* [[Tropers/AgentKaz This troper]] when she was young and foolish made not only Sailor Earth, Sailor

Sun, Sailor Nemesis, and Sailor X, but a group of Pokemon-themed senshi such as Sailor Jigglypuff and Sailor Pikachu who could turn into Pokemon. I've actually kept Sailor X around and turned her into some weird cyborg-thing. Just for funsies. But my worst infraction was a fanfic I wrote after I found someone else had a Sailor Sun character. I had it turn out that that Sailor Sun was a "decoy" and mine was the real one, so the other one got pissed and went to the "evil" side led by a possessing demon named... ready for this? Possessor. * I decided to make a Sailor Moon fancharacter just for fun once. So I present to you Hoshino Sakura, a.k.a Sailor Star Revealer, the fourth member of the Sailor Starlights. The other three (and the other Senshi period) know nothing of her existence, and rather than being a "warrior of love and justice" like most of the other Senshi, while technically one of the good guys, she is pretty damn ruthless and wouldn't be averse to killing someone if they tried to get in her way, whether they were human or otherwise. She has "nature" as a theme for her attacks, able to create vines from her body or from the ground nearby, and her single named attack, Star Fatal Attraction, involves her throwing a disc of light through her enemy, which then flies above them and explodes in a damaging shower of stars. She has a very "lone wolf"-ish personality and almost Saiyan-like pride; she would rather die than lose a fight. I doubt even Usagi would be able to melt her icy demeanour. * When this troper was three to four years old and lived in Japan and watched Sailor Moon, she used to imagine a character named Sailor Earth (yes, literally) who more or less represented her, except a thousand times cooler. She wore yellow fuku with a purple button and looked like Ami except with black hair and green eyes. I had no idea what sex was at the time, and had her be tortured instead to fill out the kinkiness that would totally corrupt my mind at a later time (IE. Sexual Endeavors of a Gay, Het or Lesbian Nature). As you can already tell, she was a total PuritySue who often turned out to be the actual heroine, learned by the Senshi tearfully after she had been saved by them after she'd been unjustly tortured by the enemy. I also often paired her up with either Sailor Moon or Jupiter at the time, since they were my favorite characters (also because I liked to pair said canon Senshi up together after watching Beryl zap Jupiter constantly when she begged her to stop controlling Sailor Moon's mind in one episode. Yes I was a YuriFangirl at that age and neither the pairing or the characters are my favorites for the series now). ** Same troper here, but... Actually, one should probably try to find a little girl who watched Sailor Moon and ''didn't'' create Sailor Earth in her head. I'm sure it was quite a popular thing to do. * Flyboy254: Oy, I'm so guilty of this one. Even worse, I used ''Molly''! ** Well, that's not ''so'' bad. You'd be surprised at how many people choose to make Molly/Naru a Senshi. *** Apparently, Naoko herself said that if Mamoru didn't exist, Naru would have become Sailor Earth. *** And adding in a character that led the Moon Kingdom's "military"?

* This troper never created a Sailor Earth or Sun...no, she made Sailor Star. And Star was a horrendous MarySue who was Rini's newest and best friend, served as surrogate little sister to the rest of the Scouts, and...well, you get the picture. Her only redeeming quality was that her attack was [[SailorMoonAbridged fairly useless.]] This troper eventually reworked her into Sailor Polaris, then Sailor NorthStar, and then finally went with including her (now no longer a Sue) in her ElsewhereFic--giving her a new name too, thank God. * Ok, so ThisTroper, known as Tropers/YouMustDie, is part of a roleplaying universe on www.gamingsteve.com/blab (the galaxy is called Origin.) We've got a bunch of alien planets. Cue Makl Malili (Sailor Kuuruk) Laria Tuvolfs (Sailor Perrawiih), etc... * [[Tropers/{{Burstkiller}} This Troper]] made a [[GirlishPigtails Sailor]] [[TropeNamer Earth]] ([[CaptainObvious Naturally]]), [[RedheadedHero Sailor]] [[ThePowerOfTheSun Sunfire]], a [[TokenMinority Sailor]] [[LightTheWay Supernova]], a [[{{Meganekko}} Sailor]] [[BladeOnAStick Sirius]] that was a old friend of Venus, a set of Planetary Senshi successors (led by Chibimoon and a [[DidNotDoTheResearch sister of]] Chibimoon who was ''not'' the AU Kousagi) who motifs were [[FanficChopSuey mis-mashed]] with that of PowerRangersZeo, plus ''their'' children and a pack of Sailor Zodiacs. No, this troper was [[{{Ptitle1fqxgbbvavmd}} not on something]] when [[MostFanficWritersAreGirls he]] made them at age 14. Not wanting to abandon them, many of them are getting retooled as [=OCs=] for original work or less Suetiful versions of themselves. * A ThisTimeRound ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfic has recast some of our favourite companions as Sailor Gallifrey (Susan) Sailor Traken (Nyssa), Sailor Sevateem (Leela) and Sailor Wheel In Space (Zoe). After that it gets ''silly''... ---[[AC:Non-SailorMoon Examples]] * [[Tropers/SabrinaDiamond This troper]]: I have a rather unusual 'problem' with my character. In my friend's fanfic, my original character convientally [[ReplacementGoldfish replaces]] magician Warlic's assistant from DragonFable, thus Nythera doesn't really exist in TheVerse of the fanfiction, lol. Hence Nythera ironically [[spoiler:never poisoned Warlic.]] xD * In one case, [[Tropers/SladeJT this troper]] was waiting for others of her roleplay group to show up when the self-proclaimed third twin brother of {{Mario}} burst into Bowser's castle and informed Kamek, one of the oldest enemies of the Mario Brothers, that he wanted to join the Koopa Troop. To this day, I am not sure whether this was a case of DidNotDoTheResearch or TheyJustDidntCare. Similar moments occured in Sonic roleplays and others that the troper would rather purge from her mind. * This troper has done it numerous times as a little kid, and most recently with a "Beyond XIV" Organization. And basically, only they were the ones who weren't off-screen 90% of the time, because with a few exceptions, they were all the lowest-ranked nobodies dispatched to do the dirty work. Yes I put one of my OCs pretty high up on the ladder (No higher than Sax, the "second in command", or numbers two

and three, Xigbar and Xaldin) mostly cause he was a good schmoozer and was pretty much mostly present to babysit the newer and lower-ranked stuff. And to top it off...there was often a division between the "Newer" members and the "Originals". The "Newer" members saw the originals as "Sycophants", "elitists", and "suck-ups" while the "Originals" saw the "Newer" members as "Lazy" and "{{Scrubs}}". (Since many of them weren't all "The Organization is SeriousBusiness!) ** The "Beyond XIV" people also had their own divisions...Rhaex was obviously the supposed "leader" of the lower ranked ones while Xanit appeared to be TheDragon. However, it's later revealed that Maxine is really TheDragon. * Regarding the FullmetalAlchemist example, this Troper once had the idea of writing a fanfiction with new Homunculi using the opposite of the Seven Deadly sins (at least in Catholicism, I can't speak for Protestants), the Seven Virtues or whatever they're called, which would be controlled by some sort of KnightTemplar character (he/she would think s/he was doing good, so why not use "good" names?) This could also maybe be done with the original Homunculi (with the Seven Deadly sins names) because they are shown to have a bit of TheNthDoctor going on (more so in the anime, but still). * [[Tropers/AXavierB This troper]] was singing the English ''SailorMoon'' theme song. After hearing this troper listing off the Sailor Scouts' names, this troper's nine-year-old brother (who isn't familiar with ''Sailor Moon'' aside from a couple ''[[SailorMoonAbridged SMA]]'' episodes I made him watch) came up to him and said there must be a Sailor Earth if every other planet had a Sailor Scout. * I once wrote a fic for a Silver Titanus Ranger. * FarseerLolotea, at the age of thirteen, wrote a SailorEarth for ''ThePiratesOfDarkWater''. Luckily, the story never made it onto the Interwebs, and the hardcopy has long since vanished into obscurity. * Just like Sailor Star Revealer (above), I also made a DBZ fancharacter just for fun. Named Tenya (pronounced TAYN-ya - yes, my characters' names have odd pronunciations), he's a Saiyan (about Future Trunks's age) of the traditional sort; i.e. a bad guy who kills people for fun. He can go Super Saiyan, but he has to push himself quite a bit to get to it. He's no relation to Goku, Raditz, or any of the other known Saiyans, he's just another Saiyan that none of them knew about. If you're wondering why he hasn't already blown up the world and killed all who dwell within, it's because, fortunately (and bizarrely), he acquired a taste for Earth cuisine, and also he's incredibly lazy. He also has the power to MindControl others, because it's fun, and he tends to use that power to "play" with humans when he gets bored (which usually involves making them kill each other). * [[{{Tropers/Gigaspine7}} This troper]] has two such [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] OCs serving in the Koopa Troop, a Spiny and a Buzzy Beetle named... [[ShapedLikeItself Spiny and Buzzy]]. He chose to actually go through with these two specifically to avoid directly being able to muck with what little continuity the Mario series has, since these two species don't have many named characters to their merit. A much better example is one he chooses to [[MarySue purge from his memory]] [[DisContinuity often if it]] [[OldShame ever resurfaces.]]

* [[{{Tropers/AmuroNT1}} This troper]]'s friend tends to make horrible MarySue characters, but he does give her bonus points for humor. While her ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' character did have the Eighth Millennium Item, her past self was the personal chef of the Millennium Items' creator (whom she identified as an avid gourmand), meaning her Item was the Millennium ''Eggbeater''. * [[{{Tropers/Somerandomdude}} This troper]] once had an idea for a Bleach fanfic which introduced a seated officer from Squad 10 with an electric zanpakuto. [[YourMileageMayVary Unfortunately]], it never got off the ground, due to three main problems: 1) couldn't think of a name, 2) couldn't really figure out how to effectively write shonen fight scenes with mere words, and 3) my actual knowledge about the show was minimal at the time, only having read it up through about halfway through the Hueco Mundo arc. * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} This troper]] is fond of drawing FairlyOddparents fanart, especially based on the "Big Superhero Wish" episode. Because Tootie (one of my favorite characters) wasn't given an superhero identity in that episode, I draw her as a faux-Sailor Scout, whom I dubbed Sailor Earth (before I knew about this trope, thank you very much). * When me and my friend were younger we had the following exchange: Me-"So I've invented a new character that joins the Gorillaz, whose a supersoldier like Noodle and also her best friend, who has cool powers, her and 2D fall in love, and she is adored by all of them, even Murdoc!" Friend-"That sounds awesome! Does this story have a part where the new girl murders the author?". That idea is a constant source of embarrasment to me... * This troper created a SailorEarth series, of sorts, for {{Pokemon}}. She wasn't done much with it yet, although the player character guy is in a roleplay she's in. * This [[Tropers/SailorEnlil troper's]] current internet handle is named after the Sumarian God of Earth after being a Zechariah Sitchin reader (the author's works were quite amazing research works into MesopotamianMythology), plus being an anime fan... * This troper had a Commander Earth. She was one of the the [[Pokemon Team Galactic]] bad guys, though. She was a spy or something, and was also dating Commander Saturn. Fortunately, I never wrote any of this down. * This troper was a huge fan of ''PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders'' as a little girl, and once wrote her own story featuring a gypsy named Valda, who possessed the purple Star Stone. Her bonded animal was a large swan named Rainbowdream, and the Star Stone was capable of bringing inanimate objects to life. She wrote it on paper, and it got thrown away when she was 14. It was really badly written. * When this troper was thirteen, she made a XiaolinShowdown SailorEarth who controlled the 'element' of...wait for it...''flowers.'' Fecking '''flowers.''' ** This Troper made two OC's of Xiaolin Showdown, one for Wood and Metal respectivly. This Troper happens to do this to any fandom (these 'Earth Stories' arn't for the world to see, just for my own amusment * Back when [[Tropers/CaptHayfever this captain]] was very little, he designed a backup PowerRangers team for himself & some friends. They

were purple, brown, silver, orange, and white. At the time, none of those colors had been used by a canonical Ranger; now, only brown remains. * This troper wrote a {{Gargoyles}} fanfic about an Avalon-raised gargoyle. The Sueish part was having been the Magus' apprentice. * This troper remembers making 8 new Robot Masters: Watt Man (shoots steam), Raptor Woman (has a dromaeosaur theme and shoots talons), Dragon Man (you should know this), Boost Woman (wind-themed), Swarm Man (nanites), Fetter Woman (attacks with chains), Mammoth Man (shoots missiles), and Dozer Woman (shovel claws). This wasn't that long ago, actually. * When ThisTroper was in middle school, there was a boy who thought he was the Orange Ranger. When the the sixth-grade kids beat up on him, he actually talked to his watch, trying to summon the other Power Rangers. That bad rep lasted with him until high school, with most of us thinking ''Can't Tommy just go evil again and kill this loser?'' ** The fact that he was in middle school and ''honestly'' believed himself to be a Sailor Earth and tried to summon ''fictional characters'' for help when he was being beaten up sounds like he was either very lonely, or had mental disabilities. [[DudeNotFunny Which, to me, just sucks the funny right out of that story.]] * When this troper was in elementary school he created a Purple Ranger. To this date he's still not really sure what dinosaur he choose for it. * This troper is guilty of having many of their OriginalCharacters be Sailor Earths. They're almost all MarySue by default though, and I rarely let them outside of my daydreams, or sketches. Luckily I'm 14 so I hope I'll outgrow this soon. However, it's useful at times, I'm in the AxisPowersHetalia fandom and creating OCs for [[AnthropomorphicPersonification countries]] that haven't appeared yet has caused me to heavily research them. I now know 20 useless facts of India, Mexico, Peru, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Cornwall, each. Just to give my characters some [[FlatCharacter flat]], MarySue traits. * This troper had a character when he was 7 or 8 who was a blatant expy of ness and a huge gary stu and was extremely overpowered He is very much an [[OldShame old shame]] * I have made a few Sailor Earth characters, but not that many.....Until I became a fan of JoJosBizarreAdventure. Mostly because making SailorEarth's for that series is just so damn FUN, and they don't feel like they are interfiering with the Cannon due to the general ease people can get stands. (This troper is shocked that there are only about 20 JoJo fics on Fanfiction.net given the huge fanfiction potential for the series) I have created the stands [[strike: Sympathy For The Devil]] Renamed to Master of Puppets (Creates golems out of nearby materials, which was agumented by it's second ability that had the Stand latch itself onto a person's brain, and make them see the golems as people they know) Killer7 (Animal Assimilation/Fusion), IronMaiden (Metal Liquefaction and Reformation), A Stand that could manipulate Light and Darkness that I haven't thought of a name of (Whispers in the Dark and [[MichaelJackson Black and White]] are being considered. The user was actually supposed to be

a female Stone Mask Vampire. Her Stand basically made her immune to sunlight, as she would just create darkness around her and absorb the sunlight into her stand), [[PinkFloyd Welcome to the Machine]] (Converts flesh organisms into machines), Spirit of Radio (Soundwave manipulation) and Black Hole Sun (Gravity Manipulation). {{Emperordaein}} * [[Tropers/VF1SValkyrie This troper]] is now [[OldShame rather embarrassed]] about the amount of thought he put into making a character for RoninWarriors. * I have thought of a couple of [[JojosBizarreAdventure stand]] ideas, mostly for a JJBA/Medaka Box crossover I'm thinking of writing. The stands are: Black and White (Negates any one action the user is aware of.), Ninety-nine Balloons (Switches the souls of two people.), Pastime Paradise (Rewinds up to ten seconds of time.), Teen Spirit (Turns one humanoid creature into another humanoid creature. This actually sees use.), Nirvana (Lets user travel to alternate dimensions.), Freebird (Gives user complete and perfect understanding of all mathematics.), Fame Monster (Erases people's memories of specific people.), Chemical Romance (Creates any medicine or potion the user wants.), Bad Romance (Strengthens or weakens people's emotions.). My most important one is Total Eclipse of the Heart (or Total Eclipse, for short). It copies and completely masters any stand ability it witnesses. And yes, it ''is'' meant to be horrifically broken. It only sees use in one, minor, fight, if that makes it any better. * This troper has a fanfic out (''FullmetalAlchemist'', if you're wondering) in which the main character is an eighth homunculus, and Envy even lampshades the fact that there seemed to be no need for an eighth deadly sin. As it turns out, [[spoiler: Vengeance is really something of a "backup" homunculus for Wrath or Envy, depending on who gets dropped first]], and she's treated with little importance by the others. To keep her out of SympathySue territory, she happens to be quite the [[{{Revenge}} vindictive]] {{Jerkass}}, and is the story's official ButtMonkey to boot. [[spoiler: of course, Dante's real reason for adding another homunculus is just the idea of making another living doll and playing God - which, in theory, is meant to be creepy]]. * This troper is working on a ''[[{{YuGiOh}} Yu-GiOh!]]''/''CardcaptorSakura'' fic that deconstructs the idea. The BigBad is trying to create an eighth Millennium Item for his nefarious purposes, but since all he has to go on are a few surviving scraps of the spell used to create them, it isn't exactly going very well. One thing he does know, however, is that creating an Item [[spoiler: requires human sacrifices,]] and he isn't shy about carrying that part out. And when Bakura finds out what he's up to, he is ''[[BerserkButton not]] [[ItsPersonal happy]]''. * [[Tropers/SirPsychoSexy I]] had a YuYuHakusho fic where I sent Mitarai to Germany as an exchange student about a year or so after the series, and his finding that [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse due to the growth of the tunnel]], [[SubvertedTrope Japan isn't the only country with psychics anymore]]- some of his new classmates in Berlin are as well. It's a DeadFic now because I feel for all the interesting

places I could have taken it, it's still kind of CanonDefilement and [[AuthorAppeal pandering to my own interest in both Japanese and German culture]]. However, two of the OC's he got stuck on got ReTooled as ([[PlotRelevantAgeUp older than they were originally]]) normal humans (ironically, German exchange students to the United States!) as characters in his [=NaNo=] novel [[Literature/MillsCollegeAnimeClub]]. ---No way man! '''MY''' SailorEarth is the only one that matters! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SamuelLJackson * Recognizing SamuelLJackson as the person talking about his role in StarWars Episodes II and III earned This Troper a free pass to see Episode III in a special screening the night before the official release.

SandInMyEyes * I often have moments where it seems like one might cry where I actually ''do'' have something in my eye. Also a weird example, someone thought I was crying when my eyes weren't even watery. ** Similarly, my eyes get all teared up whenever I yawn (yes, really. Unfortunately). Actually trying to explain this just makes it look like I'm horrendous at coming up with excuses. *** That happens to you too? I thought I was the only one. What's the deal with that? Is it like, something for sleep? Whenever I yawn, people always see tears and they ask me if I'm okay. So I have to go through a whole process of "NO, I'm fine, it's just this thing that happens when I yawn." When I can't explain it, they always just go , 'Yeah, sure...'. Ironically, now whenever I start to cry I usually yawn first. *** It's a result of the squeezing of tear ducts when one contorts one's face when gearing up to yawn. *** This happens to me as well, fortunately no one has seen me when this happens. ** This happens whenever I drink a ''really'' carbonated drink, like Ginger Ale, or Coco Cola *** [[{{CompletelyMissingthePoint}} Ginger Ale is carbonated?]] * After this troper's friend surgery to remove a cancerous tumor was sucessful, this troper justified his tears of happiness as "it's raining." Another friend pointed out we were inside a hospital. This troper replied, Roy Mustang like, "Shut up. It's raining." * This troper spent two years with an ingrowing eyelash that kept growing back. When you don't want to admit how easily {{Tear Jerker}}s affect you, it's handy to have a genuine note from your doctor... * RealLife subversion: This troper's girlfriend caught him "crying" during the [[{{Narm}} narmy]] break up scene in ''{{Film/Spider-Man}} 3''. Although she chalked the explanation up to this trope, in truth this troper's contacts picked the worst time to start to be a pain in

the eye. To be fair, I do admit those are real tears at the final scene during ''ForrestGump''. * Something like that happened to this troper...it was the last day of camp, and everyone was saying their goodbyes, and getting ready to go home...and this troper was sobbing her eyes out. Pretty much everybody automatically assumed that she was crying because she was sad about going home and leaving her friends...the truth was, while this did make her quite sad, she was actually sobbing because, due to a mixup involving contact cleaner (there was some enzyme in it that her eyes weren't used to), and the fact that she'd actually slept in her contacts the night before in an effort to get ready more efficiently in the morning, she had effectively skinned one of her eyeballs, and was actually tearing up because of how bad it hurt. Seriously...it was bright red. * Last year my brother was a soldier. During the Soldier Memorial day at school, we were watching a play about someone who lost their soldier brother to war. My eye teared up due to allergies, and afterwards my teacher came up to me and gave me a huge hug. I've never explained it, but it's technically a subversion. * This troper is famous among her circle of friends for never crying during movies. During the final few minutes of the movie Rent, when all of my friends are in tears, she sniffed. Cue their reaction: "IS SHE CRYING?!" The truth? She had a cold. * Inverted in [[{{Tropers/Pinkbaron}} this troper's]] case. Her English class was watching MonstersInc, and a friend of hers mistook allergies for tears. * Odd example for [[{{Tropers/Dinru}} this troper]]. Someone was making fun of her for her many odd phobias. She isn't normally fazed by that kind of thing, but the person picking on her didn't know that. However, she had applied sunscreen with her pointer fingers earlier that day, and then her eyes itched... She started tearing up like crazy, and she forced sobs to try and get more tears out. The dude making fun of her didn't realize this and thought he'd won. She just decided to let it be. That guy's a JerkAss anyway. * This lurker watched the end of Azumanga Daioh with two male friends. He was the only one who didn't claim to have something in his eye - he cried openly. * Completely averted when I went to my grandma's viewing. [[TearJerker I just kept bawling my eyes out]]. * A subversion for this troper. In first grade she had really bad eye allergies and always looked like she was crying. Cue concerned teachers asking if she was all right repeatedly. * [[Tropers/MisterAlways This troper]] once had to drop his girlfriend off at an airport because she was moving to Russia. A friend was with him - for some strange reason you could watch the plains take off outside, which is what we did. Cue the following conversation: --> Friend: Sucks that she's leaving, no? --> Troper: Yes. --> Friend: ... D' ya hope she'll come back? --> Troper: No. --> Friend: You're crying. --> Troper: You're full of shit.

--> Friend: You can admit to crying. --> Troper: Shut up, you gigantic douche-o-phile... It's raining. ** ( For the record, it WAS raining, but I was also crying.) * ThisTroper was having a problem with his contacts while riding the subway, and the guy in the next seat tried to comfort him with "It's alright, buddy. This too will pass." Nice, for a random guy, but misapplied. * This troper once got sand (well, dust or whatever the cars were kicking up) in her eyes walking alongside a dusty road. She had to call her mother to pick her up and whisk her to a pharmacy because she could barely see. * Played completely and utterly straight in [[Tropers/TheTallOne my case]]. I never cry, and when I do, I feel compelled to [[BlatantLies lie]] about it. * [[{{Tropers/Takwin}} This troper]] once had such an episode at a pop-rock concert a few years ago. The music was blaring so loud that nobody could think, and when I bent my head to cry (the reason why is irrelevant,) I told my friends that the noise was giving me a headache. * This troper, who has near non-nonexistant self - esteem, on the day when for the first time in my entire life, someone other than my mother told them they were pretty. * This Troper has terrible pollen allergies that make her eyes red, itchy, and watery, makes her nose all congested (so she sniffs a lot and her voice sounds funny) and makes her face puffy. It doesn't help that she has bad aim with eye drops, so she looks like she's perpetually crying, about to cry, or just finished crying from about March to July. She has repeatedly had teachers asking her if something was wrong or if she was alright. She liked to reply with "No, it's fine, I just went outside today". * When [[Tropers/FalseDawn this troper]] went to see Toy Story Three with her friends, afterwards ALL of the girls, staring at our shoes, muttered something about needing the bathroom and fled from the group. Almost every girl in the whole cinema was there, at the mirrors, trying to fix their makeup after blubbing for the last twenty minutes. * Subverted with this troper, I cannot cry as an emotional response. My eyes can water and often do following a yawn, in some cases quite profusely. However, I've not properly cried in well over half a decade. I turn 19 next month so I guess I'm ahead of the curve. * This troper's grandfather often sniffles through movies, then declares that it's just drafty in the room. * When [[{{Theoneyoucallwe}} I ]] completed [[{{HaloReach}} Halo: Reach]] campaign I could feel tears running down my face. However, my voice hadn't cracked into that "WHY GOD WHY *SOB" tone, so I could pretend that I was ''not'' crying and, thankfully, the two guys I was playing with did not bring attention to said tears. [[{{SuspiciouslySpecificDenial}} I'm not crying, I've just got...]] [[{{SandinMyEyes}} er, ragweed in my eyes! *silent sob*]] ** The ending of [[{{Halo}} Halo 3]] was almost as bad. We need you awake ''now,'' Chief! D': * My mom is allergic to partially everything, and obviously 'cold temperatures' is part of the deal. We went to Rome in winter some time

ago and we took the bus. Since it was freezing, my mom's eyes got irritated, looking like she was crying. Then, this old lady felt sorry for her, and thinking she'd been through something ugly, gave me (by that time I looked like I was 12, [[OlderThanTheyLook but in fact was 15)]] her seat and started to confort my mom, who just nodded the whole time. In hindsight, it's actually pretty funny... * Once, this troper was called to the office at school and informed that her grandmother had died. On her way back to class to get her things to go home, she happened to [[{{Blatant Lies}} have something in her eye]]. She was sort of embarassed about this, since she has a reputation for never crying. At that point, another student that she had never met walked over, put a hand on her shoulder, and said, "[[FullMetalAlchemist It's a terrible day for rain]], isn't it?" and then walked away. Whoever this person was...thank you. * Once in my high school, since I have (mild) cerebral palsy, I had needed to use the elevator to get around the school (otherwise I'd be late for every single class - I can walk, it just takes forever to get up stairs). So, one time while I was going to use the elevator to get to my next class after my lunch period, one of the staff who didn't know me assumed that I wasn't allowed to use the elevator. So, she didn't let me on it, which made me late for my next class (and the one after that since I had to go to the office to explain). Normally, I never ever cry about anything. So, then (since I'm a big worrier for being late and our high school had big penalties for that *and* I'd never been late before ever - now that I think about it, it might seem like a terrible reason to cry about) I had broken down crying in one of my classes (where I was good friends with everyone in it including the teacher), and my teacher leaned down in front of my seat while I was crying to ask what was wrong, excused me from the class and everyone condemned the actions of the other staff member. I have to thank said teacher since she lifted my mood that day (which really wasn't that great of a day either) and I remember her going to the office to complain herself about my treatment that day, too. * This Troper used to never cry. As in NEVER. However on the few occasions that I have bawled because of sadness, I lied about it. To my dismay since that first episode my walls have been slowly coming down and now it's harder to prevent myself from crying. Mostly though I find that I don't cry becasue I'm sad, I cry when I'm upset. Enemies beware; tears=RUN FOR YOUR LIFE because you have about five good seconds and if a friend doesn't calm me down in that amount of time...well, sucks for you. Now when my eyes water from allergies cue everyone and their mother going "OMG, WHO ARE YOU MAD AT?!". ---I'm fine, I just have [[SandInMyEyes something in my eye]]... so that's where Carmen Sandiego is. <<|TroperTales|>>

SanityHasAdvantages * [[StarePris ThisTroper]] is the token sane person among most of his internet friends. * Currently [[PaulPower I'm]] doing a LetsPlay of the Hard Campaign of AdvanceWars 2. One thing I've noticed so far is that there are several missions where I would not have won if it wasn't for ArtificialStupidity. A human player in the AI's position would have, if not outright crushed me, at least done things that would have cost me the mission (like damaging a crucial capturing infantry on a timed lab mission). But because of flaws in the AI, it isn't "sane" enough to spot these things and I've been able to pull through. So even though the AI always seem to outgun you, you biggest advantage is that you're sane - or at least, sane enough for AW. I imagine it's the same for any game where you're competing against an AI. ** Generally this is intentional. Many games these days have a setting where you can turn off the artifical stupidity of the AI, or at least tune it way down, and it makes levels where you're severely outgunned flat out impossible. When you've got a tiny base to your enemies huge one, and they have five times your income, you can't win without artificial stupidity. * As ThisTroper has spent time in a psychiatric hospital... yeah, I think I can safely say that SanityHasAdvantages. Like not wanting to kill yourself, and a reduced chance of being ''locked up against your will despite not having committed any crime'' (go read the rules for sectioning people, that stuff is crazy, no pun intended). ThisTroper didn't get sectioned, but you will be amazed who they will pull that shit on - it's not just people who are actually dangerous. Or, they threaten to pull that shit on you, so your choices are to go into hospital 'voluntarily' for probably about a week or involuntarily for six months. * I'm the most pragmatic people I know, and I'll point out flaws in ridiculous excuses and ideas in seconds, to get the same result with a much simpler plan. What's ironic about this is that I'm pretty insane most of the time, and my pragmatism, I think, is just a form of my sociopathy. ---ersjfdhgfsdzhdxdjsdfhbcdxdjfcn,xnfcgtxjf[[SanityHasAdvantages gfjucfjcu]]fvgifjjjdhvyunckfjucfghvuncjbvfyuvjcfvfbghvufhjf Go back to SanityHasAdvantages, please. <<|TroperTales|>>

SantaClausmas * This troper's family consists of two atheists, an agnostic (me), and my sister, who doesn't appear to care about religion at all (so I guess that makes her a different variety of agnostic). We still

enthusiastically celebrate Christmas, but in a completely secular way. Mostly this is because both my parents were raised in Christian families; also, we like presents, junk food, and time off from work/school. We do the same thing with Easter, which could be easily renamed Egg Hunt Day in our household. * subverted by this Troper's family as Christmas is actually one of the few times of year we will do things like go to church, say grace or even mention Jesus * My family celebrates holidays like Christmas and Easter, even though we are all atheists, we celebrate them cause almost everyone else in the country does, and it is fun, you get to buy presents for people and get presents and the family gets together.

SarcasmFailure * This trope happened to me once. My mate and I were trying to see who is the biggest DeadpanSnarker, and at some point I couldn't come up with a witty inflammatory comeback, so I just punched him in the face. * [[Tropers/{{Fishsicles}} This troper]] is a frequent victim, most notably brought about by [[NoodleIncident that which will not be named]], KaizoMarioWorld, and the StarWarsHolidaySpecial. The first was what stapled on the JadeColoredGlasses, while the later two just provided Misanthropy Fuel. Keep in mind that my normal mood is a mixture of TheStoic and DeadpanSnarker, with gratuitous SesquipedalianLoquaciousness... but every once in a while, all I can manage is a FlatWhat. * [[Tropers/LoveIsWeird This troperette]] has had her DeadpanSnarker SesquipedalianLoquaciousness silenced by either a WallBanger moment, her friend Kaycee's GenreSavvy CloudCuckoolander moments and various forms of CMOH, CMOA and CMOF. * [[Tropers/TheTallOne I]] once responded to a particularly [[BeyondTheImpossible mind-breakingly]] [[CrazyAwesome insane]] moment on a forum by simply replying. ''You broke my sarcasm.'' Several people said I had taken the words right from their mouths. Er, keyboards. * In [[Tropers/RedWren This troper's]] collection of unwritten scenes, there is a bard who...well, if s/he were in our culture, would be a follower/respecter of Hermes (god of all those who live by their wits, talked someone to death), Anansi (created stories), Apollo (music) and all of the muses. When asked to describe the disaster, s/he just says, "I have no words." * When this troper went to school wearing plain black sunglasses oneday(the australian sun in the summer is a harsh mistress, I took em off when I got into the shade) to hear two 12 year old girls snickering at her. I tried to ignore them as I had work to do, but when one of them said "Nice glasses", this troper was sick of cliches and replied "Nice attempt at sarcasm are you going to make fun of my shoes next?, p*** off I've got stuff to do" in a harsh tone turns out they didn't like that and tried to follow me into the library but thank god the bell rang..........good times ** What could they have done to you in the library? And what is that censored P word? Penis off?

** Probably piss. * [[Tropers/{{Acebrock}} This troper]] had a major sarcasm failure after seeing on of Meg Whitman's recent commercials, where Tom McClintock stumps for her --> McClintock: This time let's elect a Governor from the Republican wing of the Republican Party --> Me: [[FlatWhat Wut?]] * My cousin was playing pokemon dungeon explorers of sky and he keps losing at the final boss. eventually, this happened --> Me: You're still fighting him? --> Cousin: well of course! it's not a field trip to happy flower land! * Something of a catchphrase for this troper. He was seen as the smart guy by his college, but sometimes all that entered his mouth was: "You... wait, what?" ** It's like you're a male version of me. Sometimes, something is just too confounding for sarcasm to properly process it. * This troper is regarded as being a quote "sarcastic son of a *list of expletives here*" and fittingly his closest friends can induce this in him by being so unforgivably random and crazy that often my only response to their latest antics is to devolve into Angrish. * This Troper frequently causes this in other people, [[RefugeinAudacity by saying really horrible things]]. ---Click here to--Oh God...[[SarcasmFailure That is really weird.]] ----

SarcasmMode * *To friend after a (supposedly) saracastic comment*: 'No, see, that was my serious tone. ''This'' is my sarcasm tone.' All said in the same tone of voice. * Sarcasm is this troper's oxygen. His sarcasm can be shot out at anyone. Any time. Period. ** You do not ''shoot'' breath. Keep your analogies consistant. *** *fires an air rifle* **** That's not breath. A better example would be someone inhaling and getting a bullet in the mouth. Their breath was shot. * This troper has her SarcasmMode on ModeLock, unfortunately. ** Sarcasm is ''totally'' not my second language. And I ''certainly'' don't use it sans accent to give compliments. "Nice hat." ''Suuuure'' it is. Oh ''shit'', now you've mode locked ''me'' too. *** Sarcasm isn't this troper's second language either, it's my first. I've told everyone that talks to me to never take anything I say seriously because of all the sarcastic comments. *** This Troper uses sarcasm in nearly every sentence. *** icwatudidthar * This troper us pretty much always sarcastic, except for when she's online because people have a tendency to read things entirely the wrong way. Her father, not a major fan of sarcasm to say the least, has unsuccessfully tried to reign her in. ** This (male) troper believes he might have accidentally gone on an

AU TVTropes where he's female. * This Troper apparently almost never stops being sarcastic. When she does, it's only because the situation is just completely inappropriate for it. And sometimes even then. Oops. * I can't seem to keep myself from using sarcasm in almost everything I say. This has become so infamous that some people have stopped believing me altogether, fearing I am using well-hidden sarcasm. Of course, I have absolutely no problem with that. Really. * I have a hard time telling when people are being sarcastic...I want to bawl at times. ** I feel for you, sometimes the snark just gets completely lost for me and I actually have to ask moments later if someone WAS being serious. * [[{{Agent Alpha}} This troper]] is full of sarcasm, and it's mostly due to his mother, who is a patron saint of sarcasm. Our exchanges can't help but descend into back-and-forth barbs. However, this troper has learned to keep his wit restrained for private moments with friends and family, who can appreciate it and not take (too much) offense. * This troper can be quite a snarky fellow around heavily misinformed or just plain batshit explanations. He commonly uses ALL CAPITAL LETTERS WITH NO PUNCTUATION to make this point across the internet. It still manages to get lost on afew people. * This troper has the bad habit of answering sarcastically whenever he hears a stupid question. Like when ThisTroper was asked if getting punched was bad. ThisTroper promptly answered: "It's so f***ing good you might want to get more later, wanna try?". * I think [[{{Kathadrion}} my]] mother sort of assumed I would stop being sarcastic all the time once I wasn't a teenager anymore. She was wrong. * I am so not good at telling when people are being sarcastic or joking on the internet. That's gotten me in trouble, more than a few times. I try to only joke with users who know me well, so I that don't inadvertently offend someone who might think I was being serious. * [[Tropers/{{Fyrewyre}} This troper]], after being home-schooled since kindergarden and being able to read since one and a half, upon seeing the words theEnglish class of the online school I'm joining considered to be difficult for tenth graders, all of which I've seen and used frequently in my stories: "gallant" "perished" "splendor" "unconscious" --> *Sigh* [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "This is gonna]] [[SarcasmMode be a fun year."]] * [[Tropers/{{TheDarkLord}} This troper]] has a whole separate persona for sarcasm, snarking and deconstructing anything that reaches my ears which makes for sadistic humor, and boy am I an ASS when I am in it. Can't help it, it's just so much fun for me. Doesn't help that both my parents are avid users of sarcasm. * This troppettes favourite way of dealing with idiots. This tropettes form of humour is also extremely sarcastic. Think of it as her way of telling a joke...Her close friends love it. This troppette also thinks it's a good way of dealing with morons on the interwebs. Naturally being morons they can't tell the difference unless she points it out

to them. * Strange example for [[{{LOLin8or}} this troper]], who's arch-nemesis used SarcasmMode while this troper was pissed off, saying things like "Oh no, [This Troper] is angry. Everybody run." in a sarcastic tone. Understandably, [[{{Understatement}} this did not help my annger]], and I ended up throwing my lunchbox at him. * This Troper has taken to writing: *sarcasm mode* in comments or emails [[CaptainObvious for when she's being sarcastic.]] * My friends and I are all like this, mostly because we're surrounded by idiots and it makes it a little too easy. I'm not particularly witty, but I'm ''always'' sarcastic. My favorite type doesn't use the obvious 'sarcasm' tone (ex: yeah, suuuuuurrreeee), it verges on DeadpanSnarker sometimes. Once, I posted something really vague on Facebook for a forgotten reason: "Sometimes it just comes naturally." My friend immediately answered, "Sarcasm?" * I am well-known for being snarky. Some of my professors aren't sure how to deal with it, and my comment of "I'll stop being sarcastic when people stop being stupid." doesn't really help. * This troper believes that proper sarcasm is an art form. He has frequently been told to stop being such a smartass, and his response is invariably "Yeah, ''that'll'' happen." * This troper indefinitely speaks in sarcasm. She can't go a day without making a snarky comment. * Sometimes, this troper's SarcasmMode get stuck on for a few hours at a time, leaving her in a continual loop of almost involuntarily formed snarky comments from which she is unable to escape. * This troper enjoys being a sarcastic a**hole so much that the only difference between sincerity and sarcasm for me is a slight change in voice and my eyes narrowing. My friends have learned to pick up the change in voice, but god help those who meet me for the fist time and are exposed to my nuclear core of sarcasm. * This troper lives in SarcasmMode. Thanks to my additional DeanpanSnarker nature, I've been asked several times whether I was being serious or sarcastic in a conversation. My serious voice and sarcastic voice are essentially the same thing. * This Troper is sarcastic in absolutely everything she says. Including this. * This Troper is prepared to vote this page the single most useful on all of TV Tropes. Why, before I found it I had no idea at all how sarcasm worked, and now all is crystal clear. Truly, I am blessed. * This Troper was reading a book of japanese poetry when a friend asked "What are you reading?" which evoked my reflexive sarcastic answer "Hon" (japanese for book). This caused my friend to quip "Goody, sarcasm is your default mode no matter what language you're using." * I doubly subvert this by snarking while using SincerityMode while inside snarking at people. So people who really really really know me know I'm fucking with them, while random people who only knew me a year knows I'm not and thinks I mean it when I say what I say. * [[Tropers/ABadDriver This troper]] [[DeadpanSnarker is stuck in this]] [[ModeLock constantly.]] [[OhCrap When he's not...]][[NightmareFuelStationAttendant well...]]

* This Troper is like this with her [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling sister]]. Always. * I was sarcastic once. * [[Tropers/TheMayorofNorthfield This troper]] [[SarcasmMode is one of the most sincere, genuine, and honest people you will ever meet, and he has honestly no idea why he's posting on this page. He has never once been sarcastic in his entire life.]] ** [[DeadpanSnarker If you believe that, the troper would like to sell you a large, torch-bearing statue which currently sits on Ennis Island. The owner only used it on Sundays.]] ** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint I"ll take it!]] * This troper practically lives in sarcasm mode. It can get kind of confusing when I'm in either GenkiGirl or ShrinkingViolet mode while doing it.... ---Describe SarcasmMode here. * I suppose ''you're'' too busy to? <<|TroperTales|>>

SarcasticClapping Ever had reason to use Main/SarcasticClapping? Describe it here. ---* [[{{Milskidasith}} This Troper]] uses this trope a lot. His favorite line is "Congratulations, you finally achieved absolutely nothing productive!" * [[{{Rogue 7}} This troper]] constantly uses this trope, frequently with the line, "They get the slow clap." * [[Americanbadass This Troper]] used it at a wedding, he didn't feel like being at, slowly clapping while everyone else wildly clapped. I'm also found on using it on friends followed by the word "Bravo." ** This Troper calls it the "golf clap." *** Inspired by WorldOfWarcraft, [[Tropers/{{Nemica}} this troper]] likes to use "/golfclap" in chats. [[CaptainObvious Oh, and in]] WorldOfWarcraft. *** I thought the "slow clap" is when you clap at full volume-but a low speed. Taking your hands to at least shoulder width apart, or swinging them as far apart as they'll go and hamming up the act of bringing them together for extra points: example being Heath Ledger's clap as the Joker when applauding Gordon's promotion. A "golf clap" is a clapping appropriate for the usually quiet game of golf: much quieter, it is performed by holding one hand stationary, holding the other hand near, and clapping by only extending and flexing the wrist of the movement hand so that the movement hand's fingers strike the palm of the stationary hand. The result there is a very rapid but very quiet clapping sound. * [[DarkInsanity13 This troper]] does it whenever she can. Occasionally accompanied by an amused ([[PsychoticSmirk but possibly creepy]]) smirk, if not a [[DeadpanSnarker look that says "God you're a moron."]] * [[{{Skazka}} This troper]] can no longer do this clap without being

spurred to make a [[TheDarkKnight Christopher Nolan reference.]] * Trope + Raised Eyebrow = Instant annoyance in the target and great satisfaction. * [[{{Gerusz}} This troper]] simply loves using it. With some laser guided sarcasm the victim is usually humiliated as hell. * At one of this troper's former school, it was traditional to do this whenever someone dropped (and/or broke) a glass in the cafeteria. * [[{{Arc9}} This troper]] and his friends have used the SarcasticClapping to death and decided to [[{{UpToEleven}} take it one step beyond]]: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the ''one-handed'' clap. * I do this a lot. I also combine this with phrases like "Congratulations, would you please give your acceptance speech for the Darwin Awards!", "Congratulations", "A-MAAAAAAAA-ZING!" and "WOAH DUDE!" * This troper used to use this a lot. He stopped after a friend got ''slightly'' pissed and whacked him in the face with her ''slightly'' heavy [[BagOfHolding purse]]. * When this one was in high school, a fellow known for being a bit nasty to the "odd ones" managed to trip in the cafeteria and send his food flying. After the traditional "OHHHH!" my school lets loose in such circumstances, this troper stood up added a slow clap-which the ENTIRE CAFETERIA picked up on. Hundreds of people all sarcastically applauding. My friend couldn't stop laughing for five minutes. * This troper's brother can barely do anything important for himself.Seriously, he's 12 and can't even tie shoelaces or ride a bike.He gets this trope thrown at him by me all the time. ** Congratulations, you're a cunt. *** * sarcastically claps* * [[JohnnyBGoode This troper]] averts this, instead giving the person a thumbs up and saying "GOOD JOB!" ** [[{{starshine}} This troper]] does the exact same thing. Sometimes alternating with "WAY TO GO". * [[GwenStacyWannabe I]] have several wonderful friends who are prone to, shall we say, [[CloudCuckoolander sudden declarations having nothing to do with the subject at hand]] and [[LateToThePunchline taking a moment to understand certain things]]. Cue this. * I do this all the time to my mum and her best friend. Sometimes, if my hands are occupied, I say, 'I'd sarcastically clap, but my hands are full.' Sometimes, I'll add a, 'Smooth,' to the clapping. Also, being the dork I am, I'll sometimes sarcastically clap when a character does something I find awkward, idiotic, or a combination of both. * This troper enjoys doing this, usually muttering, with sarcasm, 'Congratulations,' or 'Wooooow...' depending on the subject, and often getting an instant "Shut up" if the person catches it. * During this troper's graduation, while we were all filing into our seats, a small group went into the wrong row. Someone nearby started a sarcastic clap, and since most people there couldn't see what was going on, they all figured they should join in. That's over 3000 students, parents, teachers, and guests sarcastically clapping for the one kid who went one row further back than they should.

* This Troper, as the emotionless DeadpanSnarker, got into the habit of clapping like this all the time, even when genuinely congratulating someone. * This is one of my friends's favorite methods for being annoying. Usually says "GOOD JOB" * This troper does it all the time. Particularly with a certain friend who often does something to deserve it IMO. * [[{{Valex}} I]] once went on a field trip for AP Bio that involved canoeing across a river. Most people struggled a little, but eventually got to the end. Me and my partner got to the end about 30 minutes after everyone else. When we walked on to the bus, we were greeted by a not-so-enthusiatic round of applause. * One of this troper's friends chose this as a tic in ''{{Paranoia}}''. Much Perversity was granted. * Once, on cop day, an officer came to my school to give a speech. Almost an hour later, during which all the school was standing, the guy received this because he had finally shut up. The problem? [[InsultBackfire He came back next year!]] * It seems to be taboo wherever this troper goes that if someone knocks over a chair the rest of the people in the vicinity are required to start clapping. * This troper does it a lot when she sees jaywalkers (when there is a crosswalk 10 feet away from them) and extremely stupid drivers (She lives in the Bay Area, the Mecca of moronic drivers). * [[CorporealWolf This Troper]]'s entire class will do this whenever anyone does something stupid. It's fun. * This troper's school accidentally put too many band geeks in one lunch. We all sit together, and if someone at a nearby table does something stupid many band geeks shall sarcastically clap them into shame. * This troper does the sarcastic clap by default, even if its genuine applause. * This troper's ROTC friends are impressed if you went to basic training. They are not impressed if you brag that you're a Private First Class. Cue this trope. * ThisTroper and his friends tended to do this back when we played ''[[MagicTheGathering Magic]]'' regularly and someone made a boneheaded play. Alternatively, everyone would do a simultaneous point-and-laugh. * Whenever the school shoves us in the auditorium to listen to a speech about being idealistic morons and how sweet and cute and innocent we high schoolers are, the speaker receives a nice big round of this. * A slowly growing catchphrase of mine would be "Very good, Brittany!" (Brittany is my BFF. We're both a little slow sometimes.) * This troper tends to do this a lot, sometimes accompanied by catchphrase "You get a bone." ,just plain "I'm happy for *insert something here.*" or even a "Woo." * This tropette and her friend did this alot yesterday. For no reason at all. * [[Troper/{{AdelePotter}} This Tropette]] does this. A lot. * Whenever someone pronounces something like "I'm going to the

bathroom", this troper ALWAYS replies "Have fun". * This troper tends to do this whenever someone drops a plate in the school cafeteria, along with most of the other students. Accompanied by "Mazel Tov" if the plate breaks. * [[{{Tropers/Aspie}} This troper]] is becoming a big fan of it, especially when watching a show where a character does something stupid. (Or when he hears something he thinks is ridiculous on the news.) * Any time a friend of this troper does something stupid and/or downright idiotic, he bestows them with a standing ovation and "BRILLIANT!" The reactions range from playing along with the joke to play-slapping or play-screaming at him. ---Congratulations! You managed to find the link [[Main/SarcasticClapping back!]] Well done! * applause* ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SarcasticConfession * This troper. Constantly. Late to class? "I was having a party selling drugs to a friend to help her detox from hydro. And then I punched a kid in the face. Of course that's why I'm late, it's legit." Got away with it. * In her earlier years, this troper had some trouble with shoplifting. If someone asked how much something cost, the answer was "I dunno, I stole it." However, the best moment was when this troper actually somehow managed to steal alcohol (not recommended kids. Stealing is bad.) She got a call from her mom right after, asking what she was doing. The answer? "I just robbed a liquor store. I'm drinking some vodka, want some?" She got away with it, and regretted it ever since. * ThisTroper doesn't actually use it to cover up misdeeds, but regularly tells facts about his life with enough outlandish detail that he knows no one will believe them, leaving people with the impression that he's much, much more normal than he actually is. He's told a few people that they don't really know him until they've realized how rarely he's joking. * I've introduced a friend (and fellow Troper) to the ''DresdenFiles'' series. He'd been joking while reading ''Fool Moon'' that Harry was clearly going to die, so when he got to book 3 (''Grave Peril''), I told him [[spoiler: "Oh, yeah, Harry dies in this one."]] He didn't believe me- it helps that I have a habit of false spoilers (although they usually involve at least one of gribbly green aliens with tentacles and ninja, whichever is least likely to actually happen in the work). He's finished it now, but I have yet to see his reaction to the bit where [[spoiler: Harry temporarily dies so he can team up with his ghost...]] * I personally had a lot of trouble with this because the actual confessions I made people thought were BS but the sarcastic ones were taken seriously. Obviously, I must be doing something wrong here... ** I'm the flip side; I mistake actual confessions for BS and take sarcastic ones seriously. Once, a guy even confessed to me that he

wanted us to be more than friends, and somehow I mistook it for a joke. * When I was in middle school, we had a saying: 50% of what you joke about is actually the truth. It was a great comeback when people responded to your insult with sarcarsm. "You're stupid!" "Oh yeah, I totally am." "You know, 50% of what you joke about is true..." These days, though, probably 90% of the things I say in a sarcastic tone is actually true. * Physicist and prankster [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman Richard Feynman]] did this at MIT; see [[http://books.google.com/books?id=7papZR4oVssC&lpg=PA39&ots=erUYfdqTZ 1&dq=feynman%20who%20stole%20the%20door&pg=PA39#v=onepage&q&f=false Who Stole the Door]] in ''Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman''. * I have seen at least three people use this successfully, including one time a friend, when asked what we were doing on a school computer, replied that we were play extremely violent, stolen games. The aide returned to their work, and we returned to the pirated copy of {{Starcraft}}... * This Troper's sister has a habit of delivering everything in total deadpan, so for most people it's difficult to tell when she's joking and when she isn't. However, she is indeed partial to sarcastic confessions, which led to a small mental breakdown on the part of our overly-stressed mother when an actual use of sarcasm was misidentified as the truth. Sister has toned down her use of sarcastic confession considerably since. * This Troper's gossip-insane friend informed a girl that I was attracted to her. I proceeded to respond "True story, I'm actually really attracted to you." in a casual voice, getting a laugh, then [[MagnificentBastard I told her "I also have a knack for saying true things in a sarcastic voice."]] * One of This Troper's roleplaying characters used this to dodge an inconvenient question. Every word she said was true. -->'''Character:''' OK, ''fine''. I'm secretly seeing Trevor behind Claud's back, and we're going out tomorrow night and I'll probably let him touch my tits. Also, I'm still a virgin, and I'm really [[Main/FreakyFridayFlip Charlotte Bronson's mind in Eleanor's body]] after [[Main/MadScientist Von Krankenstein]] switched our brains. The ''real'' Eleanor is at Charlotte's house fucking the nerd's lesbian girlfriend. * This troper had a conversation with a coworker in which she said, "Take your time packing up, I'm going to run to the grocery store and grab some batteries." "Batteries, huh? For your vibrator?" "Yes, Coworker. For my enormous blue multipronged ''vibrator'' *eyeroll*." His shot in the dark had hit uncomfortably close. * [[{{Tropers/Samusaranfan}} I'm]] working on a story. Towards the end, [[TheHero Annabelle]] is at school after suffering some major injuries. She and [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Daniel]] are walking down the hall when TheLibby approaches them. --> TheLibby : Hey, how'd you break your leg. --> [[DeadpanSnarker Annabelle]]: [[SarcasticConfession Oh, see this evil vampire attacked me and nearly killed me, but]] [[LoveInterest

Daniel]], [[SarcasticConfession who's also a vampire, saved me.]] --> TheLibby : If you didn't want to tell me the real reason, then you should have just said so. * --> Crush : Is it because you love me? --> Me : Yes. That's obviously the reason. ** I did tell him my true feelings eventually though. * --> Friend: Hey, Trooper. Why are you always wearing those black bracelets?\\ Trooper: They're rememberances for a friend who tried to kill herself.\\ Friend: Oh, right. * When our boss asked me and my co-workers why we were behind on the project, I said that the data we needed had not been transmitted for several months (true) so we'd been [[{{Minecraft}} building a massive subterranean railway]] instead. He laughed at this absurdity, especially since we ''had'' managed to do other look-busy projects during that time. I nearly got ''strangled'' by my co-workers when he left, but it was worth it. ---Of course. You can go back to the regular page just by clicking SarcasticConfession right there. Sure. * [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Why thank you, good Sir!]] ----

SaveOurStudents * This editor's trade at Job Corps, computer repair, had a reputation for being a haven for slackers and miscreants. This editor enrolled in the class at the tail end of a string of temporary replacements after the main instructor retired. When a permanent instructor was finally hired, he managed to turn the class completely around, booted the trainees who weren't doing anything, and helped along those who knew computers but lacked motivation. Within 5 months, half of the class has been certified and this editor himself found a job in the field thanks largely to the instructor's industry connections. * [[DesertDragon This troper's]] ex-boyfriend taught English at an [[InnerCitySchool inner-city community college]], and heard many a story about students whom he couldn't believe graduated high school based on their classwork, or came from highly sheltered backgrounds. This troper would joke about how teachers long for that "Michelle Pfifer Moment", when the class full of dumb thugs finally gets it and starts to turn itself around. That should be a trope in and of itself... * This troper's little brother had the most awesome fourth grade teacher in the universe, unfortunately, that teacher was only there for a year. * If it was a movie, [[{{randomfanboy}} my]] life in high school would be a whole bunch of subversions. My first teacher was a TricksterArchetype in the vein of JackBlack, who had just joined the school that year. My second teacher was a hardnosed old lady, who came

to the class specifically because it was so bad. My third teacher had been at the school for years. My final teacher was a WideEyedIdealist fresh out of college. Guess which one handled the class the best? [[spoiler: The one who'd been there for years. Who, ya know, knew all the students and hence knew all their tricks. The Trickster guy nearly strangled a student, the hardnosed old lady ran once ran out of the room crying, and fresh-outta-college became cynical and frustrated.]] For extra subversion-goodness, I was the quiet kid in the back that you always see in these stories who still has a love of learning and tries their best. Eventually, I became just as cynical and as much of a lazy fuckwit as everybody else (til I went to college and fell in love with learning again). * My middle school French teacher taught at an InnerCitySchool for about 10 years. She tells us this story repeatedly: "When I first started teaching there, the class had already had several teachers who gave up and quit. When I got into the classroom, the kids were just as bad as I expected. I started my lesson, and they said 'Hey, bitch!' I stopped what I was doing and said, 'If you're going to call me that, then it's ''Madame'' Bitch.' They immediately started paying more attention." ** That, my friend, is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for your teacher, hands down. ---If you want to go back to SaveOurStudents, you better wake up and pay attention. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SaveScumming * There's one point in VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG where I always save scum: it's in bean Valley with the 5 pipes. three of the pipes have slot machine type chests where you either get completely healed, a flower tab, or a rock candy. I save scum and reset as nessecary until I have gotten a rock candy from all of them. * This was pretty much the only way [[{{Filby}} this editor]] ever beat ''OregonTrail'' in elementary school. ** This Troper had a teacher who figured out how to actually beat the game without savescumming-namely, a callous disregard for the wellbeing of the party. Running low on food? Continue. Shot yourself trying to shoot a bear? Continue. Dying of dysentery? Continue. Continue, continue, continue. Of course, by the time you actually got to Oregon, there was probably like one of you left, on the verge of death, but since you ''got there,'' [[InstantWinCondition you automatically got better instantly and had a much better life because you made it to Oregon.]] *** Your teacher must not have had ''OregonTrail 2'' then. If s/he did, you would have had the option to treat stuff and it continues as normal anyways. (Unless you decide to slow down; I still have people dying of a common cold after I increase fluid intake) ** This Troper doesn't remember ever having to do this in this game.

Sure, the lose to win ration was around 3 to 1, but it was definitely possible to get at least most of the party to Oregon safe and sound. ** Every run for Me always involved saving at "The Dallas", good thing too, I hit a rock on My first run and lost Aren (A [[{{Pokemon}} Lucario]]), I obviously restarted ** The newer versions of Oregon Trail are ''sadistic'', to the point where you wonder where the metaphor for how tough it was to make the actual journey ends and where the developers' genuine hatred of little children begins. Example: Despite what common sense should dictate, the Oregon Trail is a line that can never be deviated from (except at pre-determined junctions). There are places where you'll have to go up a hill. You can't go around it of course, you have to go up. Only it's raining, and the hill is muddy. If you try and go up your mules will twist their ankles and die. Reload. Try waiting out the rain. It never works. This troper sat through a '' two year rainstorm'' as the party slowly ran out of food and ammunition, broke bones for no particular reason, and died of dysentery. *** [[MemeticMutation Obviously, you should have continued.]] *** Sometimes, you actually didn't really have a choice; if you're trying to cross a really really steep mountain range it can be hard to go around. ** I never had this problem. Ever. I always arrived safe and happy in Oregon. ** This troper has never really had to do that even though he ''has'' saved at some hills or rivers to try doing stuff like [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential see how many times I can tip my wagon by trying to use ropes on an icy hill]] or [[TooDumbToLive doing something my sister did once]] and [[WhatAnIdiot trying to ford the river that was 7 feet deep]] * This troper saved the free Rocket Launcher from ResidentEvil4 to kill Salazar. She kept missing and restarting the boss fight until she won. * This is an absolute must when playing ''MLB Front Office Manager 2009''. The game has a pretty bad AI engine. When you play one of the many baseball games on "simulate" mode, you don't make any choices, you just get the end result of the game. When you get a result you don't like, go back and do it again. This is necessary because the game will make the most stupid choices, such as: ** Pulling a good pitcher out of a game to substitute another pitcher, usually the pitcher with the highest ERA, which is the exact opposite of what any human being with experience beyond T-ball would do. ** The game features the entire farm system for MLB and MiLB. At times, if you don't look out, the AI will move a plyer up to a higher league after you've sent him down and at other times, will also reacquire a player you got rid. * When anyone ever have a dream where one goes about one's day. When you wake up, it feels exactly like loading a save game. * In games like Half-Life (2), while I normally did not SaveScum, but just relied on the autosave-points (especially HL2) and/or quick saved every now and then (HL1, as autosave-points are more scarce an less well placed), I would occasionally end up at some point of the game with extremely low health, but then pass an autosave-point and/or

accidently hit quicksave. Knowing the previous savestate (i.e. the one before the current, low-health one) is waaaay back, I then would resort to heavy SaveScumming to get through that part until reaching the next bunch of health powerups. * [[Tropers/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] had to do this just to make it out of Hades Island in MegaManBattleNetwork 3, after obtaining the PlotCoupon to continue the tournament. I'd literally take a step or two forward and then save; resetting if I had a random encounter while moving because I was out of healing items, down to only 1HP, and unable to deal heavy enough damage to defeat the power enemies in that area. * This troper was pretty guilty of this as a kid, but I wanted my [[{{Pokemon}} Groudon]] dammit. ** Oh man... Any "legend" you try to go after without instant win Master Balls (heh heh) you HAVE to save right before it. * This troper views this trope as apostasy against the gaming gods and [[InvertedTrope never does it]] even when he should. Then he wonders why games are so difficult. * [[Tropers/{{Dallenson}} This troper]] Had to save ALOT in skirmish matches in [[{{Commandandconquer}} Tiberian sun]] Not incase of mistakes but because the damn game had a tendency to crash for no damn reason! Especially when playing Nod * When I first started XCom, I kept no less than four save files for one game: A "Safe" overworld save (saved once a month or so ingame, for when I was sure things were going well), a "Danger" overworld save (when I was about to do something risky), a beginning-of-combat save, and a turn-by-turn combat save. In my defense, this was partly necessary because compatability issues caused the game to repeatedly crash. Can't really say I have an excuse for doing this with SuperRobotWars, though. Furthermore, in {{Civilization}}, I have a "safe" save (done when I'm sure I'm doing well), a "standard" save (done every other turn or so), and a "risk" save (when I'm about to do something I may regret). * I once did this in a particularly epic battle on Age of Empires 3. Me (Ottomans) vs. Sioux vs. Aztec vs. Iroquis vs. Dutch vs. Russians vs. Portugese vs. Germans. Paranoia crept in during the first three minutes. I'm about to attack one Aztec villager about three seconds travel away... too risky, must save first! I'm going to take the six Janissaries instead of a Great Bombard, must save! It has been three minutes since a fight, must save! Twelve save files in the first ten minutes of actual gameplay. * Out of boredom, and because I wanted that Cassus Fett Armor, this Troper won upwards of 15,000 [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic playing Pazaak in the lower city cantina]]. He and the Rodian at Fazza's lodge are unlimited play. ** [[{{Tropers/Allronix}} This Troper]] did the same thing. I learned my lesson from being a {{Sierra}} jock. Sierra games flat-out tell you "save early, save often." It's also VERY smart to have a ton of saved games and bookmarks if you modify your game. Some mods do not play nicely with one another and the only way to test compatibility and fixes is to save, quit, tinker, then reload. * This troper was able to unlock several achievements in MassEffect2

only available using certain squadmates (Use 2 Biotic Attacks/Overload/Incinerate/Warp 20 times) by SaveScumming specific moments of Freedom's Progress, Horizon, and the Korlus missions with Jacob/Miranda/Kasumi/Mordin freeing me of having to keep Jacob or Miranda with me more than needed. * Due to the number of sadistic DMs I have played with, I now keep a piece of paper with save and load buttons drawn on it, mostly to show when I think they're about to go off the deep end. * Down there where it says "Keep refreshing...". Don't refresh; you need to go to an earlier save. * When I was quite young, and just learning about emulators, I always used save states to beat SNES games like [[TheLegendOfZelda A Link To The Past]]. Hence I thought those games were much ''easier than they actually were''. Then I learned save states were the "wrong" way to beat a game. When I went back and replayed those games, I was really shamed of finding out I was apparently a worse gamer then I was before, until I remembered I used save states last time. * This troper almost always plays this way, even if she no longer really needs to to beat the games. She finds it easier to beat bosses when she's not worrying about redoing the dungeon if she fails. * I would do this all the time in the early Mario Parties, against the computer anyway. Since the game saved your progress at the beginning of every turn, if the computer made a move that endangered my win, I would turn off the N64 and reload the party, and they would usually do something else entirely. * [[Tropers/KatanaCat I]] do this all the time if I have the chance, especially for hard games like ''Ristar'' and ''Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind''. Pretty much the only time I don't is if I'm playing on Time Attack mode or just messing around. ** [[@/{{endlessness}} I]] do this all the time, too (except for roguelikes, where a large part of the fun IS the randomness). I'm playing for fun, not to brag about completing the game. * [[{{Tropers/Deelles}} This Troper]] is wondering if the secret bonus of SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration 2's stage 15 was possible without SaveScumming. * If I wanted to gold a Burnout 2 championship but lost a particular race, I'd then waste time waiting for those other races to finish, even if I rebooted the machine. Or I could reset the GameCube (or PS2, as that was what I played on) before the "saving" screen and start where I left off with the prior save file. * Since I'm particularly terrible at hacking in {{Bioshock}} I've ended up resorting to this. Sodding ''hate'' the "hacking" minigame. * [[PokemonEmerald Kyogre]]. Oh, gosh, Kyogre. ---Keep refreshing until you get back to SaveScumming safely. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl * This doesn't always seem to work out all that well, for me at least. I'm a Genki girl Gamer chick famous for lacking an indoor voice and

always bouncing from place to place while humming off-key and going off on Cloudcuckoolander tengents. I ended up with a calm man of few words whom was also a gamer, though he was more reserved and secretive and kinda withdrawn and all that. We had a marvelous relationship, where we either adored each other, or had to fight the urge to claw each others eyes out. By the end we both cited 'Driven to the brink of insanity' as a reason for splitting. * {{Dinru}} and her boyfriend. I'm a GenkiGirl who, due to his presence, seems like she's always in CaffeineBulletTime. He's mildly {{Keet}}-ish at times, but usually he's the calmer one. Of course, I'm a KuuDere and he's basically a Dere Kuu (as in, he's nice on the outside but he's very Kuu on the inside, a complete inversion. Though deeper down inside he's Dere again.), it seems the other way around to most. * This troper's parents are basicly this. My mother is energetic, fun and a bit CloudCuckooLander-ish and my dad is her [[{{DeadpanSnarker}} snarking]] foil. * [[{{Ryumaru}} This Troper and a friend]] pull this off, despite the fact that said friend is a lesbian. Of course, some people may be confused, since she's very huggy. * This troper and his ex-girlfriend. She was cute, hyperactive and creative. He was dark, calm and... well, also creative, but more subtly. It worked quite well. * [[MarinaDelGrapes Marina Del Grapes]] and her husband. ** Following suit, {{Amarys}} and her boyo. * Pretty much my girlfriend and I...to a somewhat extreme level. It's not unusual to see me physically restraining her on dates so she doesn't try to set me up for molesting a Victoria's Secret salesgirl or something. * My parents. My mother is active, doing lots of stuff around the house and doing much with friends. My dad has only a few hobbies and doesn't say much. But when she needs him, he is there. * [[JohnnyBGoode This troper]] and his best friend both play this trope straight and subvert it. She's normally a LargeHam GenkiGirl and this troper her calmer DeadpanSnarker foil. Subverted because I'm more likely to freak out or react in an over-the-top way to my personal issues, while she's more of a BrokenBird about hers. * This troper is going to see if she can land herself one of these with her crush... Wish me luck fellow tropers! * [[IJVin My]] dad and stepmom are like this to an extent, but theMostTriumphantExample in my life is the couple that had the following conversation: ---->'''She:''' Is this your hammer? ---->'''He:''' No. ---->'''She:''' If I had a hammer... ''(sings the entire first verse into the hammer)'' ---->'''He:''' Honey, give me the hammer. You're gonna hurt yourself. ---->'''She:''' Is it your hammer? ---->'''He:''' No, you already asked that. ---->'''She:''' I did? ---->'''He:''' Yeah, I answered the question and you started singing and you forgot I answered it.

* This troper and her boyfriend. She's a loud, semi-hyper completely insane spunky punky chick, he's a calm, quiet metal head. They sometimes subvert this as she has some layers of [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan snark]] in her and is generally regarded as one of the "sane ones" in her group of friends, and when he gets into things, he ''really'' gets into them, and does such things as leap out of his chair, mime actions, and growl like a feral animal. * Subverted with this troper and her sort-of friend. Even though we're both considered geniuses and we're both logical enough to count as Spock, she's the cynical DeadpanSnarker and he's the insane one. This troper is a very GenreSavvy TallDarkandSnarky loner bookworm with a hidden affinity for cats, and her friend is a nerdy LargeHam CloudCuckooLander who is obsessed with rave music and has a tendency for WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome moments. The only reason that we're actually friends is because we're the only people who like seinen/serious shonen genre anime and manga at our school. * This is how me and my friend/interest Cass are. I'm usually a laidback, observing, snarky thinker, while she's an active, hands-on, snarky doer. We both have our moments where we act the other roles, but it's usually that way. And, yes, I know I said we're both snarky; that's because we are, and that's something I really enjoy! * Played straight in my life. He has to literally sit me down and tell me to cool it when I get to carried away. * Played straight for this troper as well -- I'm a quiet, studious, mainly introverted guy and this [[LoveInterest girl I have a thing for]] is much more of the extroverted, ambitious, involved, communityand-leadership type. When we first met, I was a second-year university student coming off a co-op term and returning to a community that had left me behind, and she (then in first year) took it upon herself to help me feel welcome again (she's just that kind and outgoing to everyone). Her example slowly drove me to get out of my proverbial shell more often, and I continued to run into her with some regularity, but me being me, I never could get up the guts to [[RelationshipUpgrade ask her out]]. Currently [[DefiedTrope defied hard]] for me because I recently found out (indirectly) that she already ''has'' a boyfriend ... which, while [[DullSurprise not particularly surprising]], is [[FridgeHorror something that]] [[YourMileageMayVary probably wouldn't]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone have been]] [[DespairEventHorizon the case]] [[HeroicSafeMode had I]] [[TakeThat acted earlier]]. [[HumiliationConga And this isn't the first time]] [[GoMadFromTheIsolation my inaction has messed things up.]] [[SarcasmMode Yay.]] * [[{{neoYTPism}} This troper]] has yet to be involved in dating, yet is absolutely convinced that the GenkiGirl personality is exactly the kind of personality he would find attractive, despite ([[OppositesAttract if not partly because of]]) not being a particularly energetic guy himself. * This troper and her friend are like this. I'm usually a {{Deadpan Snarker}}, but around him, I become a {{Genki Girl}} of epic proportions. I'm not entirely sure why. He'll snark at me for doing something stupid, and somehow to me that translates to bothering him incessantly.

* Inverted for my boyfriend and I. He's crazy, loud, and energetic, whereas I am severely shy and rather withdrawn. I try my best to be tolerant -- God knows he suffers me being the repressed and sarcastic person I am, the least I can do is to return the favor -- but I often end up asking him to lower his voice, please, or to calm down a little, please. I've been beginning to perk up a bit, though, when we're together without anyone else around, and he's been making an effort to mellow out a bit and try to be more serious. Hopefully we can reach an equilibrium of sorts that both of us are comfortable with. * This Troper's friends have been known to hide sugar and caffenine from her. She is off the wall and living somewhere with rainbows and shiny things. Not to mention her easily diverted attention span. She's with a calm, serious guy who often assuages her when things go wrong and makes sure nothing bad happens to her if she gets a little more than crazy. ---"Go back to-" "Well HELLO there Bob!" "Alice, stop interrupting me, please, and go back to SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl." <<|TroperTales|>>

SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes * This troper has probably seen TheLionKing hundreds of times (I remember watching it nearly every day when I was a kid) and WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory a slightly lower number of times. Now I barely watch movies at all. * Proudly admit to having seen ''Film/{{Xanadu}}'' at least 100 times. I like Gene Kelly and Electric Light Orchestra and Olivia Newton John. I enjoyed the movie. ** Also, a cousin of mine watched ''AChorusLine'' at least 52 times, playing the video every week she babysat. ** A roommate of mine watched ''{{Cats}}'' daily until my other roommates hid the DVD. * Man, if I had to come up with the number of times I've seen ''JohnnyMnemonic'', I feel like I might have to be committed to the loony bin. * This troper isn't sure how many times he's seen MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie, but it's well into the hundreds. Yes, with an s. * [[@/{{Pastylover2}} This Troper]] has seen every episode of [[Series/DoctorWho NuWho]] at least 5 times each. *** He has watched the Impossible Astronaut 5 times already! Hehe! ** He's also seen Harry Potter 7 Part 1 in theatres three times. *** Talking about Harry Potter, he's in the middle of reading the books for the fifth time. ** He has seen Anchorman 15 times. ** He saw Sucker Punch 3 times in the theatres. Second and third viewings were at the same theatre ''two days running!'' ** ScottPilgrimVersusTheWorld? Four times!

** HotFuzz? Three times! ** ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents? Lost count! * Back when he was little, This troper had of least seen ToyStory at least 10 times when it came out on VHS. * [[@/{{Villefort}} Me]] and my family have probably seen UndercoverBrother and KungPowEnterTheFist at least ten times each. * This troper has seen SpiritedAway at least 20 times. * [[Tropers/LordBlumiere This Tropette]] has probably seen {{Mulan}} over one hundred times. * [[Tropers/WarriorOfLight This Troper]] has seen the original Star Wars trilogy, all three of them, at the very least, a hundred times. The Prequels...Episodes I and II have to be up there in the high fifties or low sixties, and Episode III has to be up there in the high thirties. He is aware that this is insane. ** I'm pretty sure you're me. Except that [[SwiftStrike I]] don't think it's insane at all! * My record for seeing a film in theaters is ''[[Film/LordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' six times. Followed by the first ''TheMatrix'' at four times. * As a very young child, [[Tropers/SeanMurrayI this troper]] watched ''[[ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.--The Extra Terrestrial]]'', ''{{Casablanca}}'', ''BackToTheFuture'', ''AHardDaysNight'', ''[[{{Help}} Help!]]'', and ''StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' dozens upon dozens of times to the point that the VHS tapes were truly and utterly '''ruined'''. Once I'd reach the end credits for any of these movies, I would simply rewind the tape and watch it again right then and there. * [[{{Tropers/Wackd}} This troper]] has read ''[[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''--that's the one with all five books and a short story in one volume--at least thirty times, the first being in early 2008, and at one point had the entire first book memorized. He's also seen the TV series at least five times. Also, I've seen PodPeople (the MST3K episode version) at least ten times and it's the only one I own a physical copy of. ** And I was sure my 6 or 7 readings of THGTTG was good D: * Not as extreme as some other examples, but this troper's mother has seen ThePhantomOfTheOpera on Broadway seven times. She herself has watched YellowSubmarine probably well over 30 times since birth, and her father tends to latch on to any films that catch his interest for about a month before moving on. * This troper saw ''[[TheDarkKnightSaga The Dark Knight]]'' 22 times....in the theater.....over the course of 2 and a half weeks. Before you decry the waste of money, I should specify that it was a dollar theater, showing films a few months after the initial release. This troper was essentially sneaking food into the theater to enjoy his dinner and a show on a nightly basis. This is in addition to the 3 times having seen it in the theater months previous, when it was first released. He was obsessed, okay? Can you blame him? * Also an example of RealMenWearPink This troper's best friend saw Tangled three times in theaters, bought the Blu-Ray and watch it about five more times within a couple of months.

* Spider-Man 2. 3 times...'''On opening day'''. ** Caught the midnight show, loved it. A buddy wanted to go to a matinee, I went. Ten o'clock showing - why not? Ye''gods'', there was something wrong with me. * Ten or eleven years ago, I used to live in a place where the most advanced piece of technology there was--wait for it--a VCR. No Pentium II, no Rage 128, not even a DVD player. That said, there were only fifteen videotapes, all G rated, the vast majority Disney. Take a guess what I did and how I felt. * This troper reads Stephen King's full Dark, No Stars every night... and when he finishes, he just goes straight back to the beginning. * This troper was in and out of the hospital with cancer for just over two years. In one eight-month period, my mother and I watched MyNeighborTotoro somewhere around ''200'' times. Yes, ''Two. Hundred''. Not kidding, you do the math yourself. We watched it at least five times a week, every week, for eight months. Probably more. Yes, it's still my favorite animated movie of all time. Yes, I still know every line by heart. Yes, I freaked out when I realized it had been re-dubbed. I know some people like the new dub better, but I repeat. Two. Hundred. Times. * This troper loves re-reading things. Anything I have every read and really enjoyed, there is a 95% chance I have read it more than once. Example: Redwall. Each of the first 17 I've read at least 30 times each. The 18 and 19, 20 times at least, the 20 over a dozen times, and the 21st twice. I'm also the first one with the 22nd on hold at the library. I could go on for hours. * This troper's sisters do this with movies all the time. A few years back, they watched {{Hercules}} at ''least'' once, every day, for about three weeks. If they missed a day, they watched it twice the next chance they got. They watched it 30 times at least. Last year, they did the same thing with ThePrincessAndTheFrog, watching it ''multiple'' times a day, every day. Within a week, they were reciting all the lines along with the characters, and [[ItGotWorse worse,]] they started randomly spewing dialogue sequences, reciting large chunks of the movie for no apparent reason. They did this in front of my three best friends, none of whom I'd seen for years, they did this in front of our cousins, they did this in front of people we'd never even met before... it was a nightmare. Everyone else thought it was funny. I've hated that movie ever since. They saw that ''50'' times, at least. * So, how many times have ''you'' watched MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail? ** Me? About nine times, probably. Haven't watched it in ''years''. * This troper has a friend who's seen ''BringItOn'' over a hundred times. For some reason, they are still friends. * This troper's dad has seen TheEmpireStrikesBack in theaters 18 times. The troper himself? It's a tie between StarTrekVI and StarWars Episode I, both 3 times. * I wanted to thank a friend who introduced me to DrHorribleSingAlongBlog, and told him it's now one of my favourite show. He asked me, jokily, how many times I watched it. My reply: "This week?" ** (about 20 times, if you must know. And that's before I got the DVD)

* When Toy Story 3 came out in theaters, I saw it 4 times. When the DVD came out, I watched it every day for a month. And I'm still watching it bi-weekly, occasionally having a marathon with the first two. I can't begin to explain how awesome this movie is. * My cousin claimed [[OrSoIHeard to have a friend]] who watched {{Titanic}} 21 times. Me and my best friend expressed scepticsm. She came back a few days later, saying that she "mis-remembered" and that the friend in question had watched it "only" seven times. * I couldn't begin to imagine how many times I must have watched the Star Wars movies by now. Having barely been old enough to watch Episodes II and III in the cinema, I've more than made up for not seeing the others with the number of times I've dragged our battered old video cassettes out of the cupboard. They're probably the six most watched movies my entire family owns. ** I also watched The Matrix three times in one week and several times since. Rarely have I come across a movie that mind-blowingly awesome. ** Except for X-Men: First Class. I've already seen that twice in the cinema and it's not even been out a month. ** And don't get me started on any TV series... * This troper watched The Lion King and Simba's Pride every day for over a year when she was about three. And I still love those movies to tiny little peices. My parents can't stand either of the movies. ** Same deal for 101 Dalmatians as well, at the same time as the former two movies. They were regularly interspersed throughout my day when I was little. I was unhealthily obsessed with the franchise for most of my childhood (and STILL obsessed, if you want to know the truth). * This troper saw Titanic twice in one day when it was first released on video (didn't see it in theatres, but I have a friend who saw it three times in theatres). I also watched Speed probably once a week for six months between 1995 and 1996 when my uncle taped it for four year old me (it was also on HBO non-stop). And I saw Wall-E twice in the theatre. * This troper's 6-year-old brother... every time he gets a new DVD, he watches it (and forces '''me''' to watch it with him) at least 28 times ''each.'' Which means I've been forced to watch [[{{Igor}} Igor (48 times),]] [[MonstersVsAliens Monsters vs Aliens (32 times),]] [[BeautyAndTheBeast Beauty and the Beast (40 times),]] [[ChickenLittle Chicken Little (lost count after 60),]] and several others that I can't remember off the top of my head. He usually watches them until he can ''say the lines along with the characters.'' * This troper has seen each of the Harry Potter movies at east 40 times, with Sorcerer's Stone clocking in at over a hundred. I also watched Across the Universe ''at least'' once a day for a few months after I got the DVD. Repeated the action on acquiring Alexander, Inglourious Basterds, and Hostel. ** I seem to have inherited this from my dad, who has seen Tombstone more than a hundred times and many other movies at least 20 or 30. ** This Troper saw all of the films in the original Star Wars trilogy hundreds of times in the years before 1999 when Episode I was released. I would also like to mention that this Troper was born in 1995, and has continued to watch all the films over and over again.

* I've played through ''SilentHill2'' at least six times from 2001 on. Then I discovered that I [[LastLousyPoint accidentally screwed myself out of the bonus that you get for clearing the game with all of the endings]], which means that I'll have to finish it a few ''more'' times if I ever want that bonus. Sigh. * This troper has read ''HarryPotter'' so many times she has had to buy multiple copies of the books because ''they fell apart from being read so much''. She's read them more than a hundred times (in a serious estimate), and has been reading them for about 12 years. I would like to add that I am a walking encyclopedia of ''HarryPotter'', and can quote it from memory. Give me a test, and I won't need the books much if at all. Just to clarify what I mean by just how many books I have, I have 3 paperbacks, 4 hardbacks (including the Special Edition), and 1 compressed, travel-sized paperback of ''SorcerersStone'' ''alone''. The numbers aren't quite so absurd when you get up to the last three, where I have 2 paperbacks and a hardback of ''OrderOfThePhoenix'', and a paperback and a hardback of the last two. I like to have at least one hardback and one paperback of each (and the compressed versions, because they're cute, the rest of them are ones I had to get because I assasinated my copy via multiple readings). I hold the record for the most times a ''HarryPotter'' book has been checked out at my elementary school and the public libraries. I also went out of my way to get a tie and sweater in Ravenclaw's book colors (blue/bronze), and get a blue-lined cloak for the last film. Am I obsessed? You better bet yo' ass I am. I have the same issue with the films, although I only have a single copy of each. Can quote those verbatim, often complete with gesturing and perfect timing. [[AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent This also applies to most Disney films.]] ---Go back and read [[SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes this page]] another ninety-three times. ----

SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud We know there are people out there who do this in real life. Admit it here. * This Troper will turn the volumn down in video games so he can make his own sound effects. It's especially apparent in Assassin's Creed, where "Snikt!", "Stab!", "Counter!" and "Leap!" are commonly said. * This Troper likes to say "Boom, headshot" after pulling off a difficult shot with a rifle. Of course, it's pretty silly seeing as how the actual gun makes plenty of noise, and the "Boom, headshot" is just barely whispered. ** I do the same for headshots, sometimes replacing "head" with a fitting part when I kill with other shots. "Boom, legshot." I also use sarcastic or mocking "Ka-boom!", "Ka-ping!", "Splat!" and "Yoink!". * ThisTroper has resorted to sound effects many times in order to explain what he's saying or to accompany certain actions. He mostly uses nonsense syllables, but it's apparently been done so often, it

became a [[CharacterTics Character Tic]]. * This troper has recently begun saying "woink" when calling up information on his laptop. * [[{{Nomic}} This troper]] says sound effects aloud quite a lot. Usually "crash" "bang" or "blargh". He also has an annoying habit of saying "lol" or "lulz" in real life. ** This troper also says "lolz" or "El-oh-el" and "Oh-em-gee!" Also, on particular occasions(okay, one occasion, namely dressing as Sarah Palin for Halloween), "wink!" ** [[LightHawk This troper]] also does that, he also has a habit of verbalizing emotes as well, most commonly with * shrug* . ** My friends and I pronounce it "lawl." I actually thought that was how it was supposed to be read/said until I heard someone say "L-O-L." ** And another one. I accidentally say lol in conversation at times, mostly because I have a habit of verbalizing, at least mentally, what I'm typing, and so get into the habit of saying "lol" in my vast amounts of time spent on the computer. ** I also tend to say "lol" - as a whole word, not as "l-o-l"(I actually cringe a bit when I hear it "pronounced" like that) Also, I've said "wtf"(also as a whole word) and "roflmao". * My brother makes video games noises while playing video games. he also spazms around, to the point that I refuse to stand within ten feet of him when we're playing the Wii. * This troper tends to begin every morning by humming the [[VideoGame/SuperPaperMario]] level intro jingle and end every day with the VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor end of chapter song. * [[{{Joysweeper}} This troper]] sometimes says/breathes "Deep sigh!" when things seem to call for it. * Headshots and other acts of exquisite violence, when performed ingame by [[JohnZ this troper]], are ''always'' announced with a loud "BOOM!" followed by at least three seconds of highly disturbing laughter. This period is noticeably longer when the act involves significant amounts of high-powered explosives. * This troper has a habit of saying 'scream' and 'sigh' instead of actually screaming or sighing. She also makes 'fwoosh' noises when she swings her arms, and says 'bang' when she plays video games with guns in them. * Wow, soul twins. * This Troper's biology teacher makes up a sound effect for everything. * One of this troper's lecturers would use a sound effect best described as "fwip" for curly arrows. * This troper has a habit of saying sound effects out loud with absolutely no context behind it whatsoever. Thwunk. (This troper may well be a [[CloudCuckoolander Cloud Cuckoolander]].) * [[{{Azaram}} This troper]] does tech support, and while working on a computer will mumble 'doot' and 'doink' to himself while clicking on things to the confusion of the users occasionally. He explains that he doesn't have speakers on his computer so he has to do his own sound effects. * This troper doesn't think he ever actually just sighs anymore without actually saying "Sigh..." This occurrence is surpassed only by

the expression "Swish swish clank clank". * [[JohnnyBGoode This troper]] says "YOINK!" when yanking something away from someone. * [[MrGuy This troper]]'s list includes: ** YOINK ** SIGH ** ROLL ** BONK ** ZZZ ** DOINK ** PEW-PEW ** [[TheLegendOfZelda DOODLE-DE-DOO]] ** And various other noises when thinking of a hypothetical video game. * This troper likes to say "GASP!" when he's unimpressed. * [[Tropers/{{Numbuh9494}} This troper]] is commonly known for saying "Beep!" whenever the school bell rings. She also likes to say "Sigh" or "le gasp!" She is also known for making noises that sound suspiciously like lightsabers whenever she whips around a flashlight. * This troper's mother does this. "So you drive down that street, brum brum brum, then take a right at the roundabout, screeeeech, then off again, brum brum brum..." * Whenever this troper cricks his neck or stretches, he makes mechanical clicking noises not unlike machine gears. * This troper says "sigh" instead of sighing. Whenever he's hit by something, he yells out some nonsense syllable like "toonk!" * [[{{Gobolt}} This troper]] doesn't so much as say the sound effects out loud as instead making the sound effects with his mouth whenever even remotely applicable. * This troper, when preparing to cause an explosion or gib someone's body parts in a video game, likes to say "Kaboom," or "Kablam," before firing. * This Tropette has a problem with this. Clap, yawn, deep sigh, smack, yoink, beep, deet-deet, and flip. The latter is used to make boring books more interesting. Actually, all sound effects can make boring books more interesting. It's how I got through OfMiceAndMen. * This troper is fond of saying "bonk" or "boing" when something abruptly dawns on her. Her husband, meanwhile, has a tendency to say "schwick, schwick" while pantomiming movements, such as hanging up an invisible coat in a wardrobe we don't presently own but wish to acquire. * Admits proudly to to singing Paper Planes by [[{{ptitlerxsk4f56}} M.I.A.]] by actualy saying *[=BoomBoomBoomReloadCashRegisterOpening=]* Cue weird stares from everyone. * [[JohnnyBGoode This troper]]'s favorites are "ZING!", "BIFF!", and "BOING-OING-OING-OING..." I have a friend who says "hoppity-hop, hop, hop" when a video game character hops. * I say "OM NOM NOM" sometimes before eating. Of course, I have found out that saying it with food in your mouth actually DOES chew the food pretty well... * This troper has a jerk ass friend who sometimes says munch, chew, swallow, gulp, slurp, etc. while other people eat on lunch hour.

* This troper and her brother both do this. Her brother says "click" repeatedly, in steadily rising volume, when a page loads slowly, while she tends to say "sigh" in lieu of actually sighing. "Poke" is also a favorite, though that might be more of an example of CallingYourAttacks. * When he's instant messaging someone on AIM and has the sound off, this troper will instinctively imitate the message send noise ("doodle-oot"). And on more than one occasion he's pointed a banana at friends like a pistol and "shot" them with the appropriate sound effects. Oh, and now it seems he's started with a ''sneaking'' sound effect, or a mock one anyway, a sort of quiet "ch ch ch". For instance, if the dog really wants him to play ball, but he has something important to do or just doesn't feel like it, he'll throw it once, then quickly "ch ch ch" his way to his room while the dog's still running after it. * This troper and her fiance both are known to say, "ZOMG!" when presented with something interesting, although instead of saying "Zee Oh Em Gee", we usually just say "Zomjuhge". ** Perfectly normal, I do that too. ** Hmm, this troper pronounces it in a high pitched "Zhyomaiguod"... yeah... * Kaelis Ra tends to say weapon sounds. click-clack. boom. * This troper does that with a light switch. Clicka-clicka. * One of this troper's favorites is "twitch, twitch," for when an actual eye-twitch might not get noticed. I also tend to say "sigh," usually with heavy vocal emphasis. * In this troper's case it might be quicker to list the sound effects he DOESN'T say out loud. * This troper uses 'twitch' 'rawr' 'ha' (not laughing, just saying ha). * [[{{Quillpaw}} This troper]] ''loves'' to do this. She's been known to used "yoink", "rawr" "eeech!" (a noise for a screeching halt), "flump" or "fwump" when sitting, and "whap!" when she pretend bitchslaps someone. Also "twitch...twitch..." when she wants her insanity emphasised. She also tends to go "grumblegrumble" instead of grumbling. * This Troper likes to say "Sweatdrop". Another friend says "Doink" for a sweatdrop. * [[{{Magus}} This Troper]] makes a noise somewhat like a gust of wind when dramatically brandishing an important document or hand-held object. * This troper yells out "ONG-BAK!" when he launches a flying knee. ** This troper does the same, but with his elbow. * This troper's brother actually says the word "Sigh," in a sad and dejected voice whenever he's upset. This troper herself has been known to make a "Pyoink!" sound to symbolize a sweatdrop, "Phwaaah/Gragh" when upset, and "BAM!" whenever she hits something. * [[KingSonnDeeDoo This Troper]] often says "Dot dot dot" (quite often making three dots in a row in the air with her finger), "Yoink!", "[[TheLegendOfZelda DAH-DAH-DAH-DAAAAH!]]", and "[[FinalFantasy Doodoo-do-doo-doo-dooo-DO-DO-DOOOO!]]" * [[{{Kaizykat}} This Troper]] will often say "BING!" when an idea

strikes her, and has been known to make some rather interesting noises when she narrates stories. Most of the sound effects stay in her head, though. * I picked up this habit from my mom, and tend to say things like "ZOOOOM!" or "FOOOOM!" or "SHWOOOOM!" or some variation thereof. * This troper is vaguely concerned to realize that he quietly adds sound effects when he looks around quickly before rounding a corner, moving past a Stop sign, or entering a crowded room. The exact sound would probably be something like a "Fwwwt," made by short bursts of air through the lower lip and upper front teeth. * One of this troper's best friends used to have a kid in his school who would say ka followed by the name of whatever he was doing, at first he would just say kapunch and things like that when fighting, but eventually he ended up saying that for pretty much everything he did. Funny, but also quite tragic. ** This troper finds that hilarious. "Ka-eat!" "Ka-walk!" "Ka-answer phone!" * Whenever I play the UFC 2009 game and use Cro Cop, I yell "HEAD KICK" whenever I use his legendary head kick. Insert victory dance when I knock them out >=D * I do this all the time. My friend even said that he thought the explosion sound I was making was real. * This troper's friend has taken to saying "sigh in distress..." while sighing melodramatically constantly, even though I am pretty sure that you can only sigh in melancholy, relief, etc. * This troper uses lots of random sound effects, usually said in a quiet tone to get a cuteness effect. "Tump tump tump" for going up or down stairs, "bew" for going off to do something, and "hop!" when hopping over an obstacle are a few examples. She also says "gack!" instead of "ow!" or when caught by surprise. * This troper combines it with the UnsoundEffect. With ''[[TvTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary tropes]]. Among other, normal SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud. * This troper does this whenever he is playing battle scenes. He makes gun noises, explosion noises, swords-hitting-swords noises, screams, and even says "Fire!" when looking at something like a cannon. This has bled over into his real life, when he frequently says things like "Fire!" to himself at random points in time. My mother also did it once, because a guy passed her on the road. She said "I'm gonna blow your doors off!" and when she passed him, she went "Whoosh!" * This troper sometimes stops herself from yawning by inhaling and flatly saying, "YAWN." * This troper, when he is feeling random, tends to do this in school to two people in his homeroom when they are having a heated...discussion. (Thankfully, they don't mind. Or they don't care.) * A friend of this Troper has a habit of making "vroom-vrrom-VROOM!" noises... while driving a car. * [[{{Eisenblume}} This Troper]] uses this all the time. * Sigh* when frustrated as well as * boooom* when something, you know, goes boom, thanks to a childlike joy of explosions. But he uses everything, both western and Japanese ones all the time.

* This Troper tends to do this alot. Sometimes, they are actual soundeffects (if she's running, she might say "tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh" as her feet hit the ground) but it might just be "run, run," as well. * this troper's brother is rather fond of "Ka-SHANK!", apparently. * [[SovietKitty This troper]] goes, "Siiiiiigh," when bored or frustrated, and likes to hold [[KnifeNut shiny knives]] up to the light and go "[[GratuitousJapanese kira kira]] [[{{Yangire}} kira kira]]~." * I, RedStormtrooper, He who needs to get an account, can imitate multiple types of gunfire, from Bushmaster Chain Guns (DUN DUN DUN DUN) to Miniguns (KEEEEE...RRRRRSH) to Bolt-Action Rifles (Pop Clackclick-click-clack) and Shotguns (PUM Click-click). His favorite: the Flak 38. "THUM THUM THUM THUM." Second Favorite? M1 Garand. "POP POP POP PING!" * This troper has a habit of saying "Achoo" sarcastically after sneezing. Also, and this might not count, sometimes when someone tells her they need to use the bathroom, she says "BAM! Tinkle time!" This results in very weird looks. ** This troper seems to have acquired the habit of saying "Achoo" ''whilst'' sneezing. * This plus UnsoundEffect equals over 50% of HomestarRunner fans. Just take a noun (also works somewhat with verbs and adjectives), add "'d", put in all-caps except for "I"s, and say it with a Narrator Strong Bad impression. -->[-[=TROPER TALES'D!=]-] * This troper, when laughing alot, likes to say the word laugh right after it. It goes like, "Hahahahahahaha! Laugh." You know, [[CaptainObvious just in case they didn't get it.]] * If applause doesn't come right away (or the ending of whatever I'm doing isn't obvious), this troper will start saying "clap clap clap", though in this case it may be more of a suggestion than anything... * This troper gets lost in conversation often and tends to say "...?" out loud. * [[{{TeamFortress2}} KA-BOOM!]] None of this troper's friend's, nor he knows why. * This troper has a multitude of examples: ** She says "knock knock" far more often than she actually knocks. (Somewhat justified as it's hard to knock on open doors.) She also says "nom nom" while nomming things, the occasional "yoink," and tends to summarize Shakespeare with sound effects. ** She has had debates with her father over the correct onomatopoeia to use for various situations (she maintains to this day that a paperback book hitting the plastic inside of a car door, spine first, does not go "whump"). ** Her sister once called her to ask her to help spell an intake-ofbreath noise so she could text it to someone. ** Recently, she and her roommate were in a production of Discworld/WyrdSisters, playing Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, respectively. During the play scene near the end, her roommate was directed to throw walnuts at the "stage." She proceeded to line the nuts up on the edge of the balcony and flick them off, saying "pew pew!" as she did. It was all this troper could do to keep a straight

face. * One of my co-workers responded to something funny by saying "lol" instead of just laughing, and was rightly mocked for it. * [[SquealingSandry This troper]] has "Yoink!" for snatching something away from someone. She also writes characters saying it in her fanfics. * I sometimes mutter "scribblescribblescribble" when actually scribbling or make a bing/bonk sort of sound when I find something I have been looking for. Oh, and I might utter a ([=TF2=]-inpired) "OmNom-Nom" when I see someone eating with overly pronounced jaw movement. * This troper makes a "Waaaah" sound when someone fails miserably. Sounds kind of like a duck. * This troper's younger brother has a fondness for saying 'lol'. This troper himself prefers 'Sigh' and 'Eyeroll' (usually as a reaction to the aforementioned 'lol'), with the occasional 'Poke!' * This troper often sings the Final Fantasy victory fanfare when something good happens. "Papapapa-pa-pa-pappapaaaaaa!" * I like to say Kabloooiee! with my Mark Hamill Joker voice or TA-DAH with my Heath Ledger Joker voice. A LOT. * Aside from sharing many of these, such as saying "sigh," This Troper has devised "schwa." "Schwa" is essentially any movement whatsoever, meant to represent the sound of wind blowing past the moving limb. I use it always. * One of this troper's friends makes Wookie noises. The same friend also has a "tiny lasers" noise. ''pewpewpew!'' * This Troper says "Yawn" when yawning. Once me and my friend had our hands full at a concert, and simply said "Clap Clap Woo" at the end of each peice. * This troper has a nasty habit of ruining friends' concentration by starting fake conversations with another friends filled with this. -->"So he [[IThoughtItMeant broke his stick against the ball]], ''[[{{Squick}} crack, phut, thud]]''..." ** Also, he likes narrating his friend's ''StarWars'': Clone Wars comic, with various character impersonations and (according to others) highly amusing blaster sound effects. Doing the sound effects of a Republic gunship strafing droids is very fun, to say the least. * When something happens (dosn't have to be surpising or anything) This Toper often goes "Gaspeth" And has taken to saying 'Jiii..."when she's staring at something. * [[Tropers/ProdigalDaughter This troper]] has quite a lot of these-most prominently, she says "Oh-toh-toh-toh--" when off-balance, in time with her hopping around rebalancing, "Click!" when turning on the kettle, and various permutations of "sleeeeeeep" when she's failing to do just that. * [[{{Tropers/Kadorhal}} I]] don't know if it really counts, but one time when playing [[GarrysMod Trouble in Terrorist Town]] with a few friends, I killed the lone traitor via a single shot with the Desert Eagle, winning the round, and typed "Boom." I went with it later, after a round where I was the traitor and killed everyone else with a silenced pistol, by typing [[UnsoundEffect "Paf."]] * This Troper tends to narrate what she is doing. If she drops

something, she says "drop." If she trips, she says "fall." She usually turns sighs into sighing the word "sigh." Will also say "yawn" on occasion. When she catches herself doing it in public or with friends, she also starts berating herself out loud for doing so. I have issues. * This Troper does it so much, that it's pretty much automatic. Me and my friends are well known for verbalizing emotes, such as 'lol' or 'rofl'. * This Troper actually says [[UnsoundEffect *Unsound* Effects]]. Most recently, when providing my roommate with his clean laundry, I said, "*provide*". * [[{{Tropers/GuyP3rs0n}} This Troper]] actually tends to make the sound effects instead of saying them. Mainly when I'm play some sort of FPS. * [[{{@/Tidal_Wave_17}} This troper]] makes little sounds like "Boink" when poking someone or "Pwish" when he swings his arm around to give a playful little punch. His mother thinks its childish, but its kind of his [[AdultChild thing.]] * I'm good at sound effects. Often times I'll do my own sound effects in recordings and stuff. But for the rare scenario involving ADateWithRosiePalms, rather than making [[{{Squick}} actual masturbation noises]] I'll just say "Fap fap fap" in the most monotone, deadpan voice possible. * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper's]] friend does it to the point where it grates on my nerves. She goes "shimmy, shimmy" when she's scootching over, a sound like "pokki, pokki" at various times, and goes "err-ERR, err-ERR" when she squeezes something... And various other noises... Granted, I also make my own sound effects too, just not so freaking often. * This Troper and her sister were trained to do this from a young age by their father, much to the annoyance of everyone around us. Our current favorites include 'KAPOW!' and 'DONK!". * This troper was just in a production of ''TheRockyHorrorShow''. During rehearsals, the guy playing Riff Raff would just say "Laser!" when shooting Frank and Rocky, since we didn't have sound effects yet. When we finally did get them, most of us decided we liked the vocal version better. Something about the guy's BadAss voice. * This troper says "sob" rather a lot to indicate her sarcastic sadness. * This troper went through a phase of supplying her Star Trek Online spaceship with extra sound effects and regularly fires finger lasers with a "pew pew!." Also, she can't hold a torch or indeed a stick without waving it around a bit making lightsaber noises. Also, any onomatopoeic sound effects in books are imitated under her breath, much to the annoyance of her friends. * This troper has a friend who likes to go "jiiiiiiiiiii~" when he's staring at someone to make them laugh, and makes various sound effects by herself, bordering on narrating what she's doing. ---And... Click! You're back to SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ScannableMan * This troper knows a person who has tattooed his library card barcode on his wrist. ** He must've really liked reading. * A friend of this troper considers having tattoos of laundry-care symbols. ** Dry clean only? *** [[BodyHorror Do not bleach]]! **** Handle with care? **** The winner has to be the wallpaper symbol for "strippable"... * This troper's driver's license has a barcode on the back side. When he found out about this fact, he considered tattooing it into some convenient location, such as his wrist. Then FridgeLogic kicked in, reminding him that his driver's license changes every ten years, and the barcode would probably change as well. It was a good idea, though. * Someone had seen [[{{Terminator}} Terminator Salvation]] ''way'' too many times. At this troper's school, someone wrote an article in the school newspaper that barcode tattoos would be the new ID system. The cover picture looks a student who would be in the resistance. The writer ''says'' the principal said "Things will be a lot more efficient around here...my way or the highway." ** Doesn't help that I am a [[ParanoiaFuel Terminator-phobic]]. If this wasn't a [[spoiler: Joke]] issue, then I would have asked to transfer to another school. ** When I saw this, I immediately thought it was [[Viral Marketing]] for the movie. The title is used ''directly'' in another article. ** [[spoiler: April Fools Issue!]] * Thos troper is planning to get her SSN turned into a barcode and tattooing it somewhere on her body. [[CrazyPrepared You know, just in case they find my body and my face is unrecognizable. Or if I lose all memory of who I am.]] ---Press your wrist to the reader to re-enter ScannableMan. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ScareChord * Whenever her friends overreact over something This Troper finds trivial, she ''says'' dun-dun-DUNNN in a low, menacing voice. * When ThisTroper was in middle school, his class was divided into groups and each group had to create a skit on a different major group that settled the west. It became a running gag in the people who did the Mormons that whenever the word "Mormon" was mentioned, someone offstage would make a noise. ** May this Mormon say that that is ''still'' funny? A little offensive, but RuleOfFunny is in full effect. * [[{{Gabel}} This troper's]] friend once did a scare chord melody when a teacher gave us an assignment. To this day it lives on. * There are a few instances where I wasn't scared by some event, but I was scared by someone else being scared by it. Funny how that works.

* The Organist at [[AdamS This Troper]]'s church does this every year at Tenebrae (a service done entirely by candle light) to represent the death of Christ. Even though I know it's coming, it gets me every time. * This troper's friend who is both an aspiring musician and a latin enthusiast made some OminousLatinChanting themes for some characters, the three [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel most frightening]] are: Hellish Lady[[spoiler: its actually about someone causing the end of all life due to misery]], Ballad of the Wolf King[[spoiler: its about people worshiping a king like a god, and then sacrificing themselves]], and lastly Ulqipadh Norkein[[spoiler: its about an ancient deity tentacle raping someone in front of its cultists, who are chanting]]. ** [[MemeticMutation Links or it didn't happen.]] * [[SonicLover This Troper]] (first person hereafter) got one of these by accident. I've got an older computer that was programmed to play clock chimes on the hour (no good reason, I was just messing with the settings at the time). I was playing an old computer game on said computer, and during one cutscene, the ''exact same second'' that the antagonist made a surprise appearance and caught the protagonist "mingling with the enemy" in her words, the first of the 5:00 chimes sounded. Admittedly a grandfather clock chime makes a lousy ScareChord, but it deserves a mention for how hilariously perfect the timing was. ** This troper had a bunch of voice clips of the Designated Antagonist Saavedro from [[MystSeries Myst III: Exile]] speaking as her sound scheme on her old laptop. One time I was playing ''Myst III: Exile'' and I got to a point where I was in Saavedro's very creepy lair (and Myst fans will know precisely what I am talking about), before Saavedro leaves the Age or even the building you're standing in (he's in the upper levels of it). I was examining something on the desk, getting really into the game. Cue my computer notifying me that I had an email with a creepy response of, "Hello, Atrus..." Brix were shat. * This troper uses it whenever discussing ''{{FATAL}}'s'' Random Magical Effects (dum-dum-DUUUUMMM) table. * Due to her not [[LonersAreFreaks being that sociable a person]], whenever [[KingSonnDeeDoo This Troper]] gets a text message on her phone, it acts as a {{Scare Chord}} for her. Cue moments when she'll be walking around in public, and will practically jump out of her skin as [[{{Raven}} James MacKenzie]] commands out of her phone to [[{{Raven}} "Let the challenge...begin!"]]. * The school at which this troper's parents work, they recently did a musical based on the works of TheBeatles. One RunningGag was that every time someone said "[[TheWizardOfOz Yellow Brick Road]]", there'd be a da-da-da-DUMMMMM scare chord from the musicians. The characters started referring to it as the Abbey Road, and the narrator repeatedly threatened to go down and sort out the musicians if they did it one more time. * This troper was in a play, and they literally said, "Dun dun dun!" offscreen at scary parts. Or parts that aren't scary. The characters in the play [[LampshadeHanging commented on it.]] * [[{{Neakal}} This Troper]] had one as part of a dream. I dreamt that I was walking in an empty street, surrounded by animals that had some

very high levels of {{Uncanny Valley}} going on, and hearing a music from a radio in the distance. I come across a dog who is sitting on my path and seems normal. I kneel by it and pet it. The music from the radio is suddenly interrupted with a single, short burst of high pitched sound and I suddenly realise that the dog is just as wrong as the rest of the animals (it has no eyes). And that it is about to kill me. * This troper was in a play where at certain intervals, everyone backstage would collectively say, "Dun dun DUN!" And though the cord was often totally scattered, it was made funny by a character onstage saying, "[[MediumAwareness Where is that music coming from?!]]" * When [[@/{{Tadaru}} this troper]] was playing EverQuest, one of these played when he entered some area. It was the same sound as the one that plays when you die, though he wasn't dead. It freaked him the hell out. * Same troper as the last bullet point. The earthquake warning sound on the news (I'm not far from the Sendai quake at this moment). Holy shit. * This troper messed with some players in {{Dungeons and Dragons}} they were walking through a room with a bunch of torture equipment they remembered seeing a bunch of musical instruments where they came in. Than they heard the sound of a violin slowly being played.Vumm than nothing vvvumm than nothing. Something walks by them and they hear Vumm really loudly . ---Oh god, the ScareChord... it's escaped! (duhn duhn, duhn!) ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ScareTheDog * CoyoticEvil: I get barked at quite a bit of the times I meet dogs, for no apparent reason. If I just stand there and stare at them, walk towards them, or stomp loudly, they run away eventually. * This Troper had a dog growing up. Everyday, he would step outside to the garage where his pet dog slept under a workbench (he had a nice bed under ther ein case you're wondering) and feed him before going to school. One day, he dressed up for a school Halloween Party as Judge Ito from the OJ Trial since it was still ongoing at the time. He stepped out to the garage to feed the dog without thinking about the fact that he now had a black robe, fake beard, dyed black hair, and glasses. The dog came out from under the work bench once he heard This Troper coming and promptly froze in his tracks upon seeing the Troper. Once he heard his voice, the dog was content and happily ate his food. * This troper's father inadvertently did this a lot. We live on a secluded, wooded few acres, and my dad would often dress up in old clothing to go do yardwork outside. Our dog, a beagle who has never hunted in her life, would consistently go into 'hell hound' mode (lots of howling and going nuts around our back door/windows) whenever she saw him walking across our backyard in his unfamiliar clothing. ** In a different vein, when our beagle still had her hearing, you

could really freak her out by talking through a wrapping paper tube. It distorted your voice just enough that she was completely terrified. * My friend had a poorly trained dog that would bark nonstop and yip all the time at anyone she (the dog) was unfamiliar with. She wasn't easily intimidated either, you could stomp or shout and the dog would just stay put, yammering away. Well, one day my friend's grandfather (who apparently ''hates'' dogs) came for a visit and in the middle of his visit the dog woke up and started barking at him. After a half minute of barking, the grandfather broke off the conversation he was having and just ''stared'' at the dog, not moving and not making any noise. The dog quickly shut up and fled, obviously frightened, to a secluded room in the back of the house, where she '''''refused''''' to come out until the grandfather had left. ---Go back to [[ScareTheDog Yip! Yip! Yip!]] <<|TroperTales|>>

ScarsAreForever * This Troper's skin is always covered with little, temporary scars, but she has three that are Forever - first on her thigh, shaped like a star, which she made at the age of 11 with her own nail. She has no idea why would she do that. Second is on the left palm, near the thumb, where she was curious about how deep a little, clearly visible vein was. It was deeper than she expected, but she still decided to go on cutting until she reached it. The third scar is on her chin, from a childhood accident, when she stabbed herself with a dull, plastic knife from a toy kitchen set. She knows it from her parents, for she was too young too remember and still has some difficulties believing it. * This troper has her share of odd scars, most notably a splotchy one on her knee and a crisscross thing on her hand, (from a cat) but is fascinated by a scar belonging to her father. It's on the back of his head, and hair won't grow there; he got it from a bit of metal when he was really young, but it's still very visible. * This troper accidentally scraped a diagonally line in her forehead when she was six (she fell and her glasses pushed so hard that the metal of the nose piece broke the skin on her forehead). She's never been teased about it cause it's rather hard to see, but one friend did take a picture of my forehead and sent it to her Harry Potter loving friend. I should have learned my lesson, the only reason I still have this thing after 8 years is because I was always picking the scab too soon. I still pick my scabs, probably the reason this other scar from a cat scratch never went away. The lesson to be learned? Don't pick scabs before they heal. * [[Tropers/FuzzyBoots I]] have a number of scars on my body that I've kept since childhood ranging from a long ropey one on my thumb from a ceramic lampshade suddenly breaking from the ceiling and slashing open my thumb to a long line where my sister decided to open up the side of my arm with her fingernails in a fit of pique to more picayune ones like the various mosquito bite scars. Some of it's because I tended to

pick a lot at wounds as a kid (well, and the thumb one was sewn up by our family doctor who later admitted he had no experience with how to put in stitches) and some of it's because the scars really mean something to me, about where I've been and where I've come from. * I have numerous scars (mostly on my hands) from various incidents in my past. I have a jagged one on the back of my left hand at the base of my thumb where a heat gun burned me when I was 7. I have a bulbous on on the back of my left hand from a piece of sheet metal. I also have a scar on the left side of my face (my left side is a magnet for injuries) from something when I was a baby. * The mosquito bites that I kept picking at when they scabbed over has left a few dots on my skin that haven't gone away even though it's been like ten years. * This troper has a scar on the underside of her left forearm, right above the elbow. It happened when she cut herself with scissors, intentionally. Her mom wants her to get it removed, but she refuses, as it reminds her not to cut again. She also makes no real attempt to hide it, and if people notice it, she tells them the truth about it, because she's tired of the stigma around self-harming. * Funnily enough, averted on this troper. Most of the scars I've ever gotten are nigh indistinguishable from the rest of my skin. * This troper has a three-inch scar running from the base of his thumb to his wrist bone. It's noticeable enough that he's frequently asked if he had carpal tunnel surgery. He got the scar while playing a board game. * This troper has a short scar on her forehead from where she cracked her head open falling down some stairs at a young age. It's nearly invisible these days, but is still there. * [[Tropers/{{Animenutcase}} This troper]] had a rather... [[{{Understatement}} unfortunate]] encounter with a cocker spaniel when she was four. Nearly sixteen years later, the scar is still there. I've had a couple operations to move it and make it less visible, but you can still see it. It's been awhile since anyone's asked me how I got it, and my mother claims that she doesn't even notice it. I'm the one who notices it the most, but then, it's on ''my'' face. It doesn't bother me as much now, but when I was little (and the scar was still relatively fresh)? It gave me some... selfesteem issues. * This troper scratched several (maybe 6) scars into his back, i hate ring worm. * This troper has loads of scars, thanks to his crappy luck, but two most visible ones are horizontal scar on the forehead he got when his brother tripped him towards our TV when we played as kids, and thanks to this tropers hairstyle it is in plain view and highly visible even after 12 years. Another scar (well two in fact) he got when hes friend had just gotten himself a new (Really Big) dog. Naturally this idiot troper went to stroke it and instantly got bitten for it. Penetrated all the way to muscle and left two quite large scars on his arm. * This troper has a burn scar on my left hand from accidently pouring boiling water on it when I was 5. However it just looks like a reddish mark. * Besides the usual "picked at her wounds when she was a kid" scars,

this troper still has her appendectomy scar, and one nearly invisible one by her eye where one of her family's past dogs bit her when she was little. * This troper was born when they were phasing out smallpox vaccination. My mother remembered that my older sister had been vaccinated, and my younger had, but not about me. Then one day I realized I had a scar on my arm and pointed it out -- yup, a smallpox vaccination scar. * Okay, all the usual bumps and scrapes for this troper, including a big old gash in his calf from breaking into a house (it was my house...[[NoodleIncident long story]].) But the true 'forever' scar? A slash across my cheek, caused by my too-long fingernails at ''less than a day old''. * When this troper was born, the bones in her feet weren't aligned correctly, so she had to have surgery done on them. There is still a very long obvious scar all along her foot from it that raises lots of questions whenever she goes barefoot or wears sandals. * A broken glass sliced off two spots of skin of the back of Edgy's right hand. Meh. * This troper fell down hard on the floor when he was five, opened up his chin, refused to get stitches, and thus he was left with a scar. He has another scar on his leg from an operation, another on his back from another operation, and a scar on his wrist from an injury he received as a baby. * This Troper has two scars. Both are on her left knee. One is a small, deep one that was caused by the incident which made her forever averse to riding bikes (specifically, the time she got gashed in the knee by the crank). The other is from a nasty fall that she took (she was running on an incline to catch a bus, lost her balance, fell, and ''slid''; she also injured her right knee, palm and elbow, but those did not leave scars) which led to her diagnosis with vasovagal syncope (basically, if she is in pain or suffers blood loss, her heart rate and blood pressure both go down and she faints). * When This Troper was really young, she had a lymphatic cyst on her right leg, just above the knee. It wasn't cancerous or anything, and I didn't NEED to have it removed...but it was a very obvious, hairy (eeewww) and it kept getting warts on it which, being the hyper little kid I was, I kept knocking them into things, which [[{{Squick}} caused the warts to burst and bleed,]] scaring the crap out of me. I had it removed just before my fourth birthday, and I still have the surgery scar to prove it - it's huge, and it spans about 75% of the width of my leg. * This troper has had acne since the age of 9. It's improved greatly since I turned 18, but my face is still scarred even at 19. It's to the point where nobody can tell if my cheeks are permanently red because of the scars or because of rosacea. I also have a scar on my right knee from falling off a scooter at age 11. It's sort of the same color as the rest of my skin, but still fairly noticeable. And yes, the injury was infected, probably why the scar is still there. * When this troper was a couple weeks old, while his mom was cleaning the house he examined a broken piece of glass too closely and cut under his eye. At 20, it is still clearly visible and the dive can be

felt easily. Additionally a cyst this troper had when about 10 was removed and the scar from its removal can still be seen if people get the chance to look. ----

ScaryShinyGlasses * [[{{Magus}} This troper]] wears glasses and does the pushing-up motion with them occasionally. He's sometimes been able to pull of the shine effect, though usually unintentionally. * This Troper once looked into a large mirror and found that the lighting was giving him a ScaryShinyGlasses effect. It happened while visiting the Tower of London. * I had the idea of creating items that could pull of effects you'd find in animation, this being the first thing I wanted to do. It was just an idea though, I don't really think I'd actually be able to make this stuff. * GentlemensDame883 has friends who deliberately use it for the cool/creepy edge it confers. * This troper was pulling off a senior prank (cup flood) and decided to wears gas mask to the prank for some reason. The other seniors freaked out when they didn't recognize me. I was dressed in all black and the first person noticed me because the lens for the eyes reflected the lighting. I was told several times throughout the night that the refection on the lenses was really creeping everyone out. * [[{{Nomic}} This troper]] managed to unintentionslly creep his brother out with ScaryShinyGlasses once. He was sitting in his room, when he brother entered and upon turning towards him the light from the table lamp reflected off his glasses, making them appear all shiny. The effect was further enchanced by the fact that it aws rather late and the room was mostly dark, with the table lamp as the only light source. * Me in a movie theater. O.O * This troper unintentionally pulled this off at a halloween party; my costume included a fidora and when we were watching a movie my face was entirely in shadow except for the reflection of the screen off my glasses. * This troper has a friend. He is combination of ScaryShinyGlasses and CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass. The lecturer once gave a question (about binary number). While I and otther friends just about to count, he had answered it, CORRECTLY. And he was doing this effect while answering. * [[{{GeneralKrad}} This troper]] has unintentionally invoked this trope, on numerous occasions: ** 1) I was in hihghschool. We were taking a break from out usual lesson for the teacher to ask us, the students, what we wanted to do when we grew up. When they came to me, my glasses shined as I gave my answer, which creeped the class out more than the answer did in itself. ** 2) My school's anime club of all places. We were watching Neon Genesis Evangelion when this happened: the student at the project said he didn't understand why the others thought the show was nightmare fuel and said nothing scared him...I tapped his shoulder to say

"really now" and when he looked he freaked out and alter said I looked like Alucard from Hellsing when I taped his shoulder. And this all happened when Gendo's glasses shined too... ** 3) My girlfriend and I were at one of her friends' home when the light went out (but not the tv). Her friend looked at me to ask me to check the light switch, when she screamed. My glasses had been shining thanks to the tv's light. * In my school's marching band, we have this one senior guy who plays the flute. He's generally a nice and amiable guy, but God forbid if he catches you [[BerserkButton endangering a flute]], like those two girls who were tossing their flutes around like the auxiliaries. He told them from behind, "Are you [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] INSANE?!" And they turned around just in time to see this SlasherSmile and a glint off his glasses. He's like the only one I know who can scare you at will even with [[HandicappedBadass a bum knee]]. * [[{{Tropers/NotATerrorist}} This troper]] has done it occasionally. * [[Tropers/KamuiValentine This troper]] recently bought a pair of pink sunglasses that invoke this surprisingly well in her French Revolution role playing class. Since she's TheStrategist and TheManBehindTheMan it's worked quite well when she wants to look threatening while retaining the look innocence. * A similar effect was achieved when a projector's light shone directly onto this Troper's face during an English story-telling session. Helps that this Troper was telling a ghost story. ---Go back to * sha-keen* ScaryShinyGlasses. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SceneryPorn Have a beautiful scenery around place where you live, or visited personally? Share with us! ---* There are some corner's of my high school which can be really good SceneryPorn. Too bad I don't own a decent camera... * I think everywhere is/has the potential to be scenery porn. I live on the coast of Cornwall, England, and it's one of the most beautiful places I've been. [[http://i55.tinypic.com/2rhodwp.jpg Here]] and [[http://i52.tinypic.com/v3lzkg.jpg here]] are pictures of the beach I live near. * [[TheOtherRainforest Washington]] [[http://wsrporg.homestead.com/somewhere-in-washington-state-11_3.jpg State]]. [[http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/56860/washington.jpg That]] [[http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2141/1681492274_870bea06cf_o.jpg is]] [[http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles38361.jpg all]]. Even the ''[[http://www.glogster.com/media/2/3/79/18/3791858.jpg cities]]''. This troper and her friend grew up there. That friend eventually decided that she wanted to become a photographer. Pictures like the ones this troper just linked to were probably the reason for that. They're the reason this troper wants to be there instead of ''[[OnlyinFlorida here]]''.

** [[{{Tropers/Allronix}} This Troper]] lives in Seattle and totally agrees. Ten years in the city, and I keep finding new reasons to smile. Sure, we get nine months of gray weather, but when the blue sky shows up, you're grateful for it. Heck, after a while, you're grateful for the clouds and rain, too... ** Oh my god, [[Tropers/DRoy I]] want to study abroad there and that just gives me another reason! * @/DesertDragon: When I finally moved out on my own, I wanted someplace with a strong IT field but still a day's drive from my family in {{Cleveland}}. My best bets were {{Chicago}}, Columbus, or {{Pittsburgh}}. Against my better judgement, I chose Pittsburgh because it was the closest and I had a friend to room with. I spent my first couple days in town wondering if I made the right choice (Columbus has a much healthier gay scene, and Chicago is ''Chicago''), then one day I went sight-seeing and rode the Duquesne Incline up Mt. Washington. The view from the top was absolutely breathtaking. Every doubt I had about living in Pittsburgh went away then, since it made me realize that it doesn't have to be Chicago; it has its own identity. And it doesn't need a strong gay scene; I can make my scene wherever I go and find a guy willing to go along for the ride. I've loved it here ever since. * This Floridian Troper will always remember stepping outside of my house into the nearly pitch-black night after Hurricane Ivan blew through, looking up, and seeing the Milky Way firsthand, framed by the trees that were still standing, and then just standing there in awe. Another time, This troper had to drive to South Carolina to pick up a relative, which involved driving through the southern parts of the Appalachian Mountains. It should be noted that this troper has always had a significant fear of heights. Even so, this troper eventually got over his fear long enough to make it to the top of one of the mountains, walk to a balcony hanging over a very long drop, and just take in the numerous mountains and valleys. * The Oregon Coast, all the way. I couldn't stop taking pictures when I visited over spring break, and now my phone has a gratuitous overload of pictures of pretty trees, the ocean, more trees, and mountains, plus some more trees and a little bit more of the ocean. * This editor lives in the Northeastern part of North Carolina (close to the Virginia border), and it is chock-full of SceneryPorn. My personal favorite is Pilot Mountain, but there's also Hanging Rock, Sauratown Mountain (even though it's not a tourist destination by any means - being dedicated to a broadcasting center and some homes - it's absolutely amazing. The huge TV towers at night...), Grandfather Mountain... and that's not even getting into the Blue Ridge mountains. The Appalachians may not be as iconic or towering as the Rockies or Alps, but that doesn't mean they aren't incredibly beautiful. ** To go into detail about Pilot Mountain, it's absolutely essential to actually go up to the park (which is free), where you can go to several easily accessible observation points (although there are hiking trails for more adventurous visitors). One of these is the highest accessible point on the mountain, and it is ''amazing'' especially on a clear day. You can see not only the mountain's Big Pinnacle in front of you, but also the entire Blue Ridge range,

Sauratown Mountain and Hanging Rock (and I'm sure I saw Grandfather Mountain up there), and if it's clear enough, even NC's cities like Winston-Salem, Greensboro and Charlotte. The first time I went up there on a really clear day, it was so amazing and beautiful that it nearly drew ManlyTears.

SchmuckBait * Look what I built. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buttonbaitRS.jpg A big red button.]] I will soon have something interesting hooked up to it. What, I don't know. ** Is it sad that, even though I knew it was a picture, I clicked on it several times? ** I suggest you ''don't'' hook anything up to it, except maybe a counter of some sorts to see how many people actually do press it :D ** I second the counter idea. Make it into a sign that reads "(counter) schmucks have taken the bait." ** That sounds like an awesome idea. I should've done that for my science experiment. ** Include a camera with the flash turned off. ** Because nobody can resist pushing that "Big, red threatening button that should never ''ever'' be pushed under any circumstances"!! * [[Tropers/CabbitGirlEmi I]] may appear skinny standing up, but when I squat, I have rolls. My moment of Schmuck Bait would have to be the New Body Shaper. My mom says no. ... Sure, we have the exercise bike and Ab Scissor, but I tire out after 4 minutes and 59 seconds... T_T * This troper used to always want to click on the "Fart button" ad she always saw, but resisted temptation due to [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]]. She maybe only clicked it ''once'' and then immediatedly closed the ad that popped up afterwards. ** [[http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Fart+Button/ Good thing you didn't.]] ** Okay, tell the truth. Is that previous poster's link Shmuck Bait or not? I'm scared to click on it. *** It is not. Pleased to be of service. ** What ''was'' the ad that popped up? *** Dunno. Closed it too fast. * I used to live in a house. In the kitchen, at the top of the stairs above the entrance to the basement, were two switches, on the left was the light switch for the basement, on the right was, that also looked exactly like a light switch, with an almost unreadable brown plate that read "Furnace emergency cut off" which turned off the furnace/air conditioner. Invariably, you can guess every time some visitor came to check the gas meter, or examine something in the basement, which of these got thrown when they went downstairs. I got sick of it, I went over to a hardware store, and for three dollars (vs. the 9c that a switch plate costs or the 49c a light switch assembly costs) I bought a plastic switch that, instead of being a light switch, looks like a shut-off switch, it has a "rod" type throw on it, and does the exact same thing, but it doesn't look like a light switch, it looks like a cut-off switch on an electrical device. I also painted the plate

bright red. So now, when you were at the top of the stairs, you saw a light switch, and a bright red throw switch, and you can guess which one people flipped when they wanted to turn the light on. For the ''next three years'' we lived there, no one ever threw that furnace shut-off switch by mistake again, not a single time. ** Isn't that ANTI-schmuck-bait? The original design was schmuck bait, or at least error bait due to terrible design (it was where you expected the light switch to be. It looks like a light switch. It's poorly labeled so unless you knew to look, you'd think it was just a bank of two light switches. There's very little there that screams "DON'T THROW THIS SWITCH"), and you fixed it. No, schmuck bait would be if every visitor kept throwing your new switch "just to see what it did". *** "no one ever threw that furnace shut-off switch ''by mistake'' again, not a single time." I'm sure somebody threw the switch ''on purpose'' just to see what it did. * This troper once saw several quarters lying on the sidewalk. She looked at them, inwardly rejoiced at her good luck, bent down to pick them up... And discovered that they were glued down. After cursing the foul prankster capable of pulling such a cruel trick, she made a mental note to remember that one for later. ** This troper wonders if the above troper was victim to one of her friends; he first superglued a loonie (the Canadian dollar coin) to the floor in a stairwell with high traffic flow at school and drew a circle around it saying "Free dollar" and took the occasional picture of morons trying to pick it up. Later, he superglued a quarter to the table all his friends were sitting at in the cafeteria. Despite knowing it was glued on, several people still tried to get it off. The loonie did eventually disappear ''somehow''. After this troper mentioned it to her father, he said that it would be funnier to glue a quarter or loonie into the change slot of the vending machines. This troper awaits April Fool's Day. ** This troper had a Chemistry teacher who loved to do that. That is, until some desperate and/or clever bugger managed to unstick the coin and took it. ** This troper fell victim to that exact same trick--except he had just bought a scraper... ** It sounds like you'd still be able to get the qaurters. ** This troper has an (almost) solution to that one. Simply poke it with your toe. If it moves, great! you just got monies! If not, then walk on. This troper has been saved from several instances of the stuck coin trick using that technique. * About a year an a half ago, this troper was actually subject to (and fell for) the old dollar bill fishing trick. Responded with hearty laughter and congratulations to the kids for pulling off such a classic prank. * This troper works as a software engineer in a building of software engineers, who are notorious for our play at work. Our new defribulator looks just like a toy. A bright, shiny, plastic toy. Worse, the alarm on the case is broken and it says "For Emergency Use Only." Already a few people have taken it out to play with it. This troper gives it a week before someone electrocutes themself.

* You know those dashboard stickers in the {{xkcd}} store? With labels such as "Chaos," "Order," "Transform," and "Eject"? This troper stuck "Self-Destruct" under the emergency light-button in his car. Many passengers have pressed it and were disappointed. * Send me 1000 and I'll give you the copious contents of a Nigerian bank account. Yeah right. ** What's your address? I'm interested in the contents of this bank account! * The best conversation starter in my friends' dorm room is a disconnected intercom button with 'Don't Press' written underneath. Everybody pushes it. ** Well then what you have to do is get in there and wire that button to something that makes a hell of a lot of noise--but noise directed right where the button pusher would be standing. ** Similarly, This editor had a doorbell hooked up to his bedroom door, with "DO NOT PUSH" written under it (mainly because the noise was horrible). It got used quite a bit. * This happened (Accidentally) At my High school's drumline. They were coming back from a regional tournament. The co-coach screams out. "Don't look out the left window!" Everyone looks, Everyone Screams. As my friend said "Here is motorcycle guy. Here is motorcycle guy's face." The guy got Decapitated with his face sticking out of his helmet. ** On the same note, this troper was out one summer day in Florida with his uncle riding up the St. John's River in Jacksonville. Said uncle pulls the boat over to see something in the water. Suddenly, he starts yelling "Don't look over there! Get to the other side of the boat!" Of course, I looked immediately... so THAT'S where that man reported missing on the news last seen headed toward a bridge ended up... ** On a less, err, morbid note, this troper always seems to look when told not too. Cue her screaming (jokingly) when she finds out she's been dragged into the Bob the Builder aisle at Walmart... * This troper and her father theorize very strongly that the last thing anyone in this world will ever hear is [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo 'Ooh, I wonder what this button does...]]' Unfortunately, her brother doesn't believe humans are that stupid. ** I think that's from/also from a book... Might've been ''Thief of Time'' by Terry Pratchett... ** Try to remind them that there are still lots of shows that feature videos of people doing stupid things. Judging by how long these shows have been around, and the fact that they seem to be getting more and more new footage, I'd have to agree with you on that one. Humans are indeed that stupid. *** I do believe it is. From memory: 'If you made a device which would blow up the world, set off by a bright red button, surrounded by warning signs in various languages saying "End of the World button. Warning. Do not push." you wouldn't have time for the paint to dry. * This troper's friend has three switches in their living room. One turns on the fan. One turns on the lights. One...does something. Probably in Russia. Nobody knows... ** We have a couple of those. They ''probably'' have something to do

with the previous owner of the house, who (or so I'm told) was on dialysis. These days, they do nothing. ...As far as we can tell. ** I had one of those in my house. The switch was there, wires were connected to it, but it didn't seem to do anything. Over a year later I found that it was wired to half of an outlet (the top plug is always on and the bottom one is controlled by the switch) and I had never plugged anything into that half * During one D&D session with my uncle, my dad, and a guy he worked with, we were investigating an underground building. In one of the first rooms, there was a very obvious trap: A rope hanging down from the ceiling, with a loop tied at the end, laying on the floor, and written in chalk inside the loop is simply the phrase "put fut heer." My uncle's character effortlessly stepped over the loop... and promptly fell into the concealed pit on the other side. I COULD NOT BELEIVE IT. I actually asked him, "have you EVER watched a cartoon in your LIFE?" ** In one of my first D&D sessions, the DM introduced a ''modified'' Deck of Many Things. Which was left there (with a note, even, saying it was his!) by one of the [[BigBad Big Bads]] of the game. Of course, this note encouraged us to play with the deck, but considering that it also said that we'd just killed an innocent man for nothing (which we had; the BigBad was trying to take down his Nemesis by using us as proxies, and had sent us in to...well, you know, by setting it up to make it look like the guy was actually trying to destroy the whole city), and the fact that the note quite openly said that it was a Deck of Many Things, you'd think people would be more careful about using it. In fairness, ''most'' of the players were. Except for two of us. I was playing a RebelliousPrincess who was also bordering on TooDumbToLive outside of combat, drew half the deck, and lucked out by getting nothing worse than one of my allies betraying me within the next seven days (which I promptly negated with one of the two wishes I'd also gotten). The other player, though? She drew ''the whole damn deck''. No, seriously. And then she bitched at the DM when her character's soul got pulled to a prison dimension... ** This troper's DM once created a trap (for a different party) consisting of a pillar with two buttons on it-- one undepressed and the other depressed. A party member pressed the first button, which undepressed the second button and caused spikes to shoot up from the floor directly underneath him. He got out a ten-foot pole and used it to press the other button, which undepressed the first button and caused spikes to shoot up from the floor directly underneath him, ten feet from the buttons. ** This troper ran an RPG (d20 Modern, with plenty of house rules) battle where internet memes were becoming reality (and very hostile). Amidst the confusion, there was a simple calculator left strewn on the battlefield; no explanation was offered, and die rolls for hints yielded nothing of interest. One player, seeing memes made life all around, decided to try to {{Divide By Zero}}. The battle ended immediately with the annihilation of the world. (They Got Better. The world didn't.) *** This was the outcome the GM ''expected'' from this party, mind you.

* My Journalism final happened to be on Anonymous (it was both easier and harder than I expected). When I got to explaining the range of pranks this Internet superhero performs, I included the following line in the appendix (verbatim): ** To experience being {{Rickroll}}ed, please go to the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYrQFyL8zFQ ** Not only did my teacher fall for it, so did four students who read it out of interest. * This troper's father once worked, many years ago, in a government building in Ottawa that happened to contain a project of interest to CSIS. (The rest of the building housed fairly mundane science research programs.) The offices to the project were behind a door that was completely unremarkable and of absolutely no interest to anyone, but the law required that a sign be posted informing all and sundry that access was restricted to authorised personnel, CLASSIFIED!!, etc. It was a running joke among the staff, since you might as well put up a big red arrow pointing to the only sensitive data in the entire building. ** Wouldn't you be able to fix that by labeling a few empty broom closets with the same thing? * I used to do some painting, and the only place I can really do that is my room. Due to my room being such a huge mess all the time, I could not rinse my brush with an open water source, as it would be likely to spill, so I used a water bottle instead. My friends and family have the tendency to come into my room and eat my food, so I felt it would be appropriate to put a warning label on the bottle, reading "CONTAMINATED: DO NOT DRINK." My genre-savvy parents then proceeded to tell me that the water bottle was probably more dangerous with the label than without. * [[KimikoMuffin This editor]] once posted a link to TVTropes on a message board, along with "Warning, link leads to TVTropes. Muffin is not responsible for hours of time lost as a result of following it." The next morning, I saw a reply: "Damn you! I was supposed to go to bed three hours ago!" ** This Troper's standard warning when handing out a link to TVTropes is "Don't click on this if you plan on getting any work done this week." ** At least you give people warning. ** "OH NO NOT TVTROPES! NOW I DON'T GET TO SLEEP TONIGHT!" ** This Troper is still stuck from his first time ever, sometimes he manages to whittle things down to a decent 70 pages, but right now he's on 321 tabs. Curse you TV tropes! ** This troper can't resist TVTropes links, even though he knows he's guaranteed at least twenty-four hours of inability to escape. He's taken to calling it "The Black Hole Of The Internet" and similar names. At least one major university assignment has been handed in late because of his failure to account for the sheer Unintended Procrastination Magnitude invoked by this site. ** Not to mention several tropers' habits of reading NightmareFuel and similar pages late at night. *** This troper does the same, except she also has a horrible tendency to click the links offered in that section. "Hm, a Tails doll? Well,

it can't be THAT bad, how scary can a doll be-OHMYFREAKINGGOD!" ** This troper has been chastized in the past for posting links to this site, and was told that the person complaining couldn't help but click on TVTropes links when they saw them posted (and then blow 4-5 hours on the site). This troper responded by posting twice as many links. *** Now I'm going to link TVTropes in my signatures on all of the 20something sites I'm a member of(and never seem to get around to posting/being active on.) ** This troper would like to ask if posting links to this site on 4chan constitutes {{Troll}}ing. ** This troper once managed to get out of tv tropes. But life on the outside is boring... ** This happens with this troper pretty much every day. I always plan to go to the bed around 1:00 AM... then, something around the midnight, if I happen to think "wow, what TV Tropes has on [insert random subject that just crossed my mind]?" then it's guaranteed that I won't be sleeping before 3:00 AM. ** This tropette is prone to this. Goddammn interesting site which makes sense of LIFE! * This Tropette has a ADD-like condition that severely inhibits her sense of smell. She's been able to get people to smell things from vinegar to dog poo to rotten fruit, simply by sniffing it first. She spends lots of time wondering when people will finally figure out she literally ''has no sense of smell.'' ** So... Do you consider yourself BlessedWithSuck or CursedWithAwesome? * One of the more recent "trending topics" (basically, a phrase that appears in lots of messages) on Twitter is the phrase "'''Do Not Click'''". Naturally, it's a big ol' link on the Twitter page. ''Thousands'' of people have clicked this link and commented on the inherent silliness. [[JohnZ Your Faithful Comrade-In-Tropes]] was not immune to the jolly, candy-like paradox. The link itself is benign; it shows a search of all of the tweets that contain the phrase, which ''got'' to be a trending topic when a Facebook scam was being revealed. * SchmuckBait was quite abused by this troper. There was an evil altar in a D&D campaign, which (when activated) summoned a Clay Golem. This troper (and his friends) got in a few lucky rolls and handed the thing its ass. This troper activated it again. WhatAnIdiot, right? Cue clay golem, cue asskicking by players, cue evil grin. This troper activates it a third time. This time it's more difficult, and the GM says to me "You're not getting anything other than clay golems, you twit!" My response: "Golems equal experience points." The fourth time I activated it, the GM said "You hear, somewhere, the roar of a Red Dragon." ** This troper can do one better: her D&D campaign involved two very powerful beings (a reformed Mindflayer and a fallen Word Archon, both powerful sorcerers among other things) who ''despised'' each other. The Word Archon, being more than a little crazy, set up a scenario purely to amuse himself: he teleported the party (in their sleep) to the city that the Mindflayer ruled (long story) - only for the party

to find that it had been abandoned overnight. We're told (by the bad guy himself) that the Word Archon has set one of his mooks loose with a scroll of "unimaginable power" that will destroy the city if we don't stop it from being read - oh, and if we succeed, we're promised powerful artifacts. Naturally, we go after the guy. We succeed in stopping the scroll from being read...only, it turns out, there was no scroll. And that mook we just killed? [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Just an innocent bystander, essentially.]] The artifacts are real, though! To be fair, the GM warned us before we started, that one of the artifacts would be a souped-up Deck of Many Things. To quote him, "I know a thousand fates worse than death. This deck now contains ten." Drawing from it, he assured us, was ''purely optional''. Naturally, the whole party drew from it. My character, being especially naieve and being one of the first ones to go, drew half the deck; even I was surprised that nothing especially bad happened to her. The last character to go? Drew the whole damn deck. And then threw a hissy fit when, third card in, she drew the Void (promptly killing her character permanently). The rest of us wondered aloud what exactly she'd ''expected'' to happen, if she did that, especially since this came well after the GM also informed us that he was shuffling the deck after each roll - so you had ''no'' guarantee that your next roll wouldn't give you an incredibly bad card. * {{Jonn}} once found a post asking for recs on LetsPlay[=s=]. He posted the [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Animal%20Crossing/index.html Animal Crossing]] one, with a note warning people not to read it late at night. He got several responses, one at 2:30AM saying "Dear gods, why didn't I listen?" ** ''WHYYYY''?? I can never play Animal Crossing at night again. ''N''o''t'' ''f''o''r'' ''e''a''s''i''l''y'' ''s''q''u''i''c''k''e''d'' ''t''r''o''p''e''r''s''. * A lot of links on this page can be considered SchmuckBait for the naturally curious, especially on the NightmareFuel pages and those reading in the middle of the night. Here's a tip: read what other tropers say about the link in question '''before''' clicking on it. Trust me. ** [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/RealLife High Octane Nightmare Fuel/Real Life]]. You have been warned. * This troper gets nightmares and sleepless nights if consuming caffeine six hours before attempting to sleep. Unfortunately said troper has a tendency to go for walks prior to going to bed, walks which bring him past several convenience stores which sell caffeinelaced fizzy drinks... guess what happens. * This troper finds "Please do not touch" signs plastered all over museums to be irresistible - especially in a place like the Redpath Museum in Montreal, where there are many "Do not touch" signs in front of the taxidermied animals, but pretty much no staff people to yell at me. I'm not so much curious as I am tempted to touch the exhibits on principle - although, being genre savvy (or perhaps wrong genre savvy), I can just imagine the stuffed wolves or lions hunted in the 19th century coming to life and biting my head off for disobeying the signs. That prospect can add some spice to a school day.

* This troper recalls in fifth grade, when we had to make flip charts as part of a science project, and the teacher said our charts should be "...fun. Make it so passersby want to play with it." One boy proceeded to write "DANGER: DO NOT FLIP!!!" on all his flaps. Everyone wanted to open the flaps and was then enlightened. * This Troper's ROTC Commander had a "Do not push" button in his office, complete with wiring coming out of it. Many days I worked in the office and managed to avoid it, but eventually curiosity wins out. Cue loud noises and the ejection of a tiny piece of candy... * Role Playing session. The game was Ammo, a pastique of anything that qualifies as Manga; our group was a team of demon hunters, with mine character being an half-demon wizard and scientist. The GM almost weeped out our party with a flying witch using a crystal sphere that, when touched, summoned a demon. After the third demon in a row, one player landed a anti-matter missile on the witch. ''Somehow'', the crystal sphere survived the contained globe of destruction, and landed near my character. The following dialogue started: -->(me) It's magic? -->(GM) What else? -->(me) I prefer to be sure. I cast a detection spell. It's magic. -->(GM) Yes, ''a lot''. Possibly an artifact. -->(me) It's evil? -->(GM) How do you know? -->(me) Magician training (it a very old invention of the GM to justify a NPC action, and I learned it from him). If it's evil, I can sense it. -->(GM) Do you touch it? -->(me) NO I DON'T TOUCH IT. It's ranged, do you remember? -->(GM, dismissive) Fine, it's evil. Quite a lot evil, actually. -->(me) So it's sentient, too. Is it demonic in nature? -->(GM, smugly) You can't know. -->(me) I can. I use my Demonic Sight. If it's so strong, there is no way I can't sense it. -->(GM) Oh well, it's demonic. Actually, it's probably a demon bid in the form of a sphere. -->(me) Ok, I touch it. -->(GM, echoed by the only other player paying attention) What? -->(me) I know, I know... but what if a demon ''does not'' jump out? I have to know! -->(GM) A demon jumps out. -->(me) (whispering) Fuck. (Normal tone) Hopes you guy had the time to heal, seems a demon found us! * [[MikeRosoft This troper]] has fallen victim to a meta-schmuck-bait. When I read about the lose/lose "game" (the one where for each alien you destroy, a file from your disk gets deleted; and when your ship is destroyed, the application deletes itself), I went to its page with an intention of being a smartass and playing the game without destroying the aliens. I clicked on what looked like the game - and the spaceship started moving and ''shooting'' by itself, at high speed (so fast that that I'd have no chance to actually control the ship even if the it were possible). I immediately panicked, closed the browser window, and went to look for a way to restore the deleted files (I even posted a

warning about the game at the main SchmuckBait page) ... before realizing that what I was seeing wasn't the actual "game" (which would have had to be actually downloaded to the computer - and moreover, it only works on Mac), but rather just a video. ''Hopefully''. * I once had a (very important!) math test question that went like this: ''Juliet's heart beats this many times per minute. Every time she sees Romeo, her heart speeds up by this much. How many times does her heart beat if she's with him for this long?'' These were the given answers: A) this many times B) this many times C) This many times D) '''she dies of a heart attack'''. I wasted five minutes trying to resist the urge to put down D). * Another classic D&D example. This troper was playing a NeverwinterNights module a few years ago with a bunch of completely random people. The area we were in was basically a dungeon maze. Eventually, we stumbled upon a lone lever siting in the middle of a room wit no apparent function. Another party member pulled it... and got gored by a spike trap, hurting but not killing him. Assuming the trap was spent, he pulled it again. And got gored again. For the next five minutes, the party wound up trying to find a way to pull the lever without getting stabbed, and failing both miserably and very painfully. I suggested that maybe the lever's sole purpose was to hurt whoever carelessly touched it, leading the DM to sigh and wonder aloud why only low level characters ever seemed to have brains... (I was level 5 to the rest of the party's 16-18, at the time.) * This Troper always links to cute images. It's a thing he is known for. However, in MSN chats This Troper is also known for linking random images that will leave you scarred. Be it Yaoi, Rule 34 of Blobfish, or images from a Junji Ito manga, people curse his name to this very day. * This Troper was reading the Encyclopedia Dramatica page and came upon the entry saying that searching for "Kittens" on there was a [[NightmareFuel terrible]] [[{{Squick}} idea]]. I don't think I need to tell you what I immediately proceeded to do. ** [[{{Remaix}} This Troper]] has so far resisted the temptation to do this. She did, however, tell one of her friends in a chat that it would be bad. Said friend went quiet for a few minutes, while me and another friend were talking. After about five minutes, she returned, only exclaiming "[[{{Squick}} GROSS]]!" * This troper once saw a giant red button graffitied onto a wall. Underneath was "Don't press this button. You'll get paint on your hands." Guess what I did. * I work at a food pantry as does a friend of mine. Out of sheer spite, I wrote a note one day where I basically admitted in the first sentence that the note was wasting her time and the rest of the note was me gloating. I wrote the note with this trope in knowing full well that she would read the entire note even though it was written with the sole purpose of wasting 30-45 seconds of her life. And sure enough, what did she do? She read the whole thing even though the note told her it was meant to waste her time in the hopes that the note would have a point in it somewhere. It didn't. I'm one evil bastard. * This troper has a folder on her computer marked, "Avoid this folder if you value your sanity." She's waiting for someone to open it and

discover where she's stashed her yaoi. There's a similarly-named folder on her USB, but there's nothing of interest in there. Really. * I work as a retail salesperson, and once spoke with a customer who had a small blotch of mayo on his shirt. With a well-practiced grin, I pointed at him and said "You've got something on your shirt." He just grinned back, not taking the "bait", until I said, "I'm not even kidding, you spilled a bit there." * This troper is known for leaving his laptop unattended in school. While all the files and folders are locked, there's one file which isn't, and it's named "Copy of Encyclopedia Dramatica "Offended" page". He's gotten into trouble more than once when people realized that he wasn't lying. To all those who did open that file, hoping that it contained something juicy, like [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Yuki/Haruhi]] [[YuriFan yuri]], or a secret diary detailing this troper's secrets, "[[NeonGenesisEvangelion What are you, stupid?]]" * When this troper's uncle was a kid, he pressed a big red button that read do not push--and promptly shorted out the dentist's office. * [[MistaSmegheneghan This Troper]] once saw a fan page on Facebook that was based around The Lion King, and how an image in the group would ruin it FOREVER (not exactly how it was worded, but I'll get into that some other time). I later chatted to a friend who joined it, and told him that, no matter what he did, he SHOULDN'T put "yiff" and "The Lion King" into Google Image Search. Cue elongated text scream around ten minutes later, since he didn't know what yiff meant. * [[@/{{Psyga315}} This troper]] began to watch {{Felidae}} to see how far they can go with the gore... [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath They]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel went]] BeyondTheImpossible. I should have stopped around part four. Oh, and I learned Felidae from this very site... [[KamenRiderDecade ONORE]] [[MemeticMutation TEREBI TEROPESU!]] * Tropers/DesertDragon does tech support and briefly worked for a modem manufacturer. Packaged with the modem is a CD that is only used under specific circumstances, and using any other time will mess up your installation. The CD's envelope is marked in bold letters: '''DO NOT USE UNLESS INSTRUCTED BY A TECHNICIAN'''. And sure enough, a quarter of all calls for help would at some point include the phrase, "I used the CD and..." * [[{{Tropers/Joerc45}} This troper]] was very [[InnocenceVirginOnStupidity innocent of many sexual matters]] until he was about 15. A friend told me he was into fat [[FurryFandom furries,]] and I asked to demonstrate what that was. He showed him a link with pics of it. Needless to say, [[NauseaFuel I]] [[HeroicBSOD was]] [[BrainBleach mortified!]] In any case, I didn't judge him, and we stayed friends :) * [[{{Tropers/kittykela}} This troper]] in high school was talking with her friends in art class. The subject of hentai came up, and one of my friends didn't know what it was. Sarcastically, I told him to look it up on google images. He came in the next day traumatized. Whoops. * There's a pretty hilarious example of this in the Science Mueseum in London, in the form of a big, striped post with a sign by it saying something like 'IF YOU TOUCH THIS POLE, YOU WILL GET AN ELECTRIC

SHOCK. DO NOT TOUCH THIS POLE.'. There's tape on the floor and stuff telling people to keep this far away from it. Yet ''everyone'' touches it. It's just irresistable. An lo and behold, it gives you a small electric shock. The best part is it's located around the sociology sector. * I wonder how many people fall for clicking the link at the end of [[http://io9.com/5479423/behind-the-wiki-meet-tv-tropes-cofounderfast-eddie this article]]? * A punk club on SecondLife that this troper hangs out at has three mannequins -- a "bartender" and two "patrons" -- sitting at the bar, with a sign saying "Do not poke". The expected action causes the mannequins to explode in a KillBill-like shower of blood. * I was once fooled into thinking there was a 1-foot man in my cousin's basement closet. Laugh all you want but i was fucking young. * This Troper works at a grocery store where managers have to wear an alarm button in case of extreme emergency (like a robbery). Basically, if you press the button, you'll get an entire freaking army of police and SWAT outside the door. Guess what every new manager does at least once, even if only unconsciously. Oh, and did it mention that the store gets fined $3,000 for each false alarm? * At the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, there was one exhibit that took up a short hallway. On each side were a series of frames that read, "DO NOT TOUCH." At the end is a frame with a glass plate that read, "TOUCH." I touched it, and some old woman saw me doing it and decided to touch it too, when the security guard came and gently told her not to touch it. I overheard the conversation; he said that a lot of people get the temptation to touch it. * This troper found out at the cost of $49.44 that Amazon's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click 1-Click]] ordering service is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. ** Same for this troper...and it was late at night, suffice it to say, the rents weren't pleased.... * [[Tropers/EarthboundGod This troper's]] dad told her a story about a relative that [[InvokedTrope invoked this trope]]. My uncle, who was at a party, specifically told everyone that if he passed out from drinking too much to 'not pee in his glass'. He drank, he passed out, [[DeadpanSnarker someone peed in his glass]]. He woke up and the first thing he did was take a giant swig from said glass. Then, with a straight face, he said, 'Okay, who pissed in my glass?'. Judging from his reaction, this has [[WhatAnIdiot happened before]]. * On the lab where [[@/{{endlessness}} this troper]] works, there is a PC whose SOLE reason for existence is controlling a bunch of test equipment (signal generators, oscilloscopes, etc...). It is CLEARLY stated '''do not use this computer for browsing the internet!'''. Yet people DO use it for browsing the internet. They keep even insisting on installing games on that PC. Fortunately it was replaced by a machine which is now password-protected, and the password is changed periodically and not given to anybody other than the researchers which use that equipment. * This troper was once dumb enough to click on a link leading to a picture from "Lost Silver" and is now scarred for life. (For those of you who don't know, Lost Silver is a Pokmon creepypasta that will

[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel scare you shitless.]] You have been warned.) * I worked at a store selling super-bright wind-up LED flashlights. I used to charge it up, turn it on, and hand it to the customer, telling them not to look directly into it. Almost every time, they did. Often they ended up buying the thing. * I pursued Lu Bu. It ended badly ** The DynastyWarriors Lu Bu? [[FlatWhat What]]? * I've used Hotmail for many years. And on the principle of curiosity (and knowing the most likely of possibilities), I used the more masculine spelling of mail. And now I must laugh. * In any FPS, a time-honored classic is to drop a grenade upon dying. The poor schmuck who attempts to loot your fallen body... * FOAF story here. This family went through a drive through safari park. They were told by the keepers "If you see a rhino in your path, just wait for it to move. Do not honk your horn." While driving through the park, their path was blocked by a rhino. The driver took the schmuck bait and honked his horn. The rhino immediately turned and charged the car head on. * This Troper heard a few friends talking about a manga that they described as "creepy." Not thinking it could be that bad, I read it when I got home. At 11:00 pm. That manga was ''TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault''. * This Troper was told by his cousin "not to look to your left". He looked to his left. [[SubvertedTrope He didn't find anything out of the ordinary.]] Then he looked to his right. [[DoubleSubverted He saw his plus-sized aunt in a too-small bathing suit.]] * Yesterday, while walking back to the bus stop after meeting up with his girlfriend, [[Mikethefoxhog this Troper]] saw a slanted wall that had a sign affixed to it reading "WARNING: this wall has been treated with anti-climb paint". It took him every ounce of self-control he had not to climb it just to find out how this 'anti-climb paint' functioned. ---Ooh, look at [[SchmuckBait this]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HutsJufp0po link]]. I sure hope no one clicks it. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ScholarshipStudent * Subverted (an actual one, for once) for this troper. She attends a prestigious single-sex private high school and comes from a middleclass/lower-middle-class family, but isn't on scholarship (even though her English marks would most likely qualify her for one). Her parents just scraped together the money. Makes things kind of hard when her best friend comes from an incredibly rich family and always has heaps of spare cash... * This troper goes to a school full of upper-middle-class people/the bourgeoisie, and is only in there because of a scholarship and family support.

SchoolgirlLesbians * This troper and her best friend get mistaken for this all the time. Yes, we're tactile, yes, we're affectionate, and yes, we know it [[ShipTease drives the boys mad]]. Stop asking me if my boyfriend knows I'm "cheating" on him. * If reality is a TV show, I am freakin' ''certain'' the group of girls at my school who are suspiciously touchy-feely are the {{fanservice}}. (They are bisexual, but I don't think there's any meaning behind it.) ** [[{{MindScrew}} Reality is a TV show.]] ** This troper knew of a lesbian couple during his sophomore year in high school that would spend all of their time before school in the halls making out. *** To the rest of you, yeah, we know, gift horse. * This troper knew quite a few girls who thought "lesbian" meant "not afraid to kiss other girls". During his entire high school tenure, he only met one genuine lesbian (that is, until a boyfriend-of-a-friend's sister this troper went to school with showed up with ''her'' girlfriend, giving rise to an exclamation of "Didn't see that one coming". * Two of this troper's female friends sometimes pretend to be SchoolgirlLesbians just to mess with people. ** Stop being evil. ''Please!'' *** Seriously, what the fuck. You are giving the rest of us a bad name. ** Chill the fuck out, you two; the OP said that it was two friends, not the OP and a friend. ** Apparently. every time someone pulls a prank on others by pretending to be gay, it's homophobic. Nice job being rational. *** It makes it look like you think homosexuality is a joke. Nice job [[AppealToRidicule appealing to ridicule.]] **** Woah there, chill a bit and enjoy the joke. It's best not to assume that people are trying to offend you based purely on the fact that you're a lesbian. Don't get your panties in a bunch there. * There were two girls in the same highschool class as this troper who were really close (had been friends for years). They had a tendency to be quite... affectionate with each other, cuddling with each other or rubbing each other's legs in front of all the guys. A lot of it was probably done just to make guys feel uncomfortable. This troper's friends retaliated by going "lesbianslesbiansleasbians" whenever they did it infront of him. * This troper found out that a former classmate of his was bisexual when I met her lesbian girlfriend at a high school batch reunion. They were being touchy-feely when me and the lesbian friend went into a discussion about high-school issues (both our high schools were owned by the same person). Needless to say, the discussion trailed off... * As a teen, this (asexual) troper didn't know that asexuality existed and went through a period of thinking she was a lesbian. "Well, I'm not attracted to guys, so..." Yeah, it never worked out. ** Asexuality exists?

** So it would seem, just judging from this wiki alone. *** It can, but is quite rare. Either TvTropes gets a very odd selection of people visiting (''extremely'' heavy on the asexual portion of the population), or... [[IJustWantToBeSpecial Well...]] **** Well, they gotta do ''something'' with all that excess energy, right? ***** In answer to the above: This troper knows of one asexual (via the internet) who spends all that excess energy having lots and lots of hobbies. This supports my theory that sex/romance uses up ''way'' too much time. **** I always figured they just didn't want to admit they were single and lonely. **** Yes, most of them are. [[TheTallOne I'm]] not one of those. **** That's some pretty offensive thinking, especially since it doesn't have any real basis. I mean this is the internet, where one would feel safest telling the truth anyway. We have a lot of dressing troper tales where people spill all there saddest and humiliating moments, and in light of those, lying about being single just doesn't make much sense. Of course, there could be liers, but I'm inclined to believe people when I see no reason for them to lie. And to the above that said it was rare: rare in accordance to what, statistics? [[LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics I think we all know a thing or two about statistics]]. Hell I thought gays/bisexuals were rare until a few years ago(I only met like two in person, one was a flaming queen and the other turned out to actually be transgendered), but I certainly wouldn't question anyone who said they were now or then. Why single out asexuals as liers who just want attention? * This troper has three people in most of her classes (All female) who are like a mother and her kids. She will comfort them and hold them if they are cold or sad. It gets creepy at times... * This troper is the superego of a PowerTrio who met in an all-girl high school and have been friends since. During college, our id confessed that she had once had a crush on our ego (although she got over this after graduation). The three of us have also been mistaken as this one time or another (mainly because our id is a very affectionate person) and one time this troper and the ego were mistaken as this when the ego told a boy who was trying to ask her out that she was accompanying this troper to the beach for the weekend and he got the wrong idea. (It was this troper's birthday party and she was not the only one there). All of us are straight and this troper currently has a boyfriend. * This troper was probably the only really out person of either gender in her school. To make it [[MoeMoe even worse]], she loves plaid miniskirts and wore twin-tails. ** [[QueenOfTheBifauxnen This troper]] hears you. Sadly she was always pretty butch in behaviour, so it was also very obvious. Fun times. *** The two tropers above should exchange phone numbers. Geez get a room already. * This troper went to an all girls school. The gay:straight ratio in my friendship group was the opposite of that of the population at large. We planted younger members of the school to collect the rumours about which of us was sleeping/having a threesome with who/which

teacher(s), and every now and again planted our own when they weren't fabulous enough. * This troper also goes to an all-girls school. Coming from a NoHuggingNoKissing type of co-ed school, she had a bit of a culture shock when half the girls in her class had up to seven 'lesbian boyfriends', 'wives', and even adopted junior students as their ''children''. She was mortified when the school board had to resort to a full-fledged campaign to prevent SchoolgirlLesbians, complete with a talk from the school counsellor. ** This troper's school had the same problem. It got kinda weird. ** [[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels People want to stop others from being lesbians?]] ** OP: Unfortunately. Apparently, it was starting to give our school a bad name (which might not be the students' fault; if you rearrange the acronym of our school's name you get Lesbian Schoolgirl Club.) I posted that a year or two ago, and since then the situation's only gotten more widespread. I reckon we've had four suspensions for 'indecent behaviour' this year alone. ** Yeah. While boys and girls who want to be extreme know enough to sneak into the bathroom, a large part of SchoolGirlLesbians is to show off, and do so in public. * This troper once ran into a pair of these on his way to Physics class. Once I got to the door I noticed that it was locked so he turned around to wait for the teacher, and lo and behold two girls making out right in the corner. I quickly turned around to avoid becoming a deer caught in the headlights, blushing furiously. Luckily the girls didn't notice me. * For some odd reason, this troper's private school had gained a reputation for this, to the point that it had become a running gag. However, in order to 'combat' this, the Headmistress forbade anyone from going to the senior social (a prom, basically) unless you had a male partner. You weren't even allowed to go alone, because then you might meet your girlfriend inside! This was greeted with complete confusion and annoyance from all the students. ** Was there a rule about ''staying'' all evening with said male partner? Because if not, I see an obvious loophole... * Some regulars at the store where This Troper works included a pair of cute but annoying girls (they looked cute, but their emo style of dress was irritating to this Goth Troper; and let's not start about the time their public cuddling got to "Get a room, people!" proportions, which prompted one otherwise open-minded manager to politely ask them to please tone it down, whereupon they started yelling at him, accusing him of being "OMG TEH [=H0M0PH0B=]!!111"), who almost seemed to be trying too hard to be lesbians: the way they squeed over This Troper's very handsome male supervisor was a bit counter-intuitive, ala the "Lesbians!" parody strip of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy squeeing over Batman in the next-to-the-last panel. ** You know, you'd think that goths, of all people, would know better than to judge based on somebody's style of dress. ** Is there really that big of a difference between emo and goth? ** Emo: http://tiny.cc/uBrDn Goth: http://tiny.cc/uYRh7 ** Why are you annoyed by emos so badly? What have they ever done to

anyone? *** As the troper a few lines up shows the public thinks the two subcultures are the same and many Goths get tired of being seen as attention-seeking, self-harming, overly emotional teenagers when none of that is part of their subculture. So I guess you could say that Emos give Goths a 'bad name'. *** The public is just as wrong about emos as goths. You can SI without being emo, being emo doesn't automatically mean you SI, and I've never seen any evidence to link rates of SI with the emo subculture. Then again, if someone has sources... ** In this troper's school, the emos are the most outspoken,fickle, annoying kids in school. Wile the goths are very different, also far and few. Plus goths came first... *** Goth is an offshoot of punk. Does that mean punk is automatically better? * Heh...one of my female friends is a non-practicing Muslim (she's one by birth, that's it) and we always joke that she has many wives...her wives being all the girls in our group XD really confuses people who aren't used to it. Plus because she's TINY, I always tend to cuddle her if she's upset...which has led to a few odd looks. Hehe. * Oh, was ''that'' what all the other girls in my class were up to? Explains a lot- they even adopted a couple of guys as grandsons. Yes, you read that right. * This troper was rejected by a girl at school when he asked her out on a date, because she already had a girlfriend. This troper did not see it coming, but because of that experience he knows that most lesbians are not the Frank Miller EveryoneIsBi type. This troper is still lonely and hasn't found a girlfriend yet, and is worried he only falls for girls who are already taken or are genuine lesbians. ** This Troper is the same kind of lonely - I have just been dumped by the second boy in a row to realise that he was gay after dating me. I'm terrified that I only fall for the gay ones. * [[SharmHedgehog I]] know two people that are like this. Indirect kiss? Check. Incredibly close to each other? Check. ''Allergic to nut products?'' I wish I was making that up... but then one of them turned out to be [[BaitAndSwitchLesbians straight after all]]. ''Damn it...'' * This troper and her best friend have known each other since they were babies. They've been like this since they were about 4 years old. * This Troper and her girlfriend were both this, though not at the same time. * Before this troper really understood what homosexuality was, she used to have one of her friends sit on her lap and cuddle with her. Ironically, this troper is now a proud bisexual. ** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint That's not, by its correct definition, ironic...]] ** She has also had many, many crushes on female childhood friends without even realizing it. *** Oh my god, are you me? *see entry directly below* I would always ask my best friend to hold hands with me all the time before I knew that I was bi. When she moved away two or three years later, I realized that she was my first real childhood love. * Eh heh heh heh... *cries*. This troper is a Schoolgirl Bisexual. But

a real and genuine Schoolgirl Bisexual, with a 90% female preference. The only reason that she identifies as bi and not lesbian is because while, for the most part, this troper likes girls, she also finds the occasional guy she's attracted to as well. HOWEVER, NO ONE SEEMS TO UNDERSTAND THIS. She's either pegged as a fake bisexual or a lesbian-and when she even mentions attraction to guys around people who think she's lesbian, she gets crucified. It's verrrrry exasperating. ** Come sit by me, honey. :( ** That sounds like me... Only I haven't come out yet. I've decided that when I do, I'll just come out as a lesbian (for now, at least) because otherwise, I don't think anyone would understand... * This troper's group of friends is her Deep South's group of Schoolgirl (and one Schoolboy) Bisexuals. NONE of us are attracted to each other. It is not fun. On the bright side, it's easy to identify who you could date, if only you liked each other. * Averted by this Les Troper: only had lesbian contact outside of school-life ([[WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame like, you know, in gay bars]]). Even though I've always been in classes where the majority is female, {{SchoolgirlLesbians}} is, unfortunately, not a trope in the small european country I live in. * This Troper's best friend was the only lesbian girl in our high school. People used to think we were a couple, cause I never had any boyfriends, but I just wasnt interested....I think im asexual * This troper hit on one during one of our "leadership seminars" back in college. We had finished day 2 and we were knocking back a few beers and I was feeling tipsy already. I chatted up this girl and she was all "I like other chicks, didn't you know?" My reaction became an instant classic: "I do know, the question is do you know?" * At my school there are these two girls that are REALLY obviously SchoolgirlLesbians, but I was the only one who ever noticed. This one time I got G Rated Drunk on Halloween Candy and commented on the matter to another guy. He looked at them, thought for a few seconds, and broke out laughing. I never told anyone else and neither did he, but he always thought they were hilarious from that day on-he was the only other guy from that point on who noticed them. * Aren't half of these MistakenForGay? * This troper and her friend are mistaken for this alot. It dosn't help that we ocaisionaly act it, and even call ourselves the seme (myself) and uke (my friend). Though this troper is Bi, shes pretty sure her friend is straight. * All girls' school in general. This Catholic school girl troper saw it all. Cuddling? Check. Kissing? Check. Sitting on each others' laps? Check. Holding hands? Check. It wasn't sexual (well, for most of them) but it still was romantic as all hell. * This troper and her first girlfriend (both of us are bisexual - yes, really bisexual, not just pretending for attention or some such nonsense) were schoolgirls in high school at the time of our romance, although we kept it discrete. * This troper and her girlfriend are this, despite being in a LongDistanceRelationship. This troper is the ShrinkingViolet, {{Adorkable}} (girlfriend's words, not mine) [[{{Uke}} "Neko"]] and the aforementioned girlfriend is a LittleMissBadass GenkiGirl

[[{{Seme}} "Tachi"]]. And we avert the [[OneHeadTaller height rule]], this troper being a HugeSchoolgirl. * This troper and her girlfriend are this, with a hell of a lot of HideYourLesbians making it a constantly eventful relationship. The girlfriend is Catholic, and we met at Catholic school, so while my parents know (liberal parenting is a godsend), hers don't. Now I'm at college two hours away, and am openly gay. She's still at home. And isn't. I love her. * This troper and her friend are *constantly* mistaken for this. We like hugging a lot, and at Cons, we do share an air mattress. But we're not this trope. * This troper and her MtF girlfriend will be after she goes through the surgery. * This troper is one, though she's rather discreet about it. Her girlfriend is also at a different school and will soon be in different cities. * [[{{Lipstick lesbian}} M]][[{{Dandere}} e]] and my [[{{Genki girl}} girl]][[{{Pettanko}} friend]] are this. Everyone is fine with it. [[{{Girl on Girl is hot}} Especially the boys.]] * It's a running gag in this troper's all-girls high school that most of the girls are lesbians. Bisexual troper [[InformedAttribute has to wonder where all these lesbians are]]. * This troper and her best friend from university (where I live there's no college after school, just plain boring uni) were hilariously often mistaken for this by colleagues AND professors. That we are both bisexual and out of the closet did never help. Neither did it help that I at that time was (and still am) single and loved it and she had (and still has) a boyfriend. ... guess it comes from giggling, whispering and cuddling all the time. Not to mention she ALWAYS mama'ed me and I in exchange fed her with sweets during class. I always find it amusing how a simple, close friendship is mistaken so often. Forgive me, I never minded it THAT much, I never cared - but as one troper already stated it got on me and my friend when people asked if her lover knows she's "cheating" on him. And of course people never got their minds out of the gutter when we corrected them. * This Troper's classmates are often seen like this. One couple I can't tell if they are serious or not, but the other ones are obviously joking. Nobody seems to really care, though. * This bisexual female troper is pretty sure she's being chased by one... Though this troper does not feel ready to or want to explore her own bisexuality at this point in her life, she doesn't really mind having the cute, [[BuxomBabe busty]] {{GenkiGirl}} that seems interested in her glomp her every morning. ---Go back to Main/SchoolgirlLesbians -- they're better than [[YuriFanboy yucky]] [[YaoiGuys boys]] anyway. ---<<|TroperTales|>> <<|TroperTales|>>

Schoolmarm * [[Tropers/{{SKJAM}} This Troper's]] parents were both educated by schoolmarms in one-room schoolhouses as children, back in the days before rural electrification reached their respective communities. (This Troper is ''old''.) One of his mother's teachers was her eighteen-year-old cousin, who'd just passed her eight-week course to qualify as a schoolmarm. As you might imagine, having several class members be her relatives by blood or marriage caused some discipline problems. * There are situations like this in certain parts of Latinamerica. [[Tropers/MakiP This Troper]] knows two people who attented oneteacher schools, they are from a rural area and around 30 years old. * [[Tropers/{{TTURTLE}} This troper's]] grandmother taught in a oneroom schoolhouse for a few years in the 1940s. Like a storybook schoolmarm, she boarded with a local family and eventually married the family's bachelor son. ----

ScienceFair * Unfortunately, when This Troper went to middle school, the science fair was mandatory. The Mentos and Coke and volcano experiments weren't allowed, and we had to do research papers alongside it. Do you know the part that sucks even more? In eighth grade, I couldn't really get any parental help since my mother was busy tending to my sick (and then dying) grandma. I worked really hard, but I got a C+. All the other kids got parental help and they got As and Bs. Thankfully, there is no science fair in high school. * This troper's wife teaches chemistry and has judged a lot of science fairs. There is ''always'' a volcano. * [[{{Muselette}} This troper's]] school averted this by not allowing things like volcano or solar system models entry as projects because they weren't "testing a hypothesis," but they could be used as visual aids if they had some relevance to the actual project. Needless to say, this troper never saw many volcanoes. * Completely averted in this troper's education. No school I ever attended ever had a single science fair. Not one! * This troper's middle school had a ''mandatory'' science fair, but he never saw a volcano or solar system model (probably because of the aforementioned "must test a hypothesis" rule). However, they did include an option where you could just write a 7-ish page research paper if you didn't want to do a project. * This troper's school's science fair wasn't much of a science fair as it was an investigatory project fair, where projects ranged from ordinary to extremely dull to ridiculously pointless. Still, designing the booths and preparing audience-capturing techniques were pretty fun. * This troper's school district had a mandatory science fair for the sixth grade and up, with the caveat that only the top three sixthgraders' projects would be put on display with the others. The year he

entered seventh grade, the whole thing just...stopped existing. I still don't know why. * Averted for a year in this troper's high school. We were technically required to do science fair last year, but somehow we were able to skip it due to involving "too much paperwork." Now it's played straight on; if we didn't do science fair, we still had to do a project for the science teachers. * Averted at this troper's elementary school. When there was a scienece fair, there was a sheet for everyone that said "No volcanoes or models of the solar system". The teachers are on to us... * This troper had to do a very formal science fair each year from 6th8th grade. And there were no volcanoes or solar system models. But a lot of watering plants with pop and Mento/Diet Coke geysers. This troper herself tested the effect music on her rat's appetite, different types of bleach on hard stains, and the flammability of different pajama materials. She won a pretty fancy award for the latter. ---Go back to ScienceFair. ----

ScienceMarchesOn Tropers: [[{{Tropers/Mysteria}}]] This troper Can't help but laugh at Jurassic parks bald veloci I mean deinonychus. * That's not really ScienceMarchesOn though, as it was well known that veloceraptors were pretty small at the time the movie was made. I remember reading a statement from Spielberg (though it could have been someone else working on the film) looking at some recently discovered (at the time) Utahraptor fossils and saying "... we want THAT in our film." ** The basis for their Raptors where Utahraptors. * Doesn't explain the baldness ** Paleontologists didn't know raptors had feathers until 1998.

