}} page - ''MDGeist'' got me into ''{{Genocyber}}'', ''{{Baccano}}'' got me to watch ''CowboyBebop'', ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' begat ''{{FLCL}}'', and here I am with [[WikiWalk my current favorites being]] ''MacrossFrontier'', ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', ''{{Saikano}}'', ''CyberCityOedo808'', and ''{{Texhnolyze}}''. * This troper was gatewayed back into anime by, of all things, ''Tokimeki Memorial ~Only Love~''. He blames that badass chick (the bird kind). * {{This Troper}}'s GatewaySeries was ''{{Naruto}}'' stumbled on it on tv, then found the series at {{Youtube}}, before you knew it Utorrent was on the Desktop. * This troper's gateway anime was ''{{Slayers}}''. He even went to Baltimore's ''Otakon'' cosplaying as Gourry Gabriev. Not one, but two years in a row. * [[{{Tropers/Iluvtvtropes}} This troper]] remembers ''NinjaScroll'' being the big gateway series into anime when he was in junior high, probably because the big thing back then was still ''Pokemon'' and the concept of an animated "cartoon" playing out like an [[RatedMForMoney R-rated movie]] was still very much a novelty, not to mention other things (OMG BOOBIES!} * ThisTroper became interested in anime almost entirely due to ''FullmetalAlchemist''. Ironically, she now prefers the manga. ** {{This Troper}} had the same situation. He finished all the episodes and movie in 2 to 3 school nights, was unsatisfied, read the manga, and preferred the manga. Then explored other anime. * This troper, despite having seen an occasional anime or two over the years and even being part of his school's anime ''club'' for a while (it was mostly because I was friends with so many of the members), never had a whole lot of interest in the medium. Then came ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''... and before I knew it, [[CodeGeass Lelouch]] and [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Haruhi]] were battling for space on my hard drive. * [[{{Tropers/alliterator}} This troper]] bought a few comics when he was younger, but never really got into them, until he came across Grant Morrison's ''DoomPatrol'' vol. 1 "Crawling from the Wreckage." It spurred this troper into becoming a full-fledged comic addict. * For this troper, John Ringo and David Weber's ''Prince Roger/Empire of Man'' series was a gateway to the writings of his favorite author, aswell as a 're-gateway' into sci-fi in general. ** For this troper it was HonorHarrington for SciFi in general and David Weber in particular. Then somebody suggested that he read the ''PosleenWarSeries'' by Ringo, which caused John Ringo to become his favorite author. * This troper at least got into adventure games thanks to ''IndianaJones And the Fate of Atlantis''. ** In fact, most [=LucasArts=] adventure games qualify. They're very user-friendly (especially for [[YouCantGetYeFlask adventure]] [[TrialAndErrorGameplay game]] [[{{Unwinnable}} standards]]), and many people pick them up for the humor before getting into the puzzlesolving aspect. *** You could say the same thing about Telltale's games.

* This troper has heard stories of a lot of people who learned to play guitar because of ''GuitarHero''. This troper is also one of these people. ** Recent word states that both ''GuitarHero: World Tour'' and ''Rock and 2'' will have training modes, designed to teach actual musical skills to players. * ''{{Gradius}}'' introduced this troper to 'shmups, after the game's ship appeared as a transforming robot in ''ZoneOfTheEnders'' and caught his interest. The game was fun despite the crushing realization that there's no button to turn into a robot. ** This Troper got into 'shmups from the ''RaidenFighters'' series at a local bowling alley. Not a humongous fan, but still likes them, and to this day it's the only genre he can play even remotey casually as opposed to multi-hour marathons, which can be extremely refreshing. * This troper got into anime thanks to ''{{Higurashi}}''. Ironically, she hates the series now. * ''StarTrek'' is pretty much solely responsible for this troper's enjoyment of sci-fi, and TV for that matter. * Speaking of ''StarTrek'', this troper loved the recent film so much she started watching the TV series in order. [[ArchiveBinge She's just started]] [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]. * ''{{Tetris}}'' introduced this troper to videogames. * The first ''MegaMan'' game this troper played was ''MegaMan 3''. ''OutlawStar'' (the TV version, unfortunately) was probably the first "serious" anime. ''AhMyGoddess'' was my intro to romantic-type anime, though ''AiYoriAoshi'' was the first I actually ''bought''. Helps that it's short and can be had on the cheap on Amazon. Netflix, given its selection, has a gateway series for ''everyone''. * ''{{Beyblade}}'' (sadly enough) was the Gateway Anime Series for [[Tropers/DarkInsanity13 this troper]]. Her Gateway Manga Series is technically ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'', but she only happened to see it, not read it; the first she bought and read was ''ShamanKing''. On the other hand, ''InuYasha'' was the GatewaySeries for her ''father'', and he's been providing her with torrents upon torrents of anime since then. Ironically enough, he was the one saying she would be bored of it by the time she finished high school; she's on her 5th year (by choice, she has graduated) and still going strong. * My sister's ''RODTheTV'' [=DVDs=] got me into adult anime. Now I want me some of that Haruhi... * ''Main/{{Mai-HiME}}'' was [[{{Tropers/Sikon}} my]] gateway series to anime (there was ''Main/SailorMoon'' before that, but I consider it more a nostalgic cartoon from my teenage-hood), and ''Main/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' to single-player [=RPGs=], the d20 system, ''and'' the Main/StarWarsExpandedUniverse. And ''Main/DarthsAndDroids'' sparked my interest in Main/TabletopGames -thanks, DMM! * [[{{Tropers/LadyNorbert}} This troper]] has loved ''TheLegendOfZelda'' since she was twelve and the original game debuted. When she was given a Wii earlier this year, her love for the characters of Link and Zelda induced her to buy ''SuperSmashBros Brawl''. As a result of her love of SSBB, she is now immersed in the worlds of ''MetalGearSolid and {{Metroid}}.''

* ''{{X-men Evolution}}'' is entirely to blame for this troper's obsession with Superheroes. ** Seconded * This troper blames a viewing of ''PowerRangers'' to getting him back into many of his childhood obsessions (''PowerRangers'', ''{{Digimon}}'', ''{{X-Men}}'' and ''SpiderMan'' 90s animated series, among others). * If not for ''MazingerZ'', ''CaptainTsubasa'', ''SailorMoon'' and ''SaintSeiya'', [[{{Tropers/Orihime}} This troperette]] would never ever be into anime. =) * After looking through this page, this troper would mention they were introduced to anime via ''BubblegumCrisis'' and ''DominionTankPolice''. When they first came out. I feel old now. * [[Tropers/TheAdversary This troper]], thanks to ''ElfenLied'' and having a bunch of friends interested in anime, went from "Anime is an obnoxious hobby and it has obnoxious fans" to "Anime is an okay hobby with some good fans and a hell of obnoxious ones". That, and it'll take him a lot of time to actually get him to talk about anime, but he'll usually do it in a more or less positive way instead of always antagonizing it. In other words, he went from CardCarryingVillain to NobleDemon. * Believe it or not, this troper's Gateway Series was the English dub of ''CardCaptorSakura''] and she loved it (hey, she was ten and up 'til then, had minimum knowledge of anime). * Not only did this very site get this troper hooked on ''{{Discworld}}'', I didn't even know Webcomics ''existed'' before I found this site! Am now an avid follower of ''PennyArcade'', ''EightBitTheater'', ''GirlGenius'', and [[http://comics.shipsinker.com/ The Ten Doctors]].[[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Productivity has decreased accordingly]]. Thanks, TVTropes! * thumbs up* * [[{{Tropers/Regiment}} This troper]] blames ''{{Pokemon}}''. It was the first video game he played, which snowballed quickly. But wait, there's more! There's a Pokemon anime, right? So he watched that, and then ''{{Digimon}}''... and, years later, a subscription to ''ShonenJump'' and fansubs of ''DGrayMan''... Wait! There's a ''{{Pokemon}}'' card game! Sounds cool, let me buy a deck... and here it is, ten or fifteen years later, and the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' card game... occupies much of this troper's non-video game free time. ''{{Pokemon}}'''s kind of a cosmic catalyst. ** You sound like [[@/{{Ventisia}} me.]] Pokemon was the first game I played on my GameBoy at age 4 (though the Sonic the Hedgehog games on the Sega Genesis was my first gateway series, since that came first), my first beloved anime, my first TCG, a big part of my childhood, a big part of my life now... * [[Tropers/FurikoMaru This troper]] was known among her associates in high school as their "Anime Drug Dealer"; she'd start them slow on ''{{Trigun}}'', ''MillenniumActress'' and the ''PetShopOfHorrors'' manga, then escalate to ''GundamWing'' and ''{{Hellsing}}'' territory, before finally going all-out with ''TheSlayers'', ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', ''{{Saiyuki}}'','' SamuraiDeeperKyo'', ''{{FAKE}}'' and ''PerfectBlue''. In return, a few of her die-hard

converts got her into the excellent ''GirlGotGame'' and, [[BileFascination regrettably]], ''HotGimmick'' (aka, ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'''s even more [[GoshDangItToHeck Gainaxedup]] Japanese cousin). * [[Tropers/GwenStacyWannabe This troper]] hadn't seen a single comic book movie or read a comic book or seen a comic-related cartoon until the start of sophomore year, when a friend said "Watch ''SpiderMan'', it's amazing!" A year later, weekly trips to the comics store for me, and I've probably read more graphic novels than most people read in an entire ''lifetime''. ArchiveBinge FTW. * [[Tropers/FreezairForALimitedTime This troper]] used to enjoy playing ''{{Tetris}} Attack'' on her father's GameBoy when she was little, but decided that she would never play other video games. They were, in her seven-year-old-self's own words, "[[MurderSimulators too violent.]]" Then, in order to stop her from hogging her dad's, her parents bought her a GameBoy of her own... which came with ''[[DonkeyKongCountry Donkey Kong Land 2]]''. She fell in love with it, and has been a GamerChick ever since. Now she laments her lack of XBox 360 and/or gaming PC -- because she ''really'' wants to play {{Bioshock}}. Her inner child is recoiling in horror. * ''GIJoe'' comics made me a furry. See, I was watching the show and buying the comics and my parents probably would have had a fit, for in the comics, Joes slaughtered Cobras like MAD. Anyway, a three pack with Joe in the front had a New Mutants in the middle. New Mutants with Rahne Sinclaire, a hot and sexy werewolf. Rrrow. * [[Tropers/DaNuke Da_Nuke]] (the article creator, natch!) has a long history of watching the series that was aired before his favorite show. This has created the following pathway to anime otakuness: ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' -> ''CaptainTsubasa'' aired before ''MMPR'' -> ''DragonballZ'' aired before ''Captain Tsubasa'' -> ''{{Pokemon}}'' -> ''{{Digimon}}'' -> ''SouthPark'' on Locomotion -> ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' aired before ''South Park'' -> ''SerialExperimentsLain'' on Locomotion -> ''ElfenLied'' while fumbling around a Bittorrent tracker -> Away we go! * This troper's Gateway Anime Series was ''SailorMoon''. She still adores it. Her Gateway fantasy book (and reading in general) was ''HarryPotter''. Her Gateway series for British television and sci-fi was ''Series/DoctorWho''. * This troper used to whatever her brother was watching on {{Toonami}}, including ''YuYuHakusho'', ''{{Zoids}} Chaotic Century'', and ''{{Cyborg 009}}''. He stopped watching, she didn't. And then she found shojo... * Strangely, [[{{Tropers/Cliche}} this troper]] was introduced to video games through the EdutainmentGame genre, which he played like mainstream games not knowing the latter existed. Upon touching SuperMarioBros for the first time, his life changed forever, and he's never been the same since, much to the chagrin of his parents. * The first anime this troper ever witnessed was the tail end of ''[[ProjectAKo Project A Ko 2]]'' on the SciFiChannel. Next week, it was ''[[TenchiMuyo Tenchi Muyo In Love]]''. I haven't looked back since. * For [[Tropers/AriRockefeller me]], it was all about ''SailorMoon'',

''DragonballZ'' and ''{{Pokemon}}''. Those were my three gateways. This was back in the mid 90s, when Toonami was on in the afternoon. * [[Tropers/JET73L This troper]] considers his gateway "series" the American gameboy release of SaGa, or "The FinalFantasy Legend," as well as the first ''{{Megatokyo}}'' book. Thanks to FFLegend, he played FFX on a borrowed PS2 and became obsessed with ''FinalFantasy'', started playing the earlier games and then, when Chain of Memories was released, Kingdom Hearts, joined a ''FinalFantasy'' forum which then introduced the joys of forums, which in turn introduced TVTropes, which introduced even ''more'' webcomics, as well as at least four different series of books... And thanks to ''{{Megatokyo}]'', he was introduced to webcomics, more fora, and became far more interested in reading and collecting manga. * This troper was introduced to ''{{Metroid}}'' and ''{{F-Zero}}'' through the original ''SuperSmashBros''. ''{{Brawl}}'' also sparked an interest in ''MetalGear'' and inspired him to rediscover ''SonicTheHedgehog''. * Back when ''{{Pokemon}}'' was the most popular thing on earth I watched the anime on TV - ''{{Digimon}}'' was on after it so I watched that as well. Skip forward 5 years and an ad for "''{{Digimon}}'' wiki" appeared on the {{Wikipedia}} side bar, after reading through some of its articles I decided to watch the first few episodes again on YouTube. A few months later the entire first 2 seasons of digimon as well as most of ''{{Bleach}}'', ''LuckyStar'' and ''DeathNote'' had been downloaded. * This troper got recommended to ''StargateSG1'' due to her love of mythology, and has since crossed from watching purely anime to western dramas. * [[Tropers/JethroQWalrustitty This Troper]] probably wouldn't have gotten into anime without ''DeathNote''. Seen a few shows and movies before that, but only then caught on the idea of getting whole series and watching them, instead of just waiting to see something on TV. ** This troper, whose first serious exposure to anime was ''[[RoboTech Robotech]]'', wonders how many other people thought the Veritechs were much, much cooler as sleek swing-wing fighter jets than HumongousMecha and that [[TheAce Roy Fokker]] was an infinitely better character than the [[WangSt whiny]] [[KidHero teenage]] lead Rick Hunter. * [[Tropers/TromboneChild This troper]] is pretty sure that ''BigWolfOnCampus'' got her into paranormal/fantasy/horror/sci-fi shows, which led her to series such as ''{{Smallville}}'', ''{{Supernatural}}'', ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''{{Torchwood}}'', ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', and ''{{Angel}}''. * Apart from watching Pokemon, Digimon and DragonballZ as a kid, [[{{Tropers/Gaunt88}} this troper]]'s first taste of Anime was NeonGenesisEvangelion, of all things. My second taste was {{Trigun}}, so I guess I got a good combination of MindScrew series on one side and a more frivelous series on the other. * This troper first experienced an actual story-based RPG with ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' (on a borrowed Xbox, no less). He has since played through the sequel two or three times, played ''BaldursGate'', ''NeverwinterNights'', purchased ''{{Spellforce}}''

under the misapprehension it was an RPG (and the misapprehension it was fun), and oh yeah, he's the DM and founder of his DungeonsAndDragons group. This is all over a period of about one year. * I owe my love of the ''{{Metroid}}'' series to ''SuperSmashBros. Melee.'' Also, I have ''{{Quest64}}'' and ''{{Pokemon}} Red'' to thank for introducing me to [=RPGs=] when I was younger; they continue to be my favourite video game genre. * [[Tropers/RobertBingham This troper]] blames JohnWoo's ''TheKiller'' for getting him into HeroicBloodshed. ''DragonBallZ'' and ''[[MobileSuitGundam GundamWing]]'' got him into anime (though his first truly violent show was ''{{Cyber City Oedo 808}}''), and the very first SuperMarioBros. would get him into video games proper. ''StreetFighter'' and ''MortalKombat'' were his first forays into {{Fighting Game}}s, and the very first console RPG this troper has played is ''DragonWarrior'', with ''{{MegaMan 5}}'' being his first MegaMan game. As for TabletopGames, ''VampireTheMasquerade'' and the second edition of DungeonsAndDragons were my firsts. ** Loved ''CyberCityOedo808'' - the dub was [[ClusterFBomb quite something]]. * This troper entered anime through ''{{Fullmetal Alchemist}}'', in October of 2008, and has since seen large parts of at least 12 anime series. I also, years before, entered true geekdom through ''{{Lord of the Rings}}''. * [[Tropers/RayAyanami This troper]] got into {{Rhythm Game}}s in late 2001, through pirated copies of early ''DanceDanceRevolution'' titles. A few months later, he introduced himself to other Bemani series such as ''{{beatmania}} IIDX'' and ''[[GuiltyPleasures Para Para]] [[PeripheryDemographic Paradise]]'', and for the longest time longed to play ''[[PopNMusic Pop'n Music]]'', which he started regularly playing in October of 2008 (with the help of some PerverseSexualLust for one particular character). * [[{{Tropers/Mysterynovelist}} This troper]] got into: ** Anime via ''MoreStarlightToYourHeart'' (I don't count ''SailorMoon'' or Tenchi because I didn't know they were anime back then and they only served as Saturday Night cartoons for me...) ** Science Fiction via ''VirtualWar'' *** Dystopian Sci-Fi via ''TheGoodnessGene'' ** Supernatural Fiction via ''ThePowerOfFive'' ** Horror via ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' * HayaoMiyazaki's films gave me the open-mindedness to accept anime, while ''TheMelancholyofHaruhiSuzumiya'', ''LuckyStar'', and ''AzumangaDaioh'' really got me into it. ** This Troper slowly introduced her brother to anime, first with HayaoMiyazaki, then ''{{TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya}}'', then ''{{Bleach}}'', then, finally, when she was sure he could take it, ''ErgoProxy''. * The following were GatewaySeries for [[Tropers/ILikeCrows this troper]]: ** ''SuperMarioBros'' into video games ** ''[[SatAMSonicTheHedgehog SatAM]]'' into western animation ** ''TheBelgariad'' into fantasy ** ''SailorMoon'' into anime

** ''DragonBall'' into manga * [[Tropers/SpikyK This troper]] blames: ** His affinity for [=JRPGs=] in general on Super Mario RPG... Clever, Squaresoft/Square Enix. CLEVER. Consider that his brother and father are both rather staunchly anti-[=RPG=]s aside from SMRPG, so... either way... ** And his passion for Anime and escaping the AnimationAgeGhetto on ''{{Digimon}}'', and he STILL watches the dub of the first four seasons thanks to the nostalgia, despite using Japanese terminology * I have a good list of examples: ** The book that showed me reading could be cool: ''{{Redwall}}'' ** The show that made me start watching TV: ''{{Firefly}}'' (Seriously, I didn't watch ''anything'' before I bought the DVD's and realized that TV could be awesome.) ** Gateway video game: the original ''SuperSmashBros.'' I discovered ''TheLegendOfZelda'' and ''{{Metroid}}'' because of that game. ** TVTropes itself, of course, got me into anime. The first one I actually started watching was ''CodeGeass'' (there was an awesome page quote of which I cannot, for the life of me, remember the origin), but I'd consider my true gateway anime to be ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. It's like an introduction to the MagicalGirl and HumongousMecha genres all at once. * In the realm of "what has TVTropes introduced you to," well...(deep breath) ''GurrenLagann'', ''ElfenLied'', ''{{Higurashi}}'', the works of Motoro Kitoh, Garo, ''PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'', ''FrankenFran'', ''{{Ben 10}}'', ''OrderOfTheStick'', ''GirlGenius'', ''DominicDeegan'', ''{{The Adventures of Dr. McNinja}}'', ''SailorNothing'' , ''{{Runaways}}'', ''{{Drakengard}}'', ''CaveStory'', ''LaMulana'', ''{{Iji}}'', ''TheWhiteChamber'', 1213, The Bright in the Screen, ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}}'', ''Yume Nikki'', ''PansLabyrinth'', the "Play with Me" video, ''TheDescent'', {{Retsupurae}} and indirectly,the indie horror films of Fewdio. And I'll give ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and ''LyricalNanoha'' a try one of these days. Out of all these, the ones I'm most grateful for are ''GurrenLagann'', ''PansLabyrinth'' (which I just picked up because of all the NightmareFuel gushing but has turned into one of my favorite movies) and all the freeware games, especially ''{{Iji}}''. (I regulary check the "Video Games of Note" section now, on the lookout for new stuff) ** TV Tropes '''is''' how I get introduced to new stuff nowadays - it results in somewhat eclectic tastes. Just see my [[Tropers/AckSed contributor page]],which reminds me... must update it with TomLehrer, ''TheActsOfCaine'', ''{{Ben 10}}'', ''{{Order of the Stick}}'', ''DrMcNinja'', LooneyTunes, ''LuckyStar''... * ''TriGun'' was not only the gateway to this troper's love of anime, but also "Badass Dudes in [[BadassLongcoat Badass Longcoats]] with [[GunsAkimbo Double-Fisted]] [[HandCannon Big Freaking Pistols]]" schtick. * {{Tropers/starshine}} didn't watch television PERIOD before she saw an ad for ''{{Lost}}''. Now... well, just look at her page.

* {{Tropers/Excel-2009}}. ''BurnNotice'' has given me a legitimate reason to check out everything else on USA Network that doesn't involve [[{{House}} cynical doctors]] or [[LawAndOrder lawmen]]. ** One day my brother borrows a huge cache of PS2 games from one of his friends. I wasn't much into games, but one title caught my eye: ''[[{{Gradius}} Gradius V]]''. I decided to check it out for whatever reason (probably because I heard good things about it in a magazine and I had nothing better to do). Five hours later, the word shmup is permanently burned into my vocabulary. * This troper's gate way series was ''BigO'', she had never realised that ''MonsterRancher'' and ''{{Medabots}}'' were anything other than awesome cartoons. ''TheAuthority'' was her gateway to comics (after years of ''TheBeano'') and embarassingly enough ''DNAngel'' was her gateway to manga. * [[{{Tropers/Burstkiller}} My]] gateway series: ** ''SailorMoon'' into anime and the rest of {{Toonami}}. *** ''{{Pokemon}}'' into manga. *** ''InuYasha'' & ''CowboyBebop'' into AdultSwim. ** [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Batman]], [[SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Superman]] and [[SpidermanTheAnimatedSeries Spider-man]] into superheroes. *** {{Batgirl}} into reading comics, ''UltimateSpiderMan'' into collecting them. ** ''{{Beast Wars}}'' into ''{{Transformers}}''. ** [[{{WWE}} WWF]] Smackdown! into [[ProfessionalWrestling pro wrestling]]. ** ''LeftBehind'' into novels. ** ''ThunderCats'', ''CareBears'', ''AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', and the ''SuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' into WesternAnimation. ** ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' and ''TheDisneyAfternoon'' into {{Disney}}. ** ''PowerRangers'' into FoxKids. ** ''StarTrekVoyager'' and ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' into ''StarTrek''. * This troper grew up listening to vocal jazz, but had little knowledge of, and little use for, instrumental jazz. Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli changed all that. * Tropers/AckSed had no one series, but patchy exposure to dubs of ''FistOfTheNorthStar'' late at night on Channel 4 introduced him to cheesy action, his sister's insistence on taping ''SailorMoon'' and the {{Macekre}} ''{{Cardcaptors}}'' at least planted the idea of magical girls & shojo, and all the 'exotic' dubbed MangaEntertainment VHS we found in our town's yearly fair (he still hasn't had the courage to watch ''{{Urotsukidoji}}'') made me interested enough to read the manga that he bought for his sister off this new-fangled "Amazon" site. He was already a SF/gamer geek, so he kind of transferred. He then followed it up with ''{{Chobits}}'', ''NinjaScroll'', ''SerialExperimentsLain'', ''HaibaneRenmei'' [=DVDs=] and ''LoveHina ''manga. Going to university, he discovered Naruto on Youtube, torrents and TVTropes on the {{Megatokyo}} forums,in that order. [[ArchiveBinge AckSed graduated with a third in Internet Computing and a first in tropes,webcomics and anime]]. ^_^;

** Oh and Batman's "Broken Bat" anthology that was,for some reason,in the public library made me interested enough,years later,to pick up ''TheDarkKnightReturns'', then ''{{Empowered}}''. * [[{{Willbyr}} This troper]] watched ''TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'' and a scattering of episodes of ''Robotech'' as a kid, but it was ''GundamWing'' that truly introduced him to anime, and the first volumes of ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'' and ''{{Chobits}}'' to manga. He hasn't looked back. * Recently, This Troper watched his first non-horribly [[FourKidsEntertainment mangeled]] anime,''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' along with ''[[FoolyCooly FLCL]]''. Now, he's watching episodes of ''FullmetalAlchemist:Brotherhood'' on ''YouTube'' along with ''CodeGeass'', ''AzumangaDaioh'', and ''SuperMilkChan''. He's also planning on watching ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', ''GaoGaiGar'', ''CowboyBebop'', and ''JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu''. Along with these, his first VideoGame was ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' along with several racing games, and has been reading webcomics since this very Wiki introduced him to ''XKCD'' * [[{{Thnikkafan}} This Troper]] got into anime via ''AzumangaDaioh''. Maybe not the best gateway series, but it's the funniest. * [[SiriusLoveGirl This troper]] got into anime by watching ''SailorMoon'' and ''CardCaptors'' on TV when she was a little girl. When she got a computer, she started looking at the originals and branched out to other series. ** Also, when she was six, she read the first ''HarryPotter'' book. Before, she hadn't had very much interest in reading, but after? She read any book she could get her hands on. She's the same way today. * ''TheAmazingSpider-Man'' was my gateway to comics in general. {{Aquaman}} was my gateway to DC in particular. Yes, ''{{Aquaman}}''. What can I say, the cover to # 0 looked badass. * ''{{Zoids}]'' got this Troper hooked on not just anime, but mecha anime. * ''MutantRancor'' grew up watching ''{{Robotech}}'' reruns, ''{{Voltron}}'', ''SpeedRacer'', ''GGundam'', ''GundamWing'', ''DragonBallZ'' (back when CartoonNetwork only had the first two seasons), ''RurouniKenshin'', and finally ''YuYuHakusho'' (in that order, if I remember correctly, but I don't really remember any details of any before ''RurouniKenshin''), but it wasn't until ''YuYuHakusho'' that I was finally hooked on anime. (I now have a list six pages long of series I'm going to get around to watching eventually, plus another page and a half of series I've finished.) It's also the only anime series I'm ''most definitely'' going to buy on DVD when I get a job and have an income. [[CrackIsCheaper Thank you, FUNimation!]] * While this troper was already hooked on anime beforehand, ''CodeGeass'' is what got him hooked on HumongousMecha Anime. * ''UruseiYatsura'' was this troper's main gateway anime. He watched ''{{Robotech}}'' and others before it, but its the first he remembers identifing as 'anime' and not just an oddly animated cartoon. * ''VampireHunterD'' the first movie was a gateway for this troper's cousin to Anime in general, and for this troper -- a gateway to the

light novels. * ''YokohamaKaidashiKikou'' (at least it was for [[{{Iluvtvtropes}} this troper]]). ** And for still others, there's ''[[{{Yotsubato}} Yotsuba&!]]'' * ''{{Digimon}}'' was the first anime series I liked. Eventually liking Digimon caused me to like some anime. ** ''{{Digimon}}'', as well as ''{{Pokemon}}'', are gateways to the {{Mons}} genre (but God help you if your next anime is ''{{Narutaru}}''). * Lame as it may be, this troper's gateway series to anime was Robotech. Even if it was Macekred. ** The best part of it wasn't, actually. * [[InsanityPrelude I can claim]] the [[FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] {{Macekre}} of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' as my gateway to anime, embarrassingly enough. (I was thirteen at the time, so I have an excuse. My ''dad,'' who actually got me into it by asking me to watch an episode for him while he was at work, on the other hand...) * [[InsanityPrelude I might]] not have gotten into ''FinalFantasy'' if not for ''KingdomHearts.'' * This very wiki's been the gateway to a couple new series for me, particularly CodexAlera. * A fairly obscure game known as ''{{Graal}}'' caused me to like video games in general, eventually. * Many people this troper knows, who were even not very big on the first-person shooter genre got into {{FPS}}es or PC games in general from ''{{Team Fortress 2}}'' and The Orange Box. ** Check. Bought it on a recommendation from friends. One year later, receives game invites for sniping ability. * ''EightBitTheater'', of all things, got this troper hooked on webcomics. * This Tropers gateway series are: ** ''VGCats'' and ''CtrlAltDel'' (sadly) are his gateway into {{Webcomics}}: Now has the range of about 60-70 webcomics in his bookmarks ** This wiki introduced ''{{Firefly}}'' to this tropers brother, and coincidentally himself, into JossWhedon. ** ''{{Watchmen}}'' introduced this troper to American Comics, which caused him to abandon {{Manga}}... ** Which was introduced by his older brother who got ''{{Inuyasha}}'' when he was into the {{Anime}}... ** Which was also introduced by the [[FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] {{Yu-Gi-Oh}} series, and got the dub off a Peer to Peer service. ** {{Halo}} was this tropers introduction to FPS's and love of gaming. ** And [[HalfLife The]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Portal Orange]] [[TeamFortress2 Box]] was bought for portal, and introduced him into {{Valve}} and PC gaming. * Literature/{{Twilight}}, actually, was my gateway series into vampire novels in general, including ''{{The Vampire Chronicles}}'' and ''[[StephenKing Salem's Lot]]'' (!). ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' was my re-gateway into the {{Disney

Animated Canon}} a few years ago. And Sarah Brightman was my gateway into classical music; a Youtube-style {{WikiWalk}} from a video of hers led me to a video of Maria Callas, [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome and my life was changed]]. * ''{{FLCL}}'' introduced this troper to... ''{{FLCL}}''. After that, ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', and ''{{BludgeoningAngelDokuro-chan}}'' were not that bad either, but ''{{FLCL}}'' is still a billion times better than anything I managed to find. * ''[[BackyardSports Backyard Soccer]]'' was this troper's gateway to sports gaming. * TV Tropes introduced this troper to ''DrMcNinja'', ''DeathNote'', and ''DungeonsAndDragons''. * This troper actually met his high-school sweetheart through Digimon (We met in Elementary school!) and became fond of how there was animation that ''wasn't'' bloody Sitcoms and actually had some coherence of a story and was actually on television where I could see it! * This troper got into strategy games with ''CommandAndConquer''. From there it was a short hop to ''AgeOfEmpires'' in one direction, and ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' in the other. The aptly-named ''SMAC'' led to ''{{Civilization}}''s III and IV, and probably ''SinsOfASolarEmpire'' as soon as I can get a machine that will run it.... * It's hard to admit the mistakes of one's youth, but [[@/{{Koveras}} this troper]], too, once believed that all {{anime}} consisted of ''{{Pokemon}}'' and {{hentai}}. Then come summer of 2003, if memory serves, when he saw a couple of (horrendously dubbed) episodes of ''VisionOfEscaflowne'' on the local TV and was positively blown away by pretty much everything in it (even the dub sounded good back then). It wasn't until he got a stable private internet access about a year later, however, that his anime obsession truly began... * [[ThinksTooMuch This troper]] has had a couple. ** First, I knew nothing about anime. A friend sat me down for ''HowlsMovingCastle.'' Whoa. This is great, I love the story and the art and it's so beautiful to look at and [[{{Bishonen}} Howl]]...uh...[[PerverseSexualLust uh...]] In a lesser way, ''DescendantsOfDarkness'' got me interested in BoysLove. ** I used to play mostly [[LicensedGame Licensed Games]] and [[EdutainmentGame Edutatainment Games]]. [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames Not surprisingly,]] I didn't game much. Then I picked up ''TwilightPrincess'' (for Wii). ''Whoa.'' Video games can have plots? Of their own? That aren't [[ExcusePlot Excuse Plots]]? That are hard? ...Am I seriously crushing on a video game character? Am I seriously rushing home on the weekends so I can play, and staying on as long as possible? Did I seriously finish a video game - before anyone else, no less? Am I seriously sitting down to play it again so I can get OneHundredPercentCompletion? (Sadly, misfortune befell the disc before I did that.) ** Lastly, Tokio Hotel was my introduction to music beyond country and New Age, which were most of what I'd encountered before. * Whippersnappers. This troper was introduced to anime with

''SpeedRacer.'' In the snow, uphill, both ways! (And, much later, with a bootleg of ''{{Akira}}'' in Japanese with ''no subtitles'' because it wasn't available in America yet!) * This troper was introduced to Anime when she was 4 with ''{{Pokemon}}''. She became interested in detective stuff with DetectiveConan. * For [[@/PentiumMMX2 this troper]], some of his gateway series are: ** Anime via ''SailorMoon'' (My older sister was obsessed with it, which led to me catching a few episodes and actually enjoying it) ** {{RPG}}s via ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' (I had played {{Pokemon}} and Quest 64 before then, but Paper Mario was my true introduction to {{RPG}}s; getting me hooked) ** Sci-Fi via ''Galador: Defenders of the Outer Dimension'' (A shortlived sci-fi series that aired Saturday mornings on Fox circa 2002. Reading about this series online several years later eventually led me to watching ''Series/DoctorWho''). * ''[[TwentiethCenturyBoys 20th Century Boys]]'' was the first manga that this troper got absolutely obsessed with, and it's the first that made him realise that manga's could be ''awesome''. Unfortunately, he's failed to find anything ''quite'' as good it yet, be it anime or manga. * This Troper was introduced into SF via ''StarWars: Episode I'' and fantasy via ''HarryPotter''. To his defense... well, he was 11 at the time, and he followed it up almost immediately with the original ''StarWars'' trilogy and Lord of the Rings. * Nearly every single one of this troper's girlfriends tried to introduce him to shonen anime, and he hated them all (the animes, not the girlfriends). Then he got married and his wife introduced him to ''DeathNote''. He still dislikes standard shonen fare, but he's now more open to anime series so long as they avoid his personal {{Berserk Button}}s: NewPowersAsThePlotDemands, ViewersAreGoldfish, and TalkingIsAFreeAction {{Inaction Sequence}}s. * ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' was this troper's gateway to real history. He's read fantasy since he was a child, but in that series the warfare and political maneuvering is a lot more interesting than the magical stuff. It didn't take him ''too'' long to realize there was a massive, easy-to-find amount of what he found so interesting at every bookstore and library in the country. * {{Discworld}}, specifically ''A Hat Full of Sky'', got me into fantasy. Neopets introduced me to the term "MarySue", and research of that term led to me learning [[{{Trope}} a lot of other new words]]. TvTropes introduced me to {{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}}, I got my sister into it, she got into the fandom, and found {{Music/Voltaire}}'s [[VillainSong "When You're Evil"]] in an AMV. I looked for more by him, eventually found "If I Only Were A {{Goth}}" and then (on this [[SmallReferencePools very]] wiki!) discovered that that song is not actually by him. ''Then'' I had to look up the band that actually wrote it. ''Then'' I got addicted to them too. * ''DungeonsAndDragons'' was my first roleplaying game, 'way back when it still came in Basic and Advanced flavors. Now I write roleplaying games. * This Troper started her anime obsession with ''SailorMoon'' and

''{{Pokemon}}''. Then, she moved onto manga with Pixie Pop: Gokkun Pucho. * Although he hates them now, [[{{Tropers/Xaris}} This Troper's]] gateway band for metal was DragonForce. If it weren't for them, he probably wouldn't be such a big music geek now. * This Troper had tried several anime series and never really gotten on board... until ''BlackLagoon''. Not surprising considering how "American" it is compared to most other animes, but all the bad ass [[ActionGirl Action Girls]] [[GirlsWithGuns with guns]] [[FetishFuel certainly helped as well]]. * Not quite, but I became an {{Anime}} fan after watching the flm ''MyNeighborTotoro''. * This Troper has two categories ** Sadly, at age ten, my gateway animes were ''{{Sailor Moon}}'' unedited and ''{{Ranma 1/2}}''. I was nine. ** As a comedy nerd, I have to say, I used to find all comedy to be lesser than drama or plain old stupid, until I saw ''{{Wayne's World}}''. That got me into ''{{Saturday Night Live}},'' which led to a whole array of obscure - and hysterical - shows. If I hadn't seen that movie, I certainly wouldn't have seen my favorite comedy show ever, ''{{The Dana Carvey Show}}''. * [[{{Tropers/altrus}} This Troper]] hated anime, but he kept coming back to the ''{{Code Geass}}'' article on TVTropes, soon he was downloading every episode and "forgiving" anime for "Anime Physics" and other such things. So he's now considering watching more anime. ** Also, ''[[{{Final Fantasy XII}} FFXII]]'' was a gateway into the rest of the Final Fantasy series, but he lost interest. *** Why did I write this in third person? * Unusually for a guy, this troper's gateway series into anime was ''CardcaptorSakura''. This led to searching for a sequel. Enter ''TsubasaChronicle''. Chaos ensues. * Strangely, the first anime that [[{{Tropers/Fishsicles}} This Troper]] watched were completely different from [[HumongousMecha his genre of choice]]. It started out with ''AxisPowersHetalia'' of all things, which I [[TemptingFate referenced in passing around IRC OP and blatant otaku c7dba]]. He gave me a long list, with comments. Hours and hours later, here I am as a pretty solid Otaku. The list is presented in the order that I watched them. ** ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'': "A bit of an exception here but funny as HELL. Oh, and Haruhi's a bit of a psychobitch so you might want to prepare yourself." ** ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': "This isn't the same genre as SailorMoon etc. before you say anything about my masculinity; this is basically a show about giant robots with an ingenious disguise as a magical girl show." ** ''MobileSuitGundam'': "It's fucking GUNDAM." ** ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'': "Because everyone needs to have their head fucked with." ** ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': "Yeah, watch this one after Eva. Like, before you go to sleep after finishing Eva, get this in so you think something besides 'Can't sleep... EVA-01 will eat me. Can't sleep... EVA-01 will eat me.'." (Right around here I jumped straight

into the HumongousMecha fandom) ** ''{{Gundam 00}}'': "It's fucking GUNDAM." ** ''GundamSEED'': "[[OverlyLongGag It's fucking GUNDAM.]] But don't watch ''Destiny'' until you are convinced that one painfully bad example won't put you off... seriously, that would be like trying to get someone into cyberpunk and showing them ''[[TheMatrix Revolutions]]''." ** ''GundamWing'': "It's fucking...[[OverusedRunningGag you get the idea by now.]]" * For the first 17 years of my life, I ''hated'' music. Oh sure, I'd sing in church and play in the school band and all that stuff, but that was mandatory. I hated music. Except video game music, but if you tell people that, they laugh at you because it's not "real" music. And then I bought my SegaDreamcast. I popped in SonicAdventure, and on the title screen, "Open Your Heart" started playing, and I was a little unnerved by the guitar and the drums, but I was amazed at how - I suppose "stirred" is the best term - I felt. And then I began playing as Sonic, and "It Doesn't Matter" started playing... I literally fell in love. I had ''never'' known that music could sound this good. I now own almost 20 [=CDs=] of different artists and listen to music daily. And I literally owe it all to the guitar of Jun Senoue, the singing of Johnny Gioelli, and ''especially'' Tony Harnell. The man is my hero. * This Troper looked to be like every other normal kid at 5. But then one day I asked to play the game my dad was playing:''{{Stronghold}}''. Soon I was playing ''{{Diablo}}'' and ''[[TotalWar Rome Total War]]''. Overall however, I was still normal, a bit of a history buff though. Then came 5th grade. I met some other people who played ''Rome Total War''. ''{{Warhammer}}'', ''{{Discworld}}'', ''{{D&D}}'', ''LordOfTheRings'', etc. soon followed. * This Troper had ''{{Pokemon}}'' for his introduction to anime. ''SailorMoon'' was too girly and ''DragonBallZ'' seemed mindless and slow. I was struck by the continuing story, the art style that made it stand apart from WesternAnimation and visual gags like face faults and sweat drops. I watched the first two episodes of the series with my univerity's anime club. Even though everyone (including me) was mocking the plot holes and Americanization, we were still singing the theme song. In fact, the reason the club was watching it was because it came in third on animes the club members wanted to watch! (''{{Trigun}}'' and ''RurouniKenshin'' were the first two) I guess this means that ''{{Pokemon}}'' is my generation's ''{{Akira}}'' when it comes to a GatewaySeries for anime. ** That being said, my introduction to anime at an artistic level was SpiritedAway. * Tropers/SunnyV's introduction to anime occurred with ''{{Naruto}}'' when she was twelve. Then came ''FruitsBasket'' when she was browsing popular {{shoujo}} manga/anime. Then came ''VampireKnight'' from...somewhere, and then after a yearlong anime hiatus, ''TrinityBlood''. Then she learned of ''AzumangaDaioh'' and ''{{Yotsubato}}'' on this very wiki, at which point she learned of {{seinen}}. From there, she fell in love with ''GunslingerGirl'' and ''SerialExperimentsLain''. Now she's watching ''CowboyBebop''.

Tropers/SunnyV still likes some of the [[AnimeThemeSong intro themes]] of ''{{Naruto}}'', though. * Is it weird that an AbridgedSeries was my gateway series to anime? One of my sister's friends told her to watch Lanipator's ''YuYuHakushoAbridged'' when it had only just come out with its third episode, she told me I had to see it, so I did. And I loved it. After that, we decided to watch the actual series, and it was awesome. After that, we started to watch what anime there was on TV, and the rest is history. It's really amazing, considering that before that point I had just thought of anime as odd (I'd only seen bits and pieces of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh before that, and I had a couple of friends who liked it, butnever really gave it a second thought). Now I've been opened up to the wide world of thousands of titles in tons of different genres. So thank you, Lanipator. * Through playing the [[CapcomVsWhatever Capcom's versus series]], This Troper has now started to read [[MarvelComics Marvel's comic book series]] (as well as other various series), and is now into retro animes, including animes from Tatsunoko Productions. * [[Tropers/KamuiValentine This troper's]] gateway series to anime and video games was Pokemon. She kept quiet and polite to her parents until six years later at age twelve. Her mother's gateway series was Yu-Gi-Oh, which she sat down and watched from the start. Flash forward another six years, and this troper is preparing her thesis on the benefits of video games and comic books as legitimate entertainment and expressions of the HerosJourney. * Pretty much everythying I'm on I got via TVTropes (except for ''{{Redwall}}'', ''{{Animorphs}}'', ''SpongebobSquarepants'', ''MegasXLR'', ''SamuraiJack'', ''TheFarSide'' and ''{{Foxtrot}}''). However, I did get into ''AzumangaDaioh'' because I was determined to find out what the deal was with this girl who threatened people with a knife in ''AMVHell''. And ''AMVHell'' I learned about on this site. * ''LawAndOrder'' was what got me into other {{Crime Drama}}s like ''{{NCIS}}'', ''{{CSINY}}'', ''{{Bones}}'', and ''{{Monk}}''. * The first manga [[Tropers/Triplex this troper]] read was a doujinsha, ''[[InitialD Densha de D]]''. Chalk that up to being a model railroader. Didn't get me regularly reading manga, though. Next came the manga adaptation of ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', but again, I saw that as an isolated event (my mother got the book, and not because it was manga). The series that started me regularly reading? ''ZeroNoTsukaima''. My next was ''KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl''. And yes, TV Tropes was where I learned of those series. * ''RuneScape'' was largely the reason This Troper is so into the fantasy genre. Also, what got this troper into the rock/metal genre was his father playing {{Rush}} and {{Metallica}} [=CDs=] in the car on his way to school. * Because of ''{{Robotech}}'', ''{{Voltron}}'', ''SpeedRacer'', ''[[MazingerZ Tranzor Z]]'', and ''SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs'', This Troper was a fan of anime long before he even knew what anime ''was''. * The ''StarTrek'' movies to ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Dad warned me the episodes weren't as good as the movies. I still love them! (from there, incidentally, to ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration

TNG]]'', which has the best opening theme of them all.) * My friend introduced me to anime and manga in the fourth grade. My GatewaySeries was ''InuYasha'', then ''FruitsBasket''. I was hooked and almost six years later, I'm still collecting manga and anime. * I wasn't a fan of horror until I saw HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi. Unfortunately, it was the anime version, but despite being a worsened adaptation, it was still epic. I had no idea that suspenseful horror could be as awesome as this. After that, I decided to watch some movies. Then I watched [[TheRing Ringu]] (not ''that'' scary, but really cool) and ATaleOfTwoSisters (''oh my GOD that one was scary and awesome'') and now I'm reading the original visual novels for HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi and they are awesome. Thank you, Ryukishi07. * Say what you like about the [[{{Macekre}} heavily modified]] English dub, if it wasn't for [[{{FourKidsEntertainment}} Mew Mew Power]] / {{Tokyo Mew Mew}} this troper wouldn't be interested in animation at all, let alone anime. ** Even stranger example from same troper: it looks like the gateway point to both the {{Fighting Game}} genre and the {{PS3}} console is going to be ... {{Okami}}. Trust me, {{It Makes Sense In Context}}. * For this troper, deciding to watch Naruto on a whim during one long, boring summer two years ago has changed her into a complete narutard. * [[{{Tropers/Nivenus}} This Troper's]] gateway series are: ** I got into science fiction through ''TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'' (specifically, the Disney movie) though admittedly my parents watching ''StarTrek'' (all four of the pre-''[[StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' series) probably played a part as well. ** I got into gaming through ''[[WarCraft WarCraft II]]'' (which I didn't own), later cemented with ''AgeOfEmpires'' (which I did). *** I got into RoleplayingGames through ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', which in particular cemented my loyalty to the BioWare / ObsidanEntertainment format. *** To a lesser extent, CRPGs got me into TabletopGames like ''Dungeons&Dragons''. *** Although I'd played a few casually, I really didn't start to appreciate shooters until I played ''GearsOfWar''. I still prefer it's style of cover-based gameplay to running and gunning. ** Although I used to watch ''[[PokemonAnime Pokemon]]'' I only really got into anime through ''{{DragonBall}}'' ''DragonBallZ'', though I really have only watched a handful of episodes. This was later cemented by ''{{Escaflowne}}''. ** Although I'm not a big fantasy buff, I can definitely say that ''LordOfTheRings'' rose my interest level. * This troper's biggest gateway for a while now has been the movie {{Immortal}}. It single-handedly got me into FrenchBelgianComicBooks, the BD and film works of EnkiBilal, the Thomas Kretschmann fandom and introduced me to the Belgian group Venus. * {{Portal}} was this troper's gateway to the world of video gaming, pretty much. This troper had played various video games with her brother when she was younger, stopped when she discovered that whoops, [[MostGamersAreMale girls aren't supposed to play video games]]. This

troper had only started thinking about games again when she found out that [[MemeticMutation the cake is a lie]] meme is from a video game, and an apparently really good one at that, so she decided to give it a try. The fact that it was a puzzle game and is very, very feminine in a way probably helped too, but once this troper finished it she had finally rediscovered games and a new, interesting medium of storytelling. The fact that it was also a first-person "shooter" in a way probably made it a gateway for FPSes for this troper too. [[BrokenAesop And now this troper is ''this'' close to an exam and can't focus on studying because she's on a cliffhanger in the latest RPG she'splaying]]. Sigh. * This troper has been playing shmups all his life, but didn't really get into it until he played ''{{Gradius}} III'' on SNES (which he ironically has HypeBacklash for now) in 2003. His intro to BulletHell was through ''{{DoDonPachi}}'' in 2004, about 2 years before videos of ''{{Mushihime-sama}}''[='=]s infamous TrueFinalBoss started making the rounds on [=YouTube=], and five years before he got into ''{{Touhou}}''. It is now almost 2011, and shmups still remain as the backbone of my gaming career. * One of [[@/{{Tadaru}} this troper]]'s main video game genre preferences started in 1999 in a place you wouldn't expect. His much more normal little brother was practicing baseball at a batting cage, but since this troper didn't play baseball, his dad gave him some money for the mini-arcade there instead. This troper up to that point pretty much solely played ticket games at arcades, but obviously one like that didn't have any. There were a few games, but the one that intrigued me most of all ended up being RaidenFighters, which not only got him into [[ShootEmUp shmups]], but non-ticket arcade games in general. RhythmGame addiction would start with DanceDanceRevolution shortly after. ** His first foray into BulletHell was GigaWing in the summer of 2000, though this wasn't his gateway. Like the above troper, he also played {{DoDonPachi}} for the first time in 2004. It wasn't until 2006 when he played the {{Touhou}} series for the first time that he really liked BulletHell. * For me, MetroidPrime was a gateway into the metroid series, which in turn became a gateway into the castlevania games, and metroidvania as a whole. It sort of got me playing a couple of the pre-metroidvania, more linear castlevania entries as well. Averted with Assassin's Creed - it could have been a gateway into that series, but I just couldn't get into it whatsoever. I still need a good gateway into more modern gaming and less into retro gaming... * I didn't even know what manga or anime was, even though I watched a little Sailor Moon. Then my friend let me read the first Dragonball volume. * This troper [[InvertedTrope inverted]] TVTropesAsAGatewayDrug by being introduced to this wiki from {{xkcd}}. The rest is history. * This troper blames {{Naruto}} for their gateway. Then it was both {{Bleach}} and {{Pokemon}}. Then {{Fullmetal Alchemist}}... Get it? But it was by complete accident that he found {{Elfen Lied}}. Don't ask. Current series? {{Black Rock Shooter}}. * Alright, This troper has three tales to tell, so here we go.

** For my interest in Anime. it was more like a series of Gateways over the course of the last 12 years of my life, which picked up speed about five years ago. And its picked up speed again in the last year or so. The series were, in order: Pokemon, Digimon, DragonballZ, Naruto, Bleach, FullmetalAlchemist, OnePieceCodeGeass, GhostintheShellStandAloneConplex. So bascially a combination of Toonami, AdultSwim, and notice those "backwards comics" they sold at Barnes and Noble. And only now am i ''really'' getting into it, where i've expanded to FLCL, Trigun, CowboyBebop, TengenToppaGurrenLagann, Beelzebub, FairyTail... You get the picture, i've got a long list of Anime i want to watch now. And i own a ton of Manga. ** For Comic Books, it was Skaar: Son of Hulk, believe it or not. I got into it around issue 3, and then followed it regularly. since i was only able to find it in a store that sold a ton of comics, i naturally noticed a ton of other comics all around me. Nowadays i spend between 20 and 50 bucks on comics every month. Mostly on DeadPool, UltimateMarvel, and TopCow (the guys who do TheDarkness and WitchBlade). ** Video Games, it was watching my brother play TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime, then playing StarCraft (with cheats) and finally Super Smash Bros. Oh, and Halo. But mostly the first three. Here's a gateway link: Main/GatewaySeries. * ---<<|TroperTales|>>

GayBarReveal * While going to grad school in Pittsburgh, [[Tropers/FuzzyBoots I]] found out that a bar down the road, Holiday, had karaoke. It took me three nights of singing before I realized it was a gay bar; the clientele was very low key. Funnily enough, someone had tried to tell me it was a gay bar, but I assumed they meant the place on the other side of the road, the Panther Hollow Inn.

GayBravado * This {{asexual}} troper is extremely physical with her best female friend and is always hugging her and telling her how much she loves her. her friend responds by acting like a {{tsundere}}. we have a few fanboys. * Junior year in Marching band, this troper saw this a lot. It was mostly between certain members of the brass section and the drum major, who would just chuckle and blow the comments off. Maybe that was poor word choice... Excuse the IncrediblyLamePun, please. * I do this with my guy friends all the freaking time, except with one friend it went to far and went into an experimental thing that we agreed to never speak of it again. ** You mean apart from right now? * Some time ago (stated this way so to not hint my age) at my middle school, I overheard a few boys comparing their...man parts under the

table. During lunch. {{Squick}}. * I saw more of this when I played football in high school. We shittalked to each other in ways that would make a YaoiFangirl blush. * This actually happened a lot backstage during my high school drama career. Our troupe was unbelievably close-knit and sexually open, so it wasn't really a far stretch to have any two actors hitting on one another, regardless of gender or orientation. Cue interesting moments for this bisexual troper, one of which involved kissing another bisexual female friend so that two very heterosexual crew guys, who weren't quite as comfortable in their heterosexuality, would kiss. It was spectacular. * The guys in my year at school are very much like this, they write things like 'I Love Anus' on each other's pencil cases, and in today's English class, the two guys sitting in the front row while we were watching a film started wrapping their arms around each other. This Troper, being a {{yaoi fangirl}}, was extremely amused. * This troper quite frequently makes inappropriate comments towards male friends, as well as suddenly acting [[CampGay extremely effeminately]], although there's no particular reason for any of it. [[ItAmusedMe It's just fun]]. And it freaks people out surprisingly effectively. Then again, I'm not entirely sure what my orientation is, but completely straight seems the least likely. * [[Tropers/MegTheMaggot This female Tropette]] does this all the time to my female friends. And because I'm {{Asexual}}, I count hitting on boys in this fashion GayBravado as well. ** {{Asexual}} bravado is so much more fun than GayBravado. Your pool of targets doubles and there's not "closet" suspicion, giving you a free pass for pretty much anything. In our group, the running joke is that I'm "dating" one (bisexual) girl who's recently become single and I'm the "backup" for at least two other people whose sexualities are incompatible with my gender, including one who just got married. * Every one of the regulars in the fencing club at Tropers/KhittyHawk's university. ** [[SelfDemonstratingArticle So, you're into "fencing", eh? I've got an "epee" that would like to "fence" with yours. My number's 555TROPE.]] * This (gay) troper flirts a lot with his (straight) friends and a lot flirt back. It's lots of fun. Like playing the game of courtly love. ** This troper does this to check for StraightGay acquaintances, for future reference. * This troper and some of his closer friends are walking cases of this. They are all quite comfortable in their heterosexuality (just thought I'd point that out), and have a ton of fun playing gay chicken. They have all gotten very, very good at it; it rarely stops before tongues now. * My entire friend group is like this, although gender flipped since we're all ladies. Actually, I'm not sure how many of us it actually counts for anymore...I've become comfortable with my bisexuality fairly recently, and I have one possibly-not-so-straight friend, but I think everybody else is straight. In any case, none of us are together at all, but we joke all the time about our sexy lesbian threesomes and our dramatic love quadrangles. We've even worked it into a story where

we're battling troupes of superheroes/supervillains with ''very'' complicated love lives. I can't imagine what people who hear snips of our conversations must think about us, but we're kind of the crazy weird nerds around school so nobody really knows how to deal with us anyways. * I do High School Theatre. I would need a whole different page to list all the examples I could list. ** As someone else who was in high school theatre, I second this (though a particularly interesting incident involved a straight friend winning gay chicken against a gay guy). * I am pretty much the embodiment of this trope, I'm bi of the AnythingThatMoves variety, and this is often my way of flirting with guys that I will never have...in bed. Since I'm closeted they usually play along * Just the other day, my roommates, I'll call them Alex and Bob, had a this conversation: -->'''Alex''': Have you guys been looking at my ''Playboy''s again? -->'''Me''': Yeah, and there are two new stains on Miss December. -->'''Alex''': You had a circle jerk without inviting me? -->'''Me''': I can go again. * My two guy friends in high school had this so much that I actually went to betting them $2 to kiss. It almost happened but unfortunately, it didn't. I forget why but I think it had to do with the cost being too little (I only had $2 on me at the time) * Two of my friends in high school had a version of gay chicken going on where, over a coule weeks, they would kiss each other on the cheek. [[InsaneTrollLogic The winner was the one who had kissed the other the most times.]] The competition reached its peak when they both went for a kiss at the same time, and they ended up kissing on the lips. I, being a gay man myself, thought they made a really cute couple. * This tropette's friend and said friend's HeterosexualLifePartner do this all the time to screw with HLP's brother. Of course, [[LesYay they have acknowledged that it could quite conceivably happen.]] Everyone ships it now. * This [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday straight]] troper and her lesbian friend flirt all the time. To the point where one will run up and violently glomp the other. She has at one point greeted me, "Hey, sexy." ...Yeah. * This (lesbian) troper often plays 'Straight Chicken' with her male friens. She almost always wins. She also once teased a girl out of the closet using this method. * The friends at school has questioned my sexuality if i were gay or bi, because i can tangle in sexual innuendos and jokes in almost any sentence or make a joke. They stopped worry when they found out that i had read the Bible and could quote Jesaja, albeit my jokes have not stoped. Sometimes they are clever, but occasionaly they are quite blunt. ->'''Friend:''' "''Like seriously. You are strong. You could Beat down Kevin if you would want to right now, right?''" ->'''Me:''' "''I dont want sex.''" * This troper doesn't play often, but he plays for keeps... [[AccidentalInnuendo Let me start again]]. A couple of friends have

tried this on me, and I've made it plenty clear that they're the ones uncomfortable with it. I'm bi, but they're not my type. * This Troper knows of a guy who likes to chant 'Bi when drunk!' at parties even though we are 100% certain he is straight, yet to show how awesome and confident he is (his words not mine), he'll play and win gay chicken with his friends. His homophobic friend doesn't like him when he's drunk. * One of [[{{Stinkoman87}} This Male Troper's]] friends from high school was a YaoiFangirl, and the rest of my friend group got easily {{Squicked}} by HoYay. We used to joke about the HoYay in the shows we both liked ({{Naruto}} and KatekyoHitmanReborn mostly) and messed with my other friends by showing them the more disturbing scenes in BusouRenkin. (Papillion's man thong) * One of this Troper's female friends was very close, and many people thought we were gay, which we thought was hilarious. This led to us indulging in this trope quite a lot. At one point, we both leant forward to kiss the other before class started, expecting the other to shy away at the last moment... neither did. We both pulled away, and my own boyfriend burst out laughing at the equal looks of incredulity on both our faces... * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper]] and her friends do this a lot. Now I'm bisexual, and one of my friends is... curious, anyways, but we're not together (the bicurious one has a boyfriend who is one of the people among this group of friends). No actual sex involved, but things have gotten, uh... very far, especially in games of Truth or Dare (especially between me and the two friends mentioned). Also played straight in the way that we make the boyfriend and his best friend do things, and they "flirt" with each other all the time. * This male troper has a friend who does this a lot with his other friends and himself. The catch? I'm bisexual, and my friend didn't always know this at the time. I have various reasons for wanting to stay in the closet for now (but have come out to him, and a few others), so I really tried to stay out of it. I would lose at Gay Chicken practically every time because of this, even though my friends are all 100% straight (and I have since confirmed this since coming out of the closet with them). But it still made things very awkward since occasionally it seemed they weren't just fooling around. ---I bet you don't have the ''guts'' to go back to GayBravado!

Gayngst http://www.youtube.com/user/itgetsbetterproject * This troper has a fair bit of it. It's part of the reason my mother kicked me out. Also, my friends don't get why I get annoyed at their hate speach towards gay men because 'You're not gay, you're a lesbian. Dumb, huh? * This bisexual troper hasn't had Gayngst so much as just frustration at people who ''[[NoBisexuals just don't seem to get it.]]'' * Am I seriously the only troper who has had Gayngst? I mean, between

[[IncompatibleOrientation inherently doomed crushes]], struggling to come up with a way to come out without losing your best friends and sitting through blatant homophobia from classmates, being in the closet is [[{{Understatement}} tough.]] ** Incidentally, this trope is the reason why I'm determined to get my high school's GSA reactivated, even if that means leading it myself. I want my fellow gays to feel like they're safe at school, and I don't want them to feel isolated. * This troper feels that he'll only be attracted to straight guys all his life, and can't find any {{Straight Gay}}s. * sigh* Doomed love life? Let the rainbow violins play, we have gayngst. ** [[Tropers/NinjaDuckie This Troper]] is a {{Straight Gay}}.. and he knows exactly what you're talking about. ._. ** Thirded. It seems that fate has deemed it appropriate to locate {{Straight Gay}}s everywhere except for our current location =/ * This troper's life seems to mess with this trope badly. This troper has angsty emo crush on straight friend. But - it turned out my straight friend isn't straight. Didn't know that at first - but she's aromantic and asexual. Apart from that, this troper lives in a conservative Christian community and can't catch a break. I got used to having used tissues thrown at me and my art torn up. :/ ** *hugs* I'm so sorry. * Inverted by this lesbian troper. My life is MUCH happier than that of any of my straight friends, who just can't seem to [[AngstDissonance catch a break.]] In high school, however, I was this trope: I was unrequitedly in love with one of my straight best friends (which ultimately ruined our friendship because I couldn't be around her without getting depressed), my other straight best friend fell unrequitedly in love with me and tried to kill himself because I couldn't love him in the same way, my mom is blatantly homophobic, I went to an ultra-conservative Christian high school and was teased for how I [[TransparentCloset was perceived]] when I wasn't really sure myself yet, and I have always struggled with anxiety and depression in general. Oh, and after I got over the girl I loved my first two years in high school, I fell for another girl for the last two years who turned out to be bi but was bipolar, deeply closeted, and ended up getting addicted to drugs. I'm in college now. Moral of the story? IT DOES GET BETTER. All my gay friends have stories even more depressing then mine, like my friend who has been to Christian Brain-washing straight camp and my friend who tried to kill himself. We are Nakama now and we love eachother, and now I'm glad that I'm a lesbian because if I weren't I would never have met the most awesome, loving, supportive gay people in the entire universe. * This lesbian troper and her gay friend subvert this trope. We were best friends the last two years of high school. We angsted about doomed loves a bit but not half as much as he did about his weight and being unpopular (there were very popular homosexual kids, so it's not gaynst), and I about my [[LonersAreFreaks zero social skills]] and my terrible relation with my mother. * [[@/{{Leradny}} This bisexual troper]] lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and finds most stories about homosexuals struggling to come out a tad antiquated -- though she has no problem with well-written

ones. Either that or she has [[IncrediblyLamePun Gayngst What Gayngst]]. ** This bisexual troper also lives in aforementioned San Francisco Bay Area and has both experienced it and witnessed it among LGBT friends. Homophobia exists here too. * This tightly closeted troper doesn't live in a Western country and thus all of the stories about being 'out and proud' are completely alien to her. While her particular country ceased criminalizing samesex relationships a few years ago, social stigma is still so strong that almost no manner of direct expression is really possible. Hence the Gayngst -- compounded by the fact that this troper was also raised in a strict Christian Orthodox household. * Subversion. This lesbian troper was told by her mother, shortly after coming out: "You can never come out to your two best friends because they will abandon you and you will be utterly alone. You cannot tell your brother because that would make him even more depressed and troubled than he already is. And you can not come out at college, either, because you will be ridiculed by your peers...so wait until you have graduated and entered the adult life before telling anyone." Actually, the two best friends (who admittedly come from ultra-conservative families) are both 100% cool with it and supportive. In fact, one of them turned out to be bisexual herself. My fifteen year old brother has known for years and is also supportive. And most the friends I've met in college have been through LGBT oriented student groups. The only one gayngsting is my mom. * This lesbian troper's friends expect her to have a life filled with angst and constant struggle, when more often that not their lives come off as being worse. * Being a closeted bisexual, this troper has had to listen to several close friends describe how, while they have no problem with gay people, bisexuals are completely wrong, attention seekers, depraved and shouldn't exist. Yep, I'm never talking about my sexuality in public. Ever ** Sounds more like you need friends who aren't ignorant jackasses. * This troper has gotten ''[[{{Asexual}} Ace'']]-angst. She got better. Now she's angsting-confused about her gender.. * Inverted for this bisexual, genderqueer troper: several gay people have called this troper's identity invalid because zie has never had any angst regarding sexual orientation or gender. * This troper's brother calls her a lesbian in a horribly mocking manner if she even slightly alludes to her [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean leanings]], her mother smiles weirdly at her when she brings it up and her dad doesn't know because he's waiting for her to bring home her first boyfriend so he can go all OverprotectiveDad on him and she doesn't want to disappoint him. On top of that, she wishes she could be straight for some reason that she can't bloody figure out, and the thought of other people knowing [[NightmareFuel scares the shit out of her]]. Despite that, she loves her girlfriend to an impossible degree and feeling all the above {{Gayngst}} makes her [[YouSuck feel like shit]] for wanting to be any different. Someone get this troper a [[ThereAreNoTherapists therapist]]. ** Massive sympathy from This Troper. It's all ridiculously hard.