SciFiGhetto * In my english class, we all underwent a rigorous 2 weeks of creative writing, ending with 3-4 days of presentations. As expected, most of them were either poetry or memoirs (for some reason my class thinks those two genres are the easiest), and the most "serious writer" in the class wrote a fictionalized series of articles and stories from WW2. (He has...problems.) My turn came, and I read my darkly comedic, Douglas-Adams style first chapter of a sci-fi novel about the afterlife. It was met with blank stares from the class, but my teacher reportedly found it hilarious. So...subversion? ** How is writing WW2 based stuff mean he has problems? * This troper is involved in a sci-fi themed academic symposium held at his university. Hoo-boy it is a fight every year to justify our existence to those in charge, despite attendance by such well-known authors as Gail Carson Levine, Orson Scott Card (who comes every few years and actually helped create the symposium 26 years ago) as well

as many other respected sci-fi/fantasy authors and editors; professors from several universities across the country; and even honest-togoodness rocket scientists. Despite all that, ''every year'' we have to prove that we are serious and have academic worth. ** Perhaps foolishly, this troper would suggest tracking down a copy of Heinlein's "Expanded Universe" and staging a performance of "Spinoff" as part of the academic fight to save the sci-fi symposium. Originally written as a transcript of the testimony that the Grandmaster delivered to a congressional subcommittee, it can with very little effort be expanded to cover the value of science fiction as a genre. * This troper once read an article by a reader in denial, who attempted to argue that the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett could not be fantasy because they were ''too good''. Apparently, the presence of dwarfs, trolls, vampires, werewolves, witches, wizards, a large pantheon of interventionist gods and occasional elves are not the defining factor, but the quality of the work in question. ** This troper suggest that the reader in denial had been first exposed to fantasy... I'm sorry, I'll try that again... the first "fantastic"-style fiction which said reader had read was of the "GOR" level of quality, and subsequent stories went downhill from there. Defining a work as belonging or not belonging to a particular genre based on the writing quality is not just comparing apples to oranges, but comparing agriculture to meteorology: both are important and related to each other, but are fundamentally different aspects of the works in question. ** This troper once read a [=LiveJournal=] entry that was the exact inverse; the person was claiming that the HarryPotter series was simply a fairy tale, and "low" fantasy, not worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as TheLordOfTheRings. The person making the claim was a fantasy author. Unfortunately, he can't find the relevant entry. *** Having read both, but not the [=LiveJournal=] entry, I can readily understand the basis behind that distinction, and I can fully agree that Harry Potter is not at all on the same level as Lord of the Rings, although I'm not as certain about the fairytale distinction. To put it simply, Harry Potter is flat out outrageously unrealistic, and it doesn't have any real standards of its own it goes by, aside from the Rule Of Being Interesting. Lord of the Rings, on the other hand, although extremely fantastical, took to painstaking detail to flesh out its world and breathe into it a life and reality unto itself. Talking about realism in a fantasy setting may sound counter-intuitive (Makes you wanna say "It's fantasy! Of course it's unrealistic. Duh!", doesn't it?), but what I mean by realism is just how much the world of the story draws you in by really making sense. **** To shorten the above paragraph in This Troper's own words: Harry Potter tells a pre-established story and throws in fantastic elements when needed; [=LotR=] creates a world filled with pre-established fantastic elements and rules and then uses them to make a story. ***** To shorten it further: In HP, the fantastic elements are used to tell the story; in [=LotR=], the story is used to show you how the fantastic elements work. ****** To shorten it further, the Lord of the Rings has some merit as

a work of literature. ******* To be the shortest: LotR's dry & HP's fun. *** I later realized that the writer in question happened to be a "high fantasy" author. **** But don't you guys think that dismissing HP for not being as good as one of the most influential novels of the last century is a little bit too snobbish and over-the-top? **** Aren't the HarryPotter s one of the most influential novel series of the last century? **** The Lord of the Rings has been canonized as Great Literature, so academics can now pretend they always liked it. Harry Potter has not. This leads one to wonder: are fantasy fans who hate on Harry Potter just doing it becomes [[HeWhoFightsMonsters it's not a "classic?"]] **** I would agree with the argument in that Harry Potter is "low" fantasy and Lord of the Rings is "high" fantasy, but I fail to see why it matters. That merely puts them in different subgenres - quality, and "classic" status, aren't necessarily part of that. * This troper was told in a creative writing class she took that no one was allowed to write genre fiction. She managed this until the final assignment, where her only idea was part of a longer work she was working on. It involved an alternate America where there was a strict caste system by financial status and slavery. She brought it in and was praised for it. It was never called SF, despite the fact it couldn't be anything but. ** And this, tropers, is why SF remains such a reviled beast: it sneaks in anywhere, because innocently filling in the blank after "What If..." can lead to sparking the imagination, and we all know where THAT can lead. *** Cookies? *** All right, I'll bite. Actually ''thinking''? Voting for the "wrong" political party? (Sorry, I just read about a stupid, ''stupid'' bill to create Yet Another Faceless Bureaucracy, and I'm a little ticked off at the moment). *** The funny thing is, this troper expected to be failed because of this story. She made no effort to hide the fact she was writing science fiction, and the last thing she expected was the teacher cornering her and going on about how good the story was. (since this was me writing, [[SelfDeprecation it wasn't much]].) ** "Genre fiction"? How can one write outside a genre? Tell your teacher that ''PrideAndPrejudice'' is a romance, ''CrimeAndPunishment'' a thriller. ** Were you in my class? Introduction to Creative Writing (LTCR 10) with Julie Cox at UCSC? That was the only time This Troper ever ran into the situation or even heard of it, but agrees. * [[GwenStacyWannabe This troper]] brings graphic novels to school and reads them. I get a lot of weird looks and "Why are you reading ''that?''" Never mind a lot of the other girls bring manga and anime to school, oh no. ''They'' get off without a single snide remark. ** Same with [[{{Dookie}} this troper]], though sometimes the opposite effect. I got yelled by a teacher for reading ''Bone'' during "Drop Everything and Read" time (it was elementary school), claiming that comics are not literature (Scott [=McCloud=] would have fun hearing

that), and in middle school had to perpetually fear being sent to the guidance counselor for reading ''JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'', since the school was ridiculously censorship-crazy (I've also been yelled at for reading ''BraveNewWorld'' in school). Ironically, a teacher did find me reading JTHM and said that it was a good read. Laughter and odd looks are not unusual when people find me making comics. People look at me like I'm an idiot when I try to defend the comics medium, and suppress chuckles when I talk about IsaacAsimov. What has this world come to? *** The difference of reactions between manga/anime and graphic novels are, indeed, intriguing. Perhaps because manga/anime are foreign and therefore subject to different judgment? A school that is censorshiphappy is an entirely different kettle of fish; there's an annual "Banned Book List" of which the contents belong in every school. This troper would dearly love to read about tropers who put ''BraveNewWorld'' away into their bookbags and pull out a copy of, say, ''NakedLunch''... As far as the idiots who chuckle when you try to defend comics and sci-fi... well, as the troper below points out, "Just because [they]'re too stupid to understand..." **** I'd assume it's similar to the AnimationAgeGhetto. People still think that American comics are for kids, even though they might acknowledge that many Japanese manga are targeted at the adult market. *** TrueArtIsForeign? This troper owns an ebook. I get more questions about the ''device'' than what's ''on'' it. **** That's because once you're out of middleschool/a small highschool, no one cares what you read. Ebooks are interesting. Your taste in novels is not. ** This troper has actually been a victim of comments directed at him for reading manga at school. Accusations levied by him from classmates included both that he was reading porn and stuff for children. * I wanted to do the mythological influences in ''StarWars'' for my Extended Essay (a 4000-word essay that people who do the International Baccalaureate, an alternate school thing, have to do), a topic that's pretty damned rich and requires a lot of research. Did they let me? No. I then, in a fit of pique and hoping to piss them off, decided that I would do my Extended Essay in History instead, [[RefugeInAudacity on pirates]]. ''They said yes''. Un-freakin' believable. (Of course, it's pretty damn cool that they let me do that, but come ''on''...) ** [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome You got to write an essay on pirates.]] You have officially lost ''all right'' to complain about the sci-fi ghetto. ** This troper's classmate got a lousy grade on an essay for comparing something-or-other we had to write about to ''StarWars.'' Because it wasn't "literature." *** Technically since it's a movie it isn't literature, but that still sucks. *** On the one hand, you could produce the novelization of Episode IV that Lucas wrote and published separately (it includes a more detailed description of Tashi Station, and Luke's nickname among his buddies) to demonstrate that it was, in fact, a novel and therefore literature. On the other, you could point out that, in the entirety of the world's

movies, the same two characters show up more often than any others: SherlockHolmes and Dracula. After all, literature and theater were the only things that could be filmed, back when movies first started. But it sounds like your teachers are more used to putting things in welldefined categories than asking questions, so never mind... *** Actually, the novelization was ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster, an acclaimed SF writer. So yeah. ** This troper once got an F on a political cartoon assignment in his History class, since he compared the activities of a government to that of the Galactic Empire, despite the fact that Star Wars has been known to have layers of political commentary and parallels with historical events. *** Weirdly, this troper's Mythology professor did a dissertation on Star Wars. **** This whole example tree seems to be more a case of mislableing than actual Sci-Fi ghetto. Star Wars is not really literature, it's a movie. A novelization doesn't make it literature. There's a lot you can do with it that will be well recieved including literary analysis, but you'll usually wind up in trouble when you tag it as a literature project. If you ask your Mythology Professor, they'll likely tell you that they had quite a bit of trouble properly slotting the dissertation, but once it was set up, had no issue with it. The same is true with a political cartoon about the Galactic Empire. You'd have gotten a much much higher grade if you had then made the connections that Star Wars makes instead of leaving them for the teacher to fill in him/herself. ** Wow, really? They didn't let you do it on Star Wars? That's ridiculous! I know a kid in my school a few years ago did his EE on Harry Potter, and I'm doing mine on American and Soviet animation. * This troper has been a sci-fi fan since early childhood, but unfortunately dwells in a very-redneck small town. She has spent her entire life defending the books and shows she loves to people who think professional wrestling is high art. She finally gave up on her logical, well-reasoned, and impassioned defenses in favor of something much simpler: "Just because you're too stupid to understand a show doesn't make it stupid; it makes you stupid." ** Good strategy. Trying to broaden the horizons of those who want their horizons to get smaller is the most classic example of an exercise in futility this troper has ever heard of. Stay online and keep in touch with other fans, though. Clearly, you'll need the support. ** As a fan of both sci-fi and ProfessionalWrestling, this troper kind of resents the above troper for using the latter as an example of how his neighbors are redneck morons. Methinks that sci-fi isn't the only thing in a ghetto around here... Still, good luck fighting the good fight against ignorance, even if you do choose poor comparison points. ** Sorry if I offended anybody with that comparison- it's not that I have anything against professional wrestling, but more got extremely frustrated by the amount of times I would mention liking a sci-fi or fantasy show only to get a response of "How can you watch that weird (rude expletive deleted), it's so stupid and fake and pointless" followed by an impassioned discussion of how great last night's RAW

was. This happened so often that the two things (dissing sci-fi and loving pro wrestling) became inextricably linked in this troper's mind. So blame my classmates, not me! *** I understand what you mean. The first troper wasn't dissing Pro Wrestling. She was making the valid point that people will discount something for no other reason than it's label, even if it shares many of the same qualities as something they do like. This troper knows people who swear ''{{Lost}}'' is the epitome of TV drama, but say you like the ''XFiles'' or worse ''StarTrek'' and folks roll their eyes and say it's '''''unrealistic'''''. Yeah, unrealistic...cause a mystery island with smoke beasts and code-locked hatches is the height of realism...gimme a break! (And before anybody wigs out, I happen to respect ''{{Lost}}'' though I don't follow it. * A subversion of sorts - this troper wrote a practice essay for his Scholarship English paper, in which he talked about Heart of Darkness, Run Lola Run, The Magus...and ''BeyondGoodAndEvil'' (can't remember what it was specifically on). The teacher loved it. ** Maybe your teacher thought you were talking about Nietsche. * Another subversion: this troper wrote final papers on the robots of IsaacAsimov, and on the science-fiction vs. fantasy argument over StarWars, for high school AP English. The teacher not only graded both papers "A", but continued to use the "Robots" paper as an example to future classes on what he was looking for in term papers. * Yet another subversion: This troper's university had and still has an entire semester course dedicated entirely to the serious literary critique of science fiction and fantasy themes, and their applicability to real-world issues. Discovering its existence and popularity was very gratifying, especially for fulfilling IT lib-ed credit reqs. ** This troper has a similar class at his University, except on Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Seeing The Killing Joke, Marvel 1602, and Sandman sitting at the textbook sale right between the art history texts and the huge geology textbooks? Amusing, to say the least. * This troper is just amazed how narrowed the "level of acceptability" is, even amongst Fantasy and Sci-Fi fans. Her parents used mocked some of her Fantasy and Mecha anime, despite being avid readers of Mercedes Lackey and Orson Scott Card - who often explored some of the same themes. Fortunately they learned to knock it off. ** Not to mention SF people who hate the very term science fiction or "skiffy", preferring speculative fiction. Because a rose by any other name... *** Whereas this troper prefers the term speculative fiction because it avoids the incredibly pointless debate over weather some borderline cases are sci-fi or fantasy. (At least when he's not gleefully referring to most tv SF as science fantasy due to the lack of actual science in them) * This troper is surprised he got away with an essay on his statelevel final exam in a high school English class that discussed Star Wars and Wheel of Time. He knows he got away with it because his grade on the exam was awesome. That said, he's also certain that, in a college creative writing class, he only got away with a story of a man stealing his infant son's soul at his shadow's urging because he

didn't frame it in terms of magic, despite it having to be some kind of magic in order for that to work. He's certain that if he did his other idea, how an immortal creature could hide amongst humans (without constantly moving around), it would have gone over far worse. * ThisTroper recently had a conversation about this starting when a girl saw [[LordOfTheRings The Fellowship of the Ring]] in her bag and said "You actually ''like'' that?". She went on to say that she didn't like Fantasy because it wasn't real (actually a good reason to not read Fantasy, though it comes across as idiotic) and she preferred Realistic Fiction, like Jodi Picoult, because it's about things actually applicable to today's society, "like school shootings". Apparently the concept of metaphor completely escapes her, as well as reading a book for the story. I also asked her if she read Historical Fiction, but everyone was talking so loud I couldn't hear her answer. ** So, how did this girl like Jodi Picoult's run on the ''Wonder Woman'' comic? *** This troper loves SF and fantasy, but also loves medieval literature, to the point where she can read Middle English without slowing down. It seems like neither the SF fans or the literature crowd likes this. **** They don't. I don't mind, though. * This troper had a sweet love of Graduate school in physics due to the inversion, with most professors being heavy critics of bad SciFi, but loving the good stuff. The only bad thing was taking a course in Nanotechnology that has made this troper an agnostic about nanobots. * Proving that the bias is not limited exclusively to literature, this troper was told on day one of a screenwriting workshop that we were there to create art, so "don't write genre crap like Star Wars." ** And I had the opposite experience when I took a screenwriting class in college (granted, it was "Screenwriting for Non-Film Majors"). I wrote a ''Star Trek''-esque story, and the instructor not only loved it he wanted me to expand it out to a full 120-page script instead of the 40-page "treatment" we had to write for the grade. *** When I took mine, it was from one of the professors who taught Sam "Evil Dead" Raimi when he went to Michigan State. My first short was a romance. Graded crap. My feature length was a cyberpunkblaxploitation-comedy-action film. Four-point-oh. * This troper has seen plenty of aversions, subversions, and inversions: ** A list of books for an optional summer reading assignment included ''{{Dune}}'', ''Childhood's End'', and the ''{{Lensman}}'' novels. ** During philosophy class (which was basically an analysis of Plato's ''Republic''), the teacher showed ''PlanetOfTheApes'', because the ape society in the film strongly resembles that envisioned in the ''Republic''. ** And ''TheMatrix'' is quite simply Plato's ''The Allegory of the Cave'' with sci-fi trappings. *** This Troper's philosophy teacher showed ''TheMatrix'' and ''MinorityReport'', to demostration ''The Allegory of the Cave'' and predestination, respectively. It was enjoyed by all. ** And then there's the assignments I've handed in. The crowning example was an assignment to write a story about a character different

from myself. I simply took my current [[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] character - a female tiefling warlock with a vendetta against demons and wrote a story about her infiltrating and massacring an evil cult. In addition to the good grade, the teacher recognized that it was fantasy, commenting that "You are very much at home in this genre." * For his high school AP English class, this troper had to write an essay on angels and demons in literature. He picked the novel "Swan Song" by Robert [=McCammon=], specifically the Man with the Scarlet Eye (think Randall Flag from "The Stand," but in a post-nuclear war setting instead of a post-plague setting). I figured the teacher would want something different instead of more essays on {{Paradise Lost}} or {{The Screwtape Letters}}. I personally thought (and still think) it was some of my finest work. I walked into class the day it was due, handed it to my teacher, and was walking to my desk when she called me back to the front. She literally SHOVED the essay into my chest and said "did you think this assignment was a joke?" She proceeded to RIP into horror and sci-fi, saying there were no works of "comparable literary merit" in either genre, penned by authors who had no talent to create anything better and were the writing equivalent of PE teachers. I asked her to please at least look the essay over, and she snapped "I won't waste my time on horror authors." Of course, I had to respond "so I guess we can take the Edgar Allen Poe and Shirley Jackson novels off your bookshelf?" She gave me the weekend to rewrite my essay on a more "worthy" work. On Monday, I handed her my essay...a look at the angels and demons prevalent in ''GoodOmens''. * One of the lecturers at [[{{Bisyss}} This Troper]]'s university has averted this, hard. The reading list for the lesson is ''nothing but'' Sci-Fi, including ''JurassicPark'', ''[[ArthurCClarke Profiles of the Future]]'', ''[[PhilipKDick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep]]?'' and, erm, ''[[DanBrown Digital Fortress]]''. To put this into perspective, the lesson is part of a computing course. ** Tell me you guys only read Digital Fortress to rip into bad fiction or to explain how to fail at crypto. I read that, and it was impressively bad. *** As a consistent supporter of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, this troper was offended that Dan Brown considers him part of a rabble of irresponsible miscreants subverting the good and noble work of the National Security Agency. * {{theFirebottle}}'s university has a creative writing department that is a black hole of literary fiction snobbery. In response to an inquiry about an advanced fiction writing workshop which mentioned sci-fi, directed to a very well-respected professor in the department, came a rude response that said genre fiction was unacceptable for assignments. Before that, I took a basic CW class in which I submitted a ten page sci-fi story with most of the 'verse stripped out and still got blank looks from not only the professor but ''the entire class''. They could not grasp even the simplest elements of ''space opera''. ** UCSC? * Mostly averted with [[{{Sikon}} me]]. In English classes in university (we're Russian), we used to watch movies in English, from ''Main/MrsDoubtfire'' and ''Main/WhatWomenWant'' to ''Main/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' and ''Main/BackToTheFuture''. And on

one operating systems lecture, we watched ''Main/WarGames'' to analyze security flaws and exploits featured in the movie. However, in literature classes back at school, the only thing I remember that was at least vaguely SF was Zamyatin's ''We''. * In his graduate level creative writing course, this trooper ended up being the only genre writer in the midst of a bunch of experimentalists and "real writers". the ones that write ''real'' literature. He passed out a completely fantasy piece and most of the comments focused on things like, "I never knew wizards went to the bathroom". Personally he thinks his works were much better than the guy who wrote the same story five times, each time leaving out a different vowel. * This troper had to write an essay comparing The War of the Worlds (1953 film) to the book and then to Independence Day for GCSE English. Before this was varying essays on The Time Machine, A Sound of Thunder and other scifi short stories. A* all the way. In retrospect, I liked my English lessons! * This troper has been spared this reaction from others, to some degree, but mostly because all his friends love genres like this as well. However, being a snarker by trade and training, that hasn't stopped ''this troper himself'' from applying it to his work. Result being he can't write anything fantasy or sci-fi unless there is something different about it that can be explored throughout the story. * Sort of a subversion- when it came time for us to write a mini-essay proposing ideas for a project, this troper chose to propose a project based on comics. The teacher loved it. (Project wasn't done, though.) * This troper was extremely nervous when she submitted her first scifi piece three weeks into in a graduate level playwriting class. Each week, every student in the class had to submit that week's assignment, plus re-writes from the previous week, and EVERYTHING was read out loud (which, given that it was a playwriting class, made sense)--this gave the me the added ear of "Oh God, I Will Be Ghettoized My Peers" to the pre-existing fear of "My Award Winning and "Literary" Playwright-Professor is Going to Rip My Creativity a New One". The class was initially sniffy nosed, and "Oh, this is not ART, my 30-page 'Spoken Word Opera' about fucking God the devil in my father's hospital room (I really wish I was making this up) is ART!" but grew to love the installments of the two (very sci-fi) plays I wrote so much that I would get e-mails in the days leading up to class begging for spoilers. And professor? Right after that first read through, she started laughing and clapping her hands, and I thought "Balls". Then she said it was most inventive leap anyone had taken in the class in years, and straight up berated the rest of the class that they were being narrow minded by ghettoizing science fiction. I later found out that said professor once got Margaret Atwood to admit that "The Handmaid's Tale" was science fiction, while the latter was, ahem, slightly under the influence at a literary gala. [[CrowningMomentofAwesome Real life literary Crowning Moment of Awesome]], well, at least in my book. ** Seconded. ** That professor wins an internet.

* Subeverted in the life of [[{{Ronnie}} this troper]], who's gotten perfect grades on character analysis of [[DannyPhantom Daniel Fenton]] and [[HarleyQuinn Harleen Quinnzel]], and an in-depth study of the DannyPhantom special "The Ultimate Enemy". ** Link please. I am intrigued. *** As you wish: [[http://littleblogofstuff.blogspot.com/ here it is, all in one place.]] You can probably tell which are newer. * This troper, a semipro SF writer himself, has seen this trope both inverted and straight: Inverted, in that his first essay for college was "Two Godless Undead Demons and a Little Lady" about Interview with the Vampire, to high marks...and that teacher helped him get started on his SF writing career anyway. Straight, in that he's attended several writing conventions and seminars, at the same college. In several of the seminars or workshops, he's seen rules that dictate "no genre fiction" or had the teacher explicitly state that genre fiction was lesser than Literary Fiction. His favorite example prompted this exchange: -->"Genre fiction is necessarily limited by conventions, and cannot transcend them." -->"What about science fiction, in the alternate histories of Philip K. Dick or the earthbound underdog stories of the cyberpunk movement?" -->"Well, science fiction can't be literature, because it's about ideas." -->"..." ** Fortunately, the rest of the class begged the question... * An illustration of how fantasy is even more ghettoised than scifi: [[VampireBuddha This troper]] took a module for final year Microbiology at university entitled "Introduction to post-rationalist biology" which entailed a group of us having a friendly chat with the professor in his office. The discussion entered the realm of perspective, and I brought up the Total Perspective Vortex from ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. The professor was also familiar with this, and then spent some time comparing Douglas Adams to Terry '{{Discworld}}' Pratchett. He casually mentioned that they both wrote very imaginative and very funny science fiction. ** "Only You Can Save Mankind" (by Pratchett) qualifies as science fiction. * subverted(I guess) This troper actually used both Doctor Who and the Borg in his English Literature final essays-- The Doctor as the epitome of a Byronic hero, and the Borg as example of what can happen when technology goes too far. The teacher in question showed us Gattaca and Star Wars, as well as 1984. I inhaled it all while my classmates asked dumb questions or slobbered over the actresses(vocally that is). As for the exams, I'm not sure what my teacher thought of those essays, but I passed with an A, sooooo.... * This troper normally enjoys her creative writing class (and gets away with not being able to write fantasy by writing about [[WriteWhoYouKnow geeks in their natural habitat]] instead), but she wanted to throttle several folks when they began to critique a fellow writer's pretty cool story about the Roman occupation of ancient Britain with "At first, I was so pissed off because I thought this was

going to be some fantasy story, with orcs and crap...," and her blood pressure reached its peak when her professor herself said, "Perhaps you should establish that this is a historical setting earlier, and not the kind of fantasy setting that readers of [[SeriousBusiness Serious Literature]] want to see." To be fair, one of the designated defenders of sci-fi in the class got suitably annoyed: "I don't see why I can't write about Captain Valentine on the Spaceship Starborne and his struggles with meth addiction if he can write about Roman centurions' interpersonal relationships." * This troper had to take a written expression class at college. The main assignment was to read Jose Saramago's ''Blindness'' and write an essay on it. She got so bored and fed up with the [[{{Anvilicious}} anvilicious]] MagicRealism of the book that she ended up writing an essay in which she demonstrated that the theme of blindness as a metaphor on lack of empathy in the book had already been used by H.G. Wells in ''The Country of the Blind'' and John Wyndham in ''The Day of the Triffids'', and how only the magic realism tag was the only thing that separated Saramago from the SciFiGhetto and kept it in the High Literature shelves. She still passed :) * Like some of the others above, this troper had a class in college that was all about Science Fiction novels and their commentary on society. It was awesome (not least because the teacher was out of his gourd). Then, in his home life, it's played straight by his father, who loves westerns, but refuses to watch ''{{Firefly}}'' because it's sci fi, at one point dismissing it saying, "I don't want to watch anything with cutesy robots in it." Because if something's science fiction, it ''must'' have cute robots in it. * HEADDESK* ** When did your father grow up? There was a time when having a cutesy robot was practically a rule. It wasn't until Star Trek that TV Sci-Fi matured and gained true literary merit (this actually depends on how you define Sci-Fi, but I'm talking about spaceship stuff here). * ThisTroper thinks she has you all beat: at both High School and University, she has submitted not just sci fi/fantasy works, but actual ''fanfiction'' of sci fi/fantasy. Yes, I got an A for writing HarryPotter fanfic. ** This troper'll do you one better--she got an A++ on a ''{{Batman}}'' fanfic with a ''blatantly obvious'' MarySue. The teacher grading it said the piece was "masterful". She also turned in several chapters of an ongoing sci-fi epic she was writing at the time (that she ''swears'' she will do something with one of these days). ** [[XanderK This troper]] got a B+ on a {{Yaoi}} fanfic, about [[KingdomHearts Sora and Riku]]. ** When I was fourteen I got my grade for the whole semester bumped up from a C to an A for writing Discworld fanfiction. I didn't even write it for an assignment. I wrote it for fun. Looking over it five years on, it's not even that good. ** In eighth grade, this troper received a 110% on a ''Boba Fett'' story. It was the proudest moment of his middle school career. ** [[{{Lemurian}} This Troper]] aced an English-tentamen while in Junior High with a ''{{Runescape}}''-fanfiction. ** [[{{Alloflifedecays}} This troper]] got an A* at GCSE for a Sandman Finfic revolving around Death.

*** About all this fanfiction stuff: A while ago, it would have surprised me to see self insert mary sue fanfiction be loved. However, considering the fact that Twilight, which is nothing more than a self insert mary sue (and marty stu) piece of fanfiction got published, I've realized, instead, that people simply have no taste. **** I Object! Comparing anything to Twilight is an insult to bad fanfics everywhere! **** ''Most'' bad fanfics - I'll see your Twilight and raise you the early works of Stephen Ratilff... **** There's nothing wrong with a well written Mary Sue. They also tend to be known as 'Protagonists'. It's only when you have the poorly written ones it becomes an issue. * Subversion - This Troper once made a sprite comic wrote a short folklore story for English class... both dealing with Pokmon. There was no problem with either one of those. Of course, it helped that one of those teachers was a Pokmon fan himself. Oh, and in a different year, we watched Star Wars (A New Hope) and compared it to the Odyssey. * This anonymous troper managed to get away with not only submitting fantasy fiction, but '''gaming fantasy fiction''' in his university English classes. (If you think fantasy has it bad, gaming fiction has it even worse.) While the assignments still didn't get very good grades, it was due to the fact that the writing was so lousy as to qualify for {{Old Shame}} status, as opposed to the fantasy settings this troper used. * A subversion: when asked to write an essay explaining why he wanted to go to the US Naval Academy, this troper wrote about [[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] and paladins, and how he thought the military, in its better moments, shared some traits with paladins. Despite multiple warnings from family and teachers, he submitted it. He is assuming it didn't go over too badly, since he did get accepted. On a related note, he compared magic and artifice, also from [[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]], with real-world engineering for a Massachusetts Institute of Technology essay, and got accepted there as well. ** Judging by how many gamers there apparently are in the military, this troper is not surprised. ** Considering how many gamers and pagans are at MIT, this troper is also not surprised. * Subversion - this troper once got away with writing a term paper on Marxist themes of ideology in... ''[[TheWorldOfDarkness Mage: the Ascension]]''. He had to go to nearly every office hours period the professor had for three weeks, constantly presenting evidence from the various sourcebooks and how they lined up with Marx's theories of class consciousness (Awakening) and the hegemony (the Technocracy). Not only did he get the paper approved, he got an A- on it (because he didn't mention economics nearly enough). * ThisTroper's life has thankfully been filled with subversions. In high school, I got the ''cool'' English lit professor, who enjoyed what was largely an X-Men fanfiction (guest-starring Bill Clinton and Rush Limbaugh!), who showed us GATTACA, and who was interested in the BattleTech novels after ThisTroper mentioned them (specifically, the

Clans) in comparison to GATTACA on an essay question for an exam. Then, in college, the prof ''went out of her way'' to get people to connect religion to pop culture and genre fiction. (ThisTroper's group did StarWars as compared with the world's major religions, but ThisTroper also talked with the prof after class and brought up VampireTheMasquerade.) * Oh boy: ** One assignment was to write a story about the further adventures of Odysseus. One of the main points that everyone was told was that it could NOT be a time travel story (apparently, the year before every kid who did the assignment basically had a story about them meeting Odysseus or about Odysseus coming to the high school). So I just wrote a story about Odysseus getting lost in a forest. A forest where Nazis and Zombies are in a constant fight (I never CALLED them Nazis or Zombies, but anyone reading closely could figure it out by how they are described as looking). And Odysseus beats both sides by riding a dinosaur through them (of course, I described the dinosaur as if it were some type of Greek Mythological creature that had been lost to history). ** We had the same assignment at my high school, except you had to reimagine two of his obstacles instead. I set the entire thing in space with the cyclopes made into a space-station/monster thing. I got a perfect score on this essay, one of only two such scores I got that year. ** Creative writing assignment. I did a story about a InterdimensionalCafe. Everyone groaned until they actually read the freaking story, after which they generally admitted it was pretty good. * Subverted in this troper's Higher English class. The teacher said that she was not a fan of sci-fi, but I did a personal study on ''Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell'' and wrote a definitely sci-fi short story which the teacher was so impressed with that she wasn't even told to redraft it. I was one out of two people to get the best possible grade that year. * This troper was in a course on television production and had to make a short video about "a first day of school." All of the videos in the class were basic, Disney Channel-esque teen comedies, while this troper's video was about an alien going to a human school. Oddly enough, the teacher thoroughly enjoyed it, and it turned out to be one of the most popular videos in the class. * [[{{Regiment}} This troper]] almost got into an argument in a college short-story class over whether or not Ray Bradbury is a science fiction author. He thought that since Bradbury writes mostly ''fiction'' that takes place in the future amidst ''science'', he would be a sci-fi author by definition. Apparently it's only sci-fi if it's drowning in {{Technobabble}}. Honestly- it's a story that takes place on Venus. I'm hard-pressed to decide why it's not sci-fi. Of course, Bradbury writes TrueArt, but nowhere does it say that sci-fi isn't TrueArt. Argh. And when the professor asked if anyone in the class was a sci-fi fan, he said that in the careful tone of someone asking if anyone in the class reads porn. * Happy averted in this troper's senior year of high school, wherein

he wrote his thesis connecting H.G. Wells and Charles Darwin. This troper forgets exactly what he proved, but his teacher ate it up. ** Then, in college, there was a bizarre inversion/example of this trope. He wrote a 20-page short story for the class. In the first draft, the placeholder title was "Tips For Living In A Crumbling Society." Most of his classmates thought the story was too "sci-fi" or "futuristic," or that he "didn't do enough to convey the postapocalyptic setting." What the hell? That's straight outta left field! This troper admits that his scenery detail sucked in the first draft, but the story was about MERCENARIES on present-day Earth. They go on a mission to retrieve something, end of story. To be sure, there was a scene of someone reading their email, but come on. I now know the power of titles. * Another subversion for this troper, when she was asked to write an essay analyzing an example, real-world or fictional, of a society often considered deeply flawed or outright evil, and why that appearance is or is not justified. She chose the Imperium of Man from ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', and got an A on the paper. * In this troper's end of semester evaluation of the module (Introduction to Advanced Literary Studies, as part of an English/History degree) when asked what else could have improved the module, this troper suggested including Frank Herbert's Dune to broaden the syllabus somewhat. He has no idea if it will help, but at least he tried. ** Slightly subverted: when discussing his favorite novel at the beginning of the year, following such books put forward by other students as ''To Kill A Mockingbird'' and ''Huckleberry Finn'', the same troper managed to argue his case for Peter F. Hamilton's Fallen Dragon. And did it pretty well, even if he does say so himself. Particularly given that he was the only male in the room. * This troper argued with his English teacher that {{1984}} was science fiction. The teacher refused to see it that way. As well, I have a Dad who raised me reading Discworld (without mention of rishathra) as a bedtime story. He refuses to see how Neon Genesis Evangelion could have any worth at all, let alone any other anime. At least I managed to finally get him to watch MysteryScienceTheater3000. ** Why are you confusing Discworld and Ringworld? * Not ''entirely'' sure if it counts, but {{Nixon}}'s art teacher said he could count his [[YoutubePoop YTPs]] as part of his folio. ''That''. Is. Awesome. * Only slightly related but in a university Systems Engineering class this troper was given the assignment to right about any subject from a systems analysis viewpoint. The subject I chose was the effectiveness of different heavy weapons in Warhammer40K (got a good grade on it as well). * Although this troper is not incredibly fond of his compulsory literature courses in the university (he studies linguistics), he is happy to see this trope heavily averted by his literature teacher, who openly calls classics like ''1984'' science fiction, and gets snarky about writers and professors who refuse to admit that some of the greatest works of English literature can be fit into the genre. Also, he wrote a lengthy essay about ''His Dark Materials'', trying to bring

out both the anti-religious and religious views of the book out, pointing out for example that a true Christian should love the ending of the book, which involves the destruction of a false God, and that the Republic of Heaven is an excellent upgrade from the Kingdom of Heaven, considering the social shift to democracy in the Christian countries. The teacher, quite a religious person herself, gave him full score! * This troper was fortunate enough to have a course dedicated to Science Fiction in college. Of course, the key thing is that the books & movies had to be "hard" science fiction, not science fantasy (ie, ''Metropolis'' & ''The Day The Earth Stood Still'' [original] were part of the curriculum, but no ''StarWars''). ** Metropolis and Day the Earth Stood Still are just as soft as StarWars, they just lack the magical element. Hell, Metropolis is as soft as most New Wave. * Averted. This troper's Religious Studies and Asian Studies professors, both unabashed sci-fi fans, have a rather open policy about sharing class materials. So Sakuramachi gives Krupt ''{{Madlax}}'' because it has Kierkegaardian themes, and Krupt gives Sakuramachi ''[[CosyCatastrophe The Kraken Wakes]]'' because [[spoiler: Japan saves the day in the end]]. Somehow, both are able to use ''ACanticleForLeibowitz''. * This troper was recently treated to the argument that a certain work couldn't be science fiction because it addresses the social implications of its hypothetical technologies. ** That's a good 80% of sci-fi's function! Asimov? Verne? ''StarTrek''? ''GhostInTheShell''? Any of this ringing a bell? * Walter Miller dismissed as 'pulp'. I WISH I was making this up, I really do. * [[{{Gerusz}} This troper]] feels himself quite lucky, because his friends usually know something about the basic sci-fi books and series, even if they are not fans. On the other hand, the TV stations in his country... for example, StargateSG1 ran on Saturdays afternoon for a while, then it was exiled to Thursdays 11 PM. There's only one dedicated SF channel, but it shows re-runs. Damn, this troper doesn't think he'll live to see the 8th season of SG-1 in his language :-S ** What language is that? ** Hungarian. *** We ''do'' (more accurately: did) have [=SG-1=] Seasons 8 and 9 now in Hungarian, so it is probably still being translated. The main problem is that the channel feels obliged to restart the series when they are done with a season, which - [=SG-1=] being the longest liveaction sci-fi show to date - takes a loooooong time. Also, some of the translations are [[TheyJustDidntCare worse then what I could have done at age 16]], so I don't really ''like'' to watch it in Hungarian... *** Yeah, BlindIdiotTranslation. Sometimes this troper wonders why don't they hire some fans who can speak English instead of these "professional" translators. * [[{{Zeta}} ThisTroper's]] college English textbook says at the very beginning "established literary fiction is to be distinguished from the tawdry pornography seen in spy, detective, Western, romance, science fiction, or fantasy stories." True Art is apparently two women

washing laundry while talking about the death of their dog, I suppose. ** "Tawdry pornography"? Part of why this troper doesn't read "established literary fiction" is the sordid portrayals of sexuality! You can find lots of SF, fantasy, and Westerns with no sex, or sex ''that has to do with romance'', and it's almost never the whole plot; huge swathes of mainstream "literary" fiction is nothing ''but'' lovingly detailed explorations of people's tawdry, self-indulgent adulterieswith emphasis on the [[FanDisservice goopy-sticky]] aspects of sex rather than the romantic ones. Yeah, there's a place for stories like that, but if they form the preponderance of your output you lose the right to call other people's stuff "tawdry". ** This troper's English text her senior year in high school said that genre was not important for quality literature - it could take concepts and settings that don't exist and never will and still make them say something important. This surprised her. ** {{rutheni}} seems to have been reading the wrong detective stories, Westerns, romances, science fiction, and fantasy stories, IfYouKnowWhatIMean * One of the two 4th year English teachers at this troper's high school used ''Dune'' as an assigned book. (I didn't have her, though) * This troper averted the trope, with his only worthwhile piece of work in his whole english GCSE. The creative writing piece required was pure and unashamed Sci-Fi, being the first chapter of the story of a test tube grown warrior woman who would ostensibly go up against a fascist world government (and at various points rode a hover bike). The teacher caused some confusion by handing the troper his work back scowling, it transpired that it was because it was the only piece she had ever awarded full marks. She then inquired as to the possibility of getting previous pieces redone, as none had previously achieved higher than a B. * This Troper's sister does not like fantasy. This means that nothing she likes is fantasy, including HisDarkMaterials by Phillip Pullman it's ''philosophy''. This Troper tried to argue that it could be both, but was ignored. ** It's religious fiction. Similarly, Richard Dawkins writes about religion, [[BerserkButton not philosophy]], so they should not put his books there. * Another subversion by essay, on account of [[AndyWaltfeld This Troper]]: When my English 111 course switched tack on a essay from "make your own conspiracy theory" to "find and disseminate a conspiracy theory" due to lack of entries, I requested to submit mine using the original assignment. The professor agreed... and the ensuing allegations that the [[SuperRobotWars Ze Balmary Empire]] was grooming [[CodeLyoko Jrmie Belpois]] for a job in intergalactic tech support wound up being my only A in that class. * Subverted, when asked if I like Sci-fi by my father, I said that I don't really watch much Sci-fi, then my father brought up that I had watched MST3K, to which I responded that it isn't Sci-fi. I ''knew'' that it was Sci-fi, I ''meant'' that it focuses more on comedy. ** This troper would submit that MST3K ''isn't'' Sci-Fi, but a comedy show that simply uses a science-fictional framing device. Seriously, replace the space station with a prison, the Mads with sadistic

wardens, and turn the bots into fellow (human) prisoners, and the show's essential core -- forcing a prisoner to watch bad movies, while he keeps his sanity by mocking them -- would remain unchanged. True, it would lose a lot of its unique charm and be a lesser show for it (and some of the jokes wouldn't work if the Crow and Servo were humans), but the show's essential nature is comedy, not science fiction. *** Anyone who knows what kind of ''[[ExecutiveMeddling hell]]'' the [=SciFi=] Channel put them through to play up the scifi-nessonly being allowed to do SF movies, though somehow "Girl in Gold Boots" got pastwould have to agree. It started on the Comedy Channel, not the [=SciFi Channel=], for a reason (that reason probably being that [=SciFi=] didn't exist yet, but where they started is still symbolic). * Australian high schools (well, mine at least) have an unwritten rule about sci-fi: if you want to use it and it's younger than the person setting the curriculum, it has to be [[{{Anvilicious}} subtle as a sledgehammer]] in delivering the immortal message ScienceIsBad. As in, the two sci-fis used are ''GATTACA'' (message: genetic engineering leads to fascism, delivered with loud thudding noises) and ''BraveNewWorld'', which at least acknowledged that science wasn't necessarily populated entirely by amoral meddlers. By killing most of them off in the name of social stability, admittedly by the bad guys. This troper spent more time in class defending genetic engineering research than he did actually analysing ''GATTACA''; almost certainly ''not'' what the director intended. ** I always thought the message of ''[=Gattaca=]'' was twofold. One: Sufficient will overcomes obstacles; and Two: Genentech should spread far and wide, otherwise shit like ''this'' will happen. *** [[DarthWiki/WarpThatAesop It's actually "as long as you're following your dreams, it doesn't matter how criminally irresponsible you're being"]]. But seriously, folks, it has the line "We now have discrimination down to a fine science", and the fact that the hero wasn't genetically engineered makes your suggestion, at best, a Badly BrokenAesop. ** The message of Gattaca is, "transhumanism in an unequal society will just exacerbate already-existing social inequalities." Is anyone going to pretend that's not true? * Averted in this troper's GCSE English exam, in which for my creative peace I wrote a story about two teenage necromancers falling in love while living in their necromancer's enclave in the desert. Got an A. * [[{{Pepinson}} This Troper]] just dropped a class over various creative differences with the teacher--not the least of which was best expressed in an incident on the first day. She chided us all against the dangers of writing "genre fiction," then read us a story about a woman raising her own spare-parts clone. She called it--what else?-MagicRealism. * This troper thankfully subverted the Sci Fi Ghetto in a high school English class... when told to write a paper on a prominent American literary author, he chose [[HPLovecraft H.P. Lovecraft]], put in numerous quotes of his wonderfully loquacious descriptions and story synopses, and got an A. ** Lovecraft wrote both fantasy and sci-fi. He's considered a fantasy

author. ** Isn't he considered a horror writer, first and foremost? His stories can fit fantasy and science fiction, but primarily they are intended to scare. * This Troper had the pleasure of having an entire University class on "Speculative Fiction" but had to put up with a professor that ''demanded'' that any examples be treated as [[SeriousBusiness HIGH ART]]. For example, to utter the abreviation "Sci-Fi" was to invite outright death because SciFi is boorish, hack writing made for titillating the unwashed masses, while "Speculative Fiction" is highbrow literature that explores the implications of society and the multi-faceted nature of how human beings perceive the universe. Apparently SciFi (sorry, ''Speculative Fiction'') is fine, as long as you're not planning to write for ''entertainment''. * [[{{Aela}} This troper]] is currently writing a two-part novel that lurches between fantasy and science fiction. She has a good friend, a better writer than she, who basically thinks all sci-fi and fantasy (outside of a very narrow pool) is garbage, because it's not "literary" or "realistic," once advising her that "you should avoid genre fiction, because it's shallow." So this troper listens to her go on about her "literary" stories ''every day'' but can't talk about her pet project. Also, the same friend dismissed this troper's [[Series/DoctorWho favorite show]] after seeing roughly an hour of it. It frustrates her. ** [[EddieVanHelsing This troper]] used to date a woman with a similar attitude. This attitude is one of many reasons they broke up. Have you considered getting a better friend? Good friends don't put down their friends' writing just because they're not "literary". * [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with this troper's high-school English teacher. Being a feminist with a minor in philosophy makes Shakespeare [[UnfortunateImplications a lot less respectable]] and Sci-Fi a lot more so. * This troper was unable to do Watchmen for a paper about the influence contemporary history had on a work from the time period. We could do pretty much any art form as long as the teacher approved, the most often done ones are Film and Literature, but some people do paintings and music. What makes it worse is that other teachers did allow it. * Averted by this troper's ''Mother''. After teaching High School English for decades, she found that her students often hated reading ''more'' after taking her class, or any other English class, really. The curriculum was generally filled with such "classics" as ''The Great Gatsby'', ''Robinson Crusoe'', ''The Scarlet Letter'', etc. She eventually asked this troper for advice. "What about ''Ender's Game''?" I asked. After reading it herself, she assigned it to her students. For the first time in history, a significant portion of the class (at least half) read the chapters before they were due and finished the book at least a week early. Since then she has assigned ''Ender's Game'' every year and even has students who take her class just to read that book. * Thankfully averted in this troper's case - he just got an A on a paper discussing how Stephen King's ''The Tommyknockers'' was affected

by his drug addiction (he also managed to work a subtle reference to Half-Life 2 into the essay, which went right over the teacher's head). * Averted by [[{{Civanfan}} This Troper]] - for a Mesoamerican Art History Paper, the teacher had assigned us to daunting task of pointing out the historical errors of Mel Gibson's ''Apocalypto''. I did so, but also pointed out the reason all those errors were occurring. It wasn't [[DidNotDoTheResearch bad research!]] It wasn't because TheyJustDidntCare! It was because there was a space-time anomaly that was mashing past, present and future together into one endless, simultaneous moment, thus making ''Apocalypto'' a sci-fi movie. My theory explained every continuity error, every bizarre break from history, how the Spanish got to South America four hundred years too early, everything! ''And'' I got an A! * This troper is writing a semi-fanfic about an invented former member of the X-Men working for NASA for which she has done tons of research. But she looses all the adults she knows at "It's about a superhero." ** This troper is working on a series of Superhero (my own creations) novel series. He can see a glaze in even some of his '''superhero geek pals''' when they learn that it's not being made in a comic book medium (its an actual book about super heroes with no pictures, IE literature.). ** What's his/her ability? Super-intellect? Survive vacuum? Manipulate gravity? * Subverted with this troper. Despite her English teacher being very, very old and rather conservative, said English teacher actively urges her students to read authors such as Orson Scott Card and Ray Bradbury, and many times the "classic stories of literary merit" we read in class end up being compared to things such as ''StarWars''. * Subverted by this troper from the teacher side of the equation. I had a class discussion about the societal implications of human cybernetic enhancement, using ''GhostInTheShell'', ''MegaManBattleNetwork'' (specifically Hub/Megaman) and ''{{Crackdown}}'' among my examples. Not to mention the evolution of the fictional society from ''Mega Man'' to ''MegaManZero''. Also had an English class where I compared the storytelling root structure of ''The Canturbury Tales'' to ''DragonQuest IV''. * Subverted in this troper's college class on literary theory. Our assignment was to write an essay applying a school of analysis to something that ''wasn't'' technically "literature". This troper chose ''FullMetalAlchemist'' and Derrida's deconstruction theory. The anime version, because it fit perfectly into what she wanted to write about. Her teacher loved it. He was also a self-proclaimed fan of HarryPotter, and once did a reading of an essay about the significance of the Mirror of Erised at this troper's college. * Hard aversion: a long time ago, in a classroom far, far away, this troper had to start a story with "The engine died, and I looked up in despair..." Not one to waste such an opportunity, [[{{Warhammer 40000}} he decided the engine belonged to a Leman Russ battle tank attached to a regiment of Imperial Guard fighting Tyranids.]] The teacher loved it so much it was read out to the rest of the class, to his considerable embarrassment. * [[LatwPIAT This Troper]] once had a school task where we had to

bring a book that changed us through reading it. Thinking I had never been changed significantly by a book, I ended up bringing a HighSchool Mathematics Learning Supplement I read while in primary school, talking about how it had developed already existing interests in me, but that no book had ever changed me. After some questions from a teacher, I said that the only work that had ever changed me was a Graphic Novel, so I couldn't have chosen it for a book task, whereupn my teacher corrected me and said that comics are just as much as wholy written works, and I could have brough it. I later discovered that not only one, but ''two'' teachers (of whioch the aforementioned teacher is one) in my school use ''Maus'' in their lessons. I'm still glad I went with the math book though, for two reasons: A) I would have looked very out of the ordinary, and B) '''I am not''' bringing my ''uncencored'' copy of ''GhostInTheShell'' to school unless a task specifically calls for something like that. * Somewhat of a subversion. The Literary Club at this troper's school has been reading mostly historical fiction or absurdist social commentaries([[MindScrew about Rhinos]]). The last assignment for this year however is a free choice assignment, as in we can pick any book we want. The only stipulation being that it HAS to come from either the Horror, Fantasy, or Science Fiction genres. * This troper recent overheard another member of his study abroad program act surprised that The Lord of the Rings was going to be added to the AP Literature list of books that can be taught for the AP Lit test, and question its merit. This troper didn';t say anything, but did do a sort of mental facepalm. * This troper had a GCSE English coursework essay set on comparisons between Kingdom Hospital and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. He didn't have to do the essay, having already scored full marks on an essay that could be submitted for the same part of the course, but he loved watching the shows (Darkplace in particular). A couple of years before that, he had an English teacher who set the class the task of writing a horror story in the style of either Shirley Jackson or HP Lovecraft, while teaching us research techniques asked us to use them to produce a report on Cthulhu, gave us a story generator table that required use of a D4, ran a Call of Cthulhu roleplaying group, and loved the works of Alan Moore and Iain (M) Banks. A truly great teacher! ** Ah, and I forgot the time when he put us into groups and had each group devise the major civilisations and general ecosystem inside a Dyson Sphere, to be explained for as an oral exam. * Interestingly played in this troper's high school English classes books such as ''TheDayOfTheTriffids'', ''AClockworkOrange'', ''NineteenEightyFour'' and ''Master of the Grove'' were all required reading, but this troper's practice QCS essay was not looked upon favourably. Mainly because he wrote a TimeTravel story with [[EternalEnglish an orthography mangled to all hell and back]]. Also, ''ChildhoodsEnd'' was on a list of books suggested for review in the class he took when living in America. * This troper recalls a critic who said that fantasy wasnt real literature because, since the fantasy world "had no real rules," the author could "make up" whatever he needed to get past any obstacles in the story.... this troper's retort is that this was akin to saying

riding a unicycle was easier than riding a bicycle because it had one less wheel. * Subversion: My GCSE English teacher chastised the class for being unable to identify ''sarcasm'' of all things and suggested the read TheHitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy and Discworld. Praising my interest in such books and in SF at the same time * In sci-fi circles themselves, [[TheGunheart this troper]] is getting bored of the attitude that HumongousMecha are somehow the worst element any work can include. ** [[@/{{Fishsicles}} Seconded.]] * This troper tried to invoke this during AP English his senior year. We were tasked with an impromptu essay on "the greatest challenge facing the world, citing literary examples." Most people wrote about war and natural disaster and social injustice; I wrote about the coming Dalek invasion. I also got the only A given by the teacher, who ''did not even own a TV because it was a distraction from his books.'' ** Probably reads the novels. * Glorious subversion: ''{{Watchmen}}'' and ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' are both ''assigned texts'' in this troper's philosophy class. Moreover, all of the required films for the course are either science fiction or fantasy. My professor is a wonderful guy. * Subverted and played straight for this troper. TheMatrix is part of Stage 1 English Communications for my school, but my past english teacher did not like scifi at all. This tropers mother tends to give her looks of disdain whenever anything related to popular culture is mentioned in relation to my English class (last year we did a unit on soap operas. Which is now why I never ever say anything about my English class for fear of a repeat of this incident.). * Subverted in my freshman year English 101 course, where the teacher was forced to assign a textbook and two novels. The textbook? "Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America" by Bradford W. Wright. The novels? "Comic Chix" (an unfortunately named collection of comics with female artists) and "The Dark Knight Returns". * In a weird inversion, I took a class entitled "Feminism and Science Fiction." I was disappointed to find out the assigned reading material was all lightly speculative fiction with almost no real sci-fi to be seen. When I asked the two professors teaching the course why theere was no real science fiction, they both made vague arguments that amounted to "Oh science fiction is all garbage, we just called the class that because it's popular, but we would never lower ourselves to read ''genre'' fiction." This troper was greatly disappointed. * This Troper has always been a sci-fi fan and during my school career he was tasked with at writing at least one short story. Although science-fiction or other "literature with little broad public appeal" were discouraged, he came up with a science fiction plot. Set in a future where the British government has become obsessed with providing ever-"better" education for its people, it sees a group of teenagers being flown to an island in the North Sea where they are entered into a harshly-regulated society, where they are brainwashed and "converted" into the perfect citizens due to revolutionary social

engineering and other measures. It's later revealed that it's set in a future where, after decades of educational reforms and by effectively forcing all students to pursue extended education, most education certificates and degrees have become meaningless, with mass unemployment and crime as generations are raised by a system that values academic ability over human potential and preparedness for life, and everyone is therefore brainwashed into being "the same". An epilogue shows the British Prime Minister speaking with scientists who are working on creating "synthetic humans" - fully organic organisms based on nature's design, but with improvements including increased learning capability. While my story was the only sci-fi work submitted, and while it was very critical of the British education system, my teacher was amazed by the implied depth of the fictional world and the message that could be conveyed in a hypothetical session - she gave the story full marks and even gave copies of it to all of her other classes, and later admitted to me that she'd been wary of sci-fi but that I'd helped open her eyes up to the literary merit that it held. * Averted amazingly by this troper's Freshman english teacher, he used an episode of the twilight zone to teach. ** [[XanderK This troper]]'s Sophomore english teacher used an episode as well. * I was in a book shop earlier today, and heard a woman ask an employee about ''TheTimeTravellersWife'' -->'''Woman:'''''(warily)'' So, is this science fiction?\\ '''Employee:''' Well, only in the sense that he ''does'' travel back in time, but it's set in the present day and everything...\\ '''Woman:''' Oh no, I don't like that. * This troper would like to point out the real issue that many college professors in creative writing or literature have with Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Specifically, they at some point tried to be a writer rather than a teacher. They did not sell well. They saw other people selling well, and now have unspeakable rage. It's the same reason why writing to 'entertain' is bad. Making money is obviously evil if the teacher cant manage it. * I am a Swedish SF entusiast. When I went to secondary school (i.e. age 17-19) in 1977, we had to do a really thick essay in the final year with a free choice of subject. I chose to wrote a science fiction novella. My Swedish teacher accepted the subject without discomfort; she was quite happy that anyone wanted to do a piece of fiction under her aegis instead of writing on history or science. Also, that year in English class we were supposed to read and review a thick serious novel; I chose The Silmarillion, which was fresh from the presses and had to be bought by mail order from London. My teacher was delighted. (In those days, most Swedes associated SF with [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlyingSaucers UFOs]], Flash Gordon or Jules Verne and considered it wo be a weird fringe interest.) * This troper had to argue for the right to use scifi/fantasy artists as the subject of a paper for an Art History class. Teacher was dubious that anyone painting chicks in chainmail for paperback covers could actually be considered an artist. She gave in eventually though.

* This troper just doesn't like the label "Sci Fi", not for any quality judgement but just because ''Flash Gordon''-esque {{Fantasy}} [[AC:InSpace]] and scientific/political SpeculativeFiction are, while both perfectly legitimate genres, ''not remotely the same thing''. ** This troper likes the label Sci Fi for its pleasing rhyming, and points out that most space opera is actually harder science fiction than New Wave-style "SpeculativeFiction", which is only science fiction in the sense sociology is a science (i.e. [[MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness very softly]]). ''Scrupulously'' accurate hard sf is still Sci Fi, not speculative fiction ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin because the story is driven by concepts from science]]''. But, of course, if you like it or think it's intelligent, it must be speculative fiction and not scifi. [[SarcasmMode Because that's not the kind of thinking responsible for the Ghetto in the first place, right?]] * In high school, this troper had to write a book report on the themes of any novel we chose with the only requirement being it had to be over a certain number of pages and had to be within our reading level range. I chose to do mine on A Game of Throne from A Song of Ice and Fire series. When the teacher found out it was fantasy, he said I couldn't do it since fantasy isn't true literature and could not possibly to have complex, mature themes. And yet he let other students do their reports on ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. ** [[FlatWhat What]]...[[BigWhat WHAT]]!? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2xDJPc-yaM&feature=related WHAAAAAT]]!?!? [[{{Angrish}} That piece of ffff...how can you justify...are you fucking kidding...you're honestly saying...FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT]]!! ** That is sooooo wrong.... ** I think you just broke my brain. * Averted by this troper's AP Language and Composition teacher. She wanted us to read a book from a list of college board choices over the winter break, but if we really wanted to, we could ask to read something else. She actually MADE a girl this troper knows read a book by T.A. Barron. (Admittedly, the teacher only assigned it after I recommended his work to her because she had never read anything by him, but still.) She's also letting me read GoodOmens for the project. * DrRockopolis once did a group report on {{Dune}} for high school English; not only was it accepted, but the group received an A, though I'm not sure if it was for the report, for reenacting the Gom Jabbar, or for the {{Dune}} version of the Banana Boat song. * Another delicious subversion: [[PhoenixFire I]] had a freshman English course about the perception of science in popular culture. When my professor let me write my final paper on the role of doctor/scientist characters in ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' and ''[[TheDresdenFiles Dead Beat]]'', I gloated for a week. * [[Tropers/{{Zadia}} Zadia]] personally hates her English teachers for this. I love sci-fi and fantasy and have done so for years. However, my English teachers all turn up their noses at sci-fi and fantasy- none of them approve of my writing fantasy short stories, unless the topic is something to do with fantasy or sci-fi. Although one teacher is sort of OK with sci-fi (well, she liked [[EndersGame

Ender's Game]]) she took the stance that sci-fi is OK in itself, but isn't nearly as good as other genres. Really pisses me off. * This troper once got into an extended forum debate over whether the Korean film ''Film/TheHost'' was a monster movie. All efforts to point out that the plot revolves around a ''giant monster'' were in vain. * Just the other day {{Kaywinnet}}'s grandmother and her friend were discussing how they couldn't stand sci-fi and fantasy. Although it's probably not snobbery - they don't seem open to the concept that fiction can be art and not just entertainment, because they also discussed how all fiction should be bright and cheerful, since there's enough sadness in the world. Honestly, from their discussion, it seems likely that they simply have limited imaginations and were unable to comprehend anything that isn't set in the "real world." * This troper has had several averted this trope on several situations . Create a culture that doesn't exist, no martians: Space explorer marooned on an alien planet, encounters nomadic, wolf riding, mammoth hunting giants (who were the evolutionary result of an abandoned human terraform experiment). Write a plausible, modern story, no magic: Man goes insane after gaining telepathy and telekinesis (Which are a result of an abnormally powerful subconscious telepathy organ which the man discovered). Write a story with a virtuous moral, no magic: Agnostic who lives in a theocracy gets executed, beats Death at a game of cards using the virtue of patience (They spent the equivalent of 20,000 years playing one game). Every time the teachers loved them and each time this troper sniggered that he wormed his way around the restrictions. * [[@/HersheleOstropoler This troper]] isn't about to deny that the story about werewolves and the story about genies are fantasy, but doesn't want to develop renown as a "fantasy author"--because none of his other in-progress ideas qualify as speculative fiction, and he doesn't want to disappoint people. * My high school english teacher brought in an episode of ''{{Firefly}}'' to help analyze storytelling devices. At that point I liked sci-fi but hadn't really come cross it. Now I really wish there was more. * I'm envious of all of you who actually got to do anything other than depressing, angsty pieces of "realist" fiction in your literature classes. I've loved Speculative Fiction (used because I like not having to divide fantasy and sci-fi) as long as I've been reading, and the closest I came to getting to study any of it was the one paper I got to do on a book of my choice (as a senior) and wrote it on Douglas Adams. I'm still annoyed that they wouldn't let us study anything that I found either particularly interesting or even fun to read. * This troper finds the kerfluffle about Atwood somewhat disheartening, considering what a vicious, hate-filled screed TheHandmaidsTale ''is''. But, apparently, nobody minds. [[{{Demonization}} Paint Evangelicals as misogynist closet rapists just itching for a chance to enslave women as breeding stock?]] Yawn. But deny that the book is science fiction? [[DoubleStandard How DARE she?!]] ** CompletelyMissingThePoint * This teenaged troper was recently delighted to discover that the

other half of his first serious relationship is as into books as he is. She was probably pleased to meet a guy who reads as well... until I admitted that some of my favourite books were sci-fi. This is not assisted by my fanatical reverence of ''Firefly'' and my repeated insistence that ''Aliens'' is the best action movie ever made. She doesn't realise the hypocrisy when I point out how much she enjoyed Stephenie Meyer's ''The Host''. Hm. * This troper had a high school teacher who was very proud of having been an extra in CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind, but couldn't get out of the "actually entertaining stuff sucks" part of the Ghetto. He said Encounters got overshadowed by StarWars, which came out the same year, and, quote, "[[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Star Wars had a plot a fiveyear-old could follow.]]" To which this troper replied, "So did the Iliad." ** Same troper had another one, an English teacher, who let me do a literary analysis of ''Pride of Chanur'' by C. J. Cherry, but apparently got held up reading it because of the names (Pyanfar, Khym, Akukkakkwhich last is hard, I'll give you). To which this troper asked, "Do you have trouble reading things with characters named Meleager or Agamemnon? You so often meet people named that, right?" (Yes, Homer is my go-to for countering this) Then again, she also insisted we couldn't say quotes, but had to say "quotations". This troper ''wanted'', but through saintly effort ''forbore'', to say, "Do you also make people say 'taximeter cab' and 'omnibus station'!?" * This Troper was surprised when he encountered this attitude from his older sister (who I look up to, and who is other wise very level headed and sensible). My sister was talking about a philosophy book she had just read (can't remember the title) and was gushing about the ideas it held about how life is ultimately meaningless and how humanity could never comprehend the true nature of things. I suggested that she should look at the works of H. P. Lovecraft, sense most of his story's are all about that stuff, and commented that I found his story's vary entertaining. She then rolled her eye's and told me that the sci fi I read wasn't "literature," that it's "only enjoyed by pre pubescent boys," and that I "should have grown out of that stuff years ago." To compare her "classics" to the junk I read was simply unthinkable. Then again I got the last laugh sense a year later she got hooked on Twilight, which I have yet to stop teasing her about. ** "''Gushing''" that life is meaningless? That's...[[NightmareFetishist a little unsettling]], actually. ** Kudos to your sister for informing me that I am in actuality a prepubescent boy, when all this time I thought I was in my midtwenties...and a girl. * [[{{Popette}} This troper]] wrote a tale about a man getting caught up in a futuristic art scene where displaying mutilated corpses was in vogue and edgy, so long as the artist didn't kill them. Of course, everyone did, so the cops were trying madly to hunt down the artist/murderers. It was quite sci-fi, with nifty gadgets and futureslang. However, her teacher insisted on calling it CyberPunk or SpeculativeFiction, even after told it was ScienceFiction. ** It ''sounds'' squarely within cyberpunk, actually, but cyberpunk ''is'' sci-fi. It just gets grandfathered into "serious literature" on

the grounds that it's often "artistic" (by which is meant, "it involves dystopias"). This troper personally prefers to go the other way''no'' dystopia is ''less'' scifi than cyberpunk, even if [[WilliamGibson the sky's color in no way resembles that of television tuned to a dead channel and there's not a street samurai or cyborg dolphin in sight]]. * [[Tropers.TwosComplement This Troper]] had an argument with his friend about whether a ZombieApocalypse was either Sci-Fi or Fantasy. I argued the former. * ThisTroper is considering becoming an English teacher specifically so I can avert this. My tastes are quite varied but mostly fiction. The sad part is I suspect I would be forced to stick to a rigid curriculum. * I faced this some in high school, most notably senior year, where I had an extremely set-in-her-views English teacher. One conversation went something like this: -->'''Me:''' So, how about Lord of the Rings? Is that literature?\\ '''Her:''' No, that's an epic. Another went something like this: -->'''Me:''' Ooh, 1984. That's literature, right?\\ '''Her:''' Indeed. One of the best twentieth century works.\\ '''Me:''' Okay, good. But it's science fiction too, pretty clearly.\\ '''Her:''' No, it's not. It's literature.\\ '''Me:''' No, but it's explicitly set in the future, and has lots of pieces of technology that didn't actually exist at the time. That's science fiction!\\ '''Her:''' It's not science fiction because George Orwell was a great writer. ** On the bright side, with a different teacher, I referred to this very site on our final exam, and specifically the PlanetOfHats trope by name, and was one of just a handful of people to get an A. * Inverted by this troper's high school English teacher. Senior year (AP), she assigned T.H. White's ''The Once and Future King'' as summer reading. Sophomore year, during the study of epics, she required the class to read ''LordOfTheRings'', '''and''' watch the movies, '''and''' watch ''StarWars'' (IV, V, and VI). It was amazing. * Subverted by either this troper's high school or this troper's high school English teachers so far (this troper doesn't know which assigns the book for the Novel Study unit). For 9th grade our English teacher assigned us "The Door into Summer" by Heinlein, which got a bit squicky when the man fell in love with his twelve year-old niece but helped to define my definition of time travel for the foreseeable future. Then for the 10th grade we got "The Chrysalids" by John Wyndham which (although it was pretty short) explored the themes of racism, evolution and how religion would change when faced with the apparent apocalypse. Needless to say, this troper hopes the 11th year of English will assign just as a good a book as the other two. * While this troper was away from home, my uncle spent the night in my house, and when we have guests they usually sleep in my bed because it's the nicest bed in the house besides the one that belongs to my parents. The next day, my uncle saw me, and told me a story about how he couldn't get to sleep, and was sitting in my bed looking for

something to do, and what happens to be sitting on my dresser is a book. [[LilithsBrood This book]], in fact. My uncle, a politically conservative Vietnam vet and a country boy from Mississipi, not really a reader nor a fan of scifi, although not a stupid man by any means, picked up this book and started reading from a random point in the middle. He told me he could not put the book down. His words were that it was so well-written and interesting that it held his attention completely, despite the fact that it was about "aliens that can see through the pores of their skin" and it completely changed his view of science fiction. Needless to say, this was not the response I was expecting, but a pleasant surprise. I love that man. * This troper brought up her liking of Douglas Adams and ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' novels in a conversation. Since none of the listeners had heard of either of them, I gave a brief description of the series ('it's basically science fiction satire, funny stuff, pretty popular too'), which brought on smirks and funny looks from everyone. Their reasoning behind this being that, not only is this a work of dreaded science fiction, it's '''humour based''', because god forbid a novel of any merit whatsoever be funny. I received a similar response regarding ''Discworld'' as well (at least they had heard of Terry Prachett). This lead to them explaining to me that they don't bother with either science fiction or fantasy because they are unrealistic and stupid. This is, while narrow-minded, an understandable reason under normal circumstances. However my entire group of friends are also proud and vocal ''Harry Potter'' fans. After bringing up this contradiction in their reasoning, they explain that ''Harry Potter'' is the only fantasy series with any literary merit because 'it doesn't follow fantasy stereotypes and actually deals with mature themes unlike most fantasy'. Just, where do I even start? * A rather bizarre variant. This Troper had a college assignment to pick a "control system" and analyze it's function (potential failure modes, probability of failure etc.). He wrote it on the shooting mechanics in Warhammer 40000. * This troper is in third year of a university writing course. He was banned from submitting fantasy works at the end of second year, because they were 'always subject to cliche.' This year he has the same tutor, with the same ban on fantasy. Submitting a Science-Fiction novel he had it torn to shreds again, denounced as cliche. We submit in 500 word extracts. Apparently my tutor was able to tell from a 500 word extract featuring two characters talking with very little mention or description of the setting that my 100,000 word novel was going to be cliched. * JackMackerel: I've never been subject to this, honestly. Most people who reject SciFi are specifically poetry magazines or something genrespecific in my experience, and a lot of writing courses around here aren't very snobby. * I refused to take Creative Writing courses if the listing said "No Fantasy or Science Fiction Allowed." When I finally did take one, with a professor who did not say this, I mentioned this, explaining that such a restriction was a good indicator that the instructor was a pretentious snob. She agreed, and so does the professor I'm taking Fiction Writing from next semester. This one doesn't care for it

herself, but doesn't think it's a lesser genre; it's just one she isn't into. * [[Tropers/TromboneChild I]] once started telling my younger cousin a little about ''Series/DoctorWho'', mostly because he'd just made a banana joke. My mother then told me to stop because "it's science fiction" and he wouldn't get it. I told her that he loves ''StarWars'', and she said, "But ''StarWars'' isn't science fiction, is it?" No, Mom, it isn't, if you ignore all the spaceships and aliens that pervade the series. I think she assumed it was too "mainstream" to be sci-fi. * This Troper once took a creative writing course which experienced a major split between the population in the under 50 age bracket, one half could best be described as writing like Stephanie Meyer after surgical application of a chair to the cranium, who spent most of the time looking to become housewives and bullying the others for a lack of maturity, the other half had a non-stop LOTR/Star Wars/Star Ship Troopers/Star Trek marathon to celebrate the mid-term holiday, punctuated by a fistfight over Heinlein and Asimov. The worst part, is that I mean the lecturers and students were split into these two groups, little is as awkward than seeing the people who mark your assignments trying to throttle each other over the issue of who portrayed advanced human societies more believably. * This troper had the misfortune to be specifically forbidden from doing anything sci-fi for his GCSE coursework. did that stop me? heck no! the first piece I had to hand in was a short story (although we were told to write it as though it were the first chapter of a novel). My entry? 'stealth' sci-fi, as it didn't appear to be sci-fi at all until plot twists showed up. It was my highest grade in the course (a pretty high A). looking back, it wasn't that great (I've had, and am working on, much better ideas). (for the record: my favourite was something described as 'an essay on a controversial topic'. most people chose bans on fox hunting, etc. I chose to write about freedom of speech. specifically, AGAINST it, with references to 1984 and the protomen. in fact, my entire bibliography for it consisted of sci-fi books and films, plus both protomen albums). * Heroically averted by my local library, which stocks all of the fiction together, regardless of genre. * [[{{Tropers/Pittsburghmuggle}} This troper]] was recently excited to find a few ArthurCClarke books for sale at his library. Then I noticed that they were books I had checked out before - ''2061'', ''3001'', ''ChildhoodsEnd'', all from the rather pitiful SciFi collection my library has. I asked about this as I bought the books - they said it based what books were sold according to how often they were checked out. Ouch. * This troper found a rather interesting teacher - he admitted he disliked the fantasy and science-fiction genres, but said that there was nothing wrong with writing them. In fact, he said that "Even if Tolkien isn't a good writer of a plot; he's still good at establishing a world - that's what I notice some people love about Science Fiction and Fantasy; to see a lot of detail placed into the world itself." * This troper, Edgy, once wrote a 30 plus page revenge piece featuring superheroes with powers ranging from rage makes you

stronger, acid blood, healing factor, making weapons of blood, and hypnotism. The class professor didn't even read it and his selfappointed TA couldn't get passed page two. This is a FICTION writing class. The damn professor could only get his lame ass mystery series and Sherlock Holmes fanfiction published so I guess sci-fi is too low brow for him. * I (that is to say, the 3rdpoliceman) have an english teacher who doesn't consider sci-fi to be 'proper literature' (We all had to read a novel in class. I was surprised the others could read). The way she said it implied she thought SF and fantasy to be the same thing (They are not! They are both completely different! Science Fiction has SCIENCE! The clue's in the name! Fantasy can be anything you imagine! Huge difference!)and she just said it so dismissively. What's really annoying is that she knew someone was reading 1984 or Brave New World or something and didn't even realise how ludicrous that made her sound. I've read loads of bizarre and surreal works of fantasy (and a few sci-fi) and I'd say most of them are deeper than Pride and Prejudice- her idea of a great novel. ** Although this teacher does sound pretty clueless, scifi and fantasy are often ''not'' "completely different"... a fair amount of SF & F works have similar thematic elements. Not to mention, some fantasy takes a ''far'' more rigorous approach to its magic than some scifi does to its technology. * This Troper has an interesting aversion to this: In an English class, he was told to examine archetypes in a work of fiction of his choice. He managed to get Portal approved as his work of ficition, and wrote an essay on GLaDOS. Can you say that you've written 'The Cake is a Lie' in a serious paper? This Troper can! :D * Averted by This Troper's Junior year American Literature teacher. At the end of the year everyone had to do a research paper and a presentation on an American author, as part of this, he handed out a HUGE list of authors to everyone in the class (it went upwards of 900). When verbally called out a bunch of the more popular names on the list, he included Isaac Asimov. When I said i wanted to do Heinlein, he ''immediately'' recognized the name. Then after that hour i suggested that he include Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks, and Jim Butcher on the list. His immediate response was to tell me that Card was already on it, and then said he'd put Brooks and Butcher on the list next year. He even said i could use Jim Butcher then if i wanted, but i stayed with Heinlein. * Annoyingly, a certain local bookstore, while having a regular YA section, also had a section for adult speculative fiction, but the section was labelled simply as "Young Adult" anyway, as if no adults would ever be interested in fantasy/science fiction, even though there were plenty of novels with obviously mature themes in there. ---Go back to [[SciFiGhetto your pitiful little corner of the bookstore]], [[ThisIsASentenceBitch bee-yatch]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale * While [[{{Nomic}} this troper's]] stories don't even try to appear realistic (he rather enjoys writing pulp-style sci-fi), he tries to avoid this trope (except for the cases where rules of cool take precedence over common sense). For example, he'd never have a planetbusting weapon literally blow a planet into chunks of space rocks, as the amount of energy required would be absurd. Just punching a hole in the crust would create enough flashy destruction and render the planet uninhabitable. Of course the planet-busting in the above case was done by a capital ship over a thousand miles in length, so maybe he should just be quiet (the story did acknowledge that a ship that large might not be very practical, tho). ** Actually, if your story's warp engines (presuming you have warp engines) are rare and/or your warp fields hard to establish, having a huge starship would be economically better than a fleet of smaller ones. There's no gravity or friction in space, so there is no construction difficulty with large ships, or any need to have them be aerodynamically designed. A setting where FTL is difficult (or where HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace) will tend to have far larger ships, just like the [[{{Titanic}} cruisers]] which traveled from Europe to America and back in the early 20th century were much larger than the airplanes of today. The only existing interstellar spaceship design which could work without violating physics as we know it ''has to be'' over 100 kilometers in diameter at the front to scoop up interstellar hydrogen for fuel. (Of course you need the metal deposits of at least one entire planet to build a ship 1000 miles long, but strip mining is why you're an evil intergalactic empire). * This troper recently started a campaign in which the fact that reinforcements from a nearby star system won't arrive for two weeks is a major plot point. Naturally, the players who decided to come from planets several times further away all arrived in half the time. They see nothing wrong with this. ** If it only took a short while according to the players' frame of reference, then that's just special relativity at work. If it wasn't, [[HandWave blame]] FTLRadio for warning them ahead of time. * While in middle school and high school, this troper took part in an "Outer Space Combat" RPG (which we simply called "The Game") involving Star Wars/Star Trek ships, plus anything else we could think of. After a little while, we were allowed to make up our own stuff. Examples include: ** One of this troper's many creations was a spaceship that was big enough to be seen several lightyears away (later scrapped because it was too unwieldy to use effectively; if I'd known that Gurren Lagann would be airing close to a decade later, I would've stuck with it). ** My friend took Final Fantasy VII's Sister Ray and effectively transformed it into the mother of all Wave Motion Guns, allowing it to wipe out several galaxies' worth of ships and giving it a power level of several million... and until we finally stopped the RPG when we graduated, ''the power level never stopped growing,'' hitting a billion by that point. ** Operating under the assumption that the Star Trek warp engines were

faster than the Star Wars hyperdrive. These are only a few examples; needless to say, we spent a lot of time trying to one-up each other and going BeyondTheImpossible, with a few other participants/commentators hanging on for the ride. *** FYI They are most certainly not. In ST: Voyager they said it would take 70 years at ''best speed'' (which they can't even do all the time) to get back to the Alpha Quadrant whereas the Star Wars hyperdrive can traverse a comparably sized galaxy in only a few days. http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/ *** Like I just got through saying, we were operating under the ''assumption'' that they were. It wasn't until a year or so after we started that I found out that the reverse was true, but by the time I got around to telling my friends about this, we decided to just leave things the way they were; under limitations like those, it simply wouldn't have been fun for us anymore. And yes, that was the site where I found out those details. About ten or eleven years late, but thanks anyway. **** Given how inconsistent both series are on speeds (Han says the Millennium Falcon goes at 1.5 c, and Trek is all over the place), they're [[http://st-v-sw.net/STSWcompare.html#FTL roughly equal]] ***** Han actually says the Falcon can do "Point five past lightspeed" while we assume this means 1.5c, it must be vastly faster, given that the Falcon can cross between several systems in one film. ***** This troper has always assumed that either the Star Wars galaxy is incredibly tiny (possibly with the Force counteracting gravity to prevent it all from collapsing in on itself) or light just moves a hell of a lot faster in the Star Wars reality. ** I lost The Game because of whoever posted this. * This tropers story, DominionAndDuchy involves a ClockPunk SpaceOpera that involves artificial planets, a starship the size of the Soviet Union, a parasite that feeds off the Universe itself and five planets in the same solar system literally connected by '''''TheWorldTree'''''. * This troper is currently writing a sci-fi story that totally avoids this trope. Although to enable the story to take place across a number of solar systems there is a jump drive (although by sci-fi standards it's slow, with times between systems measured in weeks, not to mention expensive, and dangerous if not used with extream care) all other movement follows Newtonian physics and realistic scales. The same applies to communication. Whilst there is a tachyon based FTL communication system, it requires a lot of energy to transmit and is very low bandwidth, so can be used for short text messages only (it's also not at all reliable). All other communications, and all sensors, are limited to the speed of light. * This troper was writing a Marvel fan-fic where she suggested that her character might take a suborbital tourist flight at some time in a future arc. She was immediately besieged by suggestions that that character hang out with the Silver Surfer, battle interstellar empires, ect. Seriously, people, SUBORBITAL! * Lucky Bunny Bounty Show is going to suffer from this, I just know it. Oh well, it's not like I can take it seriously when I already knew that it was absurd that the main character's ship can make a journey

in a week that all the other people in the 'verse need a month to make. Chaos Drive is wonderful, if hard to make work. * This troper, writing a sci-fi story, really wanted to avert this trope. FTL was handled as SubspaceOrHyperspace with a constant speed limit relative to the real universe, but still existed, and absurd energy requirements got at least a subtle HandWave. The end result was more along the lines of MagicAIsMagicA than having a sense of scale. Word to the wise: when writing a SpaceOpera, this is probably one of those AcceptableBreaksFromReality. * This troper attempts to avoid this with everything except FTL, which he doesn't use often. Of course, the majority of his characters top 3 meters. (It helps to be your own 10 foot pole) * This Troper is working on a story where a major plot point is that life on Earth evolves on a much more rapid pace than other lifeforms in the known universe. That isn't to say it's quicker than normal evolution, but that every other species is slower at it. Still this means the old races are have a higher life expectancy: Generally, a 20 something alien could conceivably have had grandparents who remember an Earth with Dinosaurs. * This troper has a setting and puts a disclaimer that it really isn't meant to be taken realistic in terms of scale. Partly because '''a)''' The Chthonian planet in the system is only a little closer to the sun than Mercury is to ours, but not as close as COROT-7b, which is even ''closer'' still. '''b)''' The two goldilocks planets are in a larger habitable zone, '''c)''' The Jovian planet is described as being puffy, but it's only because of the internal heating, and '''d)''' The Super-earth isn't as large as other super-earths, but the gravity would be a tad heavier if you landed on it. * Go on ''any'' written erotica forum. You'll find BiggusDickus taken BeyondTheImpossible. * I've got me an idea in my head that generally averts this: inuniverse, interstellar travel is possible, but still can not break the scale. As such, humanity has moved across many worlds in many systems, but are so incredibly cut-off from the others that it can get pretty ridiculous. Communications from other known colonial worlds have been known to be wildly random. Sometimes info on a strong new Empire that has rested control will come at one time, and at another time it's suddenly gone and just a historical foot note. It didn't take long before people started inventing new languages, meaning some of the contact is just in unintelligible garbling. There's also a massive technology gap, regardless of the universe's all ready high level. fFor example, the main character is an advanced cyborg from one cluster who travels to another. As it turns out, in that local space he is such a technological marvel that many local scientists assume that he just ''can not exist'' by their local laws of the universe. Attempts to keep things orderly even in their solar system require several outposts on any given planet's general orbit (as well as a few averaged orbits between planets) constantly broadcasting information between each other. Even then, the lag is still quite noticeable. Still, all these problems aren't really risen to CrapSackWorld, as it just doesn't matter to your average ApatheticCitizens. This also leads to sects of SpaceAmish who decided it wasn't worth the effort.

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Scotireland * This troper has a form tutor who is Irish, but speaks with a Scottish accent. * This troper, who did Drama at A-Level, remembers that, for the group's final piece, one of the other students, a Scot who had moved to England quite young and as a result had a slightly softened accent, put on a deliberately bad Oirish accent for one of the many characters he played. When I spoke to some audience members afterwards, one said 'That Irish guy did a really good Scottish accent!' * This (English) troper's maths class couldn't agree on whether our teacher's accent was Scottish or Irish. Turned out she was Scottish but raised in Northern Ireland (or vice versa)... * This Scots troper physically winced when somebody said that the folks in [[CaptainPlanet "If It's Doomsday It Must be Belfast"]] sounded Scottish. They sound like [[SoBadItsGood the worst attempt at a generic Irish accent you ever heard]]. ** You haven't heard enough real life people try it ([[HypocriticalHumor Yes, including me]]). *** To this troper who is Irish the Protestant gang sond German in fact. Combine that with the blonde hair and "It's as good a reason as any" and the implications are unfortunate. * After the twenty-fifth/twenty-sixth person mistook me for Scottish, this Northern Irish editor kind of stopped counting. ** I lie... oh, and it's up to 51 now. * [[@/DarkInsanity13 This troper]] personally can never remember if she has backgrounds in Scotland or Ireland...so she cheats and says both. Actually, confirmed recently; she does have both. ** This troper also falls into both, with the Scottish being the majority holder. I also have a tendency to slip into a mild Scottish accent when I'm severely PO'ed. *** This troper when she's pissed. * This (Scottish) troper still gets Caithness (Scotland) and Belfast (N. Ireland) accents mixed up. * This troper, who has a Scottish father, wound up sounding Irish while trying to sound Scottish. In my defense, Dad's accent has been all but obliterated by decades of life in America. * This troper's roommate's boyfriend actually ''is'' Scotirish (dad's Scottish, mum's Irish), but identifies as Scottish (wearing a Scotland shirt also helps). * This troper's attempts at a scottish accent sound like an irish accent. Even then it verges on being an Oirish accent. Unless I try to do a strong scottish accent it sounds like I'm trying to do an impression of Sean Connery or I'm being offensive to the scots. * This troper seems to play this one straight as well as subvert it. I

can easily tell the difference between Scottish and Irish cultures and accents. I do amateur voice acting though, and I have a terrible Scotirish accent. * [[@/{{Smerf}} This troper]] is, among other things, both Irish and Scottish in ancestry. Guinness and bagpipes, anyone? * When [[@/{{fidheallir}} this troper]] speaks in her natural (Western Scottish) accent, she is often mistaken for being Irish. ** She has used this to her advantage on St. Patrick's Day by getting tips for her authentic "Irish" singing. * This troper is Canadian. His Paternal Grandfather is a Scot from Nova Scotia. His Mother's family were some of the original Irish settlers of the area she grew up. Needless to say, I do not normally notice any accent on my part, but I have had others point it out to me when I am peeved, or tired. Also, I am engaged to a strongly English woman, so this is going to make for a very interesting family.. * This Ulster Irish troper often gets asked "Are you Scottish or Irish?" when outside of Ireland. Granted, Eastern Ulster and Scottish accents sound quite similar. ** Hnnngh, I get this too. Really annoying. * This Scottish troper has a very weak Scottish accent due to having a father with a strong London accent, and spoke with a mysterious south London accent throughout his childhood. (despite growing up in the west of Scotland!) He later developed a recognisable Scottish accent during his teenage years, but occasionally (and mysteriously) his accent changes inadvertently into a strong southern Irish accent! Hence the Scotireland trope. His accent still gets mistaken for Irish or English today, including by people who live in Ireland and England! * @/{{Wretchkin}} was born in Scotland, but my maternal grandfather was in Irish immigrant, my ''paternal'' great grandfather was an Irish immigrant, his son/my paternal grandfather has Scottish/Irish Multiple Citizenship, and soon I will have the same, making me literally Scotirish. * This troper's just starting to be able to tell the difference between the accents and getting better at Scottish. Blame it on my friend from Glasgow. * Spoofed in [[@/DarthCliche this troper]]'s sci-fi RPG campaign: when a Scottish PC spoke to an NPC (of indeterminate nationality), the NPC said "I can't tell from your accent; are you from Scotland, Ireland, or Ganymede?" * Having parents from both both Scotland AND Ireland, this troper has one of the most unintelligible voices in the known universe. * Oddly reversed in this troper. Despite being born and bred in Ireland, living on both the west and east coasts, I have never once been asked if I was Irish or Scottish (though I do a good accent for both). For me, it is always "Where in America are you from?" or "When did you move here from Washington?" I've never even been to the US. * My (Irish) grandparents are still amazed people in America mix the two accents up so often. * This troper has about half her family heritage from Those Islands. A few decades after coming to America, the family had a surge of pride and began to make an enormous show out of how they were so proud to be Scots, and abhorred the Irish. Then someone traced back the lineage.

We're Irish. * I was born in England but my parents are both Scottish and, upon meeting my father, one friend exclaimed 'You never told me you were Irish!' Then again, I do find myself 'translating' for them when someone with even the faintest Scottish accent comes on TV so I can't say I'm surprised. I wish they could be at our Family reunions where you'll hear Welsh, Irish and Scottish accents, with the only English accent being mine and my brothers fairly muted one. Ah, the potential confusion. * I'm Scotirish (Mum's Scottish and my stereotypical Irish father is.. well, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment duh]]), I was born in England, I live in Scotland and other Scots frequently ask me "How long are you over for?" because I sound Irish. Or occasionally Canadian, apparently. * This troper has mistaken a Scottish Boy Scout in his troop as Irish, but was quickly corrected and...well...[[ShaggyDogStory that was the end of it, really]] * this troper is American, but thanks to a family history obsessed mother, she's traced her roots pretty far back, and knows a ton about her Scottish heritage. so, come her school's 'dress up in the traditional costume of your family heritage' day, she dressed up, wearing what she wears to the Scottish Highland games in her area- her Clan's tartan, crest pin, various other ornaments from Scotland, etcetera. she enters a contest, and wins... only they said, " the winner is (name) , for her traditional British garb." stupid Americans. ** Considering that Scotland is indeed part of Great Britain, along with England and Wales, this isn't necessarily incorrect. 'British' is a pretty vague appellation. ---Back to {{Main/Scotireland}}, boyo. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ScrabbleBabble * Ever since this troper played "kaf" (the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ''which is in the dictionary'') for 40-some points in a game of ''[=UpWords=]'', he's looked up every single play he could possibly make that would be worth many points. ** Isn't that against the rules? *** Maybe, but that might not matter. [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney How rich is the OP?]] ** No law against reading the dictionary. *** Non english words, even those in the dictionary, are technically not allowed under most rules. *** If it's in an English language dictionary, it is, by definition, an English word. *** So an unchanged foreign word, in spelling, pronunciation, and meaning, and put into the english dictionary simply because it has entered the common knowledge (at some point) is an English word?

Search Meriam-Webster for the very French phrase "je ne sais quoi." It's there. And I've never met anyone who considers it English. *** I believe that officially, if a foreign word or phrase can be used in colloquial English without a translation (coup, amigo, etc.), it's considered English. I have no idea what "je ne sais quoi" means, but if most English speakers do, it's English. *** This troper and her mother often play casual two-player games in which the Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary can be ''consulted'' for a word to play if you're really stuck... which only hones our skills for playing against others. * This troper was shocked when her usually dim witted brother played the word "epoxy" in a game of Scrabble. * This troper saw a skit in which a seemingly impossible distribution of letters was justified, as a prankster had switched the tiles for those from a Polish Scrabble set. This was discovered as soon as the players drew their initial seven letters: "Hang on, I've got three Zs! And what the hell's this thing?" * This troper once cleaned up in a game of Scrabble with "Fez" on a triple word score. The other campers, they were not happy. ** ...since when is [[NiceHat fez]] not a word? * I once played "nkru" ("a West African welcoming ceremony", plural "nkrua"), "xaab" ("a Mayan musical instrument"), "yipse" ("an archaic term for a stomach ailment"), "eowa" ("an exclamation of surprise"), "fidge" ("an exclamation of contempt"), "fidgeing" (analogous formation to "tut-tutting"), and several "[[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe variant spellings]]". My opponent tried to play "roarz" but I told her "no variant spellings that look like they were [[XtremeKoolLetterz made up by advertisers in an attempt to appeal to disaffected youth.]]" * I can't possibly be the only one who oftens ends up putting down random words and be surprised when they actually show up. My family has feared challenging others when putting down some strange scramble of letters because of this. ** No, I do that too...and I accidentally ended up using "shit" in Boggle once. It was a long time ago. * This troper and his friends play Wikiscrabble (any play that at least half of the players approve of/find hilarious is valid, regardless of [[PerfectlyCromulentWord cromulence]]) with 9 tiles instead of 7, leading to such gems as "whorelves". Quoth the player: "I want to play 'elves', but I don't want to kill my whores!" [[LordOfTheRings Orlando Bloom]] was referenced. * This Troper once played "plant." Her brother said it wasn't a word. ** I did that with "lit" once...the "saying it's not a word" part. I felt like an idiot. * [[{{Magus}} This troper]] spelled the word "tid", meaning a girl or young woman, in a game of Scrabble once. It aided in making a solid 3x3 square of letters. That's right, 3x3. He's also used the word "wem", meaning a stain, spot, or scar, repeatedly. Yeah, you can have those two for free. * This troper's grandfather is famous for this; in one noteworthy moment, when the word WINDOW was on the board, he proceeded to add ED to it, making WINDOWED, justifying it as "the verb for when they put

the glass into your frame." Grandma grudgingly accepted that, only for him to, next turn, add to it again, leaving REWINDOWED, "What they do when you break the first set." This is the last recorded family Scrabble game on my mother's side. ** Funnily enough, I've actually heard the term "rewindow" (as well as "dewindow") used in relation to computers (to dewindow is to minimize a window, to rewindow is to maximize it again). It's not likely to be in any dictionaries at this point, but your grandfather might still have stumbled upon a future cromulent word without knowing it. ** This reminds me of the famous game in my family when we ended up with a 15 letter word in a game. (Please note that Scrabble is played on a 15x15 grid...that's right we had a word that reached both ends of the board.) It started with tab, then stab, then establish, then reestablish, then reestablishment. Scrabble [[{{CrowningMomentOfAwesome}} Crowning Moment Of Awesome]]. *** Once playing with my family, we got Camelopardesque all down one side of the board. And I had the 'esque'. It was [[{{CrowningMomentOfAwesome}} awesome]]. * This troper, being an avid SherlockHolmes fan, once hijacked the H in an opponent's word in order to use all her own tiles to spell BROUGHAM for 95 points. (It's a kind of carriage.) * My family takes Scrabble [[SeriousBusiness very seriously]]. In one game, my sister played MORPH on the first turn. My little brother was up next and decided to be dumb about it like he usually does and played MORPHO. Naturally, my sister challenged it and looked it up in the dictionary. [[PerfectlyCromulentWord Turns out]] that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpho morpho]] is actually a genus of butterfly. To this day we use "morpho" as a [[NWordPrivileges mock epithet]]. ** N-word priviledges? Does that mean you're butterflies? * This troper once held onto his letters for turn after turn until he completed and played "[[http://teksoqp.ytmnd.com TEKSOQP]]". * My Grandfather and I discovered there was [[AintNoRule nothing in the rulebook]] which said scrabble tiles had to be played letter up, so we use "blank" tiles to fill out words all the time! * When this troper was training for a Scrabble competition, the instructor advised us to put down words that at least ''seem'' to be real, and even gave us words to add to the illusion. Example: lipless. It's a real word, and after the opponent finds out it's real, they won't dare to call you out on eyeless or earless (which aren't real), on the off-chance that they are, too. He also told us to use swearwords, because even if the judges wouldn't allow it (it's a school competition, after all), the opponents would know it's a real word so they wouldn't dare to call it out either. * This troper attempts to play Japanese words so often while playing Scrabble that people have stopped challenging her. Naturally, this gives a lot of room for her to just make stuff up. * The words "qi", "xi", "xu" and "zo" are ''guaranteed'' to piss people off. (Chinese energy, subatomic particle named after Greek letter, Vietnamese coin and Himalayan yak respectively.) Particularly if they've just unloaded most of their rack to get 21 points, and then you get 62 for placing two letters.

* This Troper's mother always handicapped me when I played against my younger brother. I've been blessed with a pretty broad vocabulary, so I can usually kill at this game. But she would insist his nonsensical words be allowed. Sundeck? I can accept that. SunDOCK? Not so much... * In one game that occurred when we were on vacation and thus without a dictionary, my dad accused me of making up "hale," "taiga," and "fenny" (although that one I did misspell, but we weren't playing for points, so it barely mattered), and wouldn't believe my definitions, despite knowing I have a large vocabulary and never cheat. I left the game in a huff after finishing off my tiles. My sister had meanwhile gotten stuck with nothing but a "V," two "O"s, and an "X." When she came up to the cabin, she told me she'd played XVOO. We agreed it was a country, then discussed what it's people would be called while getting ready for bed (for the record, "xvoonian"). * I once convinced my mother that 'hualo' was a kind of wind, in the vein of sirocco and harmattan. * Re-roaringsella. That is all. * This troper once won a game of Quiddler with the word "Kea". It's a type of parrot that lives in New Zealand. * I did this once in boggle with "ainu". It's the elvish word for "holy one", but you're not supposed to use foreign languages (side note: if elvish isn't actually spoken anywhere, aside from the occasional convention, does it really count as a "foreign" language?). However, I looked it up anyway...and lo and behold, it's in the dictionary! (Name of a language.) ** And an ethnic group in Japan. The first ethnic group to point to if someone says racism is only white-toward-black, in fact. * A former friend of this troper once played "termiteor" in a game of Upwords (with the rationale that it was some kind of pest control robot), and we both had a good laugh about it. It was a silly in-joke between us for quite a while afterward. * This troper's uncle tried to play 'neo' on a triple word score. I insisted it wasn't really a word, and my uncle said that it counted, "what about neo-nazis?" and this troper said it was merely a prefix. My mother (not wanting me to win, as I was ahead at the time) said: "what about neo lights?". I replied my yelling "It's NEON lights!". -; He ended up playing the word anyway. Also, if you want to win a Scrabble, memorise all the allowed two-letter words. I've beaten my mother and uncle in every game we played since doing that. * Let's just say when your significant other is an English teacher and his brother a med student, you're at a stark disadvantage in Scrabble. * In Swedish, there are extremely few words with a Q in them, because we use KV instead of QU in Latin loanwords (I can straight away only remember four). So when you get the sole Q tile, it is hard to get rid of it, QUILT being the easiest way out. However, once I astonished my wife by writing QUISLING (= traitor) across some really nice bonus squares while clearing my set and also ending the game. * This troper got bored with playing my Scrabble iPod app, and just put in random arrangements of letters. [[RefugeInAudacity Most of them ended up getting accepted.]] * This troper was playing scabble, and had several letters that he thought would work together as a word. The word was "Japing", which

was a total asspull. I tried to explain it as [[SpongebobSquarepants "You know! Japan! Japing!]] [[MemeticMutation He japings! She japings! Everybody japings!"]] My friend only accepted "Ping"... Until the end of the class, when we looked it up on the internet to find out it was an actual word, meaning [[{{Irony}} "To Joke"]]. Japing is now a MemeticMutation at school. ** Which completely explains why the joke shop in Hogsmeade is called "Gambol and Japes", now that I think about it. * [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] and his sister really annoyed our grandma when we played Scrabble with her one time, for the fact we where not using "American English" words (I really got in trouble for spelling "color" with a U, like they do in Europe, and my sister got in trouble for trying to use Toyota) * Not a Scrabble word, just a comment on the article. In the advertising section, it says: "And then called back in a later ad in which Shaq takes his opponents into the desert, and actually shows them a Shaqtus... a cactus with Shaq's face and number carved on it." That should have been in ''{{Barkley Shut Up And Jam Gaiden}}''. * At one point, while playing Hangman and getting to choose the word, this troper actually used the trope title. (It's a real word now. It's one of the aliases of the creator of the Melissa worm.) * This troper's sister played the word YING, unaware of the correct spelling of "yin" and "yang". When called out on it, she instead justified it as the onomatopoeic representation of AudibleSharpness. * [[{{Chamale}} This Troper]] played Scrabble with his sister, with no dictionary. Cue a very heated argument over "adze", which she refused to believe was a wood-cutting tool. Later in the game, he played "gooks" on a triple word-score, only for her to claim that [[NWordPrivileges racial slurs aren't allowed]]. * Impossible to do in this troper's household: his stepmother is an English teacher. The letters I get are often hilariously bad, which can result in misspellings being allowed on the fact that I cannot put anything else. The scabble bag works in mysterious ways... * This troper subverted this trope and once won a game of scrabble with the word Quixotic, basically everybody gave up by the time we finished calculating the score. * In sort of an inversion, [[Tropers/KatanaCat This Troper]] once played a PC Scrabble game and tried to put down "Aussie" only to find that it wasn't in the official dictionary. ** Proper noun! *** Can't be a proper noun if it's an adjective. You should have used the Macquarie. * This troper once played "za" and got challenged unsuccessfully. Next turn, I extended it to "zax" on a triple word score. * I played "dirty Scrabble" with a bunch of classmates on a really boring day of school. Made-up words were accepted as long as the majority of the players agreed that they sounded like real words and if the player could come up with a good definition. * Every member of my family utterly hates Scrabble, but we always end up playing it at least once during family gatherings. Tables have been flipped over contested words, I shit you not. On a funnier note, my older brother once challenged the word "Plant." And he's supposed to

be TheSmartGuy. ** Plant seems to be a popular word to accuse as not existing. * This troper likes using words from HarryPotter. These go largely unchallwenged within my family, but anywhere else, people are like "AVIS IS NOT A WORD!" Avis is, of course, a word: it is Latin for "bird", if I recall correctly. * One turn, I played, "cyning". Then I played "cyninga". The next, "cyningas". Why not? It's [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cyning English]]! * @/Cuchulainn: I once tried this with the word quim. We were playing during in-house suspension. I'd read it in a porno mag. The teacher didn't buy it, but at least she didn't know where I got it. * I was trying to help my aunt put down a word, and I came up with "Quile". I liked it so much that I invented a definition for it: To quietly contemplate. I try to use it as often as possible, as well as my other made up words of Bishloo, Awlodifferous, and Huxdux.

ScrappyMechanic * ThisTroper hates the builder in {{Lemmings}}. It's so hard to position the builder accurately. * [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] really hates it when, in some [=RPG=]s, [[WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou it's an automatic game over if the party leader dies before everybody else]] (VideoGame/PaperMario and FinalFantasyXIII being notable examples). There's absolutely no reason why my party can't keep fighting should Mario or Lightning die. ** [[@/{{gunpsycho}} This troper]] avoids games that have this little mechanic. *** Given that Paper Mario only allows you to have Mario and one partner out at a time, it's not that bad. *** Also, Mario's partner didn't have a health meter in the first game. Most attacks went straight at Mario, and the few that hit your partner would stun them for a number of turns equal to the amount of damage done. There weren't usually any attacks like this that did greater than 3 damage, however. * This Troper hates the Tap-To-Click function with a burning passion. Recently, my laptop was rendered unable to disable Tap-To-FuckingClick. I very nearly threw away a $1.5k computer. Thankfully, Tap-ToGoddamn-Click has been eradicated from my computer. * Random battles. I will never play a game again with random battles. * Anyone else hate double battles in ''[[{{Pokemon}} Pokmon]]''? Maybe it's to do with the fact that the console variations of the games relentlessly push double battles, or maybe it's to do with the recent leak that there are going to be ''[[BeyondTheImpossible triple]]'' battles in ''Black'' and ''White''. I just think that Game Freak is overusing a mechanic that nearly every player I've spoken to dislikes, or at least disavows in favour of traditional, one-on-one single battles. ** It's a PlayerPreferredPattern in America. In Japan they're welcome. * I was playing Mario Party 2 with my sister for fun recently. Both of us had three or four stars, and the computer players had zero or one. One of the computers, Luigi I believe, hits Chance Time and forces me

to trade my star count with one of the computer opponents. It was within the last few turns as well. * ThisTroper absolutely ''hates'' grading on a curve. * [=RapidShare=]. Just...[=RapidShare=]. Because I totally [[SarcasmMode love]] that mandatory 15-minute wait between files, ''especially'' when I'm trying to download .rar files with at least 45 parts. * This troper hates the card system in KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories with a burning passion. To the point where he doesn't carry much faith in a handheld KH game until he's assured that there's no card system. ** This troper has yet to meet someone who would disagree with the above statement. * Star Balls in the SuperMarioGalaxy games. Slightly awkward control with the Wiimote that makes it too easy to fall off the stage. I especially learn to hate the levels with no save points. Luckily, most of them are not necessary to get farther in the game. ** Also, in the original, you were [[ButThouMust forced]] to go back to the ''intro screen'' when you died, instead of just going back to TheHub. Luckily, they fixed this in the sequel. * This Troper absolutely ''HATED'' the Kinstone system in Minish Cap, to the point where he considers the game itself, despite being a good game, to be a game that must be avoided. * I HATE the adoption system on the campaign mode in Zoo Tycoon 2! * This troper's laptop has one of those touch pads where you can zoom in or out by sliding both fingers opposite directions. The problem is, ''you can't turn the freaking thing off.'' The only time I've ever actually activated this ''on purpose'' was when trying to get things back to normal after activating it by accident. * The one thing that irritates [[Tropers/WaxingName me]] about the original SegaGenesis ''[[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]]'' games is that when Sonic is ascending a hill without a running start, he just goes up at a frustratingly slow pace. I really hate having to backtrack and get a running start to get up a hill. * This troper couldn't for the life of him finish TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks because of damned spirit flute mechanics, after trying for half an hour straight at the one before the sand temple, I gave up completely and watched the endgame online. ---Return to ScrappyMechanic, even if you hate clicking on links...

ScreamingBirth * My mother told me once that when she gave birth to me, while waiting for the full labor to start she could hear other women down the hall giving birth, and screaming profanity at the top of their lungs. As a first time mother she said it made her a little nervous. Also, that when she did go into labor the nurses kept complimenting her on how well she was doing because my mother was screaming using non-profane euphemisms, (GoshDangItToHeck). When I hear those stories, I am glad to be a man. * Subversion: this troper's mother remembered having been so ''bored'' at the hospital which she'd gone to very quickly during her first

pregnancy, that when she was having her second child, she only went there just right in time. The nurses were extremely surprised. In neither case were hours of labour, screaming expletives, unconsciousness, or pre-natal gyms involved. * While this troper isn't really sure of her own mother's reactions to giving birth (twice), she remembers her mother once mentioning there was an Italian woman in the next room (or somewhere down the hall) that very well seemed to fit the trope. Considering how she (this troper) never hears stories of how things went wrong or the like, she suspects her mother was a subversion. ** Apparently, her mother got sick from the epidural while having her (this troper), and so didn't bother with it when this troper's brother was born. Figures that her brother ends up being breech. Everyone her mother mentions this to looks at her like she's insane, as she's saying it as if it was no problem at all. * This troper's mother was perfectly fine at first, until her older sisters and friends told her that she was supposed to be screaming, pushing and such. So, she did... and the trope kinda kicked in to full effect, up to the point where this Troper had to be born via emergency C-section. * This troper's mother was fine while giving birth to said troper's younger brother until they gave her the epidural, which is supposed to numb the pain. My brother was too far down (and his head was too far back) so the epidural never kicked in. The doctor came in and said, "It should be working," to which my mother replied, "DOES IT LOOK LIKE IT'S WORKING???!!!!" And then my brother came down too hard, and the placenta ripped really hard and my mother hemmorhaged. My brother's head was ''too freaking big!!'' ** Similar thing happened to [[TheBadWolf This Troper]] epidural never kicked in. Except instead of said troper's younger brother it was ThisTroper and his twin brother who weighed 16 1/2 pounds between the 2 of us, and replace regular birth with c-section. The troper's mom refers to it as her civil war surgery. * According to the stories, the reason this troper's mother changed hospitals for her second child was that the first was born on a Sunday and in the tiny rural hospital concerned, there was no anesthesiologist that day. * [[{{Heatherly}} This troper]] did absolutely perfect at not screaming, crying or any such tropeable activities for the first five hours of her labor...then her water broke, and all bets were off. I pounded my mother with both fists, screamed at my father to "fuck off" and informed my baby's father over the phone that I was going to kill him bloody when he arrived. Oh, and I almost slapped a nurse who told me I needed to get in control of myself. * A quick survey of [[Main.SerenYGogledd this Troper]]'s friends reveals that ''swearing'' births are much more common than screaming ones. I dropped a single F Bomb, which I think was pretty good for a breech birth (and an emergency C section at the last possible minute). * This troper had a largely unmedicated homebirth (there were some shots after the baby was born to help pass the placenta) and there wasn't anything even close to screaming until the crowning stage at the very end. Even then it was more like "feral grunt of effort with a

sharper ow at the end". The Hubby tried several times to get me to say "You did this to me" which just made me giggle. But I'd had a good example from my sister who made a joke during transition. * This troper's aunt is a nurse. She once regaled us at a family dinner with a story of a woman in labour who grabbed the nearest male person - an intern in his mid-twenties - and screamed in his face, "MEN! Why do you do this to us?!" The aunt believes the intern is now gay. ** This troper wonders who is going to get the blame in a lesbian couple when one gives birth... *** The one who isn't giving birth, obviously. Unless they are both pregnant... ** This troper once asked her mother if she screamed while giving birth. "I didn't have the breath to spare" was the reply. ** This troper's wife gave birth 6 months ago. The epidural didn't work (too low), and the baby came before they could re-set it. There was a large amount of screaming involved. A very large amount. One other point that deserves mentioning -- there is no curtain that separates the lower half from the upper half in the delivery room. And if you're the husband, you're going to be seeing ''everything''. ** Whereas ThisTroper's mother more than once remarked that it was painful but not horribly agonizing compared to, say, a bad sports injury. ThisTroper imagines it varies by person and pain tolerance...but also that TV shows probably milk it for the comedy. *** It depends 'a lot' on the individual and pain tolerance. My Mom is TheStoic so about the only time she mentions the pain of child birth is when directly asked or when reminding us kids how much trouble she went through bringing us into the world. Even then she makes it sound more like a case of stomach flu than mind bending horror. Dad, who's a great deal more emotional and there all five times confirms that she really took the whole procedure rather well. ** This troper's mother claims to have laughed her way through it, and has never talked about the pain. ** This troper got in a discussion with his mother about it and she went through natural childbirth for 5 of us 6 (she tried the pain medication for the second of us, basically slept through the entire process which took hours, and decided to never do so again) and there were only two difficult births, the first and the last (the first because she didn't know what to expect and the last because of scarring). She's of the belief that most women simply expect birth to be a difficult and painful process and they either choose to be drugged to the gills or they hurt because they tense up against it in anticipation. * This troper's mother had to give birth to her second within clear earshot of another woman in labor who started screaming "I'm gonna do it! I'm gonna do it! I'm gonna do it!.... I'm gonna PEEEEEEE!" Not all THAT long ago, women had to labor/birth/recover in three different rooms, all of them shared. Troper's mother thinks LDRP is the greatest prenatal medical advance, ever. ** Excuse me while sabrina_diamond literally laughs herself to death at this entry. * This troper's mother had a terrible time giving birth to this

troper's older sister. The sister was literally coming out butt-first, so she had a cesarean section. Her first pregnancy was so bad that she went with another cesarean section simply because she was afraid it would happen with this troper. ** Please excuse the amount of "this troper" in the above entry. * This troper's mother gave birth to me and all my siblings in relative quiet, she was raised in the school of "Calm the FUCK down and do it!" so she was more concerned about the baby actually getting out that "THIS HURTS SO BAD!!!" * According to this troper's mother, this trope practically kicked in full effect with her sister when, halfway through delivery, the sister's husband's cell phone went off and he answered it, causing the sister to snatch the cell phone out of his hand and nearly crush it. Apparently, "You never heard such swearing." * This troper's first birth was this. They shut the door to my labor room because I was disturbing the other laboring moms. * This troper's mother didn't scream any of the three times although she did other things. The closest she came was during the first time. She was hooked up to this machine that was supposed to tell when the contractions were coming before she felt them. It didn't work because my brother was upside down. Mom would keep saying she was having a contraction but Dad, being an engineer didn't think this was possible because it wasn't showing up on the machine. Mom finally growled -->"I'm having the contraction, not the machine!" ** The second time, the birthing woman's iritability only became an issue after the birth. A woman is supposed to give a couple gentle pushes to expel the afterbirth. Since my brother's birth had been hard and fast, Mom just thought "screw it", gave one big push and '''SPLAT''', all over the doctor. The third time (me) it was harder because the cord was around my neck. She almost broke Dad's elbow. *** Thank you for confirming this editor's homosexuality. **** I'm the one who added those examples and they certainly confirmed mine. * My mother was an aversion. She says other women were screaming bloody murder, but she apparently gritted her teeth and pushed those suckers out. And of course, me and my older siblings were born in positions that makes it even more painful for the mother. The last brother was born after about 5 hours of (relatively) painless labor. [[ParentalFavoritism Mom always did like him best.]] * This troper's mother will spew vitriol about the "natural birth" movement any chance she can get, because when she had her first child (my older sister), there was a last-minute switch of doctors and my mom ended up with some new guy who believed epidurals were wrong. There wasn't so much screaming as there was a lot of strangling my father, cursing the doctors and nurses, and swearing blood oaths to murder people. ** This troper and her fellow student nurses on L&D had a good long laugh over a patient who came to the unit with a three-page, singlespaced document detailing, down to the minute, her instructions for her natural birth plan. She barely made it an hour before trashcanning the whole enterprise and calling for the epidural. Funny how that works out...

* This troper will give birth to her (future, mind you) children via planned C-section due to her family history. Not one woman in my family on either side since 1940 has given birth without some kind of intervention. This is due to a tendency toward tiny women who make bruisers upwards of 9, 10, or 11 pounds with heads and shoulders too big to be delivered. So naturally, this trope has been played out many, many times in my family. If we lived pre-20th century or, hell, even in a third world country, our line would have died out in a matter of ''decades'' singlehandedly by DeathByChildbirth. * This troper recalls her mother screaming bloody murder while giving birth to her younger brother. This troper was nine (nearly ten) at the time and was escorted to ''the other end of the hall'' by her kind Sunday school teacher who had come to babysit her while her mother gave birth (this troper was just present because it was an excuse to be out of school, not because she likes babies, so she didn't care about missing it). Even with several yards and a closed door, this troper could hear her mother (couldn't understand her, but that may have been a good thing). It's one of the many, '''MANY''' reasons this troper '''NEVER, EVER''' wants kids, and preventing pregnancy is part of the reason she really wouldn't mind a hysterectomy, either (the other part is that [[NoPeriodsPeriod "mother nature"]] is a supreme annoyance). * My mother said that she only felt any real pain with me, the third kid. This was because she wasn't fully dilated. Although I don't think she screamed, considering she goes invokes the ClusterFBomb trope whenever she is in pain. * My mom's first birth, my brother, went quickly and mostly painlessly due to "really awesome drugs" (her words, not mine). As such, she expected my birth to go similarly. Until the nurse did the epidural wrong ("Oops!" is never really something you want to hear when pushing out a watermelon, says my mom). Apparently, she didn't really start screaming until the end, but the whole process was a big long stream of "FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK". And on top of that, she had to overhear the nurse describing me to another nurse as she cleaned me off, "Would you look at the thunder thighs on this one?" Let's just say that this story and others like it have convinced me that I NEVER want to give birth. * This troper's mum attests that screaming through Troper and TroperSis's births ''kept her from being in pain''. Apparently the experience was overwhelming but not painful at all. (Mum saw a midwife, not a doctor, for both children.) Naturally, no-one believes us.... ** This troper does. Screaming releases endorphins, which help to block pain. She once had an elderly psychology teacher who was allergic to morphine and had trouble with chronic pain; said teacher's methods of dealing with pain included swimming (to get a "swimmer's high" - the poor woman couldn't run to save her life, so no runner's high for her), singing, and screaming at the top of her lungs while driving around in the car so the rest of her family wouldn't hear. She doesn't believe it'd work ''for herself'', but she believes your mother could. * My mom once walked by as I was watching a movie which included a

Screaming Birth. She rolled her eyes and mentioned that none of the four times she gave birth included her screaming like that. * When this troper's mom was in labor with one of the three of us kids, one of the nurses said "You can scream if you want!" Mom merely rolled her eyes and focused on her breathing. (Though all of us were ultimately born via C-section, after poor Mom spent hours in labor) Every time she sees this trope enacted, she says "Oh, COME ON! It doesn't happen like that!" There was also no screaming "You did this to me", though she was a little irritated during one birth when Dad had been drinking coffee and was unintentionally breathing bad coffee breath near her face. * Notably subverted in the case of this troper's mother, despite the comedy of errors surrounding said troper's birth. In short, her mother was blessed with "premature rupture of membranes," an overblown way of saying that the woman's water breaks but labor doesn't start for whatever reason. Then she was given Pitocin to start things along, which she describes as the most painful experience of her life thus far. ''Then'' the epidural she was given was misplaced, which no one believed until the OB/GYN finally confirmed it and put a new one in. Finally, after a straight day's worth of labor, someone decided this wasn't working and a C-section was performed. Despite all this she claims she never felt the need to scream, although she was annoyed by the fact that this troper's father kept staring at her waiting for something to happen. And by spending a day in the hospital feeling completely fine except for the fact that she was in labor. * My mother ended up having a screaming birth with me, mostly due to minor incompetence on the part of the hospital. The whole story sounds like a plot to a sitcom episode. She had to transfer to a second hospital in another town an hour away (which ended up with some hilarious stories involving the inexperienced rookie paramedic who was terrified about having to deliver his first baby EVER.) When she finally gets to the hospital, nobody seemed to believe her when she said she (and I) were ready, so they didn't bother to try to make her comfortable. She was placed on a cot she says was roughly the width of an ironing board (and pregnancy aside, my mother is not a petite woman.) She then frequently screams at a nurse that she was ready to deliver, and the nurse didn't believe her. When the nurse finally bothered to check, she said, "Whoops, I guess you are ready," and I was delivered not shortly after, completely painkiller free. * While I've never asked my mum what giving birth was like for her, she actually gets annoyed/is amused by ScreamingBirth scenes on TV when they come up, saying "it's not THAT bad!". * What comes to mind isn't just my mother's story of how she gave birth to me (I wanted out so fast the epidural never kicked in), but also my former co-worker's story of her giving birth to her second child. Co-worker's story involves nervous husband and eventual emergency c-section. Let's just say that this has made me really second-guess my wanting to have my own kids... ---Go back to [[ScreamingBirth Screaming Biiiiiaaaaaaahhhhhhh!]]

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ScreamingWarrior * This Troper was on a LARP. It was her first game, so she preferred to watch and learn from her more [[GenreSavvy]] friend. At one point, hiding in bushes after some careful sneaking, he said to her: 'now we can get loud'. She took it a bit too literally and instead of just attacking she charged out at full speed, yelling ''BAN[[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]]-ZAI!!'' The enemies' faces were priceless. * This Troper feels he channeled his Celtic ancestors once during a pickup football game. He simply charged ahead, screaming at the top of his lungs and tackled the wide-eyed receiver who was too scared to move. * [[{{Chabal 2}} This troper]] pulled one off at the semi-insistance of his dormmates, directed at another who was hiding behind a gaggle of younger students in a narrow corridor. It turns out that when a hairy 6-foot-tall barbarian comes charging at you screaming wordless rage directed at you personally and shaking the floor with every step, you RUN. FAST. FASTER THAN YOU THOUGHT POSSIBLE. Said troper was later told he appeared to be channeling Chabal himself, hence the name. ** Also, several years prior, I was in a dorm where we played soccer every night. As a MightyGlacier, I always played defense, primarily by barging towards whoever had the ball and bellowing. While this didn't often get me the ball (wouldn't be able to do much with it anyway, having laughable aiming skills), it did work exceedingly well at terrorizing the poor guy into letting the ball get away into the reach of a teammate. I was explicitly compared to a charging boar. * This troper has consistently failed at trying this, usually resulting in laughter, but the only time he did Screaming with intention to also do the Warrior, it worked amazingly well. Once, in high-school, a minor disagreement evolved into a group of five waiting outside for some ass-kicking. As I was going to get hurt, might as well vent out some frustration. I screamed, I charged, I punched a guy in the throat. They ran away, and the next day, two of them even apologized. * In a battle-LARP [[{{Eisenblume}} this troper]] took part in (Swedish stuff, much more hardcore than US [=LARPs=]) there sere a bunch of[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot arab-pirate-ninja-assassins]] called the Black Sun who are much more bloodthirsty than the other factions. Among other things, while charging, they shout "LAMA-HAYAD!". It sounds silly when calm, but when armed with crossbows and being charged by these bloody (literally), screaming, uninhibited ''fuckers'' you CANNOT stay calm. ** LARPer here too (italian). My ex girlfriend is still famous in one or two (big) associations for her battlecries.. just a wordless shout of rage, but so loud it can DROWN OUT THE SOUND OF A PITCHED BATTLE. It got to the point that warriors waited to hear it as a sign that

shit just got serious. ** The brotherhood of Fenris at the large event this Troper annually attends use this with their defence strategy. It's surprising how about a hundred well drilled and trained norse soldiers in black plate leather shouting 'OUT!' in unison can turn momentum in a shield wall clash. Similiarly, the screaming warrior method is oft use to conceal the movements of some of our assassins so that the rest of the battle doesn't hear the call of 10 second fatal venom. * This troper's previous karate Sensei was sort of like this when sparring. Very agressive, screamed very loudly, but was actually a tiny and female. And a primary school teacher. * This troper had found himself in several fights during Junior High. One of these fights pitted him against a group of five. Having had it up to here with the senseless bullying, he charged into battle screaming at the top of his lungs and nailing the first guy he saw with an uppercut. While the other four ran, this troper approached the fallen one for further punishment, But upon seeing him crying, decided to leave him alone. ** This Troper had a similar experience, with the difference that no one ran away. Damn you, puberty... * This [[{{Keirei}} troper]] likes to do this during karate sparring; first, he keeps quite, just fighting until near the end of the round. Then when I fight the [[ArrogantKungFuGuy annoying kid]], I roar in his face as I bomp him repeatedly in the face. * This troper goes crazy whenever he smashes the thai pads while training. Someone's comment was "Kru, you just missed ____ go apeshit." <<|TroperTales|>>

ScreamsLikeALittleGirl * TruthInTelevision: This Troper's Brother (6 feet tall 200 pounds) does this on every roller coaster he has ridden to such a degree that it prevents the other riders of the vehicle from screaming because they are in stitches laughing. ** Oh, yes. TruthInTelevision. This troper only found out she has a shockingly high vocal range when her instructor stopped her midpractice, gave her a death glare and told her to ''shriek'' at the top of her lungs. Totally at odds with the whole 'deep voice, mildly androgynous' thing I'd had going on. (Also on roller coasters. Shrill, piercing and irrationally continual even once I'm off the damn ride.) ** This troper has a male friend who exhibits this in reference to spiders. ** This troper's father does this around spiders as well. It's quite hilarious, considering he's such a [[TheBigGuy powerhouse]]. * This troper's dog managed to elicit a girly scream from the village big guy. Situation: big guy visits house, unaware of the nature of friendly dog. Friendly dog is unaware of proper greeting practices. Cause: Friendly dog's cold nose meets the front of big guy's pants. Result: Big guy goes from baritone to soprano in a fraction of a second. Much laughter is had, and the dog is never broken of this

habit. Girly-screamers are exposed as such at the door from that point on. * This troper is sure she will find that she can scream quite girlishly if she ever gets dragged to Canada's Wonderland's Halloween Haunt. It's one thing facing horror movies (screams can be resisted more easily)...facing practically living horror movies is something totally different. She desperately hopes for the sake of her pride she doesn't get dragged. * [[{{AceOfScarabs}} This troper]] can fake a girly scream, but doesn't practice it in case he accidentally uses the scream at the wrong moment. * This troper, upon being presented with a badass blue longcoat from his friend squeed really loudly and at high pitch and threw his arms around the guy's neck. He's not a girl, he swears. * This troper has a slightly different case. His normal voice is a deep scratchy baritone verging on basso at times(caused by non-smoking related lung damage, just got born with a bad set) and he doesn't have a girly scream, but rather a normal manly roar. However, his laugh is apparently like an effeminate anime villain hamming it up. Understandably he's tried to enforce a more appropriate chuckle onto himself, but after ten years of trying there is little success. Laughter is very hard to control. * This troper has a fairly low voice for a girl, but if someone sneaks up on her (or puts a life-sized Barack Obama cardboard cutout behind her in the hallway and calls her) (or if a sadistic librarian sets up two giant tiger mascot heads on mannequins behind her and calls her) she will scream like a small child. * This Troper manages to both subvert this and play this straight; when he gets really angry (as in murderous rage angry) he lets out an animal-like roar, but when scared from behind he lets out a highpitched "eep", made worse with his laughter which seems to resemble a Yamato Nadeshiko-like character. * [[JapaneseTeeth This troper]] discovered this about one of his friends when my dad took him down to the basement, hid, and popped out at him. He not only did the scream, but also the little "wave hands frantically in front of face" gesture. * [[@/{{Bisected8}} This Troper]] has screamed once like this in his life, it was while watching the movie "Film/{{Evolution}}" in the cinema, more specifically when the pool attendant looks in the filter tank and an alien fish jumps into the side. * This troper has an unusually high pitch for a 6 feet tall mexican guy... * This Troper's friend invokes this on purpose for added funny on any given statement. * [[AnjitheBeast This Troper]] despite singing contralto and speaking in a medium alto, gave a "Girl Scream" only once: During Casino Royale, when the FUCKING ASTON MARTIN FLIPPED OVER. That poor car... ** You and [[{{Skazka}} me]] are obviously related. (I'd query tremulously 'Kate?' but you know that ends badly.) * [[TromboneChild This Troper's]] 16-year-old brother. Usually when he's either very upset or very frightened. It's incredibly funny, though.

* When [[MrInitialMan this troper]] got his pinky caught between a 1/4"-thick piece of sheet metal and a machine, he was heard ''all over the shop.'' Even outside. In my defense, I'd like to submit that freakin' HURT. * This troper has a relatively deep voice for a girl, but getting poked in the stomach or flank can make her ''squeal''. * In ninth grade, [[RitiTroll this one]] went to Universal Studios Orlando for a chorus competition, and had to deal with going around Islands of Adventure the next day with her arch rival. One of the few good memories she has of high school (Presently being in college) is the fact said rival, who prided himself on being a manly man black belt Proud Warrior Race Guy, not only hyperventilated in the queue for the Hulk Coaster, but later screamed like a sissy little girl on the Jurassic Park water ride. * ThisTroper discovered how high his voice could go after a spell of freezing rain that left all the sidewalks covered in ''very'' smooth ice. Shrieking "FUCK" in a falsetto after almost slipping for the fifth time in less than a block is sorta cathartic. * This troper frequently has nightmares in which he's in some terrifying situation and cannot scream. Some years ago, after breaking his ankle, he was crutching home one day when he was attacked by two big dogs. While on crutches, mind. He was oddly relieved to find that indeed, he can produce quite a bloodcurdling scream when necessary. (Four years of voice training helps with this.) * Deconstructed/Subverted by me...me and three other boys were in a tent, at a camp for our school. One of us spots a huge wolf spider, and calmly points it out. We just sort of look at it for a little bit, not at all perturbed. Then, I say, "Alright, on the count of three, scream like little girls, we'll see if the camp counselor comes." Sure enough, the counselor came a running, and said that they were rather confused, as they knew that this was a boy's tent, but that the screaming sounded exactly like little girls. * This troper, when she was younger, entered a competition to see who was best at screaming like a little girl. She was the only female. And she ''lost.'' * This troper usually goes around in big stompy boots and a camouflage jacket and has been told she projects an impression of being unapproachable and sometimes even intimidating. She has also been told she sneezes adorably, like a cartoon mouse. * This troper is a girl and incapable of screaming like one. She always goes "Gah!" when surprised or scared, or makes no noise at all. Spider? Run for a paper towel to squash it without uttering a peep. Hit the pavement in a bone-jarring impact? Not a word, just get up and access the damage. Her brother, on the other hand, can shriek like a little girl at will. * This troper and a few of his cousins and their significant others were in water park in Spain. This troper managed to shriek so impressively on one of the slides the one of those cousins was convinced it was his pregnant, and very traditionally feminine wife coming down the chute (guess who didn't scream at all that day?) * This troper ends up making one of a great range of high pitched yelping/squeaking noises when caught off-guard (He's rather high

strung). He also screams like a harpy, but that doesn't come up often. * Aversion: [[{{This-guy}} I]] don't scream. Ever. * This troper was playing ''Fatal Frame 2'' while her brother's friend was watching. Said friend is not very big or anything but he'd gone through puberty and had a low voice. Until No Escape happened. He screamed louder and more girly than I did! I about pissed myself laughing at him but he was incredibly embarrassed and never watched me play the game again. Ever. * [[AdamS This Troper]] has one of the deepest voices out of the people he knows, and rarely, if ever, screams. (Even when I do, I scream normally.) But when a script calls for it, or if it would be funny, I can scream like a little girl (Or as a friend put it, like a little gay man.) * This female Troper screams like a guy, and has friends that see how high they can yell. They usually end up sounding like little five year old girls who just hot a tetanus shot. However, this troper's deep voice allows her to do almost authentic slow motion sounds. It's also another reason I'm mistaken for a boy. * Justified as this troper IS a girl, but usually not an AIEEEEEE sound, but more of an, "OMIGOSH. When did you get there?" Kind of sound. * This troper, while a bit of a wimp, has an unnaturally deep voice. He cannot sing any note not in baritone/bass range. And yet, he somehow hit a note that he was unable to duplicate except by whistle when his brother threw a dead lizard on him * [[CrashGordon94 I]] play this trope COMPLETELY straight, as a 5 foot 7 15 year old guy, and it's fun and I'm proud of it! :D * Do not Stealth Tickle SquealingSandry. She will shatter your eardrums like a [[{{Naruto}} Sound Ninja]]. * ThisTroper when in amusement parks, but not for the reasons you might think. It's just way too much fun to be on a mellow ride and start screaming like a little girl to make the people behind you start wondering whether they got on the wrong ride. * Years ago, [[@/PentiumMMX2 this troper]] and his older sister seemed to have the screams reversed. While I did scream like a girl, my sister screamed like a guy. * This troper is ''extremely'' ticklish around the midsection. Recently, while he was rehearsing for a musical, someone discovered this, and it became a RunningGag for his castmates to sneak up behind him, tickle and/or poke him, and laugh to the girly squeals he made as a result. Ironically, this troper sings bass and often has trouble hitting the higher notes when singing. But just give him a gentle poke when he's not looking, and he sounds like a soprano. * This troper doesn't scream, taking to a high pitched "Yeep!!" when startled, so she was rather shocked when the one time she DID scream in a girly fashion (her cat opened the shower door while she was shampooing her hair, and when she opened her eyes he was leaning in the tub staring at her) ''no one heard''. Despite the fact that her entire family was within yelling distance and it was high pitched enough to keep the cat from ever doing that again. * This troper's best guy friend is the embodiment of this trope, especially when jumped at from behind.

* This troper's 6 foot, 325 pound father ''always'' screams like a little girl if there's a mouse around. (Sometimes even hamsters.) * One of this tropers friends did this when he saw a rat eating out of a bowl on the floor. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny It was a pet rat]]. * [[{{Tropers.Theologica}} This Troper]] is capable of this, as evidenced by her screaming little under an hour ago when she got the heck scared out of her by a spider. Yikes. x_x * This troper doesn't raise her voice much, but when she does she tries desperately not to shriek like a little girl, because that's a very annoying sound. The result is that this troper screams rather quietly. * This tropette makes tiny noises of distress whenever she sees a spider, and normally has to resist doing little else for the sake of her pride. That all went out the window the night she was busy doing homework on her laptop and then noticed waving above her from her fan. She looks up and tilts her laptop screen so that she can see the BIGGEST COBWEB EVER with the SPIDER STILL AT HOME. Note that this is above her own bed! At two thirty AM, this tropette let out the loudest and most feminine noise she has ever made. * This tropette sings alto in choir, and has a lower voice. But she is also extremely ticklish, and (as her friends found out) makes very high-pitched squeals when tickled. They exploit this whenever possible. * This troper is an example of the opposite. Despite being female and at 156 cm, fitting the "little" part of the description - she's been mimicked and/or seen people burst into laughter on more than one occasion in response to her oddly un-feminine scream. When startled or shocked, she'll let out a scream that isn't so much a scream as a deep, roaring "YEEAAARGGH!" not unlike the Howie Long scream mentioned in the [[StockScream Stock Scream]] entry. One notable example happened when she looked down, saw a dead mouse right next to her foot and promptly bolted past her boyfriend and his roommate all the way to the opposite end of the house. * [[Tropers/MonkeyPhysics I]] don't limit myself to just screaming, although that does happen with embarrassing regularity.. Any expression of surprise, excitement or indignation is usually about three octaves or so higher than normal. It's got to the point where my friends use it to check whether I should lay off the caffeine for a bit. * This Troper once had a role in a Holloween hike at his school, where he'd stand in a full body suit waiting for someone to come and stand still like a statue, then leapt out and startle them. One of his first 'victims' was a very large jock and his girlfriend. When he jumpped out, said jock screamed more like a little girl than his girlfriend, who afterward's facepalmed. Another of this Troper's friends can confirm this as he got the same reaction with his act from the same jock. * During class one time, my friends and I were comparing the answers of a test our teacher passed back, and my friend discovered that he got ten points taken off a right answer. Cue a loud squeak that sounded like "What?" * [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling My brother]] screams like this. He does

this quite a lot, without any thought for whoever might hear. Any threat of revealing this fact does not make him any less annoying. Did I mention he also has no qualms of doing this with his shirt off? [[CampStraight Yeah.]] * This tropper found out how afraid of heights she was on the Six Flags ride, Acrophobia. Needless to say, she screamed like a 5yo girl the whole way down. * One of this troper's friends said he screamed like a girl. When he actually did scream, it was ''very'' girly. This troper tried to imitate the range with little success. Oh, yea, did I mention I'm a girl? -SenshiSun ---Back to [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl Screams Like A Litt]]-AAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ScrewedByTheNetwork How'd you react when your favorite show was ScrewedByTheNetwork? Tell your stories here. ---* This troper remembers when {{Invader Zim}} aired at 9:45 PM. Nickelodeon would also only air one segment of the show, and when Hobo 13 and Walk for Your Lives were supposed to premiere, only Hobo 13 was aired. * This troper, at the age of around 7, would wake up at 5:30 to watch {{Captain Planet}} and {{Digimon}}. Sometimes I even got up at 3 to watch Wacky Races, then went back to bed when it was over. ** You too? I always tried to wake up early enough to watch Captain Planet, but I usually failed. * The practice of putting on anime shows ''way'' too early for small children happens in Australia too. ''This'' editor taped ''DragonballZ'' and watched it after school! (Shut up, I was ''ten''.) ** Hey, I did the same thing with ''{{Pokemon}}'' until I was 13. *** Not me. I woke up early enough to watch it normally. Hooray for being on the East Coast (where it wasn't ungodly early)! ** This troper's FATHER did this for G Gundam and just about every anime that came on reguardless of channel. ** And this one remembers having to force himself up at 4:30 in the morning for ''SamuraiPizzaCats''! Yeow! Although the extension of ''PowerRangers'' from a half hour to one...that probably had something to do with it. ** I am no longer alone... I was getting up at 5 AM weekdays to watch Beetlejuice. Finally I could take no more... I abandoned my show for a paltry three hours' sleep... I am ashamed to call myself a fan. *** But not, apparently, a [[GirlGenius Jagermonster]]. ** The same happens in Spain too. I used to wake up at 7 AM to watch

Pokemon when I was little. Today I often wake up at the same hour on weekends to watch WWE. * Actually, this happens to roughly maybe 40% of syndicated animation. They'd air at either 5 o' clock, which is too early, or at 7 or 8 weekday mornings, when most kids are already off to school. By the Eighth Grade, this troper had finally caught wise, and for years, would wake up early, or check the morning listings every few months just to see if anything sounded interesting. He caught ''{{Battletech}}'', ''HeavyGear'', ''BeastWars'', ''Roughnecks: StarshipTroopers'', and many others (including ''{{Pokemon}}'', which he just ''happened'' to catch on it's first episode) this way. For the late morning shows, he'd pop in a tape and leave it on record before heading off to school. * This Australian Troper remembers having watched both ''{{Robotech}}'' and ''[[UchuuSenkanYamato Starblazers]]'' as perhaps the first animation he saw. In later years ''Starblazers'' came back.....for one episode, and ''Robotech'' also stopped again after a few episodes. Luckily it came back again but I had to record each episode while I walked to school (and I lived in the same street). * [[ShayGuy This American troper]] used to set his alarm for 6:20, set his clothes out for the next day before going to bed, and be up, dressed, and in front of the TV in the basement in time to watch {{Pokemon}} at 6:30. Then come upstairs at 7:00, eat, and get ready for school. He now finds it incredible that he could ever have had that much self-discipline or control over his sleep patterns. ** Yeah, same here. * This Australian troper remembers getting up at 6am to watch Teknoman. It was awesome. Sitting in a pitch dark loungeroom eating froot loops in front of the fire with the TV on ultra low volume so as not to wake my parents as I got my dosage of surpringly uncut (considering other anime on TV was Sailor Moon and Speed Racer, this was pre-Pokemon and DBZ) mecha (or armor suit really) anime. * This Australian trooper also knows that they aired '''Naruto''' at 7 AM! '''NARUTO'''!! You can guess what they [[{{Macekre}} did to it]]. * This American troper started getting up at the crack of dawn to watch not only Sailor Moon, but Samurai Pizza Cats while in elementary and middle school. Naturally, this troper is very glad that all her favorite anime is (mostly) on bilingual [=DVDs=] now she doesn't have to pry her bleary-eyed butt out of bed and still only get to watch the {{Macekre}} version. * Fuck it, this troper is ''still'' pissed about how CBS treated ''{{Moonlight}}''. It was hitting a fantastic creative stride, was getting 7-8 million viewers consistently on ''Friday night'', vampires are the fad of the moment, and... they cancelled it. Thank god they at least got the OfficialCouple together, or this troper might have had a HeroicBSOD. * This * English* troper remembers a time when all England thought of as anime should be kept far from childrens' eyes, unless it was something rather sanctioned like Pokmon, and even then it was only the first half of the first series. So she remembers crawling out of bed at like 4 am to watch this wonderful thing of sailor collars and ribbon bows (aka Sailor Moon); that and also the decent version of

DBZ, newer Pokmon, Noah's Island and some weird German love-theenvironment show called Tabaluga that nobody else seems to have heard of. And five years before then - sunday mornings and Sharkey and George. Of those last three they seem to have disappeared into the ether forever - I can't even find the theme song to Noah's Island for love nor money. * [[{{Indigo}} This troper]] has never forgiven the WB for their "Big Kids Go First" lineup. The so-called "big kids" are the ones likelier to sleep in rather than get up at the crack of dawn. The so-called "big kids" are also the ones likelier to have stuff going on in the early morning if they ''are'' already up, so it was rather obvious to this troper at least that they did it to kill shows they knew the older demographic wouldn't or couldn't get up for. They have, however, seemed to learn their lesson. Most of the older demographic shows on their current 2008 lineup air past 9:30 am. Or not. They did cancel ''Series/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}'', but that was [[FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids!]] took over the air-slot. ** You're not alone. A LOT of Freakazoid fans have never forgiven the WB for screwing it. This Troper more or less turned away from the WB afterward. * This troper knows of one local-affiliate station that put ''[[{{Jeopardy}} Jeopardy!]]'' -- yes, '''that''' ''Jeopardy!'', the ratings juggernaut -- at 2:30 AM. Yes, AM. That is not a typo. At least, that is not this troper's typo, though this troper suspects someone at the network made a typo. Or had a few too many Potent Potables to drink. Or had a grudge after losing to RalphWiggum on the show. One has to wonder how many people got fired for that. ** WNBC in NY did that for the first year of its existance back in 1984. Then WABC started airing it at 4:30 in the afternoon and then 7:00 at night and has been doing so ever since. * [[AndyWaltfeld This Troper]] is still butthurt about the loss of ''CodeLyoko'' and ''MobileSuitGundam'' and since no underground streaming video channel will run the former, may wind up going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge in Atlanta...wait, Cartoon Network moved their main operations to Burbank. ''SHIT.'' ** Revenge? May I join you? I'm annoyed over that too. ...I'll never get to see how it ends! * sob* * This troper is still scarred by the constant tossing of {{Digimon}} around various networks, including its disappearance from TV all together for an entire year or two... * I'm still [[FacePalm facepalming]] over Swedish network Tv4's handling of SailorMoon. We got to episode 23 (skipping two eps because the tapes got damaged) before their program block changed and it was removed because the producer thought [[DidNotDoTheResearch it was a sick show filled with violence and karate kicks.]] Two years follow with nothing until they start showing it again. Most fans were happy (especially since the before mentioned two eps were shown)... until episode 34 was sent without the background song, removing a big chunk of the atmosphere even for us first-time viewers. People complained, especially after two more eps had no songs. This led to eps 49, 54 and 69, all with songs, not being shown. After some probing by the fans we found out the removed songs ''because Tv4 didn't want songs people

couldn't understand in the background and had them removed'' and, rather than facing more complaints, decided not to send/dub those three episodes at all. Aside from this, things were still going well until late fall 2000 when we were promised a Xmas marathon of the last 12 eps of Sailor moon R. Xmas comes and goes, but nothing. Not until the summer of 2001, when they suddenly started reruns late mornings from ep 21, leading to new episodes being sent when [[WhatAnIdiot most of the intended audience are at school.]] Alright, we just had to program the VHS... expect for some reason Tv4 thought it was a good idea to move around when it started so we'd miss 5-10 minutes of either the beginning or the end. Strangely enough it wasn't dropped because of bad ratings, but because their license ran out a few weeks after the last episode was finally shown. ** Kanal 5 picked up Sailor Moon a year later and did a much better job. Aside from having to skip the non-dubbed eps they showed it daily, had six reruns and were willing to buy the rest of the seasons... only by now Toei had pulled the license worldwide. I'm still bitter about it. *** {{Mr B}} here, this explains a lot if why i now in retroperspective can't make out why i haven't seen some episodes, this just ansvered some of my longest standing questions. * [[Tropers/{{Dallenson}} This troper]] Used to watch Pokemon Galactic battles (I think its called that) everytime He was waiting for the bus (Woken up at around 6:00 bus comes at 7:00), that was until Cartoon network decided to reschedule it to 7:00. [[{{Atomicfbomb}} FFFFFFUUUUUUUU]]. Oh well. atleast it avoids any {{Guilty Pleasure}} Moments. * If [[GwenStacyWannabe I]] happen to fall in love with a show, that show will die in a horrible manner soon after I discover it. Case in point: I start watching ''PhilOfTheFuture'' in the middle of its second season, it's canceled at the end of the season with [[LeftHanging no wrap-up whatsoever]]. ''TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' will probably not live to see a third season, despite it being hailed as the best animated Spidey adaptation by critics and fans alike, because of its move to DisneyXD and erratic airings. Oh, and I didn't even ''know'' about ''{{Firefly}}'' when that aired...it seems FOX looked to the future and said "Hey, this will become [this troper's] favorite live-action show and restore her faith in live-action television, let's nuke it!" (I'm a little bitter, yes.) Not to mention countless flash-in-the-pan cartoons I watched as a small child and loved regardless of their many flaws... ''[[AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]]'' was the only one to escape, but TheMovie will take care of that, of course. * When Transformers: Animated Ended, and I found out there will not be another season, I just got mad and go into rants every time about how they didn't answer all the questions! * When I first started watching ''Kings'' on NBC, my first reaction was, "Holy cow, this show is amazingly well-written, innovative, wonderfully acted, and visually stunning. It will never last." Sure enough, they're canning it in favor of more doctor/lawyer/cop shows. * This troper, upon hearing of the unnannounced schedule move for ''The Secret Saturdays'': "Oh no. [[DannyPhantom It's ]] [[TruCalling

happening]] [[TheMiddleman again]]..." * I personally can say that finding out that SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo got cancelled '''right before the apocalyptic final battle''' really sucked, especially because I found out about it ''after'' waiting patiently for a rerun of the finale. ''For months''. * I'm pulling my hair out at the fact that KingOfTheHill was canceled to make room for a damned ''FamilyGuy'' '''SPIN-OFF.''' ** Also, I'm pulling what's left of my hair at the fact that the only remaining cartoons on CartoonNetwork are {{Chowder}} and TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack, besides the PG [[TotalDramaIsland shows by the Canadians.]] Then {{Chowder}} was announced canceled on the creator's blog. WordOfGod says it was all to make room for CNReal, as put by the creator of {{Chowder}} again. (But in a way so that he isn't exactly "revealing" it, most likely another move by the executives. Or I'm just a {{PsyCho}}.) ** Well, technically, StarWarsTheCloneWars and Ben10AlienForce are still 'being published' but yeah, the way this is going, Flapjack is going to become CartoonNetwork's Spongebob. *** At least we have RegularShow and WesternAnimation/AdventureTime now, which are actually good cartoons which are sure to last. Maybe. * If you set up ''ColdCase'' without padding the stop time on the DVR by at ''least'' 2 hours, you're just asking for a mid-episode cutoff most of the time. Why don't they just ''write the schedule'' with the 1-1.5 hour football overrun ''assumed''? If it doesn't, put in reruns or post-game, or something! ** You usually don't have to do this if you live in the Mountain or Pacific time zones; CBS has usually ended football coverage by the time 60 Minutes starts. * To this troper, it was Art Attack, among many others. For many years it's been on air at late midnight, 2 AM, 6 AM, 9-something AM and 2 PM (one hour later in Disney Channel +1). I couldn't watch it unless I slipped into the living room at 12 PM, lowered toe volume to inhuman levels and was as silent/stealthy as a ninja. Sometimes I even fell asleep while waiting for the 2 AM and 6 AM shows. * This troper used to have to wake up at 6am to watch ''MewMewPower''. As you can guess, she didn't keep it up for long. ** So did this troper! (Then I found out how screwed up the episode order was, and all that jazz.) * This troper has more than a couple of examples that still make him quite bitter, but the one that stands out the most was when I woke up, eagerly anticipating the newest season of ''[[Series/SonictheHedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', only to find it had been canned to make room for ''a flippin' Free Willy cartoon''. I ''still'' remember the reaction on my face, and if I could retroactively describe what words were going through my head, it would probably amount to '''''[[AC:What the flipping blue fuck is this shit!?]]''''' * The memories This Troper has of attempting to wake up at 5:00 AM to watch TransformersCybertron are not pleasant ones. Oh, the pure rage he acquired when Kids WB ended just as he began to get interested in the story. * In 1994, Fox Kids called for the Zord changes at the beginning of

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 2 to come early. A decade later, this troper learns the first 10 of Lord Zedd's monsters were originally filmed fighting the Dino Megazord. Main Problem? Lokar was this troper's favorite character! And Lokar is said to have been involved in the Bloom of Doom's Zord fight! Argh! * This Troper has long held a grudge against sports programming preempting saturday morning cartoonsalthough he'll make [[IncrediblyLamePun grudging]] allowances for news broadcasts; like the time some guys in China were protesting something in a square on the ''one'' day I was trying to tape ''The Flintstone Kids.''-back from early childhood, up into the early years of this century. This isn't so much of a problem these days...mostly because Saturday Morning Cartoons, as such, have mostly gone the way of the dinosaurs. ''"Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean."'' ** ''This'' Troper still refuses to watch televised sports because the programming would always happen to pre-empt ''[[TransformersGeneration1 Transformers]]'' when he was a kid. * [[PentiumMMX2 This troper]] hated how CartoonNetwork treated some of the less popular shows he liked, such {{MAR}}. I remember how they aired the first episode...and then jumped straight to Episode 5 without any warning. They did start showing it in order a month later, and got pretty far in, but the damage had already been done; the ratings where lower than what they wanted, so they canceled it. * This Canadian troper remembers a fine anime block on YTV, which went by the name of Bionix. It aired all Friday Night, with shows like FullmetalAlchemist, DeathNote and InvaderZim (Not anime but seriously, who isn't a fan?), which brought him into anime years ago. However, YTV found an (unfortunate) love for reality shows. replaced Bionix, moved the anime to Saturday, only to be cancelled altogether for [[AdoredBytheNetwork "favourites"]] like [[FollowTheLeader Next Star]], [[CNReal Survive This]], [[NetworkDecay which American viewers should understand]] and the unlikeable [[SoBadItsHorrible Prank Patrol.]] Needly to say, [[DepressingTropes "I'm not happy."]] ** ...I REMEMBER THAT. They had Inuyasha, too! Part that sucked? My family are CHRISTIAN. That means, back then at least, NO FANTASY. With it also being after dusk on Fridays? Doomed love. And THEN they put Bleach, Naruto and....that Galaxy Rangers thing on at three in the bloody morning! Galaxy Rangers was made by the people who did Totally Spies and Martin Mystery, which are ALSO never on anymore. FUCK YOU YTV. FUCK YOU TELETOON. Enough with your stupid reality shows, GIVE US OUR FUNNY BACK! I want to finish my homework, grab a soda and watch Inuyasha get sat, Martin getting whaled on by Diana, and the Spies being awesome. NOT STUPID PRANKS. I don't care if they have ninjas, they still are not funny at all. And bring back Sugar. She was so cuuute! * Sonic the hedgehog. SATAN. WHY? F*C* YOU POWER RANGERS AND NEW PRESIDENT OF ABC! * Watching episodes of Pokmon and Yu-Gi-Oh on the WB after school was this troper's ritual when he was younger. Then the network started announcing their impending name-change to MyNetworkTV. He figured this would not affect him and therefore did not care... until he tuned in

the day of the switch, and discovered that his shows had apparently been kicked off the 4:00-5:00 timeslot and replaced with reruns of According to Jim. [[ClusterFBomb He was not pleased.]] * I'm not sure if this counts, but here goes: After buying the 1st Season of Gargoyles on DVD and falling in love with it (so did my other siblings), we bought the 1st of Season 2. We figured that it might take a few months maybe a year or two, for the next set to come out. The SBN comes in when we found out that Disney is not continuing the series on DVD, due to "low sales". But it took at least 3-4 years after we bought the first two sets to find this out. * Oh, oh, oh German channels screw up so horribly right and often... ** Series/DoctorWho was first shown in March 2008, where it aired in two-episode bundles Saturday evening and to the exact same time as soccer was on the air. They made a respectable amount of advertisement, but seem to have completely ignored that regardless of what you air, if soccer is on, your programm could be a recording of paint drying. The ratings were miserable for three weeks and they put it on the air a few weeks later at Sundays as one episode per week, also around evening. The quotes got significantly better, but because it was already three months ago that they advertised the show, so it is still wondering how they got anyone watching who wasnt a DW fanboy/girl. The show tottered around until series 2 finale and wont be brought back because of high licensing costs. At least Torchwood seems to be more popular. *** It also didnt help to censor the episodes to senselessness. Episode 6 Dalek hit it the most: You see NOT A SINGLE ONE of the soldiers die. Most memorably is the censoring of how the Dalek killed the people with the fire alarm. It shot the alaram, hovered, aimed for the floor, sudden cut to Doctor/Van Statten being sad and the Dalek declaring he wants to speak with the Doctor. Just painfull to watch... ** My name is Earl looked like it would be utterly annihilated with being shown at midnight in the night of Friday/Saturday. They cannceled it after a few weeks and it looked like they wouldnt consider putting it on the air ever again, but they finally ended up airing it Saturday afternoon, two complete seasons. ** Firefly got a much worse treatment here as in the USA. The premiere of the show was AUTUMN 2009 and showed it on SuperRTL (aka Disney cartoons and sitcoms). The firm also owned RTL2 (known for Sci-Fi Wednesday, which at the time consisted of 4 rerun episodes of Stargate, but whatever...). At least we got all episodes in normal order, but they really took their time to ham up the WallBanger with airing movie sequel Serenity on RTL2, Sci-Fi Wednesday, and then also several weeks later and censored (although it reran uncut at 1 am again). ** You could say this about nearly everything what airs at weekend afternoons. Normally programms like Scrubs, How I met Your Mother, Big Bang Theory, and so on end up here and are always ignored everybody who isnt already fan of them through fansites. Heidi Klum is host of Germanys next topmodel and made appearance on HIMYM. They could have wonderfully used this to promote both shows. Instead they made a trailer that only got shown once and that in the commercial break of the programme directly before HIMYM... Its like they dont want to

let anybody know that they have programmes at weekend afternoons. * Now ''WarehouseThirteen'' is getting it, due to wresting overrun. ''Wrestling!!''. How the everlovin' hell does a scripted show overrun? Why is ''wrestling'' on SciFi anyway? * This troper (the same one as above, who also got up at 7:00am to watch ''Mew Mew Power''), when she was about 7 or 8 used to get up at 6:30am to watch Hello Kitty on ToonDisney. Then one day, they decided to stop showing it for whatever reason. I'm still sad about it. * When CartoonNetwork finally decided to air {{Reboot}} season 4 (guess which [[FridayNightDeathSlot day]] they only aired it) it began to rerun the first three seasons. Wonderful right? Oh no, it's aired at 5am without the opening credits (probably because they had already chopped them all off for their {{Toonami}} bumpers). * If you live in south africa like [[{{Tropers/fourteenwings}} me]], be prepared to be dissapointed in a lot of channels. Our CartoonNetwork refuses to give us [[{{Bakugan}} New Vestroia's ]] second season and I doubt we'll ever get [[{{Bakugan}} Gundalian Invaders]]we also are never getting Ben10AlienForce or [[Ben10UltimateAlien UltimateAlien.]]Our {{Animax}} also decided [[CompletelyMissingThePoint that it would be a great idea to show reality shows,]] and we only get (EDIT) '''six''' hours out of twenty five (Half or them are at midnight.) '''AND''' we only get EurekaSeven, NeonGenesisEvangelion, DeathNote and the first two arcs of {{Bleach}}, so if I want to watch any other anime, it's time to shell over for [[CrackIsCheaper imported DVDs.]] * [[{{Tropers/SAMAS}} This Troper]] Always seemed to like the shows he's now discovered the syndication networks apparently hated. Throught middle and high school (and afterwards), he's realized that his favorite animated shows were usually the ones that came on at 5:00 AM on weekdays or weekends. * [[{{Tropers/RAMChYLD}} This troper]] feels your pain. Too many of his favorite shows were screwed over by the Malaysian TV cartel that one of his madness mantras has become ''[[CrushKillDestroy Destroy NTV7]] ForGreatJustice!'' To be fair tho, although NTV7 wasn't the only one screwing over shows, they just happened to be the one who screwed over most of the shows this troper loved. * I stopped watching YTV when Jacob Two Two and Martin Mystery were cancelled. Seriously, I had no idea that new episodes of Jacob Two-Two aired after "Jacob Two Two and the Wooden Nickel Knuckleheads", and most of my friends had no idea it existed. And now they are making new episodes? After almost 5 years? Martin Mystery? I had to record it. * This troper thinks they're doing this with SpongeBobSquarePants. ** Ha. Now, [[AdoredByTheNetwork wh]][[FlatWhat at.]] * Try being in Canada, where MyLifeAsATeenageRobot got screwed over, more than once. The show debut in 2004, to good timeslots (Thursday 7PM and Friday 4:30PM), only to be removed for the summer, despite it's cult hit up here. YTV then brought the show back sometime later, [[ScrewedByTheNetwork at 8AM Sunday]]. When the second season arrived, the show got a Tuesday afternoon airing, [[KickTheDog only to be replaced by the]] [[YourMileageMayVary subpar,]] CaptainFlamingo a couple months later. Eventually, the following fall, the Third Season was about to make it's way to YTV, airing weekdays (or at least

Tuesdays to Thursdays) at 5PM. For a few weeks, it aired the third season, [[ShortRunInPeru before the American Nickelodeon got to see.]] [[YankTheDogsChain One month later, Being Ian took over all timeslots]] [[CutShort and Teenage Robot]] [[ScrewedByTheNetwork hasn't aired since...]] * This troper watched Unsolved Mysteries on Spike, but when I tried to record it,I'd sometimes end up recording CSI, because sometimes Spike would air a CSI marathon instead of Unsolved Mysteries on random days, then air the show late at night!There was no warning when they did this, no way to know that Unsolved Mysteries was airing at a different time, except for the TV guide! This troper has screamed in frustration several times because when did get a day off from school, CSI was airing instead of Unsolved Mysteries, and Unsolved Mysteries was moved to late at night! It's like Spike said, "You want to watch Unsolved Mysteries? Too bad!" * This tropette, who is too poor to have BBCAmerica, is usually frusturated by the fact that the SyFy channel has yet to air the Matt Smith episodes of Doctor Who while airing new episodes of those goddamn paranormal investigation programs. * This newbie troper lives up in Canada, and let me tell you, Teletoon and YTV screwed Chaotic and Being Ian badly. Sure, the latter cartoon came back from the dead almost instantly, but he can't get over it. Not to mention the former cartoon already being screwed over in the US, which just made it worse. I remember they put the two shows in the graveyard slot, right before the adult blocks, and I was screwing up my sleep schedule trying to watch the shows. Yeah. Not very pleasant to me. * Six words: ''OnePiece''. {{Toonami}}. April. 2008. ...****. ** If there were ten words to describe how mad this troper was when this happened, they'd probably get me banned. * This troper remembers watching Sabrina The Teenage Witch - the animated version- and the show where Mary Kate and Ashley Olson were cartoon secret agents when I was little. One day, they just stopped showing both on Toon Disney's timeslot, which really pissed me off, as they were the only cartoons that I got ''hooked'' on at the time. ---What? ScrewedByTheNetwork got moved to an early-morning timeslot with no promotion? Dammit! <<|TroperTales|>>

ScrewPolitenessImASenior * My mom's great uncle was talking to my dad's mother. This is basically what happened. --> Great Uncle: So how old are you? --> Grandma: How old do you think I am? --> Great Uncle: I dunno. 92? --> Grandma: -general sounds of insultedness--> Great Uncle: I coulda said 93! * When [[DesertDragon this editor's]] brother was heading out the door

in an 8XL white tshirt, our grandfather ragged on him in a CrowningMomentOfFunny, saying, "That damn thing's a dress! You getting married or something?" My grandmother, more innocently, asked my thenboyfriend when he picked me up one time if he had gained weight, which he's insanely self-conscious about, leading to me standing there wincing at every word. * [[{{Tropers/PunkReader}} This troper's]] grandfather ''is'' this, unfortunately. He has a foul mouth, coupled with an awful temper that goes off at any and everything (for example, he ruined one of my cousin-by-marriage's graduation parties recently by ranting and berating his mother for ''four hours'' because she said something he didn't like.) He has told me to, on various occasions (I have disabilities that either outright ''prevent'' me from doing some of these things, and other times he's simply trying to provoke me, I swear): "Sit up straight" (can't do it, physically), "speak louder" (Again, physically can't do it), "talk more" (I don't ''like'' talking to him, and when I do, he blatantly ignores me), "visit more often" (Ugh...''No.'' You're the one who wouldn't speak to us for years, remem-ber?), "don't get so hot and bothered about what [my father] did, ''we didn't know''..." (...I'm gonna kill you, old man - he actively allowed physical, verbal, and emo. tional abuse to continue, and he encouraged others to jump on the bandwagon and help my father. ''You ignored my situation completely.'' I nearly snapped on him the first time he gave me that speech, a few months ago. I'm glad he couldn't see my face from where I was sitting - my aunt said it looked "murderous"), and the one I really hate: "Why can't you be more feminine, what are you, gay?" Okay, I dislike the social construct of "femininity" in its modern use to begin with, and what it entails in terms of desires. Second, I'm bisexual, and prefer other women, so, technically ''yes, I am''. I've said nothing of this. He also drinks quite a bit, and gets crude when he does, going so far as to make molestation jokes. He was a former incestuous pedophile - not with me, but I still hate letting him even "hug" me. He also acts like he doesn't want to touch me, pariah-fashion. The really sad thing is that, when he and his wife go out to fancy restaurants with their friends, and he has a couple of glasses of wine, he starts spewing crap and getting into rows; his wife keeps ''duct tape in her pocket and puts it over his mouth '''in public''' to shut him up.'' I almost forgot to mention that he uses verbal abuse with abandon, and thinks he's always right. He also ''loves'' to complain about how much pain he's in from the asthma he refuses to manage, and the shingles he has. Well you know what, asshole, you're not the only one in pain: your grandaughter's joints dislocate on a daily basis, and she is ''constantly'' in a state of exhaustion - oh, and another thing, ''her pain never completely goes away'', yours can and does - ''so '''stop whining'''''. (I rarely complain about my pain, actually. That was a rare rant borne of extreme frustration. Enjoy it.) The man is my definition of "abominable." I really sincerely hope that no one else has a relative like this. * [[{{Morraeon}} This troper]] used to think that the stereotype image of a shrewish old lady yelling and waving her cane at the "young whippersnappers" was an exaggeration, until she started working at a

grocery store and had an 85-year old woman do just that to her. If anyone complains to her about the entitlement complexes that teenagers have, she has plenty of stories about old ladies with entitlement complexes that make the teenager whining for an iPod look like nothing. * This troper's grandmother was an example. Grandma was fond of dropping cluster F-bombs all around, hadn't much use for "please" or "thank you", and her way of correcting ANYBODY, not just this troper and her cousins, was hitting them with a wooden spoon. * This troper works as a pharmacy technician, a job which requires lots of contact with seniors, and he has definitely noticed that they tend to be ruder and less patient than younger customers. Of course, this isn't to say '''all''' seniors are jerks, just that there's a larger jerk-to-nice ratio among the elderly from what I've seen. * Slight variation, [[DragonMaster This Tropers]] Grandfather theorizes that all the old ladies are mugging people, robbing stuff, commiting vandalism and framing it on teenagers. * This troper, forced to volunteer (try not to think about that too hard) at an old folks' home, dealt with one particularly cantankerous senior by paraphrasing Winston Churchill: --> Oldster: "You're a mean one!" --> Me: "And you're OlderThanDirt. In the morning I'll be a sweetheart, while you'll be dead." * Czech grandmas. They'll kick you out of your comfy tram seat. However, since '89, they'll usually stand next to you and glare rather than actively shove their senior ID in your face. Also, do you know their policy on stealing street signs? ** No, we don't. [[NoodleIncident Please explain]]. * [[{{Tunod}} This Troper]] has actually had it explained to him in a convincing way (by a senior citizen, no less); as you get older, you slowly but surely learn to stop sugarcoating things, be upfront, and say what you mean. By the time you're a senior citizen, you're blunt but generally pretty straightforward. Thus why many senior citizens seem kind of rude, but generally good people. Now, when you combine this with an entitlement whore, ''that's'' when you get the demanding "I can do whatever I want" old people. * One of [[{{Orihime}} this troper]]'s uni professors isn't that old (only in his mid-late 50's), but he fits ''perfectly''. Us students speculate that it's because the guy has lung cancer and won't live for long, so he decided to send everything to Hell without regrets before he kicks the bucket. * While she isn't quite a senior yet, this troper's middle-aged ''cat'' is exhibiting this trope lately. The most memorable example: at 5 AM one morning, she jumped up onto the counter (which she never used to do) and purposely knocked over a cup of water so that someone would wake up and feed her. Screw Politeness indeed. ** You too? [[{{Gecko}} This troper]]'s old cat has also gotten a lot bolder about jumping on the counter and telling off the dog and not hiding from people. * This troper's mother attends a Halloween party every year that raises money for a scholarship, and sees some pretty elaborate costumes there. Once there was a big group of pharmacists who all

dressed up as old people (complete with all the necessary medical supplies) and invoked this trope ''heavily'', running people over with their walkers in order to get to the buffet table, etc. * Here's a fun thing to do in France; sit near the front of a bus in one of the seats that has a little sticker near the window. They're reserved for WWII veterans apparently, but I didn't find that out until I'd been vigorously beaten by a crazed, French octogenarian. Then it happened again, in a different city with a different woman. And again. In short: France. * This troper was just in Disneyland. Oh my ''GOD'', the seniors! Not only would we see them pushing through in line, pushing us in line for food, trying to order at the same time as other people, sometimes smacking kids with canes (yes, they actually ''did'' that) when they ran in front of them and not apologizing, running into people with those propelled carts, speaking very rudely to cast members, whining about line sizes and blaming them ''on park staff'', not saying "Excuse me", and saying some ''incredibly'' racist comments to his mother and him. (who are Caucasian) They were saying stuff like [[spoiler:"Damn beaners ruined this state, they probably jumped the fence"]], [[spoiler:"You'd think they'd serve more watermelon with all the blacks in here"]] and, [[spoiler:"Shouldn't these mexicans be clipping grass instead of standing in line?"]]. One of them even ran over my foot with a wheelchair while I was sitting on a bench, and didn't even apologize! (and two days later, I'm still limping) According to the cast members, the old people seem to think they're entitled to the park in its entirety, and wonder why the hell they have nothing better (and cheaper) to do than hanging out at the park and complaining at people. (These guys were so rude, JeffDunham's Walter would be more polite company!) ** And this troper had spent a lot of time in Arizona...where 90% of the population actually ''averted'' this trope! However in Michigan...his grandmother's neighbours pretty much half-and-half played the trope... *** You must have found one of the rare enclaves of nicer Arizonans, or maybe didn't get to know them all that well. A whole lot of people of the third age there are more like the above Disneyland patrons above, but they tend to not show it until after knowing you for a while. * My sister describes our parents' recent behavior thusly: "You've heard of the [[SpoiledBrat terrible twos]]? Our parents are thirtyfive times worse." * [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] has seen this happen many times. One of the most noteworthy was when I was playing the demo of [[GuitarHero Guitar Hero II]] up at Wal-Mart, when an older man needed to get by me so he can get to the hardware department, so he proceeds to shove me out of the way without saying anything at all. * This troper's got a pretty bad one...a senior citizen at Target once came on in and then ran into me with one of those carts you ride around in. I thought it was an accident until he continued to keep on driving with it on ''full blast'', and the assmunch had me ''pinned between my cart and his'' and kept going down the aisle and pushed me into the fucking freezer. When he finally let go after nearly breaking

my nose, I said, "Sir! What were you doing that for?!" and his response? --> "You were in my way, wench!" ** "Wench"? Was he perchance [[BarbarianHero wearing a loincloth, a sword and not much else?]] *** I guess aging was not kind to Conan if he needed a cart to get around. * Not sure if this counts, but [[{{Luna87}} I]] recall taking a bus ride home, where a middle-aged woman was yelling in the back about the bus, complaining about the driver's driving, saying, "I'm 50 years old, and I don't have to take this!" over, and over again in her rant. Needless to say, I think most of the passengers were relieved when she go to her stop. * You ever been to Singapore? Try taking the MRT from 4.30 to 7pm, especially from the interchanges. I can assure you, the first ones into the trains are always the seniors. They can break the laws of physics, squeeze in through impossible gaps and plop themselves into a seat. And if they can't get a seat, there's always staring at someone until they give up their seat. And they'll smile at you for "giving up" your seat, just to be nice. * The grocery store my cousin works at (Which is right next to a large retirement community) is a cosmic nexus for these types of people. These is the kinds of stuff they do on a daily basis: ** Push people out of the way with their carts (Like that troper up there) ** Go out of their way to bump customers and workers with a cart and yell at ''them'' to get out of ''their'' way. ** Open something, begin eating it, then placing it back on the shelf and pretending to have Alzheimer's if somebody catches 'em or tells them they have to pay for that. ("Huh? Where am I?") ** Use expired coupons and attempt to hurl an entire book full of coupons at someone when there is a ''big bold sign'' reading, "Limit 5 coupons per order" on top of every register. (Which was enacted ''because'' of people who'd throw entire armfuls of coupons at them and make the store ''lose'' money.) ** Poking holes in all of the ground beef, and throwing the ones they don't want ''on the floor''. ** Using flat out offensive terms to people working there, such as calling all of our hispanics or people with hispanic last names "Beaners", "Illegals", throwing words like "Guido", "Honky", "Bitch", and "Nigger" around like candy on halloween, and calling all the males in the checkout aisle "Fags" because "That's woman's work". ** Taking up several parking spots. *** And Park in Handicap spots when they clearly ''don't'' have a Handicapped permit! **** I ''hate'' it when people do that, because [[{{Tropers/Punkreader}} this teenaged Troper]] ''does'' have one, and actually needs that space in csae her legs decide to turn to jelly and give out or so she can carry the "heavy" stuff (a gallon of milk, for this troper, qualifies as heavy because of joint weakness and the pull the thing exerts - also, she's short, and carrying the damn things (even in a basket) is hard when they drag to below your knees.) back

to the car. Granted, I don't use it much, but, still, people, come on! ** Hurling all the shopping carts in the middle of the parking lot (Meaning we have to retrieve them before a car hits them) instead of either leaving them out of the way or putting them *** And if the senior's driving a car, they come in screaming about how we "threw a cart in their way" or "Left a cart in their way" and how we'd be buying them a new car. ** Leaving those powered carts that say "In Store Use Only" outside in the rain. ** Stealing stuff ** Taking several shopping carts ''loaded'' with stuff into the express lane, then sending in complaints when they're redirected to another aisle. ** Spitting on other minorities in the store ** Spout StrawmanPolitical things. *** They sound like they're bad for business mainly because they probably cost the store more money than their shopping spends. I would ban them from the store because as a businessmen you have right to refuse service if they are doing shit like that. **** Chances are they do ban some of the people who do really bad things but they just ignore it and come in anyways - The department store has banned seniors for doing half the stuff on that list and that hasn't stopped them. * This troper works at a local drive-in that has been there for over thirty years--prime feeding grounds for cranky old people. I get to deal with a lot of this shit, but two incidents in particular stand out (and they happened one day after the other!): ** Yesterday, an old guy came in and ordered fish and chips, but with salad instead of fries, which is perfectly OK. He then felt the need to bitch to my manager about how the salad was made, the size of the fish pieces (which are cut up in the mornings; nothing he could do about it), the price, his senior discount... saying things like "is ''this'' how you intended to serve it?" and "are you leading me to believe you don't take care of seniors here?" Eventually my manager got him to go away, and the restaurant breathed a sigh of relief. ** Today, an old guy (but not that old, he was perfectly mobile) came in and ordered some fried mushrooms. Now, the restaurant has a policy where we take the names of our customers and then call them up when their food is ready. Sometimes we take food out if we know the people or if they're obviously having difficulty getting around. So I called this guy's name, several times, and then he finally came up and said, "Sorry to hear about your legs being broken!" I gave him my sweetest smile and he sat down. NEWSFLASH: IT'S FAST FOOD. IF YOU WANT ME TO BE YOUR WAITRESS, YOU HAD BETTER BE PREPARED TO LEAVE ME A TIP. * This troper's mother attends a charity Halloween party every year. There are always a big group of pharmacists who come in costume; one year they dressed as old people. They ran everyone over with walkers and screamed at everyone. ** Dealing with old people is part of a pharmacist's job. Trust me on this - I had friends who worked at a Walgreen's. They said the Pharmacists had the worst job because the seniors go ''right'' to them, even though dealing with seniors is part of Walgreen's. And even

when they worked at the hospital, it was ''just'' as bad. * My best friend lives across the street from an old peoples home, and they are always being rude to the neighbours and complaining about every little noise. They act like shes the worst neighbour ever cause of the WildTeenParty that happened one night, and only one night, its not as if we are doing it every night, and also always complain that one of the neighbours kids play on the street, even though the houses dont have gardens, so theres nowhere for the kids to play. They dont even make that much noise. * The local department store is a cosmic nexus of this trope. One time I witnessed in horror a senior came and said "I'M LOOKING FOR SOME CLOTHES" and went to a clothing display and literally unfolded ''EVERY SHIRT'' that the employee was folding and threw them into a pile on the floor. It must have taken an ''hour'' to do all that, you witch! Then another time I'm inside a changing room and a woman somehow opens it up (Yes, you read right...there's clearly something wrong if she could open it up) and screeches at me. Then an old man poked me in the ass with his cane, another pushed me out of the way with a cart.... * This troper's great-grandmoter was the epitome of this trope. Whenever she would meet her grandchildren's prospective romantic partners, she would outright tell them she didn't like them. The first time this troper's father ever met her, the troper's mother said, "She's not gonna like you," to which he said, "I haven't even done anything", and the troper's mother replied, "Doesn't matter." When they divorced, she turned to the troper's mother and said, "Told you. You gonna listen to your grandma from now on?" * This troper would invoke this trope, not as an old person type of senior, but as a senior in High School. Although this troper's dislike for freshman was mostly for show. * This troper works at a hardware store and while I was still new at it, I was serving an old guy at the cash register. He wanted to charge his purchase to his account, but I hadn't heard him say that. After I told him his total he said "You don't listen very well, do you?" I very nearly chose to rebound his rudeness on him, but decided not to. * This troper's late grandmother was what is colloquially referred to as a "firecracker" or a "sparkplug," which is basically code for "awful person." She smoked in movie theaters, was flamboyantly racist, and often actually hit door-to-door salesmen and Jehovah's Witnesses with her cane for coming to her door. She was also known to demand her family members to do things for her while they were otherwise occupied. Tell her you were busy, and she'd retort "Well, stick a broom up your ass and sweep the floor while you're at it!" On the bright side, this troper has since adopted that phrase as a catchall response for people who try to slough their work off on me, and it's pretty effective... * [[Tropers/AdelePotter This Tropette]] would like to say: You can bet, once I turn 60, I will ''so'' be screwing with people. 47 more years to go... * This troper enjoys going to plays at a community theater and has noticed a remarkable tendency for senior audience members to talk at full volume during the show, leave walkers blocking the stage (even if they're not sitting near the stage), and sit down in whichever seat

they want despite the seats being reserved and refuse under any circumstances to go to their own seats. * This troper's grandmother will often comment loudly on those around her. For example, we were walking down the street and she said, certainly within earshot of the man she was referring to, "God, isn't he ugly? Face like a dog." Even when she was in her sixties, the first thing she said upon meeting this troper's (Jewish) mother was "Oh, your nose isn't ''that'' big." * This troper's grandmother is an inversion. She is always polite and outgoing, to the point where her politeness is more annoying than it would be if she were rude. * My grandparents had a GranolaGirl neighbour when they lived in Arizona, even when she was in her 60s and was always "Oh my god I didn't get my 5 veggies!" and refused to eat anything she deemed "unhealthy". After a barbeque gathering where she refused to eat any meat because she already had her 3 meat servings and only had a couple bites of watermelon. They basically just said, "Healthy eating is nice and all, but you're only delaying the inevitable." * Standing in line at a store, at the only open register (Like five minutes after the store opened, just nobody else there yet), this old woman is arguing over the cashier over whether one can of tuna should be 33 or 34 cents when they're three for a dollar. I finally got tired of her shrieking and put a nickel on the counter and said 'There, you're covered for the next five. Can we get on with our lives now?' She [[DeathGlare glared]] at me and stomped out. The (Very long by now) line applauded, and the cashier thanked me and said that she did that pretty much every day. * Working in a hospital will net you a daily share of it. The hallways can be particularly busy, yet it doesn't prevent them from strolling at full-speed in a powered cart. Also had a case where an old lady spent at least 5 minutes ranting about how she had to open a case before getting a check-up (For patient history and all that if it's the first visit at the hospital. Also, the check-up was at an internal clinic, not the ER.) Cue the following line: [[{{Ptitletzsppi6i}} I'm an IT technician, not a doctor]]. ---Get off my lawn and go back to [[ScrewPolitenessIAmASenior Screw Politeness, I'm A Senior]] you damn kids!!! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful * TruthInTelevision. The overly attractive perfects/student leaders in ThisTroper's class would pawn all their responsibilities off to spineless nice guys and would leave class early pretty much every time and claim they were doing the work they were supposed to. They were completely shocked when they asked ThisTroper to do something, and I replied, "Do it yourselves, you lazy pricks." ** I applaud you, sir/madame! I swear, the people at my school are just like that.