*** The original poster/Troper/whatever would like to inform you that she is largely over this, her dad loves her regardless, she doesn't care what her brother thinks, her mum doesn't mind as long as all doors remain unlocked when her girlfriend is over, and that her school is pretty damn awesome. Most of the homophobia/irrational fear of other people's scorn was in her head. So it's a process. * This troper may seem 'out and proud' to the few who know, but there's always those miserable nights crying in bed over useless crushes. * This troper doesn't enjoy being gay even though his parents probably would be supportive of him if somewhat disappointed. The problem is that while they wouldn't have many problems with it, they are kind of ignorant about it and probably would think I'd turn into a walking stereotype and they would be careful not to offend me with jokes or comments. This may not seem like a bad thing but this troper hates it when people are not doing something just because of him. * This female bisexual troper only has one thing to say about her current situation: straight girl crushes suck a whole lot. And her best friend has ''really'' pretty hair. ** Seconded. They ''suck''. Not only does she seem to be unaware of my existence, she is also - as far as I know anyway - straight. Oh, and a friend of mine can't stand her. And since I don't actually know her, it would seem very strange if I always defended her whenever he complained about how much she annoys him. ** Thirded. Even though I (pansexual) now have a boyfriend, I still can't help staring at her. God''dammit''. ** Fourthed. I hate my life. And my apparently broken 'gaydar'. And the fact that said friend went from bi (to make her ex boyfriend jealous) to straight (when it didn't work). Augh. ** Fifthed. Happens to me all the time, too. ** Sixthed? I fell ''hard''. [[LoveHurts It]] [[AllLoveIsUnrequited hurts]]. ** Seventh. At least it's gets easier after seven years. But her sister is a lesbian. And two months after she left the country a male bisexual clone of her turned out to be in my new class. Who then turned out to be a complete tool. And got a girlfriend. There is a God, and he hates me. ** Eighthed. Not only did she avoid me after I said something to her, she's always acting so damn immature about it. She reminds me every chance she gets that she'll never, ever, in a million years be gay (And I ''mean'' every chance), and on top of that, at the time only my big toe was out of the closet, and she decided to tell a friend. Nevermind that the friend had the cutest laugh... ** Ninethed. They're just there and gorgeous and perfect and goddamn. Can't I fall for any girl who actually ''likes'' girls!?! ** TENTHED. This new troper is struggling to come to grips with her sexuality, and currently has a huge, and I mean ''huge'' crush on my best friend. She is completely straight and is actually UNSUPPORTIVE OF GAY RIGHTS. She's also the closest friend I have ever had and, like the original troper posted, has freaking gorgeous hair and is just... ughhh. Thank sweet baby Jesus that I have an amazing therapist. ** Having a lesbian crush on your asexual best friend isn't much

better. *sigh* *** It's not much better when you're the asexual friend that they're crushing on. ** You know what's worse? This somewhat-bisexual female troper fell for a lesbian. Said troper already has a steady boyfriend. Stupid ClosetKey... ** This (bi female) troper has managed to fall for an openly bi female friend, who is very physically affectionate, has more than once admitted the attraction is mutual... and who has a long-term, very conservative boyfriend. ** Happens to this troper a lot, too. A LOT. It gets even weirder when you move a lot and you've got some three or four crushes of varying genders going on. The ones that would be interested aren't there/available and the ones that aren't interested are right in front of you with their pretty hair and smiles and laughs and adorable cutesy stuff you never thought you'd like before and ''GODDAMN YOUR BOOBS ARE AWESOME''. No, I was not staring at them. I like your necklace, it's very shiny. ** It reaches all new levels of awkward when the straight girl crush in question is a friend of your mother's. (And before you think I'm weird, the friend in question was actually closer to me in age than she was to my mom.) ** This troper can sympathize, multiple straight friend crushes, and a broken Gaydar. You'd think mine would work, but I must be using as a cloaking device instead. * [[@/DragonMaster This troper]] is an inversion. He is Bisexual and has a crush on a friend of his ... who is a lesbian. * [[@/{{Anderling}} This Troper]] had an odd case of this. (First Person now.) A while ago, I had a [[JerkAss friend]] who insisted I "belonged" to him. One time, he did that in an MSN-conversation. As a joke, I added a female friend of mine into the conversation and said, "Well, [[AliceAndBob Alice]] and I are very happy together. ;)" My friend started playing along, but [[AliceAndBob Bob]] [[{{Wangst}} responded only with a crying emoticon for an hour]]. Thus blockage ensued. Then about a week ago my mother asked [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse what happened to Bob]], since I didn't talk about him anymore. I told her that he was being a jerkass and after some persuasion, explained the [[LesYay thing]] with Alice as well. My mother was silent for a moment before starting to laugh, almost crying with laughter, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "My daughter the lesbian!"]]. [[DudeNotFunny Hi, I'm]] [[BiTheWay bisexual]]. * Another inversion here. I took a girl to prom who turned out to be a lesbian. About as funny and pathetic as taking your mom, isn't it? * I went to a small, private Christian high school (entire school: 300 students), where being gay or bisexual was considered grounds for expulsion (I wish I was making that up). I would gayngst over the fact that I couldn't display ANY affection in ANY way for ANY of the other guys that I liked. Nowadays, I'm gayngsting over the fact that I have feelings for my male best friend, but he's engaged to a woman, not to mention completely straight. I mean, I'm happy for them and all, may their union be fruitful and last forever, but still...Oh, and then there's the unobtainable celebrity crushes; Anderson Cooper, Atsushi

Sakurai, and Justin Bieber (don't like his music, but I would totally jump his bones). ** You ''do'' know Anderson Cooper's gay, right? * This troper got a crush on her definitely straight best friend. Cue lots of unrequited longing, unintentional teasing on her part, very graphic descriptions of said friend's sexual experiences with her boyfriend and then, eventually, our very close, [[LesYay "sisterly"]] friendship crumbling to casual acquaintanceship. I still want her from afar...* Gayngsty sigh* . * I've never quite gayngsted over someone I couldn't have. Most of my Gayngst comes from my revelation about my entire emotional repulsion of girls, despite a sexual one being there, though not nearly as [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean strong as the one on the other side of the fence.]] The other bit is me wondering if I'm just being a Contrarian about this like I am about everything else. Not quite ever cried myself to sleep about it, but I've clutched pillows laying awake in bed many times thinking hard weather or not, if I am or aren't. Only made worse when I finally work into my head that I am in fact gay, and when I tell my Mother, she doesn't believe it. ** Wow, you sound like me... *** What's wrong with girls? * This troper has asexual angst. Whenever I bring the topic up to my friends or even hints at it to my family, I'm very promptly shot down or told that I just haven't found "the one" yet. * [[@/AmericanBadass This Troper]] is Bi (borderline gay) Trans, who lives in a home were Murder is more acceptable than homosexuality, "The only unforgivable sin," where femininity is a flaw, and men are only supposed to cry about death. So basically I will never be accepted, so I can never come out. So I will never be happy cause I don't even think a loving boyfriend will be able to make up for lost family. It's basically their fault I don't believe in True love even though my father preaches it almost as much as he preaches that homosexuality is a mental disorder. My brother is both worse and better, he has nothing against gays or gay rights but he's the living incarnation of GIFT so he regularly calls people "a bunch of flaming homosexuals" in place stupid, granted but I know he's just trolling, which doesn't really help but at least he doesn't believe it's morally wrong, he's just a JerkAss. * Honey, I just signed on to say that no matter who you are, I accept you and care about you. You are clearly intelligent and extremely brave, if the people in your community don't value you, I swear to you. Other people will. Please keep fighting the good fight and if you ever feel depressed please remember that there ARE people who love you. * [[@/TriNova This troper]] is having a Ho Yay/Gayngst relationship with his best friend. Ho Yay, in that that is pretty much what our relationship looks like to others at times, and Gayngst because both of us have hinted at desiring a relationship with the other, and we've both admitted that we're uncertain about out sexualities to each other. Unfortunately, thanks to living in the Midwestern US, {{Moral Guardian}}s as parents and in the education system have essentially made being gay an almost impossible life in my region.

** This troper is in a very similar situation, though genderflipped, with her own best friend. We make jokes about the LesYay all the time, even writing essays that make our teachers question our relationship. We've had talks about our confusion over our sexuality, and have had very similar personal issues over it. Of course, we live in New England, so we ''can'' be jokingly open without much social repercussion. But we're both painfully awkward about some things, so it's been impossible to make the joke real. F* ck. * This Troper is a closet Bi, who can't tell his parents because they hate gays, has been alienated by his best friend, has to sit through anti-homo lectures everyday from his other (Fundamentalist) best friend and found out that the guy he had an unrequited crush on is a complete Jerkass. In short, it sucks to be me. ** Hey, at least you aren't [[AvenueQ Gary Coleman]] :) ** Oh, yes, very droll. TBH, I'm more like Trekkie Monster ;) * No tragic crushes on heterosexuals here, just a lot of Gayngstbordering-on-Wangst at the thought of how it will [[WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent derail]] this troper's life and his chances at happiness. ** It's ok, we still love you. Everything will get better soon. You want to talk about it? * This troper is an interesting case... I'm not sure WHAT I am. In math terms, I'm the origin point on a quadrant plane. I'm almost out of highschool, but I've never like-liked someone (as far as I can tell. I'm increadibly out of touch with my emotions). And people say that "you'll know when it happens", but I don't know what "it" is! The worst part is when I tried telling my best friend. She laughed nervously and asked if I was joking. I freaked out and said I was. It was ok in the 7th grade, but now that I'm in 11th, it's really starting to bother me. ** Never like-liked anyone? Sounds like you're {{Asexual}}. (No, not as in reproduces asexually... read the trope page for more information.) No, you're not a freak. Your orientation is just very rare. As it turns out, it seems we have quite a few asexuals on this very wiki... *** For a second I stopped and wondered whether I was the one who wrote this. It's accurate enough. * This closeted lesbian troper has had a hell of a time hiding her identity in a small town on Long Island. Doesn't help that she fell for her best friend, who in a truly bizarre twist was actually in love with a different girl (who was a fundie christian and that is a whole different story) and is constantly afraid of her flamboyant, musicaltheater obsessed gay friend inadvertently outing her to her parents. * This closeted gay male troper has this badly. His family claims to not be bigoted but constantly generalizes gays, so the social pressure is bad enough. It's also triggered a need for spiritual reevaluation; when the choices are "grow old and die alone, then go to Heaven" or "find a partner and be loved, then go to Hell", you start desperately seeking [[TakeAThirdOption a third option]] that doesn't discard romantic love or the mercy of God. ** Don't worry, not all factions of Christianity think God hates gay people. The part of the Bible they got this from was some random rule

not spoken by any part of the Holy Trinity. *** Besides, isn't the line something like "Do not lie with another man as you would lie with a woman?" Don't try to go into a dude from the front. That's just common sense. *** I am using this in an argument. *** You, good sir/madam/other, win an internet for that. *** It's indeed from Leviticus. Also from Leviticus are the sections reminding you not to wear mixed fibres ("Oh, that's a nice poly-cotton shirt you have on there, see you in Hell!"), nor to shave your facial hair, ("I do admire your clean shave, let's be damned together!"), nor to sit where a menstruating woman has sat (...not going to touch that one...). It also requires people to stone thieves and adulterers, wear tassels on the corners of all of their clothing, and follow a thousand other rules that many, many people conveniently ignore when they exploit the Bible. Especially a section written several thousand years ago. In Aramaic. Which was then translated. Three times. And let's not even get into King James... ** It's hell for those of us who were raised in one of the other factions, though. This troper could be describing me twelve years ago. ** I remember a section from "The Color Purple" which summed up my view on this pretty well: Effectively, God likes what you like because he's the one who made it and he likes that you appreciate all the cool stuff he made. If you want to be with another man, that's fine, because He made everything for a reason. He wouldn't have made you gay if there wasn't a reason for it. * This troper never Gayngsted over actually being bisexual - her dad went to frigging ''Antioch'', aka bastion of hippiedom - she gayngsted over her unrequited love for one of her dearest friends. Who turned out to be lesbian. Life is a ''bitch''. * This troper is pretty comfortable with being Bi, and luckily enough has yet to encounter any trouble... it's being trans that can be tough. So far parents and close family are cool, and I have a loving girlfriend... but thinking about telling grandparents, or wondering just what I'm doing, or wishing I was more masculine... or getting called 'she'... ''sigh'' * Subverted with this Troper who had a remarkably easy time being gay and finding boyfriends even in a conservative state. In response I've dedicated a large portion of my life to helping other gay kids I meet work through and overcome their gayngst. I've yet to figure out if this just stems from part of my character or from a sort of sick form of survivor's guilt. * This Troper hides any traces of gayngst pretty well, making this a more a case of AngstWhatAngst perhaps, but between the [[TheFundamentalist Fundie Mom]] and the completely whipped dad, he gets told all sorts of things about "those depraved homosexuals" at home. It was a giant relief to him when he told his mom that he didn't want to go to her church(which makes the Westboros look like Unitarians), but that was only a very small part of the battle, the ultimate goal of which is, obviously, to come out to them. Cue the Gayngst whenever Troper's mother says any of her stock phrases about gay people being incapable of love (Ouch.), or that the [[SarcasmMode "lack of reproduction in a sexual relationship makes it a sin in the

eyes of The LORD. And no condoms do not count as preventing reproduction. You ask too many questions."]] Blegh. Fortunately, he has an incredibly supportive boyfriend and a great circle of friends, so there's a lot of time spent as far away from the source of the gayngst as possible. ** Ugh. As a deeply religious person, I have to ask this. Why are 'fundamental Christians' always brought up in conversations like this...and with such demeaning nicknames like Fundie? If people don't like homosexuals then so be it. But don't belittle or mock religion complaining about it. Stuff like this is like seeing Gay Rights compared to the Civil Rights Movement. It just gets my ire up. *** Some of us find "homosexual" demeaning. I don't expect everyone to automatically know this, but you're not really emanating a lot of attempted empathy here. And I feel you're belittling us by saying no comparisons can be made of our struggles to the Civil Rights Movement. If I mock religion, "so be it". **** Uh the word Homosexual isn't demeaning its the actual word for it. Insert FacePalm ***** It has been taken by certain anti-gay people because there's evidence it's successful in getting people to vote against gay rights, People react more negatively to "Gay" then to "Homosexual" when asked. It's not indicicative of malice in itself, but the rest of the post made me angry and I just vented. *** Erm...First troper here. It's because that is the term which she uses to refer to herself? And I only have a problem with her selfdescribed "fundamentalism" because she uses it as an excuse to belittle and demean what I am...So...Not sure where you're really coming from with the ire, there. And how are gay rights NOT a civil rights issue? That's...just insulting. *** I think, deeply religious person, the whole "fundamental christian" thing is always brought up because, when brought up, it's always because they've disagreed with homosexuality ''because of their religion.'' As the original poster put it, his mother said that it's "a sin in the eyes of the Lord", which means she's using her religion as anexuse to be a homophobe. THAT'S why it's brought into the conversation. * This closeted, bi troper was never really interested in dating anyway and averted this for the longest time...until she got a crush on her conservative, religious, practically asexual friend. >.< It's not so much sad as it is frustrating, though. * I have this friend that I've known since age 5 - we've grown up together, gone through Hell together, and come out the other side together. We literally could not be more close than we are. And I had to go and fall unconditionally and irrevocably in ''desperate painful love'' with her. And I see her every. Single. Day. It's been three years since the feelings started and they haven't changed at ''all''. THERE AREN'T ENOUGH DESKS TO HEAD IN THE WORLD. Gayngst. I have it. ** The way I see it, if you tell her, the worst case scenario is that you don't see her anymore, and as I recall that was one of your problems. Go for it. ** Seconded. You'll never know unless you tell her. * I offer hugs and a plate of cookies to everyone on here. I've never

really had {{Gayngst}} save for when I had unrequited love for my best friend. I've managed to turn it into unconditional love so I feel a bit better knowing that seeing her happy is the greatest gift I can have. As to my life other than that... Just because I'm 'out and proud' doesn't make it any easier cause I have no gaydar and my friends are all either in relationships or MasterOfTheMixedMessage... ** And to add to it now, I'm in love with another of my friends whose in a relationship already. Which brings us to a completely different trope. At least if she ever has a breakup then I can at least try and get with her... * I'm having {{Asexual}} Gaygnst. The few people I'm out to were either weirded out when I told them, or said some variant on "That doesn't exist." Excuse me, I need to chaperone Mr. Palm and Miss Forehead's date. ** Yep, [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Ace Angst]] here too. It definitely doesn't help that I'm A) firmly closeted and B) a virgin and most of my friends aren't, so I'm really afraid of getting reactions like "You'll get it when you've done it" etc. * Bisexual, born into a homophobic family that believes that bisexuality is 'greedy' and same sex relationships are 'unnatural'. * I didn't have Gayngst because I realised I was gay (it was more of an 'oh' moment). The Gayngst in my life stems from falling madly in love with straights and my parents wanting me to 'experiment' in case I'm bisexual. ** Er... your parents sound kind of awesome, actually. ** I can understand why that would be frustrating, though. Parents are still trying to make sure you have some form of heterosexuality in your relationships. However, given that most of the tropers here seem to have apathetic parents at ''best'', you haven't got it too bad. * This troper is mostly straight, and Still has big issues with seeing herself as anything but. But what bothers her is that she knows she can never tell her mother, due to her "I hope not" reactions to the Idea of her being gay, So... Some Gayngst here.. * INVERTED. This troper is straight and has a crush on someone who is gay. Believe me it is just as painful. ** Um... no offense, but you seem to be missing the point here. I'm sure the crush you have right now is painful and all, but shear mathematics dictates that your next crush is virtually guaranteed to be on a straight person. Gayngst would be like if every single crush you ever had and have was on a gay person. *** Still, a handful of folk here comment that they've only had it happen once or a small few number of times, so it can't hurt to maybe seek a little support, right? I've actually been there too, bisexual and all, and yes, it does suck. That said, mayhaps the troper tales for IncompatibleOrientation would provide more warm fuzzies of familiar comfort? Seems to be a healthy amount of discussion there. **** Second Poster here: I guess you're right... also, yeah, TroperTales/IncompatibleOrientation would be a good place for support on that. * This bisexual (Although it's more like Single Target Sexuality) troper has a year-long crush on her also-bisexual female friend. Problems? Friend is out, this troper is so tightly jammed into the

closet that she can't even see the light. And the friend has a boyfriend who she is VERY into. And this troper gets to hear all the details. *Winces* * Even though she has four gay/lesbian family members (including her sister) who all have happy, fulfilling lives, and a family that's fine with it, this troper still has massive issues with her own bisexuality. She has less angst about being genderqueer than she does about that, and doesn't even know why it bothers her so much. ** ... Of course, it's probably because I (the above troper) don't like girls, even though I'm attracted to them. * This troper's boyfriend left her because she wasn't strictly 'gay' and in fact wished to go through gender reassignment therapy. Turns out he has a [[UncannyValley phobia]] of mid-transition transexuals. This makes NO SENSE. ** This troper is gay and afraid of transsexuals in general. It's not universal, it's a preference thing. I don't hate them, but I wouldn't go out with one. * This troper's lesbian auntie fell in love with her college roommate, and was in love with said roommate for two years. The two were best friends, Kristen had a lot of boyfriends - and my Auntie Rebecca made the mistake of telling her about her love for her. Kristen ''dropped out of college'' because of the shock and never spoke to my poor auntie again. Later, Rebecca found out that Kristen was a lesbian now and had a girlfriend. She had always been in love with my aunt, but thought that her lesbian feelings was a sin and was deeply uncomfortable. [[HappyEnding Now they are both married to gorgeous women, who don't pretend to be homophobic to hide their true sexuality.]] (They're still not speaking to each other, though. My aunt never forgave Kristen for being a coward.) * This (bisexual) Troper used to have this in spades. It's better now that most of his family has come around, even if things are still occasionally weird. The worst part? He now has a crush on his (ragingly heterosexual) best friend, who kept him sane after he came out and his entire world seemed to be falling apart. That, plus a couple of [[IncompatibleOrientation unrequited crushes]] and living in a [[TheFundamentalist conservative]] [[EverythingIsBigInTexas west Texas]] [[DeepSouth hellhole]], is quite enough to drive him to gayngst every once and a while. * Double subverted (I think?) for this bisexual Troper. She's been out for over two years but has struggled with depression and suicidal ideation for reasons having nothing to do with her sexuality. * This gay Troper is dealing with a huge crush at a conservative Catholic school on a guy who is straight. He is somewhat of a friend to this troper,but is completely in the dark and is unwittingly mentally killing me. But I guess that's what you get when even your best friends tell faggot jokes and you're forced to laugh along. * [[{{Min}} I]] know that I am extremely lucky to be subverting this one. * This bisexual Troper has a huge and long-lasting crush (over a year now) on one of her best friends. She is completely oblivious about this and probably isn't even interested in love life yet. I'm so scared to tell her about my feelings because I'm afraid that she'll

start to think that I'm a weird stalker. The worst part is that I don't know if she is straight or not and I surely am not going to ask her about it. * This geeky [[BiTheWay Bi]] female Troper is out to her friends, however, not family. It's fine to be gay but definitely not OK to be bi. Long story short, my grandmother left my grandfather because he wanted to be with her and another guy. I was always told he was gay. I found out he was bi the day before I was going to announce to my family that I'm more than meets the surface. I would have been instadisowned for sure. * This lesbian troper needs to seriously limit her contact with the female gender. She has a huge crush on her taekwondo instructor and she can't look her partner in calculus in the eye without blushing (why is she perfect? and single?). She also has a homophobic mother (who doesn't know) and a homophobic brother (who does know). Only one of her close friends right now knows that she's gay and she has the sneaking suspicion that one of her guy friends has feelings for her, so she'll probably have to out herself soon to them to save the awkwardness. This is stressing me out. * This troper has [[AllergicToLove aromantic]] angst. His affections for a girl won't ever go beyond squishes.. * This troper is a lesbian who cannot believe how hard it is to hide her sexuality from everyone (except a friend who lives on the other side of the world). You can probably write the rest of the story...doesn't know how her parents are going to react (they seem okay with homosexuality, but in a sort of happening-to-other-people sort of way), can't stop friends trying to get her a boyfriend, and has a major crush on one of above friends, who is unfortunately very, very straight. The only really unfortunate part is going to be breaking to her parents that she won't be giving them grandchildren. On the other hand, they do have three other children--will that count for anything in her favour? Other than that, she just feels that lesbianism is such a hard thing to hide from everyone and is sick to death of it--but might end up dead if she tells. * This trouper is a straight crossdresser male, and his angst is that he doesn't seen able to find a girl who is ok with it, getting hit on by a ton of guys doesn't help, and most crossdressers he know IRL look at him like a weird bug because he is straight and not gay, or at least bi. ** If its any comfort, there are girls out there who don't mind, or think that that's pretty hot. So don't give up hope, you'll find a girl who's okay with it. * Step 1. Be nearly suicidal for other reasons. Step 2.Realize you're bi because of an anime character Step 3. Hello Gayngst. A year later, when all the issues had gone away I got a crush on a straight girl who was a nearly perfect match. Hey again Gayngst, I didn't miss you. I am now very happy with a girl that really is a perfect match and loves me back. Even if we're 3000 miles away from each other but I'm guessing that's an entirely different type of angst. * Averted with me. Bisexual, everybody knows, nobody cares * The ultimate gaynst is getting into fake straight relationships to prove your straightness. Agree/Disagree?

* This formerly asexual Troper is angsting over having a sexuality after all. and a little about being bi or possibly a lesbian. the confusion leads to gaynsting anyway. * This gay troper has experienced gayngst, not in the way of my parents not accepting me because they do and not because my friends don't accept because they do. This mostly has to do with the fact that I have a crush on a guy that I cannot get over. He's gay too, but the reason I'm gayngsting over him is because even though I've never told him how I feel he's already let me know I'm not his type and even if he knew I liked he wouldn't reciprocate my feelings. No matter what I do I cannot get over him. I also have other insecurities. I'm afraid that I'm no man's type and I'll never find anyone. I also would one day like to have children and I'm afraid that I'm being selfish wanting that because I'm afraid that I would be pretty much subjecting them to life of ridicule and prejudice because they'd have two dads. I'm that worried. * In the beginning stages of gayngst right now. I come from a Jamaican family where both parents are immigrants. My mom is cool with homosexuality in the as-long-as-it-isnt-my-child sense but my dad is against homosexuality and hates Obama for trying to give gays rights. The rest of my family strongly dislikes anyone not straight. This has caused me to deny my bisexuality for years before finally coming to terms with it recently (I like girls more). Havent had any girl crushes (unless you count celebrities) but I had my first kiss with a girl in kindergarten in the middle of class. The teacher told my parents who then spanked the crap out of me and made me not want to act on it for fear of a worse punishment. Ive even been told by my mom that if I was gay I should keep it to myself. No one knows about my bisexuality except the people I talk to online (not even close friends know). I dont want them to treat me differently so I dont talk about it though they would be pretty understanding about it since 3 of out friends are either bi or lesbian. My family wouldnt love me anymore if I told them I was bisexual ** *hugs* Oh, ''God''. Honey, I'm sure that your parents will love you no matter what. Maybe they won't accept it, but they'll never stop loving you. ** Thanks. I feel like I should tell them that I am bisexual because every day it kills me to have to lie to my parents. Although they had their suspicions when I told them I wanted to attend an all female college. ** Original troper here, told my mom at a gay pride parade that "the gender of the person doesn't matter" if I fall in love with them or not. She figured out through that, that I am indeed bisexual and her response was shock at first then she said "Oh well, doesn't matter what you are I still want grandchildren." * This lesbian troper seems to have skipped the Gayngst stage. In fact, she was far more depressed before she worked the whole mess out. Lampshaded by her sister - "On tv you always hear about people who get depressed because they're gay, but you seem to think it's funny!" * This Bi troper suffered from this not because she really minded but because she was convinced she was making it up for attention. Then came the freak out about friends and such but only one reacted a

little badly. To top it all off she got a crush on a really close friend which kind of ruined that relationship. Now she doesn't give a damn and has accepted the whole thing. ** Oh, me too. For years, I went back and forth between being convinced that I was bi and being convinced that I had only made it up for attention and/or something to blame my insecurities on. While I'm nowadays completely sure that I am in fact bi, I'm still afraid that my friends will think that I made it up. * This Troper and her boyfriend are both bisexual, and when gay guys hit on him, they think it's ok because we are both bisexual and so we don't mind sharing. Ummm ... he's ''mine'', thankyou very much. * I'm a bisexual female, and I had gayngst for years because just after I came out to my parents(who were very supportive, by the way), my attention whore half-sister (which is a whole story in and of itself) came out as a lesbian at the age of 30 (admitting years later that while she was truly a lesbian, it was still a very calculated move to move my mother's focus on her when I desperately needed my mother's support) and accused me of making my bisexuality up for attention. Then this half-sister proceeded to alternate between trying to convince me to "convert" (turn lesbian) or telling me I was just using bisexuality to justify being promiscuous (which wasn't the case, at all; I was 13 and not sexually active). Suffice to say, this made my life miserable. This went on for 5 years till I turned 18 and cut my half-sister out of my life completely. Now? I'm engaged to a very accepting man and in a polyamorous relationship with my fianc and an equally accepting woman who is involved with both of us. Unconventional? Yeah, but I'm happy. * Had most types of it - Coming from a family that, while nonpracticing, was still heavily religious. I start discovering my sexuality (Bi/Pan, depending on which you prefer) at around the same time as my family starts practicing again. Can't come out there (even then, I eventually came out to my immediate family very subtly by dating a MtF transsexual. One took it rather well, the other... didn't. Not enough to chase me out of the house, but enough so that the relationship is definitely strained, and enough that if I ever go out with another dude, I cannot, EVER, mention him or show affection towards him if they ever meet.) After that, you have my high school years, where I ended up screwing around with a particular male, which soon turned into unrequited love (with a hint of AlwaysSomeoneBetter as well - at '''EVERYTHING I EVER ATTEMPTED'''. Extremely fun, that. I highly suggest it.) My friends outside of school eventually splintered into two factions specifically because of opinions on homosexuality (one group believed homosexuality was a mental illness, the other thought the first was out of line), with both groups eventually preferring the companionship of an homophobe over mine. Come college, I lose most of those friends who I could really confide in. A fresh start, in which I decide to stay in the closet, thinking it's none of their business. I end up getting outed to the very same people, a few years down the line, because I'm in a relationship with the aforementioned MtF transsexual, which ended 5 years after of a "mutual accord". In short, I went from having a ton of friends to being completely alone, I've got some massive gaygnst stacked on top of the

regular kind, and all signs point to eating a gun by the time I'm 30 if the situation doesn't improve. ** *Hug* Life can always get better; death stays as it is. * [[{{Tropers/STK}} I've]] definitely got it. Parents are accepting, except that whenever my mother is mad at me she brings up my orientation. But my Gayngst stems from both the relationships I had failing. First boyfriend was abusive and controlling, and I couldn't get out of it for two years. Second one lasted a month, thought he was the perfect guy for me and all, but he betrayed me. Long story, and I don't want to reveal anything that could identify either of them, but this has resulted in tremendous angst from me, because I think I'll never find the right person. Part of it is my unreasonably high standards, so maybe I should get over that. He needs to be at least decent-looking, has to be honest, non-controlling (he needs to let me watch whatever anime and listen to whatever music I want to at the very least), and I need to be able to hold a decent conversation with him. He also can't be cheating on somebody else with me beforehand, or cheat on me ever. I don't know if these standards are too high or not, but this (and the fact that I was pretty cruelly betrayed by the second guy) combined with my seasonal depression has made me a mess. It also doesn't help that ex #1 is stalking me online, and has been doing so for the past eight months. * This male troper's first three crushes were on straight males, and the one girl I had a crush on, I was too afraid to ask her out because I'm extremely shy. To say the least I envy all asexuals. ** Yeah, well, it isn't all sunshine and roses with the asexual crowd. This closeted aromantic asexual troper has it. Before even finding out what asexuality was I dated a guy for over a year trying to figure out what was wrong with me. Said guy continues to believe that my asexuality comes for some sort of past trauma and that he can 'fix' me, even though I told him after we broke up that I didn't feel anything for him in either a romantic or sexual way. Meanwhile, I am squishing hard on a kid in my class, trying to ignore another guy in my class only wants to have sex with me, trying to convince my roommate that sexual orientation is not something that you choose, and trying to get my mother off of my back because I am never getting married, SO STOP TRYING TO PICK OUT MY WEDDING DRESS!!! *** This. Not all asexuals are aromantic, not even all asexual aromantic folks get mercifully left alone by all the shitty stuff that goes with love, romance and sexuality. It hurts having people say they envy you because "you don't have to bother with that stuff" when you ''do'' have to bother with people falling for you and knowing you can never fulfill them. People trying to "fix" you, sometimes aggressively. Being told you're mentally ill, or if you ''are'' mentally ill, being told that clearly it's another symptom that a good dicking would clear up. All of that. * this male troper is facing a lot of gayngst right now, first as a latin american guy its pretty hard to find a decent straight gay willing to give affection or a guy who is able to keep an interesting conversation or at least not a complete moron , second a bunch of gay people live as the embodiment of the club kids trope and its pretty annoying to be criticized for having a lifestyle different from what

is expected of a member of the "gay community". The situation is so disturbing that this troper almost dont have gay friends, and third this troper found the love with an older man and lived with him almost three years, this troper was was studying medicine, but as always was attracted to literature planned to change of career with the help of his boyfriend but this tropers mom discovered us and given the expectation of being outed this tropers ex-boyfriend preferred to end the relationship. Now this troper have no boyfriend, a shitty relationship with his mother and is studying medicine again without any other option thanks to his economic problems and low possibilities of find a well payed job, this troper have insomnia, anger management issues and is on his way to becoming a broken Ace * This troper has never had religiously-motivated queer angst (I held off on any sort of religious believing until I was about 15 or so, and by then I was acquainted with queer-friendly and queer Christians who were more accepting and supporting than some of my friends who weren't) but the anxiety and fear is still there and real. I have attended only conservative Catholic schools, and was so deep in the closet I was having tea with Mr. Tumnus. It took me so long to come to some relatively simple and inoccuous conclusions and it causes so much pain. It sucked. It sucked a ''lot''. ** May I use the phrase "so deep in the closet I was having tea with Mr. Tumnus"? It amuses me, and is more accurate to situations I've personally been in than "straight as a circle". *** Thirded. I need to adopt this phrase officially. I promise to give it a good home. * This troper has "I-don't-know-what-I-am" angst. She's never been attracted to anyone in any way, but at the same time she still spends a lot of time daydreaming about the perfect guy but also being unable to see how most guys who are apparently gorgeous to others are attractive and sees more women as attractive...it's confusing. ** Are you me? * This troper has mostly gotten over his gayngst, however, every once in a while it comes back to kick him in the heart. As a closet homosexual, this troper is afraid of being outed and so has only told the few people he thought he could trust. Every once in a while his best friend (jokingly) calls him a fag to get a reaction, knowing this troper doesn't want to out himself but is still upset by it. To complicate matters, this troper feels strong love-type feelings for his friend. Another problem related to this troper's sexuality is his loss of his religion. Being homosexual made this troper ask a lot of questions about his religion and the mentioned loss. However, he hasn't told his parents (about his atheism or his sexuality) so he is still is dragged along to church every sunday. * This troper has some, but [[IncrediblyLamePun straight out]] laughed when she figured out why her parents were suddenly asking her if was okay one morning- she had left the Gayngst tab open on the computer. * This troper has had {{Asexual}} and {{Transsexual}} angst. Originally it was of the "I'm aromantic, *whine*" type, and then the "Why can't I be a normal girl?", later with the "Why won't people just let me be a boy?" type. He's gotten over it though; he's a [[ThePollyanna Pollyanna]]. However he does feel tension, due to the

fact his family is ignorant about LGBT issues and his peers are very conservative. He's going stealth transition until he moves out. * Perhaps this troper shouldn't be surprised that it's not showing up much, but most of his gayngst doesn't actually come from straight crushes or fear of rejection from his family (although they certainly factor into it). If anything, he's had a fairly easy ride. Coming out to friends was met with apathy only possible by students and he's happily single. No, his gayngst comes largely from fears from what this means to him as a Christian. There are genuine fears that being gay has disrupted his relationship with God, a relationship he values over all others. It has caused more than a few moments of depressed prayer and far too much confusion as he tries to decide which Christian faction is correct; the side that says that being gay is a transgression against God that he should try to give up or the side that says that being gay is actually perfectly fine, as with everything it's the abuse that's sinful. * This troper is not sure if she's having Gayngst or not, because in her mind and in fiction, she likes men. Very very much. But in the Real World, she just doesn't see it when her female friends gush about a man they find attractive, and finds herself commenting on the attractiveness of women regularly. And because she's out of touch with her emotions, she can't tell whether or not she has a crush on her best female friend who's probably asexual. At least her parents are understanding, so she has less possible-Gayngst than the average troper, but it's all very confusing. * I've been dealing with a little bit of bi angst, and a lot of genderqueer angst. I'm trying to not let it completely flatten me, but it gets hard (and massively confusing). * Is just ONE of my [[IncompatibleOrientation Straight Guys]] being a {{Straight Gay}} too much to ask? [[UnrequitedLoveLastsForever This]] sucks. * More than just Gayngst for me... It has never been an issue about coming out to my family. I just don't know what to come out as. I'm only 16 so I have a long time to figure things out but I've gone through so many different phases of things. I've always associated myself with guys and sworn for the longest time that I'd be better off as a guy but there's no way I could go through a gender change. \Because I'm inept with my emotions, I can't tell whether I feel a sexual or romantic attraction towards someone when I feel anything close to a crush. I have never even been able to say "I love you" or give hugs to my parents so it seems like I'm aromantic but then the "crushes" I feel are few and far between and so minor that I'd be asexual as well but I don't want to be that. Then, sometimes I think that I'm just a [[ArmouredClosetGay closet lesbian/bisexual]] because I've been raised in Utah, where the head of the LDS church once said "it's better to be dead than to be gay", and I'm worried about the heavy stigma that's everywhere. Most of my friends are hypocrites when it comes to the issue, they outwardly proclaim acceptance but when they hear about a gay/lesbian relationship, they gossip about how weird and gross it is. THEN, I think I'm just saying all this to excuse the fact that I am somewhat hurt by the fact that no guy has EVER expressed even the smallest interest in me. I was the only one of

my group of friends who was not asked to the archaic, boy's choice homecoming dance, even though I had no interest in going I started crying because I wasn't asked by ''someone''. Then, I think I should just get different friends because my entire 10th grade year was hell. * This lesbian troper occasionally gets bouts of this. She recommends listening to Gloria Gaynor's 'I Am What I Am' and singing along (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj8C43r4zm0) until it clears up. * This troper thinks she is asexual, and she actually got the most trouble from people she thinks she likes - they say things along the lines of, "You'll never ind love because you don't want sex!" Ironically, the only symathy (and interest) she's ''ever'' recieved is from a group of people who she only really talks to when they avoid playing tennis due to a collective hate of sport. * This Troper, who alternates describing herself as "confused", "bisexual", and "straight-ish", had a bit of {{Gayngst}} this year, her sophmore year in high school, when she [[ClosetKey fell head over heels for her childhood friend.]] Said friend was absolutely oblivious, had a very vague sexuality, was incredibly needy, very flirtatious, and had a tendency to use me and then brush me aside. Of course, [[LoveMartyr I let her get away with it for half a year.]] Then I exploded in her face. And still had to deal with her for the rest of the year. She still doesn't know I ever liked her. Now I just don't know what I'm doing. ---Head on back to {{Gayngst}}, even though he doesn't like boys. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