* To this troper's annoyance people seem to be willing to think looks make up for personality and character. So somebody's a bitch but hey they're hot. * From about ages thirteen through sixteen, this troper went through a phase where she thought she was God's gift to humanity. This trope was basically her mantra. Thank Bob she got over it, and is now a lot less conceited. * This troper is a subversion, or maybe a play on it. People do bend the rules for her regularly and are too helpful, although it seems to more a case of Screw The Rules, I'm Woobiful / Adorkable/ SlightlyCrazyAwesome/ CharmingInAChildLikeWay, rather than beautiful. As the saying goes:When you smile the world smiles with you, when you cry the world hugs you and gives you hot chocolate, and when you ask really really nicely, possibly with a trembling lip or hopeful eyes, then the world gives you stuff. * See [[http://notalwaysright.com/snobbery-just-wont-cut-it/11953 HERE]] for a truly delicious example. ---You can click the [[ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful link back to the main page.]] I know it's my job, but I'm too beautiful for a boring job like that. You do it. ----

Scribblenauts '''Note to tropers: please keep examples from ''Super Scribblenauts'' in the Super Scribblenauts list; separating them helps to avoid confusion for players who only have the first game, and are trying to recreate examples of things you can only do in the second.''' -'''''General''''' * I would like to start the Grand List of Words ''Scribblenauts'' Doesn't Recognize. I'll start with words mentioned so far on this page, but feel free to add more. Also note that any word you add to the list must follow the in-game rules for words, even though some of the in-game words don't. ** Quasar ** Tarasque (also put in Tarrasque for the people who only know about it from D&D) *** Isn't this trademarked? In which case of course it isn't going to be recognised. ** Hacker *** It's in the sequel. ** Penanggalan ** Bagpipes *** No, bag''pipe'' works and summons that. *** most plurals work to summon singular objects. A plural that is sometimes used to refer to the singular should definitely be in.

*** It works in Super Scribblenauts, though. ** Trowel *** It's in the sequel, too. ** Cuisse (Leg armor) ** Zorilla (Skunk-like animal) ** Greaves (Armored boots) *** In the sequel. ** Spinosaurus *** Also in the sequel. ** Utahraptor ** An Afro wig. *** It's in the sequel. ** Restraining order ** Paradichlorobenzene ** Neodymium ** Protactinium *** These are the only names in the entire periodic table that the game doesn't cover (though many of them look alike) **** Protactinium works in Super Scribblenauts; neodymium is still out, though. ** Smilodon (I'm puzzled about how one of the most famous prehistoric animals got left out of the game! "sabre-toothed tiger" summons a normal tiger.) *** Smilodon is in Super Scribblenauts ** Net gun (it summons a normal gun, causing me to shoot the butterfly that I was supposed to catch and fail a mission) ** Sandstorm *** It's in Super Scribblenauts. ** Landslide ** Satin ** [[strike:Muramasa]] It's a proper name (e.g. the Japanese swordsmith Muramasa Sengo). ** Inmate ** Sleuth ** Adulterer (does this count?) ** Centurion *** It works in Super Scribblenauts. ** Pleather ** Molotov. It's a Russian proper name (e.g. Vyacheslav Molotov). *** "Gas bomb" makes a Molotov, though. *** Actually, molotov cocktail works fine. ** Treant (Although It is going to be in the sequel) *** In one level of the sequel you make weapons for a guy who fights treants. Fire works great. ** Aorta ** Anomalocaris ;_; *** It works in the sequel, though. Yay! ** Wiwaxia ** Hemlock ** Typhoon ** Spotted Dick (it summons a detective) *** In the sequel, a ''spotted'' detective.

** Tiki. Of all the words they put in, they forgot to add Tiki. That's...... no. ** Lexicon. It makes trying to summon Zexion rather difficult. ** Brunch ** Sonic Screwdriver. Arguably it works and gives you Jackson Lake's version, which was...an ordinary screwdriver. *** In ''Super Scribblenauts'', it gives you a ''sentient'' screwdriver, as "sonic" is recognized as an adjective. Still not one's intended idea of a "sonic screwdriver", though... ** Hedjet ** Pollen. Even though some levels have bees in them. ** Canvey Island Monster ** Giant Ground Sloth ** Megatherium ** Wooly Rhino ** Flying Spaghetti Monster ** Beatnik ** Furry ** Growth ray *** In the sequel, of course. ** Any nationality. ** Chevrotain (or mouse deer) ** Autoharp ** Seltzer ** British terms (They probably work in the British version, but don't in US Super Scribblenauts, for some stupid reason): *** Lorry (Truck) *** Fag (Cigarette) *** Knickers (Panties) ** Semiconductor ** Meteoroid ** Pyromancer * And I'd like to start the grand list of adjectives not recognized or not recognized properly by ''Super Scribblenauts''. ** Rogue ** Rouge (Red) ** Black, White (in the context of race. Gets a literally black or white person) ** Stuffed (in the context of "Stuffed Bell Pepper", it gives you a Bell Pepper stuffed for cotton) ** Anarchist (Works as a noun, though) * Finally, the incorrectly categorized list: ** A Griffin doesn't count as an animal. ** Cyborgs don't count as humans. * Grand List of Words ''Super Scribblenauts'' Doesn't Recognize (includes words that also weren't recognized in the first game and continue not to be recognized in the second one): ** Glyptodon ** Indricotherium ** Easmotherium ** Utahraptor ** Sivatherium

** Mother Goat (Flying Goatheaded Man, that could be summoned in the first game, but for some reason not in the second) ** Trilobite ** Horseshoe Crab ** Chuck Norris ** Flying Spaghetti Monster ** Thunderbird ** It has Odin, but it doesn't have Gungnir ** Pope ** Mitre (the NiceHat sported by Catholic bishops; [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitre take a look]]) ** Autoharp ** Beatnik ** Seltzer ** Suet

'''''Scribblenauts''''' * MirageKnuckler just played level 1-10, in which you have to protect food from ants without killing them. I picked the food (a sandwich) and ran. STARITE GET! * This troper rode a motorcycle on top of the heads of a horde of zombies. What other games let you do that? * This troper discovered that a groom will only eat the fried chicken when his wife is not around. This also applies to other couples, such as wizard and enchantress. I guess girls don't want their guys to get fat. * Try glueing a steel spike to a staff, glueing that to a car, and glueing an anvil to the other side. Ladies and gentlemen, the Shitstorm-o-Tron. * Typing in "thing", "contraption", "this", or "that" spawns a Swiss Army Knife. "device" makes a razor, I think. "object" makes a pole. "stuff" makes an INVISIBILITY CLOAK. WHICH MAKES YOU INVISIBLE. AWESOME. ** Typing in "something" makes... well... ''something'' appear, which I don't know if it's meant to be a beach ball or a fire ball. I tend towards the former, since it can be caught. *** It has the same sprite as "tumor." * This troper was on the 6-3 puzzle stage, and the hint box told me to "Do 2 things at the wedding" so I rode Cthulhu and ran over the bride, apparently, that wasn't what it had in mind... ** OP: Now I summoned a treadmill and had Maxwell ride it, the treadmill was tilted a bit, and when Maxwell got on, IT FELL THROUGH THE FLOOR. ** I solved it by summoning excalibur and attacking the car. This got me the starite... I still don't get that level * This Troper's father induced the following incidents: ** He tapped on Heaven and God popped out. He then summons a shovel to dig through the dirt below him. God then steals his shovel, so what does he do? Makes a shotgun and tries to kill God to get his shovel back of course!

** In a custom level I made, you had to rescue a cat from a storm so the little girl will give you the Starite. My father then proceeds to shoot the girl, grabs the starite, and I follow up with: "You killed a girl for a gold star?!" We then laughed our guts out. * [[Tropers/{{Harold_fist}} This Troper]] had created this: a BABY wearing a ARMY HELMET riding a ELEPHANT wearing a SADDLE and TOP HAT wielding a SWORD. make the ENTIRE THING hostile to you. ** Extra fun if you repeat the above combination, only with a COWBOY holding a REVOLVER, wearing SUNGLASSES, CLOAK, and some BOOTS. it instantly changes from cute to AWESOME. ** It is worth noting that if you use the level editor to make the BABY wearing an ARMY HELMET hostile to you, it is almost unkillable. ** if you are feeling really lucky, replace elephant with Cthulhu. * Magnets are incredibly weird. whenever this Troper spawns magnets near something metal, they fly together, start bouncing around the screen, and occasionally explode. * How to make anything fly: glue a propeller to it. the object will zoom forward in the direction of the propeller. I personally enjoy flying unicycles. * This troper's brother discovered that if you make a raptor docile, ride it, then glue a pterodactyl to it, it makes a glitch and you can fly superfast through walls. * for some reason, gluing lots of things together occasionally makes the whole agglomeration fall through the floor. HOW!? * Knowzall created this vehicle which is awesome!! It's a mech with a super gun glued on top and a rope attached to another side so you can climb up on the other side there's a tractor beam glued on and awesomely enough there's a gorgon glued on the end of it.and to control it all even through the air there's a space ship on top i attached a vine to the wheel so you can climb up to the ship and pilot it. * [[Tropers/{{CecilTwig}} This new troper]] will never forget when he glued a spear to a space shuttle and used it to kill dragons, Cthulhu and even GOD. Yeah, I RAMMED A SPACE SHUTTLE INTO GOD AND KILLED HIM. * This troper was on a level where you were supposed to rescue a penguin on an iceberg by bringing it to its fellow penguins across a stretch of ocean. There was a killer whale which you weren't allowed to hurt. Deciding that it was boring using helicopters and rope, he attached the penguin to the iceberg with rope, and the iceberg to a UFO with a pair of handcuffs and AIRLIFTED THE ENTIRE ICEBERG AND BROUGHT IT TO THE PENGUINS. * This troper created the best vehicle ever. Place a pole horizontally on the ground, and have Maxwell handcuffed to it so that he's standing on it. Then glue a magnet to one end of the pole. Your camera will struggle to catch up. * This troper placed a baby inside a car and glued an ICBM to it, sending baby and car flying into a pool infested with sharks. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued.]] ** That just made me laugh. Really hard. Virtual high-five to you. * This troper successfully tamed a T. Rex...by feeding it kittens. ** Meanwhile, [[Tropers/{{onyhow}} this troper]] tamed a cheetah with...a bottle of acid.

* It's apparently possible to '''give Cupid a raygun''' and make him fight off zombies. ** you can also give a priest a flamethrower and have him fight Cthulhu. [[spoiler:THE PRIEST WINS!!!!]] * Nuke: AwesomeYetImpractical? After all, it kills everything onscreen, including Maxwell, right? Ah, but I think not! [[spoiler: B-OM-B S-H-E-L-T-E-R.]] Voila. ** Tropers/{{Excel-2009}}. Wrong. *** This is TruthInTelevision, actually. Nukes will easily vaporize bomb shelters near the point of impact. Even 50's science-based Fallout games put their bomb shelters under mountains. *** For some reason, bomb shelter will protect you from black hole, though (but not tsunami). ** Anyone try putting him in the [[spoiler: H-A-Z-M-A-T-S-U-I-T?]] I'm wondering if that could defend against a nuke. *** I find it foolish to even assume that would work where the SHELTER failed. Still, no. *** I had Maxwell wear a Hazmat Suit and Helm in a Bomb Shelter and the Nuke ''still'' cut through it. **** I had Maxwell wear a Hazmat Suit and space helmet in a big bomb shelter, and encaged the nuke with walls on the other side of the level. STILL, DIDN'T WORK! ** Nukes have a... limited usage. If a stage requires one to kill/destroy everything there, and you position Maxwell so that a Starite will spawn right on him, it's possible for him to grab it right after the nuke finishes the stages condition, and do the victory dance, presumably moments before he dies from radiation poisoning. But you'll still pass... sometimes. In other cases he'd just dance and croak. * This troper sacrificed his word limit to try [[ToyStory "Death By Monkeys"]], along with a liberal amount of earth-magic and a gameplaced pit. * Tropers/{{Excel-2009}}. Oddities I have encountered: ** Two police officers equipped with batons fighting over a donut that I gave to one of them. ** A sniper destroyed another with two shots: one to the head and another to his rifle. ** No one will die if given poison, which they invariably ingest on their own. ** [[RockPaperScissors Enough strikes from a pair of scissors will destroy the largest rock.]] Does this qualify as a subversion? *** The largest rock, the Huge Boulder, is invincible as far as I can tell. I aimed a chaingun at it, then hopped in a fighter and fired at it for ten minutes, and it didn't break. How long did it take you with those dinky scissors? *** No, because ANY sharp object would do the same, I assume. ** According to [[TheZombieSurvivalGuide Max Brooks]], zombies do not know how to operate rocket launchers. [[BlatantLies Oh how wrong he is.]] ** The Beekeeper is afraid of bees (and gets killed by them). [[FlatWhat Wut]]. * This troper has been doing a series of Pirate vs Ninja experiments.

** Pirate vs Ninja normal: [[spoiler:Pirate wins]] ** Put both on A pirate ship: [[spoiler:Ninja wins]] ** Give Ninja a flame sword: [[spoiler:Ninja wins]] ** Give Ninja a chainsaw: [[spoiler:Pirate wins]] ** Give Ninja a flamethrower: [[spoiler:Nothing happens]] ** Give them each a tank: [[spoiler:Nothing happens]] ** Make them both ride pterodactyls: [[spoiler:It seems to vary - the three times I did it, the pirate won twice and the ninja won once.]] ** Put both in the pit: [[spoiler:Pirate wins]] ** Shrink both of them: [[spoiler:Pirate wins]] ** Put both on A trampoline: [[spoiler:Pirate wins. Very quickly.]] ** Put ninja in a tank and put pirate next to the tank. [[spoiler:The pirate destroys the tank and kills the ninja USING ONLY HIS SWORD]] *** So would that make him [[spoiler:[[FullMetalAlchemist Wrath?]]]] * This troper accidentally released a ghost from coffin, so he try to contain it with [[{{Ghostbusters}} Proton pack]]. [[spoiler:It doesn't work...WHY???]] ** The ghost in the coffin is just too damn strong. It'll destroy the gun before you have the chance to kill it. It does work on friendly ghosts, though (just type in "ghost" or "soul"). ** This troper had no problem destroying said ghost. * This troper's favorite weapon is a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome fork]], which he dubbed The Fork of Power. ** Don't you mean the [[LookingForGroup Fork of Truth]]? ** I think he's talking about the [[WindWaker Triumph Fork]]. ** What about the [[ElderScrolls Fork of Horripulation]]? * This Troper [[DeadBabyComedy killed a baby]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome with a rocket launcher]]. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential While the baby's mother watched.]] (And This Troper is normally the kind of guy who [[spoiler: will obey traffic laws in GrandTheftAutoIV.]] ** Hell, you call that sadistic? [[Tropers/{{Uerian}} This troper]] dressed Maxwell in ceremonial robes, gave him the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Necronomicon]], and proceeded to sacrifice children and babies to [[HPLovecraft C'thulhu]] as their mother watched, trapped. As soon as I reached so many children sacrificed that it seemed unlikely the mother would've had any more, I trap another mother and feed ''her'' kids to C'thulhu. [[spoiler:This troper also does everything in his power to keep his Pocket God island inhabitants alive, killing them only when necessary.]] *** [[Tropers/{{Etheru}} ...]] MoralEventHorizon, much? **** I might be over the horizon. It depends on which square of the hopscotch grid I'm in. C'thulhu was pleased, by the way. ***** Feh. I can beat you. I shot the bully on one level with a shotgun, effectively killing him. Then I got the kid the candy, and intending to give her indigestion, bought a lot more candy. ****** That's like giving the children sweet candy compared to what i did. Once I shrunk a kid and glue him to a fly while his mom watched then i turned her other kid into a frog and fed the fly to it then I used the book of the dead, turned the frog kid into a skeleton warrior and had him kill his baby bro and then I took that warrior and surrounded him with giant enemy crabs. and finally I dropped the mom

into a volcano while dropping safes on her. Beat that! ******* I rickrolled God. ******** You win. ********* I killed Satan with a FORK! ********** [[@/AwesomeZombie22 This Troper]] put two puddles of Kerosene, the ashes of a Vampire, and a baby in a barrel. She then summoned a pyromaniac to set the thing on fire, hoping for the grizzliest death ever. She was disappointed that his matches didn't make the thing explode, so she just summoned a fire and roasted the barrel over it. What really got her surprised was that when the barrel exploded, [[InfantImmortality THE BABY WASN'T DEAD.]] I just let the pyromaniac burn it. Most disappointing botched murder ever. * This Troper was doing Puzzle Level 2-2 (where the hint is simply "Trick or Treat!", and you have to give candy to some kids apparently). Not sure what to do, he picked up the jack-o-lantern bucket (thinking it had the candy in it) and then, intending to give the bowl of candy to her, clicked on one of the kids, causing Maxwell to ''fling it at said kid.'' Naturally, the kid started crying, and then the Starite appeared, as if to say "Level complete. YouBastard." ** This troper got a starite from that level by ''summoning Cthulhu and it killing the kids. [[FlatWhat What]].'' *** ''Trick'' or Treat **** Holy shit, killing kids with evil gods counts as a trick? I've been doing Halloween all wrong... ** This troper just fed the kids arsenic. (For some reason, [[GoodBadBugs all humanoid NPCs ''love'' arsenic]].) ** The trick-or-treat level can be beaten by either giving the kids candy or by scaring them all. Thus, summoning Cthulhu, the boogeyman, etc. works quite well there. ** This troper was quite upset when he found out that giving the kids a rock, a la Charlie Brown didn't complete the mission. * Tropers/{{Darkurai}}: We all know about the Cthulhu vs. God fight, right? Well, This Troper played that level, and used "God", "Cthulhu", and "Flamethrower". God burned down the tree (and was promptly defeated), and the level ended. * [[Tropers/WildKnight I]] typed in "drill" and ended up with a small hand power drill - I was hoping for a larger one with which to drill through the ground. Frustrated, I typed in [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann "drill that will pierce the heavens"]]. Predictably, I didn't get anything that actually referenced that series...but I did get the Pearly Gates. Surprised, I picked up my measly little hand-drill and poked it. After three or four pokes, ''the Pearly Gates broke'' and God popped out. ''I broke Heaven with a drill.'' ** ''Yours was the drill that pierced the heavens!'' ** If you created the gates like that, then yours was the drill that creates the heavens. *** And thus [[FridgeBrilliance I ended up referencing the series after all...]] *** [[Tropers/QuantumToast I]]'ve destroyed a mecha with a drill (after trying to just give it the drill, which didn't work), but I think yours tops that. * Quoth [[Tropers/KillerClowns This Troper]]: "I have learned from

Scribblenauts that there are very few problems in the multiverse that cannot be solved with the proper application of [[strike:pterodactyls]] rocs, singularities, freeze rays, the Necronomicon, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] [[BoringButPractical rope]]." I always experiment for maximum Ollars, but those things are, in the words of my roommate, "everything a growing boy needs!" ** Oh, and glue. Like that time I got the starite to come to me by gluing the starite to a bat and guiding it through the level with a bat. ** On a more AwesomeButImpractical note: Acrobats can be stacked on top of each other, to create a tower of acrobats. You can then climb atop it. It must be seen to be believed. *** You can also put a Panda riding on a Panda riding on a Panda riding on a Panda until the objects reach the limit, it become some type of Katamari and you can still ride it. Feed it a bamboo and amuse yourself. *** Thank you, I just did this and I laughed until I cried. *** And gorillas, etc. ** Summoning a lance creates a disappointingly ordinary weapon, used by Maxwell [[SliceAndDiceSwordsmanship as per any other weapon]]. Summoning a staff, then gluing a "[[SpikesOfDoom Steel Spike]]" (don't forget the steel part; only inputting "spike" generates a thumbtack), creates a weapon which deals CollisionDamage to your opponents, allowing you to charge enemies on [[strike:horseback]] [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs velociraptorback]] and attack them without stopping your charge. Just don't try to actually ''walk'' with this thing; you'll be wanting a pair of skates on your feet should you end up dismounted from your [[strike:horse]] velociraptor. Just one word of advice: to dismount, pick up and move your ride of choice somewhere. If you simply hop off, your CollisionDamage lance will damage whatever you were riding, turning it hostile at minimum. *** I think the lance is cool. *** With that same logic, how about you glue chainsaws to a stock car? **** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Chainsaws don't do collision damage.]] *** This troper glued the spike to a [[MST3K forklift.]] ** There is no [[TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]]; typing it ignores the "slender" and gives you a standard-issue "man". This may be for the best. * A level required getting a swimmer into a pool. I summoned Cthulu and it scared her into the pool. ** This troper also tried gluing buttered toast to a cat. [[spoiler: It didn't work.]] *** Obviously, the glue works fine. But not the toast or cat. *** You were doing it wrong. Attach Tape to Toast, and then hold the tapey toast and Use it on a Cat. See what happens. ** This troper went on a more practical approach. He summoned a black hole near enough to pull her but not kill her. She was in the water in no time! ** This troper tried to lure her into the pool by summoning a drowner. The game doesn't know the word "drowner", sadly. ** This troper just typed in GUN and started shooting at her. She

freaked out and jumped in the pool. STARITE GET ** [[Tropers/LoveIsWeird This troperette]] did something that satisfied her bondage tendencies: She attached a rope to her, jumped in the water, attached the rope to herself and started pulling. I GOT THE STARITE! * Talking about Cthulhu, did you know that, if you shoot him with the Mind Control Device, you can ''ride him''? Yes, you heard me right. ''You can ride on top of Cthulhu''. It doesn't get more awesome than that, people. ** Summon paint brush. Ride ''pink'' Cthulhu. * This troper managed to kill a robot dinosaur ''without even touching it''. By gluing an air vent to a flying car, he juggled the robosaur out of the atmosphere until he popped out of existence. * This troper tried pitching things to fight inside a pool, and one of them was God versus Dracula. Totally expected God to come up on top, but what happened instead was that God gets turned into a zombie. So I tried it with Satan after moving them away, reasoning that he's pretty much the top guy and so wont get turned. Well, he died, twice... ** So the greatest force in the universe is Dracula? I wonder what this means for the {{Castlevania}} series... *** Dracula just has infinite health, so you can't kill him just by attack him with the wrath of God. He's not terribly dangerous aside from that; here comes the Sun! * After defeating a round with God as a protector (and, uh, accidentally slaying God repeatedly by dropping electrical items into the pond where he was fighting the evil fish), I decided that my warrior for the next round would be an avenging angel. The angel spawns and immediately ''runs in cowering terror'' from a '''bee'''. The bee, for its part, chased the angel down with psychopathic glee, eventually slaughtering it in a flurry of stings. ** This troper figured that he could summon a beekeeper to take care of the bee. No such luck. The beekeeper also ran in terror, until he got stung to death. ** Also, learn from my mistakes: Burning Man spawns ''hostile''. ** I tried to fly past a policeman on a roc. The policeman shot me off the roc, leapt on, and chased me across the level firing away. ** Wake a person up? '''Bombs''' aren't noisy enough? I'll just [[MoralEventHorizon set a baby on fire]]. (It worked.) ** Curious to see the interaction, I summoned a king, a queen, a prince, a princess, and a knight. Then a dragon. The knight and the dragon immediately started fighting, and after its victory the dragon killed everyone else... except the princess. Beautiful. ** I gave an atheist a cross. He attacked God. [[FridgeBrilliance Then I realized this was incredible.]] *** Actually, an atheist will attack God with any kind of weapon it can find, and [[NoodleImplements the cross counts as a weapon.]] (I guess Jesus mean it when he said he came to bring "not peace, but a sword" to the world...) Still rather brilliant, though now accidentally. And I say that as a devout Christian. **** Crosses were originally weapons. You remember the parted where they nailed Jesus to one, right? Though admittedly they didn't hit him over the head with it...

*** [[Tropers/{{Nyperold}} I]] just summoned a few GODs, then an ATHEIST. Then I equipped him with a SHRINK RAY. Okay, technically, it took a few tries to make it happen, but when I was done, I had... [[{{Discworld}} small gods]]. **** [[RimShot *ba dum tsh*]] * [[Tropers/SpaceJawa This Troper]] was disappointed when I was unable to summon a Hacker to go along with the Computer I created (Am I spelling it wrong, or [[HowDidWeMissThisOne is it really not in the game]]?. Things I HAVE summoned, however, include a Particle Accelerator which yielded a black hole when I interacted with it (someone apparently has a controversial piece of scientific equipment on the brain), and multiple evil Maxwells who I watched and laughed at as they continually yoinked objects away from one another. [[KillerApp This is game that pushed me to buy a DS(i)]], and even less than 24 hours later, I've yet to regret it. ** Yes. There is a LARGE HADRON COLLIDER in the game. * Tropers/{{Joysweeper}}: There's an underwater mission where you rescue allies and have to kill various enemies. It's fun to make Cthulu rise from the deeps and slaughter all your foes - the one in the submarine who fired off torpedoes and missed every time is the most memorable - only to be killed by a single mine, but I have to say, I like using Leviathan and the Krakken better. ... Also, I've heard people say that you can tame carnivores using meat. How do you do that? Maxwell just gets mauled to death. ** You have to summon the animals ''away'' from you. ** Chloroform works faster...or the aforementioned Mind Control Device * [[Tropers/{{Aryn}} This Troper]] was greatly surprised when solving Action 4-1. In need of something particularly indestructible, she soon found that [[spoiler:Adamantium]] is in the word list. * '''Step one''': Dig a large cave, as deep as you can and with a tiny opening. Fly out. '''Step two''': Add a demon or two. Give 'em pitchforks, torches, any weapon will do. Maybe summon a moon, for atmosphere. '''Step three''': Drop a priest or two in and watch them languish in Hell ''forever''. [[SoundtrackDissonance All while bright, cheerful music plays in the background]]. ** Did this, DEMON, SATAN and DEVIL equipped with, respectively, FLAME SWORD, PITCHFORK, LASER SWORD, but then that got boring, so I dropped in GOD, he killed all three in two seconds. * Upon reading that the Godmother turns weapons into roses, this troper experimented a bit, and learned that not only does the effect have limited range, but it works on projectiles as well. Summon a chaingun, which fires infinitely, and...incidentally, the extra roses don't add to the item limit. ** They also instantly turn Nukes into roses. [[WellIntentionedExtremist And set off the nuke...]] * Give a Shark a Laser Gun to create a monster that can K.O. anything, including God on a Pegasus with a DPSS and a Helmet. ** I took my Laser-Shark (this is above poster) and glued a chainsaw to the laser and then put a top hat on his head. Good times~ ** So apparently you, too can have [[AustinPowers "sharks with frikkin laser beams attached to their heads"]]. *** They can actually equip any type of gun, but the laser is most

appropriate. * You can use a spine as a weapon. For seriously. * In the title screen, you can kill Cthulu with a freaking CROWBAR if you hit him enough. Also: Robot Zombie vs T-Rex. The T-Rex wins. ** It's even better: Robot Zombie (summoned by the word F-E-E-P) vs regular zombie. The regular zombie wins. ** You can kill Cthulu with anything. My favorite time when he was around was when I sicked an Atheist on him equiped with a DPSS and riding a whale. * Gave a vampire a sniper rifle and sunglasses, resulting in an unstoppable monster which proceeded to slaughter several gods, cthulu, a dragon, a mummy, and a guy named Dave. It then ''broke through the stone walls I had trapped it behind and went after me.'' ** This post prompted me to do the same thing, only repeatedly summoning portals and seeing what came out of them. Badass Sniper Vampire mowed through a monster, three deaths, at least four C'thulus, a Griffin, some weird green giraffe thing, and a behemoth. *** Did the exact same thing for the lulz and found this: a portal summoned a green slime monster. The badass sniper vampire and goo creature are still battling it out as I type this... *** I pit Badass Sniper Vampire against Longcat. Thirty minutes ago. They're still going at it. *** Just to let you guys know, the vampire is completely indestructible to everything except stakes, garlic, holy water, and sunlight. The goo monster (blob) is also indestructible to everything but fire, explosions, and being eaten. I haven't found longcat's weakness yet. *** Longcat can be eaten by dragons, but not Edison. Speaking of Ed, he's not actually coded as hostile to anything; he's coded to consider most [=NPCs=] food. If he actually becomes hostile to anything (i.e. you drop a spike on his head) he ''fires plasma blasts from his hands.'' Awesome, no? **** I found out Edison can be beaten by a regular T-rex. Sad but true. * Nothing too hilarious in interactions yet, but there was the time on the title screen I had Maxwell dressed in a bikini and wizard's hat, wielding Excalibur, with a catbird as his animal friend and sidekick. also, I accidentally summoned a Leprechaun once. ** Update: 'slave' apparently gets you a butler. *** More updates: *** Step 1: Summon a Soccer Player. (Typing in player summons a soccer player on its own.) Step two: summon a referee. (May not be necessary.) Step 3: Summon a soccer ball. Either give it to the player, or set it on the ground and watch the player run and grab it. Step 4: Summon a goal. Result: Soccer player becomes hostile and attacks you. *** Once, I summoned God and a sheep. Then I had a God ride the sheep. Then I chuckled upon realizing that [[IncrediblyLamePun that was the Lamb Of God]]. Then I gave God a [[IncendiaryExponent Flaming Sword, or Flamberge.]] I thought it would be Bilblically appropriate. However I failed to realize that sheeps are scared of fire. Result: infinite reaction where ''God cannot control the sheep he rides on as it

continually runs away from a target that is right on top of it.'' **** As a side note to the whole affair, you can summon any kind of food and God will ignore it...unless you summon Ambrosia. YES. *** As a test, I summoned the "Certified Public Accountant" mentioned on the main page. Then I summoned money. leaving the bill on the ground make the accountant like me and want to defend me. Picking up the money ''caused it to attack me!'' *** Umpire is attracted to vaccine. Considering that umpires are those who make sure rules are followed in baseball and ivestigate whenever they are not, and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar considering what steroids are when you think about it...]] *** Santa onsccreen gives anyone nearby presents, this you probably know. However, if you give Santa a present in return to say thanks, he'll give you even more!...and try to eat the gift. Odd... **** Cookies, good man. Think about it. **** There's a level in the game where it tells you to spawn something Santa would like, but he doesn't already have on-screen. This troper typed in MRS. CLAUS, and she got the Starite. [[{{Squee}} D'aw.]] *** King protects Queen, Prince protects princess. D'aw... *** A Dark Knight with a regular sword easily beats a Knight with Excalibur. *** Though they do not actually interact with each other, due to their animations, it often looks like a Martian and an Astronaut will wave to each other. *** If a living being eats three objects in quick succession, they will fall asleep. This is especially amusing when a Ninja falls asleep after eating a lollipop, a taco, and a bag of sugar. *** If you summon an Oil Lamp and select it, the option 'empty' comes up. If you choose this option you get a Genie. Interacting with the Genie gets you some kind of valuable gem, after which it dies. The Genie, not the gem... **** Really? Last time I got a genie, it tried to ''kill me''. The hell was his problem? *** If you summon Excalibur a distance away from where a princess is being attacked, and then put a Knight approximately between them, the Knight will be forced to make a moral decision between honor and glory. At least when I did this, he chose honor...[[DiabolusExMachina but it was too late, as the princess died just as he got there.]] *** Normally, superheroes protect you and all other non-hostiles. However, they will attack ''anyone'' holding a weapon. *** Relating back to the soccer player, he is apparently terrified of either referees or baseballs, one of which the ref was holding. *** Nope, soccer players just aggressively protect goals. **** You're probably right about him protecting goals aggresively and the soccer ball and ref not having anything to do with it...[[RuleOfFunny but my version's funnier.]] *** [[Tropers/AndyLA This Troper]] found out that nature beats pop culture. I summoned a roadrunner, then a coyote. [[TeamRocketWins The coyote went up and killed the roadrunner]]. *** In stage 3-11, puzzle, I attempted to airlift a Patient to a Hospital in order to get a Starite. It worked...except that the Starite spawned directly on top of the Helicopter I was driving,

thereby being blown off-screen and out of reality, causing me to lose the level. **** Same level: managed to get the patient on top of the hospital, where they refused to come down. Typed in food, but they weren't attracted. Typed in vaccine, but they still weren't attracted. However, the surgeon outside the hospital ''was'' and readily dashed towards it, apparently getting close enough to complete the level for me. Huzzah! *** If electricity strikes Maxwell, there is apparently an imperceptible frame, discovered by me by accident when spawning an object, where Maxwell's eyes are these cute little Xs...but the kid keeps smiling throughout it all. *** A Wizard is one of the few things in the game able to go toe to toe with Death and get some hits off before dying. He is also more powerful than a Knight in a direct confrontation with a Dragon. *** Spawn a wizard, a dwarf (the fantasy kind) and an elf. [[TheLordOfTheRings Then spawn a ring]] For the record, the wizard usually wins *** Try Hovertank. It's arguably less useful than a regular Tank...but it looks [[RuleOfCool a lot cooler.]] *** How exactly is it less useful? The hovertank shoots explosive rounds, but the tank does not. *** There was something in the game I summoned through the word suggestion list, whose name I can't remember though I believe it ends in er, that looked like [[BodyHorror a very large large intestine]] [[NightmareFuel with a row of teeth at the front end and slime dripping off it that pulled itself along disturbingly quickly using its spindly arms.]] It had no legs. I remember being both disturbed and giddy at seeing it, for it was horribly awesome. **** Believe I found out what the above post was in the main article: a Shambler. Appropriately enough, part of the Cthulu mythos. *** One of my few disappointments with this game: Golem summons a robot. Technically accurate, but I was really hoping for a stone (or clay, or wood) being that would obey my every command. * sniff* *** The fact that Headless Horseman is in the game basically makes up for it, though. And Deserter. And Dark Knight. And EBG (Exploding Barrel Gun). And the Jersey Devil. And Mech. And Mecha. And Roadheader. And Proton Pack. And Flamberge. [[OverlyLongGag And Cthulhu.]] And Abraham Lincoln. And Komodo Dragon. And Rapier. And Hercules. And Behemoth. And Santa Claus. And Mrs. Claus. And Plasma. And Mutant. And Fedora. And Sniper Rifle. And Trampoline. And Death. And Elemental. And Roflcopter. And Shruiken. And Baby Dinosaur. And Robosaur. And Howitzer. And Mind Control Device. And... *** ...and Jabberwock! * [[Tropers/{{Uerian}} This troper's]] not the only fan of the Hint Box, right? You really get to know him in level 10-9. He seems like a nice guy, and a deep thinker. I wish you could [[strike:see]]hear more of him. * In a less baby-killing vein, This troper successfuly warded off a shark with....shark repellent. Thank you, Batman. ** Hey, me too! {{Camp}} wins the day again! *** There's also zombie repellent, which looks and acts identically,

[[CaptainObvious except with zombies instead of sharks.]] * This troper was frustrated with Puzzle Level 4-9, where you have to reunite a Knight and Princess, pass the Behemoth, and not kill the Witch. Frustrated with the Princess not moving, I killed the Behemoth with an RPG, flew the Princess past the Witch in a Helicopter (distinct from Chopper and ROFLCOPTER), then put her on a Skateboard, tied her up with a rope, and hauled her to her Knight like a sack of potatoes. And it worked. ** This Troper only needed ONE object. First, you can lure the behemoth into attacking distance of the Knight, then you can easily put the princess in the back of a Helicopter once you get around the witch. No rope, skateboard, or RP needed. For that matter, what's the point of the skateboard? Can't you just rope her to the copter? *** The chopper proved too big for the passage back to the knight, and she was too heavy to make any progress lashing her to Maxwell directly. So, further anachronisms saved the day! ** For that matter, if you're crafty, you don't even need to kill the behemoth: just lure him into the pool, and put the knight in the back seat of the chopper, taking him to her. * [[EvilTwin Lewxam]], [[SdrawkcabName Lewxam]],\\ Give me your answer true,\\ I'm half crazy\\ Because of [[EldritchAbomination Cthulhu]]!\\ Well it won't be a stylish battle\\ The {{Ninja}}s are [[DyingLikeAnimals dying like cattle]]\\ But you'll look swell\\ 'Long with Maxwell\\ On a bicycle built for two! ** That said, yes, Llewxem is in the game, and appears to take the form of a DS game card.... *** LLEWXAM. [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Get the spelling right, people!]] * It's possible to summon a Harpy, Charbydis, a Minotaur, a Centaur, Scylla, Cerberus, a Pegasus, a Chimera, a Gryphon, a Manticore, a Gorgon, a Sphinx, a Hydra, a Siren, and probably more. Summon the Hydra or Charbydis (they look the same), and you can give it three ridiculous hats. This troper really likes the myth animals. ...What is the Mother Goat, anyway? *** [[CosmicHorror Ia! Ia!]] [[EldritchAbomination Shub-Niggurath!]] [[CthulhuMythos The Black Goat of the Woods]] [[HPLovecraft with a Thousand Young!]] ** As are Mara, Ouroboros, Ra, Anubis, Basilisk, Cockatrice, Succubus, Barghest, Boggart, Dryad, Satyr, Tengu, Fenrir, Fir Bolg, Fenghuang, Kappa, Lambton Worm, Redcap, Thanatos and Morrigan. ** I tested some Greek god names. All I got was: "Zeus" summons God. "Ares" summons a rifle. And "Hades", well, summons Death. * And you too can be like [[GodofWar Kratos]] and walk around with a Gorgon's head and temporarily petrify other creatures! ** The Gorgon's head shoots the Stone Magic item, but it only has one shot. Might as well just summon that item and drop it on the foe's head. Better yet, summon Green Magic and turn them into a frog, which is permanent. ** Oh, and you can instakill a Gorgon (and leave behind her head) by

summoning a Mirror in front of her. *** [[Tropers/{{AndyLA}} This troper]] once pitted one Gorgon against a harpy. It seemed like the Gorgon would get the upper hand when she petrified the harpy, but she made a deadly mistake: she left the harpy sitting there instead of finishing her off. Then, when the harpy came back, they killed one another. And there was the Gorgon head sitting there. I later picked up the head and used it against a siren, to the same effect: the siren became stone, and the Gorgon head went poof, and later the siren came back to life. Luckily she doesn't attack me. * Puzzle 3-4; some kids with snowballs tossing them randomly. Title: "Return the favor to all of them!". This troper, then, summons a friggin' BRICK and toss it against the heads of them all. Starite get. ** This troper tried various other guns. It didn't work. * Puzzle 7-2. Race the Developers to the Starite. Maxwell doesn't start with a car, so is at a disadvantage. So I chose to summon a teleporter, warp to the Developer's Room, steal their car, and go back to the race. I won! ** I was more conventional. I summoned a rocket ('cause it can float above the holes). * I love to make things mini with the shrink ray. I shrunk a roc and i still could ride it. :) ** If you use it on a "hole", such as the "shoreline" or "pit", it makes a glitch that can cause you to pass through the walls. ** If you want, you can totally shrink ''yourself''. Get a murderer and give him the shrink ray, he will shoot at you. Wheee! Only problem is you can't use anything unless it's already shrunk. Yet, this has lead to humourous results with the LOL WUT spawn. *** Or just drop a Shrink Magic on your head * Being as she is currently affianced, [[Tropers/RiL this troper]] uses a bride avatar. This morning on the subway she was a bride with a rocket launcher killing zombies. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Happy troper is happy]]. * This Troper, who has yet to get the game, requests that someone summon a horde of zombies, followed by MichaelJackson, just to see what happens, and report back. ** "MichaelJackson" summons a normal guy who is then attacked by the horde and turned into a zombie. FunnyAneurysmMoment? TooSoon? >.> *** No, it just summons a guy named Jackson. Seemingly a clone of Jeremiah. **** Speaking of Jeremiah, anyone knows why he breakdances from time to time? ** ThatGuyWithTheGlasses actually got the [[strike:first]] second MichaelJackson [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/no stalgia-critic/11584-ncblankcheck joke]] in since he died. * Puzzle 6-5, leading the giraffe to the zoo. I tried just riding it, but it freaked out. So I summoned a Blimp, tied the giraffe to it, and flew it over. Cue Starite. So I hop out to grab it, and the blimp promptly falls on the giraffe, sending it running back across the level towards a bottomless pit. But I got the Starite, so it's all good. ** I used a pegasus. It's better because the pegasus stays aloft even

if you jump off it. * Whales make excellent bridges. * This Troper, on the title screen, summoned four green-skinned, fanged humanoids, and equipped them with machine guns. He then dropped a [[HPLovecraft shoggoth]] on them, which they proceeded to destroy in a second's time. Why? '''[[Warhammer40K BECAUSE ORKZ IZ MADE FOR FIGHTIN' AN' WINNIN'!]]''' Note that this troper has never ''played'' 40K; his exposure to it is [[TvTropesWillEnhanceYourLife purely through TvTropes]]. * You can get humanoids to stop running around by making them ride a saddle. Or a dolphin. ** Or a treadmill ** Torpedoes work nicely, too. Just don't detonate them... *** [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Unless you want to kill the humanoids...]] ** I use a TRAP (VEHICLE). Very effective. * This Troper summoned the Space Shuttle when challenged to get around a tornado, only to find that the stage was too small for the shuttle to navigate over the tornado. In a fit of stubbornness, rather than trashing the shuttle and summoning wings or a pegasus instead, I typed in "Shrink Ray" and fired a shot at the tornado. ''Then'' I flew over it with a space shuttle. ** Of course, when it's shrunk, you can EASILY jump over it. ** What [[Tropers/SgtFrog1 What I did]] was tie two ropes to the Starite. The tornado then snagged the rope, flinging it (and the Starite) into Maxwell's face. Yay! Sadly, he died soon after due to head injuries. * [[Tropers/{{Casatodo_Total}} This troper]] just used a sun on the scenary 15 of the sandbox, suddenly the objects that i put there and "dissapeared" were visible again... [[spoiler: on a cave...]] with a sun behind _O ** Um...it's a dark cave. The sun lights it so you can see. And the objects never disappeared. Haven't you ever played a game with dark caves before, like Dragon Quest or Pokemon? Didn't you notice the little ring of light around Maxwell? * In the puzzle stage where you need to race the developers to the starite, this troper was having a bit of difficulty. Summoning a race car didn't seem to work, no matter how quickly I summoned it. Eventually I decided to try the space shuttle and found out not only could it keep up with the race car, it could fly over all the obstacles too. Starite get! * I was just in a chatroom - completely unrelated to Scribblenauts or the DS, I should note - talking about random stuff, when someone wrote "Quick, what eats bears?!" Someone replied "Another bear." A few seconds later, the first person wrote back "...damn, didn't work. They both teamed up on me." I asked if they were playing Scribblenauts and got an affirmative answer. ''Only'' Scribblenauts could have produced that situation, people. * Just to mess around, I tried typing in "EpicFail". It gave me a nuke that destroyed everything on screen. Only Scribblenauts could make Epic Fail FTW ("FTW" then consequently summoning a fake Starite). * This troper solves all of his problems with God with a Chainsaw.

Cthulhu is no match for God with a Chainsaw. When I spawned Death, I found that God was having a spot of bother, so I decided that he required a mount. I thought for a moment, then remembering a certain glitch in the game, I spawned an elephant with a shotgun. The glitch that I remembered being that elephants can wield weapons (thanks TV tropes!). Death had no chance. ** The awesomeness was turned up to 11 when I spawned a plane and noticed that there was a passenger seat- Which was actually just standing on the wing of the plane. For the next five minutes God with a Chainsaw was standing on a plane while it was dogfighting with an army of flying devils wielding laserguns. Why wasn't this in the bible? ** In general scribblenauts is just awesome. Pretty much everything I do ingame is explosive or painful in some way. For example, "Trick or Tr-" BOOM FUCK YES STARITE * Unfortunately summoning a tarrasque didn't work. (Contrary to what you might think, it is not original to Dungeons and Dragons and should be a legitimate choice). It didn't recognize the word "grid" either, and summoning a golem gave me a robot (which doesn't look very much like a golem). ** But is technically accurate in the loosest sense of 'golem', as noted previously above. ** What about "Tarasque"? That is the original, non-D&D spelling. *** That doesn't work either. * Someone who owns the game, please answer this question: can you summon ChuckNorris? ** Nope. *** If you try, you just get one developer called Chuck. No Norris on him (though he ''has'' a beard...). ** What happens if you just type 'Starite'? *** You get fake Starite, not the real thing. **** Except [[spoiler:if you play Puzzle 10-11.]] *** Guess [[PennyArcade Gabe]] is gonna have to [[http://www.pennyarcade.com/comic/2009/9/23/ do that level over again]]. * Mini cthulu is so damn cute!!! * This Troper once tied Cthulu to a wall, and started throwing rocks, toy trucks, and cheese at him. * [[Tropers/InsanityPrelude I]] was on a level where there was a Starite and a thug enclosed by three doors; a couple more doors and three switches blocked by a ninja and another thug, along with a jump too high for the jetpack to conquer, were in the way. So what did I do? Why, summoned a velociraptor, had it eat the thugs/ninja, then stuck it behind a wall and rode a pegasus to go hit the switches. ** Also, if you summon a dingo and a baby... ** [[TheColbertReport Summon a bear and an eagle and they'll attack each other.]] *** No, they won't. The bear will just kill the eagle, who displays the "fight" icon shortly before it dies like all animals do. * This troper, upon discovering that a larger number of developers had avatars in the game than just those in the 'secret room' and Edison Yan, viewed the credits to find some more. Try Nick and Nate to get an animal-headed man and a guy in space armor of some kind, for example.

Also, noting that the credits had a woman named Kaori with the surname Slaczka, I had a hunch that putting her together with Jeremiah might do something. I'm guessing she's his wife, because it resulted in [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming him automatically acting as her guard and her tagging along wherever he went.]] ** More on Nate (actually Nathan.) He's pretty much God without the eletrocution in melee. This actually makes him worse, because that means you don't get the merit for eletrocuting someone. * [[Troper/{{Doomlewa}} This troper]] discovered that it doesn't matter whether she's mind controlled or not, God and the Succubus will attack each other. At one point he also had God, Ra, Anubis, Tengu, Scylla and charabdis hanging out in piece. ** This troper added to that and put in Medusa. Also, Charybdis = Hydra. * This troper couldn't get past the tornado for the longest time. Turns out [[spoiler: A-N-T-I-M-A-T-T-E-R]] works pretty well. ** I hid in a bomb shelter while it went by, then got out and grabbed the starite before it came back. *** Shrinking it works too. * [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime OLD MEN PICK UP DIAMONDS]] ** So do a lot of other people. ** Ninjas, strangely, are disinterested. ** It's interesting to see what some spawned characters value more. I spawned a priest and gave him a cross, then spawned some money next to him. He promptly dropped the cross to pick up the money. Also, in that one mission where the cow has to pass by the butcher, I spawned money next to him also. He dropped his cleaver, picked up the money, and forgot about attacking the cow. *** Strange, when i attempted to make a priest do the decision, he was completely uninterested with both. *** This troper totally topped that. She summoned the Grim Reaper and gave him a sandwich, he jumped to grab it and dropped his sychte. Then, his hostility kicked in and he beat me up ''WITH A SANDWICH''. * [[AustinPowers Sharks can use ray guns without the use of any sticky object. They just attach it to their heads and start firing.]] ** They can actually do this with any type of gun. However, I can't figure out how to make them fire it (they just use melee attacks on me in the sandbox.) Help? * The solution to the Starite dangling precariously, with three crushers set to smoosh it as Maxwell draws near? [[CrazyAwesome Glue it to a bat, then lure the bat out of the hole with a moth.]] Also, dragons punch out Cthulu. * Putting in "Idiot" will summon a kid in a dunce cap. He apparently eats bugs with gusto. ** Idiots will happily eat lethal items such as chloroform, which nobody else will eat. The same idiot also ate a canister of chloroform when offered a choice between it and a burger. * Cryptozoological Battle Royale! Sasquatch versus Yeti versus The Jersey Devil versus Mothman versus El Chupacabra! [[spoiler: The Jersey Devil won.]] (The Loch Ness Monster and Ogopogo were not included, as they were too big and strong, and beat the others easily.)

* Finally, an answer to a philosophical conundrum that has baffled our greatest minds since time immemorial: Pirate beats Ninja. ** Only if you summon the Ninja and Pirate and don't bother giving the Ninja a better weapon, since he's summoned with a Shuriken. Give the Ninja a [[KatanasAreJustBetter Katana]], and he will beat the pirate every time. *** The Katana is actually the same weapon as the cutlass used by the pirate, so that means the ninja is better. However, pirates are usually found in groups, while ninjas aren't. *** Somewhere higher up on this page, someone did a series of Pirates vs. Ninja tests: The Pirates won the majority, although I suppose different conditions could cause different results. But who has time to test them all? ** Pirate may beat ninja, but the samurai swoops in after the fight and stabs the pirate in the back to grab the trophy. * The Aperture Science Enrichment Center would like to notify you all that summoning a "Portal" is safe and fun for everyone, and will in no way result in an encounter with an EldritchAbomination. * [[Tropers/{{Superfroggy}} This troper]] seems to prefer using the most sadistic methods available to him. Some of his favorite escapades from the past 30 minutes include: ** Waking a young child up by setting his bed on fire. *** I did this by means of [[LightningCanDoAnything lightning]]. I first put the cloud behind the bed. Didn't work. Then I moved the cloud just a bit ahead of the boy. Pop goes the Starite, as he's getting ''thunder struck''. The bed only started to burn just as I picked up the Starite. ** Dangling a shrunken Cthulhu from a raincloud using a belt ** [[spoiler: Chloroform]]ing random people so they won't annoy me ** Greeting innocent trick-or-treaters with a Freeze Ray attack, then setting Shoggoth on them. No way in hell they're getting my candy! ** Game: "Help the child break the pinata!" Me: "Excellent." (Arms Missile) * It is possible to glue a plank to an animal and then glue the other end of the plank to another animal. Naturally, at least one creature in the vast animal-plank contraption should be flying and rideable. * In my never ending quest to find the single most awesome thing to do in the game, I tried killing a ninja shark from the back of a dragon with a wand. It backfired and the wand hit my dragon instead. Awesomeness averted. * {{Jonn}} was doing that bit in world 5 where you have to get a woman to some vending machines past a bully, without killing him. I didn't know about FREEZE RAY at the time, so I spawned everything I could think of, until I wrote something and it asked me if I meant PRELATE. I didn't know what a prelate was, so I hit yes. Then I put him next to the bully. Bully attacks him to the exclusion of everything else, and he's apparently invincible. I just spawn money, waltz over, get candy, and hand it to the woman while BULLY is still waling away on the priest. ** Also, a surprising amount of problems can be solved with a jetpack and/or flamethrower. ** In 5-1, I spawned a GIANT ENEMY CRAB as a joke. The guy ran off the

island in terror. Oddly, this counted as a victory condition. *** [[Tropers/AndyLA I]] put one of these to fight God. '''God lost'''. Never mind that I killed the bastard with my rifle, '''IT. FRIKKIN'. KILLED. GOD.''' ** In one of the world 5 action levels, Max has a to catch a guy on a speedboat before he crosses the level and delivers a Starite to a pirate. Cue me spawning everything I could think of to slow him down so Max can catch up in his speedboat; a wall, a meteor, an anchor, God... *** This Troper simply dropped the Loch Ness Monster in the boat's path. He never even made it halfway to the pirate. **** Actually, just putting a mermaid in the water does the job. That's what I did. ** There's a level where the player has to help a lumberjack cut down a tree. The clue had the word "axe" in it. Naturally, my sister spawned an AXE, handed it to Max, [[CompletelyMissingThePoint and had him kill the lumberjack]]. "I don't understand what I'm doing wrong!" ** And "Trick of Treat", I picked up the pumpkin and tapped on the T&T-ers. Max promptly threw it at them, sending one fleeing in terror. And won. * So... I think this game just gave me a CooldownHug. There was a [[PrimalFear GIANT FUCKING CENTIPEDE]] in the bathroom, and after disposing of it, I fired up the game and called a few centipedes to thwack. Still freaked out, I decided to summon a silverfish. Those are creepy little beasts even if they are harmless. But... the silverfish gave Maxwell and his baseball bat a curious look and started following him around. I just... I couldn't do it. It was ''so cute''. * Add LeeroyJenkins to the list of memes you can summon. * This troper was attempting to figure out the name of one of the items which Santa gives out, so she could summon it for herself later. But since you can't use the magnifying glass on the title screen, she teleported into a level, which acts like a "real" level. The area she went to was the 5th Cell DevelopersRoom. Guess what Santa did when she summoned him? Gave ''every single one of them'' coal. Ha! * The "Ocean" title screen level (the one that's basically just a big pit of water) is a fun place for playing with boats... but also item buoyancy. Drag items down to the bottom of the ocean and then let them go to watch them fly! In particular, I've discovered that a humble ''cork,'' if placed all the way at the bottom, rockets out of the ocean with such force that it'll send anything it hits, including an ''entire pirate ship,'' into the stratosphere. ** I couldn't get that to work. However, if you drop a traditional bomber into the water, it randomly spins around and flies at [[{{Spaceballs}} ludicrous speed]] offscreen, killing anything in it. ** This troper (AKA Deloth) just tried it in his copy, and it did indeed work. The trick is to use ''Cork (Material)'' instead of ''Cork (Tool)'', which merely floats up impotently. The material, however, will rocket anything into space, including Viking ships and UFOs. * This troper, in a fit of boredom, pitted Longcat against Death. Longcat won, and went on to beat ''both Cthulhu and Shoggoth.'' Then Longcat got eaten by a dragon. It was a sad day. ** Also discovered that the Headless Horseman will follow you around

like a puppy if you're holding a jack-o-lantern. Naturally, I felt sorry for the guy and glued the thing to him. * This Troper, on the level where you have to get to pass a bully to get to a vending machine, handcuffed the bully, and [[AndIMustScream put the bully inside the vending machine]] * In the level where you have to put down the three rabid animals, this troper took a few tries to find said animals, then unleashed a zombie on all three. Maxwell didn't have to lift a finger. * On the level where you have to trap a bear in a hole, I tried to lure it in with a delicious baby. Strangely, this bear was not interested in eating the baby, however the baby could be made to ride the bear. * Eskimos seem to act hostile toward seals, and it is fun to give them clubs. * This troper was summoning different breeds of dog, just for the heck of it. Doberman, sheepdog, Newfoundland, et cetra. She decided to try summoning a chow chow, since her old dog was part chow chow. What did she get? A pear. A pear that ''in no way looked like a dog.'' But ''still frightened the other dogs.'' Bizarre 5th Cell inside joke, perhaps? ** I'd guess it only caught the "chow" part and, as a result, dropped something that 5th cell reckoned fell under the definition of "chow" when used as a noun. Why did the pear should scare the dogs? Now, that is a very good question... *** Check the discussion for this page. He said that chow wasn't recognized, but gave the option of Chow Chow, which summoned the pear. * This troper made a devil and let it hang there while she made a Cupid. She clicked them both in at the same time, so the devil was made instantaneously nice. After sending away Cupid, she made a unicorn and put the devil on it. They became inseparable, which is a shame since the unicorn started freaking out every five seconds because of the evil-looking rider. Since the nice little devil was so happy, this troper couldn't stand the thought of deleting him. She ended up just turning off the DS. * ThisTroper loves reanacting things through Scribblenauts. These include: ** Greek Myths: Gluing lead to a lance, giving the lance and a suit of armor to Maxwell, the setting him up on a Pegasus to fight a Chimera. Bonus to whoever can tell me the myth. *** Perseus? Ooh, try Winged Sandals next time, and see if he'll still ride Pegasus. Or, better yet, see if a Hostile wasp stings Pegasus instead of you. **** He still rides the Pegasus with the sandals on. And if you create a wasp, it stings the Pegasus and you get thrown off. **** * TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything [[GeniusBonus Mythology Bonus]] {{Squee}}* ! **** Perseus never rode Pegasus, Bellephron did. He's also the one who slew the Chimera. He tried to ride Pegasus to Olympus, but Zeus sent a wasp to sting Pegasus and have the horse throw him off ** Films: Summoning a scarecrow, a girl with a basket, a dog, a (tethered) lion, and giving Maxwell armor and an Axe. This one should be obvious.

** TroperTales: Tried the orcs/ shoggoth thing above. * [[Tropers/{{Uerian}} This troper]] was disappointed to find that despite the huge number of mythological creatures in the game, the penanggalan, his favorite creature, was nowhere to be found. Gluing a string of organs to a head was an okay substitute, since it seemed to drag around on the ground a little, but still disappointing. Are there any head-like creatures in the game that can fly around and have things attached to it? * Make a pool. Fill it with babies. Then put the mother on the edge and drop in a ''toaster.'' ** Do the above, but with a vending machine. The mother will heroically leap in to save... the candy bar that comes out of the machine, the bitch. * Write a chainsaw, a cupid bow, God, and Cthulhu. Shoot Cthulhu with the bow, give the chainsaw to God, and make God ride Cthulhu. That's ''Right''. If '''''GOD RIDING CTHULHU WIELDING A CHAINSAW''''' is heresy, then I don't want to be devout. * Take a panda, and another panda, and put one on top of the other. Continue until your meter runs out, and the pandas are in a loop. Ride that thing. (I call it the ''Pandamonium-Mobile''.) * In one of the levels, you have to help a bunch of bad guys get to Heaven. ThisTroper figured he could summon God, who would then forgive their sins and take them up there. It worked, and God made them all float up to Heaven. When that was done, the Lord apparently wanted to get to Heaven himself, forgot that he couldn't fly and [[DeathByIrony fell into Hell's lava, where he burned to death]]. This troper laughed for at least five minutes. * [[Tropers/{{Luminous}} This Troper]] has two of interest. The first is glueing the head of a staff to a wheel then glueing to the other three spots on the wheel springs, the result slowly crawled at Maxwell (just happened to be where it was facing)and EXPLODED when grabbed. This troper also glued wheels to the sides and bottom of hell and chained an angel to the top which this troper frightened with a demon. It moved hell for a bit, but then the angel reached the end of the map and was killed, yes PORTABLE HELL. * This troper who does not yet have the game but badly wants it must ask: What happens when you type in "internet"? ** You get a computer. * This troper spawned [[GreenAesop an environmentalist]], [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome gave him a chainsaw, and had him kill the Devil]]. Next he is going to try this against Cthulhu, Death, etc... (possible with additional power-ups.) * 0dd1: There is one stage (I believe in World 9) where you must deliver a mailman (no, that's not a typo) to a vampire's house so that he can give him his mail. However, you must get past a werewolf (without hurting it). After several failed attempts and a few particularly epic fails, I had an idea. I summoned a UFO and put the werewolf in it. Then, I summoned another UFO and an alien to put in it. Then (for absolutely no reason) I summoned Mars. I made the UFO active and put the alien in it. The werewolf started chasing the alien into outer space. Meanwhile, I walked the mailman to the vampire and the Starite appeared at the other side of the screen. As I went to get

the Starite, the vampire started chasing the mailman, completely forgetting that he may have already won $1,000,000...STARITE GET. * If you ever need a cheap laugh, dress Maxwell in "PANTY HOSE" and "BIKINI" at the same time. [[spoiler: Or, as I like to call it, "Streetwalker Maxwell."]] Ahahaha ''wow...'' I thought this was an E10-rated game! ** It's E10 because, in order to do stuff like this, you have to be already twisted in the head enough to come up with scenarios like that. * Have you ever wanted to ride a panda into outer space? (Or any other variety of bear, for that matter?) It's simple! First, summon a "LASSO." Then, summon a "TARGET." Pick up the TARGET with the LASSO. Now, summon a "PANDA" and ride it. Attempt to jump over the TARGET. Watch as panda, target, and you ''ascend into the heavens!'' Note that while you can use other bears, I find the panda easiest because it summons docile. But you have to use the lasso--other "pickup" items, like fishing rods and the grappling hook, don't work. And while I'm pretty sure you can do it with other round objects, the target is easiest 'cuz it's big. * this troper summoned god, and used the necronomicon on him. Turning him into an undead minion. Later, he gave God-skeleton a cross, which made him angry. And gave a priest the necronomicon, who beat the godskeleton with the book. Haha. Totally wrong. * This troper completed the stage where you have to rescue the sheep for the shepard by summoning a flying car and glueing the sheep's face to the hood and flying home. * [[Tropers/FyreNWater This troper]] went and [[http://fyrenwater.deviantart.com/art/Oct-16-Scribblenauts-Deaths140528816 scribbled]][[hottip:* :PUN!]] a few of the most entertaining deaths encountered while playing. This troper also froze the game by: ** Making an acrobat tower, riding it, then having a zombie attack the bottom acrobat. ** Having a full item bar's worth of animals all rush after one alfalfa sprout in a pool. ** Blackhole VS nuke VS singularity. *** This troper froze the game by having Death eating garlic after beating a vampire with it. * Typing "Game of the Year" summons a copy of ''{{Scribblenauts}}''. I concur. * This troper doesn't remember what the original attempted item was, but got "Byakko" in the suggested words box. It summoned a tiger. Genbu, Seiryuu, and Susaku (all spelled like that) happen to summon the rest of the animals that were the inspirations for TheFourGods. * In Puzzle 4-11, you need to get a king back to his castle. I looked up how to do it on GameFAQs to figure out how. Here is a synopsis of what I used from that guide and after: ** "Use two shots from a bazooka to kill the dragon" I knew that bazookas only have one shot, so I used the [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon Exploding Barrel Launcher]] instead. ** "Use a Pegasus to get to the switch" I try, but the pegasus seemingly forgets how to fly, and we die in the lava because I didn't figure out I had to dismount to get out in time.

** "Use Cthulu to kill the dragon" Cthulu dies. I send God. He also dies. I send God with a chainsaw. The dragon dies in one hit, because it was severely weakened. ** "Use a hose to put out the fires" I do that, and it actually works. ** "Use a bridge ladder to cover the gap" this seems to work fine, so I get on a roc, and and move my stylus high to avoid my mount forgetting to fly again. the king runs off, free. Then he nudges the bridge ladder enough to create a hole to fall into the lava. I give up, and decide I'll do my usual thing for this: stuff him in a vending machine using handcuffs. I haven't tried it yet, though, and it'll probably go wrong somehow, because everyone, even Maxwell, who runs into lava due to a misclick and just barely makes it out alive, is TooDumbToLive *** Had the same problem with the bridge ladder as you did. The solution was surprisingly simple: Summon a ramp and put it on the edge of the bridge. Sure, the giant ramp to get a few inches up is a bit overkill, but isn't everything in this game? * For some reason, beluga whale follows narwhal? * This Troper is disappointed that "Tanning Bed" spawned only a regular bed. * Bugspray can be used as a weapon. If you give a can of bugspray to God and Satan, then they will gleefully try to bugspray each other to death. * Imagine a meteor with an exploding barrel, two atomic bombs, an ICBM or two, and a cowboy riding in a saddle strapped to it. Now THAT is how you wipe out the dinosaurs. Pity I used up my item limit, or I would have given the cowboy a stick of dynamite. * This Troper was very disappointed that the first thing he tried to type in wasn't accounted for: [[spoiler: Q-U-A-S-A-R. Why quasar? I'm an astronomy major, darn it!]] * You know how G this game is, right? Type in Virgin. ** Just for double the fun, summon 'developer' right after. ** I discovered that Virgin was synonymous with Gamer when I was testing whether a Unicorn would follow them. Answer: no. * [[Tropers/ARandomSerf This troper]] was playing the level where you have to race the leprechaun to the Starite. I dropped a wall in his path. He smashed through it. I gave Maxwell a jetpack. I lost. I gave Maxwell roller skates. I lost. I dropped a claymore on the leprechaun. He survived. I dropped a black hole on the leprechaun. He plowed right through it. I tried to distract him with gold. He ignored it. ... L-UC-K-Y C-H-A-R-M-S. He grabbed it and [[{{Irony}} fell off a cliff.]] I love this game. ** Also, my current favorite weapon is running people over with the space shuttle. * A few things [[Tropers/{{Azzamacazza}} This Troper]] has done ** Tied a gorilla to a [[strike: heli]]ROFL copter ** ''Glued Heaven and Hell together'' ** Handcuffed a supermodel to a goddess ** In the level where you have to give a kid something to break open his pinata, I gave him ''Excalibur'' ** Dressed Maxwell up like a bride, then summoned a groom. The groom seemed [[HoYay very protective of Maxwell]]

** I summoned YOUR MOM. The object? A zombie. *** A supermodel handcuffed to a goddess? You're a kinky one, aren't you? * [[Tropers/{{hooligans}} This Troper]] recalls doing a level where I had to kill two goblins and rescue a wizard. How did I beat it? I put each goblin in a bulldozer and had it coast into the lava, then I used a jumbo jet to bridge the gap. * How do you kill a dragon? Summon a T-Rex? Nah, the dragon is stronger than him. What about God? Nah, the dragon beats him. What about one of those steel spikes? S-P-I-K-E... Wait, that's not a steel spike, that's just a thumbtack! That can't help me kill the dragon, right? Wrong. Lift up the thumbtack, drop it on the dragon. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat until dragon is dead. Yeah. This guy killed every monster I threw at him, but dropping a thumbtack on him several times in a row with a wee bit of damage every time, and poof he goes. * [[Tropers/ShapeshifterTheTroper This troper]] has a new favorite tool combination when dealing with hostile animals: handcuffs and a picnic basket. The handcuffs either attach the animal to the basket, so that I can use the "fill" option, or weigh it down so that it falls in of its own accord. * Whenever this troper doesn't want to kill anything on his own, but doesn't want to piss off what he just spawned, he summons God to do his dirty work for him. * This troper discovered a surprising yet entertaining way to solve the bully level - give him a unicorn to ride. ** Another, not quite as awesome as the others, but - this troper handcuffed a cat to birdseed, then spawned a bird. The bird proceeded to zip back and forth very quickly, before deciding to attempt to eat the birdseed. Its efforts were rewarded with being eaten. * Okay, [[Tropers/{{Etheru}} this Troper]] experienced this... Basically, I summoned a [[DungeonsAndDragons Fighter, Cleric, Wizard, and Ranger]] and had them fight a zombie... They all killed each other by accident, except Fighter. ** In one of the missions, which involved various theme park games, I ''threw a damn grenade at the guy'' with more glee than Sarge, I failed the first time and said, "Whoops! Let's try that again!", and succeeded the next time. ** This Troper, with his frightening sister, tried to use a synonym for Tuxedo, one try was "Monkey Suit", ''it spawned a literal Monkey costume'', I laughed for several minutes. * This troper has found out how to make things fly. Summon a raft on dry land. Get on the raft. Summon the sea. A small pond now appears, and you can drag it around the screen. If you put it under the raft, the raft starts floating. ANd then you can just elevator your way to the top. * This troper summoned up {{Cthulhu}} and Cupid. Cupid pacifies Cthulhu. This troper deleted Cupid, then summoned up a baby. Then she wrote in "LOL WUT", thus creating a giant Maxwell head. Then she summoned up another "LOL WUT", and put one on the baby, and the other on Cthulhu. She then made the giant!Maxwell-headed baby ride Maxwellheaded!Cthulhu. And that was the weirdest thing she has ever made on

Scribblenauts. * I went on the level on the title screen with high platforms, and made a house. Then I made an old man, a boy scout (which turned into a female archer), and a golden retriever. Then I put a villian in a dirigible, but the scout killed him and his vehicle. Then I remade the blimp and put a dog next to it. Finally, I put as many balloons as I could on the house (Which was one). Can you guess what I was refrencing? [[spoiler: Up!]] Come up with your own little reinactments! * I just made Cthulu TV! I glued a pole to Cthulu, then a TV to the pole, and hooked up the TV to an antenna on the ground! * I realized what an amazing game this was when I thought to myself [[NoodleImplements "Ok, I'm going to need chloroform, a hammer, a butterfly net, and a jet pack."]] * When [[Tropers/PurplePantherGirl this troper]] first played Scribblenauts she summoned an angel... then an orange. The angel ate the orange, causing me to yell 'The bastard ate my orange!' which has now become a running joke among my friends. * [[ChessWithDeath It seems Death is uninterested in a friendly game of chess...]] [[SubvertedTrope Violently so...]] ** [[DiscWorld He can't remember how the little horsies move.]] * Hope you don't mind a long story! Whilst hanging around doing nothing waiting for everyone to get back from their two-hour lunch break before a band competition one day, I pulled out my copy of Scribblenauts just to have something to do. There was a tuba player sitting behind me, so I figured just for the heck of it I would summon a tuba to see if you could do anything interesting with it. (I had been sadly disappoined earlier at my inability to use trumpets to bash people's brains in. Seriously.) Of course I was unable to use the tuba for anything, but, interested in the game, the kid asked me if he could play it. Cue the next two hours being spent with about a ''fourth of the band'' watching it being played or playing the game at some point, putting in the most obscure things possible, managing to get God pissed off at Maxwell, summoning ninja snipers and, in what is in my opinion a Crowning Moment of Awesome, suggesting the phrase "Greg's mom" and ''having it working.'' (It should be noted at this point that Greg is a very socially awkward kid who is often made fun of by the rest of the trumpet section, and the most common way to insult him is by twisting just about anything anyone says into something along the lines of "that's what Greg's mom said last night!") Cue me verbally attacking one of the other trumpet players who didn't even know what Scribblenauts ''was'' at the time with "OH HEY WE PUT GREG'S MOM INTO SCRIBBLENAUTS AND IT ACTUALLY WORKED", much to his confusion. The people playing this game liked it so much I agreed to let them play it on the bus on the way to competition a week later (and they were all riding a different bus from me). * [[Tropers/HelloMortals This Troper]] summoned God, gave him a chainsaw and some badass sunglasses and popped him on a unicycle. Then I summoned Satan with a sniper rifle. The ensuing battle was one of the funniest things I've seen on this game. After crowning Satan the victor, I gave HIM the unicycle, still with sniper rifle, gave him the Badass Sunglasses of Doom and let him chase after me. Maxwell jumped

onto a tiny step and Satan could get over it on the unicycle, and so was reduced to randomly firing with the sniper rifle. Twas all rather amusing. * [[Tropers/Gorank This Troper]] has done a few interesting things, such as: ** Cleaning a park with exposives, fire, and a black hole. (Later I just learned to cut out the middleman.) ** Going on a flower-collecting expedition. This required a [[GatlingGood minigun]] ([[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill for the bee]]), a toaster (for the pirahna) and Pegasus (for the one on a ledge). ** Distracting a bully with a kitten. ** ''Burning Heaven to the ground''. ** Made a museum of various robots who I earlier disabled through prolonged immersion in water. * the best way to cook a chicken is to...1.summon a group of chickens 2.drop an egg somewhere nearby...instant fry. ** (this only works with a group of chicken and the last surviving one becomes hostile) * [[Tropers/{{Liangnui}} This troper]] tends to solve action puzzles by attaching the visible starite to an angel, then doing whatever the action sequence requires. This usually means that the starite doesn't plummet off the bottom of the screen even thougha DeathTrap has been set off. Except for the few times that the angel's too scared of [X] enemy to stay in one place and not run into a sea mine or something. * After seeing the basic male NPC keel over dead in the tutorial, I automatically knew who my ButtMonkey was going to be. I like making Maxwell out to be some sort of HeroicSociopath , so I torture the man npc when I can't think of anything else to do. One time i gave him a crowbar, then threw something at him. he proceded to ''beat the shit out of Maxwell with the crowbar''. I then decided, since it was the title screen and Maxwell wouldn't have died anyway, to let him have his revenge and gave him a tank, which then glitched and sent both characters spiraling offscreen to their deaths. The man npc had finally gotten his revenge, and it was ''awesome''. * [[Tropers/LoveIsWeird I]] tried the third challenge in the Peaks. I put in a Pegasus and two ropes. Cue me screaming as I tried to feed the penguin. I failed, spectacularly, and my Pegasus went poof. * ThisTroper used the shrink ray occasionally until I looked at what it was firing. Now I use shrink magic all the time! * Create a MECH. Now, create a SPIKED STEEL BALL or STEEL SPIKE. Get in the mech and drop the spike on to it from a great height. You will get out. Now move the spikey thing further away and get back in the mech. For a vehicle it sure gets angry (and yes I have tested it, it is the mech, not the driver). ** [[Tropers/{{Inkblot}} I]] just tried that. ''The mech lost.'' * The AI in Scribblenauts is surprisingly simple. I got a mouse, cat and dog and roped them together like this: Cat--Dog--Mouse. this caused the cat to become frozen, sutck between running from the dog and chasing the mouse. Poor cat. * This troper's personal favorite is making Cthulu (who doesn't want to?), and using a mind control device on it. Simple, yet effective. Also, try this: on the sandbox screen, go to the wilderness setting,

make a monolith, priest, handcuffs, and wizard staff. Place the monolith on the right side, and tie the priest to it with handcuffs. Give him the staff. Attack him with any object, then throw it away and run to the left side of the screen while he attacks. Then make a belt, Attach it to a flying red magic, then quickly take it off. The magic stays frozen. Eventually the screen will start lagging, then just lock up. Note that touching a single red magic will make it disappear, but if at least two are overlapping, you will simply bounce off. Oh, and make toast, and use it on a cat. Purposely or glitch? [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox You decide.]] * To this Italian troper, world 6 started bordering on [[GuideDangIt being too complex to find out without a guide]], if not [[MindScrew flat-out nonsensical]] at times. I mean, the wedding puzzle (6-3P). Summon rice, the guests will eat it. Summon a cake, the same will happen. As soon as I managed, [[ThatOneLevel after who-knows-how-many tries]], to give the bride a B-O-U-Q-U-E-T, and subsequently to attach a C-A-N to a R-O-P-E to the limo, the Starite appeared. I said, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere "screw you and your wedding, folks!"]] and grabbed it as soon as it appeared. However, who knew it was just the beginning? Then came the wolves-and-diamonds level (6-7P). Various wolves, and you can't kill most of them [[GuideDangIt (that is, you aren't told which ones you can kill)]]. What did I do? I don't know how, but after '''''MANY''''' tries I somehow managed to attach the diamond to a rope tied to me. While the treasure hunter [[TooDumbToLive (who, by the way, always tries to follow you...]] despite showing his fear pretty clearly at first), by following you, [[WhatAnIdiot fell into the pit with two wolves in it]], I somehow managed to tie myself with a rope to the diamond. While running away, the diamond fell into the pit too, close enough to the guy to give me the Starite. ''And all of this'' ''[[CaptainObvious (minus the wedding part, as it was another stage)]]'' ''happened within'' '''''five''''' ''mere seconds''. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I grabbed the Starite]] [[MagnificentBastard as soon as I could,]] [[MoralEventHorizon without caring for the diamond seeker]] [[CompleteMonster as the wolves were ripping him to shreds.]] Starite get, [[YouBastard bitch]]. Oh, one more thing [[WallOfText (yeah, I know)]]. About the shoot-the-target stage (6-10P): [[spoiler: [[NoodleImplements Black Hole, Pegasus, Rope, C4, Anvil]]. In that order. The first one is for both flies and croc, then you need Pegasus and Rope to take the clown to safety, and the last two are for... well, you know. As suggested, [[StuffBlowingUp "clearing the way"]].]] * Then there's the one with [[ConveyorBeltOfDoom the conveyor belt]], still in the sixth world (6-6A). You literally just need [[TwoWords two words]]: [[spoiler: Rain and Pegasus]]. Trust me, ''it works''. It's ''that'' simple. * More madness from that world: to me, 6-8A was just ''impossible'' to clear within the PAR limit, so I just ''had'' to exceed it. Then, 611A arrived. That utter ''clusterfuck'' [[JustifiedTrope (totally justified]] [[PrecisionFStrike profanity, seriously)]] of a level. The most [[MindScrew inexplicable]] thing is that ''there's actually a way to complete it, within the PAR limit!'' You need a freaking black hole, then a lasso and a road. Put the black hole under the apples, a

bit on their right, then place the lettuce on the left with the lasso. You'll then need the road just to press the buttons, as weight. ''And'' '''''even''''' ''this way, 100% success isn't guaranteed'', but within a few tries you should do it anyway. * The next world isn't as frustrating, but some of the puzzles aren't that friendly either. In 7-3P, only a Pegasus is required, but you'll need to be fast enough to fall on its back. 7-4P only requires a [[TankGoodness tank]], as the giant will ''[[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum fall asleep]]'' while you're inside it. Pegasus comes back as the only item you'll need in 7-5P. * Well, I was just fooling around, created a witch and wizard, and the wizard killed the witch. Then I created other things for the wizard to kill including an assassin. What did it do? Picked up the witch's wand and turned the wizard into a frog, and anyone else I created. I did further experimentation, it seems like his favorite weapon is a shrink ray, followed by a scimitar/sword, then the wand. * I just summoned Cthulhu, then I tried to summon megatron, but since it's copyrighted it just gave me some other choice. One of them was Megalodon. Giant Shark VS Cthulhu, who wins? ''Giant Shark. I was on land.'' * This troper has come up with several ways to solve the first Action level (getting the Starite out of the tree), including: ** Throwing a grenade at it, and quickly grabbing the starite before it gets destroyed by the explosion ** Getting a woodpecker to destroy the tree ** Using a [[GoodBadBugs panda stack]] ** Jumping up to it using a bed ** Digging a hole under the tree ** [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Using several icebergs as steps]] (It is possible, but a little hard to fit) ** Using a pterodactyl to fly up and grab it ** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Cutting it down with an axe]] ** And too many others to list. * My boyfriend was playing the first puzzle level where you have to give each of the people an item that was specific to them. He gave the policeman a gun, and when he got an axe for the fireman, he picked it up and attacked the fireman by accident. The fireman fought back before the policeman shot him with the gun given to him. ** He was also disappointed by the fact that when you have to rescue the cat from the roof in level 1-6, burning the house down counts as a failure. * By far, this Troper's crowning moment of ingenuity was on the park cleaning level. I knew where the Starite would appear, so I summoned a nuke and rigged it to blow. Then I stood under where the starite appeared and waited. The park was completely cleaned of all features whatsoever, and yet Maxwell managed to catch the Starite before dying of self-inflicted nuclear bombing. * In any given situation in Scribblenauts possibly involving moving someone, or just having a person it is required that Maxwell interact with, my first reaction is always "throw a brick at them". Turns out it's quite effective in multiple levels. * This troper summoned a witch and found that she'll turn enemies

(read: anything that bugs her) into a frog and then eat them. Once, I pitted her against Cthulu. She turned him into a frog and ate him. Witches are hardcore, man. ** Then guess what happened with I put her against Death? '''SHE TURNED DEATH INTO A FROG AND ATE HIM.''' I seriously hope I never meet a witch. * Sword Van. Try it. ** SEIZURE ALERT! * Oh boy, I just murdered the game's developers with a fork. ** It's even more fun with a spoon. * This Troper has beaten Puzzle 2-1 by summoning a pegasus, putting a mine under the pinata, flying up to grab the rope, and blowing up the pinata. He also completed the level by setting a bomb near the pinata, and still got the Starite, despite killing the girl, the clown, and himself. * After clearing out the entire pit in the first sandbox, ThisTroper had his wings destroyed. I decided to get out of the pit with three acrobats on three pandas. Then they threw me off the screen and I died. I have also used the tornado as a brick launcher, and killed a tornado. I have overrun the Middle Ages with zombies and sacrificed them to the Kraken. DO try shooting a rocket launcher at 4 bombs, dynamite and 3 grenades. DON'T try to emulate the sword in the stone. But do wear wings, and ride a panda glued to a fedora on a dragon. AWESOME! * This Italian troper is back with another "walkthrough": now aware of the "spawn-Handcuffs-then-attach-Handcuffs-to-Starite-and-then-useHandcuffs-to-put-Starite-in-a-Vending-Machine-and-finally-move-itnext-to-you-in-order-to-get-the-Starite-in-safety" GameBreaker thing, he retried 7-8A, where "Get it!" is your only clue. The catch, as I found out, is that ''[[BeyondTheImpossible even this way it isn't enough]]''. You'll also need a Lasso to finally get that thing. ''[[LuckBasedMission If you're lucky as hell, that is!]]'' ** ... and about the last action level of world 7 (Hint: "LOL!"): despite getting the Starite only with the same Handcuffs-and-VendingMachine GameBreaker, there's been another way I '''''almost''''' made it. Basically, go next to the left column of explosive boxes, then summon a Wall on the right side of the "blow-up cage"; destroy the column of explosives on the right with a Black Hole and then summon either Pegasus or a Pterodactyl and go get your MacGuffin. [[LuckBasedMission Hard to survive,]] but still effective. ** There are also two levels between the other two I've just described. It turns out, in ''[[SavingPrivareRyan "Saving Private Maxwell..."]]'', use Handcuffs and Vending Machine. [[{{Whoring}} Yeah, again.]] Then, in the ''"Parkour"'' one, ''a single Pterodactyl is enough,'' without even needing to be oh-so skilled. ''In a level with a PAR limit of freaking'' '''''9''''''', no less!'' * About the puzzle levels in world 8, well... let's just say [[GuideDangIt this world has its offenders]]. To clarify: ** '''8-1P:''' summon Gold or a Nugget (or anything that's precious, for that matter) and show it to every alien. Use a Pterodactyl (or Pegasus) to fly. ** '''8-2P:''' kill the second one on the left with a Chainsaw.

** '''8-3P:''' get rid of the Skunk with a properly placed Black Hole and then write Universe. ** '''8-4P:''' catch the teddy bear (I mean, anyone that spawns) [[spoiler: while you're riding either a Pterodactyl or Pegasus]]. ** Then there's '''8-5P''', that may quite easily be ''one of the (if not'' '''''the''''''') worst [[EscortMission Escort Missions]] I have'' '''''EVER''''' ''played in my entire'' '''''LIFE.''''' Level summary: [[spoiler: basically, you have to save a girl from zombies. [[WorseThanItSounds Sounds funny, right?]] '''[[ScrappyLevel NO.]]''' Five zombies in a ''waaaaaaaay'' too enclosed space: maybe funny in an action game, but not in Scribblenauts. And the girl you have to save... TooDumbToLive [[BeyondTheImpossible turned]] UpToEleven. ''Good God.'']]]] Anyway... create a [[spoiler: Chainsaw]] and, after you've equipped Maxwell with it, [[spoiler: attack the first Zombie on the right.]] Then, ''as soon Maxwell'' ''[[spoiler: begins attacking]]'', you have to [[spoiler: summon a Wall]] as fast as you can, and [[spoiler: drop it over the Zombie]] '''''im-me-dia-tely'''''; after three or four [[spoiler: swings of your Chainsaw]], use it to [[spoiler: slay the zombie on the left]]. If you've done everything correctly, the [[spoiler: three remaining zombies]] should be [[spoiler: shouldn't be able to reach you because of the Wall you've just summoned]]. '''Now''' you can start playing without having to rush, as everything you've done this far '''''happens within about five mere seconds of actual gameplay'''''... if not '''less'''. Summon a [[spoiler: Cannon]] without deleting your [[spoiler: Chainsaw]], since you may still need it to [[spoiler: [[ChekhovsGun tilt said Cannon properly]].]] Given that [[spoiler: Cannons [[MoreDakka have infinite ammo]]]], well... [[KillEmAll I think]] [[HilarityEnsues you can]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome guess the rest.]] Anyway, this level is... just... [[BuffySpeak I mean...]] ''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]''. * This troperess cannot believe you didn't just use zombie repellent. It takes a while, but all you have to do is give one to the girl and one to maxwell and run at the zombies... ** '''8-6P:''' after the previous DifficultySpike GuideDangIt ScrappyLevel, here we are, back to a kinda easy level thanks to SurpriseDifficulty. "[[AliensStealCattle Save at least one cow]]", huh? [[spoiler: What about saving every one of them, then? Again, a properly placed Black Hole acts as a ''great'' GameBreaker!]] ** '''8-7P:''' ''relatively'' easy. Use a [[spoiler: Road]] to [[spoiler: cover the BottomlessPit]], then [[spoiler: ride]] your trusty [[spoiler: Pegasus]] (or a [[spoiler: Pterodactyl]] as well as usual - except that the [[spoiler: winged reptile]] was part of a series of failed attempts) in order to go next to the ice cube. Then use a [[spoiler: Rope]], to [[spoiler: tie said cube to your winged ride]] and go to the truck. The ice cube won't bump on the stalaktites and arrive there safe and sound... [[LuckBasedMission if you're lucky, that is]], since the physics the game makes use of, in turn, makes everything almost impossible to plan. ([[XanatosGambit Unless you're]] [[DeathNote Light Yagami...]]) [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Wait, and what was that]] [[spoiler: [[ChekhovsGun Road]]]] for? There's also a (mercifully friendly) MadScientist that follows the ice cube [[CompanionCube almost everywhere]]. And [[spoiler: given that there's

a BottomlessPit]], [[TooDumbToLive well]], you know... ** '''8-8P:''' and now, for something simple. [[spoiler: Pterodactyl and Rope.]] ** '''8-9P:''' there are two ways to get through this MindScrew of a level. First way, summon a [[spoiler: Wall]] to [[spoiler: prevent the cop from bothering you]], then use a [[spoiler: Road]] to [[spoiler: press the first two buttons]], then [[spoiler: press the third]] and open the safe. Second way... [[spoiler: get the safe with [[GameBreaker vending machine and handcuffs]]]], [[{{Whoring}} but seriously, why does that surprise anyone anymore]]? ** '''8-10P:''' more GuideDangIt. [[spoiler: Kill the [[strike: Men In Black]] secret agents with two properly (''emphasis on properly'', duh) placed Black Holes.]] Then use [[spoiler: Pterodactyl and Rope]] to get the caged alien next to the flying saucer, and when you're done, use the same method to take the hologram [[spoiler: [[strike: [[ChestMonster next to the flying saucer]]]] ''down its corridor'']]. Starite get. ** '''8-11P:''' despite whatever you're thinking, when I played the stage, the ''BackToTheFuture'' reference '''didn't work'''. Seriously, [[spoiler: [[SummonABiggerFish summon a Monster Truck]]]], keep going right and you're done. * [[DonQuixote Knights attack windmills.]] * When using the "Witch" avatar, the frog wand doesn't work on you. If you play a level where there's an enemy holding a wand, nothing will happen when you get hit. After winning the level the game awards you as if you were the one to transform something with the wand. ??? * Asking for "ORLY," "YA RLY," "NO WAI," etc. spawns owls. * I attempted to handcuff a man to a corpse and shove the ensuing tangle into a vending machine. However, the man wouldn't stand still and the game eventually froze, apparently to punish me for my cruelty. * This troper's favorite thing to do in the game is put a manger... inside a manger inside a manger... you get the picture. Then, because mangers will dump their contents when sideways or upside down, the trough will be put in one of these positions... and MANGER SPLOSION!!! * Maxwell doesn't like fire, and if you try to touch it, he'll be hurt... unless you first set a piece of clothing on fire, and then drag the clothing on to Maxwell. Then, he is [[DwarfFortress curiously indifferent]] to the fact that he's wearing something ''on fire.'' The clothing won't be damaged, either, and will be on fire for as long as you keep it on. The best thing to do this with is the WINGS, because they turn Maxwell into a ''[[RuleOfCool giant flying fireball.]]'' ** Maxwell can become an aesthetic fire god. Give him flaming wings, flaming gloves, flaming shoes, a flaming hat(or a flaming rooster helmet) and for good measure a 'flame sword'. * The "DJ" you can summon is... odd. It's one of the avatars available, and it looks female, right? Ponytails, a skirt, the whole shebang--and since the available avatars seem to be split pretty evenly between "male," "female," and "other," makes sense. However, she has a male voice, and, if fed AMBROSIA, becomes a God instead of a Goddess. Huh. * I created a self-made "contraption" for moving. Here's what you do: Summon some WOOD or a PLANK. Now, summon GLUE and a NAIL. Attach the

glue to one of the ''long'' sides. Then, stick the nail in the middle. Summon a WHEEL and stick it to the nail. Now, summon a SADDLE and glue its bottom portion to the plank. Now you can ride it, and it can move a little. How to make it self-propelled? Summon an AIR VENT and more GLUE. Put the glue on the side of the Air Vent that the air comes from. Now glue the Air Vent to oe of the ''short'' sides of your planky wheel-thing. Zoooom! * I was not surprised to find that the Chupacabra attacked and ate any goat it found. I was horribly amused to find out that Cupacabras are ''scared'' of Satyrs! * This tropette was playing a level in the game that contained the mentioned-above Chupacabra. Curious to see what other cryptids/folklore is in the game, she typed in 'SPRINGHEELED JACK', fully expecting him not to be in the dictionary. Well, never again will I doubt this game, because good ol' Jack? [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome He's in the game.]] Someone on board must be a fan of the paranormal. * This troper once spawned a pterodactyl, got on his back, and started flying around. She was already giggling with glee, but then she spawned a top hat, put it on the pterodactyl, and then got a monocle for Maxwell. The giggles of glee turned into [[AnnoyingLaugh HOHOHEEHEEHOOHOOHOO THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER DOHOHO.]] * If you put ANUBIS (Egyptian god of the underworld) against a CHILD with a SLEDGEHAMMER, the CHILD wins. Also, a CANNIBAL with a BILL is ridiculously powerful. * T.T. has had much too much fun coming up with the three different ways to beat the "get the girl through the zombies to the chopper" level. One of the silliest was putting every zombie ''on a rocking horse,'' and strolling casually on as they rocked furiously in place. But one of the ''best?'' Giving the GIRL a DEATH RAY, and [[LittleMissBadass getting the hell out of the way.]] * Although the ENCHANTRESS looks sultry, she's fully on your side--and if you summon a WIZARD, the two of them will team up to become a pair of BackToBackBadasses who fearlessly protect each other. After toying around with this phenomenon (and becoming intriegued), I decided to summon a WITCH (hostile) and her male, equally hostile counterpart, the WARLOCK. As soon as I dropped them next to one another, [[LoveAtFirstSight they became smitten with one another and followed each other around]], ignoring everything else in favor of each other. They were so happy (and so placid with regards to me) that I couldn't bear to delete them and just changed scenery. * After messing around with clothing options, this troper thought to put LIPSTICK in Max's hands, then promptly use it on everything else. Everything turned into a lovely shade of fuchsia. Also, CHI, the Eastern variant to your normal dragon. * This troper once tried spawning a fetus to feed to a crocodile. Simply entering it caused the weirdest glitch ever. * This troper crashed the game by accident when I was trying to drag a box away with some connected wires. Weird. ** Also, I'd like to pass out this bit of advice: Use reindeer or pteranodon/pterodactyl to fly. Very useful. I found out about the reindeer by accident- I was in the level where you have to give Santa

something he likes and I accidentally clicked on and ended up riding the nearby reindeer. While I was trying to get off, it ended up flying. * This tropette beat several lava levels by accident. After trial-anderror in the one with five crates, using a clone of Maxwell to determine which crate had the Starite, [[spoiler: it's the fourth one]], I used a bunch of whales as bridges. The entire thing fell apart when I went to actually get the crate, though. I opened it in midfall, and my prize fell in the lava. So Maxwell jumped in and got the Starite despite burning to death. Got the Pyromaniac award with the rope, crate, Maxwell, and Starite all burning up. ** I tried the GameBreaker vending machine trick in...7-1, i think, and hit a snag: there was barely enough room to open the thing! I managed to get it open at the very edge, and Maxwell running itno it immediately made the Starite fall. So Mawxwell plunged in after it and got it despite it being on fire. * [[Tropers/{{Keeyla}} This troper]] was greatly amused to find out that Chupacabra can wear hats and hold items. I gave him a sombrero and a maraca. D'awwwww. * Try putting two slices of Garlic Bread a moderate distance from each other, then drop a Vampire in the middle of them. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Ensues]]. * I've been experimenting with ways to keep things stone permedently after using a medusa head on them.The for mechanical beings all you have to do is short them out then turn them to stone.but with living things its a differnt story but i figured out that putting them in cages keeps it permedant.But i again saw a problem with this theres really big creatures that dont fit in cages so for a while i was stumped until the day i wrote this i figured it out completely by accedeint i wrote "shark cage" and to my suprise i got a huge cage!!!!!! almost anything fits inside (cthulu) wont fit but so far every thing else has.i hope this is helpful to all you people that like making creatures into stone :D * This troper once summoned god and had him kill, the devil, cthulu, and a ninja. He then summoned an atheist (yes it exists). He immeadeately got scared by god and ran away. I felt sorry for him and gave him a chainsaw. He decided to support his beliefs by '''killing God himself with a chainsaw'''. Needless, to say i was shocked. * [[Tropers/{{Abrulz}} This Troper]] got bored on the beginning sandbox, and put God in a cage. Then, decided to swing the cage from on high. After realising, there was nothing to hang it from, I attached the cage to a chain, attached that chain to another chain, which was attached (you can see where this is heading) to an anvil resting on an above platform. That anvil was glued to a hobo, who was chasing a sandwich just out of reach. Result: God hanging from a cage. Just the very concept that I could do that makes Scribblenauts absolutely ''awesome''. * Today, this troper: ** Used a teleporter to teleport to the the game developers, jack their car, and unleashed the zombie upstairs. Then I contiued my assualt in space, where I commited genocide against an alien speices and borrowed their time machine. Using it, I headed to the time of the

dinosaurs, where I put a meteor up in the air and escaped back to the present. ** I had a party with my friends: Cthulu, a squirell, and a scared confused boy. Then I summoned Keyboard Cat, who played the music for the party. Then Rick Roll came, did a little dance, and went poof. * I have found an awesome way to beat the level with the bully. Type in a [[spoiler: priest]] and the bully will chase him around, never killing him, ignoring everything else. Get the candy. VICTORY! * I have have worked to create the best experience in the sandbox possible: ** Double-chaingun barrage against an army of Feeps and Cthulhus. ** Anonymous battling an Evil Knight both armed with miniguns and riding war horses. ** Seeing which non-immortal character can last the longest against a blob. * this troper had the idea of pitting axe cop (policeman with an axe) against dr. mcninja (ninja with a katana). another troper then carried out this test. the victor? neither, it was a tie. sounds about right * I don't have the game so I have to ask, what the CrystalDragonJesus happens if you put a plumber and a hedgehog next to each other? ** Nothing, sadly. * This Troper (MaybeMortiarty)created a family of robots- A robot, android, tamed cyborg and tamed feep and a human baby called Issac Assimov Lovecraft cthulu came along and killed the family but Cupid arrived in time to tame Cthulu and save Issac. I gave Issac an army helmet and made him ride Cthulu. Then I glued a platform to Issac's head and glued a king to the platform. I then encased Issac's Posse in several Ice Block Huge and waited to see what would happen. The King was terrified and started to run while not moving and then Cthulu moved lightning fast and knocked all of the Ice Block Huges out of the Atmosphere where they were destroyed. I created a memorial to them out of skeletons glued together. * This troper loves glue. First I glued the bottom of hell to a church. Then I used a ROFLcopter to push hell around. Then I attached the copter and hell and pulled it up a slope. I then got rid of the copter and made a tank in an attempt to blow hell up (this is my 2ed day with the game). After that I tried to see what a glue gun would do. After shooting it and finding that it exploded into glue, I chained a tank to hell and glued a zombie to the tank. Then I made a woman and saw if the zombie would be able to drag the tank with it. Then I just drove the tank and turned the woman into a zombie. What fun glue is. * This Troper pitted a Pirate in a tank against a Shoggoth. The Shoggoth proceeded to jump onto the tank and kill the pirate. * Not sure what other items have this function, but a probe counts as a melee weapon that deals no damage. Equipping one to an enemy is helpful for neutralizing hostiles you can't hurt. * Giving random people the Necronomicon is pretty funny. Just give one to a random kid, scare him with some random {{Mooks}}, and watch him flail about as he tries to kill the very things he summoned. For some more fun, I sometimes put in a random rockstar, gave him a laser sword and corrupted him with earth magic because I thought he kinda looked

like [[NoMoreHeroes Travis Touchdown]]. "Let the bloodshed begin!" indeed. * [[{{Tropers/Exusia}} Exusia:]] Am I the only person who's managed to drop an airplane on himself? ** I also found out that '''terrorists''' exist in this, and they go around committing arson. So, I duct-taped Heaven and Hell, and as I ''cut up Hell with a scythe, he burned Heaven to the ground''. Oh, and did I mention that '''I KILLED SATAN''' in the process of this? Because I did. ** Also, in Action 2-3, the one with the heist, for some inexplicable reason ''another security guard came in and beat the living shit out of the ones that were there'', causing me to fail the mission. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. ** Puzzle 2-8?: Tried to put the things on the counter, and accidentally hit the cashier with an orange. She started going apeshit and attacking me with it! And she survived a grenade, too. * I recently discovered that "Lemming"s will hurl themselves off of "Cliff"s. Also, I once had the UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: Me, armed with Death's scythe, GeorgeWashington, armed with a ''spork'', and Big Foot, armed with a '''rail gun''', teamed up to take down Cthulhu. We won, but Big Foot died heroically in battle, leaving only me and Sporkington. ** I also randomly created Death and replaced his scythe with a bowl of guacamole. He's still carrying it around. ** Shoggoth is immune to Ununseptium radiation poisoning, but Cthulhu isn't. ** I was bored, so I created a ninja shark and began throwing a mangosteen at it repeatedly. I then created an enviromentalist, who ignored the shark and became fascinated by the mangosteen. I got rid of the shark, and then tried picking up the mangosteen. The enviromentalist started attacking me as punishment for separating her from her precious mangosteen, so I dropped it. She didn't care. I gave her the mangosteen. She started beating me up with it. ** Just killed myself on the sandbox. I made a mech, climed in, and glued a propeller to the top of it. The mech began to lazily float upwards, and went off screen, killing me. Bizarre. ** Glue is fun. Especially summoning several random objects and gluing them together into a BambooTechnology HumongousMecha. This once included a whale glued to Om Nom Nom Nom with a dialysis machine for one arm and the Large Hadron Collider for another, with a frog for a head. *** This troper constructed one of those using two [=LHCs=] for legs glued to a plank at the top to hold them together, with a lift (elevator) as the body, an om nom nom nom as the head, a lamp post for one arm and a pole for the other. It is a bit unstable though and there is the temptation to activate an LHC and make a black hole that consumes the lot. **** ThisTroper has constructed another, using a fridge as the body, girders as the legs (glued to a plank at the top), a pole as one arm, a dialysis machine as the other, an omnomnomnom, as the head and a battery as the bots HeartDrive. * I just witnessed Death kill Cthulu with FUCKING GUACAMOLE.

* This Troper just discovered Gorillas can both be used as mounts and ride thier own mounts. Motorcycle -> As amny gorillas as you can -> Maxwell = UNSTOPPABLE GORILLA TOWER CYCLE OF DOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!! (Patent Pending) * This Troper has discovered that gluing five pontoons together makes a good vehicle platform, for example glue a tank to the middle pontoon and you can DRIVE THE PONTOONS USING THE TANK! * Make a mech, put a man in, the mech will walk around like the man would if he wasn't in anything. Now, feed the man arsenic, he will collapse (while still in the mech) and the mech will KEEP WALKING IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY! I'm not sure what to make of this... * Discovered a glitch. If you move Rick Roll around while he's doing his dance, and put him in a wall, then even after he poofs he'll stay there, unable to be moved. I haven't done this enough times to see if this freezes the game, however. * When playing Scribblenauts, I try to restrict myself to using fantasy/medieval objects, and when playing the missions, I am a Native American Shaman. Anyways, odd Scribblenauts moments: ** Death killed me...with a platypus. ** I killed Death...with his scythe. ** I rode a stack of painted pandas. ** Have you ever rode a fawn over a tornado? ** Einstien, yes, ''Einstien'', will eat arsenic. ''Arsenic.'' ** If a snake attacks a lawyer, the snake dies. -Insert EvilLawyerJoke here** More coming soon! * Albeit with a different kind of dinosaur and only on the sandbox, [[AsterSelene this troper]] recreated 217. (It's not supposed to work without crashing, so it puzzles her to death.) * In honor of Super Scribblenauts, I decided to spend this week messing around in sandbox mode. I summoned a limo, attached a time machine to it, added a lightning rod (and a lightning cloud), and PRESTO, automatic time travel ''Back to the Future'' style. I warped back to the mideval period, and as soon as I landed crushed the king and his horse with my limo. Oops. The knight then comes over, and completely ''destroys'' the limo in one slice. For revenge on the knight for destroying my ride, I glued some TNT to him. He ran over to tearfully reunite with the princess... and exploded right over the bridge. Deciding to go all out, I drug the princess and throw her in the pool under the destroyed bridge, and stab the evil chancellor to death with a butcher's knife. Finally, to get Back to the Future, I summoned GOD, made him hostile to me, and tried to get him to activate the time machine while I was standing on top of it (self imposed challenge: never have Maxwell directly activate a time machine). Instead, God PICKS UP THE TIME MACHINE AND STARTS SHOCKING ONLY MAXWELL. He then THROWS the time machine, and I proceed to run over to the throne area, jumping over the gaping hole with a veeeery angry god in pursuit. As I'm cornered against the wall, I summon a new limo, and atemppt to run God over. HE PICKS UP THE LIMO, and proceeds to once again only shock me. I get free (after sustaining about three times the usually amount of shock it takes to kill Maxwell in story mode) , and drive off towards the time machine hoping to jumpstart it with a

few cables... completely forgeting that the bridge was out, driving into the water, and killing myself. I love this game. * Lassoing a tornado sends you both flying into space, making you instantly twice as awesome as Pecos Bill. ** You can kick over a tornado, too. As in, knock over a tornado. With your bare feet. * This Troper turned a Noob evil with earth magic, then when the Noob ran towards me, I put him on a pogo stick. The game crashed. * I've put Max in a straightjacket, attachted him to an electric hair with handcuffs, and made him run around (this is on the title screen where he is near-invincible). The electric shocks resulted him in running through mid-air and eventually being launched off the screen, killing him. * One level involves stopping an alien in a UFO from stealing cows. At first, I figure the best way to go about this is to get Max in a [=FIGHTER JET=] to fly up and attack the UFO. Except I completely space out and forget the jet ''itself'' has weapons on board (that is, missiles), leaving me doing little more than blocking the UFO's progress. So I immediately take the most obvious action and give Max a [=CHAINSAW=]. The mental image I had of Max heroically leaping out of a fighter jet, chainsaw in hand, to attack that cow-stealing alien bastard directly was pretty awesome, but the fact that it '''actually worked''' and the UFO was downed made it more awesome. * How about God in a mech holding a laser sword and wearing a top hat??? Versus Cthulu wearing a helmet??? With The Devil in a tank??? In the end only God lives, but his mech is destroyed. * Stage 3-4 can be beaten by having a Yeti attack all the kids, provided they don't die. * One of the early puzzle stages has you giving candy to three kids on Halloween. [[{{Tropers/Kadorhal}} I]] tossed a grenade instead, and that worked. * This Tropper found out that spawning Santa on the trick or treat level causes you to win, but also crashes the game. * The last stage can be beaten with two items....[[spoiler: handcuffs]] and [[spoiler: garbage can]] * Summon Medusa. Summon a mirror. [[spoiler: Medusa dies.]] * What is an octopad, and why does my game crash every time I try to summon one? * Don't remember the puzzle number, unfortunately, but it's the one where you have to rescue two sailors suspended from the ceiling of a sea cave and guarded by a shark, battleship, submarine, and some mines, then bring them back to an aircraft carrier for extraction. I got very frustrated trying to drag the idiots back, even after getting rid of the enemies in a variety of creative fashions, and eventually said 'screw it', dropped a toaster or three on the enemies ('''ZAP!'''), summoned a whale, rode it, ''lassoed the aircraft carrier'' and dragged it underwater, into the cave, and over to the trapped sailors. Starite get! * This troper tried to save the dad at Puzzel world 9-7 (I think, the image has a girl and a mom infront of a rundown house) It took 8 times but I raped the Start button (Sorry start button. It was for a good cause), summoned repellent, and the Zombies left the dad and he

SURVIVED! YOU HEARD ME! Zombies got scared of repellent and they need BRAIIIINS! I then attacked them literally saying, "THIS IS FOR THE DAD!" In the end, the dad was with the girl and mom, and I got a happy smile on all of the faces with the starite! [[spoiler: And in Epic Mickey, I launched the Gremlim on the Catapult!]] * If you put two "halflings" together, nothing will happen, but if you hand one of them a ring, the other will become hostile and kill the first for it. This troper remembers testing many different combinations of halflings, elves, wizards, dwarves, and humans, but doesn't remember the outcomes. * If you put certain animals on a heat source (preferably a grill so that they don't run off or two campfires situated so that they bounce back and forth) they eventually turn into meat. A chicken turns into a butchered, deafeathered chicken and then into a roast chicken; a cow turns to a steak and promptly cooks; a pig turns into ground pork; et cetera. * [[Tropers/{{Yomegami}} I]] don't have this game, but I dearly want to know if it's possible to get Cthulhu to ride a motorcycle and what happens if it is. * [[@/AwesomeZombie22 This Troper]] decided to dress Maxwell up with a lot of outfits, and here's the list of the uniforms she made up. ** Rapscallion: Newsboy Hat, Jacket, Leg Warmers, Spring Shoes / Roller-Skates, and a Hockey Stick. ** [[TeamFortress2 The Spy]]: Balaclava, Tuxedo, Boots, and Butterfly Knife / Revolver / Wristwatch (sadly, cigarettes can't be spawned). ** YamatoNadeshiko: Kimono, Ballet Slippers, Hand Fan ** BadassBiker: Skull Cap, Denim Jacket, Jeans, Combat Boots, and (of course) a Motorcycle ** [[ElegantGothicLolita Elegant Maxwell]]: Bonnet, Puffy Shirt, Petticoat, Socks. * [[Tropers/{{NicklePlatedStephen}} This troper]] got Santa to kill a reindeer with a raygun. '''''Super Scribblenauts''''' * '''''Super Scribblenauts''''' has some FUNNY new things to try, thanks to the adjectives. For example, you could summon a "father" and a "baby" and the father would be all goo-goo-gah-gah on the baby. Now summon an EVIL baby and watch the father run in horror while being chased by [[EnfantTerrible a sadistic, bloodthirsty monster in diapers!]] * Adjectives are POWER. For example, part of the risk of summoning, say, Cthulhu was that he'd spawn hostile and pretty much annihilate anything in his way. Now summon GOOD Cthulhu instead and what you'll get is an abominable eldritch PUPPY more than happy to give you a ride. ** Probably the best way the usefulness of adjectives manifests is with ''potions''. When you create a potion, any adjective you adjunct to it becomes the potion's effect, allowing you to put an adjective on ''anything''. The most vicious enemies in the game can easily be dealt with just by hitting them with a Friendly Potion, or you can render a mission-important NPC completely risk-free by using an Indestructible

Potion on him. the possibilities are endless. * "Flying Colossal Zombie House", anyone? * This troper has way to much fun the the Deadly [[{{BFS}} Zanbato]] ** How about [=RIDABLE ROCK=]? ** This same troper discovered that [=BOMBER=] (a person who detonates bombs) is afraid of politicians. But he attacks [=PRESIDENT=]. * This troper, when playing her boyfriend's copy, (since she doesn't have one yet) made a hyperactive nuclear flying omnipotent indestructible rideable explosive . . . (more adjectives that she forgot) . . . kangaroo. She proceeded to ride it . . . until it exploded and killed her. ** The same troper spawned a "flying flightless reindeer" and a "flightless flying reindeer". One of them flew and the other didn't. Unfortunately, she can't remember which one did what. Help, anyone? *** "flightless flying reindeer" is the one the flies, from what I can tell if the adjectives are mutually exclusive the second one take priority. * In the new game, you can make ''anything'' a nuke by using the adjective "nuclear". I discovered that by trying to make a [[{{Touhou}} nuclear raven]]. ** "Final" does this too. * Have you tried the adjective "lovecraftian" yet? I made a lovecraftian Guy Fawkes mask and started flying around wearing it. * "Suicidal" is an adjective in Super Scribblenauts. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It works exactly like you'd expect it to.]] ** Give a "suicidal man" a gun. WHEEEEEEEEEEE * There are at least five different sizes you can change things to. Is there a word for bigger than Colossal? ** Sadly not, it seems. Through experimentation with shrink and growth guns, the list runs: Molecular, Tiny, Shrunken, Small, Medium, GoodSized, Large, Great, Huge, Mega, Colossal. Any other size words (eg. Giant) have the same results as one of these. * Bad Girl attacks [=NPCs=]. Adorable Girl (who looks normal) reacts to [=NPCs=] variously with [[SayItWithHearts "<3"]] and [[CuriousAsAMonkey "?"]]. Adorable Girl loves Bad Girl ''[[BadassAdorable and ends up]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy killing her]]'' ** I tried this out for myself, but I also happened to have a lake there. So Adorable Girl ''nearly'' killed Bad Girl, but then Bad Girl ran off, jumped in the lake, and wouldn't come out. * Here's some cool stuff that happened while I was playing: ** In the level where you have to serve the right dish to customers, I made an anthropomorphic salad for the health-conscious lady. The salad goes over to the lady to make friends with her. The lady simply [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman grabs the salad and eats it]]. Also, fed the guy who wants spicy food an Exploding Kebab, which apparently counts. Unfortunately since the guy dies it's a game over. ** Liz, formerly a zombie, is now a kickass pirating lady who ''turns other people into pirates''. ** Evil God apparently counts as an [[BoltOfDivineRetribution extinction event]]. *** This troper used a black hole on that level.

*** This troper used a tsunami, which is also a handy way to get the [[KaizoTrap Skin Of Your Teeth]] merit. ** Female Male gives you a... normal Male. At first glance. Then the bubble pops up... ** Random is a pretty awesome adjective. It's, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin random]]. Frost-breathing is a cool one too. * Potions. They are ''awesome''. Applying any adjective you like to any target that isn't a switch or a steel door is not to be underestimated; even if your foe is attacking you, a few HP is a low price to pay to enslave them. As a general rule, I add a texture and/or color to all my potions, to ID what I've hit and tell what I'm using at a glance. ** If there's ever a threat I'm not allowed to kill, I pour some "[[TakenForGranite inanimate granite potion]]" on them. Evidently, [[AndIMustScream this doesn't kill them]] ** For dealing with anything in my way that isn't a steel door or part of the level, a dash of "temporary potion" will erase a target from existence. For maximum effectiveness, especially if I'm on bomb squad duty, a "temporary useless immobile garish potion" will annihilate any threat; the "garish" is to make ''sure'' the thing has been dealt with. ** Defusing trip wires, however, requires a more delicate tool; "temporary" will make them trigger as soon as they vanish. I go with "transparent white useless potion," so I can mark the defused trip wires and easily tell the potion itself from my explosives defuser. ** Taming beasts is, in my experience, best done with a "loyal flying supersonic invincible starry potion." You can charge your enemy in melee combat, and have the potion stuffed down their gullet before they get a single blow in if you're fast. Now you've got a distinctive battle mount/guardian. ** Playground experimentation has armed me with [[InfinityPlusOneSword the greatest weapon of all]]: "Useless Vampiric Potion." Put a sun in the background, and anything you pour this stuff on will poof away in a gentle cloud of ash, ''instantly''. Now I just need a way to grant adjectives to targets at a distance... ** Different troper from above. [[{{Tropers/Lightflame}} This troper's]] favourite potion is the "Giant Fire-Breathing Nice Rideable Flying" Potion. Try using it on a king. * ThisTroper made a [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment King King]]. * They've made Death a bit tougher than his previous incarnation. OneHitKill on, as far as I can tell, ''anything''. Even the "invincible" adjective is insufficient, and Maxwell can't even survive the reaper's touch on the playground. ** Try spawning an armless Death. That renders him rather [[IncrediblyLamePun 'armless.]] *** [[spoiler: He's still deadly.]] *** Impotent Death works, as well. * Creating a Crazy Lady gives you... Ophelia, apparently. See what happens when you put her near any body of water. * It is possible to create a friendly leather rainbow Cthulhu and then make him wear a tiara. Gaythulhu is the best thing ever.

* The [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Golden Flying Lethal Fast Indestructible Shiny]] '''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Microscopic]]''' [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Ridable Tank]]. Look at the flea-sized death toy go, WHEE! * In one puzzle you're tasked with playing Santa. Once you've figured out who lives in each house, you must put an appropriate gift in a box on the doorstep. One child was listed as "naughty." [[CompleteMonster I gave him a bomb.]] ''The game accepted my solution.'' ** I gave him a nuke! (I had to make it tinier so it would fit in the box, though.) * [[Tropers/ZootyCutie This Troper]] summoned a Crying Boy, gave him a Blue Hat, a Baseball Bat, and set him next to a Rainbow. [[TeamFortress2 I guess Spy was right about Scout...]] * I made someone "[[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Were]]", made a Full Moon, then made a Sun right next to her. Then she cycled through her Were and non-Were forms every second. * Tropers/TorchicBlaziken went to the BadFuture and destroyed everything, even the moon. Then I brought out the sun, and made a meadow, garden, house and school, and a happy kid, mom, dad, and teacher. I saw that the hike up to school was difficult so I shoveled the path a bit and made stairs. I had effectively turned the CrapsackWorld into a SugarBowl. Everything was going great, until [[SugarApocalypse I brought out my Flare Gun and shot the kid with it.]] The result was unexpected. The kid started ''burning alive'', and when the mom and dad went to help him, they burned, too. Then the house burned. I shot the mom and dad repeatedly, and they died. The poor kid started running around until he died. I proceeded to shoot everything with my Flare Gun. Then, after realizing the MoralEventHorizon, I said MyGodWhatHaveIDone and made a traitor and gave him the flare gun. After the traitor would not betray me, I had an evil traitor do the deed. * [[{{Tropers/dorpadin}} This troper]] has found that every other vehicle in the game pales in comparison to the GIANT RIDEABLE MAGIC FLYING CORNDOG. ** For more good times, add a few LOYAL AGGRESSIVE FLYING INVINCIBLE HAMBURGERS/FRIES/HOTDOGS and equip them with ULTIMATE LASERGUNS. You become the flagship to an ''unstoppable fast-food army.'' * I discovered that if there are two Girlfriends on the screen, they will [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne battle each other to the death.]] If you make a Boyfriend, he will join in and fight one, but if the one on his side dies, he'll just hang with the other one. * Just saved the BadFuture by creating an invincible kind compassionate brave rebel to act as a leader, then added the sun, a garden, a bird, an adorable soft kitten (who did NOT go after the bird), and a kind woman. Then the object limit ran out so Maxwell traveled back to the present, feeling like a better person. * This Troper was happy to discover that Microraptor no longer summoned a pteranodon, and instead summoned a feathered dinosaur. * Phoenix + Mermaid = ''Flaming mermaid.'' * In the level where you're supposed to scare your friends, I gave myself a [[FridayTheThirteenth hockey mask and knife.]] * Here's a really cool trick. Summon a "rideable man". Now summon

another one and make him ride the first guy. You can make a tower of men! You can even ride on the whole thing as a vehicle! ** Even better if you summon "rideable cloned man", which spawns two of them - you can make the tower in half the time! Then use "huge potion" on the bottom one, which makes them ''all'' huge, and climb onto your immense wobbly man-tower... ** [[BeyondTheImpossible You can also give them jetpacks and FLY your giant man tower]]. * This troper made DaftPunk. Daft is an accepted adjective, and it combined with Punk to make a gangster wearing a dunce hat. There happened to be a bottle of glue nearby, so he walked over and ATE IT. Okay.... so much for summoning Daft Punk. * [[FetishFuel "Naked" is an adjective.]] ** [[FetishRetardant But it's not really making them naked, unfortunately.]] * Lalalei2001 discovered wily scientists run scared from rebels. Rebels look like Panther from TheProtomen. ** Following that, I put one in between two rebels and he ran back and forth panicking. I gave him a weapon out of curiosity, but he was too scared to fire. ** Rebels also like chainsaws and flamethrowers, and will run to pick them up. * This troper summoned an immortal battleship and placed it in lava. I then proceeded to spawn Cthulhu in the lava. Cue me defeating a flaming Cthulhu in a lake of lava in a flaming battleship. * Three words. [[OneWingedAngel Colossal Demonic Doppelganger]]. Even better when weilding a Colossal Red Scythe. ** Works awesome with Death too. * Explosive Rick Roll is this Troper's favorite weapon, besides Mines and Rocket Launchers. * Spawn a Ridable Head. Hilarity Ensues. * Try spawning a pedophobic Baba Yaga next to a child. "Aagh!" Various other phobias work, but unfortunately, summoning a phobophobic president doesn't summon {{FDR}}. * I once made a canine Policeman and a human Police Dog, and gave a leash to the dog, and attached the leash to the Policeman. {{Hilarity Ensues}}. * I used the Cheerleader avatar and put on the Birthday Suit[[{{Hermaphrodite}} .]][[{{Pettanko}} .]][[NoJustNo .]] ** I'm currently using [[{{Squick}} Ben Franklin in a Birthday Suit]]. * If you get a car separated from it's wheels (one way to do this is a tornado), you can ride the car's seemingly immobile body like it still had wheels. This would be great if Maxwell got a flat. ** Unrelatedly, I used said car to drive over a cat. The cat DESTROYED MY CAR. * Spawning Maxwell now causes the doppelganger to spawn random objects with random adjectives. Kill him, and you can pick up the notebook and use it yourself or give it to anyone for the same effect! Hours of fun. You can also directly spawn the notebook(M-A-X-W-E-L-L-'-S N-O-TE-B-O-O-K) * Ultimate weapon = 2 chains attached to an engine. Pick up the engine. Try to move. Maybe spawn some enemies around you. Laugh. For

bonus fun, attach laser swords to the chains! * I had to give a guy courage. An online guide recommended using a bravery potion or some sort of therapy specialist. I gave him a bodyguard. The fact that worked amuses me to no end. ** My first thought was to give him a laser, which also worked. *** On the same level, with the "blue" kid, you can solve that by painting him red. I tried the same thing later in the game on the drowning man. The game accepted that as a solution. It's good to know you can help both a drowning victim and a sad child using paint. * My vehicle of choice is a tamed supersonic Cthulhu wearing a top hat and monocle. Nothing is more soothing than flying around on its back and shooting babies with a rocket launcher. * Experimenting with adjectives, I created a "miraculous (synonymous with "super") adventurer." When she walked by Maxwell, she spawned the "striped winged bathtub" pictured on the boxart. Okay, seemed simple enough. Nothing of great interest though. So after a few more inconclusive tests, I finally decided that the time had come to destroy her; I typed in "gun", fired... and watched with horror as the adventurer caught the bullet and spontaneously morphed it into a Starite. She then proceeded to make the bullet/Starite fucking explode in her hand, doing minimal damage to herself while also causing her to suddenly attain both the "huge" and the "hostile" attributes... The next half minute or so included Maxwell shooting for dear life with a "Ray Gun" and a "Freeze Ray", only to have his shots turn into more exploding Starites, a destroyed bunker, the poisonous bite of a desperately spawned "friendly rideable Ouroborus," a triumphantly spawned "chainsaw," and the terrifying realization that a "miraculous adventurer," when turning "huge hostile (in response to being attacked, by say, a chainsaw)," can cure herself of poison simultaneously. ** I eventually put her inside a "colossal reinforced weightless cage," which Maxwell promptly kicked into the stratosphere. * There are some events that happened to this Troper that were highly amusing: ** There is one level that asks you to causa an "extinction event" on some dinosaurs without weapons or asteroids. Cue me summoning a homicidal pink superpowered Cthulhu, that promptly killed all the dinos in one hit and tried to kill me too.''The game accepted my solution''. ** The one with the long animals (the dinosaur and the giraffe). I was asked to find a similar animal. I put in a [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "long]] [[LOLCats Longcat]]".Sadly, it didn't work. ** Accidentally one-hit destroying a building ''with a spike''. ** An insane God with sunglasses, giant blue wings and a katana riding a tame giant invincible insane rainblow-colored Cthulhu.It was as awesome as it sounds. * This troper got 827 on the Arcade Machine MiniGame. She's not sure if that's good, but...hey, why don't you guys post your high scores to make her fele inadequate? * This troper summoned Death, then gave him a Dead Potion. And then she got Dead Death. It was confusing and hilarious!

* On the exploding barrel level, this troper mistyped "invincible balloon" and ended up with an "invincible baboon". It worked. ** She later found she could summon a Rideable Flying Invincible Maxwell. Riding said object gives you invincibility against some objects. * My brother and I had an arms race of sorts: I would make an "Evil" object (To grant both sentience and agressiveness), he would make another Evil one to fight it, the loser would make another, and so on. Some of the best examples: ** Giant Cybernetic George Washington ** Giant Radioactive Shakespeare ** Fat Death ** Bright Pink Shoggoth ** Fire-Breathing Santa ** Fancy Gangster with a Fire-Breathing Guitar ([[DonkeyKongCountry The guitar got up and fought on its own after the gangster died]].) ** Winged Basalt ** ''Flying Museum'' ** Stupid Cowlike Cthulhu vs. Frozen Pumpkin with Chainsaw (Stalemate, Pumpkin was too frozen to move and Cthulhu was too stupid to attack.) ** Colossal Piratic Centipede ** Winged Electrical Water (Puddle) ** Glowing Clown with Machete ** Demonic Gargantuan Doorstop ** Red Rubber Chupacabra ** Bigfoot with Railgun ** Armored Telekinetic Tree ** Green Witch riding a Tank ** Striped Greenhouse ** Not used in battle, but a '''Rideable Sentient Fire-Breathing Winged Superpowered Water (Puddle)'''. * Taking Evil Maxwell's notebook is a great way to find out about amusing, if often useless, objects in the game. A few memorable ones: ** Communist banana bread (anthropomorphic banana bread carrying a hammer) ** A bardlike CB Radio (an anthropomorphic cb radio with a lute) ** An exposed Siamese (a shaved Siamese cat) ** An insecticidal cherry tree (it looked just like a regular cherry tree, but sure enough, when I typed in "bug", the bug in question tried to eat a cherry and died) ** A cheesy dinosaur (as in a dinosaur made out of cheese) ** Barbaric velvet (a swatch of fabric with a mace that was absolutely determined to kill Maxwell) ** A misogynistic gutter (I created a woman just to see what would happen, and the gutter very quickly killed her. Then I felt bad, so I had a feminist robot avenge her death). * [[Tropers/LordBlumiere This Tropette]] found that one can create a BoringInvincibleHero. ** You can also have a (literal) HeroicMime. * Shockingly, even more insanity can come from things that don't act as you expect them to. In the wedding gift level (with the ex, who needs a gift snuck out of the wedding), [[Tropers/MWchase I]] had no

trouble getting past the first part, but the second proved more problematic, since I'd gotten a good portion of the way through the game without familiarizing myself with [[spoiler:containers]]. As such, I can tell you that, without resorting to the spoiler, the following will not work: hypnotizing or otherwise mind-whammying the Bride, Groom, and Security Guard. Knocking them out. Blinding them. Turning the present loyal and intangible, and getting it to follow you out. Turning the present invisible, and carrying it out. Using teleporters to take the present to the beginning of a new iteration of the level. Switching said alternate-universe present with its "true" counterpart. Turning the Ex invisible and smuggling him ''in''. ... Wait, I think I should check whether it's possible to stuff everyone into boxes, so they can't see anything. ** Dammit. That didn't work. (This is world 6-11, for the record.) Getting them in the box was simple enough, but their psychic knowings... eugh. This is my personal ScrappyLevel, especially considering that [[spoiler:putting the gift in ''a bag'']] is a correct answer. ** Different person from the above - I was amused when I re-did that level three times for an achievement and discovered that [[spoiler: putting the gift inside of another, identical-looking gift box]] is also an answer. Also, I got to put Maxwell in a wedding dress. * This troper found that on 2-2 (the level where you help the man skydive), creating a "soft" anything and putting it at the bottom replicates the object and counts as a solution. So she created a Soft Cthulu, which killed the skydiving man as he fell, but it didn't matter because he got down safely (?) and she got the Starite anyway. ** This troper highly recommends a "temporary parachute." For the evulz, of course. * Also, I've played as the Shakspeare avatar, stacked him up on a load of other rideable William Shakspeares, stacked them up on a load of rideable Julius Caesars, and placed a Friendly Rideable Baby Cthulu on the bottom. D'aww! * Upon looking over his Merits, this troper realized that he did not get the Hypnotized merit. After reading this page, he put in a Hypnotic Birthday Suit, put it on, and walked past a woman and got his merit. He then did the same to a Man. Of course, the result was the same, to this troper's disgust. * Here's a fun challenge: find how many interesting ways to beat the first level using only the things produced by Maxwell's Notebook. I've taken out the tree with a barrel gun, ridden an archaeopteryx, and dropped a fan on it, just to name three methods. ** I got it by... *** Throwing metal, a cash regester, and food at the real starite. *** Riding a green kangeroo, a orstrish, and a giant, flying, rideable, crab to the starite. *** Grappeling, lassoing, and chopping the tree. *** Using a tornado, DJINN, and a Magic wand. * Interacting with a Djinn will cause her to perform a single action up to three times before she decides to leave. Actions include summoning peculiar vehicles (helibackpack, tiltarotor, hovertank, etc.), making Maxwell a king with subjects, creating precious items,

giving interesting adjectives to nearby objects, etc. Try to interact four times, however... * Shooting a beartrap from a cannon will trap any successful victim in place. * [[MSPaintAdventures You are quite certain there has never been, and never will be, a Temporary Pumpkin in this game.]] * Have you ever summoned the ''[[InvulnerableAttack Invincible]] [[OneHitKill Deadly]] [[SuperSpeed Supersonic]] [[AttackDrone RC Heli]][[LethalJokeItem pcopter]]'' and released it upon an unsuspecting mob located at the other corner of the map? [[ManlyTears It almost brought a tear to my eye]]. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome It's so pure, so graceful, so beautiful. Sublime.]] * I tried to create a [[TheDeterminator Determinator]] by summoning a ''[[FearlessFool Brave]] [[IGotBetter Resurrecting]] [[TheEveryman Man]]''. Unfortunately, I discovered that after being killed, the guy retained the Resurrecting adjective, [[DespairEventHorizon but NOT the Brave one]]. So, instead of getting a [[BadassAbnormal super-charged]] [[ThePrincessBride Inigo]] [[HeroicSecondWind Montoya]], I got a poor terrified guy that [[FateWorseThanDeath kept resurrecting against its will as a Dragon killed again, and again, and again]]. [[BlackComedy It was actually kind of funny (in a sick, twisted way)]], but [[TheWoobie extremely tragic if put in perspective]]. * Fun fact: anything in the witch's battle mission can win with use of the word "RADIOACTIVE". * A genie gives you three wishes. You can get vehicles, treasures, fake Starites, or followers from the genie. The genie can also apply random adjectives to items that happen to be around. (That is also how I found out about the Numerical adjective, which turns something black with green numbers.) On the fourth wish, the genie drops bombs from the sky and disappears. Also Santa vs. Tooth Fairy vs. Easter Bunny. [[spoiler: The Tooth Fairy wins.]] * One level puts you in a child's room and asks what he wants to be when he grows up, based on toys found lying around. One of the toys is a "fireman's helmet", one of the accepted answers is "arsonist". * Giving a "weaver" some "string (yarn)" will cause her to spawn a few articles of random clothing. I am currently the proud owner of a full body chicken costume. * The liberal application of Colossal Balloons is a fun way to destroy things. * Items placed inside various objects don't always shrink with their containers. This troper once stuffed a "colossal cannon" to the brim with "sword," then used the "shrink ray" till Maxwell could hold the "cannon" like a weapon. Upon interacting with the cannon, the playground simply faded to black, and opened to the start menu, as it would have if Maxwell died. But not without offering the brief glimpse of a STREAM of swords flying out of Maxwell's hand. ** I tried that once with laptops. I saw a huge laptop fly across the screen slowly in the middle of a blue bar, then fall through the ground. * I love to use the adjective "DAPPER." I once created a "DAPPER GHOST." Amused by how party-ready he looked, I decided to use a WHITE POTION on his hat (to make it fit him better) and summoned a PRETTY

GHOST to be his lovely wife. They looked ready for a fancy party, so, I decided, why not hold one? After setting out a GHOSTLY TABLE with a GHOSTLY SNACK, I invited all the fanciest ghosts there. There were a plethora of [[PacMan multicolored ghosts]], a [[SuperMarioBros Shy Ghost]], a [[{{Ghostbusters}} Slimy Ectoplasmic Ghost]], and, of course, a [[CasperTheFriendlyGhost Friendly Ghost.]] And we partied 'til the break of dawn! * When this troper realized "fertile" was a valid adjective, she had experiment for a while. Some conclusions: ** Put a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar fertile woman]] next to Maxwell and wait for her to walk by him. Suddenly, babies ''everywhere''. ** A [[HoYay fertile man]] will get the job done as well. And for that matter, so will any other human, including fertile Abraham Lincoln, although the game glitches fantastically if you put one of the Baby Abraham Lincoln's into the "mother's" arms. [[spoiler:They all become hostile toward each other and fight to the death. One can only imagine what they'd do to each other if there's a nearby weapon.]] ** Fertile non-humans need another fertile non-human of the same type before they have their population explosion, though. So you'd need a Fertile God + Fertile God, Fertile Cat + Fertile Cat, Fertile Cthulhu + Fertile Cthulhu... ** So, I had a fertile woman (well, now a skinny motherly fertile woman) with a whole lot of babies, and then typed in "mean man", hoping he'd attack a baby and the mom's MamaBear instinct would kick in. He did in fact try to attack a baby. However, the mother didn't do anything, and instead [[LittleMissBadass all of the babies chased him to the end of the screen and killed him.]] The baby army fares less well against monsters or anyone who's armed though. *** Oh, and for a similar effect I had a fertile vampire slayer, then brought in a vampire. The mother was the one who finished the job, but her daughters all tried to chip in with their tiny stakes. Aww. ** Another time, I put a fertile girlfriend with a boyfriend, not expecting anything unusual. What I hadn't anticipated was that ''baby'' girlfriends would still fight each other for the affection of the boyfriend. The boyfriend got killed in the resulting melee, the fertile girlfriend kept giving birth every time one of the baby girlfriends died, and I essentially had an endless tyke riot[[hottip:*:AGoodNameForARockBand perhaps?]] on my hands. ** I had a weird glitch happen with a fertile apelike woman - her "pregnant" shape was weirdly stretched out, she started floating several feet above her offspring, and she couldn't be dragged anywhere. * Apparently, even blind people can be petrified by a gorgon. * God hates lazy people. It's apparently a seven deadly sins thing, because he also attacks anyone who's proud, envious or greedy. ** One of the 7 sins is "Sloth." * I recently discovered "Radical" is a valid adjective, and anything you apply it to will be wearing a green mohawk. I find "radical penguin" and "radical ferret" especially cute. * I was on the level with the Ninja Shark, and needed to think of something that would be able to defeat it. My first thought was a Robotic Shark... It worked, but not the way I planned. You see, I had

forgotten that robots are electric, so instead of battling it out with the Ninja Shark like I anticipated, once I put it in the ocean, my Robotic Shark just died instantly, electrocuting the Ninja Shark in the process. RIP Robotic Shark, your heroic sacrifice shall always be remembered. * It took this troper some time and the target running around the sandbox screen faster than I could tap my stylus because it took so long to drain health, but I finally managed to kill a haberdasher with a melon baller. * Onmipotent dogs, anyone? * How do I spawn that one character that looks like a GenderFlipped Maxwell? * The Maxwell's Notebook item has been the source of many shenanigans for this troper. Once, she got a [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness puritanical, centaurian]] apple pie, and then a fattening fraternity brother, who ''ate the apple pie''. Another time, she got [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome a panda bear with a flamethrower]]. ** Also, she made a [[{{Vocaloid}} WRATHFUL RED WOMAN, gave her a SWORD, and put her in a CAGE. Then, she made a DEAD BLUE MAN. Then, she put PRETTY GREEN PIGTAILS and a GREEN DRESS on Maxwell. Finally, she created a pair of CURIOUS YELLOW TWINS and put WONDERLAND (which comes out as HEAVEN, just so you know) next to them. And, as a finishing touch, she put a SPADE by the CAGE, a DIAMOND by the DEAD BLUE MAN, gave a CLUB to Maxwell, and dropped a HEART on the TWINS.]] It was glorious. ** DECENT HUMAN BEING aliases to GOD. Make of that what you will. *** Somehow just the word "being" aliases to "god", so it's likely that it parsed both "decent" and "human" as adjectives there. * [[Tropers/CyanideESpeon I]] frequently go to the future via Time Machine. Quite a few times I killed Cole Phillips, the Cyborg, and the Metal Android, allowing them to rest in peace (because even if you break up the fight, they would still be stuck in that one spot for eternity.) My eyes sometimes get slightly damp when I think of it... * As far as pop culture references go, I've [[SmashingPumpkins summoned a vampiric earth and put an angry rat inside a cage]]. * I've found that it's possible to make mounts ''faster'' that "SUPERSONIC," by means of other speed-increasing adjectives so long as they ''are not synonyms.'' "CAFFEINATED" works well (and if you can't spell that, just make your mount of choice "THIRSTY" and then make them some COFFEE or SODA). Also, words like LIVELY and ENERGETIC work, though they're synonymous. Still, though an application of these three words, I've managed to make a SUPERSONIC CAFFEINATED LIVELY pterodactyl break the sound barrier. * I was depressed that the TIRE SWING summoned through the notebook can't be ridden on, so I made my own! All it took was a GIANT TREE, some ROPE, and a FAST RIDEABLE TIRE. Wheeee! * On the level where you have to fix some things at a school, one task you have is to capture some loose hamsters. I thought a HAMSTER CAGE would do the job, right? Well, I didn't realize that said cage comes pre-equipped with hamsters, as it were--and that those hamsters would be unexpectedly loyal to their kinsmen when I tried to pick them up. Cause of death on that level: Mauled by a hoard of angry hamsters.

* No matter how intelligent you make them--from the merely "SMART" to the downright "OMNIPOTENT"--if a DUNCE sees an insect, then the dunce is going to have lunch, and the bug is going to have a very bad day. * "SOAPY" is a new favorite adjective of mine. It makes whatever it is emit clouds of bubbles periodically. I can dig it! And when you make a DEADLY SOAPY FLAME SWORD, well, so much for what they say about a BubbleGun, eh? * I accidentally came across the word "Scribblehotz" on the typo correction thing. Using it summons a setient MEGA 64 logo that confuses [=NPCs=] who get near it. Yeah, I dont know either. ** Ah, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r_zD_UqunA here's what this is all about]]. That's a pretty cool tribute. * I typed up 4 wolfs, 4 vampires and a boxing ring. And I added a moon in the sky. It was to represent Jacob and Edward from twilight. The vampires won and they all survived! Until I added a sun and they turned to dust... * The adventure of Leeory Jenkins. I typed up [[WorldofWarcraft LEEORY JENKINS]], strong and angry, and I made him attack a cowboy wearing a meatheat annd sideburns, satan with a sword, and FEEP riding a elephant with a tophat and sideburns. Leeory won all of them! Then I added a tiger, and Leeory won. Then I added heaven, completed with angels and God, and Leeroy beaten them! Then I conjoured up a flaming chainsaw which BURNED heaven, and gave satan a pitchfork. Leeory won again! Then I saved heaven with a flying crying ORCA, like in the commercial! Then, I summoned a brave zombie, a dad with repellent, and a baby. That was the end of Leeory Jenkins, the baby, and the zombie. But not the dad Ironically, since a level has him being eaten. * My vehicle of choice? A Flying Cosmic Shiny Supersonic Otherworldy White Loyal Predatory Legendary Immortal Goat. * Notable things {{Tropers/Slouch}} has done in Super Scribblenauts: ** Riding an invincible lively caffeinated supersonic jumping pogo stick ** Killing God with a spork ** Feeding a nuclear banana to a monkey ** Using an invincible forklift with a steel spike glued to it to kill zombies ** [[ZergRush Summoning an army of violent brave hippies and getting them to gang up on powerful monsters]] * This troper tried to time travel, but ended up in the first level in the original Scribblenauts. Maxwell,the tree, the ledge that was used for nothing and the starite. And that starite is collectable and required for 100% completion. * Try wrtiting in MAN CANNON. You get a cannon which fires ''clowns.'' * This troper set a building on fire by selecting "play" on it with an "electric electric guitar (an electric guitar with the electric adjective)". Power of rock, baby. * [[AyaReiko This troper]] made [[{{Touhou}} a "Stupid Ice Fairy", a "Misty Lake", and a "Scarlet Mansion"]]. Sadly, "Devil" is not a valid adjective. ** But "Demonic" is. And "Devilish," too, iirc. * "Epic Sonic Crimson Sentient Tiny Immortal Mech." Ladies and gentleman, I introduce: PoweredArmor.

* {{drcinnamon}}. 4x God + Behemoth = 5x God. 5x God + Butler Holding Ambrosia = Entourage of Gods and a Butler. * I got bored and decided to give myself the self-imposed challenge of killing every living thing on every open sandbox starting screen using only what was already there (I could type in anything I wanted, so long as it wasn't being used to kill anyone directly). I succeeded on all counts except for the level that's a playground - no matter how many times you fling a ball at someone it doesn't seem to do any damage, and that's the only weapon-like item already on screen. The most awesome situations this challenge led to were 1) dropping a death worm on a magic blacksmith to kill him, then using the blacksmith's hammer to kill the death worm itself, and 2) luring the bogeyman out of the attic, getting him to kill mom and dad, and then killing him [[ImprobableWeaponUser with a hash brown]]. ** Just dig up the chest, open it, and throw the diamond. YAY! * Make an "Armed Deadly Molecular Boomerang." Give it a bigger weapon (sycthe, zanbato, chainsaw, etc). Equip it, and have fun. ** This troper highly recommends juggling boomerangs. Throw one the moment you catch it, and wait for the other to return to your hand. * This troper once summoned Heaven and Hell. Next, he summoned God, who proceeded to attack Hell. I moved him to the other side of the screen to finish setup. I gave God 2 angel sidekicks and summoned Satan and two demon minions for them to fight. "Team God" won almost instantly and resumed the destruction of hell. This was taking too long, so I gave an angel a flamethrower to speed up the process. He ends up burning both Hell AND Heaven. I deleted hell myself, and God kills the angel who burnt Heaven. * {{Rooster Helmet}} summoned an [[{{WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome}} Evil Unavoidable Fast Bear Suit]] on a Volcano level he created. The Bear Suit eventually annoyed him, so instead of putting it in the trash bin, he summoned an Invincible Rocketship and wrestled the Bear Suit into the volcano. * [[Tropers/MangaManiac This Troper]] was once stuck on a puzzle where he had to see two animals and then come up with a third similar one. I couldn't think of one, so I simply typed in "REINCARNATING MAN" and stuck him in the box, and then summoned "DEATH" to go in there and kill him again and again until he reincarnated into the right animal. It worked. * The first thing this Troper summoned after buying Super Scribblenauts? A [[Series/DoctorWho Blue Flying Cosmic Rideable Sonic Police Box]]. * "Gentlemanly" will give anything a [[HighClassGlass top hat and monocle]] when spawned. Now, try a Gentlemanly Monocle. * Here's a fun idea. You can make a bouncy house out of four "Indestructible, Immovable Trampolines" and positioning them with the bouncy side in. Go ahead and put stuff in it. ** At one point I glued six ships together and floated all of them. * This Troper (Marioking9) likes to play as Thor with a huge birthday suit, while holding a frozen freeze ray and magical ray gun. He also likes to clean and kill people with soapy clubs. ** He has also found out many fun ways to kill a FAE * This troper created a [[HouseOfLeaves Spacious, Labyrinthine]]

[[color:blue:House]] and an Ambiguous [[color:red:Minotaur.]] * This troper discovered you could summon a ''G string'' in the game! I added the adjective "wet" to it and PUT IT ON. Then put "rideable" before it and I was RIDING A WET G STRING! * This Troper discovered just how amazing the adjective "super" was. A super cow turns colossal when being milked, said milk turns into starites, and soon after explode. Super magnets are friendly, until they start attracting metal, then they're vicious and (she really wishes she knew what the magnet was doing, but alas it was off screen) soon the flying polka-dotted bathtub appeared! Unfortunately, [[TheFairlyOddParents the super bike and super toilet don't work as I thought they would]] * This troper loves gunfights in both games. However, In the first the AI will shoot their friends. In the second game, he had to make everyone bulletproof unless He wanted the cops shooting their friends, and then their friends fighting back. The AI in the games might have lots of artificial stupidity, and be too dumb to live on escort missions.... but atleast they can do some things right. * If you make a Dimorphodon flying, its wings flap. I also figured out that you can put things in a super gun and stuffed it full of stuff from Maxwell's Notebook for the Random Cannon! And after finding out "stylus" was a weapon, I killed a dragon with one. -''[[{{Scribblenauts}} B-A-C-K T-O S-C-R-I-B-B-L-E-N-A-U-T-S * poof* ]]'' <<|TroperTales|>>

Scrub * (This is also a bit long, so please bear with me) This troper sometimes gets called cheap for repeatedly using [[BlazBlue Taokaka's]] air dash move with such ferocity that the fight would sometimes drag on due to her becoming a constantly moving target, or it would end instantly the minute the air dash chains. What some people don't realize is that this troper has abysmally slow thumbs that can't execute specials at each fraction of a second, even for amateur standards, and that Taokaka's air dash is perhaps the simplest and best move to understand and use at a brisk pace (It's just Up/Down/Back/Forward+X by default) for someone like this troper. Another thing is that this air dash is probably one of the hardest for this troper to properly master because it has MANY variations, including a mid-air cancel to throw off timing or counters, and ''3 distance variations'' for the Back+X air dash: Short, Middle or Long. To even things out even more, the sheer speed of the directional changes makes her very hard to control, and can be prone to running into counters or throws, thus making this troper vulnerable to expert Hakumen or Tager players. * (This is a bit long, buckle yourself in)This troper's sister was a scrub at, of all things, [[SegaSuperstars Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing]], among other games. She forced her rules on me just because, and she would hit me and complain for doing things wrong, or even just

using my data. Some of her Scrub tendencies involve only playing as one character(Alex Kidd, a character who she had an unhealthy obsession with), only playing on the [[SambaDeAmigo]] tracks, saying I couldn't take specific item boxes or activate my [[LimitBreak AllStar]]..and forbid me from playing as my favorite character simply because she didn't want to waste credits on him. This is just the most recent case, as she twists other games even more horribly. For example, with [[BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg]], she made a "life game" out of multiplayer mode. What were the rules? No attacking anyone, no "stealing" specific egg spawns, and if I had an egg that hatched into one of her favorite things? She'd hit me over the head with a controller until I gave up "her egg". Playing with that girl is madness..which is why I stick to MUGEN and N64 now. * This troper's younger brother was once reduced to tears by an extremely vicious Super Smash Bros. Brawl scrub who was furiously convinced that he (this troper's brother) was ''obviously'' attack spamming. It couldn't just be that the scrub sucked at the game, oh no no! * This troper had a friend who used to be a complete scrub at any fighting game (most recently {{Soul Calibur}} 4). Thing was he was somewhat talented at gaming, but dear god he'd walk into things like wakeup attacks, 'bait' ''himself'' into whiffing his pokes etc. This normally puts him in the realm of a bad player, but he actually tried to complain to this troper about his character being overpowered (Kilik is not that great). Thankfully, I was feeling patient enough to break down everything he was doing wrong, and why it was wrong. Then he went back to playing the unbalanced POS known as Fight Night. At least he's stopped saying that real fighters require no strategy. ** Kilik is not that great to experienced players who learn the hard way how to deal with him. He's impossible for newbies. Why do you think the entirity of ranked matches consist of him? Because everyone is looking for a challenge? *** Kilik isn't that hard for anyone who's learned how to dodge, which takes all of 10 minutes. **** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Uh...]] * When playing Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3, this troper met a guy who would request running on power settings higher than the ideal level for the course at hand. Not a problem, until a third player came in. This troper went back to using the correct settings to face off against the new guy, and the scrub kept asking to run more powerful settings. Naturally the answer he got from both this troper and the new opponent was "I will if the other guy does." Though the scrub did eventually start running the ideal settings too after the first match so maybe this doesn't entirely count. * This troper admits to being a scrub at one point before, though mostly out of frustration during play. While I still will see some things as "cheap" or something similar, I usually will just complain about it just a little bit and not rant about how the fun is ruined. This troper also saw someone complain about people online in ''MarioKart Wii'' purposely ramming him and stealing his item boxes. While this is annoying to some degree, it's a part of the game. ** Part of the game? It's like 49% of the game! 50% of it is actually

racing and the 1% is making your racers make funny noises. * This troper was once a friend of a scrub on Xbox Live. When said scrub finally got ''Super StreetFighter II Turbo HD Remix'', he decide that he would main Vega. As soon as he started losing, however, he started imposing "rules" such as "Tick throws are banned" and "Turtling is banned". Funny thing is, '''he turtles ALL THE TIME with Vega.''' He just sits in a corner and waits for his opponent to jump into his front flip kick. Occasionally he will also surprise you with a Wall Dive, which is easily telegraphed. So not only is he a scrub, he is also a {{Noob}}. He got so pissed off that he removed me and all my other friends that were on his list. If you want to find him, add Iron Centipede to your list and watch him squirm as you own him. ForMassiveDamage, tick throw him into oblivion. * On the polar opposite of this page, the troper tales of StopHavingFunGuys, one person wrote that one person he played Melee with was being cheap, blocking his attacks, used cheap characters, used combos, and L-canceled. He then went on to say the person only won because he had no life. When I pointed out the scrubbish points he was making, the person then went and ''deleted my comment'' and insisted he was not a scrub. I just then reposted my comment with more details this time. ** Also about Melee, but not against any other tropers (to my knowledge), [[@/{{Longfellow}} this troper]] once played a very loud scrub at Melee. Most of the time he was absurdly humorous, but I remember once he complained because I "jump too much." ** Also also about Melee, I used to play it all the time against my kid brother and our friend. I was pretty good at Zelda/Shiek, since she's a good character, and I beat them almost every time. They eventually made a rule that I had to pick one of the two, and wasn't allowed to transform into the other one. Though I guess it's less Scrubbing than it was giving me a handicap. * This Troper knows one, he ALWAYS insists on using items on stages which I don't like but can tolerate but even during tournaments (!) it's always items, items, items! The only time he can ever come close to beating me (when I used King Dedede mind you, he beat my Ganondorf and my Wolf with items of course) is with items so the few times he has he rubbed it in my face before I challenged him without them.....and proceeded to two stock his ass into yesterday. I beat him three times (once with items and twice without). He STILL can't admit defeat and blames it on the apparent "cheapness" of D3's amazing grab game and the fact I suicides ''once'' during the five matches we had. ** I don't see the problem with this, items are fun. *** They ''are'' fun- The problem comes when you depend on them to beat people. Not by CherryTapping them, but as in the only way to do damage and then you complain when they actually do better then you without needing said items... **** This troper subverts that in that he depends on items to win, but doesn't care what. He just needs to be able to throw things. ** At the same time, I can kind of see where your friend might be coming from. I pretty much only play Melee with my brother, and he's a much better player than I am, so when we play he'll often modulate his play to even up the levels (he plays weaker characters or will refrain

from repeatedly hitting me with the same move that I never seem to learn how to dodge, ect). Especially when playing casually with people that have a significant skill differential, it's good to have some things that can even up the game, and items can do that. Otherwise, it gets to be no fun when you always lose. * There's lots of these guys if you play VS in ''Left4Dead'', whether they are survivors or the infected. If you lose to them (whether they got lucky, you made a few mistakes, or they are just better than you), they will openly tell you how much you suck. The minute your team starts to win, they will accuse you and the others of cheating or hacking. ** [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=280 Here you go.]] *** Ironic, I was just reading that before coming to this page. ** They're just as bad in TeamFortress2. There was this complete idiot on the other team who called hacks on almost every player on the opposing team. The thing is, he just sucked at playing the game. I would have understood this, if he hadn't been calling hacks so much. His idiocy included: *** Complaining the other team could see him after running out of cloak energy or bumping into them. *** Calling hacks when his disguise was seen through. *** (The Crown Jewel) Disguised as enemy(my team) soldier and calling for the enemy Medic(me) while an opposing squad of 2 pyros, a soldier, a sniper, and a medic can see him standing behind 2 of his teams Demomen and a Level 3 Sentry Gun. He was TooDumbToLive incarnite. * This troper played in a DungeonsAndDragons 3.5 campaign full of them. What earned them their scrub status was that the more annoying members of the group "played to have fun" (I guess the rest of us played for agricultural purposes or something) and fun meant "never learning new rules outside of one's own personal playbook". Unfortunately, this resulted in a game where the DungeonMaster rejected, saved every time without fail, or outright any sort of tactical maneuver such as fear effects, buffs and debuffs, and ''tripping'', ultimately resulting in a game where her characters and our characters trade damage rolls and the bigger numbers win. ** Sadly, I had a ''group'' of players try this '''at a international tournament'''. 4E, they were all playing multiclassed beastmaster rangers (Most. One was a single classed ranger). Used their critters as a mobile wall, and even tried to convince me that if they all used "Disrupting Shot" (An immediate interrupt that does damage and inflicts a penalty to an opponent's attack) that all the penalties caused by said shot should ''stack'' on every attack an opponent made in a multi-attack sequence. They also tried to say this also allowed their animals to attack, because of some feat. Ugh. ** This troper has had similar experiences with pen and paper groups. He was told he could do whatever he wanted...but this was apparently only within the players personal rulebooks. No expansion books, No classes beyond the default cookie-cutter ones you've seen zillions of times since 1st edition, no certain feats, no single-classing, no pure warriors (Keep in mind this was D&D spellcasters edition). He just up and left when they decied to prestige into classes ''from the expansion books''!! They also had a fetish for Spellcasters and it was

highly evident in that every single party member ''but'' him was multiclassing as a wizard or sorcerer. *** Oh god, this troper has had an Expanded Psionics Handbook for about 5 years. Guess how many times he's gotten to use it? Doesn't help that everyone uses Pathfinder now because "It's more [[FromACertainPointOfView balanced]]," and PF doesn't have psionics yet. One DM was going to allow it, but the campaign fell through. Although even then, concern was expressed on two separate occasions of "psionically dominating the rest of the party." This troper promptly got out his XPH and showed them the entry for Dominate, Psionic, which essentially reads "Go look at the spell that does the exact same thing in the Player's Handbook." ** You'll also laugh at how they say they hate D20 because it's too "oversimplified" and then say they will not do urban arcana because it's "Too overcomplicated". To this day this troper laughs at how they can say Urban Arcana is "overcomplicated" when they play nothing but spellcasters edition. (Even though they do slim it down to the bare necessities other than multiclassing...) * [[@/{{Magus}} This troper]] and his friend would often ban a third of the characters in SoulCalibur 3 because they were "cheap". We'd often use them again the next time we played, though. * This troper's brother is a total scrub when it comes to HaloWars, especially in regards to rushing. Basically, if you rush, then according to him, you hate fun and should be banned from playing the game (and that's not an exaggeration; he actually said that). * COD4 has a juggernaut perk which gives you more health, which some people call "cheating" despite that it's in an online (read: patchable) game. * This troper's friend insists on forbidding a list of cards from any Magic game he plays, because they're "cheap wins" (ignoring the fact that players with them are beaten regularly -- they're mostly just cards with attack/defense scores based on things like how many black cards are in play, resulting in insanely high stats). ** He would hate the Commander deck I'm putting together, then, which kills stuff, then uses Mortivore to swing ForMassiveDamage. Oh, and once the general comes out, it starts stealing their dudes as well. * This troper had a recent run-in with a hilarious troll who claims that it's impossible to get the "100 million points" achievement in the North American version of ''Raiden Fighters Aces''. * The Amarr/Minmatar roleplaying community in ''EveOnline'' (of which this troper is a part of) has an agreement to not use alt spies, which cannot be defended against using in-character methods. Anyone caught using an alt spy will be expelled from both sides. * This troper absolutely positively '''hates''' sports and most competitive games of ''any'' kind because they result in {{Scrub}} mentality and StopHavingFunGuys. This is how P.E. worked in school...you just play a game of the month (a team sport) and the people on the winning team get ''more grade points'' than the people who lost. So now there is something that is ''supposed'' to be fun and teach you about teamwork that evolved into people arguing who the best players were and the best targets, meaning people would demoralize them and whine when the apathetics who hate sports are on their team.

No, it's not that we were ruining their game...they were ruining our P.E. Grades. You don't play sports to win...you play sports to screw over the other team as much as possible. And griefers who either don't give a shit cause they're happy with a "C" or want to get back and the asshat jocks decide to get on their team and then try and sabotage their team. * This Troper really wish people will stop trying to ask for [[{{Pokemon}} Scizor]] to be banned. I know it has a good lead in usage compared to everything else, but that's ONLY because it's easy to use and useful. It has tons of counters that loves the free turn provided by CBScizor having to switch, and it is NOT overpowered at all. Seriously. ** Well... 130 base attack + Technician + STAB boosted Bullet Punch = Fucking. Ow. But calling for the Banhammer is Scrub mentality of course. * This editor has a classmate who is a scrub in EVERY GAME POSSIBLE, soccer, warcraft, FIFA, counter strike, hell even wii sports (according to him a pro mii in wii sports is magically more powerful than a normal mii, nevermind the lots of experience the player with a "pro" mii has) * Not as serious as some examples here, but back when i played Quake II with my friends they insisted in always play in Fac 3. and all suggestions about other stages were ignored. * A friend of his troper is ever increasingly becoming a scrub. When we play Modern Warfare 2, he incessantly gives me shit over how I rarely any gun other than the Famas. It's not that the Famas is the only good gun in MW2 or the only gun that I can get kills with, but it's the gun that I'm the most comfortable with and I can typically get, at least, a decent positive ratio with it, as long as my teammates aren't horrible. He complains about how the Famas is cheap, a scrub gun, and takes no skill. Ramp this UpToEleven if I put a "noob tube" on my Famas. * This troper's cousin. Especially when it comes to ''[[SuperSmashBros Brawl]]''. The kid uses Meta Knight, the [[CharacterTiers highestranked]] character in the game. This troper used Zero Suit Samus (B tier) and won three matches in a row. Cue complaints of Zero Suit Samus's down smash being cheap. And this was a Meta Knight main. * {{PuppetChaos}} is a scrub. [[OrIsIt Or Is He?]] * [[@/TheAlbinoPrimid This Troper]] plays MapleStory from time to time, and laughs like hell when people start complaining about new classes. Take, for example, the Knights of Cygnus. These guys have been compared to "Maple Story Easy Mode", considering that they get more stat points on level up for 70 levels, they have exclusive equips, and they have a skill that gives them even more bonuses. What Scrubs fail to point out, however, is that 1. The skill in question correlates to your highest level character (which, by the way, is almost always going to be one of the original classes), and 2. A Lv. 200 Adventurer is still stronger than a Lv. 120 Knight, which is by the way the highest level possible on them. * This Troper is, by definition, a DDR scrub. I don't touch the bar ever, I avoid "bracketing", and I keep the speed mods at 1.5x or 1x (if a DDR song). I thoroughly believe this is how the game is meant to

be enjoyed, and I won't try it any other way, but I understand these personal limiters preclude me from tourney play, or realistically, any grade higher than S+, and as such I don't complain about it or criticize higher-level players who use those techniques. ** You're not a scrub because of [[SelfImposedChallenge that]]. You'd be a scrub if you threw a hissy fit against anybody who didn't follow your personal restrictions. * This Troper was involved with a debate with a scrub who banned spot removal (low cost cards that destroy creatures or other permanents) in his casual Magic: the Gathering circle. He went on to defend how it made the game more fun and implied that he knew more about balancing the game than the ''professionals who designed it''. This Troper wants to play against them with a turbofog deck to show them how bad their idea of "balance" is. ** Of course, the idea that "the professionals are always right" is not an absolute - just look at how often mechanics are rebalanced in online games, particularly [=MMORPGs=]. Or pretty much any product ever that wasn't perfect, even though it was Designed By Professionals! That said, mechanics that last a long time through multiple revisions, like spot removal in Magic, tend to be pretty legit. Not that this troper didn't think that Icy/Royal Assassin combo was total bullshit back in 4th grade... * This Troper knows that her brother would be a scrub, so she told him that she'd show up in a full cosplay to a LAN party. He quickly said that he wouldn't... But now she's stuck going in full cosplay to avoid him figuring out what her plan was. * [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] has experienced this a few times, though the most noteworthy was with a former friend. He, the friend, was terrible at just about every game aside from GuitarHero (Which I'm not that great at; thus, it wound up becoming the only game he'd play against me because it was the only game he could outright beat me at). More often than not, he's impose restrictions on me in every game we played; like during a game of [[SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. Melee]], where I was only allowed to play as Pichu and was not allowed to use any items at all. Needless to say, I got to where I rarely played any games with him. * ''ModernWarfare 2'' does have a number of glitches that if abused are a legitimate cause for complaint (wall glitches, elevator glitches, javelin glitch, care package glitch, pre-patched rangers glitch). However, despite the Create-a-class system being designed to allow a variety of builds and tactics, each with different strengths and weaknesses, you will find scrubs complaining about (staring with the more legitimate complaints): ** Boosting makes you a cheating noob ** You're a skilless noob if you: *** Noob-tube with One-Man-Army or Scavenger to allow unlimited tubes, and Danger Close *** Noob-tube every single life and start again when you respawn *** Noob-tube at all *** Have the Noob-tube equipped ** You're a cheap knifing noob if you: *** Use the Knife Build to run around knifing all the time

*** Use Commando in general (teleportation is cheating!) *** Ever knife anyone ** You're a cheap camper noob if you: *** Camp in one spot the entire game *** Use Tactical Insertion to camp *** Camp at all *** Camp when defending an objective! *** Ever use a sniper rifle **** If you use the intervention, you're a noob **** If you use anything but the Intervention you're a noob ** If you never camp you're a run-and-gun noob ** You're a shotgun whore noob if you use: *** Akimbo 1888's *** Akimbo Rangers *** SPAS-12 *** Any other shotgun ** You're a cheap noob if you use: *** The Painkiller Deathstreak (you should be dead!) *** The Final Stand Deathstreak (you should be dead!) **** Last Stand (you should be dead already) *** The Martyrdom Deathstreak (I shouldn't be dead) *** If you use the CopyCat Deathstreak then you're an idiot, the others are much better. ** You're also a cheap noob if you use any of these perks, at all, in any situation, period: *** The Commando Perk *** The Last Stand Perk *** The One Man Army Perk *** The Danger Close Perk *** The Scrambler Perk *** The Cold Blooded Perk *** The Ninja Perk *** The Hardline Perk *** The Marathon Perk *** The Lightweight Perk *** The Bling Perk *** The Scavenger Perk *** The SitRep Perk ** If you use any sub machine gun you're a skill-less spray-and-pray noob ** If you use a sniper at short range you're a sniper shotgun noob ** If you use the riot shield ever, you're a noob ** If you use any of the powerful killstreaks, you're a cheap noob, if you use any of the less powerful killstreaks, you're a stupid noob ** If you use claymore you're a cheap noob ** If you use FMJ you're a noob ** If you use heartbeat sensor, you're a cheating noob ** If you use a sliencer, you're a noob ** If you use a 3-shot-burst gun you're an M16 or FAMAS noob ** If you use any build at all other than a non-3-shot AR with a Red Dot, Sleight-of-hand, Stopping Power and Steady Aim, you're a noob *** If you attack from the behind or the sides, you're a noob

*** If you kill me, you're a cheating noob *** If you get killed you're a skilless noob *** You're a noob (Personally I disagree with this kind of sentiment since almost every tactic has a viable counter, so I usually enjoy playing the game with the chat turned off.) * [[@/{{T-Jack}} This troper]] will freely admit to having been a scrub in the past, most notably trying to ban rushing in {{Warcraft}} 3 by imposing a "No attacks in the first five minutes" rule. Though to be fair, the guys he used to play with were somewhat of StopHavingFunGuys, to the point that they were mocking him for even building defense towers (after said towers successfully fended off their first attack.) ** Also, when he was playing ModernWarfare, the troper's brother and his clanmates liked to use [=RPGs=] just to piss off the guys who thought they were "cheap kills". * There are so many ''{{Uncharted}} 2'' players who bash people for using weapons like the shotgun and pistole, calling them "cheap". If they're so damn cheap, how about getting the hell away from me if you see I've got one of them? * "Cheating! That's cheating!" The kids at my school are allowed to use one teacher's TV and Wii to play games during lunch, and when a certain kid who shall remain anonymous plays a match in a fighting game, that's the most common phrase heard, followed by "[X] is broken!" and "OP [X] is OP!" I seldom if ever hear him compliment an opponent on a move well done--he'll just say "How did my counter miss?" or "That move's cheap!" The kicker is that they're playing a fighting game based on ''{{Naruto}}'', and all but two characters have at least one move that would be considered a GameBreaker in any other game--the challenge comes from matching one GameBreaker against another. He's arguably a hypocrite too, as while he often plays characters like [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Neji]] and [[AwesomenessByAnalysis Shikimaru]] who don't have many special abilities, his favorite character is [[TheWormThatWalks Shino]], a [[{{Whoring}} spammy]] ranged fighter who's basically this game's equivalent of [[SuperSmashBrothers Pit]]. The odd thing, though, is that he's actually a good player--he once beat [[VillainSue Sasuke]] with Shikimaru, even more impressive considering that the Sasuke player has invested more than a hundred hours of practice into his personal copy of his game. I'd root for him if he weren't so determined that everyone play ''his'' way. * Kind of an old school, but [[@/{{FMPhoenixHawk}} this Troper]] got banned from using the Moonraker Female and Odd Job in {{GoldenEye}} because I used their lower height to hide in spots. It was done in fun, but still kind of weird. * [[Tropers/SgtFrog1 I tend]] to have Scrubbish tendencies when playing against StopHavingFunGuys. Oh, I'll try my darndest to beat him, but he will kick my ass. Thankfully, I haven't had to put up with too much bragging and him deriding my play style. * This editor is semi-Scrub in that having fun playing is generally more important to him than winning or losing. When he plays something, however, he opts to play it as well as possible so he wins

surprisingly frequently. ** Same here. On the ocassion I get together with friends and we play something, we tend to try and make it as goddamn hilarious as possible, screw winning and losing. If we ''do'' enter into competitive play, we can still laugh at our absurd deaths ("Did you just drop a ''kill ball'' on me? ''...how?!"'') and we put effort into kicking each other's asses. Naturally, I lose a lot. What can I say? I'm bad at FPS. * This is a fairly long story: this troper remembers when he first played COD:modern warfare 2 with a friend and his youngest brother (it was my friend's game, as I didn't (and still don't) have a Xbox360/PS3: I kinda a recovered video game addict). My friend and me were playing fairly (ok, I screen watched slightly, but only because I have a sort of in-built ability to watch the whole screen without losing focus on the whole game, but I forced myself to focus on just my part of the screen for the sake of fairness): the brother camped (I can't remember what the level was called, but it featured a crane and was on a building site), screen watched (he managed to shoot me before I was even able to by aware of my surroundings and, by taking a leaf from his book on the third time, spotted he moved his aim to where my character's head was going to be just before I came round the corner) and used upgrades to make himself almost impossible to kill (heat sensor to tell where we are, the thing which messes up your radar and the thing which makes you not appear on your radar). When my friend finally removed him from his hiding place with a grenade, he protested that we were screen watching (forgetting that he had just done that to us), then STARTED DOING IT AGAIN! After the fifth time he did this (each time on different levels), he received a stern talking to by my friend, but he still didn't listen, so he received a ban from playing with us, which he complained against, by saying he was playing fairly, while it was blatently obvious he wasn't (hell, even my friend knew he was cheating because he was able to constantly one shot the two of us and make sure he couldn't be killed himself by making himself impossible to hit with a bullet). The problem was eventually sorted when my friend's other brother decided to play with us instead. * This troper is a WorldOfWarcraft {{scrub}} in that he plays the game more for exploration/achievements/questing and non-Lore non-ERP comedic roleplay (often as a rocker somehow turned into a Blood Elf or with a ToiletHumor or DoubleEntendre name) than for twinking out toons for heroics or raiding, or researching lore to RP "properly." He is quite happy settling for PUGs in dungeon finder and playing DPS classes and doing mostly PVE, however, because he realizes that getting involved with SeriousBusiness will annoy and bother others and simply enjoys being let alone to play in peace. That said, at least he is not 100 percent scrub: he prefers playing combat rogues and berserker warriors and melee combat (as opposed to the perennial scrub favorite hunters and paladins), even if he is a bit more of a HackAndSlash fighter in style. * This apparently ancient Troper remembers playing Mechwarrior: Vengeance in his youth, fighting against players who stripped all the armour off their mech's legs so they had the space to add more guns. Needless to say, the single shot to the kneecap that sent their

bristling-with-enough-cannon-to-blow-up-half-of-Russia robot crashing to the floor was clearly a tactic reserved only for the sort of player who murdered puppies while raping his sisters. As was equipping longrange weapons on wide-open maps and dishonourably not letting closerange fighters get into close range. As was piloting a fast, light mech, and spitefully running circles around the slow-turning heavies instead of "being a man" and fighting them head-on. As was equipping six Flamethrowers in close-combat maps and overheating enemy mechs without "giving them a chance", never mind that Flamethrowers are THE SHORTEST-RANGE WEAPONS IN THE GAME AND YOU HAVE A SODDING RADAR. * Recently the Reuniclus thread on Smogon was visited by a member clamoring for the banning of this Pokemon. The reason? It completely countered his lineup of full defensive Pokemon. People told him about the various Pokemon that could easily counter Reuniclus AND fit into his playstyle well, and his response was, "Well, Spiritomb/[=CMRoar Latias=]/[=CBTar=]/Scizor/etc is too niche/not an absolute perfect counter, therefore Reuniclus should be banned!"...even though the others presented calculations, showed that the so-called "niche" counters were actually useful for other reasons, other, more offensive types of teams actually had very little to no trouble against this Pokemon, and that because of how the game has evolved a check or two was sufficient. It was painfully clear that this guy was more looking for a ban to validate HIS team rather than realizing that he had caused his own weaknesses. * in LeagueOFLegends, Playing Tryndamere or Yi in the 10-20 level bracket is a surefire way to get your opponents taunting you for playing "noob characters" and complaining that they need Nerfing, never mind that they are both easily shut down by stacking crowd control. ** Many characters get this treatment, though. *** Karthus? OMG PRESS R TO WIN NO SKILL INVOLVED *** Garen? Spin2win *** Kassadin? Blink saves you from everything. *** Mundo? I don't even need to play. *** Mordekaiser? Where do we start? *** Ryze? QWER dead. *** Vlad. Spam Q, pool away from everything. *** And that's just those who are currently considered brainafk and OP. * This troper admittedly had an instance of this once while playing {{Monopoly}} with some friends. He had only ever played it with his family before; his family uses an apparently altered version of the rules for buying property where if someone lands on a property and declines or is unable to buy, the deed is simply placed back on the market with no auction as in the official version. He had never played by the official rules and thought that his family's version was the official version. Needless to say, [[RageQuit he did not handle it well.]] * This troper is a bit of a scrub at the original [[Game/SuperMarioBros Super Mario Bros]]. He absolutely refuses to use the WarpZones, and feels that exploring the different worlds is more important than finishing it in the fastest time possible.

* One of my cousins is like this with Goldeneye. She complains when I shoot her before she picks up a gun, which to be fair ''is'' against our house rules. The problem? She doesn't always realize she picked up a gun, so when I headshot her from across the room... [[{{Understatement}} she's mildly displeased.]] I'm pretty generous about house rules to cover these skill discrepancies, but sometimes it's maddening trying to get her to ''improve'' so they're not needed. * How about another ''Brawl'' story? A few years ago, several college students and I would go to an unused classroom and play ''Brawl''. The default rules 90% of the time was no items, Final Destination, which all of us agreed upon; last thing anyone wanted was to have a bitchfest start over losing because of an environmental hazard or lucky break with an item. Well, all that was fine and dandy until a few of the Scrubs from around the school joined the group and killed the fun, banning certain characters simply because they were either too low on an online character tier, or too high, or some other ridiculous reason. Needless to say, the fun was over when they entered the room. * This troper has been steadily trying to teach his nephew that screen watching is not "unfair" or "cheating." If it is part of the game's design that all players can see each others' screens, then that is just another source of tactical information. If you don't want an opponent to see your screen, play online. ** Actually, most people do consider that to be kind of bullshit. The designers didn't include split screen because of a balance decision, they did it because owning four tvs for when your friends come over to play some video games is too expensive for most people. Regardless, the nice thing about screen watching is you only really do it with people you know, so you can come to a group decision on how cheap it is. Either you or your nephew will eventually have to change your mind, otherwise...well, you won't have much fun playing together. ** People are usually better behaved when they can see your screen if they start acting like a [[StopHavingFunGuys PvPEnis]], you shut the game off. IF they do that online, the only thing you can do is ignore them - and they keep on bragging and screaming to mid-air. And if you just quit, you don't shut down ''their'' client as well. ** Banning Screen-Watching is nearly impossible: it's impossible to tell if someone is doing it, and it's extremely easy to do it accidentally. Back in the hoary old days of Goldeneye 64, the thing to do was to memorize the basic layout of the level and run around with your head down so your opponents could not see you coming. Other fun tricks included wearing green and hiding in the corner of The Stack so you blended in with the walls, shooting the armor a lot so it would respawn in a different place than normal, and memorizing the spawn sequence to spawnkill the latest person to die as they spawn with no weapons. Most of these were reserved for particularly irritating players. * [[{{Draken}} This troper's]] younger brother was the worst kind of person to play against for years. No weapons in Armored Core (it was just "tag" or "hide and seek"), no combos in Tekken, only the basic characters in Crash Team Racing, and so on. If he didn't get his way, he'd bawl to the parents, and they'd cause the game to go off (bad enough it was only allowed to be played on holidays, no school days,

and stopped at 6 pm on Sundays). It got to the point where there was a yearly gap between game times between us. * This Troper's little brother was a horrible scrub when he was a kid. For some examples... ** In SuperSmashBros games, he banned certain characters, turned the most fun items off (Smash Balls, Poke Balls, Super Scopes, etc), and had a tendency to unplug his opponent's controller when they were winning. Also, when he played the game with me, he always chose stages that I absolutely hated JUST to make me mad. Oh, and his friends were like this too. ** When we played PokemonRubyAndSapphire, he was absolutely HORRIBLE with scrubbing. He would always tell me that I couldn't use Pokemon above a certain level, I couldn't use legendaries, I wasn't allowed to have my Mons hold certain items, etc. Needless to say, he broke all of his "rules" every time we played. And when I was about to win? He would yank the Game Link Cable. There was a reason that I never wanted to play with him... ** MarioKart: Double Dash was a horror when playing with him. As in the other games, he banned certain characters and I wasn't allowed to use certain items. And he would always, ALWAYS play on that one track that I hated. ** Now we play WiiSports together, and he's still a little Scrubby. I'm not allowed to throw Splitters in Baseball because he can't hit them. Oh, and he's convinced that certain Miis are worse than others when the computer scrambles the team, so if he gets a Mii that he doesn't like, he restarts the game. * [[{{LocalDarkness}} This troper's]] friends all bitch him out during fighting games because my play style is Turtle while mostly cause they're all attack heavy freaks. Due to their combined lack of defense, I'll catch them off guard hit them with my own combo and then go back to waiting for them to slip up, which they typically do. Things have gotten worse now that we're playing Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and they've resorted to spamming Wesker's and Dormmamu's specials causing me to break Storm out of retirement and effectively annoy the crap outta them with her keep away game. Thus causing them to ban Storm everytime we play. * I honestly believe that I am a scrub. While I love fighting games to death, I always seem to get beat in them because I do stupid things. Also when it comes to Pokemon, I try enforcing rules on others when I play them (Although they're kinda the rules {{Smogon}} enforces, such as no Ubers, no hax items, no double team, etc). Finally, I am a sore loser but unlike most other scrubs I watch myself get wailed instead of disconnecting. ** It seems I'm becoming less of a scrub on Pokemon ever since I finally made a competitive team. I've been kicking butt left and right and I'm starting to plan my moves ahead of time. On fighting games on the other hand...let's just say [[BlazBlue Ragna]] got me on a perfect the first round, barely got hit the second round and finished me off with [[FinishingMove Black Onslaught.]] * Me, my cousin and two friends played Modern Warfare 2. My cousin and me were in opposite teams, and the guy I had in the team was a pro player. Cue my cousin's partner accusing us of cheating and cheap play

because we apparently spawned behind his back (we didn't), we could throw grenades over the entire map (no one used a noob-tube) [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and our knives were stronger]] (as if that is possible). That was not the first time of his scrub behaviour, either. * This troper runs into these in LeagueOfLegends. It's kind of important to point out that this is DefenseOfTheAncients - so teh fanbase is ''full'' of these and StopHavingFunGuys. I've been told to "Stop ramboing" and going off by myself as Tristana, Yeah, I know, she's not good in 1v1, but I happened to have a Machine Gun build - so literally, I can melt through a Turret in just less than two rounds of Rapid fire, and even then that's only to finish the other one quickly. There was one time where I was yelled at for backdooring and being worthless. Worthless? I had destroyed the inhibitors three times! I had ''fifteen'' building destructions by the end of the game!! I also got yelled at for backdooring ''all three inhibitors'' while the other team was getting Baron as Twisted Fate once. Dude - Twisted Fate = Machine Gun Champion. Machine Guns are ''very'' good for destroying buildings! I freaking got us a ''swarm of super minions'' to win the game for us while we played defense! * recently I was practicing with Swain in ''LeagueOfLegends''. So I decide that bots are a good way to practice with abilities to get the hang of what you're doing. However, I find that I'm with a Fiddlesticks and Kog'Maw who were more interested in building up snowballing items. Quite literally, the two help me push a champion away and as I go attack the turret with the minion swarm...the two ''run away'' to go farm more kills. Yes kills win games, but bots don't surrender - they don't play by our rules, they get items on a timer and get free experience so if you just dink around, ''they're going to outgear you'' and they ''will'' hit 18. * This troper has a friend he plays {{Gears of War}} with. Any time I successfully perform a chainsaw kill, he begins to endlessly complain about how I'm "Cheating" by using the most powerful melee weapon in the game. NEVER MIND when I do this when he's sniping, immediately after scrubbing me from it, have you ''tried'' to cross a map when the entire army of both parties are bots? He's gotten better though, not even insisting that we play on the same team any more. Though, that may have had to do with when I turned [[UnfriendlyFire friendly fire]] on... I [[BoomHeadshot sniped]] that game... * Play DefenseOfTheAncients. Now, take a drink every time somebody calls maphack. If you know the people you play with, convince your team to do the same. A few kills later nobody on the team will have any clue what they're doing anymore. * This troper's younger brother used to be a major Scrub, though he's toned down slightly. He's still a sore loser, just less often. He'll resort to physically attacking you/unplugging your controller/RageQuitting. He yells into the mic when he plays his shooting games online. Oh, and if you do better than him athletically, he may overreact. Depends on what your doing and how good you are at sports in his mind. * I don't want to sound like a Scrub, but boosting (in [[ModernWarfare2]] for example) really is pathetic.

* Freeform Roleplay example... in many circles, there's a set of rules for freeform roleplaying combat, and one of the more interesting ones is that if your opponent cannot legitimately escape, you can autohit them provided the blow isn't crippling. Bad fighters will go down in a heartbeat, but good fighters will learn how to interrupt-cancel ''those'' (it makes sense in context), resulting in extremely interesting (and fun) fights. I happen to be rather good at it. Got dragged into one Kamen Rider roleplay, where my character was the only one with any fighting talent outside of their Rider form. Now, the game claimed to use Mutants&Masterminds 2nd Edition, but nobody could be bothered to learn the rules (except me and a few others, who were essentially treated as second-class citizens) and insisted that we do freeform instead (with the aforementioned conventions), despite my warnings to ''not'' use freeform. [[TooDumbToLive And then picked fights with my character outside of Rider form]] and cried when they lost, eventually getting me banned. Nowadays I just actively avoid freeform roleplay to save arguments when I win. And if I lose... well, obviously I screwed up or they were ''better than me'', weren't they? ** More stories from the same: *** Back in the days of classic SuperSmashBros, the friend with the N64 had a very irritating younger brother. The best example had to be the one time he and another friend happened to leeroy into a Bob-Omb together and got KOed out of the game - there were five of us, so the rule was Loser Off, i.e. whoever came last (read: whoever ran out of lives first) would have to offer up the controller (usually it was me or the little brother, as I had no N64 to practice on and he was bad). They went out at almost the same time, so we had no way of judging it ourselves, but eventually the round is over (in fact, I wasn't even playing that round, having been Offed the round before due to having the misfortune to run up against the eldest of us, who was absolutely ludicrous with Luigi) and the game says he died first (fourth place). Cue balling up around the controller, claiming that the game was mistaken, and general bitching and whining... and then the mother comes up to see what the fuss is, he lies baldly, and she turns to me... [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome sees my raised "Bullshit Eyebrow" and tells the little brother to go outside.]] *** Another friend, unrelated, got me into playing {{Tekken}}, at which he mains [[ExtremityExtremist Hwoarang]], starting with Tekken 3, which he was vastly better at than me (though he didn't actually learn to do anything but spam Hwaorang's innate 3,3,3,3 and 4,4,4,4 kick strings until I began pressuring him to improve, which he has). I got into the habit of playing [[TheMario Jin]], who was actually [[CharacterTiers the best character in 3]], but playing at that level was beyond me - what sold me was Jin's ability to reverse high and mid attacks. Since then, I've picked up Tekken 5 and Tekken 6, switching between Jin and [[ProfessionalWrestling King]] in Tekken 5 - grappling characters always interest me, but what sold me on King was that he had a kick reversal, prompting my friend to pick up [[AttackAttackAttack Bryan]]. And then Tekken 6 came along, with Dragunov. Dragunov not only has Tekken 3 Jin's reversals, but he has a second reversal that stops low and s-mid attacks, in addition to having a bunch of attack throws (throws that come out if attacks hit

in a specific way, such as on a counter hit) and a tackle soft-chain throw. That said, his standard strings are pretty awful, and I'm not a good enough player to do long juggle/bound combos, and I'm a very defensive fighter even in meatspace... put these things together. I'm not allowed to play Dragunov anymore. * This Troper, an avid {{MortalKombat9}} player, sees this all the time. Most notably, I recently played against a dude and beat him by zoning with [[BadassNormal Stryker's]] handgun and grenades. He screamed over his mic about it, so I switched to Quan Chi, who I know a few high damaging combos for. He quit on the FINISH HIM! screen, and sent me rage mail calling me a cheap combo spammer. How the hell do you spam combos? * {{Tropers/Archer250}}: While playing CoD: Black Ops 24/7 Nuketown server, there's this shit who keeps suggesting everyone use knife only and trolls every member who disagree with him (read: EVERYONE). Being an admin, I ban him for life from that server. ---Going back to {{Scrub}} from this page is completely cheap. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ScullyBox * Many wedding photographers have a ScullyBox in their studio. God knows ThisTroper had to use it... (Hey! she was wearing heels!) ** YouAreNotAlone. I'm [[TheNapoleon 5'2"]], and my husband is 6'4". Any time we get a picture taken, I usually have to stand on something.

ScunthorpeProblem * There is at least one Pro Boards forum that replaces both dyke and 'dike' with lesbian. What would you do for a Klonlesbian Bar? * Some websites even go so far as to censor "cunny", a not-often-used term for...well, you can guess. One amusing side-effect of this is that you can't even refer to Scunthorpe by its NICKNAME, Scunny. It's like the internet has something against Scunny...and you can't really blame it. ** Uhh... I can say I've seen it used in the dirty context to describe underage girls, especially on furry erotica sites. That may be a good reason to ban it. Then again, I'm against profanity filters in general and all for people learning how to speak to each other in more a more civil tone. * This Troper remembers his local cinema advertising "James Bond in Octocat." * Many years ago, this troper used to post on a forum which censored the word "shat", even when it was part of another word. Which meant that dicussions about the actor "William S*** ner" took on a whole new meaning.... * ThisTroper's mother consistently asks him to do housework when he's playing games. Since a lot of server-side mods filter out words into random ones or turn the line into an insult directed at the curser,

everyone in the room started to laugh when it turned "vaccumming" into "[=VacEjaculationing=]." ** Maybe she should learn to spell "vacuum". *** Make love to me. 0.0 * This troper tried to quote ''TheMatrix'' on a forum once, and was rather annoyed to discover that the quote came up as "There is no thingy." The forum members eventually got desperate enough to refer to the eating utensil as a "sp00n" and had some difficulties when attempting to discuss the preparation of weaponry for use. * The one time [[TadBolmont this troper]] ran into Maple Story's filter, he was trying to describe a monster in a specific area, as Ra'''coon'''. ** Maple's filter is bad about this. "Grape" is censored as well. Some players are (were?) unable to say ''their own first names'', because "Christina", "Christopher", and most variations are blocked - due to the use of "Jesus Christ" as an expletive. ** Merry BLEEPmas! ** My boyfriend and I discovered two rather silly holes in the filter. In "homoerotic," "homo" is censored but "erotic" is not, and while the word "blow" is censored, "fellatio" (the more scientific term for the same sex act) is not. We have resolved to use "fellatio" instead of "blow" - for instance, "fellatio bubbles," "fellatio your nose," or "Arrow Fellatio" (an in-game skill) until the filter is fixed. * This Troper can beat practically every example on the page. He once had his e-mail client filter out an e-mail confirming the online sale of a video game. Which video game? ''FinalFantasy''. Apparently, "Fantasy" was on the list of banned words. Okay, so I sort of see the logic connecting that with porn-related spam, but really? "Fantasy"??! * This Trooper's school had a website-blocking filter only in place for a very short time, mostly due to this trope. It's rather hard to do any research on atomic bombs when you can't even google the Bikini Islands. ** This troper's school had something like that, only it also was based on how much "skin" was shown in pics... resulting in pages about ''pigs'' being censored! ** This one's school was even more humorous about it, because there were ''actual staff members'' watching students as they worked, and they managed to be even dumber than automatic filters. They would sometimes throw students off of the computer without even asking if they're doing anything school-related. This happened to me twice in the same semester for research for a science class, the first involving anthrax and the second involving the use of nuclear energy. Work was lost both times, and needless to say, I was ''pissed off.'' ** One of the labs at this troper's university blocks anything with 'game' on the URL. So, if you are trying to read about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory game theory]], forget it. *** The sysadmin of the same lab decided to open a blog to inform users of the lab about updates/maintainance schedules/etc... [[EpicFail which was blocked because its URL contained 'blog']]. *** My school did this too, but because too many students always find a way around the firewall, the word "proxy" is also blocked. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued]] when trying to research

Munchausen's by-proxy for psychology class. ** This troper's place of work uses Sharepoint for collaboration and the Internet Filter will randomly block the internal Sharepoint site for 24 hours at a time if someone uses phrases like "Web 2.0," or "Blog" or "Social networking," even though products the business actively sells fall into those categories. ** While we were never entirely sure what was setting it off, my school's filter got out of hand during my freshman year. The newspaper staff got it worst, being unable to research the history of the local football team (the Winnipeg Blue Bombers), Jesus Christ (we're a Christian school, and the article was about the Biblical Studies courses), or ''censorship'' (for an article complaining about the overzealous filter). The bright side of this is that it got to the point where they would google proxy settings (which were inexplicably not locked) every time they were working until the administration called them ''all'' out on it. This resulted in an hour-long class being wasted to "talk to the students about proper internet use" that turned into "call the administration out on being pussies when it comes to the internet." * This troper, in reference to a GrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy episode, attempted to create a GuildWars guild named 'The Addled Norsemen'. It took us a good while to realize why the profanity filter was blocking it. * This troper is a member of an online blog site that censored her comment "We can't have a picnic until we have all the supplies" because the words "picnic" and "until" formed a dirty word if the space between them was removed. * The (late '90s) censoring filter on the computers in this troper's high school was removed after it was discovered that it wouldn't let students into a webpage about the Hebrew Bible, because the Hebrew name for the book of Genesis transliterates to B'reshit. * This Troper once had a hard time in ''RagnarokOnline'' trying to explain to his teammates he couldn't move because he was "en''cum''bered." * Five years ago, this troper had a [[OldShame forum]] with one of her old friends with a filter on it that she put together. However, she was eleven and a bit of a BluenoseBowdlerizer at the time, so didn't even want to ''write in'' the swearwords (in this example, "co* k" instead of "cock") when she put them on an embarrassing filter. Cue not just "cock," but also "cook" being rendered as "rooster." * [[{{Hremsfeld}} This Troper]] is on a Bleach RP forum. His character was a fighter pilot, who died when the pilot of the plane he just shot down [[ItMakesSenseInContext ejected THROUGH]] his "thingypit." * The Marvel.com boards censor the name Dick, giving this troper the experience of writing a very heartfelt memorial piece about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster only to hit submit and see "Commander (CENSORED) Scobee". * This Troper belongs to a forum that once had a very heavy swearing and inappropriate language problem. They put in a language filter. Now every instance of 'penis' or 'dick' is changed to 'headphones', every instance of 'vagina' or that other P word is 'dishwasher', and every instance of 'whorehouse' is 'daycare center'. Subverted in that this

was recently fixed so it's not a huge issue. ** Maybe it's just me, but I have difficulty seeing how you could replace whorehouse with daycare center with out raising a few eyebrows and requiring several gallons of BrainBleach: "So I was at the [[strike: whorehouse]] daycare center the other day, they'd gotten a new arrival of girls who could fu [[{{Squick}} okay I'm not even going to finish that sentence]]. * On one site, this troper had trouble saying that she had recently seen the movie adaptation of "Memoirs o'''f a G'''eisha." * This troper plays an online game with the usual in-game chat. The filter happily allows you to say Sh* t but censors Grape. It took me some time to figure out. * This troper is lushut the f*** upl. * This troper has been to many forums where there was heavy censoring of nonswearwords. Generally random ones, that were only on some of the time in some of the sections. HilarityEnsues * This troper tried to access this very page in school and found that she couldn't because of the title. The irony was not lost on her. * The Toledo Public Schools government-mandated internet filter circa 2001 blocked the FBI's website because it mentioned crime. * This troper remembers a forum she used to go to that used to change the a-word to "bum-bum." She will never forget a line in a story that her friend posted on that forum: "It doesn't matter if you win or lose. It's how you kick your opponent's bum-bum that counts!" * This troper remembers being a regular of a message board where this resulted in things like Alfred Hitch[[spoiler:cock]] or The [[spoiler:Spic]]e Girls being censored. * Once, on my forum, I accidentally censored the word "cant" instead of something else. The members found that quite amusing. * Two from this troper. First, he used to belong to a message board on the Discovery Channel's website, where he quickly discovered that fans of the show Animal Face-Off couldn't talk about saltwater crocodiles. Second: during a multiplayer game of Age of Mythology. This troper is not very good at Age of Mythology. During the ensuing ZergRush, his opponent sends the chat message "You suck." This troper's response; [[{{Futurama}} "**** my shiny metal ass."]] * I couldn't resist plugging several of the more common results of the scunthorpe problem into google to see what I'd get - I believe it was "mbuttachusetts" that eventually led me to an article about the accomplishments of "John Hanmale Genitalia", including his famous speech commemorating the "Boston Mbuttacre". A brief about the writer section at the end also mentioned "womanmescwomanoll", which took a while to work out ("ho" is apparently filtered into "woman"). * This troper was once a member of a forum where "non-PG-rated" words were censored out (and changed to [[{{Smurfing}} "smurf"]]). So whenever people discussed politics or classic literature, they ended up with "smurf Cheney" or "Moby smurf", respectively. * I was in a chatroom recently and [[FourOneNineScam 419 scams]] came up - we quickly found out that the filter censors out the word "Nigeria", for obvious reasons. * This Troper once inverted this trope for his own amusement. He installed a wordfilter add-on for Firefox, then set it to replace

"the_" with "the_%$@#ing_". Thus producing sentences like: "The %$@#ing quick fox jumped over the %$@#ing lazy dogs." On every webpage. ** Sir (or madam), I award you an internet. * Your contributor remembers an old Nickelodeon fans message board censoring the word "fag"... Not surprising, right? Except that it censored Bill "[[{{SpongeBob SquarePants}} Patrick Star]]" Faggerbakke's last name. * [[LeighSabio This Troper]]'s parents were chewing her out for swearing, and managed to set them off again a couple of minutes later for the same thing. Why? She picked the wrong time to quote a line from StarTrekIV. Apparently, if she wants to say d[[spoiler:amn]], she must first grow a pair of [[spoiler:pointed ears]]. * Ever try to talk about an anime like [[{{Kuroshitsuji}} Kuro"shit"suji]] or [[CodeGeass Code Ge"ass"]] in a very tightly filtered anime chat room? Yeah. * One forum decided to censor out a lot of nicknames for drugs. It backfir[[spoiler:e]]d wh[[spoiler:e]]n th[[spoiler:e]]y [[spoiler:e]]nt[[spoiler:e]]r[[spoiler:e]]d th[[spoiler:e]] singl[[spoiler:e]]-vow[[spoiler:e]]l nicknam[[spoiler:e]] for [[spoiler:e]]cstasy. * This Troper's wife was once discussing alcoholic drinks on an [[TitanAE Titan A.E.]] forum when she noticed that her favorite apple juice and vodka drink was being censored to ****** ini. Apparently, the word "Applet" is (or was) a naughty word. * This Troper was recently asked to troll on a children's site (Kidswirl dot com, if you're interested), essentially a blatant ripoff of Facebook. Fine, until its profanity filter was realised to be even more troublesome than Neopets. As well as the usual (*** le from title, p*** from 'pass' - also looks much worse if you say 'passing') It censors all racial slurs, which would be fine except 1) most racial slurs are also common words, such as 'slope' 'drag' and 'mick' (good luck talking about Mickey Mouse, Japan, Japanese, or dragons), 2) Most kids wouldn't know what a racial slur is, let alone know many of these incredibly obscure ones, 3) those of us with a large vocabulary have most of their sentences censored out- a problem I also had as a 12year-old on Neopets. Furthermore, some of the censors are baffling: all numerals are censored (although the whole words are not), and the word 'Russian' is, for some reason, also censored. * Thingdom, a game where you can breed things. This troper, on getting to a certain stage, got a creature with an hourglass shape. Uncreative me decides to call it 'hourglass'. Yeh, it took me a while to figure out why that was a swearword. * This troper was playing a ScienceHero in a superheroes RPG and wrote a short description of her powers only to see it come out as "Gadgeteering means I can build things [[IronMan in a cave with a box of s[DELETED]s." ]] * Peaceday.org used to have a chatroom which had a profanity filter, it caused a certain amount of amusement due to the changes it made to some words. It changed "fuck" to "love", "shit" to "smile", and the cword to "beauty". At first "ass" was included in the filter but was removed as words like "assume" became "posteriorume". Another one

which was eventually removed was "hate" being changed to "love"... * [[Tropers/{{Lime}} This Troper]] was playing Old Maid on [=TinierMe=] when someone brought up [[LolCats Ceiling Cat]]. Then another player tried to say something about Ba'''semen'''t Cat... Oddly enough, "bastard" and "damn" are apparently a-okay, as the first person found out, but "semen" and "sucks" aren't. * This troper found out that "queer" "gay" and "cock" all had inappropriate meanings when they caused her to first get warnings from and then booted from a chat site * [[Tropers/{{Twentington}} This troper]] used to have the hardest time looking up information on the city of Gaylord, Michigan at his high school. Incidentally, one of his teachers was from there. ** And another time, the same troper found a lot of people having difficulty on a ''[=~Jeopardy!~=]'' forum discussing a clue dealing with Balaam's ass (as in, the donkey kind). * This Troper has an excoboard forum, which has 2 different types of filters. One that plays the trope straight, and another that averts it. ** This Troper hopes to become a Game Master at some point, and will bring it up with her future employees * Because of the censor in one version of [[PhantasyStar Phantasy Star Online]], [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] adopted "cork****" as his catch phrase (I was actually saying "corkscrew", but apparently "screw" was a banned work) * Oddly enough, on a forum which censored "Snigger" I only ever saw the subject of race arise as a result of this feature. * I knew someone on a now-defunct ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' fan forum who attempted to have the username "bitchinwallaby" (after a joke ''from the show''). It was changed to "pregnant dog in heatinwallaby". * The day I see a filter like [[MyImmortal "God, you are so fucked up you fucking basmentally disabled person"]], my faith in humanity will be restored. * [[{{Nyperold}} I]], the writer of the Whuddleworld example, am currently puzzling over a post i'm trying to make there, reviewing ''EndlessOcean Blue World''. I took out a reference to the '''cardinal''' bird that you wouldn't see, as opposed to the cardinal fish ('''cardinal''' being a position in the Catholic Church) and replaced it with "robin" and "sea robin"; I took out "sal'''vag'''e and replaced it with its definition; I took out '''gun''' and replaced it with "long-range healer" (this referring to the Pulsar, a gunlike piece of equipment in the game, used for healing sick and injured animals and calming some aggressive ones), and it's still spitting back "Stop swearing." at me. I still can't see what is wrong with my post. As far as I can tell, nothing is, beyond the fact that some substring I can't see is tripping the filter's trigger. * This troper used to post on a forum whose system had an...interesting automatic censor. In the developers' defence it could be customised by an admin, but the default settings were extremely silly. Various words for "penis" became "thingy" - just about understandable - but an absurd extension of this principle led to "pussycat" being rendered as "girl thingycat" (yes, really, "girl thingy") and "my assistants" as "I disagreeistants".

* "Snigger" is mentioned on the article page; This Troper once wrote "sniggered" in a forum post somewhere and saw it rendered as "s(BAN ME!)ed". * This troper first encountered the overzealous nature of City of Heroes' chat filter when the name of an NPC got rendered Bone*******. After being amused by the fact that an NPC had a name we apparently weren't suppose to say, I had to do an google search to figure out why "cracker" would be censored in the first place. The answer provided further amusement. * On one forum I was a member of, whenever someone typed the word "bollocks," it would automatically be replaced with "testicles." This happened to be a music forum with a lot of SexPistols fans. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity often ensued.]] -Toru771 * Norwegian has the swear word "faen". I have seen the word "sofaen"("the couch") censored into "sof***" several places because of this. * This troper once posted in an online roleplaying chatroom (can't remember which site) with some rather... ''creative'' censorship, leading to someone "cokeing" their gun, as well as out-of-character discussion of the poetry of Emily Richardenson. The best, though, was posting lyrics to a certain Tom Jones song and ending up with "What's new, portable wishwashercat?" * On one forum, I can't remember which, any word that started with 'f' and ended with 'ck' was censored. Firetruck, flapjack...on another forum, the {{Spore}} forums to be specific, the word 'cracker' was censored. Which led to an interesting scenario where I tried to explain to people why I love ****. * I wanted to nickname a [[PokemonGenerationVFamilies Cofagrigus]] "Sarcofaghost" but the character limit forced me to abbreviate it. In retrospect, I should've stuck with "Sarcfghost" instead of "Sarcfaghst". [[HypocriticalHumor Note that "Cofagrigus" has the same problem.]] * For a while, this troper was getting auto-kicked from Source-engine game servers immediately upon log-on for violating the profanity filter. It turned out that a particularly stupid version of some popular filter mod was circulating at the time, which was interpreting the handle "Night Hunter" as profane (apparently because the word "night" contains "nig", which was not to be allowed). This troper has always wondered about the priorities that motivate language filters in games where one is able to happily murder other avatars in cuttingedge-graphic detail. Are there really people out there who think someone can emotionally/psychologically handle/compartmentalize/contextualize simulated violence but not strongly-expressive words? * I was very confused as a child when a game I was playing online wouldn't let me name a zebra "Speedy" (most likely because of the drug 'speed', but I didn't understand this at the time). * This Troper (as a 10 or 11 year old) was very sad and confused at first when she was unable to name her Webkinz "Georgie" ''or'' "Georgy"! ...Although her young self was able to figure out why [[CovertPervert in a matter of seconds.]] * I used to hang around a forum that blocked the word "suck." When

someone innocently tried to start a conversation about black holes and found that a description of what they do to the surrounding matter was rendered as a string of asterisks, this began to present a problem. It wound up becoming an in-joke to replace the word "suck" with "syphon" in any context whatsoever. * [[{{@/TARDISES}} I]] haven't really come across this except from loose filters. You'd think I would have, considering I'm from [[{{TropeNamer}} Scunthorpe]] itself. * This Troper computer is set up with Parental Controls... which, although it lets curse-laden pages sail right through, blocks OrderOfTheStick due to the way GiantInThePlayground phrases its URL. * A brand new swear filter on a Minecraft server I visit resulting in some annoying problems. "ass" was filtered without context meaning talking about glass or grass was difficult. "ass" was removed from the filter within a couple days, but that was not the end of it. The word "skyscraper", not uncommon in Minecraft, had the "rape" part censored; luckily "crap" is not censored or it would really be in trouble. I am considering calling them "skyphukers" until the problem is fixed. * Remember TetrisFriends, anyone? When I said, "will u stay", it warned me not to swear. The blame can be pinned on the wordfilter that censored "lust", but the filter was applied [[UpToEleven across word boundaries.]] * This Troper got ****-a-doodle-doo in a forum. Make a guess. ---Go back to [[ScunthorpeProblem S****horpe Problem]] <<|TroperTales|>>

SdrawkcabName * A girl in my math class was writing on the chalkboard: [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Ayim, Eilrahc and Anna!]] * [[Tropers/DrLombriz This Troper]] was playing a ''Champions'' game once, and the party had failed to stop a [[HopelessBossFight powerful]] [[YouCantThwartStageOne supervillain]] called "The Sapphire", a supertough magical gem. Later, a foreign national hears of the fight and invites us to the island of Count Erihppas to promote his country's tourism market. We didn't even notice until [[OhCrap the trap was sprung]] and the DM wrote Erihppas' name in front of us, doing all he could to hold back the maniacal cackling. [[AtomicFBomb Ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-]] * This Troper went to a school where one oddly placed classroom was labeled the Emanon Room. While it looks like it the room was named after someone, it turns out it wasn't named after anybody at all... * [[{{Tropers/Cemex}} This Troper]] is currently playing a ''D&D'' campaign where a Sdrawkcab Name was used for my own amusement. My character's name? Ambrose Selcitset. * This female troper has a name [[spoiler:like a certain famous painting]] with quite a few vowels and tends to use it backwards when renaming male main character in RPG games. However, she also uses her normal name to rename the pricipal female character, occasionally leading to some {{Selfcest}}.

* This is how ThisTroper generates names for his NetHack characters. Get some random word and reverse it. * I'll admit when writing a story when I was about 13 or so, I thought it was the height of subtlety to name a character Neila. In my defense she wasn't literally an alien, just a CloudCuckoolander, and Neila is a legitimate first name, although I didn't know that at the time. * In a story [[Tropers/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] was writing, the main character happens to meet his alternate universe OppositeSexClone, who's name was his own written backwards. * This Troper had a slight obsession with this in the fourth and fifth grade. * A partial example: This troper wrote a story in high school where one character was apprenticed to a TimeMaster, training to take his place eventually. Her name? Emi Tenoz. (Spell it backwards and switch the two halves.) * My friend Lauren blames her evil twin Nerual for everything * This troper's twitter account is his username backwards. * This troper played a game in elementary (primary) school where we wrote our names backwards on a piece of paper and introduced ourselves with that name. ex. Hailey; "Hello, my name is Yeliah" etc. * I play D&D, and we once had someone in our group named David, who, as a joke, wanted to name his character Emosewa Si Divad. * [[{{Tropers/Bakazuki}} This troper]] was named his father's name backwards, and his father's reasons for doing so still allude him. While most people have brought to the attention that he's old enough to legally change his name, he keeps it because he doesn't find the name itself particularly bothersome and knows that the people who already know him would stick to the original name regardless. Typical scenarios that happen after the initial reaction (from shock and bewilderment to a minute long lollercoaster, among other things): ** Troper deals with some good-mannered jokes at his expense for the next couple of weeks. ** Troper has to resign to being referred to by his father's name either because they can't say it properly or they get a few kicks from doing so (see above). ** Troper has to convince the person he's talking to that he's not spouting BS from his mouth. Usually by pulling out his student ID, an option that's sometimes unavailable when convincing colleagues he just started interacting with over the internet for a project when the class they share has no roll call. *** [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle So tropers]], think twice before naming your kids something weird, especially if it has a clearly traceable origin like a SdrawkcabName. They'll have to put up with above every month or so. And no, this troper is not going to publically post either name. Not here, anyway. =P * This troper has been known as Trebor (or as he likes to spell it "Trbor") since the seventh grade, four years later he uses it for stuff on the internet and some people still call him Trebor. * We had a joke, so-and-so is going to name his baby Lana backwards. * Me and my friend invented our own language which is written and spoken backwards. Unlike the title of this trope, it is read the opposite way round. Sometimes when we have been chatting in it for a

while, I forget to speak English when talking to other people-not yet managed to talk to my friend in our language, but talk to other people normally at the same time. * [[Tropers/WarriorSparrow This troper]] was just reading the TroperTales page for NothingIsScarier, and a random thing occurred to her when she looked at the word "Troper" - if you write "troper" backwards, it's "report", which makes sense considering what we troopers do... * Several of my online character names are done in this style. It all started with Eman Modnar... * This troper's annoying little brother's name sounds remarkably like 'Naughty' when pronounced backwards. ---Og kcab ot [[SdrawkcabName Backwards Enam]]. (Wait a sec...) ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SealedEvilInATeddyBear * In my [[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] campaign, the party's [[SquishyWizard wizard]] and [[KnightTemplar paladin]] were attacked by Dire Lions, and the wizard [[BalefulPolymorph Baleful Polymorphed]] one of them into a kitten, which he now keeps as a pet.

SecondSinoJapaneseWar * This Troper's maternal grandfather was a Communist Guerrilla in the Second Sino-Japanese War. According to my mother, he and his unit were being chased up a small mountain by Imperial forces. He jumped off the mountain and broke his legs. My paternal grandmother happened to be a village girl. She had her village burned down numerous times by the Japanese. Even then, she still found it in herself to provide cover for guerrillas from the Japanese.

SecondVerseCurse * This troper's grandfather knows the verse in question, and occasionally sings it. From memory, it goes something like this: --->God grant that Marshall Wade\\ May with Thy glorious aid\\ Victory bring\\ May he sedition hush\\ And like a torrent rush\\ Rebellious Scots to crush\\ God save the King * This troper used to go singing Christmas carols. Many people happily sing along with the first few lines of The Pudding Song (better known as "We Wish You A Merry Christmas") then stand around in utter confusion when they realize the song is much longer than they know. * This troper once confused the dickens out of her church choir by being the only one able to sing the second and third verses of "Adeste Fideles" ([[BilingualBonus "O Come All Ye Faithful" in Latin]]) from

memory...despite never showing up for rehearsals. * [[Tropers/{{Twentington}} This troper]], a church organist, didn't know that "What Child Is This?" had the extra lines about "nails, spear shall pierce him through" until he opened up a Lutheran hymnal. He also wonders why most renditions of "Winter Wonderland" go back to "Sleigh bells ring, are you listenin'" instead of the verse that begins "When it snows, ain't it thrillin'". * This troper (who went to a predominantly black elementary school and also identifies as black) regularly had to sing the African-American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing." However, she and the rest of the school were only ever made to sing the first verse. The lyric sheet we were given only contained that first one, so it would be easy for young children to get the idea that the one verse was the whole song. When she had to sing it at a family reunion, her older relatives were not pleased that to find out that she did not know the rest of the song. To be fair, she knew there were more verses, just not the specific words. ---I never knew that the Troper National Anthem had a [[SecondVerseCurse second verse]]...did you? ----

SecretIdentity * This troper's school allowed us to dress up as superheroes for Homecoming Week. This troper went as Rorschach from Watchmen. He was amazed by the reactions to his costume. People stared, looked horrified, said ''out loud'' how creepy he looked, and generally treated him like he was from another planet. He loved it and decided to go completely into character, turning his head to stare intensely at those who made "creepy" remarks. His use of Rorschach's low, raspy voice for the entire day only served to complete the spectacle. The feeling of power and superiority he got that day just by putting on an inkblot mask...this troper likes it more than he's willing to admit. ** This troper is extremely curious - was it anything like Rorschach's actual mask, always changing? *** Nope, just one fixed pattern. But it was one of Rorschach's more creepy looking patterns, so the effect wasn't ''quite'' lost. ** I did the same thing at the Halloween dance at my school with my Rorshcach costume.( My ink blot was the one that looked liked a creepy jagged smile. ** I did the same thing for a convention. I even walked up to my friend, she acknowledged that I was there but she didn't know it was me. I was just standing there, staring, and she kept looking at me. I finally said hi and she freaked out. ** Crowning. Moment. Of. Awesome. ** Holy crap, tropers, get ready for a REAL LIFE DECONSTRUCTION. Imagine, if you will, ''effing Rorschach'' walking into the library at your school halfway through English class, looming around, rasping something to the teacher and slinking over to sit in the corner and ''pulling out a copy of his own comic book'' for maximum Surreal Points. Hat, coat, scarf, the full monty. It was goddamn uncanny. This

troper thought he was gonna get up and start breaking fingers, and she hadn't even read the book, just the Wikipedia article. She was debating whether trying to get a picture with him would be a bad idea when the Scary Infamous Vice-Principal storms in like Hurricane Katrina and barks at him that he can't wear a hat in here, it's against school policy, the coat belongs in his locker, and he KNOWS he can't have a mask on - what if he shanked someone? What if he ''used his cellphone in the hallway?'' How could they see him on the security tapes? It was Rorschach, [[HeroicSociopath heroic sociopath]] of page and screen, that closed his eyes. It was Jeff, that annoying kid from Block B Phys Ed who opened them, pulled the scary mask (that had, in the intervening period, suddenly turned into be-Sharpied pantyhose) off his face, and started whining something about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim#Masquerading Purim]]. Then the VP took his hat and his coat and he was totally wearing a shirt with a unicorn on it. And that, kids, is why Real Life sucks. ** Original poster's Journal, March 30, 2009. Read new post on Secret Identity about inferior version of me. Disgusted by how quickly "Jeff" compromised his morals. Another one of the inferior copies of me has been exposed for what he is. A pretender. A fake. A joke. Not Rorschach. Never Rorschach. I never surrender. I never compromise. Can't have my name being smeared by these masses of brain-dead imitators. Must have words with this "Jeff." Possibly with breaking of fingers involved. *** Troper's Journal, April 1st, 2009. Read this post, tried to copy it. Amused. Telling story. Purim. Shaved head, after growing hair for four years. Came to school as Rorschach. After hour and a half, got bored, removed costume. Received more shock over new hair than over creepy costume. Win. Now looks like Dreiberg. * This troper sometimes eats at restaurants where they ask you your name for your order (e.g. starbucks). When they do, he says "Mike". His secret? His names not Mike! MUHAHAHAHAHAH ** I do the same. I don't trust those people behind the counter at Taco Bell. * This troper does this on a regular basis. He also pulls some Clark Kenting into effect. He also wears makeup on some occasions. * This troper has ''attended church'' dressed as SherlockHolmes. ** So this tropette isn't the only one! I once went as CarmenSandiego to church too on a dare (although I actually got compliments on the red). ** This tropette is fond walked around the mall in a leather duster and boots. [[HarryDresden Of course, no one gets the reference.]] * This troper does this on a regular basis, occasionally with props. * A former student at my college used to have a secret identity as Spider Man. He would walk around campus, climb on the rooftops and generally entertain the other students in full spiderman getup while the entire student body wondered who the hell he was. He even got the college staff to make him a college ID card in the name of "Spider Man" so he could go to the dining hall in costume. Eventually, his identity was discovered when he fell off a roof and had to be taken to the hospital. This man, Matthew Atherton, later graduated and went on to win the first season of WhoWantsToBeASuperhero.

** You know Feedback? Awesome! What was he like? *** Sadly I never met him, he graduated before I got there. I'd have to ask one of my older classmates next time I see them. * One of this tropers friends went to her schools halloween dance dressed as the dark knight verison of the joker, she had a somewhat simlar case to the Rorschach one, but instead imagaine seeing the joker doing the chicken dance, in the end she got first place in the costume contest. ** The funny thing is the Joker might actually do the chicken dance. This troper can see it! *** So can I, although he'd be doing the dance while releasing chickens rigged with high explosives into a crowd. *** Actually I can imagine him doung it and shooting people on the 'Buck, Buck, Buck, Buck" part. * {{Hayati}} is this troper's secret idenity for the internet, since is a bit too cautious when it comes to people on the net. * This Troper saw this put into action at her theater school's Halloween Dance when a guy showed up in a chicken suit. He not only won a prize but ''stayed in character the enter night''. At least, until This Troper saw him go into the bathroom, taking off the head. She later confronted him and they are now friends. ** Another friend of hers went to a later Halloween Dance as Richter Belmont from Castlevania. A very much female friend, might I add. A girl was hitting on her, and she played along the whole night. The girl never knew she was flirting with another girl until she was told. * A friend of this troper would occasionally walk around school dressed in a black ninja outift & punch out bullies before running away, no one knew who it was, except for their closest friends, now the awesome part, they were MALE bullies, the ninja, while unable to tell this from the costume, was a girl, a real girly girl, even wore make up & skirts, it was badass. * During Spirit Week at the college this troper attends, this troper made and wore her own Metal Man costume for Costume Day. No one knew it was this troper until she answered roll call with "Affirmative". * In high school, this troper was in the marching band, and one year we did {{Batman}} as our field show. To complete the effect, instead of the normal band uniform, the student conductor (sadly, not me) that stood at the side of the field was issued a full-on ''freaking Batman suit''. And not just like some cheap Halloween costume, it was molded plastic and rubber, and looked straight out of TheDarkKnightTrilogy. Furthermore, the lucky student conductor was actually able to wear it ''around school during the normal school day'', making many people wonder just who was under that mask. This troper knew...but won't tell. ---[[SecretIdentity Don't tell anyone but...]] I really am ReportSiht. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SecretIdentityIdentity * This troper has started to think of herself as the name she uses online, rather than her birth name. The reasons for this are long, complicated and angsty, but the short version is that online she has a thriving social life and in person she has no friends and is about two steps away from {{Hikikomori}} status. (The name issue hasn't really become apparent except when she says things following the "adjective name is adjective" structure about herself, granted.) Of course, it's a bit more complicated than the trope's usual form, since she's a bit of a StepfordSmiler online rather than just having the cyberspace version be her real self and the meatspace version be a mask. * This troper is a StepfordSmiler in real life and would rather be anti-social than in the online community. ** Exactly the same reasons for This troper. The main difference is that he's a guy but besides that, online I too have a thriving social life, whereas in person I'm the "loners are freaks" type. ** Update from the original troper: I told an online friend about this and, with the intention of forcing the tide back, he started a campaign to call me by my real name online. It did sway how I identify myself, but not quite as intended: now I don't identify with ''either'' name. ** It's worse for me. I think of myself as my online name, unless I'm thinking of something that would make me use I. What do I use? This Troper. In my mind I call myself This Troper. [[TvTropesWillRuinYourLife Tv Tropes Will Ruin Your Mind.]] *** This troper has been doing that lately. :/ *** This troper does it too! Wait, does that mean we're all talking/thinking in [[ThirdPersonPerson Third Person?]] *** This troper does that too! ** [[JET73L This troper]] did that for a couple of years, but thanks to most of his extended family calling him by his middle name (which he hasn't gone by since he was eight), his "It's Complicated" significant other type person calling him by his first name (which, being an inherited name, he never before went by), and anyone who calls him by his initials (the name he prefers for general made-ofmeat people conversation) usually not bothering with a name at all, he doesn't really identify with any name. ("Jet", "______", and "_._." are him, but he is not those.) He also uses ThisTroper in his thoughts, but only as a pronoun, like "I" or "my". It reminds him uncomfortably of PeterSellers, since each name tends to bring different characteristics closer to the surface (especially when playing [=RPG=]s, where his two most common MMO names tend to end up as a naive male magic-user or a cynically playful female thief, regardless of how he intends to play them or even if, for example, the latter personality wouldn't be well-suited for the abilities of a TechnicalPacifist botanical druid). * I used to hide behind StepfordSmiler behavior online too, but recently, an event happened in ''Main/WorldOfWarcraft'' (hey, don't laugh at me!) that made me completely rethink my personal identity. While even before, I treated my online nickname as my real self and my legal name as a role I play, now I've dispensed with fake behavior on the Internet entirely -- now I'm just myself. Even some of my real-

life friends call me by the online nickname. * This troper definitely thinks of herself more as her online identity than as her real self. The only difference though, is that online, she can come up with funnier lines in response to something someone says. ** You too? This troper blames her significantly decreased ability to say witty things IRL on shyness reducing her confidence, and, more importantly, the fact that it's much easier to catch something that's either just plain dumb or a good idea but stupidly phrased if it takes time to type it out and hit enter, rather than blurting it out as soon as it enters one's mind. * [[LWGadra This troper]] has always been Link Wraith Gadra. His "real" name is nothing more than lines on paper. * [[DokEnkephalin This troper]] has answered to online handles just as casually as his real name. And 'Dok' has become a pet name my real life gf has called me, and likewise I've called my SO by names she uses online. Though I tend not to get too personal in fantasy RP and RPG environments, the distinction between me in reality and me living under imaginary circumstances doesn't seem great enough to regard it as a separate identity. * [[{{Malus}} This Troper]] has recently noticed that whenever addressing himself in thought he thinks "Malus" instead of his actual name and has almost once accidentally introduced himself as such. * [[JChance This troper]] answers equally to JChance or his real first name, and often, in his mind, calls himself [=JC=] <lastname>. His onand off-line personae don't differ much, mostly just that when he types he doesn't stammer. Now for the confusing part--[=JC=] are also his grandfather's first and middle initials. ** Is your last name Denton? *** Nah, but I'm surprised you're the first one to make the joke. **** I am? Cool ([[{{Klaue}} This Troper]] goes on to pretend that this couldn't possibly just be sarcasm) * [[{{LadyNorbert}} This troper]] was addressed, in real life, by her online handle, which she uses for everything, including fanfic. The speaker was a SherlockHolmes impersonator who belongs to the same Baker Street Irregulars scion society that she does, but has trouble remembering her real name. Since the troper has written half of a pastiche novel featuring Sherlock Holmes, she remarked to a friend later that "for a moment, I thought I had fallen into my own brain." * I've had to sign up to a website, and when they asked for my real name, the thought that came to mind was to put down one of my roleplay character's names. * This is fairly common among furries. I know several, myself included, which always refer to themselves by their nick. That I don't like my real name makes this worse. * When this troper pictures herself mentally she has auburn hair and hazel eyes. In real life both are chocolate brown. She also doesn't consider her IRL last name "canon", but won't change it legally because it would upset her father. * This troper has begun thinking of herself as "this troper". Also-- I have been ''Alice'' online for as long as I can remember. ''Alice'' is who I am. ''Mary'' is what people call me. It's a good way to phase out people I don't want to listen to-- do they approach me as "Mary",

as "Alice", or as Rhoswyn or Skazka? * This troper has answered to an Avatar's name at a con once. The kicker? The Avatar is a different sex from the person behind the keys. * While I answer equally to "Akimi" and "Katherine", nine times out of ten I get called "Aki". Probably because it's easier to snap at me than the three-syllable names. * This troper hasn't been directly addressed by her real name for so long that it always disorients her when someone does so. I'm called "Ah girl" or "girl ah". Yes, you may laugh now. * This troper does consider himself to be his online identity first, and that the 'real life' persona is a fake put up to keep people away. * This troper has a rather... ''Interesting'' relationship with her real name. It's just a thing that describes me. Neither are my online handles proper descriptors for my identity, either. (I've had to tell one of my RL friends that I am ''not'' LG.) I probably should be worried about this, but I'm not. I tend to find my online behaviour varying depending on what username I'm using. (Weird, that. Anyone else have similar experiences?) So, in essence, I have many different masks, most of which act somewhat differently from how I am in my own headspace. ** You're not alone. I would consider my nicknames [[SockPuppet Sock Puppets]] but they have no propose at all. One of them is a normal guy, another a zen fiction writer and I'm also a rather childlike fangirl but I didn't try to play a character I only have get used to things being like this. ** [[JET73L This Troper]] above, does ("This Troper" being the name, the link to the contributor page being only so you can tell which This Troper posted this). * This troper has a tendency to adopt mannerisms, behaviors, and patterns of thinking of the protagonist in his stories. Which consdidering the [[NightmareFuel sort of]] [[FetishFuel stories he writes]] can be a bit unnerving. Even talking to most people he adapts a slightly different persona depending on where he is. Which he's found has helped, because [=LeFarr=] is a lot better at dealing with people than he is. To the point that as [=LeFarr=] he's helped someone go from homeless and broke to making 1000 dollars a month as an artist. The only people online he's really himself as are his boyfriend, his ex-girlfriend, and a small pro wrestling forum that he nearly never posts in. ** That happens to [[JET73L this one]] with stories or films being read, or planning a character's actions or thought process on a story while doing something else. (With all these relevancies, I need to either figure out how to consolidate my additions to this page while somehow keeping the statement-answer connections intact, or just mark myself down as the personification of SecretIdentityIdentity on the TV Tropes WMG page). * This troper did this in highschool, but out of necessity. There were four other Sams in his grade (of 66), and at least as many in each other year. * While [[{{Brosandi}} This Troper]] has a pretty unique name, she answers to Brosandi mainly because she's a budding grafitti artist and is used to peeps yelling at her when tagging. It's a name security

blanket, quite honestly. I also answer to Reid, for reasons unknown. * [[{{GatoNephist}} This troper]] generally identifies herself more with her online name than her real one, perhaps simply because it's something that she actually chose for herself. * This Troper had a minor mental breakdown partly related to this. When I write dialog, I do it by getting into the character's head. The breakdown was when I was working on a very, VERY dark deconstruction. The breakdown was also caused by some significant stress from completely unrelated reasons, but anytime you have to adopt the MadnessMantra "I am my own character" to convince yourself that you aren't a piece of fiction, you're dealing with this. ---Which page is the real one? The original SecretIdentityIdentity, or its TroperTales? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SecretTestOfCharacter Secret Tests of Characters, as witnessed by these most secret characters, the Tropers! -----* Long ago, back when this troper was her in second-last year of primary school, the entire year ended up taking an excursion to an old camphouse ground out in the bush. On the first day we were shown a long but very low to ground obstacle course out back and seperated into four groups who were placed at opposite ends of the course and made to compete at crossing the obstacle course without touching the ground, while using two planks of wood, a rope and a sandbag (none of which were allowed to touch the ground and had to be taken to the end) as our only tools and with only the 'group leaders' the teachers had just chosen allowed to speak. For extra incentive the winners would get icecream if no one accidently spoke or fell to the ground. The first two groups went out and the first immediately cheated by walking across the ground everytime they thought the teachers weren't looking. When the entire second group lost it and called them out about it, both teams were sent off to their cabins and told they'd have to do it again tomorrow. My group (the third) and the fourth were next, and while the other team did exactly as the first and cheated across pretty much the entire course, the group I was in did as we were told; we shut up, ignored the other team and concentrated on getting to the other end as quickly and carefully as we could. Because we didn't complain about them, the other team easily beat us to the other side and (since they were now allowed to talk) proceeded to taunt us about being slow, clumsy, etc. Eventually we made it to the end and the teachers got all of us groups back together... In order to inform us that what we had just done was an old training program for mountain side emergencies, with the sand

bags we were carrying meant to represent food bags, the ground meant to represent the drop off the edge of a cliff and the reason we weren't to talk was to avoid tiggering an avalanche. If that wasn't sobering enough we were then told that those who did not pass this test today would miss out on the day's kiaking but if they didn't pass before we left they wouldn't be allowed on the final year ski trip. ** Take a quick guess who's group was the only one that didn't have to re-take that test that day. -----* This troper is conducting a rather simple and even not-so-secret one with his girlfriend: Recently, [[OutOfCharacterMoment she cheated on him]] because she thought they were going to [[BreakUpToMakeUp break up temporarily]]. She confessed right away and regrets what she did, but in order for this troper to know for sure, he has simply stated 'he can't handle this again.' All she has to do is simply NOT cheat on him again or see the other person, who conveniently lives far away. This seems pretty simple, because an honestly sorry person wouldn't do something wrong twice. Should she fail this test then she will not receive the leniency she did for her first offense, which has caused this usually confident troper to have a secret {{HeroicBSOD}}. ** Good news is that she passed the test after I asked her about it this weekend. Bad-ish news is that I still broke up with her in order for her to get her head straight. Sucks because we really do love each other. We will get back together in half a year or so (maybe sooner), although I will always be very cautious about her actions, because I will not be cuckolded and I will never be screwed over twice. * There is a story (which may be an UrbanLegend) about a student taking a philosophy exam -- on the paper was the question, "What is courage?". The student simply wrote "This" and left the exam hall -he was awarded full marks. ** Similarly, another urban myth has a philosophy final exam which was simply the question, "Why?" The student answers, "Why not?" and turns in the exam. It turns out he's the only student that gets full marks, as the simple, yet elegant answer proves he has the soul of a philosopher. *** The "soul of a philosopher" sounds suspiciously like the soul of a smartass to me. **** If you've ever read anything by or about Socrates...pretty much, yeah. *** This troper heard that story from a teacher. Apparently, another student wrote "Just because" and got a C. *** This troper's mother actually got this final exam in a college philosophy class that emphasized the Socratic method. She didn't give the correct answer, but she still got a B for the essay she wrote discussing the question. She found out later that the weird guy who never attended class was the only one who answered correctly and got an A. ***** This troper had a music teacher with a philosophy degree where the final exam question was 'is there a god?'. She told the story of the guy that simply wrote 'yes' and headed off to the pub, and ended up getting a First. (The top award in a UK degree course.) *** In a similar line, this troper was given a question on an

economics test asking the students to explain the main characteristics of "a state of Cournot-Nash monopolism". Since there's an economic concept called "Cournot-Nash oligopoly", every one of us assumed it was a mistake and described the existing economic concept, only to be told that the question was included as a trick and the answer was "There's no such thing". Thankfully, it was only an in-class test; if that had been pulled on a major exam, somebody would have ended that day lynched. **** Another variant of the philosophy test story goes like this: "Is this a test?" "No, but this IS an answer." **** I had a statistics professor whose pet peeve was the use of "data" as a singular noun, and on the first day of class, he said there would be a "What is wrong with this sentence?" question on the final where the answer was "It uses 'data' as a singular noun." True to his word, it was there, and people were asking where to write their answers, because it didn't fit in the (actually rather generous) space provided. ***** Similarly, this troper had a Bio/Chem teacher who started the year with scientific naming conventions and extolled the awesomeness of the name of the Douglas Fir, telling us it would be on the Final Exam. And never mentioned it again. Everyone who remembered ''Pseudotsuga menziesii menziesii'' at the end of the year got a chance to politely snicker at those who didn't... **** This troper's friend once took a Philosophy final exam in which his teacher placed a chair on his desk and asked the class to write an essay proving that said chair did not exist. My friend was the only one to get perfect marks. His answer? "What Chair?" ***** [[MSPaintAdventures What pumpkin?]] ***** This troper has heard several versions of that story. * And a second example this troper lived through, from Biology class in high school. A teacher asked a class to prove to him that his car was not alive. He had an argument for every single theory the class could come up with, including that there was nothing alive in the car (the wooden panels, actually, used to be alive), it didn't breathe (actually, engines require air, so yeah, it respirates), and it didn't eat or drink (requires fuel to run, so... actually, yeah!). Finally, one member of the class stood up and said, " Prove to us your car's not ''dead''." We so thoroughly used his own arguments against himjust reversed- that he gave the whole class an A on an upcoming test that we didn't have to take. ** Why didn't anyone point out it couldn't reproduce? Prove it's not dead is pretty dumb from a bio standpoint. *** [[JustifyingEdit Eunuchs can't reproduce either...]] *** Cars don't grow. All living things grow for some portion of their life cycle. Yes, all of them. Even the paradoxical frog. **** They do grow, in a sense, while you're making the car. *** Indeed, the definition of life requires a lot of refining - ''The Biology of StarTrek'' pointed out that all kinds of things could count as alive depending on your definition - growth (crystals), using energy (fire) and so forth. (Then it pointed out that the ''Trek'' answer to the question of "what is life" was "all of the above", what with things like the Horta and all the {{Energy Being}}s.)

*** A car can not self repair/heal whereas all other life forms can. **** Does that mean that installing an automatic troubleshooting app would bring my computer's operating system to life? ** And nobody argued that as all living things replicate themselves (at the very least, are composed of cells that replicate themselves), and as not even at the 'cellular' level do cars in any sense have this ability one can prove cars are definitely not alive... well, all I can say is {{YouFailBiologyForever}}. *** Not all living things can replicate themselves. You can be alive and infertile. Plenty of colony animals are even alive and sterile by design. (Does this make cars the sterile offspring of the "queen" automobile factory?) And not all cells in a multicellular organism are capable of replication either. You could argue that the car isn't made of cells, but that seems like a very narrow definition of life. *** Even infertile things replicate themselves on the cellular level. Do you really think biology has such flimsy definitions and standards that the definition of life would be broken in the face of infertility? YOU fail biology forever. I ain't even gonna link to the page. And FYI, to be considered alive, something must exhibit all of the following; cellular organization, metabolism, homeostasis, growth and reproduction (the theoretical capability, not necessarily the actual capability, i.e. infertile things don't fail the definition of life) and heredity. If that class full of geniuses couldn't come up with a way to demonstrate that a car isn't alive, clearly they never even read Chapter 1 of their Biology book (and the professor is more of an idiot for giving the WHOLE CLASS an A for ONE smartass's snarky, wannabe-rebel response -- a more accurate counter would be, "That's not the way science works; you don't disprove things, you prove things. It's up to you to prove that the car is alive, not us to prove it isn't."). ** Take a gun and shoot the cars gas tank. Then drive it till it dies. The car is now not "alive". ** What about having genetic information, undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, respond to stimuli or adapt to their environment through natural selection? * Aged 11, this troper sat a test at school where the first instruction was "Read everything before you do anything" and most of the rest involved doing things like making holes in the test paper or shouting out silly words. The last instruction was, "Don't do any of the previous instructions." This troper was one of only two members of the class to pass, mainly because she intuited that since the teacher wouldn't normally let anybody make holes in the test paper or shout out, there had to be a catch. ** This troper took the test too - more than once, he believes. It's probably fairly common, but he doesn't know the "official" name, if there even is one. ** This troper took it... and failed. ;_; It was silent work, like doing calculations, not {{shout out}}s or holes, though. ** This troper took a version without shouting and passed and, as a bonus, was able to spend the last 15 minutes of the test watching a fellow student snicker about the test's lack of difficulty, and said student's reaction to the final instruction.

** Well ''hello'' Mr Fancypants! ''This'' troper failed like the rest of his class. And the members that didn't fail? They'd taken it already! ** This troper took the test, read all the way to the end, didn't do any of the instructions, and was ''still'' failed on it because he got bored waiting for the rest of the class to catch on and doodled on the paper. (The instructor reasoned that the instructions said "don't do anything".) ** There's a classic variation of this trick used in math classes. Students are asked to multiply some outrageous list of numbers... which includes a 0 toward the end. *** And if you did that in a computer program, the compiler would probably optimize out the other terms. Gah! Our computers are already outsmarting us! [[AIIsACrapshoot We're doomed!]] ** We got this one in the form of "Please expand (a-x)(b-x)...(z-x)". It was this editor's friend that realised that (x-x) is 0. ** This troper got this test and spotted the trick to it immediately (having a natural tendency to glance at the bottom of a page), but started following all the other steps anyway after about 10 minutes of being bored to tears as the teacher waited way longer than any fifth grader he's ever met could possibly have needed. Later on, he got the same test in another setting, and spent the time writing out an explanation of how the test was impossible because the last instruction was poorly worded such that it required one to disobey itself. ** This troper was assigned this test out of a textbook. The teacher read the steps in order, marked each of the troper's answers wrong, and had to go back and cross out her own marks after reading the last instruction. *** This troper would like to point out to anyone taking this test in the future that you can simply argue that the test itself is absolutely pointless. Actually following the first instruction of "read everything" does not necessarily preclude doing anything after it. In other words, even if there is an actual final instruction of "Disregard everything else," it doesn't matter. You're supposed to do that last, after everything else! Naturally, this only holds if it is a listed instruction, which means it's part of a sequence (if it's just an admonition, no game). This troper seriously wishes he'd had the chance to do this, so godspeed! **** Actually "Don't do any of the previous instructions." includes don't do the first one, I.E. read the list, so you can point that logical error out too. ** On this troper's version the last step said to ignore everything but reading all of the questions and writing your name, so it's about following directions. I did read it, but I didn't have a clue what it meant (or just did some of the things; it was four years ago) so he failed anyway. *** Never done it himself, but this troper has had friends get that sort of test in foreign language classes. It was to see who knew the language well enough to understand that first instruction. *** This troper got that version as well, with 1 being "Read everything first", 2 being "Write your name in the square" and 30

being "Carry out only instructions 1 and 2." The response given? "There is no square on this paper, just a rectangle. Please try again." The marker wasn't at all impressed by my basic geometry knowledge and I failed it. But I scored the moral victory! *** Not really. The above troper looked silly by not getting the RefugeInAudacity he probably deserved. Not his fault, though. That marker should have been more GenreSavvy! ** This troper encountered the test in a literary work well before being given it in class, and therefore passed with flying colors. Score one for early readers! ** This troper encountered it as the first thing done on a course at school. I passed due to my diligence, patience, logical thinking ability and the fact that I had a friend who'd done the course the year before and had warned me about it. ** Almost everyone in this troper's fifth-grade class passed the testbecause we almost all cheated. My neighbors noticed I wasn't working on it, so they stopped, and so on... Talk about a WarpedAesop. ** It's me again, the troper who first mentioned this... I spent most of the test trying to suppress a fit of giggles. It's probably not a coincidence that the only other person who passed was sitting next to me. ** i loved that test. especially when i heard the groans of disbelief. IIRC, it said, disregard all previous instructions except the first two. ** This troper has had this test as well, and believes that it is one of those things Teachers do when they want an easy period. ** I got that test to. I spent the entire time writing an essay on why the test was stupid. I was the only one that passed. ** The successor to this test is one with a similar list of instructions. The tester tells you that it is not the one where the last instructions tells you NOT to carry out the previous instructions. You then check the last question (even the last three to be safe) and miss the FIRST instruction telling you to write the answers ABOVE the question. Shows how easily distracted you are, as well as allowing you to go over the answers (how many months have 28 days, answer: 12). ** Though not that extreme, this troper seems to recall a test or two which at the end told the taker they didn't have to do one or two of the most time-consuming problems, and is half-sure half-unsure that he had a test which instructed the students to shift their answers a couple questions up or down on a scantron sheet. ** This troper's father encountered a similar test- in college physics. The teacher told the class to read all the instructions carefully. The test was 100 problems long, so most of the class didn't bother. The third to last instruction, however, said to only do problems with numbers divisible by 25. ** But if it was the third last question out of 100 that said that it would have been the 97th question and technically every number is divisible by 25 just not as whole numbers. I am confused... *** instruction=/=question *** Also, in the context of the rational numbers, you use divides as ''a'' divides ''b'' if there exists a ''c'' in the integers such that

''ac'' = ''b''. Sorry about being a RulesLawyer, but this is fairly close to my BerserkButton. *** Also, "the third last question out of 100" is the 98th question. ** This troper took one of these in sixth grade which failed spectacularly when the teacher put "read all the questions first" at the top of the page but forgot to put the final question (aka the "disregard everything" question) on the sheet. When he got mad at (ALL) of us for not following directions, we pointed this out. To his credit, he was quite embarrassed and apologized for yelling at us. *** We once had a similar case. The last instruction was garbled badly by a faulty copier and wholly unreadable. So most of the class simply shrugged and proceeded to answer the rest of the question. Only one who already knew the test passed it and was insufferable smug about it. Might have been an Aesop about "not complaining when your copy is unreadable". ** This troper also had a test like that. I read the questions before reading the instructions to read all the questions first. After seeing the end, I pulled out a book and covered the last question. Cue berating from the person who sits near me, competing for top of the class since first grade. She goes along, and with five minutes left, gets to the end, and lets out a yell. The two of us were the only ones to read the last question, but I was the only one to pass. ** @/RobinZimm faced tests like this twice, and failed both times. GenreBlindness, anyone...? ** {{@/Griffin}} laughs at your puny minds! She encountered a similar problem in a kid's puzzle book (it was one of those where you take a phrase and edit it, and one instruction said "don't do number 4") and immediately thought, "One of the instructions must tell me to skip another instruction!" She had ''never'' seen this test before. ** This Troper took the test in sixth grade and proceeded to work halfway through, even asking the teacher a question for clarification regarding a question you weren't supposed to do. Then he figured out the trick and smiled. * This troper's psychology professor gave a portion of the class the task 'debate why stealing to save someone's life is wrong, from the perspective of the sixth stage of moral development'. At the end of the task, we were informed that no one at the sixth stage of moral development would ever argue that, so the only correct debate was, "We cannot debate this." ** Ah, but you could. Sixth stage is abstract principles. Is stealing the higher abstract principle from a justice prospective, or is it a disregardable law? A skilled psyche student should be able to debate anything. *** [[OrIsIt Or should he?]] **** You should stop before you cause this page to spontaneously combust. ***** [[LogicBomb Is it right to save this page from combusting]]? * This contributor's best friend would enact such a plan as this every six months. He would be embarrassing, rude, difficult, contrary, insulting, etc. in a deliberate attempt to drive away as many friends as possible. After about five years of this, the person settled down among those he considered "true friends" and went so far as to marry

the girlfriend who put up with all of that. ** Your best friend sounds like a Jerkass, according to this editor. Then again this editor is a cynical bastard as he happens to know people who would stay with the best friend because they are spineless and not because they are shining, wonderful people. *** Seriously. Who would put up with that? Some "best friend" that is, treating you like shit to confirm some warped standard of loyalty. **** Let me introduce you to {{House}}. **** ...which is a TV Show (and a mighty fine one at that!). If you enjoy watching a show about a JerkassStu being awesome, that's fine. If someone puts up with stuff like that in the real world for five years, they seriously need to grow a backbone. Or get better friends. Of course original troper, I say this only with the above paragraph for reference, and completely unaware of the full details of those 5 years. Just making a generalization...but he ''does'' sound pretty {{Jerkass}}-y. **** In fairness, that he enacted the plan once every six months implies a considerable amount of time without said plan... Sounds like he wanted to make sure they would stick together despite whatever fights may come, without actually picking a fight or leaving the others with any regrets. * This troper had a history final where the last question read "What grade do you think you deserve for this class?" This troper wrote "B" while his friend wrote "A". When the grades came in, his friend got a "B" while the troper got the "A". ** So much for students who believe that they can earn an "A" through hard work. ** Furthermore, what "history" did that exactly teach? "Humility leads to failure?" Reckon you should have given your teacher a bit of a talking to. *** Well... as written, it would be the opposite, since neither got the grade they said they thought they deserved. ** But is there any evidence that that question actually had an effect on the grade received? It could have been just the teacher's way of getting a feel for how students thought they did vs. how well they actually did. ** This troper always answers "B" to those questions, no matter how well she thinks she's doing, so the professor doesn't think she's too egotistical or too hard on herself. It's worked out so far. * This troper once had a college professor (of science) who told of a test where put a beaker of (fake) urine on a table, dipped a finger in and licked his finger, then told the class "Now do what I just did". It was a test of observation; the finger he dipped was not the finger he licked. ** [[@/JohnnyBGoode This troper]] knows a guy who was the victim of this when he was in Africa. With elephant dung. Yeah, he fell for it. ** This story was [[http://www.snopes.com/college/medical/urine.asp originally told]] about Dr. Joseph Bell, the man on whom SherlockHolmes was based. * [[@/{{Gattsuru}} This Troper]] went to a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics CCW]] class [[http://www.ohiogunpermit.com/ whose instructor]] has ''never''

failed someone for the range time or written test portions of the class. Not an overwhelmingly impressive statement, since both tests are fairly easy, but that's including a Dayton Daily News reporter who had come in intending to fail the range test in order to get a story. Several students have come out of the class without their certificate, though. Both the law, and the instructor's conscience, require him to sign off that a student is safe with a firearm. As a result, he's designed the class to involve a lot of time where students can make small talk, and have to handle loaded and unloaded firearms in a 'boring' situation. The written test and target practice is the state's requirement. His test, and the one not pointed out at the start of class, is that students who make off-color, racist, or sexist comments, or who point loaded or unloaded firearms in an unsafe direction be kicked out. * In middle school, this editor once took a ridiculously difficult final (for junior high level, at least) on the book ''Cry the Beloved Country, '' which included essay questions of a philosophical nature based on the themes of the book. The catch? At the ''very'' beginning of the test, written in the directions no less, were the words ''If you are reading this right now, do not take this test. Turn it in blank and watch your classmates squirm in their seats for the rest of the period.'' Most students eventually figured it out after realizing people were finishing their tests at impossible speed. (In hindsight this editor thinks that the teacher may just have had a perverse sense of humor rather than was actually trying to find out which students would read the directions.) ** This troper would say that the teacher mentioned above definitely had a perverse sense of humor. He/she used the word "squirm", for heaven's sake! ** This troper had a teacher who put actual questions in the directions for a computer class exam. And by "actual questions", he means "write the name of this class at the bottom of the second page" questions. * [[@/{{Korgmeister}} This Troper]] keeps up an elaborate {{Jerkass Facade}} as a screening mechanism against people who have very little insight. Those who aren't very observant will go "That guy's a {{Jerkass}}" whereas others will notice I very quietly do things that are apparently entirely out of character (and eventually figure out that's actually my real character). As a result, I have intelligent and insightful friends. It does help that I make friends really easily (How do I do that with a {{Jerkass Facade}}? Simple: {{Rule Of Funny}}) ** Are you the best friend of the contributor a few entries back? Acting like a {{Jerkass}} in the belief that anything is justified if it serves your ultimate ends is called ''being'' a {{Jerkass}}. ** "Sometimes we put up walls, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to tear them down." ** Ah, but "He who fights monsters should take care, lest he himself become a monster", so if you become a jerkass to fight other jerkasses to stop annoying you, [[{{Metaphorgotten}} you should pretend to be a wall unless they tear you down, in which case either they or you are the monsters]]. And then John was a zombie.

*** A jerkass zombie. ** Or, as Vonnegut put it, "we must be careful what we pretend to be, for we are what we pretend to be." * This Troper had a friend who had a particularly mischievous biology teacher. This teacher had apparently given out a seemingly regular exam paper to the class; the catch was the fine print in the corner, instructing the reader to take that paper back and get the real one from the teacher. Unfortunately, the instructions were so tiny one would have needed a magnifying glass to make anything out of it. The abovementioned friend got lucky though, as he noticed a classmate (one who had figured it out anyway) was returning the paper, and just followed her example. * This troper has played a game called The Game of Common Courtesy in which players sit in a circle and pass around a lighter saying "In this lighter I see... This is The Game of Common Courtesy" and then passing it to the next person. A player is only "right" if they say "Thank you" when they receive the lighter. * This troper knows a man who loves to organize large games of "Simon Says." Naturally, he begins by instructing everyone to line up so they can get started. Anyone who does so is immediately disqualified; "Simon" didn't say to line up. ** Does he actually say "get started" or some variation? Because if he does then he's admitting the game hasn't begun yet so no one has to wait for Simon to say. * This troper, in elementary school, had to take tests to be qualified for a gifted/talented class. One of the tests was a maze with the instructions simply saying "draw a line from start to finish". I drew a straight line from the start to the end, not bothering to follow the maze. It worked. ** @/{{Griffin}} saw one of those before, but when she told her mom the answer, she got scolded for not doing it the right way. (There was no way to get through the maze normally.) * Subversion: Several years ago I was taught English, History and Geography by what basically amounted to a thirty-year-old [[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee Crosshaw]] with a teaching degree. One double-period, we all entered the classroom and he failed to turn up. We waited five minutes, he still wasn't there. We waited for ten minutes, he still wasn't there. The ''entire class'' proceeded to ''diligently do our work'', because we suspected he was the kind of guy to pull this on us as a test. As it turned out, he was in his office down the hallway and had forgotten he had us at all. ** There's an UrbanLegend where a professor leaves his hat on his desk after he arrives early to his class, and then heads to the bathroom; on his way back he gets into a long conversation with a colleague. His students skip the class after he fails to return in an amount of time specified by the college handbook. The next day, he tells the students that since he left his hat on his desk, signifying he'd return, they're all getting marked down for absence. The day after that, the professor arrives to find the classroom empty... but every desk has a hat on it. * This Troper's school has a "peer support" program to help ease new year sevens into the school. This year they held a huge scavenger

hunt/race thing, and one of the clues featured a ridiculously long list of odd instructions. Fortunately, this troper is very GenreSavvy, and noticed the last instruction saying "Do NOT follow the previous instructions, they will only waste time", instead doing the real (and ridiculously simple) task: writing everyone's names and birthdates on the sheet and handing it in. While all the other groups were seen piggybacking each other and dancing around in circles and whatnot. * This troper had a much-loathed 8th grade social studies teacher (a complete perv with a Lolicon for his students) pull a half-assed version of this -- if I remember correctly he said to read the directions first and you got graded down if you had put the date on the paper. Never mind that this was the same teacher who would rip your head off (while staring down your shirt, of course) if you turned in your paper without a date on it, so by this point most of us were conditioned to write their name and the date before anything else, including reading the directions. he was a major JerkAss, though, so what could you expect. * This troper will just pore over in detail the elements of a fishysounding test or scenario, to avoid failing these. * This troper was subject to some ''glaringly'' obvious ones when he had to do some psychology tests as part of a class he was taking. ''All'' of the tests began as a set up like, "See how groups work together in building a Lego Battlebot," then it became obvious it was testing something else. For example, in one, "testing" how people can work together over the computer, it became obvious that the other "teammates" were fake when A. everybody "typed" perfectly and instantly, and B. one in particular went through instant Main/CharacterDerailment. One sentence was normal, like, "Well, I can't wait to get started," while the ''very next line'' was to the effect of "Are there any women in this group? Women are lazy and stupid!" Apparently the real test was in how we responded to bigotry, but it lost all effectiveness with how hamfisted it was. * In a psychology class, this troper's teacher had everyone get into groups of two. She told us to grab one another's arms and choose a person to go first. I was chosen in my group. She then told the first person to pinch the second person until she said stop. Despite the guy whispering he wouldn't mind, I simply continued holding onto his arms. When it was his turn, he didn't pinch me either because I didn't do it to him, or because I was a girl. When the experiment was over, the teacher had the class talk about how the experiment made us feel. Then, she asked why I didn't follow the instructions. I told her I had moral objections to causing pain. I was declared to be on a higher moral level than my classmates. Since I already had a reputation as a sheltered, goody-goody this didn't surprise anyone or send them into an outrage. To be fair, she also asked my partner why he didn't, but he gave a vague answer that basically implied if he had a different partner, he would have. * This troper heard about an almost impossible enginnery test, but it was designed to be, well, like that: The real test was "who invents the best gadget to cheat?"...Probably one of the best exams (and best teachers) I've ever heard of. * Another in the "make sure the students read the instructions" vein,

this troper's geometry teacher would always have the directions include, "and initial the box for a point."One classmate who always forgot to do this eventually became GenreSavvy and checked the box without even bothering to read the instructions...the one time they read, "and do not initial the box for a point." * Our class had a watered down version of this. Basically before the teacher gave us the assignment he told us each group would only get to ask ONE question about the assignment. We happily did our work until we came to a question asking us to trace a circle. (this is middle school 7th grade mind you) When there was nothing to trace with. So naturally I went up to him and said "I don't know if this counts as my one question, but we need circles to use tracing in betwee-." Before I could finish he said, "That was the question you were supposed to ask!" He then handed me the materials and me plus the rest of my group got to watch everybody else go up to ask for the materials. He turned away EVERYBODY in the classroom because none of them could answer this simple question. "well why do you need them!?" Needless to say, our group got a good laugh out of taunting kids who begged us to tell them why it was required to complete the assignment. To which we would respond "Go bugger off and read the paper more closely, were working!" Not a single one got the packet except for us. I assume the test was about how perceptive the students were.....apparently not very. * [[{{Neep}} I]] was in a simulated-society game for a psych class once. Since we had been studying compliance experiments (like the Milgram and Ashford ones mentioned in the main article), I was convinced for most of the duration that it was a test on following inane and seemingly arbitrary rules. Unfortunately, it wasn't. * This Troper and a friend of hers are both convinced that everything their psychology teacher asks them to do is, in fact, a test/observation/etc. The teacher administered the Keirsey personality test to her classes at the beginning of the term and proceeded to make neat lists of everyone's results. This troper finds the class easy to the point of boredom, so she tends to write during class. The teacher found out about the troper's participation in Nanowrimo; said troper doesn't want to think what conclusions the teacher has now drawn about her mental health. * This Troper had these in the second, fourth, and eighth grades. In the fourth grade, it was the standard "read all the directions first/the last direction is don't do anything". In the second, it was rather stupider that he was the only one that passed, as the first direction was "don't do anything." In the eighth, he was told to write a paper about what he did during his Summer Vacation. This Troper wrote a detailed argument paper on why he shouldn't have his privacy infringed upon in such a way and got the only A in the class. * This Troper is a member of an organization where the induction ceremony includes a secret test of character. The Troper passed the test, but was so pissed off by the deception that he had nothing to do with the organization afterwards. You could say that the organization failed the Troper's (unintentional) secret test of character. (Note to anyone planning a secret test of character: this is a real danger which is usually conveniently overlooked in the fictional examples: if honesty is one of your subject's values, he may want nothing to do

with you after passing your secret test of character.) * This troper's father is a psychologist. He says that the quickest way to end a conversation is to admit this since people will automatically decide that you are examining their every word and making diagnosis about their mental health. IOW people think that every conversation a psychologist has is a SecretTestOfCharacter. ** This troper once rejected a potential psychologist on the grounds that every conversation with her was ''not'' a secret test of character. * This troper was party to a disaster training scenario involving a simulated plane crash, with a large pool of jet fuel underneath the wreckage that was in imminent danger of catching fire. The actual test wasn't to train the local firefighters to do a rescue, it was to see if they'd make the decision to put aside their previous training and get as many victims out as fast as they could, even though that meant not dealing with the most serious injuries until last and, essentially, condemning some to death. * This troper's algebra teacher gave a test that tested the student's ability to read instructions after two weeks of obnoxious behavior on the part of the class. He stressed that the class was to follow the directions ''exactly'' before passing out the tests. The direction was something like, "Write your name on the line, put your pencil down, and sit quietly until I tell you otherwise." This troper passed. [[HilarityEnsues Most of the class didn't.]] Other students ended up quacking like ducks or standing up and turning around three times before they finally read the directions at the top of the page. * In this tropers Chem class, for the midterm we were told to read the instructions, because following instructions is a very important part of mixing chemicals. The instructions start out repetitive by saying what you can or can't ask for help in, and so on. Somewhere in the middle it says to leave 5 questions blank since they should be questions we shouldn't be able to answer. Attempting to answer those questions would be a waste of time and prevent anyone from getting a perfect score. One person did end up getting all five of those questions right and showed the pages of worked required, but only got two points for his effort. ** Never TakeAThirdOption? Or never try to exceed expectations? This one seems to be a BrokenAesop test. *** Both of those seem to be perfectly viable Aesop's for school, taking a third option is heavily looked down on in most classes, this troper was in one where we had to implement a system and had two possibly ways listed to do it, an easy but inefficient system and a much harder more efficient system (worth extra credit). There was, however, a third option the teacher didn't think about which was as easy as the first system and just as efficient as the second (as it did essentially the same thing, only without the difficulties). The third option (which a number of people found and used) was given no more points than the inefficient one. *** So the Aesop is Teachers Are Jackasses? *** No, it's "Teachers of practical skills care more about following the prescribed rules than actually producing the best, most efficient results."

*** This is what most of applied science strives to do and is about. Maximize the output with minimum input. To an extent, as circumstances dictate. *** So, the Aesop is "your teachers suck". * This troper's Chemistry teacher described a lab that he had run in previous years (and, time allowing, would run this year) which, if done right, produced a beautiful purple solution, but missing one ingredient near the beginning of the procedure would result in a disgusting looking mixture. Needless to say, it wasn't difficult to spot the unwary. * This troper's economics teacher, on the first day of school, handed out the typical syllabus that needed to be signed and returned. Everybody signed the paper, but when we went to turn them in, the teacher told us to look down near the bottom of the page, where one of the things we had all agreed to was to give the teacher 10% of all our future income. This was the first of many secret tests. * This troper is annoyed to endless degrees by various forums and software programs that do this to an insane degree, such as having you click a period somewhere in the middle of the EULA to agree. * Kind of the point of military promotion boards. Sure, you know that you, a junior enlisted soldier, will be sitting in front of a group of senior noncommissioned officers (which may or may not include a {{Drill Sergeant Nasty}} or two) and answer a series of questions on general military knowledge. What you don't know is exactly what criteria you'll be graded on, or whether the panel will be throwing some off-the-wall questions or situations at you, or if you'll be seated under a dripping air conditioner vent to see how you'll react. * I once put in a job application at ACS and was asked to take an interview only three days later. Afterwards, they told me to come back in 90 days for a second interview. I kept looking for jobs until the 90 day mark. When I returned to ACS, the first thing they asked was if I had gotten a job somewhere since the first interview. I told them that, yes, I got one at [=McDonald's=]. They revealed that the point behind the 90 day wait was to see if I just wanted to get a job or if I was hanging onto some vague chance of getting the job at ACS. I got the job. * This Troper has heard of an ethics exam, in which the people being tested had to go one by one to an exam room, along the route were situations where people needed help, and the test was, would they help others, even though they had an exam to get too. * This Troper's martial arts sifu, when he was little, spent an hour every morning for four months, knocking on the door of an apparently closed Kung Fu dojo. Finally, a man opened the door and told him, "I'm sorry, but you cannot train here. Go home." Three months' more knocking and refusal went by. Then, the man who answered the door, instead of telling him to go home, beat the stuffing out of him. Three more months of this went by, before sifu was finally able to enter. There were fewer than a dozen students in the meditation chamber, all sitting in the horse stance. Sifu was told that he could not train there until he could sit in the horse stance for 45 minutes straight. I learned a lot from this man. * Non-academic example: This troper's family has a particular cookie

recipe that's not horrendously difficult, but takes patience and a willingness to think outside the box. Anyone who wants to marry into the family has to attempt the recipe - with help from their fiance's relatives, of course. Those who fail the test - especially those who get married anyway, without the family's blessing - tend to be unlikable at best and abusive at worst. Those who pass, while they may still be flawed, invariably end up beloved by the rest of the family. To give examples, my father (who passed) is his mother-in-law's "favorite child". My ex-uncle (who failed) was emotionally and financially abusive to my aunt and her children for over twenty years, and she and the children have separated from him. No one outside the family is allowed to see the recipe except for the test, and copies are only passed down from parent to child. (It's also used as a rite of passage for teenagers - this troper made her first solo batch at the age of sixteen, and they were perfect :)) Yes, my family is cultish and weird. We know. * This troper took part in an academic study when young. The subjects were told would we would be a 'baseline' for general knowledge among the populace, as part of a larger study. We were told total time would be under two hours; one hour to take a 100-question test, and another hour for evaluation of the results and payout; 10 cents per correct answer (The reason given was 'to ensure an honest effort'). We finished our tests, and waited. And waited. Long after the 2nd hour was up, many of us just wanted to leave, but we were strongly discouraged from doing so, and told that would invalidate the whole study (should've been a tip). Finally, after about 2 hours of waiting, they handed back the tests, and the payout. But that wasn't all - they wanted to go through the answers, to make sure everyone was graded properly! Another hour of going one by one through the questions. Finally, they asked if everyone was satisfied and ready to leave. Why yes, we were. At that point, the reveal - it hadn't been a baseline after all, but a psychological test. Everyone had had between 1 and 5 questions marked as correct that were actually incorrect. The test was whether anyone was moral enough to stand up in front of everyone, and try to give back the extra couple dimes. The testers seemed saddened at the general moral decay of society that their study had proven not one person had wanted to do so. Never mind that most just wanted to escape at that point, having other commitments that the faroverrunning study was trampling on. Or that the grading had actually been sloppy in both directions and several people had been shortchanged instead of overpaid. Or that they were so eager to reveal what horrible people we were that they never considered that we may prefer to come up quietly afterward to settle up. Nope - all about us being unscrupulous and greedy. ** [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck I think I just thew up in my mouth]]. What a bunch of hypocrites. * I'm in very disorganized med school (the schedules are wrong, sometimes we don't have class for any lame reason and the first week the only subject we had was anatomy), and one of my friends started to say all that was because of this trope ("think about it, the doctor has to be always expecting a turn of events in a surgery..."). This troper, however, believes the whole campus is being that disorganized

due to lack of money but if he's happy thinking that... * When this troper was being taught to be a coxswain (the person who steers and co-ordinates a boat of rowers), he was told in no uncertain terms by the man teaching him to stick rigidly to the rules of the river. Before long, he had to break some on account of unpredictable events. He was promptly given a pint for doing it in a safe and competent way. Apparently, had he done it messily or unsafely he'd have got a ding round the ear. Now that he's the one training new coxes, he does the same. It's costing him a lot. * [[AuntZelda This troper]] has to fetch carts from a parking lot. Unless a customer with a cart is elderly or obviously in need (i.e. has crutches or fifteen children), she won't offer to bring their cart to the coral. If, however, a customer begins to wheel the cart to the coral, she will gladly offer to take it for them. She's also fond of not getting a cart abandoned near the doorway and likes to count how many minutes and customers pass it by before someone takes it and restores her faith in humanity. (If it's an obvious fire hazard she'll take it.) * Simpler verson; one time, [[Tropers/DeathToSquishies this troper's]] Modern Lit. teacher gave the class a test with very difficult questions that barely related to Literature as it was, with obscure details and questions of people's mass opinions. Turns out, he was solely testing two things: 1) if we bothered to actually attempt answering the questions at all, and 2) if people peeked at each other's papers. * This troper's headmaster once announced that he had left 10 and 20 notes around the school as a test of honesty, and that students returning them could expect house points - a pat on the head, in other words. What he didn't say is that they would also be given ''double'' the amount returned, i.e. 20 or 40. Any student who resigned themselves to doing the 'right thing' walked away twice as well off than if they hadn't. * This male troper was once asked: ** Freind: Are you a lesbian? ** Me: Yes ** Freind: You pass. * My English class in high school were once given one of these, to test our analytical and observational skills. We were split into groups and given a sheet of paper detailing the dangers of a certain chemical, and the outrage that this chemical was till being used despite how many deaths and other destructions were caused by it. We were given the task of writing up a debate answer as to why this chemical should be banned. I was the only one to point out to their group that this task was ridiculous for one big reason: The chemical was Dihydrogen Monoxide...aka, water. The use of it's scientific name had thrown everyone off, meaning that everyone had been arguing as to ''why we should ban water''. For once in my life, my team actually listened to me and were happy that I was on their team. The exercise then lost the point and my epic win was degraded when my team started warning all their friends on the other teams not to write anything, and I wasn't given the credit for telling them this...

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SecurityCling * Just the plain old clinging to you because they're scared? I've had plenty of girls do it to me- sisters, cousins, girlfriends, justfriends, my mother, even ex-girlfriends who afterward make it clear that there was no subtext, they were really frightened). ** If you only mean the whole cartoonish jumping into someones arms bridal style like Scooby Do and Shaggy, I have had it happen once- and it wasn't invoked. My friend has a deathly fear of spiders, and she thought she saw one on the floor while cleaning her room- she literally leaped into my arms- I just barely managed not to drop her. Not as MoeMoe as it sounds since she was squirming around, strangling me, and screaming in my ear for me not to drop her. Her mother got a kick out of it though. * I have done this before. On one such occasion I was on vacation with family and we had taken a boat out to a sand bar in the ocean where we could feed sting rays. I held out some squid and the sting rays smelled it and in no time at all they swim towards you. Needless to say, it was a bit intimidating seeing all those sting rays come towards you that fast, and all that once, in such a huge swarm. So, I jumped out of fright into the arms of the closest person behind me, one of the scuba instructors. * This reaction is the primary reason that ThisTroper's college dorm always has group dates at the local haunted corn maze. On at least one occasion, one of the ''guys'' latched on to me in addition to the girl I was with. * This troper, a guy friend, and two other girls were wandering through an amusement park after dark around Halloween. They came to a "haunted" section. People in scary clown suits jumping out of shadows with fake chainsaws, zombies, and the like were in abundance. Troper didn't care, though one of the other girls had at this point latched onto the guy's arm. Then the smoke generators kicked in. Troper has very good vision in light and dark, and because of this has a phobia of being unable to see. Soon there was enough smoke that troper could only see about five feet in front of her. "Sorry, I'm gonna hold onto your shoulders cos OH GOSH I CAN'T FRICKIN SEE..." After the smoke cleared, she let go, and ended up with the other girl stuck to her arm when another evil clown appeared. * It's not so much a "Security Cling" as a "Wow You're Really Warm And I'm Really Fricking Cold Cling", but it does happen to [[{{Ryumaru}} me.]] It's a pity that the girl who does it is a lesbian... dammit, why...? T_T * This troper saw a girl not only jump into another's lap but practically ''climb up her''. Horror stories told by double agents + pranks that tie in = instant hilarity. * It happened to a girl who clung to [[DaNuke Da_Nuke]] ''as hard as she could'' after a massive party was suddenly disrupted by a really

brutal brawl. * This troper has often huddled with her friends when it's cold. It's a good excuse to cuddle with your crush when your ex-boyfriend is watching. * [[Tropers/TheTallOne This]] Troper has done this once. In the fourth grade, my class went on a trip to a tornado simulator. I was one of two LargeHam types in the class, and the other ham was my crush at the time. At one point, we both randomly turned and just started clinging to each other. It was rather sweet, as I recall. * This troper does this to her best friend whenever this creepy kid comes out of ''freaking nowhere''. * I once pointed out a turtle to my younger sister as we were walking through a field. She yelped and hurriedly grabbed my arm. The weird thing is that we're kind of a TomboyAndGirlyGirl, and she's the tomboy. * Tropers/RainbowPoof had a friend who would tightly grab her any time anything remotely scary happened in a horror movie. It was actually a little painful, because she had long nails and apparently didn't know her own strength.. Needless to say, this troper quickly learned she should sit on the opposite side of the room, with something between her and her friend. * This troper was at the Renaissance faire with a group from her church. Upon leaving the joust field, she noticed that the thick crowd was possibly going to cause them to be separated, so she called out for everyone in her group to "grab onto someone!" Cue a SecurityCling onto the troper -- by a fifteen-year-old boy. * This troper once played with this trope while watching a SoBadItsHorrible horror movie in a theater. During what was [[{{Narm}} supposed to be the climax of a scary scene]], she screamed loudly and tumbled over into the lap of her friend sitting next to her. Said friend was not amused. * This troper recently went to a haunted house with several classmates. Over the course of the haunted house, this troper's two companions basically shoved her to the front of the group and clung to her arms the whole way shrieking. This troper spent the whole time predicting what was going to jump out and be scary, and attenpting to stop her companions from yelling in her ears. * This (mostly) Tsundere troper managed to astonish her boyfriend during a power cut at school by leaping into his arms when the lights went out. In my defence, the classroom had no windows and I'd just seen the Vashta Nerada episode of Series/DoctorWho. * This troper's step-son is now an adult and is terrified of spiders. The exact event that caused this was followed by a Security Cling. One day, when he was 5 years old, we put one of those spider toys with the little hose and air-squeeze-bladder on a table, with the hose concealed. The spider had cartoon eyes and rubber legs. We told him something like 'hey, what's that over there?' while pointing at the table. We waited until he got real close, only a few inches away, staring directly in the spider's face, then squeezed the air-bladder thing and made the spider jump. He leapt, instantly, up into the air, onto his step-grandmother's lap, holding on for dear life. He does not remember this and he definitely knows the jumping spider toy is a toy,

but he still won't touch them. * [[{{Tropers/Morgie}} This troper]]'s best online friend recently left the website that they met on, but still is admin on [[http://lgbtqsupport.proboards.com/ her own forum]]. This was how our PM conversation there after she left started. * I had a guy do this to me once. I'm not actually sure why he did it I was trying to pay attention to our teacher as she coached us through the dance but then BAM! all of a sudden my best friend's in my arms and I'm not sure why he's there but he is. Fortunately I'm amazon enough at 17 to hold up an average sized 18 year old. Had I not well...He would've been on the floor. * When I see a spider and my sister is around, I usually end up squeaking and hanging on to her arm. * This unwise troper was watching {{Marble Hornets}} at night, so while watching a certain entry and [[SlenderManMythos the star of the series]] [[JumpScare appears]] she grabbed on to her sister's arm for dear life. * This Troper, who was watching her friend play FatalFrame, was so scared that she clung to his sleeve and buried her face against his arm. Nevermind the fact that he was already taken. ---Could you let go of my arm? Just long enough to let me click on the link for SecurityCling? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SedgwickSpeech * "I'll believe that when I hear it"- [[SilentHunter this troper]] during a game of ''{{Harpoon}}'' refusing to believe his opponent's statement that there are weapons inbound on his ''Swiftsure'' class submarine. As soon as he hits enter on the chat, his sub is sunk by [[MnogoNukes a Soviet "Starfish" nuclear torpedo]]. * This Troper was giving a rousing speech to his squad during a game of paintball, complete with walking on a log. As he was wrapping up he was immediately shot by a hidden enemy, declaring, "You're making it too easy for us!" * [[{{Eisenblume}} "Please. I'm a sniper, I know how to hide. They cannot see me.]] --> '''Thud!''' --> ''"No, but we can bloody well hear you!"'' Ah, good LARP memories. * This Troper was once outside with a friend who was violently allergic to bees when a bee came flying by. He calmly stood there and explained to his friend, "Just stand still and be calm, bees aren't going to-- OH MY GOD IT JUST FLEW INTO MY MOUTH AND STUNG MY TONGUE!" ---WE SHALL GO BACK TO [[SedgwickSpeech SEDGWICK SPEECH]] AND NOBODY SHALL STOP U*BLAM!* ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SeinfeldianConversation * Can [[Tropers/LuckyMcDowell This Troper]] say that we pretty much all talk like this? Like, every day? * This troper had a twenty minute conversation about whether or not the streetlights on one particular street were hanging low to the point of being a safety hazard, and whether or not they were abnormally low or if they'd always been that low and if no one had noticed them, and which local government agency sets the standards for streetlight height. This conversation also included a {{LampshadeHanging}} by this troper's friend. * [[{{Tropers/Tai112}} This Troper]] participated in a conversation literally minutes ago about a person keeping track of how much fast food they eat a day. His teacher walked into the class in the middle, as well. * This troper, her best friend, and her mother once had an extremely long and protracted conversation about the merits of ugly towels in dorms. And the making of said towels. At the end of it, she couldn't help but wonder: "Why are we TALKING about this?" ** ...So what ''are'' the merits? Are they less likely to be stolen or "borrowed"? *** Yes. In fact, this troper had serious problems with that, and the offending suitemates had even "kidnapped" her favorite towel, which was technically a beach towel and had a giant checkerboard on it. She still has the foam checkers. **** ...That towel was MadeOfWin. * [[{{Tropers/Pirka}} This troper]] and [[{{Tropers/Nyktos}} another troper]] recently had a conversation over dinner about how you get 'in' certain vehicles, like a car, a truck or a tank, but you get 'on' others, like a bus, train or plane. This extended into how it sounded incorrect to swap those two - 'I'm getting in the train', 'I'm getting on the car' - which then led to how technically you aren't 'on' any of these vehicles (i.e., you don't ride on top of a plane, you are obviously inside the plane). ''Then'', since the reason these tropers met up in the first place was to watch GurrenLagann, the conversation mutated into whether you get 'on' or 'in' a HumongousMecha. It was left unsolved that day, but when this Troper mentioned the topic to her father in the car it began the SeinfeldianConversation anew, this time with the conclusion that any vehicle you board standing up (you walk to your seat to get into a plane, a train or a bus) you get 'on', but any vehicle where you are automatically in place as soon as you board (you get into a car, truck or tank without needing to walk to your seat) you get 'in'. The verdict was that it depends on the type of mecha, but in most situations, you get 'in' a HumongousMecha. The entire conversation was MadeofWin. ** This troper has always heard the distinction being whether or not it requires a professional driver. Planes, Trains, Buses and things like that are all driven by 'Drivers', while Cars are driven by random people. ** I imagine it has something to do with the communal nature of the vehicle, you rarely get into a car with someone you don't know but if

you're on a plane or a bus there is almost always a stranger riding with you. *** No, you get ''in'' taxis -- I think the standing criterion is closer. That said, you also get ''in'' vans and APCs, so... * Same troper and same friend had a conversation just recently about whether or not a brownie with frosting on it is a piece of cake. This dissolved into a discussion about the taxonomic classifications of cakes, brownies, and cookies. We determined that brownies and cakes can mate, but they can't produce viable offspring. ** The difference between a cake and a biscuit (or cookie, to Americans) is that when a cake goes stale, it goes hard. When a biscuit/cookie goes stale, it goes soft. This is true, as reported on ''{{QI}}''. *** This troper calls shenanigans on that. While cake definitely goes hard, he's never heard of a cookie that goes ''soft'' when it gets stale. Of course he's also never heard anyone call a biscuit a cookie, since they're not even remotely similar InAmerica. ** I'd say no. Cake is generally taller and fluffier, while a brownie is just kind of squat and vaguely fudgy. You could, however, make a brownie cake. * [[Tropers/TromboneChild This troper]] and her mother had a heated argument recently about whether Gotham City is the fictional equivalent of New York or Chicago. This troper claimed it was Chicago because of ''Batman Begins/The Dark Knight'' and because the ''Superman'' movies use New York as Metropolis. Her mother said it was New York because she claimed she'd heard people say things like "I'm going to Gotham" when talking about New York. So the troper's mother told her to Google it, which led nowhere; then said to check Wikipedia, and that didn't work; so they ended up calling this troper's grandfather to ask him. He said Gotham was most certainly New York, no question about it, so this troper had to eat her words. ** For the record, Metropolis is widely believed among comic book geeks to be Los Angeles. ([[{{Tropers/Heatherly}} This troper]] believes it should be Kansas City, since it's apparently in Kansas, but whatever.) Chicago is Star City, Green Arrow's turf. *** What crazy pseudo-world do you live in where Kansas City is in Kansas? **** Heck with that, what crazy pseudo-world do we live in where Kansas City ''isn't'' in Kansas?! **** It's in both Missouri ''and'' Kansas. How the hell do you two people ''not'' know that?! *** Thanks for the info. This troper feels better now. But Metropolis only seems to be located in Kansas in the ''{{Smallville}}'' canon. ** This troper heard an interpretation that he considers quite cool. Basically, Metropolis is New York by day while Gotham is New York by night. ** This troper is pretty sure that Gotham, Metropolis, and New York all have independent existance in the DCU. Also, he's fond of the theory that Gotham is a heavily urbanized LovecraftCountry. ** [[http://www.karridian.net/dcatlas.html DC has an official Atlas. Let's move on, people.]] *** Sheesh. Sorry, we're not really ComicBook readers. And actually,

it was a pretty damn funny argument. All of the theories and the guessing were actually a lot more fun than you handing us the answer. You're CompletelyMissingThePoint of a SeinfeldianConversation. *** And the Atlas isn't really as WordOfGod as one would think it'd be--locations of cities in the DCU tend to move around depending on the era and the writer. The current location of Star City, for example, is somewhere in northern California, and Ivy Town (the Atom's stomping grounds) started out as an {{Expy}} for New Haven, Connecticut but moved to Ithaca, New York in the early 90's. ** Wait, isn't Gotham New York (because, you know, NYC is actually ''called'' Gotham, though that's somewhat gone out of style) while Metropolis is ''Boston''? Wasn't that the parallel intended with the 'Daily ''Planet'' ' and the 'Boston ''Globe'' '? *** They're both New York. * [[Tropers/GwenStacyWannabe This troper]] and her best friend once had a rather long conversation in which the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} friend]] attempted to explain to her that if a modern-day BeautyAndTheBeast story (the Disney version) were made, Belle would be a biker chick. Now, most people would've just given said friend a funny look and changed the subject, but in the interest of science, I had her elaborate... This happens a lot, though, so I'm used to it. ** Well, let's hear it. Why would Belle be a biker chick? *** Apparently her desire for adventure proves that, were she in the modern world, she would be a biker chick. I'm sorry to say I can't really elaborate much, as the conversation was several years ago and I don't remember most of it. * An overly large proportion of this troper's conversations with his dormmates involves SuperSmashBros or video games in general. We're all nerds, and he suspects that this is endemic to the lifestyle. * In what may be an odd mixture of SeinfeldianConversation and {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, this troper once had the opportunity to discuss, with classmates, the question of "Who would win, a homicidal robot or a suicidal robot?" After first redefining homicide to include robots, of course. (While one would think the scenario is win-win, the conclusion was that it depended on the intentions of the suicidal robot. If it was trying to die by some other method, the homicidal robot wins. Contrariwise, the suicidal robot could have developed an [[BatmanGambit elaborate scheme]] to dupe the homicidal robot into killing it, thus achieving victory.) * This troper and his best freind once had a two hour conversation on whether or not a preying mantis would make an appropriate little brother. ** How well do you get along with your sister-in-law now? * This troper and his friends have had two separate conversations about the order they would die in if they were in a horror movie. For the record, this troper, being the designated nerd and comic relief, dies in the middle. ** This troper had a similar conversation with a friend and is currently attempting to write it as a screenplay. ** All of my conversations with a large group of friends have ended this way, and for the record, we have decided that in any given story, based on Idealism/Cyncism, and even what role I would play:

*** Full cynic story, I live. (Cynic Story = Killer/ {{The Libby}} Wins Because Evil is Better) **** Unless I am a {{Jerk With A Heart Of Gold}}, in which case I save the hero and am forced to watch how my efforts are in vain, causing my [[FaceHeelTurn descent]]. *** 4/5 Cynic, I live. (Bad people face no consequences.) *** 3/5 is where it gets intresting. I either die to redeem myself {{Redemption Equals Death}}, am {{Hoist By His Own Petard}}, die because I am the killer, or save the hero {{Heroic Sacrifice}}. 3 in 4 chance I'm dead. *** 2/5 Equal Chance Life/Death. HOW I die is debated. (Main Villian, {{Jerkass}}, Heroic Sacrifice, {{Death By Genre Savvy}}...) *** 1/5 Screwed if I am the villian. Live anytime else. *** Full Idealistic, Live Regardless. * [[{{Tropers/Heatherly}} This troper]] once, I swear to God, had the following conversation with twelve-year-old sister and ten-year-old brother: --->'''Sister:''' "Did you know smoking can make hairs grow on your tongue?" --->'''Troper:''' "What?" --->'''Sister:''' "Smoking can make you grow hair on your tongue. I read it on the internet." --->'''Troper:''' "No, it can't. You can't trust everything you read on the internet. Anyway, it's the medicine they give you for emphysema, which is a disease you can get from smoking, that makes hairs grow. And that's on your face, not your tongue." --->'''Sister:''' "Emphysema?" --->'''Troper:''' "Yeah. Grandpa Fred has it." --->'''Sister:''' "I thought he was dead." --->'''Troper:''' "No." --->'''Sister:''' "Who gets his stuff when he does die?" --->'''Troper:''' "His wife." --->'''Sister:''' "He has a wife?" --->'''Troper:''' "Yeah. Mom's stepmom, Goldina." --->'''Sister:''' "Goldina?!" --->'''Brother:''' (walking in): "Who's that?" --->'''Troper:''' "Mom's stepmom." --->'''Sister:''' "I can't believe Mom has a stepmom!" --->'''Troper:''' "Mom's had a stepmom for, like, ten years. Where've you been?" --->'''Sister:''' "Well, I didn't know. I thought he just ran off." --->'''Brother:''' "How can a stepmom be a 'he'?" --->'''Troper:''' "Not her, Grandpa." --->'''Brother:''' "Grandpa who?" --->'''Troper:''' "Grandpa Fred." --->'''Brother:''' "Oh. [[DidAKoreanPersonDie Didn't he die]]?" ** But smoking CAN make tiny black hairlike things grow on your tongue, if you have poor oral hygiene. It's more likely to be caused by intravenous needle use, though. * [[{{Nomic}}This troper]] has conversations like this often. Once he was having a serious conversation about the American right to bear arms that eventually ended up mutating into a discussion about the

merits of airplane mounted gatling cannons and wheter or not a battleship armed with a railgun is actually useful, not necessary or just too cool not to be built. * This troper and her friends recently had a conversation discussing the whole "glass half full, glass half empty" idea through a logical and contextual standpoint. They decided that a glass was half full if you poured something in it to the halfway point, and half empty if you took out half of whatever was in it. They were fairly into it (almost to the point of debating) before this troper paused and asked "why are we ''having'' this conversation?" ** This troper has come to the exactly same conclusion. ** This troper has had a similar conversation with her friends. We nearly concluded that a glass can't be just half full (since the other half is full of air), but then one of us decided to place the glass in a vaccuum. We somehow ended up talking about cheese. It was awesome. ** A glass that's half full can't also be half empty; it'd have to be less than half. To be both, the amount of liquid would have to be half of the glass's capacity exactly, to the molecule; and in most cases it wouldn't stay that way, thanks to either evaporation or condensation. ** [[{{Tropers/Hremsfeld}} This Troper]]'s father has [[ six]] glasses about this topic: --> '''Optimist:''' The glass is half full --> '''Pessimist:''' The glass is half empty --> '''Engineer:''' The glass is twice as big as it needs to be --> '''Quantum Physicist:''' The glass has a 50% probability of holding water --> '''Philosopher:''' If no one looks at the glass, who's to say how full or empty it is? --> '''Accountant:''' Does the glass really ''need'' all that water? *** [[FridgeLogic Wouldn't]] the quantum physicist [[SchrodingersCat say the same thing]] as the philosopher did? *** This troper saw shirt with even more on it once, including the awesome '''Nihilist:''' The Glass is Broken. ** This Troper's father writes a Christmas letter every year, and the one from when this troper was about 3 says somewhere: --> '''Dad:''' The glass is half full. --> '''Mom:''' The glass is half empty. --> '''Older brother:''' Hey! Who stole some of my juice! --> '''This troper:''' Lucky! Lucky! Lucky! I've got some juice! *** One of this troper's favorite New Yorker comics ever is a picture of three such glasses, captioned: ---> '''Optimist:''' Half Full ---> '''Pessimist:''' Half Empty ---> '''Optometrist''': Half A Glass Of Water * Averted with me. I often bring up extremly trivial topics, but noone really ever responds, and if they do, I don't ever really respond. * This troper recently had a conversation on a bus that started with how in school suspensions are stupid, shifted to discussing Anarchist Communism, and concluded with the idea that there is no reason for sentient robots to not kill humanity. * When this troper discussed how gerbils can fly and hamsters can't. According to me, gerbils could fly if they use their little tails like

helicopter rudders. Of course, it was also a [[MushroomSamba mushroom samba]] scene because I was on-my-ass high on pain meds after getting surgery on my leg. * [[Tropers/BladedSmoke This troper]] had an hour-long conversation with one of his friends about which plant would win if every type of plant in the world got together for a massive [[BattleRoyaleWithCheese fight.]] We eventually concluded that it would end in a final epic showdown between the Venus fly trap and the oak tree. Unfortunately, this was on a long bus journey for a school trip, and one of our teachers was sitting behind us and listening fascinated to every word. At the end of the trip, everyone got awards, and ours was a joint prize for 'Most bizarre conversation.' ** Why is that unfortunate? That's mildly awesome. * This troper's friend once got a whole class arguing over whether turkeys can fly. * This troper and her younger sister somehow got into an extended conversation on the merits of the "Talking Face" sprites in ''HarvestMoon [[DistaffCounterpart DS Cute]].'' We couldn't decide which was scarier: Cody's [[http://www.fogu.com/hm6/img/chan3/villagers/cody_m9.png REALLYREALLYMAD!]] face or Gotz's [[http://www.fogu.com/hm6/img/chan3/villagers/gotz_p9.png REALLYREALLYHAPPY!]] face. Vesta, we decided, was just over-all freaky. But we both agreed that Carter had the best expressions overall--his [[http://www.fogu.com/hm6/img/chan3/villagers/carter_p500.png happy face]] is quite pleasantly cheerful, but his [[http://www.fogu.com/hm6/img/chan3/villagers/carter_m5000.png EPIC FACEPALM]] is completely hilarious, his hair get [[ExpressiveHair really expressive]] when he's [[http://www.fogu.com/hm6/img/chan3/villagers/carter_m800.png mad]], and his [[http://www.fogu.com/hm6/img/chan3/villagers/carter_m500.png mildly depressed]] face is so utterly pathetic that it just makes you want to [[TheWoobie pat him on the head and bring him milk and cookies.]] * This troper has Seinfeldian thoughts. During the first Obama / [=McCain=] debate, he was distracted by how the thin stripes on [=McCain=]'s tie were so close together the camera made them wiggly. That segued into a half-hour thought train on the evolution of neckties. It turns out their ancestry goes something like this: ** Animal skin tied around neck ** Cape/cloak ** Scarf ** Ascot ** Tie ** Please note, some links in the evolutionary chain may have been overlooked. *** Sorry to say this, but ties were invented to hide buttons on buttoned up shirts because they were supposed to be considered embarasing. * This troper had a really long talk about what would happen if the nazis could find their way to Narnia...

* This troper gets into Seinfeldian conversations often, but most notably, he and his family were discussing the merits of ice cream and the naming of furniture stores, when he noticed that they were having a Seinfeldian conversation. His younger sister said "Then I'm Kramer." His parents quickly claimed Jerry and Elaine, to which he responded "George is getting upset!" * This troper's ethics class has experienced considerable ScheduleSlip due to drifting from our usual SeriousBusiness philosophical discourse into convoluted discussions of semi-relevant issues like the morality of eating chocolate(does it matter if the chocolate is somehow nutritious? or what its cocoa content is?) and when it could be acceptable to bomb an actual tree (a StealthPun derived from the question of bombing an enemy nation's nuclear power plant which for some reason was inhabited by little children). * This troper had an argument with her sister concerning the St. Ives riddle. I don't quite remember how it started, or very much at all. I do, however, remember trying to figure out how the man would be going to St. Ives after my sister asked what would happen if the path was surrounded by lava. At one point, I think I also proposed killing the other man, his wives, the cats, and the kittens, which then led to her mentioning zombies or necromancy. * [[Tropers/PG556 This troper]] outright loves conversations that go for an hour, and end up having nothing to do with the original topic. It's always amusing when someone starts talking about, say, the economy, and through the evolution of the discussion, end up arguing over which is better- Warhammer Fantasy or Warhammer 40K? (NB- not an actual conversation I've had, I honestly can't remember them since they are so random) * A sadly lost video clip showed [[Main.AnthonyMercer this troper]] and his friends starting a conversation with one of them pretending to spray another with furniture polish - which, obviously, led to us talking about exactly how leprechauns talk... * This troper does this on a regular basis- almost all the time in fact. * [[Tropers/ZanderSchubert This troper's]] history tutorials sometimes delve into this. Our group was discussing the Holocaust, when someone mentioned the horrific film footage they took of it. It then became a conversation about why videos of YouTube have to be split up, and ended with the statement "Everything I learnt about evolution, I learnt from Pokemon." At that point, the tutor wanted our groups to get back together so we could get back on topic... * In addition to the heated "Gotham City: New York vs. Chicago" argument somewhere above, [[Tropers/TromboneChild this troper]] and her mother had recent conversation in which they labelled each character from ''WinnieThePooh'' with a psychological disorder: Pooh has Asperger's Syndrome, Piglet and Rabbit have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Owl has a narcissistic personality disorder, Tigger has a serious case of ADHD, and [[TheEeyore Eeyore]] is a major-depressive. * [[{{Tropers/Max}} This troper]] and his friend once had a half-hour conversation describing how best to survive a ZombieApocalypse. ThisTroper put forth the idea that, since most Wal-Marts are located next door to Home Depots, a Wal-Mart would be easily defendable, with

a bit of work. He then proceeded to write a long, long list on all of the steps that should be taken. ** This troper is convinced that if you had enough people to properly secure the garage doors, a Costco would be the absolute perfect place to survive an infestation. And I can argue it endlessly. * This Troper spent a whole period (50 min) talking about if a man had sex with a female horse, would a centaur be born? (Seriously, can someone answer this for me?) ** No. Very no. ** [[{{YouFailBiologyForever}} Genetics does not work like that]] ** But...doesn't [[GenderEqualsBreed gender equal breed?]] *** It doesn't explain why you'd ''want'' to bang a horse, though... **** [[{{Rule36}} Actually...]] * This troper and his best friend once had a VERY long conversation. Eventually we reached the "how did we get to this topic" question and went backwards through the daisychain of barely-related topics to figure out what started the whole thing. Surprising to say the least. * [[Tropers/MrGuy This Troper]] has these ''constantly.'' Often, the result is an acknowledgement of the Seinfeldianess of the conversation. * This troper, at a [=McDonald's=] in New Jersey about 15 years ago, re-enacted a scene from Seinfeld with the [=McWorker=] playing the [[ButtMonkey patsy]] unwittingly to a T. I ordered a Quarter Pounder with Cheese and a medium fries. The patsy said "We have small, large, and super size" and I said "Wouldn't the large be medium and the super size be large?" and the [=McDrone=] repeated "We have small, large, and super size, sir." I said "fine, give me a large order of fries. But I'm going to call it a medium." * This troper and his brother have frequent conversations that fit this trope to a T. One of the more noteworthy examples started with how plants evolved to bear fruit (watching a documentary) and ended with whether or not Pineapples evolved to include animal digestion in their life cycle. On one hand, they don't rot in a way that promotes plant growth like more thin-skinned fruits. On the other, they have spikes growing out of their skin. Needless to say, "what were we just talking about?" is a very common phrase among us. * After this troper and her friends were interrupted at lunch by a nosy Assistant Principal, no one at the table could remember the topic of the previous conversation. Thus, we spent the rest of the period talking about figuring out what we'd been talking about in the first place - which eventually culminated in listing off random words that popped into our heads. Considering the topic we finally came up with was Viagra, it probably wasn't a very important conversation in the first place. * [[{{Tropers/Nettik}} This troper]] can't seem to remember the last time she DIDN'T have a SeinfeldianConversation. Some of the more recent ones that come to mind are "Why do the cologne commercials all feature gay guys?", "If you separated out males and females, would everyone turn gay?" and... there are some non-gay ones in there too. Really. * All of [[{{Tropers/Skazka}} this troper's]] conversations go like this. One conversation, in five minutes, encompassed [[TearJerker

dwarves at Auschwitz]] and then slingshot around to whether [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench "tuberculsen fingerwurm"]] means what it sounds like, and then to this troper's desire for a silver triquetra to wear, then what the heck a Luther rose is, then to why Elisabeth of Bavaria was called Sisi... and the rest of the conversation was just too weird to describe. ** Other conversations tend to swing back around to subjects like [[EvilIsSexy why some convicted criminals are so very sexy]] and [[DidNotDoTheResearch a nursing home in my neighborhood called the "Elysian Fields Rest Home".]] * This Troper and his friends have held long arguments in the halls at school over such topics as "yes" vs. "no" or "Are we arguing or not?" ** This Troper has fake arguments with one of his friends all the time. We have acknowledged that they are fake, but we rarely do it because it's simply funnier to pretend as if the arguments are real. Usually they culminate in giggle fits when one of us calls the other one fat, ugly, or gay. It's... more mature than it sounds, really! * Just today, this troper and a friend had a ten-minute debate about the logistics of using ducks as housing materials. They'd be ''great'' for waterproofing. * This Troper and his friend went on a long and detailed discussion on which would be worse: a zombie outbreak, or a robot revolution? Having saved this conversation, this Troper has thought off and on about making a video where the debate is played straight. * This troper's lunch peroid is completely made of this- so much that we now refer to the cafeteria as 'the diner'. * This Troper has these with her friends or by herself, once walking up to a friend and saying, "If you remind me, I'll tell you after class how I got from sending myself an e-mail with an essay in English to singing 'My boots are better than your boots! My boots are better than yours! My boots are better because they aren't squeaking! My boots are better than yours!'". This troper's friend was intrigued and was treated to an explanation involving forgotten book reviews and trips to the craft store.\ ** ...Do tell? * At my old-school, me and my friends did this ''all...the...time''. It's like all our conversations were Seinfeldian. * This Troper seems to be a Seinfeldian ''Magnet''. A mention to a freind of hers about how many [[LesYay lesbians]] there are in the webcomics she reads turned into a deep discussion about homophobia and transphobia, which turned into how odd [[FootFocus foot fetishes]] are. yeah. And stuff like this happens on an almost daily basis. * Whenever someone loses their train of thought, this troper muses as to its current whereabouts. I'm under the impression the trains can only travel along tracks, meaning its pretty hard to lose them unless they get derailed. Come to think of it, what kind of stations do trains of thought travel between? It would seem that your brain has to be the station it started at, but its destination has always been a bit fuzzy. Now, if we had two-way telepathy, the analogy might be a little less confusing; we have a station the train starts at, and a station the train arrives at, but I'm still not sure how you'd lose it...

** This Troper has managed to think up an explanation: going with the train analogy, the "train of thought" is an idea, but in the abstract sense. Discussing and expanding on the idea is the equivalent of having passengers board/depart, while the rails are stuff like talking, IM-ing, etc. * Do NOT sit in [[{{chitoryu12}} this troper's]] car with him and his mother. They can get into a conversation about anything and spend an entire half-hour talking endlessly about it. * Most of this troper and her best friend's conversations add up to this, when they're not plotting. We've taken to calling the chatroom, which has four regular members including the two of us, "the Lucky Star of dAmn." Even weirder, she acts almost exactly like Konota and I have quite a lot in common with Miyuki. We have nicknamed each member accordingly. * [[{{Tropers/Lullabee}} This troper]]'s younger sister and their mum once had an ''argument'' about whether the cone in a Friendly's Hidden Cone Sundae is actually hidden or just buried in the ice cream. Honestly. I don't mean they were just cross with each other and seized the opportunity to argue, I mean this almost seemed to really trouble them. And it didn't seem to cross their minds that it is hidden ''by'' being buried in the ice cream. * When I'm hanging out with people who I don't necessarily talk to much, and there's a lull in conversation, I'll throw out "Hey, how 'bout them Wiggles?" purely because it prompts a SeinfeldianConversation more often than not. Frequent sub-topics are [[JonasQuinn Greg the Yellow Wiggle's replacement by Sam]], Jeff's narcolepsy, and the videos or concerts we saw as kids. * Most of [[Tropers/AXavierB this troper's]] online conversations consist of this. Recently, we spent about five minutes arguing about whether frying pans should be called "skillets" or "sauce pans". We also had a discussion on whether [[FullmetalAlchemist Edward Elric]] counts as a {{bishonen}} or not. * Oh god. This Troper and his friend thrive on this sort of thing, preferably loudly and in the middle of a hallway. We have debated doorknobs, exerting effort and all sorts of meaningless things. * This troper was hiking up a mountain when she asked the age old question (and she actually referred to it as an age old question) "What would happen if a werewolf bit a vampire?" [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued.]] ** Nothing, the vampire's already dead. Now, a vampire trying to vamp a werewolf, there's something else. * This troper once got into a long conversation with her mother about all the cars the family had ever leased. Her sister listened through the entire conversation and when it was over said "Great conversation [troper], you should tell it at parties! Make friends in college!" * This troper and her mother once had a conversation about what our cats would sound like if they could have human voices (as in, which actresses would voice them in a movie). * This troper easily engaged in such discussions with his class mates during lunch when he was in high school. These alwas seemed to end up discussing feces in some way, ending with one or more of the ones eating nearby telling us to shut up. Sometimes we did it intentionally

just to shake up the appetite. Odd times indeed. * Don't ask how but this troper and his friends were able to have a long, in depth conversation...about an NPC who's only role is to announce the villain and get killed. * [[Tropers/{{Sketchpad}} This Troper]] and her friends once had a fifteen minute conversation about why water can't have negative calories. There was also another conversation (this troper doesn't remember how it started) about how weird/creepy fetishists are, specifically foot fetishists and S&M fetishists. A different time they conversed about how black lemonade would taste. * This Troper and his friends have lost a whole Dungeons and Dragons session debating over the rules and ethics of a [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]. ** Another conversation led to the racial connotations of Disney's cartoons, and whether the Red Guy from the Cow and Chicken/I.M. Weasel cartoons are one guy, multiple guys with a good social network, or a Borg-esque collective * [[Tropers/JapaneseTeeth This troper]]'s entire time in high school was a long string of this kind of thing. Like speculation about what [[TheBible Biblical characters]]' favorite foods would have been[[hottip:* :Goliath likes deep-dish supreme pizza. And Gideon likes corn. Off the cob.]]. * Once upon a time I had a conversation with three other people about the effectiveness and appropriate use of Z-snaps. Like "-snap snap snap snap- Oh you did not just go there, girlfrieeeend~" ....Or something. Glorious other conversations include whether or not waffles could be used as currency based on size and shape(pancakes would be like cents compared to waffledollars) and the possibilities if Pokemon were real. Which is terrifying. Oh let's go bug-hunting and HOLY FUCKING SHIT GIANT BEES, SPIDERS, AND A MANTIS WITH SCYTHES. Wander into a cave and prepare to be assaulted by enormous bats and rock monsters that could EXPLODE AT ANY SECOND. * [[Tropers/RowsdowerSavesUs This troper]] and several friends once had an argument about the height of an average hobbit, the birthdate of The Immortal Bard, the inventor of paper plates, and whether pizza was truly Italian. This argument stretched on for two hours with no clear winner, and no clear answers, or clear purpose for the original argument. * [[Tropers/CorporealWolf This Troper]] has spent 3 hours chatting with a friend about nearly every aspect of Pokemon. Which Pokemon were best in stats, best in concept, most awesome, most RuleThirtyFour perversion potential, what the devs were thinking when adding HotSkittyOnWailordAction,what Pokemon would be the best to mix together for more awesomeness and what I do in my spare time. Tyranitar and Metagross were decided the overall best Pokemon for everything. We ended up with "Metatar". It's about as awesome as it sounds. ** There was also another conversation I had with a few other friends resulting in the creation of the Rhinorhinorhino. Basically, 3 rhinos fused together at a point. After a bit of we decided where it would be fused together. Nobody remembers though. * At lunch, a person ThisTroper was sitting with mentioned that a

friend of a friend has given eight-and-half blowjobs in her lifetime. The conversation then shifted as to how you could only give "half" a blowjob. Then if wether or not a girl (or boy) had to take the entire penis in her (or his) mouth for it to technically count as a blowjob, or if simply likcing the shaft qualified. '''Then''', since we rationalized that the person doing the blowing would have to use their hand to manipulate the organ at some point, would that be a dualqualifier as a handjob as well, or is any hand-contact canceled out by oral stimulation? We were in sixth grade at the time. ** I believe I know you. Did you then go on to discuss whether or not masturbating during sex with someone else is actually masturbating? * My friends and I had a discussion on whether or not purple is a color, if it is a color if it is a shade of violet, if Indigo really exsits, and on whether a range of colors is considered definded in its range or is approximations. '''IN ENGLISH CLASS WITH THE TEACHER INVOLVED.''' * Expect this to occur every time Enkufka and his [[VitriolicBestBuds best friend]] see each other, on topics ranging from gun mechanics to calculus to philosophy to Elephants to if there actually ''is'' a present. I argue that there is. It's under the tree. Your thoughts, TVtropes? * The Nationstates forum is MADE of this. * Me and my friends had an argument over the exact definition of vampire, and whether or not sparklepires count. That somehow moved on to an argument over the mechanics of zombies and whether or not 28 days later style infections count as zombie infections. We also have daily arguments over who would win in a fight between Bruce Lee, Jesus, and Chuck Norris? We eventually agreed that Batman would win. * My mother and I once had a whole discussion about the song "It's Raining Men". Did a bunch of average Joes suddenly get teleported into the sky, or was it more of a spontaneous generation sort of thing? Do they just go splat upon hitting the ground, or does some supernatural force make sure they land unharmed? Perhaps they all have parachutes. * This is ''every'' conversation between this troper and his {{Nakama}}. Topics can range from making fun of video games to things such as the melting temperature of turkey. --> '''Friend 1:''' ''(picks up his turkey melt sandwich)'' I wonder when turkey actually ''would'' melt. --> ''(Others think for a moment.)'' --> '''This troper:''' Well, first, you'd need to put it in an oxygenless environment. It'd burn otherwise. --> '''Friend 2:''' And get all the water out of it, too. --> '''This troper:''' So, you'd need turkey jerkey in a nitrogenfilled oven if you were going to liquify it. --> '''Friend 1:''' But then it's not turkey anymore. --> '''Friend 2:''' You know, if [other friend] was here, he'd probably ask what would be wrong with setting it on fire. ** We also have a long list of favorite and personal [[MemeticMutation memes]] that will get any of us laughing. * If you cannot have these conversations, we cannot be friends, because this happens all the time with all of my closest friends. This is how we get to know people. We've had lengthy discussions about

whether or not "Rainbow" is a colour, and spent a long time defining new emotions such as, 'I want it' (Yes, that IS an emotion) and arguing over the important distinction between 'stuff' and 'things'. This is just the way we think. Don't judge it; love it. * This troper judges how comfortable she is with people by how easy it is to start up these with them. * Pretty much how this Troper starts conversations. * This editor has this kind of conversations with people he barely knows. Not so long ago he had a conversation on why are [[HeroicMime silent protagonists]] silent. We came up with some interesting [[EpilepticTrees conclusions]]. We also ended up discussing if [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] is gay, for some reason. We also have discussions on [[TrollFic legendary badfic]]... [[HansVonHozel danube]]... what the hell is it supposed to mean? We have theories for that too. Not only that, but we have begun to use 'danube' in regular conversations. People don't usually understand what we are [[TheUnintelligible danubing about]]. * This troper is incapable of not speaking in these. Due to vast quantities of Whedon, Tarantino, and eccentricity, I always have weird, rambling conversations. Even with myself. * A couple friends and I were in history. The assignment was to form groups and discuss the ethics of bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Our conversation started with theorizing that the Japanese were taking their revenge quietly by becoming famous producers of electronics/appliances, and secretly making them mecha that would wake up as soon as the American public was lulled into complacency. It evolved into a discussion of what kitchen appliances would be the most dangerous if they came to life. Protip: don't ever let your blender see where you keep your knives. * I once started a debate with my friends over [[HarryPotter whether Felix Felicitas could help one overcome the effects of Veritaserum]]. * [[ManCalledTrue This troper]] has had to, on multiple occasions, recap the last three to four topics of conversation to find what needed to be discussed. Most recently, he engaged an IM friend in a battle of surreal taglines ("The stuff you find on your porch after the rain"; "The barbed wire around a [=McDonald's=] ball pit"). * Me and my brother once had a conversation about how to power a small radio station,. I suggested a windmill, but he wanted to do a nuclear reactor. I told him that the components for said reactor would cost to much, and that there would be no use for all the fire alarms we would have to scrap. He tried to debunk my theory, saying that we could get the same materials needed at Wal-mart for under $500. We stretched our conversation all the way to how the the massive radio interference would interrupt the hurricane warning signal to the neighborhood, and how tin foil would be a better conductor then an iron box due to it's commonness, making it easier to repair and replace. We was talking bout this with my brothers friends at Golden Coral, on his birthday. We got strange looked from everyone else, I mean, two Asian guys, a black guy, a Mexican, seven white hillbillies, and an old dude was talking about how to power their radio. * This troper had a conversation on Muffins and Muffin Tops. With his friends. After buying a muffin, and the defining characteristics of

muffins. Then a friend noted that the conversation was something off Seinfeld. * This troper and his friendsa do this a LOT. * This troper does this fairly often. One that comes to mind is semiseriously debating what kind of donut Thoreau preferred with her father, which turned into a drawn-out inside joke. * This troper and his friends are practically MADE OF THIS TROPE. * This troper's 300-level animal science class once spent a whole three-hour lab discussing how to make fire-breathing sheep. And then how to make them fly. The professor participated in this discussion (heck, he started it). ** This troper's animal nutrition class also once spent an hour discussing how one might theoretically create zombie cattle via use of a BSE (aka mad cow)-type agent. * This troper and his friends once spent over three hours discussing what constitutes as breakfast, lunch and dinner. (Exmple: "If you wake up at noon and have a sandwich, is it lunch, or breakfast?") * This troper doesn't describe himself as a pontificator of preposterous premises for nothing. I once spent an entire evening discussing the monarchist subtext of [[BeautyAndTheBeast]] and had a philosophical debate over Facebook with my brother about how he was in the next room, going into the subjectivity of distance and an existential outlook on reality. The latter stemmed from him berating me for talking to him on facebook when he was right in the next room. Back to [[SeinfeldianConversation Seinfeldian...]] ...Hey, have you ever noticed how they make pinatas have that paper fur, even when they're not of "furry" things? Does that mean the object the pinata represents is a "furry" version of that object, like a fuzzy treasure chest? What is ''up'' with that? * Maybe the weather in Pinataland is really cold so they need the fur to stay warm? ** But why would treasure chests need to stay warm? Perhaps they're insulating the contents. Like a Thermos flask. Hey, how do Thermos flasks work, anyway? *** Mostly by exploiting the properties of a vacuum as they pertain to heat transference. But if a pinata worked like that, would it implode? **** Pinatas are in a delicate balance and all it takes for them to implode, or explode, is one good whack. it throws off their homeostasis and they bleed candy as a result. * I once had a conversation with two others revolving around butts becoming numb when sitting too long. This was even lampshaded by someone else. * I often commit this trope, since I like to think about things no one else does (that's a good mindset, right?) * Yeah, this [[{{Tropers/Stormofscript}} troper]] does this all the time. He will frequently discuss things that have little correlation to the subject at hand in class, much to the frustration of some of his teachers. Especially his Biology teacher, who doesn't know the answer to some of his questions, like whether cloned goat meat tastes different than regular meat. They all get used to it eventually though, and the information he gets is both intruiging and the sheer

strageness of them is good for a few laughs. Also, this troper and his brother will typically go into detail discussions about correct grammar, such as whether maded is a word, and story devices, such as whether sterotypes are good to start off a story with. Then again, that's more due to the fact that we both love to read and write than anything. * Me and a friend, both being [[Cloudcuckoolander Cloudcuckooolanders]], are sometimes prone to this when chatting on MSN. Just now, we discussed Google Translate, and found out that instead of bad translations, it actually tells everyone's secrets. * [[@/{{Pastylover2}} This troper]] does this a lot because of his random nature. A question for you guys: [[Series/DoctorWho Who would win between a Dalek and a Weeping Angel?]] ** Also what if you see an Weeping Angel in the mirror? ** Is killing a dead guy still killing? * Conversations with This Troper's lunchmates tends to be this, occasionally overlapping with BlackComedy, as with a recent conversation about the best way to dispose of a dead body in a body of water. (Personally, this troper recamended chopping the body up, putting it in a plastic garbage bag, adding some rocks, tying it up as tightly as possible, and throwing it into the middle of the ocean from a helicopter. * This troper and her brother, on a regular basis. We've discussed everything from [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie trees]] (don't ask me how that works: all I know is that they can be defeated using sporks) to TimeTravel. Once, a friend of ours [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this as we chatted about what a [[CoolPet cool pet]] a bluejay would be. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SeinfeldIsUnfunny * Back in 7th grade, this troper had to compile an anthology of short stories along with a few other students. One of the stories we could pick from was TheMonkeysPaw. It didn't get picked because it was so "overused", although I argued that... well, SeinfeldIsUnfunny. * Though he really likes Led Zeppelin in general, [[{{Tropers/Emptyeye}} This troper]] has to remind himself of this effect whenever he listens to their debut album. The first time he heard it, his reaction was roughly "It's an album of really heavy blues. This is impressive...how, exactly?" He tends to forget that in 1969, ''no one had done 'really heavy blues' before'' and this was totally revolutionary. * This troper had to remind herself that the cliffhanger at the end of [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Best of Both Worlds Part I]] was really the first show to put in such peril to its lead character (and the TropeCodifier if not Maker for putting such a cliffhanger at the end of the season). Because watching it twenty years later, BrainwashedAndCrazy as a season-ender has been done. to. death. * My little sister tends to exclaim "You're not funny!" whenever she sees Jerry Seinfeld in the recent adverts for the Greater Building

Society (it's Australian). [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife I immediately thought of the trope page]]. ** The networks also have a bad habit of picking the lowest common denominator of jokes in trailers. * I [[AvertedTrope generally avoid this trope as much as I can]], as I kinda look at things that were revolutionary for its time the same way it was years ago. * Would finding a work too similar to a better known project by most of the same people, only to find out it's slightly [[OlderThanTheyThink older than you thought]] qualify? I initially found Temple Of The Dog's only album to be good, but predictable due to sounding exactly like Pearl Jam but with Chris Cornell singing... Then I figured out the album came out a year ''before'' the first Pearl Jam album, and the same year Soundgarden had put out the much more metal-influenced ''Louder Than Love'': So at the time, it ''wasn't'' a self-derivative Pearl Jam/Soundgarden supergroup, it was a Mother Love Bone/Soundgarden supergroup (featuring backing vocals by some guy no one had ever heard of named Eddie Vedder) that actually sounded pretty different from either parent band. * [[MikeK I]] sort of have this problem with Bad Brains' ''I Against I'': I can't really get over its dated late 80's alt-funk-metal sound, despite the fact that there wasn't really a trend for combining those genres until a year or two later (although RedHotChiliPeppers and Faith No More were already around and covering somewhat similar ground). Earlier Bad Brains material manages to avert this: while they were very influential to hardcore in terms of speed and aggression, their songs were also generally more musically complex than their followers (the core of the band had previously worked together in a jazz fusion group, and it showed a little). * If you think about it, this happens a lot. Here's a few things that I only realized with some 20/20 hindsight... ** Citizen Kane is boring to you? Well, nobody had ever done anything like it. At the time, it was riveting. ** The Exorcist doesn't scare you? Well, at the time, it was groundbreaking. Nobody was doing anything like that. *** I was just thinking about this. I was old enough to remember the hype about The Exorcist when it came out, but not old enough to see it. When I did finally see it on video in the late eighties, my reaction was along the lines of "This is what all the hype was about?". Of course, this was after seeing dozens of films inspired to a greater or less extent by The Exorcist, and knowing the outlines of the plot from cultural osmosis. It must have been very different to see the film in its original release. Perhaps a slot in the main entry is justified? ** Jimi Hendrix sounds self-important, pompous, and not very entertaining to you? That's because every guitarist ever since has borrowed extensively from him. * This troper doesn't laugh when he considers that the cutscenes in ''{{Lunar}}'' were actually rather new. * This troper's cousins complained about ''OcarinaOfTime'' and how terrible its graphics were compared to ''TwilightPrincess'' (and therefore making the game itself a bad one). Both this troper and her

brother wanted to smack them over the head with a couple of two-byfours because way-back-when, those graphics were ''revolutionary''...and the graphics shouldn't even BE the sole defining factor of a game's quality. ** This troper, who grew up on [[Game/TheLegendOfZelda The original Zelda]] and didn't even get to touch OOT until she was in her ''thirties'', would have been very happy to help you introduce your cousins to the blunt end of a clue-by-four. Her family never went beyond the Super Nintendo when she was growing up, so it's only in adulthood that she's retroactively getting to experience the parts of the series that came out prior to TP. They're ''all'' glorious. ** This troper, despite the risk of blunt cranial trauma, also feels this way about OcarinaOfTime, although not for the graphics. My first game was [[TheLegendofZeldaOracleGames Oracle of Ages]], didn't play [=OoT=] until I preordered TheWindWaker, and didn't finish it until just a few years ago. I realize that some (read: most) people think it's one of the best games ever, but I don't have the same nostalgia filter for that game like I do for games like SuperMarioWorld. * This troper, without giving specifics, influenced a type of Youtube comedy video that has been copied (probably) over a hundred times. This troper's videos are often criticized for "ripping off X or Y's jokes" when that particular joke originated with his videos. * When this troper watched ''Wrath Of Khan'' for the first time, all he could think of in some scenes (apart from [[LargeHam "KHAAAAN!"]]) was "Wow, this is like a movie of ''MassEffect''." Not so much unfunny or bad, as I still really enjoyed it, but that's still pretty backwards. * [[{{Tropers/FabianCH}} This (19-year old) troper]] has, for a while now, enjoyed rediscovering how ingeniously many tropes were used when they were new. Most recently, he was pleasantly surprised at the explicitness of the earliest {{James Bond}} movies. * This Troper loves PinkFloyd but finds ''TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' SoOkayItsAverage (compared to other Floyd albums at least), even though the songs are still very good. He'd rather listen to ''Wish You Were Here'', ''Meddle'' or even ''Animals'' in one playthrough. * This is a pretty vicious circle for most equal rights/liberation movements. The minute you have some rights, the upcoming generation, who is already accustomed to having those rights, not only doesn't realize why continuing the struggle is important, they have nothing by which to gauge the struggle that has already taken place, and are likely to regard the oldsters banging on about it as tedious old farts going on about nothing, when they're the ones who made it possible for such a perspective even to exist. Feminist and LGBT rights movements, I'm looking at you. (''Especially'' the latter -- it is literally ungraspable to a lot of people that homosexuality was ''against the law'' in Canada within my dad's lifetime, or that we've only been in the Constitution since after I came out.) ** Even more true with the US. Sodomy was illegal here in many states until like, six years ago. * This troper is an inversion. Having seen Seinfeld for the first time now, a few weeks ago it was much funnier than most of the other sitcoms airing nowadays.

* This hit me when i had discovered David Bowie the man invented enough genres that amazing albums like Lodger and Station to Station lose a bit of their oomph. * I was talking to my father about Eagles ([[SpellMyNameWithAThe or is it]] TheEagles?) and I said that they turned rock and roll into old people music. He invoked this trope on me, saying they were revolutionary back in the late 1970's. * It's kind of annoying when the uber obsessed anime fans decry American animation as inferior, particularly Disney. I love anime too, but here's a news flash: the father of anime, OsamuTezuka, was inspired by the animation and designs of WaltDisney cartoons. Also note that if it wasn't for Disney, animation probably wouldn't be taken very seriously, AND he developed a lot of animation techniques that are even used today. * This troper just started watching {{Buffy The Vampire Slayer}}. Halfway through the first season and he has to keep reminding himself of this trope. * Some of my favorite works of art and entertainment are precisely the ones that fall victim to Seinfeld Is Unfunny. The reason? Often such a work was ''the only one of its era to be doing what it was doing'', so in hindsight it seems almost miraculous that it ever existed to begin with. This makes it revolutionary for me, and thus cooler. It can also help a great deal if you had never been exposed to a particular genre or fad to begin with; ''every'' example of that genre or fad, no matter its era, will seem fresh to you then. I, for example, didn't get into heavy metal music until college; up until that point, my favorite rock tunes had mostly been oldies, pop, and soft rock. So when in 2002 I purchased a CD reissue of JudasPriest's ''Sad Wings Of Destiny'' from 1976 (which in '76 was only available in Great Britain, and on a minor record label), I listened to some of the songs and thought: "This is ''awesome''!" Then, a couple of years later, I purchased a CD of BlackSabbath's ''Paranoid'' (which is from ''1970'', for goodness's sakes!) and was absolutely ''terrified'' by the song "Iron Man!" As I became more knowledgeable about heavy metal, these '70s albums no longer seemed so unique or daring to me - but I could still appreciate them for forging such uncertain frontiers during a decade when ''disco'' was the most mainstream form of music! I mean, that's almost anachronistic if you think about it. * I did a report on the cultural impact of the Jews on America using AndyKaufman as my prime example. I had to spend about five minutes explaining to the class that no, ''no one had done an Elvis impression in an act before''. (I also had to explain that Kaufman's foreign man persona was just a character, but that is not this trope.) * Kinda what I think of PokemonRedAndBlue... unlike many others, I didn't grow up with them from an early age, having Crystal as my first game instead. I actually only got to try Blue a few years ago, a while after Diamond/Pearl were released, and honestly... I didn't think it was very impressive compared to the new games. (The glitches were fun, though) * This troper's first Resident Evil title was ResidentEvil4, mostly because I heard it was great [[SoCoolItsAwesome (and was it ever)]] and I was finally old enough to get it without any conflict. Then I

decided I wanted to try the other games in the series out. Naturally, I started with the first Resident Evil (I skipped ResidentEvil0 because it wasn't available), or rather, the GameCube REmake. When I popped it in... I was confused and a little bit upset. What followed was one of the biggest EpicFail moments in gaming history. ** The camera surprised me. I didn't know 4 was the first to use the Third Person POV until I went to this site (meaning I [[WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllOfThis should have just looked on YouTube to find a video, or something)]] The constant changing camera threw me for a loop as well. ** The control. This is COMPLETELY my fault, as I seem to have a CameraScrew and InterfaceScrew logged into my brain, or something. I dunno, at first it seemed like Chris/Jill would only run into walls when I wanted them to go straight (not knowing that I was an idiot and had to put myself in their POV) ** Combat. I couldn't see if my bullets were even hitting the zombie. Wow, I'm stupid. ** To add insult to injury, the store didn't even check the disks, as they were both damaged on the left side. In short, my younger self whined more than the IrateGamer until he buckled down and learned how to play. It's not as good as 4, but it's still a great game. ---Why did the Troper cross the Road? To get back to SeinfeldIsUnfunny... what do you mean that joke's not funny? It was back then! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SeizaSquirm * Also happened during this Troper's kendo class, with the newbies notably being unable to stay in seiza for too long. The usual punishment for excessive squirming was to recite the ''very long'' oath this particular kendo school says at the beginning of class, ''all in Japanese''. * This troper is developing bone spurs on her knees and insteps from sitting in ''seiza'' during iaido and kendo practice. * This Troper has no trouble sitting like this whatsoever, but is by no means graceful.I just do it automatically. ** Some people are just genetically predisposed to sitting in seiza. My brothers and I, as well as most people on my mother's side of the family have no trouble at all with sitting in this position, but my dad can't do it and neither can any of my relatives on his side of the family. However, as a tradeoff of sorts, I can't sit crosslegged without having something to brace myself on to avoid falling over backward... ** This troper has never had a reason to practice sitting ''seiza'', but is capable of doing it comfortably. She is also capable of entering and exiting the position without using her hands or separating her knees and ankles, and of sitting in a similar position with her feet beside her hips instead of under them for an even longer period. She also likes to sit with her knees pulled up to her chest

when in a chair and to crouch like a frog (or, as her mother claims, a small raptor) on the floor. She can sit cross-legged, but really doesn't enjoy it and tended to get in trouble at school for pulling her knees to her chest (the inability to do this without [[PantyShot showing her underwear]] is one of the reasons she likes the trope RealWomenNeverWearDresses). ** This troper has the same talent, but then is also extremely flexible... * In my [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iaido iaido]] class, we once spent several hours practicing proper posture for seiza position (since it's used heavily in iaido kata). We had to go from standing to seiza and back to standing all while ''balancing cups of water on our heads.'' * This troper can get into and out of the seiza position quite easily, but ''staying'' there... hoo, boy. Owie. ** Nor can [[@/SoWeAteThem I]]. I used to be able, back in elementary school, but evidently, I need to stretch more, especially since I'm about to take Japanese in college and don't know the teacher's position on the matter. * Thankfully our sensei doesn't really care if we sit in seiza or not, but it's a sort of unwritten rule that the higher ranks at least try it. [[{{Tropers/Latia}} This troper]] can't do it for too long, as it makes all the blood drain away from my legs and makes standing up a pain in the ass. * Note sure if this counts, but Muslim prayer posture includes sitting position that is very close to a Seiza position. The last posture in particular, places emphasis on the toe thumb pointing forward (ie, direction of Mecca) so this variant is even harder. Some Muslims doesn't do that, but most can follow a basic Seiza position...only for a few minutes, this troper included, playing this trope quite straight. * This troper used to have no trouble whatsoever with the seiza position, but an unfortunate injury to her ankle means that she starts fidgeting to get her weight off that foot after a short amount of time because the ankle doesn't like bending that way ---''Back to SeizaSquirm'' ----

SeldomSeenSpecies * One of this Troper's characters is a ferret-badger; a kind of mustelid that lives across Asia. On hearing the name, most people picture a ferret, a badger, or a made up hybrid of the two, which gets ''very'' annoying come comission time.

SelectiveEnforcement * This female troper regularly gropes other girls. As in, constantly. One day, she got suspension and alternative schooling for feeling up a female student. No one else was punished for the exact same thing, and

this troper finds it ironic that she got punished for that instead of the, say, sex at school, being high at school, selling drugs at school, fighting, rampant profanity towards teachers, arson, and carrying weapons. Selective indeed... ** Wait, did you do all that stuff or is it just stuff that happens there? * This troper, in 2 ways. The first is the actual trope with siblings, older and younger. The second, an inversion really. This troper can get away with anything, while others can't. Zero tolerance policy for fighting at school? No biggie. She once got a teacher to force a kid to apologize for being hit. Granted, he was rather... rude, but still. Getting near perfect grades helps. * RealLife: Any of us who grew up as "nerds" in the 1970's or earlier are quite familiar with this trope, as it constituted the bulk of our academic social life. The Nerd is attacked, either verbally or physically, but the UselessAuthorityFigure only sees the Nerd's reaction. So the Nerd gets in trouble. Again and again and again ... (And years of psychologists wonder where my deep-seated hostility to authority figures comes from ...) ** Not just nerds any longer, but anyone not in the status quo. Most likely because the nerds abandoned academia and the cheerleaders and footballers who got too fat to do either became teachers instead for the easy hours. (of course depending on country of origin, [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]]) ** Goddammit... this makes some things so much clearer in retrospective. My mother told me that teachers had told her exactly that thing about me. ** Yes, only in junior high school could crouching in a fetal position while getting the living snot kicked out of one be defined (and punished) as "fighting". ** Indeed. This troper, as a sweet little kindergarten girl, approached the PE teacher to complain, in tears of pain/fear/anger after being repeatedly assaulted with a pin by a boy. Guess who got in trouble! *** Ummm...the sweet little girl? **** The PE teacher! Wait no. ** This troper got in trouble for crying too much when a basketball was intentionally thrown at his face. The guy who threw it didn't even get a slap on the wrist. ** This troper was once harassed by an older student who would repeatedly "pants" him (pantsing-the act of pulling down someone else's pants for purposes of pissing them off). The teacher ignored him and brushed me off when I came to complain. Finally taking matters into my own hands, I was punished for pantsing him once. People wonder where I get this funny idea that everyone's out to get me. ** Ironically subverted for this troper. Whenever the other kids pushed me enough to finally [[BewareTheNiceOnes crack]], the teachers not only didn't punish me for fighting back, but even admitted that they perfectly understood why I would lose my temper. But the thought of getting special treatment led to me stopping retaliations altogether and even learning to control my temper more. Can't help but wonder if it was all part of a XanatosGambit on the teacher's part...

** Averted by ThisTroper, whose first fight nailed both parties in detention. Played straight by his brother who was constantly provoked and harassed by a person in his Confirmation class and was nearly denied the sacrament over it. ** ThisTroper had her things pushed off her desk by "accident". I ignored it. The teacher turns around. The same guy walks over and throws my stuff off in a way that pretty much says "I did it the first time on purpose". I yell at him. The teacher turns around and tells me to apologize to him for yelling at him because of an accident. I tried to explain what happened. She wouldn't listen and said apologize or get out. Guess who grabbed her stuff and silently walked out of the classroom. Since she didn't say how far out, I kept going and walked right out the doors of the school. She should really pay more attention to words, including her own. ** The "authorities" in my elementary school were retarded enough to pretty much reward the first person to do something bad, when they ''knew they did do someting bad on purpose''. I once even brought the prevalence of this trope in my school up to my teacher, who proceeded to give a response that made no goddamn sense, not because of flawed logic, but because it barely had anything to do with my qeustion. ** ThisTroper was regularly picked on for most of his school years by one particular [[TooDumbToLive dumbass]], and was constantly ignored by the adults because they thought that the problem could be resolved peacefully. [[ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer Yeah...]] ** ThisTroper got this (teachers ignoring constant bullying yet punishing occasional retaliation) for 7 straight years in primary school. Said troper changed schools 4 times, yet all 5 had the same problem. Said troper also ran into the other direction of this, but still the crappy side of it; Said troper's arm was broken, deliberately yet some faked tears on the part of the rensponsible were sufficient to get the principal to not punish her. This troper has episodes of wanting to pull a [[DeathNote Light Yagami]]. I wonder why... ** An example that sticks out in [[KingSonnDeeDoo This Troper's]] memory particuarly well, was during Cooking Class during the clean up. That particular lesson, said troper had got the job of drying up and another guy was putting away. Due to his ''constant'' griping over how she was doing the job, as well as small things (such as if there was a slight wet patch, or having a bubble left), and generally acting as a {{Jerkass}} to her, said troper eventually got fed up and ended up hitting him with the damp tea-towel. Due to it being a heat-of-themoment thing, she ended up hitting him ''across his eyes''.....and just at that moment, one of the strictest teachers in the school walked in, leading to this exchange. -->'''Teacher:''' * Troper's name* ! Apologise to * male* ! -->'''This Troper:''' .....Sorry. -->'''Guy:''' * Still reeling from the hit* S'okay. ** Freshman year, this troper was being sexually harassed in PE by a female student. Now. two things of note before I continue: when I get angry, I begin to cry, and this harasser had a friend about twice my height and weight, who'd step between us so I couldn't retaliate. Every-time I run to the teacher to report it, every-time the teacher

"lectures" the student, then ignores it. Finally, I kicked the big one, and the teacher sent us all to the office since "She can't ignore the issue when it comes to blows." On the upside, when the viceprinciple gave me a tap on the wrist, and suspended the two for a day from school, and half a week from class. The vice-principal also was vocal to the fact that he sympathized, and the PE teacher wasn't around the next year. * A well-known sibling-versus-sibling tactic (or, really, anywhere where children are in competition) is to subtly provoke the target, looking as innocent as possible, until the target explodes. At that point, [[WoundedGazelleGambit run to authority, claiming you are about to be murdered, and the target is punished]]. Works best when used against an older sibling--an older sibling claiming a younger one is going to attack him looks just a little silly! ** This troper's ''older'' sister does this, except this troper's parents are so [[GenreSavvy genre savvy]] that they never believe her. It sounds sort of redundant to mention this, but this troper is about one hundred pounds heavier than she is. ** Also a well-known cat-versus-cat tactic. ** My little sister does this ''constantly'', to the point that I have a bruise on my knee from where she constantly kicks me. Of course, she's seven and I'm seventeen. Guess who ''always'' gets in trouble for shouting at her? ** You guys won't believe this, but...my STEPMOM did this to me, growing up. When she really wanted to piss me off, she would stick her tongue out at me like a 6 year old. And as I got older, it got worse, to the point where she would shout obscenities at me, or tell me ''I'm the reason my mother drinks''...then whenever I finally snap (and in the "you made your mother an alchoholic" instance, called her a bitch), surprise surprise, she runs to daddy, or manages to have him witness my provoked reaction. And guess who he believes...''every'' time? When I told him she said I was the reason my mother drinks he turned to her, said "that's just abusive," and then ''instantly'' went back to agreeing with her that I was completely out of line and she was blameless. To this day my father and I have a strained relationship because of moments like this. Did I mention that very day she told me my mother drinks because of me, before we went home, she told my brother to beat me up, and the only reason he didn't is that I got to the car before he did and she called him off? And when I told my father this, he ''still'' couldn't find fault with her? I was punished severely. She walked off with a self-satisfied smirk. And I'm leaving out the worst part because this is getting too long. ** My little sister took this UpToEleven once: our parents were out shopping, and she decided she wanted to watch a show. Fine, considering we have THREE [=TVs=] ... but no, she wants to watch her show on the TV ''I'm'' watching rather than using one of the others. So when I tell her "No, go in the other room," she pitches a fit, then slinks off when I don't cave... and comes back to throw a kitchen knife at me. Then, when I get up going "WTF, sis?!", she takes off, locks herself in our parents' bedroom, and calls them screaming that I'm gonna kill her. Thankfully, they didn't believe her because she already had a history of "She hit me back!" and {{Wounded Gazelle

Gambit}}s at that point, as well as being a drama queen, but ''damn''. * Also a common tactic used by Internet trolls so they can keep trolling without actually getting busted by the mods is to constantly provoke a particular poster just within the bounds of the forum rules until said poster flips out. ** It's also common on sites like [=deviantARt=], which forbid trolling or encouraging trolling. You can slander someone all you want, as long as you don't name them directly. This leads to people having back and forth journal entries sniping at each other, until someone cracks, or the fans troll their opponent for them. * This Troper having experienced this trope and the neither party is innocent version growing up has learned to know when authority is present or there is a camera. * This Troper has dealt with an extremely aggravating girl in sixth grade. She was quite obviously skipping classes, and when I approached the teachers of aforementioned classes they explained they knew she was doing it, and were telling her to stop and whatnot, but for whatever reason weren't doing anything about it. She overheard and got on my case... by the last fourth of the year she was spreading rumors about my infinite vileness, just like everyone else in the grade (this, I knew, was fact). A few days later, justice was supposedly served - the school brought in two counselors. She was still saying ridiculous stuff, and when I found out again everyone simply said that I was trying to get attention and that the Almighty Counselors' Discussion couldn't have ''possibly'' not worked. * This is the story of my life. For instance, when I actually attempted to socialize in class, I was the one always busted for talking. One time we were doing an improve in Speech and Drama and I cussed and everyone was on my case about it all year, even though I was being insulted for no reason, and everyone else does offensive things all the time. All the other kids could be shouting and disrupting the class but I would be the only one busted, and I would be busted for DRAWING. Everyone else could be laughing, and I'd be yelled at for laughing. I used to get threatened on a daily basis in middle school, and my life was a living hell, but if I make one statement even remotely violent, I would be sent home. Same thing happened with my sister. Apparently, it was because we seemed like the types, ya know, outcast. When I tried to better myself by joining ROTC, other kids would drink, skip classes, ext., and merely lecture them a bit. I would wear my uniform a little less than perfect, and not only would the teacher be on my case, but also the same students who cut English that morning, and never let me live in down. By my junior year in high school, I stopped trying, and things have been a little better. * This troper (who will now talk in first person) wasn't exactly high on the social ladder in middle school. I also happened to be taller than most of the kids. One day, one of my tormentors (who was female) thought it would be funny to trip me while I was walking down the stairs. Two black eyes, a broken nose, and a chipped tooth later (I fell face first), I came back to school and confronted the her, but remained calm. She went batshit crazy, saying that it was an accident, and that I didn't get seriously hurt. Then she slapped my across the

face. With a book. Which happened to be "The Odyssey." Dazed, I backhanded her as hard as I could. Cue me getting suspended for a week. Oh, by the way, she got "a stern lecture" for tripping me. * [[Tropers/RedWren This troper]] would like to note that quite a lot of the time, it looks like this because everyone is punished in private. Because goodness knows the subversion made her do some things she shouldn't've... ** And, of course, sometimes played straight. I was accused of being a pusher (yes, as in trying to get people hooked on drugs), and the teacher would not care even if we were supposed to be singing and the student was talking to me instead. Luckily, the selective was to not punish the person who acted first, so... * This troper isn't the most social person there is and when she was 8, she was the best one in her classroom at a ton of stuff except for P.E. She was for some reason teased about it constantly. Constantly meaning during class, recess, when the teacher left for us to do homework, ETC. All the time. ALWAYS. Then when she finally snapped, knowing she'd get into trouble if she caused a fight, she grabbed a few of her crayons and broke them in half to avoid hitting the other kids on the face. Ended up being sent to the office because of it. Breaking my own #@$&ing pencil Crayons!!!. The ones who caused it were the victims of my illegal and horrible crayon breaking! they will be scarred for life wont they? I should be ashamed. * Subverted by ThisTroper. He gets this trope constantly, but when he gets in fights, he typically ends up rather severely injuring the other party, because he DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength. He does, however, feel justified in complaining that his school has invoked this rather badly at one point: the story is, he uses a laptop at school. He is currently on his second laptop, partly because the first one was stepped on and moderately badly damaged by a [[TheLibby Libby]] with something of a grudge against him. Of course, when he lashed out in his 'dangerous psychotic rage' and hit her (and was later told he induced all of a small bruise ... on the other shoulder), he was suspended for three days. Go figure. * As a babysitter, and now an aunt, I'd like to point out one justification for ''some'' instances of this trope: If the authority figure doesn't actually see the activities that led up to the blow-up, there's no way he can take the word of one kid over the other unless there's a proven track record of virtue (or vice) to go on. As you're noticing, some kids [[WoundedGazelleGambit lie to get other kids in trouble]], so... consider the scenario: ** ''Alice is babysitting Bob and Jim, ten-year-old twins. Alice leaves the room to go to the bathroom. When she gets back, Jim is on the floor squealing like a stuck pig; a toy (owned by both but more precious to Bob than to Jim) lies on the floor, broken. Bob claims that Jim wanted a turn at the X-Box and when Bob wouldn't give him a turn right away, Jim broke the toy out of spite; that's why Bob hit Jim. Jim claims that he accidentally sat on the toy, which broke a tiny decorative piece off, and even though Jim tried to apologize, Bob got so mad at the damage that he broke his toy the rest of the way and then hit Jim.'' *** If Bob's telling the truth, Jim is totally out of line and should

be punished. Bob should be punished for hitting, but the provocation was very one-sided and so perhaps the punishment should be light. *** On the other hand, if Jim's telling the truth, Jim shouldn't be punished at all, and Bob should be punished both for hitting Jim without cause and for breaking a toy in anger, especially one that wasn't entirely his own. **** And there's no real way to tell which punishment is appropriate, so you merely punish the one you're directly aware of, Bob hitting Jim. **** (On the up side, it's a perfect chance to teach the concept of "blessing by association" and "cursing by association": If one person does something bad, then other people, even innocent people, tend to suffer simply by being in the vicinity. Good reason to try to do good things instead of bad things (so you don't hurt other people), and to choose your friends wisely (so they don't hurt you or get you sent to jail or anything).) * My teachers mostly played this straight, too. I was picked on a lot in elementary school, but the second I lashed out -- which was normally more verbal than physical, using the same words I'd heard my parents use while driving and dealing with stupid inconsiderate drivers -- I got in trouble. Fortunately my mother tended to have a wry sense of humor about this, seeing as how I was just repeating what I'd heard her say. She often made jokes like "Should I write them a note saying 'I'm sorry your kid's such an asshole?'" ** This ''was'' partly averted at least once, though, when a kid threw rocks at me and I called him the usual name. That time, we ''both'' got in trouble -- however, the other kid was somewhat of a nerdy outcast himself, so... (I think he may have been picking on me in an effort to fit in, actually.) * [[PentiumMMX2 This troper]] has run into this quite a lot over the years; probably the most notable being back in 5th grade Sunday school (The year I dealt with a SadistTeacher who obviously preferred the girls). The other boys where talking trash about me and physically pushing me around, and yet, the teacher wouldn't do a thing about it (Keep in mind she was in the room as all that was happening). However, when I finally had enough and began to stand up for myself (It was more verbal than physical) the teacher finally took action...by punishing me for "misbehaving"; the other boys where free to continue harassing me with no fear of punishment. That was just part of the reason why I stopped going after only one day * This troper's middle school practically had this as a policy as far as the dress code was concerned. "Bad kids" could wear whatever the hell they wanted with almost no repercussions because teachers and assistant principles were so sick of dealing with them. But "good kids" couldn't show even a hint of midriff or wear a neckline even a hair lower than necessary without getting reprimanded and told how dissapointed everyone was with them, and being forced to wear the baggy T-shirts the school provided all day. * This troper's sister use to pull the WoundedGazelleGambit all the time. Mom's usual response was each to their own rooms(no TV, video games, etc). It wasn't until she finally started listening to me in high school that she understood what my sister was doing.