GeekPhysiques * @/{{Medinoc}} has a pair of friends who could play LaurelAndHardy (though reversing the StraightManAndWiseGuy roles). And ''both'' are {{Big Eater}}s. * This troper both subverts this trope and plays it straight. Not only am I an A student, with a keen interest in science fiction, I'm also a defensive lineman on my school's football team. * I code my own Android apps, I've designed and built my own USB device, I have am arcade machine in my living room. I'm a huge geek. I'm also a big guy at 5' 10" and 280 lbs, but I subvert it by working out constantly. I do an hour or more of cardio daily, I bench 210 lbs, and leg press 1000 lbs. I'm in way better shape than 95% of my peers big, small or in between. I just love to eat. * This troper zigzags this trope: I'm unbelieveably thin (I think my wrist is about 3 inches across [[BeyondTheImpossible and it isn't even the thinest part of my arm]]) and prefer to stay indoors, yet I eat reasonably healthily (indeed, my diet has so little junk food that it is the exception, not the rule, when I'm able to get a takeaway) and enjoy sailing, climbing and pot holing when invited to take part. * Played straight with this nerdy troper, who is skinny enough to be legitimately underweight. However, I love playing sports, and I've started to put on some muscle after starting Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Next year, I plan to start MMA classes and work out regularly in addition

to BJJ, so we'll see what that does to my body. * Tropers/DarkSoldier describes three general size categories for geeks: "Small," "Large," and "Dear God, That's Large!" In my gaming group, I was the only guy who fit the "Small" descriptor (5'6", 140 pounds if I've eaten recently). * This troper plays both parts of it straight. I'm a little underweight, but I'm cursed with an eternal pot belly. ---Back to GeekPhysiques

GeekyGlasses * In addition to thanking JK Rowling for making kids ''want'' to read, we should thank her for helping discredit this trope. My nephew flunked his first eye test about the time HP book 3 came out, and the reaction of his classmates was "Cool, you get to wear glasses!" Let's just say that was ''not'' the reaction his father/my brother and I got when we first got glasses. * When this troper got glasses in fourth/fifth grade the first day one boy in the class next door sent a paper plane with the text "glasgon orm" (the swedish word for "Indian Cobra" but literally meaning glasses snake)and after that she never wore them again, only sneaking them up after the lights were turned off when watching movies. It was not until seventh grade that she started to use them full time (and really needed to), though she only wore them a for about half a year before switching to lenses. * I switched from glasses to contacts almost two years ago. Admittedly, this was not because of any dislike for glasses or having been teased about them. I want to go into broadcast journalism, and glasses catch glare from lighting. So it's just practicality. * When this troper was 13, she had to get glasses, and was afraid of being teased. Much to my surprise, no one cared when I got them; [[{{Meganekko}} most people actually thought I looked nicer with them]]. * My mother thought this when I started having vision problems. ---> '''Me:''' Mom, I think I need glasses. ---> '''Mom:''' But they'll make you look like a nerd! ---> '''Me:''' I don't care, I need them to see! * My mom got made fun of when she was little for having glasses. * My glasses give me horrible headaches! I already have frickin tension issues, I do '''NOT''' need something meant to ''help'' me making my life hell! * I got my glasses exactly a year ago, [[http://www.anniepoodleskirts.com/sung_images/BuddyHolly.jpg Buddy Holly]] glasses were the ones that I decided to get (Read: My brother picked 'em, sayin' they looked cool), though I got [[http://www.gooptic.com/DFRAMES/images/Ray_Ban_RX5121_2000.jpg Ray Ban]] ones instead of the actual one that he (Buddy Holly) wore. And at first, I thought "Oh great, I'm going to look ''more'' like a goddamn nerd!" But when I got them and gritted my teeth and got ready for my first day with glasses, this was one of the first conversations I had... ---> '''Girl:''' Hey, you got glasses...

---> '''Me:''' Yeah... ---> '''Girl:''' That's cool... You look cuter with those. ---> '''Me:''' Thank you...(?) ---> '''Girl:''' No problem, but seriously, you do look ''much'' cuter with those. * Somewhat like the above troper, I got my first pair in first grade (blame sitting too close to the TV that fucked my sight), and I initially avoided wearing them in public because of this trope and was getting used to the feeling of something on my face. Eventually I decided to go to school one day with my glasses on and not leave them in my mom's room (she was a teacher at the school I went to) and I can still remember the kids saying "[Troper] wears glasses!" since...no one in my class ''had'' them. I spent the rest of the day wondering why everyone on TV avoided wearing them and picked on people with them when it wasn't so bad. ** This also counts as a RedStaplerEffect, as all the kids in my later classes who needed them got the same ones I got - though this was because I had the HarryPotter style glasses, [[CaptainObvious not because I was more popular than]] TheBeatles [[BuffySpeak or something like that...]] * I have worn glasses for pretty much my whole life. Why? I am incredibly near-sighted. I seriously cannot see for shit unless I am wearing my glasses. I would never switch to contacts however because I am afraid of sticking something in my eyes. Still, I love my glasses! :D * i have allways used glasses, i have never been teased about them and even looks better with them on, i have like 6 pairs of diferents glasses, i like them so much that i chosed to wear the anyway after get operated for practical efects so there where no sad feelings (for me mom was crying) when i turned to be incurable. * My parents (or at least my dad) were always concerned about this trope when I turned out to be horribly nearsighted by the age of six, but no one ever picked on me for wearing glasses. (Or for any other specific attribute, for that matter. I did get mocked for my general weirdness once or twice.) ----

GeekyTurnOn * I have two stories about this: ** One was that a while ago, I had two friends (opposite sexes, naturally) who had crushes on each other. The girl was very attractive, and had most of the boys I know at her feet. The guy...was not. Tubby, glasses, no fashion sense (and when I say no fashion sense, I mean wore navy cargo pants with a bright red long-sleeve top, not endearingly unaware). He was a self-diagnosed genius (we all know the type) and she, this is a quote, thought "brains are sexy". Huh. ** The second story is my own. Apparently, the most beautiful girl in the grade (long blonde hair, the works) has a crush on...me. A tall, skinny, lanky guy wearing glasses, jeans, and a funny t-shirt that goes over the heads of half the grade. I'm [[{{ShrinkingViolet}} hesitant]] to ask her out, though.

* This Troper's quasi-boyfriend (it's kind of a long story) speaks Nahuatl, is a conlanger and owns multiple katana, which makes them that much more attractive to This Troper. As if that wasn't geeky enough, I first met them on [[NationStates a nation simulator game]] and they're a fellow troper. * This Troper met a girl, who had three [[{{StalkerWithACrush}} stalkers with crushes]] just because she was a full-stop Anonymous. * Yesterday, I got felt up while watching ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. [[FamilyGuy Giggity]]. * This geeky female Troper was kind of interested in a guy she met. Then she found out that he plays Warhammer 40,000. Then she saw him wearing steampunk goggles. Ooooooohhhhh man. ** Same troper here, we are now dating! * I figured out she was a fellow Troper because she used trope names in causal conversation as if they were ordinary words and phrases. This girl is made of win. * Met three of [[{{Polyamory}} my four girlfriends]] via nerdy means. (Japanese Club, Japanese Club, and ThisVeryWiki respectively. * I wass attracted to my girl before, but she turned it up a notch now: she's a HUGE Bioshock fangirl, is starting to get into comics (spent the past few days doing nothing but reading Watchmen, and can't wait to get started on Transmetropolitan...especially because it has a character sharing her uncommon name), wants to try tabletop gaming (as I do, neither of us ever have), used to love anime/mange (we both grew out of it). All bundled secretly up in a beautiful glasses wearer who people tried fighting me over because I simply asked her out. * I met my boyfriend at anime club, made friends over [=RPGs=], first realized I had feelings for him at an Anime & Gaming con, (he realized he had feelings for me when he showed me TV Tropes and I started editing), and we often make out over Calculus. * I met my ''{{Star Trek}}'', ''{{Star Wars}}'', ''{{Discworld}}'', ''{{Harry Potter}}'', ''{{Princess Bride}}'', ''{{Vorkosigan Saga}}'', musical theatre/theory loving, acting boyfriend a year ago in our college's production of Mozart's ''{{The Magic Flute}}''. He has since introduced me to ''{{Discworld}}'', and I have introduced him to ''{{The Fifth Element}}'' and ''{{Futurama}}''. He's also a writing/grammar tutor in our school's library and I want to be an editor for a living. The cutest, nerdiest part? He's thinking of switching his glasses for contacts, to better facilitate cuddling with me, and refers to me as his symbiont. Oh, the nerd love. It has to be the best. :) * I met my boyfriend when he suddenly walked into my classroom one day and had not left my mind since. He truly brought new meaning to my definition of "geek". Previously a manga/anime nerd and quite the intellectual, he obsesses over gaming, mainly playing COD on the xbox, reads many comics (such as batman and watchmen), obsesses over books, knows a very large amount of pop culture, goes on almost all internet sites that could be labeled "nerdy", is a leading singer in his choir class, is an amazing actor (did an amazing job in this year's performance "Bye Bye Birdie" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPeQ7jnkXe4 ), strives to be an english teacher, has a vast creativity and love of art, and has taught me

countless amounts of nerd material, such as games and certain areas of pop culture. In fact, was it not for him, I would not be a troper. Also, might I add, he's extraordinarily attractive in glasses. He's also not one of those bulky, {{Heroic Build}} types (which I find unattractive). However, he's still not built too much like a typical nerd and happens to be very attractive. But one of the reasons I was first attracted to him was not just looks, but his geeky turn ons. That Type 2 {{Hollywood Nerd}}! Who knew? * My boyfriend is incredibly smart and funny, and refuses to wear his glasses because then he looks like Kyoya Ootori with a moustache. I think he looks adorable and refuse to leave him alone for the next half-hour. ** ... I want your boyfriend. *** ''[[@/ThisIsATest I]]'' [[SpiderMan want your]] ''[[OneMoreDay marriage]]''. * I met my girlfriend in her Pre-Calculus class (long story, it involves musical writing teachers and me being a writer for the school newspaper), she wears glasses (and looks Amazing in them, even if she feels otherwise), as I am geekier by far she's been learning such things through me...and promptly becoming obsessed with some of them (her latest crazes are Cthulhu and Bioshock.) Quite a few things she's obsessed with she actually knows a great deal more about than me, and did I mention she used to love anime/manga (as did I, but we both matured away from that). She also wouldn't mind dressing up in costumes, including Harley Quinn (and she read Killing Joke), as well she's a painter and...ok I have to stop, it's ridiculous how much I could put down!!! ** Another good one: my gay close friend wants to be an [[TeamFortress2 Engineer]] (and now plans on minoring in religious studies), he knows a good deal about computers, and tries to ingeneral retain a good deal of random knowledge, he gets A LOT of guys...some of which tend to have a little geek in them as well. *** [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean Or they'll have a 'little geek' in them soon enough]]. ** And She's gotten into this very site, and decided to add one of me...VERY EASY to find at that. * This troper and her first boyfriend used to go on dates... to the local comic book shop and play Star Wars Warhammer (I usually kicked his ass at it too) before going back to his house to play x-box in his basement and make out. Nerdy love is the best... * My ex boyfriend says that he knew he liked me the moment I told him I wanted to cosplay Winry Rockbell from Fullmetal Alchemist just so I could walk around hitting people with wrenches at a con. And he says he asked me out because I used the phrase "Help, help, I'm being repressed!" ** He should go as [[TeamFortress2 the Engineer]]. You'd be the perfect couple. * Some guys consider girls talking about ''{{Warcraft}}'' "as good as foreplay." Hey, considering some of the FetishFuel out there, this is practically ''PG''. * This troper has found her ability to talk knowledgeably about video games, [=DnD=] and any geeky subject you care to name garners her more

would-be boyfriends than any amount of flirting will. Not all these would-be dates are terribly desirable, but... I knew my poor score on the Geek Purity test would count for something! ** Will you marry me? *** Would you get all depressed and clingy if I say no? That's the one downside to attracting people who can be so wholeheartedly obsessive about the things they like- they get so wholeheartedly obsessive about ''people'', too. It's somewhat eerie. **** In fact, many geek guys seem to think of their female counterparts as a rare commodity. And thus end up fighting each other to prove they're the better geek. ***** Whereas many female geeks tend to come off a tougher than normal as well as being smart. It's like they're subconsciously trying to make up for the stereotypical "wimpy" guy geeks. ****** ''Sub''consciously? **** It's only really bad when you out-geek your male counterpart and ''he'' starts getting creeped out... However, geeky boys are much more likely to understand the concept of a platonic friendship than their mundane counterparts, which is always a plus. We can be as close as you want, as long as you never get within feeling-up range. The ideal way to weed out the ones you don't want is to sit them down at home with a nonstop marathon of ''SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'', ''[[{{Firefly}} Serenity]]'', and various comic book adaptations- and then pick the movies to pieces concerning exactly where the directors went wrong... A good guy will stay. The ones who look bewildered and try to change the channel back to Charmed are the ones you can pitch. ***** Leaf on the wind my ass. ** This troper is hopelessly turned on by his girlfriend's interest in ''{{World of Warcraft}}''. * [[ThisIsATest This Troper]] walked into a class without knowing anyone, and, as always, [[ChivalrousPervert scouting for cute girls]]. He found none. [[OrIsIt Or did he?]] One of the girls in the class--a [[ShrinkingViolet shy girl]] who rarely spoke--mentioned an interest in manga on that first day. ThisTroper then discovered that the girl was actually [[{{Meganekko}} extremely cute]] and, [[StalkerWithACrush after some research]], that she was very smart and very funny, too. But his crush is really based off of her penchant for cosplay, ''WorldOfWarcraft'', and their shared liking of the ThePolice (the 80's band, not the law enforcement). * This editor finds one of her boyfriend's greatest strengths is his willingness to hunt for shiny {{Pokemon}} for her. ** We wish both of you the best of luck and hope that you never ask your boyfriend for a [[{{MemeticMutation}} shiny Pidgey]] *** Would that mean someone who can refuse to do so by calculating and telling you the actual probability of encountering a shiny Pokemon (and saying why you wouldn't want to back in the days before they separated shininess from the other stats) would rank even higher? **** What's there to calculate? It's just 1/8192. Unless of course you're using the Pokradar, but that's just cheap. ***** That's the likelihood NOW, but when they first added them in Gold and Silver, the shiny property was a function of DVs, not an independent variable. This had two knock-on effects; the first was

that the chance of getting a shiny was far, far lower, and the second was that if you wanted optimal combat effectiveness (which meant perfect DVs) you actually DIDN'T want a shiny. ****** Actually, 1/8192 was the likelihood back then as well. It's just how it's calculated that's changed. ****** [[{{Natter}} Get a room.]] **** A friend of [[TacoNinja this one]] found a shiny Rhyhorn, it was female so he named it Katie after her. Her response was to go "[[{{Squee}} eeeee!]]" and name her Gallade Josh. Now he has about three Pokemon named Katie and she has two named Josh. We're still not sure if this is a weird way of flirting or not. * On the subject on pokemon, this Troper met his girlfriend while he was playing the Pokemon Center theme on a piano. * On the continued subject of pokemon, this troper asked his girlfriend out by giving a Pokemail to his Ditto, then trading it to said girlfriend. She needed a Ditto for breeding, you see. * This editor has gauged that his attraction to someone increases by at least a third after a certain amount of geekiness is observed Firefly quotes seem especially... interesting. ** [[http://xkcd.com/439/ Seems you're not alone in that]]. * This troper has in past resorted to teaching females nerdy pursuits, introducing them to his tastes in (extremely loud heavy metal) music, and so forth. A CrowningMomentOfAwesome of this was teaching binary to a chatroom full of girls using a seldom-used function of an IM program and it actually ''sticking''. ** This is the 2nd time on this wiki that I've seen someone equating metal music with nerdness.. is this some new thing you kids came up with and I'm too old to understand? In the early 90s, metal (and rap) was the jock's music. Nerds listened to alternative rock. *** Considering that there are bands like {{Blind Guardian}}, {{Rhapsody of Fire}}, and {{Kamelot}} around, all of which take some heavy influence from things thoroughly embedded in geek culture, it's not surprising at all. *** Plus, all that jock stuff [[{{Discontinuity}} wasn't really metal]]. If it's rap or techno influenced, ACTUAL metalheads disown all the stuff popular with that kind of crowd. This metalhead troper has noticed a VERY strong correlation between geekiness and metal fandom, though it's more that metalheads are likely to be geeks that that geeks are likely to be metalheads. ** This troper's best friend is a metalhead and has played [=DnD=] since he was ten and made a song dedicated to H.P Lovecraft. * This troper's husband first contacted her through an online dating site because her profile mentioned interests in, among other things, ''MontyPython'' and ''MysteryScienceTheater3000''. * This troper was talking about memory and mentioned that he could remember the theme tune to Ducktales but not what he ate for breakfast ''that very day''. One of the girls I was sitting with promptly started singing said theme tune, prompting me to declare her the "most awesome person ever". * Would like to point out that many of the geek girls I know (including myself) are actually turned off by big Gaston/Hercules like men.

** [[BeautyAndTheBeast But...no one hits like Gaston, matches wits like Gaston,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhG9hKiplfQ in a spitting match nobody spits like Gaston!]] *** "''As a specimin yes I'm intimidating!''" ** Speak for yourself! Of course, a GeniusBruiser would be the ideal, but beggars can't be choosers... ** This particular troper would like to concur with this point, and point out that he and other gay gamers are also somewhat more likely to be attracted to an intelligent person over a hulking brute. (For whom it may concern.) *** Although the Hercules body type may not be applicable, this lesbian troper would like to concur on the preference for brains (and geeky pursuits) over looks. I couldn't imagine going out with a girl who'd rather talk about shoes/clothes than the latest series of Battlestar Galactica. *** Speak for yourself! This gay Troper has found many gay gamers are more interested in brawns than brains, the sole reason I'm still single. ** The fact that "specimen" is spelled wrong above is a total turnoff. * [[Tropers/{{SquirrelyMalk}} This troper]] first met her boyfriend after a geek club meeting, we really started connecting over Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series, X-Men, and various White Wolf games. She actualy asked him out while watching X-Men Evolution. * This troper was delighted to find out that the attractive girl in her dorm was a serious Final Fantasy geek. Three years and four game systems later, still together. * A saying long found on the Internet in different "Engineering Humor" Compilations: "Female engineers become irresistible at the age of consent and remain that way until about thirty minutes after their clinical death. Longer if it's a warm day." ** This saying may originate from Scott Adams' book ''The Dilbert Principle.'' It's the first place this troper heard it, and the book was copyrighted in 1996. ** This female troper, being a future engineering major and who will be living in the co-ed engineering floor at her dorm (which is mainly made up of men) finds that quote rather frightening. *** Be afraid. Be ''very'' afraid. **** No, more afraid than that. ***** [[Tropes/{{NoLilyOnMyGrave}} This female troper]] is also going to be an engineering major, but mercifully living on the WIMSE (Women In Math, Science, and Engineering) floor of her dorm. Imagine, a whole floor of geeks! ****** [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve There is no place like home, there is no place like home, there is no place like home...]] * [[Tropers/{{Namta}} This troper]] got his second girlfriend based ''partly'' upon the latter's much more familiar reaction to the phrase ''[[{{Gormenghast}} and again, not quite so far off, came the hyena laughter.]]'' . * [[Tropers/GwenStacyWannabe This troper]] is known around her school as a "demon speedreader", and constantly has a book at her side. This means that, within the first few weeks of her freshman year, a guy in

my Geometry class came up and asked "What are you reading?" Apparently he'd been reading over my shoulder to determine what I was reading before then, but couldn't tell with that particular book. It was, of course, a fantasy series involving dragons. I'm surprised he didn't [[EngagingConversation ask me to marry him right then and there...]] * This troper received several offers of marriage after confessing online to enjoying ''Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow'' ** ... Marry me! ** This Troper received a marriage proposal in a movie theater shortly after commenting that the music used in that particular trailer for SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow was the theme for [[StargateSG1 SG1]]... He decided it wasn't such a good idea when I told him I was [[{{Lolita}} 13]]. * Once you find out she's a ''StarTrek'' geek, FreemaAgyeman becomes even hotter than she already is. ** One could apply the same to DavidTennant and JohnBarrowman (who are long-term ''Series/DoctorWho'' fans) * Seth Green has hot geekiness down to a science. He looks like your average (but rather cute) nerd, but then you realize that he was the DeadpanSnarker on [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]], was the genius computer nerd in ''The Italian Job'', was Scott Evil in ''AustinPowers'', voices Chris Griffin on ''FamilyGuy'', created ''RobotChicken'', and is going to guest star as a comic-book geek on ''Series/{{Heroes}}''. Something about that is just ''sexy.'' ** He was also Joker the pilot in MassEffect. *** He also played an undead stoner in Idle Hands. *** Didn't he also star in a few episodes of That's 70's Show? * This troper last made an internet marriage proposal when a woman noted that all of the characters is Wanted "are thoroughly despicable people (but it is by Mark Millar, after all)." * Subversion or something with [[MaryLeathert this troper]]. I consider myself quite geeky, and I have been hanging around role- and boardgame players for almost an year. Most of them are male. Still, not even a little hint of interest from anyone during my entire life. (What? I'm not bitter or anything, you're just imagining things.) ** Same with this troper. A good chunk of her friends are male geeks of some sort, yet none of them have ever asked for a date or expressed (serious) interest despite her being a fairly major geek. Of course she's not bitter. ** Add [[VoodooChild this troper]] to the list, too. She's been a lifelong Star Wars, Star Trek, BSG, and professional wrestling fan, and is friends with a boatload of male geeks. Not a one thinks of her as anything other than an "awesome friend". *** This troper thinks that the aforementioned problems are because nerdy types are incredibly oblivious towards girls. *** [[GwenStacyWannabe This troper]] feels guilty now, as ''her'' [[BelligerentSexualTension kinda-sorta-boyfriend]] is very much a nerd and very obviously into her... *** We're scared of girls at the gaming table. Depends on the girlishness, of course, but try showing interest, and believe me, you'll be able to pick and choose by the end of the week. Come on, you can do it!

*** We also don't want to risk offending a good friend by hitting on her all the time. *** This Troper's female friend and her boyfriend (both nerds) got together when she asked him out. Making the first move is a perfectly viable option for girls! *** Not to turn this into a relationship-hotline deal, but [[TreeHandThingy This troper]] happens to have a lot of male and female nerdy friends alike. They are all head-over-heels for each other, but they're too scared to ask. Just push them a bit, and you'd be surprised how far you'd get. *** [[Main/NorwegianGuy This troper]] is hereby putting out a permanent and non-restrictive offer of boyfriendness to the first three female tropers. ** Speaking as a male geek, the problem might well be that they are interested in you but thanks to having no social confidence around girls, added to the fact that many of us are good at concealing our feelings, you have quite understandably not noticed. *** Another male geek here. While I agree with the above, I would like to add that some people feel that friends, especially RPG friends, can be too important to risk destroying by failed relationship upgrade. And for geeks in relationships, it can seem that FailureIsTheOnlyOption. *** Yet another male geek here. While in agreement with the first two statements, there is also always the unpleasant but unavoidable possibility that there's just [[NoSparks no spark]] there. I've had many geeky [[LikeBrotherAndSister female]] [[JustFriends friends]], some of them very [[PlatonicLifePartners attractive]], but just didn't believe that was enough to build a lasting romantic [[BetterAsFriends relationship]] on. I've also been on the [[ObliviousToLove other]] [[LoveHurts side]] of this, so I know how unfair it is... *** one more male geek chiming in, i personally find geekiness an incredible turn on ([[BiTheWay in both genders]]) but don't know how to make the first move (again, in both genders)so I just hide it and deal with the pain. ** [[Tropers/AcrossTheStars This troper]] would like to add her name to the list of poor lonely geeky girls. She loves StarTrek, StarWars, TheXFiles, CSI, LawAndOrderSVU, TheDresdenFiles, David Eddings, swordfighting, LordOfTheRings, and arguing about politics, religion, and philosophy. (That FirstKiss mentioned elsewhere on this page? Ended badly. Very badly. *** You had me at "The Dresden Files." **** Seconded! **** Dresden Files? You had me at Star Wars. ** This troper wants to add herself in this catagory, but her lack of male interest probably has more to do with her lack of social skills and the vivaciousness (meaning, verging on scary) of her geek conversations. Also, probably has to do with the fact she's a comic geek while many of the guy geeks are computer nerds. *** Trust me, comic book guys are out there and looking for love. They're the closest thing to superheros in this world. You just have to find them and ask them out, they're too chicken to do it themselves.