* My mom did the inverse. My brother beat me up and I got the same punishment for telling her that he did it. She favored him and didn't feel like differentiating the punishments. When I explained, I was punished worse. * My brother apparently used to have this until one of his provokers ended up going over a bannister and broke both his legs in the fall. I'm not sure how long my brother was suspended for as a result. I on the other hand now have a healthy reputation as a sociopath built from years of off-cuff comments and my general ability to fully segregate my cognition from emotion and even logic. * This troper remembers this trope applying to him during the latter part of primary school. One particular example was where two of his friends had an argument and decided to fight after school, this troper was unaware of this and found a large group of students surrounding them shouting at them as they [[ZeroChops "fought"]], not caring much about it he decided to just go home and leave the to morons to it, the next day he was summoned to the principal where both of the friends were, they were told to apologize to each other and think about how fighting is wrong, he was given a month's worth of detention because he should have taken responsibility and stopped them from fighting. * This troper's job is something like this. Most of the employees can be over on the other side of the story nattering at one another, but if I take out my Ipod when there's no one in the store, I get in trouble. ---''You'' may go back to SelectiveEnforcement, but ''you'' have to write an essay about why the loser is always wrong. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SelectiveSquick * This troper and a friend did this to each other. How? One of her fetishes is gay guys feeding each other with their mouths. One of mine is lesbian incest. * This troper wonders why Metal Gear Solid, a game aimed at primarily guys, puts so much HoYay in it. Come on, Kojima. ** So the explosions, blood, and bricks-for-shit are all just a masquerade? * This troper has recently been playing through the freshly released action game ''Bayonetta'', which takes the fanservice UpToEleven. I actually find the title character decidedly unattractive and everything she does to be trying way, way too hard... but the gameplay is good enough that I can look past it. * This troper actualy had some guy on Xbox Live on Halo 3 start masturbating after he said he was wearing a t-shirt. What made it creepier is that a f***ed up 5-year-old joined in too. Needless to say, I don't play Halo 3 anymore. * This troper has become a fan of some characters of whom she needed to [[DisContinuity forcibly remove]] one or two moments of their screentime. Robin Hood from [[Series/RobinHood the show of the same name]] had an awesome series introduction, but she more or less had to

ignore the fact that he was [[AManIsNotAVirgin sucking face with a random, inexplicalbly Medeval hawt chick for no good reason]]. Lyon, the kindhearted AntiVillain from FireEmblem 8 quickly established himself as one of her favorite FE bad guys, save for one moment when he equated being defeated by a woman as a reason he was too weak to be a leader. [[DeathNote Ray Penber's]] infamous {{Retirony}} speech pretty much ruined the entire point. Cid Highwind from FinalFantasyVII racked up at least ten thousand {{Badass}} points within three minutes of his introduction, but they disappeared just as quickly when she learned his verbal bullying of [[ExtremeDoormat Shera]] borderlines DomesticAbuse. * This troper knows a group of straight female fans of the ''RumbleRoses'' series, who enjoy the gameplay, the plots and the music rather than the JigglePhysics and girl-on-girl mud-wrestling the games are sold on. ** This bi male troper (who prefers women somewhat more than men) agrees with those fans. *** That, my friends, is what makes a good video game: come for the bounce, stay for the story. Comparatively, DOAII was openly bloomph-oriffic to draw an audience, but also proved to be a solid fighting game. ** Awesomely, check out a ''Rumble Roses'' forum at some point. The demographic is pretty much split evenly between teenage girls who like having a video game [[BechdelsRule totally about girl characters]], and teenage boys who like having a video game [[MsFanservice totally about girl characters]]. Both sides get on, as well, it's really rather sweet. * This (male) troper has similar issues with ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub''. ** This (straight male) troper reads and enjoys ''Ouran'' wholeheartedly for its AffectionateParody aspects. That a majority of the main characters are {{Bishonen}} (and therefore [[HoYay very slashable]]) makes no difference to him. ** This male troper goes for tomboyish girls anyway, and spent too much of the show crushing on Haruhi to care about the female-oriented fanservice. *** Ironically, a running gag in the fandom is the premise of the show is actually very man-friendly, considering the guys attend to cute rich schoolgirls who all crush on them, and the fruitiest character is actually the female lead. * Some older, more analytical HarryPotter fans get an awful lot of this. I'm just disturbed that not only were other people *seeing* Tom Riddle/Horace Slughorn... [[HotForStudent They were writing it.]] ** Disturbingly, this seems to include the movie writers. They took what this troper saw as ambiguous subtext for the sake of creepfactor, and turned it into "yeah, that guy? total paedo." * While this troper does appreciate the girl-friendly eyecandy in Buffy, the random 'OMG Hawt Chik' moments tend to throw him off a bit. Not even just because of the dislike, but because of how random it always seems to the plot. ** Especially since Whedon is supposed to be anti-gratuitousfanservice. This troper would probably be more offput if he wasn't a

heterosexual male. *** [[DoubleStandard So you're openly saying that sexy men are okay and sexy women aren't.]] *** Yeah, this is odd. Besides, which was more common, any of the female cast wearing barely anything or JamesMarsters in a single, unseen, sock? The second one, if you're wondering. There is no fucking way Joss is straight. Bisexual, sure. Straight? That's impossible. **** Or maybe he just knows girls like fanservice too? * This trope can be rough if you're gay, or like this troper mostly prefer men. You get used to het sexy stuff because you have to, but it can be really jarring. Let alone random Lesbian fanservice... ew. ** Same here. Thats why I eventually stopped watching AirGear and TsubasaReservoirChronicle; the HoYay alone wasn't enough to keep me in with all the exagerated straight male oriented fanservice and the stupid plot. And then there are idiots who complain the HoYay should disappear... * This troper finds it hard to appreciate HoYay. She's not against gays, but [[NoodleIncident an incident she'd rather not talk about]] makes her woozy about it. Kinda jarring, because most of her personality would make her out to be [[YaoiFangirl the type]] to like HoYay. ** Seconded, although I don't have an incident or anything. * This (female) troper isn't bisexual by any means. Hence, she isn't interested, let alone turned on, by LesYay or [[GirlOnGirlIsHot more explicit lesbian action]]. On the other hand, she enjoys {{Yaoi}} and sometimes even {{Bara}}. Not that she has something against lesbians, it's just lesbian sex [[BaitAndSwitchLesbians has been]] [[SweepsWeekLesbianKiss exploited]] so many times and [[TheLWord featured]] [[AllyMcBeal in]] [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer so many]] media it has become a trite subject for her. Not to mention that such action is almost always cheap {{Fanservice}} and ''true'' lesbians are most times absent from mainstream or portrayed as {{Straw Feminist}}s who hate men, thus uninteresting. Not to mention that the sheer number of attention wh**es who use this ploy to get males to notice them doesn't help in making the act look less phony in her eyes. * Having been a part of the FurryFandom for some time, I've found that any creative site that allows critique (IE, most major collective art galleries, such as Fur Affinity, Deviant Art, Sheezy Art, etc) inevitably lives and dies on this trope as regular as the tides. Due to the demographics of the fandom, one of the more common cases of SelectiveSquick that apparently turns up is a comment (sometimes bordering on a sort of revulsion) at the inclusion of a female character in a heterosexual image--often, that it would be 'a lot better' with two males doing the same thing. You ''will'' end up finding people who seem to be crossing over into [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike Complaining About Genders/Species/Fetishes They Don't Like]], usually while being passionate about another fetish of their own. Considering that some people consider furry itself to be one, you end up seeing this trope a good bit as a result. There are people who go to great lengths to complain about something that doesn't appeal to them, sometimes treating it like some kind of personal offense, even if they've been

openly and repeatedly warned in the description, thumbnail, or tags about the content. This gets especially [[HypocriticalHumor amusing]] when you realize how few of the people commenting in some case aren't actively following the artist in question, leading to many cases of [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch Complaining About Artists You Don't Watch]]. You quite literally will find comments along the lines of "hot, but I wish that there wasn't *"; insert the wildcard contents of your choice, no matter how broad or narrow. * I'm a huge [[AxisPowersHetalia Hetalia]] fan, but it could REALLY do without the [[HoYay Ho Yay]]. No, I'm not homophobic or anything, it's just that it's COMPLETELY unnecessary, and yaoi is just... not my thing. (And I'm oblivious to most of it, too, but the part I see...) ** This troper is what most people call a [[YaoiFanGirl yaoi fangirl]]. I still completely stopped to watch Hetalia because of the unnecessary and annoying [[HoYay Ho Yay]]. * Not really a [[Squick]], but I don't see the need to put in some long kissing scene or/and romantic subplot in 99% of movies. Movies that doesn't even need it. Sure, love is good and nice and all, but we don't realy need romance in everything! ** Also, ''SHIPPING'' in fandoms. Just... shipping. Never been into it, never will, it's simply not interesting to me to discuss who likes who in a series(also, some of the fans sees every single little thing they do as "hints"... [[SarcasmMode yeah, ''right''. No such thing as just being friends.]] [[FoeYay Or even enemies]]). Yet, it seems like most other people in... any fandom, really, ship at least one pairing. *** On a related i note, most ho yay, or any other type of yay, is just wishful thinking on the part of fan girls. it selectively squicks This Troper out *** Original poster agrees. I'm sometimes surprised over their abilities to make everything - EVERYTHING - seem like subtext. Especially FoeYay. They are ENEMIES, damn it! *** I agree with all of this, so very much. Especially because in a lot of stories, it really feels like the romantic subplot wasn't originally planned, and so the authors just shoehorned it in because their publishers told them it was necessary. I also agree with the dislike of shipping. I am quite disturbed by people who are that obsessed with seeing/writing fictional characters making out. * I don't like yaoi, and that just fels weird when pretty much all of my other female anime-fan friends love it. Well, I do like myself some bishies... but I don't get the appeal of making them all gay. (Or, [[GuyOnGuyIsHot I do kinda get it]], but still) * ''{{Turgor}}''. It's a brilliantly-crafted atmospheric game with many philosophical themes and choices. This is why I played it in the first place. It also has ''extremely'' gratuitous amounts of {{Fanservice}} with ''every single female character'', which is rather jarring to the overall narrative of the game and makes me feel rather uncomfortable and/or annoyed. ---Go back to SelectiveSquick, except for that part where it makes out with NightmareFuelUnleaded. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SelfDeprecation * This Troper has recently discovered the great fun that is making fat jokes about herself. * While not major, I do mock myself for my obsessions, including pointing out that I'm obsessed with BuffyTheVampireSlayer on my [=TvTropes=] profile page (I've added hundreds of tropes to the [=BtVS=] page). * A vast chunk of this Troper's jokes come from Self-Deprecation * [[@/StarePris This Troper]] fully embraces being called a loser. * This troper: I was really mad at my siblings once because I thought they drank all the soda we bought that day. Then I remembered where I had put my share. I looked at the place, saw all the soda was still there, and said the best thing I could about the way I acted just before, "Don't ''I'' feel like a horse's ass." ** This troper had something like this happen, except it was for her game of [[KingdomHearts KH2]]. She had left it to go watch something with a friend, figuring she would be back later. Indeed, she came back with her friend to find the screen was different; apparently one of her brother's friends decided to play for whatever reason. Naturally, troper got angry and upset, especially when she went to check if it had been saved. It had. So, since her brother and said friend had left for the friend's house, she called there and chewed her brother out for not stopping the friend. A while later, after she had calmed down, she realized that while it had been saved, it was saved to a different file, and the original was untouched. The friend had played the game, yes, but had saved it as a different file. She apologized profusely to her brother later, red in the face. * When in an argument, this troper finds it insanely funny to agree with his antagonist's insults, if only because it derails his planned retort to my retort. ** This troper tries this strategy occasionally, but all his antagonists are such conceited assholes that it doesn't work-they already think that it's only right I should agree since it's selfevidently true, as far as they're concerned. Why can't I ever butt heads with anyone who has redeeming features? * Some people tell this troper he's like this. He usually replies that he's just being realistic. He does acknowledge that his selfconfidence needs some work tho. * This troper has determined that his Dex, Int, and Wis scores are all 3. ** Technically speaking at Int 3 you're not able to talk. ** Same with me. ** This troper has a high Int, a rather less-than-average Dex, and a low Wis. In other words, clueless-nerd-stats. *** At least you have Charisma, then. That's what this troper lacks, while having above-average Int and Wis and average Dex. This might cause the example to be unfitting. * This troper commonly states he has no problems with his self-esteem, on account of how it doesn't exist. ** I hope you don't mind me saying ''ZING!!!''

* [[@/DarkInsanity13 This troper]] once took a course on world religions. When the teacher was teaching the class about karma, she asked the class if they thought they would go up or down when they were reborn. This troper was the only one to say she would go down. When asked why, she stated "because I am a horrible, horrible person." She refused to ask how or why, because the instances where she was such a horrible person were too many (that, and she thought it was too presumptuous to think so highly of herself). It doesn't help she's a jaded pessimist that's used to reality. Self-esteem isn't really that much of a problem, but probably should be improved. * This troper, who gets a good chunk of his TV Tropes edits reverted, does this on his [[@/{{gs68}} profile]]. * While good for a laugh, this is a terrible way to impress the opposite sex. That leaves this troper without roughly 80% of his good jokes in any given attempt at flirting. It rarely ends well. ** Speak for yourself. You just need to find the right entity... * The pre-chapter author's notes in this troper's fanfics have become littered with lampshades. Now they're starting to creep into the works themselves, such as DeadpanSnarker canon characters asking an OC if any of their names are "Mary, Sue, or both". (Snarker was Ruslan of ''Dragoneer's Aria'', though he just seemed to be a fourth-wall breaking lampshade vendor for the fic in general - he also managed to utter the (incorrect?) line, "No, we're (elves) famed for our ''dexterity'', which has nothing to do with using a bow unless your idea of combat involves rolling dice." ...Yeah, this troper goes off on tangents all the time, why do you ask?) * This troper's author's notes and roleplaying asides tend to be full of this- as well as, upsettingly, her real life conversations. Self esteem? Pshaw. * This troper loves self deprecating humor. He finds that people are less inclined to insult him about something if he [[Main/LampshadeHanging calls himself on it]] humorously. Since he also considers just about everyone to be fair game for his constant snarking, he also feels it's only fair that he take shots at himself, too. ** This tropette concurs with that statement. * This troper's friends have told him that he needs to stop this, but his sense of humour isn't developed enough to do so. * This troper uses it partly as humor and partly as a humbling mechanism: given that he still remembers his pretentious stage, and given how much he ''despises'' pretentious people, he's started making sure he doesn't go back. ** This tropette concurs with this too. * [[@/{{igordebraga}} This troper]] uses this especially for humor. For example, once his schoolmates were discussing how would be their "loser versions", and he: "In my case, I would imagine a succesful version". A team of his seniors also employed this after a few tournaments being the college's punching bag: their anthem was (in Portuguese, it rhymes) "[name of team], beloved team! When it plays a lot, it's a suffered draw!" * When this troper was a young person with rather low self esteem and a crude sense of humor, he would often resort to this in his attempts

to make people laugh. He was once sent to see a psychologist due to doing this too much. ** This troper does that too. Including on this very wiki at least three times. In fairness, she probably really sucks. *** No way! I suck ''way'' more than you! **** This troper believes we all just should ''gulp'' down our pride and admit we just plain go past sucking, to [[IncrediblyLamePun ''swallowing.'']] * This troper was raised on the fine art of Jewish self-deprecating humor, thus it only comes natural to her. * [[@/WildKnight This troper]] feels as though it's his main character trait, especially when it comes to humor, in all honesty. Given that I've also been officially diagnosed with depression, however, a lot of my friends are unable to tell when I'm joking or not...and to be honest, sometimes, so am I. * This troper is in a wheelchair and routinely makes jokes about it. Many people find it funny others wonder how I could say them. This also falls under Your Mileage May Vary. * @/RadioactiveZombie has a SelfInsert that serves as a butt monkey, even if he's a semi-serious character (and even then, he still causes trouble). Stuff from being random and annoying everyone to a clumsy ass. At one point, he manages to infuriate everyone (on purpose, though) in the battalion. * This troper finds that one of the most amusing ways to win an argument is to suddenly start agreeing with the ad hominem attacks. It confuses people. * This troper went to see a comedian performing in his home city. During the set, the comedian asked us if there were any good places he could visit that night. Nearly everyone shouted the same thing at almost the exact same time: the name of the city next to us. * ThisTroper doesn't make jokes about himself alot, but gets insulted quite often. Mostly about how i smell bad, am fat, and have no social life. usually I just agree with it, though whether thats because I'm self-deprecating or just acknowledging the truth is up in the air. * This troper has trouble where I will do this and then subconsciously try and balance it out with over the top jokes about how great I am. * This troper sometimes jokingly bashes his favorite games. Usually, it's the Bemani series he makes fun of: --> "[[{{beatmania}} IIDX]]? Meh, who cares about some dumb GuitarHero lookalike with [[PublicMediumIgnorance Japanese techno-y crap]]?" ** Also, his friends play ''SuperSmashBros Melee'', and out of his friends he ranks himself as [[CharacterTiers bottom tier]]. * This troper is British. Taking the piss out of yourself/your country is par for the course in our humour. * I frequently refer to myself (and family) as "damned lefties". * This troper does this a lot, in multiple ways. Interestingly, despite consistently different jokes at various things-relating-tome's expenses, the only one that's actually gotten any form of backlash is calling Adelaide (where I life) 'The City that Always Sleeps'. Honestly I find it saddening people from Adelaide defend the place, rather than joining the rest of the country in making fun of it in various ways. Nothing happens here, people,stop pretending stuff

does. * [[@/PotatoBucket This guy]] goes back and forth with this one: either he's playing it straight or he's making outlandish statements of a positive manner to attempt to cover up his faults. Although it's more apparent when he makes a joke, and nobody laughs. He says he's either going to stop making jokes, or--by process of elimination--he's going to be the funniest man alive. * This Troper will intersperse his self-deprecating remarks with comments about how dashingly handsome he is. Throws people off no end. * this troper has a bit of a running joke that whenever someone insults me all i say is "good for me". also, im from [[{{EagleLand}} america]], but happen to think that everyone here is of flavor two. so i do a lot of stuff insulting a group that includes me. * This troper's method of SelfDeprecation is to crank the arrogance [[UpToEleven up to absurdity]], turning it into self-mockery. * My personal tagline in forums is "I'm even bad at self-deprecation." * This troper does this because she actually has a pretty healthy opinion of herself but really really really doesn't want people to know it. * [[@/SamiFire This Troper]] tends to sneak little self-deprecating pokes inside her fanfics, mostly regarding quirks or glitches inside the writing of the fanfic itself. It's mostly just characters pointing out logic or character discrepancies, though. * This Tropette is this mixed with LargeHam and a healthy dose of BuffySpeak. With a little SesquipedalianLoquaciousness thrown in. Y'know, just for kicks. * This troper self deprecates frequently in real life, and gets rather annoyed at the fact that when she's clearly sarcastic or making a joke at her own expense everyone jumps on the bandwagon to say "nooooo!" and hug her and try to compliment her, but when she's genuinely depressed it's everybody's turn to say "well, maybe you would be less fat if you weren't so lazy all the time!" (hell, my complaint wasn't even involving ''me'', let alone my weight) or "if you're worried about your grades, well, maybe you should try putting in any work on your homework at all instead of just bullshitting through it!" (Similarly, this conversation did not involve grades. At all. It involved frustration at the printer being jammed while I was trying to print a school paper.) ** If it truly annoys you, why not just a.) tell them at you're being genuine or joking, or b.) kick them in the pants (or yell at them really loud) and THEN tell them you're being genuine/joking? I'd go with the second option, but I'm too lazy. * [[@/{{Arc9}} This troper]] uses this trope so much that it's the only type of humor he can do...to the extent that any actual joke made by me is met by a veil of silence, and throwaway comments (either made by me, directed ''at'' me or ''said within earshot'') get the loudest laughs of the evening. The easiest thing to do in such situations is to simply go with the flow, rather than [[{{NotHelpingYourCase}} fighting it for hours on end]]. * [[@/{{Nomic}} This troper]] jokes a lot about how he has no social life, is very unatractive and makes peopel uncomfortable without even doing anything. Usually he tends the exagerate these facts, claiming

he's actually an EldritchAbomination in the form of a man and can drive mortals mad with his mere presence. * Explain me this "Self-Steem" concept. * Some people in Massachusetts refer to themselves as "Massholes" because of their reputation as terrible motorists. Some people in Connecticut ([[LongList and also Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, New York, and parts of Quebec...]]) on the other hand, say it and mean it. ** We also refer to our state as "Tax-achusettes." * [[@/JapaneseTeeth This troper]] is from New Jersey. Yes, it sucks and is the armpit of the country. (At the least the top half.) This is because New York takes all of the good stuff, and dumps the crap on us. NY is NJ's JerkAss big brother. ** Nah, you guys take our jobs, and then return to houses that would qualify as mansions if you'd stayed on the island. * Is jealous.* * This troper is from from Pennsylvania. When people say that all Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with Alabama in the middle I have to agree with them on that, since I am from the "Alabama" part of the state. Also when jokes about Pennsylvania are made, I usually laugh along with it because it's right or very close to being right. * I don't have low self-esteem, I'm just being modest...maybe. * I love taking a stab at myself during class discussions, especially in classes with people who or have bullied me. I like to think that every time I do it, part of them dies inside. * I have this in spades, but it's always delivered in such a deadpan manner that it takes people a second to figure out exactly what I just said. * This troper loves to do Mike Rowe's DirtyJobs schtick while on the job, always in an ironic context (as in, only when I know the work I've just done is brilliant). Someone will say "that was a great job you did!" and I'll respond with "Truly, despite my remarkable displays of incompetence, the gods have clearly been kind." * I have a character that is somewhat a SelfInsert... yet she has all the negatives about me taken UpToEleven. * I find that deprecation of ones self is a great way to make friends who are feeling down feel better. It has also for me worked in stopping arguements between people. ** Be careful with that first bit... Sometimes it seems like the person's just fishing for compliments and a change of conversation, which generally doesn't make anyone feel any better. * [[@/MutantRancor I may]] be a [[LonersAreFreaks poor, sad loner]] with no muscle mass, social skills, musical ability, fashion sense, or ability to write fiction despite being told repeatedly that it's great, but at least I have a couple of [[NiceHat nice hats.]] My selfesteem is...[[OverlyLongGag actually, I think I left it in South Carolina on vacation...I wonder how much it'll cost to get it shipped to Indiana...probably not much; it's not very big...I suppose I could just do without.]] * This troper is a Master of this, to the point that friends and family do "Reasons You '''Don't''' Suck Speeches", on occasions. * Favorite arguement I ever made: "I know that you have to be wrong because you briefly agreed with me. '''Anyone''' who agrees with me

slightly must be insane." * [[@/CanvasWolfDoll This Troper]] is well known among his family and friends for his lack of perseverance on personal projects, so much so that the aforementioned troper often jokes his final worlds will be: "Hey, I finally finished writing my novel!" ** Also, his two close friends (Sadly, not be in the spirit of the page there. I've honestly only got two friends I feel I can always rely on) have a tendency to deprecate ourselves and each other. The popular running gag is how They've got worse grades then me, and I'm the dumb one. * I normally avoid this humor, as it's become a little too prevalent. But my favorite joke remains this. "Friend X, Y or Z, allow me to give you some advice. This advice applies to all situations Romantical in nature. Any time you aren't sure what to do, just sit back and conjure to mind what '''I''' would do in this situation. Then, for the Love of God, man, DON'T DO IT!! You should be fine." * [[@/CorporealWolf This Troper]] resorts to this often when [[{{Warcraft}} Warcraft 3]] and doing badly. Once, when somebody questioned his item choice in DefenseOfTheAncients, pulled out a response he'd been waiting the entire game to deliver. -> Him: Dude, you're a complete noob. Just leave. -> Me: * GASP!* I'm a noob? What a startling revelation! I may think I may need to go and sit down. Excuse me a minute. -> I then afk'd the rest of the game. * As [[@/{{Arcadiarika}} I]] am on the [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism cynic side,]] I do it a lot. I admit the following... ** My artwork sucks. [[http://arcadiarika.deviantart.com Look at the crappiness.]] Even TheImageboardThatMustNotBeNamed said that Sonichu is better than this! ** My anti-Sonichu fanfic, [[http://arcadiarika.deviantart.com/art/Antis-Betrayals-and-Revivals151497507 "Antis, Betrayals, and Revivals,"]] isn't that great. (And yet it has to capture the attention of TheImageboardThatMustNotBeNamed. Weird.) ** Overall, I suck! * I suck. ** I suck way more than you. *** [[SubvertedTrope Yeah, you both suck]]. * Elsewhere on this wiki, This Troper referred to one of his own fanfic ideas as "obviously ridiculous". He was quite touched when he checked the page later and found it had been changed to "a little too out there for some people". * This American troper frequently makes American jokes. * This troper is an arrogant jerk by any reasonable standard. In an effort to combat the perception, he engages in this trope. Trouble is, [[ComedicSociopath subtlety]] [[ScrewySquirrel is not]] [[RefugeInAudacity his strong]] [[ColonelKilgore suit]], so nobody buys the act and he's seen as an arrogant jerk with a terrible sense of false modesty, which makes him even more arrogant. I can't win. * This troper makes full use of SelfDepreciation. The only way you can tell I'm kidding a lot of the time would be to flash freeze me and

examine my face for a hint of a smile (or actually know me and be fully aware that my self-confidence readings are ''off the charts''). I also use sarcasm the same way, but context indicates it. * This troper's younger sister once told him that he was difficult to insult when he was being self-deprecating. [[spoiler:That's why it's so much fun.]] * [[@/KillerClowns This troper]] believes {{pride}} is the worst of all sins, and... overcompensates. ** Ditto. This seminarian would joke about being a typical Filipino Catholic, but apparently he's too thick to manage a decent joke. * This troper's mostly Jewish high school is practically a mass gathering of Jewish self-deprecation humor. This troper included. * [[http://mylifeisaverage.com/story/1806096 This MLIA, which is as follows, 'Today, I was having a Yo Momma fight with my Mother. She won. MLIA']] * This troper and both her parents are all totally blind and use this type of humor frequently enough (generally when we've done something dumb like walked into a wall by mistake, or tripped over a curb). Alternately we use it to break the ice with new acquaintances, as making a blind joke at our own expense lets them know that they shouldn't be walking on eggshells. It's not a self-esteem thing, either; we, ourselves, find it fairly amusing. * This troper is an Irish Jew - need anything more be said? * This troper gets really pissed off when people do this, especially because she holds a lot of resentment and hate for her own self and doesn't think it's anyone's problem but her own. She especially depises use of it to get out of being yelled at, as if not having high self-esteem automatically corrects the wrong thing you did. We get it, you suck, but EVERYONE sucks. I can figure out how you measure up without help. * This troper had an idea for an entry on this page, but it was a lame example. Forget I mentioned it. * This troper makes these jokes in complete deadpan, but with a slight smirk. Apparently, people can't see it, so they always think she's serious. * This troper calls himself a geek, and regurally makes fun of himself. A lot of people try to be helpful ; "Aw, no you're not! Don't call yourself that!" Also, sometimes I make white jokes. * This troper is ''obsessively'' self-deprecating, to the point where even he's sick of it, is firmly convinced he's a creep even though he's been told he's attractive, and is afraid to approach women despite apparently having just the right kind of filthy mind. He even has a local TV cooking show and it was a long time before his standard response to fans wasn't "I hope it didn't traumatize you..." * Once, one of [[@/CrystalGlacia This Asian Troper's]] (Caucasian) classmates asked me if my adopted little sister (who is Asian like me) was my biological sister. My response: --> No, she's not. But that's a legitimate mistake, 'cause, y'know, we all look the same. * [[@/{{Aver}} Yeah, I'm]] very guilty of this and proud of it too. I laugh the hardest at my own mistakes; I make a lot of them, so laughing eventually comes pretty naturally. When I say something

stupid, usually I tend to repeat it to others who haven't heard it, just for the hell of it. I'm also very, very much aware of my bad sense of humour, something I generally tell people while I introduce myself. * [[@/RedWren This troper]] [[PlayingWithATrope puts a little bit of a twist on this]]. She will acknowledge that she is weird, a freak, scary, and bad at reading people...but just about all of those end up becoming terms of endearment one way or another. Really, I think the only reason that last isn't is because saying that someone is 'The Scary Girl' is funny, saying someone is 'The Girl Who Is Bad At Reading People' is only funny once or twice due to [[OverlyLongGag length]]. Also: "I tend to be good at the kind [of creative thinking] that leads you to the point that anyone could figure out the answer. I then fail to figure out the answer, but still." * [[@/TheNoun this troper]] bases around 85% of her jokes on this trope. * "Welcome to Indiana! If we're not picking corn, we're deep frying things!" * Thanks to this trope, this lurker is ''extremely'' [[InsultBackfire hard to intentinally insult]], as she just takes them in strides. Try to compliment me, though, and you'll discover why [[UnstoppableRage I'm notorious for my temperament]]. (It helps that I'm a sarcastic SpockSpeak-ing SophisticatedAsHell KnightInSourArmour.) * If I don't insult myself at least once an hour, my friends think I'm in a good mood. ** On the contrary with me, I am in a good mood when I'm insulting myself. * [[Tropers/KennyMan666 This troper]] does this all the time. The quote on my troper page is probably an example. I often state that I'm fat, stupid and has no useful skills whatsoever. I have absolutely ''no idea'' how the hell I managed to land myself a girlfriend, and doubt I'll ever figure it out. * This troppette decided recently to call herself names that she would be called in real life so she gets domination of it basically. It's basically her inhibiting her flaws and character traits before anybody else can get a word in. It feels good to her. Rather she insults herself then anybody else thank you very much! Just call me the ultimate nerd.... ** This troppette also finds it appealing if people don't take themselves too seriously and also take shots at themselves. Shows A. They are not a sociopath and care about how they come off to fellow human beings and B. They don't have a god complex and think they invented breathing and think they are #1 in the universe. Two very very appealling character traits. (Just saying) or is that nontraits.... *Insert your own self depreciation here* * [[Tropers/SpiritOfSahara This troper]] copes with social awkwardness and mistakes done by her by cracking jokes about herself, while having a penchant for BlackComedy. If she even by mistake says these jokes with a less than extremely happy and joking tone, the room usually falls silent for a moment before someone coughs discreetly and conversation picks up again. * I do this sometimes. I kind of suck at it, though.

* I've [[LampshadeHanging hung lampshades]] over my nature at times. Sometimes even when, uh, talking to myself to calm down after an outbreak of temper. * I've an ego the size of a small mountain range, so I often make fun of myself and my family has long since jumped in on this, making me the resident ButtMonkey. * This troper had to write an inspirational poem in French for a homework assignment. I included the line, "I believe I can do anything except write French poetry." When I read it out loud to the class [[SadistTeacher My teacher nodded his head and later he told me the poem was garbage.]] * This troper self-deprecates a lot. Of course, he actually believes what he's saying about himself 99% of the time, no matter how unpleasant it is. * It's like this [[{{Tropers/Joerc45}} troper]] says, [[StepfordSmiler "If you're not poking fun at yourself,]] [[MortonsFork someone's bound to do it for you"!]] * If there is one thing that [[{{Tropers/Remolay}} This Troper]] has learned, It's that if there is one way to stop bullies, you beat them to the punch. I don't get bullied ever, or if I do I've stopped noticing, since I'm most likely to join in. * [[@/{{Pastylover2}} This wheelchair bound troper]] constantly makes fun of his wheelchair-edness. * This Troper is another of the "I do it because it's what I believe" variety. It's to the point that when someone asks him to state something ''positive'' about himself, he's usually reduced to ".....uhhhh...." * This Troper averts Self-Deprecation and then uses the Trope immediately afterward to [[LampshadeHanging Hang a Lampshade]] [[ButForMeItWasTuesday on a daily basis.]] ** For example (Other Student): "It's hot in here." "Do you want me to walk out?... Nah, who am I kidding, I'm too ugly to say something like that." * This troper is a narcissist, so I practice self deprecation and self loathing like a religion because I hate being a narcissist. ** It doesn't help that I am sort of a masochist, so I love myself even more for hating myself, and in return, I hate myself more for loving myself. It's an unending cycle of love and hate. Even my friends, being a bunch of hypocrits (My friends include a stalker with a crush, a jerkass, Two video game addicts, an open pervert, and copy of me with no identity for himself), call me a weirdo because of this cycle. * [[Tropers/StongRadd This troper in a page of his webcomic-to-be:]] ->"I find that offensive, and I'm a cynic fuckwad!" * I snark at everyone, including myself. * My girlfriend has stopped me from doing it... in front of her. * This Troper, enough that her mother has given up on delivering the "You Are Special" speech every time I crack an "I'm so stupid that I did X today!" joke. Just because I recognize my frequently-used ability to do stupid and boneheaded things, doesn't mean I hate myself, Mom. * [[Tropers/Dwessie I]] don't even know where to START! I was pretty

screwed up in Middle school, so I had a holier than thou attitude, then I turned into this. I depreciate myself so much tat my parents and boyfriend are beyond tired of it, since it's way past the healthy level. If something bad happeed, it's because I am an idiot, GLOBAL WARMING is because I'm an idiot! It doesn't help that I was sexually harassed enough t use Self Depreciation as my method to GET my boyfriend. I dressed frumpily and talked about my flaws the whole time, and took the ONE person in the world who still found me interesting after that. * Self Deprecation is my modus operandi. It is, in fact, my main method of communication. It is my one true art. And I can't say it's very healthy for me... * [[{{Tropers/Aspie}} This troper]]'s dad used to tell him to do this when someone tried insulting him, but it took him a long time to get good at it. Even now, most of his self deprecating comments are said in private and generally relate to his singing voice, which he has yet to find anything to compare to without [[InsultToRocks deeply insulting the compared thing.]] * This Troper has made it a science to self-deprecate her declining skills at Mega Man by saying out loud to her roommate while playing a Mega Man game that she could do a "Let's Fail" of whatever stage she's failing at. Especially [[ThatOneLevel Gyroman's stage in MM5]], which she used to be AWESOME at. * This [[Tropers/GenkiMan Troper]] usually draws a [[AuthorAvatar charicature of himself]] [[TheChewToy taking all sorts of physical abuse]]. Usually things like being squashed by buildings, attacked by wildlife or taking explosions to the face. * An example from Three Character Questions of the TV Tropes Forums: --> '''''How would you react if you found out that you and your entire life is a work of fiction being written by someone else?''''' ---> '''[[TheMcCoy Kiyoi:]] I would not be surprised. Like, at all. ---> '''[[TheKirk Viktor:]] Well, given how much [[WeirdnessMagnet oddness seems to gravitate to my house]], it... doesn't actually sound all that farfetched. ---> '''[[TheSpock Akura:]] I would be a little dissatisfied with the author. * This tropette frequently enjoys this, particularly when it involves her [[BrilliantButLazy lazy streak]], [[TheKlutz clumsiness]], and [[{{Pettanko}} not-boobs]]. I like making shots at myself in a fanfic, usually by having a {{Self Insert}} whose main purpose is to [[ButtMonkey get pwned]] or [[BerserkButton set off]] by everyone. Like the VillainProtagonist in my current ''FullmetalAlchemist'' fiction who [[TheUnfavorite just]] [[BlessedWithSuck can't]] [[MadeOfPlasticine catch]] [[GoodThingYouCanHeal a]] [[JerkassWoobie break]]. * [[Tropers/KamuiValentine This troper]] is usually given into this regularly, mostly because I'm the type to do so. It ranges from bemoaning my lack of dating life to how I seem to be the universe's [[WhoseLineIsItAnyway lightning rod of hate]] to how I seem to quote every sort of show I watch in any given situation. * This troper is pretty much always putting herself down. She calls herself fat and ugly and always comments on how she's a dork. She

generally has good grades, but if she gets a bad one, she tells herself how stupid she is. In general, she knows that these things aren't completely true, but they aren't completely false. In addition, she once told her friends to berate her because she accidentally let them down, even though they were all very understanding of the situation. * I have conductive hearing loss with a hearing aid in the only one ear that works and am blind in my left eye. I often like to say to myself "Wow, if it's this loud to me, it must sound like a frickin' bomb to them." and quite often hold papers up to my blind eye and say "I don't believe I understand this." * This troper continuously makes fun of herself before other people get the chance, consistantly rubbing her slightly large stomach and reffering to it as her "tubby tummy." Also, when in an insult fight with someone else who misses a good chance to insult her, this troper will insult herself so the opportunity is not lost. * Subverted: This troper hates self-deprecation and tries to make her friends feel better enough about themselves not to need to, or at least to STFU about it around me. Seriously, it's annoying; cut it out. * This troper only does it for the sake of humor, but readily admits that he isn't good at many things. ---Go back to [[Main/SelfDeprecation deprecating yourself]] without me, I'd just hold you back. <<|TroperTales|>>

SelfImposedChallenge * [[Tropers/JayZilla2830 I]] did a no-death run of Super Mario World. Harder than it sounds. * When I next have a chance, I am going to do a run of Avalon Code where I dont scan anything but the weapons. * Mass Effect 1: ** I've completed a Vanguard run, on Insanity, without spending any talent points. One rank each in pistol, assault training, throw, and warp. My squaddies don't get any talent points either. ** I'm also in the middle of an Engineer run without my squad. I can't attack anything until both squadmates are unconscious, which also means every enemy is after me and me alone. As an Engineer, I repeat. On Insanity. * Try beating a final fantasy game while killing EVERYTHING that attacks you, it's harder than it sounds ** Until you realize that your a much higher level than necessary to kill anything. * This Troper once ran a RuneScape (a MMORPG) character into the mid level-50s. Single player. No trading, no Grand Exchange, no teaming up, nothing. If he wanted food, he fished for it, cut down the logs with a hatchet he forged himself out of ore he mined and smelted, set the fire, and (hopefully) cooked the food. You would be amazed at how long this takes.

* I've played trough Guitar Hero Aerosmith with a normal PS2 controller on expert with an average of 4 stars per song, I [[CurbStompBattle curb stomped]] Joe Perry while fending off his attacks successfully and the only song that I can't beat for some reason is [[ThatOneBoss Train Kept A Rollin]] and I'm now thinking of starting the next challenges: ** Castlevania Order Of Ecclesia: Hard Mode starting at level 1 with the Death Ring equipped which increases my stats but it also makes me a OneHitPointWonder for those not in the know. ** Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King: Complete the game and bonus levels without using experience points to upgrade my characters. ** Age of empires III: Start a skirmish match with 7 computer controlled opponents on maximum difficulty and beat them all. * BatmanArkhamAsylum ** With a touch of ''{{Discontinuity}}''. Regarding Challenge Mode, this troper decided hunting for points in Combat and going out of your way to perform certain takedowns wasn't very {{Batman}}, so I decided to do every Combat Challenge as a ''OneHitpointWonder'' and every Predator Challenge without being seen by the guards (although they are allowed to catch a brief glimpse of you before they black out, if grappled over a ledge for example) *** I spent quite some time searching for a trope where in a party of people are picked off one by one by an unseen assailant (I meant to reference it in 'without being seen by the guards). If someone reads this, and knows the name of such a trope, I'd appreciate it if they could put the reference in and then delete this addendum * How about Elite Beat Agents with your left hand (or right, if you're left handed)? So far I've beaten every level on Breezin' and Cruisin' and a few levels on Sweatin'. Eventually I want to beat Jumping Jack Flash on Hard Rock, something that seemed impossible with my right hand, but then Let's Dance on Cruisin' seemed impossible when I first did it... * In ''TheElderScrolls'' games, this troper would spend literal hours collecting every Ash Statue in the game, covering houses with candles, building walls of Corprus Meat... ** I built a shrine to Vivec by placing hundreds of stolen candles alongside him. Then I kill him to take his place. Yeeessssss... *** Huh, I'm not alone in performing candle-lit deicides... ** I found and bought or stole every already-placed and non-respawning fork in Vvardenfell and laid each individual one on the altar at the Shrine of Sheogorath. * This troper had the idea to play {{Zelda}} without using ''z targeting'' or collecting any of the heart containers after the bosses. He never got round to it, but still hopes to someday. ** This troper was one (of the apparently many) players that managed to beat Ocarina of Time with only three hearts, and no continues. This means no picking up post-boss heart containers, and not getting the Great Fairy's damage reduction. It's not quite a no-damage run (at least until you get to Ganondorf) but still quite a challenge. Now, if someone were to do this for the ''Master Quest'' remix... *** Not quite as hard a challenge as one might initially think, owing to the fact that the hardest enemy (ie Dark Link) has only three

hearts as well, thus posing no larger threat than usual. Beating it with three hearts, without using a shield (apart from essential mirror shield usage) is harder (in [=OoT=] and MQ) until you get the hang of it, at which point it is easy. It's not really hard at all in Majora's Mask, which has hardly any sword-and-shield combat at all (which I only realised while completing said task). ** This troper had the idea of beating Twilight Princess on the Wii (or any Wiimote-Nunchuck compatible game, actually) using the Wii Remote on my left hand and the Nunchuck on the right one. *** This troper did something very similar - playing through it ''normally''. Being left-handed can suck sometimes. ** This troper played through Wind Waker with only 3 hearts. Probably the only Zelda game where this isn't very hard. *** Gets somewhat difficult for the final boss. ** This troper beat The Palace of the Four Sword with 3 hearts, 4 fairies and the only upgrade was the Tempered Sword. * This troper went through ''HalfLife 2'', starting with Ravenholm, using only the crowbar, gravity gun, rocket launcher, and grenades. It's even harder than you'd expect. ** Tssh. Kid's play. Gravity Gun only is the real challenge on [=HL2=]. And that pales in comparison to "The One Free Bullet" achievement in Episode One (only one gunshot allowed in the entire game: shooting a padlock to get through a gate). ** Personally, this troper enjoyed tinkering with the damage variables for all the weapons to make them somewhat more lethal (as well as making sure that the [=NPCs=]' versions of weapons were just as damaging as the player's). The "Water Hazard" chapter proved especially difficult. ** This troper went through the lengthy vehicle section with the buggy... without the buggy (he just decided to leave it behind after toppling it over twice). Surprisingly, this is mostly ''easier'' because the SequenceBreaking means some enemies that are supposed to spawn don't. On the other hand, the antlion sections are vastly more dangerous, and there's a chasm that's ''incredibly'' hard to bypass if you're on foot, since it's too wide to jump across. ** I tried to do this first time through, but I didn't use the developer console back then and they wouldn't let me through the gate after you shoot down the gunship. ** This Troper spent DAYS tinkering with Garry's Mod to make the ultimate vehicle for the highway stages; a buggy that floated, was impossible to tip over, and had rocket boosters to get it out of sticky situations. Without resorting to balloons. (It failed badly, the cage was too heavy, the blue barrels weren't buoyant enough to stop it sinking like a rock. And the end result of the anti-roll cage was to stop it being turned BACK over once it had flipped.) * [[{{Tropers/Laurarola}} This Troper]] enjoys running through ''Resident Evil 4'' getting as few kills as possible. Usually using the PRL and a non-upgraded basic handgun for switches. Yay overlap. ** This troper is aiming to do a Run-through "RE 2 style". No buy weapons or upgrades, must use the RPD costume, and only weapons that are in RE 2 can be used, which are the Matilda and the regular shotgun. Yeah, try killing a Garrador with that combo.

*** Garrador's, while still [[NightmareFuelUnleaded scary as all hell]], are not that difficult, especially since most encounters come with bells: Shoot bell. Garrador gets stuck in wall. Shove the shotgun barrel up it's back parasite. Pull trigger. It'll spin around, stopping for a second with it's back towards you. Fire again. [[MemeticMutation ???]] Then, profit! I reckon actual bosses or recurring mid-bosses would be tougher without an upgraded/big gun, especially U3, Salazar and Saddler. ** [[{{Tropers/Noir-Okami}} This Troper]] is attempting a no Merchant run. (She keeps running out of ammo at the hall of water.) She's going to try a grenade/knife (yes, both together) only run after that. ** [[Tropers/LightSkye This Troper]] did a varation of the No Merchant Run awhile ago. He didn't bother with the Shotgun but still stuck to the Knife, Handgun, Grenades and eventually the Broken Butterfly. He also did a No Item Storage Run in ResidentEvil5 more recently. * [[{{Tropers/Cameoflage}} This troper]] likes to play through ''{{Portal}}'' either [[NoDamageRun without dying or getting shot]] or without disabling any turrets (generally, turning them to face a wall to allow for safe passage). ** [[{{Merle}} This troper]] had a lot of fun giving every single turret on Level 16 a time-out - placing it facing a corner, without letting a single turret be deactivated. Got a bit challenging near the end of the level, though. He is now trying to get all of his Portalplaying friends to give it a try. * In the original [=NES=] version of ''[[DragonQuest Dragon Warrior 3]]'' this troper decided to beat the game with the Golden Claw in his inventory. The Golden Claw caused RandomEncounters to occur ''every single step.'' I succeeded, but looking back; I think I was insane back then. (The [=GBC=] remake just had the Golden Claw have that curse until it was taken out of the Pyramid.) ** Speaking of the remake: [[FateWorseThanDeath Collect all the gold medals.]] * [[Tropers/ManCalledTrue This troper]] completed ''ShadowHearts: Covenant'' on his first playthrough with a self-imposed "No Running" challenge. Other possibilities include No Fusions and No Sanity-Point Restoration (which would put every fight on a often-very-short timer). * This troper is facsinated with the idea of doing levels from ''SonicTheHedgehog'' games while never collecting rings. Note that this isn't a NoDamageRun -- avoiding rings is much harder than simply not getting hit. He still isn't skillful enough to seriously undertake it, but hopes to one day. ** This troper did a no weapons, no vehicles run in ''ShadowTheHedgehog'' once, a feat that the makers of the game said was possible--and was, technically, with copius abuse of post-injury invincibility and stretching homing jumps as far as possible. And it only works for certain levels and missions, too. *** Hmm... This troper is now calculating what the best route for a ShadowTheHedgehog {{speedrun}} would be. * This troper has completed ''Xenosaga'' Episode I with these challenges all at once. Initial ether level only, initial skills level only, initial tech level only, no swapping of skills, ether or tech, initial equipment only, no Erde Kaiser, no AGWS used ever, no emails

answered, and no secret doors opened. * This troper once played through ''Castlevania: Symphony of the Night'' using the infamous luck code (which reduces most of Alucard's stats to 1 or 0, and gives him a starting hit point total of about 25, but also gives him 100 luck to start, which more than makes up for it) along with a GameShark code that caused him to start with 0 luck. This made for an exceedingly hard run-through, at least in the first half of the game. * This troper, unsatisfied with even the Proud difficulty of Kingdom Hearts 2, went through the game with Sora Only (requires turning the allies to "Sora Attack" to turn them into punching bags as well as eschewing Summons, Overlimits, and Drive Forms), Low Level by killing as few enemies as possible, and without using any Cure magic. He hopes to do this same challenge on Proud difficulty, but idly wonders whether it is even possible. * This troper, largely not that bothered with ''GeometryWars: Galaxies'' on his mate's Wii, took on a challenge to get as high a score as possible on [=MinEis=] without ever firing a bullet or using a smart bomb (basically translating as "all you can do is dodge and trip off mines"). He's since got Gold Medals on [=MinEis=], [=MinDuo=] ''and'' [=MinTris=], and is waiting for someone to turn up with the DS version so he can try for the billion points on [=MinZeroth=]. (The Weavers - the green ones - are the toughest to handle, meaing that [=MinEis=] was the hardest...) ** Update for the interested - it happened. 1.1 billion without firing a shot. If you can get through five minutes of Generators spitting so many Wanderers that the game basically becomes BulletHell, you're fine - the next phase is Grunts, who die easily and give double Geoms. I had seven lives at one point. * [[{{Tropers/gs68}} This troper]] won't call an arcade-style game (ShootEmUps, for example) "beaten" unless it's beaten without continues. He'd like to think that that's the only way to beat the game, but the general consensus among gamers is that continues are absolutely acceptable and taking them away makes a game hard; to them, one-crediting a game is a ridiculous SelfImposedChallenge and nothing more. Because this troper defines difficulty by how far he can get with his first credit, and not how many continues a game allows, he might as well be classified as a [[StopHavingFunGuys Stop Having Fun Guy]]. Surely he's not the only troper with this mindset...right? ** Nope. This is why [[Tropers/FusionDragon this troper]] will never ever beat ''{{Gradius}}''. ** [[{{Tropers/Kinitawowi}} This troper]] completely agrees, with exactly one exception. His first introduction to ''SpaceHarrier'' was the ZX Spectrum version, where you start with nine lives; replicating this experience in the arcade requires three credits, so he's always played like that. ** [[{{Tropers/Kayube}} This troper]] does this with SuperSmashBros. 1 player modes, quitting if he ever gets game over. The only exception is when getting trophies, since the harder trophies are so hard to get without continuing that it makes sense to continue in order to stand a chance. ** Check out the {{Touhou}} games if you haven't already, getting a

good ending requires normal difficulty or higher with no continues. * [[{{Tropers/DanDaMan}} This troper]] has played through KingdomHearts 1 on Extreme mode. While picking the shield and getting rid of the sword. While using everyone's first weapon the whole game. It's actually easier than it sounds since the shield gives you the Second Chance ability, ensuring you don't die. But the flipside is that everything works against you by ensuring ''the enemies'' don't die either. It's not uncommon to only take off a pixel of a boss' HP bar each hit...and they have more bars under that. ** This troper's in the process of playing through a file where he chose the wand and sacrificed the shield, and isn't using ethers, I'm at the room before the final rest in the last world, but those damn invisibles keep killing me. * [[{{Tropers/Leylicite}} This troper]] has beaten the main game of CaveStory with only the starting 3 HP, which makes the protagonist all but a OneHitPointWonder. He has also done ''speed runs'' of the [[{{BonusLevelOfHell}} hell stage]]. (This is facilitated by an ingame item that gives you a timer from the start of the stage to the end of the SequentialBoss.) ** [[{{Tropers/Theogrin}} This troper]] is... TRYING to go a step further, and complete it with 3 HP and no optional weapons, specifically the Bubbler, Nemesis, or Polar Star replacements. Or life pots, but that goes without saying. He's been stuck on the Island Core for months... *** The missiles are also completely optional, in case you didn't know... *** Oh, he knows. He knows... ** [[@/{{phazonfarmer}} This troper]] is doing something a little different. There's no change to the actual game, but I'm not using any of the [[SavePoint Save Points]]. In other words, a single death will send me all the way back to before I got the Polar Star. As of this writing, the farthest I've gotten is about halfway into the Sand Zone. * This troper has had the idea of beating ''Star Fox 64'' while scoring as ''few'' points as possible. He hasn't gotten around to it, but he thinks it could be done with as few as 36. * [[Tropers/JDubya This Troper]] likes to play RealTimeStrategy skirmishes with various interesting ideas. One of his classics is setting [[CommandAndConquer Red Alert]] to no bases, maximum units, a tiny island map, and customized rules with piles of random powerup crates. * [[Tropers/KLSymph This Troper]] wanted to get [[LimitBreak Omnislash]] before the end of the first disk of FinalFantasy [=VII=]. He [[LevelGrinding LevelGrinded]] for... what was it, twenty-six total hours until Cloud is level 70-something and he got bored (finally). And he got Omnislash, yay, along with the other limit breaks available on disk one. Then he [[CurbStompBattle stomped Jenova-[=LIFE=] like the little turd it was]]. ** He also did similar overlevel-the-main-character-on-disk-one shenanigans in [=FF8=] and [=FF9=]. Must like GodModeSue protagonists or something. *** [[Tropers/LittleMissSpaceMonkey This Troper]] nearly went insane with level grinding on disk one to do that. The rest of the game was a

breeze... although that was my fourth run-through. * This troper plans to finish ADOM with a mindcrafter,because no-one else seems to play them. Six years and counting,and his best character is lvl. 32... and he's afraid to play him in case he dies. ** This troper just got a wild hair and a urge to play a troll mindcrafter again. (randomly rolled the first time) * This troper plays all [=RPGs=] with one simple restriction: no resurrections. If any character dies (or "[[NonLethalKO drops unconscious"]]), reload (and no saving during battles either, if the game makes this possible). Spells or items that resurrect characters become forbidden. This pleasantly ups the challenge on many games and increases immersion, as it forces you to protect your weaker characters for more reason then just losing [[GlassCannon their attacks]]. Of course, to make this a truly hardcore challenge, you'd have to do it without ''reloading'': if any character dies, ''restart the game''. Unless you can already dream every battle in the game this probably crosses the line from "added challenge" to "masochism", though (and if you ''can'' dream every battle in the game, it's probably time to look for a new game -- ''{{Nethack}}'' comes recommended). ** Actually a [[http://forums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=649623&forum=20 challenge]] on the official boards of the BaldursGate series (resurrection may be included or not, depending on preference, but main character death is always a game over). Given the entire series can and will easily run to 250 hours, and having participated in it himself, this troper has some serious respect for the ''two'' people that have done it in the history of that thread (several years by now). You are, of course, allowed to save/reload in order to get some sleep, though. ** The FireEmblem series is famous for its permanent character death. If a character dies in battle, they die for good - if their living is important to the plot, they are horribly injured and pulled out of your party permanently. This troper has always been stubborn about reloading to keep characters alive, but when battles late-game can last a couple of hours, it starts becoming incredibly frustrating, and FireEmblem is pretty viciously hard to begin with. Sometimes you just give up and reload to keep the characters you like... ** At the point where it becomes that hard, you're only likely to be using the units you've grown to like. Except Nino. Let Nino get blasted to oblivion for being level 5 six levels from the end. ** This troper bought a PS2 and FinalFantasy X before an extended weekend, however forgetting the memory card module. Of course, not wanting to miss out on the game and scarce free time, HilarityEnsues after that, every RPG is played in this way at least on the second run because shooting DeathIsNotPermanent in the face makes for way more exciting battles. * This troper went through the first run of SidMeiersAlphaCentauri playing as the U.N. "Peacekeepers", roleplaying the faction: no declaring war on anyone first, no conquest, only using the army for self-defense, no betraying allies, accepting alliances from everyone. This got pretty hard when the ChurchMilitant faction became his new

neighbor. He won by Ascent to Transcendence, and only later learned that this PacifistRun was considered an added challenge (it's indeed a ''lot'' more sensible to be aggressive). * Here's a nice self-imposed challenge: try filming a documentary in the Ultra Orthodox neigbhourhoods of Jerusalem. Morgan Spurlock tried that. Hilarity ensues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ2PMcCYZ7I&feature=PlayList&p=FD7DC0E7 C3447EC4&index=4 * [[@/{{Wheezy}} This troper]] spent over a year of free time back in high school downloading custom mods for SimCity 4 and trying to build a life-sized, realistic metropolitan area - complete with [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/Taiyou/Acacia/Aca1-1.jpg multiple]] [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/Taiyou/Acacia/TriCityArea-Oct253901242095375copy.jpg separate]] [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/Taiyou/Osceola/DowntownESanMat eo-Jun82751225841259.jpg cities]], [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/Taiyou/Acacia/LunsfordCityOct9561247631419cop-1.jpg suburbs]], [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/Taiyou/Acacia/Tri-CityAreaSep194061246451785copy.jpg several huge parks]], and [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/Taiyou/Acacia/WholePic.jpg a fucking chemical seaport]]. It's not finished... But it's still on his hard drive, [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell and IT WILL BE SOMEDAY.]] Besides a lifelong obsession with building things, he has no idea why he's doing this, though. * This troper is doing Hard Mode runs of ''{{Castlevania}}: Portrait of Ruin'' and ''Harmony of Dissonance'' while restricting himself to 1-2 healing items during boss battles. * Getting all the coins in Super Mario Galaxy is very hard, possibly even out the realm of human ability, especially on any levels involving cannons, bottomless pits, and scrolling platforms. However, this troper likes how it adds more challenge to otherwise easy levels, and discovering new coins and even areas missed the first time around is a real treat. * Little tip: If you plan to do a 1% run of Metroid Fusion, learn to be EXTREMELY patient. Why? Yakuza and Nightmare. * This troper refuses to use his degree in liberal arts to become a teacher, because that's pretty much what everybody does. * This troper went and bought antiseptic mouth rinse. The kind that tries to eat the soft tissues in the mouth, and burns like nothing that should go near pain receptors. It is used after brushing and flossing, when tender regions are exposed. It is now the third day. You would not believe how much this hurts. ** It's not a challenge if you're doing something everyone else does daily without such a problem. * This troper is working on a ''FinalFantasy XII'' SEC, where he doesn't move on in the plot unless he has every equipment available and as complete of a bazaar recipe checklist as possible that early in the game. He's currently a Leo Gem and a Bone Helm short of the challenge letting him beat the Rogue Tomato. * This troper went through {{Metal Gear Solid}}: Sons of Liberty with one goal in mind: finding all the ways to piss off Rose while still

avoding being detected by the enemies. * This Troper earned the elusive "Big Boss" ranking in {{Metal Gear Solid}} 4 by beating the game on "The Boss Extreme" difficulty with 0 deaths, 0 alerts, 0 kills, 0 recovery items used, 0 special items used, and in under 5 hours (my time was 4 hrs 21 min). Some pointers: the solar gun is a must for nonlethal kills because drebin doesnt let you buy stun grenades or tranq rounds. Skip all cut scenes (obviously). Save in every new area so you can reset if you screw up. By doing this I achieved my ridiculous self-loathing goal in about a week, and it was exam week too. Yes I need to sort out my priorities. * [[{{Tropers/Emptyeye}} This troper]] once played through ''Zelda II: The Adventure of Link'' raising ''only'' his Attack level. It took him several sittings and about 12 Game Overs on the counter, but he got through it. * This troper, for reasons even she doesn't understand, has taken it upon herself to go through the entire chain of VideogameTropes and add ''TheLegendOfZelda'' to as many as possible. Of course, it's already on most of the appropriate pages, but she's added it to a few more. * [[{{Tropers/Regiment}} This troper]] pointedly (usually) avoids HotSkittyOnWailordAction in {{Pokemon}}, and only breeds Pokemon that look like they should be able to breed. The catlike Leafeon and the doglike Luxray? Fine. Leafeon and... well, Wailord? No. He also will [[HundredPercentCompletion search out every hidden item in any game]], even if there's no benefit for doing so and you can't play the finished save file (like the original MetalGear Solid). ** Only breeding look-a-like Pokemon seems less like a challenge and more like just playing differently. Because there's no real need to breed Pokemon at all to beat the game. ** A friend of mine took his Pokemon training to a whole new level with breeding and leveling Pokemon. In his Pokemon Platinum game, he is breeding Pokemon with specific natures (little things like "Relaxed" or "Timid" or "Hasty") that boost a stat in exchange for lowering another. Once he has a Pokemon with the best nature (usually a "neutral" nature, such as "Docile" or "Hardy"), he begins EV training, which involves heavy vitamin use (Carbos, Iron, etc) and level grinding. Defeating certain Pokemon gives the winning Pokemon a small amount of [=EVs=], which have also been called "Stat XP". In this way, his Pokemon can obtain what are literally the best stats in the game, completely legitimately. He is, almost literally, genetically engineering the perfect Pokemon. *** I'm doing all that plus trying to get perfect [=IVs=]. Smogon gets really anal about it... ** I have two friends who epitomize this trope. First, they had a challenge in Ruby/Sapphire (I call it the "Fire Emblem Challenge") where they had to only catch the only pokemon in each new area, and if any of them fainted, they had to be released. Overall, this was hard enough. However, they had another challenge (which I dub the "Gym Leader Challenge") in Fire Red/Leaf Green where they started the game with 6 pokemon that were all of the same type. They weren't allowed to catch any other pokemon. This one becomes evil when you face down an opponent with a clear type advantage. *** The names are, in order, the Nuzlocke Challenge and the Monotype

Challenge ** This Troper plans on doing a Nuzlocke Challenge soon. Maybe I should also throw in Miser (Exception being found/given Pokeballs) and Monotype... ** Pfft. Nuzlocke almost feels easy, even without grinding, compared to that Magikarp Only run of Gold I did...I almost lost to Agatha when I saw that she had a Gengar, but I beat the Elite 4 at level 80. I killed so many Ursaring and Golbats in Victory Road... ** [[Tropers/LittleMissSpaceMonkey This Troper]] does the Monotype Challenge for every single game since Gold/Silver as a second runthrough. As well as doing the One Mon Challenge - first one with a Mareep/Flaaffy/Ampharos in Gold. Dear [[CollectiveGroan Arceus]], that was torture. * I try to beat a boss using a powerful move as the last attack so much that I call the moves used for them "dramatic finishers". This often leading me to have to conserve enough of whatever the game requires me to use for the attack or doing a complex set of moves to use it, or making sure the boss has enough health left for me to do it. That last one gets especially difficult when I want to finish with the end of a combo. I do CherryTapping too. ** Are you me? *** Are you I? * When playing fighting games, This troper forces himself to finish matches with the biggest, most telegraphed, hillariously slow move he can find, using high-power unblockables in the SoulSeries games and the Muay Thai fighter's roundhouse kick in Virtua Fighter at the end of every battle for dramatic finish potential. * This troper is gonna keep adding ''InitialD'' examples to articles until ''InitialD'' gets its own article. Then again, he could just write the damn article. * [[{{Tropers/Kriegsmesser}} This troper]] has beaten {{Pokemon}} Red with only Charmander (Not Charizard, ''Charmander''), and only [[MagikarpPower Magikarp]] (traded for the starter as soon as possible), barring [[FanNickname HM Slaves]], [[LegendOfZelda Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker]] with three hearts, and New SuperMarioBros. with only small Mario, and with the fewest number of levels completed possible. (Not at the same time, though. That'd require hax.) He believes himself to be addicted to [=SICs=]. ** Recently, he has begun trying to beat TempleOfElementalEvil A) with a one-character party (Bard and Druid are his best, with Paladin and Cleric not far behind) B) With all death being final, and a TPK meaning that the save file must be deleted (almost did it once, was wiped in the Plane of Fire C) Without patches. That last one is quite near ''impossible''. ** This troper has never limited the level of his sdtarting pokemon, but he has done runthroughs of the game fighting only with a Blaziken that could only use Struggle for gym leaders, Victory Road, and the Elite 4/Champion. He was holding an experience share the whole time, and started at level 86. ** It wasn't for the whole game, but this troper once tried to beat the elite four with nothing but a bunch of level five magikarps. He had to wait for an opponent's attack to miss, then use splash. Repeat

this times forty to get the magikarps to use struggle. It was kind of cheating though because he used an infinite amount of full restores. Still fun though. ** This Troper has beaten the Elite 4 of the [[PokeMon Pokemon]] Firered Edition and caught the three Legendary Birds without ever using a pokemon on Level 50 or higher, in 27 hours and 31 minutes. It was easier than it sounds. ** [[{{Tropers/Pokenatic}} This Troper]] managed to play through [[{{Pokemon}} Pokmon]] Sapphire and beat the Elite Four using only a Ralts. Not only that, I beat it in 18 hours, 56 minutes, and 27 seconds. Sure I got two [=TMs=] (Shock Wave and Shadow Ball) through trading, but still. My next challenge is to beat it again on a solo character run, this time with no trades at all, and to cut my time by ''[[strike: five]]'' ''eight hours''. [[hottip:*: Just to note, it was a regular, segmented run.]] * This troper loved Kirby Super Star Deluxe, but he found it too easy, so he played all the games without using any power ups. Much harder, especially Arena and Milky Way Wishes. ** Meanwhile, ''this'' troper is currently working on beating The True Arena without using any copy abilities. After that, it's onward to beating The Arena and Helper to Hero without using any healing items. ** This editor enjoys putting a different spin on The Arena. As anyone who's played it should know, after every battle the player is offered two randomly-selected abilities. For this editor's "Arena Roulette" challenge, the idea is you MUST take one of the two powers between every round, and cannot use the same one for more than one round. *** This Troper will see your arena challenge and raise you one. In the True Arena, as most people ought to know, you only get one copy power between rounds. To start, enter and exit the True Arena until Kabula is up first (the only boss in the True Arena where power doesn't matter). Then, for each of the next rounds, you must take the power you're given. Much harder than the above, because you don't get a choice in the matter; you might end up having to use Suplex on Dedede or [[spoiler: the Galactic Knight]]. *shudder* * This troper has a bizarre love of an obscure Game Boy Color game called ''LilMonster.'' Having played through it numerous times, she's now taken up various challenges in it, such as [[SpeedRun beating it as fast as possible]], beating it without using healing items except those necessary to get an item later in the game, and, her favorite, beating the final boss with one of the most pathetically wimpy monsters in the game. She actually did it on her first run through the game at the tender age of 11, so she knows it's possible... just vicious hard. * Whenever this troper plays ''ComixZone'', he insists on fighting the final boss hand-to-hand rather than luring him under the rocket boosters at the bottom of the arena like you're supposed to. * This troper is unreasonably fond of extreme "Sims 2" challenges. Accomplished feats: Raise 7 toddlers simultaneously with one adult and no help. Make 20 best friends without ever leaving your house or talking to anybody in person. Raise a generation of Sims with no running water (sinks, tubs, toilets, dishwashers, fountains, pools). Currently working on the Apocalypse challenge, and past the difficult

first stages where you essentially live in a tiny house with a sink, an uncomfortable bed, no electricity and one meal a day... oh, and it's the dead of winter. People who think [=TS2=] is a wussy game should try the challenges, seriously. ** Hey hey, the Apocalypse Challenge! * shudder* I load up my [=TS2=] game every so often and try to put a few weeks into my Apoc game, but, good grief, it's mentally taxing remembering which restrictions I can or can't ignore (and that's not counting my pathological aversion to harming or inconveniencing my Sims)... ** This player just made up the Psycho challenge. Basically either you have to kill everyone else in two weeks without any outside help or the ability to control them, or you have to become friends with the guy who's killing everyone else so that he'll leave you until the last day. Then you have to kill him before midnight or you loose. ** This troper made a female character that worked lived and interacted from home only on her computer. when she died of old age, she had only been visited once by the support bunny at the beginning of the game, because nobody else in town had gotten onto the internet. * This troper tried to complete ''Second Sight'' with 100% Morality. (Unfortunately, one level seems to be impossible, since the clones apparently die even if you use a psi blast to take down their shields and then use nothing but the tranquilizer, but you can't leave the room with them conscious. And another level is incredibly difficult because of all the soldiers with shields.) ** [[Tropers/DeuxHero As have I]], inspired by the villan calling the hero out on all the people he killed to reach him, he still says it even if you kill nobody in the level. * [[{{Tropers/Brickman}} This troper]] tried to do a Bioshock run on hard without killing anybody who isn't required to progress (that would also entail no big daddies except for two in Hephasteus, meaning a grand total of 3 little sisters available total). Security cameras and turrets are fair game, since ACTUALLY not killing anyone would quickly create a critical mass of enemies since more spawn after every objective, but no using enrage, electrobolt or winter blast, since freezing your enemies solid for five seconds while you run past is cheating. I only got most of the way through Medical Pavillion before getting fed up with the fact that the AI was '''not''' built to consistently chase you in the same way, which means luring leadhead or even some thuggish splicers back to a friendly security camera requires lots of reloading and a good deal of luck or potentially taking several hits for no reason. Also annoying was the part where you get incinerate; the enemies are also not made to consistently be run past, so whether I'd bolt outta there like a shot or get caught on an enemy (and I mean caught on in the "running into and trying to run through them" sense) was random, and just when I thought I had it they all chased me down the broken staircase which to this point had appeared to be inaccessible to them. But since I know things'll get a lot better as soon as I get target dummy, I might revisit it, or I might return while allowing myself nonfatal electrobolts. ** This troper at one point started a playthrough where the only weapon used would be the wrench. Fair enough, except since I had done

something similar on an earlier playthrough (wrench and crossbow only), I decided to crank the volume up. Survivor, no Vita-Chambers. Made it to somewhere in Arcadia before my patience wore out (may eventually pick it back up again). * The only way for [[Tropers/FreezairForALimitedTime this troper]] to play ''{{Pikmin}} 2'' is without letting a single Pikmin die. Ever. Especially in the later levels, this quickly ratchets up the difficulty of the game from "Simple and somewhat breezy RTS" to "NintendoHard." This also means the final boss takes a ''ridiculously'' long time to beat--about an hour, for this troper-since you have to play extremely cautious with your Pikmin. This is actually a good strategy for the dungeons, since you can't get more Pikmin in them (except on VERY rare occasions, when you get temporary "Bulbmin" that are immune to all hazards). Granted, in the Challenge Mode, you actually get a special ranking on all the levels for beating them this way. ** Try combining this challenge with getting exactly 500 Pikmin, 100 of each color. Or with the speedrun challenge. * This troper is also currently doing a "Picture Perfect" run in ''BeyondGoodAndEvil''--she must complete the animal survey, but every animal picture must be "perfect." The head of the animal must be clearly visible and not obscured, and must be taken either from the front or at least in a pretty good profile--never the back. The animal should be as big in the frame as possible. The picture should not be too blurry, and if additional members of the same species can be in the picture, the more the better. And the picture of a human? Must be ''smiling.'' (There's actually only one way to get a picture of a person smiling, and it's only after a specific cutscene.) ** This troper sentimentally went through her second playthrough by fitting Pey'j into every animal photograph it was possible to take with him beside you, making sure he was always facing toward and waving at the camera. ** [[Tropers/MikeRosoft This troper]] has gradually given himself the following challenges: *** Not using Jade's super attack (except against the first boss where it's mandatory) - I wasn't able to use it effectively anyway. *** Not using the homing missiles (neutralizer cannon) in the battles, except when it's the only way to hit the enemy. *** Using proper stealth instead of putting the guards out of action by shooting their gas tanks wherever possible (and wherever it doesn't prevent HundredPercentCompletion). * This troper played columns watching the reflection on a window, to make it a little more challenging. Playing it "by ear" proved to be imposible, though. ** This troper is attempting to beat TVTropesWiki without making a typo. * This troper will only pair spades with hearts and clubs with diamonds when playing solitaire. * Years ago, this troper did a foodless ''{{Nethack}}'' run. She's ''still'' proud of it. * [[{{Tropers/Comonad}} This troper]] has beaten IWannaBeTheGuy. He thinks this counts.

** This troper agrees. I Wanna Be The Guy: when cutting yourself just isn't masochistic enough. ** This troper beat I Wanna Be The Guy on Very Hard while collecting all the secret items... I have way too much free time. ** This troper likes seeing how far he can get with his eyes closed, only opening them on the "Game Over" screen (to see how he died). His record? Five rooms. ** Whoever beat the game on impossible deserves to be heralded as a god, I could practice for months and still never get there. * This Troper, when he was extremely bored, decided to beat Pokemon Diamond without allowing ANY enemy pokemon to attack him even once, starting to count as soon as he got at the first city. This means he spent 12 days levelgrinding. And managed to beat the game. Without taking a single hit. ** That's pretty much a normal game of pokemon for this troper. Only replace "first city" with "second route." * This Troper's goal is to collect all the non-event Pokmon in Pearl version under very strict restrictions. First of all, everything must be in a regular Pokball or something equally as weak (aside from Safari Balls, which are allowed for obvious reasons). Any trades done must be with himself, and the final trade number on the Trainer Card must be no more than 7. This is just barely possible if trade-induced evolutions are imported from the GBA games whenever possible, and Electivire/Magmortar are obtained from Battle Revolution. That leaves the other two starters, Stunky, Dialga, Rhyperior, Dusknoir, and Porygon-Z that must be traded. (A Skull Fossil can be attached to one of them, eliminating the need to trade a Cranidos.) ** For the record, my current total is 456, 8 of which are not in the weak enough Pokballs. I should be able to get it up to 472 or 473 soon, still with no recorded trades and with everything in Pokballs. *** There's a Youtube user who has done this one in FOUR trades. No, it's not imposible, he got Rhyperior, Dusknoir, and Porygon-Z via the trade-evolution glitch. (OK, technically he still needs Lugia, Ho-oh, Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi, but still.) * This fellow has beaten KingdomHearts 2 with a [[SelfImposedChallenge Low Level Challenge]]. It was quite a bit of fun, the combat system really shines once your buffer of massive amounts of HP is missing. After beating the game, I desided to try and beat [[Main/BonusBoss Sephiroth]] with the file. A year has passed since then. :( ** This lurker has beaten several Olympus Cups while blindfolded. * GreatPenguin plays Master Of Orion, and will not be content until he can capture Orion and wipe out every AI race on every difficulty level. * This troper has played ''FinalFantasyTactics'' with Ramza as a strict Mediator and a party of all monsters - it isn't as hard as you'd think, most of the time, though healing does get to be a problem, as you're basically limited to yellow chocobos and one of those tree-type enemies... and not a single damn monster in the game can revive. This troper's brother has also played with a FinalFantasyIV tribute party - Ramza as a knight/white mage and a bunch of generics - an archer/white mage, a summoner/black mage, a ninja, and a lancer filled out the party. The archer/white mage blew,

but it was more of a fun thing than a challenge (It works best for FFIV, but tribute game templates exist for whatever FF game you please, and it gets really fun if you have a GameShark). ** This troper's halfway through a full SSC Black Mage run in the PSP version. Surprisingly, I only had trouble in a handful of battles so far (I found that enemy equipment is often randomized, meaning that certain battles are pure luck; if you get guys with certain shields or cloaks that significantly boost their magic evasion, you're screwed). And interestingly enough, I started a normal game on a separate save and with a balance team, I'm stuck on the Dorter Trade City fight, when I demolished it with my Black Mage team. Weird. * This Troper beat all the RatchetAndClank games using nothing but the wrench unless absolutely necessary, which made the 2nd and 3rd games even harder (no upgrades.) Also beat JakII without using guns. (This was on my fifth playthrough, though, so I had the necessary experience.) ** This Troper also attempted this, and failed, how you managed to get through the spaceport in the first game (where you pretty much need some projectiles to take out the towers that keep the forcefields up) is beyond me. Similarly much kudos if you beat the mutant swampbeast II in 2 with just a wrench, that thing is insanely difficult due to how it keeps moving forwards. * This troper spent ages, with four housemates, trying to leap out of a helicopter onto the roof of a moving car in GTA IV. Probably loads of people have done that, but the difference in my case was that, in a fit of drunken bravado, I made a bet on it: the first to do it could claim as his prize my anal virginity, unless I was the first to do it. Nobody managed it that evening, so we tried again a couple of days later. Three ''weeks'' on, I succeeded, to my relief ([[NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat no offence to my housemates]]). ** ...you put a bet on your anal virginity... *** ...and your friends competed for it. *** What *** the *** daffodil **** He ''said'' they were drunk when they made the bet, everything after that was probably out of "I can't go back on a bet" mentality. That or all of his friends are gay. *** ''even then''. *** Or the troper is a female. *** '''EVEN THEN.''' [[{{Squick}} Or is that just me?]] *** Call it morbid curiosity, but I kinda want to know if the original troper would have gone through with it had he or she lost that bet. **** Also call it morbid curiosity,but is the first trooper a girl or a boy? * This troper is planning to do a hard mode playthrough of [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic KOTOR 2]] without using any items whatsoever, including equipment. Thus, combat will comprise entirely of force powers, [[CherryTapping punching things to death]], and running away a lot. And all the while, the characters will be in their underwear. ** It's not CherryTapping when your punch is ''almost'' as powerful as

a lightsaber blade. That would be to never increase your Strength stat, which controls all physical damage. And Force Storm and Life Drain are among the deadliest things in the game, and still in your arsenal. Stasis Field, Force Wave, and Master Heal, too, though for slightly different reasons. You want a ''real'' challenge, try playing through never levelling up past the necessary Level 2. *** The goal was to make a more interesting playthrough, not necessarily the hardest one possible. :) I linked to CherryTapping because KOTOR's entry there is a major inspiration for the run. BareFistedMonk would probably work better for pot-holing, but it didn't exist back when I added this entry. * [[{{Tropers/Enlong}} This troper]]'s brother can no longer simply ''play'' ''FinalFantasyVI'', he has to come up with more and more insane challenges to put himself through. First it was a low-level run. Then a "natural magic" run, where only characters who learn magic on their own may learn it. He's currently at work on a "no magic" (save for Lores) run, with so far only one spell used, a single Cure spell against [[ThatOneBoss Vargus]]. * This troper has beaten RatchetAndClank3 with no armour. It quickly becomes NintendoHard to the point where it is one-hit kill, and even tiny errors can cause huge damage that will take ages to replenish. Also, playing without the PDA (allows for ammo to be purchased anywhere at the cost of x10 the usual price) is excluded. * The troper above has also beaten RatchetGladiator (or Deadlocked for some) in two ways. One: ''pacifist'' style. The player cannot attack ANY monster at all, s/he must use the bots to attack (and they are seriously underpowered). Two: no mods. Alpha mods and omega mods upgrade your weapon and they are important to surviving. Without them, it takes more effort to kill common enemies, resulting in rapid depletion of ammo, making vendor runs essential, in the end costing you a lot of money and time. These two challenges make the game so [[NintendoHard difficult incredible and astonishingly (imagine, the first few missions!!)fast]] that it becomes [[TrialandErrorGameplay common to keep trying again to avoid messing up for the 463rd time ]]. * This troper is and has been trying to beat the original SonicTheHedgehog with a DDR mat (Sonic Mega Collection for GameCube with the DDR mat for the system.) ** THAT. Is AWESOME. * Similar to the Pikmin example above, ever since ''Marathon'' I've made it my personal mission to clear an FPS level at least once with as few RedShirt casualties as CutsceneIncompetence allows. The suicidal attitude of the typical RedShirtArmy sometimes strains VideogameCaringPotential, but I can't help loving the poor shmucks. * This troper began writing an {{Exalted}} character who is, for a lack of better words, really damn retarded. The reason for it was because just to see how an Intelligence 1 PC can function. Surprisingly, the PC is now one of her favorites. * This Troper is insane. Honestly. I went ahead and fully ev trained a Charmander then evolved her into a Charizard BEFORE EVEN FACING BROCK (on Fire Red). >.> I am also planning on one day beating a Pokemon game using nothing but one Magikarp (not evolving it) and a Pokemon with Pickup to get funds so that I can HEAL the damned fish (It CAN

attack without knowing Tackle or Flail. However, using a Pokemon Center means having to drain 40 splashes ALL OVER AGAIN x.x) * This Troper has a strange self-imposed challenge with any and all RealTimeStrategy games that have a campaign setting: Beating each mission without losing a '''single unit or building'''. Yes, ''even in missions that are obviously some flavor of [[TheKobayashiMaru Kobayashi Maru scenario]]''. Well, excepting any scripted or cutscene losses, of course. Just imagine trying to get through, say, the [[CommandAndConquer C&C Tiberium Wars]] GDI mission in Croatia without losing a single unit. His friends are all convinced that he's {{Idiosyncrazy}} to put himself through sheer NintendoHard torture of ''that'' caliber. * Once upon a time, [[{{Tropers/Be}} this troper]] took on his brother at [[SoulSeries Soul Calibur II]] and beat him with one hand. ** And what did you do with your other hand? ** UnfortunateImplications ** No way, he must have used the other hand to play the game while beating his brother. ** [[BlatantLies Answer]]: Solved a Rubik's Cube. * Ghosting in any game with thief-like elements is one of my most rewarding challenges, the object of which is to get in and out without being witnessed, and leaving no trace of your presence except for the things that are missing. Ideally no one should even suspect you were there except for the guy who gave you the job (unless he sells you out.) This can be done for all Thief games, and all thieving missions for Morrowind and Oblivion (with the exception of the damn vampires, which foils my perfect record.) * Unarmed/unarmored challenges for Morrowind and Oblivion, which becomes easier with skill and enchants. It can also be done with Fallout 3 quite effectively with the right perks. ** This troper is planning on playing Fallout 3 without directly killing anyone. I'm going to upgrade the heck out of my speech and sneak to avoid battles, then I'm going to talk all the bad-guys to death. * This troper [[GottaCatchThemAll once caught all 204 monkeys]] in Ape Escape (the original on the mighty Playstation) using ''only'' the net. That means no using the Stun Club to momentarily stun the monkeys. Yep. I only used gadgets that were necessary to advance through the game but no none of those gadgets were used to aid the capture of monkeys. Its easier than it sounds but harder than it looks. * Not sure if this counts, but I can't possibly be the only one who tries to play games to the rhythm of the music playing. ** No, this troper does that too. (Not just rhythm games, but fighting games, rpgs, first person shooters?) ** This troper will occasionally attempt to do this with Touhou. So far I've only suceeded in Imperishable Night on easy mode * YouHaveToBurnTheRope. Use only the upper right torch. No damage. Minimum time. Fewest jumps. Constant jump. Constant axe. One key combo tap per second. Any combination of the above (excluding completely incompatible ones, like constant jump and fewest jumps). * {{dotHack}}//Infection, starting weapons and armor, Kite Only when

no [[GuestStarPartyMember Guest Star Party Members]] are required and ONE healer on major battles (remember, they'd be underleveled since you only use them otherwise when absolutely necessary). (It's possible to finish the goblin races, but it's ''[[{{Understatement}} annoying]].'') * I have just beaten Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus with the highest death count of Mudokons. There are 300 in the game and they must be rescued. However, only 11 of those unlucky 300 are needed to continue with the game. That mean 289 mudokons died during my adventure through the game. Killing them includes: ** Slapping them to death ** Getting them... *** Shot by sligs *** Eaten by scrabs/paramites/slogs *** Blown up by mines *** Fallen to death *** Hit by bombs ** Walked into electric walls ** Walked into meat drills ** Made the depressed commit suicide * Overall... FUN TIME!! * [[Tropers/RayAyanami This troper]], an aspiring ''Tetris: The Grand Master'' player, is giving up rotation systems with the [[http://www.tetrisconcept.com/wiki/index.php/Floor_kick floor kick]] feature for Lent. Which means he's going 40 days without a feature he depends on for his survival in ''TGM'' clones. ** His friend, on the other hand, gave up sex, porn, and masturbation. This troper commends him. ** This troper is doing No Fap November, and feels your friend's pain. * This troper got over his StopHavingFunGuys phase by picking characters at random in Tekken, Soul Calibur and Guilty Gear. * While not [[{{Tropers/Starscream}} mine]] personally, one {{GameFAQs}} member by the name of Mikkeldemey beat ''Pokmon Sapphire'' with just a single Wurmple (affectionately named "Uberwurm"), and posted videos and images to prove it. It was NOT an emulator run, and the Champion battle was actually streamed live. Image proof of the ending can be found [[http://s55.photobucket.com/albums/g148/MikkelDemey/Wurmple%20Only%20 -%20The%20End/ here]]. ** Also not mine (although I am not the above troper), another member called Animekitsune beat Pokemon Leafgreen with a Caterpie named Pwnage (she specifically stated that she was inspired by Mikkeldemey, and also expressed the desire to upstage him...). She had videos of beating Blaine, Agatha, and the Champion, and pictures of various other things. Also not an emulator run. * Possibly not the hardest challenge, but I've been trying to save the tank that appears in [=MGS4,=] you only have so much time to stop the Praying Mantis soldiers from getting to their positions, and it's almost impossible to get from one spot to another in quick time without injuring Snake and exposing yourself to the soldiers on the ground. ** Oh, and starting a fresh file on The Boss Extreme creates plenty of

challenges. ** Lots-o-fun until you get to the second act and those rebels will always seem to do something stupid to get you spotted. * Not quite the 'challenge' in skill levels, but rather tallying mathematics. In games where you blow up lots of tanks, planes and so forth try and estimate how much damage that'll cost in real life terms, for me it started with Super Thunder Blade II on the Megadrive with the absurd bosses and military destruction. * I've played {{Wizardry}} VI-8 on expert twice without resurrections, so character death meant reload. Killing the two [[ThatOneBoss Beasts of a Thousand Eyes]] took a day. (They cast a spell causing everything from StandardStatusEffects to death every few rounds, and there is no way avoiding that apart from [[LuckBasedMission hoping for the best]], being [[LevelGrinding drastically overleveled]] or using the [[UselessUsefulSpell easy to overlook]] Weaken spell.) * The final level of the original {{Starcraft}} allows you to use Protoss and Terran units against the Zerg. So what's a bored player to do? Use only one race or the other, of course! This troper found it much easier to do so with the Terrans, as the limited resources at the initial Protoss base make it much harder to get a war machine going without building and defending multiple expansions from [[ZergRush massive onslaughts.]] * Want to get abused? Attempt a SelfImposedChallenge on an {{MMORPG}}. This troper is trying to get to level 75 as a Paladin on ''FinalFantasyXI'', Midgardsormr server... using only Red Mage, not the [[CharacterTiers community-approved]] Warrior, as a support job. In fact, she refuses to even level WAR in order to keep people from demanding it (resulting in odd subjob choices for some other jobs, too). Due to the means by which a PLD/RDM generates hate, that necessarily means no fighting [[GameBreaker Colibri]] either. She wants to see just what the limits of "the brick wall" are -- just how situational it ''really'' is... Unfortunately, refreshers are so commonly elitist jerks that it's gotten to the point where a friend of hers is levelling Red Mage ''just to support her PLD/RDM.'' * This editor recently came up with one such challenge for ''DevilMayCry 3'' (though it could work for other installments) and even gave it its own name: called the "REI Run" - [[FunWithAcronyms "REI" standing for "Rebellion, Ebony, Ivory"]] - the task is simply to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin beat the game with just Rebellion, Ebony and Ivory]]. The game's already NintendoHard. Needless to say, she's ''not'' suicidal enough to try it on [[HarderThanHard Dante Must Die]] mode! ** Dante Will Die challenge - Fresh file on Dante Must Die! Oh dear god. * This Troper is on staff at a {{Sonic the Hedgehog}} [[http://soniccagedome.com fansite]] dedicated to these kind of challenges. They start a bit simple, such as finishing an Act within a certain time, or finishing with more than 200 rings, but they do plan to get a bit masochistic. * This troper is planning to challange himself in Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner -- Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army. He plans to play the entire game through using only Jackfrost in battle. The only

time this rule will be broken is when I have no choice (Solo missions Jack Frost can't complete),sometimes outside of battle as an assistent since Cool Down isn't very useful for investigastion, and the time it takes me to get the money I need to recreate my Jackfrost. As I am going to do this for new game plus I'm sure that it's not that big of a deal...except I plan to do this for The Hard Mode....the only comfort is that I will be able to take advantage of my other challange a level 99 Jackfrost with max stats with Mabufu and Maagi which I plan to complete before starting hard mode since I may want a challange, but I'm not that suicidal. * This troper played Guilty Gear on a DDR mat against a friend... and won. * [[{{BassBlues}} This trooper]] decided to play {{Mega Man Star Force}} using only the default deck and deleting any [[{{the power of friendship}}Brother Bonds]] made. [[{{scrappy mechanic}} Sadly, the game didn't let me delete Brother Bonds]]. Once I figure out how, I would use a hacking device to make Geo Steller a loner kid in order to make the game harder. * This troper played Smash Bros. classic mode without attacking by waiting for all the enemies to eventually fall off the edge on their own. It was really only possible on easy mode, and he did have to attack Master hand at the end. * Tabletop Games example: This troper plays {{Warhammer40000}} using a vehicle-heavy, elites-heavy Chaos army specifically so I can skirmish with a friend's Tau army, almost all squads of which have at least one anti-tank weapon. On a map with very little cover. Hilarity Ensues. ** Just out of interest, how exactly does a Fire Warrior squad get an anti-tank weapon given that the maximum strength of their equipment is 5? *** They don't Fire Warriors don't have the option to get any, however they can still take out light vehicles * [[Tropers/CountDorku This troper]] has come up with the "do it all with drones" challenge (using Tau in ''DawnOfWar: Dark Crusade'' without the troops leaving the base and without building non-drone vehicle cap units, so the only units on the battlefront are drones), and the "Kill Maim Burn" ''StarWars: Battlefront'' challenge, in which the main point is simply to headshoot at least 25% of the enemy troops, with more than 20 kills in one lifetime. * {{Assassins Creed}}, using only the Hidden Blade. Gets easier later on, but before you can counter....grab, throw, and knife to the throat. * {{Left 4 Dead}}. Expert mode, two players, no bots, pistols only. ([[MemeticMutation Final Destination]].) The farthest this troper has gotten is the final part of No Mercy's third level, and he still hasn't tried the others campaigns. * Play any 2-D platforming game holding right, (unless it's like {{Metroid}}) stopping or using left as little as possible. [[Tropers/GreatPikminFan This troper]] tries that on syobon action (or "cat mario"). ** How did ''that'' work out? * ''Bloons tower defense 2 and 3'': beat the game with no road spikes, beat them with cannons only, or both (for the third game only, because

black bloons are immune to bombs, but not frag bombs...) * BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing: win a race without using a glitch. * This troper is currently attempting a Fallout3 naked run with 100% completion. No weapons, no armor, no items at all except for skill books. Collect every item in the game, even the countless tin cans and burned books. 100 in every skill by level 30. So far he is up to level 10, and has successfully punched a Super Mutant Behemoth to death. * This Troper has become [[IWannaBeTheGuy The Guy]]. Now how else could he up the challenge? Attempting Impossible is one choice, but there is also a game he likes to call 'Save Tag'. Get to the Final Tower of the Guy, save, restart, shoot the evil save point, but don't kill it. Enter the final boss battle and see how long you last with not only The Guy to contend against, but the Evil Save Point too. Oh, and you can't kill it. This Troper hasn't even made it to Phase 2 of the battle. * Having a pet rat on your shoulder while you're doing, well, anything, adds that extra challenge to your everyday life, as found out by This Troper and his family. * This Troper (Nightboomfer) plans to complete Fallout 3 on a "[[FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]]" run. ie; Using only unarmed attacks. Yes, even for the [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Super Mutant Brutes.]] * [[Tropers/CountDorku This troper]] has two: ** ''DawnOfWar'': [[VideogameCaringPotential Win a game playing as Tau without losing a single living being. Drones are OK, but other vehicles are not]]. Although he rarely manages, he's pretty good at keeping living, breathing casualties down. ** ''DwarfFortress'': in two different fortresses, there's the Absolutely Huge Dwarven Apartment Complex (with 200+ dwarves, it's easier to stripmine the lower levels if most of them are living in a spire sticking straight out of the ground...admittedly it's not very dwarfy) and the Horrific Goblin Maze [[AC: [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom OF DOOM!]]]] As the name suggests, this second one is a horrific labyrinth of pressure plates, ceiling-mounted circular saws, and dwarven atomsmashers, as well as one trap designed to answer the ancient philosophical question "Can goblins be killed by plummeting five storeys?" He even has nicknames for each individual trap - an atomsmasher-heavy hallway is the PathOfInspiration, the retracting bridge is the Goblin Paladin (aka "Gravity Sucks"), and the endless wall of traps is known as the Mills of Armok, because it grinds slowly...but very small. (And by "grinds", I mean "goblin-burgers anyone?") * [[Tropers/TsundeRay This troper]], for 24 hours, tried to do a ThirdPersonPerson challenge in which he only spoke in the third person unless first-person was really needed. It didn't work out too well. ** Only Doom can do the third person speak successfully. * Not much of a challenge, but that reminds me: try not speaking for a day, explaining yourself only in writing if necessary. It's not challenging in itself -- the challenge becomes explaining to people what you're doing (and sticking to it) without coming off as a total loon. If you're already a CloudCuckooLander, this is an item for your "Fun Things to Do" calendar, not a challenge. * [[Tropers/OmegaMetroid I]] all but insist on playing through games

without letting a single character die, and I only like to use items as a last resort. ...Although I still like FinalFantasyIII and FinalFantasyVI. Go figure. * This troper is considering doing nothing but fishing for several hours on WoW just to get it out of the way. Yes, he realizes the fishing skill is the most soul sucking skill of them all. * Fallout 3. One end of the wasteland to the other. Killing every man, woman, monster, [[GameMod Child]] and robot in my path. If it moves, I kill it. * For any 2D Super Mario game, mushrooms only (no fire flower, flying, etc) is a simple way to make any of them a good deal harder. It's so simple and effective that this troper is surprised that none of them have a "hard mode" to enforce it. Of course, if that's too easy for you, you can skip out on the mushrooms too. * This Troper would sometimes enter levels in {{Kirby}} 64 that contained the cute, Magikarp-like fish "enemy" named Flopper. He would then have Kirby pick up Flopper and attempt to [[EscortMission "rescue"]] him. In some stages [[{{Unwinnable}} it wasn't possible]] (because Kirby can't drop through floors while holding something) so he would sigh and sadly make Kirby eat Flopper. In a different Self Imposed Challenge, he attempted to complete every stage in Space Station Silicon Valley using the first-person camera, and in yet another he went through Final Fantasy 1 (the GBA remake) without class-changing. * Back when this troper was younger, and had way more time on her hands, she decided to challenge herself on a replay of Pokemon Yellow. She had wanted to keep the starter pokemon Pikachu in her party all the way through until the end. Then, she decided that she wanted to see if she could beat the game with the rest of her favorite pokemon at the time, so her final party consisted of: Rattata, Pidgey, Jigglypuff, Staryu, Oddish, and Pikachu. There was a lot of level grinding involved before she actually manged to beat the game. * I am attempting to obtain every shiny Pokemon catchable in the fourth generation games, and photograph them as proof. No using cheating devices to generate shinies or asking someone to do so for me. Cloning of shinies is ok if used to create trade fodder, but a cloned shiny cannot be evolved until all the copies are traded away. Illegit Pokemon may be accepted from other people as long as they were not created for the sole purpose of helping me achieve this goal. Aside from Platinum-exclusive formes, all Pokemon must be photographed in PC boxes 17 or 18 in my Diamond version. ** And yes, I plan to do this all over again in Black and White. Still deciding whether or not it's acceptable to transfer over shinies from the current challenge. * A relatively easy one, from ''FinalFantasyX''. Aurochs-only Blitzball challenge, aka no signing new players to the team. This Troper did it and was still able to get the item needed for Wakka's [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus One Ball]]. * This is how [[{{Tropers/this-guy}} I]] improve my art style. * This troper went through the majority of [[GrandTheftAuto GTA IV]] by ducking behind cover with a pistol and carefully lining up [[BoomHeadshot headshots]]. Mostly because of how humorous it is to

run into an area with dozens of heavily armed thugs only to drop them all with the weakest weapon. I could imagine the survivors telling their friends and family: "He was a cold, merciless, Slavic angel of death. We had the best assault weapons money can buy and he had a $40 semiautomatic. We had no chance." ** This troper played it on the PC and found that that was actually easier for most of the game, given the headshots are one hit kills * This troper used to be obsessed with handicapping himself as much as possible in ''OregonTrail''. The most preposterous run he's ever done? No bullets, no clothing. He sold his initial set of clothes (do the newer games still let you do that?) and spent all his money on two oxen and food. Somehow, he got it to work without SaveScumming. After several tries. ** Same here. Chuck Norris's Oregon Trail: No hunting, only the bare minimum equipment, breakneck speed, starvation rations, leave as early as possible. I managed to get my whole family there alive. Starving and sick, but alive, dammit! ** [[Tropers/Clevomon This troper's]] sister used to love the "How early can you kill your entire party" challenge. Her record? Just before reaching the first river. ...Er... impressive...? * This troper was so bored one day that he tried to beat the Arena mode in {{Kirby}} Super Star without using any abilities. He nailed it on his first try. * This troper has yet to finish a "make-everything-that-you-can-drawinvisible" run in DrawnToLife. * Play any game using a graphics tablet instead of the mouse. Watch what happens. Particularly fun ones for this are FPS and racing games. * I'm playing Megaman Battle Network 3. WITHOUT USING BATTLECHIPS. Buster only. It'll be alot easier once I get a style change, but at the moment I'm fighting the "Virus King" and the only way to survive his first wave (three mouse virus things) is to have more health than them and press the shooting button really fast. ** Do you intend to beat the postgame stuff too? If so, how the heck do you plan to beat [[ThatOneBoss Bass]] [[NighInvulnerable GX]]? *** Forget the BonusBoss, regular Bass will be tactically impossible buster-only (100 Aura, [=BusterMAX=] only goes up to 50). *** Non-OP here, but there are three ways to do it: you get [=NaviCust=] programs that let your charge shots go through shields and barriers ([=BrakBstr=] and [=BrakChrg=], if I recall correctly) by level-grinding the Guts style, or you obtain the [=SetGrass=] [=NaviCust=] program, obtain a Fire style, and equip [=BusterMAX=]the double damage gives you just enough power to break the shield, but you'll have to attack in a pattern so that the 3-square attack only burns the one square that he's on, in addition to 2 of your squares, or squares that you already burned, since you only get one grass-stage from the program, or, lastly, install ''two'' charge programs improperly- it causes your charge shot to change to a [[LethalJokeItem water-gun]], which has a range of 1 square, but deals juuust enough damage to break Bass' aura. The first method works against Bass GS, too, but it'll still be crazy hard. [[hottip:*: Yeah, I play this game too much.]] * Oh and I've also played through the Cell stage of Spore without ever

evolving. I was a herbivore, so I could run if I had to, but it was still difficult because I couldn't outrun, outfight or outeat anything else I met and I just had to avoid them by swimming through water currents. I'm pretty sure the creature stage is impossible without evolving, but I might try naked Tribal stage or play civilization stage with useless vehicles. * This troper had an idea, and is now carrying it out: PokemonMysteryDungeon Explorers of Darkness. No reviver seeds, no save scumming at the relay points, no getting wonder mail rescued. Poor Reno and Rude (because yes, this troper is enough of a dork to use the names of Those Two Guys from Final Fantasy VII...) are ''boned''. * [[{{Tropers/Brickman}} This Troper]] got all the way to the last Komato assasin in Sector 9 playing a Sudden Death Pacifist--anything except machinegun, collision damage or pulse rifle is instantly fatal (and those kill after only a few moments) to both the player and the enemies, and I didn't kill anything. No stunning enemies by knocking them down nonfatally, no taking any hits, no using a shredder to speed past everything in sight, you can't even kick a turret without making sure there's not a grunt standing on the other side. Worse, since sudden death exists on a per-level basis all skill points are unassigned and all weapons lost at the start of every level until you can find an upgrade station, and none of the normal benefits for a pacifist character (such as the level 3 truce or the friendly trading Tasen replacing a berserker in level 7). This basically transforms it into a different game, as the game was balanced for pacifism to be possible but not safe; most enemies have a melee attack that can kill with next to no warning but many must be run right through to progress, and one bar of armor doesn't survive very many bullets. If anything the game gets much easier once the Tasen Commanders and their love of kicking are replaced by Komato and their love of easily dodged shocksplinters. And don't even start on the beasts; I beat sector 7 by pure luck. I'm sure I could finish 9 if I came back to it, but 10 without annihilator beta and with one hit point for the brutal final stretch sounds intimidating; even beating the first part on sudden death at all is tricky. * Another challenge by [[{{Tropers/Brickman}} This Troper]] is ExitFate with no armor (or any equipment at all, in fact) and no items except brown potions and silver dust (and those only because they're more fun than wasting turns). This challenge comes HIGHLY recommended, as the combat is just too easy without it, needing something like this to keep it tense and challenging. It screws up the balance royally since your MDEF towers over your PDEF, but if anything it makes a combination of mages and fighters more important since your mages can't take any hits at all. I got all the way up to and through the Mt Ea sidequest, with random encounters who can kill almost any of your guys in no more than two hits and a boss who rather than being the monstrous challenge she was the first time around fell the very first time I tried, before being distracted by other games. Actually a bit farther I think; I think I got up to the library. I may come back sometime. ** Update: Finished the game. Difficulty still slumps a bit near the end, but not nearly as much as normally.

* I already have my next playthrough of ''Red Faction: Guerrilla'' planned. I'm going to (attempt to) play through Insane difficulty, with no armor upgrades or jetpack, using only the assault rifle, pistol, remote charges, and sledgehammer. Whether I'll allow myself to use turrets and walkers or not, I'm still debating. * This troper fairly recently played through Majora's Mask, with 3 simple rules: ** The Song of Time could only be used a maximum of 5 times (not counting when it is first learned, but counting when you play it as a Deku the first time). ** The Oath to Order could only be used once HundredPercentCompletion was achieved (excluding the final four Heart Pieces and the Fierce Deity Mask, because it is impossible to get those without playing the Oath). ** No external help (such as GameFAQs) could be used. * After being told to write in third person for a psychology coursework, this troper proceeded to spend the whole of the next day speaking in the third person. It angered, '''everybody''' but made me smile. * [[Tropers/ColorPrinter This troper]] has found the ultimate Mario challenge: ''Super Mario Galaxy''. Dreadnought Purple Coins. Make your way through the stage without collecting ''A SINGLE PURPLE COIN'', except for the mandatory one at the end. This takes an already [[NintendoHard hard level]] and nearly boosts it into PlatformHell. And yet I have done it. I [[ClusterFBomb cursed like hell]] all the way, though. ** You can do this on Battlerock Purple Coins, too, by collecting none at all. You even get [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything a special message]] from the NPC, who ''really'' hopes you tried to do this on purpose. Yes. Yes, I did. ** If you really want a challenge, check out some of the Uber Challenges Speed Demos Archive came up with. Some of them are fairly easy, and some are an absolute nightmare. * [[SpiriTsunami This troper's]] next challenge: Do a MinimalistRun of ''FireEmblem 7''--no using armories or shops, or utilizing the transfer data from the Double Dash bonus disc. He thinks the hardest part will probably be conserving the healing staves. Needless to say, it'll also have to be somewhat of a PacifistRun, and skipping most of the bonus chapters should help (not the first two, though, because I'll want Merlinus ASAP, and Canas is probably one of the easiest characters to fuel without buying anything (plus Port of Badon can be completed without battling many of the enemies).) * [[Tropers/MiniNephthys This troper]] now does this all the time for BattleMoonWars. She's completed two no-BP-used runs, a run where she stopped using her characters once they hit 50 kills, a run where she killed the BigBad without ever attacking or counterattacking her, and a run she lost the save to where she was only fielding the minimum required amount of units. Her next challenge is a guys-only run ergo, no healers. * Playing a game of ''Asteroids'' while trying not to score any points, including crashing into asteroids is very hard. * This troper has completed ''BubbleBobble'' in two-player mode while

being alone, controlling both dragons simultaneously. * Also, I've finished ''Tyrian'' on the fifth difficulty level, even though it normally only has three difficulty levels. * One of this troper's proudest gaming moments was completing ''AceCombat 04'' on Ace difficulty with the default plane. Imagine my disappointment when I went to a fansite to brag, only to discover that people (crazy, crazy people) were completing ''speedruns'' and '' '''no damage''' '' challenges with that setup. ** To be honest, this is fairly easy. If you know the game mechanics on how to dodge missiles and know to avoid getting close to AA guns because the mechanics change so little between the various games you can do this on pretty much every single game. Anyone who can actually beat the game on ace can almost certainly do it with the worst plane and taking no damage. * This Troper, a known arena abuser in {{Fire Emblem}} not only challenged herself to not use the arena, but to get her units up to level 20/10 doing so. She completed that challenge with a grin huge as a crescent moon. :3 * This tropeer likes to play all arcade light gun games with dual guns. Not usually a challenge, just fun, but I tried it on House of the Dead 3, which uses shotguns. Ended up being a little expensive, but I got on OK before someone else wanted to play. I beat Time Crisis 2 playing both screens, but once you figure out how to keep your balance it's pretty easy. * This troper has decided that his next play through of DynastyWarriors 6: Empires is going to play like this. Someone must unite all of China, but it can't be this troper's liege. * [[{{Tropers/kitsunezeta}} This troper]] has gotten so bored with Guitar Hero World Tour that whenever he plays guitar, All Slide is on and he only strums chords. He's already beaten songs with rapid strumming such as Scream Aim Fire this way without dropping into the red, too. ** He also tries to avoid strumming at all during solos in Rock Band, although he makes a special exception for [[ThatOneBoss Green Grass and High Tides's solo #2]] * RL version with this troper, who sucks at languages and loves his first world comforts, who decided to see if he could survive life in the developing world without those comforts/his friends/etc. He's actually quitte proud of how long he lasted. * Another one for [[Tropers/MikeRosoft this troper]]: playing ''Minesweeper'' without actually marking the mines. ** I also tend to create ones for myself in various puzzle/arcade games if I find them too easy; e.g. in ''Gemcraft'': Any time a monster reaches your tower (normally penalized with a mana loss), the mission is a failure. (Obviously, this makes the armor skill useless; don't spend any skill points on it.) *** Halfway through the game I realized that the game wasn't fun any more (as I was way overpowered for the upcoming frames; this is made even worse by the fact that the game actually rewards you for playing an overpowered character - the worst being returning to early frames at level 50 - with extra experience, making it a self-perpetuating problem); so I restarted the game with a LowLevelRun instead.

** In the flash game ''Dodge'': try to complete the game without spending points to recover your energy. ** I also like the Solitaire game ''[[http://www.goodsol.com/pgshelp/index.html?prince_serg.htm Prince Serg]]'', but I find it too easy; so I decided to deal about a third of both decks at the start of the game. (As a quirk, I also like to leave the last card left of the two deck unused until the end of the game. * Back when this troper used to play Pokemon competitively in early D/P, he got the idea of making a mono-special team--that is, a team that used absolutely no physical attacks, not even a mixed attacker or Explosion which most special-oriented Pokemon use to overcome special walls--to see if it would work in a time when people were saying Blissey, the (in)famous standard special wall, would stop that kind of team cold--or, if it did manage to get past Blissey, it would fail to be viable against other teams due to crippling overspecialization. Turns out, with some thinking outside the box (lots of Baton Passing, Taunting, Toxics, and Destiny Bonds), such a team was completely viable. This troper isn't sure if the same would work now. * I wonder if anyone has attempted to one-credit ''BattleGaregga'' with the [[DynamicDifficulty rank]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYX3gBLKKek maxed out]]. * I'm currently in the process of trying to beat {{Fable}} 1 without levelling up, with weakest weapons. I'm a little stumped as to how I'm going to beat the final boss though. He's got that damn unblockable lightning... * This troper does it in Port Royale 2. No building permits except the ones you get through the Turk Islands governor missions (creating a chronic meat shortage and at least two chronic colonial-goods shortages), no fighting or capturing towns (except that one unskippable "wife abducted by pirates" mission), settler delivery to Dutch towns only (which unbalances all the colonial-goods markets), and no using accounts receivable (via the town treasurers) to level up assets. Why yes, this troper is an accountant. How'd you know? * This troper has a challenge for ''{{RayCrisis}}'': The [[DynamicDifficulty Encroachment]] Limbo Challenge -- Play Original mode, then after two stages, note your encroachment meter. Now, finish the rest of the game whilst keeping the encroachment between this lower bound and [[NonstandardGameOver 100%]]. The higher you set your lower bound at the end of stage 2, the better. Any takers? * This troper beat Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin using only subweapons, kicks, and as little magic as he could manage. Also, aside from Dracula, all weapons could only be used until mastered. It worked shockingly well, actually. * This troper decided to play Halo 3: ODST's Mombasa Streets level again just for the purpose of finding all of the audio logs. Now that I've beaten the campaign, that's practically the only collector thing left. * This troper did this once with DiddyKongRacing; a no items challenge (I was not allowed to use them at all, with the exceptions of the two TT Challenges that required use of them (Darkwater Beach and Icicle Pyramid)). It was a pain, but I did manage to beat it.

* This troper and his friend have recently begun doing "marathon" runs of some of our favorite games, such as VideoGame/SuperMario64 and ''{{Kirby}} 64: The Crystal Shards''. Basically, the objective is to play through the game's story mode(and, in the case of ''Kirby 64'', go for HundredPercentCompletion). It's actually easier than it sounds, however. * NARFNra is playing Advance Wars Dual Strike, and attempting all the War Rooms as Flak, no bonuses mode, no one else. Well, on the Dual Strike maps, he plays with Jugger, but that's it. You'd think it'd be easy, but... * [[Tropers/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] recently finished a challenge run of Pokmon Yellow; using only a Pikachu that knows Surf (Lovingly named "[=HAXachu=]") during the game, aside from instances where a HM slave would be needed. It was much, mush easier than I though it was going to be; Pikachu was nearly level 100 by the time I got to the Elite Four (As a note, I did not use Surf on Brock; instead opting to spam Quick Attack to make things a little more interesting). * [[{{Tropers/evilpenguin556}} This Troper]] likes to play age of Epires 2, limiting himself to gunpowder units only, with the exception of villagers, towers (though those aren't really units) and the starting scout unit. There are few things more satisfying in that game than seeing waves of imperial-aged swordsmen being scythed down repeatedly by lines of hand cannoneers. * Currently turning Rush of TheLastRemnant into a OneManArmy. I'm trying to use him and him alone as much as possible for the whole game. Its actually going quite well. He's a legendary monk with 700 HP and a Warriors Claymore, capable of taking down a Tornado on his own, and I'm not even past Elysion yet. * This troper likes playing Free Battle in Advance Wars: Days of Ruin by selecting a 4 player map, no CO for himself, 3 Caulders controlled by the CPU, and going into a 1 vs 3 fight against them. Fun times... * This troper played Geneforge 4 and killed every Shaper in the game, including the ones in the unimportant forts that spawn unlimited creations. * Although it's more out of habit, this troper likes to [[SoloCharacterRun stick with the same character]] in a FightingGame walkthrough (no matter how often he loses). He also likes to play ''{{Worms}}'' and has taken to giving the CPU teams in a vs. computer game an advantage (such as more worms or starting health). * A few months ago his troper dug up an old copy of [[{{Zanzarah}} ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal]] to challenge himself a couple of things (optional in the game, as in not necessary to win it, which the troper already did): capture all the 77 unique fairies in the game (which he just did two months ago), and level up all of them to the highest experience level (Level 60), though he's currently on a break from that second challenge. ** Also, the same troper enjoys challenging himself to certain tasks in [[{{Grandia}} Grandia II]], which in the long run, would actually make things easier when finally dealing with the game's BigBad: *** Obtaining all the Magic Eggs, and levelling up all their available spells. *** Obtaining the Jet Black Cape, which grants its wearer an enormous

amount of protection and resistance to all attacks. It's very difficult to obtain - it's found in the Raul Hills level after returning back from Valrmar's Moon, and can only be obtained by battling the [[BossInMookClothing Devils]], which itself is quite tough. *** Levelling up all of the party members' Special Attacks as early as possible. *** Collecting all the Ability Books, and levelling up all the Abilities * Playing every custom Doom II level with the game mod Scoredoom with the add-on pack and with No Infighting mode on is this troper's challenge, particularly with the [[PlatformHell really brutal]] megawads. * This Troper likes inventing challenges for MountAndBlade. Most of these attempts have miserably failed, but my latest one seems to be working quite well. I'm not hiring any generic Mooks into my army. Only unique companions. It's quite playable. As long as you don't crank Battle Size above 50. * [[{{Tropers/Kadorhal}} I]] started such a challenge in ''AceCombat Zero'': Ace mode, using only the F-15C, not allowed to use the QAAM missile. It went surprisingly well until mission 13, at which point I was shot down twice in a row and had to upgrade to F-15 S/MTD. I'm doing the same thing in ''04'', though in that case I'm using the F-22 and the only thing that's even managed to hit me so far was a flak turret. * This troper ''loves'' self-imposed challenges, and does'em as he doesn't know if it's competitive spirit of downright sadomasochism. After his Memory Card was erased, he decided to restart a [[TalesOfSymphonia Tales of Symphonia]] game. On hard mode. Without fleeing. While obtaining the "I hate gels" and "Friendship First" titles (for the first half of the game, not a single healing item, and no character is allowed to die ''once''). While defeating both the first Sword Dancer as soon as he could, and "optional" Kratos too. Oh, and without power-leveling, of course. Now he's gotten over it, and he has a ''slight'' idea of what hell might look like... ** Another troper decided to perform a half-exp, no items, no changing equipment, no ex skills, no grade shop bonus, except the half exp and map, solo mania run. Completed several months later, hardest part being the solo Kratos fight and dragons after Rodyle. * And from the same Troper, a [[KingdomHeartsII Kingdom Hearts II]] one. Sephiroth - Proud Mode - Level 50 - with the Sweet Memory keyblade, and with Double Jump as the only Drive Form Bonus. While using a single Elixir during all the battle. * Speaking of [=KH2=], [[@/{{slain}} this one]] attempted a low level Sephiroth battle without items, and without damage reducing abilities (so no Second Chance, no Defender, and no Once More). Still haven't beaten it yet, but it's only a matter of time now. ** slain also has a completed SIC for ''{{Boktai}}''. Hard Mode, 0 times seen, no Azure Sky Tower (so no L4 Frames), no Spear series Frames (so no cheating by firing through a corner), no items (save for Redshrooms), no non-mandatory kills, all dungeons completed, no deaths, only use sun for segments that require it (such as Pile

Drivers), no grenades, S-Rank. Fucking Steps - those and Cockatrices were the main sources of restarts during the run since one couldn't be stunned and the other was usually needed to shoot stone everywhere. That and those damned Stone Golems over in Sol City, blocking certain paths that made it nearly impossible to bypass without a banned Blueshroom. * [[@/SoItBegins This Troper]] got bored playing Sparkle, a light/darkness-themed MarblePopper game, because he had beaten the game before and it was too easy. Now, he decided to play using nothing but the Amulet of Simplicity (a wearable item that knocks out one color from the chains, making levels easier but compensates by making those same levels fast, fast, fast!!). It is/was.... terrifying, really. * Non-video game example: get up, read favorite webcomic, write a FilkSong based on that day's strip, shower, dress, get to work by 8am. ''Every single day.'' Current record: 278 days in a row. For Expert Mode, don't re-use any melody that's been used before. * [[Tropers/DeltaOne This Troper]] is currently doing one based on This Very Wiki - read the CrowningMomentOfFunny pages at work. That means no laughing, otherwise the people next to you are going to want to know what you're doing. The people in my office think I've got a very strange cough. * this troper came up with her own Pokemon challenge: The OC Run. as she described on the [[{{TroperTales/ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokemon Troper Tales page]], it's a [=RPers=] challenge where you can only capture as many Pokemon as [=OCs=] you own. Said Pokemon must also share some qualities with your [=OCs=] and must also be nicknamed after them. She is currently trying to pull the challenge off in Pokemon Emerald. * This Troper and his friend once played SSBB with the same controller to battle another friend, as in I was in control of the Wiimote and my friend the nunchuck. Hilarity ensued and we actually won a couple of fights. * When this one was young, she learned that in [[TheClueFinders Secret of the Living Volcano]], the Faces Within the Face and Fish Within the Fish activities used a cypher language on all the cryptiles. She made it a challenge to complete these parts of the game without relying on the translator heads. Easy with the words for Fish, but she occasionally cheated on Faces because the numerals looked similar enough to be mistaken at times. She also attempted to fully read the Biospheric Containment chamber in the cypher before [[RobotBuddy Laptrap]] would change it to readable English. * I'm in the middle of two right now. The first one: Fallout 3, try and get as close to 100 on all skills before level 20. I'm also considering a Very Hard run, and, assuming New Vegas turns out to be good, making the first play-through a Hardcore mode one. The second: Fire Emblem 7. If anyone dies, you restart. No questions. It has occasionally made me want to throw the DS at the fall but hey. (Honestly, I didn't even realize it was a challenge until someone pointed out you could just let them die.) * This Troper is trying to beat her God of War Collection on the hardest diffuculty settings, Without upgrading anything but "Posiedons

rage" And "Cronos' Rage". I Don't think it can be done * This Troper's friend tried to be silent for a whole day, after our last teacher said he was talking too loud the day before. The teacher found out ahead of the class and tried to get him to speak. With around a minute left in class, he gave up picking on him and congratulated him for his accomplishment. Said friend screamed yes at the top of his lungs, before everyone burst out laughing, because the day was not yet over. * You know the Nitrome game Frost Bite? Think it's too easy? Well, this troper has the challenge for you guys! I call it the Injury Overreaction Challenge. The rules are normal, until you get hit. Then, if you got hit on the head, spaz out and mash random arrow keys at Xsecond intervals. If you got hit on the arms, you may not use your GrapplingHookPistol. If you got hit on the legs, you may only walk (just walking, midair movement doesn't count) by ButtonMashing, and if you jump, you must rest for X seconds. These injuries STAY until you get an energy boost or a checkpoint, and if you have more than one, you may only remove one of them. If you get stuck, then you must restart. If you lose a life and have no injuries, add one injury. If you have all three injuries, restart. [[NintendoHard Yeah]], [[FakeDifficulty I know...]] * This troper has heard of a Gamer who is trying to get to Level 70 in [=MW2=] multiplayer WITHOUT KILLING ANYONE. * This troper cannot play a RTS without trying to get every last resource on the map. * I imposed a challenge of writing a song with Charms without rhyming it with Arms...IT CAN BE DONE! (after reading the cring worthy/cliche'd rhymes page) * UltimaOnline: I ran a "real mage" back before they were required or wise. Health as low as I could keep it (9hp for the longest time), so a single hit from anything would kill me, no armor, no weapons, only magic. I successfully killed an Ancient Wyrm like this, at the time the most powerful enemy in the game. It took two hours of poison spells and a lot of running/hiding/waiting. At the end of the two hours some prick came in and ninjad the kill. Bastard. * [[{{Tropers/Malkyrian}} This troper]] has a strong tendency to do this. Most of the time, the challenges are completely spur-of-themoment as opposed to actually being planned out. A few examples: ** FinalFantasyVII: Ruby Weapon, no summon materia, no magic materia, no Mime, no accessories, no character over level 75. ** VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine: collect that Shine that requires taking Yoshi to that tiny island on Delfino Plaza, without using the leaf raft. (Did this one just about half an hour before posting here, actually.) ** IWannaBeTheGuy: Complete the game in under an hour and under 100 deaths. ** [[{{ptitle6ibfdbcv}} Majora's Mask]]: Get 100% completion in 5 or fewer cycles. The first cycle, when you're cursed by the Skull Kid, does count. * [[Tropers/LordBlumiere This tropette]] has made it her goal to learn to beat every boss in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards blindfolded. She already has the BonusBoss Zero-Two down to a science due to sound

cues, and Whispy Woods is almost down. * [[Tropers/SailorEnlil This troper]] has done a number of challenges with various video games ** These involved some sort of variants of the NoDamageRun: *** Playing through ''HalfLife'' without losing HEV energy *** Playing ''FatalRacing'' at Impossible level and winning all 8 races of any cup in Championship Mode (thus scoring maximum possible points for that cup) *** Creating a new car in ''WanganMidnight Maximum Tune'', then completing Story Mode, getting all the dressup parts in Ghost Battle, and Completing all 10 levels of 10-Outrun mode with S-Rank, all without losing any race in any of those game modes. ** Recently in ''GranTurismo 5'', his new challenge is to collect all the [[RareVehicles Rare Cars]]. * Revenge of Shinobi speedrun on hardest difficulty (in other words, one life at the start of the game), no deaths (because saying no damage is just sadistic), no throwing knives and no ninjitsu. It is possible, but you'll probably not get past world 7 for years (there is a pixel perfect jump where failure means death in the first level of that world). I'll be honest and say I've not managed it. Yet. * CallOfDuty using only melee attacks and grenades, except where absolutely necessary (mostly the Russian sniper level and the tank level). * Getting to a somewhat-positive ending in a ChooseYourOwnAdventure book based on anything supernatural before "you" experience anything so weird that your character would necessarily walk away believing in the supernatural. * On Zombieville USA for iPhone, This Troper (Tropers/Inhumanundead made the [[WordSaladTitle One-Eyed Valentine]] Challenge. Here are the terms: ** You have completed the challenge if: *** You have made it to Lvl 100 with one weapon (upgrade as you wish) ** To complete the Uebermensch version: *** You use the hardest difficulty. *** You only use the (upgraded out of hell) pistol *** You make it to level 200. *** No restarts, and you can only buy 3 packs of ammo. ** Have fun in HELL! * This Troper has completed the "Knuckles in Sonic 1" romhack without collecting a single ring. Considering several of the levels FORCE you to collect rings, I had to get creative to avoid them, including a 6 month spell resulting in a video lasting around a minute. * While not particularly hard compared to some of the others on this page, this troper's doing a PacifistRun of ''JazzJackrabbit 2''. The only exceptions to the "don't kill" rule are the bosses. Suddenly the game's a bit harder than usual... * [[@/{{Tadaru}} This troper]] has subjected himself to some ridiculous ones when it comes to {{Bemani}}. For instance: ** In ''DanceDanceRevolution'', clearing songs with 0 points. He can only do this on very easy charts. ** Also with DDR, playing with my own side on Mirror and Stealth, facing away from the machine and craning my neck to see the other

player's arrows. ** DDR again. Trying to drink a liter of water during an Oni course. ** Double+Shuffle. 'nuff said. ** This one wasn't self-imposed, but try playing DDR ''[[BeyondTheImpossible on mute]]''. It's much worse than it... wait, it doesn't sound. ** Trying to play DrumMania ''with a bouncing ball''. This didn't go too well. * This troper just did it, after being really, really bored. The power of WikiWalk actually allows you to do it in just five clicks. (not counting the first one to get to JokerJury) * [[{{Tropers/F1zzypop}} I]] do a non-video game version of this trope, if anyone is interested in reading. * If anyone's interested, this Troper did this: This Page>Joker Jury>Real Life>Duke Nukem Forever>VideoGame Culture>Self Imposed Challenge>Troper Tales. ** The power of the search bar allows you to do it in less. *** Not if you only use every other consonant. * This may be cheating, but [[Contributors/SgtFrog1 This Troper]] did it. This page>JokerJury>The Home Page>Main Tropes Index (left side of Home Page), scroll down to Just For Fun, Troper Tales (on the right, in the box), This page again. ** One-Upped. This Page > Joker Jury > Troper Tales (for Joker Jury) > Troper Tales Index > This Page. Alternatively, bookmark this page and do it in 1 or 2 clicks, depending on browser or placement of bookmark. ** [[Contributors/ArcticVanguard This Troper]] did it by going This page > Joker Jury > Videogame > Difficulty Tropes > Nintendo Hard> Self Imposed Challenge. * A similar challenge exists in TheOtherWiki. Click "random page" and see how many clicks it takes to get to [[AdolfHitler Hitler's]] page. ** For this troper, 5 clicks. (All pages are in the Main Namespace) The clicks were: *** SettingUpdate, ComicBookTime, Comicbook/XMen, BackFromTheDead, and NeverFoundTheBody. * This troper thinks that CaveStory isn't hard enough. So he decided to start a new file on the WiiWare version and A: Get the Spur, B: Don't get Booster 0.8, C: Get the good ending. * To all members of the LiberalCrimeSquad, from leader [[Tropers/ElodieHiras Elodie Hiras]]: TheRevolutionWillNotBeVillified! No attacking (exception: damaging conservative scum's ears via ThePowerOfRock is still allowed), no hostage beaten nor subjected to dangerous hallucinogenes (you can still tie them down). No squad members executed, nor send into suicide mission. Weapons may be carried, [[WeaponForIntimidation but only as means of intimidation]]. ** Same troper: Done. [[BeyondTheImpossible during Nighmare mode AND with the CCS starting immediately active.]] [[NoCasualtiesRun none of my boys and girls even died]]. Next try: the Liberal Girl Power Crime squad: Only girls may be recruited via normal ways, only man will be abducted, and will be kept as servants (IE: no male sleeper agents, and male jobs restricted to low level tasks (legal fundraising, selling brownies, prostitution, liberal disobediance, community service, grafitis and outfit crafting). During Nightmare mode, We

didn't start the fire, and with the above restrictions. * Donkey Kong 64 ** I have done Hideout Helm after only giving [[PlotCoupon 5 blueprints]] to Snide. This meant I had 15 minutes to do what you can have a max of 50 for. Without getting the Bananana medals I managed it. With 30 seconds to spare. Of course in order to do this you had to give up 35 easy Gold Bananas. I had in fact considered not giving any to Snide and run it in 10. I now know it can't be done. And I screwed up ONCE in Lanky's maze challenge. * ''Frostsabre.'' Many times: ** WoW. Solo Van Cleef before level 40 and before 2006. ** Beautiful Katamari. Hit 7500000 yen on the DLC stage. ** RealLife. Complete a phone conversation and hang up as quickly as possible. ** Desert Strike, a StarCraft II Custom Map. Defeat the enemy Nexus with only Marauders and Marines. * In a non-video game related example, in order to make my English class vocab quizzes more interesting, I've decided to theme all the sentences on any given test around various things. Today's test was themed around zombies. * {{Prototype}}. Kill as few civilians as possible. My record is 59. * This troper attempted the Court [[{{Warhammer}} Bretonnian]] army. Minimum 2000 points, no peasants, every knight with unique personal heraldry, no transfers/decals. For those unfamiliar with the army list, that can run to well over 70-80 knights and other nobles, and the area you have for heraldic designs is a heater shield maybe an inch tall. For the record, this troper gave up after 27 (split between Knights Errant and Knights of the Realm), and bought some archers and men-at-arms to support the mounted nobility. ** This troper also has the perpetual challenge of "no metal models" in his armies. If it doesn't have a plastic kit, I have to sculpt my own with epoxy, kitbash it from other sources or do without. Occasionally, I relax that rule for individual metal components, if they are sufficiently awesome and light enough that you wouldn't be able to tell without either weighing the two or stripping the paint off. * I've completed a [[{{Pinball Scoring}} seven-digits score]] run in {{House of the Dead}} 3's [[{{Time Trial}} Time Attack mode]]. I also got [[{{Rank Inflation}} a global SS rank and a S at each level.]] * Beating Pokmon Platinum and then HeartGold in a total of under 12 hours. Will this Troper succeed? Stay tuned to find out! * When I get around to it I plan to play [[SonicRiders Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity]] without using any Gravity Powers. I'll post how it turns out after I do it. * In NewSuperMarioBros, I decided to do the final castle as mini Mario. As you know, Mini Mario can only take 1 hit and is dead. [[BeyondTheImpossible I managed to get to the boss room ''and'' beat it.]] * This troper Nuzlockes. Need I say more? ...OK, well, I've beaten Platinum, and I'm on my second run of [=LeafGreen=] while simultaneously doing Emerald. Then on to [=HeartGold=], and who knows where after that?

* This troper is a big fan of Self Imposed Challenges and has put more time into Self Imposed Challenges on some games than playing it 'properly'. A few of the challenges I have attempted; ** A Suit Only, Silent Assassin run on Hitman 2, Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money. In other words, you have to use the default suit to finish the entire mission with the highest possible rating, Silent Assassin. You will be shot at if you are seen in almost every mission. There are some missions where it is EASIER to finish with the default suit rather than using a disguise, but in other missions, you are infilitrating heavily defended buildings where every inch is patrolled or guarded. [[{{Understatement}} It's not easy.]] ** A Solo Run of every level on Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. A Solo Run is when you play a level completely on your own with no other survivors with you. The first levels of each campaign are rather easy, but anything other than that is a real challenge. The game doesn't scale down anything if you are the only one left alive, meaning you still have to brave hordes, common infected, special infected, tanks and horde events all on your own. ** A Stealth/Pacifist run of Far Cry 2. This is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]]; a run of Far Cry 2 with as few kills as possible and without being detected whenever possible. This doesn't just mean the missions; I am attempting to get the diamonds and Jackal Tapes like this too. So far, I have gotten all of the collectibles in the top 3 sectors of LeboaSako without killing anyone or being detected (aside from safehouses). Yes, even the fort and Goka Falls. ** Master Saves on GTA:San Andreas and GTA 4. That's completing absolutely everything that can be done at the start of the game, well, at the start of the game. In the other GTA games, it's not at all a challenge as you can gain access into the later islands using glitches and scoop up all the collectibles with ease as there is no wanted level for islands you shouldn't have gained access to, but in GTA:SA there is a 4-star wanted level, and in GTA 4, a 6 star wanted level. * This troper is planning a few rounds of Team Fortress 2 as the Spy with the following setup. L'Etranger (-20% damage, +15 cloak power on hit), Your Eternal Reward (no ability to choose your disguise), and the Dead Ringer (no ability to cloak at will), without the Sarahan Spy set bonus (much quieter decloak, much more visible when hit during cloak). He gets the feeling said rounds will be filled with frustration, but ultimately be hilariously rewarding. * [[Tropers/TeraChimera This troper]] once did a playthrough of ''PrinceOfPersia: The Sands of Time'' without picking up any Sand Tanks. These expand how much sand you can carry, and therefore how many times you can rewind time, so I could only rewind time with the four pools of sand you start the game with. They are also the only way to give you more sand outside of combat. Unfortunately, it was surprisingly easy. * What about this, in Pokmon White the [[OverlyLongName Go to Nuvema Town everytime I need to visit the Pokcenter to heal]] run. Without Fly. ---Try hotlinking your way back to SelfImposedChallenge through

[[JokerJury this page]] instead of just clicking the link. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SelfInsertFic * Not exactly a self insert fic as they aren't fanfiction but this troper oftentimes writes original stories and one of his favorite things to do is create characters that possess different personalty traits that he possesses. * This troper has a work-in-progress crossover fanfiction series. The third installment has more or less an all out war between the villains of several series (including MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha, FullmetalAlchemist, TokyoMewMew, NeonGenesisEvangelion, SoulEater, DisneyAnimatedCanon, TengenToppaGurrenLagann, and {{Hellsing}}), teamed up with Organization XIII of KingdomHearts, against the heroes of their respective series. Joining the villains, because she is bored, is a Haruhi Suzumiya who is fully aware of her powers. The only thing preventing the good guys' total destruction? Self-inserted me, Katie, who may or may not be a RealityWarper like Haruhi, and set the events of the whole series in order. Please note this is not OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow; this is taking my personality and turning it into a character - no foreknowledge of things to come due to creating the whole mess, and though she does get a Keyblade, if it were actually a Keyblade in the game it would probably be the horrible weak one no one would actually use. No special skills outside what I have, either - just my skills as a writer/artist, and 3+ years of Tae Kwan Do I've never used outside the Dojang. I think my overall goal was to deconstruct the whole thing - actually writing how I would react if I was dropped into the world of these characters (said reaction would probably be the following: [[JumpedAtTheCall Holy crap this is so cool, I'm hanging out with Roxas and Namine! SQUEE!]] -> Kidnapped by Org. XIII? Wait, this is how they really act? I'll...I'll just go curl up in the corner and cry terrified tears now. -> [[IJustWantToBeNormal Can I go home now?]] -> Rescued by the heroes! [[AesopAmnesia Can I fight with you?]] -> [[ShrinkingViolet Too scared/shy to talk to anyone]] -> Okay, I really do want to go home now) and how a normal person being suddenly and violently brought into a world of weirdos would be incredibly weird at best, and HighOctaneNightmareFuel at worst. * This troper has written herself into her [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4787211/1/Reconnoiter Gears of War fanfiction]] very carefully (made sure the AuthorAvatar passed three MarySue litmus tests before writing the first chapter, then repeated the tests the chapter she was introduced). Despite the fact that she's a rather obvious avatar, most of the readers happily accept this fact and continue to praise her as a believable and likeable character. * [[{{Tropers/LadyNorbert}} This troper]]'s original [[TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen LXG]] fanfic character has passed the fandom's MarySue litmus test with flying colors. Despite this, she unashamedly admits that the character is "pretty much me in a corset."

* [[{{Tropers/Nomic}} This troper]] admits that one of the main characters in a comic he's working on is based on him. He's hardly a MarySue, altho I do admit there is some wish fulfilment involved sometimes (I can't really build a working railgun, but RulesOfCool say railguns are awesome and that's good enough for me!). * Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Titan/Akira Shirai. Although she is funnier than me, and her mom is more of a Genki Lady and TheDitz than my mom. Also, I'd ''never'' use miniskirts. Funnier thing is that she passed the Mary-Sue Litmus Tests nicely enough to be considered a good character, probably because her secret identity doesn't even have the same name... Oh, and her father is really rich. Mine is quite dead. Expect plot twists, if you ever read such FanFic. * Tenchi Muyo was my poison. I wrote a horrifyingly bad fanfiction that I have since deleted off the internet involving me, Ryoko and Vegeta. I actually got compliments on the first chapter, oddly. I gave myself the ability to summon characters (one from each universe-cannon only) and mimic one ability of theirs and none was my choice. I still feel it would be an interesting idea, but I, from this moment forward disavow any and all knowledge of Sing For Me My Friend. * This troper has a friend who, unfortunately, seems completely incapable of writing a fanfic without including a character who is a blatant MarySue AuthorAvatar. This includes a ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' character who is the reincarnation of the Millennium Items' creator and owner of the Millennium Eggbeater (he was a real gourmand, apparently) and a ''GundamWing'' fanfiction where a girl from the modern era is cryogenically frozen until After Colony, where she instantly acclimates to the distant future and starts a relationship with Duo, who had lost Hilde thanks to her overbearing German mother (this last part was this troper's suggestion for a reasonable and nonvindictive way of splitting up the couple). * This troper has a pet Self Insert character who's developed on her own on a different path. She's a bit more mature than me, but has a small [[HairTriggerTemper anger management issue]]. That often leads to AxCrazy. In any and all series where absurd levels of supernatural power are reachable, she tends to become a PersonOfMassDestruction when she's pissed. * This troper has done this with every single fandom she's ever been in. It's cathartic. She keeps it all in her head, though. * This troper is definitely "guilty" of this. ''Twice''. Though I've been trying to avoid making either of them a MarySue. In fact, I have this odd habit of making them the {{Buttmonkey}}s of the multiverse in certain ways. Such as the second one having [[RedDwarf The Cat]], [[OhMyGoddess Urd]], [[SonicTheHedgehog Shadow]], [[OnePiece Monkey D. Luffy]], [[PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Phoenix Wright]] and [[StargateAtlantis Rodney McKay]] as voices in his head. Also, being saved from certain death by, of all hedgehogs, Amy Rose. I'll leave the rest of you to find it for youselves, because I can't be arsed. * [[MtOlivePickles This troper]] was epically bad at this during her boy band fangirl days. There are two deeply, deepy embarrassing examples that come to mind: the first being a modern retelling of Cinderella in which she was the titular character and her favorite Backstreet Boy was the prince, and the other was not only a self-

insert for me, but for three of my then-best friends, and we all got to be with our favorite boy bander. * This troper wrote himself into an English assignment. As it had to be read out, he opened up by announcing that he makes a cameo in the story. The cameo is an un-flattering description of himself saying 'Hi'. * [[{{chitoryu12}} This troper]] has written three stories featuring himself. One has him fairly realistically, another has him with psychic powers (part of a joke with a fellow writer buddy on Fanfiction.net), and the other has him as an amnesiac henchman of the BigBad who knows only that he's in fact a double agent working for the heroes and plans on betraying him. The story, by chance is ''When Dreams Become Real'' on Fanfiction.net, which was based off of a dream this troper had, and is his best work to date (if only he could get back to writing after his computer crashed and lost the second chapter). He also made his first SurvivalOfTheFittest character, Christopher Carlson (participating in the v4 pre-game at this moment) a complete self-insert. * [[{{Magnezone}} This Troper]] proudly sports what she firmly believes to be THE most blatant AuthorAvatar in the history of ever. She a recurring character in many stories (she's a Legendary Pokmon and does not die) within the [[TroperTales/ArceusArchives Archiverse]], she is referred to either as Giratina or 'Giratina, the Celestial Librarian of Arceus' Archives/Grand Ruler of Never-Turn-Back the Interdimensional Bus Terminal' (Giratina for short)'. As if the fact that this Troper's screen name on most places is Giratina and she has a female Giratina in the fic doesn't make it obvious enough, she performed the ultimate act of blatant AuthorAvatar-ness: '''Switching the perspective from third-person to Giratina's first-person whenever she appears,''' with the exception being already first-person stories so as not to confuse the reader. (This is justified somewhat by the fact that she is actually recording/typing up the adventures of the stories' characters on Word for reference in Arceus' Aforementioned Archives...) But her readers accept it, and she personally loves the idea, so her flying Author Avvie won't be leaving the recurring cast soon. * This troper blatantly inserted herself into two fanfictions for no reason at all other than the fact that she wanted to. The character played absolutely no role in the story, but was just there for the purpose of taking up space. These stories have since been deleted, and all evidence of them wiped from the computer's hard drive. They were terrible. * This trope-reader did this in her early years of RP-ing. I cringe when I remember that time because I was arrogant and believing if everything went my way the world would be a better place(I was also twelve). In one, my insert's name was "Marisu". How Ironic. * I once wrote a Sue version of myself into a Pokemon fic I was writing. The character was the Champion, could shapeshift, could speak to Pokemon, and owned several legendaries. She has since been through major retooling, and is now no longer an author insert, and only keeps the Sue traits that I've been able to justify. She can speak to Pokemon because of TranslatorMicrobes that are available to everyone

who works with Pokemon, and owns only one legendary, which she captured for selfish reasons and which used to hate her because of that. Though said legendary is one of her most-used Pokemon, I've taken great pains to make sure it's not overpowered and doesn't effortlessly win every battle. The other Mary Sue traits have been retconned out of existence, since they didn't have any major effect on the story to begin with. So even though my character is still a little bit of a Sue, I think I've managed to get it under control. * Back when TheIncredibles was released, this troper was a huge fan. I loved it so much that I wrote a fanfiction about it and made a blatant Marty Stu self-insert. And probably in the worst shoehorning of a character into a story, I said that my character was an adoptive son of the family. When I grew older I realized how bad and embarrassing it was, I deleted it from site it was on. * [[TacoNinja This one]] once made up a [[DarkerAndEdgier darker and edgier]] sequel to the [[TeenTitans Teen Titans]] cartoon. Looking back on it, my kinda-sorta-self-insert character was a [[{{Jerkass}} jerkass]] [[MartyStu Marty Stu]], it was full of violence and sex and I made my character tie up all the loose ends the cartoon made (and it was incredibly depressing). For clarification, my character was a werewolf/psychic alien hybrid, he could fly, use telekinesis, had super-strength, could turn into a wolf, could grow Wolverine-style claws out of his knuckles, could make impenetrable psychic shields and was stronger than the entire team put together. I didn't think that he was a Marty-Stu because he bleeds and the team calls him out on his jerkassery on a few occasions. I never put it on paper so don't try to look for it. I'm actually making another self-insert {{Pokemon}} story, only it has nothing to do with Ash & co and it's all about how I saw the world of Pokemon from the games I played. Also it's going to be full of RuleOfCool, RuleOfFunny, CrazyAwesome, [[HorseOfADifferentColor badass mounts]], maybe a bit of TearJerker material and [[BadassLongcoat badass longcoats]]. :3 * Most of this troper's major fanfiction projects have involved selfinsertion of some type or another. My first one involved me as a mutant, alongside several OCs, fighting the Sailor Scouts (this was before I knew where SailorMoon originated from) in random locations across the United States; it was my first real attempt at fanfiction, and quite frankly I'm too embarrassed to post it on the Internet. My second one involved me, also as a mutant, fighting bad guys alongside the SamuraiPizzaCats; better, but still not up to par. My third one, based in the Slayers universe, had several chapters where I, as an easygoing mazoku resistant to positive feelings, was sent by Phibrizzo to kill the main characters out of spite for his defeat in Next (it failed, just for the record). My most recent one dropped me and Inuyasha inside Phibrizzo's head due to a wish made on the [[InuYasha Shikon no Tama,]] eventually leading him to a mix-and-mash universe of various anime and cartoons. If anything, I learned that great caution must be exercised where self-insertion is involved, lest the character in question be considered too much of a MarySue. * This troper's guilty of appearing as "that curly-haired security guard" in more than one fic set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture... and does it count if you write your friends in as supporting cast members in a

"Character A does a semester abroad, what happens to Character A and Character B's relationship?" scenario? (What makes the latter funny is that she's not at university with any of them...) * In this troper's Pokemon series, which he has dubbed the [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4952543/1/Teacher_of_the_Aura Aura Chronicles]], the main character's name is my real-life name. I don't believe that he's a Marty Stu, though. In the first story he doesn't take a bath for most of the time, and he has his doubts and he doesn't get along with everyone he meets or hangs out with. * Is it self-insertion if it's just a physical description of someone either getting incidentally killed in the crossfire or being found dead under a collapsed building? Just askin'... ** That'd be more of a DeathByCameo. * This troper is trying a {{Buffy}} fic that could almost be called a deconstruction, given just how ''badly'' the self insert screws over everything she comes in contact with. I've made her a little less self-insert-y because, well, I'm not sure I could make it through the fic with her as an actual self-insert and not need major therapy. Oh, and I say "trying" because the fic is actually really boring until, well, season 2 - that's actually where the self insert proves herself pretty morally grey. * [[Tropers/ShadicTheHedgehog This troper]] has been writing a ChronoTrigger SelfInsertFic for about five years now. It's almost done, and the link can be found on my contributer page. * This troper didn't write himself into the fic...he wrote his ''Guild wars'' character into an abandoned fanfic. Karel the Swift was known as an Assassin who apparently couldn't hold still and was on a constant sugar rush. Another character that was a guild-wars character self-insert fic was a Mesmer who spread rumours and followed the crew to the Kurzicks. * This troper wrote a story in middle school that, along with other problems, featured a self insert as the main character. The character had my hair color, my eye color, was short, was shy at first but funny once you got to know the character, etc. etc. etc. The kicker though? The character's name was Eddie, and he was obviously a guy. This troper, meanwhile, is very obviously a girl. * [[Tropers/TheRenaissanceRaver This Troper]] is very, ''very'' guilty of this. She is currently in the middle of writing a {{Kingdom Hearts}} self-insert that takes place after the end of KH2. She is also attempting to ''not'' make her self-insert character into a Mary Sue, and is also attempting to ''not'' involve the standard KH SelfInsert cliches (pairing up with cannon characters w/ immediate results, gaining one/more than one [[EmpathicWeapon Keyblade]] for no apparent reason, standard method of getting {{Trapped in TV Land}}, excessive {{Purple Prose}}, knowing just about ''everything'' for...well, ''any'' reason, etc. etc....). Not only is she writing the whole thing in first person, but she describes it simply as this: what happens when you take a perfectly normal person and suddenly drop them into a video game...''realistically''? So far, reviews have stated that they like it, but she's ''still'' not getting any good criticism on what needs to stay/go and how to further improve. ** And for any of you who have a fanfiction.net account (along with

writing experience and ways to help me further prevent things from getting too out of hand), [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5507158/1/Exodus_From_Oblivion the fic is here]]. [/shameless advertising] * [[{{Tropers/Deadbeatloser22}} This Troper]] has wound up writing a self-insert into all my Fan fics as a central character. Thankfully for everyone, only one (so far) has actually made it onto the internet, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5552304/1/Kingdom_Hearts_Blank_Slate here]], the others only existing on paper or buried deep in my Hard Drive. In theory, this one's not too bad, but not good either, clocking about a 30 on two MarySue Litmus tests. ** Scrap that, there's [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5791813/1/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_New_Vi sion now]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5671497/1/Star_Trek_Flight_Line three]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5695203/1/Call_Of_Duty_Flip_Side more]]. * [[Tropers/SalFishFin This Troper]] both subverts and plays this straight in the same fic. The main character is a "reverse" selfinsert, and when writing him, I ask "What's the last thing I would do in this situation?" The PluckyComicRelief, on the other hand, is an exaggerated version of me, who gets on the main character's nerves at any given opportunity. * [[Tropers/JesseCS This Troper]] has an actual canon that he use for self inserts that generally involves [[CaptainObvious himself]] with varying levels of knowlege of the fandom (but almost never any other powers), a [[NoFourthWall Self Aware]] ActionGirl named Jayne, and a villain with a [[RageAgainstTheAuthor grudge]]. [[spoiler:The villain is a self insert was abandoned in my first fic and has been wandering the multiverse gathering power ever since.]] Sometimes I'll place other people I know in as well, however with only one exception they never have any meta knowledge of the fandom and are mostly just the version of themselves living in that 'verse. * I've self-inserted myself in my fanfiction a few times, but all of them didn't have a fourth wall and was purely for comedic purposes. It usually leads to me admitting that I enjoy making a ButtMonkey out of certain characters and said characters wishing my death. Other times characters attempt to harass me and I rarely come out on top. * I'm writing an AnimalCrossing fic that stars my character from the game. I guess that counts. I'm also thinking of making fun of this trope by inserting myself into the climax as the big hero only to either die against the imomortal god of evil or just have me show up as the least important character EVER (as in, there have been people walking around WAAAY in the background of one shot in a movie that are more important than me). * This Troper has a self insert in Sonic RP/fanfiction, and she is not intending for that character to be the lead role * This Troper and his friends brutally subverted this trope. We all got together and wrote a teen slasher horror story just for the fun of it, with all of us as self-insert characters. No Mary Sues to be found though, as we spent the entire story making fun of each other and killing ourselves off in horrifically gory ways. It was some of the

greatest fun I ever had. * This Troper and his best female friend are collaborating on a Series/DoctorWho fic with the two of us as Self Insert Characters: me as the Doctor-equivalent and her as the companion. We take absolutely no shame in doing so and have a blast writing our adventures across the universe. * ThisTroper is finally giving in and writing a self-insert fic in Series/DoctorWho. Basically, after all the weirdness that was Journey's End, the walls between realities started not being happy where they were, throwing me-- literally me, from this universe-- into the Doctor's world. I'm not idealised, I don't hijack the plot or have a romantic relationship with any of the characters, for most of the fic the Doctor wants nothing more than to get me back home, and I don't mess up the canon, so I think I'm safe... * This Troper has a tendency to use these, but generally only in ElsewhereFic; they tend to not stay very insert-y after a while as well. The first, most Sue-ish attempt eventually turned into a {{Jerkass}} that had driven all of her friends away, then went crazy in a mixture of GoMadFromTheIsolation and a bizarre case of CloningBlues / PinocchioSyndrome caused by the mechanic that I'd written to make her a Sue/enable most of her insane adventures in the first place. Yeah, it was weird... The second was more of a prediction of how I'd be after having my life screwed up by the events of [[FinalFantasyVII the world that the story took place in.]] Others have been a lot more minor. * While This Troper has a strict rule about no self-insertion, he ends up writing the characters being placed into situations where they'd interact with the troper's environment, though not the troper himself. Most glaringly found in one [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] ficverse he is still working on, with a * very* long term crossover into MassEffect and the Chronicles of Narnia, among other things, where an original character is in such a position that, if she existed, she would have interacted with the troper himself and his sister and various points of her life, and is affected by such, though, again, the troper is NOT himself in the story, nor is his sister. Why does he do this? He doesn't know, but still thinks its [[RuleOfCool cool]] * A couple years back, this troper and her roommate started an epic self-insert HarryPotter fic. They put themselves two years behind the main cast, in Hufflepuff and Slytherin respectively, and in maybe thirteen years of fic-time didn't ever contradict the books directly (although they took a couple liberties here and there). It never got posted anywhere; the whole thing was really just to see if they could do it without turning themselves into Mary Sues. This troper, in her humble opinion, managed it. Her roommate... [[BlackHoleSue didn't.]] * This troper had the joy of squirming uncomfortably as her friend went on and on about her awesome Harry Potter roleplay character that just so happened to have her name, looks, and falls in love with Harry (The boy my friend consistently fangirls over), has his children, finds another husband after he dies that she likes because he's similar in looks and manner to Harry (This also seemed a bit obnoxious to me), is a "true Gryffindor" is extremely brave, and people are just drawn to her. I mean, really, this girl IS a good writer, but she

didn't catch on!? * [[SquealingSandry Humorously titled "Self Insertion: Not A Porn Fic"]]. * This Troper is writing a G Gundam humor fic where he plays the role of the new Neo Germany fighter who goes on to win the tournament . Domon even lampshades it by saying that I sound like a bad selfinsert. I balance it out by only being mentioned and not actually appearing. * This troper was bored and wrote a crossover fic of a lot of original works which involved her having to show up a few times, mostly for comedy purposes, and was actually more of a thing where the characters in a story told in third-person would break the fourth wall by talking to the narrator, than me actually being part of the action. Although really it was more focused on the mayhem of what goes on inside my head with all these characters in vastly different situations and what would happen if they were all together. * [[Tropers/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] has had self-inserts in a few of his stories. The first time, in an original story, the self-insert character (Who was named after myself in the early planning before a name change just before I wrote Chapter 2) was surprisingly simple and managed to avert [[MarySue the trope these sort of characters typically fall under]]; he was just your average kid, without any special powers or anything (Although, he was a decent swordsman). * [[{{Tropers/Popette}} This troper]] self-inserts as a writing exercise sometimes, since it's easy to WriteWhoYouKnow. Usually, it's fair and balanced. Sometimes however, she indulges in a bit of blatant wish fufillment and [[MarySue Mary Sue-ism]]. * This troper often deliberately writes these, just to see if she can do it in the most blatant way possible and still pull it off. Usually these include the author herself being inserted into the universe, complete with [[YouSuck realistic flaws]] and full knowledge of the canon. The best of these is a StarWarsRepublicCommando fic where the author is transported from her bedroom into the body of the player character while retaining her knowledge of the plot. She, unsurprisingly, attempts to [[FixerSue save lives]] with her knowledge, only to find that the continuity [[SnapBack actively resists any changes.]] This revelation leaves her suitibly distressed, as does the realization that she is horrible with a blaster rifle and is very likely to die. There's more than a little Deconstruction going on. * This troper has been writing a semi-SelfInsertFic for Resident Evil, FanFic/TwoWeeksNotice. The two original characters are Kate and Matt, a S.T.A.R.S rookie and an Umbrella scientist respectively. Matt is less an AuthorAvatar and more TakeThatMe, as he's fat, slow and gets beaten up a lot. Kate was conceived as a DistaffCounterpart to Matt/this troper, but quickly pulled away with CharacterDevelopment and backstory. Though she's as skilled or better than most canon characters with firearms she gets hurt just as much as them, including two near-fatal beatings from Wesker. ** On that same note, this troper wrote Jade's role in IntoTheWild as a DistaffCounterpart to himself and an AuthorAvatar for his AuthorTract. But he also brought in Marty, the Na'Vi original

character who was also a TakeThatMe who got beaten up a lot. As the story [[CereberusSyndrome slid from comedy to drama]] the two leads defined their roles through CharacterDevelopment even more clearly * This troper is writing a self-insert fic set in reality. It's shameless Mary-Sueism, which is why I don't plan to publish it. It's just a power fantasy. So far I've kidnapped the President, conquered Somalia, defeated several rogue nations, and am working on global domination. * This troper has (jokingly, then seriously) self-inserted himself into his fic, [[FanFic/ToyHammer]]. Vincent (the character) is a classic self-insert; same name, same appearance, same fashion choices, same ''everything'' except he's actually a little older than I am (his early twenties, I'm still 17). First starts off as a CreatorCameo, then starts appearing until he becomes TheAragorn of the story. * This troper wrote an Axis Powers Hetalia/Katekyo Hitman Reborn/Own Made Up Anime fic, and one of the characters was herself in an alternate reality. And then, she was able to freely roam the anime world. Somehow. Not only that, but her character was a tsundere, stoic, and psychotic. And a bunch of guys (Mentioning Gokudera, England, Japan, and a lot more) are after her. Too much Mary-Sueism also, so... yeah. * This Troper used to do this a lot when he was younger. (Never posted anything thank God) And has had to tread very carefully to avoid it in a fic he's writing. * [[Tropers/BlakeDiamond This Troper,]] who's been wanting to write one for a very long time, has finally given in to his own temptations. His vice is KamenRider, and as such, is writing out his dream: a KamenRider story (if it were real, it'd be a film) that pits all the Hesei Riders against evil counterparts of themselves (Kabuto vs Dark Kabuto, Ryuki vs Ryuga, Den-O vs Nega Den-O, etc.) (The Riders that don't have evil counterparts - Kuuga, Agito, Hibiki, Decade, and Double - get ones that I made myself, which are fairly well thought out, I might add...except for Agito's. I put his together at the last minute. Sorry.) Of course, the fic includes my own [[SelfInsertFic Self Insert Kamen Rider]], Kamen Rider Shine (horrible name, but I don't care), who introduces a new type of Ganbaraide card: the Fusion Ride Cards (when used, they allow a certain number of Riders - max. of 3 at a time - to merge their Final Form Rides together. Example: Faiz Blaster, Blade Blade, and Kiva Arrow. "FUSION RIDE: BLADE-KIVA-FAIZ!" Merges them into a giant crossbow - by "merge", I mean each one is stacked onto the other and it somehow works.) Other fun events in this fic are... Diend finally getting a Final Form Ride (No, I will not spoil it), KamenRiderG making a cameo appearance, the Showa Era Riders appearing to fight off Shadow Moon, ''Kuuga Amazing Ultimate Form'' [[spoiler: Ultimate Form repainted to be white with silver trim, white eyes, and larger spikes. What? He's already got that hideously bulky Rising Ultimate Form, and I wanted Amazing Ultimate to be similar to Ultimate, simply because Ultimate is what a true SuperMode should look like]], and four words that are sure to be the epitome of awesome for at least one fan out there. Wait for it... "FUSION RIDE: A-A-A-ALL RIDERS!" Yes, that will happen. No, it will not be a big BodyHorror mess. What will it look like? Wait and see, my fellow Rider fans.

Wait. And. See. [[supersecretspoiler: Note that this won't be a MarySue SelfInsertFic since my character doesn't take away massive amounts of attention from the other riders, doesn't get a love interest, doesn't walk away from every fight unscathed, and dies near the end from using the Fusion Ride All Riders card.]] * Do potential novels count? If so, almost all the main characters in my eight unpublished novels (or novellas, as none of them are above 200 pages) have traces of my nature in them on a extreme level, from the coward (a teenager in a extraterrestrial war) to a person who wants revenge against his former friends (a chaplain in a 40k novel: actually five short stories describing the lead up to a war on a planet) to a engineer in over his head (the designated hero in an alien infested power station on Mars) to the unfortunate doctor in second world war Germany which suggests Hitler and his most senior officers were aliens (told via journal entries, a la Dracula) to a story about a teenager with magic powers fueled by extreme emotion. Surprisingly, only three of my stories have teenagers as the protagonist. When you consider that [[spoiler: I'm 17...]] * [[Tropers/MmmKay This troper]] used to write HomestarRunner stories starring a simulacrum of sorts of me, but as a ShapeShifting [[http://gigacake-mmmkay.deviantart.com/art/Not-another-Strong-Badalike-164515040 Strong Bad lookalike]] [[RecycledInSpace FROM SPACE!!!]] A later character of mine, [[http://gigacakemmmkay.deviantart.com/art/HELLO-IM-SILY-164216408 HELLO IM SILY]], was supposed to be literally born from my mind, and so comparisons will be drawn; SILY's just my silliness made pseudo-flesh and able to do [[GodModeSue near anything!]] * [[Tropers/RabidBiscuit This troper]] is working on a novel where the main two characters are basically two halves of my personality and share many traits with each other. Arguably the male lead is a bit more like me since I'm a guy, but the female lead has a lot of aspects of my personality as well. The male lead used to be named after me, but that was taking it [[AuthorAvatar a bit]] [[MartyStu too far...]] * This troper actually got to write one for an English assignment on "one of your favorite fantasies." After the obligatory jokes about specifying that they had to be ''school-appropriate'' fantasies, it actually worked out pretty well. The plot was that the cracks in the wall had eaten enough of the universe that everyone but the Doctor and anyone with the radiation you get from traveling in the TARDIS believed that the events of the past five years (the ones concerning the Doctor, anyway) were all part of a TV show. The TARDIS landed in the middle of my science class, and me being one of the five people in my school that actually watches Doctor Who, I (of course) had a hand in figuring out what had happened and why the Doctor was real. It got about as far as there being a crack in the wall of the classroom, and I tried not to make myself very Sue-ish. Really the only hint that the character was me (it was from the Doctor's third-person perspective) was that I had a habit of wearing pencils stuck through my hair at the time. My alias was Pencil Girl. The story was at the point where I had it fairly mapped out, but it was dropped because first I had to write Rory in, then I had to write him out, then I had to write him in again, and then the whole thing with cracks in the wall was solved

anyway. For anyone who cares and/or is bored enough to still be reading this, I was actually ''not'' going to end up traveling with the Doctor - I'm a writer, not an adventurer. I wouldn't be able to keep up with the physical demands of running around saving worlds, and I haven't even finished public school yet. I can't exactly take a break from it to go off with the Doctor, and people would question it if I looked a heck of a lot older this afternoon than I did this morning (me still going through puberty and shooting up like a weed). Basically, all the problems that would inhibit your average fifteenyear-old from traveling with the Doctor that would disappear were I, say, ten years older. If you've read all that, kudos to you, because that is one huge block of text about something that really will not affect the universe at large. Or anything at large, really. * [[Tropers/{{Sen}} This troper]] is a fan of giving himself short cameos that frequently result in hilarious injuries or something similar. For example, I wrote a fanfic where one of the characters commented that people who don't know the lyrics to some tune or the other are subhuman monstrosities. Mostly so I could have the next shot of me committing suicide. ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdea... * This Troper is in the works of a self-insert series...but is trying to avoid Mary Sue-dom by actively encouraging critique of said character. So, hopefully, TMNT fans will be more than gentle with her self-insert. * This Troper is working on a self-insert for Dragon Age, based on TroperWorks/MassVexations, and is trying his hardest to avert Sue-dom. In the two fight scenes so far he has won basically due to luck and intervention by other characters. He only gets accepted into the party basically because the Warden (F!Cousland who's nice and a little happy-go-lucky) finds him interesting. The only party member to like him from the get-go is Leliana, by virtue of her YMMV sweetness. He plans to get better at fighting and grow more familiar with the party as time goes on. [[spoiler:He will end up in a relationship with Morrigan, but the sex will basically be Morrigan wanting a quick lay which results in him feeling really odd and unsatisfied. The relationship will eventually follow the same lines as Warden/Morrigan, but only later in the story.]] * This Troper roleplays AND writes self-inserts, unashamedly. However, unlike her early manifestations, she's a lot less Mary Sue-like and a lot more flawed, and usually has to work for her 'happy ending' for lack of a better term, or at least, she hopes so. Once she gets her webcomic off the ground, we'll see. * In my earlier years, I wrote a few humorous (possibly) fics where I existed as an omnipotent director figure who kept the story going and filled in for minor roles as necessary. The most drastic action I could take against a misbehaving character was the Snap of NonExistence, whereupon the victim ceased to exist in all times, past and future. * This Troper is rather fond of deconstructing the SelfInsertFic and once wrote a story inspired by ''FireEmblem'' where the characters were all [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]] submitted by members of the forum it was written on. Good turned out to either a) be ''very'' dumb or b) end up as LawfulStupid [[KnightsTemplar Knights Templars]]

(including his own avatar) who alienated most of their allies; cuties and haughties were broken; the only ReasonableAuthorityFigure jumped off the slippery slope to become the second BigBad... It was fun. : D * Most of my online friends who write fanfiction used to put a "Character Registration" topic before writing a fanfic about any series. Therefore, not only they had the chance to be part of the story, but also the people from the boards they were from. I eventually got the same tradition and started doing the same. However, I tried that the few (and incomplete) stories I got to write were about the main original characters from the series, even if our Avatars were in the middle of it. * [[Tropers/{{Nemica}} I]] like to insert myself into the verse I create. The story's always a variation of: I get dropped into the verse per dimensional crack (which happens quite a lot there), manage to "be found" by people I consider nice, try to hide the fact that I know everything about their world, am found out and watched in fear of me doing something really stupid. Sometimes, if danger is around, I also try to acquire some kind of talisman which provides magical powers to me so that I can defend myself, but HowDoIShotWeb ensues. Also, my omnsiscence weirds out most people (except for the resident omniscient weirdo). If I try to sue up, there's always someone calling me out on it. ** Another, more recent example, would be a hypothetical {{Homestuck}} fanfic with me and two of my friends, one of whom reads the comic. While the latter is having super happy fun adventures in her land, I team up with the other guy and promptly find out that prototyping [[MineCraft Creepers]] isssssssss a bad idea. I end up as my dream self, return to the planet and manage to carry the guy to his quest bed just before he dies too. In general, my self inserts involve much RealityEnsues. * This troper plans on making a web comic with the protagonist characters named after, vaguely based on, and looking like me and my friends: Mike, John, and Colin. * [[Tropers/LurkingBeneath This troper]] tries to fantasize about being sent into the world of whatever her favourite fandom is at the time. I used to be able to do it without difficulty, but now my inner fanfic critic can't keep her nose out of them. She points out how my actions are entirely unrealistic and that I would end up mangling the canon future by interfering... Trying to write a believable self insert HP fic ended up with my {{Author Avatar}} breaking down into tears during Chamber of Secrets because of the petrified students and eventually transferring back to muggle school. * [[Tropers/CyanideESpeon This troper]] has two self-inserts (three if you count my fursona that is almost never used for anything.) One of them used to be a huge Mary Sue that got much better. The other is for a book series that I may write someday. ** Same Troper: I forgot to mention also have one self-insert for each of the three Harvest Moon games I have played. Even though two of them end up married to a cannon character, they usually don't score much more than the other two on Mary Sue tests. * [[Tropers/FreeRadical This tropette]] has made a [[SelfDeprecation caricature of herself]] in a story once. Frequently the DeadpanSnarker

and JerkWithAHeartOfGold, she's often the ButtMonkey in a given situation due to being [[TheKlutz clumsy]] and [[{{Jerkass}} rude]], she's [[WithFriendsLikeThese best]] [[VitriolicBestBuds friends]] with a [[ShrinkingViolet shy]] [[NerdsAreSexy bookish]] [[YamatoNadeshiko girl]] who serves as her {{Foil}}. Often, her [[{{Pettanko}} lack of assets]] get [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshaded]] a lot, and she's been called [[HollywoodThin "an anorexic who's had liposuction just after purging"]] once. I've also put my SelfInsert (along with her friend and [[IdiotHero another]] [[{{Adorkable}} character]]) in a fanfic, but I'm afraid to tell anyone that one of the OC's is a Self-Insert. ** Same troper: I actually do this a lot, more or less giving a character some traits that I have. You can always tell which {{Original Character}} is me because she's the one [[ButtMonkey who gets beat up the most]] by other characters and serves as mostly [[PluckyComicRelief comic relief]] in the story. For instance, I had a bit part character who had the honor of getting [[KickTheDog hazed]] by the story's honorary {{Jerkass}} (She'll probably [[EnsembleDarkhorse make another appearance]] later on). * This troper has written a story featuring a woman with at least some of her personality traits, but as she imagined herself forty-odd years older rather than as she is now, as a medicine-woman rather than a teacher. She also wrote a ''FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhood'' SelfInsertFic that featured her as one of those many random citizens of Central. She was an inept baker. ** She's now seriously considering writing a ''{{Naruto}}'' one that features botched reincarnation and herself taking the role of [[BeneathTheMask Inner Sakura]]. The actual purpose of this is to make Sakura more awesome and give the other characters a chance to avert some of their rather horrible futures. * This troper considered putting ''herself'' in her {{Kuroshitsuji}}, {{Negima}}, {{Ouran High School Host Club}}, {{Fruits Basket}}, {{KOn}}! and {{Ghost Hunt}} (that's a ''lot'' of anime / manga XD) fanfiction, just for laughs. The end result was that I put myself ''in'' the fanfiction, just as a 17 y/o Chinese American girl who just ''happens'' to share much of my personality. * This troper is working on one for ResidentEvil. The character has different background/ backstory and different manifestations of similar character traits than I do. (For instance, the character's anxiety problem is [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes acrophobia]] whereas I tend toward somewhat-OCD-sounding handwashing.) Similar personality and interests overall. Trying to avoid Sue-ness. * I was initially guilty of this. The fanfic character I wrote was a FauxActionGirl, SympatheticSue that looked suspiciously like me. The worst part is that I didn't even notice until my friend and fellow troper pointed it out. I failed the litmus test ''dismally''. * [[@/{{Night}} I]] once upon a time actually had plans to play a self-insert story for horror. Rather than the usual wish-fulfillment get-the-girl bit, instead the insert got all the girls of Sailor Moon trying to rape him, minus Saturn and the littler Moon (due to squick). Pluto (due to Pluto having the ability to make it a real short story), and Uranus (because she was a personal favorite). A lot of intrigue between those affected as they got possessive or worked together,

intrigue between those who were not affected and those who were, all of them still having to save the planet occasionally, and a ''metric fuckton'' of MookHorrorShow as a regular human struggles to fight off superpowered individuals. To this day I regret I never could finish the story. * This troper made a HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi story where a girl that just HAPPENS to have her looks and traits falls for Keiichi. * This Troper has a Sonic character which is (still) basically a selfinsert. I'd even named her after myself. How very original... (NOT. Hey, I was like, 10.) She USED to be an enormous Mary-Sue. (Heck, she used to be married to Shadow for Gods sake!) ** I've long since gotten rid of her Mary-Sue-ness.. She's married to my other OC now. And no matter what character I'm fangirling over it's gonna STAY that way from now on... XD * This Troper tends to self-insert whenever she writes Fics for a male-dominated show/book/movie to avoid {{The Smurfette Principle}} and be a {{Naive Newcomer}}. [[SincerityMode She considers herself very plain and average]], so they aren't usually Mary Sues, they're just not 100% original. * I have two friends that are the freaking QUEENS of this. Every last one of them is a compulsive writer like me but these two have this weird specialty of turning themselves into Mary-Sue self inserts. I don't read their writing for a reason. ---Go add yourself to SelfInsertFic. ----

SelfMadeOrphan * In a friend-of-a-friend kind of situation (only... not), this guy who went to a school near mine, where some of my friends go, killed his parents on the weekend of prom... and then went to prom. The local news archive on the case can be found [[http://www.wral.com/news/local/story_gallery/1066030/ here]]. * Does taking one's brain-dead-via-stroke mother off of life support count? 'Cause if so... I'm afraid I actually have to put my name here. ** No, sweetie, I don't think that counts. I'm really sorry, though, about your mom. :( * This troper is kind of squicked out by this idea, but, as previously stated, there were articles on the Brother-Siser Incest page. The only contribution she can make to this page is that she wrote a story where the character was a self made orphan. Subverted, as it was an accident. "Whoops" doesn't quite cover it. ** What about "oopsy-daisy"? *** Looks like I just picked a fresh patch of oopsy-daisies. * Does Sims 2 count? Because a teenage idiot found out that he couldn't cook the hard way and burned down his house with his parents inside. ** Anything counts as long as the narrating troper is involved. * This Troper has an OC who is an exaple of this trope. [[http://ananonymuscat.deviantart.com/art/Self-Made-Orphan-186866230 See here.]]

* This troper knows of a person from his high school who intentionally allowed his abusive father to die of a heart attack by ignoring his pleas for help. Seriously though, it wasn't me. * If the roleplay plan this troper has in mind goes through, she'll end up playing as a ''sympathetic'' SelfMadeOrphan who killed her own mother because said mother was a cannibalistic CompleteMonster. ---Lizzie Borden is waiting for us over at SelfMadeOrphan. Please don't let her give you any pointers. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SelfServingMemory * My grandmother on my mother's side had this, unfortunately. Her version of events was always ''drastically'' different from what really happened, and always changed to make her sound like [[SympatheticSue someone who sacrificed everything for her ungrateful brats]] rather than a [[ManipulativeBastard emotionally manipulative piece of work]] who took a SpartanSibling approach to 'raising' her kids. They stopped talking to each other eventually, after Mom fought one of my aunts tooth and nail to keep her from taking advantage of one of my dying Great-Aunts... while Grandma watched from the sidelines making snide comments. To hear ''Grandma'' tell it, though, Mom did absolutely ''nothing'' while ''Grandma'' was the one dragging Aunt Bitchy through the courts. Nevermind that Grandma never actually showed up to the courthouse ''once'' in RealLife... * This troper's father used to do it too. I spent years feeling like I was insane because he'd insist that things happened (or didn't happen) in a particular way, and I'd remember something totally different. But since he'd back up ''his'' point of view [[AbusiveParents with his fists]], disagreeing with him was not safe. I think my memories started altering themselves to suit his needs just as a survival technique. ---You get back to SelfServingMemory by clicking on [[BlatantLies THIS link]]. Don't argue with me, I remember it! And I'm right! ----

Seme * During an online chat, one guy made a joke about how he's a {{Uke}} so I made a joke asking if I could be his seme. He said yes, cue a long string of yaoi jokes that went on for so long with so many people joining in that it wasn't until a while later that I realized that the original guy who said that he's a uke is a ''girl''. ** [[{{GIRL}} And this is new?]] *** Umm...yea-...huh? ** Wouldn't it be {{Bifauxnen}} instead? * This troper has many ''female'' friends who'll classify themselves as seme or uke based on height and personality. Many of them are crossplayers, it's true, but... apparently, were I a [[YaoiGuys Yaoi

Guy]], I'd be the dark, surly, {{seme}} who just needs his heart opened to love and tee shirt colours other than black. [[{{Asexuality}} I didn't]] [[NoHuggingNoKissing like]] [[PaleSkinnedBrunette appreciate]] [[CovertPervert this]] [[BlitheSpirit assessment]]. * ThisTroper's group of SchoolgirlLesbian friends have described themselves as either {{Seme}}s or {{Uke}}s. FYI. I'm a {{Seme}}. ** This troper agrees with troper above and my bi school friends have done the same. FYI I'm a {{Seme}} too. * This troper probably resembles what a [[MoeMoe fluffy kitten would look and act like]] if made human, yet somehow, she's a seme. Quite subversion of the usual. * I discovered a ''shipping chart'' for my old work program, and most girls said they would pay money to see me as a Seme and my younger friend Richard as an Uke in a sexual relationship. I was Squicked, since I consider myself very straight. I did have, though, two shippings with two cute girls in the camp. * [[{{EveryonesFool}} This troper]]. Is there a special term for a "caring, protective" kind of seme? That's the term that best describes me. ** I would say, Romantic Seme or something similar. ** Or Chibi Seme, they're usually caring, protective, sensual and loving after a special uke triggers it! * This troper and her friends have each been assigned a Seme/Uke role. This troper was told that being a {{tsundere}} makes her uke by default. Cue tsundere rage. * This troper and her friend have a tendency to act like {{schoolgirl lesbians}} despite said friend being straight and myself being bi. I couldn't resist making her take the seme/uke quiz in which she got the {{uke}} that matched perfectly with my {{seme}}. It's still an onrunning joke between us. * This gay troper has been classified as a whimpering uke by her mini, yaoi-lovin' fan club. She blames her height and unintentional cuteness. * A friend of mine said that it would be weird if a girl proposed to a guy, which prompted [[LipstickLesbian me]] to ask who was supposed to propose when I get in to a relationship. She said that it would probably be the [[{{Seme}} "man"]] in the relationship, but I said that the man-in-the-relationship/woman-in-the-relationship thing was myth, and that I wouldn't want to date an [[ButchLesbian overly masculine]] girl anyway... (maybe I was at least half wrong about it being a myth?) ** The whole seme/uke dynamic is, from my experience, a complete myth, and extremely heteronormative. It's trying to reconcile single-gender relationships with a male/female dynamic by dividing one gender into two. Are there relationships where people exhibit the characteristics of the seme/uke dynamic? Probably. I've never seen one. *** Original Poster here: That's what I thought :O Thanks! * In spite of my diminuitive hight, my fangirls all insist that I am a seme of the highest order, no matter how many times I try to correct them. I always figured, if both cake and trifle are nice, why restrict yourself to just one? They never listen to my fantastic analogy, of

course. * [[Tropers/{{JET73L}} This troper]]'s (biologically and mentally female) significant other once took a "Uke or Seme?" online quiz, and was told that she was "[[SubvertedTrope A uke who thinks he's a seme]]". She lost the URL and hasn't found and identified the quiz again, so the troper (who [[{{Transgender}} has]] [[{{Neatfreak}} issues]] and is in a committed relationship with said [[TheVirus Trope-"ette"/Lurker]], and thus is unlikely to find out in [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean the usual way]]) hasn't yet taken the same quiz for comparison. * This female troper's best friend is very Seme indeed. His family is wealthy, he is very dominant and unusually "manly" for a gay guy. Rather quiet, tall, burly, {{perma stubble}}d, dark haired, hairy chested and ,as she's been told, is an unrepentant [[DoubleEntendre pitcher]]. * This troper is very very much this- on a personality level. Not a gender level or an appearance level. It's sort of a running gag with her and her friends that she's the group seme. To give an example, while watching a scary movie... --->'''Friend A''': *screams* --->'''Friend B''': <Friend A>, you're such an uke! --->'''Troper''': Did somebody say... *pushes glasses dramatically* UKE? *hugs friend A* --->'''Friend B''': Protective {{Seme}} mode GO!

---Click your back button to swallow the {{Seme}}. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SendingStuffToSaveTheShow * [[Tropers/{{Miru}} This troper]] is sending calls to get Toy Network to renew their SonicTheHedgehog licence and make more plush. * [[{{Tropers/Allronix}} This Troper]] had an old TV. I had a replacement, but the old set wasn't worth repairing. Then, I hear from a friend that TheLoneGunmen got canned. (Friend knew one of the crew). Hmmm...good show getting canned requires objecting letter. Friend of friend losing job? ''That'' was worth a prank! Long story short, the TV got sent to the office of the executive in question with a note that said "Season 2 or Bust" on the screen. Yes, Troper has pics of the TV. Supposedly, it made its way into Urban Legand status until another friend told the folklorist "No, I know the one who did that" and showed the pictures.

SendMeBack * [[Tropers/FuzzyBoots I]] frequently have this happen as a motif in my dreams. I'll wake up in the middle of some grand action and immediately find myself trying to get back to sleep again so that I can finish what I was doing. Almost inevitably I wind up back a little

too late, or occasionally to an empty set where all of the actors of the dream have already sloughed off for the day.

SenselessPhagia * One time when she was hungry and digging in the fridge, {{Tropers/Vorpy}} came across a strange tan square sitting in a bowl in the back of the fridge. Wasn't really sure if it was meat, or a brownie. Just to find out what it was, she took a bite out of it and immediately spit it out. It was a really, really, really old slice of apple. Ewww. ---Go back to SenselessPhagia. Try not to gag when you do. ----

SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan * This troper and one of his buddies are a mild version of this. This troper is not that much into sports or recreational vehicles like snowmobiles and dirtbikes; this troper's buddy is often seeing doing personal repairs on said recreational vehicles and has even raced dirtbikes competitively. This troper's work experience is mostly with offices; this troper's buddy has worked on oil wells and in mills. This troper's more so into academic subjects, and has occasionally helped said buddy prepare for exams in them. On a sidenote, this troper is also shorter and skinnier than said buddy. * This troper in junior high and high school was made fun of all the time for being girly, for example having his favorite movies be chick flicks, loving cooking, having long hair (cut off midway through HS) and being liberal. This troper's best friend was an overly macho star football and baseball player who seemed to get a new girlfriend every month. This kind of thing does happen in reality... * [[Tropers/WarriorOfLight This Troper]] is BloodBrothers with a guy who loves weightlifting, boxing, any-excuse to hit a guy, and has a general tough guy behavior. I like poetry, books, am admittedly a bit of a pussy, and love this website. * One of my friends is extremely passive, a bit of a pushover, and enjoys listen to people talk about his feelings and his best friend is really into MMA, and cars. The best thing about this relationship is that the manly friend keeps everyone else from picking on the sensitive friend and the sensitive friend is giving the manly friend a place to stay (his mother is abusive). It really seems like their brothers rather than just being friends. * This Troper is like this with his HeterosexualLifePartner. I am a very NiceGuy, to the point that I can empathize/sympathize with nearly anything and will try and comfort people when they are sad (despite how much of a DeadpanSnarker I can be). My buddy, on the other hand, is a very masculine person who chews through women like bubble gum and has no care about others' feelings (for the most part- he has his limits too). He's very much focused on making sure he's the most masculine person in our FiveManBand (which occasionally has six

people) and does a damn good job at it. * Me and my cousin have a kinda salad tossed version of this. Im plainly the sensitve one as far as being emotionally open, and hes the sports player and all that. But other then that, most of our qualities but us in the opposite boat, im the stronger of the two of us, and the bigger flirt. hes a bean pole and really isnt to interested in getting a GF(nor is he the best at it anyway)

SensitivityTraining * One troper had to endure one such course that was apparently geared to either grade-school children (and this ''was'' at a company that did not hire under-18s) or those whose [=IQs=] do not exceed body temperature. Many of the examples had the troper shaking her head and wondering, "And just ''what'' employable adult would consider doing this on the job acceptable in the first place?" She actually did ask the "trainers" whether any of the examples were real. It was claimed that ''all'' were drawn from real events. ** "There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the former." This troper wishes to assure you that all such training is like that. ** Also, it could easily be a matter of liability. Including examples like those prevent anybody from claiming that they were not included; as one comic I read noted regarding OSHA-compliant evil lairs, they look stupid doing it, but they'd be liable if they didn't. ** On the plus side, getting the chance to play the role of the "Bad Example" at one of these otherwise wastes of time is a LOT OF FUN!! ---As a condition of using the wiki, you must complete SensitivityTraining.

SensoryOverload * Autistic Troper here. I frequently confuse people by getting equally overloaded by rock concerts and normal conversation held at a fast pace. It seems like the factor that causes overload is not ''volume'', but rather ''signal-to-noise ratio''. When I'm in a room with people having a speedy conversation, I can't not listen; I might not pay attention, but my brain is still processing their words.

SeparatedByACommonLanguage * This (living in South Carolina at the moment) troper's biology teacher was ''on national television'' when she said she and her husband had been taking shag lessons. As practically nobody anywhere besides a few cities around here knows that shagging is the official dance of Charleston and very popular, [[HilarityEnsues it led to a group of very confused TV hosts.]] ** My gym teacher uses "shagging" to mean "picking up the balls that have been hit way out of the tennis courts". She also likes to assign people to be the "tosser". ** This British troper's computer science lecturer used this as an

example of the difficulties you can encounter when programming a computer to interpret human language; he claimed there was a perfectly innocent American film called ''Shagging''[[hottip:*:he was probably thinking of ''{{Shag}}'']], and proceeded to search for it on IMDB (projected on a huge screen behind him, naturally) to illustrate his point. Suffice to say ''none'' of the results were about dancing. Not of the vertical kind, anyway. * When this British troper and his family went to Florida, there was much confusion over a fast food restaurant that was apparently selling 'Chicken and Biscuits'. This was mostly down to two reasons; the first being confused by the idea of chicken and biscuits. However, we already knew that what we call biscuits are cookies in the US, leading to the second bigger confusion-what's a biscuit in America? ** It's just a normal piece of bread that's usually round and can fit in your hand. They're also generally have a thicker consistency than sandwich bread. ** Like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runny_hunny.jpg this]]. * In Flemish Belgium, ''poep'' means arse, your behind. But in the Netherlands poep means poo. I was very confused when a Belgian singer performed here in the Netherlands singing about how he liked women's buttocks (poo/ass is nice, poo/ass is great!). * This troper knows a German exchange student in the US, who has never really been to a country that speaks American English. One day, said student was drawing with her host sisters (who were four and two), and asked them in the hearing of their parents if they needed a rubber. [[HilarityEnsues Cue awkward discussion with host father about the differences between the British and the American rubber.]] * This troper's American mother found herself very perplexed when, on honeymoon to visit the troper's Scottish-American father's family in the old homeland, the sweet little grandfatherly type who ran the B&B at which they were staying asked her politely when she'd like him to knock her up in the morning. ** This troper ran into this several years in a RPG with a good friend and fellow player who was British. * This troper has had a few of these with his girlfriend, considering he is from the United States and she is from Australia. The first thing that comes to his mind is her consistent use of the word "arvo" to describe when she would be back. He is slowly learning. * This editor remembers seeing a very funny Aussie comedian telling a joke about "I wear thongs. Me mum wears thongs. Me dad wears thongs. Sometimes, if it's chilly, you'll put on socks underneath your thongs." ** I have a good one that's similar: while in a history class in 6th grade, my old-fashioned British teacher commented one summer "I like your thongs." Que laughter from the class, and snide comments other students for days, on top of the fact that I was already mocked for wearing sandals in October in Maine. * [[{{Duckay}} This troper's]] British professor once told the class that when he first came to Australia, a coworker of his assured him that Australian students wore thongs to class, and he felt cheated when he found out that this meant what Americans would call 'flipflops'.

** [[FootFocus Why cheated?]] ** This Australian troper still thinks the tourism slogan of his country should be "Australia: Our beaches are full of women in thongs." not [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch "Where the Bloody Hell are you?"]] *** *snerk* * This troper recalls an Australian comedian talking about a trip to America. "In Australia, we call sandals thongs. I'm not going to make that mistake again." He also discussed it working the other way. "In Australia, we call sex 'rooting.' I saw a book store called Roots. I have one photo from this trip, it's me standing under a big sign saying 'Roots Kids.'" ** In Canada, Roots is a clothing store. Regrettably, they were the official supplier of the Canadian Olympic team at the Sydney Olympics. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Ensued]]. *** What do you mean [[CrowningMomentOfFunny regrettably]]? * This troper read a non-fiction book about a team of UN inspectors in Iraq, in which one American woman was complaining about the cold and saying she needed a sweater, only to be told they were called pullovers. She replied: "This is for my legs though. I don't need a pullover, I need a leg-over." The British and Australians present had to struggle not to react. * This troper saw an article in a 2008 Irish newspaper headlined "How I Beat The Fags" ... about a woman who gave up cigarettes, obviously. * "I am going outside to smoke a fag" is perfectly normal in an English bar, but in an American bar it would warrant about five seconds of stunned silence before someone calls the cops. ** To clarify, "smoking" in ''this'' context means "shooting" in American slang (derived from a fired gun's smoke). As mentioned many times, "fag" is a derogatory term in American English, and if you specifically SAY you're going outside to smoke someone, [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel you've probably got a gun already]]... ** Likewise, in Australia it's acceptable to ask to "bum a fag" if you're out of smokes... probably not a good idea in the States. ** This is a standard joke among gay Brits that this troper knows. "I'm going outside to have a fag." "Ooooh, can I have him after you're done with him?" * That Americans refer to trousers as "pants" and bottoms as "fannies" is a constant source of amusement to this British troper, considering that those two words mean "underwear" and "vaginas" respectively over here. ** This American troper has never heard bottoms referred to as 'fannies'. *** Indeed. I'm happy to report "fannies" has fallen out of usage here. **** Fanny packs could be considered still in use *** Not if you're my aunt trying to be polite. Dang. *** Another troper (from Indiana) backs up the above statement that hindquarters have not been called fannies this side of the pond for years. And pants are usually either called jeans or slacks (depending on type), except in the general sense (which is an abbreviation of "pantaloons," and thus, still correct). You British must have

shortened "underpants" by dropping the "under." *** "[=UnderPANTS=]"? As in, what you wear under your... pants? **** [[IncrediblyLamePun You mean your]] [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=birthday%20suit birthday suit?]] *** Well, this troper's mother refers to the fan in our car's seats as the "fanny fan." So yeah, there are still ''some'' Americans who use that word as a euphemism for "butt". ** This English troper once saw an American comedy show on which some woman was upset because a masseur touched her "fanny", and was horrified when this was [[PlayedForLaughs played for laughs]]. It wasn't until years later that this troper discovered that 'fanny' is synonymous with 'arse' in America... * Americans refer to the letter "z" as "zee". Australians and Brits refer to it as "zed". This tends to be more noticeable in [[{{UsefulNotes/Mathematics}} complex analysis]], when ''z'' is commonly used as a variable (like ''x'' is in algebra). Now, this is sufficiently well known that if an Australian says "zed" to an American mathematician, or an American says "zee" to an Australian one, they'll be understood. However, this American troper had an Australian complex analysis teacher, so she came away believing that "zee" was the name of the letter and "zed" was the name of the variable. My classmates still understood me, they just mocked me for it. * I think this can be well summed up by something said by one of this Troper's friends: -->I can speak [[CanadaEh three languages]]: English, French and British. * Coming home from engineering school for the summer, I usually spend about two weeks readjusting to "normal people English" and reminding myself that my non-engineer friends and family don't know what terms like "dinner-hat?" ("Do you want to go to the dining hall?"), "prospie" (prospective student), and "squishy" (Biomedical Engineering major) mean. * This troper's mother tongue is not English, but he's been exposed to American media long enough that, when he speaks English, he instinctively uses an American vocabulary and pronunciation. (Switching to first person now) When I was 17, I went to Malta for a study-vacation and the first thing I noticed was that the accent of the teachers and school staff was completely different than what I heard in the media. During the preliminary interview, necessary to establish my knowledge of English, the interviewer asked me what I liked doing in my spare time. I replied that I liked going at the local arcade. At that point, the interviewer seemed to be very surprised and started asking me things like "do you win?" (my answer: "yeah, I'm quite good") and "aren't you a little too young?" (my answer: "no, there are lots of people my age there"). Finally, I asked the interviewer why she was surprised, and she replied: "Because you started to GAMBLE!" That's right: apparently, in Malta, an arcade is a joint where you go to gamble, while the whole time I interpreted the questions as if it was obvious that an arcade is where you go to play video games!

* When this troper's father was stationed in England during World War II, a young lady he'd met asked him to knock her up around six that night. He thought she was terribly forward until one of his squadron mates explained to the poor colonial that "knock me up" simply meant "meet me at my place." "Knock me up" meaning "render me pregnant" was a change of meaning that hadn't yet crossed the ocean. ---Go back to SeparatedByACommonLanguage. ----

SequenceBreaking Place the times when you've Sequence Broken a game here. ---* This Troper was in an arcade watching another kid who bet him 25c that he could score a billion points in the Coin-Op version of ''{{Paperboy}}''. He did it, too. Was the best 25c I ever spent. If I hadn't seen it I'd never have believed it. Later versions of the game removed this "feature." * [[PentiumMMX2 This troper]] remembers when he discovered the Screen Warp glitch in ''TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', he abused it on a 2nd playthrough to see what all he could do. The result? I had myself the best sword, shield, and Power Bracelet early, as well as beating the seventh dungeon long before setting foot in the first. * Skipping ''3/4 of the level'' in Halo 2's "Outskirts" by jumping around on rooftops. * This has become second nature to me in every Metroid game, save for Fusion, especially in Zero Mission. It's just too bad they took out the sequence breaks in the Player's Choice/Wii versions of the Prime games. * In ''{{Repton}} 3'', the Finale levels are not arranged in accurate order of difficulty; Level 2 is so colossally hard that at one point, out of sheer frustration, I started entering random words as the password (''Repton 3'' passwords are always seven-letter dictionary words) and one of them happened to be the correct password for Level 7. * Red Alert 2: Last allied mission: IFV + Chronosoldiers + Chronosphere = mission complete in less than 13 minutes, bypassing the soviet base entirely. * Tropers/{{JET73L}} did this accidentally on ''KingdomOfLoathing'', to said troper's utter confusion. After about a week or two of computer trouble and other events preventing gameplay, [[Tropers/JET73L the]] [[AnAdventurerIsYou Adventurer]] finds a nearly-demolished Seaside (Main) Town, an [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Altar of Bones]] that accepted a currency of Bone Chips, and a Council of Loathing that refused to give any information aside from "[[WelcomeToCorneria Why don't you stir up trouble between the Frat Boys and Hippies? Try assassinating Franz Ferdinand. Historically, it usually helps]]". Follow the adventurer going to the [[MoneySink Cannon Museum]], fighting four exponentially more difficult [[LostForever One Time encounters]] and being

underprepared for the fourth, and witnessing the [[FaceHeelTurn Face Heel]] [[DramaticUnmask Unmasking]] of a BigBadFriend who s/he had never met before. At one point, it became difficult to tell the difference between [[HurricaneOfPuns obscure puns]] and single-meaning references to dead comrades, thanks to never having been introduced to said comrades! Even [[TheWikiRule COLdfront]] didn't help, the skipped sequences were so (sub-? Side-? MythArc-?)plot-relevant. * This troper found a glitch in the Temple of Seasons in NeverwinterNights2 that allowed him to open the exit door and walk straight into the last room where the Statue of Purification was. However, being somewhat of a completionist, I reverted to my previous save and took the long route anyway. * [[{{Tropers/Kadorhal}} I]]'ve noticed that features added by {{Doom}} source ports, like jumping and crouching, tend to break the game; say, Map07 of Doom 2 can be beaten [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWHgQDxJndI in three seconds]]. I intend on doing a video series where I show just how badly you can break sequence in the game with the Skulltag source port. * This Troper once used a Game Genie on ''FinalFantasyIV'' with a code that makes you walk continuously, even through walls, so you could go anywhere on the current map. I was up to the point where you rescue Rosa. This let me walk right past Golbez without talking to him and triggering the cutscene, go straight to Rosa, getting her and Kain in the party, and then skip the fight with Valvalis by avoiding the spot where she appears. I then went back to the previous room and [[CuriosityIsACrapshoot decided to see what would happen]] [[WhatAnIdiot if I talked to Golbez]], [[TemporalParadox now that I already had Kain and Rosa.]] Result: [[OhCrap the game crashed]] and [[BigNo erased that save file]]. * I accidentally did this in ''OcarinaOfTime''. While trying to get in to DeathMountain as adult Link, I found that I could jump from the entrance to the volcano to one of the later parts, if I aimed it just right. Not that unusual of a LegendOfZelda game, and when I got into it without the Goron tunic, I figured I'd just unlock it later. After beating the dungeon (with a lot of bottled fairies), I finally looked to a [[GuideDangIt guide]] to see where I was supposed to get that tunic. Turns out, the one who was supposed to help me was now just congratulating me, and the tunic (and the whole store, for that matter) was now LostForever. On the plus side, the guide said that the dungeon [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome couldn't even be attempted without the item I completed it without]]. ** Wait, you did the entire Fire temple without the Fire tunic? Damn. I almost did the Water Temple without the Water tunic, but I decided that I should just go back and get it anyway. * [[Tropers/LightFlame I]] accidently skipped the whole ''carry the baby penguin to it's mother'' level in the DS remake of SuperMario64 when I accidently fell off the mountain. I landed next to the penguin's mother and gave her the penguin. [[ThatOneLevel Awesome]] ---...Wait, did you just [[SequenceBreaking hit the End key]]? Why'd you come to this page if you're not going to read or add Troper Tales?

Sheesh.

SerenadeYourLover * When I was in high school, on Valentine's Day the school incorporated this service as an option for guys to express their love for their girlfriends and crushes. I witnessed a guy summoning a girl from her classroom and after singing the love song for her , he said "You want to be my girlfriend?", the girl rejected him on the spot. ** Harsh.

SergeantRock * [[Tropers/CallsignEcho This Troper]]'s JROTC NCO Instructor was nicknamed "Rock," and answered to either Sgt. Lastname or "Sgt. Rock." This name fit him so well it was [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname universally used by all who know him, including his wife]]. This was also in part because he was the victim of an EmbarrassingFirstName, and--for the few who knew it--to call him by that name was to court serious injury or death.

SerialTweaker * I've done this on the ThousandArms page when I was trying to figure out how to create a WMG page. * Alas, this is [[Tropers/BlackHumor me]]. As you'll be able to see if you get to the page history quickly enough. * It's [[Tropers/LadyNorbert me too]]. * [[{{Tropers/Azvolrien}} Me]] as well. Usually only one or two edits, though. As in, I edit, then a minute later I think 'Damn, I should have done ''that'' instead' and re-edit. * This is [[{{Tropers/Eriksson}} my]] editing style as well. * [[Tropers/ILikeCrows Mine too!]] I need to use the Preview button more often... * [[{{Tropers/Alhazred}} Guilty as charged]], usually because of spelling/grammar/proofreading fail. * I do this excessively, with everything. All glory to the Preview button! ...Though sometimes my word choice doesn't look right still, or there's a punctuation mark that could be moved/removed, or a sentence to re-flow slightly... ...I tweak everything I write, sometimes to an absurd point, particularly if it's a three-line forum post or similar. * [[{{Tropers/Willbyr}} I]] can get caught in this myself. * [[{{Tropers/Shoebox}} Guilty as charged]]. Slowly-but-surely making friends with the preview button, though. * [[Tropers/CountDorku Sorry]]. Although that's only sometimes due to misspelling and more often due to realising something better I should have put, or in a different section (so, I'll edit in a [=DnD=] example, then think of a LiveActionTV example ten minutes later or something like that). ** For added irony, I put this underneath the bottom of the page and had to tweak it back into place.

* I've done this on occasion. Usually only if I misspell something, but sometimes what I said before just does not make my point correctly. * [[Tropers/CoyoticEvil My fault]]. More noticeable when I get to clean up articles. * I'm like this. Only I usually notice my mistakes a while after making them. * [[{{Tropers/INUH}} Guilty]]. Especially when I was still figuring out how all of the markups worked. * The preview button doesn't work in [[Tropers/RobinZimm my]] preferred browser. Ergo... * [[Tropers/KillerClowns I'm getting better]], mostly using the preview, but every so often I still get over-eager, or more often, remember some other example I'd like to add .5 seconds after pressing Save. * [[Tropers/PuppetChaos I]] am ''proud'' to be one. * Happening ''right now'' at the TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression page. One gets the feeling it's deliberate, because ''none of the changes are to the same area, the "edit reason" field is being used for each one as a separate justification, and these aren't small alterations.'' Never have I wished for the internet-face-stabber so hard. * [[Tropers/ThaliaAerith This troper]] is guilty of being a SerialTweaker, especially for TroperTales. Usually not that many edits, but sometimes this troper does around five edits in a row for the same page. This troper is trying to use the Preview button more often, though. * Does tweaking other peoples edits which obviously didn't do what they thought count, because then this Troper is guilty. He's not OCD (or at least it's never been diagnosed), just helpful. * [[Tropers/MmmKay This troper]] and her [[Characters/{{ptitlevos5dvs8}} character page]]; once I find a cool trope that just so happens to be in my [[ImagineSpot Imagine Spots]], I gotta add it! And add it! And add it! And add it! And add it! And add it! And add it! And add it! And add it! And-- ((SLAP)) Ow... * I do this all the time, but i'm getting better. * This troper actually ninja edits his ninja edits on most forums. If somebody posts while I'm editing and they quote my post, I immediately go back and return it to it's previous state. On TV Tropes itself, I normally just press the preview button instead. * [[Tropers/EtherealFrog This Troper]] is this, as one can clearly see if one looks in the right places in page history. * Even the Preview button cannot escape the wrath of this SerialTweaker. ** She actually did it on ''this very page''. * Guilty as charged, even when I use preview beforehand. Right after I press save, I always manage to think of something I should have added, or a spelling/grammar error. * [[{{Tropers/Chabal 2}} Me]], all the time. * It happens to [[{{Tropers/Ryumaru}} me]] too, and not just on the wiki. My book is constantly tweaked and tweaked and tweaked and tweaked [[RunningGag and tweaked and tweaked...]]

* [[{{Tropers/Meems}} I do this]]. So, so much. Seriously, I'm pretty surprised I haven't already added myself to this page. (At least I hope I haven't. I did check.) * [[Contributors/TheOneWhoTropes The One Who Tropes]] does this too. He also is a ThirdPersonPerson. * It's this troper's inherent perfectionism. She'll make a post, see it on the page and say "Dammit!" or "[[ThatCameOutWrong That doesn't look right]]." Three or four times, on occasion. * [[Tropers/StarlitOcean I do this]]. I use the preview button, but I still frequently miss some minor error, or decide a second later that I could have phrased something better. * [[{{Tropers/Takwin}} I]] am quite guilty of this, admittedly. * [[Tropers/MiriaRose This Troper]] does this all the time. Like the above troper, she realizes she could've phrased things much better afterwards. * ([[{{Tropers/Reflextion}} /me sheepishly raises his hand]]) I'll always either realize that I could've phrased things better, or notice some boneheaded error that I somehow managed to miss in the preview, or both. * [[Tropers/SerenitySquid I]] ''try'' not to do this, I really do! It's just difficult when you type quicker than you think, have a horrible memory, and [[DamnYouMuscleMemory an unfortunate tendency to accidentally click the "save" button instead of the "preview" button]]. * [[Tropers/{{Sen}} Hi]]. * This troper does it all the time, and then is always in a rush to fix her post before someone replies or comments to it. It's often because of spelling, grammar, misunderstanding what I was replying to, or clarifying. * [[Tropers/{{JHM}} Hello, everyone!]] * Sometimes my dyslexia gets the better of me and I need to go back and fix a typo or a grammar problem, and then I realise I've left another one and need to go back once again. * [[Tropers/{{Mr3urious}} This troper]] does it too, unfortunately. * Speaking. [[JustifiedTrope Sometimes, my browser crashes when I open a new window, so I can't preview.]] * Brick3621 is guilty as charged. Even more guilty now because I didn't know the potential consequences of making several edits on one page until three minutes ago as of this writing. * [[Tropers/{{WTFMate}} I'm]] a rather obsessive SerialTweaker. Makes it even worse when I read through old posts and find mistakes that I did not catch AND can no longer fix. * I also do this excessively, although only with pages I've added myself. * I do this with my forum posts VERY frequently. ---Go back to SerialTweaker and edit it a thousand times. [[HaHaHaNo (]]''[[HaHaHaNo laughs]]''[[HaHaHaNo ) Just kidding. Don't do that. Seriously]]. ----

SeriesMascot * [[{{Introbulus}} This Troper's dad]] loves the "Grr Argh" monster from BuffyTheVampireSlayer,tv

SeriousBusiness ---Because no matter what it is, someone somewhere will be taking it far too seriously for their own (or anyone else's) good. Everyone who takes anything too seriously should remember ''{{Mystery Science Theater 3000}}'''s motto. ---* This troper's friend and her cat ears are very serious business. They once got insulted, and it resulted in the offender's teeth getting punched through. * Here in Los Angeles (where This Troper lives), the Los Angeles Lakers are very serious business from about January to June. We also take food trucks (or food in general), the entertainment business, our status as a very famous {{World Class City}}, In-N-Out, fashion, and parties very seriously. * This troper is a major metalhead, and if [[BerserkButton someone dares to call it screamo, or when his mother blames something he's done on his music...]] Let's just say I go on the offensive. * This troper, regarding her school orchestra. Heaven help you if you show up late for orchestra practice - and if you miss it altogether, you'd better not show your face around the music wing until you can be bothered to come to rehearsal. This goes double for her section members. * [[SharPhoe This troper]] has had death glares shot at me on many an occasion because of the fact that I'm kinda hard to beat at ''Scene It?''. ** Join the club. This troper's family refuses to play most trivia games with her. Or argues about which team gets her. *** [[TromboneChild This troper]] experiences the same thing,but with a lot of "good-natured" ribbing. The same thing happens during Boggle. * After reading the Playing With article for this page, I have concluded that somebody absolutely MUST make a Hopscotch Rap. If it exists already, post a link to it. If it doesn't... MAKE IT. NOW. * This troper's father can often be found swearing and cursing violently at the computer as he plays his game. Is he playing an FPS? A strategy game? Some buggy free MMORPG? No, he is playing {{Bridge}}. Just playing bridge. Not for money, not for any overall score, just playing games with random online people. Yet you think he's playing for his life's blood against his hated enemies. It's not just the fictional card games that are serious business. ** [[http://www.snopes.com/luck/bennett.asp At least one murder]] has been known to have been committed due to a bad bridge hand. While most bridge federations put rules about politeness into effect (with the option to ban repeat offenders - [[ThirtyTwoFootsteps this troper]] knows a woman who was banned for a year from competitive bridge), there are enough people that will belittle opponents and berate partners that SeriousBusiness trumps rules.

* On a fan site for a particular D-List celebrity, [[FanBoy one fan]] said, with complete seriousness, that anyone who didn't like said celebrity were mentally ill. [[FanBoy Another one]] declared that this celebrity's detractors all deserved to be shot in the face. What the hell is wrong with people?? ** I want...nay, NEED that link. The urge to bait is rising considerably... *** Unfortunately it was a message board that has since shut down, IIRC. The celebrity was Kate Bosworth, though, if you want to go Googling. All that wank for ''Kate Freaking Bosworth.'' Oy. Has she even ''done'' anything since Superman Returns? *** "21." In which the "sexy" backless dress she wore only revealed her protruding shoulder bones, starkly outlined vertebra, and every. single. freaking. rib. This female troper, watching with a group of girlfriends, concurred that she needs to rediscover the joys of carbohydrates, posthaste. *** "The urge to bait is rising considerably..." Christ, do you not see what's wrong with that sentence? *** SomethingElseAlsoRises? * I've been fiddling with this site for ''how'' long now? I must go outside. * This troper and his friends have turned {{Monopoly}} into serious business. We bargain and exchange properties, agree to pacts, and redistribute money and properties according to the last winner. Admittedly, Monopoly was meant to be serious business, but this has become life or death. * [[CabbitGirlEmi This tropette]] and... well, EVERYTHING. Especially movies and T.V. There are some shows and movies that, [[YourMileageMayVary while a lot of people like (for what I think are the wrong reasons), I utterly despise]], [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch but haven't seen]], however, '''I DON'T WATCH ''CRAP''.''' Specifically, anything that's pure drama over the PG rating and anything that is startling. * ''GuitarHero'' players... my GOD ''Guitar Hero'' players... This Troper, who plays at a very high Expert level, as in schools most of his ''Guitar Hero'' Expert playing friends, finds it EXTREMELY grating that there are people who [[CompletelyMissingThePoint play the game MUTED because the music is DISTRACTING! WHAT THE FUCK?!]] ** Probably not helped by the fact that the XBox360 version of either Rock Band or Guitar Hero (this troper can't remember at the moment) has an [[BraggingRightsReward Achievement]] requiring that you play an expert song with the in-game music volume at zero. ** The same could likely be said for Rock Band. By the way, never go on the Rock Band forums and check out the DLC request/discussion section. People get very, very angry when certain songs/bands don't show up. Regardless of genre. *** And, apparently, Guitar Hero vs. Rock Band. This troper's friend is the only one, to said troper's knowledge, to take part in it, but he takes it deadly serious. ** Sounds to me like you're taking this way too seriously. * This Troper has two tales: 1. Sports. Just about any sport on the planet is considered Serious Business, but I think American football

might just take the grand prize. As big a challenge as that is. Also, I am a gamer, and I can safely say that the self-styled "Hardcore" crowd [[CompletelyMissingThePoint no longer care about playing games that are actually FUN]]. I can't go on a single gaming forum without finding at least a dozen people who refuse to play any games [[RealIsBrown with bright colors in them]]. Or any games that don't feature guns. Because those games are "kiddie games" (which are apparently a terrible thing) or "casual games" (which apparently, for some reason, are even worse). ** Most hardcore gamers are, in the world of customer service, called "Entitlement whores". Especially the [[UnpleasableFanbase Nintendo types]] who say "WE STUCK WITH YOU DURING YOUR DARK YEARS SO BEND OVER BACKWARDS AND CATER TO A MINORITY BASE!!!!" '''''NOW!!!''''' ** Hey, games that feature guns ARE fun. *** ''{{Daikatana}}''. ** This troper read a story on [=GameSpot=] about how M-rated games sell better. Many of the comments for the article were along the lines of: *** "Games that DON'T have blood when people die make me squeamish!" *** "Thanks for stating the obvious: that better games sell better! What's next, the sky is blue?" *** "I cannot stand the idea of an E-rated game. I want to blow up people and see them explode in gory messes, not stupid kiddy graphics or people bleeding flowers or some shit." \\ And this is how he feels: * headdesk* * headdesk* * headwall* [[AndIMustScream * and i must scream* ]] **** This is why Male-Centric-Power-Fantasies that scorn emotion [[RealIsBrown And Colour]] and reward cock-measuring multiplayer and blood and gore are choking the market while games like TheElderScrolls and Bioshock must have an action quota lest they be flagged as "gay" and [[FanHaters everyone who plays them is automatically gay for not playing a real gmae]]. * This troper has found that whenever a game is played in class, it becomes SeriousBusiness. Recently, he saw a game where people had to race to the overhead projector to write something down. Soon enough, people were practically body-slamming each other, and even taking the transparency and/or pen away so the other team couldn't do anything. You might expect this from grade-schoolers, but this is a ''highschool class'' doing this. ** My - also high school - class once played a game where we were grouped into countries and had to get the supplies we needed to survive. People quickly made alliances and stole from each other, eventually leading to left vs. right side of the room. Needless to say, if someone was caught stealing, chasing and tackling ensued. Our teacher was amazed that, sadly, we hadn't really considered trading as an option. Next semester, my friend's class actually drew blood during the game. Needless to say, the game is no longer played, but it was the best day of class all year. ** Same with this troper's class, except it was a redo of LordOfTheFlies, one group got the food and the other the water, and the year before we played, the kids ''[[MoralEventHorizon took the crutches from a boy with a broken leg]]'' to fight with, telling him

they needed it more than he did and that he should just sit there... they draw blood every year, but it's an incredible experience. *** You'd think that after reading LordOfTheFlies they'd know better than to be violent. Unless that's the point...? And seriously, taking someone's crutches? That's just cruel. ** High School? Try college. This troper has seen blood drawn as people run, push, trip, kick and fight their way to the front of a classroom to decline Latin nouns and adjectives. The reward? ''One'' Hershey kiss. *** Hmm... "'''[[SpongebobSquarepants CHOCOLAAATE]]!!! [[MemeticMutation CHOCOLAAAATE]]!!!'''" Mayhaps this describes their mental state? ** High school: no reward, blood-drawing Password. * This troper fell out with her crush over facebook due to a [[DeathNote L VERSUS Light]] discussion. Anime is serious business. * Deadliest sport in the world? Pictionary. Two white boards, two teams of panicky college students, winner takes all, and contesting decisions all the way. We should tape it this year's competition and put it up on YouTube. Actually, we shouldn't: it's mostly a screaming competition. ** Oh, true. I remember this game we had at college. It began with the girl who organised it saying "Okay, you can be Team 1 and you can be Team 2," to which we instantly replied, "...We don't want to be ''Team 2''." So we were Team 1 and Team A and the rivalry only escalated from there. ** Hell, even tests that were taken electronically on a large projector (the students answer with remotes, the screen displays which remotes have answered the question yet) can get stupidly competitive. The real kicker, however, are the class jeopardy games, which usually culminate in screaming matches between teams. *** Oh dear LORD, class Jeopardy. I remember one incident in which I nearly opted not to play, because the topic was something I was particularly interested in. Everyone knew I was particularly interested in the topic, so there was a huge fight over which team I was going to be on. ** For [[{{Sharysa}} my]] French class, it was Concentration. HOMG WE HAVE TO GET MORE MATCHES THAN THE OTHER TEAM OR ELSE WE WON'T GET FIVE EXTRA POINTS ON OUR NEXT QUIZ!!! Pictionary was also a big one--the stakes are upped even MORE when you have to name the picture in your non-native language. Also, we had a tendency to keep everyone insanely quiet. "Don't talk so loud--they'll steal our answer!" (after person loses the turn because s/he couldn't hear) "WHY DIDN'T YOU SPEAK MORE CLEARLY?!" * Caribbean people, or those of Caribbean descent know that a game of Spades can [[SeriousBusiness get mega-intense]]. Games can last upwards of four hours; 1 hour playing and 3 arguing. If people are drinking, it only gets worse. ** What makes a game of Spades especially deadly is if people start partnering up by ethnicity. This troper has witnessed few things as funny, (or horrific; take your pick) than two Haitians playing two Jamaicans in a game of Spades, cursing in Creole and Patois. You'd have to see it to believe it.

** Dominoes falls under this as well, especially for Jamaicans. My father has splintered wooden tables with little ivory pieces. And don't get me started on Ludie (Jamaican for Parcheesi) *** You are SO right! Dominoes really should come with a Surgeon's warning. *** I totally agree. St. Croix, Sunday, anywhere in Fredriksted- you can hear the banging A BLOCK AWAY. My parents don't play it, thankfully, but jesus murphy they take the seriousness to a whole new level. * This troper's mother plays on an online gaming site and runs a small tournament league there. In his opinion, it had a less than admirable start. The first game they adopted was bingo. Perhaps too luck-based for tournament purposes, but that's no big deal. The problem is that this league had a rule against ''calling Bingo once you had it'', and instead waiting until the end of the game. And this rule was enforced, to the point of telling people to leave if they called Bingo. The site eventually decided to create rooms designed for these kinds of players, but before that happened, this troper had to inform her that she was playing a game consisting of 75 numbers being called in random order, at which point everyone won. And holding ''tournaments'' of this. And ''yelling at the screen when people tried to play the game normally''. * ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is SeriousBusiness to [[GwenStacyWannabe this troper]]'s friends. To me, it is SnarkBait. [[AndIMustScream And I can't even make fun of it...]] ** This troper knows how you feel. *** As does this one, especially since said friends keep saying "You need to read these, they're SOOOOOOOO good, you'll LOVE them!!!" with that pathetic look of earnestness. There needs to be some sort of "My Friends All Love Something Stupid, and I Can't Tell Them It Sucks" support group online, I think. *** Ooh, I like that idea (as the original poster). But I think it would be sort of hypocritical, as I love [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]] and most of my female friends think "[[AnimationAgeGhetto Cartoons are for kids]]". *** Cartoons, and the hate or love of them is Serious Business in this troper's household. ** ''Hating'' ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is also SeriousBusiness to many people. As in, if you enjoy this book in any way and do not participate in actively bashing it, you are inferior genetic scum that cannot actually read, and you are only intelligent if you help examine the book and pick out every little detail to assure how terrible it is to others. (This troper, for the record, doesn't have an opinion on Twilight either way.) ** This Troper was forced to read the ''whole Mewing series'' by her obsessed-fan cousin. After reading them all, she came to a conclusion: she was wrong. [[spoiler:They were actually quite a bit worse than she expected them to be.]] ** This troper also had to read the entire series in order to communicate with her favorite cousin on her visit. I read the first two books and didn't get completely finished with either of them. When I saw my cousin, who takes it personally when everything isn't "just

so" for her, I foolishly broke it to her that I thought it was the worst thing I had ever read. Despite this, it was all she could talk about for the whole visit. Over the next six months, I grew vehemently anti-Twilight, and my Twihard mother was even worse than my cousin about trying to force me to read them, only adding to the vitriol. Come time for my summer visit to my family's place, my cousin and I got into this huge fight over the quality of those four. Stupid. Books. We both learned a good lesson after that trip: Don't take Twilight, loving it or hating it, so seriously. We have both long since stopped being so obsessive. * ''Pokemon'', ''Magic: the Gathering'', and ''Tower Defence'' are SeriousBusiness to this troper. * This troper's favorite band is somewhat SeriousBusiness - don't snark them in front of me, or you will regret it. * In this troper's family, college football takes on all the aspects of a holy war. It may be germane to mention that Dad and two of his three brothers went to Ohio State, while Mom is faculty at Michigan; my brother went to Miami of Ohio, I went to U of M, and my sister dodged the whole question and went out of state. Needless to say, family Thanksgiving usually turns into a cage match by about midafternoon. ** Some peeople think that people in Columbus treat football like a religion. Those of us who have lived in Columbus know this is not true, we take it MUCH more seriously. ** Even if one's favored team doesn't have a nationally noted rivalry, team fanaticism can frequently reach absurd levels. [[{{Prioris}} This troper]] once had a devoutly Catholic friend who believed, with all sincerity, that since the Blessed Virgin Mary was the patron of Notre Dame, she would never allow the team to lose a game. This troper, being both an atheist and a Michigan alumna, took great glee in watching the Wolverines thrash the Irish year after year. * A scary but true story involved this troper talking to a ''highly'' autistic 19-year-old who turned angry and even violent whenever anyone mentioned the death of a fictional character he liked. This troper deeply regretted mentioning ''StarWars'' to him, as the recent death of Mara Jade was one such BerserkButton. That incident, in addition to another kid hitting my own personal BerserkButton about an hour later, made that one of the worst days of my life. ** This troper hasn't gone back to the SW Expanded Universe since Anakin Solo was killed off at about the same time as a [[RealLife coworker's son the same age]] was killed in a drunk-driving accicent. *** Since the book licence changed, and the New Jedi Order started, for me. Zhan's stuff was the best, and would have been a good, final high note for the ExpandedUniverse (on that end of the timeline), for a time at least. I hear he's written a few [=SW=] novels since then, though, so I may check out some of them eventually. It's not really SeriousBusiness to me though, I just think [=SW=] survives best as an escapist fantasy, and not as something where people die all the time. * The reaction of people to this site getting hacked qualifies as SeriousBusiness. The site goes down for a few hours and people call for the hacker to be [[EvilutionaryBiologist killed]]: for hacking a site that amounts to little more than a fansite and is barely relevant

outside the Internet. ** It's an overreaction to demand than an action that is malicious, inconvenient (if not harmful) ''and illegal'' be punished? *** Definitely for the inconvenient part, as people acted like they couldn't go on living without this site. But I guess I did use the wrong choice of words, and indeed, to be fair, the asking for e-mail thing was pushing it. ** For this troper it was more the ''reason'' he hacked the site and the link he placed. Hacking a site is really not the way to make me help starving children/support Islamic radicalism. ''There are better ways to go about this'' (well the radicalism not so much). ** This troper is more of the opinion that the hacking itself was SeriousBusiness. I mean, come on, this is TVTropes, not the Pentagon or an international bank. Do you ''really'' get some sort of sense of ''achievement'' out of hacking it? * Do ''not'' try to talk about how ''ReBoot'' could have turned out to the guy who started the [[http://rebootrevival.com Revival]]. Just... ''don't.'' * This troper's friend was nearly evicted as a result of his roommate's Hanson obsession. Yes, ''that'' Hanson, the one that hasn't been relevant in ten years. * [[{{Regiment}} This troper]]'s LARP group thinks a bunch of grown (or at least college-age) people running around with PVC ([[StopHavingFunGuys or fiberglass]]) and foam "swords" is SeriousBusiness. He thinks it's fantastic, goofy fun. He's had to think fast in literature classes to avoid bad-mouthing a [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible verbose, convoluted story that goes nowhere]], because TrueArt is {{SeriousBusiness}}, too. Basically, this troper is the antithesis of SeriousBusiness. * This troper is of a endangered species of gamers: the kind who [[ScoringPoints plays for points]]. If he can score fairly well in a game (usually a [[ShootEmUps Shoot Em Up]]), but there's many others who are better than him, he'll go into a depression, [[SelfDeprecation thinking that he is the worst player of that game ever]]. The same applies to his endeavours in the racing games ''Initial D Arcade Stage'' and ''Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune'', and it doesn't help that players of those games will [[StopHavingFunGuys HATE you if you're not within 1-2 seconds of a world record]]. * THE FOLLOWING IS AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - If you know somebody who is a ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'' fan. P-L-E-A-S-E follow these instructions for dealing with them....carefully -->1) [[TwentyFour 24]] is the greatest television series on the air and is one of the top 10 series ever made. Do NOT suggest otherwise. -->2) Do NOT interrupt any episode while it is airing. Do NOT interrupt an episode that is playing on DVD. Do NOT interrupt a commericial for an upcoming episode. Non-compliance will not be treated lightly. -->3) NEVER suggest that [[TwentyFour 24]] is unrealistic. It stretches the edges of realism, yes, but it is NOT unrealistic. Do NOT suggest otherwise. -->4) Never make a statement like [[TwentyFour 24]] is fake because it has a Black president." This is will not be looked upon kindly. Also,

during an episode, NEVER....ever refer to the President as "Pedro Cerrano" or "The Allstate Guy". ** 4a) Rendered obsolete by [[RealLife Real Life]]. ** YourMileageMayVary: This Troper pretty much blurted out "Hey! It's the guy from the Allstate commercials!" the first time he saw [[TwentyFour 24]] in front of some [[TwentyFour 24]] fans, and all they did was agree and say that that was what they said, too. We all had a good laugh about it. -->5) Extremely important: If for any reason you see an episode before a fan, DO NOT -- under ANY circumstances reveal spoilers or other details. This cannot be stressed enough; failure to follow this instruction can result in deadly harm up to and including death. If for some unavoidable reason you do reveal plot details, contact your local Witness Protection Program IMMEDIATELY. ** --> 5a) Before going to the WPP, take a trip to the local gun store. But remember, taking down a spoiled 24 fan requires a highpowered rifle with FMJ ammunition. Aim for the heart, the skull is too hard to pierce with commercially available weaponry. * Speaking of spoilers, it seems that no one wants to be spoiled except this troper and her brother. They find spoilers make them want to watch/read/play something more, not spoil the fun. Which makes things annoying when people don't want to talk about what's happening lately in ''{{Naruto}}'' or ''{{Bleach}}'' because they aren't that far yet, but somewhat fun when you threaten to spoil something. ** Not only you guys. [[GentlemanThief7 This Troper]] gets the same effect sometimes, especially if its a comedy series, since it makes him want to know how the characters even ''got'' to that situation. ** This troper used to have a slight variation of this - he used to like opening the last page of the book and reading the last sentence. Usually it just indicates the mood of the book's conclusion without revealing any twists or details about how we got there. He learned that even the mood itself can be a spoiler the hard way, after reading the last two sentences of [[NineteenEightyFour 1984]] - [[spoiler: He [Winston] had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother]]. * This Troper has a somewhat unique case. When it comes to art, I draw for the fun of it and it is more of a hobby to me. However, some people out there do not see this and give critiques in an almost snark matter. While I agree that there are some things I can improve in, the comments I get are not worth the time due to the whole SeriousBusiness attitude behind it. Apparently, [[StopHavingFunGuys drawing in MS Paint is unacceptable, copying/pasting certain parts a few times isn't OK either, shading MUST be done, drawings are done on paper only, etc]]. I'm still amazed on how people take drawing as serious as playing ''SuperSmashBros'' in a tournament. ** You also are '''NOT''' allowed to draw in any style bult ultrarealistic. * They're not [[SuperRobot silly cartoons made to sell toys]], they're [[HotBlooded BASTIONS OF SWEET MANLY JUSTICE. WORSHIP THEM]]. ** By contrast, any ''{{Transformers}}'' fan will tell you that any television block for Transformers cartoons are infact the network's 30 minute commercial break (of which, 22 minutes has plot). However if the toys are bad...

* When the local PBS affiliate aired ''EastEnders'' back in the 80s, this troper's parents were insistent on catching every syllable of every episode, forbidding anyone in the room to talk. (This, despite the fact that they regularly annoyed this troper with amused or angry asides--including ''talking to the characters''--during every ''other'' show or movie the family watched together.) And God help this troper or his siblings if they ever messed up taping an episode for them. He was surprised when they ''didn't'' go into a [[HeroicBSOD catatonic depression]] after the station finally pulled the show. ** This Troper's mother is like that with ''TheArchers''. * This troper '''''thought''''' he was a pretty big ''StarTrek'' fan. Until.... he actually met other Trekkies who really do speak fluent Klingon, Romulanese, and Vulcanese; own the blueprints for every class of Starfleet ship; and have memorized the stardates on which every StarTrek adventure takes place. It's a bit humbling. * College theater clubs. Holy crap. Most, if not all, of the members will be able to name all of the cast members for all productions of their favorite show, will probably have seen it as many times as their distance from the theater permits, and will know all the lyrics to all the songs from all the musicals they know. And heaven help you if you're not an actor; if you're a techie or, god forbid, just a theater fan, you will ''not make any friends'' with the acting kids. Period. Even if the club isn't performance based. For some reason, high school theater kids are a lot more accepting. ** Oh, high school theater can be just as crazy. The techies and acting kids got along just fine in this troper's high school group but WOE TO YOU if you don't take part in every single production of the year, or if you don't actually mind too much if you don't become a thespian....obviously that means you do not care enough about THEATER and therefore do not deserve to be part of THEATER at all anymore. *** I hope you both fall off stage and break your necks. It's spelled THEATRE, you blasphemers. * The question of which of the leading men of ''DeathNote'', L or Light, is 'the true embodiment of justice', is definitely SeriousBusiness. It would be easier for this troper to laugh it all off if the series didn't examine vital questions of where to draw the line; ridiculous as it may sound, she honestly could never love someone completely if they were a Kira-supporter. Of course, this debate is sadly nowhere near as rabid as that [[EstrogenBrigadeBait comparing their respective hotness-levels...]] ** I think I'd feel uncomfortable with a Kira supporter as well. *** It's almost like an anime-based version of the death penalty debate... I'll just say that I enjoyed watching the series and won't reveal who he rooted for. ** Ironically the black and white view you present is exactly the sort of thing Kira stands for. ** If I had to live with a Kira supporter... I'd probably end up a)not talking to them at all, or b) enjoying the situation and roleplaying Death Note forever. ** This troper fell out with her crush over facebook due to a L VERSUS Light discussion. * This troper was kicked off a popular humour website (if it is named,

you would know it and no, not naming it). This troper suspects serious mental issues on the part of the other guy but the straw that broke the camel's back? "I don't think that passing humour bit you did was nice". This troper was followed online, off and on, for YEARS after that happened. In many quite illogical ways. And then of course, was the inevitable 'ban the people who liked the people who got banned'. * A certain mostly-female group of Eminem fans got this way after a while. An interview with an ex-girlfriend turns up in which she says their idol is a terrible lover? Death unto you, wench! He shall be my husband! Doom to the non-believer! * I had two Siamese fighting fish in different tanks. They had a Staring Contest OfDoom. They spent three days looking at each other, not even eating. One of them died. I swear the other one was doing a HumiliationConga. ** Fighting fish do that. You're supposed to put a bit of paper or something between the tanks, so they can't see each other. * Wanna have fun messing with someone? Talk to an indie (or any type, really) music geek who takes their music collection verrrrrrry seriously and mention some fake band. They'll wrack their brains trying to find something to say about it. Being a music geek myself, I know how serious people can get. You don't have the Japanese limitededition version of your favourite band's second EP? '''You're not a real fan.''' It gets ridiculous when you like bands from Sweden or Iceland or whatnot and can't get albums, and people react with disdain because apparently you're supposed to go on ebay or whatnot to find that ultra-rare out-of-print vinyl. And heaven forbid you haven't been to a concert and gotten merch! Ugh, it's too hardcore for me. I'll stick to my easily-accquired [=CDs=], thanks. It's not worth the money, for me. * Go to http://www.rpg.net. Log onto their forums. Ask about Ron Edwards' "Brain Damage" essay. HilarityEnsues. * This troper was as happy as the next troper that Senator Obama won the presidency. But...if you saw some of the celebrations and the shouting, screaming, and crying that took place elsewhere; you seriously would've thought Christ himself was elected. ** Not to mention all the people who quite literally believe that the ''Anti-Christ'' was elected. * DouglasAdams was a BRILLIANT author, and if somebody doesn't like him, there is something seriously wrong with that person. Also, science is the greatest discipline ever. No arguments. * Not necessarily to the super-extreme of, say, ''everything else on this page'' but [[EternallyAnonymous this troper]] takes his job pretty seriously. What do I do, you ask? I'm a mid-level employee at a Dairy Queen. I still, however, tap into my Rage Meter when I have to do [[strike:something]] everything that should've been done the previous night. * {{Anime}}, in general, is ''really'' SeriousBusiness for a lot of people. Whether you [[{{Otaku}} love it]] or [[FanHaters hate it]] you should be careful about who you share your opinions on it with, as you might just get your head bitten off. Just look at all the ridiculous "Anime Sucks" videos on YouTube (And the equally ridiculous retorts). * Check out the SeriousBusiness trope. See that part where it says

"Meta"? That used to have two different running gags involving TemporalParadox, DataVampires, and general silliness. Note how it's gone now - it truly is SeriousBusiness. * I remember attending a Pokemon event to get the creature Darkrai downloaded onto my game. While there, I met a kid who took Pokemon very, very, VERY seriously. He was semifinalist in the national tournament, and get this. He refused to trade with anyone because he'd heard that Nintendo could ban him from a tournament if his game had ever communicated with one that used cheat codes. As I left, I saw him checking his Darkrai's stats and resetting. He was trying to get the ideal nature and statistics for a Pokemon that is usually banned in tournament play. It boggles my mind. * This troper's cell phone game about a group of high schoolers trying to survive their four years. She will snarl in frustration when the minigames are lost. Also ''{{Tetris}}''. Damn I-blocks never show up when I need them and the squiggles are the root of all evil. ** This troper can understand the Tetris thing. She plays it on Facebook and it made her day when she surpassed all her friends' high scores ** Try playing ''Tetris: The Grand Master 2'' 's [[HarderThanHard Death]] mode. You will come to loathe I-blocks very quickly. Even moreso than [[TheScrappy S- and Z-blocks]]. * Subtrope of "internet is serious business": this troper saw flamewars regarding comments he left in photos. Some people just love overreaction. ** This could actually be justified depending on what kind of comments they were and how they expressed their "love" of overreaction. Trying to provoke people for the fun of it and/or hurt their feelings is serious business. * This troper and his friends play all manner of board games as if we were in some sort of bad anime. ** Try actually ''playing'' the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' card game the way the anime does. I once did so with {{Nixon}}; when he lost I punished him with a friendship speech. * If you want , try mixing ''AnimalCrossing'' with SeriousBusiness. [[{{Steven}} This troper]] recently visited someone's town in ''City Folk'' and was scolded by the host for ''talking to the neighbors''! Why was it a big deal? The person was paranoid that if this troper or anyone else were to talk to everyone, he would lose his neighbors since he liked them that much. It doesn't help the fact that the host could simply just not invite anyone over if he was that afraid of the outcome, but even then, the animals will still move away on their own. Don't forget that the animals, while diverse in looks, are limited in personality, so you could have a dog and a cat that speak the same lines, thus this troper does not understand valuing a character if there is an identical one living next door. After this troper left the paranoid host's town, the person instant messaged me just to say he blocked me from his town. Fine, no big deal, but it gets even more silly; ''The person went out of his way to make a blog about the incident'' on this forum we both attend to and called this troper several nasty names in it as well. SeriousBusiness indeed. * [[TheGunheart This troper]] would just like to say that for him,

HumongousMecha are ''very'' SeriousBusiness. * One of this troper's old roommates never seemed to get angry at anything ''except'' [[NintendoHard frustrating video games]]. * This Troper decided to stop playing ''{{Risk}}'' when he realized that the anger and frustration were sapping away what is supposed to be a fun game. Of course, any game where one measly army can hold off your Legions of Doom through lucky die-rolling can cause a great deal of irritation. * The FurryFandom itself could be considered SeriousBusiness. This troper has seen many furries flame other furries for fetishes that creep them out when their own stuff could easily cause {{Squick}} to others. Then there are furries who will flame some other furry for simply ''being or liking a particular species''! Easily similar to StopHavingFunGuys. ** A good portion of furries, however, are very self aware about this. When people try to troll them about their weirdness, they just go "yep, I'm a freak. Whaddya gonna do about it?" For some reason, this usually ends the trolling pretty quickly. ** People love to take the furry fandom way too fucking seriously to be healthy and love to feel better when they hate other species [[CompensatingForSomething and claim themselves as automatically superior for being a better species]]/ Now notice that they associate ''all'' forms of stereotypes with you if you happen to like a particular species or are one, and attach the word "fag" to '''''EVERY BLOODY THING'''''. ** My rules for making a fursona: *** Don't add wings because god forbid you be creative. *** Don't use any form of colouration, normal or non-normal. *** Don't have them be asian because then you will be called a weeaboofag. *** Don't be a wolf. You will then be called a newfag. *** Don't be a fox. You will then be called a newfag or have all sorts of insults. *** Don't be a kitsune. You will then be called a weeaboofag. *** Don't be a raccoon. You will then be called a fag. *** Don't be a dragon. You will then be called a vorefag. *** Don't be a snake. You will then be called a vorefag. *** Don't be an otter. You will then be called a watersportsfag *** Don't be a feline. You will then be called a dominatrix fag. *** Don't be a Kangaroo. You will then be called a footpawfag. *** Don't be a scalie. You will then be called a scaliefag. *** Don't be an equine. You will then be called a hyperfag. *** Don't be a pokemon, Digimon, or winddragon. You will then be called a weeaboofag. *** For that matter, don't be '''anything'''. You will be called a fag anyway. * This troper is truly devoted to most things including comedy. Art isn't just a passion for him it's a way of life. * This troper recently saw someone bullying a newbie on ''SecondLife'' simply because the newbie hadn't set up his profile yet. The aggressor ranted on and on against the newbie, saying not having a profile makes him lame and makes other people sick. Sounds like someone takes

SecondLife waaay too seriously. ** ... DavidGonterman??? * The act of '''Loading the Dishwasher''' is Serious Business. This troper at first thought he was overreacting at times when he got annoyed at his family members were loading the dishwasher in ways that would prevent water from cleaning the dishes fully. When asking his mother about this, she told him that she had heard of '''whole relationships being ruined by disagreements on how the dishwasher should be loaded'''. This troper doesn't worry so much anymore. ** It is, sort of. On average, 4 Americans every year die due to improperly loaded dishwashers. For the record, make sure all the pointy things are facing downward. ** This troper's mother-in-law loads his family's dishwasher in a crappy manner. But he likes the old lady so much that he clamps his mouth shut and instead reruns the plates that did not get properly cleaned when she is not watching. ** This troper once asked a friend why she is fastidious about doing most chores for her parents but never loads the dishwasher - just piles up the dirty dishes on the table. Apparently her dad freaks out if anyone but him dares to load the dishwasher, because only he can do it right. *** This troper washes dishes by hand... which is SERIOUS BUSINESS! My Mom will also turn cooking... into SERIOUS BUSINESS! Heaven help you if you so much as touch my radio when I'm in there. Seriously. If I'm washing while Mom's Cooking... well... bad stuff happens. ** Stacking cupboards. It MUST be done properly. * This troper has a wireless, rechargeable mouse, several wireless, rechargeable phones and a great big wireless, rechargeable keyboard. If ANY of these are not put back into the chargers when you're done... * It's not particularly unusual to treat comic books like SeriousBusiness. But apparently (I've been told) my writing is more eloquent to describe why GrantMorrison is a hack than to do anything else. * [[http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/19099.page This topic]] is truly an exemplary example of SeriousBusiness in action. What's more, the guy actually claims to be a businessman, specifically a collections agent, and thinks this is a JustifiedTrope. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism There's a term for that line of thinking.]] ** The person on the spore forum maybe had just posted that to {{Troll}} and get the whole forum jumping. I mean SERIOUSLY, suing a company because [[BeyondTheImpossible "HE DIDN'T LIKE THE GAME THEY MADE!?"]] * In ''Cyber Nations'', a browser-based MMO, there was a series of events in autumn of 2008, among which would be known as the Great War IV. At one point around this time, one player threatened to contact the FBI because someone found out where he lived IRL and threatened property damage or something. I don't remember that well. ** Some people use where exactly where they live as their nation's capital. Gee, I wonder what that could lead to? * [[ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability Certamen.]] It's a high-school level ''Latin'' competition, which primarily centers around

competitor's knowledge of relatively useless trivia about Roman times. But good God, is it SeriousBusiness for one of the schools in this troper's division. ** Fuck, Certamen is '''HARDCORE'''. Man, those fucking wine trees that Posidon offered Athens? Backle Hamilcar would be impressed. ... And no one has any idea what I'm talking about, but thats okay. ** This is precisely the reason why this troper is terrified of going to the NJCL con as part of the Certamen team. It's a fun game but some people take it to ridiculous extremes. * ThisTroper and a few friends once discussed what an anime based on ''StarCraft'' tournaments would be like. Suffice to say, it ended up making ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' look tame in comparison. ** That would be so awesome. It could be a two part anime with the super-hard core players and then each episode could also be an epic from the units [=PoV=]. * This troper knew a kid who would break out in tears whenever someone mentioned that [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Data died]]. * This Tropette hates gym class for this very reason. It culminated with her chucking a giant foam pad at a kid screaming at her about honor, self-sacrifice, and dedication. * [[SonicTheHedgehog]] is definitely serious business but the worst part is Series/SonicTheHedgehog. I've met people who are actually RACIST against Japanese because Sega of Japan is currently in charge of Sonic. They claim the Japanese are emotionless, because in Sonic 06, he tells Elise to "Just smile". They claim the Japanese are greedy and selfish, because they refuse to allow Series/SonicTheHedgehog to come back on air, or to completely change the storyline of the games to match Series/SonicTheHedgehog (The fact that Series/SonicTheHedgehog has been dead for 15 years, and that it had a short and unpopular run has nothing to do with it; its because they are Japanese). Not only that, but don't EVER say Series/SonicTheHedgehog isn't that good. And the worst thing you could do is not support a resurrection. Its not a matter of opinion, its a matter of "right and wrong". "Just because something is more popular doesn't make it right, and just because something is unpopular doesn't make it wrong." * If [[{{Mariko-chan}} this troper]] gets too into a game she's playing, and she dies or loses, she'll turn off the game and pack it away for a while, getting mad at it. * SquirrelGirl. The fact that a character who can just talk to squirrels wins over Thanos and Dr. Doom makes her into a real controversial character, to put it mildly. ** Of course, it should be noted that at least the writers of said SquirrelGirl article takes her too seriously, but on the other way around. * [[FarseerLolotea This troper]] was permabanned from the [=WorldOfWar.net=] forums for ''being less than impressed with the fanfic forum mod's stories''. Really. * [[{{DevilMayCry}} Devil May Cry 3]]? Hardcore serious business. To see a big display of both [[{{FanDumb}} Fan Dumb]] and [[{{WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic}} What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]], ask someone who "knows" what the deal is with Sparda having stripped

away demons' names as revealed in the [=DMC3=] manga, and you'll get a wall of text similar to the one on [[http://boards.ign.com/devil_may_cry/b5258/175465217/p8/?120 this page]]. Bonus points if every ''other'' piece of trivia seen either in the game or manga is passed off as "random" or "to make it look cool", by the ''same person'', although not on the same page. * This troper's friend recently shattered one of his records in ''Texmaster'', a clone of ''{{Tetris}}: The Grand Master''. A mutual friend of theirs becomes quite traumatized, as he had been playing for years longer to get to his level of skill. ** This troper had the same thing happen to his [[StopHavingFunGuys obsessive]] friend (now ex friend) in Super Smash Bros Melee. The guy was way more skilled than I was and I'd usually lose, but one day, when I happen to beat him 3 times in a row, he just sat down and was in total shock and loss. He even put himself down for losing against me. * This troper's friend is waay too obsessed with Taylor Swift for his own good. He was one of many who got upset at an April Fool's joke about Taylor Swift releasing a new song. * My food is Serious Business.I have actually, when my brother stole a chip(fry to you americans), I grabbed his wrist and told him to drop it. ** You're not the only one. I get ''pissed'' if people so much as ''ask'' for some of my food - unless it's something I've offered. Unauthorized taking of food = {{Death Glare}} and graphic threats of maiming - if not taking some of their food in retaliation. Even if it's my mom (who was not the parent doing the control-starvation, among other things). Seriously. I may have been {{Denied Food As Punishment}} (yes, it was a control thing with a parent - a ''very'' '''bad''' control thing) as a child and tween, but still...Oy. * This troper has gone beyond mundane Serious Business; he's started writing a series of essays on the inaccuracies contained within people's impressions of various media. A realistic portrayal of space warfare can be very Serious Business indeed. * People take Left4Dead too seriously. Teamwork is a requirement, but if one person doesn't do exactly what the other players want them to do or if they screw up even slightly, that person is automatically a n00b and will be kicked from the group. VS mode is just as bad where getting killed by a survivor means you suck in their eyes. ** With the release of the new Survival mode, more RAAAAGGEEE is spewed. In survival mode, the enemies do not stop coming and if there are gaps between the spawns, you barely have time to heal. This troper, who only played Survival mode three times, was yelled at by the other players ''just for trying to heal''. In my defense, there were no enemies near me at the time and it was probably a dumb mistake on my part, but at the same time, I was not one of the many people who spent hours playing Survival on day 1. *** It got worse when Valve made the game open to anyone for one day and then followed it with a 40% off sale. Many veteran players pissed and moaned that the wave of new players pisses them off because either A) they don't know how to play properly and B) they ask stupid questions like how to heal someone.

*** Versus mode is practically made up of this in the majority of public games. There is always at least one person who will be in it to win it and will start bitching the minute that something goes wrong and will also be the first to yell at someone who screws up. *** This troper cannot help but laugh at everyone who does a RageQuit in VS mode whenever their teammate controlling the Tank fails to down or kill any survivor. In Left 4 Dead 2, this troper's survivor team had a Tank right in the start of the map and the player controlling the Tank went into the safe room and tried to smash all of us, but instead, we beat the shit out of it with baseball bats and the Tank couldn't even down a single survivor. When the Tank player died, at least two people on the infected side rage quitted and another called the Tank player a "fail tank." * Up here in Canada, we have this thing called the "gifted program" where kids who are percieved to have special talents (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean) are put in special classes with other gifties. This troper quickly learned that, contrary to what he was told, the program is identical to the regular curriculum, only with slightly harder work. All the gifted students take school work so seriously that it borders on disturbing. Some of them willfully subject themselves to over 4 hours of homework a night! Me and a friend, both of us former "gifted students" have gone on to label these people as gifttards, and are constantly baffled by the way they treat menial busywork as Serious Business. And god forbid you make them compete for anything... ** We have that here in the US too. As an eight-year veteran of the insanity, this troper can informedly declare that the only thing that program is good for is to turn completely normal children into insane, overly-competitive, lifeless drones. This troper is quite thankful she escaped. Oh, by the way - this went through the program after it was retooled due to the high suicide rate of students. Final disturbing point: the high school level of this particular program is set up similarly to the ''special-needs program.'' ** As another gifted kid in the US, I can say that this, for my school district, is utterly ridiculous. Gifted programs here are basically study halls for smart people, with grades (but it's basically impossible to get a B). The real burdens are the honors courses, which anyone can choose to take. Those have extra homework, but nothing like four hours a night. It's not all that competitive. But yeah, we fall under the "Special Needs" umbrella, which is utterly ridiculous. We even have to have our schedules signed by our Gifted Teacher before we turn them in as if we couldn't make such decisions ourselves. ** It's hwy I never wanted to do AP, because of those kind of pricks who turned academia into a method to feel suprior to others. ** 4th year in gifted program here, that's age 13, 8th grade. The teachers claim it's all sorts of different, and I don't really have grounds to argue. But, I got to learn grade 9 math in grade 6, so I'm not complaining. Also, my projects get done in trope-speak, for hilarity. ** My special needs experience was a wild ride. I went in, realized the insanity ("Homework is for proving that we grasped the school work! I don't want to be ''punished'' for being smart!" It didn't help

that this troper is a but BrilliantButLazy) and then began to constantly challenge the program. The other drones thought I was annoying, mainly because I could do just as well as or better than they could without shoving my nose to the paper. Eventually I left the program because I was sick of being treated with like a five year old with Mojo Jojo's blown up brain and left. Now I skateboard right outside their window while they study. They must see me, because an eraser hit me in the head last week... ** Hm, I got lucky. In my gifted program, we did fun things like make kites, ping-pong ball launchers, learn chess, figure out mind puzzles, and all other sorts of fun stuff. *** This troper has the same thing. Currently, I have to make a persuasive infomercial about a product I made up to help people survive a national disaster. Academia is Serious Business for me, so of course I'm making it in Blender and Minecraft. * This troper joined an AP United States History class for fun. Reason being I was bored in my regular track and wanted to learn more. I realize now that I could have saved myself the headaches and insanity from the teachers to other students. Here is a quote from my teacher on the importance of AP testing and placement. This test is the most important thing you will ever do. Forget getting married, or having children. This is the single-important thing you will do. You will not sleep or eat until you kow you can pass this exam with a grade no lower than a 4 (equivalent to a B, which in that class is more or less like getting a D.) * Play-by-post, whether it's on Livejournal or on a forum? Can turn ridicoulusly serious. At one point I had a ''lot'' going on in real life. I told the other players this, warning that I'd probably post less. Cue a anon comment that basically boiled down to "forget about real life, post more!" O_o And this is ignoring how some games have an unofficial rule of "keep track of everything going on, even if there's twenty different plots going on". * What's this? You didn't like watchmen? Commit suicide. '''NOW.''' Because you will meet a bloodier death from the fanboys. * This Troper, back when he was alot younger and dumber, used to take the {{Yu-Gi-Oh}} card game very seriously, and went to tournaments every week. Only ever won two matches at those things. And sometimes broke down crying after the deck he worked so hard on failed to win. Also, I talked in a very elevated way, almost like the guys on the show. Rather embarrassing in retrospect. Come to think of it, I still have my old cards... maybe I should start playing again. The old card shop still hosts tournaments, I think. * This Troper once sent an outline on for fiction submissions for a half-baked idea of a magazine to a friend. When told that the rules were a little strict, I replied in these exact words; "Writing is serious business." * To a lot of Texans, high school football is serious business. ** As is high school cheerleading, at least to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_holloway Wanda Holloway]]. * [[{{Magus}} This troper]] treats his packed lunch at school as serious business. Because bagels ARE important, dang it. * [[{{Tropers/Cable}} This Troper]] used to take [[TheElderScrolls

Oblivion]] seriously, to the point of agreeing that oblivion was better than god, and mouthing an insult to a classmate for saying "Oblivion is gay." * This troper gets odd looks when he says he plays games for fun....and not '''just''' PC games, not '''just''' 360 games, not '''just''' Valve games...because when people think games are extremely SeriousBusiness and cuss him out or flat-out-call him a fucking moron because he wasn't playing their preferred way...Then the game ceases to be fun and he leaves the people with the quadruple digit blood pressure to eventually keel over because they take their games and their gaming platforms '''''WAY TOO FUCKING SERIOUSLY''''' to be healthy. ** Good LORD, does this Troper see this ever so often, being a player of {{Fire Emblem}}. She has seen near civil wars erupt over which units people use, which supports they get, and God help you if you say you like Eliwood, whom is apparently useless. (To this troper, this makes the poor guy a {{Woobie}} when it comes to the fandom. C'mere Eli, you need a hug.) ** This is the exact reason why this troper left GameFAQs and rarely browses though gaming based forums. Gaming is serious business and trying to defend Nintendo or even saying something like casual gaming isn't all bad gets you branded as a retard who has never played hardcore games like Grand Theft Auto 4 or Halo 3. Of course, even Nintendo fans turn on each other, swearing at them for not liking obscure games like Earthbound or No More Heroes. This troper feels more at ease just playing games by himself and playing what he wants without worrying over some moronic fanboy foaming at the mouth over how or what I play. * This is the number one reason why I dearly ''hate'' sports and '''never''' want to play them. * Reenacting anything. Usually there are people who are sane, but there are those who go batshit if you do something "farbie". * "Hardcore" gamers VS casual gamers. Just mention Nintendo's Wii console and you're bound to get a whine fest from several gamers who proudly cry that Nintendo's casual gaming will kill off all gaming as they know it. Never say that you like casual games because then they denounce you as a non gamer. Never mind the fact that casual games have existed for god knows how long and the more recent ones have used [[CosmeticAward achievements]], something most gamers wanted Nintendo to copy, er adopt from Microsoft's achievement system. Apparently, only people born in the NES or SNES era are allowed to play video games. * [[TromboneChild This troper's]] grandparents when they play Scrabble. Full stop. I put the first word down vertically, and they got all flustered because they always put it ''horizontally'' because "it helps us when we look at the board." ** This troper once got into an argument with a church official over scrabble. It had something to do with another person having put a "G" on the triple letter score and making 2 words with that G. She said That I should triple it twice. Meing more math-minded, I thought that that meant multiplying it by 9, which in that case would be complete bull. We argued for ''10 minutes'' after I'd realized my mistake and

told her what I meant by explaining mathematically what "triple twice" meant. * This Troper oncce lost very, ''very'' badly at Payday. She kinda went a bit crazy for a moment, screaming about how the poor people would one day rise and take revenge on all your rich, snobby brats and make you broke BROKE DO YOU HEAR ME?!!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE'LL SEE WHO'S LAUGHING THEN YOU PRISSY LOAN SHARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...* coughs* She still...uh...hasn't gotten over it. * Bullying happens to be very, very serious business at this Troper's school, to the point where this year, a 'bullying report form' was created, a paper that you have to fill out if you have witnessed a bullying ('describe the scene as clearly as possible', 'victim's names', 'bully's names', 'what did you do?', 'witness's names', etc.). * This Troper recently had a leadership day as his year group would be entering 12th grade soon. Upon entering the room where they would recieve their lecture about the responsibilities of a leader, we each found a mintie (as in the candy) on our seats, and some of the kids proceeded to eat theirs. Que the year master taking the mike to express his disapointment at the failing of the SecretTestOfCharacter he had set up, and then proceeding to liken leadership to the fresh breath that minties give you and carrying the analogy throught his speech and the finnishing prayer, making this double as WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome. * This troper learned to ''hate'' competition after Elementary school Physical education, where he learned first-hand the difference between good competition and bad competition, and how the latter is 90% of it and utterly ''ruins'' a game. They wanted to motivate you to play the game, instead of just doing exercises and throwing a ball around. Which yeah, I can see why, except guess how they motivated you to play the game? By making it so that one game happens per class (During a specific unit). The team that ''wins'' the game gets ''more'' grade points than the team who lost. This means that if you won ''every'' game, you got an easy "A" in PE, and if you lost every game, you'd get a "C-". This troper only knows it because the coach explained it to them. (It was still a sleeper course...you couldn't "Fail" unless you just sat on your ass in the corner of the room or cut class.) So this meant that there ''was'' something at stake, since an "A" looks good at your report card. And there wasn't anyone who was playing to have fun...they were trying to ''make sure the other team couldn't win''. And they would ''constantly'' break rules to sabotage other players...In American football, you are supposed to tackle the person with ''the ball''. The way they played it? They would just wrestle with the team and give the ball to someone who can run so the other team couldn't possibly start it. During Basketball, the other team would try and knock you out with the ball. This was also a breeding ground for the {{Griefer}}. Someone could just get revenge on someone and just throw balls in the other team's goal or literally just ''stand'' there doing nothing, screwing over themselves and everyone else. So in short, Competition can turn a bunch of good natured nicespirited children into vicious cock-measuring bastards. ** This troper, too. She utterly ''despised'' Physical Education from elementary school on, because I was the class's {{Butt Monkey}}, no

matter what class I got put in, or what teacher had me. I was regularly insulted (retard, cripple, bitch, slut, whore [why do those seem to be people's ''regular'' insults for me?!], and my least favorite, cripple), "accidentally" hit with various flying objects (usually in the face), and ganged-up-on because I was a "nerd" (and now am {{Proud To Be A Geek}}) and didn't ever do as well as the other kids in P.E. in most things - unless it was something entirely armstrength-based, like ping-pong (where other students complained that I "hit the ball too hard" and made the ball go dangerously high/hard). I have '''''disabilities'''''', and my body is deteriorating further to the point where I need to use a wheelchair at times for longer periods of what were once on-foot transit. Phys. Ed. is apparently ''overly'' {{Serious Business}} for some kids. I was very sad that combat sports were never done as a unit, because, as a trained martial artist (to keep myself in shape) and possessing a disturbingly high tolerance for pain, it was something I could have easily kicked their asses in. I'm surpised I never once threw a punch, though I dearly wanted to, and constantly had people trying to bait me because I made a point of letting others know that, yes, I can actually make a grown man scared without going below the belt. Although I now have medical permission and multiple doctors' (and hospital staff) notes saying that the risk of injury in P.E. is too great to make it a valid class in which I can participate, and that an appropriate, non-injurous alternative '''''must''''' be found. (To the above troper: I was constantly ''forced'' to sit on my ass, as I'd sprained, twisted, or dislocated ''something'' almost every time in the freaking ''warmup exercises''. This apparent penchant for injury - later found to be caused by an inherited genetic condition - ''really'' didn't help me with the jerks in my classes.) "Adapted P.E." also was and is crap, not just general P.E. * This Troper and [[ThreeAmigos two of her friends]] treat school chorus as ''very'' Serious Business. She very recently witnessed one of her friends come to school looking like she was about to keel over with a fever and nausea. When I asked why she didn't just stay home, she replied with, "Oh, I'm here for choir. ''Then'' I'm going home." And when This Troper got sick about a week later, when we were having finals and voice testing, I said I'd rather go to school sick and try my best to hide it than to miss voice testing. ''Anything'' but that. We also frequently talking about wanting to make the chamber choir. This Troper talks about it constantly, ''dreams'' about it, and even ''writes stories'' based on the school's music department and everyone she knows involved in it. And let's not forget even searching up our favorite choral pieces on YouTube... * I hate pictures of me so much that when someone showed a picture of me without my permission, I briefly considered murder and suicide. * So this Troper likes to visit this site, its sort of a liad back wikipedia for all manner of entertainment. It started out only covering television, but has since branched out. The problem is, some sort of invasion is slowly taking over, sterilizing the site, purging 'offensive' content, thats' bad for its reputation'. This Troper would like to know why that site has decided to abandon its scruples and start taking itself Seriously.

* Subversion: In the last tabletop rpg this editor was in, a player had an annoying habit of saying "It's not Serious Business" to any player who expressed the slightest bit frustration towards the storyteller's less well-received decisions, without doing a thing to address why the player was upset. * This troper notices SeriousBusiness attitudes toward pretty much any franchise with a sufficiently large fandom. Also, on the ItJustBugsMe for FinalFantasyVIII on this very wiki, he has noticed some tropers being rather... vehement in immediately rebutting all entries. * This troper's roommate has as a very Serious Business attitude towards life itself. When there was a Facebook meme regarding breast cancer that had girls posting their bra colors, she ranted about how dumb and pointless it was. When she found out that cosplayers meet every Thursday in the student union, she ranted about how dumb and pointless it was--and said she hated that they seemed to have so much fun. She hates whimsy of any kind. If she were a gamer, she'd be the [[StopHavingFunGuys Stop Having Fun]] person. * This troper loathes and fears Sports Day PT with her battalion because the dudes (and yes, it's always just the men) take sports ''way'' too seriously. * This troper was recently on the NationStates forum, one of the threads seemed to turn into an "I'm eviller and meaner than you" contest. At first, this troper nominated himself (the original point of the topic was evil nations) but actually decided that there was no way he would be associated with the wannabe nazis that kill people for no reason or justification in the slightest. After doing so, the thread turned into a massive debate/discussion on the nature of evil. For some reason. (NationStates has a habit of taking a topic and treating it completely 100% seriously.) * There is an excellent post [[http://wadewilson.livejournal.com/11285.html here]] on how to avoid drama when internet role playing. The poster discribes role play as "pretendy fun time games" and reminds readers "You are playing a game where you use the impersonal magic of the Internets to pretend to be superheroes or fantasy characters or characters on a television show or goofy anime movie. YOU CANNOT TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY." The whole thing is a wonderful attempted aversion of SeriousBusiness. * My cousin and I once were the final 2 of a game of musical chairs. We were both so good that it was declared a draw. We barely talk but whenever we have a chance we always have really heated arguments about how we would have a rematch to see who was the best (which always gets postponed). * My friend and I treat hot chocolate like this in our Journalism class. At the beginning of the school year, people actually used the coffee maker (really more of a water heater/dispenser) for coffee. Ben and I used it for hot chocolate. However, there was usually only one box of hot chocolate packets in the room. We always fell into a funk after the box ran out. Finally, I ended up bringing in my own box. It ran out within three classes. Soon after, the teacher presented the two of us with a "gift" in a plastic bag. Three guesses as to what it was. Those two boxes lasted six classes. Recently, Ben brought in a family-size canister of Swiss Miss. Other members of the class ask our

permission to have hot chocolate. Occasionally, we'll find out too late that someone in the previous class had used the coffee maker for coffee but hadn't removed the [[BuffySpeak coffee thingy]] from the filter. We treat the resulting "hotcoffeechocolate" as the [[WorstWhateverEver worst thing ever]]. ** So it's sort of like a mocha GoneHorriblyWrong? ** The fact that I am picky about brands and flavors, have actually flipped out if there is no more coffee creamer or the machine has not been properly cleaned and the filter removed after use has clearly deemed coffee to be [[SeriousBusiness Serious Business]] for this troper. * This troper was once mocked by my brother for using an overly elaborate chain breeding method just to to get a pokemon with better [=IVs=] than the one I had already raised to level 100. At least I'm self-aware about it. * [[{{KamuiValentine}} This troper]] has a tendency to take everything as SeriousBusiness, though not to the level of some of the entries on here. It's to the point where people wonder if I can actually experience joy from an activity. I can, I just don't show it for all the world to see. * This troper has the habit of correcting anyone on anything if they get it wrong. I just treat getting it right as serious business? * Anybody else find Children Beauty Pagents stupid? From watching TheSoup, I gather that the parents and judges that take these things seriously should be locked up. (One judge said something along the lines of, "We don't allow the contestants to wear thongs. This is because the (insert age here)-year old body does not have the figure to express it correctly". What the hell? How about that wearing a thong is bad enough on it's own?!) * [[NotAnExample Not really an example]], ''but''... One of [[Tropers/{{Lime}} my]] teachers is quite fond of the phrase "serious business." I have to keep myself from snickering whenever she says it, especially since it usually really is business that's, um, serious. * RPG Forums. [[ClusterFBomb Holy shit, RPG Forums. This troper has been part of one for the past two years, and suddenly, a shitstorm blew in because apparently I wasn't taking it seriously enough. For fuck's sake, I am not going to type out a fucking TEN PAGE CHARACTER BIO for someone who has had absolutely no development yet! They aren't even fucking BORN yet!]] ** This troper was in a similar siutation where he'd get some odd looks from some people he was role playing with because he didn't spend five minutes typing out a huge wall of text just to describe what his character was doing or saying, something that could easily be condensed in 30 words or less. * [[Tropers/RAMChYLD For this troper]]: Computers, Leapfrog Toys featuring Dot, Scout and Violet, [=VTech=] toys featuring a particular blue puppy, Humf and Spot. The fact that one or two of his computers are acting up recently has caused many a sleepless nights, and the inablitiy to get [=CBeebies=] (and thus Humf and Spot) causes him endless [[ImHavingSoulPains soul pains]]. * This troper was on a {{Pokemon}} forum that didn't have anything about Pokemon. No, really. It was all about {{Shipping}}. Most of the

lines consisted of: ** [=ZOMG ASH IN BROCK R IN LVOE 111one!one!one!. THATS NOT TROO BROK LIEKZ MISTY. NO THAT NOT TROO3 ETER GERRY N ASH R SEX3NG. U GUIZE NEED 2 WIPE TEH CRUD OUT OF UR EYEZ MISTY AND ASH WER MENT 4 EACH OTER.=] * It escalated so badly one 16 year old girl commented: [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel EFF ENY1 COMMENTS NYTHENG OTER THEN THAT MISTY LVOES ASH ILL COME TO UR HOUSE AND MERDER U N UR FAMLY.]] * After that I posted something I really think was [[UnderStatement kind of]] dangerous. [[ParanoiaFuel I still worry that a sixteen year old girl will show up at my MIDDLE SCHOOL with a bat and a knife]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel and a bag to place my severed head in.]] ** Troper: [[MemeticMutation So i cant believe nobody said brock lieks mudkipz]]. Oh come on nobody here lieks mudkipz? Anyone lieks [[InterspeciesRomance mudkipz X Brock]] because teh mudkipz evolve into ground type [[MemeticMutation Pogeymanz?]] Cause Brock lvoes (sic) Ground and Rock types? * The scary part was she left the chat right after I posted that message... ** {{YMMV}}. That statement sounded dangerous only because it was {{Narm}}[[IncrediblyLamePun ful]] to this troper's health. * {{Total Drama}} is ''very'' serious business for This Troper. [[ShipToShipCombat Shipping wars,]] spoiler-hunting, predictions, {{Seasonal Rot}} syndrome, you name it. As quoted by this troper, "You can make anything into serious business if you try hard enough." ** You think you're bad? Over at the tv.com forums, around the time that ''Action'' was wrapping up, there was a ''twenty-page fight'' over whether [[BaseBreaker Courtney]] or [[{{Geek}} Harold]] was the morally superior during the two seasons. Any tiny and insignificant scene with either of them was discussed and overanalyzed to the point of beating about 9/10ths the examples on this list. And that's not even counting the [[ShipToShipCombat shipping wars]], which are legendary. * My small group leader takes her coloring VERY SERIOUSLY. Like, she'll kill you if you press down too hard. * This troper's best friend takes Pokemon very seriously (he keeps asking when I last played it. This is after telling him my Game Boy Advance had pretty much died. For the curious, I do not possess a DS). Naturally, I have my own serious business as well: Warhammer 40k (well, sort of. If it isn't written in a book, it is ignored by me, but I play for fun, not to win, so it isn't completely serious business). Oddly, my dad takes chess very seriously. I beat him three times out of four games in April and he hasn't played me again since (I'm posting in August). * ThisTroper is taking ImperiumNova WAAAAAAAY too seriously. The sad part is, I still do despite knowing better. * For [[{{Tropers/Joerc45}} this troper,]] its [[RolePlayingGame RPGs]]. * This troper once ''screamed'' at a contestant on ''UniversityChallenge'' that "[[YouFailBiologyForever PLATELETS AREN'T]] [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]] [[YouFailBiologyForever VITAMINS, YOU]] ''[[YouFailBiologyForever RETARD]]''!". Yup, being right is serious business, especially when it comes to biology, which

is also serious business, being by far the best scientific discipline (no arguments). * Belts at my Tae Kwon Do class are SeriousBusiness. You get 25 pushups for forgetting your belt on a first offense. * Let this troper give some advice; do not, I repeat, DO NOT register for a forum run by a trolling community unless you're one of their elite members. I recently made the mistake of joining a forum that's an offshoot of the [[http://cogsdev.org/cwcki/Main_Page CWCiki]] and for a few days, it seemed like a nice place to chat with others about the internet's favorite man-child. But then Clyde Cash and Jack Thaddeus (the two big guys in the trolling community) revealed their true selves, going apeshit and lamblasting anyone who might not know everything about Chris-chan or even asked simple "why" or "what if" questions. Keep in mind they're [[CreatorBacklash lashing out at the very same people that look up to them as legends and heroes]]. Yeah...observing and talking about the internet's favorite manchild is apparently ''very'' serious fucking business. * For everyone at my school, for some reason sports are serious buisness. Plus on Youtube aperatly Dinsney is serious buisness because all the highest rated comments are either "NEW DISNEY SUCKS" or "(insert number)people are/aren't(insert word) * So far [[{{Tropers/Fourteenwings}} this troper]] has taken (And still takes) the following as SeriousBusiness: ** {{Bakugan}} (Also known as ''marbles that turn into '''DRAGONS!''''') ** MonsterHigh dolls (As in ''Freaky just got fabulous'') ** Lego's HeroFactory ** Most {{Anime}} (Including but not limited to {{Bleach}}, {{Naruto}}, EurekaSeven, [[XamdLostMemories X'amd Lost Memories]], anything else by [[StudioBones Studio BONES]] and more. ** [[RolePlayingGames RPGs]]. '''Especially''' KingdomHearts2, FinalFantasyX2, TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld and TalesOfVesperia. * To this troper's sister, [[http://foursquare.com/ Foursquare]] is SeriousBusiness. He ousted her from one of her mayorships and she treated him like it [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous was a heinous crime]]. * The cupcakes in the school lunches are almost always converted into macaroons, since they are easier to eat. While some tables are content to slice them in silence, my table uses dramatic music. To be precisefour people belting out Ode to Joy. With musical accompaniment from one of our computers. * According to this troper(henceforth I/Me)'s mother, baseball was SeriousBusiness for my deceased father. Apparentely when he used to play, he would walk around depressed and angry for days after his team lost a game, and only perked up when they won. In addition, bought tickets to 13 Mets games (he was also a die-hard Met fan) one season and would refuse to leave the staduim until the game was over, no matter how many innings it went into. * For me: Coke vs. Pepsi (Coke!), HarryPotter, [[FanFic fanfiction]] (especially when it comes to pairings and slash), QueerAsFolk, Christmas, TrivialPursuit and many other things. Also, whether the cocoa powder should be put in the cup before or after the milk. I say

after, my best friend says before, and we have an ongoing fight (six years and counting!) over it. * This Troper has many obsessions that can over-turn into [[SeriousBusiness serious business]] such as [[Series/DoctorWho a certain time-traveller]], Disney and [[AltonTowers Alton Towers]] whenever someone gets any kind of detail wrong from name spell to anything she deems unworthy. She also slightly foams at the mouth if an opinion is wholly negative and appear to be degrading to her fandoms. It gets worse when people don't do the research... ** Carrying on from Alton Towers, she's also part of a [[http://forum.towerstimes.co.uk/index.php forum]] which is mostly good fun with some bouts of seriousness. For example it's December right now and the enthusiasts are raging because it's the dreaded closed season here in Britain so that means we can't get our fix, thus posting irrevelant topics about things on park like bins needing to be changed frequently and carpets changing at the resort hotels! Seriously! We even have our [[http://wiki.towerstimes.co.uk/Main_Page own Wikipedia]] [[http://wiki.towerstimes.co.uk/Closed_Season article]] on it! * Take a gander around any youtube video of something that's been dubbed into two different versions of the same language in different parts of the world (most notably Latin American Spanish vs. European Spanish), and you'll see why it is SeriousBusiness. Often, the comments degenerate into why the version you grew up with and loved will '''always''' be the best, has the most fitting translation, and anyone who claims otherwise is a butthurt bastard who cannot detach themselves from something so painfully inferior it deserves to be cast into the flames of Hades, ''[[FanDumb goddamnit.]]'' * [[{{Tropers/Fungal88}} This tropette]] treats dress codes and decency standards like serious business ever since she heard them being constantly mentioned during her middle and high school years, especially since she came across comments and rants about women, female teens, and even young girls being automatically labeled as sluts because of what they wear. * This troper doesn't do anything seriously because the second something becomes SeriousBusiness, all the people who are there to have fun vacate. This is why I don't play online, either. If any of my kids start to act like someone's ''actually at stake'' over a ''game'', then I'd come over and turn it ''right'' on off. In my opinion, 98% of players are ''not'' mature enough for multiplayer games because they turn into screaming howling babies! * For [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper]], {{Pokemon}} is serious business. Breeding/catching for nature and IVs, EV training, playing on Shoddy Battle, Netbattle, Pokemon Online, etc. and all the fun stuff. Too bad I've never been in a real-life tourney yet; I'd love to try the VGC. * This troper is a disappoint: --> ctrl+F "tvtropes" --> No results found * This troper tends to get this way regarding the Olympics, especially the 2010 Winter Olympics being Canadian. No word of a lie, I honestly tear up whenever I think about any aspect of it. Don't get me started

on Jon Montgomery or Sidney Crosby, or Maelle Ricker. With any Olympics, no matter how much I watch, I'll always want to watch more and regret what I haven't. It's not just the Olympics either, this troper is strongly considering choosing a school in Toronto in order to be in town for the 2015 Pan American Games * For my classmates and possibly almost every teenaged boy in my country, it's DotA. Also ballers (rubber bracelets with different designs). ** Unfortunately, it's those guys who have [[StopHavingFunGuys stripped DOTA and all of its spinoffs of what used to be fun]]. What's left? Something that, if mankind were ever on trial, would be even more damning evidence than DNA and photographic evidence proving one's guilt that HumansAreBastards, or that we at least should practice Eugenics to keep the testosterone-fueled Neanderthals from spawning. * For this troper, it's the Shin Megami Tensei series and its spinoffs. * Inverted for me. I own a New York Yankees T-shirt that my dad gave me, and I wear it just because it's comfortable. I'm not even a fan of baseball, but people scoff and stare at me when I wear the shirt in public. ** Similar to this troper wearing her mother's old Newcastle United shirt. I don't do football or screaming at the TV over it, but I will be loyal and defend the team who's baby-grows I own. * This troper witnessed a riot where the police tazed a couple people (or maced them I don't know) and where several adults were escorted away to jail. This was over a [[PettyReasonForWar Fucking. Softball. Game.]] And this was one of those ''kid'' softball games. Yeah, if you're wondering where those "Competition is bad, it brings out the worst in people"-type "hippies" came from, I'd say you got a FreudianExcuse right there! (You'd be surprised how many kids immediately signed up for stuff like Dance and Horseback riding after that.) * This troper has gotten his cousin to try to strangle him over {{Halo}}. * This troper used to take anything involving competition WAYYYY too seriously. Granted, it was partly do to his horrible (and still bad) self esteem, but still.... it was needlessly [[{{Wangst}} wangsty]] of me to ''run off stage and break down crying in the bathroom'' after I spelled the word "Doctor" wrong in the 4th Grade spelling bee. Not to mention my infamous reaction to video games when I was younger. I've thankfully mellowed out, and the thing that I get most SERIOUS BUSINESS about these days is Music. If you disagree with my taste and opinions on music, '''I will cut you'''. Ok, not really. I'll just think to myself "if only they listened to as wide variety of music as me...." which is still ''really'' pretentious, but whatevs. Outside from myself, this troper personally finds the Serious Business attitude towards sports utterly revolting, especially considering the institutionalized sexism and homophobia of most sports. * This troper gets angry whenever someone makes a negative comment about anything he is a fan of, and makes it even worse by writing long rants in his head about how people criticizing the design of a single Pokemon has RUINED THE ENTIRE FANDOM AND TURNED IT INTO SOMETHING I

WOULD NEVER ASSOCIATE WITH! * When this troper was student body president of her middle school, she was practically the only person who considered student council Serious Business. She was known to give passionate speeches on the importance of attending a dance or voting in the next election, spend nearly all her lunch periods and time after school making posters and decorations, and occasionally yell at people who did not consider these things Serious Business. Now, theatre has mostly taken its place, though she is slightly less crazy now. But only slightly. * Bovine Bingo is serious whenever it is at play. A Village a few miles away of this troper is very fond of this bingo, and villagers and many more people go for it weekly. All of them hoping to have luck and win a shitload of money... All of them hoping that a cow takes a bowel movement on just their own marked acre of the field. Yes, Cowshit bingo. * Almost everything I do is pseudo-Serious Business. Since I have nothing better to do most of the time, I have no choice but to dedicate my consciousness to one objective. * If you make ''anything'' competitive...you will make it SeriousBusiness. People who used to have fun will be chased off with pitchforks and torches and the people left will give you proof that RousseauWasWrong. Examples include: ** Children's Sports leagues. Kids are naturally terrible sports before they learn it, but if you're wondering where they learn such poor sportsmanship from...watch their parents. Numerous times I've seen people wind up banned from sporting events because of poor behaviour. I never took part in Little League after a [[NoodleIncident incident at the semifinals that resulted in several assault cases and restraining orders]]. ** MagicTheGathering. I never picked it up because nobody in school played it consistently enough and the only way to play it was to go to a card shop every friday night. Except everyone there was a terrible sport - most of them would laugh at me and call me a little kid, nobody would tell me how to play the game or offer ''any'' sort of constructive advice. Very few people would say "Good game" or the like and almost all the time, they had to have someone judge and prove that the game ''was'' legitimately played or else they'd start arguing about whether or not someone was cheating or using an "underhanded strategy". A bunch of cards and strategies were banned because the majority of the StopHavingFunGuys declared them "Underhanded" or "cheap" yet [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem THEY were allowed to use them all they wanted]]. The MoralEventHorizon for me was a night were a match wound up with police called and leading three people away in handcuffs while they tried to calm down a person's hysterical twelve year old brother who was given a black eye and all he wanted to do was ''watch people play the game''. I haven't looked back since. ** ''Any'' game with an Online multiplayer mode '''''PERIOD'''''. I call these guys "[[StopHavingFunGuys-50 DKPenises" and "PvPenises"]], but we have a trope for that: StopHavingFunGuys. *** Special mention goes to [[DefenseOfTheAncients DotA]], [[HeroesOfNewerth Heroes of Newerth]], and [[LeagueOfLegends League of Legends]], who have the absolute ''worst'' communities in ''any''

game. It is a video game, yet they way they act when playing them, you'd think peoples' lives were at stake, like half of them had their family or loved ones held at gunpoint and one of them dies every time they lose the game. My ''god''. It is a video game - is it really ''that'' important that you win a game?! * This troper has a few: ** I (female) have very short hair. Defending it is pretty Serious Business for her and her brothers if someone insults it. ** What food belongs to who. In a house with three teens with specific favorite foods, eating someone else's is BAD!!! ** People insulting my brother for being a Bish&#333;nen. There have been death threats. ** Being a YaoiFangirl. This is SERIOUS. ** Doctor Who. ** Cartoons and watching them.

---Go back to SeriousBusiness. No, really, it's ''important.'' * A-1 serious business sauce, yeah, it's that important. ** [[HomestarRunner Why you always gotta be all up in my bweez-NASS?]] ----

SerkisFolk * The following exchange occurred after a screening of ''RevengeOfTheSith''. -->'''This Troper's Dad:''' I didn't know Frank Oz was a midget. -->'''This Troper:''' ''What?'' -->'''This Troper's Dad:''' Well, it said he played Yoda . . . * Subverted for this troper when he saw {{Avatar}} for the first time. In order to avoid spoilers, he avoided to visit ''any'' website that mentioned Avatar, so he did not quite get what the whole hype was about and entered the theater absolutely convinced that '''everything''' on screen was CGI, ''including the actors''. During the projection, he was absolutely awestruck at the "realism of those polygonal models" and even thought "Holy crap! If I didn't '''know''' they are CGI, I'd swear they were real people! You can even count the hairs on their heads, and their movements are so realistic!" ---Keep your eye on the tennis ball as you head back to Main/SerkisFolk. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

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SesquipedalianLoquaciousness * Being incomprehensible does not equate to being intelligent. In fact, bringing up examples of such behaviour undermines your own assertions of the alleged intelligence that you possess. * Alright. This Tropette knows a few words more than her peers (do keep in mind, she's 13), but ''seriously,'' people? She was asked about a year ago, by her sister (two years ''older'' than TT), what the word ''exasperated'' meant, and the fact that when she peppers complex, polysyllabic words into her informal, day-to-day speech, her friends give her odd looks and tell her, "In English, please!" just, well, exasperates her! Is it really that odd to use ''sordid, impeccable, synonymous, homogeneous'' and ''adamant'' in everyday speech? ;_; Or does TT just hang around with blithering idiots? ** And, as an afterthought, the OP's speaking habits were transferred to her classmates. Invoking a word she uses regularly, such as ''essentially,'' has [[{{MemeticMutation}} gained the power to instantly win a debate or otherwise gain the upper hand of an intelligent or intellectual conversation.]] * I do this a lot, I just can't help it. So does my brother, throwing in big words even if he doesn't know what they really mean most of the time. FollowTheLeader , you know. One incident gets a special mention though, during an [[FlameWar Internet Arguement (TM)]], I gave [[InternetToughGuy another user]] a [[{{Understatement}} page long]] explanation telling him [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech why he was wrong]]. He was [[SeriousBusiness pissed]], and gave an angry reply, telling me that [[ChewbaccaDefense I wasn't worth arguing with]] because I had "just randomly mashed the keyboard". * This Troper doesn't often get into the habit of constructing entire sentences with thick meaty words unless it's [[PlayedForLaughs funny in that circumstance]], but does like to just throw in a highly advanced word once in a while that even an [i]English[/i] teacher may not know and has to look up or ask me about, and it makes me beastly in Scrabble(provided I have the correct letters, of course). Fuck yeah, words rule. * This Troper actually went so far as to use the phrase "sesquipedalian loquaciousness" in a recent English paper, as well as several examples. * This Troper definitely. Usually only after someone gets him riled up. As he says, "Sometimes I like to use my vocabulary as a cudgel." * ThisTroper is a walking, talking, confusing example of this trope. He has driven a certain group of sleep-deprived adolescents (here I go again.) to employ writing utensils as projectiles (Why doesn't anyone stop me?) after describing a graphic novel to a friend. Apparently, nihilism is beyond the vocabulary of most high-school juniors. * This tropette is a subversion, often using such phrases in her papers, but in real life talks like a valley girl in the suburbs of Chicago * [[CTrombley This troper]] often has this manner as well, but with a twist. There are several members of his family that don't speak English at all! Since I don't speak Spanish, someone has to translate

for me. The standard family translators would like me to stop, but I don't do it consciously. * ThisTroper remembers a line he wrote in a script recently, and the subsequent conversation with his actress. ----> "What's a termagant?"\\ "Oh. Basically, a harpy."\\ (Blank stare.)\\ "Uh, a witch." ** Plus, it's a [[{{Warhammer40000}} Tyranid breed]]. [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle Now You Know.]] * This teenage girl troper once gave her mother and her doctor quite a laugh when the doctor was trying to explain in simple terms what was wrong with the coloration on this troper's foot. --> Doctor: It's perfectly safe, it's just that you're producing too much color there, it's nothing dangerous--> Me: Oh. So you mean it's a benevolent hyperpigmentation. --> Doctor: ... Yes. That's exactly what I mean. (laughter) --> Mother: ... Only my daughter would use the word "hyperpigmentation" in daily language in her mid teens. (laughter) ** Shouldn't it be "benign"? As this troper understands, "benevolent" would denote that something is actively helpful or good. *** Perhaps the aforementioned troper likes the way things are turning out. Words are so subjective some times. * [[{{Main/Sus}} This Troper]] has been known to lapse into the realm of {{Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness}} every now and then, usually attempting to explain the context of his object of contemplation in such a way that it leaves little or no room for misconception by the possibly less knowledgeable audience and often resulting in sentences of such exasperating length and riddled with such florid figure of speech which is in worst case augmented by a multitude of esoteric expressions that the poor listener (and all too often, this troper himself) has long forgotten what the original subject was by the time this troper has finished his extensive soliloquy. ** I submit to you, sir, that we were [[SeparatedAtBirth placed in discrete points of custody immediately upon our entering this universe]]. * This troper's English teacher [[BerserkButton hates it]] when students chew gum in his classroom. Apparently several years ago, one boy in particular was chewing so loudly that the teacher finally snapped and yelled "WILL YOU STOP MASTICATING IN MY CLASSROOM?!" Needless to say, among a bunch of high schoolers this got mistaken for [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean something]] [[ADateWithRosiePalms else...]] ** Saying "masticate" is really fun for [[{{Valex}} this troper]] and his friends. "Hey, you wanna go masticate with each other later?" "Sure, but I already masticated today" "I was masticating and all this white stuff came out!" And yes, I'm in high school. *** ''White stuff?'' Your eating habits disturb me. *** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint What's disturbing about marshmallows?]] *** Or Snoballs, for that matter? ** Something similar happened to this troper while she wrote and edited for her school's newspaper. She delivered a completed article

to another editor to be checked before submission; it was returned to her with the word ''exacerbated'' circled and marked "?". Rather than replacing it with "made it worse," she left it in. *** This troper commends you. * This troper is friends with a lot of people interested in different things and constantly gets accused of using big words for no reason. But actually if you're one of the friends who knows a lot about the subject I'm talking about, I tend to sound like an person with lesser knowledge and sound like an idiot. * This not unknown for this Troper, he often combines it with DeadpanSnarker for humor. * [[DesertDragon This troper's]] ex-boyfriend. Sure we kicked ass in team scrabble, but there's no reason to use "bildungsroman" (comingof-age story), "pedagogy" (teaching as an art), or "defenestrate" (to throw out a window) in a sentence. Ever. And yes, he's an English professor. ** Hey, defenestrate is an ''awesome'' and underutilized word. *** Seconded, and this Tropette would even go so far as to call it a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the ''entire English Language''. ** How about "Cease and desist this moment or I will ''defenestrate'' you!" *** [[DavidEddings Mirtai, that's a terrible thing to do to a man!]] ** Pedagogy is a perfectly valid word. And it's going to be difficult to educate teachers if you don't use that word -- it (also, more commonly) means "the ''science'' of teaching", or just, well, teaching. ** Both pedagogy and defenestration are extremely valid. For one thing, there's the First and Second Defenestrations of Prague. (Yes, there are two different historical events involving people being thrown out of windows in Prague) How else would one discuss them? The Second one started the 30 Years War, it was hardly a minor event. ** The film of TheManWhoFellToEarth has a memorable defenestration scene. Somewhat related: the climax of the--very cool--short film ''We Have Decided Not to Die'', in which someone jumps out of a window (in extreme but vivid slow-motion, achieved with speeds upwards of 500 frames-per-second). Is there a word for jumping? *** Autodefenestration? * [[{{Cidolfas}} This troper]] had his innocence fried after finishing a 100-page M.Sc. thesis. His professor sent it back full of red ink. Apparently the point of language is not to give over information; it's to sound pompous and important, and so all the nice short words in the thesis had to be replaced with bigger, more confusing ones. ** Your professor is an idiot. This troper was taught that words shouldn't be distracting but should sound intelligent enough for the person writing a paper to sound like they know what they're talking about. This requires a bit of guessing for some people, but a bit of it common sense. Generally using words nobody ever uses in writing is not a good idea and really DOES make you sound pompous. *** This troper was taught that too...until he started doing Anatomy classes at uni. See below for more information. * [[LucidSeraph This Troper]] apparently was like this from an extremely young age, using words like "dignity" and "unfortunate" in

regular conversation... at age ''3'' . It only got worse from there, particularly now that said troper is an English major... ** Hey, [[GwenStacyWannabe me]] too! I don't remember it, but my mother says I used the word "concentrate" in perfect context when I was 3. *** I wasn't aware this was unusual. *** Nor [[{{Jcatgrl}} I]] * This troper has started to fall into this after his main group of friends suddenly became the top Model [=UN=] delegates. * [[{{Cameoflage}} This troper]] tends toward this all the time, because she likes to be as precise as possible and will assimilate any unfamiliar word she comes across into her vocabulary. (Technically, that's only two of the factors involved, but I'm simplifying to avoid WallsOfText that aren't particularly relevant. See, there it is in action.) However, it ramps up considerably when she's angry, occasionally overlapping with ClusterFBomb (via SophisticatedAsHell, by nature) if it's the right flavor of anger. She has dubbed the worst flare-ups of her sesquipedalian tendencies "word vomit". ** This troper humbly submits that you rename these flare-ups "logological emesis", for added HypocriticalHumour. * This troper does this ''all the time'' with his friends, however, they can respond in kind, so he doesn't feel bad. He also once got into a Sesquipedalian Duel with a guy in his English class. It went on for over half the period, and only ended when the teacher pulled out a word that stumped both of us. * [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/file/198848/54401 This FAQ]]. Also notice how all the lines end evenly - the author went out of his way to do that by playing around with word length. * This troper did it more and more in his English class this year, until he found this page, and wrote in a personal school assessment that he was 'loquacious to the point of becoming sesquipidelian'. I've now become an in joke in the English department, apparently. ** Perhaps because you didn't use either word correctly? * This troper has been accused of this by people who do not know her well, though her close friends who all have the same basic vocabulary are able to understand her easily. Apparently words like 'incandescent' and 'congregation' are too large for sophomores to understand. ** This troper feels your pain. At the age of five, I once toddled up to my mother and asked what "torque" meant. Since then, or possibly before, I have adored the plethoric sesquipedalia of the English language, and I confess I suffer from a sadistic urge to use "big words" for the sheer sake of confusing people. The earliest example I can remember was leaving my fellow first-graders bewildered by calling something "irrelevant" to the topic. I always hoped that my situation would improve, but it would appear that "supernatural" is beyond eighth grade comprehension and "languid" is beyond even juniors. * At [[TromboneChild this troper's]] high school graduation the first of two (female) student speakers spoke like this. Her utilization of the language in such context perplexed and exasperated a significant percentage of the population present in the gymnasium, as they could not readily comprehend such complex verbosity.

* This troper is this trope embodied. Because of her highly advanced vocabulary much of her school years were spent in frustration-especially since students in fourth grade were still restricted to one-syllable spelling words. This troper also lived next to a family of neighbors for whom words longer than three syllables were another language entirely. [[HilarityEnsues Much frustration ensued]]. * It annoys the heck out of [[MinusZero this troper]] that popular people do not understand the theory of Latin Roots. Three syllable words are incomprehensible (a word they don't understand) to them. I use this to my advantage by calling them rather easily decodeable insults, like them being katagelophobic hygienophiles. (double points to anybody who knows what it means.) ** Cleanliness lovers who fear ridicule. *** That has to be one of the worst insults I have ever heard. *** Then let's try it again then, approval obsessed neat freaks. ** This annoys me as well. It's even worse when ''teachers'' don't get them. I had to take an etymology course in high school, so I know a few more Latin (and Greek) roots, than usual, but the number of people who should have picked up ''some'' and haven't is astonishing. I took a medical terminology course and the number of students who hadn't previously realized that words could be broken up like that was quite sad. * [[FrozenWolf150 This troper]] spends a great deal of time on a debate forum where swearing and vulgar language are against the rules, thus many people have come up with clever ways of bypassing the censor in order to express the same meanings. Some examples of common swear / dirty words include ''posterior anatomical orifice, solid digestive excretion, lower anatomical extremities,'' and ''incestuous maternal copulator''. Variations do exist, of course. ** Wouldn't that third one mean "feet"? *** [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean feet.]] * My vocabulary is extensive enough to be able to finish a ''Teacher's'' sentence with fancy words and stuff... when I'm not helping others find words. * This troper often falls into this, but especially when drunk. Of course, considering the effects it has on normal people, I often have to struggle to find synonyms for "ameliorate" or "desultory". * ThisTroper is an example of the Asperger's Disorder variation. Precision and accuracy seem to inevitably come at the expense of ease of communication. And, of course, it's very difficult to convey ''nuance'' in two sentences or less, and the average listener seems to simplify the speaker's position to the first two sentences of their statement. The English language isn't designed for precision, either. * [[DarkHunter This troper]] is constantly reminded of his tendency to indulge in this trope, usually by his sisters (who do not read nearly as much as he does) asking him what some word he just used means. Oddly, the word he most often gets called out on is "ascertain" (which he considers to be a very simple, easily-utilized word, and thus uses it somewhat often). It's much more prevalent in his writing, and he'll sometimes invoke the trope for his own amusement. In fact, according to his senior class, he was "most often seen spouting TechnoBabble." * Many people who become lawyers have fairly large vocabularies and a

penchant for florid speaking and writing, which is why in Law School the instructors try to get you out of that habit, since the benefits of simplicity and clarity trumps linguistic elegance when you're trying to persuade. For an example of how this has affected American jurisprudence, compare the written opinions of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Antonin Scalia, both considered great legal writers. ** Certified by [[DaNuke Da_Nuke]], who often sees law students using words like "copulate" instead of "fuck", and "opulent" instead of "rich". (As for himself, he is a telecommunications engineering student who has negligent difficulties with scientific language, and who is sometimes joyful of ocassionally using convoluted expressions whenever he has a desire for sounding educated). * [[MmmKay This troper]] reads such books as "The Grand Panjandrum" and "The Insomniac's Dictionary", and ''loves'' the weird and oftentimes oververbose words within, including [[BiggusDickus phallo]][[NightmareFuel phobia]], [[GeniusDitz morosoph]], and [[DramaticShattering klikkaklakkaklaskaklopatzklatschabattacreppycrottygraddaghsemmihsammih nouithappluddyappladdypkonpkot]]. [[hottip:!:That last one was from ''FinnegansWake'', it stands for the sound of crashing glass.]] ** In response to my oververbose tendencies, a male peer remarked something along the lines of: -->"I am a ''man''; I can only handle small words at a time!" * This troper has a tendency to use words like "elucidate" instead of "explain," "abhor" instead of "hate," and "horrid" instead of "bad" in everyday conversation. Because of this, she has acquired a reputation among family, friends, and classmates as a sort of walking human dictionary, who will confuse you terribly but define the word that confuses you as well (when she's feeling nice about it). ** This troper would use "horrid" but not "abhor" or "elucidate." The latter two seem too archaic. Oh crap, it just happened again! ** This troper uses all of those, but would like to point out that the contextualized meaning of abhor, horrid, and elucidation have shifted such that they are not truly synonymous with the words you are replacing in many/most cases. ** Elucidate means to make clear, which isn't quite explain, and abhor is closer to despise than hate, which are two different things. * This troper has this in spades. Of course, combined with a New England accent so thick you could cut it up and sell it as pillows and a slight head cold, he tends to sound like some kind of deviant freak to anyone not born and raised on the Cape. And even then, he has to explain what he's trying to say, which leads to many [[SureLetsGoWithThat sure lets go with that]] moments. * [[MadameLeP This troper]] is often asked by her classmates to "stop using big words". Needless to say, it's impossible to stop. * Subversion, ever get patronized for using a word the person patronizing you thinks is a complex word, but really isn't all that complex? How is knowledge of the word antagonist that amazing? * [[{{Pinata}} This troper]] has ''[[{{LamarckWasRight}} hereditary]]'' SesquipedalianLoquaciousness... my paternal grandmother and my father both had it before me, and some of the "big words" I use were taught to me by them.

* This troper loves big words and the effect they can sometimes have. She was recently privy to a conversation in which someone observed another person's new wristwatch and asked, in perfect seriousness, "What does it do?" Troper's response was to say that it was "an apparel-based temporal prognosticator." ** ''That'' is brilliant. ** While certainly sesquipedalian, the above is not entirely ''accurate''. 'Prognostication' is the act of '''''fore'''''''sight'', as evidenced by its use of 'pro-' (which is synonymous with 'before' when used in discussion of time, hence words such as 'prologue') and 'gnosis', or knowledge. A similarly eloquent, yet more precisely accurate description would be "Apparel-based temporal ''locator''." * Of course being generally asked by teachers to finish their sentences qualifies one for this trope, but when your friends have called you a walking encyclopedic dictionary since you were thirteen, including new friends who have only known you for a week, you're in trouble. When your Creative Writing Seminar tutor uses you as an example of a Latinate word user, you're doomed. Not one of my friends has ever called me an encyclopedic dictionary, they usually say 'knows a lot of words and stuff.' * [[SkyBlue This troper]] doesn't do it on purpose, I just have a tendency to want to use the ''correct'' word for the situation, combined with a large vocabulary (acquired by reading just about everything I could get my hands on when I was a kid). Which has led to people thinking I was showing off, e.g., when I mentioned the "ubiquitous" discarded plastic bags in the poorer neighborhoods of a certain city. Someone commented, "Only (name) would use that word in a sentence without even thinking about it." In fact, I can still remember the time six months ago when a conference speaker used a word I'd never heard of before; it was a memorable event because it happens so rarely. (The word was "hendiadys", by the way). ** [[{{knave}} This troper]] wonders if you're him. I have the same exact explanation - I prefer to use the most succinct and apt words in a given context - but am constantly being accused of trying to sound "smart" by doing so. I also received quite a shock when you referenced "ubiquitous" specifically, which is one of my most oft-used words. It's really... [[IncrediblyLamePun ubiquitous]]. ** [[{{Almafeta}} This troper]] is with the both of you. Once I've found the word with the correct ''connotation'', I'll only use that word, oftentimes stopping mid-sentence to pause to find the word with just the right shade of meaning I want to convey -- even if I know a word with the same denotation that would get the point across just as well. *** I assume the above poster meant "correct denotation" as "denotation" refers to the definitive meaning of a word, as opposed to the most oft-conveyed meaning... but I digress. ** [[SkyBlue Original troper]] here (the one with the "ubiquitous plastic bags" story). I have a friend (and not in the IHaveThisFriend sense) who averts this trope entirely. He's the smartest person I know by far -- he's got at ''least'' 20-30 IQ points on me (see, told you this wasn't IHaveThisFriend), yet I've almost never heard him use a long word when a short one will do. In fact, if you just listened to

how he speaks and didn't pay attention to the ''content'' of what he's saying, you'd be excused for thinking he was "slow". He speaks quite slowly, with frequent pauses where you can tell he's trying to find words to express the concepts in his head in a way that his listeners will be able to grasp. But if you have the patience to wait for him to finish a sentence, you'll usually be blown away by the depth of his insight. It's quite humbling, actually. And it also reminds me that many people who ''deliberately'' use SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, to try to verbally bully their audience and establish a kind of dominance over them, are usually not nearly as confident in their intelligence as they want you to believe. The really confident ones know they have nothing to prove, and don't need to play dominance games. * This troper did it intentionally, using Dictionary.com and similar resources to get into character for playing a 20-Intelligence wizard in a D&D game. For the extent of the campaign and a few weeks after it was impossible to stop. It's since abated, but has a tendency to resurge at the most inopportune moments. * Being a MotorMouth, this troper generally doesn't ''talk'' in this fashion, but when writing or typing she generally reverts to a much more formal style with more complex words and grammatical structures. This gave some of her friends difficulty when she IMs; they all think they're being pranked because she uses SAT-level words liberally throughout the text. ** Apparentally [[{{Twilla}} this troper]] does it too, and to a lesser extent on the [[{{Real Life}} meatplane]]. I say 'apparentally' because my vocabulary, in my opinion, is... is... elementary. ** Remember that an "elementary" vocabulary among young Americans (I'm using as narrow a grouping as I feel I can) excludes any word beyond the three-syllable mark. * Taken from a forum I frequent: ----> Eschew Obfuscation! ----> This disquisition of dissertation\\ Circuitous frippery, ostentation,\\ Paradigm shiftless bring consternation\\ Bewildering perplexity of stupefaction,\\ Yet altogether miscellaneous debris arcane.\\ Erudite in its exhibition,\\ Abortive though in edifition,\\ And cavalier in admonition,\\ A self-exaltation of perspicacity;\\ Its perusal is a literary pain.\\ Thereupon it's recommended\\ To have this fustian riot ended\\ Lest cant palaver agelessly bended,\\ Our lexicon imperiled;\\ Convoluted apparatus of communication slain.\\ Elucidation therefore touted\\ However hopelessly rerouted\\ Resorting then bedlam saluted,\\ Discounting pother incolloquial,\\ One may consent this lyric entertain.\\

Acknowledge august this linguistics,\\ As articles projected ballistics,\\ Appreciate facetious mystics.\\ Despite abandonment in comprehension,\\ Though superlatively illucid, neglect to complain.\\ Subsistence's concernment aggrandized\\ In peculiarity unrealized;\\ Coherence instanced, characterized;\\ How one modulates adjudicates\\ The ipseity, personified, they retain.\\ This expatiation, this peroration,\\ This circumlocutory narration,\\ Merely marrow demonstration\\ Present aberrant aptitude fustian,\\ Endeavoring adequately auspiciously to subsume iterate lexemes deviant perspicacious vexatious labyrinthine to apperceptions mediocre agnate to persnickety, nomothetic, transdisciplinarium, all paraphernalia requiring denotation sought lest cognizance unattained, and fabricated in semi-iambic constitution providing adroit if asymmetrical cadence, audiences extol aesthetics however contort at plethoric recrementitious prodigal pleonasm paramount, confloption commotion ensuant due to unexpressed though prevalent requests to conjecture English lore austere and just plain plain.\\ ** This troper thinks he understood many 20 words from that. ** Don't worry, this troper is pretty sure he understood most of the words but I still am not sure what the above troper said. *** Gawrsh, they couldn't have made it any clearer.[[hottip:* :[[FamilyGuy Ohhh, is funny because]] [[SarcasmMode is not clear]] [[DontExplainTheJoke at all!]]]] **** Use big words. It confuses people. Simple as that. *** ^ To clarify, I think the above troper was explaining what it said... anyway, it's the same as I got from it, but because I understood maybe half of it, it makes me feel... uninformed. Thanks to that, I will be up half the night cramming until I know both that quote by heart, and the definition of every word in it... a lifetime of that is what led me to this page. XD ** Gave me a freaking headache, but I knew the positive majority of that hella of a poem. The first couple of lines blow my mind though particularly. ** It's saying that people need to just say what they mean and to hell with trying to hide what you want to say behind nuance and unnecessary wordplay. At least, I'm pretty sure that's what it says. * [[IsaChan This troper]] is prone to this. She frequently has te define words for her mother, friends, and at one point, her ''teacher''. I had used the word "coolth" on a fifth-grade writing assignment, and she sent it back and told me it wasn't a word. [[ She was wrong.]] * This troper is fond of the phrase "I dislike you with great intensity." ** [[DeathDomino This troper]] prefers the phrase taught by his mother: "How dare you insinuate that I should tolerate such diabolical impudence from an insolent pup like you!". Used to great effect on

several nigh-illiterate classmates in the past. * This trope has a fondness for it; he has a habit of mixing it with insults to force his classmates to go through the dictionary to work out the meaning of said insults; on another note, this habit evolved from a speech impediment this trope still possesses - he simply finds it easier to pronounce the lengthened words of their shortened counterparts. He has also spread this to several of his classmates; he is also mocked when he does not understand a word (for instance, not believing "exemplar" was a word). * This trope is a major part of why this troper loathes studying anatomy. Let's face it, any subject in which "above" requires five syllables is doing it wrong. (In anatomy "inferior", "superior", "anterior", "posterior", "lateral" and "medial" are used instead of the far more comprehensible "down", "up", "front", "back", "out" and "in". [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle Now You Know]].) * IBlameCommunism isn't really this trope at all. Okay, maybe he's fond of extended metaphor, maybe his vocabulary is pretty big, but any educated person ought to understand what he's saying and he actually favours the short and Anglo-Saxon in many circumstances. He is therefore entirely mystified at his friends being able to identify him by his words when he is out of sight and assuming an outrageously overblown Russian accent. * ThisTroper likes to contort the phrase: "Not on my Watch!" into: "Not on my Chronograph!" ** ...Except that's not the correct "watch"... :p * This troper will frequently do this sometimes. The people I talk to are mostly smart enough to realize what I'm trying to say, but I'll sometimes be asked "What does that mean?" I even went to Europe with a kid that spoke that way too! * This troper was fond of "encephalomyelitis" in sixth grade. * This troper apparently started using words like peculiar correctly around the age of 3, and it's only gotten worse. * This troper's friends ask her not to explain Philosophy before a test. They ask for a translator or don't ask at all. * YonTroper has a definite propensity towards extraneous verbosity, due to his tendency to assimilate unfamiliar verbiage into his everyday vocabulary. He is well aware of the ramifications of such, having induced a certain collective of adolescent tormentors into sending the extremities of their upper limbs into his genitalia. Good thing he can stop if he wants. * This troper does this. Guess how people react[GIFT]... * [[{{animenutcase}} This Troper]] was once told by her mother that if someone were to ask me for the time, I'd tell them how to build a clock. * This troper, convinced she killed her stuffed toy fox by drowning her in the bathtub, was so distraught that her babysitter put the fox in the dryer to appease her. After waiting the entire time it took to desiccate the toy in front of the machine, she then joyously exclaimed in various ways how Foxy was now resuscitated, revitalized and reincarnated. Her babysitter loves telling this story. Needless to say, she entered kindergarten with a third grade reading level, and her verbal dictionary has only escalated from there.

* This troper has noticed that many people who fall in to the SesquipedalianLoquaciousness category, especially those who invoke the trope intentionally, tend to ''do it wrong''. Instead, they sound like walking thesauruses, since they frequently ignore the contextual shifts that happen with words like this, causing them to choose words whose general implications no longer fit with the synonymous word they are attempting to replace. This troper would caution all who seek to evoke this trope to be careful lest you sound like someone's run your dialog through Microsoft Word's thesaurus-replace tool. * This troper once did this in a class discussion. We had to reword old phrases, and came up with "Terminate multiple ornithological specimens utilizing a single geological specimen. * This male troper is like this at times, since he likes to use the most accurate word possible, although over the years he's learned to tone it down. Except when he's drunk, oddly enough, where he gives a lot of the fictional examples a run for their money. * Not on the same level as a lot of the above examples, but when in elementary school, she used the word "thrice" in a story. Apparently that's abnormal. * This troper went through a phase of this in the cusp of his burgeoning youth. * This troper doesn't do this very much, as he uses words that are only moderately hard to understand. He still gets people asking for the meaning of the word, though. * As a child this troper was really bad about this and didn't realize it until he was put in a public school for the first time and had to tone it down. Now I use it mostly when I get pissed to try to make people feel stupid in {{Reason You Suck}} speeches * This troper has always a rather extensive vocabulary. I first reached a college reading level at the age of 10. I read Lord of the Rings when I was 12. It's paid off - one of my high school English teachers pulled a TakeThat on the class by reading one of Eisenhower's State of the Union speeches. She claimed that language in official speeches had been dumbed down since then and none of us would understand the speech because of it. To be a smartass, I defined every word she asked us the definition for. She had to ask me to stop answering. ** Tested at a college reading level at 9 over here -- depending on the type of teacher they'd either let this troper go on for 15 minutes and enjoy the break or glower and start pointedly ignoring the lone hand waving in the air. You might think a 3rd grade teacher would be inclined to like a student who wanted to discuss ''MacBeth'' for her book report, or at least encouraging... [[SadistTeacher you'd be wrong]]. *** As I learned the hard way (also), teachers don't appreciate students who--inadvertently, or otherwise--perpetually remind everyone (including their classmates) they're smarter than the teacher. Typical reaction is being made the object of [[DisproportionateRetribution derision]], often. Or [[SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp worse]]. * This Troper can't help but use this in everyday speech. Sometimes to the confusion of those around him. * [[FourtyTwoHz This Troper]] often writes sales/advertising speech or

ads for fake political parties or churches using this. A fun way to spend a boring class. * [[CorporealWolf This Troper]] uses this now and then. [[TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary TV Tropes helped]], but even before the Troper in question came here, he was rather sesquipedalian, much to the chagrin of his colleagues. He plans to write an English essay that which his teacher will need to have a dictionary on hand for marking eventually. ** Hold up, I remembered an amazing example. The class was defining "epitome" for the spelling list. The definition put forth was "ultimate example". I was against this, claiming that ultimate technically meant "last". It does also mean what it should mean in the context, but shush. * This Troper tends to choose words and phrases when writing based on how exactly they convey what he means to say. This often results in passages which switch jarringly from an overly informal tone to pseudo-latin wall-of-text SpockSpeak. In mid sentence. * This troper doesn't talk, type or write like this, but he can read it. Which means he's generally the translator in these situations. * The reason why [[MeikyuButterfly this troper's]] ''Fachbereichsarbeit'' (a scientific work you can do for your final exams in austria) is about 6 pages too long. But it looks so awesome with all those sophisticated phrases and words.... * [[LoveIsWeird This troperette]] is a teenager. When either mad, freaked out or excited, she will utilize this trope and trump an English major with the words she uses. Unluckily, she gets mad very often... * While [[MelasZepheos this troper]] enjoys overutilising the language by which he has become renowned for (that would be English). He prefers more often to experiment within the bounds of said language, with words used in contexts perhaps beyond the scope of their idiom. Being not only an English Literature student, but also a writer, this manifests in many ways, often to the frustration both of his professors and his Microsoft Word spellchecker. To be more precise, It can be great fun to go over the top sometimes, but unless there really is no other way of expressing the point, I will use shorter expressions, layman's terms, and while my language is undoubtedly complex and latinate, it is not impenetrable. Unfortunately this has also led to a situation as one described above, in which a piece of university work was handed in, returned covered in red ink, resubmitted with the only change having been use of the thesarus function on MW, and the red ink mysteriously vanished. When confronted with this, my tutor agreed there had been a mistake, and since then there has been a campaign started within the English Department for the acceptance of plain English in essays and written submissions. * You know that one guy who always hangs around you and your friends, except that nobody really likes him? One of my friends repelled him by telling him that he had to stay away until he could figure out, interestingly enough, what ''SesquipedalianLoquaciousness'' meant. * [[DeathDomino This troper]] maintains this affliction to a horrific extent. Furthermore, it's genetic- and when you combine my mother's extensive vocabulary with my father's IncrediblyLamePuns, you get

advanced literacy jokes that confound my peers and baffle my tutors. To further compound the issue, I am a pedantic grammar fascist, turning me into a teacher's worst nightmare during English class. * This troper is largely unintelligible to her peers and is quite sesquipedalian, but people can still understand what she's talking about. Some of the sixth formers at this troper's school, however, are this trope incarnate and taken up to eleven. * This troper likes to use some long/indirect versions of words instead of straighter ones. Most notable when he injured a finger and described the occasion where it happened as a "frontal collision with the club's floor" (partially because he hit both hands, a knee/shin, an elbow and the hip in the "crash", so "falling" would be too soft a description). * SunnyV does this often, usually by accident. Sometimes words like "arbitrary" just come to her mind sooner (and are closer to the meaing she wants to convey.) * Averted with this troper. People think that since she's been reading at a college reading level from a young age, she should speak with an advanced vocabulary, but instead speaks plainly or peppers her speech with BuffySpeak. She does know plenty of big, fancy sounding words but sees no point in using them when most won't know their meaning and it only comes off sounding [[HypocriticalHumor pretentious]] when nine times out of ten simpler words work just as well. * This troper didn't really consider herself to be one of these, but apparently is. I've been told by others that talking to me is hilarious because "it's like talking to a thesaurus" and as a staff writer for my high school yearbook this past year, my copy writing was often sent back to be rewritten because "it sounded too smart." Comraderie is just too big a word for some people I guess. Yet when the other staff writers needed an interesting word for their copies I was always the person they asked after. * When prompted justly, This Troper will use this trope in arguement, be written or spoken. Sometimes to confuse people, other times just because he enjoys it. * This Troper prefers to use long words over short words, although he won't say "I've caused potential collateral damage to my hand by impacting it against the door", he'll just say something like "ow". Understandably, it annoys a friend of mine who prefers me to use words with less than four letters. Probably justified, since I read War of the Worlds (and a few other science fiction books, along with books on fungi) when I was ten and managed to understand everything in it. Once played for laughs, in that I deliberately made sure I was using the longest words I could manage. Said friend nearly had a BSOD (justified, though: he's epileptic). * This troper was once describing himself. Among the first things to come, quite naturally, to mind were "a tendency towards excessively verbose self-expression." Difficulties in socialization have been frequent, as the schools he's gone to have ever been significantly below-average for the state, in a state already below national average, in terms of test scores. Interestingly, I suck at Scrabble: my ''active'' vocabulary (''shudder'', I hate that phrase) is terribly and irritatingly small.

* Sometimes, this troper uses big words. A (rather BookDumb) bully from JuniorHigh and HighSchool would constantly ask her, "Why do you talk like a scientist?!" Well, now as a biology major (graduating this spring), she can tell him if she ever runs into him again, "Oh, Gee, I dunno. Maybe it's because I * am* one!" * [[{{Tropers/ptitlepgy6ymio}} 0dd1]]: In my ethics class last term, we read a book about relativism that was an [[{{Egregious}} egregious]] victim of this trope. It doesn't end there, though. We had to answer questions about the book as we went along, with conclusion questions (about our opinion, etc.) at the end. I elected to answer my conclusion questions as an essay. My essay also suffered greatly from this trope, [[HypocriticalHumor but only because I made my entire essay be about just how confusingly the authors wrote the book]]. [[spoiler: (I think the joke went over my teacher's head.)]] * This Troper is often accused of sounding 'pretentious' by her brothers (and her enriched-english classmates, and non-english teachers sadly...) due to her habit of talking in patterns more akin to the writing of a lengthy and erudite paper than of every day discussion. It makes it quite difficult for her when it comes to speaking other languages where she isn't experienced enough to use more vibrant language. Somewhat subverted by her friends who can easily out do her but often favor less pedantic speech. * Guilty as charged. This tropette A. always extends her vocabulary anyway as a song-writer and B. always uses percise and definite terms for EVERYTHING, like I say "I think 55.2% that is probable". She'd also just say horrendous instead of horrible. Illicit instead of illigal and self-evident instead of obvious and ostracized instead of isolated. Those are just off the top of her head. It suprises people who think she's dumb when she utilizes humoungous words like that. She just likes vocabulary work in general. Always been like this. * Not sure how far I count in this category, but I did have a moment a few days ago when I was fed up with a friend of mine whining about how everyone sucks (which if you think about it is really rude to say to your FRIEND who's trying to COMFORT you) and so I flat out told her that I was fed up with her misanthropic views and distrust. After a long pause, she asked me what misanthropic meant. The fact that she's a self-proclaimed genius gave me a little smugness to my tone when I defined it for her. Especially since, for me, misanthropy isn't really a commonplace word, but most people I talk to know what it means. * I sometimes do this in English... but I do this all the time in Dutch. It helps that Dutch can be a fairly simple language and words often used in English are far less common in Dutch. * [[{{Tropers/Snowsky}} I]] speak normally around my friends, but was making use of the word "paraskevidekatriaphobia" (fear of Friday the 13th) around grade 2 or 3 and still have the habit of making my essays and written parts of school projects far longer and more eloquent than they should be. * Averted for this troper, who got chewed out by his prof for using the word "shibboleth" in an essay. * This troper is kind of a subversion, since her English is selftaught through books and the internet so she's much better at it than her (German) class but doesn't always remember what she's "supposed"

to know, so her classmates think that she uses this (also the same situation with Russian which she learned from some relatives). She plays it slightly straighter in Hebrew, where she uses ''a lot'' of foreign words or the newly-invented ones that never really caught on, because compared to other languages she knows, everyday hebrew just doesn't have enough words. Her improving English skills also lead to an annoying habit (which sometimes fits in this trope, but not always) that kicks in when she can't find a fitting Hebrew word: getting stuck in the middle of a sentence and trying to find a Hebrew equalent to a word that exists in English, not finding one because it doesn't exist, and either using an English or scientistic term which may or may not be valid in Hebrew or inserting a long sentence to explain exactly what I meant. * [[Tropers/SpiritOfSahara This troper]] had a pretty big vocabulary when she was a kid, but was sure that everybody had more or less caught up to her once she started high school - until she got a boyfriend who was highly intelligent and astonishingly well-read that complained that she used long and tricky words all the time. * Facebookians...like it: http://acelike.com/409282.html * [[Tropers/StormOfScript This troper]] plays this straight. One time he was talking to one of his friends when he said I talked too smart because I used words like "thus" in everyday conversation. Also, whenever this troper writes he tends to lean in this direction. Of course whenever somebody tells him this he just smiles and says "Wohoo, I'm smarticals." What, the expressions are hilarious! * This troper uses large, complicated words on a daily basis (much to the chagrin of her classmates, who seem to have never read a book willingly). She has been told to "talk more like a teenager", and has tried. She failed. * As a result of spending two years on the [[MotorMouth Speech and Debate team]] and a lifetime of prolific reading (including [[BeigeProse government documents...oh God]]), [[Tropers/SabresEdge this troper]] occasionally indulges in SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, although he tries to make sure it doesn't impair comprehension. He only consciously does it for the [[RuleOfFunny humor]] [[SophisticatedAsHell value]]. * This troper once [[BeyondTheImpossible read the dictionary]] after I was forbidden from reading my beloved HarryPotter books my by rather uncaring fourth-grade teacher. Though already quite loquacious by that point (having been reading HarryPotter on my own since I was eight), at least for a nine-ten year old, I was far moreso by the end of that year. This was to a great magnitude of frustration from my lessleanred classmates. however, I was gobsmacked by one of my classmates, and I then knew what it was like to be everyone else and have no bloody idea what was being said (or addressed. Had there not been visuals, the whole SesquipedalianLoquaciousness presentation would have gone right over me. As it was, I'm still not sure what he was saying). * This Tropette has always been this for as long as she can recall. I self-taught myself to read at three (No, I am NOT making that up) and was reading college textbooks by seven or eight. I excelled in English and as a result I have an insanely high vocabulary even now that I am

in college. I also write, so I mainly use this glut of linguistic knowledge to write stories and poems, including [[{{Fanfic}} Fanfics]]. In real life I'm very well-spoken, [[SophisticatedAsHell but a lot more foul-mouthed]] and less prone to the use of huge words than you might think. It is ''really'' funny when I say something and nobody understands it, though. * [[Tropers/AirHadoken This troper]] [[LampshadeHanging voraciously]] [[RefugeInAudacity assimilates]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome vocabulary]]. In his younger days his peers were quick to request "small words, please," but things improved in his adult life through accreting an audience which had in each member a better grasp of the breadth and depth of English, a greater skill at semantic inference, or a predisposition to [[JustSmileAndNod quietly ignore those things not understood]]. He tends to use allegory to describe foreign concepts to new people, since it cuts down on his use of engineering jargon. This troper wants to encourage all the young logomonomaniacal Tropers out there to treat language as your plaything as though you had the biggest box of Legos in your neighborhood (which in this case, is accurate), and especially to self-describe with the word "[[SelfReferentialHumor sesquipedalian]]" as an ambiguous double entendre in response to comments about your ''[[RefugeInVulgarity diction]]''. * [[@/{{Tadaru}} This troper]] frequently uses the most complex words he knows, as well as throwing in four-character compounds and proverbs when speaking Japanese. Not so much when he's speaking his native English though. * This troper use english word in swedish. Not as in a blatant case ofmeanings with two languages, but rather, so to speak, Derives english words into swedish. Such as Enamoured = Enamorerad. Propinquity = Propinqvitet Et cetera. ANd since hte words already means something, i can easily explain to the bemused listeners what they meant. * This troper does this unintentionally...at first. Then when somebody asks him to dumb down his language, he will occasionally take it up to eleven instead. He's known to have an eccentric personality type which may account for some of the incoherant vocabulary. ** Which later led to my attempt to avert this trope by playing my Nascar and football Fandom to eleven, due to the stereotype that only dumb rednecks like Nascar, and trying to portray a Dumb Jock. Then I began talking about Nascar from a research and development point of view, stating the performance and safety technology derived directly from Auto Racing, inadvertantly averting my attemted aversion. * This troper had an argument with a postmodernist online whose posts were full of Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. Eventually, I didn't even bother to read his posts because they were full of tl;dr jargon. * This troper's Civics and Economics [[CoolTeacher teacher]] is very guilty of this. This troper is as well, learning a majority of her larger words from him. * This troper, being a bookworm, does this in spades, but only in writing. She remembers getting into arguments with her primary school teachers over this frequently (and often winning, once after her equally-guilty-of-this mother quoted a dictionary at said teacher).

Now that she's entered a school focused on research ''and'' discovered TV Tropes, she doesn't think it's going to abate anytime soon. Also, much of what others consider to be this trope are perfectly legible to her, if a little too [[PurpleProse purple]]. * Ah a fine moment came where me and my psychology teacher were having a conversation and due to our massive egos we started using our more sophisticated vocabulary.A poor innocent bystander was trying to follow the conversation her eyes darting back and forth like it was a tennis game and she said one of us had to leave because she couldn't understand what we were saying. I agreed and left when this trope came to mind and told him "she can't stand our sesquipedalian loquaciousness" he looked at me for a moment and laughed "oh god I know what that means" * This troper does this in certain situations. Since she has found that questions and comments in "simple English" are misunderstood with alarming frequency, she modifies her language to be as precise as possible. This worked when she was at her home university, but when she took classes at the local community college for a semester (long story), she had the opposite problem. Her one instructor took her aside and requested what was essentially, a "dumbing down" of her speech, comments, and questions. When writing, she prefers precise and concise language, and usually says in one page what her peers say in two. She's better outside academia, where being exactly correct does not seem as important. Though if you get her discussing an issue or a delicate topic... * This troper once found out that she has a desire on this, and decided to avoid it. A minor incident occured at Topsail Island of North Carolina when one of two cousins of her family jokingly expected her to speak a fancy word for dumb, saying that she's a dictionary, even though she doesn't want to. * This Troper knows a girl who's prone to this. In a forum somewhere (I don't know where, I only heard about this from her sister) she wrote two [[WallOfText Wall Of Text]]-sized paragraphs on how technology is changing society. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The next poster replied simply with "I like turtles" and]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y this link]]. * My school has a lot of international students, mostly from Asian countries, with varying degrees of English skills, but rarely anyone with the capacity to use abnormally obtuse vocabulary in their vernacular. Thus, my English teacher would us this trope (as well as crossing over into ShlubbAndKlumpEnglish) popping up in the work of students who rarely strung together a confident sentence whilst talking as an easy way to tell if students were simply copypasting in their assignments. ** But it also brings up another point, in that teachers often tell you to make your writing more interesting by using a thesaurus. Yet when you do use words seemingly "too smart" for you, you're accused of cheating. Quite the quandary. * This is HOW I TALK. Everyone treats me like a freak, constantly says "Boy, I doooone which you" whenever I use the term.. Well... Term. Everyone also uses me as a human spellchecker/dictionary. I am truly, surely, exasperated like a discombobulated herring of the way they

treat my behavioral instinctive language enhancments. * At, of all places, an Indiana University football game, I met a couple people who did this with the lyrics of songs, not to sound pretentious, but merely for the amusement. They called it "Musical Exposition," and is much more fun than it sounds. * I just can't help it. I've talked like this since I was a little kid. And it's kinda justfied, since I was diagnosed with Schizotypical Personality Disorder, which forces me to talk like that. ---Utilizing the following hypertext link will instruct your browser application to request the "SesquipedalianLoquaciousness" webpage. ----

SesquipedalianSmith * Roleplaying example: When [[{{Cameoflage}} this troper]] was young and stupid - about twelve, to be specific - she had a {{Furcadia}} character named Aistanocha Black. (It rhymes with "iced-a mocha".) She lost interest in the character eventually, but, since Ms. Black had been her main online identity for a time, her Photobucket account ensures that the absurd first name will be preserved for years to come. (Everything else I still use today was registered after I switched to my variants-on-Cameo naming system.) * This trope is considered the mark of people from the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela, where from some reason it's fashionable to name your kid with something who sounds like a ancient greek philosopher, a indigenous landmark, or a independentist from another country, giving combinations like Hermgenes Prez, Melquizedec Lpez, Chiquinquir Rincn, and Abdenago de Jess Borjas (this one is from a real person, and he better known as "Neguito" Borjas, famous gaita singer). * This troper tends to pull this off a lot and likes to combine languages. ** She has a character whose full given name is Hakusato Finlay. ** Some of her characters, especially those from Harry Potter fanfiction, have long and complicated names based on stars. For example: Albireo Black, Talitha Starnes, and Aludra Cross. ** Also, Demetrios Lenoir. ** Wait, those sound like actual names from Harry Potter. Sirius Black, anyone? Remus Lupin? They sound vaguely like real names but still have meaning outside of the character. * This troper had a classmate in his French 2 class, born in the United States to Nigerian parents. He was a big, tough football player named Olywademilola Thompson. He preferred "Oly." * In a LARP where we played soldiers we all had to have last names that were easy to say quickly. This led to many of these types. For example "Oliver Helm" and my very own "Zacharias Vant". ** ''Oliver'' is a long and arcane name now? It only has six letters! * This troper usually makes up a name instead of using real-world names when creating characters. This has lead from characters with the simplistic but weird Yden, to the somewhat more complex Lonomaicross. * This troper wrote a sitcom pilot about a literate and cultured young

family living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Their three high-school age children are named Sullivan, Ariadne, and Calliope Finch (but they go by Sulley, Ari, and Callie respectively). ** A sitcom about a literate family? I wonder why that hasn't been picked up by one of the major networks yet :P * This troper was almost named Alacrity. I'd have been called Alec, most likely. Luckily my parents came to their senses. * This troper's name. Her first name, Veronica, is a Latin name, while her last name, Hang, is a Chinese name. ---Your name's SesquipedalianSmith? Wow, your parents must be cruel. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SevenDeadlySins What are the most prominent of these Deadly Sins in troper's lives, or in their original fictional characters? List 'em here... [[foldercontrol]] [[folder:RealLife in Troper's Sins]] * [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} This troper]] generally has Wrath and Lust tie for 1st place, followed by Sloth in 3rd (mainly because it couldn't muster the effort to train for the race properly). Although historically [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]] was always wrathful at school, that was a partly JustifiedTrope since KidsAreCruel and TeensAreMonsters were in full effect then, [[{{CovertPervert}} a lustful mentality]] has tended to overshadow as these days [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]] is much better at controlling his anger, usually only in a TranquilFury at worst - but [[{{ThisMeansWar}} if he feels something means war]] [[{{IAmNotLeftHanded}} the gloves metaphorically come off]], and while it might not result in a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, any and every insult available (the more personal and worse, the better) is dispensed upon the hapless victim... * [[Tropers.ReikoKazama Reiko-chan]], being a BigEater, would definitely place gluttony at the top of the list for her. Not that that's a bad thing... for me at least... * For [[{{Tropers/Zanreo}} this Troper]], [[TheSlacker it's]] [[BrilliantButLazy definately]] [[LazyBum Sloth]]. Followed [[SweetTooth by]] [[BigEater Gluttony]]. * This troupee is probably guilty of all them...the most is either Envy, Greed, or Wrath. * This troper's {{asexuality}} makes him innocent of lust, and remains free of wrath to the point of being a self-professed pacifist. Pride is out, too; They don't put prideful people on antidepressants. He's no more guilty of avarice or envy than the next guy, and is only gluttonous for Slurpees. But then we come to sloth... In fact, sloth may very well be the reason why he remains innocent of some of the other sins. He'd go into more detail, but he's bored and doesn't want

to keep thinking about it. * This Troper ''definitely'' has envy, and is trying to stop thinking about it. Ironically, this is my most hated sin (everything else ties for second place), and my favorite color is green, which I also identify myself with a lot, even ''before'' I started envying others. * Pride, Pride, Pride. Waaay too much pride. * I have a bit of all of them, but I have actually gone on record to say that I'm the physical embodiment of Sloth. I was really high, and my aunt was asking me to get up and turn off the TV, and I didn't want to move. My laziness has reached such heights that I've seriously considered suicide just because the act of ''existing'' is so damn tiresome. Eating? Breathing? Taking a shower!? ''Brushing my teeth!?!'' Uhh.... You know, there's a handgun in the bedroom, I think I'd rather just give it a blow job. BOOM! But then I remember that I'm a dangerous lunatic and just try to chill out. * This troper here suffers from acute amounts of Lust, Sloth and in one instance, Pride. * This troper is very, ''very'' guilty of being envious of others. * This one here is a horrible lazyass and nihilist to the extreme. An in-joke with her friends is that one day she'll decide that existing is too much trouble and will just stop breathing. Why bother...why...bother...I don't care...go away... * Envy, OH MAN envy! I have more than Hera. I poke fun at this in my self-insert Doujinshis to avoid Mary-Sueifying myself * Sloth definitely, with [[Tropers.CJCroen1393 my]] tendency to put off doing stuff until the last minute and my love of sleeping. Followed closely by [[BigEater Gluttony]]. I used to be guilty of [[HairTriggerTemper Wrath]] too. [[/folder]] [[folder:Original Fiction]] * [[Tropers.ReikoKazama This troper]] has created female personifications of the SevenDeadlySins in [[SoulSeries Soul Calibur IV]]. (Dunno if this counts as original fiction, but what the hell...) * [[Tropers.DominusTemporis This troper,]] however, created his own versions in comic format. Starting in my senior year of high school I started a stick figure comic that oddly gained quite a following. I was particularly inspired by the works of Terry Pratchett at the time, and going off the idea of anthropomorphic personifications, I eventually added the Seven in as supporting characters. Of course, since they're stick figures, I had to get creative with how I portrayed them: ** Wrath- always armored and wearing a greatsword on his back, glares quite a lot. Partially inspired design-wise by Roy Greenhilt if he were an irritable jerk. I also took a little inspiration from the Hulk- Wrath isn't a bad guy if you're not on his bad side, and he enjoys gardening in his spare time. He also owns a vineyard (insert obvious terrible pun here). ** Avarice- dressed like a stereotypical pimp (hat, cane, velvet cape). Loves hoarding shiny things, of course. I haven't fleshed him out as much as the rest, but I like to imagine him secretly doing

philanthropic things for the hell of it just to avoid being a total stereotype. ** Sloth- always sleeping or drifting off (even standing up). Doesn't say a lot, obviously, or move much either. Wears a sleeping cap identical to Sleep Kirby and carries a pillow to avoid hard landings if he does fall over. ** Pride- dresses himself like a king, with a fancy crown and a cape that inexplicably billows and waves even without wind. Totally full of himself, but probably acts that way to cover up some massive insecurity. ** Lust- I finally settled on making her look like a Playboy Bunny, probably the ideal modern image of lustfulness. For some reason, she ends up in a relationship with Pestilence of the Four Horsemen, to whom she admits that [[spoiler:despite her position and all her big talk, she's still a virgin]]. Her twin sister is also the personification of Love. People do tend to get Lust and Love mixed up, after all. ** Envy- a freckled, ponytailed, overly emotional teenage girl. Wears a cap reading "NV" on it (I swear I hadn't heard of Scott Pilgrim's Natalie V. "Envy" Adams before I came up with that). Sort of the Scrappy within the group, so they make her look after Sloth. Fun factshe appears as a teenager because I thought it'd be funny, but Envy is in reality the "youngest" sin- the list was different until one of the Popes altered it, adding Envy to the list. Sometimes I know things I didn't know I knew. ** Gluttony- greasy, disgusting couch potato. Eats just about anything he can and even some things he can't, but mostly seen lugging around an apparently endless bag of potato chips. Never speaks without food in his mouth. Originally I wanted to make him morbidly obese, but I had already used that joke for Famine of the Four Horsemen, the joke being that "that's where all the food goes." Since you really can't show a stick figure as being skinnier than normal, I went with this design. * Viandas' demons can be fit into this: ** Lust - [[DepravedHomosexual Darric]], wants to "feel brother's body contort as he enters an orgasm of violence against me!" His fighting style also has a lot of sexual symbols ** Pride - [[SinisterMinister Kall Vaalnicus]], wants to become a God himself in order to create a perfect world where everyone can live in their own ideal fantasy ** Wrath - [[CombatSadomasochist Nero Velka]], desires an unending war where everyone can feel and inflict pain on each other forever. TheDragon to Kall. ** Gluttony - [[EvilIsSexy Zachaia Viandas]], power hungry witch who keeps absorbing other demons in order to "become a perfect being", has an unrestrained hunger for power. ** Sloth - [[FetusTerrible Aedleig]], cannot be bothered to move, prefers to make XanatosRoulette upon XanatosRoulette, with several only working if one is derailed. ** Envy - [[MonsterClown Ein Woe]], terrible, evil clown who hates everyone for being happy when he can never be happy, because he has to be evil.

** Greed - [[EnfantTerrible Avaricus]], demon who wants to have everything and thus, be happy forever with all his desires forever fulfilled. ** Then we have Saligus, the corrupted form of the 8th God-King, Gaia herself. Saligus is created from energy procured from all the above after their deaths. *** Interestingly enough, some of them are trying actively to kill one another. And Saligus was created when all of them kinda died. * [[http://skyeslipstream.blogspot.com/2010/05/cardinals.html The Cardinals.]] * This Troper is currently working in a miniseries in which the characters are incarnations of elements. The main characters are twin incarnations of Light and Dark, and the plot is the 7 sins trying to get "Dark" to join them. Here is what I have as of now: ** Lust: A man with muscle, wears an open black shirt and has long black hair covering half his face. Is the leader of the group, being the most thoughtful while planning, and is always with a harem of girls. His Incarnate ability is to charm whoever he pleases...mostly women. But he has gotten men. ** Greed: Black, bald, business man who always wears a suit, and a headpiece for making calls. He seems to control the funds of the group. Married to Pride. Ability: He's the best damn con-man you could ever meet. ** Envy: Portrayed with waist length hair, a black white mask covering the face, and a long white gown. Ability is mimicry. ** Pride: Woman in a buttoned business suit, wears glasses perched on nose, and holds a cocky smile all the time. Her ability is undecided as of now. ** Gluttony: A rich Spanish woman who keeps her hair up all the time, always eating exotic cuisine. Her ability is also undecided. ** Sloth: Nobody knows WHAT Sloth looks like. He/she just lays there, also in a long white gown, with dark hair grown to near Rapunzel length. Ability is control over others, to get them to do things, but being Sloth, he/she never seems to use it. ** Wrath: A man with spiked hair in a ponytail, and a fanged smile. Always sharpening a knife, always being the Leeroy Jenkins, and has to be held back 24/7. Ability is undecided. * This Troper has been working on a {{Paranoia}} campaign that centers on a new secret society called "The Seven." They are, of course: ** Gluttony: [[spoiler: Matt-G-ULA.]] Naturally, he has the mattereater mutant power and frequently eats weapons, evidence, and occasionally people. [[spoiler: He's also a party member/{{GMPC}} for the first few missions, meant to cause unrest and turn the party against one another]] ** Wrath: Edmund W-R-ATH. A [[TheBrute single-minded enforcer]] for the Seven. Not the brightest bulb, but good enough for simple missions, and hardy enough to survive the Outdoors with some regularity, especially when he uses his Adrenaline Control power. ** Envy: Inv-I-DIA. A completely unhinged girl who struggles to control her Empathy ability. She's barely armed but has enough Mutant power to get the Troubleshooters to kill each other. ** Sloth: Ace-I-DIA. A borderline comatose ColdSniper who lies

motionless for days at a time until he sees his target. He'll use his levitation to run from most close up fights, not because he's at a disadvantage but because he considers it too much work. He also has an energy field that he can use to block enemy attacks. ** Greed: A unique case, in that there is not one, but three greeds over the course of the campaign. *** The Forlorn. A bot designed to be the ultimate fighting machine. It was eventually scrapped in favor of more advanced models, but went haywire and began tearing pieces off of other Bots and rigging them into it's own body. Results were less than impressive. It's deadly, certainly, but ineffective, poorly balanced, and often malfunctions. *** Avar-I-TUS. The second Greed. He effectively uses his Telepathy and Polymorphism to infiltrate wealthy areas and steal everything that isn't nailed down. *** Amalgam Greed. Rather than replace Greed a second time after [[YouHaveFailedMe his failure]], the Seven instead [[spoiler:[[BreadEggsBreadedEggs took pieces of the First Greed and welded them to the still conscious Second Greed to make the Third Greed.]] [[{{Understatement}} It was not pleasant.]] The two personalities battle for dominance almost constantly. The Forlorn thinks the entire arrangement has made him unstoppable. [[ICannotSelfTerminate Avar-I just begs to die.]]]] ** Pride: [[spoiler:Victor-V-IIO.]] TheDragon of the seven, Referred to exclusively as Pride. He wears a black full body suit which is actually high tech battle armor and [[DualWielding fights with two swords.]] Due to his [[HealingFactor regeneration]], Telekinesis and armor he [[TheLawOfDiminishingDefensiveEffort barely bothers to defend himself.]] [[spoiler: Underneath all the armor, he's a WhiteHairedPrettyBoy and secretly the doomed love interest of one of the [=PCs=].]] ** Lust: [[spoiler: Lux-U-RIA]] A crooked high programmer who has been sending the party on suicide missions since they first unwittingly stumbled onto elements of her plans to [[spoiler: use her machine empathy power to fuse her consciousness into the computer and [[AGodAmI rule over Alpha Complex as an immortal superbeing.]]]] * [[Tropers.CJCroen1393 This Troper]] ''loves'' the concept of the seven deadly sins and is planning a story called "''Sins vs. Virtues''" in which the sins and the Seven Heavenly Virtues fight each other. The sins are all [[BlueBishounenGhetto attractive men]] because I was sick of seeing the sins constantly portrayed as women (although apparently, Lust is the sin men confess to most and Pride is the sin women confess to most). The virtues (except [[CuteShotaroBoy Humility]]) are all [[PinkBishoujoGhetto pretty girls]]. I have a ([[HeroicSelfDeprecation really bad]]) picture of the sins here [[http://cjcroen.deviantart.com/art/OCs-Seven-Deadly-Sins-1216858057]] The Sins are: ** [[SissyVillain Pride]]: A [[TheFightingNarcissist narcissistic]], [[SmugSnake arrogant]] man and the self-proclaimed [[BigBad leader]] of the sins. He 's a [[EvilIsSexy total]] [[{{Bishounen}} pretty boy]] and intends to stay that way; he's [[{{Selfcest}} literally]] in love with his own reflection. He has a magical mirror that shows his reflection for what he really is; it shows a [[CompleteMonster

monster]]. And it shows; His main goal is to [[AGodAmI become a god]] and [[OmnicidalManiac eradicate all of humanity just because he views himself as superior]]. [[spoiler: He's keeping a [[MadwomanInTheAttic Madman in the Attic]] who is actually an ugly version of himself. Let's just say that the "madman" is [[TheWoobie not as "mad"]] as [[CompleteMonster Pride]] claims]]. His [[GoodCounterpart Virtue Counterpart]] is [[{{Adorkable}} Humility]]. ** [[WellIntentionedExtremist Greed]]: A CorruptCorporateExecutive and Pride's [[TheDragon second-in-command]], as well as [[TheEvilGenius the brains of the operation]]. He's [[OnlySaneMan the most stable]] of the group but is also one of the most selfish (being Greed and all). He has an IllGirl fiancee named Maria and she's [[MoralityPet primarily why he's greedy in the first place]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist because he wants to cure her illness]]. While he truly loves her, however, he's less concerned with her dying and more concerned with [[ItsAllAboutMe her not loving him]]. His [[GoodCounterpart Virtue Counterpart]] is [[ChurchMilitant Charity]]. ** [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Envy]]: A spiteful, jealous, [[PhantomThief Thief]] turned [[TheMafia hitman]] who hates everyone in the world, especially Pride, whom he tries to kill on a regular basis. He tries to be tough, but it's mostly a front due to some [[JerkassWoobie major insecurity and abandonment issues]]. His [[GoodCounterpart Virtue Counterpart]] is [[TheWoobie Kindness]]. ** [[SociopathicSoldier Wrath]]: An ex-soldier who was abandoned after the army retreated after being overwhelmed by the enemy. [[VillainousBSOD this drove him to madness]] and he became a complete psychopath. Now, [[HairTriggerTemper every little thing pisses him off]]. His [[GoodCounterpart Virtue Counterpart]] is [[WarriorMonk Patience]]. ** [[SupremeChef Gluttony]]: Pride's personal chef, who used to own a five star restaurant until the health department shut him down for making things that never should be food into food. His food, however, is irresistable and when ''he'' tasted it, he grew obsessed and [[VillainousGlutton ate constantly, sometimes denying meals to the other sins]]. He's definitely overweight, but [[BigBeautifulMan that doesn't mean he's not good-looking]]. His [[GoodCounterpart Virtue Counterpart]] is [[GenkiGirl Temperence]]. ** [[CreepyChild Sloth]]: A [[LazyBum lazy]] high school dropout and at seventeen, is [[CuteShotaroBoy the youngest]] [[EnfanteTerrible of the group]]. He hates working and [[{{Sleepyhead}} loves sleeping]] and is [[PajamaCladHero always wearing pajamas]]. He doesn't care about ''anything'' and all he truly desires is to [[DeathSeeker stop existing so he no longer has to work]]. [[{{Shotacon}} He's currently in a relationship with Lust]]. His [[GoodCounterpart Virtue Counterpart]] is [[ActionGirl Dilligence]]. ** [[DepravedBisexual Lust]]: A sexual predator who loves to sexually harrass and grope the other sins. The other sins [[TheScrappy are all annoyed and creeped out by him]] except for Sloth, who cares about nothing. Lust likes Sloth best due to his lack of resistance. His [[GoodCounterpart Virtue Counterpart]] is [[LoveFreak Chastity]]. [[/folder]]

[[PerfectlyCromulentWord Saligiate]] your way back to SevenDeadlySins because the troper who wrote this 'go back' was too slothful to think of an actual word...

SevenMinuteLull * This troper had that awesome friend back in high school who once fell victim to this trope at history class. There was that CloudCuckoolander teacher who would always talk to himself, unintentionally make silly faces and [[TotallyRadical he seriously believed that he was funny]]. One day during another boring class, the said teacher asked rethorically something like "So what did those lords do when they arrived at Somethingville?" and this troper's friend, resting with his head buried in his arms, took advantage of all the noise in the classroom and said out loud: "They crapped themselves!". Of course right at the moment he started saying that, all the noise suddenly dropped just enough for everyone to hear him clear. Few seconds of dead silence ensued, but apparently the teacher didn't have balls to actually scold the guy so he just tried to pretend he didn't give a damn. * Once while in a particularly noisy French lesson, a classmate of this troper was reciting a story that happened to contain the words 'huge boner'. The noise in the classroom dipped at the ''exact'' moment she said it. Cue the entire class (including teacher!) collapsing into hysterical laughter. * At a party, a friend and I had drifted off to the side and began having a spirited conversation about porn. I was about to make a reference to our host's own porn preferences (about half the people at this party were pretty open about such things, but not to the other half of the guests), but the Seven Minute Lull hit the other side of the room ''exactly'' as I said her name. Thankfully, that was awkward enough that I didn't get to the porn-related comments. * This troper fell victim to it during one of her classes. I was talking with a few of my friends about the religious nuts who, every time they find out you're a different religion from them they try to convert you to whatever they practice. I said that "They take their religion and try to shove it down your throat." Of course every one got quite right when I said 'shove it down your throat'. Luckily, the only 2 boys who heard were really cool about it, and we made a lot of jokes about how it sounded.

SexDressed * {{This troper}} was with his girlfriend, visiting her family for the first time. One day, we did the deed then went to dinner. In our hurry, neither of us noticed that this troper had put his shirt on inside-out...her family spent the entire dinner making jokes at my expense. Could have been worse. * Subverted with [[LeighSabio This Troper]]. She came home from prom, and offhand remarked that her hairdo had fallen apart. [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished Nobody in her family could see the

difference.]] The kicker? She had sex with her boyfriend at the prom that night. ** ''At'' the prom? [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces Kinky.]] * [[{{Gitman}} This troper]] and his wife were once interrupted in the act by the doorbell. Thinking it was her parents who were supposed to visit that day, I quickly threw some pants on and answered the door shirtless. Turned out to be a salesman, who must have put two and two together. -->'''Salesman:''' *glances up the stairs behind me* Looks like I caught you at a bad time. -->'''Me:''' Yep. * {{This troper}} always ends up with sex hair after doing the deed. His hair is normally long, soft and well groomed. People can always tell. * Back in high school {{this troper}} had to hide having a sex life from less than approving parents. One day my girlfriend and I were doing the deed and to my horror I heard a car door in the driveway. Hurriedly she bolts to the bathroom and I throw on pants and my shirt and head off my mother at the front door. I give a quick "hey, how was your day?" she asks where my girlfriend was and I in my most nonchalant act give a cover story of her having taken a nap in my room while I was doing some homework. My mom gives me a deadpan look for a second and responds "Your shirt's inside out, I'm not an idiot." cue my FlatWhat * {{This troper}} once ambled into the kitchen at eight in the evening, in her pajamas, without her glasses on, hair askew, and vaguely mumbled, "Hey, roomie" to her roomie sitting at the table, got a glass of juice from the fridge - and blinked before adding, "Oh, hey, roomie's parents." ** This sounds more Sleep Addled than Sex Dressed... * Happened to Edgy a few times. Mostly forgot my socks, shirt was backwards, or my boxers were inside-out. ---Go back to SexDressed, and put your belt back on while you're at it.