*** The above may be why the second troper to lament about lack of relationship upgrades has yet to have one. She's a big time anime otaku, with video games as a secondary thing. Most of her geek friends are video game nerds with focus on Halo and Rock Band for the most part. She doesn't know very many nice male anime fans in person willing to talk about quite as in depth as she wants to. *** MutantRancor here, and I have only one thing to say to that.... I would '''so''' like to meet you face-to-face. And then maybe start an EngagingConversation. *** Well, it's a year later. I'm going out with one of the said computer nerds, and I couldn't be happier (it also probably doesn't hurt that he reminds me of Peter Parker.) Also, he and I gave each other going away presents before we both left for college. I got him a stuffed moogle, and he got me a stuffed white mage chocobo. We didn't do that on purpose. I guess there's hope for the lonely female tropers yet. ** [[Tropers/{{starshine}} This troper]], too. But it's probably because she's a ReallySevenHundredYearsOld incredibly shy DeadpanSnarker CloudCuckoolander. ** Sign This Troperette up as well. What's a Browncoat/Trekker/fantasy writer/grammar nazi have to do to get a date around here?! ** Same here. This Tropette can't seem to find any geeky guys around here that will talk to me. Mom thinks that I should like girly things, that I'm to cute to be a nerd, blah blah blah. But, come on! The only time I found someone like me was when I complained on Guild chat in WoW that nobody knows who Cthulu is. At least I introduced said person to [[TheSlenderManMythos The Slender Man]]. ** The same for this one. Owns nine consoles, the entire main ''FinalFantasy'' series and some spinoffs as well as every ''KingdomHearts'' game in both English and Japanese, working on an advanced degree, dreams of someday seeing Hagia Sophia, fascinated by organisms like the ''Cordyceps'' genus of fungus or the ''Muraenidae'' eels and their pharyngeal jaws, speaks three languages, current favorite non-fiction book is "Gender And Power In The Japanese Visual Field," fiction book is Night Watch, has a library exceeding 1000 books including stuff like ''{{Sandman}}'' and ''{{Fables}}'', plus I enjoy preparing historic recipes like cuskynoles, watching HumongousMecha anime, reading Shakespearean plays (Othello and Hamlet especially) as well as manga like ''{{Anime/Monster}}'', ''DOGSBulletsAndCarnage'', ''[[{{Yotsuba}} Yotsuba&!]]'', and ''ViolinistOfHameln''. Also, [[MostCommonSuperpower GG cups]]. And I got nothing. What on earth do you ''want'' from me, geek menfolks?! *** Straight female, but I just think it's awesome that in this world, book preferences, biology, etc. make up most of your credentials and bra size is thrown in at the end. You rock. *** This male troper and 30-something geek doesn't know a lot of what you just said, but what the heck, he's game. ** If you are a geek and another geeky friend is not asking you out, perhaps they are just trying to guage just how they are attracted to you. I have seen too many potential friendships ruined by the (very nice, geeky) people involved jumping to full-blown couple status soon after they meet. While they have fun hanging out together, they

eventually realize that they are not attracted to each other [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean in that way]], and after ending the relationship, things are too awkward between them to continue as JustFriends. I believe that it is important for both sides to consider wether a RelationshipUpgrade is worth the risk. A good friend to geek out with is a terrible thing to lose, regardless of gender. ** Just adding my name to the list of lonely girls in the world of nerdiness. TheLordOfTheRings, TheDresdenFiles, CodexAlera, StarWars, OuranHighschoolHostClub, AVeryPotterMusical, HarryPotter, FinalFantasy, KingdomHearts, LegendOfZelda, Merlin, and {{xkcd}} do nothing for any guy I've ever met, though I suppose the glasses and [[DeadpanSnarker snark]] don't help matters. Ah, well, perhaps college will help matters. * I met my fiance on The Sims Online, while we were both living at a View Askewniverse-themed house. 'Nuff said. * This troper has attracted guys after mentioning her research involving brain-computer interfaces, revealing that she skipped a grade level, and discussing TvTropes.org (she owes a lot to this website). She is attracted to guys who are academically ambitious (especially those who are good at math), and are involved in scholastic organizations at her school, including Academic Decathlon and the National Forensics League. Muscular men are a BIG turn off for her. * This troper and her boyfriend of almost two years met by virtue of being the only two people in the room who recognized an old Journey song playing on the PA. After three hours of talking about marching band, video games and sword-and-sorcery fiction, we were more or less inseparable. Also, watching him solve massively difficult physics problems that make this psych major's eyes cross is strangely arousing... * This troper has often joked that he will marry on the spot anyone who has read Lisanne Norman's ''Sholan Alliance'' series, 'cos like, no one has. ** Best be careful what you wish for. This ''male'' troper has and loves them. *** BTW, [[SholanAlliance there's a page for the series here now]]. * This troper's husband dressed as [[TheLegendOfZelda Link]] for Halloween once, just because she's had a thing for the character for twenty years. Together they're both into LOTR, HarryPotter, ''StarWars'', and ''PhineasAndFerb'' (among other things). Date night at their house sometimes consists of Trivial Pursuit, which ''always'' ends in a draw because neither one can quite outdo the other; other times it's pizza and a ''SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' marathon. For these and other reasons, they have a local reputation as "the cutest nerd couple." * This troper would like to marry whichever troper it is that adds all the ''{{The Goon Show}}'' examples. * This troper is sure it's not a coincidence that all her old boyfriends were as geeky as her. * This troper realizes that this is serious "OMG GIRL ON TEH INTERNETS" syndrome, but he's pretty sure he has an instinctive crush reaction to female Tropers... Smart, Sarcastic, Internet-Savvies, with

a marked love for media? Just saying. ** Yeah, same here. I'm pretty sure it's not healthy. ** Ditto. As a matter of fact, I've met most of my female friends over [=WoW=]...and I have minor crushes on most or all of them. Even the married ones. Or maybe I just consider them my Nakama...despite not knowing some of them all that well. Confusingness! *** I have the same situation when it comes to WoW, but do you know how hard it would be to find [[TheSlenderManMythos Slendy fans]] without Tv Tropes? This Tropette would be lost. Trust me, if I ever find another troper in real life I would [[EngagingConversation ask them to marry me]]. ** If this troper met a girl in real life who was also a troper, he would most likely get into some {{Engaging Conversation}}. *** This troper just met another troper in real life, and has found herself fighting the urge to slam him up against a wall and...er...[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean discuss tropes with him]] **** Oh, my God, I hope I'm that lucky bastard. *** Take one Troper and one literary English Language nerd. Have said troper introduce the EL nerd to Troping. Cue much sending of links to pages such as She's Not My Girlfriend... *** However, it doesn't always work. The overly amorous acquaintance this troper is avoiding? Is also a troper. Makes this entire site really awkward. *** This female troper's geekiest of male friends all know she is a troper, and the only response she's had was one of them saying "I should have known you were a Troper." Didn't know whether to be offended or complimented. ** [[@/TheHeroHartmut This Troper's]] brother is currently dating one (even if she doesn't edit articles). He used to have little to no interest in this site (I may have had inflicted HypeAversion on him), but now he's starting to get into it. His current favourite trope is PurpleProse. He's a geek in his own right, but would this be considered a reversal of sorts? * All of this troper's past boyfriends and crushes were met through various nerdities. One of them, whom she never got anywhere with, she discovered and crushed on after he showed himself to be an enormous ''GoldenSun'' fan. The second she discovered after he offered to tackle learning Javascript with her. He lasted about two weeks as a boyfriend before he, er, decided she [[JerkAss wasn't pretty enough for him.]] The third she met during a [[PlayByPostGame forum game]] dedicated to captioning one another's avatars, which both happened to be of [[LegendOfZelda Ocarina of Time]] Link in his different ages. When we finally admitted to the rest of the forum we'd gotten together, the general reaction amounted to [[BelligerentSexualTension "It took you long enough."]] * One of this troper's former female friends got turned on by his math skills. It didn't help that he was her unofficial math tutor. Incidentally, that went nowhere good, though at least she won't get angry any more if they meet in passing. ** [[Tropers/MinusZero This troper]] is annoyed (or maybe glad, I can't quite tell} that not only are the 3 girls in his Advanced Algebra class are not only getting better grades then him (probably

because I'm just BookDumb}, but are one half of girls this troper would ever consider going out with. *** A subversion perhaps: [[{{SquirrelyMalk}} This Troper]] was in an AP Computer Science class as the only female around 12 guys in her high school and didn't get hit on once. Though, admittedly, she was quiet in class and intently programing the whole time so she didn't really talk to them, though they did seem impressed when one of the guys was trying to name all 150 origional Pokemon and she named most of his list in order, before reminding him that there were 151 origional Pokemon. * This troper was very, very intrigued when he saw one of his female friends walk into Calculus class in full Star Trek uniform. Four years later, we're engaged...and we still both love Trek. * [[Tropers/{{Pepinson}} This Troper]] met his girlfriend on a MUD, and our characters were an item before we were; we admitted our mutual crushes only a few months ago, but Cthonias and Soraia have been married (and [[KissOfTheVampire kinky!]]) since autumn of 2006. * This troper had no chance of not being attracted to a particular young woman who could randomly quote any major slasher movie you could think of, holds an almost unhealthy affection for Leatherface and studies vintage cartoons as a hobby. * [[AcrossTheStars This troper]] and her FirstKiss (a [[TroperTales/EngagingConversation poetry-and-fantasy-writing]], [[DungeonsAndDragons DnD]]-playing, katana-wielding, Japan-obsessed, TroubledButCute improv player and actor) made out in her basement... with ''Return of the Jedi'' playing on the television screen. ** ...you win. ** MST3K. Runner-up? ** At a SlumberParty after watching [[{{Ecchi}} Knights Of Ramune]]. With this troper's HotAmazon {{Bokukko}} {{Meganekko}} GenkiGirl [[SempaiKohai sempai]]. Which eventually evolved into a three-way makeout session when this troper's HotBlooded [[HeroesWantRedheads redheaded]] [[TheRival rival]] got in on the action. And to think, [[GirlsLove she]] might never have met either of them if her sempai hadn't found out she liked SailorMoon and StarTrek and her rival hadn't been a HarryPotter fangirl... *** [[GirlOnGirlIsHot ...I'll be in my bunk.]] *** I could stand to hear a bit more. ** Lost his virginity to ''Macross Plus''. *** They're all pretty good...but anyone made out to [[TroperTales/WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome something ludicrously epic]]? (I haven't, it'd just be funny.) **** Britten's War Requiem do ya? (Not so much making out as EPIC CUDDLES. **** ''Akira'' here. **** This troper knows a guy who lost his virginity to the final episode of TengenToppaGurrenLagann. Row row fight the power indeed. ***** That must have been pretty epic sex. It leaves to the imagination, really... Excuse me, I'll build me a bunk where I'll shall be until second notice... **** First date - to the opening scene of [[{{Star Wars}} Episode Three]]!

**** Lost hers to a documentary about Eddie Stobart trucks... while still paying attention to said documentary... **** Im just asuming that it could not have been to good then. **** "Symphony of Science." I lost it to Sagan, Hawking, and Dawkins, autotuned and set to music. At an anime convention, no less. ***** That just won you an internet. * Oh, the examples... at a convention, [[{{Momonga}} this troper]] was cosplaying as Lucia from ''Lunar 2: ElectricBoogaloo'' (what? It rhymes with the real title) when a guy came up to her and said "Um, Lucia... can I have a hug? You've been my crush for years." This troper blinked in surprise, but obliged; her boyfriend (dressed as Hiro) didn't seem to mind. ** She became close with her current boyfriend when he would come over her house with his XBox so she could watch him play Eternal Sonata (she enjoys watching the cutscenes) and eventually started participating in battles; in return, she was one of the people to get him into tabletop. Their FirstKiss was a ShutUpKiss; after he kissed her, this troper declared "You just troped me!" and went to the laptop to show him the relevant entry. *** And she met a friend through a random encounter on a bus: he was wearing a shirt that read "I roll 20s." "Great shirt," she commented; the guy seemed stunned that she recognized its significance. Cue being invited to a gaming group, where she met a guy she ended up dating for more than a year. **** [[Tropers/MinusZero This troper]] needs said shirt. ***** [[@/SquirrelyMalk This troper]] perfers the [[http://tshirts.cafepress.com/item/yes-theyre-naturals-tank-top/37761578 "Yes they're natural"]] D20 shirt. * Just the other day, [[Tropers/InsanityPrelude This troper]] was at her first meeting of the college Writer's Club. One of the guys was rather impressed when she mentioned Portal and Spore, and when she responded with "I love that site!" when he brought up TVTropes. ... She's rather worried by the way he said, "And ''you'''ll be getting a private email,'' after he promised to send everyone the minutes. (No, no email yet, thankfully. Awk-waaaaard.) That said, discovering a fellow troper at her school was rather awesome. * This troper was in college when a young lady stopped by to drop off something to his roommate. She looked at my bookshelf and said, "You've got a lot of cool books." We've been married for 17 years. ** Sir, I salute you. No, I'm not even being sarcastic, I really admire long love through geekyness... It is a beautiful thing. Both love and geekyness. * This troper suspects that part of the reason her last relationship didn't work out is because she was more nerdy than her nerdy thenboyfriend. When their nerdiness in the area of theatre had brought them together again. This troper is attracted to her current boyfriend's flair for memetic mutation (although she does occasionally have to yell at him for old memes), and he seems to have a thing for her long rants on the continuity of Series/DoctorWho. In fact, he seems to be trying to groom her to be able to do the same with StarTrek, his fandom. * This troper met her boyfriend in a bookstore. In the fantasy/Sci Fi

section. Picking out a Terry Pratchett novel. We soon bounded over our other love-[=RPG=]S. We have been going out for 2 years now. * This troper is oddly aroused by watching the debate team. ** [[@/AcrossTheStars This troper]] understands precisely where you're coming from, as nothing turns her on more than a good argument (she has a serious SlapSlapKiss kink). ** This troper and her boyfriend bonded mostly through debate tournaments. And of course, after realizing he read Calvin and Hobbes, liked anime, manga, fantasy books, roleplay, and video games, well.... ** This troper's ex was on the debate team, and you might say she turned him into a [[IncrediblyLamePun Master Debater]] himself. * [[@/RedRajah This Troper's]] husband prided himself on his random trivia knowledge and assured me "that it'd be OK" if I didn't do as well as him on a ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' audition. Needless to say, this troper kicked his ass on the test and was interviewed by the producers. This then led to [[FetishFuel Strip Trivial Pursuit]] games at our house... ** This Troper is irresistibly reminded of one R/Hr fanfic that included the very interesting concept of [[http://checkmated.com/story.php?story=3112 strip chess]]... * This troper went as Head!Six (you know, the one on the slinky red dress) from [[BattlestarGalactica Battlestar Galactica]] for Halloween last year. In the end, she more received waaaay more interest and attention from hordes of dudes for being a devout [[BattlestarGalactica BSG]] fan girl than she did from her near perfect physical duplication of Six (I'm tall, [[WaifFu skinny but very strong]], and at the time had platinum blonde hair. And the dress looked AWESOME). * [[@/{{Tsochar}} This troper]] believes at least part of his parents' getting together was due to sci-fi. His mom saw every [[StarTrek TOS]] episode when it first aired, and his dad read EVERY {{Dune}} book (and still does, noting that the quality has declined sharply). ** Are we related? My dad liked my mom because she would listen to him talk about TMNT and she was the only girl in their group who went to see Terminator. She'd also sneak into the guy's dorms after hours--to watch [[Series/DoctorWho Tom Baker]]. * This troper thought that the ability of Scherazade,in Arabian Nights to memorize tons of stories and then tell them while engaged in her duties If You Know What I Mean, sounded real cool. Why do Mad Sultans have all the luck? * This troper's parents met at Recon 1, one of the first live action role playing games...ever. She met her current boyfriend at first a gaming convention and then a sci-fi con (long story), and her girlfriend on the Sluggy Freelance forums. Yes, I kinda sorta live and breathe geek. * This troper got into a relationship based on Jonathan Coulton, "Darn it, foiled! Like two binomials!", and other nerdy lulz. Twas awesome. * ThisTroper's first more or less serious boyfriend was an avid fighting game player. Which was more than fine to her since she was (and still is) a GamerChick. * I'm surprised and yet not that Warhammer 40K hasn't been brought up here, the latter because I've met the grand total of two women who

play (or even visit this troper's local store). One of those is the store manager's wife while the other is already taken and, fittingly, plays Sisters of Battle. * Once during a conversation, a female acquaintance mentioned that she once broke her face. Everyone "ooh"-ed and "eww"-ed about it, and then she clarified it by saying she'd broken a bone in her cheek. [[TromboneChild This Troper]] said, "Oh, I thought you meant you broke your face like [[StarWars Mark Hamill]] did." Then a male acquaintance said, "It warms my heart that you brought up Mark Hamill's motorcycle accident." * While joking with some front desk RAs in college, this troper dropped an uncommon word in a sentence. The female RA was impressed. This troper said he liked words with particularly unique applications. ---> '''Female RA''': Like what? ---> '''Troper''': Kaleidoscopic. ---> '''Female RA''': ...Use it in a sentence. ---> '''Troper''': ''The effect of the fireworks in the night sky was kaleidoscopic.'' ---> '''Female RA''': Wooo....I just orgasmed. ---> '''Troper''': You're...welcome? * Some year ago, a conversation over lunch at the university cafeteria: ---> ... "and secure the bolt with nuts on the opposite side." ---> "Wait, nuts? Which ones were those?" ---> "You know, a benzene ring." ---> "Oh, right..." * This troper's wife embodies this trope. She plays video games, dice and paper games, loves StarWars, is a quite accomplished DeadpanSnarker, and looks a lot like Velma from ScoobyDoo. * Discussion betweeen This Troper and his female friend (who also likes ''Discworld'') -->'''This Troper:''' Uh, do you by any chance know this series called ''DeathNote''? -->'''Female friend of TT:''' Yeah, why? -->'''TT:''' You sit just like L... ** I've had that conversation, gender-swapped. *** I've had that conversation, gender-swapped, with my anime club, at a screening. * This troper's closest friends are a group of pretty women who spend most of their free time [[SlashFic slashing]] ''PowerRangers'', one of whom even thinks he'd be the perfect father of her children. The only reason he hasn't made any sort of move on any of them is that the closest one lives four states away. * [[Tropers/WhiteArchmage This troper]] has recently found that he feels turned on when someone talks to him in another language (which combines it with Everything Sounds Sexier in French) most specially: Latin (french coming a close second); besides that, anyone with a good knowelegde and interest in music (mostly celtic, but rock works juuust fine) sweeps him off his feet, there's a reason he knows "Liberi Fatali" and "O Fortuna" by heart. ** Oh hell yes. [[Tropers/LamoreVincera This troper's]] got a thing for other languages as well, but Italian tops it (shocking, I know).

You could pretty much tell me my car is black in Italian and I'd probably die in a very Shakespearean sense. And I'd probably then BSOD if you could prove you were musically geeky enough to know those songs. * Tropers/{{Hazuki}} and her girlfriend are both huge Linux nerds. Said girlfriend is now outdistancing her, working on 100+ -node clusters for her research as an MS in Biostats student, and is learning vi and perl. Be still, my beating heart! * This troper was wearing a [[VgCats VG Cats]] shirt when she met her first boyfriend in summer school. * For the first several months of their relationship, this troper and his now-wife got together to watch new episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise as their primary form of dating. I was THE uber-geek throughout most of grade school, and still consider myself exceptionally geeky, but there are times that she still manages to out-geek me. <3 * This troper gained herself an instant admirer when she absentmindedly started humming [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyke_Wake_Dirge#Versions_and_performanc es Britten's setting of the Lyke Wake Dirge]] in a second-hand bookshop. Also, her attraction to her current boyfriend (not the same bloke) received a significant boost when she learnt of his interest in archery, and that he liked to ''build his own recurve bows''. ** I envy you... so much. * This troper is something of a geek herself and has had many a moment where her heart has gone pitter-pat upon learning a prospective guy friend/boyfriend likes "Lord of the Rings", "Star Wars", "Teen Titans", swordplay, anime, cartoons, superheros, comic books, or any combination thereof. She and said prospective boys have had ''very'' fun conversations. * Yet another "this is how we got together" story: One day, hanging out with friends, including this girl I hadn't met before who I thought looked cute, but wasn't necessarily going to ''actively'' try to get with. It was the day after Halloween, and she was complaining about bruises her Halloween costume gave her (after everyone had already cuddled with each other while watching ''WallaceAndGromit'', by the way). I asked her mildly what her costume was. Her response, kind of iffy as if afraid I wouldn't get it: "A Big Daddy from ''{{Bioshock}}''." My jaw literally dropped and I stared at her. "Oh my god, you know it?!" she said in surprise as we hugged. We had our FirstKiss four days later. ** I'm sorry, but when I thought about a girl dressing as a Big Daddy I temporarily had some rather disturbing thoughts. Let's leave it at that. Good for you in other respects, though. ** This troper dressed up as [[{{NCIS}} Abby]] for Halloween, replete with pigtails, big boots, labcoat and plush hippo. If she met someone who knew who she was, and not just from being a lardy-ass casual TV watcher, she'd have married them. Geeky halloween costumes are ''win''. (It was that or Solid Snake, and I couldn't find my bandana collection.) *** This troper would gladly be your "Mcgee". Seriously, If I saw a girl around my age dressed as Abby I would have to talk to her. Or,

just ask her to marry me and then panic and run away. *** D'aww, that works too <3 ** Same here, Halloween before last, this troper dressed up as [[{{Spiderman}} Mary Jane]], dyed her hair red, wore sunglasses, and made herself a t-shirt with the Spiderman heart (using, may she add, the one from the cover of the wedding issue), and after all that work, people had no idea she was in costume, much less who she was. * Sigh* *** [[Tropers/ThisIsATest This Troper]] can assure you he would absolutely have recognized you. * I met my boyfriend of 2 years at our university's anime club, for starters. We're a very geeky couple. Among many others, there was an occasion early on in the relationship when he was amazed that I knew how many light seconds away the Sun is from the Earth. * The day this female troper finds a guy who is an actual FAN of Professional Wrestling without feeling the need to complain constantly about everything "wrong" with it...and who agrees Fanfiction is okay...she will probably get engaged. ** This female troper wholeheartedly agrees with you and would like to add that while she almost married the one guy she could talk about wrestling with, his geek cred was nil. Her purely-theoretical ''kingdom'' for a male wrestling fan who can talk like an intelligent person AND geek out. ** This female troper knows ''two'' male wrestling fans like that! In fact, both of them don't mind arguing with me about wrestling and just what's going "wrong", and write alternate universe fanfiction in the form of a diary based off the Extreme Warfare Revenge game (and think that slashfiction is OK, to boot!). The only reasons this troper hasn't actually asked either out is because one's in Rhode Island and the other's in DC (very far from this Vermont native), and because I'm a bit of a [[ShrinkingViolet shy wallflower]]. *** [[Tropers/FollowerofEris ThisTroper]], who fits the bill, supposes all of you are very far away from him or (given the average age of tropers) too young for him. * This troper is a serious maths geek, and will often spend a boring class quietly writing out some kind of number theory pattern on is computer. At one point the girl sitting next to him asked him what e was writing, and when he couldn't be bothered to tell her preceded to work it out for herself. This troper has never been so attracted in his life, pity she has a boyfriend.(These were seriously complicated patterns, in that case he was trying to find a formula for the length of a repeating loop for Fibonacci numbers to a certain congruence). * This troper met her now-longtime girlfriend when they both noticed the other was the only other girl in the Best Buy wearing a [[WorldOfWarcraft Horde]] shirt. * If this troper ever met someone who could geek out over anime with her and could also speak Norwegian, she would marry them on the spot ([[BiTheWay regardless of gender]]). * This troper gave one of his [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend girl friends]] a necklace with a d20 in it for Christmas, as a joke. She loved it, and knew what it was for to boot. I think I'm in love. * This troper met her now-boyfriend boyfriend getting ready for a cosplay group...

-->'''This Troper:''' * walks in door* -->'''TT's B/F:''': Hey, it's [[DeathNote Light]]! -->'''TT:''' ....Holy crap, we have a RYUK!? I'm going to glomp you now. ** It should be noted that he later asked me out at the Anime club Halloween party -- I was dressed as Stephanie Brown!Robin, he was dressed as Vincent Valentine. T'was epic. <3 * This troper's friend who lives in Kansas was talking about how his girlfriend was a total nerd and a Zelda fangirl. This troper, without having seen a picture of her or heard a physical description of her, said that his friend's girlfriend was hot and that he was gonna steal her. * This troper and her former boyfriend used to hang out and play videogames and watch sci-fi shows instead of going on dates. ** Also, if she were to ever find a male who loves, say, MetalGearSolid or Series/DoctorWho or the like as much as she does, she would marry him on the spot. *** Wait, how much do you love Doctor Who? On a scale of one to ten? *** La Li Lu Le Lo! ''La Li Lu Le Lo''! ''' ''La Li Lu Le Lo'' '''! *** Exterminate the Patriots...? * [[Tropers/{{Ronnie}} This troper]] has developed a small crush on an older girl he met on a DannyPhantom forum mostly due to similar geekdom and values. [[ArtImitatesLife Oddly enough, their OCs are currently in a relationship, and also have an age gap.]] * This troper spent the last two years of his education with a crush on a particular nerdy girl in his group of friends. Small cute goth, played 40K, and had awesome painting skills. Five years later, she ends up working at the local gaming store after not seeing her more than a few times since. Aaawkward. ** Ask her out. All she can say is no. * [[Tropers/AcrossTheStars This troper]] fell in love with [[XFiles Dana Scully]] when she uttered the phrase, "Has she ever thrown a shoe?" (Equestrian geek here.) * This trope must surely be the only reason for this Troper's massive crush on Kevin from ''Eggheads''. * [[Tropers/{{Lee4hmz}} This troper]] met his first girlfriend on ''alt.tv.animaniacs'', of all places, in 1997. Eventually I got her to come to IRC; we became fast friends, and eventually one thing led to another and we decided to try dating for a while. Since then, every single one of my crushes or interests has been on someone I met though the various geeky things I've gotten myself into -- anime, furry (though I don't really bother with that anymore), and various fandommocking journals (specifically fandom_wank). [[CouldThisHappenToYou Is TV Tropes Next?]] Film at 11! :D * This troper recently went to the BT Young Scientist Exhibition. Aside from generally fan-gasming over the whole thing and learning about just how cool nanotechnology is (maybe cool enough to consider a change of future career from linguist for it...), as well as other things, she had an EngagingConversation with one of the exhibitors there - he was displaying his work on a new web coding language, and we ended up having a conversation about which would be the best for me to try learning first - since I want to learn how - as well as the

details of what he was working on. It was somewhat awkward since this trope definitely came into play. In fairness, I probably won points for going up to the stall right after two girls who'd walked past and dismissed it with an "I have no idea what this is about." He was cute, too... Oh well. * This troper knows at least two couples who hooked up after debating [[AvatarTheLastAirbender whether Zutara or Kataang would happen.]] * This troper and her boyfriend -- a reticent, rather diffident, sarcastic but ''very'' sweet and intelligent gamer/anime nerd/drama student -- met on the official TalesSeries forums. * [[Tropers/AcrossTheStars I]] get ''seriously'' turned on watching [[TheCloser Brenda Johnson]] interrogate perps. Maybe it's my submissive streak... * This troper has developed a serious crush on the girl who sits next to her in study because she's a hardcore gamer and reads manga. It also helps that she's mind-blowingly hot. It has occurred to ThisTroper that girl gamers are significantly hotter than guy gamers, but that may be because she's [[SchoolgirlLesbian biased]]. ** AS a male gamer I would like to state that your opinion is not due to bias. ** As a similarly-biased female gamer, I would have to thoroughly agree. Unfortunately the ones I meet tend to be [[IncompatibleOrientation straight]] and/or taken. * [[Tropers/{{Night}} This troper]] has lost count of the number of times his girlfriend has been [[EngagingConversation propositioned]] because she can converse knowledgeably about Warhammer 40k. * Troper CharlieBrown found that he gets instantly turned on if a {{Gamer Chick}} challenges him to a round of {{Mario Kart}}. [[IncrediblyLamePun Bone-us points]] if there's trash talking involved. Be warned, though... even while near-comatose and lying on the ground in his own drool, [[TheAce he]] [[BadassBoast will still mop the racetracks with you]]. * [[Tropers/DesertDragon This gay troper]] doesn't look like the typical geek, and guys he meets tend to be surprised that the tall, fashionable black dude can actually follow a conversation about ''DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''WorldOfWarcraft'' (though a faster way of getting his boxer-briefs off would be to talk about ''WorldOfDarkness'' and ''CityOfHeroes''). Now if only he could meet a gamer who's actually worth dating. * This troper felt extremely attracted to a classmate of hers after he [[TheOffice stuck her friend's stapler in Jello]] * This troper was attracted to her now-boyfreind from the moment she first saw him, but... after learning he was a fan of {{Pokemon}}, KingdomHearts, {{Wicked}}, MarioKart, and many, many, ''many'' other things... it was love. * While in high school, this troper was always the best in his math classes by a good margin. Now he's in a Calculus 2 class in college and sits three seats behind the only girl that can integrate faster than he can. Needless to say, he's fallen head over heels for her. If only [[CantSpitItOut he could spit it out.]] ** Clearly, the only appropriate course of action here is to tell her [[IncrediblyLamePun 'I wish I were an integral so I could be the area

under your curves.']] [- ... sorry, I'll leave now. -] ** Until you can manage to spit it out, you'll have to make do with [[http://web.mit.edu/jasperln/www/poly.html this]] instead. * [[{{MFM}} This troper]] met his current girlfriend over a ''BoboboboBobobo'' forum, and they share interests in things such as ''ChronoTrigger'' and The Flaming Lips. * This troper fell in love with someone due to her ability to recite the Team Rocket motto. She was too popular for him though. It was that kind of college. * [[Tropers/{{evilpenguin556}} This troper]] finds [[{{shrinking violet}} shrinking violets]] irresistible. Especially if they happen to be [[{{yaoi fangirl}} yaoi fangirls]]. Oh, and it seems to be completely subconscious, as each girl that he takes a liking to ends up being one of these. [[{{}} Seriously]]. * This Troper was the only female in her Computer Graphics class and she bonded with her classmates after a discussion about the "Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny". * This troper has never heard the story of how her parents met, but she highly suspects she was the offspring of a meeting that would fall under this trope, on accounts of her basically being ''brought up'' into roleplaying and computer games by aforementioned parents (earliest memory is at the age of 2 or so, sitting on a family friend's knee, in costume and character). This troper also met her exboyfriend on a summer school programme for gifted and talented children (IQ over 120 or so) when he interrupted her geeky conversation with an existing friend asking her what her favourite Sonic character was and which message board she frequented. Her current boyfriend was met in World of Warcraft. * Once we had a new employee that I really wasn't that attracted to. Then we struck up a conversation comparing the merits of ''DeathNote'' vs. ''CodeGeass''. Went from "not really attracted to" to "wonder how to ask her out." * When this troper was at an on-campus poster sale earlier this year, she got the following reaction from the guy behind the counter: "You're a girl, the posters you're buying are for ''PulpFiction'', ''ReservoirDogs'' and PinkFloyd, and you're wearing a ''Series/DoctorWho'' t-shirt...want to get married?" * This troper was just recently best man at his friend's wedding. Both the friend and the troper in question are huge geeks, so to calm the groom down a bit he started debating the virtues of Command and Conquer's Overlord tanks. To which the maid of honor interrupted, "Oh, C&C? I'm partial to MIGs, myself." * The day [[Tropers/HavocThricefold This Troper]] hears a guy proclaiming his allegiance to [[WorldofWarcraft the Horde]], quoting [[LordoftheRings songs from certain books]], or otherwise chattering about anime, gaming, and the joy of stories is the day she will finally get a boyfriend. ** [[Tropers/BSRaven This Troper]] isn't a WoW player, and isn't so sure on the [=LotR=] songs... Buuuuut he falls into the other three categories perfectly. *** Damn, you beat me to it. But, ''this'' troper ''is'' prepared to proclaim his allegiance to the Horde. Just [[GearsOfWar not the one

you're talking about]]. * Apparently, some people find guys using ''[[DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog Brand New Day]]'' as an audition song hot. Let's just leave it at that. ** That is a flagrant misuse of the word 'some'. * This troper once spent an evening flirting with a stranger at a party just because he looked like Nathan Fillion, didn't get into his captainy tight pants though. * This apparently does not work for [[Tropers/{{Bookhobbit}} this troper]], since all of the geeky guys she knows prefer her more outgoing and less-geeky cousins, although they are willing to discuss ''StarTrek'', {{anime}}, and various books with her. Although, thinking about it, the one guy who ''has'' had a crush on her probably did develop it through the two of us being the only anime fans in Youth Group. * This troper knows two couples that are pretty much all over each other, even in the presence of friends. * awkward turtle* Though I've always despised overt PDA, I let it slide with these guys because they got together by having similar geeky interests: one's a pair of video game geeks, and the other's a pair of comic book geeks. I'm pretty sure they met and got together and bonded through the college clubs dedicated to those activities. (Oddly enough, and possibly entirely unrelated, there's a decently large age gap in both relationships. Not large enough to be declared {{Lolicon}}, thank goodness.) * Subversion for me. I started dating a guy because I wanted him to lend me the second ''InheritanceCycle'' book... so I could see how awful this one was. Then, a couple weeks later, I found out he actually ''liked'' Paolini trash. Broke up with him ASAP. ** ...Kind of an odd reason to end a relationship. >_> *** [[SoBadItsHorrible Says you]]. The rest of us give the aforementioned troper an e-hug for her good taste. ** ...I'm with the first guy / girl. You actually broke up with a guy just because he liked a book series you didn't like? I'm sorry, but that's just silly. * This troper always ends up falling for girls he meets at Anime conventions. He never expects it to happen, it just does. This troper, being half male ShrinkingViolet, half actualy fairly competent, always hesitates to act on it, but when he does, he hasn't had it fail yet. First time, he (somehow) got a kiss, the second he almost got a date with the person. (but she had to leave. Next con we meet (this troper ALSO got her phone number, for easy meeting when we're at the same con), she agreed I can then.) Anyone else end up doing things like this? * This troper met her partner through the official ''CityOfHeroes'' boards when handing over music files taken from the .pigg files, both like gaming, similar tv shows, roleplaying, writing and generally being geeks, and our first date included a trip to a comic book store, long talks about geeky stuff, and seeing ''AvenueQ''. The big christmas present was the complete ID Games Super Pack on Steam (What better way to say you care than lots of ''{{Quake}}'' and ''{{Doom}}''?), and the second date (Long distance) involved ''{{Watchmen}}'', the National Science Museum, a whole lot of

''BigBangTheory'', the comic book store again, and the third date has a film and comic convention lined up. As well as his ability to find my use of science, tech terms and recreational mathmatics hot, we once discussed the role of Wikipedia and other community web encyclopedias in the use of Education outside Westminster Cathedral, and upon my bringing up of the issues of alterations and inaccurate data, he turns to me, smiles and says 'Can you cite your sources?' <3 (Also, this in itself is a geeky turn on.) * This troper, on watching the scene from ''TheFortyYearOldVirgin'' where the main character is ranting about insane yoyo skills not getting chicks: You know, that might actually do it for me... ** That's how me and my current [[BelligerentSexualTension sorta kinda boyfriend]] got over our awkwardness and went to homecoming together. We are now the Official Matching Yo-Yo and Fedora Couple. :) *** That is both insanely epic and unbearably cute. Nearly woke my roommate up from the "AWWW!" * Being a huge ''{{Shakespeare}}'' fangirl, this troper falls instantly in love with anyone her age (give or take a few years) who likes his plays and who also gets that ''RomeoAndJulie''t was in no way meant to be the perfect couple. ** Perfect couple!? But it's painfully obvious that it isn't the case! There is a reason the play ends the way it ends, after all. Oh, sorry, geeking out here... ** Didnt you read. The WHOLE point of the GeekyTurnOn was that they BOTH understood that they(Romeo and Juliet) WERENT meant to be the perfect couple!Its so sad to see a troper being guilty of CriticalResearchFailure... *** Wrong. RomeoAndJuliet were a TERRIBLE couple. Shakespeare's intent was to satarize the follies and over-impulsiveness of young love!!! *** [[http://xkcd.com/386/ Just felt like this was appropriate.]] *** Congratulations! *hands you a {{Made Of Win}}* ** Subversion (Inversion?) happened to this Troper when he developed a crush on a girl due to her remarkable math and computer science skills. She also was a huge ''Shakespeare'' fangirl, which prompted this Troper to read and study Shakespeare in more depth. She ended up rejected him, leaving him feeling mildly bitter, but with a newfound love of Shakespeare. * This troper's female friend turns head when she wears a lab coat. ** Not necessarily a GeekyTurnOn. It just depends on whether or not she's wearing anything else with it. ** This troper was in his first chemistry lab of university and on the way up I noticed a particularly atractive girl, I didn't think anything of it because there are allot of classes on that floor. So I'm in the lab waiting for it to start and in she fucking walks; I have a fetish now. * This troper once a friend's Facebook update and posted as a comment "A girl at our school who actually likes TomLehrer? Marry me." * [[Tropers/{{Introbulus}} This troper]] was interested in a girl he met from an online Video Game Forum who used the name "Tikal" as her handle. Add our undying love for the internet and Video Games, and well...we've been together for 8 wonderful years. (And I wouldn't want to embarrass her with details).