Sexiled * Not really, but i saw there was a sock on the doorknob of my parent's room and lampshaded it. My sister didn't get it... * Never experienced this myself, but the poor guy across the hall from me had this happen to him several times. And not just overnight - his roommate & roommate's girlfriend would sometimes sexile him for 24 hours straight. * Knew what the locked door meant but damnit I'd left something I needed for a final. The room ''smelled'' like sex. * Because of how my dorms are laid out (with hallway twists and such) means that it's more effective for my room-mate to leave a jar of peanut butter outside ''my'' door. * This troper has yet to have this happen to her (being in a quad probably helps since one person imposing a sexile means that she would have to deal with three very unhappy roommates at once) but she saw a guy who lives on her floor being subjected to one of these once. Poor

guy was absolutely exhausted and just wanted to sleep, so eventually someone had mercy on him and let him borrow their bed. * This troper's roommate would say something like "Why don't you go play {{Fallout}}?" whenever he was about to engage in ThisAndThat with his girlfriend. It told this troper not to go to the bedroom, but the walls are thin and not even screaming Super Mutants could block out the sounds. * This troper uses red stickies on the wall leading to the door. It works quite well. * This troper had a very annoying foreign exchange student for a roommate one year. I had a female friend over one night, just hanging out and talking - in different chairs, about five feet apart no less when the roommate enters the room. I have no earthly idea how he drew the conclusion he was sexiled, but he clearly did as he did an about face and practically ran out of the room while muttering an apology. Cue much laughter and thanking of the friend on my part, since I didn't particularly like him. * This troper once returned to his dorm room to find his roommate and his girlfriend going at it causing me to quickly close the door. After that, he would put notes on the door to come back later. Other times, he and his girlfriend would be doing it while the troper slept. He did his damnest to ignore it but eventually told them to go screw each other elsewhere. They did, and the troper mainly had the room to himself for the rest of the semester. It was nice. * This troper has been brutally sexiled from his room on a night when the living room contained half a dozen sleeping people, forcing him out to the street for a couple of hours at 3am. The kicker: His roommate and roommate's girlfriend, who were going at it, were broken up at the time but he hadn't bothered to note this. Like hell he'd have taken a hike for him and his girlfriend-on-hiatus.. * This troper warned his roommate I wouldn't tolerate this. He didn't listen. So one night, I ignored the sign on the knob and started shouting advice to the two of them. It hasn't happened again. * Done via texting repeatedly by my best friend. She will, at literally random times throughout the day, tell me not to talk to her because she needs to have sex. She's such a nympho that this will happen at just about any time. * Although it's never happened to this troper, he has much experience with it. My room came close to being a sort of halfway house for the sexiled, my suitemate would routinely be sexiled and slept on my floor until finding a suitable couch, also the girl down the hall was once sexiled for an entire weekend and slept in the comfy chair (which she found was not very comfy at all). * On our first day of college (move-in day), this troper and a couple friends went out to explore campus. We came back some time later and chose to hang out in one friend's dorm room. When we got there, a sock was already on the doorknob. Certainly one way to make an interesting first impression on the roommate you've never met before. * This troper's roommate put a note in the door that said "I'm sure you can guess what I'm doing right now." * This troper walked into her room in a hostel one day to catch her bunkmate and another backpacker in flagrante delicto - ''in the

troper's bunk''. The bunkmate immediately started shouting that he had hung a sock on the door, so she (and one assumes the other six people sleeping in that room) should have known not to come in. Her response was that she was jetlagged by nine hours, had just been dragged to the pub by the craziest bunch of Australians she'd ever met and been hit on by a drunken Irishman on the way back, AND she was paying to sleep here, so he could go fuck himself as well as his "friend". Also, this exchange happened in French, to the great confusion of the bunkmate's Brazilian partner, with whom the troper ate breakfast and went to the British Museum. * This Troper has never actually tried this but I've heard that an effective method to use when the problem is young kids running about (picture the young married couple) is to throw 9 coins out in the yard and then tell the kids that you've thrown 10 coins out there. Their diligent search for that last coin should give you plenty of time. ---Alright, you can go back to {{Sexiled}}, but remember what we said about the tie on the doorknob! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SexyManInstantHarem * [[SwiftStrike This troper]] is a big camper, and usually attends a Christian camp every school holidays, typically of the outdorrs variety (white-water kayaking, windusrfing, hiking etc.) in which the girl:guy ratio is usually equal, or low. So imagine my surprise when I attend a performing arts camp, and there werre 26 girls, and 6 guys. Now, let me speel out how this goes: 2 of the guys were gay; 1 was throwing up all week; and 1 was just not interested. That left me and the (fairly buff) black guy. I'm a drummer and he was a dancer. I can't remember how it went, but I'm pretty sure we had equally large Harems... unfortunately, it DID get awkward at times, what with turning down a few advances from people I really wasn't interested in. * My best friend is this, except she's a girl, so maybe it doesn't count? Even so, she's constantly surrounded by boys [[LoliCon (as well as grown men who should know better)]], can get a phone number with nothing more than [[WhatBeautifulEyes a sideways glance]] and seems to have the same effect on [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer girls and women]] whenever she turns up the charm. The only time they give her any space is when they see [[PoisonousFriend me standing next to her.]] * [[{{MHD}} This troper]] is more like Sane Guy Instant Harem (Of Insane Girls). If he had a penny for every sane girl he knew he would not have much. * I'm sure every one of us nerds here has met someone that, to our annoyance, draw women (or men) like flies to crap. I knew two in the SAME GROUP. One played with this a bit, the other was completely oblivious. ** Is that you, Ted? Not so much that I'm oblivious, I just don't understand [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim what it is about me that's so appealing.]]

** This Troper is one of those. [[AGodAmI You may bow to me now.]] * This Troper and her [[PlatonicLifePartners best guy friend]] go to the same performing arts training center every summer. By normal standards, this troper will admit that her friend is pretty attractive. Stick him in an environment where 85% of the men are gay, and out of the 15% straight male population, only about 5% are actually SINGLE... let's just say that he gets ALLLOOOTTT of attention there. He deeply enjoys this. * This Troper knew a guy in high school who had about five girls who all wanted to get with him at any given point in time. * [[SovietKitty This troper]] gets these everywhere, despite the fact that she doesn't like guys and looks twelve. It's incredibly annoying, and she's actually had to threaten prosecution for sexual harassment or stalking. * This Troper witnessed a case of this at secondary school. A classmate's Spanish penpal was visiting and for some reason came to school with him for a few days. It took less then a day for him to acquire a mob of girls who were after him and by the time he left he'd had several girls ask him out, a couple of declarations of undying love and at least on girl saying she wanted to marry him. He wasn't even particuarly good looking so it must've been the accent or something. * This Troper was once asked out by four guys at the exact same time. I didn't know who was actually asking me out and who was just there for moral support! Then in high school, I got treated like this by other girls! Heaven forbid when their boyfriends tag along! You'd think they told them I was a living goddess or something! ** You wanna get a drink sometime? * This Troper had a roommate who had this effect in spite of being an absolute recluse and hardly ever venturing out of the room. * This troper knew a band geek who somehow had had more sex than the entire football team and most of it was with bisexuals. This troper was doubtful so the band geek set out to prove it. For my amusement he filmed himself having sex with 5 different girls, 3 at the same time, and gave me pictures of numerous more whom he had convinced to undress but who didn't want to be filmed. Finally this troper saw his skills in action when he drove the geek and three girls home. Two minutes into the drive, the geek had convinced two of the girls to take off their tops and the third to undress completely. ** This troper is absolutely certain that those girls were completely hammered. Moreover, he is certain that any moderately attractive guy could achieve the same thing if they tried. * This troper manages to pull this off on occasion, but the harems usually implode once the girls discover discover just how stubborn or abrasive he can get. * This troper's brother somehow manages to be this, but isn't really interested in relationships and acts completely platonically towards all of the girls until they stop seeing him as a potential boyfriend. Several have said that they would have been with him in a heartbeat if he had shown any interest or been less of a gentleman. * This troper dated a guy whose entire group of friends were female. And they followed him around. All the time. And laughed at every

single thing he said. This (sane) troper was actually a little relieved when it didn't work out... it freaked her out a bit. * This troper managed it without even being attractive... to the entire female population of the year 9 year group when he was in year 12. It was noteworthy enough to be mentioned in the yearbook. * This troper has always had this with younger girls. In high school, it was his sister's friends, all of whom were four years younger than him. Now, he's married to a woman ''six'' years younger than him. * This troper. ''In junior high''. It's every bit as disturbing as it sounds. Thankfully, it seems to have slackened off in the years since. * This troper, a large, quiet loner, had one of these during a year long theatre camp, much to his disapproval as he was quite content reading in the corner. * This troper is not particularly sexy. He does, however, have a disarming wit and the ability to put women almost instantly at ease. The problem? He's also introverted, solitary, but not enough of a Jerkass to just tell the girls to go away. * This troper's gay friend is this. This troper is convinced that part of it is to do with the fact that in a school where boys outnumber girls 2:1 in VIth form, and there are no girls beofre that, a boy who is not constantly drooling over them is a novelty. This theory is supported by the fact that all the girls who like him are DAMN hot. * Although none of you are probably going to believe this, this troper will relate the following story because it is true. In high school, this troper had a friend who had this instant harem of pretty women that fits the trope. What makes this story surprising compared to the other cases on this page is that this friend was the head of the [[NerdsAreSexy FREAKING CHESS CLUB.]] There were many, many times where us nerdy chess club players would be sitting around, having a nice game of chess, when the leader would suddenly come in with a bunch of women and teach them chess. To get women that hot to participate in a geeky activity like chess is simply amazing. This friend wasn't exactly a perfect male model either...it was just using his verbal wits that got all of these women to follow him. * For whatever reason, girls found me much more attractive after I got a girlfriend. Suddenly, I had two friends asking me for sex and another two admitting their attraction to me within literally a day of meeting them. And, being in a relationship, I couldn't do a thing. ** Your girlfriend hired them to test your honesty. Maybe. * I'm only mildly attractive, have a girlfriend, state it openly in front of new female friends and I STILL HAVE A HAREM! They need to make an anti-harem spray... * This Troper appears to have a knack for attracting Pre-teen Girls....This Troper is ''19''. * This troper can be a rather smooth talker at times and only got more confidence after he got a girlfriend (after about 4 years or so of failure). Suddenly he had close to half a dozen girls all pining after him, which he had to constantly refuse out of faithfulness. After they break up, suddenly all of them are dating other men. Odd. <<|TroperTales|>>

SexyMentor * [[GamerFromJump This troper]], when taking a class in Juvenile Justice, had a lovely instructor. She was only a few years older than us, with the most gorgeous contralto voice I've ever heard. Serious MoodDissonance ensued when she would discuss the course material, namely kids being terribly abused or themselves committing horrific crimes. ** Egad, I seem to draw these. Last semester, one of my lit profs was a cute blonde who's younger than me. Mental self-castigation: "Pay attention to ''the material'', and ''stop'' imagining what Dr. ____ looks like naked!" I have ''got'' to get out more. * When this Troper was taking karate lessons in his early teenage years, one of the female instructors was a model in her spare time. If you've ever looked at martial arts magazine catalogs, you've probably seen her. * This Troper is very, very attracted to her guitar teacher, as evidenced in her Distracted by the Sexy Troper Tales entry. * [[AXavierB This troper]] has a huge crush on his history teacher a few years ago. In fact, it almost verged on StalkerWithACrush; at one point, when the class was gathered around the teacher's desk to watch a video, this troper took the opportunity to discreetly [[{{Squick}} sniff his hair]]. * Pretty much every male in my school who's ever been in her class has hit on my English teacher at least once. She's a master DeadpanSnarker, has a mind farther down the gutter than a fourteenyear-old boy, and due to her insane yoga skills, has the body of a freakishly [[FetishFuel flexible]] teenage girl. But here's the funny part: she's [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD]]. And unlike many other hot teachers, her female students don't hate her for this, because she takes great joy in making fun of the poor saps who fall down the FreudianSlipperySlope. * At my school, I have had numerous requests from girls to help with math or science. Most of these girls are better than me at the topic...so yeah... ** Show off. * This troper's relative (who didn't give a toss about school) had a huge crush on her Maths teacher and subsequently started to pay attention and work hard just to impress him. She got great marks. * This troper had a french teacher in college who was cute and a bit immature. Our class was mostly male and let's say the course content was not our main interest. * This troper had an INCREDIBLY hot 4th grade teacher. * This troper has her best friend as a mentor for creative writing. He's...very handsome. * [[{{Smerf}} This]] troper had a nerd-hot physics teacher in college. Almost didn't pass the class because I was too busy staring at her butt. Conversely, one of my chemistry teachers had half the girls in the class crushing on him. * This troper has had a few sessions with a university psychiatric counselor this semester and he is one hot shrink. Depression? ''What depression?''

* This troper has a Science teacher who has big boobs and a nice butt. It helps that she sometimes doesn't wear a bra, too. (NICE!) * This troper's high school has a partnership with the university that's right in our backyard, so to speak, for student-teachers to get in their hours for their blocks and such. I'm a year older than everyone because I went back after graduation. Enter our attractive, young student-teacher who is only three years older than me and laughs at pretty much all my jokes. Can you say hubba-hubba? She apparently has a boyfriend. We'll see what happens. * When one of the drama department heads got pregnant, she was replaced by a man named Joe. He was tall, muscular, young, extremely handsome, and had a deep baritone voice. Everyone (especially the girls) all loved him, and even after the pregnant teacher returned he still helped out, and plans to return next year to help with the shows. He's been compared to Will from ''Glee''. ** To indicate exactly how popular this man was, his first appearence to the parents and many of the kids at school was when he took the stage for ''OnceUponAMattress'' to do the opening spiel about cell phones and donations. He got massive applause just for saying "Hello." * My (then 27)art teacher for my last two years of high school was this. He was kind of oblivious though, considering that art practically owned his soul. When he started a formal art club (yeah, my school was that small) most of the members were female. See Not Distracted By The Sexy for my own opinion. Though this might have something to do with the fact that I considered him a mentor first and sexy as an interesting side note when bored. Still, his enthusiasm for art is contageious and that might explain why. * My spanish teacher. She actually admitted she was 26, because she doesn't mind saying her age since she's not that old. She looks kinda like a blonde Eva Mendes with a PERFECT butt. * This troper's Stage Combat T.A. is only two or three years older than her, is generally hilarious and really nice, and looks like Eliot from {{Leverage}}. He's used the HandsOnApproach to help her learn unarmed combat moves, and also has a tendency to rub her shoulders when she's being "too tense" in class. * This troper had a massive crush on his Junior Year English teacher in high school. He would often simply go by her class room before, in between, or after classes to talk to her. She, in this troper's eyes, did seem to favor him in class, including a glowing letter of recommendation. After graduating, he found out his teacher lived right next his new university, and had coffee with her a number of times, even walking her home. She ended up having to move across the city and he never talked to her much after. * When I was in 11th grade, my physics teacher was 26 and ridiculously hot. She was the coach of the girl's track team so she was in pretty good shape. Also, when we learned F=mg, she casually mentioned her own weight was 640 newtons as an example (which I discreetly wrote down to convert to pounds later). She said that the previous year, when she was demonstrating centrifugal forces to the class with a bucket of water, she screwed up and it drenched her. I still lose focus by the thought when working with centrifugal forces. ** ''Centripetal'' forces! A centrifuge is a device!

* [[{{Tropers/Joerc45}} This troper's]] 7th grade Spanish teacher {later his 8th grade History teacher} was gifted with the {{Most Common Superpower}} and [[SweaterGirl wore a lot of tight sweaters]]. She was absolutely gorgeous, but [[CuteButCacophonic when she yelled.....]] * [[{{Tropers/Metalitia}} Somehow, I]] have managed to have at least 1 SexyMentor per grade, from KINDERGARTEN all the way through to my freshman year in college (I flunked out afterwards). Knowing that I'd never actually be able to...you know...with any of them helped me AVERT DistractedByTheSexy. * [[Tropers/JusticeReaper My]] first-year English professor at university was this [[UpToEleven x11]]. She was a HotMom, looked more like a CoolBigSis or GirlNextDoor than her actual age, and although she dressed in modestly long skirts, she looked ''good.'' It helped that she often wore [[FootFocus good-looking high heel shoes to school.]] The only thing about it was, she was married, and thus I kept my distance where emotions were concerned. * This Troper had a ''huge'' crush on his middle school choir teacher. She was the ''poster child'' for {{Meganekko}}/{{Moe}}, not to mention she had the ''cutest'' voice (think Bernadette from ''TheBigBangTheory''). He thinks it stuck with him, as he finds anyone who even remotely resembles her instantly attractive. She was the main reason he decided to study music in the first place, which is why it's a damn shame that all of his future experiences with choir teachers would be [[HotForStudent far]] [[PointyHairedBoss less]] [[{{Jerkass}} pleasant]], [[WhatCouldHaveBeen else he might have considered it as a career instead of just a hobby]]. * This troper had three extremely attractive teachers, none of them married, all of them between twenty-five and thirty. [[NotDistractedByTheSexy Still did quite well in all those classes,]] but it certainly made it more [[EatingTheEyeCandy enjoyable.]] * This troper's boss. It doesn't help that we're both in our mid-40s and not terribly happy with our family situation. And we're both attracted to each other. Yeah, lots of UST. ---"Okay, class, let's go back to SexyMentor...Are you paying attention?" "Huh? what?"

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SexySantaDress * This troper was somewhat disturbed when she flipped through Facebook pictures one afternoon and came across a picture of a 16-year-old classmate in one of these at a party. ** Did he not look good in it? ** Forgot to mention that it was a girl... * The sororities and fraternities on this troper's campus all got

together to do musical numbers. One sorority did Christmas songs. All of them were in Sexy Santa Dresses for their outfits. My chorus had the front row. BEST. SHOW. EVER. * This troper ran across a sexy santa dress in a mall once, and took a picture with his phone. He proceeded to send the photo to his female friends, asking them to help give him a very [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean merry]] Christmas. ** Well played sir. ---Go back to the main page, where Santa Baby is a lady in a SexySantaDress... ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SexyShirtSwitch * This female troper loves guys clothing more then girl's clothing. Useful. * [[DesertDragon This troper]] has a black buttondown with a phoenix on it, which his coworkers remember because they always compliment him on it. He couldn't help but smirk a little when his then-boyfriend came to see him at work wearing it, the day after we first slept together. ** Awww... * This troper's boyfriend is always trying to get her to wear his XXL tie-dyed t-shirt, since her normal shirt-colour preference runs to black. * This troper once attended a party thrown by a friend notorious for his very ''very'' sexy parties. At one point the police showed up in response to noise complaints, which sparked an extremely hectic flurry of OH SHIT PUT YOUR PANTS ON. In the confusion I discovered that said friend and I wear the same size pants. Also I accidentally took the bus pass in his pocket, which I only discovered the next day. * One of [[{{Aryn}} my]] friends I remember as saying, "Guys, if you really like a girl, let her [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean borrow your shirt...]]" * This troper is a shade under six feet and broad-shouldered. He's got a serious thing for cute, petite girls 5'4 and shorter...which means ample opportunity for this trope. ** [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean At least you'll have enough to look at...]] * This troper discovered exactly how much men love even just the idea of this trope when she went to school wearing a men's dress shirt with a belt and leggings. * This troper's last girlfriend used to fall asleep sitting in his lap while just wearing a white shirt she used as a pyjama top. Ho boy. * This troper still hasn't gotten back his 2008 French Club t-shirt from his girlfriend. * This troper has a picture of his wife from not long after they met, wearing his BDU top, a pair of boot socks, and not a whole lot else, combining SexyShirtSwitch with GoodLookingPrivates.

* This troper likes to jokingly complain how women and the fashion industry have stolen the boyfriend shirt and boy shorts from men. * This tropette's friend was reading a story the tropette wrote. When this cropped up, she said innocently, "Why is she wearing his shirt?" This tropette raised an eyebrow and said, "Use your imagination." * At a dance show this troper's school held, for the last number on the last night the girls and boys switched clothes. It was played more for laughs than romance though, seeing as all the guys were wearing dresses... * This troper just explained this trope to two of his more innocent best friends (they're ladies, and no, he's not trying to get into either of their pants) * Apart from nothing, this troper's favourite thing to see his girlfriend in is his Guinness shirt. It comes down to her knees and makes her both absurdly adorable and incredibly sexy. * ThisTroper's first girlfriend wasn't substantially smaller than him, just shorter, so when she borrowed his shirts they would actually fit. (Even months after we broke up, she still has my sweatshirt!) And his second was exactly his height and [[BigBeautifulWoman considerably broader]], so she couldn't do this at all. ---Go back to SexyShirtSwitch, just don't forget to get your clothes back at some point. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ShaggyDogStory * When this troper couldn't make it to one of my weekly game nights, my GM cooked up a ShaggyDogStory to explain my PC's absence and to provide a bit of a BreatherEpisode for the other players. My character, the team mage, had holed herself up in her room in order to mystically search for her mentor, who had recently gone missing. After a few days had passed and she still hadn't come back out, the rest of the team would break in to find her gone, evidence of a struggle, and a map to an enclave of enemy mages. Aha! She's been kidnapped by these evildoers! The party follows the map to the enemy camp, battles through several {{Mooks}}, and defeats their leader... problem is, their teammate is nowhere to be found, and the enemy insists they never laid a hand on her. The team returns to their base in search of a new lead, only to find their mage sitting in the kitchen, sipping tea and wondering why they're all staring at her like that. Turns out the stress from the current MythArc was making it impossible for her to search properly, so she had snuck off to enjoy a weekend beach retreat (yes, without telling her teammates--[[LizLemonJob most of them]] [[OnlySaneMan contributed to her stress]] in the first place) so she could try again with a clear mind. While she was gone, a cat had gotten into her room and made a mess of things before leaving, hence the "struggle." But then the story gets meta--when I later asked my GM how the game had gone, he told me that the other [=PCs=] had all taken the mage's warning not to bother her unless it was an emergency

to heart and stayed away from her room--they had never even realized she was gone. * This Troper was once watching his brother play {{Pokemon}} Heart Gold. His brother went to the Mystery Gift mode and got a free Mew! After being awestruck and confused for a minute, his brother said, "I heard from a friend that today is a day to get free Mews." So, naturally, This Troper got his Pokemon Pearl game out. But he couldn't find the Mystery Gift mode. He and his brother spent a few minutes trying to figure out what to do to get Mystery Gift. Finally he went to GameFAQs to find out how. He did what it said, unlocked the Mystery Gift mode, and hurriedly did what his brother said to do. The game then said, "No gifts were found." So, after all that, This Troper got nothing for his efforts. * [[{{Tropers/bluepenguin}} I]] seem to have a nasty habit of putting lots of time and effort into things that turn out to be pointless. I wrote up one particularly [[strike:good]] [[strike:frustrating]]... interesting example, involving my attempts to collect a missed package, [[http://theweirdforeigner.blogspot.com/2010/11/wild-parcelchase.html on my blog]]. (I'd summarize it here, but summarizing would seem to kind of undermine the point of a Shaggy Dog Story.) * [[@/{{Tadaru}} This troper]] spent his last two years of college with the goal in mind of getting a job in Japan. He was just fanatical about it, refusing to settle for any job in his native Seattle or anywhere in the US for that matter. The recession came, and he figured getting a job in Japan without any work experience and only mediocre Japanese ability was impossible, but then he came upon an ad for a study abroad program. He did that for the summer of 2009 after he graduated college; he would have done it for longer but he didn't find out about it long enough in advance to get a long-term visa. So while he was there, he applied to start again in January 2010, this time with the intent of getting good enough at Japanese to hopefully get a job at the end. With the constant reports of how bad the recession was, he figured that not even a Bachelor's and near-fluent Japanese ability were enough, so he planned to go onto a vocational school in Japan, with the hopes that having a name that employers in Japan might actually know about would increase his chances, and also, teaching you how to job hunt and do well at interviews is a large part of the curriculum for these kinds of places, so he signed up. Fast forward to March 2011, after he had graduated from his Japanese language school and was looking to move on to the new school next month. The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami happened. He figured if it didn't kill him, there's no way Japan would have an economy left by the time he would graduate. Nevertheless, he still wanted to go. Of course his parents wanted him to at least visit home, so he did. He hung out with his friends back home, having the most fun he's had in months, and about mid-way through the visit back he brought up that he was seriously considering dropping everything and coming back home for good, with his friends and then with his family. The fact that this trope is here should give away the troper's decision. He doesn't have any plans to live in Japan any time in the foreseeable future. * [[@/{{MoonageDaydream}} This troper]] was playing KingdomHearts once, and she was trying to jump up a set of ledges, only to keep

falling back into a very large ditch. This went on for about fortyfive long, frustrating minutes, and when she finally got to the top ledge and to where she wanted to be... she noticed a staircase leading from the ditch to right where she had Sora standing. A controller was broken that day. * When this troper was young, he went on a week-long canoe trip. Our camp counselor built up our expectations early on, telling us about his story about the Rosebud Inn. One night he told us the story, which he managed to stretch out to over half an hour of embellishment. It went something like this: A man is vacationing with his wife in Europe. On his flight over, the flight attendant tells him to enjoy his trip, but to not stay at the Rosebud Inn. He hears the same thing from his taxi driver and several other people. Upon arriving, every hotel he can find is completely booked. Of course, the only one with a room is the Rosebud Inn. He receives wonderful service and doesn't know why everyone warned him about the place. The next day, his wife leaves him, no one will take his money, and he can't book a flight back home. He manages to steal a canoe and tries to escape to a place where he can be safe. That night, in his canoe on the ocean, he sees a beautiful sunset. To get a better view, he stands up. The canoe then tips over and he drowns. The moral of the story? [[spoiler:Don't stand up in a canoe.]] ---After all that time and effort spent getting to the end of the page, your reward is... to be sent right back to ShaggyDogStory. Why did you even bother in the first place? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ShamelessFanseviceGirl * i once knew a girl who fit this trope to a T. She was one of those people who cant wait to be home alone so they can lounge around in the nude, and i once heard her say this phrase:when i live on my own, people who come over better get use to seeing me naked because i dont care, if they come into my house they "will" see me naked.

ShapedLikeItself * [[Tropers.ReikoKazama This not-logged-in-at-the-moment troper]] once heard someone say something was [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "simplistically simple"]]. * This troper used this to argue that a "female fronted metal" tag was pointless on last.fm - there are tags for metal and female vocalists, so having "female fronted metal" written alongside the two [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment is pointless as a metal band with a female singer would play female fronted metal.]] * This Troper's mother once said "If You're going to eavesdrop, listen!" ** You know...that's some nice advice. Presuming she meant that if one is going to listen in on a conversation they'd better make sure they

don't misinterperet something. *** At the time of her statement, no one was evesdropping per se, but we were in a van with very crappy acoustics and she was having a conversation my father that the rest of us wanted to be a part of. After saying the same exact phrase three times, she blurted out the line in frustration. * This troper has an uncle whose catchphrase when visiting pretty much anywhere (especially when cameras are rolling) is: ''"Well, here we are!"'' [[FridgeLogic Think]] [[CaptainObvious about]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment it]]. * [[{{Aryn}} This Troper]]'s family has a new meme, after my brother called his room "as clean as... something that's really clean!" * Candle scented candles. ** They ''make'' these? ** Wouldn't they just be candles? *** They'd be candles which smell like artificial candle scent. *** ...Ugh...[[MindScrew My head hurts now. Thanks.]] * This troper was watching ''{{Ratatouille}}'' with some friends. During a scene where the rats were stealing food, somebody called them "hood rats". Laughed. For. Days. * This troper recently described a top hat, in complete seriousness, as being 'all toppy and hatty'. That's a helpful description of ever there was one. * To quote one of my high school coaches, "The key to a winning season is to win more than you lose." ** Would he, by chance, be Yogi Berra? * This troper has seen at Wal-Mart...beef flavored beef broth for sale. ** Understandable; the [[{{squick}} beef is obviously of such poor quality that flavour needed to be reinforced]]. * My father has used the Japanese anime one before. When I explained to him that anime is considered animation from Japan, he said that there are western anime. I still don't know what made him think that. ** [[{{Animesque}} Gee, I wonder why]]? * Honey B's cereal, made with real B's. I said that to a friend while she was eating them, and it put the wrong image in her head so she was unable to keep eating them. Poor little vegan. * This Troper went to purchase some Pokemon manga from Borders. She could not find it in the clearly-labeled 'manga' section, and was about to leave when she saw a computer to search. As it turns out, it was in the ''kids'' section instead. So a twelve-year-old girl who looks like she could be seventeen had to trudge into the children's section, pick up a Pokemon manga, and walk out again. (The cashier's face was priceless.) After that night, this Troper has used the term '(it's) like manga in the manga section!' for something that's not likely to happen. Add on 'it's' if it actually happened. * Potted Meat Food Product (essentially, very generic Spam). No, I've never eaten it...it scares me. * One of this troper's favorite jokes: -->Q: What's big, red, and eats rocks? -->A: [[spoiler:A big red rock eater.]] ** We have that too:

--->Q: What's small, green and triangular? --->A: [[spoiler:A small green triangle.]] ** Probably the original: --->Q: What's brown and sticky? --->A: [[spoiler:A stick.]] ** A favorite of this troper: --->Q: What's red and shaped like a bucket? --->A: [[spoiler:A red bucket.]] --->Q: What's blue and shaped like a bucket? --->A: [[spoiler:A red bucket in disguise.]] -----> [[spoiler: '''Red Bucket:''' [[TeamFortress2 Gentlemen.]]]] ** Another Classic: --->Q: What's green, nailed to a wall, and whistles? --->A: [[spoiler:A herring]]. [[{{Mirrormask}} Srsly.]] ** A favorite of [[{{Tropers/Smerf}} this]] troper, in series, which will require some explaination: --->Q1: What's pink and fluffy? --->A1: [[spoiler: Pink fluff]]. --->Q2: What's brown and sticky? --->A2: [[spoiler: A stick]]. --->Q3: [[{{IfYouKnowWhatIMean}} What's white and sticky?]] --->A3: [[spoiler: Katie]]. Explaination: [[spoiler: my friend Katie is tall, thin and pale]]. Now get your mind out of the gutter. ** An extension to the original riddle in this sequence: -->Q: What's big, red, and eats sand? -->A: [[spoiler:A big red rock eater ''on a diet''.]] * This troper likes to respond to questions he doesn't know like this: -->Q: What's the answer? -->A: [[spoiler: That which is the answer to this question.]] * Subverted by a gradeschool teacher, who insisted that her class went through everything (#2 pencils, construction paper, etc.) like "tissues in flu season". When February arrived, a horrible virus was passed around the school. Her response? "We need parents to bring in more boxes of tissues. We're going through them like... oh..." * I often say that someone is using this even if they aren't as a joke, for example "you know, putting RPG, girl, and half dressed in the same sentence makes it a tautology". * One of my friends is a teacher in Japan. She was grading papers and encountered this nugget of wisdom. "A convenience store is the most convenient of all the stores" * This Troper's physics teacher, after one particularly inane question answer. "Yes, it's a circular circle, but what else?" * When at university we had some alcohol we had purchased in the supermarket and needed somewhere to drink it. We realised the licensing restrictions (and general politeness)meant that we couldn't do this in the college bar, yet there were some tables outside the bar area which we assumed were fair game. We assumed wrong, as we discovered when the barman informed us that what we were doing was "illegal and against the law." We duly moved outside instead, which was quite frankly a better idea anyway. * This troper does this on purpose for comedic effect. One example: -->'''Biology teacher:''' Does anyone have any guesses as to what

happens during DNA replication? -->'''This troper:''' ...DNA gets replicated? * This troper once had a guy enter his car. The first words? "This car has a scent, it smells like a car." My friends use this line to remind him who I am whenever he forgets my name. ** Another friend came up with "That cloud is shaped like a cloud!" He was talking about how it looked like a generic cartoon cloud, but still... * Frustrating example from TA'ing introductory geology: Trying to explain what [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustre_(mineralogy) luster]] looks like. "Metallic luster: it looks like metal." And yet, I still get questions and obviously wrong answers. * This troper once saw in a restaurant menu "Ocha Tea"... ("ocha" means tea in japanese... so yeah) * This troper's textbook AbsentMindedProfessor once set this as a final essay: -->Answer any one of the following questions at something like the expected length, or any other question -- check with me first -arising out of the course. (Due whenever your other work is due.) ** Thankfully, the questions themselves were rather more specific. * This troper's accounting teacher: "So as you can see the debits equal the credits because as we all know, the debits have to equal the credits. About 25% of you will still get this wrong on the final." (and sure enough, about a quarter of the students got it wrong on the final.) * This troper was bored during a maths lesson. Enough so that he's got a list of the ways to say 1=1. * I like to subvert this one: -->Are you here? -->No, I'm already gone. ** Alternately: -->Is it you? -->No, it's somebody really similar to me. ** Same for [[{{Tropers/Lioyd}} this troper]], who likes to combine it with DeadpanSnarker and answer with every cue he can find ''but'' words. --> '''Interphone:''' Who is this ? --> '''Me:''' It's him. --> '''Interphone:''' Who, "him" ? --> '''Me:''' Who do you ''think'' this is ? ([[DontExplainTheJoke The joke here is that]] [[SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay only I answer that way]], [[MindScrew so I'm answering without actually answering.]] I'm that kind of person.) ** And here's when I don't know the answer: --> '''X:''' Where is <person> ? --> '''Me:''' S/He's dead. I killed him. ** This Troper's boyfriend says about the same thing: --> '''A:''' Where's <person> ? --> '''Boyfriend:''' They imploded. * Whilst trying to find something to hold the door open in the lab with my labmate doing a rummage fail, This Troper had the following exchange when they found something they couldn't describe "Is it

wedge-shaped ?" "Yes" " It is a wedge?" * In [[Tropers/PentiumMMX2 this troper's]] dreams, there is occasionally a really repetitive song in it. [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Thanks to this site]], I had one recently where the song's only lyrics where [[MoreDakka "More dakka equals more dakka"]] ad nauseam. * This troper works at a cafe where one of her least favourite tasks is to squeeze the water out of canned tuna for tuna salad, with her hands. She has described it as "exactly as unpleasant as it sounds". * I teach English as a Second Language and at one point gave my students a worksheet where they had to read a short passage about Spiderman and answer some questions about it. Asked to describe Spiderman in three words, one student chose to respond "like a Spiderman." * I will kill you so hard, you are going to die to death! * [[@/SoWeAteThem I]] once had to say the following in all seriousness during an argument concerning how much I owed a colleague: -->[[ItMakesSenseInContext But during the course of you using it, it]] ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext became]]'' [[ItMakesSenseInContext used.]] ** I'll be a while before I let him live that one down. * Similar to the above, this Troper was telling his dad that his (the dad's) VCR still worked. After being asked "What do you mean?" This Troper replied, "It doesn't ''not'' work!" * This troper has seen a sign on a bus that says "Please remain seated in your seats." * This troper, who does this all the time, is a troper who frequently does this. Also, during this troper's Media 1 class, we were looking for reviews of the movie Crossbar, and one called it "'Crossbar' AKA 'Crossbar'". * This troper once drank out of a Wendy's cup that said "If we had cut up today's tomatoes yesterday, they'd be yesterday's tomatoes." * [[@/HersheleOstropoler I]] have had lines from ''TheSocialNetwork'' recited to me, and declared them [[AaronSorkin Sorkin]]-like. * This biology-teaching troper came across this gem while making up notes on the urinary system, "[The] kidneys are reddish, kidney-beanshaped organs..." That's right, kidneys are shaped just like the beans that resemble kidneys! * This troper, when asked "When are you finished? Are you finished yet? ... How about now? (etc.)" usually replies "I'm finished when I'm finished!" Also this troper's mother's reply to the inevitable "Are we there yet?": "We're there when we're there". * From 90% of the customer service people I deal with, whenever some nonsensical hoop to jump through comes up in whatever I'm trying to achieve. "Um, why do you require that?" "It's our policy." *bangs head against the wall* ---Go back to [[ShapedLikeItself the page you return to]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ShareTheMalePain

* While not a testicle example, ThisTroper, who is a speedrunner, actually cringes in pain whenever he sees an obvious big mistake in a 'run. So in a way he shares his pain. * This troper is female and cringes at groin kicks. ** Same. ** MeToo ** It's strange how we do that too, isn't it? I mean, we don't even have them, but a hard enough shot makes us cringe almost as bad as the boys. ** My fellow females and other tropers, I have a theory. See, the external part of our clitoris has the same amount of nerves as a penis, but it's (usually) quite, quite small and protected by our labia. However, if someone's aim was just right, an otherwise mildly inconvenient GroinAttack on a woman would make her take it like a man quite literally, sprinkled with an extra dose of WTF. *** This female troper, when she was about 10-12 years old, borrowed her brother's bicycle to go down the street. Upon reaching her destination, she leapt off the bike just as she did on her own, forgetting that the crossbar is much higher on men's bikes. She can verify that the above troper's theory is correct. ** I do the same thing. You don't have to have it to feel empathy for someone in pain. * [[MrDeath This troper]] was playing ''BatmanArkhamAsylum'' when his brother came into the room. Just as he came in, Batman was doing a slow motion take-down that consisted of lifting the guy's leg and kneeing him square in the balls. Said brother just cringed. * [[BTIsaac This troper]] reacted similarly to the castration scene at the end of {{Hostel}}2. * On Thanksgiving, [[{{Vendetta}} this troper]]'s teacher showed us a video that detailed the processing and serving of turkeys, among other things. At one point, we were treated to several shots of a chef diligently cutting up turkey testicles, prompting the guys in the class to begin wincing and groaning loudly. * A [[{{DistaffCounterpart}} Share The Female Pain example]]: My reaction to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efB2G3puh6Y# the opening]] of {{Eiken}}. FYI: ''bouncing like that would hurt like '''FUCK.''' '' ** This male troper suddenly has a feeling of unexplained sympathy for endowed females. ** Holy.... That was just traumatic. Excuse me while I go bind my chest now. ** Ow! Geez! {holds chest down} Just...oww... ** Uhm...this male troper doesn't get it. Sounds gross, but can any of you girls can describe me how that feels? *** I'm a guy as well, but an approximation is to tape small bags of sand to your chest, right over your nipples. Make sure the bags weigh a pound or two. Also, make sure they're as tight as possible. Okay, not grab them and start pulling them in different directions. It hurts like the dickens, even more so peeling the tape off afterward. **** Oooooh, I see. Sounds like level 5 on the pain chart. ** HOLY MACKEREL OW, OW, OW OW OW. -clutches chest- Breasts are not supposed to do that!

** This male Troper would like to say this looks very very very... screw that, words can not describe how painful that would feel. * This editor saw a [[http://static.hlj.com/images/hbj/hbj25514_1.jpg scan]] from [[QueensBlade Cattleya's]] game book, at which point he cringed as his nonexistent breasts wept in sympathy. * One ''female'' troper has this sympathy pain for both sexes, and even reacts with winces and cringes to pictures of nipple or genital piercing. She has too vivid an imagination and can imagine the probable pain level of the actual impact/piercing/etc. * This (female) troper likes to invoke this trope by casually mentioning the word "castration" to a group of males and laughing as they all cringe (considering [[MenstrualMenace how much she hates her uterus]], attempts to make her cringe at the word "hysterectomy" [[InsultBackfire tend to not work]]). She'd also [[ExpospeakGag like to correctly refer to it as an "orichidectomy"]], but is afraid [[ViewersAreMorons no one else would get it]]. ** I hope you only do it to guys that are [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkassess]], springing something like that on an unsuspecting group of average guys is just [[MoralDissonance cruel.]] :( * In one forum, we were discussing clitoridectomy, and a girl just wrote "[=*crosses legs*=]". * This troper was taking an anthropology class. We were talking about initiation rites. When we got to circumcision in Africa, every male's hands were over his groin. * Gender-flipped in this troper's sociology class. We were watching a video about female genital mutilation in Africa and...yeah.. * After reading [[http://www.cracked.com/article/156_7-sex-tips-fromcosmo-that-will-put-you-in-hospital/ this]] [[{{Cracked}} Cracked]] article, this (male) troper couldnt avoid feeling the pain. The hillarious part is that even his sister and (female) friend could feel it, particullary when reading #1 on the list. * This link, Batman copping it this time...ouch doesn't even begin to describe it. For those wanting to know here's the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5USkEbpzig link.]] WARNING: The person who ripped this must think this is FetishFuel considering the slow-motion replay. [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} This troper]] [[{{HighOctaneNightmareFuel}} just thought it was painful]], especially since it ''is'' Batman getting thusly pained, to the degree of feeling as if [[{{Ptitlebeohy6n8}}the groin of my soul was being abused like that as well]]... * Inverted for this female trooper. I was at my dorm floor when her floor mates shrieked and cringed at a story where a girl shaved her ''nipple'' off. All of us responded with protectively hugging our chests. ** Same here. This troper and a bunch of classmates were looking at a news story about a snake who bit a model's breast. We watched the actual video, and when the snake started biting, every girl who was watching clutched their boob and groaned/cringed in sympathy. * This Troper, at the ripe old age of 16, acquired a rather 'unusual' genital piercing. Said piercing is called the 'Apadravya', and he will caution you before you go google for pictures of what it is. The procedure is to pierce a 1.12mm diameter (at smallest) hollow needle

through the glans (head) of a fully erect penis. Because I have a high pain tolerance, the actual piercing stage didn't hurt all that badly; however, the clamp that is required to flatten and 'thin out' the area is quite discomforting and was the worst part for me. But yeah guys, imagine a needle going straight through your raging manhood. ** TheOtherWiki actually has a picture of this accompanying an explanatory article. I'm female, and I'm crossing my legs in response. * Literal example: in 9th grade, this male troper was harassed by a [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal fat, fugly female]] bully. One day, said bully approached this troper and tried to convince him that all the harassment was just good fun. She never finished whatever she meant to say because this troper hit her with a knee to the cooch, learning in the while that females are vulnerable down there too. ---Go back to...oh, that's ''really'' gotta hurt. [[ShareTheMalePain *cringe*]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SheCleansUpNicely Life imitating art. The tropers themselves have lived this trope. ---* This Troper usually wears cargo pants and tshirts and uses a little makeup. When she showed up at a school ceremony dressed in a long, flowy dress and high-heels one of her male friends said in a very suprised voice: 'Jesus Christ, you're a ''girl''!' * This troper never puts on makeup or dresses up as she feels it's too much of a hassle. However, she did dress up for a school dance, and EVERYONE was shocked to see her as such. Even the guys had their jaws dropped. It flattered this troper, but it hasn't had the same effect since. * This Troper is an anime loving {{Tomboy}} who mainly wears T-shirts with long shorts or jeans with Converse sneakers. However, when I cosplayed as [[{{D Gray man}} Road Kamelot]] for Halloween a couple years ago, my guy friends, who were cosplaying as [[{{Sgt Frog}} Mutsumi]] and [[{{One Piece}} Luffy]] were suprised to see me in an {{Elegant Goth Lolita}} outfit, since they usually saw me in tomboyish clothes. I didn't get the same reaction last Halloween, since I was cosplaying as [[{{Gintama}} Gintoki]]. * It was the first day of Coachella 2011, and This Troper was watching an interview 98.7 FM had with her favorite band, {{Flogging Molly}}. In the interview, they were dressed down in T-shirts, shorts, and other casual wear. Later that night, when This Troper saw Flogging Molly come onstage to do their set, she was suprised that the same band she saw in the interview earlier that day were now dressed in suits, collared shirts, vests, blazers, leather jackets, and other dressy-casual wear. This Troper knew for a long time that they always dressed like that in concerts and on album covers, but she was astonished that Dave King (the singer) wore a Mexico T-shirt with

shorts a few hours ago, and here he was wearing a white, pinstripe, collared shirt with a tie, slacks, dress shoes, and a blazer. Mind blown! * This troper has been told by a workmate repeatedly "For god's sake, dress more like a girl!" due to the one time I came in with a fairly nice poloneck and a pair of jeans instead of layers and layers of men's shirts, tees and a man's suit. I appreciate I clean up nice, but I get mildly uncomfortable when men look at me differently when I dress nicely, so usually don't. when I do (year 12 prom, friend's mom's birthday party) I always get surprised "You look nice today" comments. * ThisTroper asked Mary to go dancing with him at the local dance hall were a Jazz Band was going to be playing. After all, we danced together all the time for practice. She showed up all fancied up. My jaw literally dropped open and I stumbled over my hello. Mary's response was to first blush and then smirk. ** Which is a note, two other common responses are blushing (shy) and smirking (pleasure that they can make a man act a fool over them), depending on the girl's personality. * More truth in television - this troper was at the senior gala with her boyfriend when a mutual friend came up and said hi only to the boyfriend. Troper said "um, HI Chuck" causing a very humorous doubletake and "um, wow, I was just about to ask to be introduced." ** Along those same lines, this troper is not in the habit of putting make-up on or doing anything with her hair and her outfits tend to be composed of "whatever happened to be handy at the moment." Needless to say, she put a great deal of effort into her appearance for her high school prom. She was quite insulted to find that all her friends were ignoring her, and when she decided that enough was enough and opened her mouth to speak, all her friends essentially responded in shock at the fact that their friend and the pretty girl were one and the same. * A boy who had paid [[{{Indigo}} this troper]] no attention but had suddenly asked me out for the prom had this reaction when I came down the stairs in my prom dress...which I actually hated, so the response was that much more gratifying. * Subverted in [[GwenStacyWannabe my]] case - I went to homecoming sophomore year with my [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend best male friend]], and while he was obviously thinking this, he didn't say anything about it. However, he [[ExactEavesDropping happened to hear]] my [[TheLibby worst enemy]] remark the day after the event, "Wow, did you see [troper's name] at homecoming? I mean, usually she just wears T-shirts and sweatpants, but she had a dress and her hair was up and everything! [[BeautifulAllAlong She looked gorgeous!]]" [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Apparently I was just that good.]] * Once this troper wore a tight, sequined red dress for a school play. She was just as shocked as everyone else at her own appearance because all she ever wears are hoodies and jeans with no makeup and my hair in a pathetic attempt at a ponytail. My own ''brother'' (Although he is pretty stupid) even asked [[{{Squick}} who that hot girl on stage was]] because he didn't recognise me. ** I can almost hear that question in my head: *** "Who's that hot girl on stage?"

*** "That's... your sister." * [[JawDrop jaw falling on the floor]]* * In secondary school, [[{{Momonga}} this troper]] had to wear a uniform that was decidedly unflattering and shapeless. Most of the girls shortened their skirts and shrank their shirts in the dryer, but this troper didn't really care enough to do so. Thus, on the rare occasions when her classmates saw her in something other than the uniform, particularly a dress, they were rather shocked - not so much because this troper was supermodel-gorgeous (she wasn't) but because she looked like a teenager instead of a little girl. ** A more traditional example happened recently, when this troper (now in her early 20s) descended the stairs in her outfit for the Renaissance Faire. Troper's boyfriend was waiting at the bottom of the stairs, and looked stunned. This is why this troper wishes her entire life consisted of occasions to wear costumes. *** This troper is in her thirties, and shares that wish with you. * It ain't just Troperettes. This troper was (okay, IS) not anybody's idea of Brad Pitt. However, said troper had an interview and donned a brand new suit, a clean shave, and a freshly shaved head. With all the head turns and sudden excuses to stop and chat, you would've thought he was Will Smith. ** But on your way to the interview, you got in one little fight and your mom got scared? *** LOL! The above post is MadeOfWin, in this troper's opinion. * This troper got this from her AmbiguouslyGay male friend just before a school formal - she was rewarded with bulgy eyes and a "... well look at ''you!!''" As her dress was rather cleavage-y, she now assumes that phrase means "Boobies!!" ** Take it from this male troper-theres a 3/5 chance that's exactly what it means, depending on the guy. * Inversion: It seems like this troper only get compliments on her hair when she hasn't washed it in practically a week. Weird, but I'm not about to complain. * For her church's Vacation Bible School, this troper spent a week being a scurvy pirate villainess. (Note that her character was a lousy bad guy.) By the end of the week, having converted according to the script, she was asked to "take a bath" before joining the crew of good guys. Having spent the week in drab, ill-fitting ratty clothes, she took more than a few people by surprise when she emerged for the finale with her hair curled and wearing a lace-up period dress. One of the teenaged helpers did a huge double-take, swallowed, and blurted "Hi!" ** Just curious: was this "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything," most likely in 2008? My sister and I played those two pirates. We didn't dress up for the end, though. *** It was! My husband and I were the pirates. We just took the finale as an opportunity to wear our Renaissance faire costumes, which went over huge. * This male troper gets it a lot whenever he has to get dressed up for anything. Since he went to a private school, where 'dress up' to most is what was school dress code, he includes taming his hair and wearing contacts, which he doesn't do every day of the week. * This troper had a terrifically gratifying instance of this. I spent

HS in very modest clothes (for comfort as much as any other reason) and being a fairly geeky theater techie so, one show, when the only black I had that was clean was a tight, lower cut shirt and velvet skirt, I literally made our personal pretty-boy actor, who the rest of the time wouldn't acknowledge my existence, speechless. I had to prompt him for whatever question he was asking and he finally stuttered it out. So. Very. Gratifying. * This troper recently wore a low-cut dress for a costume party. (Normally, neither low-cut nor dress is my style.) Apparently it hadn't twigged with some of my male friends before that moment that, yes, as a female, I do have breasts. They didn't have to stare for the entire night, though. * This troper is another male example. Too lazy to shave regularly, habitual slouch, haphazard clothing choices, and hair that sorta does its own thing. When I care enough to try, I can make myself look very nice. ** Are you my twin brother? This troper tends to shave once a week (and my beard grows in less than a few days) and without at least 3 hair products my hair is a mess; however, when I take the time to look in my closet for something nice; shave and use said products I've made several jaws drop (male and female though I don't care for the latter) * [[{{Crimson Rider}} This Troper]] has a similar effect. Being a geek and proud of it, not to mention currently living a bachelor's live and being colorblind like a bat, he tends to show up unshaven, in old clothes, no haircut to speak of and crunching code and munching tech like a giddy child. Then days come around when he has to actually meet clients, so he has to wear the suit and tie, visit a barber and get that head cleaned up. Then his coworkers started flirting with him and only 2 weeks later found out he was kind enough to let them persist in their illusion. His self esteem has grown another 2 inches since that day. * This Troper lives in jeans and T-shirts, no makeup, and no hair...thingies. (I have it cut short). She does occasionally wear dresses around the house; long story short, a male friend of hers saw this and begged her to wear dresses for one week at school. She did. She has never felt more like her boobs were mentally groped as that week. But she got a lot of compliments, and a huge self-esteem boost. Yay! * Another male example. This troper's friends didn't know that he even owned a suit until he showed at one friend's wedding looking like he was auditioning for the role of 007. The groom asked if he had a Walther PPK in the jacket as well. * This troper usually lives in grungy jeans and tee-shirts, my hair is up in a ponytail more often than not, and I usually look like I don't give a damn about my appearance. I have one black dress, however, and on the few occasions I've had to wear it, it has never failed to make at least half the room turn and gawk. (Being endowed with the MostCommonSuperpower probably doesn't hurt there, I guess...) * This troper's normally a geeky and under-endowed chemical engineering student, but she managed to pull this on her girlfriend last year at a Christmas pageant at church. The look on my girlfriend's face when I showed up in makeup (a first sight for her),

high heels (also a first), and a black dress that almost made my chest respectable was worth every second of the hour or so I took getting ready (as compared to my normal five minutes getting ready for the day). ** Her girlfriend? Christmas? Church? [[FridgeLogic uh...]] {{NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat}}, but... [[ValuesDissonance church]]? [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Fortunately, few fundamentalists freaked]]? ** It's backwater Georgia. People freaked more about my dress than that I'm a lesbian. And that my girlfriend, now fiance, was born in Russia more than that I was dating another girl. * This [[LonersAreFreaks corner-dwelling]], [[MoeMoe twin-tailed]] troper, who was always [[OlderThanTheyLook confused for a freshman]] and [[{{Lolicon}} attracted weird stalker-guys]], once donned a stereotypical "popular" girl outfit and makeup, just to play with people's minds. She's not sure anyone recognized her, and those who did couldn't seem to process what they were seeing. * This Troper garners this reaction at least once a year. There's always one fancy dress-up occasion a year at her school. And everyone seems to forget that the dork who wears pants constantly is actually a nice-looking young lady. Yes, lady. Female. Girl. Woman. * This male troper managed to pull this one off for prom night. Generally a scruffy kid dressed in old t-shirts and ripped jeans, the sight of him wearing a white suit, complete with a white fedora made this quite a shock to most of my friends, as I even combed my long curly and tangly hair for this occasion. Few people recognized me under the hat, initially. ** Sounds like you went for the Michael Jackson look. * My big brother's best friend since childhood, Dan, was always a stereotypical looking punk/proto-goth. He always had long dark hair, makeup, an earring, [[spoiler:seemingly normal vision]], huge black boots, and LOTS of black leather. One day, I answered the door to discover a strange man with neat blonde hair, a sharp tweed suit, and thin gold-rimmed glasses asking for my brother. As I listened to my brother and he converse, it slowly dawned on me that '''this''' was Dan! After I picked my jaw off the floor, it turned out that my brother and he had decided to hitch a ride on the internet boom, and Dan had been soliciting investors. * [[AcrossTheStars This troper]] and her close gay friend went to prom together. Now, as a rule, I lived in relaxed jeans and oversized sweatshirts with hair scraped back in a ponytail and no makeup because I just don't care - when I wasn't in a slightly-too-big version of our school uniform (khakis and a polo). I show up in a stunning strapless crimson dress that you have to have just the right coloring to pull off, with expertly done makeup (by a dancer friend) and hair twisted up in a fancy 'do (by a friend who happens to be ''really'' good at hair). Cue this trope. He later told me, "I don't bat for that team, but [Troper's full name]... ''wow''." We also had great fun discussing the fact that my [[LoveInterest love interest]], who was in a relationship, couldn't seem to keep his eyes off me and tended to scowl fiercely whenever he saw my date and me together. It was truly delicious. My date told me it was classic jealousy symptoms.

* This troper has seen her friend getting ready to go out to ballet. Hot girl+Skintight clothes = IllBeInMyBunk * This troper managed to almost pull it off once - nice dress, good hair-do, etc, - and then when she realised a bunch of people were staring at her she got flustered and tripped over her high heels. ** [[CuteClumsyGirl That]] isn't necessarily a bad thing. * A staple of high school and now, apparently university, is my ability to shock people into speechlessness when I actually make an effort. Most of this is due to a tendency to wear ancient gig tshirts, battered jeans, and jackets which obscure almost my entire body shape (male, by the way). When I actually bother to shave, shape hair, wear a suit and change my entire body language and posture in a conscious effort, I don't come out too bad. Even been compared to George Clooney and Pierce Brosnan, just without the grey hair. Thank God for dimples. * This troper works outside with horses. My normal attire is breeches and a polo shirt, with my hair hidden underneath my helmet (it's a rule in English riding; apparently hair is evil and must not be seen). I have several friends I only know through the barn. Invariably, if/when we go out to eat or to a bar, this is the response I get. Always flattering. It's amazing how much just washing off the dirt will do for you. * This troper developed a huge crush on this one boy after she saw him clean up (sort of) nicely for a drama club production. * Inversion: Meeting a woman for the first time IRL, made up and dressed up to her sexiest best, but it was all spoiled by her extreme nervous tension. We managed awkward, dissatisfying sex that night. The next morning, she was disheveled but fresh-faced with natural beauty, looked 10 years younger and completely irresistible. We had a ''very'' good morning. * Personally played straight: most the time I'm telecommuting after rolling out of bed and throwing on a few rags. I posted one webcam shot and the response was, "You look like a German heavy metal musician!". I later posted a headshot made for my resume and the response was, "Profit!" * Subversion: [[InsanityInside This troper]] usually wears jeans and baggy T-shirts and it seems that all clothes start looking worn the moment she starts wearing them. When she was forced to dress up for a ball in high school, she looked (and felt) rather silly. I just look better in my normal clothes. * Completely and totally averted with this (male) troper. Not helooks-better-in-rags, but actually a preference for girls who don't wear skirts or makeup and lack the MostCommonSuperpower. Preferably with short hair. (''AND ONLY GIRLS'', in case you were thinking what he thinks you were thinking.) Yes, he knows he has strange taste. ** This (similarly male) troper apparently shares your tastes, [[{{BiTheWay}} save for the part about "and only girls"]]. He himself also apparently manages to both play this trope straight and subvert it, according to the comments if he either forgets to shave for a while or cleans up and throws on a suit. Considering that this troper [[{{IfItsYouItsOkay}} is usually]] [[{{Asexuality}} asexual]], the comments that result can be somewhat [[{{Squick}} squicky]].

* [[{{SMDeathwind}} This troper]] would like to think he qualifies. Typically scruffy haired and in whatever clothes he picked up off of the floor, but the moment you tell him he needs to look smart for something, well... he likes to think he delivers. He'll let you decide for yourselves. ([[http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9603/olololmew.jpg sometime late April, normal]]; [[http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e271/SMDeathwind/Photos/smallerish rose.jpg early July for prom]].) ** Not bad. :) ** If [[AcrossTheStars I]] admit to having a bit of a crush on you now, will you get freaked out? ** Am [[Tropers/{{Nerdarena}} I]] alone in thinking [[NerdsAreSexy the first one was better]]? * This tropette is the living example. I look androygnous - could be a dude,could be a guy. She gets her hair done and puts on form-fitting clothes,she's hot enough to get whistles at the mall. Ego-stoking. Her CMOA? Her prom. She didn't have a date because she decided she didn't need one. She went and NOBODY recognized her. She was standing there talking to a jerkass with a date and he didn't notice until my friend spoke up. The bastard blinked three times and visibly jumped with surprise."EDITH?!?!" "Hello,Eric." * cool smirk* ....You clean up well. Fuck that -- you evolved." Sneer/Smirk. She wasn't gonna sour the mood. She had to admit,for a neurotic asshole,he did too. "You look pretty sharp yourself." We nodded to one another out of respect. I danced so hard I broke the straps on my shoes. * This troper has lived this trope a few times. She isn't one for dressing up, she's one for being comfortable in whatever she's wearing. This usually means oversized clothes that aren't flattering. Also, a bandana over her hair keeps it from falling in her face, yay! She also wears glasses. So, one day at school, she forgot said bandana. People saw her hair, and many asked why she didn't show it more often. She does now that it's grown long enough not to fall in her face. More recently, she was in a theatre production and was taking off her makeup when one of the techies walked in and ''immediately hugged her'' because she wasn't wearing glasses. Needless to say, she was a little freaked out. Especially when the next night she received a dozen roses from said guy. Naturally, he was a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk and was obsessed throughout the cast party with at the very least making out. He got nothing. * Up until only a year or two ago, this troper would only wear very large t-shirts, jeans, and a hasty ponytail. When her brother got married and she was asked to be a bridesmaid, she consented to an updo hairstyle, formal dress, and high heels. This troper's cousin stated the trope name verbatim to the groom, causing the troper in question to roll her eyes because looking nice evidently involved being EXTREMELY uncomfortable - not just the shoes, but the industrial strength hairspray, and the fact that this troper's hair is very thick and was quite long at the time (an updo with that kind of hair hurts the neck). This troper has since learned how to look nice and be comfortable at the same time, and is now more at ease with the idea that she "cleans up nicely." * In eighth grade, this troper was invited to a school dance at her

old school. Everyone who knew her from the years before had seen her pretty much exclusively in jeans and a t-shirt or wearing her school uniform, but that night she showed up in a black and blue dress ordered from one of those girlie fashion catalogs, her hair curled and with sparkly butterfly clips done in and wearing chunky combat boots (it was 2000!). According to one of the friends who invited her, the former [[JerkJock crush]] of the troper stopped and stared whenever she walked in. The kicker? The troper ignored the guy the rest of the night. * Subversion: This troper once asked a girl he'd met at camp to a school dance. At camp she wore glasses and casual clothes, had messy hair, and was cute. For the dance she turned up in contacts, a pink dress and looked like Barbie. She was more attractive at camp. * This (male) troper generally attracts little to no interest when dressed casually or for cycling. Worn-out, faded jeans, scruffy black workboots, black T-shirt, long hair held back in a ponytail, and either an open buttoned shirt or a short leather jacket over the top. For more formal/social occasions, he lets the hair down, cleans the boots up, swaps to baggy black trousers with chains on, dons a floorlength black trenchcoat, and acts more dynamically to avoid snagging everything. The results tend to speak for themselves. * I know a girl who cleans ''down'' nicely. Pretty enough girl, always wore slightly dressy formal-ish clothing. Until she joined stage crew, and walked out in her paint clothes, which were tight-fitting and very... [[MostCommonSuperPower flattering.]] Many of the men in the cast and on crew had a very difficult time focusing from there on out. * This CloudCuckoolander Tomboy was even told by her Prom Date that he couldn't imagine her in a dress looking all dolled up. Though she doesn't want to say that she did clean up nicely, everybody else had that reaction. She nearly lost her hearing with all the squealing from friends and wellwishers upon seeing her. Even her cynical and deadpan friend actually squealed. ThisTroper still insists it was just the shock value of her in a dress more than looking pretty. * [[TheRenaissanceRaver This Troper]] has a very bad tendency to make people double-take by doing this. She is a rather cynical tomboy that ''hates'' having to wear a dress... and, for the heck of it, chose to go to the [[HighSchoolDance homecoming dance]] anyway, even if she would go solo. A lot of her friends {{Squee}}'d when they saw her in full make up, hair done, and a dress. * I usually go out in the first shirt and pair of jeans I can find, and have hair long and unruly enough to cover most of my face, which it tends to do. But when I had to play in my music school's recital, though, I was told to dress nicely. For the occasion, I wore a nice, buttoned shirt and combed my hair so it wouldn't get in my eyes. The amount of girls who came up with reasons to talk to me (according to one of my friends there, there were even a few taking pictures of me when I was playing on stage) was... a nice ego boost. :) * This troper dated a T-shirt and jeans kind of girl. On one special occasion, we set up a date to the symphony orchestra. I was in a penguin suit, she was in...well, it's been eleven years and I still remember that dress. Never before has a cheesy line been so sincere as when I said "Wow. I knew you were beautiful, but ''wow''." Everything

was a bit more beautiful that night. The girl, the sky, the Beethoven... * This troper once showed up to Pre-calculus wearing a black suit, white shirt, black tie, pants, and black shoes, when he normally shows up wearing a polo shirt over a hoodie with jeans and sneakers. I ended up turning heads for the whole afternoon, though I'd actually just come back from my cousin's funeral. * [[TheTallOne I]] have a tendency to wear shapeless, baggy clothing to school. So when we had to swim in gym class, my male friend could only boggle. I snarked at him about it, and he actually said "You have boobs!" * [[{{Ramiel}} This troper]] is often told (ad verbatim) that HeCleansUpNicely whenever he dresses up. * This troper accomplished this [[spoiler: twice]] at her school dance. Make note that this troper is a WrenchWench, owns three dresses, and would rather play with tools than makeup. This troper showed up in a dress and ballet flats, with her wild curls down instead of a in a ponytail in the base of her neck. Also, the glasses went bye bye. First time, this troper and a couple of friends were going to the bathroom. Could have sworn that one of this troper's guy friends was shocked by this troper's attire, but not sure since this troper was half-way through a door. Then, another friend noticed and remarked, "(Troper's name), you're in a dress!" My response? Smirk and the evil eye. Plus a sarcastic remark or two, seeing as this troper is also a LittleMissSnarker. ** The kicker for the second time? [[spoiler: This was after the dance was over, and this troper had talked to him at least twice since the dance started. FacePalm.]] * [[{{Luna87}} This troper]] somewhat subverted this at her senior prom. Sure, I'm usually a {{Tomboy}}/{{Granola Girl}}, and did end up wearing a lovely dress, makeup, pretty hair, heels, and :gasp: acrylic nails to the prom. But as for the subversion, I still wore my [[{{Meganekko}} trademark eyeglasses]]. * This Troper is a Male Version of this trope. I'm very lazy 95% of the time getting dressed, and dress for comfort (Read sweat pants). When I go to Jeans and a Nice Shirt I get compliments. When I go Suit, tie and shoes I get hit on by anything that moves. The first time this happened, it squicked me out (I'm straight Much to their disappointment.) Several years later I have learned to take this simply as a compliment, and my Girlfriend is not a stranger to this trope either. Nothing Like attending a function and having the guests get neck strain as we control the dance floor. * [[DarkInsanity13 This troper]] used to get this when she was younger. All she tended to wear was mismatched, boyish or very unflattering clothes with her hair constantly in a low ponytail. Her friends liked to drag her to dances and whatnot, and troper would feel compelled to style her hair differently and pick out half-decent clothes. Cue people commenting on how pretty troper looked. Occasionally subverted in that what she chose to wear sometimes still wasn't particularly flattering. Nowadays, while troper may not have any close female friends anymore to drag her to such social gatherings or doll her up, she's gotten wise to decent fashion and wears her hair

down much more often (especially since she found keeping it in a ponytail for so long was damaging it). She still has tomboyish tendencies personality-wise and clothing-wise, but she's definately getting better at what actually looks good on her versus what's comfortable. But she can still have her friends doing double-takes when she shows up wearing a skirt (and a skirt-skirt, not a skirt/shorts combo) and fresh-from-the-salon hair. * Some creepy stalker guy said this to me once. Ack. * Happened to this male Troper on his third year of college. While he takes a shower everyday, he only used to shave on Mondays, which means the teacher from International Trading class on Fridays always saw him with a full growth beard and dressed casually. Then, one day, the teacher proposed to skip a class and attend a fair to which this Troper decided it would be appropriate to attend with a clean shave and wearing his best suit. Cue to every single one of his classmates walking past him and even his teacher taking several seconds before accepting his handshake. * This (male) Troper went to a high school with a dress code (Khaki pants, button down shirt, a tie, and sports coat) and never got this because its not a big flying leap from what I wore five days out of the week, for nine months out of the year and a good looking tux for prom or other big dance. It changed in college, where he kept a very scraggly appearance and rarely cut his until junor year when career stuff demanded I look presentable. Then this troper got this a lot, but only because his default standard for his appearance is "I don't have to look at myself, you tell me to change if its an issue." * Subverted by [[{{Divra}} This troper]]. Hard. He can't clean up. Period. Every time he tries wearing something other than his usual boots/jeans/t-shirt/grungy brown leather jacket-getup, he feels like he's in some kind of costume. And his demeanor shows it. * This troper values comfort over everything. His usual attire is a pair of bermudas and a T-shirt. At school, he pretty much looks like [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Kyon, only without the blazer]]. Fast forward to the prom night, and you can guess what happens, based on the aforementioned examples. He cleans up his act, puts on something decent, and isn't recognized. Until he opens his mouth and his classmates identify him from the hurricane of references to science and anime. * Apologies for the TroperTale, but this troper's friends chose where to meet for prom pictures based on who had the most impressive staircase. * This troper usually is lucky to even use hair straighteners, let alone gel his hair and wears pretty much what I decide the night before rather than wear anything trendy (it takes me about five minutes to decide what I'm going to wear). So, when the holly ball came, it came as a great surprise for everyone that I had actually gelled my hair and that I was wearing a suit (well, the ticket did say formal dress). Possibly a subversion, since I actually suit a shirt and tie better than casual dress. * [[{{Tropers.Accela}} This Troper]] (who shall refer to herself in 1st person now) astonished my prom date when I met him at the door with a floor-length, dark blue, gorgeous dress that showed my curves,

[[{{Letting Her Hair Down}} my hair down]] and styled (for once), heels, and, miracle of miracles, makeup. I normally dress in a baggy shirt or sweatshirt, khakis, and ratty sneakers. Makeup is never an option and my hair is only ever in a low ponytail. When we actually got a prom, a lot of people did double-takes. It was wonderful, but I'm not going to go through all that trouble again (the hair alone took nearly 4 hours!). I did, however, keep my glasses because otherwise I walk into walls. * This troper spends most of the school year in a not particularly exciting dress or shirt and pants, ponytail and no makeup. However, showing up to formal, she had her hair in loose curls, a metalic blue dress and make up on and some people still didn't recognise her till the afterparty. She was still getting compliments a couple of weeks later. * Yet another prom example here: I didn't have a great time in secondary school, and for some reason my mother got me blazers and shirts several sizes too big for me, but then prom night came. Because I had a nice black dress, dark make-up, high heels and my hair up in curls, suddenly I had two dates and all the people who had bullied before were suddenly coming up to me and saying how nice I looked. It was a fantastic boost for self-esteem. * This female troper wore very unflattering uniforms to school, has very long, thick blonde hair which has a tendancy to just go everywhere unless she keeps it back in a ponytail, and is generally a jeans/T-shirt kind of girl who prefers comfort over style. The only exceptions were school dances, when she would actually wear makeup and a nice dress, complete with getting her very wavy long hair straightened. Cue several occasions of guys she never expected to notice giving her compliments, from her 13-yr-old brother telling her she looked hot in one case (can't remember when), to one of her best guy friends saying "Whoa!" when she showed up to Senior Homecoming in a short, tight purple dress, to a different male friend who she occasionally had political, ethical, and religions debates with telling her she looked pretty in her long red dress at Senior Prom. * This troper pulled this on her theatre class on the last day of school. Though she always dresses ''nicely'', it's usually a very modest kind of nice, on top of which she looks a bit older than her classmates and so is constantly cast in mother-roles with unflattering costumes. When she mentioned to a friend she wanted to get some more varied roles, the friend suggested that she go to her next audition in a miniskirt and fishnets... cue the entire class clamouring for her to dress like that so they could see, just because it would be funny. On the last day, she finally did, in a tiny black skirt, high heels, fishnets, and a shirt cut to show off her MostCommonSuperpower... she wound up group-hugged by half the class, and nearly every note in her yearbook made some mention of how hot she looked. Very nice day. * This Troper has had a subversion of this twice. Since I'm still fresh to Secondary school, most of my schoolmates have never seen me out of uniform, which makes me look pear-shaped and slightly overweight. Add to the fact that my closer schoolmates do school-based canoeing with me (trust me, you end up smelling a little worse than funny), so I'm not exactly known for looking anywhere close to pretty.

Cue the day when I finally decide i couldn't tolerate waiting to wash up at home and take a light shower before changing into my normal clothes at our training grounds. The first time my friend blinked before saying something along the lines of "Whoa, you look...different". The second time it happened, my other friend (she had been absent previously) didn't recognise me without me calling out her name. After which, she asked me "So, what's the occasion?" Nice to have them acknowledge I'm a girl. * Happens to this troper oh so much. Because she is not girly (read: almost never wears skirts or dresses), almost never puts makeup on, and wears glasses a lot, she gets teased as being a boy or just plain ugly. Whenever she puts on some slap and pretties herself up, everyone is shocked. * Up until college, [[Tropers/ZiggyStardustForever this troper]] couldn't have cared less about her appearance. Dowdy clothes, greasy hair, no makeup, and poor personal hygiene. Ever since she cleaned herself up, she gets a lot of compliments, but for some reason, guys still ignore her, and she doesn't know why. ** Are you me? This troper was teased in high school for her looks and treated like a rodent by boys, but ever since cleaning herself up in university she has gotten "Pretty" comments. Yet guys still ignore her (perhaps it's the shyness and short height?). * This troper used to throw on literally whatever was there, which was usually not matching whatsoever and/or oversized. Her hair was quite unflattering. She started to care more in sixth grade, but was still sloppy. On the first day of seventh grade, she fixed her hair and clothes so that they were nice, and her best friend didn't even recognize her. Since then, she's had her act together. Yeah, I'd say that I clean up nicely. * [[Tropers/{{Kebab}} This troper]] apparently isn't that bad looking. My main problem, I've been told, is that I put zilcho effort into it. When I ''did'' (after I got a girlfriend, actually), I learned soon after that two other girls, close friends of my girlfriend at that, had started crushing on me. Aaawwkwaaaarrd. * This Troper's best (male and Straight Gay) friend turned out to be this. None of us had seen him for six weeks over the summer, and when he turned up on the first day back he had put contacts in, got the braces out, styled his hair, got a fashion sense and was officialy drop-dead gorgeous. The part we love most is that all the 'popular' girls who were complete bitches to him now have major crushes on him. * This troper played with this trope once. She allowed a friend to give her a makeover, and got complements from several people on how "nice" she looked wearing makeup. Unfortunately, to this troper, she was ''[[UnnecessaryMakeOver uglier]]'' when she saw herself in the mirror wearing such thick goop on her face, and refuses to ever wear such awful face paint ever again; the stuff does ''not'' agree with her, no matter what the rest of the crazy world says. * This trope immediately came to mind when I saw a poster of a "normal looking" {{Kesha}} at a Wal-Mart. * This troper doesn't wear makeup every day unless you count chapstick. She went to prom as a sophomore with a guy from large group of people who usually brushed her off and didn't particularly notice

her. When she showed up for the before-dance dinner, a few girls took it upon themselves to say she looked beautiful and her date said she was "very well dressed" and this guy doesn't hand compliments out easily (although I suspect he was merely being nice for that evening). I could almost see this trope pop up into their minds. /gloating * This troper was helping his little sister get ready for a formal party, doing her hair and helping her with her dress and helping her pick her shoes and that (can she be my FagHag if she's also my sister?) and she looked simply ''lovely'' when we were done. Not that she isn't usually a very pretty PaleSkinnedBrunette, but her date went non-verbal upon seeing her. Must run in the family, because our parents look absolutely ''fantastic'' when they bother dressing up, and this troper will gladly admit that he looks pretty darn shiny when he makes the effort. * [[{{Tropers/Ozimul}} This troper.]] ''Apparently.'' I still feel ridiculous. * This troper almost excusively wears boy's jeans, men's collared shirts, and geeky t-shirts. When she changes into one of her two outfits that emphasize her figure, jaws drop. Literally. I am not kidding. Literally. * To let you all know this male troper usually has hair that goes down to his shoulders and keeps it unkept, when he got a hair cut a few weeks back, which shortened it to his ears and had it styled, to make it looked as if it were chopped, a lot of heads turned his way, usually female... He felt good that day. * This Troper usually wears slightly-too-large t-shirt and jeans, with an avowed aversion to dresses and skirts. And makes sure that everyone knows it. For a particular instance of the RockyHorrorPictureShow, she had to wear a sparkly gold dress for a bit part. Comments on the Facebook picture included things like "are you padding". Also happens to people who've known her for more than a couple years, because they're used to the jeans and a t-shirt combo, so when she puts a dress on they become cavemen. This troper is definitely of the smirking type as well, unless it's a reaction from someone she's crushing on, in which case her immediate reaction is to blush bright red and find a place to hide. * Gender-inverted for this troper. I usually wear plain T-shirts and jeans, to the point where my dad wants me to throw them all away to wear nicer clothes. But if I'm going to anything formal, it's suit, tie, jacket, cuff links, and dress shoes. I've also been doing this for a long time, since I went to a lot of funerals when I was younger, and was surprised to find out most men my age don't know a thing about suits or ties. * Throughout school, this Troper was constantly bullied for being ugly. Then prom came round and all of a sudden she had classmates calling her "beautiful" just for that night. This troper's reaction to the attention was pretty much "Wow, it's amazing what changing from school uniform into a pretty dress and electronic hair-rollers can do to a person". Although saying that, a lot of the people who picked on her for her appearance in the first place were of lower school-years and therefore too young to attend prom that year anyway. Still, it was nice.

* I ''used'' to be the shy computer nerd girl who just wore anything. Then [[TheFashionista Matt]] came along. He helped me find my own style with sweaters and black clothes. I cut one of them up because at first I was afraid of being "edgy" but now I think that DarkIsNotEvil. I also want to cut up my black stockings so I can wear it with my little black skirt and flannel shirt. * This troper was in field biology for the spring. To sum up the class itself: get up at 4:30 a.m., leave at 5 a.m., arrive at class by 6:10 a.m. stay outside for four hours trudging through mud, heat, and/or rain to observe 30,000 species of warblers, and a lot of other stuff she doesn't want think about. So you can imagine that you don't exactly dress up to go to this class. This troper consistently wore the same ensemble, which were black cargo pants, black combat boots, a hoodie that's too baggy and made me look boobless with a t-shirt underneath, and a bandanna to cover her entire head o' hair. She looks like a crumb-bum in this outfit, but it was expected. Lucky for us, we had a class indoors one day so we could wear our "civilian" clothes, so this troper took glee in wearing her normal clothes (which is, being a goth, wearing a mini skirt, stockings, and flare-sleeved lace cardigan, all in black, and wearing her turquoise-highlighted hair down). So to say the least, she got stares. Not sure if they were staring because of the goth get-up or because they were surprised that under all of those baggy clothes was a girl with a 38C cup, but one guy eventually approached her and said, "you look so phenomenally different today, I had to look twice to tell who the heck you were." Heh. * This troper was a middle-schooler with bad acne, buck teeth, and bushy hair and usually wore dark clothes. Then I discovered make-up and various hair products in ninth grade... though that didn't help at all. While I receive tons of compliments when I'm all dolled up, I usually just feel ridiculous and just want to crawl back into my jeans and T-shirts and put my hair back into a ponytail. Strangely enough, now that I'm 19, guys don't seem to care if I'm wearing make-up or if my hair is straight... * This Troper has seen and/or been a part of HeCleansUpNicely twice, on both sides of the gender line. The troper in question is a tall, gangly dork of a late-starting college student who is NotGoodWithPeople on account of being RaisedByWolves (re: homeschooling, and not in a very well coordinated, socially interactive kind of way). Said troper almost always walks with a slight slouch and speaks softly because his family (a single JewishMother and two sisters) always flipped out on him for having a loud voice, to the point that this troper actually had to learn how to yell without having his voice crack. This Troper is also doomed when it comes to pursuing girls who are just plain out of his league. Then comes Junior year. This Troper's hard work at public speaking and other confidence building exercises pays off. He's obtained a DesignatedRival and argued the guy to a standstill in and out of class. He's also started wearing button-up shirts as light jackets, lots of cargo pants and khakis, never any jeans, and tons of comic book nerd shirts. He's mastered the Three Day Beard, stands up straight much more often, and has stopped pursuing love only to find

himself ''being'' pursued by at least two girls, being crushed on by [[IfItsYouItsOkay a lesbian]], and being flirted with by both a married woman and a gay guy. Then comes the day this Troper puts on a business suit and ''nobody recognizes him''. ** The other example is a [[AsianAndNerdy Vietnamese accounting major]] who's a bit thick, dresses like a tomboy most of the time, makes fart jokes, and is generally awkwardly cute in social situations. Then comes the day when this Troper is giving her a ride to a job interview. HolyCrap. She's actually put a little bit of time and effort into how she looks and could blow most other girls at his school clear out the water. Nerdy to knock-out in less than an hour or so. [[JawDrop I still haven't pulled my jaw off the floor.]] ---Watch the whole crowd's heads turn. SheCleansUpNicely. <<|TroperTales|>>

SheIsAllGrownUp If you feel someone you know or a character got more attractive after growing up, put it here! [[foldercontrol]] [[folder:Personal]] * This troper recently visited her elementary school. It took several tries to convince her ex-home room teacher from the fourth grade that she is exactly who she said she is. Likewise with classmates. Being the chubby girl with glasses, acne and braces who was constantly bullied for well, being ugly, it was a very gratifying feeling. * This troper knew a girl in 8th grade who was curly haired as all heck, wore glasses, and talked really funny. on top of all this, i also really didnt look at girls a whole lot back then. bout 5 years later i find her again on FB, the first thoughts that pop into my head were: whoa, shes hot now * When this troper was about four, he had a short, thin, kinda weird best friend. Now, ten years later, I met her again, and she's tall, blonde, slim and with err... [[MostCommonSuperpower you know]]. Needless to say I have a crush on her. The worst thing is that 10 years ago, she had a crush on me, and I didn't even saw her with that eyes, and now, she keeps turning me down. Who knew that such a weird girl would become SMOKING HOT. Oh boy, if only I saw that coming... * This troper shocked himself at Thanksgiving when he realized he was...um...reacting to his cousin while talking with her about how they both matured(she's 14 and I'm sixteen). The strangest thing is that we used to kiss each other when we were around ten. I also have a first cousin once removed that I've had rather...interesting(read: erotic) dreams about. Have I mentioned this troper lives in a family that despises incest? ** Well, it makes for a great story. I hope that you find a person you love who ISN'T family so you two may have a happy life.

* This troper is not in the habit of lusting after his cousins, but met a younger one he hadn't seen in four years at a family gathering, and his first thought was, "Where the hell did ''[[MostCommonSuperpower those]]'' come from?!" * This troper walked in on his cousin having sex with her boyfriend...while at a family reunion. The cousin was 16...this troper was 27. The worst part? Not the fact that I'd known her since she was born. That was bad enough. No. It was the fact that she was incredibly, [[FetishFuel "keep the image for later"]] ''hot''. * When this troper was in elementary and middle school, she dressed like a boy, wore (frequently taped) glasses, had braces, an expander, and a sort of mini-headgear type appliance, and was one of the first kids to develop acne in her grade. Naturally, she was the target of much teasing. Flash forward to the present day, and this troper has updated her wardrobe, gotten contacts, has perfect teeth and has outgrown her acne. She considers it a personal CrowningMomentOfAwesome every time she gleefully rejects her ex-tormentors when they hit on her. ** Recently, this same troper was utterly surprised to notice that her once short and rather effeminate [[PlatonicLifePartners best guy friend]] is now nearly a head taller than her and looks shockingly like his [[HotDad rugged and manly father]]. When did this happen???? * This troper has a habit of noticing most that some of his female friends, whom he has known since childhood, have suddenly got boobs and stuff. Most of the female friends he knows from church. His brain tends to, for want of a better word, "segfault" whenever he notices it, presumably to keep him from thinking about it. ** This troper has had the same thing happen to him. His family is close family friends with a family with 3 daughters. You grow up with them and they're like sisters until you collectively hit high school, then all of a sudden it's VA-VOOM! * This female troper had a male family friend who is two years older than her. I moved away when I was seven. Are families met up for old times sake. We shook hands, made small talk then I dragged my mum into another room: --> Me: that is not Elliot!?! --> Mum. It is, sweety (knowing grin). --> Me: Bloody Hell! * I knew a boy, H, in 6th grade who was pudgy and liked wearing somewhat girly clothing(before that was in style). He liked to chew on his pens and was generally not liked. I just found him on Facebook. Now, well DAMN! [[YouCanVerbMyNounAnyDay He can chew my pen any day]]! ** ...would your middle school have anywhere been near hillsdale? * This troper just experienced this. A girl that I had known back in middle school was pretty much the only girl that showed any interest in me, though I ignored or, when she once confronted me with some of her friends in a Target store, ran from her. This was because I wasn't... er... entirely normal around other people at that time, and I was interested in another girl as well- though looking back I regret not being nicer to her. This was compounded when, four years later and out of the blue, she friended me on Facebook, and taking a look at her pictures and comparing her back then to now I realized this trope was

in full effect. My first thought upon seeing her currently: "aw, son of a ''bitch''." Hindsight really is 20/20. * This troper recently got a great story about this. Apparently, at a town event, my mother and sister ran into one of my old high school friends. He didn't recognize my sister at first, and when told who it was, the look on his face suggested that this was going on. For reference, said friend graduated high school when my sister was 11. She's 16 now. * Male example: This troper came across pictures of himself from 6 years ago, when he was a sophomore in high school. His 14-year-old self had an ugly hairstyle, and his face wasn't the best looking either. Then he looked at himself in the mirror and noticed that his 20-year-old self looks much more attractive than he was at age 14. ** How nice for you. Hard to imagine that you hadn't looked at yourself once in that six-year gap, or that nobody else noticed, but... *** Actually, he ''did'' look at himself throughout the years, as for why nobody including him seemed to notice? It's because it all happened little by little over six years - If it happened all at once, ''then'' they'd notice. Ever read that book ''TheTwits'', where Mr. Twit gradually puts more wood onto Mrs. Twit's cane to make her think she's gradually shrinking, and didn't put too much on at once so she wouldn't notice? It's like that. ** The same happened with this troper, but it was with his sister. and trust me, she has [[MostCommonSuperPower some big, um, you know]]. * Another male example,and quite fast one : this troper used to go for small game conventions with group of guys from internet forum.There was one young guy who looked pretty fragile by his frame and glasses on.But she had fun joking around with him.Fast forward only 5 months and when she aproached said group in bus to another con,one nice looking,tall and well build guy greet her.Her inner reaction was 'WTF how does that handsome guy knows my nickname?!'.She had to ask friend for it and her jaw dropped when he told her who he is. * [[{{Darkurai}} This Troper]] ''hoped'' this would happen with Andy's sister, Molly, in [[ToyStory Toy Story 3]], but she's only about the age Andy was in the first two movies. Of course, [[{{Squick}} I'm sure]] [[YourMileageMayVary that some people are]] [[{{Rule36}} inevitably]] [[{{Lolicon}} still excited.]] ** For some female viewers, including this troper, this actually happened with Andy himself though. Really. Right now she is already [[LuminescentBlush blushing]]. * This troper won't ever forget being reunited with his cousin Celine at a family gathering - he'd last seen her when she was nine. * This female troper has had this happen recently with a guy she'd known since elementary. Randomly, she suddenly realized, "Hey, he's gotten really cute since then!" and being on good friends/like brother and sister terms with him, decided to mention it casually to him. She was...surprised when her friend repeated the phrase right back at her, genderswapped. They decided to accept the compliments and never bring up the subject again, as both were rather squicked by their revelations. ** AWWWWW!that's sweet from both of you.Don't worry I'm sure you two

will laught about it in few years * This troper joined the Air Force at 19, and his pastor's daughter was a fairly cute, typical prepubescent girl. Several years later he came back to his hometown to find that she'd grown 6 inches and 3 cup sizes(read: AA --> C), and that cute face was now drop-dead gorgeous. Bonus points for the ''pastor'' pointing out that she had a crush on me. * I have a cousin, who's the same age as me and who I haven't seen in about 10 years. Back then we were 8 and she was a typical 8 year old girl (as seen through the eyes of her cousin). During the summer I saw a picture of her at my grandma's house and was amazed at how good she looked (speaking as someone who, had my grandma not told me who she was, wouldn't have recognized her). * This editor remembered having a friend from when he was around 3 who he played with a lot. Said friend later moved to England. Skip to the present day, where this editor is 13 and saw the Christmas card sent by that friend's family (not having seen a picture of her for 10 years). Needless to say, I was totally stunned when I saw that she was completely gorgeous. * This Troper was a cute little girl many years ago. Family friends who've not seen me for 7 years all remark on how I grew up to be a beautiful young woman. * This Male troper has a female second cousin, sixteen months younger, ''who keeps on doing this''. It's unnerving as hell when one of the best-looking girls you know is related to you. * When this troper was in the swim team at the age of 12, he had a little stalker that was 10, now she's 16 and he really regrets not listening to her. * I'm not sure how all the kids I babysat in church suddenly shot up a foot. No, I don't have a thing for them, but damn, the years go fast. Makes me feel old. On the upside, they're not adorable enough for me to cave into treating them to ice cream anymore. * This troper used to be a scrawny, awkward nerdy kid with messy hair and bad glasses. After a few years of regular exercize, growing hair out, and a change of style, he is still rail-thin, but has a good amount of muscle, smaller not-chunky glasses, long ringlet-ed hair, and attracts a fair amount of interest from both genders. * [[PentiumMMX2 This troper]] used this in a arc of a story series he was writing. When the main character and an old, also female, friend meet up again for the first time in 7 years (Last time they met, both where about 11 years old), the main character quickly takes notice that the girl he teamed up with years ago now has the MostCommonSuperpower. * This Troper's female cousin was around 10 when he saw her last (He's a year older), but DAMN, its been eight years and BOY does it make one hell of a difference. Yes, he's lusting after his cousin, but if you were to see why, you'd understand perfectly... (And apparently, a friend of his did, considering he asked this Troper for her number..). * This Troper had this happen last year at her graduation. Granted, it had only been a few weeks since we'd seen each other, but... this troper's best friend -- who was male -- told her upon seeing her in a suit that he'd [[SheCleansUpNicely never seen her looking that way

before]], and that, "you're all grown up!" * This troper's first real crush fitted the bill. He and she were childhood friends who weren't exactly in good terms with each other (in fact he thought of her as a total brat and a crybaby and wanted to stay the hell clear of her back then). Her family moved away for awhile before coming back, and by then the teen years came. Wow. * This troper hadn't seen his favourite cousin for six years. He is now twenty, and I am eighteen, so sorta inverted maybe? He's still shorter than me, whatever. But very ''very'' pretty. Last Christmas, we met each other again, and we got very, um, close. No, not quite [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean ''that'' close]] but there was some SleepCute and lots and lots of HoYay. * This troper hadn't seen her youngest cousin in almost fourteen years. She was a little kid back then. Now? Well, let's just say I wish I was half as pretty! * This troper has... kind of a "cousin" (her parents are friends of mine), who has an older sister who used to be the cute one. A long time without seeing her... when we meet again, she's as beautiful, if not prettier, as her sister. * This troper met the younger brother of her best friend when he was in 4th grade. Having not seen much of him until his first year of high school, she was... [[{{Understatement}} shall we say]] ''[[NerdsAreSexy pleasantly]] [[HeroesWantRedheads surprised]]''. [[MySisterIsOffLimits And let's just say this troper's best friend]] [[OrIsIt won't be hearing]] [[SubvertedTrope about it]]. * This Troper has had two moments like this. One concerning the daughter of an old family friend. Aged 15 she was all knees, elbows and awkward adolesence, at 18 she was confident, pleasantly slim, and had a rack that plowed through GagBoobs territory and out the other side. The other was at a party, when I'd had a few drinks and was chatting up a good-looking blonde. Mid-conversation she suddenly blurts out: "You're X, right? Y's brother?" Turns out her big brother was in my little brothers class in primary school. Cue cold shower. * This troper has a very strange story involving this. The sister of a friend of mine in last year's GCSE Physics class was...slightly annoying when I first met her (in fairness, I was nine at the time and she was about five). Skip forward two years since I last met her (coincidentally, at a rehearsal for a play I was in back in April) and I met a girl who I kept thinking to myself, "Why do you look familiar?" I only realised who it was when she confirmed her name on the register and recognised me. I had barely changed. She had changed A LOT. * This troper has this childhood friend. We grew up together, had fun, explored as much as we could in our small neighborhood. Around 9, she and I started to drift apart. Skip forward 4 years and I noticed, erm, [[MostCommonSuperPower something]] had changed since he had seen her. * Once while I was at a bookstore, I saw one of my old classmates having trouble picking out a manga. Being the [[strike:{{Otaku}}]] ''[[InsistentTerminology manga connoisseur]]'' I am, I decided to help him out. After he made his purchase and I was preparing to leave, he finally asked my name. "Oh, I'm [=***=]. From Blah High. Remember? We were in the same class for two years." First came the realization.

Then, the JawDrop. See, when I was in high school, I had pimples, excema, a twitchy walk and a Jheri curl. Let's just say, nine years later, [[TallDarkAndBishoujo that no]] [[SassyBlackWoman longer applies.]] * This troper befriended a girl in primary school ''out of pity'' (And, to be honest, a fair bit of fellow feeling) for her being somewhat of an outcast. Plumpish, not very attractive, etc.. While I was working backstage at a school play (By now in high school, four years later), she wanders in through the dressing room door and immediately says "Are you X from Y?" This tropers starts to say "Yes", realises halfway through who she is, and shuts up completely for like five seconds before finishing the word in order to get control of the various blasphemies and exclamations rattling around his head. * Happened to This Troper between 8th and 9th grade with a friend in the year below me, mostly because she actually hadn't hit puberty before. When she was in 7th and I was in 8th, there was such a visible age gap that the thought of anything between us made me feel like a creeper ([[YoungerThanTheyLook although we're actually very close in age]]) and reach for BrainBleach. When we saw each other again for the first time at the beginning of the new year, she looked like a curlyhaired and slightly more {{Adorkable}} version of [[NostalgiaChick Lindsey Ellis]]. Not as extreme as most, but still... * I have a few stories myself. In 7th grade, I knew this girl who, while never unattractive per se, was tomboyish, had a bulldog personality, and was never nice to me. Cue the next year, and she grows a spectacular (well, in a 13-year old's mind) rack and somehow transforms into a sweet-natured YamatoNadeshiko who was very friendly to me the whole year and into high school. Then we get to high school, and I notice every single guy checking her out every time she walks by them, a mind-blowing experience considering this is all happening in a three-year span. ** Probably the [[{{Squick}} squickiest]] experience was when I got to college and kept seeing this one girl who'd always been very pretty growing up and turned into a major hottie by the time we graduated. I was never on any kind of speaking terms with her, it's just that she was very distinctive looking. Any way, first year of college, I pass her walking the opposite direction, and as she does, I start hearing two older dudes (they had to be in their 40s) making lewd remarks about her and what they'd like to do with a girl like that. Just blew my mind that I actually saw a girl I grew up with objectified like that. * This troper went from having budding breats at age 10 to having D cups at age 12. My breasts are still D cups. Anyone who hadn't seen me in a year or more in that time probably got this impression. * Has happened three times to people this troper knows. Two of her cousins apply, for a start. The older one used to be very...err...plump and the younger one was more cute than pretty. Fast forward a couple of years and the older one has lost weight and looks amazing, and the younger one looks glamorous and sophisticated, while I still look the same after all those years ._. The third example happened to a friend I've known since I was four and is a year older than me. He used to be shorter than me, skinny, and have a high voice.

I saw him recently and he's taller than me, his voice has broken, he's quite well-built and he's really quite good-looking. Fortunately, this hasn't impacted our friendship...yet. * I was friends with this nice girl when we were both in primary school and aged 9. She offered to fold origami dinosaurs with me during art class, and subscribed to National Geographic Kids magazine after I showed it to her. I developed a small crush on her, but the next year we were in separate classes, and soon after that she left for Hong Kong with her family. I found her on Facebook again after about seven years, and hot damn! She was still cute, but now she was ''sexy'' cute. I talked to her, confessed that my crush on her had been renewed and was a lovesick puppy for several months. She still keeps in contact, though it will be hard to see her again in person. * This troper had a bit of a crush on a classmate in junior high. Her friends teased him for being short and geeky, and she joined in on the teasing to fit in. Years later, she looked him up on Facebook to find out that he is a fit and jaw-droppingly sexy MIT student. * This troper has had this experience twice. He spent the first 15 years of his life in another country before moving to the US. ** Upon one vacation, he decided to meet up with an old friend from grade school he hadn't seen since he was ten. His first reaction upon seeing her was "My God... she got hot." He proceeded to have dinner and a movie with her, but has not had the chance to see her or talk to her again. [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]] much? ** His second time was again meeting up with an old friend from high school this time around. Not really being attracted to her around 13, despite being good friends, he again thought the same thought. He basically turned the reunion to a date. This troper ended up getting a little drunk and getting taken back to his hotel by her. Due to certain other circumstances, it ended up again as some serious [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST.]] *** Funnily enough, this girl goes to a uni with the acronym UST. * This is the normal reaction I get from showing pictures of myself as a kid. Until I was 12, I looked more like [[TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]] than a real human: All bone and skin despite healthy eating habits, bad posture and teeth and scraggy mess of a hair drooping lifelessly from the top of my head. One puberty, teeth braces, and a good haircut later I've turned into a young woman who, according to my friend's words, could melt the snow around herself in a matter of seconds. * This is always my reaction when I meet some of my former female classmates from elementary school. Some of them friends, some of them just people who I barely knew, one of them a [[AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale girl who used to bully me]], (though I'd become friends with her years later), and even some of my cousins. Since my mom knew most of the moms of my childhood female friends, she assures me that some of them had a crush on me, which certainly makes me feel angry and sad realizing what I lost when I saw them again, years later. * A rather...different subversion. So on Ventrilo, someone tells me that my voice sounds familiar and asked if I ever played on the Bloodscalp server of ''WorldOfWarcraft''. My response is "Yep, alliance side". Their reponse is something along the lines of "...Whoa

shit! what are the odds of running into ''YOU''?!? How old are you now? 22?" They hadn't heard me since I was 17. * [[RoxFcc This Troper]] met a young girl a couple of years ago. Said girl was an ordinary twelve year old- small, mousy haired and bespectacled. Flash forward two years. That average girl transformed into an incredibly sexy, curvy young PaleSkinnedBrunette. At fourteen. Now for the JailBaitWait. * This troper was an awkward, violent-tempered preteen in middle school who cut her own bangs and often did a bad job of it. In addition to being rather strange, she was also a bit of a ButtMonkey (still is, but it doesn't bother her anymore). In the end, she invoked this trope with herself, saying she'd either be smokin' hot or a cold fish. Turns out, a few of her former classmates happen to think the former is true. Said troper feels rather pleased that she now outshines the boy she used to have a crush on...BY FAR...even if she's got PetitePride. * This gay troper and his also gay friend knew someone a couple of years back who hadn't hit puberty yet and was rather chubby. Just recently we decided to see what he's been up to since then, and, well...[[EstrogenBrigadeBait dayyuhm]]! * About nine months ago (May 2010), at his college graduation, this troper was [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming several old boyhood friends he hadn't seen in times ranging from eight to ten years.]] One friend's little sister was in elementary school the last time this troper saw her. This troper didn't recognize her until she named herself. [[WhenSheSmiles She was smiling the entire time.]] Despite her [[JailBait only being in high school]] and having a slight BigBrotherInstinct toward her by association of her being his onceclosest friend's little sister, his first (completely non-sexual) thought was that she'd become very beautiful. * This male troper is an uncle and has a niece by an older sister he has known since the day she was born. I was 8 then. I'm 22 now and the niece is a sporty and athletic 13 year old. Even at 13 she's filling out. I used to find her annoying, now I'm seeing her grow up and am trying to identify with and mentor her. * If you were friends with kids a few years lower than you at school, being reunited with them years later can be a very surprising experience. In this troper's former grammar school all the sweet, innocent 13 year olds are now 16 year old [[TookALevelInBadass badasses]]. * [[Tropers/NickTheSwing This troper]] was a rather scrawny, brainy kid in Middle School and all the way up into high school. Nowadays, weight lifting has made me look much more mature, given me a face described by an old female friend as "rugged", and then I wound up with PermaStubble. Its annoying sure, but some old friends do seem quite surprised to see me like this. * I'm certain every troper has a cousin or second cousin that they only see every 4-6 years and therefore remember a sweet 13 year old and are bothered by either physical desirability or decidedly adult behavior -- or both -- of the now-nineteen-year-old. * This troper had this reaction when he saw a girl he went to primary school with as a fashion model in a Sunday paper. The change was so

pronounced he didn't even notice until his parents noticed her name in the credits. * Inverted, if not in the usual way, by a... friend... of mine, who is quite attractive now (I met her about a year ago), but used to be... well, this trope would definitely apply if I'd met her back in junior high. Awkwardness ensued. [[/folder]] [[folder:Anime and Manga]] * This happens to [[spoiler: Kaim, Alty, Limone, and Rotraemon]] in ''{{Simoun}}'', ''hard'', while most everyone else just look a little older. [[spoiler: Yun, Neverille, and Aer]] avoid this. * In ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}'', 12-year-old Rei/Blair sneaks into the dorms [[SweetPollyOliver dressed up as a boy]] to meet her idol, Kaiser Ryo/Zane. Her gender is revealed and after a duel with Judai/Jaden, she has to go back home. She reappears some months (or seasons) later, now a bit older and quite pretty. * In the anime version of ''{{Inuyasha}}'', Koga met Ayame as a little girl, [[RescueRomance saving her from some demonic birds]] and promising to marry her if she's got serious problems. Years later, she comes back as an all-grown and absolutely gorgeous lady to tell Koga she still remembers his ChildhoodMarriagePromise and intends to have him fulfill it... much to Koga's shock and borderline horror, since he's now all over Kagome (who is pissed off at ''him'' for treating Ayame badly). ** [[spoiler: In the end of the anime, though, she manages to turn it around and marries him.]] * Done in ''{{Bleach}}'', when it's revealed that the little Arrancar girl Nell Tu is actually [[spoiler: Neliel, the previous 3rd Espada and a busty beauty whose boobs are in par with [[GagBoobs Matsumoto's or Orihime's]]]]. ** After [[spoiler: the one-and-a-half year TimeSkip following the Arrancar/HM arcs]], ''several'' characters have been hit with this. Specifically: [[spoiler: Karin, Yuzu, Ururu and Jinta.]] * Sanpeita's childhood friend from ''KemekoDeluxe!'', who undoubtedly resembles apparent newcomer M.M. All fine and well, except that she insists on packing herself into [[PoweredArmor Kemeko]]. * in [[SixSixSixSatan 666 Satan]] last timeskip... Well, pretty much all of the younger characters. [[AmbiguousGender Specially Cross]]. [[DroppedABridgetOnHim Oh, yeah, that same]] [[CuteShotaroBoy bratty, just slightly cute kid]]. Got heavily {{Lampshaded}} and anything... * Remember [[{{Claymore}} Raki]], that [[TheLoad generally useless]] kid that Claire let tag along with her? [[TimeSkip Well, he grew up]]. [[FutureBadass Holy shit]], [[BadassNormal did he]] grow up... * Since ComicBookTime is not in effect in the world of ''PokemonSpecial'', all the fans enjoy the what the years have done to the Dex Holders. Red's [[ShirtlessScene Shirtless Scenes]] are very much appreciated. As of right now, with the HGSS arc, many a fangirl is [[{{Squee}} squeeing]] over a sixteen year old Gold and Silver. * In the final episode of {{GoDannar}} this [[YourMileageMayVary happens]] to Lu. She apparently was so busy spending her childhood fighting evil space monsters, she never bothered to get a different

combat suit than what she had before puberty. * Natsumi of {{Keroro Gunso}} will apparently grow up into quite the looker, with a body rivialing her {{Hot mom}} Aki if the age ray is any indicator. * This trope was the fandom's collective reaction upon seeing sixteenyear-old Gohan. They almost didn't care that a lot of his early stuff was {{filler}}. [[/folder]] [[folder:Comic Books]] * In ''GreenLantern: Secret Origins'', Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris first meet when they're both cute lil' kids. About twenty years later, they meet again, she bosses him around, he discovers her father never got over causing the death of his, they fall in love. And of course, in her first appearance in the story as an adult, she is a HotChickInABadassSuit. * In ''TheDarkness'', Jackie's childhood annoyance Nicoletta comes back as a hot babe. * [[http://marvel.wikia.com/File:Shadowcat_001.jpg Kitty]] [[http://marvel.wikia.com/File:Shadowcat_002.jpg Pryde]]. [[http://marvel.wikia.com/File:Shadowcat_003.jpg Full]] [[http://marvel.wikia.com/File:Shadowcat_006.jpg Stop]] ** And now she's off across the universe in a giant bullet. Damn you, Joss Whedon! [[spoiler: Like most Joss Whedon [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer heroines]], [[IGotBetter she gets better]].]] [[/folder]] [[folder:Film]] * Gender-swapped in the ''StarWars'' prequel movies, where Anakin is [[EstrogenBrigadeBait all grown up]] when he reunites with Amidala/Padme at the start of the ''Attack of the Clones''. ** Players of ''[[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame Star Wars Galaxies]]'' are subjected to this as well, when they encounter Padme's neice Pooja Naberrie. During her movie appearance, Pooja looked like [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/7/79/Pooja.jpg this]]. Now she looks [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/1/16/PoojaNaberrie .png like]] [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/1/11/Pooja_Naberri e.jpg this]]. * The "ColonyDrop puberty" version happens to Hermione Granger (EmmaWatson) in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies. ** Spoofed in a Saturday Night Live [[http://video.the-leakycauldron.org/video/show/148 skit]] featuring LindsayLohan as Hermione, all grown up and unaware of her cleavage or the effect it has on the other two-thirds of the Golden Trio. (note: Harry [[CrosscastRole is played by a woman]] in the skit) ** Hermione "changing over the summer" was a clich in FanFiction circles long before this. The phrase "curves in all the right places" was extensively used and parodied. ** On the subject of Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley is also given this trope's treatment. As far as the reader knows, Harry had always seen

her as Ron's Little Sister, even when he personally saved her life in book 2. It isn't until he notices her blossoming, grownup appearance AND until she starts dating Dean Thomas in book 6 that he decides to pursue her, making her this trope's prime example. ** Hermione goes through this in the books too; she's implied to be quite plain in the early books, but in ''Goblet of Fire'' Harry and especially Ron suddenly notice that she's not plain at all anymore... *** Averted in the film version of the books, however, when the decision was made early on to not make Emma Watson look like the book version of the character (no frizzy hair or large overbite). They compensated by giving her a tomboy look in the third film, opening the door to her "reveal" in ''Goblet of Fire'', after which point the fact Hermione was a babe became a given and her suddenly becoming "all grown up" was no longer an issue in the film version of the final book. [[/folder]] [[folder:Live Action TV]] [[/folder]] [[folder:Video Games]] * ''FireEmblem: Path of Radiance'' has several: Sothe, a small child often regarded as deadweight. Fast forward to ''Radiant Dawn'' and... queue the "falling in love" montage; Jill; Mist; Mia; and Apostle Sanaki, even thugh she's ''still'' only 13 -([[http://www.feplanet.net/media/sprites/9/character/body/npc/sanaki.p ng Compare this]] [[http://www.feplanet.net/media/sprites/10/character/body/sanaki.png to this.]]) ** Hardly the first time this has happened in the Fire Emblem series. Compare [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1113405young_shanan__shanan__arya_super.jpg Shanan]] (at left) and [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oifaye.jpg Oifaye]] with [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Shanan.jpg Shanan]] and [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Oifaye2.jpg Oifaye]]. * Numerous counts of the second variation occur in ''FinalFantasy'' sequels. Compare: ** Penelo in ''FFXII'' [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Penelo.jpg]] to Penelo in ''Revenant Wings''. [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:FFTA2Penelo.jpg]] *** Vaan in FinalFantasyTacticsA2, anyone? Especially since he seems to have raided Balthier's wardrobe btween games. ** Yuffie in ''FFVII'' [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:Yuffie_Kisaragi_Nomura_art.j pg]] and Yuffie in ''Dirge of Cerberus''. [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:YuffieCG.jpg]] ** Arguably occurs in the opposite direction in ''FFX''. There are those who would argue that Rikku in ''FFX'' is...[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean bigger]] in the first game than in the sequel. It's a bit of a trade-

off, since she's significantly more scantily-clad in the sequel as well. ** In FFIV, Porom [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:PoromDS.jpg]], compared to Porom [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:After_Porom.png]] in FFIV: The After Years. ** FinalFantasyIV sort of uses this trope with Rydia, who is lost at sea as a child only to return as a well-developed young woman - but she grew up while the rest of the cast stayed the same age. While she doesn't suddenly appeal to any member of the original cast, it's ironically its newest member, Edge, who'd never met her before, who seems to fall for her. * Kairi between ''KingdomHearts'' and ''KingdomHeartsII''. * A male version, TokugawaIeyasu, of all people, falls under this trope in the third game of ''Sengoku Basara''. He grows up from a (slightly) BrattyHalfPint who's constantly [[JamesBondage getting kidnapped]] and [[KidWithTheRemote relies almost exclusively]] on [[HumongousMecha Honda Tadakatsu]] to fight his battles in the first couple of games, to a [[BareYourMidriff rather sexy]] BoisterousBruiser capable of going toe to toe with the previous game's BigBad and kicking his ass single-handed. * In ''MassEffect'' we have [[WrenchWench Tali]], who in the first game is [[ThePollyana an awkward innocent girl]]. Two years later in the second game and she's a [[TookALevelInBadass confident, competent woman]]. Liara is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld still young for an Asari]] but she sure [[TookALevelInBadass grows up]] in the sequel. * ''MegaManZX'' was the first to feature human instead of robot protagonists (sort of). Its main characters return as [=NPCs=] in the sequel ''ZX Advent'' where scrawny Aile is All Grown Up, and Vent has become a certified long-haired {{Bishonen}}. ** There was an instance back in ZX, too. The captain of the CoolShip, Prairie, is [[strike:very strongly implied]] all but outright stated to be Alouette, the little girl Zero would see wandering around the various bases in his own series. * Tiny Kong of the ''DonkeyKong'' series. In ''DonkeyKong 64'', Tiny Kong is a cute little monkey girl. In ''DiddyKongRacing DS'', she's been redesigned and is now furry FetishFuel. * Emeralda from ''{{Xenogears}}'' [[spoiler: grows up right before your eyes if you take her to the Lighthouse]]. She'll also [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in an appropriate class]], getting stat growth afterward that's so good it borders on GameBreaker. * Gwen of ''GuildWars''. The player first meets her as an adorable (or [[YourMileageMayVary irritating]]) child in the tutorial of the first game, and doesn't see her again until the expansion pack, in which she is now a corset-wearing (and justifiably angry) teenager. * Though we can't exactly hear [[HeroicMime the hero's]] thoughts on the matter, Bianca of ''DragonQuestV'' fits the bill. She can (if the player so decides) [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend marry the hero]] ([[UnluckyChildhoodFriend or not]]). [[FanPreferredCouple But probably will]]. * Chronologically, Yukiko Amagi from ''{{Persona 4}}'' fits this trope. In [[{{Persona 3}} P3P]], you see her a year before she starts

fighting creepy blobs in the television. Comparing the two, it's obvious that something ''really nice'' happened over that year. * The entire main cast of the first ''{{Persona 2}}'' game fits this, to some extent, especially Lisa, who was often teased about her looks as a child. . .and grows up to be the most beautiful girl in Seven Sisters. This also applies to [[spoiler:Maya]], who was cute or so-so as a little girl. . .and grows into a ''woman''. * In ''ProfessorLayton and the Unwound Future'', players are introduced to the title character's apprentice Luke from ten years in the future. He goes from a precious twelve-year-old to a certified {{bishonen}} and the [[EstrogenBrigadeBait fangirl squee is rampant]]. [[spoiler:This is actually something of a subversion, actually. The individual identifying himself as Future Luke is really the BigBad!]] * In-game example in HalfLife 2: Gordon Freeman has been in stasis for somewhere between 10-20 years. When he wakes up, he meets Alyx Vance, the daughter of his former coworker. She herself says "You probably don't remember me, though." Later, you can find a picture of Alyx and her parents probably taken around the time of the events of the first game, in which she was just a little girl. In the intervening time, Gordon may not have grown up at all, but she [[http://o.aolcdn.com/gdmedia/galleries/61/alyx-vance-2.jpg certainly has!]] * A few ''HarvestMoon'' games have childhood friends involved though you don't really know who untill you've built a serious relationship with them. * Ema Skye from PhoenixWright. In the first game, she's the [[TheLabRat science-loving]] [[JonasQuinn replacement for Maya]] in the bonus case at the end of the game. She returns in ''Apollo Justice'', nine years older, with all her science-love intact...but, since she failed the test to become a forensic scientist like she wanted, she's stuck as the game's main detective. A fact that she's ''very'' unhappy about, which leads to her much more irritable personality. Ema looks ''EXACTLY the same'' as she did in the first game--only taller, a sour expression and different coloured eyes. * The seven-year timeskip in TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime were extremely kind to Malon. And Princess Zelda herself, who was precious as a little girl but grew into a beautiful, regal blonde woman. And Ruto, who gets [[ChildhoodMarriagePromise engaged to Link as a kid]]. Guess what she looks like as an adult. Unfortunately, she can't keep the promise since she's a Sage now. ** Notably averted with [[NeverGrewUp Saria]]. * [[{{Castlevania}} Maria Renard]] goes from TokenLoli in ''[[CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood Rondo of Blood]]'' to smoking hot grown-up (but still [[{{Ephebophile}} jail bait]] in [[SoCalization some parts of the world]]) in ''[[SymphonyOfTheNight Symphony of the Night]]''--a five-year span. ** YourMileageMayVary as to which side of this she falls on in ''[[CastlevaniaJudgment Judgment]]'', where her story is set 3 years after the former and therefore two before the latter. She's taller, and she certainly [[ElegantGothicLolita dresses]] [[ZettaiRyouiki the]] [[ShowgirlSkirt part]], but still looks like a kid in [[GirlishPigtails some]] [[{{Pettanko}} ways]]. * The opening cutscene of ''TombRaider: Legend'' features Lara Croft

at, uh, nine years old. Cue a lot of fanboys feeling really terrible for having lusted after Lara their whole life. * {{Pokemon Gold and Silver}} take place three years after the original games. This means when you're given the chance to battle the classic Kanto gym leaders, they are all a bit older, most strikingly Misty. ** Misty, Red, and Blue are fourteen years old too. So there change is quite striking; from prepubescent to mid-puberty. ** {{Pokemon Black and White}} take place an unknown amount of time after the second and fourth generation games. Caitlin has...changed quite a bit. [[spoiler:In addition to the physical changes, she's gained enough control over her psychic powers that she no longer needs Darach to battle in her stead...and is now a member of the Elite Four.]] [[/folder]] [[folder:Western Animation]] * Teenaged baddie Kevin never noticed [[{{Lolicon}} ten-year-old Gwen]] in the original ''{{Ben 10}}'' series. [[TimeSkip Five years later]] in ''Alien Force'', her beauty is [[StrangledByTheRedString a major motivation]] for his HeelFaceTurn.) ** YMMV with this. Others see it as being the same way as every other thing in that series; it exchanged unique awesomeness for a boring standard. * Bonnie Lapton in ''BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' was a little girl when Buzz last saw her ten years ago. She's also the [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter daughter]] of a former Star Command scientist. ** Oddly a bit of a subversion, as Buzz still has trouble envisioning her as an adult woman (much as she has ''no trouble at all'' with the concept, hoping to start a relationship with Buzz.) * Male example: in the first two ''ToyStory'' movies, Andy was just that little boy who owned Woody, Buzz and most of the other main toys. Cue ''Toy Story 3'', which is nearly a decade after the original, and [[http://lanilioness.deviantart.com/art/HOLY-SHRIMP-ANDY-141903561 OH WOW]]. * Pebbles from ''TheFlintstones'' became a cute teenager in ''The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show'' even if you didn't like Sally Struthers. [[/folder]] [[folder:Real Life]] * Soleil Moon Frye, with or without the breast reduction surgery * Child stars are often prone to this: ** Valerie Bertinelli as [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1754830848/ch0038257 Barbara Cooper Royal(bottom)]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmph24uZ6Dk for Jenny Craig(2009)]]. ** Keisha Knight-Pulliam as [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm108632064/nm0700443 Rudy Huxtable(bottom center)]], from ''TheCosbyShow'', and [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1590007296/nm0700443 herself]], 2008. ** Keisha's ''Cosby"" co-star Raven-Symone, especially if you're into

[[BigBeautifulWoman Big Beautiful Women]]. ** Shia [=LaBeouf=]. ** MirandaCosgrove. Just compare her SchoolOfRock days to how she fares in {{iCarly}}. *** On the same note, {{Jennette McCurdy}} has [[{{Understatement}} matured]]. So much. ** Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. ** Alyssa Milano was a cute teenager on ''WhosTheBoss''. Then came ''{{Charmed}}''... *** She is [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean attacked]] by a LesbianVampire in ''Embrace of the Vampire''. ** SarahJessicaParker on ''SquarePegs''. Sarah Jessica Parker on ''SexAndTheCity''. ** DrewBarrymore as ''[[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1518967040/nm0000106 Gertie]]'' in ''{{ET}}'' and Drew Barrymore in [[http://www.denimblog.com/wpcontent/uploads/2008/06/drew-barrymore-7-for-all-mankind-jeans002.jpg jeans]]. ** Amber Scott, the little girl in the movie ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hook Hook]]'' went from ''[[http://all-movie-goofs.info/wp-content/uploads/hook-movie-still2.jpg this]]'' to ''[[http://ia.mediaimdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ0NjI5MTk1Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDEwMDk5MQ@@._V1 ._SX479_SY700_.jpg THIS!]]'' ** EmmaWatson as ''[[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4079720704/nm0914612 Hermione]]'' in ''Film/HarryPotter'' and EmmaWatson as, um, ''[[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1562740736/nm0914612 Hermione]]'' in ''Film/HarryPotter''. *** How about [[http://www.parade.com/export/sites/default/celebrity/slideshows/emma -watson/2000.html this link and subsequent pages?]] *** ''PrivateEye'' did a great cartoon on this: --->'''2001:''' (Girl looks longingly at poster of Hermione while her brother and mother watch) Aw, look, she's totally besotted with Hermione! --->'''2009:''' (Boy looks longingly at poster of Hermione while his sister and mother watch) Aw, look, he's totally besotted with Hermione! ** In a similar vein, Bonnie Wright [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm727685376/nm0942247 when she first started playing Ginny]] and [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1361414144/nm0942247 today]]. ** Not to mention the boys -- Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Tom Felton have all grown up ''beautifully''. *** This troper is offended after finding no mention of Matthew Lewis. Yes, little and awkward Neville is a man right now - and what a man! ** Holy crap, [[http://www.buddytv.com/articles/Image/what-are-theyup-to-Michelle-trachtenberg.jpg Michelle Trachtenberg]]... ** Christina Ricci as [[http://deohsan.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/wednesday.jpg Wednesday Addams]] and [[http://chud.com/articles/content_images/5/christinaricci-picture-4.jpg today]] or at

[[http://www.movieforum.com/people/actresses/christinaricci/images/sle epyhollow.jpg Sleepy hollow]]. ** Hayden Panettiere for anyone who saw her in ''Remember The Titans''. ** LaceyChabert; [[http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2004/04/gallery/partyoffive/lchaber t.jpg This photo]] shows her appearance when she was in ''{{Party of Five}}'' and what she looks like now. ** MileyCyrus has been attempting to do this, to shed the old HannahMontana thing and be recognized as a legitimate adult singer/actor. Hasn't been going too well, though. The media still explodes whenever she does something remotely "adult". [[SarcasmMode Because teenagers in real life always act like the ones in children's TV shows.]] Admit it: even if you hate her music, you still have to pity her to some extent. *** This seems to happen a LOT to DisneyChannel stars. They get on a TV show, and usually sing, with music and programming aimed at children. They become extremely popular for a few years, with high TV ratings and lots of concert and CD sales. Then, their show is gone and they start to slowly fade out. Whenever they try to do some more mature work, there is often a heavy MediaBacklash, because for so long they were "perfect" role models for young children, and people just expect them to stay that way. *** Hilary Duff is one of the few DisneyChannel stars who has managed to go from a TeenIdol to a mature adult singer. ** An interesting one is Georgie Henley from ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' films. We're used to seeing her as a nine-year-old so she looks like she has grown up a lot in the third film, even though she still is just 15. *** Her Narnia co-star, Skandar Keynes is an exellent male example. He was adorable in the first movie, then comes ''Prince Caspian'' and ''damn'' ** ScarlettJohansson has certainly come a long way from all that horse whispering. * [[TheNanny Madeline Zima]]. Just look at [[http://darkclaw.lamula.pe/files/2009/06/madeline_zima.jpg this]] pic. * Danica [=McKellar=] * One of the most disturbing things about getting older is watching ''Dakota fucking Fanning'' blossom. * A rare male example: ChristianBale was such a cute little boy in ''{{Empire of the Sun}}'' ... This troper's mother was probably not the only one who was more than a little surprised by his [[http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/File:BruceWayneTDK.jpg appearance]] [[TheDarkKnightSaga as Batman]]. ** Another notable male example, Anthony Michael Hall. [[SixteenCandles Farmer Ted]], became quite the hunk. ** What about ElijahWood? He was a RealLife CuteShotaroBoy as a child, and now as [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Frodo]] he's still adorable. * Annette Funicello was this before everyone on this list (and most Tropers) was even born. * [[BillClinton Chelsea Clinton]] has endured many jokes about her

looks in the media when her father was in office (A [[KickTheDog downright cruel]] thing to do to a teenage girl growing into her new body, regardless of her parents. Bad media!), but I doubt [[http://topnews.in/usa/files/Chelsea-Clinton_1.jpg anyone's joking now]]. * You know that little girl that got attacked by chicken sized dinosaurs in the beginning of ''TheLostWorld: JurassicPark''? That was Camilla Belle, who now looks like [[http://www.mostattractivewoman.com/photos/galleries/famous/Camilla_B elle.jpg this]]. * Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He was always a cute [[http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuy6u8fT8h1qzlsmdo1_500.jpg kid]] , but now... [[http://fusedfilm.com/wpcontent/uploads/2009/04/joseph_gordon_levitt.jpg umm, yeah.]] ** Sort of lampshaded by JGL himself during his appearance on SaturdayNightLive, in regards to his days on ThirdRockFromTheSun: [[http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/627/14549tommy.jpg "Wasn't I a cute little girl?"]] * JodieFoster: started as a Coppertone Girl, now a {{hot mom}}. * Natalie Wood: A little girl in ''Miracle on 34th Street''; less than a decade later she was playing opposite JamesDean in ''RebelWithoutACause''. * Another famous Natalie, NataliePortman was a spunky, determined, and funny little girl in ''Leon: TheProfessional'', starring opposite JeanReno. She's turning into quite the classical beauty, see her latest incarnation in the upcoming Thor live-action adaptation of the comic from, um, Marvel Comics. * Kaley Cuoco, resident hottie of ''TheBigBangTheory''. [[http://www.childstarlets.com/lobby/bios/portraits/kaley_cuoco12.jpg Here she is]] circa the Denzel Washington film ''Virtuosity'', and [[http://kaleycuoco.fansiter.com/pictures/kaley-cuoco-images.jpg here she is]] now. * I predict this happening sooner than anyone knows it for Chloe Grace-Moretz. ** It looks like she's [[http://chloemoretz.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=250&pos=14 trying]] to get there [[http://chloemoretz.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=252&pos=19 a little too soon.]] * Remember Ritchie, the adorable little kid from ''FamilyMatters''? Well, here's Bryton [=McClure=] [[http://www.poptower.com/brytonmcclure.htm as an adult]]. * Daniel Logan, who played the young Boba Fett in ''AttackOfTheClones'', can hunt me down [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Daniel_Logan_at_W onderCon_2007.JPG anyday]] * This is Nozomi Sasaki, [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Nozomi_Sasaki_-_PS__10_3125.jpg age 10]]. And '''this''' is gravure (bikini) model Nozomi Sasaki, [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Nozomi_Sasaki_1_8703.jp g age 20]]. [[HelloNurse W]][[ShesGotLegs o]][[DistractedByTheSexy

w]]! * The baby on the cover of {{Nirvana}}'s classic album ''Nevermind'' is [[http://en.artintern.net/index.php/news/main/html/1/21 now 20 years old]]. While Spencer Elden is fairly average looks-wise, seeing him as an adult is still a great way to make 90's grunge fans feel old as dirt. * Noah Segan * Andrew Lawrence * Freddie Highmore * Many of the HollywoodHomely girls from this troper's school days, although some weren't so lucky. [[/folder]] ---Go back to SheIsAllGrownUp, 'cause ''damn'', it's much sexier now. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SheIsNotMyGirlfriend * My brother was like this whenever anybody teases him about his best friend. By the end of fifth grade, they admitted they like each other. However even if he admitted it to her, he still denied that she is his girlfriend. He refused to tell anybody about their current relationship. * [[LikeBrotherAndSister This basically sums up my guy friend and I]]. We're very close friends and I guess seeing how close we are, everyone assumes we're dating, which of course leads to this kind of reaction. Even this troper's friend thought I had a crush on him until I came out and told her who my real crush was. I was relieved when he got a girlfriend because this has pretty much stopped. * This Troper has a male friend she spends quite a bit of time with. Movies, lunch/dinner "dates" etc. but he's never blatantly asked her out, and she refuses to make assumptions. Still, one of her roommates is convinced they're a couple. ** Troper: I'm riding with Clark. ** Roommate: Wait, which Clark? ** T: Clark [last name] ** RM: Oh, your boyfriend. ** T: (blank stare) Um.. no. ** RM: (cheerily) You guys are so cute together. * Somewhat averted for this troper and his Formerly-Not-Girlfriend (long story). We got this a huge amount, and we'd both always reply with a shrug and a "not really". ** We decided not to date since it was too obvious a pairing. Then we admitted we had feelings for eachother, and some stuff happened (not that). Then she seemed to change her mind about it. A couple of weeks later, one of her brother's friends asks if we had sex (which we didn't). And I have no clue whether he'd just invoked this trope, or actually somehow knew about the whole thing. * This Troper had this happen with a girl for three years. We were sort-of friends (And ended up being co-captains together) but neither of us had anything, contrary to what EVERYONE else in the grade

thought. I only got it ended by [[XanatosRoulette deliberately implying it with a different girl]]. Unfortunately, even my parents joined in on the second one, even if the rest of the grade got too confused to continue either of them. * This Troper has been told multiple times by just about everybody in her year that her and a good male friend would make a good couple. I'm not denying it, (we both agree that if we didn't know each other so well we probably would be dating already), but just the thought of us together is enough to squick me out. ** Hm... Are you sure I don't know you? You remind me of my friend and her male BFF. ** This happened all the time with my best friend, Rachel, and I while I was still in high school. Everyone we knew(including her family) was waiting for us to start dating. Needless to say, it never happened, and we always had to clarify that we were definitely NOT dating. * This Troper has it constantly assumed that I'm dating a good male friend...made extremely awkward by the fact that I'm also good friends with his girlfriend of two years, and more people think the other guy and I are dating than realize his actual girlfriend and him are going out. * This Troper and his ex-girlfriend had an extremely smooth break-up, and as a result we are still best friends and haven't entirely dropped the habits we picked up while dating. This leads many people assume we're still dating. Even close friends often forget that we're not still dating, which can lead to some pretty awkward situations. ** Same with this troper and her ex-boyfriend. It's even weirder because we weren't obvious about our relationship in the first place, so by the time most people found out we dated it was already over. But we were such good friends after, that even a month after the breakup most people didn't know it happened. * Story of [[{{EspyPsyche}} This Troper]]'s life, and it nearly got me in a lot of trouble. Said girl was a friend's ex. Also a case of [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Everyone Can See It]], since random students on campus I didn't know even flagged her as my girlfriend. Eventually we just let it fly once we realized that denying it wasn't doing any good. Finding out after she moved away that we did in fact have feelings for each other didn't help. ** Same troper, different story. In high school there was a girl that was on Academic Games and Chemistry Olympics with me. The fact that we kind of ignored our [[ThirdWheel Third Wheel]] and that we sat on a blanket together in the commons for lunch made it worse. Our reasoning for not dating was "We've known each other since we were five, it would be too awkward." Oh, and I took her as my date to an event for the swimmers to take their dates to -- without telling her that she was in fact my date, and then I denied any knowledge of it when she called me on it. ** And my sister had one too with a coworker, but they got a [[RelationshipUpgrade Relationship Upgrade]] and now are official. * This Troper took his fraternal twin sister out to dinner to congratulate us for competing our SAT's and got so many comments/looks about being dating. She is currently dating someone who looks very much like me...

** Likewise, because this troper's half-sister looks so much younger than she really is, many assume we're the same age and that we're boyfriend and girlfriend. Yuck. ** This troper and his mother were out shopping a few days before he moved into college. The cashier, when ringing us up, asked if we were newlyweds. *** Inverted by this troper's sister and her male friend (not her boyfriend), who the cashier assumed to be her son. He's slightly older than she is. * For the longest time whenever my sister and I would fly together, the baggage check clerk without fail would assume we were a married couple. (After all we have the same last name). She found it creepy. I found it hilarious. Now that she's married, she figured that would be the end of that nonsense. She, I, and her husband took a recent flight. Naturally the baggage clerk decided I must be her boyfriend, and that her husband is her brother. My brother-in-law also found it hilarious. * There is a girl this Troper doesn't like at all. Not even as a friend. Everyone thinks we have a crush on each other. ** Same happened to [[MinusZero this troper]] in first and third-fifth grade. ** Same thing with this troper. Everyone thought me and a girl would be perfect for each other, even to the point of trying to set us up multiple times. And then I started dating her best friend. Awkward. ** I have a similar problem right now. Granted I am currently in a committed relationship but it doesn't help that our "arguements" sound like UST induced flirting to a great many people. I think this actually works for the best though as my GF seems to be practically throwing herself at me to keep me from leaving her for this other girl(and trust me I ain't complaining!) ** This sounds eerily familiar. I have the same problem with a guy I don't like at all. Let me ask you this...does the saying "Friendship Hug" sound familiar? * This Troper's parents are apparently unable to understand that my best friend is a girl who is not my girlfriend. ** This troper has many female friends who he is frequently accused of dating. One of this troper's friend's parents has this misunderstanding about us. I think my mom also has this misunderstanding. ** This troper had the same thing happen. I was talking about why my friend's mom likes me (I don't smoke or drink... as far as they know...), and my mom says, "Well those are good qualities in your daughter's boyfriend." "Mom... I'm not her boyfriend..." (UnresolvedSexualTension takes care of that) * This troper had an awkward relationship that kept using both this and LikeBrotherAndSister to explain ourselves. That relationship eventually [[{{Understatement}} crumbled]]. Like, [[ItGotWorse really badly.]] Uh-huh. I'm over it now, but damn it took me too long. ** Oh god. If you are me in the future, tell me, IS IT TOO LATE TO CHANGE THE FUTURE? * This Troper has done this too many times to count with her male friend, including just a few hours ago. I have also been involved in

several awkward conversations that start with this. My mother insists that we would be "adorable". My Grandmother told me he was extremely attractive. ([[EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench It's probably because he's French.]]) And I hate that it is becoming less [[MainSquick unappealing]] to me as time goes on. And he's asking me out alone more and more, so it looks like we're dating. BUT WE'RE NOT...I think. And, as a visual, we both get flustered and blush when this is brought up, adding a vehement denial and exaggerated disgust. Now that I think about it, it's probably a [[WillTheyOrWontThey very frustrating situation]] for her other friends. Anyway... * [[EricDerKonig This troper]] is in a relationship that started with this, combined with WillTheyOrWontThey, eventually had a RelationshipUpgrade, and, because this troper will be leaving the country in a few months, started with a [[ForegoneConclusion foregone]] BittersweetEnding. Sigh * This troper had this happen when her sister saw her and a guy friend walking to the bus stop together. It doesn't help that right after they both said it she realized that they needed to run or miss their bus. So she grabbed his wrist and started running pulling him after him. Her sister thought they were holding hands. She still refers to his ex as the girl who stole this troper's boyfriend. ** This troper has the same story, only she will be moving more like an hour and a half away. But she has problems with maintaining relationships with people who aren't physically with her, so she doesn't know how it will turn out. ** [[TheBilo This troper]] as well. The kicker being that my girlfriend is back in Texas while I live in China (long story short: the economic recession). We see each other for 2 weeks out of the year. * in a Les Yay relationship, this troper said goodbye to somebody who WAS her girlfriend, only for the girlfriend in question to be asked by a mother with a baby in the seat behind her once upon her travel of choice 'is that your boyfriend?' this despite many people saying I'd never make a plausable Bifauxnen, looking too girly for words. * [[DarkInsanity13 This troper]] and her current best friend are PlatonicLifePartners. However, since they often walk home together and neither are currently in a relationship, people tend to think otherwise. One friend (ironically as he was showing them the engagement ring he was getting his fiancee) once said "You aren't dating? You should be!" In all honesty, this troper would rather shoot herself in the foot than date her friend, since, as much as she loves him as a friend ([[JerkWithAHeartOfGold and you'll never hear that from her offline]]), she doesn't see him as more than that and doesn't care to. * [[MeravGirl This Troper]] is 13, and has a close male friend who's 2 years younger (do the math). I suspect him having ADHD - he is very hyper and tends to annoy my classmates. A lot. I started dragging him away from fights with older girls and they started calling him my boyfriend. This becomes really annoying as we both are too young to date. ** Are you a younger version of me from the past??? Me and my friend are 19 and 22 and we act a lot like this. I used to fancy him, but now

i think of him as like my brother. ** I think that boy is a younger version of me from the past (I'm 13). Wait... OMFG TIME TRAVEL!! * This Troper had NEVER had this happen until recently, when my health teacher spread a rumor throughout the school that i was with a girl who I had never met before this school year and...ugh!! Not to mention that I HAVE a crush on another girl who is in the same class and I have no idea of what she thinks of me on that level and am too afraid to ask. What's even worse is that, as a way-too-short blond kid, I get enough pseudocrushes on me already, it just makes my life worse. ** Now you know how [[FullmetalAlchemist Ed]] would feel if he were to be aware of his many fangirls. ** Why would your [[SadistTeacher teacher]] ''do that''? *** Running with the way-too-short-blond-kid hypothesis, clearly his teacher is Maes Hughes on our side of the gate. * If [[GwenStacyWannabe I]] have to explain to ''one more person'' that my best friend is ''not'' my boyfriend... ([[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Not that I don't enjoy the idea, but...]]) * This troper has had some rather unique bouts with this since he blatantly admits to crushing on his female friends. ** 1) This troper and a college classmate visited a friend at the gym. After 10 minutes friend asks if we're dating, to which both our jaws drop. But a month later, we were. ** 2) This troper's best friend's girlfriend was once mistaken for being ''his'' (this troper's) girlfriend. ** 3) This troper's girlfriend's best friend was mistaken for ''his''girlfriend. Twice. * This troper has a hard time getting the point across that his two best friends are both girls, and NEITHER OF THEM ARE HIS GIRLFRIEND. (There's a very easy reason for this: he's gay. But he can't exactly tout that to take care of it in every case...) ** Same thing happens with my, and one of my best friend's, gay friend. In fact, the only reason I can say the above troper's not him, is because he can't speak English to save his life. * Happened during a class barbeque, this troper was asked where her boyfriend was only to say "what boyfriend?", the person didn't say who they were referring though, but there's an obvious suspect. * [[SpiriTsunami This troper]] has never actually been involved with this trope, but has witnessed it first-hand. It started with my sister making a "[[SarcasticConfession joke]]"--via ''text message''--to one of her male friends that she was going out with another guy they both knew. A few other people got in on the joke, including the guy in question, and now...she swears that the contents of that text message are still a lie. [[CassandraTruth No one believes her.]] ** Update: She's stopped denying it, which pretty much confirms this as having been an example of this trope in action. * Holy shit ''yes''. Two; ** There's this chick I walk home with who I walk home with every day and have over at my house every now and then. I have no sexual attraction whatsoever, but I am very frequently accused of leading her on (and I'm slightly scared of her now) ** Okay, there's this chick I've been friends with that I used to

barely talk to, but at the start of last year we started having a few classes together and I decided to hit on her. It was either the best or worst thing I ever did; she didn't like me so I decided to stop, then we started becoming friends, then she went out with this guy I went to primary school with, then we started talking about masturbation on a regular basis, then I found out she wanted to have sex with me along with like five other guys just as she started going out with this other guy, then she dumped him, then we had cybersex, then she started inviting me to heaps of stuff, and just like two days ago she invited me to the movies the other day, and I'm going to her house next week and I think she likes me now! I don't care how obvious the answer is, ''please'' someone tell me what to do! I'm not sure anymore! D= *** Opportunity. It could be your only one. * Why doesn't anyone get the concept of JustFriends?!? It doesn't help that everyone is like "oh you're both so tall and blonde! You'd look so cute together!" gag, gag. * The other day, one of this troper's friends asked if he ever got a blowjob from a good friend of his. He told them he didn't, but between all of you and him, he wishes this would happen someday. [[MsFanservice For good reason.]] * This troper has a male friend that she hangs out with quite often. Once on a trip, we were asked "Are you two dating?" Both of us responded with a resounding "NO." Almost nobody believed us. To make matters worse, this troper's cousins are constantly calling him her "not boyfriend" and smirking secretively. * This troper was going to the movies with a guy friend of hers...and people kept referring to him as her boyfriend. One particularly bad offender called me later that day and I answered the phone with "HE IS NOT MY BOYFRIEND." * This troper is more comfortable talking to guys than girls, and she talks to a couple of guys in particular on a regular basis during classes. Well, a couple of the girls that she knows are absolutely convinced that we're dating. For this troper, this is somewhat amusing, as she is a half-closeted lesbian. * This troper went to a fundraiser banquet for the high school he graduated from 3 years ago, and one of his (female) friends was working there. Said friend kinda hit on him every now and then, leading the elderly lady sitting next to him to ask her if he was her boyfriend. Said friend wasn't too bugged about being asked that though. This troper wouldn't have minded the accusation so much if it were not for the fact that his friend is 17 and he's 20. * This Troper has a lovely little Unresolved Sexual Tension and Will They or Won't They. Guy is very shy and if anyone points out the fact that he's been non-stop flirting with me for two and a half years(in a thinly disguised Love/Hate manner), he flips out and claims I am the one flirting with him and refuses to talk to me for awhile to get the suspicion off of him. Being equally unwilling to admit it, "He is not my boyfriend!" could be my catchphrase and vice versa. It doesn't help that half the teachers ask us daily if we're dating when we walk to class together, and that if I so much as say hi to him the entire girl's swim team rushes over to see what happens(the Captain is the

worst. She actually attempts to play Cupid). Also, his sister thinks I'm stalking him. * This Troper hangs out with his sister often, and we resemble each other enough to assume people know. Worse, we both have the inconsiderate habit of failing to introduce the other, so some assume that we're each others' dates for the night. She's the best wingman I've ever had. * For some reason, EVERY time this troper hangs out with a girl, he gets this. It's happened in five separate states and seven separate schools. Of course, it doesn't help that roughly 3/4 of his close lady-friends DO, in the end, turn out to have SOME thoughts along those lines after all. As he is uninterested in women, this is not as great as it might sound. Also tends to get a lot of "are you gay" or, after he has denied it often enough, "what are you, into animals?". Every. Time. That train's never late. * This troper is totally finished with this. Her male best friend is not her boyfriend. [[LikeBrotherAndSister Yes, the two of us look similar, but he isn't her brother either.]] ARGH! ** This troper has a very similar situation, with added Double Entendre, since the male best friend is a highly skilled gymnast. Cue a huge avalanche of "well, we know why you go out with ''him''..." * This Tropette has this guy friend. She considers him a [[LikeBrotherAndSister very good friend.]] and then this happened. --> Random Friend: Hey, are you two dating? --> Me: NO! --> Him (at the same time): Yes. --> Me: OhCrap --> Him: (heart-broken look) ** Stupid love, messing up my friendships! * This troper is routinely considered a couple with one of his friends (who is, coincidentally, REALLY HOT...and rather * ahem* flirtatious), to the point of threatening physical violence if everyone in the pool didn't shut up and stop giving me boners. * Happened with this troper right at the start of his first day on his current school. He tagged along with his friend (who pretty much was the only person he knew at that point) and a veteran asked them if they were dating. And she asked it so suddenly it was actually funny. * This troper experienced this three times in one day. It started with "Are you two going out?" (Me and girl #1), then in another class someone else asked the same question about me and her. Then later on in that same class the first person asked "Are you two f*** buddies?" (Me and girl #2). What, can't guys be friends with girls without going out with them or having sex with them? * Keeps happening with two teenagers in this troper's church. Troper feels vastly sorry for them, particularly the girl, who would probably like it to be true. * This troper found her lab group telling her "Oh, I know your boyfriend!" about her best male friend, leading to lots of protesting otherwise. Since they began dating six months later, perhaps the lab group was psychic... * This troper has been asked a few times if her friend was her girlfriend since they hung out all of the time. Not that this troper

doesn't have a crush on her friend but the friend is pretty straight. * Throughout high school, this troper and her male friend (who apparently resembled each other, even according to her mother) went through the following exchange with depressing frequency: -> Them: Are you two related? -> Us: No. -> Them: Oh. Are you dating? -> Us: * headdesk* ** This troper always wanted to say yes to one question to see if they'd still ask the other. ** [[BrotherSisterIncest That's... disturbing, yet kinda funny.]] * This troper had a particularly heart breaking example last semester. A friend of mine in a class was quite flirty with me, and we spent a good portion of the beginning of the semester flirting with no end in sight, both physically and verbally. Someone suggested we date, and I was like "yeah, why aren' we dating, we might as well be"... and her rationale as to why was that I was 5 years her junior, [[{{Squick}} and that she has a sister my age.]] So I try real hard to convince her to go out with me, and just as it seems she's about to crack, she's dating some other dude. I don't think I've recovered from that one. * [[RedSavant This Troper's]] sister's best friend spends a lot of time hanging out with us. Said best friend is relatively attractive, and I'd be lying if I said she didn't give me conflicting feelings, but we have never gone out and likely never will. People, inevitably, think we are. * A running gag at [[SharmHedgehog my]] school after I got excited because I got a girl's phone number. Which I appear to have lost. Damn. * This tropette has fond memories of her primary school, in which we would ship members of the class together. If the teacher decided to put a boy and a girl at the same table, this trope would quickly ensue. * This troper and one of her best friends (who happens to be a male) were both sick and wanted a quiet place to hang out while they waited for an award ceremony (scores were being tallied). When the ceremony was about to begin, a volunteer at the competition was walking down the hall they had retreated to, yelling for any of the competitors. They were the only two people down there, and they were like three feet away from each other, just talking. The volunteer started flipping out and going, [[ApologisesAlot "Oh my God, I'm so sorry! I didn't realize-- Oh my God, I'm so sorry--"]] This troper's friend said, "We're not together, don't worry," as this troper was stifling laughter. * This troper is an unusual case - for the first year and a half of high school, I was regarded as something of a man-hater, and rumors of lesbianism abounded. (I am straight, by the way.) At around December of my sophmore year, I began making a few male friends. Ever since, any guy I talk to, look at, or am in the same room as becomes my "crush", according to my friends. Odd. * No, really she isn't. She's my sister. I'm not allowed to go with my sister to the movies anymore I guess. * [[AXavierB My]] parents keep insisting that I have a crush on my

female friend and that she's my future wife. [[StraightGay They don't realize that I'm queerer than a three-dollar bill]]. * This troper both subverted this trope and played it straight- she and her male friend were thought to be dating, to the point where people whould refer to him as "your boyfriend" to me and me as "your girlfriend" to him. However, we were LikeBrotherAndSister... except I was the UnluckyChildhoodFriend. Subverted when I told him how I felt... and he [[RelationshipUpgrade felt the same!]] We're still dating. * Another classic double, definitely played straight with the second one... There's a girl I've known since we were both about six. We've both always had a reputation as... academic high-fliers, we share a birthday, and our dads both worked for the same company until quite recently. Naturally, a load of people thought we'd be perfect together. Equally naturally, we're closer to VitriolicBestBuds. More recently (like, just over a month ago), I met a fellow nerd (female, unlike me...); phone numbers were exchanged, and I promptly ran out of credit due to at-length discussions of... well, anything. For a week, I was quoting this trope a few times a day (and kinda hoping something'd happen, but lacking the courage to do anything about it). After a week... Ding! RelationshipUpgrade! The best part is that I introduced her to Troping, so I can now make jokes about LevelUpAtIntimacy5 or whatever. The downside? She might read this... * [[{{Gerusz}} This troper]] has some female friends, many of them are [[PlatonicLifePartners quite]] [[LikeBrotherAndSister close]]. He doesn't anymore count the times one of them was mistaken to be his girlfriend. * This troper gets this quite a lot, considering 80% of his friends are straight females. This troper is bisexual and so also gets this from people who know his sexuality but not him as a person and as such gets paired with straight females, lesbians, gay guys, and, on one occasion, a straight male. Ugh! * [[{{Seungmina}} This troper]] was at a local fair at the tail end of the night. A guy friend called for her to wait a minute, and she went over to see what was up. It turned out he really only wanted to say bye, but he had to close up his booth. The guy orchestrating the closing of the canopy asked him to tell his girlfriend to hold the sign. I, trying to be {{Genre Savy}} explained calmly that we weren't going out. My friend though did exclaim "She's not my girlfriend." * This troper's prom date tried to convince people she wasn't my prom date. Obviously, nobody believed her, including me. * This troper's daughter, when in collage, had a summer job in the lab where I worked. We would often have lunch together in the cafeteria. One day a guy I knew asked who "the chick" was. He got very angry when I told him she was my daughter (I looked rather young in those days) and I had to show him my id to prove my age! * This troper gets this pretty much every single time she goes anywhere with her best male friend. At one point, we considered bringing along a sign that says "NOT DATING" in big bold letters, but then we figured that it would just encourage everyone more. * Many of the elderly seem to have some sort of... issue, the symptoms of which are confusing this troper and his ''mom'' for a ''couple.''

Squick? Very much so. ** I feel your pain. I was eating dinner with my mom at a restaurant, and, according to Mom, when I went to the bathroom, another patron complimented her on her handsome boyfriend. Incidentally, I was dressed in full pirate regalia at the time. Long story... * This had happened to This Troper twice back in her school days, much to her amusement. Each when she was roaming around and being generally affectionate with one of her two best friends. Apparently my schoolmates seem to think that I'm a very [[{{Bifauxnen}} sexy guy]] in my downtime. * [[SalFishFin This Troper]] has a straight example: His best friend was a girl who moved away a few years back. She comes to visit every so often (her grandmother still lives near me), and when she does, I have to constantly say this. The Troper also has a strange example, where the girls at his church mistook his cousin from California as his girlfriend. * {{Smerf}}: I really wish people actually knew this back in highschool. Terminally shy, but I found out years later that a number of girls liked, but always thought I was dating one of my friends. Damn it! ** Dude, college is WORSE! This troper learned that several females refused to talk to him because he was dating no less than 9 different women simultaneously. Of those 9, he only ''knew'' 2! WTF?! * [[MinusZero This troper]] had an odd case at an amusement park last week with one of his friends; a "He Is Not My Boyfriend." I'm a guy. He's dating cheerleaders. And something tells me I'm straight. But the sheer amount of people who had the idea... * When I was with my latest girlfriend, everyone at school seemed to think that there was a giant 4 way relationship between her, my two best [ female ] friends, and I. Most confounding of all, I get the impression that they all thought that I was doing this without letting any of the girls know about each other! My school is full of idiots //_> ** Not just your school, my friend. * This (male) troper just got back from attending a conference with a good (female) friend, and in the first day, a dozen people asked or assumed we were a couple. But it gets better. She hooked up with another girl and we were all seen to have breakfast together, and from that point, people started assuming we were a romantic threesome. * Comedic twist: This troper once explained, in perfect truth, that no -- the guy hanging out with her all through the church's Vacation Bible School is, in fact, not her boyfriend. (He's her husband.) * This lesbian troper has an extremely close straight female friend, and has said these words more times than she can count. Turning straight girls isn't something I can do! * This troper had the good fortune/misfortune of hanging out with three other women. As we go club-hopping, every time we step into a new place, a group of guys starts eyeballing all of them and then giving me the slightly hostile glare, apparently trying to figure out "which of them is mine" so that they can go for the other two. I could've saved them the trouble if they'd asked, none of them were my girlfriend.

* This troper absolutely lives this trope. I have.. one female good friend whom had an entire friend group attempting to ship us together. She had a crush on me for a couple years, but still. My Female best friend I've had a weird "We only like each other when the other doesn't" thing going on, so while we've never gotten involved everyone, especially her family, tended to presume there was love between us. Thankfully this has died down now that she's found a boyfriend (even if he is like a lamer copy of me :P) and I'm in my own relationship. Oh, and this past year I was presumed dating another girl on the floor. Eventually we did do the whole "friends with benefits" thing but this started months before that. * This lesbian troper has a very close straight female friend. Even our mothers think we're a couple. * This troper has a guy friend at school with whom she talks with while passing in the hallway (because we have no classes together this year). One day in particular on my way to gymnastics class he came up to me and we started to talk about how our weekends went. After we said our goodbyes, this troper's friend from gymnastics came up and started asking if that was my boyfriend and then went on to say that we looked so cute together and our "kids would be sooo cute". My sister is also very guilty of doing this to me. * [[Semi1337Troper I]] was unfortunate enough for a girl to sit next to me on the bus. I don't speak with girls much, even though I like about three. A friend of mine then pops in from the seat in front of us and says: ->Friend: Hey, [name]! Why are you sitting with your girl friend? ->Me: ...I don't know. (This troper says that when faced with adversity or a question he can't come up with a witty answer for.) ->Friend: AH! HE SAID I DON'T KNOW! ->Me: * silent {{Precision F Strike}}* . * It's kind of ironically funny and cruel that I like her sister. * This Troper has two. ** There was this girl that I was/am close to (it's complicated) that I knew in high school, and from her perspective we were LikeBrotherAndSister personified. [[CassandraTruth Not a single one of my friends believed it,]] and we got asked over and over again if we were dating. I, on the other hand, was very attracted to her, and everyone knew it. Classic SheIsNotMyGirlfriend material. Eventually I [[TookALevelInBadass grew some balls]] and told the girl I liked her, only to be told that she didn't feel the same way. Almost a TearJerker, but I don't mind; I moped around for a little while, but I'm a better man for it. ** A couple of years later (also in high school) there was this girl I absolutely hated, and feeling was mutual. She was as smart as I am, as hardheaded as I am, and a dedicated Communist [[{{Tsundere}} who took every opportunity she could to insult me]], whereas [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold I am a nice guy who is often a real jerk]] and a lifetime Capitalist. For a while, we cohabited but made our mutual antagonism known to ourselves and to everyone around us. [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Again, not a single one of my friends believed it.]] But eventually, our hostilities cooled. We hung out, we talked,

and fought every once in a while, spend more and more time alone. She even managed to talk me into promising to take her to prom, before she moved. As it turned out, even while we hated each other, [[CanNotSpitItOut we had liked each other the entire time and knew it, and we never told the other person.]] She recently came back to visit for a while after she moved elsewhere. She and I kissed when we saw each other again. [[RelationshipUpgrade And now we're dating.]] I even kept my promise to take her to prom. *** Dear GOD in heaven, you lucky !@#$!@. So not only did you EarnYourHappyEnding, you created a story that screams "make into a movie". It's the kind of story that people pay writers millions to write, and you lived it for FREE! * This troper has a very close guy friend (he's basically my oldest friend) and people have asked us if we were dating. We don't say "He/She's not my boyfriend/girlfriend" but we say stuff like, "No. We're JustFriends." that denies it. Thankfully, nobody had asked if we were dating each other lately since both of us are in our own relationships with different people. * [[AzureLunatic This troper]]'s best friend relates that his neighbor inquired after his wife. Only after much discussion did he realize that his neighbor was talking about me and not his mother. Cue this trope. Sadly, while he is JustFriends with me, I happen to actually like him like him. * This troper used to reflexively respond this whenever anyone referred to a certain guy as her boyfriend. Subverted by the fact that he actually was. * This troper's best friend is male and yet they spend a disproportionate amount of time teasing each other about having crushes on friends of the opposite gender. Made more hilarious by the fact that most of the school and this troper's mom are convinced that they are dating. * This troper keeps telling his lesbian friend that I and '''her''' girlfriend need t-shirts. Mine would say "She's not my girlfriend" hers would say "She's mine". Haven't done it yet though, but it's becoming irritating enough to try. * In a ToyShip version of this trope, this troper's only friends in 4th and 6th grades were boys. Needless to say, this (female) troper got teased A LOT about it, especially having not hit that stage of puberty yet. Now, in ''seventh'' grade, the shipped-with-me guy of the year wasn't my boyfriend, or even my friend, but that's not to say I didn't ''want'' him to be.... * [[{{TaiCat}} This troper]] had funny story regarding this.She and her friend who just had her haircut,and looked quite boish with it,were mistaken for couple by drunken guy,and they had hard time convincing him wrong.It was funny as hell * This troper has a friend with whom she has a completely nonsensical relationship. It essentially started out as a very awkward, very intense friendship. I then developed feelings for him. I then expressed said feelings, which were not requited. We are still extremely intense friends. So, at this point, everyone we know either assumes that we are dating, or knows specifically that we are not due to the aforementioned scenario. It doesn't help that upon meeting me,

his mother confronted him about whether we were 'more than friends.' Ironically, my own mother suspects the same thing about a completely different friend, with whom I am entirely platonic. ** This is made funnier by the fact that I actually am now dating the platonic friend mentioned in the last sentence, after almost everyone we know shipping us relentlessly, so I guess my mother was right. * When ThisTroper's mother, who was in her late forties at the time, wanted to start a garden in our backyard, she asked her close friend of twenty years, in her late sixties, to help her pick out plants at the local garden nursery. I guess it was the way the two were interacting, with my mother's friend using the pronoun "we", but the whole store assumed that they were a lesbian couple, and thinking that my mother was around the same age as her friend, they gave her a senior's discount. To this day, whenever my mother goes to the nursery to replace plants (she kills a lot of them unfortunately), they ask about her "partner", but my mother never attempts to correct them because it gets her the senior's discount. * One of [[HackeySack my]] friends at my school was a girl. She was a FRIEND. Oh, how I ''wanted'' it to be more than that, but it still bugged me when people assume. Of course, [[InvertedTrope now when people ask...]] * I (a girl) had a relationship with a boy that mixed this with WillTheyOrWontThey and then had a RelationshipUpgrade - before we both realized that actually, we didn't so much not swing that way as we swing right past each other. We have been happily PlatonicLifePartners ever since, but still get mistaken for dating by complete strangers. A recent trip to [=McDonald's=] saw the local drunk tell him to "take care of your girlfriend". * This troper had to explain for 2-3 years to various people that a [[JustFriends very close female friend]] of his was not his girlfriend. Then, [[RelationshipUpgrade things changed]], and basically everyone knew they were dating almost instantaneously. It lasted a year and a month. After the break-up, said troper then had to deal with obnoxious people asking what happened and why they weren't getting back together again. The general high level of interest before, during, and after can be attributed to the fact that the girl was one of the most hated in the grade (for no good reason!)... * This troper has had to say this CONSTANTLY, with both of them going to a new school and only having been there for 3 months, with the accusations starting since September, of all things. Throw in [[BelligerentSexualTension this]] (a much milder version than media, of course) along with [[UnresolvedSexualTension this]], then add in a whole school full of [[ShipperOnDeck these people]], and you've just about summed it all up. * This troper's mother has twice thought that she had a crush on someone in her D&D club. This is despite the fact that this troper openly DoesNotLikeMen and is contemplating when to come out as a [[IncompatibleOrientation lesbian]]. She's fairly certain that both guys had or have crushes on her. Even one of their classmates tried to be a ShipperOnDeck. -> Me and friend: (argument full of technobabble) -> Classmate: You know, you two are like, ''perfect'' for each other.

-> Friend: I take offense at that suggestion. -> Me: I take a LOT of offense at that suggestion! * This troper and his ex had this going for them a lot during middle school. We were seen a lot together, and people would periodically walk up to us and ask "Hey, are you two going out?" to which the response would always be "No!". * This troper was practically interrogated as to whether she was dating [[TroubledButCute a certain]] [[JustFriends guy friend]] due to a few mild NotWhatItLooksLike situations; being so [[SarcasmMode marvelously subtle]], she responded with "No, he has a [[LongDistanceRelationship girlfriend]]." When asked if she wanted to be, [[BadLiar she fervently]] [[HopelessSuitor denied it]]. * This troper and her [[TwinCest twin brother]] are often mistaken for a couple, despite this troper being married. * [[{{Luo}} This troper]] is pretty much a [[{{Shipping}} ship]] target at work, though one example still comes up occasionally, and still hurts. There was one coworker I got along well with because we had a lot of common interests and shared a lot of personality quirks, which for where I work and the area which I live, is extremely rare. Neither of us were overly social, so in some situations we gravitated towards each other and became very close. Naturally, everybody was either asking me whether we were going out, or they knew we weren't and were trying to hint that we should. The catch? I actually had developed feelings for her and asked her out long before anyone said anything, but was turned down gently and relegated to the "brother I never had" label. I've since gotten over it mostly, and she's still one of my best friends, but whenever someone asks me if we still talk since she's moved on to a better job, I remember asking her out, and it hurts a little. Since then, a few of the more gossipy coworkers have been applying this same treatment to any woman I talk to for more than five or six minutes at a time on a daily basis, never seeming to know that with any woman I talk to on a regular basis, the subject usually comes up and I find that she's either taken or just not interested, and I don't want to think about it and have that hanging over my head too much. I just [[{{YouSuck}} suck]], I guess. * This troper seems to have people thinking that the woman he's with ''is'' his girlfriend for some unknown reason. * Every time this troper's hug-loving friend calls(which is often), his mother says "It's your girlfriend." Cue massive amounts of denial. * This troper gets along with girls much better than boys, so he's always hanging around them. Due to the inevitably immature and fairly dumb world of high school and middle school politics and romance, he's always assumed to be dating whichever girl he's seen with most often. He's also quite proud to state, whenever this occurs, that his girlfriend actually goes to another school. They're often quite dumbfounded when he says this, as they have to admit that the kid actually DOES have a girl. * The Troper had this in fourth and fifth grade... * Two of my closest friends are girls, so in my school, this always happens to me whenever I'm hanging out with them. Unfortunately, I've liked both of them at different periods in life, but [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption failure with relationships is my only

option]], being asked this would always make me wish it were true, and leave me depressed as a result. * This troper has always gotten along well with both genders, and has always had friends in both. However, his closest friends in one social setting were all girls, and he was always shipped with one or another of them, or with one of the female friends they would meet in the other social setting. It did not help when there was a RelationshipUpgrade for several months with one of these friends. Of course, this was when he, and said upgrade, weren't being MistakenForGay. * This troper has a crush on a boy, and EveryoneCanSeeIt, except maybe him. Whenever anybody sees us together and asks whether we're dating, he always vehemently replies with a loud [[InvokedTrope SHE IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!!!!]] I'm still waiting for a chance to tell him... * This. troper. She's in a slightly Les Yay friendship with someone who's actually a lesbian... yes, this troper is female. Our history teacher thought we were dating. And don't even get me started on my parents... * This troper is such a Tsundere, occasionally trading insults with a certain boy she secretly likes, with plenty of BelligerentSexualTension between us. However, we always respond to inquires about our relationship with a [[InvokedTrope She/He's not my Girl/Boyfriend]]. In unison. No wonder we are shipped so hard by our classmates. This troper sometimes wishes it was true though... * I look much more mature than what I really am (not older, just more mature) and my mother looks younger than what she actually is. Yeah * I get along better with girls than I do with guys, to the extent that I had trouble thinking of guys to invite to a party. As a result, I am often seen with one friend or another, and have had others assume that the two of us are dating, sometimes by OTHER friends to which this trope has been applied! One guy basically introduced himself to me by confiding that he and his girlfriend had been speculating as to whether or not me and a friend were dating; our lack of physical contact led them to deduce that we were actually siblings, due to the huge amount of time we spent together. But my best friend in university has her entire family thinking that the two of us are in love, despite objections from both of us. The fact that I spent New Years with her family and danced with her did not help matters in the slightest. We spent part of that night lamenting this perceived relationship, which can get very annoying. * This troper has a weird case: he can make a huge list of "girls people thought I had a crush on", most of them old classmates - most insistent of those being my best friend, a nerd that in no case I would consider attractive (which is why "you were in love in her" is practically [[BerserkButton "hit me as hard as you can"]] to my ears); and another which I possibly ''had'' a crush on (but is currently studying too far from me). The latest two on the list are freshies, one of each class, and "most frequent guess" among their respective classmates. * This troper has lived with this trope since 4th grade, with 3 different guys. The first one, was a real JustFriends case. The second, I ended up as a UnluckyChildhoodFriend. With the last one, we

had a RelationshipUpgrade. Still, 6 years of this trope made this troper hate it. * In my class, [[{{Aver}} I]] used to have a [[PlatonicLifePartners female friend]] with whom I was pretty much VitriolicBestBuds. Sadly, the entire class assumed we had a crush on each other. It was made even worse when she got an anonymous rose on Valentine's Day everyone, except the girl herself, assumed it was me, no matter how often I kept on saying that I hadn't sent any roses whatsoever. You know what was worse? Next year, she got another rose, again anonymous. Guess whom everyone thought it was? Yours truly. Since then, I absolutely hate this trope. * This troper and her close friend has been mistaken as a couple. It would have made sense, if not for this troper being a [[OlderThanTheyLook fourteen-year-old]] and her friend an energetic, young-looking [[MayDecemberRomance thirty-eight-year-old]]. But before squick can be achieved, this troper's friend quickly explained to the offender that "She is not my girlfriend. She is my sister." * headdesk* * This (female) Troper and her female friend were once asked if we were a couple. Now, I guess we are kind of touchy feely with each other, and since we've known each other since age eleven (we're 19 now) we sometimes finish each other's sentences and stuff like that. The thought about it still freaks me out, though. * This troper and her best guy friend got this constantly, causing us to loudly protest that WE WEREN'T DATING... [[TheyDo until we were]]. * As this troper was graduating from college, he started to become better friends with a girl who was a sophomore. They knew each other through a club, but didn't really start hanging out until his last week of college, after which they started chatting online frequently. Their relationship consisted of sarcastic banter, except for when she was stressed or in a bad mood, in which case he would heap on the compliments, as he is prone to do. After a while, though, he started to get worried that he might be leading her on. He was planning to visit his old campus, and when he told her this, she was extremely excited. He was looking forward to hanging out with her, but was nervous she'd get the wrong idea. As soon as they started hanging out, they fell into their typical banter and mock-insults. When someone else asked "So, are you guys dating or something?", she reacted in horror, shouting "Ew! No!" She then caught herself and apologized for acting like dating this troper was such a hideous notion, but truth be told, this troper was QUITE relieved! * This troper has dealt with at least 3 consecutive/overlapping cases of this since he was 13 _: ** Firstly a girl who this troper had been friends with for about two years, we started getting this from everybody who saw us together even though she was 3 years older (a significant difference at that age) and had a long-term boyfriend. Made especially annoying as it coincided with us realising that we were actually interested in each other, but couldn't do anything about it for obvious reasons. ** That went away after a few months in exchange for comments (the jokes remain to this day and are likely to remain untill this troper gets a new set of friends) about me and my female best friend.

Similarly not helped by (unknown to the jokers) the fact that this troper had fallen in love with her, around the same time that she gave up on liking me because of my situation with the first. ** A year and a half later, this starts becoming less of a problem with the second girl, but of course it jumps onto somebody new, who this troper also develops feelings for. ** You'd think this would go away now that this troper has a completely seperate girlfriend, but the problem persists with the last two girls (including the new girlfriend thinking something is going on). This trope is my life apparently. * This troper's best friend is female. Anytime we banter with each other, this trope gets invoked, and it looks like BelligerentSexualTension to casual observers, with me being the {{Tsundere}}. She (hopefully) has accepted that we're JustFriends. For now. ** Worse still, this troper hangs out with his female cousin practically every weekend. Here's the problem. *** She's 4 years older. *** She looks 4 years younger than she is. *** We're close friends too. ** Unsurprisingly, I avoid any friends when we hang out because any punches/facepalms/PrecisionFStrike sounds like a SuspiciouslySpecificDenial. And then, we have some snarking friends who accept that SheIsNotMyGirlfriend. We're just FriendsWithBenefits, according to them. * This troper has a friend who has this problem a lot because she hangs out with this dude all the time. It's so bad, I tell her he's her boyfriend just to piss her off. * This troper and an old friend have this SO bad. When she was going out with someone, people would assume I was him. Now she's single, everyone assumes we're dating. I could not be less romantically interested in this girl, but the universe doesn't care. There was a visit from some STI info people at my college, and they not only assumed that we were together, but made several jokes about me giving her chlamydia. For everyone else in the room, this was just confirming the idea we were dating. That said, this assumption actually meant that I was wrong for being the butt of several other, dramatically more embarrassing jokes, so it worked out okay. * [[TheEvilDrBolty This Troper]] does this a lot due to a high percentage of close female friends, but the funniest was probably this exchange: --> '''Friend:''' Hey, who was that girl you brought last night? Is she your girlfriend? --> '''Me:''' Nah, we're just friends. --> '''Friend:''' Oh, ''sure,'' just friends. I saw how you were dancing together --> '''Me:''' She's ''gay.'' --> ''Friend:''' {{Beat}} OH! {{Beat}} Well I guess you are just friends, then! * There was a month where people were seriously thinking that this troper and his best friend were a couple. What makes things worse is

that no one had the guts to ask if it was the case to neither of us, but only asked our friends. Even when we were both sitting there. And we could hear the question perfectly. * This troper is apparently walking ship bait, because he has this sort of thing constantly. A girl at my college has (against my wishes) ''planned my weddings'' for ''three separate girls'' before finally throwing her hands up and letting me be. Not that I don't love those girls dearly, but uh, my tastes run more towards [[HaveIMentionedIAmHomosexualToday the rough touch]]. It's odder when you realize the above mentioned shipper knew my preferences but just thought [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster I "hadn't found the right girl yet]]." It doesn't hurt that my girlfriends and I act like {{Tsundere}} to each other at every possible opportunity. For example, one semester I took the same class as one of my girlfriends, and we sat next to each other every day, shared our drinks, and were always debating X topic very vocally with each other. The entire class was apparently convinced we were an item (unbeknownst to us), because the one day we ended our debate with an emphatic "Fine" the response from the peanut gallery was an audibly concerned, "Oh no, trouble in paradise." * I have five girls who are my friends. Oddly enough, this trope has never been envoked for him... * This Troper went through three years of "Is sie your boifriend?" and answering to the negative. Of course, this ended up an example of [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Everyone Can See It]]... * Happens to this troper a lot with her male friends. Is sick of answering. * This Troper expierienced it with his ex, as for nearly 5 months after they broke up, people were asking if we were still together, leading to irritation as she is now dating one of his close friends, and everyone thought she was cheating on him. This happens now with another one of his friends (who's friends with his ex), who he took to Junior prom, though we are just really close friends. Add this to the fact that I am gravitating more towards their social group and away from my own (slightly), this will inevitably lead to jokes about me being a pimp. (To put this in perspective, this is at a school where some straight guys slap each other's asses as a joke, and where platonic hugging is very, very common. This trope actually happens alot in conversations with parents.) * This Troper recalls an instance where he was working on a lab in biology with his female friend, when some girl came up and said something along the lines of "You two look cute together; are you going out?" to which my friend and I of course responded that we weren't. The funny part is that I happened to have a huge crush on that female friend, so it was not exactly unwelcome on my part. * Pretty much everyone is remarking on this troper and his friend's interactions like this. Like "are you two..." or "you two are glued together" or "I noticed you were working it with her last night." The trope is usually my response. She isn't unattractive though at all... * No, she's [[MagmarFire my]] ''best'' friend. You may stop asking now. * I have this friend and sometimes people tease me about her being my

girlfriend, but we're not. (Although I so wish she was...) This is mainly so she won't feel comfortable. * Whenever I mention to my dad that I have a friend who's a girl (I'm a guy), he assumes she's my girlfriend. Annoyed me the most when my friend got hit by a car (she's fine now) and when I wanted to visit her in the hospital, my dad was like "ok, we'll go see your girlfriend now". NOT MY GIRLFRIEND. * This Troper has several good female friends. He decided to go to a bar to celebrate New Years with them one time. The next day, his brother approaches him, asking him about that blonde he was hanging out with. This Troper responds that she's just a friend, though he [[EveryoneCanSeeIt doesn't exactly believe him]]. The brother's drinking buddy pops in at this point and adds a comment about the Asian friend this Troper was also hanging around with. The brother responds with a simple, "nah, they're just friends". Cue facepalm. * This Tropette had this with her good friend, who then became her boyfriend. We've since broken up and are good friends, but now we are constantly asked if we are back together. * This Tropette has had it assumed that because she has [[SlapSlapKiss had a playfight on numerous occasions with this friend]], [[ImaginedInnuendo borrowed a book]] where a character who looks oddly like her best friend falls in love with a character who looks oddly like her, and the fact that [[UnluckyBustyGirl I can't get a boyfriend]] and [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend he can't get a girlfriend]] [[SarcasmMode must mean we're in love!]] We say it isn't there. [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Everyone else insists it's there.]] * This Tropette sits next to a dude on the bus everyday. We're somewhat friends, but the entire school is under the impression we're dating. * This Troper was dating "Girl A" once in a long distance relationship, when I met "Girl B", who I had known in high school. Girl B and I started hanging around together a lot and I had to repeatedly say she wasn't my girlfriend. The outcome? Girl A and I broke up amicably and Girl B and I have now been married for 11 years and have three kids. She's my ''wife'', though - so I guess I can say she's still not my girlfriend. * This troper female troper has a guy friend who is more of a brother than anything else. He does, in fact, like me--I know this since he asked me out on my birthday. (It was so very, very awkward...) My mom also tells me that I should date him, and that she would like him to eventually be her son-in-law. I also have another guy friend who has been asked twice now if I'm his girlfriend. He's said no but sometimes I can't help but wonder if he likes me. This wasn't helped by my friend--who's into him--jokingly asking me if I'm "stealing her man". * headdesk* * This male troper has a lot more wishful thinkers around than actual luck with girls. Presenting cases A, B, C, and D. ** A) My best friend is male. His wife's best friend is female. I spent a LOT of time with her best friend while they were dating, and we were the best man/ bridesmaid at the wedding. She's almost two feet shorter than I am, and six years older, and we still get monthly questions. We might have worked out four years ago, but the ship has

sunk. ** B) I went out to dinner with another married friend and his wife's large family(she has four sisters), including his available sister-inlaw who's just as big a geek as I am. About halfway through dinner, ALL of her sisters and their husbands decided for us that we'd make the perfect couple. I heard that she vehemently tried to squelch that suggestion for the next few days... because all three of her brother's in law mentioned it when they told me privately they'd love to have me in the family. ** C) Two amazingly attractive girls(Best friends) have started inviting me to all of their engagements. The common assumption is that I'm dating the one, when I think I'd be a far better match for the other, but regardless I haven't made a move on either for various reasons. The denials in this case are my handi-work, with all my friends and family. A few might be catching on. ** D) I've had a very good female friend since High School, eight years now. She's helped me through breakups, and we've done a ton of things together. Since we often do things as a package deal, this trope occurs a lot. * [[Tropers/MiraShio I]] ended up with this trope when my LoveInterest broke up with his then-girlfriend and turned his attention to me. Not wanting to be insensitive towards his ex (who happened to be my friend), I decided I had to keep away from a relationship with him. It was very obvious what we felt for each other, though, leading others to think we were an official couple. We weren't... [[TheyDo for a while, anyway]]. ** Not to mention the fact that I pulled off a rather cute subversion of this yesterday, when he visited the school dressed like a K-pop idol. This conversation ensued inside the classroom: -->'''Teacher''': She's acting differently. It's probably because her Korean boyfriend is here. -->'''Me''': Correction. * beat* He is not Korean. * [[Tropers/AzureLunatic I]] have two. ** First is my long-time best friend; I ship myself with him but he doesn't reciprocate. Alas. However, we're still very close, and apparently come off that way to the casual observer. I was at a mutal friend's wedding, dateless, and caught the flower she threw. --> '''Random Relative of the Bride''', who I had previously met for about two minutes at the college graduation of the bride and my best friend and a few other college buddies: Ooo, you're going to get married this year? Are you still seeing the boyfriend you had at the bride's graduation? --> '''Me''': Uh ... * casts mind back, who was I dating then, oh right him* ... yeah? --> '''Random Relative of the Bride''': Oh, good, you two make such a sweet couple. --> '''Me''': * thinks* Wait, my boyfriend wasn't even * there* ! --> '''Random Relative of the Bride''': I met him! --> '''Me''': * clue drops* Wait. My boyfriend is shorter than I am, kinda stocky, bad skin, buzzcut. --> '''Random Relative of the Bride''': No, he's exactly your height, blond hair, skinny...