* This Troper is the result of this happening, and has experienced it herself. Her parents met at the Sci-Fi club at their college and began to fall in love when they ended up hanging out at a Star Trek convention together to share the clubs room key. And she met her now girlfriend when this troper cracked an American Gods joke in class, and she was the only on who got it. * This troper would like to point out that just reading this page is mildly arousing. ** ''Mildly''? What are you, asexual? *** Alright, then. How about "Mind Blowingly Arousing"? *** Hell, this asexual is starting to find this really arousing. * This Troper met the love of his life while playing an online Star Wars RPG. He got to know her further through The Matrix, and she got him into Doctor Who and The X-Files. He knew for sure her loved her after they spent a weekend staffing at an anime con. They shared their first kiss at the end of a second anime con trip. ** This is said troper's girlfriend, who was scrolling down the page, preparing to add to it herself, and then came across this and remembered when he posted it last year. We're still going strong; our first real date was going to see ''HarryPotter and the Half-Blood Prince'' together, we spent an entire day watching all six ''StarWars'' movies in order (and snarking them, of course), and recently we got Pokemon Soul Silver together...which we just found to be ridiculously romantic, in a geekily awesome way. And even though we live in different states, we still watch ''Series/DoctorWho'' together (via MSN) every week <3 * This troper saw a couple both dressed up as Link making out, and pointed it out to some friends. Who then proceeded to go blank-faced and proclaim it 'The hottest thing ever'. ** ... wow, uff da. Do want. ** Was one of them crossplaying, or were they both guys? ([[LesYay Or were they ''both'' crossplaying?]] Give me a moment to decide which would cause most {{Squee}}ing... ** This troper is not that troper, but he thinks he saw the same couple and yes, they were both crossplaying. It was awesome. And hot. * This troper developed a five minute crush on her local bookstore employee because, when I offhandedly mentioned an interest in [[MadLove Leopold and Loeb]], she very enthusiastically concurred. And then when we started actually discussing it, that five minute crush got a lot longer. Generally, anyone acquainted with that particular Crime of the Century has a good chance of gaining my affection, as does an ability to discuss [[{{Sandman}} the Corinthian]]. * My parents met up when my father used a quote out of 'Leaf by Niggle' by J.R.R. Tolkien in a tutorial and my mother countered with one of her own. He asked her out to lunch afterward and shared his packed lunch with her. You might say 'GeekyTurnOn' is the reason for my existence. I certainly do. * This troper's fiance trashtalks him while playing Team Fortress, Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart (DD, naturally), Pokmon, and several other games. Mutual friends of course did the "took you long enough' stuff when they got together after having chatted online about anime [=DVDs=] and manga we'd swapped for about a year. She thinks i look

like Spike. * This Troper's first crush was the president of his middle school anime club, is part japanese is likes video games. This Troper, having the self-confidence of a blind praire dog, hasn't talked to her. This page makes him feel like a sad disappointment... * This Troper has had this happen twice. First, when he met a beautiful girl who liked a lot of the same book series as him, and liked playing video games. She also introduced him to the incredibly aweosme Discworld series. Unfortunately, he was never able to summon enough guts to tell her anything about it until eventually they just..drifted apart. For the second, he met her at the local theatre, where she was a lighting operator (I love girls who do tech sutff like that) and she could also outmatch him in knowledge of memes and world of warcraft. Unfortunately, he had to quit theatre the next year to concentrate on getting good marks in school, and has only seen her again twice. * This troper and her boyfriend met at their [=DnD=] group. The first thing that caught her attention had been him entering the room declaring [[Series/DoctorWho "EXTERMINATE!"]] And then things just went from there when she realized his mage was based off of Tom Baker -- her female halfling had been based off of Romana IV from the novels. This same troper, it ought to be noted, had a rather successful relationship with a girl she met on livejournal ''speaking about Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin in another fandom's comment box.'' If memory serves, it had been uttered for them to get a room. * My boyfriend and I met each other through a mutual interest in Earthbound. I knew it was love barely a month after we began to hang out. * This troper came out of her room one night when her roommate had friends over, wearing a Death Note tee-shirt, her hair messed up, her glasses on, and carrying a comic book. One of the guys immediately began flirting with her. * This troper hit it off with his girlfriend right away due to our weirdness, but It was true love when she out Greek Mythologied me. We're both total Movie + TV nerds who only get each other's references, and we specialise our nerdiness into Literature(her) and Computer Science(me) * This female troper has observed that for some reason, geeky males tend to have issues around sex and often would rather play video games than get their freak on. On the other hand, geeky females tend to be hypersexual. As a result, this same troper wishes there were FAR more geeky bi/lesbian women... ** This male troper is hypersexual, and finds that his female friends are severely lacking in geekiness. ** So, uh, what's your number? ** [[AllWomenArePrudes Women who actually desire and enjoy sex]]? [[AllMenArePerverts Men who don't make getting laid their sole mission in life]]? Preposterous! I guess we geeks really ''are'' weirdos... * This troper has it bad for any girl who crossdresses as Link from Legend Of Zelda. * This troper was already madly in love with his girl and only fell even harder for her when she told him that she's just as hard a gamer

as he is. <3 Gamer Girls FTW! * This troper had a mad crush on the girl who introduced him to anime, Nintendo (Zelda in particular) basic internet society and fanfiction. Sadly, I moved away the day after my 13th birthday (she was the one I had dinner with that night too. Strange as it sounds, I have fond memories of her playing Super Smash Bros Melee in training mode as Ganondorf, repeatedly killing 999 damage Young Links while screaming "PEDOPHILE!!" (with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLM9tZU_sBg This]] playing in the background, no less, just hours before he left. This troper admits that in the first summer he was gone, the crush... [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Intensified]] somewhat. He has found ever since that pretty young geeks turn him into a sentimental romanticist at the drop of a hat ever since, although the other half of the time he's a [[ChasteHero]] due to being somewhat bitter. Sorry, that came out way wangstyer than I meant it to ;;^_^ * [[Tropers/{{Maxmordon}} This troper]]'s closest romantically relationship was with a woman he met on ''SecondLife'', united by a sheer love of ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', CultClassic movies, mythology and random pop culture references, "sighs" sadly, it was TooGoodToLast. * [[Tropers/PenOfManyTalents This troper]], knowing just about seven languages herself, has a really, really big thing for guys/girls who speak more than two as well, Spanish being pretty high on that list (but oddly enough, not really French). And with the languages come all sorts of accents, but the list would be too long. She also has a thing for smart people in general, the more pop-culture references you can cram into a sentence the better, and the amount of martial arts movies, fighting games, shoot-em-ups, [=RPG=]s and weapons you possess is directly proportionate to how fast this troper tackles you and initiates... Something. Sadly for this troper, she is too damn [[ObliviousToLove dense]] to ever notice a damn thing, proved especially well by the fact that she found out through a friend that for two years in her old school, a guy classmate had a thing for her... Five years later and after this troper had switched schools. ** @/{{Serperoth}} is fluent in three languages, is learning Japanese and on his to-learn list are Russian, French and a dead language or two (Latin in particular). He also can do accents in the aforementioned three languages. He owns two katana, is planning to buy a wallet with Bad Motherfucker on it, is getting into scale modelling and has cracked a disc of Fallout 2 by playing it too much (he got his cousin to copy HIS copy of the game). His e-mail is fallen.paladin@hotmail.com (also his MSN). Because you mentioned you are Oblivious To Love... CONTACT ME! * [[Tropers/{{Kriegsmesser}} This troper]] was excited that he'd finally get to meet an attractive female nerd now that he's in college. He was severely disappointed to find out that the closest he's got is a Computer Science club (he's not that kind of nerd, unfortunately), and an anime club... full of GratuitousJapanesespouters whose list of favorite anime consists ''solely'' of ultrapopular dubbed anime. (Inuyasha, Naruto, and Death Note, if memory serves) It took all of his willpower to [[RantInducingSlight not jump on top of their table and decry them]]; He sufficed with singing the

GaoGaiGar theme to himself. * This Troper is currently going out with another Troper (who introduced her to tropes) and is very happy with their nerdy Russian relationship ^_^ * This troper met his girlfriend while they were both looking for a copy of Suicide Squad #58 at a comic convention. Luckily, they had 2 copies, or we would've probably tried to kill each other over it (and she's faster than I am.) * This Tropers girlfriend is a big Soul Calibur and various other video games fan, as well as liking all things Japanese, cosplaying, Fan Fics, basically eveything I could ask for in a hot nerd chick. * This troper met and bonded with her (now-ex-)boyfriend through Model UN. Also, handbells. (She is currently kind of hoping he's not a troper too.) ** This troper is NOT your ex-bf. But he also met his now ex-gf through MUN. Fortunately they bonded over non-MUN things (Video Games, Anime, Coffee). *** High-five, sir. And thank you for not being my ex-bf. * [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Six Words]]: Singing DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog. Nothing geekier than making Mexican food/washing dishes whilst singing THE ENTIRE SCORE of Dr. Horrible with your eerily Billy-like friend. ** And I actually turned on the subtitles and watched it with my best (male) friend while singing. Gotta say, it was pretty awesome/hot. ** Unplanned duet with my boyfriend when my computer played "My Eyes." *Swoon* * [[Tropers/TacoNinja This one]] is a massive {{Otaku}}. At Halloween she saw a Sainsburys employee dressed as a samurai. She couldn't stop staring. She wanted to go up to him and ask him out... * This Troper would be very interested in meeting a guy who likes/knows what TheSlayers are, likes anime/manga, is smart, likes musicals and is willing to listen to her miscellanious ideas on how [[TheMagicSchoolbus Ms. Frizzle]] got her bus. (Is she a time lord? An alien? Does she cross over with TenchiMuyo? IS she secretly a [[HarryPotter witch]]? ** This is TV Tropes. ''[[WildMassGuessing EVERYBODY]]'' [[WildMassGuessing is a Time Lord]]! * My twin met her husband at a sci-fi convention. Since Gaiman was the GoH, he and his buddies dressed up as the Endless. With a height of 6'5" and a skinny build, he got Dream. My sis thought he was adorable and spent half the con trying to figure out how much of the height was boots. (answer being "not much"). It's become a family affair, as my young adult niece has been able to rope her S.O. into anime and cosplaying. She's also a shameless YaoiFangirl, and knew her S. O. was a keeper when he looked at her stash and didn't freak. * This Troper plans to initiate one using [[http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Produ ct_Code=MSPA-SEPULCH&Category_Code=MSPA-SHIRTS this shirt.]] * This troper's first boyfriend asked her out after her school's talent show, in which she got up on stage and proceeded to sing "Rest In Peace", her favorite song from the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We had to change our first date because of a

rainstorm, and ended up at his house watching The Dresden Files, of which he had every episode taped, and discussing our favorite episodes of the X-Files. This blossomed into a long and very happy romance, which we diecide to break off when he moved to Germany, however the two of us have stayed close friends. Of course, now this troper is single... * Reading this page is making [[@/{{goodtimesfreegrog}} this troper]] wish there were a Tropers' Hookup section on this site... ** After reading this and the Troper Tales for LonersAreFreaks, I say that's a great idea. YKTTW it? Maybe start a forum thread? Something must be done! ** There's TroperDatingService. * This troper finds lack of geekiness the worst turn-off. Arguing about Star Trek VS. Star Wars is my idea of flirting. When someone suggested that myself and another student in my science class would make a good couple, I could have brought up any number of things-we didn't get along, he was a Satanist and I was a devout Christian, we had nothing in common. Instead, the first thing that comes to mind (and subsequently out of my mouth) is "He's not nerdy enough for me." ** This fellow Christian geeky female would like to suggest a MRS degree from any Christian University in Northern California. Being that it is my alma mater, check out William Jessup U. * This troper is usually an inversion of this trope, preferring to stay away from geek girls and the whole sci-fi/anime/cosplay thing, but there's this girl in my accounting class who can hold forth on the intricacies of the tax code and talk at length about the Statement of Cash Flows, and...* swoon* Someday, she will be my CPA firm partner. Anyone that singularly obsessed with wealth management, I mean...and did I mention she's Bolivian and has a [[FetishFuel South American accent?]] ** I recommend, if the time comes, having [[EngagingConversation a lengthy discussion]] with her about the account of one "Wiiliam Arami" until she catches on. * This troper realized he had his last three crushes when they started talking about their interest in anime, literature or [=DnD=] or something. The third and most current crush was solidified in my mind when she revealed her fascination for Monty Python and Doctor Who as well as her ability to discuss politics when she had a different political view from mine. * This troper is proud to announce that she met her new boyfriend today at Wal-Mart because she couldn't reach something and someone got it for her, she turned around to thank them and accidently yelled, "HOLY CRAP, DR. HORRIBLE!" That is exactly who her boyfriend looks like, and apparently he has never had a better first impression of someone. His name is Nate, and we share a love of Dr. Who, The XFiles, and MST3K, among other things. * This Troper met the girl he intends to marry on the infamous Super Mario Wiki. We share a love of gaming, alt. rock, and more things I can say without going into a rant about how much I love her. I'm, by all means, unattractive, but she dosen't seem to mind, and she's GORGEOUS. Oh, and I'm bi. * This Troper got a huge nerdy hard-on for his girlfriend's retainer.

It's Bat-symbol shaped. * This Troper met her husband of two years online, and our first kiss was during Army of Darkness. He (jokingly) said "baby, gimme some sugar", and I found it so cute that I had to comply. Also, he's a freakin' astrophysicist. He told me that on our first date, and I about died of GeekyTurnOn. We game together (tabletop and console), read the same stuff (Gaiman, Pratchett, Alastair Reynolds, Penny Arcade), watch the same stuff (DW, TW, Top Gear, Star Trek, Eureka, BSG, anything by Whedon) and generally speak in movie quotes. He's awesome. * Just throwing this out there, because I'm sure [[RuleThirtySix someone]] will appreciate it: Playing through ''TwilightPrincess'', having named Link [[MetalGear Big Boss]] and his horse [[HoYay Oce]][[FoeYay lot.]] ** This troper appreciates it just for its comedic potential. "Riding" jokes, anyone? * This Troper's first impression of her crush was that he looked exactly like a IRL [[SchoolRumble Karasuma]]. The fact that he's in her marching band is a huge geeky turn-on, as well as the fact that he's a Halo fanatic and looks amazing in a marching band uniform. * The vast majority of my crushes have been on female geeks/nerds. Actually, all of them since middle school have been at least a LITTLE geeky. The current one loves Series/DoctorWho, Shakespeare, GoodOmens, etc. is extremely smart, and despite a bit of an awkward age difference (she's in High School, I'm in College), I'm seriously trying to build up the confidence to ask her out. * This troper wants to make a video entitled "Pick up lines for anime conventions" ** {{Ryumaru}} Sounds like fun. Drop a message on my page and we'll talk.]] *** "Hey, baby. [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann How about letting my drill pierce]] ''[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann your]]'' [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann heavens?]]" *** [[CodeGeass "Want to feel]] [[MemeticMutation the storm of]] ''[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean my]]'' [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean loyalty?"]] *** "Come on, baby. Let's [[NeonGenesisEvangelion start Third Impact together.]]" *** "Why, look at that. I've just come across a beautiful girl. ''[[DeathNote Exactly as planned.]]''" *** "Up for some ''[[MemeticMutation Caramelldansen]]''? You've got nice hips." *** "So, wanna go for some [[LuckyStar push-and-pull action?]]" * This female troper stongly considers any resemblance to [[SpiderMan Peter Parker]], both physical and personality-wise, a big factor before going out on a date with someone new, or crusing for guys at the mall. ** Which country do you live in? * [[@/{{DaGamesElite}} This Troper]] asked his current girlfriend out because she made me laugh and we liked each other a good deal (and we had kissed in a closet a few days earlier, but that's neither here nor there!), but when we were at F.Y.E., and we walked over to the sci-fi section, and she recognized numerous movies, and could comment on

them, I was a little surprised. Still, I was downright shocked (read: delighted) when I saw her recognize several, SEVERAL anime, started discussing plot points, and stated she had SEEN EVERY SEASON OF DRAGONBALL Z. That sold the deal for me. ^_^ * This troper has all manner of weird attractions--the most prominent being dangerous bad boys ranging from {{Batman}} to [[{{Kuroshitsuji}} Sebastian Michaels]] to [[{{Bleach}} Grimmjow Jaegerjacques]]--but the most surprising one she discovered as of recent is hot male English teachers. This was brought about after seeing an interview with nerdworshiped hot-stuff [[{{Firefly}} Nathan Fillion]] where he admitted that if he hadn't become an actor, he would have been an English teacher like his mother. This troper was already head-over-heels in love with the actor anyway but this drove him to impossible hotness for some reason, perhaps because she is an English major herself and could imagine herself glued to her seat watching him teach her class. She ''certainly'' would have flown to Canada for a piece of that. * This troper and her boyfriend have found themselves making out to {{MST3K}}, [[{{GarthMarenghisDarkplace}} One track lover]] and {{Opera}}. Oh the memories... * [[Tropers/{{Rlkitterman}} I]] have both turn-ons and turn-offs. Turn-ons: ''StarWars'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''LordOfTheRings'', ''StarTrek'', ''HarryPotter'', ''HalfLife'', history, and science. Turn-offs: {{Firefly}}, {{Anime}}, most video games, weeaboos, Literature/{{Twilight}}, any sort of "social justice" agenda, and musicals. Yeah, I have a damn lot of hatred for anime, Firefly, and musicals. Maybe I shouldn't have gone to college in Los Angeles then, damn me.... * This troper's parents (who incidentally just celebrated their 25th anniversary, so geek love does last) were both math majors, and Mom says they got close while she was editing some of his papers. Dad was also a double major in Psychology, and Mom had three minors (physics, psychology, and Bible). Even today, my dad relishes the fact that he married a "woman who is smarter than I am" whilst going off to work as an engineer who holds a PhD. * Me and a friend bonded over a series of conversations with subjects ranging from how awesome Jim Carrey was as the Riddle in Batman Forever, Manos: the Hand of Fate, the band Madness and even a shortlived Channel 5 quiz show from the 90's called "Night Fever", all of which we became fans of before we met and never expected to find anyone else who has the same interests. * [[Tropers/{{Mentalshock}} This Troper]] met his fiancee at college. We started out as friends, but what started that friendship was a discussion of Egyptian Mythology as demonstrated in the Stargate setting. At the time, she wasn't a fan. Now? She's more obsessed that I ever was. For that matter, she scared some of my friends just by mentioning that she loved {{Dune}} of all things. We're still not sure who the bigger geek between the two of us is. * [[Tropers/DrNamgge ThisTroper]] met his girlfriend on the ''SonicTheComic'' forums. She's one of the artists, and is studying to be a graphics artist in videogames. * Since [[Tropers/RitiTroll this one]] believes that finding a good partner (despite her almost-asexuality) requires having things to talk

about, liking FinalFantasy, Series/DoctorWho, and {{Farscape}}, among other things, is a requirement. Although she did once jokingly propose to TheChosenOne613 after posting a link to XKCD on one of the five million BAS boards. (And once got jokingly propositioned to by another member after using the word "Trope" properly) * This Troper has an enormous crush on a guy because of his incredibly sweet personality...plus the fact that he is a massive fan of {{Star Trek}}, {{Star Wars}}, gaming, {{Isaac Asimov}}, history of all kinds, etc. We once spent an hour arguing good-naturedly about the exact causes of the fall of the Roman empire. Good times. * Ten years ago, this troper met the woman I eventually married. At a Vampire: the Masquerade LARP game. Although not all of our geek interests coincide, we do share a love of classic/cult movies (especially anything by Tim Burton), comic books, TV shows and video games. Our son has a love for Star Wars, and various Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network shows bordering on geek-like devotion. * This troper's girlfriend bought her an original-series model Star Trek phaser for her birthday. Enough said. * Whilst this troper got together with his girlfriend through nongeeky terms, the biggest turn-on for him is her kicking his ass at Jedi Academy. * This troper's cirle of friends is, for some reason, filled with geeky hotties, but the top spot goes to the most crushed-on girl he knows...who he just found out [=DMs=]. Not only is this hot in and of itself, but there's a certain dom-ish appeal to her being the powerful, controlling one...(drools). * Subverted with [[@/AngelFallacy this poor troper]] in that she is seventeen, an uber fan of all things Joss Whedon, an anime addict, can recite an episode of Dr. Who from memory, and can quite commonly be seen sporting Grade S Zettai Ryouiki, right down to the twin tails and Tsundere personality...and she hasn't had a date in a year. * cries* ** Hey, I wouldn't mind being your friend. ^^ ** YouAreNotAlone. ** It's alright. This troper would date you. * This troper's secondary partner has been known to ask "Why aren't we having nerdy sex ''right now''?", usually after the troper says something about the chemistry in cooking, the physics in cycling or anything at all to do with Shakespeare or Monty Python. * This seems to be a tradition in this troper's family - her parents' first date was a showing of A New Hope. As for this troper, she had a little inward swoon upon seeing her current Love Interest's collection of LordOfTheRings sheet music. Then they watched {{Labyrinth}}, singing along with it (troper was delighted to discover this guy's range was perfect for David Bowie songs). Right after the movie ended, the power went out, making it a perfect time to tell obscure fairy tales and lampshade the tropes in them. * Subverted to hell and back with this troper. I'm a gamer girl and a huge language nerd, and a sucker for fantasy and all sorts of weapons/fighting styles, and I do watch anime and read manga occasionally... But I don't attract guys, I ''repel'' them. Is there something wrong? Am I in the wrong place? :( ** Nerdiness and [[LonelyTogether Bad luck]] too. [[FridgeLogic I

like you]]. ** [[PhineasAndFerb Why yes, yes you are]] ** Despite what this page may seem to imply, it does take more than just commonality in nerdiness to make a relationship. [[NoSparks There's gotta be sparks too, y'know?]] [[YouAreNotAlone Don't worry.]] * This troper and her boyfriend attracted each other through our interest in anime, video games, and the internet in general. * This troper met its actual girlfriend... by having a Warcraft discussion. * This tropers girlfriend introduced him to Pen & Paper [=RPG=]s, played several thousands of hours of online games with him (Diablo 2, Guildwars, WoW, Borderlands and much more), loves zombies and learns programming. We even sent us love messages through the names of our Mephisto Farm Runs in D2. * I'm not sure if it really counts, but I once dated someone because I thought he looked, talked, and acted like Otacon from {{Metal Gear Solid}}. We ended up calling it off because I got transferred to a different school, though, and now I miss him...especially when playing MSG. How sad/pathetic is that? * This troper has a gamer boyfriend who she completely beats in nerdiness, although he's close enough (a few more Transformers references on his part would help). He's asked me to take him to my next con--which will hopefully cut down on the absurd number of flirtatious (and occasionally attractive) guys and the occasional girl I wind up attracting there. * This troper met her boyfriend of more'n five years while geeking out over basketball. Political geeking followed (mmmmm, election returns, oh ''baby''), as did StarTrek bonding. Jeopardy! and BBC America's reruns of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' are our only appointment television. * Subverted with this troper. It seems like I'm the only guy geek who can't get any luck, seeing as all the subversions are from girls. I consider Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog one of the greatest creations of all time, and am scarily obsessed with Super Smash Bros, Gotcha Force, and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (and A2, a bit). Also, VitaminStringQuartet and Weird Al Yankovic fan. Also, I am totally trust-worthy, man-thing... Then again, I do have the whole "notreally-good-looking" going as well... * My boyfriend and I are working on an RPG together, like the same kind of music, love [=RPGs=] and hate [=FPSes=], play more than one instrument, play Magic: The Gathering[he more than I], and love TheDarkTower series. * This Troper attracts non-gamers with his appearance, but uses RalphWiggum style personality to keep them at bay. I have an online girlfriend, who plays this Trope straight, she's a YaoiFangirl who has had a few geeky boyfriends, and I'm her most recent. * Number one topic to talk about with ThisTroper: RPG-Maker or other nerdy stuff. Found some really good friends and a boyfriend that way. * This Troper has a crush on a best friend. The best things about him? He plays Warhammer 40k, is a huge fan of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, top of the class in math, and is creating his own comic. * [[Tropers/{{Mhwal}} This Troper]] has a history of this. My prom

date (who stopped short of being my first girlfriend) was more into anime than I ever was. She introduced me to CodeGeass, an obsession that far outlasted the "relationship" and even spawned two cosplays long after the breakup. She even introduced me to ThisVeryWiki. My [[Tropers/{{Laur}} current girlfriend]] is also an avid troper, and she and I regularly converse using trope titles. She was the first to actually use GeekyTurnOn, which she did in reference to me being able to name the titles of {{Futurama}} episodes by heart when given plot descriptions. I responded that her using trope titles so adeptly was one for me. ** And one other thing I forgot to mention: My heart jumped when she first showed me a picture of her SNES game collection and I saw the original ''StarFox'' among it. * This troper met his current girlfriend 2 years after his class separated, during a class reunion. She recognized the tune he was humming and asked which ship he preferred. He answered, "Kyon/Yuki", and she answered, "Kyon/Haruhi". The next thing the class knew, the two of them were discussing. She found it incredibly cool that he had the complete set of novels. He found it extremely awesome that she could insert a [=~K-On!~=], SuzumiyaHaruhi, or NeonGenesisEvangelion reference into almost anything. And then he discovered, from her playlist, that there's a song written as a tribute to Rei Ayanami [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tOH55740R4 here]]. * This troper had a very hot and very intimate make-out session with his girlfriend while the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "Less Than Hero" played in the background and a signed, framed commemorative photo of ''{{Kickassia}}'' lay a few feet away from us. * I know someone who's harboring some kind of PerverseSexualLust (or not-so-perverse, not-so-sexual geek lust?) for a character in part because he's such a likable guy and also because he once decided to go see Picasso's ''Guernica'' because he'd read about it in Sartre's ''The Age of Reason''. It also helps that he knows how to play several musical instruments and once wrote a song containing the phrase "wanton dissipation". [[IfItsYouItsOkay She doesn't even usually like guys]]... * This troper has only ever found one person as geeky as her. Since then she's been desperately searching for someone equally awesome but it seems there is nobody else who will lend her books of poetry and talk about slashfic. ** Ugh I know how you feel. This troper has only met a few guys that had the same likes as her(games, fantasy, anime). For some reason I seem to get the attention of mostly jocks and wannabe gangsters :( * [[@/TitoMosquito I'm]] a geek! I wear glasses. I like ''KimPossible'', ''DannyPhantom'', ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'', ''StarWars'', ''StarTrek'', ''LordOfTheRings'', etc. I draw some fanart and write a few {{fanfic}}s. I wish I meet a girl who likes some of the things I like. Here's a description of my dream nerd girl: long hair (that can also be tied in a ponytail or pigtails), glasses, sweater, pleated skirt, stockings, mary-janes and/or boots, smiles a lot, and very smart! ** Do you happen to like ''Teen Titans''? *super hopeful* * Real conversation between me and my computer savvy boyfriend. Know

beforehand that my very sad, very old computer only started with 17 gigabytes and only has a couple hundred megabytes left. ->Me:You know, I'd never spend $100 dollars on a dress. ->Him: What would you spend it on? ->Me: Memory. ->Him: I love you. -->Also, he's a huge ''Series/DoctorWho'' fan, can we say that I win? * [[{{Tropers/Popette}} My]] former boyfriend and I met via this conversation. -> Are you reading ''Finnegans Wake''? -> Yes. Is that ''Ecce Homo''? -> It is. -> * mutal dumb smile* * [[{{Tropers/JadeEyes1}} This]] troper and her husband (a high school mathematics instructor) first bonded over a discussion about TheXFiles. Our dates frequently included hours-long theological discussions and Sam Raimi movies. In the time we've been married we've become [[Series/DoctorWho Whovians]] and BBC addicts--as well as obsessed fans of [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]]. Despite this, we still find the time to watch (and discuss) old episodes of StarTrekTheNextGeneration together (he owns the entire series on DVD). We have conspired on numerous works of fanfiction throughout our relationship, and we are currently in the process of creating our own superhero saga...in novelized form. ''*sigh*'' * This female troper [[{{Understatement}} often]] falls for nerdy guys. Her first love was a math geek and aspiring voice actor, and an avid fan of GurrenLagann, {{Avatar}}, and YugiohTheAbridgedSeries. Her current crush is a [[Series/DoctorWho Whovian]] who builds robots for fun and is dressing as [[LegendOfZelda Link]] for Halloween. [[AllLoveIsUnrequited * sigh* ]] This troper could theoretically qualify too, being an aspiring writer who loves nerding out over Series/DoctorWho, {{Earthbound}}, and [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]], as well as whatever book she's reading at the moment. She's known of two guys who have been interested in her, both for geeky reasons, but she turned both down.[[hottip:* :To make things even more obscenely nerdy, the final nail in the coffin for the latter was that I couldn't bounce story ideas off of him.]] * The first real conversation this troper ever had with his boyfriend was about Avatar: The Last Airbender. At the Pride Parade. No, it made no sense, yes it was awesome. --> Me: "So, I realized the other day that Sokka is the entire reason for the eventual success of the Gaang in Season Three. I mean, if it weren't for him rushing them, they would have stopped at every [[WackyWaysideTribe Wacky Wayside Tribe]] along the way. --> Him: "By the time they got to the Fire Nation Capital, there would have been a bunch of dead Earth and Water soldiers. The turrets would have killed 'em like fish in a barrel since Appa wasn't there to provide air support." --> Me: "Not to mention Zuko wouldn't have gotten away, as Ozai wouldn't have been distracted by the battle and could have sent a guard detail to capture his traitor of a son." --> Friend: "Am I the only one watching the HALF NAKED MEN DANCING

AROUND?" ** Was the friend straight? Because that would make it all the more hilarious. * This Troper met her boyfriend in a college Grammar class, where they both found each other making fun of the professor. One day, during group study time, this Troper was shocked to discover her boyfriend not only knew her favorite song, an obscure synth rock song from a sci-fi concept album, but liked it. A summer of watching Star Trek together later, they started dating. That was three years ago. * I met my boyfriend at Phoenix ComiCon. While that's geeky enough, we discovered we're both serious Series/DoctorWho geeks within the first ten minutes of our conversation. And then I found out he's a fellow Troper. Guh. * I had a ''major'' crush on this girl (who is a good friend of mine) for over a year, and I had been trying to get myself to ask her out for weeks at the time this happened. After watching ''Return of the Jedi'' on a tour bus (long boring story), the guys were all debating over the rankings of the movies, when I called out to the whole bus "Geek Check: First person to sing the Cantina music..." and guess who was fastest. I would have asked her out right then if it weren't for the all the drama it might have added to the rest of the trip. * Not so much geeky (although both of us are), but a girl this troper knows was VERY interested when I mentioned that I had been on a powerboating course over the summer holidays. Slight subvertion: we're already friends, but I've been considering mentioning I'd like a Relationship Upgrade. * [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries This Troper almost scored at a convention once. It was with this chick in this awesome costume. I think she was called]] [[CodeGeass Lelouch.]] * [[{{Tropers/RoboP08}} This Troper]] would like to throw his lot in here, not ever having had a gf and geeky women being the most appealing. Especially ones that share a basic love of anime, games and a little bit of scifi ect. This tropers list of knowledge of things is various to Transformers to voice actor names, to bits of trivia on some things ect. Soo, if anyone is out there and reading and interested send a message. I would also like to say, some of these female tropers here sound awesome beyond comparisson, compared to when I grew up and didn't know of a fellow decently interested geeky woman that and until about age 14 or so I was rather quiet and solitary. ** I didn't know that this was a dating service... * The girl that I like knows all of my favorite video games. Too bad my situation is [[LoveDodecahedron this]]... Otherwise I'd have a little chance. A VERY LITTLE CHANCE. * At time of my first HUGE post, it wasn't until later then I even noted tv tropes has it's own dating section of sorts o.o' Wonders never cease... [[TroperDatingService]] I hope others make use of it themselves curiously. * This Troper cannot be the only one who finds girls holding files/books in the sort of "hugging" way really, really cute... ...You

know, right? * This troper is very interested in girls who have geeky interests. He dismissed an attractive girl at his school as being another shallow, but hot girl, until he found that she plays Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, reads Batman comics, and actually goes to her classes. Oh, and she's also very funny and interesting to talk to. Needless to say, he's been crushing on her pretty hard. * A (smoking hot) friend of a friend came up with this line in her Facebook status: "99% of me thinks lasers are cool, according to Pew Pew Pew Research." This troper would appreciate an introduction... * I was recently rejected by a very pretty girl who plays BioWare [=RPGs=]. A great loss, to be sure, but on the bright side she got me interested in ''DragonAge''. ** You fool! You thought you could compete with [[MassEffect Tali and Garrus]]?! Why, the very idea is absurd! ** I never got to tell her she was my favourite girl on the Citadel... * When [[AuntZelda this troper]] mentioned that she'd created the MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail 'Bridge of Death' scene in BASIC Code, her usually ambiguously asexual guy-friend suddenly looked mighty interested in her. * This (bi) troper will admit that she got a little turned on when her straight female friend mentioned that she had seen the (relatively obscure) movie The Sasquatch Gang. * This troper, who was lucky enough to be Homecoming Queen, had a school assignment where she was supposed to take a picture of her bedroom. Imagine her class' surprise to find it teeming with Star Trek, Doctor Who, Buffy, etc. items. She was promptly asked out. * I have a GeekyTurnOn with a lot of boys in my school, despite having self-proclaimed asexuality. However, being Tsundere and generally having really low self-esteem makes this Troper try not to get too close to them. * The girl who is now my girlfriend first found me on Facebook because I had once passed by her room that had several people in it, stopped, backpedaled, leaned inside, and asked "Did I just hear [[TheBigBangTheory Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock?]]" A few weeks later, I invited her to watch ''ThePrincessBride'' with me, and the night after that, I showed her my ''[[Film/StarTrek Enterprise]]'' model-cum-Blu-ray-case that I had gotten at Target, at which point she said "Where have you been all my life?" (Though the original geeky reference was ''TheBigBangTheory'', she's so much of a Trekkie that it was enough for her that I liked the 2009 movie.) * Subverted when I found out a guy I liked didn't like Star Wars. It was quite off putting to say the last. Played straight in the sense because we both love J.D. from Scrubs who is the king of the nerds. (Especially in the beginning) * [[{{Tropers/Maverick8187}} This freshman troper]] has had this one dance a jig around him. First serious relationship he had in high school was with a transfer student whose most memorable pre-dating interactions were the two of us arguing in Chemistry class about our subject matter (which the teacher was more than willing to let the whole class get in on), expanding to Dungeons and Dragons, anime, and video games over time. After a [[YouDoNotWantToKnow long, complicated

series of events]], he lost her to a World of Warcraft addiction, and swore off relationships for several years due to paranoia. Of course, now he's pining for a girl who's leaving the state in a month's time, after having a many interesting conversations about [=RPGs=], classical music, and literature... in fact, he finally confessed about it to her due to the general insanity of NaNoWriMo. * I met my wife at a get-together for a dial-up BBS - back in 1995. I got her attention by asking for her phone number and storing it in my calculator watch (you know, before everyone had cell phones). We flirted by trading mix tapes - mine featured TheyMightBeGiants. Her idea of asking me out was noting that the original ''StarWars'' movies were being shown in a theater nearby. We bond over style guides (she prefers AP Manual of Style, I prefer Chicago), ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', and ''SettlersOfCatan''. A hot date for us includes going to browse computer parts. I am [[Tropers/ThirtyTwoFootsteps 32_Footsteps]], and my wife and I are equally hot for each others' geekiness. * Subverted for [[Tropers/{{Shroomy}} This Troper]], as my interest in video games (particularly {{Legend of Zelda}}, KingdomHearts, and {{Team Fortress 2}}), {{Star Trek}}, and anime seems to be a huge turn off for every guy I've met IRL. ** Maybe you're not looking in the right places? [[@/SpessMehren32 This Troper's]] best friend is pretty keen on those games and is a huge pokemon fanatic to boot. * Sadly subverted with [[@/SpessMehren32 me]]: I'm a wargamer (mostly Warhammer 40,000, with a small dabble with Warhammer: this is really the only thing I keep quite about myself), speed reader ("what, 250 pages? That's nothing, I'll have finished that by tomorrow" (not a direct quote, but true enough)), music fan (nothing specific, but, glancing through my computer, the main three genre's are folk (5.7 hours), country (3.3 hours, but some songs haven't been catagorised: currently listening to Dolly Parton's "Here You Come Again", which hasn't been catagorised) and rock (7.7 hours), chess player (I'm pretty poor at it, to be honest, but, hey, you can't master everything, can you?), singer (mostly folk), actor (mostly musicals, but I was the waiter in my school's production of Death Of A Salesman in early November), anime watcher (Yu-Gi-Oh and Naruto, hoping to watch Bleach soon), manga reader (Yu-Gi-Oh, Naruto, Bleach and Flame of Recca) and friendly guy (mostly: if I don't trust you, I'm almost completely silent for about a week or so, before I finally open up about myself). My less nerdy interests are sailing (currently able to crew a sailing boat (with one sail, in reasonable winds) and powerboat) and climbing. Girlfriend/boyfriend requests? Zero/three, respectively (I'm straight, which is the worrying thing). No, I'm not bitter, but, you have to admit, if you can't get a girlfriend with all those points, you must be having terrible luck in life. * This troper first got to know her ex-boyfriend in a college class exploring scientific accuracy and inaccuracy in science fiction. Apparently hearing her rant about the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still (and I quote: "Keanu Reeves does not need to play sci-fi Jesus again!") and the ridiculousness of the cannon in "Arena" (Star Trek TOS) was enough to make his nerdy heart skip a beat or two.

* This tropette almost had this trope when she knew a gentleman in her community college days who liked TheRedGreenShow and other geeky things just about as much as she did. Unfortunately, she did not really see him having much of an interest in [[NachoLibre her future (now present) job]] quite as much as she did. To this day, she awaits meeting a (geeky?) gentleman who could and would join her in her calling. ** It's just as well you didn't go with the Red Green guy. [[DuctTapeForEverything I don't think he would have sprung for real condoms]]. * This troper has a rather bizarre NotWhatItLooksLike PlayingWithATrope example. Around very old books, she'll tremble and hyperventilate. The trembling is her trying to contain her excitement, and the hyperventilating is her way of indicating it... the fact that she strokes the pages rather creepily is, however, unexplainable. ** Oh, and when she sees a particularly nice bit of visual complexity (such as a button-up shirt being worn under water and swaying with the movements of the swimmer), her artist side is very happy. ** And due to all the Victorian literature she read as a kid (and still reads), grey eyes and particularly nice hands are vastly more attractive than all the abs in the world. Mm... Hands.... ** And sometimes, someone makes a reference to something she didn't expect them to know of. And that's awesome. ** A peer using [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness a word]] [[DefeatMeansFriendship she doesn't know,]] though [[FreudianExcuse that may be because of]] the fact that she's [[TeenGenius extremely]] knowledgeable, especially in the field of linguistics; has been known to pass vocabulary tests without actually having read the list (she'd been out sick); learned two words in all of seventh grade honors English class, '''[[LargeHam HONORS FREAKING ENGLISH CLASS]]''' (they were 'odious' and 'adverb'), she could go on, and thus [[ThisIsSparta BORED TO]] [[SophisticatedAsHell HELL]] [[ThisIsSparta AND BACK]] [[BeyondTheImpossible TWICE]] with understanding it all to the point where her approval is simply extreme delight. But I still love it. * This Troper's boyfriend lives on the geekiest floor on our college campus, and loves science fiction, strange music, webcomics, and internet culture. But what really turned her onto this boy was the fact that he could dance very well, and knew the steps to several contra dances. Talk about geeky. * This troper instantly became friends with her boyfriend when they met in the college cafeteria and discovered over the span of their first conversation that they were fellow tropers when he mentioned a trope by name and she knew exactly what he was talking about. She subsequently discovered they shared multiple favorite TV shows, films, books, etc., including her favorite TV show of all time, Avatar: The Last Airbender. Furthermore, he asked her out after they started holding hands in the middle of seeing Tangled with her friends--a troper, loves ATLA, AND likes Disney movies. How could I resist? ** However, though, I probably would have at least become extremely good friends with a guy who knew who Emma Frost was when I was explaining my Halloween costume to everyone (my friends and I went as female X-Men, and I was Emma due to being really pale, blue-eyed, and

blonde). Said boyfriend, being more of a DC than a Marvel, didn't know who she was until I told him, but I'm fine with that as I'm also more of a DC than a Marvel--my roommate and other close friend are both Marvel fanatics. * Several of this troper's happiest relationships (including his current) are based upon mutual geeky interests; normally {{Discworld}} and JRRTolkien as a basis. He was introduced to the sheer awesomeness of GhostInTheShell by his first ever girlfriend. Another learnt Quenya with him (she had [[OverprotectiveDad a father with a habit of eavesdropping on phone conversations]], so we learnt a language he didn't know). He met another through Games Workshop, and wound up playing in the same RP group as her for a while before asking her out. And his current girlfriend not only loves the work of [=PTerry=] and Tolkien, but shares his love of TheDresdenFiles, StarTrek, {{Firefly}}, the DragonridersOfPern, HoratioHornblower and some of the less bombastic classical composers[[hottip:*: although mentioning my liking for Verdi, Wagner and Mussorgski can [[BerserkButton trigger a slight rage]]]]. ''And'' she got me into historical re-enactment. The least geeky thing about us as a couple is that we do the abominably cute pet names and sweet nothings in a mix of Ancient Greek and Sindarin... * ThisTroper knows this woman. She's a screaming hot bartender with a squeaky voice who you could easily mistake for a bimbo, but once you get to know her she's anything but -- an iPad-owning foodie GenkiGirl who's done a bit of web design (among other things). This Troper would like to know how to get her away from her JerkAss FWB. * SameTroper also knows a woman who is an uber-cute curvy redhead who is also a very, very talented CGI animator (and has two Emmys to prove it). Unfortunately, she's been married the entire time he's known her. * The first time ThisTroper ended up making out with a long time crush was a result of a very long discussion about [[StanleyKubrick Kubrick]] and said crush's prowess at [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]. * This troper got his tall and [[BabyGotBack curvy]] girlfriend of 5 years into Warhammer 40000 by way of Chaos, Slaanesh's way, to be precise (and with this troper being a BloodAngels player, things will get interesting). Before that, he got her into D&D, and pen and paper [=RPGs=] by way of the Driz'zt books (She love her them drow matrons) and she's been a gamer, math lover (she's working on a Educational Major in Math), techie, cosplayer, plushie-maker, metal-head (Slipknot's her top pick) and a squee-ing fangirl since God-knows-when (she prefers her shotas and bishies pretty and psychotic, with an optional mother complex). And to top off the lot... She's now reading ASongofIceandFire and loving every bit of it. This troper cannot wait for her Daemonette cosplay. * This tropette got her first kiss on a bus going to a Speech and Debate meet. She is a huge nerd/geek, with interests in fantasy literature (NeilGaiman, TamoraPierce, BrandonSanderson, TerryPratchett, ''LordOfTheRings'', ''HarryPotter'', etc.), sci fi and fantasy television and movies (''{{Buffy}}'', ''{{Angel}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''{{Torchwood}}'', ''{{Merlin}}'', and ''{{Firefly}}'', among others), tabletop roleplaying games (mostly

[=DnD=], with experience in a few other systems), fanfic, ThisVeryWiki (duh), literature analysis (''especially'' Shakespeare, which she can gush for hours about), intense political discussion, medieval and Renaissance studies, and various other geekery. She has so far dated a programming/CS whiz with a love of classic sci fi lit; a ''WorldOfWarcraft'' player and fellow debater who (along with the previous) introduced her to [=DnD=]; another lover of old sci fi who puns constantly and often offers dissertations on politics and economics, and who had a character in a one-shot rpg created specifically for him who was Thorstein Veblen as [[{{Batman}} Mr. Freeze]]; and a fanboy with very similar tastes to herself who studies and often geeks out over medieval history and Latin (the last for just one date, but still). Suffice to say that [[GeekyTurnOn this trope]] has been in full effect in every relationship and crush, going both ways. [[NerdsAreSexy It's rather obvious why]]. * This troper was spending an evening at home with his new girlfriend recently, when they began to talk about writing. This troper is a music theatre and gaming nerd who writes both poetry and prose. I already considered her cute, especially as she's an aspiring writer herself, but when she revealed that she both knew and understood the term Mary Sue, I practically squeed, and immediately kissed her. * This troper was hanging out with some friends, and chuckled saying that I couldn't stay long because there was a new episode of "Doctor Who" on that night. Doctor Who is relatively obscure in the United States, so it was quite surprised to learn that anyone else in the room had ever heard of the show, as one girl, Jenny did. I followed this comment up with a {{Firefly}} reference, which meant that the two of us for practically inseparable for the next year. * Subverted with this troper, a huge history/political science/current affairs and comedy nerd who only seems to attract guys who couldn't be less interested in academic matters or minutiae of any kind. My kingdom for an [=NPR=] devotee or a ''MrShow'' fanboy! (Maybe it's a stretch for this page, as I'm not so interested in "traditionally" geeky subjects like sci-fi or gaming - but as a girl whose idea of courtship involves the tweeting of Salon articles "you might find interesting" and going to Tarantino double features at the New Beverly, I can definitely attest to the frustration of just not being able to find a partner who shares your over-attentive enthusiasm for niche subjects ''and'' turns you on.) * Is there a female [[Series/DoctorWho '''hardcore''' Whovian]] out there with knowledge of the {{Discworld}} and [[TheBigBangTheory is also a fan of the show with those four nerds]]? Is she a CloudCuckooLander? If so, [[@/{{Pastylover2}} I'd]] be very interested in meeting her. ** [[@/{{DrMcP}} Hi.]] *** [[@/{{Conswake}} Hi.]] * This troper met her boyfriend when he reviewed a chapter of her KingdomHearts crackfic in 2007. We've been inseparable since, and the more time passes the [[GeekyTurnOn more attractive he seems to get...]] {{Metroid}}, {{Halo}}, FinalFantasy, [[WilliamShakespeare anything by Shakespeare]], KingdomHearts, [[{{Dracula}} Dracula]], [[TheDivineComedy The Divine Comedy]], and {{Hellsing}} all give him a

fangasm. And when [[{{Squee}} he's geeking out over his favourite things]], I'm [[GeekyTurnOn geeking out over him]]. * [[Tropers/{{optimismprime}} This troper]] is dating a girl who's thought it's hot that I: can argue about the [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse Star Wars Expanded Universe novels]], want to get [[TheLordOfTheRings Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost]] tattooed on himself in Quenya, told her that her bracelet with that quote is wrong and could find the line within five seconds of picking up a copy of Fellowship of the Ring, knows about steampunk through {{Arcanum}}, and freak out when debating [[StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]] vs [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]. His punny username (same on the dating site we met through) was the first thing she mentioned, too. * [[Tropers/{{Bannermanonemillion}} This Troper]] on THIS page, wishing he could meet more girls like this in real life. ** Hell, [[Tropers/{{Raverine}} This troper]] wishes she could meet more guys like this in real life. * This troper knows a ridiculously intelligent boy. He's a couple of years older than her and incredibly good at physics, maths and music. He also used to be incredibly arrogant and I didn't talk to him much. Cue year 9 (8th grade for Americans, I think) and either he lays off on the arrogance or I get used to it, but we start having jokey arguments about everything (we're both pretty argumentative), discuss physics/maths/science/philosophy/profound stuff while talking about TV and The Game, and he begins to mentor me. After about a year or so, even though I wasn't interested in him (and I'm still not), I decided "Fuck this, I don't care what he looks like, I would go out with him for his brains". * This troper developed a crush on a classmate almost entirely due to the fact that he was wearing a [[Series/DoctorWho Fourth Doctor-esque scarf and had a handrawn Tardis]] on the back of his phone. The conversation about Series/DoctorWho that followed also contributed. * This troper's first boyfriend asked her out via xkcd quotes. "Will you be my it's complicated on facebook?" * On the first (and only as of this writing) true snow day this college-aged troper had ever experienced, he decided he wasn't going to build a snow man like everyone else. After some thought, he decided to make a snow [[TheLegendOfZelda Triforce]]. As he worked on it, a girl comes over and says, "Hey, is that the Triforce? Awesome." Cue this troper quickly becoming interested in her. They talked and played in the snow along with the other students (this tale took place at Texas A&M so most of the students had likely never seen enough snow to actually play in). Eventually he introduced himself. Her response? "Hey, that's my fiance's name." Cue internal rage face and ClusterFBomb. * This troper has a ''huge'' crush on a guy I met in my Concepts of Animation class. He's drop-dead gorgeous, is tall and slender, has long blond hair and the brightest blue eyes this girl has ever seen. The best part? We both love anime, video games (especially [=RPGs=] like Dragon Age), and he's an amazing artist. We are currently close friends and he's drawn so many illustrations for me that I have a whole folder in which they reside. The last picture he drew for me? Fenris from Dragon Age 2. I have yet to figure out if he actually

wants to be more than friends, but in the mean time I am more than willing to wait. :D * This Troper is the nerdy, overshadowed friend of a popular, beautiful redhead. You know the feeling, girl-tropers, when that one perfect girl seems to get all the guys effortlessly? This girl has relentlessly flirted with my crush for the past month, right in front of me, and I hadn't figured out a way to do anything about it until last week. While my crush was chatting with me and a mutual guyfriend, I casually mentioned that I played LFD2. Since then, my crush has ignored the beautiful redhead and gone for the gamer. Geeky turnons will always prevail. Always. * Hot teacher in his mid-twenties, teaching Literature at my school. Literature professors are already a turn-on for me, but it gets better. When the school finally allowed teachers to create their own clubs, aforementioned hot teacher immediately created his own; a Warhammer 40K club. You can probably guess who joined in a heartbeat. * Attractive guy my age, living (at least relatively) nearby? Good. Attractive guy my age, relatively nearby who plays {{NationStates}}? Great. Attractive conlanger guy my age, relatively nearby who speaks Nahuatl and owns several katanas? ''God yes''. * This troper doesn't seem like the nerdy type at first... until you realize she's wearing a Hello Schroddy shirt, not a Hello Kitty shirt. And that's a well-worn copy of The Hobbit and The Blue Sword and other various fantasy/quest books in her hands. ** The boyfriend is a different flavor of geek having too many video games to count and making a [[FetishFuel steampunk-themed]] stereo system as a final project. * The other day two of my guy friends were loudly discussing about computer and gaming (one was studying IT in college, the other was a certified gamer and internet addict), while I was quietly listening in. When they were on the subject about gaming desktops and hardware comparisons, this female troper casually monologued on my dream computer, complete with motherboard and video card comparisons and custom desktop case modding. Their response was a simple but stuttering '... oh.'. * We were asked in band about the story behind a piece of music ('Belle', the second movement from Cajun Folk Songs), and this guy in our class came up with this rather glorious story that related to the first movement. When he was done, there was a stunned silence in the room. My response was to say [[AnEngagingConversation "Marry Me."]]. Admittedly, I'm not attracted to him, but that was pretty hot how he did that. He was very, very wrong, but we all agreed his story was MUCH better than a cowboy selling his horse to cure his dying wife and her dying in the end. Nope, the guy I like is a complete anime geek, a full-IB (crazy advanced classes) student, straight-A student who loves playing video games, and introduced me to Persona and the Tales series. I love it when he says something really intelligent or speaks Korean. Sigh~. Did I meantion he's an amazing artist and musician? AND he's funny? * There has to be someone who finds this troper's ability to quote mass sections of Harry Potter (including an entire Sorting Hat song and a good portion of a chapter), give off any fact (most likely with

quote) at almost any time, and be able to know where someone is in a book (and WHAT book) by a mere ''line'' attractive. She's been addressed as Miss Granger before, due to a strong resemblance to book!Hermione (and sharing her birthday). She has made some good friends over the subject and her ability to make some damn good Butterbeer. * There was once a boy in my class, who when I first met him, thought he was good-looking. Upon finding out he's an anime fan who cosplays, I was even more attracted to him. Upon finding out that he also collects action figures, ''"Please marry me!"''. Nothing actually worked out between us though, I was always [[ShrinkingViolet too shy to bother asking him out]]. * Watching someone else draw something they're really, really good at drawing. So awesome. Nothing better than geeking out about the best way to subdivide objects into their component shapes for the purpose of shading. * This tropette's first (and current) boyfriend is a prime example here. He shares my interests in anime/manga, fantasy/sf, weapons, D&D, music, psychology and literary criticism/theory, plus he shares my belief in preparing for a zombie apocalypse. Yet he seems oblivious as to why I asked him out. * [[@/DeathToSquishies This troper]] has always told himself from the beginning that he'd rather have a girl with more brains than beauty, but not until middle school did he realize that it was at the point where even girls with decent brainpower could possibly turn him off by making him [[BerserkButton nerdrage]] by doing such mundane things as getting Pokmon names wrong (or in special cases, when I'm drawing ''anything'' and someone, doesn't even have to be a girl, comes along and asks if I'm drawing Pokmon. ALWAYS). If he ever met a girl who had extensive knowledge about anything from Mario to Metal Gear, he'd probably be all over her. [[hottip:*:And maybe if her drawings were really good as well.]] * This she-Troper's usage of [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "Can I see your]] [[Series/DoctorWho sonic screwdriver]]?" on her boyfriend was inspired by this webcomic strip: http://www.consensualtentacle.com/2010/04/talk-nerdy-to-me/ * This Troper's ex-girlfriend was probably geekier than I am, and that's the reason I asked her out. Shame she turned out to be an irritating, wangsty drama queen. ---You like SciFi too? Here's a free ride back to GeekyTurnOn. [[EngagingConversation Will you marry me?]] ----

GenderBender * [[NeoEevee This troper]] has an idea for a crossover brought on by a little too much {{Vocaloid}} music: the defeated Nobodies (amongst others...) of KingdomHearts FusionDance with Vocaloids to sing their music in some sort of tournament where the winner gets their Heart back. Fusion Dancing (I'll call it "Syncing") with a Vocaloid of the

opposite sex gets you Gender Bent. There are more female Vocaloids than male, and most of the cast of Kingdom Hearts are guys, unfortunately for Terra, Xemnas, Zexion, Vexen, Xaldin, Saix, and Vanitas... Amongst others... * [[{{Peteman}} This Troper's]] friend regaled me about this one DungeonsAndDragons campaign he played with a pair of guys playing women. The two guys played the women as vapid sluts and whores. My friend got tired of their idiocy, proceeded to use a Polymorph spell to turn them into men. However, in a surprising bit of CharacterDevelopment, one of the players started being all mopey, since the character identified herself as a woman, and being turned into a man was confusing and unpleasant. Because she showed such growth, they eventually returned her to her natural form. Sadly, the other player didn't pick up on this opportunity, and played his character like a man whore. ** Also a subject to D&D, [[MysteryOtaku this troper]] and her guy friend in the group (it's almost always the same group) have commonly been labeled traps because of this. This is because we almost always play the same thing: a halfling male and a Tiefling female. Because this troper's male counterparts didn't seem to get the hint to stop hitting on her female characters, it turns out that her halfling male is an ''asexual'' halfling and would much like them to leave him alone, thank you very much. This is also helped IC by the fact that she has a {{Crossdressing Voice}}, so one needs to be careful when RPing with her and trying to flirt with her character because you think she's hot. ** I once played a character with gender bending in his/her/its story: He was the apprentice of a wizard that worked around prostitution laws by making lifelike female clockwork constructs. However, when the master's nemesis showed up in a violent mood, he was fatally wounded and recited a soul-binding spell with his last breath... As it turns out, the finer minutiae of what is essentially a player character golem (for instance, the lack of a Constitution score) is far more interesting than the actual change... * [[{{Tropers.Darklink47}} This Troper]] once had a dream where he repeatedly walked in and out of a machine that changed his gender. ** I had dreams just like this when I was young. Like, ''seven years old'' young. I'm slightly worried now. ** This Troper just woke up from a dream in which he was given a sex change operation and put in a beauty pageant, because his country had no females of the right age, and not entering would have meant the country would be destroyed. I woke up very confused. :\ ** [[{{Tropers.Diamondex}} I]] have ''never'' had a dream where I was my real-life gender. I think I may be transsexual. Not sure yet. ** This troper once had a dream where he (she? haha) got turned into a female vampire. Twice (he changed back to male after the first one; the second was permanent). In the same dream. * @/{{Quarma}} is a major gender bender junkie. ** The same Quarma from deviantArt? If so, I like your work. ** Same here, I've watched some of your livestreams. - @/{{Bisected8}} * This troper likes to play female characters in D&D and often gives

them obscenely unorthodox moves just to break the stereotype. I also give them quirky inclinations like either being Lesbians or being unable to copulate or even being a golem just to avoid getting involved with sleezy characters. * [[{{Arcadiarika}} I]] invoke this trope plenty of times. Sometimes, I play video games as the male lead. There is a female character in [[TroperWorks/TheArcadianLegends The Arcadian Legends]] who transforms into a man. Finally, even I transform myself (not in real life, obviously) into a male form and even got pregnant a few times. * I once was playing a MagnificentBastard in DungeonsAndDragons, and I had just discovered the spell Contingency. So I set it up - the next day, I was killed by a dragon thanks to my friends. Unfortunately for them, I had prepared for it; I cast Contingency with the condition of my death, and the spells tied to it separate Polymorph Any Object spells for each of my comrades. They were the cutest little 11-yearold girls in the land. It was also permanent. * This troper spent a summer performing in drag, for money. For comedic purposes only, although he was told he was good at it. To be honest, this troper is a circus clown. * [[@/{{Bisected8}} This troper]] has got into the habit of making an animation of his avatar being gender bent for the [[TheOrderOfTheStick Giant In The Playground forums]] anual GenderBender week (where everyone switches out their avatar with a [[DistaffCounterpart Distaff or Spear Counterpart]] as apropriate). For the curious; [[http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/6301/tggbwiii.gif 2009]] (a simple Distaff Counterpart), [[http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2402/gbw2010animation2.gif 2010]] (The theif class from ''{{Disgaea}}'', complete with a MagicalGirlesque TransformationSequence, [[http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/8895/gbw2011tganimation.gif 2011]] (a tomboyish look this time around). * A lot of people tend to think I'm a girl whenever I talk to them online. I guess the name has something to do with it. ** This Troper has that happen, even with gender-neutral usernames. At one point it got so ridiculous with at least four people calling me a girl at the same time that I went out to buy a webcamera to prove it to them. [[WallBanger Some of them still didn't believe me.]] * [[AwesomeZombie22 This troper]] has an AuthorAvatar (Not named AwesomeZombie) who has this as her power, she looks like a boy (also like this troper) as well. * This Troper tends to RP as a (not blatantly bisexual) male character, although, as you may have already assummed, This Troper is female. It gets very confusing when in-character comments are made about another character's attractiveness. Or the fact that the character is engaged. To another male. * This Troper Justifies this use of the trope, as she ''is'' transsexual. As is, she looks male. * This male Troper has succesfully roleplayed an Orc woman in a Live Action Role Playing game. He approached it seriously, asking to be addressed as a female only immediately after arriving on site (the game only started a day later). Initially, the attempt was met with skepticism by team mates (other Orcs); however, the ice broke when he

(or rather she, this being fully in character) cooked a meal on the fire, telling Orc tales while doing so. The next morning, This Troper overheard the Orcs in OOC chat, referring to "her" with female pronouns. Cue silent personal CrowningMomentOfAwesome. * [[{{whatthefbomb}} This Troper]] enjoys playing female characters in games for a variety of reasons. Besides the obvious, he likes to occasionally break stereotypes by playing women who are not whores, [[{{BreastPlate}} dress realistically]], and/or aren't particularly attractive because he finds the mindset of women as items of lust or property to be downright offensive. (Not that he's completely innocent of it, of course.) He also thinks being a man and playing a woman is completely normal. For the record, he's as straight as an arrow. * [[{{Turtleducks}} This troper]], when her class was reading {{Othello}}, read the part of [[MagnificentBastard Iago]] for a "reader's theatre"-type production. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome She was immediately acknowledged as the]] [[LargeHam best Iago]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome in the entire class.]] * [[http://rosvo.deviantart.com/ This guy]] is [[http://rosvo.deviantart.com/art/mystery-box174635408?q=sort%3Atime+gallery%3Arosvo&qo=0 playing with it]], at least for now. * This troper is quasi-openly bi-gender on Second Life; it's fun, but he feels a bit self-conscious about it because, well, you know... * When playing the {{Pokemon}} videogames, ThisTroper always uses the female character if that option is available. * Pretty much what happened in my dream last night. Bonus points because Mum was the one who did it using god powers! * This male troper has a consistent history of playing a female character in games with character creators (with WorldOfWarcraft ironically being the only exception), particularly the recent Bioware [=RPGs=], where it was possible to create a satisfactorily accurate him-as-a-female avatar, particularly MassEffect2 in which this troper managed to create a female avatar that looked REMARKABLY like himself. ** More generally, this troper (same as above) is unquestionably straight and male, yet quite often fantasizes about having a female body, being quite sure he would prefer it to his male body (and being just as sure about preferring his male body to having a [[{{Transsexual}} faux-female flesh-sculpture]] for a body), and sees no conflict of identity in this since he is steadfast in his belief that everything people believe about gender identity is completely wrong and no more than people, culture, and society [[BerserkButton being sexist]]. ** This male troper feels exactly the same and plays as female characters too. * This tropette often cosplays as male characters because of her very short hair and hatred of wigs. The athletic body and near-lack of breasts helps with the illusion. * This troper had a dream a few days back where he turned into a pretty cute girl, by choice. It was slightly disorienting, but surprisingly pleasant overall. Of course, he's had many people over the years tell him that he'd make a good girl, because he's so shy and retiring. Which is something else entirely.

---Check your identity at the door, because we're going back to GenderBender. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

GenderBlenderName * This troper knew a woman named George. * This troper was friends with a girl who's name was Jean. This wouldn't have been confusing if she weren't so insistant that it was pronounced like the french masculine variant. The fact that she was also [[{{bifauxnen}} rather androgenous]] made her a walking ViewerGenderConfusion. * This troper's name is Jaime (I am female). In and of itself, this is a pretty gender-neutral name, but annoyingly enough it's ''forever'' being spelt "Jamie", which is the masculine spelling. Adding to the confusion, a common nickname of mine is ''James.'' Also? I'm getting a haircut soon. A short, ''spiky'' haircut. Heheh. ** Just for the record, in Spanish "Jaime" (the Spanish version of "James") is an entirely male name. You will never find a Hispanic female named "Jaime" outside of the United States. On the other hand, "Jamie" is an anglicism, and pretty much sounds ok to Spanish-speakers whether it's used for a male or a female. * Dallas as a first name. I asked to join a singing group at my college and got this as a reply: "I'm sorry, but [group] is only composed of female students." Cue me replying "But I'm a girl....." I live for the awkward moments, really. * This troper has a brother and a sister-in-law both named Shawn. Thanksgiving is going to be fun this year. * This troper's name is Ellie. You'd think it would be pretty obvious that it's a female name, especially as it's most often used as a diminutive for Elizabeth, Elisa, etc. (In my case, it's my full name, but that's beside the point.) I can't even count how many times I've been called Eli.... sigh. * [[{{Tropers/LadyBealzabub}} This troper]] is not entirely sure which gender her name goes under, but has seen it prominently in male name lists. ... Though she's only ever met one another "Nova", who was female. ** A name after a stage of stars going Nova? Win!!! ** In origin, Nova is the ''feminine'' form of the Latin for "new". Pretty name. *** [[{{Tropers/LadyBealzabub}} The above troper]] is very flattered at the compliments towards her name. I'd also like to include that my penname/artist's alias is usually N.J. [Last Name Here] when not online. This causes a surprising amount of frustration when trying to business under this name, especially due to the fact I'm already rather androgenous... * How would you rate a troper named Mawi? * While not quite a true Gender Blender, this troper spent a lot of high school being addressed by her last name because she shared her first name with four other girls in her grade alone. The catch? Her

last name is a very common male first name. More than a few parents/friends/new students gave my friends funny looks when they introduced their very much female friend, Thomas. ** Similar for me. My name is a very common name that is spelled various ways, so I just go by my last name, Cooper, to lower frustration. Definetly more obscure than Thomas though. * This troper has a friend named Danielle (she's named for her father Dan) and briefly worked for a French Canadian fellow named Daniel. Confusion on the part of many ensued. ** French names generally have gender blender aspects to them. Danielle/Daniel, Jean, Joan, Renee/Rene (I'm a Renee, BTW), etc. They all sound similar and they're PRACTICALLY SPELLED THE SAME. Being Bifauxnen doesn't help either, I have to wear skirts ever time I visit a French-speaking area. * This troper's father is called Kim, which is a perfectly male name in Scandinavia (and Korea), but not in America - which leads him receiving letters addressed to "Mrs. Kim" whenever he's dealing with Americans, and VERY confused stares when showing up to meetings in the US with people who don't know him personally. On the flipside, people in Scandinavia generally had to be told that no, ''Kim Possible'' is not a man. ** Same situation, same country, same sex, different name. ** Kim is also a Korean name--a name usually given to ''males''. *** Actually, Kim is a family name in Korea, so common for men and women. ** This editor's (American) uncle is named Kim, and everyone calls him Kimmy as well. ** Oddly, in Britain Kim is a male name, like for instance archtraitor KimPhilby or the eponymous Kim in RudyardKipling's novel. *** This (British) troper has known a female called Kim, zero males called Kim (and just FYI she was also British). ** In Sweden, both men and women can be called Kim. I had a female classmate called Kim and one of the female teachers at my children's school is also a Kim. ** The Miami Dolphins had a defensive lineman during the early 1980s named Kim Bokamper. * Super L dated a girl named Jean who had a male fraternal twin also named Jean. Not Jean and Gene mind you. Jean Marie and Jean Paul. Her parents are weird. * She also knows a married couple both of whom answer to Chris. ** This Troper and his girlfriend both respond to Nick (Nicholas and Nicole) * This troper's brother was named Madison quite a few years before the movie ''Splash''... in which the mermaid, whose natural name is unpronounceable by humans and ''shatters glass'', casts about for some temporary name and [[LineOfSightName hits upon a street sign]] "Madison." It was supposed to be ''funny'', you guys! A girl who unknowingly takes on a boy's name! Kinda went over the heads of the various mothers who started the "my daughter Madison" trend, and now this troper's brother gets mail (and phone calls) that assume he's a woman. Hey, he's even had court papers that state something about "the father of the child" and then proceed to use ''the feminine

pronouns''. ** [[TromboneChild This Troper]] knows a guy named Madison (born in the mid-late 1980s). He absolutely hates the "my daughter Madison" trend because the name really means "son of Maude." ''Son.'' Before this, though, I had only known female Madisons and my younger sister goes to school with a Madison and a Maddison. * Shawn is another name that's going this direction, at least in the US (Sean is still pretty exclusively male, but Shawn has about a 50/50 chance of being a female). [[{{Tropers/Prioris}} This troper's]] mother was probably one of the originals, circa 1950. (Reading mail in our family is always good for laughs, as this troper has an ambiguously female name as well - you can always spot junk if it's addressed to "Mr.") ** I know a girl named Seana - yes, spelled that way. For some reason, people call her "Sheena" if they just read it... * This troper has two female cousins named Nicholas and James. Plus a male cousin with the middle name Nicole. ** [[ThirtyTwoFootsteps This troper]] has ''three'' female cousins named, in order of age, Shannon, Courtney, and Ryan. In addition, his wife is named Georgy (though that's short for Georgiana). *** Yes, well, two of those three would be expected to be female...at least, they would be in the United States. * While this troper was in England, he had a (female) flatmate called Charlie (apparently short for Charlene), and a friend who lived with a guy named Loren. ** Charlie is also pretty common as a shortening for Charlotte (others prefer Lottie or Lotte). * This troper is a female named Travis. It's her mother's middle name, and was HER grandmother's maiden name. The troper in question wound up using her middle name to avoid confusion. * This troper knew a young man named Stacey. Poor bastard. ** This troper did too! He told me he was named for the actor Stacy Keach. * This troper has a prominent female roleplaying character named Jimmy. It's technically short for Imogene, but [[BerserkButton lord help you if you call her that to her face.]] * My mother and stepfather ''both'' have Gender Blender Names--not only their first names but their middle names as well! One of them is named Sidney Lee and the other is named Cory Lynn. But ''which one is which''? ** Can't be sure, but Sidney is still a generally male spelling. *** This troper actually went to high school with a girl named Sidney, so I really can't guess on this one. * This troper has an uncle and a (female) roleplaying buddy who are both named Tracy. The uncle Tracy apparently went by his middle name, Allen, for a bit when he was younger, and he's usually addressed as Trace now. * This troper heard a story from when his parents were dating. His mother, named Georgia, was called "George" by her friends, while his father has always been known as "Terry" (Short for Theodore). Naturally, when they were introduced to people at a party as "George and Terry", those people made the obvious assumption.

* This troper's father is called Casey, due to the fact that his Dutch nickname is usually mis-pronounced by English-speakers. Telemarketers often call for Mrs. Casey X. This troper's brother also went to school with a girl named Thomas. * MythSage's real name is Sam. He has encountered a number of Samanthas in his classes, all who used the nickname Sam. Hilarity ensued. * [[{{Nlpnt}} This troper]] (who is male) has a name on the list. For much of Main/TheEighties, the Weekly Reader Book Club was under the impression he was a girl. * {{Seanette}} went to school with two female Tracys (at least one of whom got slightly cute with the spelling), and a male Tracy. Very nice guy, but given this was a fairly rural small town, he probably learned to fight very young. * [[{{Nomic}} This troper]] mistook his friend's older sister for an older brother when first hearing his friend mention her name. This was mainly because it wasn't a very common name and the only person he knows with a similar name (one letter difference) is a guy. Also, it wasn't her full name, but a shortening of it (her full name was unmistakeably feminine). * ThisTroper knows a pair of siblings called Gabby and Alex. Gabby is the male, Alex is the female. ** Gabriel and Alexandria, right? * ThisTroper's mother and father are named, respectively, Robin and Leslie. As they work together, this causes quite a bit of confusion for people calling them there. ** Wow. Although completely unrelated, This Troper had an English teacher whose name was Robin Leslie. Coincidence indeed. * [[{{WolfKazumaru}} This troper]] has an Auntie Tim and Uncle Deb. They're married. * This troper recently attended a MagicTheGathering tournament with a "Sam" and a "Lily" on the bracket. Since there was [[TheSmurfettePrinciple only one girl]] there, she naturally assumed that she was the "Lily..." but actually, she was "Samantha." Lily? A dude. * This troper knows a girl named Eddie. ** Don't we all? * ThisTroper has to remind herself every time she phones one of her clients, called Buenaventura, that said client is male, even when any other Buenaventura she knows is female. ThisTroper also met a guy called Paz, another typically female name, and was friends with one guy called Maria, and a girl called Jesus (Both of them had composite names, and that was just half the official name, yet still they introduced themselves that way) * This troper went to high school with a girl named Ashton. * 'Shelby' is a gender-ambiguous name. It is also this troper's name, and that of her mother's friend's husband. HilarityEnsues. * This troper name (Anthony) is a perfect masculine name, but I just can't stand be called "Tony"...I don't know why, but I think "Tony" will suffer the same fate that "Alex", "Sam" and "Meredith"... * When [[TromboneChild This Troper]] was at her cousin Anna's baptism, she found herself playing with an adorable, blonde-haired little girl

from the other side of her cousin's family. This darling little girl's name was Ryan. * This troper's sister is named Josephine and goes by [=JoJo=]. All of the other Josephines around her age (11) that she has met have gone "Josie". It seems that "Jo" isn't an appropriate (or cutesy enough) name for a girl anymore, even though there are famous "Jo's" like Jo March from ''Little Women'' and Jo Rowling (JKR herself). * This troper was called "Patty" (short for Patricia) for most of her life. With her parent's accents, it was pronounced "Paddy", which is a boy's name in the part of England she visited a few years ago. She got lots of weird looks that trip. Currently, for unrelated reasons, she now goes by "Pat", which has lead to some letters addressed to "Mr. Pat {last name}". * This mostly European troper was astonished to hear that one of his American nieces is named Mackenzie. His reaction was: "But that's a Scottish surname, and you call her Mack, too?" * This troper's gender-neutral name (Casey) and girly looks in grade school was the source of endless embarrassment and confusion from teachers. He suspects that this just MIGHT'VE been where his [[FetishFuel transgender fetish]] got started... * Chris. It's almost as bad as "Alex" for confusion. And it probably doesn't help that I'm 6'3" and.. stockily built. I have been mistaken for a man so, so many times... ** My boyfriend and I are Alexandra and Christopher, but naturally we go by Alex and Chris. On paper, with only our nicknames, we could be any combination of genders. Yay for androgynous names! * This troper has to deal with the name "Courtney". His mother named him that because it's a perfectly valid boy's name, in Jamaica and in Europe. Not so much in mainland North America. Fortunately, the people he meets these days don't bring it up (or if they do, never anywhere remotely close to him). Though seriously, what is it with North America and turning boys' names into girls' ones? ** This troper shares your pain. Exact same name. HilarityEnsues when people started planning various welcome parties for me (My school adds people to the roster before they actually transfer there) without knowing my actual gender. Well, HilarityEnsues for everyone but me. * I dare you to find at least one forum where {{raekuul}} is not mistaken for a lesbian on the basis of his screen name. I dare you. Either it has happened, or I am not there yet. There is no in between. * This troper changed the spelling of her name from Dani to Danny just to confuse people about her gender. * It was embarrassing when substitutes didn't know the name of this troper was the ''feminine'' variation of John. Also, she knew a boy named Kelly who was on the football team. * Jannis. A pretty gender neutral name for everyone I guess, just not in Italy where it is used as a Male and/or Female name. ** Gender-neutral except when it's male and/or female? What? *** Gender Neutral in Germany. Not so much in Italy though. * ThisTroper has the unisex name of Ashton so I've been mistaken for a guy by various paperwork (nearly got me in the wrong dorm once; apparently the people didn't check what I marked for gender). It doesn't help that my name is shared with a male celebrity.

* [[DokEnkephalin This troper's]] sister goes by Cris to take the advantages of gender assumptions. My own name, Cameron, is becoming increasingly considered a feminine, or at the least, unisex name. This is just bizarre in light of it's origin as a Celtic warrior's name; it literally means 'bent nose/crooked nose' and implies someone who's battle-prone enough to get their nose broken, which is why it suits me. * This troper, a trans woman, tries to pass her old name off as this when she has to deal with people who do not realize she is trans but have her old name. * This troper's great-grandfather's first name was Hillary. Not that a certain senator/ex-prez candidate hasn't made it manly again... * [[RayAyanami This troper]], who is minoring in Japanese, is named Ray. Sometimes he writes it as "[[ShoutOut R]][[IncrediblyLamePun e]][[NeonGenesisEvangelion i]]." His friend, who is taking advancedlevel Japanese, has said on more than one occasion that that's a feminine name. Any other Japanese-speaking tropers wanna verify this? ** Most Japanese names, Rei included, are unisex, though some are just more popular names for boys or girls. There are such things as male and female names, but there aren't many examples other than the obvious (names ending in 'ko', 'taro' .etc). * [[KingSonnDeeDoo This (female) Troper]] has the unisex name of Izzy (a shortened form of Isobel). Although there haven't been too many mix-ups, one which particuarly stands out is when a guest at our house proclaimed something along the lines of "You have a very polite son.". This Troper's mother found it hilarious. * This troper's name is Ashley, and it's supposed to be a unisex name, but Ashley is mostly known to be the 'male' spelling (as opposed to Ashleigh). When she was young, she was awarded a ''boys'' trophy for swimming, engraved and with a male figurine so it couldn't be easily changed. Even worse, she was ''listed as a man'' on her medicare for ''24 years'' - it was only discovered when this troper tried to charge a gynacologist appointment to her medicare only to be met with a confused phonecall asking why a man was making that sort of claim. When she went into the medicare office to get it straightened out, there wasn't even an appropiate box to fill out - the lady at the desk had to write it in the margin. And on top of that, if someone knows that this troper is a girl, everyone usually spells her name completely wrong (Ashleigh, Ashlea, Ashlee, Ashlei, etc). Sigh. ** ThisTroper has had the opposite problem. Despite being an Ashley, ''his'' medical record was female for a few years, ''his'' blood works record always listed ''him'' as female (since 1997 until 2009), and ''he'' has nearly been put into girl-only items by people assuming gender based upon name. While living in the USA, ''he'' went by Ash to avoid confusion... * ThisTroper was once behind a girl in a checkout line who's name was Stevie. ** This Troper actually had a friend called Stevie - who happened to have a stepbrother also called Stevie. *** This Troper also has a (female) friend named Stevie, who's little sister is name Jeffrie. Poor girl. * This Troper is Russian and his name is Sasha.

* This troper has a niece with the middle name of Ryan. It helps that her first name is Elizabeth. * This Troper has a most uncommon girl's name which, by virtue of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutive#Dutch a convenient suffix]], is the diminuitive of a not-too-common boy's name that's nonetheless a fair bit more common and known than the girl-version. This, combined with at times a rather masculine appearance, has had people confused for years. Keeping it in the family, both her parents have unisex names, and because they use their own surnames, people who do not know them personally are often confused about their respective genders and consequently their sexual orientation. * This troper, a man, used to be named Ariel. It's a perfectly masculine name in many parts of the world (you may remember former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon), but most Americans only know it as the name of the girly, damsel-in-distressy heroine of ''TheLittleMermaid''. I changed it after the teasing got to me. * This troper's mother is called Michelle. One of this troper's friends is called Micheal. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ALWAYS Ensues when French people attempt to remember which one is which...]] * [[@/{{Bisected8}} This troper's]] younger brother is called Ashley. The name has several spellings of varying gender neutrality, which it retains in Britain (less so in the US). He normally goes by Ash nowadays. Amusingly enough I also knew an "Ashleigh" in secondary school, that spelling of name is strictly femanine. ''He'' wasn't. ** In addition in a partial subversion, my own name, Sebastian, is [[http://www.behindthename.com/name/sebastian universally masculine]], but has been [[DidNotDoTheResearch mistaken]] for a girls name (and often a French name, for some reason) on occasion. * This troper's brother was named Jean--a perfectly male name in Quebec, but not so much in the rest of Canada. He eventually had it changed to John. * This troper is a girl, but due to her personality, often gets called 'the third son' by her father, with male version of her name included. The fact she goes by her last name doesn't help. * This troper once joined a forum that was run by one of his friends. As time went on, when they referenced him, they kept shortening his username until it got to 'Emi'. Unless this troper or his friends tell people beforehand, they're left confused and weirded out. [ This was hilarious when the drama hoodies were handed out later in the year. This troper had his nickname on the back of his hoodie and his math teacher was left wondering how they got 'Emi' out of his real name... ] * This troper had a female classmate named Gabrielle in middle school whose name substitute teachers always mispronounced as "Gabriel". ** One girl at this troper's school actually is named Gabriel, but pronounced the same as "Gabrielle". We call her Gabby. She is very feminine and sweet, but it was especially confusing when she played the male character Colin Craven (usually played by a boy soprano) in ''TheSecretGarden''. * [[{{Kaizykat}} This Troper]] has a classmate that is called Joe. He looks feminine enough to pass as a manly woman. For the first few weeks of school, she wasn't sure what his gender was until she asked

one of her friends. The fact that her mother has seen Joe several times and refuses to believe he's a guy doesn't help his case either. * This troper's school has an Emmanuel, nicknamed Manny. This troper attends an all-girls' school. * This troper is named Whitney. This is North America, so this is commonly accepted as a girl's name. Of course, this was until this troper proved it to be a masculine name. What was even more fun was when I was in pottery class with my friend's brother, Whitney, and we went to France together on a school trip. We were not only mistaken as siblings, but British siblings. * [[{{SweetnessOnAHotCircuit}} This Troper]] has the gender nuetral name of Dallas. The best part; She was named after the heroine of a 19th century romance novel. She has never met another girl Dallas. And to top it off, when she tells people her name, they automatically spell it Dalice. * {{Facepalm}}* ** Dallas, hon, is that you? Because if it is, I want to know how you got into tvtropes. XD[[hottip:*:And yes, Dallas is a girl in this instance as well]] * [[KissofCamine This Troper]] is a female with the name of Robin. It doesn't help her choice in clothes are generally more masculine than most girls. ** In Sweden Robin is one of the few names that are usable for both men and women. * [[{{Shaon}} This troper]] is named Conor, after [[EricClapton Conor Clapton]]. However, as you may expect from any entry in this page, this Conor is female. This fact is not helped by her chosen username in most places (Shaon) is a male name in India and her voice has been described as like that of a 12-year-old boy. * My handle for several years has been {{Yubi Shines}}. One wouldn't think it was that androgynous, right? Not according to at least twothirds of a few dozen online communities. Life was a lot less ambiguous when I went by "Star." * This editor has a has a brother by the name of Brook. As you might imagine, it has been a source of no small amount of drama and confusion through his life, even with the federal and state government. * This (male)troper's name is Chris, and a close (female) friend of mine is named Kris. There was a lot of confusion in high school... * This troper has a friend with an aunt named Norman. * This troper has been working on a story in which one of the main character's names is Emory. Emory is a girl, and the troper picked the name because she saw it on a list of girls' names in a random book. In the past week, I've discovered that although Emory is becoming more popular as a girl's name (its closest feminine variant is Emery), it's actually more commonly used for boys. Now I will have to add instances of my Emory being mistaken for a boy in story for more realism... * This Troper has one of these for a middle name, although the spelling gives it away. It's Noel/Noelle. * In this Troper's continent the name Andrea is a very popular name given to Females, however in Italy is one of the most popular names for Males. This name's origin (Greek andrs) is often translated as "manly, virile"...Such a creepy idea for a Girl's name.

** When this troper served in a multinational organization in Afghanistan, the hundred-strong office contained one Andrea (German female), one Andrea (Italian male), one Andreas (German male), one Anders (Swedish male), one Andres (Estonian male), one Andrew (UK male), and one Andr (French male). (We fortunately did not have a Latvian Andris and a Polish Andrzej.) Much confusion ensued, particularly among our British bodyguards whose knowledge of foreign languages was limited. * This Troper has the ambiguous name Aubrey. People generally think of it as a feminine name (and good thing, too). However, on a spiritual retreat, my roommate told me that her boyfriend's name was Aubrey. Ugh. Bonus points for all of us rooming there, also; every single one of us had a gender-neutral name. * ThisTroper's name is pronounced "Dewey" in America but her real spelled name is actually meant for a girl. * Hello, nice to meet you. The name's Forrest. I'm a girl, actually. ** I actually think that's cute. ^^ * This troper's name is Julianne (female), and I share several classes with a Julien (male). Hilarity ensues? She is also friends with a male by the name of Phoenix. ** Phoenix? Epic win. * [[{{MiraShio}} This troper]] has been friends with a boy whose first name is "Adriane" since third grade. Luckily for him, everyone knows him by his middle name, which is both very masculine and very rare. In my case, meanwhile, my real middle name "Denise" is sometimes mispronounced as "Dennis" and was on one occasion written as such. It annoys me. * This troper's name is Valentine, which apparently is a boy's name in English-speaking countries (albeit a rare one). Also, my grandfather's real name was Carrie (he was named after his father's first wife, so it was completely intentional) * This Troper has an Aunt Toni and a (male) cousin Tony. We call them tone-eye and tone-why if we need to distinguish. (They're short for Antoinette and Anthony.) * This troper's father is named Kelly. * While This Troper's name, Alison, is pretty obviously feminine, I've had people give me odd looks when my friends introduce me by my nickname of Al. * This troper's name is Rowan. The question is, what gender is the troper? ** I'm guessing female but I could be wrong. ** I'll guess female too because I know a female Rowan... ** Anyone heard of [[MrBean Rowan Atkinson]]? I'm guessing male. Though it is hard to determine a gender of a name of a (tasteless) fruit... * At my school, there are multiple people with the names Barret and Dakota. Half of them are girls, half are boys. * [[{{Aela}} This Troper]] attracts [[GenderBlenderName Gender Blender Nicknames]]: at various times, she's been known as Mac, Mickey, Mike, Meesh, Mitch, Mic, Kay, and [=McKay=]. * This troper went to school with a female Courtney and a male Courtney.

* This troper and her sister are Jesse and Avery, two traditionally masculine names in the US. If I had a dime for every time I've been called "Jessica," I'd be a multi-millionaire. ** This female troper is named Avery. It's not a very common name (or it's at least less common than most), and she can count the other Averys she's met on one hand, but they were all guys. Granted, the most recent one had it for a middle name, but the point still stands. * This troper knows a married couple named Lynn and Dawn. If you'd only heard the names, you could be forgiven for getting the genders backwards. * This troper's brother, father, grandfather and great-grandfather all have the same GenderBlenderName: Leslie. It's my great-grandfather's first name and everyone else's middle name. Since it's a traditional name, I've teased my brother that it doesn't matter if he has a girl or boy first, as he could name either Leslie. * [[{{Luna87}} This troper]] didn't even realize that her name (Ashleigh) was once more considered a boy's name until 7th grade, when my best friend started reading "Gone With the Wind." I later discovered that there is an author who spells his name the same way I do, as opposed to the more traditional spelling (Ashleigh Brilliant). * This troper's cousin's father-in-law is named Laverne. Said (female) cousin is named Lorin, which I've never seen anywhere else (and [[OneSteveLimit I know a lot of Laurens]]) and doesn't look very feminine. * This troper's middle name is Mychal. According to my mother, the "y" makes it the feminine spelling, but it was an EmbarrassingMiddleName throughout my childhood. By now, I've gotten over it, and I'm even considering taking it for my pen name, mostly to offset how common my first name is. (By funny coincidence with the above troper's post, it's also Lauren.) * This troper is named Darcy. I'm a girl. It's mostly known as a girl's name, but like with Lesley and such it used to be masculine. I know of only one other female Darcy. It doesn't help that I was named after a male author. * This troper is Nigerian. When you have twins, their names are automatically first born: Taiwo (nicknamed Taye and pronounced tieyay) and Second born: Kehinde (pronouced kein-de or ken-de), regardless of gender. In our family, apparently most firstborns are girls. Guess when this female troper was born... * This troper has two friends named Courtney. One of them is male, the other is female. They're also boyfriend and girlfriend. * The daycare this troper works at once had a girl named Tyson, which I thought was strictly a boy's name before. She was somewhat of a {{tomboy}}, though. ** This troper's middle school principal was a man named Lynn Caldwell. * This Troper knows a few-she knows two people named Chris-although one is Christopher and one is Crystal. Also there was a girl named Nicole, who shortens her name to Nic, and two Stevies-one male and one female, although the male hates being called Stevie and prefers Steve. She also knew a female called Eddie, she is the girlfriend of my female friend, and when she was talking about Eddie I presumed she was

a man, and her boyfriend. It was a bit suprising when we finally met. * [[@/HersheleOstropoler I]] had a co-worker at a branch office named "Evelyn." I could never remember what this person's gender is. * This troper technically has this (as she was named after her father) although he has it worse. We're both named Sydney, which was originally a boys name (I think) even if it's more common for girls now. At least he gets to shorten it to Syd. (As a side note, she has met another boy named Sydney, but he went by James, his middle name.) * [[{{Miso}} This Troper]] knows/knew a guy named Lyn. I told my dad about something Lyn had said in true DeadpanSnarker fashion around Christmas, and the following exchange occurred. -->Father: [[ViewerGenderConfusion Is she pretty?]] -->Miso: * ten second period of silence* [[DudeLooksLikeALady ''She's'' a guy.]] * [[DarkInsanity13 This troper]] likes to go by her initials JC online. Of course, in a subversion, no one ever does call her that and she usually only ever suggests it when she's been a regular on a forum for a while so her gender's usually already known if it isn't obvious in the first place. * This troper's grandparents have long been friends with a couple, Dick, the husband, and Nelson, the wife. They're both well in to their eighties. * This troper once knew a girl named Randel. Guess who's father wanted a boy? * This troper's mother's name was Donal. On top of people mistakenly believing she was male, her name would often get misspelled as "Donald". She recently changed it to something more feminine. (This troper, of course, was given an unambiguously gender-appropriate name.) * This troper's name is Jordan Rose Palen. Considering how [[{{Bifauxnen}} I look like a boy, but am really a girl,]] people who [[ViewerGenderConfusion get my gender wrong]] assume Rose is the GenderBlenderName, when Jordan is. * Everybody thinks this troper is female, based on his first name, Ashley. He has now taken to signing off with "Ashley, who will garrotte you if you think he's female". That hasn't stopped [[TooDumbToLive some]] [[IncrediblyLamePun people]]. * My father was named Terry at birth, but had his name legally changed because so many people assumed it was the diminutive of Theresa rather than Terrence. It seems to be a family thing, since my uncle's name is Lorie. * Until this troper read TheGreatGatsby, he always thought that "Jordan" was a definitively masculine name. * This troper once knew a married couple...when first introduced to them as (what sounded like) "Joe" and "Carol," I learned to my surprise that ''she'' was "Jo" and ''he'' was "Carroll." * This troper once went to school with a girl named Eugene. * One of this troper's old friends in high school got a sex change after graduation (female to male) and kept their old name (Meredith). His own middle name (Jun) is a sort-of example: it's pronounced somewhat like the English "June" but shorter, but a lot of Americans pronounce them the same way, so I've confused a number of people that

way. (In addition to being a proper name itself, Jun is also a diminuitive form of Junko (female) and Jun'suke and Jun'ichirou (male).) * This troper has three roommates with ambiguous/male-sounding names (or at least, nicknames), despite all four of them being female. Which led to her [[OverprotectiveDad dad's]] response of "You're living with who!?" It also has it's advantages, such as when a guy is coming onto her, and she can make comments like, "I can't wait to go home and curl up on the couch with Sam." * This lurkers name, Aaron, has been frequently misspelled to either Erin, the female spelling of the name, or [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Aron this]] * This troper was given the first name of "Romi" by her very American but unusual-baby-naming parents (pronounced raw-me, not row-me). For most of my life, most people have assumed I was male---the only problem is, when I finally did research on my name, I found out it occurred mostly as a girl's name or nickname in Europe and occasionally as a guy's name in the Middle East---although a friend who reads Akkadian told me it was a girl's name at first there as well. I was quite used to getting mail addressed to Mr. Romi X, too. Then the movie "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion" came out, and people stopped looking so surprised at me being female (the mispronunciations still continued, though). I thought I'd have no more trouble for a few years, but then I looked at one of my credit reports...and found they had MY MOTHER listed as MY SPOUSE. This generated a massive squick overload (she died over a decade ago, too--and my father outlived her), though I suppose someone, somewhere can find some level of humor in that. * This troper is named Carrington and recently received a letter from the US government telling this troper to register for selective service. Guess what gender I am. * This female troper goes by Lex a lot of the time, which has led to some confusion in the past. I also have a male friend named Novell. * [[JustCallMeKatsu This male troper]] is named "Kaya." Granted, there aren't many Kaya's around, but all of the one's I've seen and heard about are ''all'' flippin' female!! * This American troper's younger brother is named Alexander (goes by Alex). However, her mother found the fact that Sasha is a Russian nickname for Alexander hilarious, resulting in the entire neighborhood calling him Sasha when he was younger. It didn't help that he was very cute and feminine as a toddler, and he was usually mistaken for a cute little baby girl. When he got older and much huger, it took on the spin of being a cute little girl's name for a massive stinky pubescent boy. * [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awy8pSVGyDQ This video]] of Shannon's proposal to Jessica. Good luck guessing who is who. * The preschool/kindergarten summer camp this troper works at has a female teacher named Harper. * My friend's brother Daniel is in a long-term relationship with Danielle. Letters to them tend to be addressed to "The Dans." * I discovered a girl named Evan on Facebook. * I recently met a couple with a daughter named Connor.

* [[@/{{TheAmazingIowan}} This troper]] recently discovered that his name, Tanner, has belonged to at least one female. * This troper used to go to school with a girl named Jensen. * I know a guy named Erin, a guy and a girl named Jordan, and a guy named Tony, but spelled Toni. * Try being a girl, called Billie. People don't seem to get that it is the femimine version of "Billy." * My first name is Kelsey, which, aside from Kelsey Grammer, is rarely heard of as a male name despite being supposedly gender-neutral. However, my last name is a common male first name, and I can't tell you how many substitutes I had in school read it backwards and assumed I was male. I've even gotten marked absent because they saw a girl sitting in what they assumed to be a male's assigned seat. Throw in a school strict against skipping class, parents who are strict about everything, and a tendency to get frazzled when questioned even when I'm in the right, and...well, high school wasn't exactly fun, to say the least. * This troper has several friends named Melissa, one friend named Jemel and another named Rahmel. When all insist on the nickname 'Mel', confusion ensues. * this troper has a thankfully feminine name, but her parents are ... Robin( often a girls name) and Patrice ( a guy's name in france). * This tropette knows a woman named George. Probably short for Georgia, but still. * This troper has a little brother named Elie. For the first few years of his life, people insisted that either A) he was a girl, B) it was short for "Elliot" or something else like it (no, it is not), or C) that we were ''spelling his name wrong'' (for "Eli"). No, I think that my parents would know how to spell his name! ''Ellie'' is the girl name, people! ''Elie'' is a boy. Think Elie Wiesel, the famous Holocaust survivor and author of the book ''Night''. * This female troper's name is Dana, and confusion over my name also comes with racial confusion for some reason. ** I, or rather, MR. Dana, was offered a minority scholarship due to a lack of African-American males in college. (I didn't take it.) ** Once when I was working, someone called my name. I responded as well as two customers (one male, one female, both White). ** My online handle used to be daidai (from the first part of my name, pronounced "day-day"), until someone told me it was Chinese for "little brother". * This troper's friend is a guy whose name is Kelsey. Once during a test break, some teacher said that a ''girl'' named Kelsey forgot to fill in or hand in something. Guess who it was? * When her parents were deciding what to name this troper, her mom suggested Ashley as a middle name. Now, Ashley started out as a masculine name, but sometime in the recent past it became commonly used as a girl's name - hence why my mom suggested it. Her dad apparently hadn't gotten the memo though, and said that the only Ashley he knew was [[GoneWithTheWind Ashley Wilkes]] and therefore no way was he naming his daughter that. Long story short, this troper's middle name: Ashley. (Well, along with two others, but this isn't OverlyLongName...)

* [[Tropers/BladeSatoshiX This Troper]]'s name is Cameron. In Scotland, his home country, it's a male's name but ever since Cameron Diaz came along, the number of girls with this name is increasing... * I have a younger sibling named Cody. Shortly after Cody's 18th birthday, our family received a letter from the government requesting that Cody sign up for Selective Service. Along with our mother, Cody sent a strongly-worded reply letter informing them that she was female, and was therefore under no obligation to do any such thing. To this day, we still wonder why the government knew her address and birthday, but not her gender. * [[Tropers/gracieJ96 This Troper]] has a class mate called Joy, who's male (granted, he's from South America). I also have a friend called Victor, but I call him Vic. Her foreign penpal was surprised when I mentioned that Vic is a boy. * This troper is a [[{{Transsexual}} transman]] who has decided to keep his birth-name. Thus, he's a boy named Shayla; however he usually goes by his nickname which is masculine. * This troper's name is Nicolas. This is not the blendy part; I am actually a guy. The problem is my nickname. Nicki is a perfectly respectable nickname for Nicolas ''in France''. Here? People call me Nicole. Having a GBN is a bit of a problem when you're gay. Even better, my boyfriend is known by ''everyone'' as Angel. People assume we're both girls. * This troper knew of a married couple named Michel and Michelle. * When my older sister, Kyle started getting letters from colleges, he number one method of weeding them out was to instantly chuck any that addressed her as "Mr." * [[@/SoWeAteThem My]] first name is commonly abbreviated to Sam (it even showed as such for all my IDs up to high school). Usually, it's a ForegoneConclusion that I'm male, as either that or my full first name show up on all my parcels. But one college organization once mailed me a package with the label "Samantha." I showed to to them in person. They were mortified. After this (and a set of other events that almost made me miss a whole semester's worth of college), I made it a point to deal with them as little as possible. ** Also, I knew two female Joeys. According to one, people sometimes got her gender wrong when she was younger. * You'd think being a girl named Erin would be simple, since the traditional boy spelling is Aaron. But on paper, I've been confused for a boy. For example, while doing community sports as a child, I was almost put on an all-boys soccer team. Then I showed up in person and the organizers quickly realized their mistake. (Despite the fact that my sign up form clearly had my gender marked as female. I presume they didn't look past the name). Also, my poor dad [[DeadGuyJunior earned his middle name from a long-dead uncle]]. An uncle named Hilary. * [[Tropers/{{Twentington}} This troper]] is named Bobby, yet literally ''every''one who isn't a family member (and even some who are) insists on spelling it Bobb''ie''. I can't be more obviously male, people; why do you still do this? ** Also, I used to know a guy named Erin. * There's a Seattle actress named Cayman Ilika (Jacobs). She also has a brother named Cassidy.