--> '''Me''': Oh dear. No. Not my boyfriend. --> '''Random Relative of the Bride''': Oh. But you make such a sweet couple! --> '''Me''': * head-table* ** Second: he's pretty much my little brother (seven year age difference, but I look like I could be up to 10 years older than I am, and when his face doesn't have the Stubble of Doom, he drops five years). Even if I'd thought of getting a crush on him, he's completely gay, and has recently filled out the partnership paperwork with his boyfriend <3. The funniest incident was at the grocery store. We had separate orders, but he let me use his store card for the discount. The poor cashier addressed me as Mrs. (his last name) -- to date we're not sure whether the cashier thought I was his mother or his wife. * When this troper was in 7th grade she got teased quite a bit about being the girlfriend of her best friend's younger (by two years) brother, complete with being called "Mrs. [his name]". Six years later, said best friend has been [[{{Lampshading}} mentioning]] [[UnresolvedSexualTension that her brother and I are more or less perfect for each other]]. (It probably doesn't help that this troper's boyfriend is basically [[ReplacementLoveInterest an older version of her best friend's brother]]..) ** This troper also used to invoke this trope on a fairly regular basis about a [[DoggedNiceGuy guy friend]] [[LikeBrotherAndSister of hers]], [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend much to his chagrin.]] ([[ObliviousToLove Which she discovered years later]].) ** One more example: Back in 6th grade, this troper's then-best friend dropped the dreaded [[ShipperOnDeck "You guys would make such a cute couple!"]] upon seeing this troper [[NotWhatItLooksLike talking to/roller skating with]] a platonic guy friend. [[SelfFulfillingProphecy It was highly]] [[AllLoveIsUnrequited embarrassing, all in all]]. * ThisTroper had two friends like this. I always ignored it, thinking it was just simple teasing. (Though it was certainly amusing to watch their extremely over-the-top reactions.) Guess what happened in the last year of juniour high? This obliterated whatever little thoughts I ever had that love might be an "act of fate". I now fully believe it is completely developmental. * This happens to me all the time when in public with my brother. We often get comments that suggest we're dating and have to explain that we are siblings. Some people still assume we're a couple even after they've been told. Awkward. ** I have another example back from the sixth grade. I had short hair, boyish clothes and had not really hit puberty yet. I was visiting a friend's house. Her parents pulled her away and gave her the sex talk, assuming I was her boyfriend. My friend then had to explain I was a girl and the rest of the visit was extremely awkward. * This troper has had a crush on this girl for a long time, though it was never requited. When not referred to as brother and sister, folks assume we're dating. So much so, this troper's current girlfriend thought that she was his girlfriend. * This gay troper has been asked I don't know how many times if his roommate is his roommate or his... ''room''mate. I've been out for

twelve years, thanks. If he were my boyfriend, I would call him my boyfriend. * This trope applied to a guy this troper didn't even talk to much or have anything to do with besides basically [[StalkerWithACrush stalking]] him. Everybody said I was with him. I wasn't...Till I was? * This troper is platonic friends with a group of girls. This trope is invoked by anyone who knows me, and at least one of the girls. This would be alright, if the group is filled with shippers shipping me with other members. It's irritating, especially when this troper feels that they all have their... [[CovertPervert qualities]]. He needs one of them to invoke Version 2 of TenchiSolution, except that this troper lives on the far end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism. * This troper and his brother are very close. We frequently hug and whatnot in public. One day, a guy tells us we're such a cute couple. Enter the FridgeHorror. How many people had figured the same thing over the years of us doing crazy shit on the town...? * This troper had a friend he met in class who he had feelings for, but we stayed as friends, while both our friends kept trying to get us to go out. Ironically, we admitted our feelings and ended up dating. So, an eventual subversion? * I'm a girl, but tend to hang out with guys more often than girls, especially now that I'm in a predominately male major at a technical school. I have gotten this with many of my guy friends, but most often with my best friend. He was one of the first guys I met at college and became my best friend withing the month. While we both have admitted to feeling some attraction to each other at first, for me, it felt more like he was my cousin, and he has categorized me as somewhere between friend and sister. We share a lot of the same interests, and will often be seen going out to dinner and doing activities together that do not interest our respective significant others. On top of that, we both have very small "personal space bubbles", and will be seen hugging, leaning on each other, or engaging in tickle fights. These combined factors lead many people to assume we are dating, or at least in denial about our relationship. Due to the more familial feelings we have for each other, our answers can range from laughter to "OH GOD NO". * Get comfortable, folks, this is a long story... When [[Tropers.SoS I]] first came to secondary school, I met my soon-to-be best female friend. As she outclassed me academically in EVERYTHING, I hated her at first, seeing her as a rival. I was used to being on top. Because of this, people naturally assumed that I was repressing feelings for her. [[BelligerentSexualTension BST]] and all that. I was not. Flash forward a couple of years. People began to say what a great, cute couple we'd make. At this point, I was still not fond of her, and not amused by these [[BerserkButton comments]]. Flash forward again to last year. I'd grown up, and was now a much calmer, more sensitive young man. I sat beside her in Physics, and we began to chat. We began to have lunch together, and soon became friends. Flash forward one more time to this year. An old friend of mine joined the school, and I introduced them. They began to date in late October. People actually CONSOLED me, genuinely believing I liked her. Jesus. Several months passed, and they broke up around March of this year, for various

reasons. Soon after, our school did a charity walk. I was with my old friend at the start. Midway through the walk though, my female friend jumps me from behind, and drags me into her group. She took my arm, and we continued on together, attracting numerous stares from our classmates... She then suggested that we attend the formal later this year together, if neither of us can find a date. Given who we are, this is quite likely. I accepted, having no better ideas, and not wanting to disappoint her. Naturally, after this incident, people assumed we were going out. I was forced to correct them, and, in a [[CrowningMomentofFunny CMOF]], I famously denied vehemently that there was any [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]] between us to a crowd... Just as she walked into the room. My reaction? "... OH GOD DAMN IT!" However... We have both confessed to having thought about "us" at at least one time. So, who knows what the future holds for us... For now, however, she's one of my best friends, and I love her very, very much. But that's it. For now. ** As a side note, I am often mistaken for some of my other female friends' boyfriends. * This troper is constantly being accused of this in regards to several of my male friends. I have this thing where I tend to hang around people I've known awhile or talk to easiest the most, so naturally when one of those friends is a guy, this happens a lot. One friend was a guy who was very much hopelessly in love with a very popular, and preppy girl. Another was a guy I met last year who's nice, though semi-depressive. The guy after that is a black friend who was until recently friends with the middle guy. I didn't think about any of them romantically at all and I never intended anything romantic between any of them. All of them, I have been accused of liking or dating at a constant basis. It gets really annoying. Especially since several months back, I found out the black guy liked my best friend, so the middle guy and I were very happy to set them up. My best friend and the black guy are together, but I see him more often then she does thanks to her switching schools. I also have a class with him and we often get into poke wars, and I end up talking to him in the hallway or outside a lot too. This is because I think of him like a brother and adding him as a sibling on Facebook hasn't seemed to stop the She Is Not My Girlfriend moments. So, half the school thinks we are dating or like each other even though half the time we're talking about his girlfriend! * [[{{Meshakhad}} This troper]] and his best friend are LikeBrotherAndSister, to the point that we actually call each other "bro" and "sis". We've been confused for boyfriend and girlfriend a couple of times. * The guys at the local movie theater are convinced that [[{{LeonardoFibonacci}} this troper]] is a huge sleazeball, given that I've been to movies there with about a dozen different girl friends, with emphasis on the space. One of them even asked me about it once. * these past few school years, whenever this troper hangs out with this one boy, someone will inevitably come up to us and ask "are you two dating?". The first two years, it was a little while before this happened, but this year it happened ''on the first day of school'' (ironically, it hasn't happened since due to the fact that he and I

only share one class [two if you count advisory] and don't sit near each other). * This trope was averted with my junior-high, high school, and college guy friends, as back then, everyone mistook me for asexual (I'm straight) and believed me when I said I only liked guys as friends. I'm currently in Job Corps (think high school-meets-trade school with little sprinkles of college, the working world, and the military on top) taking culinary arts classes where this trope is being played straight. Long story short: I've taken a shine to this shy, quiet white boy from Tennessee (I'm a black girl from Pennsylvania) and even though he's physically my type (PaleSkinnedBrunette with blue eyes, kinda OlderThanHeLooks [he's 20, but could pass for being high schoolaged; I'm the same way, only I'm 25 and could pass for being collegeaged], and the fact that he has kind of a low, drawling voice, a gap between his front teeth, and blushes easily is icing on the cake), I don't know him that well and am not the kind of person who rushes headfirst into love (plus, I'm one of those "Career first, love later" type of people, just like I mentioned in the TroperTales page for {{Tsundere}}), and he wholeheartedly agrees with me that we should be friends (and that's really what I wanted from him in the first place). This doesn't stop the occasional joker from mentioning that we're a couple and one of us either blushing or running away in shame. * This troper hugs all her friends, even the guy ones, and has one friend in particular that she hugs every day. A friend told her that he had a crush on her, but unfortunately, [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend this troper is happy with someone else now.]] Doesn't stop people from asking all the time if we're dating. Further complicated because the actual boyfriend is out of town. * This troper had a friend whose parents (or mother at least) was actively hoping to match us up, but it was the babysitted who actually referred to us as boyfriend/girlfriend. Cue joint yells: "She/He is not my boy/girlfriend!!" * This troper is mainly asexual, yet everybody is always shipping her with someone. They've shipped me with an InsufferableGenius (We liked to mess each other's hair, that's doesn't mean anything!), an AmbiguouslyAutistic 8-years-older-than-her guy (my best friend), a borderline ButchLesbian (well, this one's a complicated history), a HollywoodNerd (subverted since he ''really'' ended up being the only boyfriend I've ever had)...yep, she's not herself an example of [[TheWonka normality]], but is still pissing... * In a rare almost-like-the-TV-versions example, This Troper has been told for a year that this girl that he didn't like in a romantic way has a crush on him. He has been told numerous times to ask her out, but has denied every one because he didn't like her. A year later, he does start liking her, asks her out, and she says yes! We're still dating (over 6 months as of now) and everyone thinks we make such a cute couple! * This troper tends to hang around with girls more than other guys. As you can predict, this happens a lot. * This troper has a friend who plays ShipperOnDeck with another friend and I, and he is quick to say that we aren't, as well as adding we're JustFriends and he likes nobody. However, with [[CannotSpitItOut my]]

[[AllLoveIsUnrequited opinion]]... eventually I did say it, since I couldn't keep playing along. I still think my doing so turned the awkwardness up [[UpToEleven a lot]], but this is a story still being written... * [[{{MeltedGeneral}} This troper]] had the unfortunate pleasure of this happing to him directly, paranoid that someone is thinking that, and apparently no one cared. Sit down and enjoy the certain instances of this Trope making me *headdesk* ** College. Varied greatly with this girl I know. Played straight due to us being in AnimeClub and her interaction with other guys. Giving her a ride home via my parents since I didn't have a license on the other hand, I get this question from my parents. ** College, but this time it was me and a high school girl in her last year. Happened on a trip with friends downtown when two of our friends noticed our friendship and attempted to ship us. Made worse after a watergun fight when I [Classified Infomation] a few weeks later and then asked about that day and she said more people noticed. More worse when I hung out with her after our classes ended with me taking the trouble of traveling all the way from downtown (45min-1hr mind you) to meet her at our high school. My friends that saw us kept trying to ship us. For awhile. ** There were also that one time I was with ANOTHER girl but I won't bore you with that. * This happened in regards to my sister and I, the mistaken party being a pastor. Where did it happen? The wake of my grandmother's funeral. * This troper and her best friend. The first year we met, we were together at school every day, and were asked every day if we were going out. It actually got to the point where we replied, "No." at the same time (which just added fuel to the fire, really) Even though it has died down, we still get teased about it every so often. * as for me, i am such a loser in school that the DAY i started talking to a girl, everyone in the year thought we were together. now we cant even speak without people asking us stuff. * This happens to me and my male friend all the time. This one kid keeps teasing us, saying that he "saw" us flirt with each other and he suspects something cause we're always together. This other guy claims I'm jealous of this chick that dated my friend at the time, even though I clearly wasn't since I kept making fun of my friend for getting a girlfriend (how does that even scream out jealousy)? This one teacher even said we were both cute together! It doesn't help that we dated before. * [[dragonsan123 This Troper]] has this problem, but the guy is two years older. EVERYONE THINKS WE'RE GOING OUT. I get fed up with saying, "Mom, he is MY FRIEND. JUST A FRIEND. * During his senior year in high school, my brother endured this from just about everyone with regards to his ex-girlfriend (they were still close friends). Among those who knew them, the leading opinion was that they were a couple, they just didn't realize it. I held the minority view that they weren't boyfriend and girlfriend, they were husband and wife. It certainly didn't help that our parents were good friends. This went on until he resumed his relationship with his

girlfriend from theater camp, and she came out to prom. * Me and one of my Amigas^ often get this, despite the fact that she is engaged to someone else. ^I use that because it's quicker than typing "friend-who's-a-girl" and I refuse to use "girlfriend" in that context. * This Troper has a school filled with [[ShipperOnDeck Shippers On Deck]], so this is natural for all students. There was one [[NoodleIncident incident he'd rather not recall]] that involved this. Hint: Fine dining + former friend as partner = OhCrap for This Troper. * Justified with this troper. She could never date the guy everyone thinks is her boyfriend because ''he's her father!!'' Please. Don't even ask how people make that mistake. * This Troper was such a [[LonersAreFreaks loner]] in junior high that by now, many of his classmates [[CrackPairing ship]] him with practically anybody who he talks to for more than 30 seconds. This Troper, however, is using this as a XanatosRoulette to try to attract girls to him, as well as a few [[XanatosGambit Xanatos Gambits]] involving... he'll just mention that they deal with [[MindGameShip combining]] [[MindScrew his]] [[ThirtyGambitPileup favorite]] [[GainaxEnding Tropes]] and using that EldritchAbomination of a [[CrazyEnoughToWork plan]]. * This troper and her boyfriend started out as friends, and this troper's roommate and another friend both quickly caught on to the fact that he liked me. It took me a couple months to sort out how I felt about this since I'd never had a boyfriend before, during which time this trope was repeatedly invoked by yours truly to said friends and on some occasions her family. He asked me to his Quidditch team's Yule Ball, and about a week later this troper decided that she liked him after they started holding hands while watching ''Tangled''. Cue RelationshipUpgrade when they got back to campus, as well as this troper's FirstKiss. * This troper has had several occurrences of this, almost always with girls he would like to be his girlfriend. ** I was overseas, and Facebooking a female friend of mine from home (who I was developing quite a crush on). I was asked who she was, and responded that she was my friend, or so I thought. Turns out that in the language I was speaking, the feminine form of 'friend' is used exclusively for 'girlfriend'. It was only when they saw a picture of her with a male friend of hers and asked if she was cheating on me that I realized my error. ** Another one was one of my best friends, who I have known for close to ten years, and in those ten years, I became rather smitten with her. A lot of people simply assumed we were dating, and my parents actually encouraged me to pursue a relationship. As it happens, she also was attracted to me, but we decided that we are better as friends. A few moths ago, she got engaged. When I mentioned it to my mom, her first response was "but, she is supposed to marry you!" * This troper has several guy friends, but with one of her friends there apparently is a certain "spark", according to their other friends, who have repeatedly made comments along the lines of "are you two having sex?" "Is he your boyfriend?" etc. For the record, this male friend already has a girlfriend, a fact their other friends

apparently fail to notice. * [[Tropers/{{GoateeGuy}} This troper]] had this happen with a female friend of his in college that he would always hang out with. This tropers female cousin would always ask if they were dating, as would his parents and grandparents and whatnot. It got especially bad when said female friend invited him out to her grandparents place in So Cal to hang out for Spring Break (which this troper took up because he had never traveled for vacation without family of some sort with him).....cue plenty of NotWhatItLooksLike from me to everyone who gets told about the trip. * The people in my high school school are strange. All the way through 7-9 *And year 6* I got asked "How's Babes (A nickname of his he'll recognize) going/Will you marry Babes?" and the strangest thing is, we never talked, we didn't really chat, and the most intimate we got was EYE CONTACT...weird. Does apply because I denied it thoroughly till like year 10 or 9. When I started accepting his weird way of doing things...and started seeing it A LITTLE. ** Second currant incidence (Multiples) which may or may not end up with an actual relationship is right now. We could end up "dating" we could not. Depends...I'm a twitchy commitment phobe and he's pulling out a "Who will you marry" crap...already! *** These are the types of boys I attract, [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend We are not engaged either!]] * This troper is often shipped with one of her friends that reminds her of her brother (mannerisms, voice type, interests, speech patterns, the works), even by people who know better. One of her friends constantly asks if she'll consider dating him when the friend KNOWS she has feelings for someone else and ONLY that person. She managed to shut the friend up after asking if she'd date her brother. Her family also seems to think we're dating, when we consider each other to be brother and sister and nothing else. * Back when this troper was in eighth grade, there was a girl in my French class who was convinced she was my girlfriend (she wasn't), and had somehow had convinced quite a number of other students so. Needless to say, it made school rather awkward for this troper. * This tropette is constantly saying this to their Yuri Fanboy friend et al, about the girl she knows who she has bucketloads of Les Yay and UST with. It's pathetic because she loves her lots and only denies it because she just wants her to be happy. * This has happened a lot to this Troper. She's usually viewed OneOfTheBoys by the guys involved though. What's worse is one time, she did end up having her first ever real crush on one of them. It ended up just fizzling out when he indirectly rejected her without an actual confession or confrontation. * This was the entire relationship (well, maybe this plus a slight degree of {{BST}}) between this troper and her male friend... until a very recent RelationshipUpgrade. Now upgraded to ''what'' is still unclear... * This trope is the story of my life. My friends began joking about how me and a friend of mine would make a good couple a few years ago, and are still joking about the very same guy even now. And those of my friends that don't think we should go out/ are already going out think

the same thing about my hate-friend, just because we pretend to hate each other. And a few people think I'm a lesbian now because of her and my complete lack of sexual relationships. [[SarcasmMode Because yeah, if I don't have a boyfriend I must be gay or asexual.]] * A guy attempted to use this trope to manipulate this (straight, male) troper into going out with him. He dropped out of the school after the ''two''! girls I've had this trope with (still good friends) 'dealt' with him. He apparently assumed I was gay because I was a fan of Ouran High School Host Club or something. * This (female, bi) troper's best friend is a lesbian. Friend has been coming along with troper to a dance workshop/social club at troper's university, learning to lead. They've known each other for years, get along like a house on fire, and often dance ([[SelfDeprecation ...badly]]) with each other at the workshops. The TomboyAndGirlyGirl thing, where friend is the [[ButchLesbian tomboy]] and troper is the [[CuddleBug girly girl]], doesn't really help. Nor did going to a [[SingleGenderSchool all-girls private high school]] where most other classmates were anxious to invoke HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday Troper and friend acknowledge that certain behaviour, like the hugs and the dancing, can give the wrong impression, but they don't care for each other like that! * Happened to me whilst at a competition thing. I was ambling around with my ex-girlfriend, just me and her, for something on four hours, around the rather large campus of the host high school. The rest of our friend group understood that we were just really bored and playing around, but everyone else thought we were flirting madly and automatically assumed we were a couple. A few girls asked if we were dating. Cue both of us tittering awkwardly and saying "No, we broke up a while ago." * Basically, just the story of this troper's life. Up until high school, all her friends were male. Cue basically everyone in the school asking if she and *insert guy friend name here* were going out.... the response was always an emphatic "NO!" This troper even had friends (not to mention her MOM) that started shipping her and some of her friends.... On top of all that, this troper is asexual (not that she's told her mom--she thinks this troper is enough of a freak as it is). * A mutual friend of mine asked me and my male friend if we liked each other or something. She seems to have forgotten the fact that I'm only attracted to 2-D guys and that he's still hung up on his previous heartbreak. * I have this friend who is a guy. When I told my mom I'm inviting him for my birthday, she instantly asked "ooh, a boyfriend?" to which I replied "...no, Mom, just a friend." ---Go back to SheIsNotMyGirlfriend, and bring your girl along with you. * [[InvokedTrope SHE IS NOT MY-]] oh, forget it, I give up. ---<<|TroperTales|>>)

SherlockScan * Two girls in my residential unit played a prank on another guy following a room inspection, they forged a warning notice, stuck it to his door, and successfully tricked him into throughly cleaning his room and rearranging the furniture. When I looked at the letter later, it took me two seconds to know that I wouldn't have been fooled: the margins were off and the font size was too big. * This troper just diagnosed an uncle he knows next to nothing about with OCD based on his handwriting and a $50 bill sent through the mail. He was rather surprised to be right.

ShinyMidnightBlack * [[{{Tropers/Starscream}} My]] hair is long, straight, and - for all intents and purposes - black, and it's earned envious comments from several people. It's actually an extremely dark brown, but you can't tell unless it's exposed to very bright sunlight. What's funny is that I don't take any more care of it than most people; if anything, less! I think I got lucky with the genetic lottery... ** ...are you me? The only difference is, people know my hair is brown when I go out in the sun and my red highlights show. *** Naturally red? *** Yep. ** My hair is the same, except I have curl! * According to TheOtherWiki, in RealLife [[ShinyMidnightBlack black]] hair is considered to be the shiniest of all human hair colors; due to the chemical ''eumelanin'' it contains. Extremely dark brown hair can also sometimes achieve this effect (as seen above). * This troper noticed that, of all things, one of her DOGS has shiny midnight black fur- yes, complete with blue highlights. * [[Tropers/JuiceBoxHero This troper]] takes ''immense'' pride in her long, [[PurpleProse gleaming obsidian tresses.]] * While mine is currently mostly this colour, I have lots of bright silver strands in it. Apparently my hair is losing colour but retaining shiny. * This troper's debate team coach is a curly-haired version of this. * [[Tropers/LadyNorbert This troper]] recently saw a picture her husband took of her from behind. Her hair looks like someone spilled a bottle of ink. * My friend has hair like this, with that and his beautiful blue eyes, hes pretty lucky. * While this troper loves her dark, long, wavy hair, she has only been blessed with brown/black hair that happens to be very shiny, not ShinyMidnightBlack hair as she desires. Unfortunately, her hair is the exact brown/black color that, if dyed SMB, would look off. It gets darker in the winter though. * [[@/OhNoes I've]] got shiny black hair that gives off brown, whiteblue, and red highlights in the sun. I'm thinking of streaking it bloodred, [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair just because I can.]] ---I'm dying to run my fingers through your ShinyMidnightBlack hair.

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ShipperOnDeck * This troper and her family are Shippers on Deck for her brother and his best friend. Hell, even their entire class ships them! By the end of fifth grade, they admitted they like each other * This troper has two friends, both mostly unknown to each other, who FIERCELY ship him and his friend he's crushing on. I'm sometimes tempted to [[CrackPairing get them together myself...]] ** [[MemeticMutation DO IT FAGGOT]] *** They've met now. Wouldn't work. * This troper did this with her best guy friend and her friend. She said that they made a cute couple and would constantly teases them. Cue much squeeing when she found out that they started dating. Now it's killed all shippers who wanted to see [[LikeBrotherAndSister me and him]] get together. * My friends frequently did this to me and my GF for the three years we knew each other before we hooked up. * ''Very'' unfortunately TruthInTelevision for [[Tropers/TheTallOne me.]] My best friend was a NiceGuy, and while I had a slight crush on him, the fact that --literally-- our [[FanPreferredPairing entire graduating class]] wanted us to get together was pretty much a [[ShipSinking tactical nuke]] to not only our friendship, but also any possibility of a romantic relationship. Lesson learned: If two people are perfect for each other, they will figure it out on their own. Forcing them on each other will not work. ** Same Troper as above: On a happier note, there were two teachers at my middle school, and everyone jokingly suggested they get married. They did, and I sang at their wedding. Good times. :3 * During the time this troper was [[UnrequitedLove crushing on]] [[NiceGuy a guy]] (as of this writing she isn't anymore and is instead trying to be friends, [[ThirdActMisunderstanding which is]], [[RaceAgainstTheClock in a word]], [[UnderStatement hard]]), one of his friends REALLY seemed to ship us. Made particularly obvious when talking about my [[InsistentTerminology (past)]]crush on one occasion and he said "You guys are pretty much going out now! :-D" I've yet to tell him I got over him - I hope he isn't too gutted ... * There was a girl in my highschool who was the resident [[JaneAusten Emma.]] She shipped this (lesbian, then closeted) troper with their (mutual) straight close guy friend so hard even he started to believe it...until it led to the breakdown of our friendship. She also shipped [[LikeBrotherAndSister two of our other friends]] which put alot of awkwardness into that friendship that did not previously exist. She ALSO shipped [[YuriFanboy two girls]] in our class who are [[HeterosexualLifePartners totally straight]] and never suspected I was the gay one. One of the girl's uber right wing conservative Christian parents heard the rumor and FREAKED out, refusing to believe their daughter was straight until [[NoBisexuals she eventually got a boyfriend.]] Did I mention that this ShipperOnDeck actually wrote RealPeopleFic fanfiction about our highschool, aside from talking

about her fave real-life ships all the time? Yeah, I think I defriended her on Facebook the moment we graduated. ** On a happier note, there is ALOT of Shipping on Deck going on in our college's busy, thriving LGBT community. I have been shipped with several girls...by their [[BetterAsFriends ex-girlfriends.]] I guess if you are 10% of the population you have to watch who you alienate to keep your dating options open. * This troper's entire work unit at her old job was like this, unbeknownst to her. Essentially, she and the guy sitting next to her in their department had such great chemistry that whenever they weren't around, the conversation between the others would basically amount to "Why don't they just go out and get it over with!?" To be fair, they ''were'' right; Troper and the guy got married a few years later. * Sure, they're already going out, but my best friend and her boyfriend get shipped ''so damn hard'' by me. I personally make sure to be a MomentKiller as much as possible around them so that I know they'll have a more passionate make out later. That, and it's so much fun teasing them both at the same time. And now that he's proposed, I nominated myself to be their future kids' babysitter so I can screw the heads of two generations. They know they can't stop me. * Apparently, my cousin's ''whole church'' shipped him and his girlfriend and kept asking when they were going to get married already. Unfortunately, while they are still very much a loving couple, my cousin got put off by the constant nagging. * TruthInTelevision for this troper, as well. She's had a crush on one guy for several years, though she [[CanNotSpitItOut could never find the courage to admit it]]. Recently, however, he broke up with his girlfriend (who was considered TheScrappy by most of our mutual friends) and admitted that he liked me. However, neither of us is quite ready to date yet, for various reasons...not that it stops people (including practically the entire jazz band that we're both part of) from {{Shipping}} us and asking if we're dating yet. ** Wait, do I know you? Quick: are you [[HugeSchoolgirl super tall]]? * TruthInTelevision for this troper in both directions. Firstly, he's a ShipperOnDeck for one of his best friends and was shipping her and her boyfriend ''before'' they started dating, [[IKnewIt gloating after she told the others of her boyfriend's confessing his love to her]] [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend after originally denying those feelings to other people who asked.]] Needless to say, the resulting RelationshipUpgrade was glorious. Secondly, another one of his best friends is, apparently, a ShipperOnDeck for this troper and one of her friends. * This troper's entire Spanish class shipped two of our schools Spanish teachers, they were dubbed the "Spanish Power Couple". However, the relationship will never work out, it still made for some fun times in class. * This Troper and her best friend have been shipped to hell and back by nearly everyone we know. * This Troper and her Russian transfer student best friend who mysteriously disappeared and no one knew where he went or ever mentioned him again got shipped by a lot of people. I've never liked a

guy like that, though I suppose they didn't know it. * In this female troper's junior year, there were two freshmen (a boy and a girl) who were seen by nearly everyone as ThoseTwoGuys. Nearly everyone thought they would get together at some point, despite their insisting that they were just friends. I shipped it, and I teased them about it on occasion. Then, the night of the school play that we were both performing in, the girl and I realized we had an attraction and I asked her out. We were together for a month, and then she broke up with me because... she realized she had feelings for the boy after all. And I learned something that day! * This troper's guy friend and his girlfriend were shipped to no end by classmates (even ''teachers'') for the two years they knew each other before they finally hooked up. Now there's an entire Facebook group dedicated to said couple. People have shipped this troper and said guy friend too, when they didn't think we were [[LikeBrotherAndSister siblings]], but not as often. Said guy friend also shipped me and my now ex-boyfriend before we started dating. * [[Tropers/{{Bronzethumb}} This troper]] is a big ShipperOnDeck within his circle of friends. He was once called a "devious romantic" for his tendancy to [[ManipulativeBastard push and prod and cajole and manipulate (just a little bit!) the situations]] to get a ship to work out. * My [[JustFriends male best friend]] and I both work at the same cafeteria on campus. One of the student managers ships us to no end. Despite the fact that we have both explained numerous times that our [[LikeBrotherAndSister relationship is more familial]], she will still ask if we are dating each other yet. * My first boyfriend and I started out as EveryoneCanSeeIt, except, of course, us. We lived down the hall from each other for about half a year before either of us started to even consider the possibility a romantic relationship with the other, but after we finally asked each other out a year later, it turned out that some of our mutual friends, also on the same hall, had been shipping us for that entire year. Thankfully, no one pushed us into it and let us work it out in our own time. * This troper's soul sister was this to me and my first (and most likely last) girlfriend. Back then, it was cute and amusing. These days, whenever she makes a crack about getting me together with someone, it goes straight into FunnyAneurysmMoment for me. [[YamatoNadeshiko She's]] [[ExtremeDoormat just]] [[TheWoobie too]] [[StepfordSmiler kind]] for me to tell about it, though. * This troper was playing TheSims and IMing her best friend when troper mentioned that Sim-versions of troper and one of her guy friends were sharing a room. (Not in that way! ...[[UnluckyChildhoodFriend sadly.]]) The friend's response? --> "GOOD. --> >.> --> who said that? --> wasn't me." --> Granted, she ''was'' responsible for having Troper meet said guy friend in the first place, as she had the brilliant plan to set Troper up with him.

* [[Tropers/DrMcP This troper]]'s ''dad'', of all people, seems to be one for her and [[MySisterIsOffLimits the younger brother of]] [[OrIsIt her best]] [[SubvertedTrope friend]]. ** This troper's other best friend is one for the above "pairing", as well. * [[Tropers/{{Miso}}]] was this for her ex-[[TheDitz guitar]] [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass teacher]] and her [[CloudCuckoolander best]] [[TheWoobie friend]]. Unfortunately, [[ShipSinking it didn't work out]] and they haven't talked in a long time. * My friends love to be this trope whenever I'm crushing on anyone. * I have a list: ** Me and my sister shipped my brother and his current girlfriend. Combined with EveryoneCanSeeIt. ** This one's a bit embarassing, but my mother seems to do this with me and two of my female friends. ** There are a few shippers for me and this girl I like. My sister, (possibly) the girl's sister, and my mother teased me about it. Sadly, this seems to be unrequited. * [[Tropers/{{Nwafc}}]] always gets shipped with one of his friends by her friends, and for 2 years, THE SCHOOL! I do like her, but i may give up... now if the girl's friend would give up! * My friends and I joke about shipping each other all the time. Yes, even ''slash'' shipping! ''Especially'' slash shipping! * [[{{Tropers/Alexandra}} I]] ship some friends of mine: ** Alkis and Johanna are probably my {{Real Life}} {{OTP}}. Oh, the {{BST}}! Johanna's sister ([[EveryoneCanSeeIt and half the class]]) ship it too. ** Michael and Efi [[CannotStandThemCannotLiveWithoutThem are always fighting, but they're best friends]] [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend since they were 5]]. Except that... ** ... [[LoveTriangle Michael and Meropi would probably work out well too]], let's not mention that Efi and Meropi seem to be [[LesYay very close too]]... ... {{OT3}}? ** [[HoYay Greg and Kostas]]. What a {{Crack Pairing}}. * I briefly had a friend who shipped me with a cute girl I like. Unfortunately he went to another school and I now don't have anyone encouraging my stupid little crush. ** Another friend of mine has a sister who ships me (jokingly) [[HoYay with her brother.]]] * This troper and her entire graduating class were shipping her and her crush. She mean's it got to the point where she had to deny she was having a relationship with him (Secretly, oh the irony). She and him are cute together too. EveryoneCanSeeIt so very very very very much. * This troper ships her friend and the various guys in her Transition To Work class. It's either the swimmer, wanna be child teacher, who totally allows her (and me) to kick his ass, or the super creative, tortured soul who she has the innate gift of making him shut up. Either one...or the other. * This troper, so very much. If her friends aren't dating anyone, she makes sure to ship said friends with someone. However, she's kind of averting this trope now because she feels that her shipping two of her

friends might've been the reason they stopped being friends... Oops. That doesn't mean she's given up; she just doesn't share some of her shipping pairings to anyone now. * A friend of mine is apperently a shipper on deck for me and the guy I have a crush on. She came up to us one day and said "You two should go out." It was very odd timing, as I had just admitted to myself that I had a crush the day before. * I am often shipping my friends. Even if they're already going out, I ship them. One of my school's drama director's even ships people. (Although I doubt the couple he predicted is likely to occur). I also get shipped by my friends, whenever I have crushes. I currently have two crushes and am waiting for ShipToShipCombat to occur. Even a friend who doesn't know about my crush walked up to me while I was sitting next to him and said "Jeez, why don't you two just get married?!" She's a good friend. * This troper's male friend has openly admitted while on the subway (of all places) that he shipped me and a friend of mine, much to my amusement. His girlfriend is horrified though. ** Oh yeah, and me myself ship ThoseTwoGuys in my class. * My entire high school class shipped my best friend with her supposed [[PlatonicLifePartners Platonic Life Partner]]. When they got together there was much rejoicing, and one, "Holy crap, congratulations!" ** That's kind of epic, not gonna lie. * We all ship Min/Tempe. apart from Tempe, it seems. * Everyone for every couple in [[@/{{MiraShio}} my]] high school-whether they're platonic, dating, or a match. I myself received this comment from my friend when my LoveInterest and I had just started going out: -->"You two look so good together, it's annoying." ** Things got fun when we were asked to write class prophecies for homework... * I (Tropers/JillBug) have a cousin who for reasons unknown desperately wants me to get together with one of his friends. He phones me and says in this annoying NudgeNudgeWinkWink voice "Hey, Jill, I've invited GARY over tonight. Wanna come over? I'll give you two LOADS of privacy." This has been going on for more than a year and I have no idea why he does it!! Unless he wants his friend to join the family, since I'm the only single adult woman in it now cousin's sister is married? * My entire group of friends thought that myself and another girl liked each other for the sole reason that we were friends who bitched at eachother all the time. They were constantly bringing it up to me and saying I should make a move, despite me saying we were JustFriends. They wouldn't deal with that and started bugging me constantly. it got to the point where I said "You know what? Fine. He's the reason it Will. Not. Work. I have aspergers and I do not have many emotions. Love is not one of the emotions I have. I will not love her, never will." A few minutes saying that yes, I was actually diagnosed by a professional neurologist and they never bugged me about it again. *knocks on wood* * I ship my best friends, first boyfriend. Everything, from call them love birds to daring them to make out in public (After she said to me

she wouldn't do such a thing in public). All in good fun. I am geniunely happy for her and that's the end of that chapter. * If there's a boy I don't like, you can be sure some annoying classmates will [[FoeYay try pairing me up]] with him, insisting it's only tension, asking why I don't like him, and so on. Mostly jokingly, but still... it's really annoying. Part of the reason I don't like the FoeYay trope. * This Troper's ''entire school'' is one. Which seems to be natural for most Filipinos. Except for me and my small circle of friends. ** Haha, I think it is! Filipinos don't know it, but they're all secretly shippers deep down. *** Did I mention the part that everyone ships everyone. Even ''themselves?'' And the teachers? Because I'm fairly sure I did. Lately, [[NotSoAboveItAll I've]] been feeling in a shipping mood. Stupid Valentines' Day! * This Troper's class recently went on a trip, and two of my friends had crushes on their "platonic guy friends". It was [[EveryoneCanSeeIt]]to ridiculous extremes. The entire grade shipped them, whispered about them, and dared the guys to ask the girls out. Eventually, when one got asked out, it was the big buzz that night (even the teachers were like "about time"). My other friend got asked out last-minute, in the airport terminal, and people start SQUEALING when they got the news. It was quite funny, especially some of the weird looks we got from sane people. * I've always been a [[ShipperOnDeck shipper]], even before I knew what the term even meant. As a kid I ''loved'' pairing people up- and I haven't changed the slightest. At school? Ooohh, [[JustFriends those two]] are laughing together, all sparkly-eyed- I'm sooo gonna ship them! Some random and foreign TV show I don't know? Damn, those two look good together. Shipping them! My friends? Dude, you should totally talk to him so he can ask him out! I've been rooting for both of you since, like, two years ago! Come on! Yeah, it's irritated quite a number of people. * This troper plays the trope for laughs; he's a [[CargoShip Cargo]] ShipperOnDeck. * My dad ships me with this odious little pissant that I went to high school with. I personally ship my old roommate and one of my friends-said old roommate is currently in a rather unhealthy relationship with a guy who can ''control her with his eyes.'' It's a little scary and my friend is a much better match for her. * This troper's ''entire school'' is this for her and her StalkerWithACrush. TropesAreNotGood; I don't like him back, and the people constantly saying that I should go out with him, asking why don't I like him is ''annoying'' and near the top of a very long list of reasons why this troper hates her school. ** I have it the same way, except that said guy isn't really a StalkerWithACrush and more... an annoying fanboy. After a discussion with him being a really obnoxious, arrogant Mac fanboy ("LOL WINDOWS SUCK BECAUSE [[DidNotDoTheResearch THEY GET VIRUSES ALL THE TIME]]") I started yelling back at him that no, Macs aren't the best things in the universe, and no, Windows won't get viruses if you're just careful, have a good antivirus program and don't download all the shit

you see in banner ads. However, he refused to get this and look past his love of Apple, which made me just avoid him for a while because of his annoying, smug "my opinion is right and your is wrong" personality, since I don't like being with people like that... and I tend to stay away from people that annoy me, since I can't handle being around them for too long. After my reaction, several people somehow seemed to think it meant I secretly liked him, which is not true at all. This has happened twice before: boy annoys me somehow, I snap and yell back, I avoid him after that, girls in class think "ooh, you secretly love him!" This is why I hate the BeligerentSexualTension trope. * This pageless troper has shipped her former [[CloudCuckooLander best]] [[ManicPixieDreamGirl friend]] and her [[{{Adorkable}} quite]] [[SociallyAwkwardHero awkward]] [[HugeGuyTinyGirl beau]] since [[ToyShip sixth grade]], so about four years now. They are [[UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo are]] [[WillTheyOrWontThey only]] [[RelationshipUpgrade now]] [[HighSchoolDance taking a tentative step]]. This has led to much [[{{Squee}} squeeing]] on this troper's part. But she'll play it cool, no worries here. * This troper and some of her friends are this for our classmates. At one dance, though, the ''entire grade'' was working together to get two friends together, by manipulating the situation in harmony. We're pretty sure it worked. ** Unfortunately, somewhere along the road, it hit a wall, and she's in a relationship with another guy. Incidentally, this is the guy everyone had shipped with her for like two years before switching focus to the first guy. Go figure. * The trope goes both ways for this troper. ** When I'm on the receiving end of a ShipperOnDeck's...mannerisms, such as my cabinmates from camp pairing me with the resident [[{{Keet}} hyperactive]] SociallyAwkwardHero who has a "[[ADateWithRosiePalms medical condition]]", or my entire drama class {{Shipping}} me with an [[EmoTeen emo]] {{Otaku}} with StoicSpectacles (who, admittedly, I was kind of crushing on), it usually ends with my friendship with that guy being RuinedForever. *** The latter 'ship resulted in a doomed relationship, and, as predicted, my friendship with the boy in question was RuinedForever. ** When ''I'' am the ShipperOnDeck, I avoid being obvious about it so I don't jinx it, but I ''do'' help one half out if they express interest in the other half. With one exception: I am totally obvious about shipping my fellow regulars at a certain FFN forum. They are none too amused, with the exception of my fellow ShipperOnDeck. [[IKnewIt Then, one by one, half of each of the main 'ships started confessing to crushes on the other half.]] It was ''great''. * This troper's little sister is on our school's AFJROTC drill team. So is the guy I had a crush on two years ago. I made the mistake of telling her as much a few months ago. Now she, her boyfriend, her best friend, the squad commander and half of the rest of drill team tease him about it all the time, and she, her boyfriend, and her best friend tease me about it, too. I only just found out about them teasing him, so now I finally have an answer as to why he always looks at me funny when I say hi to him. They just keep doing it, though, insisting that

we'll go out just to shut them up, and then sparks will fly (actually, her boyfriend described it more like a really trippy dream sequence that combined pot and acid, but that's beside the point). * This troper owes his very existence to this trope. In college a woman shipped her roommate with her favorite cousin. She was discreet about it, but a few nudges in the right direction and now about thirty years later this troper's parents are {{happily married}} with four kids. * My best friends (let's call them K1, K2, C2, and S) and I all do this for each other. At one point, K2 was shipping our unborn children in a scheme for us to be technically related. * [[{{Tropers/Skepkitty}} This Troper's]] current boyfriend and her were fiercely shipped by her little sister ever since they met. * [[{{Tropers/Alexduckie}} This troper]] likes to ship people. I love nothing better than learning someone is in love! And on the reverse side, apparently one of my friends ships me and my crush... because we both wear trenchcoats. It's only slightly encouraging. * This troper's friend ships me and my love interest like crazy. She constantly asks me if I like him and wants to set us up, but being the {{tsundere}} I am, I won't admit it. ** Now we have even more shippers that it could be moved into EveryoneCanSeeIt * [[{{Osakachan12}} This tropette]] does this often. She ships almost ''everyone'' in her school, likes both yaoi and yuri (non-sexual, just relationship wise), talks and squees about her favorite pairings in [[AxisPowersHetalia Hetalia,]] and enjoys it. Unfortunately, I get affected by this too. I'm constantly shipped with a guy I consider a friend, and nothing more. Whenever friends threaten to get me and him to go out, I just threat them with "Friendship Hugs," which is basically a sneak-attack hug. It's very effective at freaking people out. * [[{{Tropers/Nani}} This troper]] sits at a lunch table with several people. One of which is a boy that has a crush on me. I, however, feel that we are BetterAsFriends. At the aforementioned lunch table, another boy enjoys teasing us about our non-existent relationship, but the way he does it, it makes it seem a lot like he's shipping us. He never says it outright, but I can tell. * This troper's friends, so much. Following a recent RelationshipUpgrade, she had no less than FOUR SEPARATE PEOPLE come up to her and squee about how cute a couple she and her girlfriend were. Granted, said troper has joined in on the shipping for several friends as well, including one where [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Everyone Could See It]]. * [[{{Bpen13}} This Troper]] is aware of a Shipper on Deck for himself and his crush. He is also amazed at the amount of squee he gets from the general school populace, maybe EveryOneCanSeeIt. * As ThatOneGuy I get this far too often. Throughout middle and high school, I have been shipped with no fewer than 5 girls. I have only actually liked one of them, and I didn't realize it until after the shipping stopped. * This (male) troper normally doesn't care about other people's relationships, but there is exactly [strikethrough one] (EDIT: make

that two couples so far) that I've been almost-secretly rooting for. (The "almost" part comes from the time that the guy had to write the girl's initials and accidentally replaced her last initial with his. And even then I wasn't the first to point it out.) Also, on the other end of the example my mother does this with practically every female friend of mine she meets--I've never actually had a girlfriend so it's kind of a RunningGag. (Think [[{{Pokemon}} Misty]] but inverted.) And all my friends ship me and this other girl and... well, I opened the TT for EveryoneCanSeeIt. * [[Tropers/GrimBloodyFable This troper]], who is [[StraightGay not exactly camp]], is constantly shipped with his very male and very straight friend. Who ships us, you ask? '''Everyone.''' Half of the people who know us insist that we should be a couple. Personally, he's not exactly my type. * My friend ships me and her [[PlatonicLifePartners Platonic Life Partner]] together. Considering that she already talked to him about it before she did me, and that he never said whether or not he liked me, just that he wasn't ready for a relationship, and that I'm only willing to date someone via RelationshipUpgrade, I can see where she got it from. Oh, and she's not the only shipper on deck, so I guess EveryoneCanSeeIt? * I was this for these two friends of mine, who actually had crushes on each other but didn't have any courage to admit it. After joking about the two of them going out (which they denied), I ended up talking one of them into asking the other out. They're officially boyfriend and girlfriend now. [[{{UngratefulBastard}} Not that they remember my involvement.]] * Long story about this with this troper. When I started school at my new school, I played D&D with a group of kids. There I met this guy who I eventually got a crush on. The catch?[[UnwantedHarem This one girl already liked him.]] However, when everyone found out that I liked him, they shipped me with him. Justified, because the other girl had mental problems and was just generally disliked by everyone. But because of this I was shipped with him by all my friends. The ShipTeasing made them ship us more. We've been told many times by people that we should go out. Too bad he [[ObliviousToLove doesn't seem to want to..]] * ''Every single one'' of my friends who knows one of my guy friends wants us to get together. They'll always say "But you have so much in common, you'd be so cuuute together!" or smile annoyingly if he and I are having a conversation about photography (we're both photography geeks). Once I went on about a mile walk with him down the valley to take some photos, and when we came back, all tired and windswept, everyone asked if we had had a good time making out in the park. Grrr. * When I was in middle school, my closest (at that time) friend was male. His dad and the school rumor mill shipped us, but we never got together. On a more successful note, This Troper shipped my current best friend with a friend of hers she took to the Valentine's Day Dance during said dance. By the end, they kissed and dated for over a year. * In [[Tropers/AdelePotter This Tropette's]] youth group, it's sort of an inside joke that Delaney and Parker should hook up. Also, my

[[OpenMindedParent father]] ships me with TWO of my female friends. (I'm BiTheWay.) The first is my best friend, and one I actually like, but I wouldn't tell him that for anything. The second has a girlfriend, and is one of my close friends. Dad said that if we ever get together, we have his blessing. Really, I think it's because she lives in Cincinnati, and Dad and I will take any excuse to go there. ---SQUEE! You and ShipperOnDeck are meant to be! <<|TroperTales|>>

Shipping * Before becoming a troper, I never read fanfic. And before I read fanfic I never shipped. Now I am actually confused at the various number of ships I support. Everything from [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy/Dawn]] (why we lack a lesbian incest trope is beyond me) to [[{{Torchwood}} Captain Jack Harkness]]/[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Dawn]]/[[CrossoverShip Ianto]] {{OT3}} goodness. * There are people who ship me with [[TI83Yay my calculator]]. Especially because I use it to create FetishFuel. * ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has made me ship anything with a pulse [[CargoShip (and sometimes not even that).]] TVTropesWillRuinYourLife indeed. * My lesbian best friend is a shipper without ever having heard of the term. Any time I so much as pat someone on the back she goes "You guys should go out!" The strange thing is, sometimes she's right. I can actually imagine myself with some of the girls she pairs me up with. * This troper used to ship her toys, mainly members of her massive Happy Meal toy collection or her BeanieBabies, with the occasional Barbie ship thrown in (Barbie shipping was impeded by the fact that she had several Barbies but only one Ken). This went to the extent that she wrote down her Beanie Babies' family units, complete with children, and though the fast food toy collection was large enough that she never wrote any of her ships down, she's pretty sure she still remembers the vast majority of them, from in-canon (Pocahontas x John Smith) to [[CrackPairing crack]] ([[StarWars Padme]] x [[WildWildWest Kevin Kline riding a steampunk motorcycle]]. At the very least, if she ever took down the big plastic bin they're all in, chances are that she could figure out or recollect the pairings she's forgotten. Some of these ships have lasted for over 15 years. * ThisTroper is studying TheCatcherInTheRye in English class, and loves that basically her entire class ships Holden/Stradlater, to varying degrees. * This troper's high school is an evil hive of real life shipping. Case in point, she's been dating the same guy for over a year but is now shipped with a good male friend by everyone from the tech crew freshman to the people who run the food truck outside the school. * Although I previously knew of shipping, it was only when I began attending uni that I began shipping people in real life. My penchant for shipping reached its logical conclusion yesterday when I began '''naming ships that I've come up with.''' My personal favorite would have to be LatinShipping, the name for my OTP (ie, [[CanNotSpitItOut

me and the girl I want to date).]]

ShipTease * This troper and a friend were thought to be in a relationship for some reason. Every time we walked somewhere we would hold hands to fuel the fire. I don't know why someone didn't point out that a Senior and Junior in high school should be kissing if they had really been in a dating relationship as long as we were supposed to have been. * This troper has a crush on one of his classmates, and frequently hangs out with her, studying and doing homework together. This has led some friends to suspect that he has feelings for her, with one telling him that it's quite obvious. At the very least, they acknowledge that it's not a relationship [[strike:(yet)]], keeping this tease out of SheIsNotMyGirlfriend territory. * Lesbian parties in college are LOADED with this. It's perfectly okay to dance with/dry hump/make out with other girls since practically everyone in a room IS a drunk lesbian or bi girl (with a few straights and gay guys thrown in) but sometimes you get the feeling there is more going on then just wanting to have a good time. Several times there have been instances where someone was expressing interest in legitimately dating another girl under the guise of it looking like a random party fling. * The entire school seems to think that [[GwenStacyWannabe my]] (male) best friend and I are going out. Sometimes it's really quite fun to play with their minds, such as going to prom together and then not dancing, or calling him "hon" every now and then and pretending it just "slipped out"...yes, I'm evil. * This troper [[InvokedTrope does this all the time]]. To the girl people keep saying he's perfect for, and the guy he's noticed more than some subtext towards. He also does this on a message board with the other members (we joke about pairings of other members in standard shipping "Person X Person" format). In reality? He's either Asexual or Straight, with feelings for none of these people. ** Doesn't that kind of make you a slut...? (No offense intended.) *** No it makes him a [[IncrediblyLamePun tease]] **** More of a JerkAss. * This troper and one of her best friends (who is ''asexual''), are constantly saying things like "when am I going to get those sexual favors you owe me?" and "Wasn't last night amazing??". We confuse the shit out of people. * One of this troper's high school friends (well, [[VitriolicBestBuds sort of]]) loved this trope, making a point of pulling her aside for "private conversations" and softening insulting statements with an "I love you, but..." or "You look very good today." Hilarious in restrospect, but a little cloying when people [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend just wouldn't stop asking]]. * This troper's younger brother has tons of platonic female friends, most people in the high school think he will hook up with one of them, our parents think it's another, people at camp think some one else entirely. He does very little to discourage any of these ships, and likes cuddling with all of his platonic friends. This troper just

giggles on the sidelines. * At the year-end party of [[{{MiraShio}} this troper]]'s class, one of the co-advisers began giving out Loveteam of the Year Awards. A couple consisting of myself and a guy who had a crush on me was among the nominees, and when we lost, I considered jokingly telling him, "Sorry honey, we didn't win." Plus a few more other ShipTease situations my classmates immediately squeal over. * This troper has a guy friend and a lady friend [[FanPreferredCouple who a lot of people think should date]]. They hug, [[VitriolicBestBuds physically fight]], and [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple argue]] all the time but have [[PlatonicLifePartners no intention on dating each other]]. But all this only added to the fact that many believe that they should start going out. This has just happened recently with myself and one of said guy friend's band mates. I made friends with the band mate quickly after he made me a "roadie". He's a very affectionate guy [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace who likes to cuddle with all girls he's friends with]]. Like at a volleyball game he wrapped his arms around me, rocked me a bit, and rested his head on mine. [[LoveAtFirstSight That doesn't stop people from thinking that we should date even though we've only known each other for about a week]]. * This troper has a friend who when we first started talking, all her friends thought we were dating and gave her grief about finally having a boyfriend. Our friends and family often wondered why we aren't dating and more than one person has thought that we were. The two of us have admitted that it might happen and do a great deal to avoid the situation. Let's just say several rules have had to be put in place. * This situation is becoming increasingly funny in this troper's life. A guy and a girl he knows are extremely close friends, the guy's parents like the girl enough to let her live with them and they still aren't going out. The ShipTease is so great that it's beginning to cause some ShipperOnDeck action. * This troper does this all the time with her (gay) best friend. We've got the whole LikeAnOldMarriedCouple vibe going on, (and always have, prompting a lot of ShipperOnDeck action from our friends back in high school) and we totally use it for our own amusement. For April Fools Day, we got a reservation at the most swankified restaurant in town, and he proposed using one of my rings. When I accepted, the staff gave us a complimentary bottle of champagne. He and I just got back from a vacation in Germany, during which we pretended to be a married couple and, just to keep things interesting, kept insulting each other. He would say [[GratuitousGerman "Ich leibe dich"]], to which I would repond "Fick dich!" I would call him a [[GratuitousFrench "singe castr"]] and he would call me "desse tonnant", and so on with Spanish, Italian, and Japanese. Suffice to say that the whole vacation could have been titled the ShipTease / FunWithForeignLanguages World Tour. * [[Tropers/{{Nemica}} This troper]] delivers a whole lot of ship tease with an internet friend. Tough they are firmly settled in the [[{{Homestuck}} pale quadrant]], they tend to act rather... familiar, including lots of cuddling. (Same went for the RealLife meeting.) No wonder they get shipped by everyone, even after they [[ShipSinking launched a whole bunch of torpedoes]].

* This troper, who has a solid bromance with an equally skinny and androgynous friend, gets shipped by other friends with him. He and his friend do like to shiptease these girls by acting affectionate. Seriously ramps up the Ho Yay at the same time. * This troper and a male friend of hers are basically walking ship tease. We spend several hours walking around by ourselves over the weekend, I'm basically a well-done version of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl to him, together we're Savvy Guy Energetic Girl, we're very physically affectionate (I love glomping people), we tend to hold hands, because mine are so warm, I'm basically a walking space heater, everyone who sees us thinks we're dating and doing a bit more than that, and now it seems like God himself wants the two of us to get together. * This Troper is in a WillTheyOrWontThey kind of relationship with a girl and has so many of these moment that it has moved into EveryoneCanSeeIt territory it doesn't help this troper that she is [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage quite conflicted in the way of showing how she feels.]] * This troper and the guy she likes are very subject to this. We've been asked multiple times if we're dating, and [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend when we say no]], they always say that we should be. * Just recently, this troper realized that she and her male friend had this all over the place. She's tried to tone it down a few notches by being less affectionate and by not constantly sticking to his side, but that hasn't stopped [[ShipperonDeck anyone.]] ---Go back to [[TrueLovesKiss Ship Tease]]. Just make sure we're not [[ShipTease messing with you.]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ShipToShipCombat * [[{{Tropers/HG131}} This Troper]] averts getting in a mental war with himself over who he ships in regards to [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy, Faith, Willow and Dawn]]. This is because I support every combination in it. What do I do? I ship Buffy/Dawn/Faith/Willow. * It can be awfully fun, if you're with the right people. This troper had a group of friends on a message board once who were all fans of TeenTitans, and represented nearly every possible conflicting ship that could ever be thought up. We were all great friends, and derived great amusement from mentally scarring the others. * This Troper has never been involved in a shipping war and is quite happy to have avoided all of the drama going down with it. This is a combination of luck, avoidance, shipping pairings usually left out of the war, and just being very mellow about the entire thing. Some of her friends, on the other hand, continually try to tell her she's wrong and get frustrated when she just shrugs them off and goes back to it after telling them that she doesn't care what they ship, why should they care about what she does? This has sparked some issues between her and a friend who is moderately homophobic. * This [[MiraiNikki Yuno/Yukki]] shipper has yet to come across a

Akise/Yukki shipper. He's actually disappointed about that. ** [[Tropers/{{Orihime}} Have one here.]] The twist? ''I ship Yuno/Yukki too.'' LOL? ** [[Tropers/{{GintaxAlvissforever}} There's another one right here.]] Oh yeah...and if you look at the Manga Fox Forum, it's just a huge flame war with who Yukki ends up with. My solution? Akise/Yukki/Yuko {{OT3}} FTW! * This troper's cousins-in-laws are currently in a battle of who {{Naruto}} will end up with. One is in favor of Naruto/Hinata while the other says Naruto/Sakura. It has even gone so far that they [[SeriousBusiness signed a contract that said that whoever loses has to pay the winner $30.]] ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome They even laminated it.]]'' ** What do they do if neither happens? *** They don't get anything. * This troper and his sister used to engage in this over who [[CardCaptorSakura Sakura]] would end up with. I thought Syaoran and Sakura would get together, while she thought that Yue and Sakura made a better paring, although we never got to see who was right because the [[{{Macekre}} butchered English dub]] we watched was canceled midseries. To this day, we still haven't looked up online to see who was right; waiting until one of us gets the box set of the uncut, subtitled Japanese version to see who was right. ** [[MugenKagemaru This one]] has read the manga online, and all he gained from it was membership of the Sakura/Tomoyo ship. '''HOWEVER''', WordOfGod says Sakura/Syaoran, which was the pairing at the end, was the OfficialCouple before the idea of relationships even came into play. CLAMP has said that Sakura and Syaoran are 100% soulmates, and would have wound up together even if Sakura had been born a boy, or Syaoran a girl, or if there had even been an age gap. Syaoran could have been an old man, and Sakura a toddler, and '''''THEY STILL WOULD HAVE GOTTEN TOGETHER''''', according to CLAMP. * I forget the details, but my ''incredibly geeky'' friends and I would do this in RealLife in high school. * Before Christmas break this troper's English teacher posed the question of if we were [[{{Avatar The Last Airbender}} Kataang or Zutara]]. ** This troper would say Kataang, but only because she doesn't really care and found the canon ships to be good. She prefers Zukka. * This troper enjoys debates and tries to bring peace an clarity to any shipping discussion. Instead of flaming, the threads he's involved in tend to end up with pages filled with numbered lists and carefully structured arguments. Might have something to do with learning to debate on religion forums. * When it comes to {{Shuffle}}! shipping wars, Kitto Kitto Kaede is my droid army, Ai Ai Asa are my clones, and I am Emperor Palpatine. * This troper is a fan of the CrackPairing [[PocketMonsters VolknerxMaylene]] She even has her own notebook that she fills with things only related to the pairing. When her [[YaoiFangirl friend]] noticed, she showed her an even bigger notebook of [=VolknerxFlint=]. The war has been on a few months now. * This troper and her ex-boyfriend had a brief fight over Harley x

Scarecrow vs. Harley x Joker. The argument ended when this troper pretended she didn't really care and hid the fact that she was hurt by the really personal level he took it to, which is completely silly since the fight was over the love lives of ''fictional characters.'' (We broke up later that month, but that fight didn't have anything to do with it.) Within the fandom itself, the shippers tend to get along pretty well other than some Die for Our Ship stuff, but every now and then, as is inevitable with all fandoms, somebody pops up to inform Harley x Random Character shippers that they are ''wrong'' for not shipping her with the Joker, or vice versa. * This troper had friends who ship every possible pairing in the Axis Powers Hetalia fandom. It's quite fun; history class often has us pointing at each other and mouthing "See?!" excitedly, then debating it after class. * SunnyV and her {{nakama}} all seem to have different opinions on every possible 'ship in existence. Debates are always in fun, though (unless someone starts taking it too seriously.) * My friend unfortunately won't take the leather pants off of Sasuke and feverishly believes he's secretly in love with Sakura, despite the fact I keep telling her he tried to shove a fistful of lightning through her head. The way I see canon going, they're both going to end up ultimately alone. * [[Tropers/{{Orihime}} This troperette]] survived the GundamWing, GGundam and ThePrinceOfTennis pairing wars. She's currently involved in the {{Bleach}}, FireEmblem and AxisPowersHetalia ones. Wish her luck. ;-; * @/{{Mack}}: I spent enough time 'fighting' the Creddie vs Seddie war in {{iCarly}} that as soon as it looked one one was going to start between Jeff/Annie and Jeff/Britta shippers in {{Community}}, I ditched the fandom completely. I ship Annie/Abed, and really liked the community of community for the fun of the show itself. * This troper gets along with her best friend's older sister very well... until it comes to shipping. * There's a big shipping war occurring over Duncan/Courtney and Duncan/Gwen on the TotalDramaIsland fandom. ** (different troper than above) And the things that have been occurring in the latest episodes are just [[{{Understatement}} adding more fuel to the fire.]] * [[Tropers/{{Icarael}} This troper]] has never participated in ShipToShipCombat because he believes that what you ship is your own thing, and no one or nothing (not even Canon) should stop you from shipping it. Even so, he seriously wants to write a fanfic called ''"All's Quiet on the Kanto Front"'' as a parody of ShipToShipCombat, particularly the Pokemon fandom and its hundreds of ships. It would involve trench fights in forum threads, armored assaults across image boards, [[YaoiFangirl the Ya]][[{{Warhammer40000}} oi Gu]][[ShoutOut ard]], and kunoichi. * This troper started shipping [[HarryPotter Lily/Snape]] (or rather, that he had strong feelings for her, whether or not she returned them) immediately after the 5th book was published and even made a bet on it. Years later, when the 7th book finally came out, the friend she made the bet with paid up.

** Now, however, I avoid ShipToShipCombat because some people take it WAY too seriously. Especially when it involves Slash. I did have fun ruining the childhood of my somewhat-conservative-mildly-homophobicacquaintance who was raised on StarTrek explaining the [[HoYay Kirk]] [[TroperNamer slash]] [[SlashFic Spock]] phenomenon. Blew. His. Mind. * This troper rejoiced when [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Kataang won]]. He even gloated in the Zutara fans' faces. ** And from then on vowed to only sit back and grab the popcorn whenever there was a ShipToShipCombat. ** This troper did the same thing, but was more gleeful about Maiko [[IncrediblyLamePun maiking it]] than Kataang. * This troper is currently witnessing a ShipToShipCombat between [[EpicMickey Oswald x Ortensia]] (aka Sadie) and Oswald x Fanny (his first girlfriend). She doesn't know what's stranger... the fact that characters from nearly 90 years ago aren't safe from this, or that the 'solution' was to [[CrackPairing give Ortensia to Felix]]... yes, [[FelixTheCat that Felix]]. * The first Sentai I followed while it aired was {{Samurai Sentai Shinkenger}}. Originally everyone was Pink and Red, and Green and Yellow--until, evidence stated otherwise. I am an avid Red and Yellow shipper, but even I was stunned by some of the ridiculousness on the fanboards. Depending on the episode, and based off of a single clip or even still, they would jump to conclusions. This would usually erupt, die down, and then, until a red and yellow focus, or a pink and red focus, it would erupt again. I decided to not to register on any of these boards for fear that I would get too sucked in, and trust me, both Pink and Red shippers and Yellow and Red shippers can be brutal. * This troper doesn't care who ships what, and certainly doesn't care about canon. But that certainly doesn't stop him from engaging in this frequently. My sister and I almost always agree about ships, but it gets ugly when you bring up [[GoldenSun Mudshipping and Valeshipping]]. This troper even wrote a college essay on that ship war, and his sister still won't let him live down Valeshipping becoming canon in Dark Dawn. * This troper and her fellow BlackButler fan friends get into this on a regular basis. It's Sebastian/Ciel, Claude/Hannah and Grell/Madam Red versus Ciel/Alois, Sebastian/Claude and Grell/William versus Claude/Alois, Sebastian/William and Ciel/Doll. Admittedly, this troper is fine with the other pairings too, but she engages in ShipToShipCombat for fun and because she likes debates. * This troper and her friend are both fans of ''FullmetalAlchemist.'' We do not quite see eye to eye on shipping. I keep trying to start a war, just for the fun of it, but she's not up for it. Rats. * This troper acedently got into one with a Naru/Hina fan on an RP forum. The joke of it all? I am a Saku/Naru/Hina fan. ---Go back to ShipToShipCombat, and take your worthless idea of an {{OTP}} with you! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ShirtlessScene * Pretty much this Troper's life. It's more a clothesless scene whenever this troper can get away with it... which isn't very often, unfortunately, as this troper finds clothes rather uncomfortable. This troper needs to get his six-pack back though, as this troper definitely looked better when it was more defined. * This troper has a friend that will randomly walk around shirtless because he is "practicing for when he has a six-pack." * This (female) troper is friends with a guy who is thin and lanky...but when he takes his shirt off, he has quite the pack...

ShlubbAndKlumpEnglish * This Troper's minister at church has an awful habit of starting out like he was going to avoid ending the sentence with a preposition.. and then slapping the preposition on anyway. The most common example is something of the form, "I started to talk to the people with whom we were going to eat with..." (All I can think is he either thinks that's correct, or he tries to sound fancy, gets lost mid-phrase, and just ends it the way he was going to in the first place.) ** Unless you're talking Classical Latin, prepositions are fine to end sentences with. :P ** Apocryphally, the rule against ending sentences with prepositions was largely made up in order to sell rising middle-class Englishmen more books on how to appear upper class. ** To bring those last two points together, the 'don't end sentences with prepositions' rule dates back to a time when English grammarians were highly proscriptive. In cases where English lacked clear rules, they cribbed rules from Latin or Greek. Though modern English grammar experts have abandoned the practice, bits and pieces of the old ideas survive. ** Even more amusing is the fact that the prescriptive rule against this was originally a '''suggestion''' that ending a sentence with a preposition sounded colloquial. A century later, and it's been [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] into a "rule". ** But the example of the minister above, where the preposition is used ''twice'', once at the start of the phrase and again at the end, just shows the sorry state of the world [[LiveAndLetDie in which we live in]]. * When this editor called a major UK mobile telecommunications company about a mischarged bill, the company rep's attempt at intimidation by means of [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness big words]] and overly formal sentences might have worked better had it not been glaringly obvious that she was out of her linguistic depth. * This editor recently saw a commercial for migraine medication. It explained that a migraine is not a normal headache, but actually a condition caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. Hmm...okay so far, but the commercial then promised that the product would "restore the chemical imbalance back to normal", a grammatical construction so convoluted it could have come out of the mouth of [[TheLordOfTheRings Bilbo Baggins]].

* And ''this'' editor (actually it might be the same editor - I may have written the above entry but I don't remember for sure) has seen an advert for some moronic mobile phone games that contain the following mystifying utterances: "with now even more features" and "show them what their partner are up to". It makes this troper want to kill things. * This editor's pastor had many, many moments like this, including mispronouncing the name of the Greek philosopher "Critias" as "Clitoris". * This troper, back in the sixth grade, used to talk this way all the time, and wrote really, really bad poetry in Shlubb and Klump English. * This troper once insulted someone in a {{Furcadia}} conversation who then accused her of "definition of character". * This troper's roommate and girlfriend do this CONSTANTLY. Except they kinda sorta use it properly, but it comes out like they're trying to sound educated and better than the rest of us. Robotic grammar+ big words+inability to be wrong = Pompous ass. * [[{{CKY}} This troper]] is trying to figure out how to speak like this for the lulz. * [[{{This-guy}} My]] brother used to speak like this. [[IGotBetter He got better]], though. * This troper makes a habit of doing this while talking to some of his friends who don't [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness grasp the English language quite so well]]. It actually makes him ''easier'' to understand because using the correct grammar often confuses even more people. * This troper has taken to intentionally saying "and me" even when "and I" would be more grammatically correct, partly because it almost always sounds less awkward, but mostly in protest of those who insist on always using "and I" to look smarter even though it's wrong half the time. ** Well, some people use "and I" incorrectly (as in "It happened to my friend and I.") when trying to sound smarter. The general rule is to evalute whether or not the sentence sounds right with the "so-and-so and" part removed. * This troper's biology professor once spent a couple of minutes explaining that "macerate" is a synonym for "chew". * This troper's speech is apparently unintelligible, resulting in people either a) ignoring me because they can't understand what I'm talking about or b) trying to imitate my speech with this. Needless to say, I have a hard time not laughing when I see my own language mangled. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ShoddyKnockoffProduct * I got a lot of these products as gifts growing up. I inherited my mother's frugality, though, so it's not like I don't understand. * As a joke in a story [[@/PentiumMMX2 I]] am writing, one of the main characters works at a place called Storage Building 12; it being a

place in the middle of nowhere that holds semi-dangerous relics. The character mentions at one point in the story that his job is "the next best thing to working for {{Warehouse 13}}" * ''{{Transformers}}'' ** I have seen several shoddy ''{{Transformers}}'' knockoffs in drugstores and dollar stores. ** I buy ''Transformers'' knockoffs just to see how cruddy they are in comparison to the real Transformers. Such as the "Transformable Robot Combat Fighter". Possibly the worst CombiningMecha toy ever conceived. ** And Twist n Change robots. Horrible imitations of Transformers Alternators. ** K-Mart's Robo Morphers, and their Big Lots counterparts, the Battle Robots. ** [[@/KP Shadow I]] have found what may be the ultimate fail in Transformers knockoffs. I found it in National Wholesale Liquidators, and it's a toy robot modeled after your typical mecha design from Gundam, with joints only where the limbs and head connected to the body, and with a transformers-esque name on the packaging. * This is either lame or awesome: At least three or four shops in the Chinatown region of [[@/SoWeAteThem my]] (western North American, non San-Francisco) town stock imported {{Pokemon}} bootlegs. Particularly egregious ones, too. * While never having received one [[@/UltimateChimera myself]], , has seen a few and has realised they're mostly just Game and Watches in a familiar, hi-tech shell. * I've been known to buy my cousin's toys like this from the dollar store. They are really careless with their stuff and break/lose toys so why get them anything with actual quality? ---You can pick up a link back to ShoddyKnockoffProduct at the dollar store. It's just as good as the real thing, if slightly OffModel. ----

ShonenHair ''Sometimes you just gotta express your love of anime. With your head. Show us some stories about people with crazy hair:'' ---* Seen in RealLife, intentionally or unintentionally. This troper's friend has hilariously spiky hair. Very few things can defeat the spiky. * Anime conventions. The hair gel from the cosplayers could drown a small village. * This troper's hair, though it has to fulfill certain requirements first. It needs to be: 1. within a certain range of lengths, 2. not washed for at least several days, and 3. bedhair. Some of the results have been amazing. * This troper, whether he wants it or not. * [[@/{{MiraShio}} My]] LoveInterest is hardly ever seen devoid of hair wax which keeps his hair spiky and brown. [[MissedMomentOfAwesome He even claimed to have dyed his hair golden brown once]].

* This Troper was watching Medabots with his girlfriend. "Eh, who's the main guy...? Wait, waaait... yeah, probably him, he has main character hair." * This troper is a bearer of shonen hair. To make matters worst I'm like a cliche shonen protagonist too. I've been told that I'm loud, boisterous, extroverted and has a reputation as the strongest is his year. Hell my friends make fun of me all the time for this, calling me the main character and everybody and I mean EVERYBODY has some comment to make on my hair. Whether it's "cool hair bro," "your hair is funny," "You should get a haircut," or my personal favourite, "You look like Goku!" ---Grab some hairspray and head back to ShonenHair. Or for more fun with defictionalized hair get the hairdye instead and go to TroperTales/YouGottaHaveBlueHair. ----

ShootTheShaggyDog * [[GamerChick My cousin]] was once playing through the level in DonkeyKongCountry where you have to [[ScrappyMechanic keep refueling the vehicle you're riding]] or else it will fall off the screen and kill you. After a lot of agony was spent trying to get past the obstacles, she finally made it to the walkway leading to the exit... only to jump into a [[TheGoomba Gnawty Beaver]] and die. * This troper's brother was going to get some ice cream from the freezer in the garage, the very very cold garage due to winter temperatures. He walked outside to find that it was a lot colder than he had thought, as he was not wearing anything on his feet. I tossed him my slippers and he ran back inside after getting the ice cream, swearing all the while. When he went to put it in the indoor freezer after scooping some out, he discovered ''a different'' ice cream container already inside that he could have used. * This Troper was having derpy internet while trying to talk with one of her non-Troper buddies on Neopets, and, after much frustration and unable to talk to her buddy about this problem, fixed the problem....and was informed of her buddy's leaving. * As a child, my character in FaeryTaleOnline felt sorry for a little girl in his village that never woke up. He secretly fed her and kept her alive for years, then left on a long journey at age 12. When he returned, she had just awakened for the first time. She was something of a {{Yangire}} because she hadn't interacted with anyone since she was a baby. Despite his [[ShrinkingViolet shyness]], he did his best to be nice to her, and they became friends. Over the years, she became calmer and coherent, and my character started to get braver. They fell in love and built a house together, planning to start a family. Before that could happen, she abruptly stopped waking up again and died. --------------------------------------------------------------------Go through the Mountains of Doom and the Desert of Chaos until you finally make it back to [[ShootTheShaggyDog Shoot the Shaggy D]]*BANG* Oops.

ShortCutsMakeLongDelays * This troper once took a short cut around an infamous interstate to avoid rush hour traffic that was much longer than taking the straight away. To be fair though, the straight away was only faster during the wee hours of the morning and could only work if you arrived at the other side two hours before this troper intended to leave his house. * This troper's mother has a friend who knows many shortcuts. After the third time her shortcuts got us lost, we vowed to never take one again. * During the period of western expansion in the US, many travelers took shortcuts only to find that there was no water or food for the cattle, that they had to go through unscalable mountains, or some other deadly obstacle. Famously, the Donner Party took a shortcut, wound up stuck in the snowy mountains through a bitter cold winter, and supposedly had to resort to cannibalism. Bummer. ** I think that goes on [[ShortCutsMakeLongDelays the main page.]] *** But, what if this entery was written, by the ghost of a member of the Donner Party! * This troper's father took a shortcut to shave half an hour off a two-hour journey - thanks to some amazingly bad traffic, the journey took three-to-four hours. * This troper and his friend were walking back home and decide to take a shortcut because his friend suddenly had to pee really bad...He was also barefoot at the time, and wound up getting stuck in some sand spurs, unable to move without stepping in more. He had to have his friend hold him up, while she was about to pee herself. We decided not to talk the shortcut after all. * This troper (Charlie Brown) tends to practice the inversion (that's right, Long Cuts Make Short Delays). When presented with traffic jams on the Interstate, he will take the much longer (in distance) surface street path to his destination. 9 times out of 10 this route will take more time than if he had just sat through the traffic, but 10 times out of 10, he will arrive at the destination with sanity and patience intact. He can't stand sitting in a car and not be moving anywhere; keep him moving/driving (i.e. "Short Delays") and he's happy. * This troper has a band teacher that, while driving home from a game one night, decided to race us home. He went through a town that was at least an hour out of the way and got back there at least forty minutes after we did. A lot of us weren't happy. * I worked at a camp, and decided to cut through a field to get to the next class I taught. About 45 minutes later, I show up just in time to receive a very confused look from my coworker. The greatest part was that I emerged from a massive bush, covered in dirt, hair undone and stuck full of leaves and briars, and no one asked any questions. * This troper's father is so good at finding 'short cuts' that aren't that we have a saying in our family. "The longest distance between two points is always a short cut." * While it's not necessarily shortcuts, the phrases "scenic route" and "avoiding traffic" are often synonymous with "being bored" and

"getting lost" in [[DarkInsanity13 this troper's]] family. The latter has happened so many times (even ''with'' a GPS, because apparently Dad knows better than technology, even when the area we're in is incredibly foreign to us) that this troper has decided that unless she's ''absolutely'' familiar with the area or the aforementioned scenic route is actually mapped out, she won't move from the path she was given in the first place. Which is probably why she was stuck in construction-related traffic for three hours when driving home from a day at Canada's Wonderland. * This troper once had a three and a half hour car ride turn into a five hour trip because of one of these. The [[SarcasmMode brilliant]] driver (a second cousin, I believe) thought it would be faster to ''not'' take the highway. Brilliant work on that one, really. * Played with by this troper's parents; when this troper was around eight years old, her family was searching for a new house to live it. Whenever they said they were 'taking a shortcut', it always meant they were looking at a house that was for sale. * Once, while heading back from Tennessee to her home state of Georgia, my father took what he thought was a shortcut- by the time we reached Alabama, we knew we were good and lost. It took us two hours to get back to where we needed to be. ---''To get back to ShortcutsMakeLongDelays, click on the [[{{Tropes}} Main Tropes Index]] link at the top of this page, then go to NarrativeTropes, take a left into NarrativeDevices, then keep going til you see ShapeShifting. If you find ShortDistancePhoneCall, you've gone too far. Alternatively, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/randomitem.php?p= just take this handy shortcut!]].'' <<|TroperTales|>>

ShortDistancePhoneCall * This almost always happens whenever this troper is going to get picked up by someone. I usually try to say something like "I SEE youuuuu...." or something creepy. * Happened to me a few days ago. I was in an independent bookstore and needed to talk to the manager right away (I had a bus to catch), but he'd put up a "Back in a Few Minutes" sign. He was about 10 meters away when I called the store's cellphone from mine. The scary part was, it was the first time I've ever gotten crosstalk, or had the line go silent without the phone registering that it had dropped, since I switched carriers in October. * I often have online conversations with my sister...while we're in the same room. In some cases, she'll sometimes take the time to walk downstairs from her room just to tell me to get on the computer so she can talk to me. ** Ditto me and my sister. ** [[@/{{MiraShio}} My]] mom and I... sometimes.

** My husband and I frequently have conversations via e-mail or Facebook chat (at least once an argument) while we're sitting less than four feet apart in the same room. * I frequently call my sister after school so that I can find her and we can go home. Once, I was doing this and spotted her a few metres away, so I kept talking while sneaking up on her. It would've been perfect if her friend hadn't yelled 'Hiiii [troper's name]!' * This troper regularly calls one of his friends who lives about a hundred or so metres up the street. His (this troper's, not my friend's) sister also used to text downstairs for cups of tea and biscuits. * This troper likes to call her on the phone while they're in the same building, and continue the conversation while sneaking up on her. * This troper uses these to locate people. Either by following the ring-tone, or seeing who answers the phone. * [[Tropers/TheTallOne I]] do this occasionally. The most notable occasion happened a few months ago. I needed to talk to my mom, but she was ignoring me (watching TV and IM'ing someone). So I stood next to her, called her cell, and asked her the question. * This troper's mother and sister will often call or text her from another room in the same apartment, usually because they can't be bothered to get up from in front of the TV! Her sister will also IM her from the same house even if they are in the same room together. * This troper recently moved to a different state, but made a trip back without telling her best friend. She called him while walking to his house. "Do me a favour? Open your front door, will ya?" ** Also, she recently called her brother from one room away, to make sure her crappy cell was working. Once she realized it was, she hung up. Cue mournful puppy-dog eyes from the brother and a hurt, "You hung up on me." "I'm right here. You can hear me talking." "But. . . you hung up on me." "*sigh* *redial* [into phone] Hi. I'm sorry. Talk to you later. Good-bye." * This troper rarely does the in-room variant (shortest average distance for phone calls is living room to patio, which usually would involve wading through a puddle if you walked there instead) except sometimes texting someone sitting two feet away with just "HI!" to break a long silence and make them laugh. * Variations on the theme: ** One of my cousins was chatting with someone on AIM or IRC (I forget which.) The topic turned to some local event, and when he realized what was going on he told the other person to go outside. He was chatting with a neighbor from three houses down the street. ** JustifiedTrope in this case: I went to an office to help someone out with a project he was working on. This being after usual business hours, he had the door locked and the doorbell didn't work. I had to call him to let me in - from on the other side of one wall. ** Once when I misplaced my cell phone, I called it from Skype and followed the noise. It was five feet away from my computer. * When my girlfriend first [[LongDistanceRelationship flew out to meet me]], she walked right past me towards baggage claim. My solution? This trope. * My mother and I have mobile phones for the primary purpose of

finding each other when out. Since we live in a small town, this trope often results, the most memorable incident being when I called her while walking out of Kmart, and it turned out she was at the checkout, and could see me. In another incident, I was sitting outside the library waiting for her, since she'd said she was planning to visit the near-by St Vincent de Paul op-shop, and she rang me to apologise for being late, as there was a problem with the pump and she was stuck at the petrol station, naming the one two doors down from the library. * My Dad once ended up doing this to me. My thought process was: this trope -> "TV Tropes has officially ruined my life." * Since my family lives on another continent from my University, I frequently go to friend's houses for weekends, so this happens a lot. The best one was when I was sitting in the lobby, and my ride parked at the exact spot where there was a pole between us, and he complained about me not being there. The other one was a subversion. Turns out she was at another university that was an hour away and was waiting behind a dumpster or something. * [[@/HersheleOstropoler I]] [=GChat=] with my girlfriend when we're in the same bed -- if one of us is on the phone, or if we're talking about something adult and her daughter is with us. * I'm sure every person on the planet who owns a cell phone has done this at least once. My family certainly does it often enough. HumanTorch2 ---You know, you don't have to call ShortDistancePhoneCall to talk to it. It's only one click away. ----

ShorterMeansSmarter * Averted by this troper, at 6' tall with a genius-level IQ, but played completely straight with my fiancee, who is 4'10" and the only woman outside my family who's ever been able to keep up with me consistently in conversations. * My dad. He heights 1.66 mts (5.4 ft) and was BrilliantButLazy during his youth. Nowadays he's a MagnificentBastard, but still this trope. * [[@/{{MiraShio}} I]] stand at 4'11" as the top honor student in class. * Four-foot-eleven-and-one-half-inch-tall high honors student. * This troper and her friend are probably of equal intelligence, but the friend usually acts smarter. * This troper is (apparently permanently according to his doctors) 5'0 and has always either been on the honor roll or one of the top kids in his class. People are always noting his creativity and intelligence too, however he also fits BrilliantButLazy. * This 5'0" troper has always been extremely smart.

ShoutOut * Half the things [[{{Tropers/HG131}} This Troper]] says are shout outs. In an English assignment, I had to create a city of the future

with supplementary (backstory and stuff) materials. The world is half GhostInTheShell, half DeusEx with a bit of other universes, including [[SpaceElevator space elevators]] and [[{{Anime/Witchblade}} Tokyo devastated by an earthquake, the city flooded and Tokyo Tower sideways]]. The slang is part made up stuff, part modern gamer slang, part {{Firefly}} Mangled-Mandarin along with "Gorram". The fashion includes [[{{Torchwood}} WW2 pilot dress uniforms]], a [[Series/DoctorWho bowties are cool movement]] and basically everything else. I even [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar got crap past the radar]], describing a look popular among elementary-age girls: [[KodomoNoJikan eight pink ball hair decorations, two on top of a pigtail and two on the bottom for both, with pigtails reaching the knees]]. That's right, I made a KodomoNoJikan reference in a school assignment. The best part is, if the teacher actually gets it (The Doctor landing in my house is more likely), it's not like she can call me out on it. How would she explain knowing about it? * Not only does this troper normally end up making shout outs in his statements, comments, sarcasm and everything else, but some character names in games end up shout outs. For example, my [[MassEffect Femshep Adept]] is named [[{{Firefly}} River]] and a neutral female badass who goes where the money is in {{Fallout}} 3 that I made is named [[RedVsBlue Tex]]. ** You're not alone. This troper made a character in ''Fallout: New Vegas'' named {{Rango}}. Contrary to expectations, he's an [[AxCrazy ax-crazy,]] [[ChaoticEvil Chaotic Evil]] that likes to kill people. He does his best to get rid of anyone that happens to witness his rather gruesome "hobby". * This troper's contributions in English class are pretty much ''all'' shout outs to TV Tropes. I'm starting to get slightly odd looks from my teacher. * This troper cannot write ANYTHING without at least ''five'' of these. Specific examples below. I'll keep it to the character designs of a graphic novel I plan on publishing so we're not here all day. ** The main trio first: two of the three main characters were created shortly after I finished ChronoCrusade (and yes, I ''was'' upset by the ending, hence their Expy-ness). One character, Sorriet, has Rosette Christopher's hairstyle, and her full name can be rearranged to spell "Rosette Christopher". The other is named Joshua Christopher. If the name alone doesn't tip you off, he's also a half-demon who's searching for his missing parents, who are believed to have died years ago. Natalie, the final character of the main trio, is a tad less obvious... unless you're familiar with Kouta Hirano's earlier works. It gets a touch more obvious in one sequence where she lashs out after getting her glasses knocked off. She's a look-a-like of [[{{Hellsing}} Yumie/Yumiko Takahagi,]] and she takes her name from the character in question's prototype, from the hentai oneshot ''Coyote.'' ** Several characters also have [[FairyCompanion Fairy Companions]]; it started with a pair of fairies that give the Natalie and Sorriet their MagicalGirl powers, called Rein and Ari. Rein takes her name and outfit from Reinforce of MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha, while Ari looks a lot (though the Expiness is considerably less than other characters) like Agito, from the same anime. Another fairy shows up a few

chapters; his name is Ven. This then crosses over into lawsuit-worthy territory when several more fairies show up; [[KingdomHearts Aqua, Terra, and Vanitas]]. There are also passing mentions of others by the names of Even, Ienzo, Braig, Isa, and Lea. Also: Ven, on at least one occassion, picks up a key (normal sized to everyone else, but the fairies are the size of figurines, so the key is gigantic to Ven) only to have Terra say "Do You Wanna Get Sued" and make him put it down. * This troper frequently [[IncrediblyLamePun shouts out]] "YOU LIE" at his classmates. Also, while playing music, my classmates ask me what I am playing. When I am just improvising, I say [[SpinalTap Lick My Love Pump]] for the lulz. * This troper is writing a comic with 4 main guy characters. One is named John after John Barrowman, one named Neil after Neil Patrick Harris. And then 2 are named after tv characters. One is Jason, after Jason Teague from Smallvilld, and the other is named Dean, after Dean Winchester from Supernatural. This was mainly done because both the character I named my characters after are both played by Jensen Ackles. * This troper, who plays Quincy Archer, is actively trying to put as many shout outs as he can in Quincy's posts. So far he's done NoMoreHeroes, HomestarRunner, MontyPython, SayonaraZetsubouSensei, and ZeroPunctuation, as well as a LiteraryAllusionTitle to IWannaBeTheGuy. ** With a name like "Quincy Archer", this troper hopes you're including as many {{Bleach}} shoutouts as possible. *** As does this troper. ** "Oh, ''poopy''" was also the catchphrase of Dr. Clayton Forrester from ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', and his last line in the series. *** Also, Guy Rapide mentions in passing having had a friend named [[{{The Elder Scrolls}} Lucien Lachance]]. ** @/SeanTucker, who played Sloan Henriksen, made a TengenToppaGurrenLagann reference in a scene shortly before his death. ** This troper, playing as Liam Black, made him do a [[FinalFantasyVI Kefka]] reference three times, in the form of "HATE HATE HATE HATE". Considering Liam is starting to look as crazy as Kefka himself, it suits him perfectly. *** ...This troper has said "HATE HATE HATE HATE" in the real world with no idea it was a Kefka reference. (More often with three hates, though.) * @/SilentHunter usually tries to get at least one Python reference into every game of ''{{Harpoon}}'' he plays, as well as his roleplays. In his ''Series/DoctorWho'' RP at AJJEGames, he had a character reference "All The Strange, Strange Creatures", a piece of music from that show. * @/{{Azvolrien}} enjoys putting subtle Shouts Out in her (unpublished) original fiction, though she's not sure why she bothers. [[{{Firefly}} Freighter]] ''[[{{Firefly}} Tranquility]]'', anyone? The line it appears in makes it a lot more obvious: "''Tranquility'', did she say? Reynolds, isn't that your brother's ship?" * @/{{Skazka}} is prone to putting these in schoolwork (sometimes even during in-class discussion) as well as in text roleplaying games. Her current (as of writing; now former) character on one such board is a rather psychotic Victorian fellow... with a play-by of Christian Bale.

She's been forced to restrain herself from referencing every film he's ever been in- except the loosely period-correct ''Newsies'' references, and the odd offhand comments about Patrick Bateman... ** This same troper also joked about a character of hers with an original PB that was extremely blond and a character that was dementedly childlike as [[{{Discworld}} "just your regulation psychopathic manchild with a glass eye and a thing for knifes"]]. Never mind that he ''didn't'' have a glass eye-- at least not at the time. [[FunnyAneurysmMoment He did. Later.]] ** And ''again'', on a different set of roleplays, a particular miniplot in the [[DarkKnightTrilogy Nolanverse Batman]] continuity involved her dear Dr. Crane and ''his'' psychologist-slashinterrogator forced into close proximity. Fairly early on I'd commented about how he'd obviously attempt to HannibalLecture the poor girl into submission, and upon the revelation that my roleplaying partner had never seen ''Silence of the Lambs'', jokingly included shout outs whenever possible. (In-character, too. Making clear that the characters' familiarity with the film mirrored the players', such as Jonathan referencing [[NightmareFuelUnleaded horrible things happening to his nurses]] and allowing a very loopy drugged Crane to state that the press would think they were in love. Thankfully, I forced my RP partner to nip out and see the film at the first opportunity, but her character never got the joke.) * @/GwenStacyWannabe has nicknamed the star of her PE class "Dylan the [[{{Batman}} Boy Wonder]]." Unfortunately, the reference had to be explained to him... * @/{{Nomic}} tends to add shout outs into pretty much every piece of fiction he writes. The comic he writes (and hopes to publish in the web eventually) has a very large amounts of them, mostly to HPLovecraft (for example it's implied to take place in Arkham), but also to various games and TV series this troper enjoys. Both the comic and one story he has written feature Nyarlathotep as an antagonist, although that goes beyond a shout out. He also overdid it once, when he wrote a science fiction story and decided to make every single character name a shout out to Metroid games. * This troper likes calling the band teacher Haibara-sensei. She looks like Ai from DetectiveConan. I'm planning on seeing how she'll react. * Pop culture, earworms, and memes leak into many aspects of this troper's life. ** Are you me? * This troper and her best friend both write original short stories. It's a bit of a game to try to find all the video game, literature, and television references in each one I, too, have named a small ship "[[{{Firefly}} Tranquility]]", and one of my friend's recent characters was "pretty much [[FinalFantasyX Auron]] in a knight's getup". * This guy had to write a how-to for reporting on various hall programming in universities. He peppered it liberally with ''DeathNote'' references (example: X Program is in the Penber Room). * This troper makes references to things he's familiar with whenever he can, which is a good bit. A lot of times they're internet memes, and Evangelion is also a personal goldmine of jokes.

* @/DarkInsanity13, as said in the TroperTales/IAlwaysWantedToSayThat article, tries to add shout outs and references to anime/manga/video games/tv shows/movies/books/memes/[[TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary TV Tropes]]/other/etc. at every chance she gets. It becomes more fun when it's something obscure/in context and only one person seems to catch onto it. I.E. when one person said they were going home to bake/eat cake (can't remember which), this troper, with a smirk, stated [[{{Portal}} "The cake is a lie."]] Only one of the other people there got it, and after departing from the group, we discussed Portal with great delight. Recently, she had to avoid saying [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann "to create absolute despair"]] when asked why the Spartans chose the conditions of surrender they did for the Athenians during the Peloponnesian Wars. * This troper did two with character names in her [[http://dragongate.vox.com original scifi-comedy blog]]. She needed random names for the engineer to recommend for commendations after a battle. She invented two and pulled two others from Stargate: Aftermath, the SG RP she's a member of. At least one person from Aftermath noticed and commented on it. She doesn't know if anybody else is reading the blog. * This troper, for no reason, always has his Cloudcuckoolanders or {{Butt Monkey}}s as the designated "reference-a-minute" guys. Case in point: One of his Shadowrun characters is more-or-less a Bishonen Deadpool who reads /b/, /a/, /co/, and /vg/ WAAAY too much and is a master of disguise. So far, he's called a Russian arms dealer [[LordofWar "Yuri"]] or [[MetalGear "Gurokovich"]], a gravelly, hooded arms dealer with a limp [[ResidentEvil "That hooded Australian asshole from RE"]], and so on. * One of this troper's characters is loosely based on a public domain superhero that many consider the first female comic book superhero (pre-dating Wonderwoman). In his universe, she is a Wonderwoman fan and following her retirement was one of the more recognized heroes in the 'verse. * This troper used to play Mafia a lot (the forum game, otherwise called Werewolf) and tended to use a lot of Death Note references. Favourites were, when playing as a mafioso, remarking "just as planned" to teammates after a success or "Farewell, Ray Penbar" when the cop was successfully knocked off. (General note: although it is fun to sit like L and eat sweets while playing Mafia, do not attempt this in a swivel chair.) ** And why didn't you [[SlouchOfVillainy lounge on your chair]] while eating chocolate dramatically, instead? After all... * This troper is writing a book in which the villain is story obsessed, so he can use many Shout Outs to all fantasy books. * This troper is using an in game map maker to make something for a school project (don't ask). And he got bored, so he decided to make an entire village a giant, living shout out to Monty Python. It includes, among many others, the chorus of vikings called spamspamspamspamspam, The Black Knight, a villager named for every cast member,The Knights Who Say Ni, their shrubbery, and, in a little way away, Rodger The Shrubber. And he has a cart called The Shrubmobile. Oh, and hidden among about twenty chickens, there's one called a Norwegian Blue.

* @/{{Sainsbury}} wrote a piece of writing for Year 12 Literature and decided the main character should have two dogs. The dogs were eventually named [[{{Firefly}} Wash and Zoe]]. Guess which one was dead by the end. * @/{{Shaon}} maintains an extensive [[http://www.blackstardojo.org/viewtopic.php?p=42082 pantheon of gods]] and doesn't exactly restrain from shout outs. Highlights include [[HouseMD Gregorius, God of Medicine]] and [[EarthBoundZero Giegue, God of Emotion]]. * This troper peppers her day-to-day conversations with game/show/anime/book references. When she writes, she also tends to include references to her recent obsession. * This troper is currently working on a programming project involving hashmaps. He named his map "theMap", as in [[YouTubePoop "HERE--IS-THE MAP."]] * This troper includes shoutouts to almost every pop culture icon ever in his fanfiction and scripts. He also does this while playing video games. In ''Final Fantasy IX'' he named Steiner- Lightyear after Buzz from ''Toy Story''. ** HAH you too! since day one of seeing production images of that game I have stated constantly "just look at Steiner, he's frigging Buzz Lightyear!" to everyone who would listen * This troper likes to put shout outs and references in pretty much anything created. The current favorite is a city called Bohemia, famous for it's music and rhapsodys. The neighbouring continent is called Iwan Titall. * @/AstraKiseki wrote a story that had plenty of shout outs (some are jokes for the forum the story was posted on), but one was completely unintentional. Two of the possible love interests were named [[{{Firefly}} Summer River, and Tam Glau.]] * This troper's younger brother left a message on their mother's phone once: [[Series/DoctorWho "Mummy?]] [[CreepyChild Mummy?]] [[TheVirus Are you my mummy?]] [[Series/DoctorWho I want my mummy!"]] (And he actually ''did'' want to ask her a question.) The troper herself had to write a short essay on nuclear weapons for her American Government course -- specifically, about who should have the authority to "press the button." In it, she managed to paraphrase [[Series/DoctorWho "a great big threatening button which must never under any circumstances be pressed!"]] rather successfully. * @/{{Malus}} has managed to sneak shout outs to TVTropes itself in an AfterTheEnd world that doesn't even have any computers. Justified by the character having been brought forward in time on accident. * @/{{Magnezone}} is a writer of {{Pokemon}} fanfiction. She is also a fan of this trope, and loves to make use of it whenever she could. So, when one Porygon ('the first man-made Pokemon') was startled into entering a Trainer's Pokedex ('an online encyclopedia!') and the Trainer demanded he get out. (The second time Porygon spoke was a reference to a previous fic, ''Metal Coat''... in it, a man who perfectly fit Porygon's description was turned into a Magneton and back again.) This is what happened. --> '''Rodney''': Why do you need an Electrizer to get out of the Pokedex, Porygon?

--> '''Porygon''': I got sucked in here by the resemblance to a computer. I was startled to be out of the Pokeball. If I can draw myself out and into the Electrizer... I should be able to escape easily. --> '''Rodney''': Can't you use a Magneton (a robotic Pokemon) instead? --> '''Porygon''': Magneton are no ''fun''... They're completely emotionless. And they're always bad guys. Every single time. If they were mortals, they'd be really tall and stoic and their eyes would be all cold and gray and stuff and their hair would be all spiky and blue-gray, and they'd probably do something REALLY REALLY EVIL! * This troper's appropriated "Jackpot" and "Let's rock" as catchphrases. I swear if [[DevilMayCry someone else calls me Dante...]] * @/EddieVanHelsing's very handle is a shoutout to both the band Van Halen and to ''Dracula''. He also has a recipe for "[[FinalFantasy Megaflare Chili]]", and doesn't simply "nuke" food, he casts either Megido, Megidola, or Megidolaon on it. And don't ask him about the novel he's been working on. It groans beneath the weight of the shoutouts. Among other things, one character's favorite band is "Keep Firing Assholes", who released an album called ''Even in the Future Nothing Works''. * @/{{Magus}} created a [=DnD=] pantheon comprised completely of ''Internet memes.'' ** [[EightBitTheater Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to learn more.]] Please elaborate. * This troper probably needs to cut back on the number of shout outs in his story ideas. One example is an entire family named for NamesToKnowInAnime, including an artist named [[HayaoMiyazaki Hayao]], a distant father figure named [[StudioGainax Hideaki]], and an engineer named [[ShirowMasamune Shirow]] (also a WhiteHairedPrettyBoy for bonus points). Others range from StarTrek to {{Firefly}} and often cause entire scenes to be added in for the sole purpose of having the shout out. Case in point: a showdown between two vessels, the latter rogue, named "[[{{Shipping}} Kataang]]" and "[[AvatarTheLastAirbender Zutara]]" respectively. I don't even watch the show and I'm giving it shout outs! * @/{{Ronnie}} has a universe full of this. A secret organization named after [[TheQuestion The Question]]'s secret identity, with agent codenames linked to said character and artists related to it, and a geek character who absolutely ''loves'' referencing comics and etc.He convinces his [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman technorganic]] [[MagicalGirlfriend girlfriend]] of her worth using ''Star Trek'' as analogy, and quoting Hellboy ("In the words of a man with a RedRightHand: 'Screw Destiny.'") to ''[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu an Angel of Death.]]'' * This troper tried to fit as many shout outs to various anime as he could on hisWASL test (one of those icky standardized tests they make you take that suck) for writing a fiction story. It also had vividly described erotic scenes in response to the prompt about a message in a bottle or something. Guess which WASL test was the only one this troper didn't pass with flying colors, instead getting a 0.

* @/SlackerSpice once called our Christmas tree (which we hadn't put up yet) the [[KungFuPanda Invisible Christmas Tree of Destiny]]. * @/AirshipCanon, while playing [[ArmoredCore Armored Core For Answer]] has a series of mechs that are all shout outs to TalesOfSymphonia, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_RYTLF_yR0&fmt=18 Angel]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St-xrzFKLe4&fmt=18 Series]]. Also, his main [[LethalJokeCharacter blading]] next is ACN-STD-026 "Zephiris", a shout out to ScrappedPrincess. * I find ways to reference things I don't even know much about, I even try to put in references in my homework. There's only a few people who get them though, and people who don't understand the reference would probably find the thing very, very, weird. * This troper hasn't seen ''{{Firefly}}'' yet (it's on his To Do list), but if he ever gets the chance to name bits on a fictional world you can bet your life that there'll be a river named the Tam. ** And then there's a ''{{Paranoia}}'' gadget - a sort of glorified Magic 8-Ball - he nicked off the Internet and gave the name "Tactical Assessment Reconnaissance Display Information Spheroid". [[Series/DoctorWho Now look at the acronym...]] * This troper has a story where all the chapter titles are underloved lines from action movies. * This troper throws them around in his programming projects. For instance, in a project he calls "Animal Edit," he named one his variables [[InitialD "ae86Trueno"]]. * This troper is writing a NeonGenesisEvangelion / MazingerZ crossover. So far, he's stated that Koji Kabuto and Shinji Ikari have a classmate named [[KotetsuJeeg Shiiba Hiroshi]], and he introduced three soldiers who dream about getting their own robot which they would pilot together. Their names ? [[GetterRobo Ryoma, Hayato and Benkei]]. * This troper, a big space geek, was doing an RPG where a random NPC accidentally ate truth serum and shouted "My real first name is Virgil!" Later, he came back into the story and lost a bet to be the one demonstrating the serum to FBI agents and went "And my middle name is Ivan!" * When this troper took Spanish 5 last year in her senior year, she had to write a lot of journal entries in Spanish. To get the assignment done, guess what she wrote about? Doctor Who! In fact, she wrote out all of the serial/episode titles in Spanish--which took up several entries! What a way to blow it off and still get credit. * I managed to do an intentional and an unintentional one. Intentional one, in Serebii Forums, I did a shout out to MontyPythonandtheHolyGrail, with Sir. Not appearing in this anime. And my unintentional one was in my Drama Class, we had to do a dream of one of the two 'teachers', and my character got shot, in an intentional shout out to Scarface, and I ran across, died, and then got better just to say, "I'm dead." Which is a shout out to TeamFortress2. * @/AngryScientist's Engineering classroom has [[http://xkcd.com/214/ this xkcd strip]] hanging on the wall with "Engineering 2009" photoshopped over "Wikipedia" and "Mr. ----- Talking" over "Fascinated

Clicking". Sadly, nobody gets the ShoutOut or just fails to notice it. * @/PentiumMMX2 tends to have these slipped into his stories, from just about anything you can imagine (Most of which, as of late, are references to Series/DoctorWho) * Whenever this troper plays Dead Space, he would always shoot the enemies once even when they were dead while shouting "Double Tap!", as a shout out to Zombieland. * This troper sees potential shoutouts everywhere. His History notes on WW2 has General Tomoyuki Yamashita renamed to Tomo[[SuzumiyaHaruhi yuki Nagato]]. [[Fanfic/SuzumiyaHaruhiNoSeitenkan He wants to genderbend all the males]] [[{{K On}} in his friend's band because doing so, and transferring them all into the same school and giving them a love for cake and tea]] would make life cooler. [[BurnNotice He wants a notice delivered to the principal to tell him that someone blacklisted him.]] And most of all, [[{{Xkcd}} he wants to steal a nuclear submarine to get his hat back should anyone steal it.]] * This troper has a tendency of coving bad words with Shout outs. Folr example, One time I was about to shout 'Oh my God' I changed it to 'Mata Nui' as in the bioncle great sprit. * In my gym class today, the soccor team apposing mine named themselves the [[HomestarRunner Blue Lazors.]] * This one never made it to the final cut, but was definitely a fun placeholder: While trying to write an essay on TheGreatGatsby through a psychoanalytic lens, this troper couldn't figure out a good hook. I tried various statements about how the brain worked, and eventually (without thinking about it) put down "The human mind". Immediately, my ''own'' mind went [[{{Psychonauts}} elsewhere]] and it was followed by [[{{Psychonauts}} "600 miles of synaptic fiber, five and a half ounces of cranial fluid, 1500 grams of complex neural matter... a three-pound pile of dreams."]] * [[@/{{notdryad}} I'm]] bad at making up my own names for any game that I play, so I just end up using a name from some other game, book, movie, or tv show. The latest one, and one that makes me smile when I think about it, is my [[PayEvilUntoEvil Death]] [[TheAtoner Knight]] in WorldOfWarcraft; I named her after my favorite poem, [[http://www.palace.net/llama/poetry/ladylaz Lady Lazarus]]. * I make refrences to internet memes and other things, unfourtenetly most people don't get them. * [[{{Tropers/ptitlepgy6ymio}} 0dd1]]: If I can fit a song reference into something (be it anything from a school assignment or paper to general conversation), even if it takes a lonely lifetime, '''I will.''' ''Especially'' if it's a [[TheBeatles Beatles]] reference. Sometimes it's not so [[{{Egregious}} egregious]] to others, though, especially if they don't know the songs I reference. I don't mind--I think they're crazy. * This troper tends to make Shout Outs in anything she writes. At one point, I made a Shout Out to Rurouni Kenshin and Katekyo Hitman Reborn in two different poems. * I once managed to pull one of these off in an RP where one of the characters, named Nevermore, who speaks using PokemonSpeak, said "[[ThePendragonAdventure Nevva]]! Nevermore!" I even made it so that the character said 'nevermore' after Nevva, with an implied 'is'

between them. * Out of boredom, I added to my English essay about friendship [[KingdomHearts "I've become a part of their heart just as they've become a part of mine."]] * This troper makes ridiculous amounts of them. He made a Facebook note titled [[BladeRunner "Does Facebook Dream of Electric Stupidity?"]], just to give but one example. * I do this just about every time I talk to someone. However, as many of my shout outs are to things like QueerAsFolk (which only one of my friends has seen in its entirety), or fanfics that only I have read or music that only I listen to, people around me very seldom realise that what I just said was a shout out. * I once created a female character who's basic creation idea was to stuff as many recognizable items on her as it was possible: she has a [[MetalGear black beret]], a [[FinalFantasyVII Chocobo feather]] attached to it, wears [[SonicAdventure Light Speed Shoes]], wields [[TombRaider two]] [[GunsAkimbo guns]] etc. * This troper has a story that has many, including ones to JohnnyCash, the SCPFoundation, BioShock, and CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator. Another story he wrote has two for FirstEncounterAssaultRecon, for the lulz. * I remember doing this. -->'''Me:''' If you mention that one more time, [[{{Scrubs}} your colon is going to have a brilliant idea]]. * Just one from today, actually (though I probably only think it's funny because I'm a complete and total nerd) and it's literally a shout out, since it was being held across the room. -->Student 1: (heading out the door) [[SuperMarioBros Let's'a go!]] -->[[{{Blazichu}} Student 2]]: ({{Beat}}) [[MarioAndLuigi Okiedokie!]] * this Troper and her friends can carry hours long conversations that actually have coherence using nothing but quotes or references from the Simpsons, Family Guy, and Futurama ** also my bard character in D&D was made of this, occasionally pulling the rest of the party along for the ride, among her greatest hits is mentioning another bard in universe named Lucas who is well known for writing a play about a young peasant fighting a dark paladin, mentioning a half-mercury dragon named Fredrick, and at one point our party had to sneak into an enemy stronghold in disguise, her disguise of choice was a straw hat and blue cloak concealing her face except for the eyes, the rest of the party then adopted a white hooded robe with red trim, a red karate gi, and a red outfit with a fancy red hat with a white feather ** our DM got in on the act once too, in a sea voyage we were on aboard a mystical ship that traveled to alternate dimensions (don't ask) had our characters meeting up with Sonic the Hedgehog, Hamtaro, Final Fantasy 7, and Transformers, versions of themselves * I snuck a couple Creepers from {{Minecraft}} into a history assignment. Why? Because that's how I roll. * [[Tropers/TaiCat This Troper]] likes to use some obscure shout outs to video games and memetic shows that hardly anyone understands but at least it makes her giggle.

* Tropers/{{Mort08}} loves to put the most obscure shout-outs she can think of in her fanfics, just to see if anyone will get them. She's made subtle allusions to TropicThunder, YoungFrankenstein, BlackSwan and even had that iconic line from GoneWithTheWind spoken in ''Latin.'' More recently, she was at a party and got into a friendly back-and-forth with a much younger girl she's friends with. They eventually began attacking each other with imaginary weapons and troper ended the fight by deadpanning, [[{{Film/Thor}} "I've got this hammer only I can lift, and I stuck it on your chest so you can't move."]] * It's only just occurred to [[{{Blazichu}} this troper]] how utterly ''horrible'' she is about this, despite the literal ShoutOut detailed earlier. The epiphany came as I reviewed my [[{{Pokemon}} PC boxes]] in PokemonBlackAndWhite and found, among others, an Emolga named [[RockyAndBullwinkle Rocky]], a Klink named [[RatchetAndClank Klunk]], a Larvesta and Volcarona named, respectively, [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Volvagia]] and [[TheLegendOfZeldaWindWaker Valoo]] and an Elgeyem (complete with {{Telepathy}}) which I'd merrily dubbed [[{{Psychonauts}} Raz]] mere moments beforehand. There are plenty more, like [[TheOffice Dwight the Dwebble]], [[{{Merlin}} Morgana the Frillish]] and, [[{{Psychonauts}} Lili the Gothita]] who, ironically, had been captured and forgotten about long before Raz. ---Go back to [[ShoutOut the future]]. ----

ShowerOfAngst * I take long baths/showers when I need to stop crying. ** Same for this troper. They make her feel better and she takes a shower if she's in a complicated situation or needs to think things over. * Having gone from living with a large family to multiple roommates, this troper finds the shower good place to go for some privacy if she needs to be emotional. * Try taking a shower right where your psycho girlfriend-at-the-time tried to kill herself the night before and not invoke this trope. Edgy failed.

ShowerOfAwkward * Once at a summer camp one of my room mates (a pre-teen) asked me to hand me a towel from the shower. I accidentely caught a glance at him. He didn't know, but it was awkward to ''me''. The image long faded, but... * I was once taking a shower at my aunt's house, when several of my (preteen) cousins paraded in, stood in the bathroom staring at me, then loudly began commenting on my big butt for a couple minutes and laughing as I freaked out. ...Okay, so it wasn't accidental at all, but still incredibly awkward.

---Uh, I was just going back to ShowerOfAwkward. Here's a ModestyTowel. Heh...

ShrinkingViolet * This troper is so annoyingly shy... the best example is a school project I did. I didn't have any friends, so I was paired up with this lazy girl who didn't do any work. I stayed up past midnight for about a week and, because I'm also a bit of a doormat, she wanted to read my work and pass it off as her own. When we finally presented, she ended up reading it anyway because I knew if I said a single word I'd throw up. ** You just should have gone to your teach and have told him/her that you had done everything. Would have distroyed her grade;). * This troper isn't a shrinking violet only when he's with people he knows. But whenever he's with a large crowd or at least a group of 8+ people, he always has his head down and is completely stoic most of the time. * @/RadioactiveZombie needs to stop adding crappy articles: Hoo, boy. His brother has said a total of sixty words to his Sea Cadet unit... and yet, they meet together two times a month, and he only says a total of three words, not including the necessary "yes" or "no" for the officers and [=NCOs=]. And yet, RZ's the ButtMonkey for talking too much. RZ could also count, preferring to hide with his laptop currently (and before, holing up in the library). He's also trying to stop making new friends (in real life, at least), since his attempts in the aforementioned Sea Cadet unit got most of the unit to hate him as a talkative, random idiot, and had another friend turn into a major jerkass. Oh, and the amount of gangbangers that don't like nerds. Prefers working alone, too. ** So, then, [[@/SpiriTsunami we're]] in agreement that the "AlwaysFemale" designation on this trope is a load of bullshit? *** Yes. Also, the only time my brother WILL speak to you in massive amounts is if you're a family member. *** ... You're not one of [[@/{{Bisyss}} This Troper's]] sisters, are you? * Um, um, this.... might be me... but I don't really want to bother any of you so I won't go into much detail about it... *blushes, averts eyes shyly* * [[@/{{LadyNorbert}} This troper]]'s husband. He's extremely intelligent, personable, and articulate...''if'' he's comfortable talking to you. Otherwise he'd just as soon be invisible. It took this troper a long time to figure out how he got this way, coming as he does from an extremely boisterous and talkative family, and she finally decided that he simply never had the chance, growing up, to get a word in edgewise. Troper, for her part, can't get him to shut up, not that she's complaining. ** He wouldn't happen to be a rocket scientist? *** I ''wish''.

** Wow. You married a boy version of ''me''. ** Your husband might be naturally introverted. Introverts tend to be thinkers (i.e. self-aware), comfortable being by themselves, and prefer a small group of people to talk to over a larger group. * This troper has always been very quiet and polite. Until she was fourteen, she always covered her face with her long hair. It both irritated and worried most of her teachers. When she had her hair cut above her ears, she still managed to make herself more-or-less invisible, partly by an air she naturally put out, and partly because she knew tricks: sit in the back, read or write, don't say anything, if anyone talks to you, make yourself as bland as possible, if that doesn't work put the stuff people thought you didn't hear to good use by subtly bringing up topics that make the person uncomfortable, etc... I still haven't outgrown it, but since I plan to be a librarian, I don't think it'll be much of a problem. Of course, I'm mainly basing that on the fact I was a good library aide during my senior year. * [[@/{{Orihime}} This troper]] is in her late 20's, but after much bullying at school and LOTS of social awkwardness, she's still painfully shy and borderline of a doormat since she's THAT scared of people. * [[@/DarkInsanity13 This troper]] used to be the more extreme version of this due to verbal bullying in early elementary school, preferring to be alone and off doing her own thing as she was incredibly shy. Now, she's still shy, but instead of being alone and obviously nervous, she just sits with her friends and only pops into the conversation if she wants to. If there's no one she knows in her class, she'll typically just stay quiet and awkward around other students. ** ...Are you [[@/GwenStacyWannabe my]] clone or something? That sounds very familiar. *** No, no, no, clearly they are [[@/WanderingMoon my]] clone. ...Or I'm theirs...damn my friend and his experiments. ** Sounds like a female version of this troper. ** Hey, what am I doing writing shit in Troper Tales in my sleep? ** [[@/DarkSoulX This male troper]] is like that too, including the bullying, except it was extended up to the end of middle school with some beatings and sexual harassment from the other students added into the mix, and to make things even worse, nobody gave him any help when all of this was happening. NOBODY. *** This sounds awfully familiar. You went to one of those dog-eat-dog high schools, too? ** No, my high school is alright, actually. Still stupid people everywhere, but no one picks on me. It was elementary and middle school that was Hell. Things were out of control, and it was basically the inmates running the asylum. And I just so happened to be one of the sane guys that got locked in with them. Goddamn public schools. * I have no idea why I'm like this, especially when my sister is so outspoken, loud, and easily angered. I'm even distant when I'm hanging around people I call friends. If somebody does something that really pisses me off, I usually stare at something, thinking dark thoughts, but keeping quiet. If nobody talks to me, then I don't talk to them.

And if someone does talk to me, I'm usually uncomfortable and tend to look at my feet. (I also have really long, black hair and have taken to wearing a hat that tends to obscure my eyes.) However, I guess I'm kind of a subversion, since randomly, I start being more outgoing (plus there are people I talk to often at school. Just not a lot of them). One of these random instances involved me eventually saying, "No, begging sounds nothing like barfing! Begging is like...unnnh! Unnnh! And barfing is like, huuuurg, hurrrg!" ** This troper is a weird one of these in which she was and still is sometimes with immediate family generally outspoken, loud, and easily angered, but it got her into so many bad situations that she eventually became one of these. ** Loud, easily-angered sibling? Think I know where this problem lies - you don't want her to go off so you tiptoe around her and became afraid of ''all'' conflict. MeToo. ** Look buddy, I get that all us Tropers probably have this to some degree, but that does ''not'' give you the excuse to plagiarize MY life story! ** Oh, hello there, my long-lost brothers and sisters :O * From my experience (not personal, believe me, I'm the polar opposite of this trope) many self-conscious people are shy and reserved due to insecurities (there is no "cute" attribute as opposed to what's seen in fiction), and way more guys are shrinking violets in real life too. * This troper. But it's not the [[{{Kawaiiko}} cute]], [[{{Dojikko}} endearing]] kind, it's weird and just plain irritating. It doesn't help that her face goes red at the drop of a hat if someone decides to speak to her. ** Oh gosh, same here. I sometimes get poked fun at because my face goes red whenever a member of the opposite gender speaks to me, which causes people to think I ''like'' that person, when the truth of the matter is, I'm just amazed anyone of the opposite gender speaks to me ''at all''. *** Ditto. Summer camp was a living hell thanks to this. It didn't help that the boy on my bus is a perverted lech. I dropped out. * This troper so much that I got voted most shy in my of my high school class, despite having a slow but nasty temper and going off on one of my teachers when we were rehearsing a play my freshmen year. Understandable he was boggled by this. * I don't know if this really counts, but this troper gets mildly nervous if anyone besides his friends or family speak to him. When he does speak to them, he's fairly animated and talkative, but still prefers to stay quiet. More than that, he seems to have some sort of issue with self-deprecation - I just feel like I'm being arrogant if I say anything good about myself - and, much like the troper a few entries up, I'll occasionally feel more sociable at random times. This never really turns out well. You know, I'm just looking back on this and wondering if it's too long and self-centered. TV Tropes, though, makes me feel very comfortable... looking at the Troper Tales sections, I get the feeling that I'm not alone in the various mental issues I might or might not have... that probably didn't make much sense. Whatever. I love you guys, seriously, and also girls, although I'm a bit nervous about declaring any non-neutral feelings about them.

Thanks, tropers. *sniff* ** This one is looking over this entry a few days later, and is surprised that he got that choked up about it. Normally I restrain my emotions more. *** No need to restrain! I love you all, too! ManlyTears time! Brotherly (and sisterly) huggy time! **** Awww! *hugs* ** Hey, are you my genderswapped, better version of me? With a different writing style? I understand the whole feeling-arrogant-ifsaying-anything-good-about-myself thing. I'm just more shy. * [[@/MurkyMuse This troper]] was one through out elementary school but by 8th grade I had developed into an EmotionlessGirl. Then sometime in the middle of 10th grade I began to [[DefrostingIceQueen defrost]]. Now I'm just TheQuietOne. * This troper used to be this. Now, she only wishes she was. It just seems more attractive to her. She is more of a LargeHam now than anything, but fears that it puts people off, and thinks that if she was nice and quiet she'd be more alluring. * [[@/LittleSerge This Troper]] can not seem to talk to ''anybody'' unless they are close friends or family. Not once has he been able to start a conversation without feeling stupid or embarrassed right after. And it's just so hard to start any kind of conversation or other social activity... ** You sure you're not me? * [[@/{{Gobolt}} This troper]] is very much like this when going about on his own. However, if he's got friends relatively nearby, he is suddenly afraid of pretty much nothing. * This troper's ex. Now yes, I understand it's subjective but... this woman who looks like a magazine cover model actually said in total seriousness, "I'm nothing really special". Believe it or not, several guys who overheard her comment looked over their shoulders with "What the fuck...?" expressions. They tried to hide it, but a guy notices other guys staring at his girl. * Most people who know [[@/{{Nexus}} this troper]] ''think'' he is this, but he's really TheQuietOne. Except when it comes to the opposite sex. Then he really does become a ShrinkingViolet. * This troper tends to be this when she is calm and generally happy. Except when during the times when [[{{Tsundere}} certain things tick her off]]... * This troper used to be a very hyperactive and somewhat noisy StrangeGirl until she hit her teens. Then she lost all her self confidence and has been a ShrinkingViolet ever since. It has become more much more extreme since she became [[IllGirl too ill to leave the house much,]] and she now suffers from social anxiety. She has still kept the StrangeGirl side of her personality, which probably doesn't help her with making friends. ** Damn, same here! Except for the illness part. And the self confidence disappeared right after high school. If it wasn't for the internet I'd never communicate with anyone. * This Troper is an odd variation, in collaborative projects or first meetings he is very talkative and outgoing, after that he clams up. * ThisTroper is almost totally incapable of talking to anyone he

doesn't know already. Which creates a sort of vicious cycle, because the only way to get to know people is by talking to them. * [[@/XanderK This troper]]'s best friend/boyfriend, is another male version of this. He's quiet, and when he speaks, it's in an adorable whispery voice. He's also nearly constantly blushing, but that's for [[CovertPervert a]] ''[[CovertPervert different]]'' [[CovertPervert reason, altogether.]] * This troper fits this to a T. She almost had a panic attack when someone from her college class started talking to her. * This troper is a perfect example of this... when around certain people. She's not sure why, but she feels completely uncomfortable talking to anyone in her class at school, and often mumbles, stares at the ground, and says, "Not that my opinion matters." (And did she mention how much she apologizes?) She's the youngest in her family, too. She doesn't really bother to get involved with others' conversations; she's practically an EmotionlessGirl. She freaks out whenever a boy other than her brother or her best male friend talk to her. In all honesty, she doesn't consider herself to be the least bit attractive, and she has an 87% average. And on top of all that? She's frequently bullied. Yet, when she's around her ''real'' friends, strangers that are her age, or her brother, she's silly and loud. She supposes that she is just nervous around people who previously shunned her, or she expects to do so. She wishes that she could be the GenkiGirl that she is around her friends in a school environment, but... ** [[@/{{Evilpenguin556}} This troper]] thinks that description sounds awfully familiar. Do I know you? ** Are you... [[@/{{Dinru}} me]]? * This troper was a school bully who picked on several of these back in the day. She regrets now that she was ever so cruel, but is still irritated by shy people. ** Of course you realize that such cruelty produces these. * This troper used to be really shy at one point in his childhood and had trouble in many social interactions. Sometimes I could barely go through a conversation without either feeling dumb, awkward or manipulated (or worst, all of those). Rough experiences I've gone through have taught me to stand up for myself a little better, though. I may still have moments of slight anxiety, but I'm still more sociable. * Subverted in that everyone ''thinks'' this troper is one, but she's really just an introverted CloudCuckoolander. * [[@/TsundeRay This troper]] becomes a temporary one any time he has an embarrassing moment. * [[@/{{starshine}} This troper]], so so much. She has absolutely no idea how to approach people without seeming crazy stalkerish. She's so shocked if someone actually talks to her that she becomes completely unable to think of anything intelligent to say. She talks at Lorelai Gilmore speed, so much so that she often stumbles over her words as they try to leave her mouth before they've entirely formed. And she gets so ludicrously enthusiastic about people liking the same media as her that she jumps all over the person and wigs them out. So mostly she shuts up.

* [[@/{{Kaizykat}} This Troper]] is like this the majority of the time at school. Amusing enough, she's only like this around her peers. She can talk to the teachers just fine, but she is very awkward around her classmates. * This troper switches between this, and a very vocal jerkass around his friends. He still gets embarrassed over things that happened years ago, and can barely talk to his e-girlfriend when they talk on the phone. * This troper is too shy to really talk to anybody besides his parents and his best friend. He stutters, loses his train of thought, and can't keep eye contact for more than a second or so. It doesn't help that he's not very attractive and lacks interesting, or indeed nonnerdy hobbies. Sometimes he acts like an ExtremeDoormat, and sometimes he acts terse and unnerving. He is, essentially, the ultimate Shrinking Violet, only without the cute. He has pretty much given up on ever getting another friend. Please love me, Internet. ** This troper thinks she may be your DistaffCounterpart, being pretty much the personification of ShrinkingViolet, except minus the [[MoeMoe cute]] factor. * How could [[@/AdamS I]] not love you? You could be my brother! * This troper rarely talks to anyone, except on the Internet. She does try to speak to other occasionally, but due to being thought of as aloof very few people will attept to speak back. It's also rare for her to finish sentences as she stops and rephrases the sentence. (Just did that here, but you can't see it.) ** [[@/Player2isDead This troper]] is your [[SpearCounterpart Spear Counterpart]]. Although I sometimes seem outgoing and extroverted, I'm really shy and very self-critical. *** Oh. You must be [[@/{{Ryumaru}} my]] AlternateUniverse counterpart that somehow entered this one. Hi. * This troper. But she felt much better after reading [[http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch this]]. ** Oh, good. I was going to post that if nobody had. * [[@/TsundeRay This troper]], at family reunions and such, especially when his aunts and uncles are going gaga over him. If none of his (English-fluent) cousins or nieces/nephews -- at least the ones that are old enough for him to easily interact with -- are there, he's usually off in a corner or sitting on a table with his parents, playing on whatever handheld systems he brought with him or listening to music. [[{{Kuudere}} Don't let this side of him fool you.]] * This troper turns into one of these in any setting outside of the classroom (where she has the confidence to show off) that is made up mostly of people she doesn't know/doesn't relate well with. Being a bit of a [[{{CloudCuckooLander}} Cloud Cuckoo Lander]] doesn't help her conversational skills with the average person either. * [[@/{{Pintsize}} This Troper]] suspects he has Social Anxiety Disorder. I can't talk to anyone I don't know really well without having panic attacks, and sometimes even people I ''do'' know. I even have trouble walking down the street without feeling like someone is holding a knife to my throat. Which is why [[{{Hikikomori}}I prefer to stay inside my house where I feel safe]]. * This Troper is a [[{{HumansAreBastards}} misanthropist]], applying

[[{{SturgeonsLaw}} Sturgeon's Law]] to humanity. He doesn't seek out social interaction with any but those who somehow left a strong impression on him. Among situations where he knows no-one, he is reserved and defensive if he has to talk. Subverted in that he has plenty to say to good friends. * This Troper (completely unrelated to the other This Tropers) has an online relationship with a classic Avoidance Personality Disorder girl, although not to the point where it has a massive effect. Despite her having sent me 175 emails now, she still hasn't sent one that didn't begin with "Re:". 'Tis cute though! * More than three people I'm not already used to, and I say nothing. More than five, and I begin practicing my ''you don't exist'' body language. One on one? Yeah, too much talking, I know... * It takes ''a lot'' for [[@/{{Be}} me]] to evolve out of this with new people. A friend's sister apparently could describe me only as "the quiet one" because she couldn't even remember my name. * This troper was the male version. With so much bullying in school combined with one of my own friends betraying me to join the bullies, I got to where I hardly trusted anyone anymore. * Due to extensive paranoia and isolation during her early years ([[MyBelovedSmother My mom]] was pretty much afraid I was going to get kidnapped at very turn AND [[OverprotectiveDad my dad was overprotective]] to boot. The only kids I knew were the three or so neighbors that I had until I was 6, where my world expanded. This troper just naturally assumed that people thought she was annoying and wanted her to shut up. I remained a Shrinking Violet /Bullied Doormat until my Sophomore year of highschool,where I loosened up a bit. Now,I'm more of TheQuietOne at school, albeit this troper is aware many people see her as a {{CloudCuckoolander}}. Oddly enough,despite my change, the Shrinking Violet seems to come out whenever someone slightly attractive of the opposite sex talks to her, complete with stuttering and blushing. ** Aside from the overprotective dad part, you are the opposite gender counterpart of me. Straight up... * This Troper, who just spent five minutes debating whether or not to link to her Contributor Page. New people terrify me, and even talking to friends and people I've known for years leave me second-guessing every word I say. Because of this, I rarely talk or speak up online (so hi, bye, this is the last you'll see of me for a while). Compounding the problem, now people I know IRL think I'm some sort of EmotionlessGirl, TheStoic who HatesBeingTouched. * Oh, don't get [[@/{{Aver}} me]] started on this one. I'm horribly shy and have troubles talking in public and have troubles talking to new people (for example, there's this girl who I see every day in public traffic and I want to talk to her, but I just can't bring up the courage -.- Tips are most welcome). Despite being male, I fit the trope perfectly. ** ItGetsEasier. Start with a subject that's common to everyone and that attracts strong opinions. If you're in school, it'd be that new teacher or your homework. If you're in work, layoffs, payraises, "what's ''in'' that coffee from the vending machine?", etc. Be creative. I'm still working on the 'talking to random strangers' bit.

* I must be an aversion. I have no problem talking to friends, family, strangers, teachers, schoolmates, anyone if they come to chat. I just have no freaking idea how to start a conversation myself! * This troper was painfully shy in elementary, usually following what her friends did and ended up being bullied before she had actual friends. Then she went to a different middle school as them, and was pretty much an outcast. She still can't pinpoint what finally did it, but in early high school she shed her shell and is currently a very happy bubbly girl. Some situations still get to her though, and she resorts to her "silent and invisible" mode. This usually only happens with her parents though, so she's hoping college will snap her out of it. * This troper used to fit this trope, but now he has grown out of his shell. But, he has a hard time sustaining a conversation, and starting one. He also still has a hard time talking to people he doesn't know, which is especially frustrating, as he has a crush who he does not know how to approach. * This Avoidant troper (after all, the disorder in the "Real life" on the main-page part is there for a reason), unsurprisingly. What is surprising to most people is that he's a definite drama kid and loves being on a stage, and if he's comfortable (which is rare in public situations), he enjoys [[LargeHam hamming it up]] even offstage... but still freaks the hell out and shrinks away if anyone outside of a select group of people (most of whom are online friends) tries to talk to him. * This troper is sort of a strange subversion. I used to be a Shrinking Violet, but I emerged from my shell and I'm now pretty outgoing. But for some reason, I'm much more shy over the Internet (but only when dealing with people I know in real life). I'm perfectly okay with making a comment to someone who sits near me that I don't know too terribly well, and if that leads to a conversation, well, fine. But me sending that person a Facebook friend request? Never gonna happen. * This troper used to be this to the extreme in high school, but it wasn't cute or endearing because she responded by being an unintentional {{Jerkass}} to anyone she had to speak to, and then regretting it immediately afterward. Also anytime she tried to talk to anyone, she would usually have her [[HandBehindHead hand behind her head]]. Unlike in fiction, a single kind person or group of friends never stepped forward to socialize her, so she ended up having a disappointing high school experience. She got (mostly) better through sheer willpower just before college, where she could make a fresh start in a new environment, and improved throughout her college experience, but still has trouble with people outside her age group or gender, especially potential employers. She is usually hopeless at making phone calls as well. ** I'm hopeless calling people too. Phones are for emergencies or important stuff; I don't want to bother them... * This Troper, definitely, and he only recently graduated 8th grade (but, tropes can begin at birth, or something like that. He doesn't know.). Among his close friends, for quite a long time, he commonly communicated through notes that he had written. He can, however be a

biiiit of a DeadpanSnarker, which got one of the people he sat with to stop talking to him. Plus, he's very shy around girls, so it's a bit of a wonder how he survived two years of being the only guy at a lunch table (The second year, he had a reason: The girl he liked sat there.). But when he's alone, and he means ALONE alone, like homealone, or even just home with nobody else; he is a CloudCukkooLander to no end. He has run around screaming about peanut butter-stick shift-DeathNote-[[StarWars Death Star]]-Rainbow-death-sticks (covered in space alien pastries). He also gets hyped up when talking to his best friend on the phone (They live in different parts of the US). In a school environment, he has only come out of his shell twice: Once when all five gym classes had dance as a unit, with each group choreographing a dance, his part being a breakdancing solo; The second time was at the Mandatory-Graduation-No-dates-allowed-School-Dance, he basically started breakdancing in a corner of the gym and everybody started going "Go Troper," but his slacks/dress shirt/slash broken dress shoe (don't ask) combo forced him to go back and be a Shrinking Violet again. * This troper is outgoing... when she's alone and in her home. And she's outgoing outside... when she's with her closely-knit square of friends. If guests are over in her home, she'll let her mother talk to them while she shrinks back to the living room with her computer (and will respond to conversation only with "yes" or "no" or "heh" or "mhm"), and if she's alone outside (even if it's in the school she's being going to for ''six years'' with roughly the same people), she'll do what she has to do for the day, not talking to anyone unless it's necessary, and when it's done, she'll shrink back to a corner of the room, not doing anything but watching into empty space and perhaps doodling. She can respond to insults, putting up (well, what she thinks is a) a cool, [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] exterior, but she usually hesitates before response, and they hurt her heart like bricks of fire. Even to this day, she doesn't let her mother or sister read her stories-in-progress or notes, and she feels inexplicably ashamed of anything she's ever done. On a bad day, she'll respond to any insult -- even from trolls in an online game -- with simple silence. And if she's in an entirely new environment with no one she knows... hoo, boy. She was once interning at a restaurant and picked plates away, and let the other intern do all the social bits (yes, she considers "are you done with your food" a social question) while she stood behind, doing her work and never saying a thing. (When the day was over, she just nodded and waved as she leaved.) When she finally said "okay" on the third day in response to her mentor showing her the right way to slice a lemon, he recoiled in shock -- apparently, he had thought she was mute. ** I know what you mean. Pretending you don't care is sometimes best. But then, you run the risk of becoming the mask. If you don't take pride in yourself enough to be bothered about offense to it, what do you take pride in? Depression yay. * This Troper had this through high school, and was regarded (hopefully jokingly) as the most likely one to be a serial killer. He hasn't killed anyone. Yet. * [[@/{{Joerc45}} This troper]] is one in spades. I've been told I can

hold a conversation, but only by people over the Internet! In real life, he is too shy to meet new people, his body language is a mess, and has a hard time speaking up. However, this does not mean that he doesn't like making friends, but this makes it very hard for him to do so. * Her shy demeanor is probably this troper's most dominant personality trait. So she just admits it. For (a recent) example, when told that she was quiet by someone she didn't too know well, yet, she responded "yeah, well, that's because I'm sick..." - which was true - "...and I'm just quiet" *chuckles softly* . By admitting it, she finds she can fare relatively well with people. ** You're a lucky one! ;) You have a 'cuter' variation of shyness. * Like many other examples here, This Troper is quiet and minds her own business unless surrounded by friends and family. She's proclaimed herself "the one that shuts up and does what she's told" when it comes to school, and being alone in public/a crowd of strangers makes her even more quiet. She's incredibly humble about herself, to boot. ** On another note, she's joined the [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses TGWTG]] forums and is following many of the contributors on Twitter, and although she's a giant fan who would love to get to know these people, but she's too shy to talk to any of them. She doesn't post on the forum that much in fear of "bumping" the threads and getting people mad at her. (She's new to forum posting and still doesn't quite get it.) * In my town there's an obviously, painfully shy shop assistant I've seen sometimes working in a kiosk near the middle of my town. The few times I've gone to that kiosk while she's been as a shopkeeper, I've felt like I'm somehow menacing and intimidating despite logically knowing I'm a pleasant almost-average guy. She stares, visibly scared and frightened, at a customer entering like he or she was some violent criminal. Whatever the reason for her shyness, it's unpleasant to walk around looking for snack when you're feeling a stare on your back. * [[@/SnakeByte117 ThisTroper]] is like this this... It's gotten to the point that once when I commented on someone's conversation at school the reply was "You can talk?" There's no real reason for it, except that I'm very socially awkward and prefer the company of animals/videogames to people. A funny thing about it is though that I am not like this on the internet at all. On the internet and when I'm talking to my family and close friends, I'm like a psycho GenkiGirl or something. I had a friend on Halo that I talked to a lot and once when I told him how I acted at school, he didn't believe me. * This Troper overcame the trope with the assistance of alcohol but... it introduced [[TheAlcoholic a whole new slew of problems]]. Boisterous drunk or uncomfortable wallflower, what's preferential? ** I really don't want to get preachy. Turning to booze is one of the worst solutions. Enough said for now. * [[Tropers/Animeking1108 This troper]] has a thing for ShrinkingViolet girls, being one himself. Granted, IGotBetter, but I can still be a bit timid at times. I also act as an unpaid/unlicensed therapist for my fellow ShrinkingViolets. If you want someone to talk to, please hit me up on FaceBook. http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000114434794

* This troper embodied this trope until her junior year of high school. By amassing a loyal crew who didn't mind her quiet tendencies and discovering ThePowerOfFriendship she managed to be more comfortable in social situations. In college now, this troper is still quiet (by general standards) and thoughtful but extremely adept in dealing with others (and even approaching crushes). * This editor showed all the classic signs (painfully shy, glasses wearing, scholastically adept, bullied, friendless nerd) until about her senior year of high school. My usual response to anyone asking a friendly "How are you?" was a painfully honest "Bad." to which their usual response was to toss me in therapy. Eventually I became a StepfordSmiler Type A/B just to get other people to shut up and go away. Fast forward to graduate school, where I still hate small talk, find it hard to make my voice heard in a crowd, and have a persistent inferiority complex, but I now enjoy socializing with various friends (who've told me I fit the "cute" in the trope description as well) and groups of acquaintances who share my interests. Mildly subverted in that I've ''never'' had a hard time talking to strangers in non-social situations, such as discussing a curriculum topic with a professor on the first day of class. I'm sorry to anyone reading this, it was probably a complete waste of your time... ** And, as we know, that was practically an invitation for us to say "No, it wasn't." You knew that. But forgive me if I lash out at you, poor lass. I think I speak for many of us when I say that many a shrinking violet was not born but made that way. Not forged that way but beaten into, or out of, shape, and dumped to cool in the waters of indifference. You have my and our sympathies. ** Our next focus: What's the cure? *** Fast and risky: talk to someone and risk it (results are usually better than you think). Slow and careful: work on the inferiority so that you feel more secure. * Continuing, I am a LargeHam... to my cat, and a few close friends. I am a lot of things to them, everything that I really am, that I am to no-one else. I have five friends. Only two are as damaged as I am. They are also shy. One turned to gaming and eventually drink, the other turned to gaming and the internet. The former is on prozac. The latter should be. I just don't know what to say... I spent so much of my life, all of high school, responding - or not responding at all to insults directed at my accent, my intelligence, my odd mannerisms because of my accent and inferiority complex it was assumed I thought I was better than everyone. Also some scuffles which thankfully all went decisively my way, which I'm almost certain pre-empted other fights, and a few instances of basically sexual assault (abuse is okay when it's male on male - not that I could tell anyone). Because I 'won' those battles, but not the war, and because I eventually figured although staying silent and expressionless was more effective for avoiding abuse even though it was totally against my nature to just let people say and do shit to me, they called me a psycho. I never wished anyone harm. I watched everything I said, I ran over every mistake and gaffe a dozen times, I felt no pride in any accomplishment, only shame for every goal not met. I'm not shy by nature, I was made that way. Look at how many 'I's I've used... it

feels unnatural. Selfish. Indulgent. 'Look at me', it says, 'look at me'. I don't want anyone to look at me unless their gaze is without contempt or egotistical scrutiny. I just want to be loved, by someone not related to me. But I just can't approach a girl and say something that isn't totally mundane or just so overboard I'm somehow able to blurt it out without my usual introspection. Hell, even after spending a year reinforcing my natural reactions instead of stoicism I'm still awkward, and I don't know what to say. Cue [[SayonaraZetsubouSensei 'Dai Tokai ni Zetsubou Shita']]. Don't bother to respond to my melodrama. You have better things to do, like sharing your own experiences with others just as if not more damaged - or just born, or grown, or nurtured that way. * This Troper is a real ShrinkingViolet. Probably not as much as other examples on this page but he is one. When he was in kindergarten, he was so shy that the teacher thought he didn't speak English because he wouldn't talk. He usually doesn't know how to reply to some actions like sudden hugs and gets nervous easily. During elementary school, he was just the quiet kid to everyone else. But he eventually opened up more and more but is still painfully shy around new people and still gets nervous about certain things. Now he isn't much of the quiet, shy kid and is more of outgoing then before. * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} This troper]], while somewhat this now, was a lot more like this as a little girl. I seldom talked to anyone growing up, because I was afraid of being teased ([[{{Kids Are Cruel}} and, unfortunately, these fears were often correct)]]. Because as time went on, more of my classmates were meaner to me, I shied away a lot more [[{{Bookworm}} preferring to bury myself in a book.]] But then, I got involved with the theater program in high school, and that helped me to come out of my shell a lot. Now, though I'm still a bit shy by nature, I'm much more outgoing than I once was. * This troper is 18 and still timid and shy around strangers and some aquaintences, but was a such a Shrinking Violet before her sophmore year in High school, she had so much difficulty trying to ask if she could so much as borrow a pencil from someone. She remembers one time that a guy had jokingly ordered her to get out of her seat and she immediately did, only for him to tell her he was merely joking. She wasn't really bullied much (very little actually, although she had strabismus/ a lazy eye for her left eye when she was younger), nor truly an outcast, but still had a fear of speaking to people outside of her family and close friends. She was always polite and kind,which is probably a mechanism that goes for the shyness. She ws told that she is really attractive but because of her painfully shy disposition,they would become friends but never ask her out. She's usually labeled ''TheQuietOne'' of the group of friends, whom were more outspoken by her and helped her to come out of her shell a little. She hopes that by college, she'll be able to finally break out of her shell, but also hopes she'll never run into people with a [[HairTriggerTemper a nasty temper]] as well as stop [[ApologizesAlot apologizing so much, even for apologizing!]] * This Troper was one until her sophomore year of highschool where she finally showed her hidden 'CloudCuckoolander'' personality, but

occasionally reverts back to her Shrinking Violet ways when she is completely alone as a result of an inferiority-complex and being bullied for . . . Well, she was an easy target and [[TeensAreMonsters her classmates weren't always the nicest people]] She stood up to them near the end of her freshman year though. * Total ShrinkingViolet here, can hardly talk around people I don't know unless I have someone I already know to act as a buffer, my French teacher always says I'm going to kill everyone someday, etc etc. But I'm really here to ask a question: ''Why do guys like the ShrinkingViolet type so much?'' I see a lot of guys, especially nerdy guys, talking about how cute and MoeMoe they think shygirls are. I don't get the appeal -- maybe because I am one myself? Can someone answer this for me? ** I'll take a shot or two. Perhaps they don't understand what real shyness(without the 'cute' attribute) feels like. Perhaps they don't like real life nearly as much as anime and thus enjoy talking about the latter. Or who knows, maybe the appeal is about being able to keep shyness at a managable(read: attractive, fondness-inducing)level or managing to conquer it. There might be other points of view on this one, but I hope this helps you. ** This troper will take another jab at it. Some Nerd's are outgoing, and likeable people. Others themselves are the definition of ShrinkingViolet, and find other shrinking violet's attractive because they may be the few people who they can actually relate to. And for some people, it may be that they think that a shrinking violet is someone to covet and keep to themselves, and believe that if they have a shrinking violet as a girlfrined then they will have someone completely devoted to them, I like to think of this last group as [[JerkAss manipulative assholes]] ** A third. Perhaps the shyness evokes caring or paternal feelings. Somebody you just want to give a hug to. * [[Tropers/KamuiValentine This troper]] is a ShrinkingViolet, and it's been very obvious since entering college. I knew I had issues with meeting people, though that was more to do with being [[PerpetualFrowner intimidating ]] than shyness. I broke down crying 3 times during introductions and twice after trying to pipe up in class. It hasn't gone any better from the rest of the semester and going into this semester to the point where I can't even interact with my friends without having some sort of breakdown. * This trope was the reason I found someone who liked me. To explain, this one girl in my grade had a friend who was a CloudCuckoolander, and another friend who was not exactly normal herself. Everytime this troper saw her, however, the girl never really talked and was nervous. It also didn't help that she dropped the disguise once but then retreated by to it. Using some InsaneTrollLogic, I deduced that she wasn't like this when I wasn't around, and I concluded that she liked me. * This male troper is yet another textbook example. It's not that I don't ''want'' to socialize with other people; in fact, I ''crave'' it. But I can't get over this feeling that no one else wants anything to do with me, and when people ''do'' bother associating with me, it's either out of obligation or pity. It probably didn't help matters

when, while I was in middle/high school, I would try talking to other people, only for them to get up with the most ''disgusted'' look on their faces and walk away. As a result, I've always had the feeling that, to other people, I'm the most repulsive person imaginable, and so I just choose to keep my mouth shut so other people don't have to deal with me. ** If you think that way, it will only make you more miserable. In addition, even if that ''was'' true, wouldn't you like to do something about it? Beliefs are never actually entirely true. They're perceptions backed up by certain evidence to strengthen them. If instead of fading away you want to make yourself matter, little by little, perhaps you'd like to surf the Net for help in social difficulties. There are lots of it and I recommend to be persistent. Merely googling 'how to improve social skills' might get you to a good start(my suggestion, anyway). Hope you're at least the slightest bit better off after reading this. *** Goodness, I think your the male version of me! * Due to excessive bullying from the second to fifth grade, [[{{Troper/shadowpaw13}} I]] am extremely quiet around people I don't know, which my friend finds strange because I usually talk a lot (although very quietly). The only exception is if someone calls me a [[BerserkButton fag or hurts my sister]]. If that happens I instantly lose my quiet disposition and [[BewareTheNiceOnes attack the person.]] * I've been a painfully shy person for quite some time, and I'm incredibly awkward in social situations where I'm not completely comfortable. I've actually suspected that I have I'm an avoidant for some time now, although I know it's stupid to self-diagnose. I'm seeing a therapist to try to work past my social issues and be able to function better in life, although I haven't brought up avoidant personality disorder. I've also considered the possibility that I have Asperger's, but the therapist specifically brought it up in order to dismiss it. In any case, I've started to reach the 'growing out of it' part of the trope. * Somehow I think I can't help but be a natural at this. I don't even ''want'' to be; I just am. I mean, I'm perfectly outgoing, snarky, and witty around people I'm close to but around aquaintances and even distant friends I feel so weird. It's like every comeback, thought, and witty dialogue I possess just goes out of my head and I can't stop it. My voice all the sudden is softer even though I feel like I'm screaming at the person next to me yet no one can hear me. I feel so very out of place so I just end up retreating into books and ipods to make myself feel less alone. Because of this kids at my high school think I have no personality; in gym class one guy called me a "walking vegetable" and it really, ''really'' hurt. Even when two jerkasses walking behind me were talking about "fucking me" or something like that I just couldn't find the voice to snap back at them. At the best I'm known as a quiet, innocent looking girl who will occasionally lash out and at worst I'm a snooty know-it-all who's too arrogant to interact with others. The weird thing is that when I'm around people younger or older than me, I can be perfectly conversational and bubbly; around cast members when I do plays I'm a completely different person. My dad can't see why I act so why around other people that I

should be used to by now so he's constantly pushing me to be more social which makes me feel even lonelier on the inside. I almost feel paranoid that everyone I know at school only interacts with me because I vaguely know them and they wouldn't care if a bridge fell on me... * [[{{Tropers/Joerc45}} Little ol' me]]. ;-_- I have rather good conversation skills, am quite [[{{Bookworm}} knowledgeable,]] a great sense of humor even for the [[DeadBabyComedy dark stuff,]] and I'm an all around [[NiceGuy friendly,]] [[YamatoNadeshiko polite guy.]] You wouldn't know this unless you've bothered to talk to me or have met me on the internet. * [[{{Tropers/Zanreo}} This Troper]] is this when around people she doesn't know in RealLife. When with good friends/her brother, she get more talkative, and can show a [[CovertPervert surprisingly dirty]] [[InnocentInnuendo sense]] [[ThatsWhatSheSaid of]] [[HehHehYouSaidX humor]]. And when with friends and hyper on sugar... she turns into a weird {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who is prone to [[LargeHam hammy]] moments now and then. * This is meeee...except that I hide it fairly well. I can have a pretty animated conversation with close friends, or a slightly less fast-paced conversation with one or two, I'm a nerd in good standing and surrounded by my kind, I'm fairly funny, and I seem to talk an awful lot, but as for...starting a conversation, talking about myself, giving or receiving compliments, expressing feelings or otherwise talking about myself, talking to authority figures or anyone I don't know, generally doing anything that doesn't fall under "speak when spoken to" and its variants...yeah, not this chick. And I hate it. * [[{{Tropers/3rd Police Man}} This Troper]] is extremely shy, especially around girls. A combination of shyness, eccentricity and being a CuteShotaroBoy means I only recently became acquainted with some females (I attend an all-boys school, which I hate). I once met someone who was really nice to me around last SeptemberFreakyFashionMildMind types -but I never saw them again. Now, I am attending youth club, and so far I've been lucky enough to meet some girls who happened to know my friends (I wouldn't have gotten to know them otherwise). They're nice too, but since I'm the quiet person of the group, I never say anything because I don't really know what to say and even if I did, I probably wouldn't say it. At one point, there was this disco all the clubs had organised and I was the only one who wouldn't join in the dancing and mingling (it was my first disco). People haved tried to encourage me, but they don't understand that I'm trying really hard. I even get scared when a girl tries to sit next to me! It's making me uncomfortable just thinking about it!(!) * This troper. I'm very quiet. It's n-n-not that I'm shy. I just don't want to say anything because I fear getting mocked at. One of the many reasons have very few close friends * [[Tropers/TacoNinja I've]] been nicknamed [[AzumangaDaioh Sakaki]] by a close friend for reasons that I will list: Huge, dark-haired, shy, blushes and squees at cute things (plushies and puppies namely), doesn't say much to anyone and everyone thinks I'm a hard-ass (wearing lots of black and almost never smiling doesn't help). I'm also a {{CloudCuckooLander}} and too out of it to realise when someone's trying to speak to me. :S

* This troper, having gone through an entire school career bullied for being mute, quickly learned to be invisible. Coupled with troubles at home, at twenty-three, her formative years have left serious psychological and emotional scars that continue to negatively affect her social life. * This Troper... Is actually not a Shrinking Violet anymore. Yes, so sue me, but i used to be. If i remember, i spent my childhood as a bit of a [[MouthyKid hellraiser]], my teenage years as a classic {{Shrinking Violet}}... But now, i'm simply a {{Stoic}}. Although, for some strange reason, i have aqquired some sort of... [[ConvenientlyCommonKink Attraction]]... To the {{ShrinkingViolet}}. I'm sure i'm not the only one here, and i'm not even sure why i have this borderline fetish. * This tropette is very socially shy due to being a high-functioning [[AspergersSyndrome Aspie]]. I can be pretty [[CloudCuckoolander wild]] when I want to be, and [[HiddenDepths once you get to know me]] I [[{{Dandere}} might even be personable]]. It's in there, you just need to pull it out. * I've been compared to Violet from the Incredibles multiple times. I really like myself and find my thoughts highly entertaining, it's wheather anyone else finds me entertaining that's the problem, I'm a {{CloudCuckooLander}} and socially awkward. Whenever someone speaks to me I panic, feel like an idiot, and on occasion, turn bright red and I am physically unable to start a conversation unless it's absolutely nessecary. I've recently decided making new friends isn't worth all the anxiety, I have one best friend and that's enough for me. I can go an entire week without talking to anyone, including my college roomate. * [[@/{{Kirant}} This troper's]] shrinking violet tenancies is pretty bad among non-friends. If around friends, I'm perfectly fine...but can have problems ordering food or asking for a take-out bag. It's so bad that friends of mine make in a constant joke (for the last 10 years!) that my birthday present will be introducing me to and getting me a girlfriend. ----------------------------------Hwaaa... uhm... [[ShrinkingViolet gw-gwoo b-b...ack to... *blush* ]] <<|TroperTales|>>

ShurFineGuns Mack - In S.T.A.L.K.E.R, there are some spooky, mutant/rebel infested underground steam tunnel underground science lab areas. The first time I went into one, I walked around for a while, killed a few humans, then moved into a generator room, which only had a narrow corrider to move through to the next area. As I went through I heard a scream, then a Bloodsucker, a screaming, tentacled mutant human horror which takes basically a whole clip of rifle ammo to kill properly. It's also invisble and invincible until it's a few feet away. Since I

was playing at 3am with lights off, this scared the crap out of me. It ran towards me, stuck in this corridor, I turn to shoot it with my Ak. It jams after a dozen shots. Pulling out my pistol sidearm, which also jams after 2 shots. I end up stabbing it in the face repeatedly with my knife only just barely surviving the encounter. * The always-jamming guns were, beside the endless walking just to sell stuff, the main reason this troper did never finish the game. It's annoying as hell and is at best a device to make the game artifically harder. [=MattyDienhoff=] - Agreed. Weapon jamming in games is annoying because the main reasons guns jam in real life are poor quality ammunition or poor maintenance, neither of which are the player's fault (what game offers a ''choice'' of ammunition, let alone requires you to maintain weapons?), so incorporating jamming is just introducing a random chance of dying through no fault of your own because your weapon fails in the middle of a fight. That's bad enough, but what makes it all the worse is: # The weapons in STALKER wear out far too quickly. I once found a Beretta 92 in a stash (perfect condition) and used it for only two ingame days before it had degraded to the point that it would jam after every few shots. It must be that caustic Zone air. # You're not given the option to clean or maintain your weapons in any way to prevent them from degrading, and once they have there's no way to repair them. # While ''your'' gun will jam at the most inopportune moments, [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard those of your enemies never do]]. Until you've killed them and taken their weapon, of course, at which point it will start jamming after every few shots. {{DatabaseError}} - Anything made by the Russians. Especially if you're shooting Russian ammunition. My own experiences with a Mosin Nagant M44 are pretty indicative of this. The '44 itself feels like it was just slapped together; the bolt wobbles quite a bit until you lock it in properly, the stock is of incredibly poor quality, and the sights are pretty much worthless. When you use Russian surplus, or even modern, ammo in it, however, the Nagant becomes a nightmare. I once had a jam that required a rubber mallet to clear. That's right, the bolt was stuck closed so tightly that I needed to whomp it with a mallet to get it to open. Which caused the ejector to lose its grip on the round, leaving it in the chamber. The way to clear this was with a cleaning rod and, once again, the mallet. Needless to say, this gun got a '''good''' inspection before being fired again, and I haven't bought that brand of ammunition since. ** That problem is lovingly known in the Mosin community as "Sticky Bolt Syndrome" and it's caused by the enamel from the old rounds cooking off and coating the inside of the chamber. It can be cleaned off with paint thinner. [=Junk Box=] - My brother once bought a semi-auto pistol that kept breaking. An extractor pin snapped off, and replacement parts had to be shipped in from Spain. After the third time this happened, he

traded the gun in for a more reliable (and larger caliber) revolver. {{Tropers/Kadorhal}} - When I first played the original ''{{Fallout}}'', I was given a pistol and some ammo, and I found a different type of ammo on a corpse right next to the entrance to the Vault. When I attempted to fight a mutated rat with said pistol, the very first shot I attempted to make was a critical miss and the entire magazine went off. I loaded the ammo from the corpse, and it worked well. I found it hilarious that bullets left alone for 150 or so years in a cave worked better than ones that were likely well-maintained, if not recently produced, by someone in the Vault. * Also, damn near every airsoft gun I've ever owned is this. The most glaring was a Glock pistol I bought from a store that ''broke in half'' when I pulled the trigger once right after unboxing it. There's also a Desert Eagle, which had its slide break apart after about a month of jamming pretty much every time I tried firing it (in fairness, I was loading low-quality pellets meant for my M4). On the other end are a 1911-style pistol that was in working condition for well over a year after I bought it, and the above-mentioned M4 carbine that's lasted for two and a half at this point. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ShuttingUpNow * I have a problem reading social cues. When I took drama as an Alevel college course, we had 'circle-talks' (not to be confused with circle-...). I tended to get overexcited and talk for five minutes at a time. Eventually the teacher trained me so that she put a hand on me (that is, my shoulder or something), I automatically added 'and I'll be quiet now.' and went totally silent. * This Troper(Jinxed Blackcat) ''so'' very much. It's practically a catchprase for me since whenever I do something particularly silly/ditzy I'll keep rambling trying to explain or cover my tracks and wind up trailing off going "aand I"m shutting up now." * This troper has a number of friends (and includes himself) who sometimes need to do this because they will try to justify something they said and will just keep making it worse. When someone else begins making digging motions or says "six feet, seven feet,..." it's the cue to invoke this trope. * This troper has a tendency to say "And... shutting up now. But really, I meant..." and not shut up. Apparently its quite annoying. * The dorm this male troper lived in as an undergrad played SuperSmashBrothers alot. He would often play Samus, as he usually preferred female characters in fighting games. Someone made a joke about how SamusIsAGirl (not that unusual). Not normally given to bantering, this troper was feeling bold and retorted "At least I'm secure in my masculinity to play as a girl." Except he didn't say "masculinity". Cue laughter, humiliation, and the trope. * This Troper has a habit of saying "Shutting up now", falling silent

for about ten seconds, then starting up a conversation on a different subject. This always happens over dinner, as I don't speak enough at school to even constitute a minority in any argument. * This troper will usually say, "I'm going to stop talking now," when he realizes he's rambling about a subject his listeners do not understand. Also, though more rarely, "I'm gonna go over here..." and walking away is a form of this. * [[Tropers/{{Seiryu}} This troper]] has a [[{{Understatement}} few]] NoSocialSkills and Cloudcuckoolander tendencies, which lead to me doing several versions of this on a damn near daily basis. * A random outburst, involving stuff that other people wouldn't understand or care about, often ends with [[@/{{MiraShio}} me]] quoting the trope. * This troper frequently finds himself ending sentences with variations on this (usually "I'll shut up now", "I'll be quiet now" or "I'll stop now"), or sometimes, more extremely, "I'll go away now". * This happens to me several times a day: -->'''Me:''' *rambling* ...wait, I'm rambling, aren't I? -->'''Other person:''' *nods* Uh-huh. -->'''Me:''' Oh, okay. I'll stop now... So, anyway... *starts talking about something else* ---Hey man, you may not think much of this page but I think it'll be one of the most memorable troper tales pages like TroperTales/BerserkButton or TroperTales/BrotherSisterIncest. Man, that page was hot, I loved the one where they fell into a fish tank full of eels and.... ShuttingUpNow. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

ShutUpKiss * This troper's boyfriend likes to do this to her to erase any thoughts she might have at the current moment. Leaves her like jelly and grinning like a cat. Seems to work on him as well, although its not always needed to get his attention away from a video game. * This troper's friend was once in a big debate with [[HighSchoolHustler a]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold boy]] (as in, the whole cafeteria was watching) and she was going on and on (complete with hand motions and finger pointing), when finally, he just grabbed her and kissed her. When it was over, the girl was completely frozen, and he went on to beat her in the debate, without so much as a blush. His last words were "What? No retort? No scathing comment? Then I win" before walking away. Everyone was quiet for a while before some one said "Okay..." and a few people started clapping. The best part? The debate was about ninjas vs. pirates [[ShownTheirWork complete with references and historical facts]]. ** [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome That is the best real-life shut up kiss ever.]] [[GeekyTurnOn Period.]] ** But you didn't actually say which side won! Ninjas or pirates? ** Sounds like ShutUpKiss [[XMeetsY meets]] ChewbaccaDefense.

* This Troper had to use this to stop his last girlfriend's babbling after their first kiss. * If you don't know the person and you really want her to shut up, offer to take her picture. It works just as well as this trope. * This troper has had this happen on more then one occasion, my girlfriends must think I talk too much. * Gender-flipped for This Troper, who's done it to his girlfriend a couple of times. * [[{{Tropers/Crazael}} This troper]] likes to use this method when his girlfriend starts rambling. * This troper has watched her best friend do it repeatedly to her boyfriend to dissuade him from suggesting a different video game. The ever-savvy boyfriend continued to try and object in order to get more kisses. ** That is one slick sonufabitch, indeed. *** No, he simply knows what he is doing. * Averted, proudly..ish. Just because my GF has her tongue in my mouth doesn't mean I can't still talk. ** Dude my last girlfriend did that too! "I'm just gonna sit here with my tongue in your mouth until you kiss me back." I held out for a minute or so. * Many an ugly argument was successfully curtailed in such a manner. * This troper's boyfriend had just asked her out the previous evening. They'd [[FirstKiss never kissed before]], and the boyfriend had never kissed anyone (in a romantic way) before. Troper said, "If you want to kiss me soon, you can." Boyfriend: "How about now?" Troper: "Now would, um, I guess, yeah, I mean, now is--" * smooch* Troper: "You troped me! Look, I'll show you!" And this troper rushed to her laptop to show boyfriend the relevant entry. ** Real smooth, troper. *** Smooth as a zombie's bottom... >.> *** More than a year later, we're still together and still reading TV Tropes Wiki. "You troped me!" is one of our favourite inside jokes. **** That's adorable! **** {{Real Life}} {{Crowning Moment of heartwarming}}? {{Tropers/Sneebs}} thinks so! * This troper's husband has attempted to do this. He eventually gave up, because troper has the tendency to keep talking as soon as the kiss ends -- not skipping a beat. * [[Tropers/QueenOfTheBifauxnen This Troper's]] girlfriend likes to circumvent her nervous babble this way. ^^ * My girlfriend does this to me, although stopped when I continued talking as she was kissing me. Ith wath difficuwlt, buth her faith wath worth ith. * This troper's fond of doing it to get her boyfriend to stop talking about politics, obscure music, or anything else that leads to him babbling for more than five minutes straight. It usually works pretty well. * This troper's boyfriend likes to tease her about very embarrassing things. This troper herself tends to go off on rambles about either things he doesn't care about. Needless to say, this happens a lot. "Shuddup or I'll kiss you" is practically one word in this troper's

vocabulary. * This Troper's first kiss was one of these. After missing a chance to steal his first kiss from his girlfriend he began to explain how he respected her too do that, how he didn't want to do that if she wasn't ready, how... (she grabs him and plants one on him). His first words afterward were were "Oh". * This troper's ex-girlfriend did this whenever he teased her verbally during sex. Complete with head pull-down. * [[Tropers/AdamS This Troper]] recently started dating (GO ME! WOO!) and has a tendency to be rather "verbose" (Direct quote from GF: "You talk too much.") This trope happens to me on an almost weekly basis. * This troper had it happen once too often, was offended, and [[YourMileageMayVary dumped the guy.]] ** And [[{{Tropers/Webby}} this troper]] says: Go you! * This troper's boyfriend did this once during one of her rambles. * This troper has found the ShutUpKiss the perfect way to end arguments with his girlfriend: effective and painless. Tries not to abuse it, though, lest it stop working. * This troper got a kiss like that from his GF when he started rapping (he had it coming though). As soon as the kiss was over, he resumed and got another one. Upon the third time, she averted the trope by telling him the purpose of her Shut Up Kiss. * Happened to this troper when she was having a loud argument over something stupid with this guy who she always has loud, stupid arguments with. At one point he just shouted "Will you just shut up?" "Make me!" "Fine!" Then he grabbed me and kissed me. When he let go we had about five seconds of standing there awkwardly. Then I beat the crap out of him. ** He liiiiikes you. * The [[ShutUpKiss Shut Up Kiss]] tends to distract this Troper's boyfriend for long enough for him to forget about what he was saying. He then lampshades it by saying something about how I'm "not supposed to do that!". * Me and my BGF: --> Me: I am SO sorry, Jack! --> BGF: Susie, it's o---> Me: NO, it's not, I betrayed you and it was thoughtless, and now you hate me---> BGF: Susie, I could never hate y---> Me: I am a horrible person, I should be exiled for---> BGF: *leans in and kisses me on the lips for about twenty seconds* --> Me: ...What the hell was that? --> BGF: Nothing, I just wanted you to shut up for a second so I could talk! ** ...And NO, we never went out. ** Excuse this troper if he's going into personal business, but what exactly was going on? *** Agh, we got in a fight (not even sure what it was over), and I said a few nasty things I didn't mean. * This troper has attempted to use this on his girlfriend while arguing over whether or not she's pretty (for the record, I take the

"Pro" side of the argument). It worked...the first time. Unfortunately, it didn't stick. * The girlfriend of [[{{Tropers/Mhwal}} this often long-winded troper]] has been known to use this technique on a variety of occasions. It's effective and enjoyable, and certainly preferable to a certain other female friend's method of swift jabs to the stomach. * This troper's boyfriend administered the shut up kiss when she was arguing with him about walking home alone in the rain. Needless to say, he got his way and walked me a mile across town in the rain, then a mile back. * This troper's girlfriend got the mic at a Town Hall meeting back in 08' and forgot why and where we were. She started ripping McCain/Palin along with the R's running here in GA. All the while I see these annoyed men in the back talking about her N word boyfriend stealing her away from them and creeping around to where we were. I snatch the mic and kiss her while someone took the mic from my hand. She realized she screwed up and we made a quick exit. * I've given my girlfriend the Shut Up Kiss multiple times, usually when she goes on rambles about anime, and in one bad case yaoi... She's only ever done it to me once, with full tongue... *Slight nosebleed* That day was awesome... * TOTALLY averted with this Troper. Recently, I became 'friends' with a guy and after a very large amount of stuff happened and we were comfortable kissing each other. He was annoying my friends a bit and one gave me a sign that said 'Shut him up, kiss him' I proceeded to grab his head, head for his mouth....And headbutted him. * [[Tropers/DynamiteXI This troper]] was on the receiving end of one. A female friend and I were watching TV one evening, and I went on for a bit about some silly factoid that had to do with whatever we were watching. Anyway, she grabbed me by the front of the shirt, pulled me over, smooched me passionately, and then let me go. As soon as I was out of the kiss, [[SubvertedTrope I quickly finished my ramble]] (but I shortened it--after all, wasn't that the point?). ---Shut up and [[ShutUpKiss click me]] already! or Y-you can go to [[ShutUpKiss Shut Up Kiss]] with THIS link, but I mean, you don't have to, but if you want you should do it but don't feel like you need to--*[[SelfDemonstratingArticle KISS]]*...*[[LuminescentBlush BLUSH]]* ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SiblingRivalry * This Troper and her brother are having kind of a musical rivalry she's playing guitar, he's playing hurdy-gurdy and we made a bet who's going to be a world-famous rock star first. We're constantly making

fun of each other as This Troper can play some cool melodies and knows the basic chords while being completly ignorant on the theoretic field (not even reading notes) and her brother knows a lot about theory and plays from notes, but does that about once in a month. [[spoiler: We're both joyfully not talented.]] * This troper and her little brother have been squabbling on and off since they were little kids, and she's still occasionally startled to find that the AnnoyingYoungerSibling she used to have armpit-fart contests with is now [[OhNoImOld old enough to drink]]. She still keenly remembers the meanest thing she ever [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial intentionally]] did to him.... the two of them were scheduled to get some sort of shot that day, and this troper went first. While in there, she had an evil brainstorm. Cue exiting the room and telling nervous baby brother that she couldn't feel her arm. The doc had to get six nurses to hold said brother down so that he could be given his shot. This troper is extremely thankful her brother remembers none of this. * This troper's brother seems to work at keeping the animosity alive; which is doubly irritating because we're both grown men who should know better, and he's a ''United States Marine'' on top of that (so much for discipline). His favorite tactic of late seems to be "jokes" where the punchline is "big brother is irritated now", then getting offended when I'm irritated with him for going out of his way to irritate me. * My older brother LOVES barging into my room when I'm not decent, starting a onesided pillow fight, then trying to smother me! Yes, you read that right! SMOTHER. I think he may be part of what made me a Mind Screw Sadist, I can't fight back physically, but mentally/verbally works just fine. * [[Tropers/JusticeReaper I]] have a rather low-key case of this with my brother (he's 4 years older than me). We keep the competition within the video game realm, where our win-lose ratio in StreetFighter and GuiltyGear goes back and forth. Still, because I see him as TheAce, I can't help but feel a little envious at times...and I had an especially bad case of it during my college years. * This troper spent the last week with the creator of this article and his brother. Nothing quite relaxes the mind for spring break than your father and uncle talking all week about the metatroping jokes, trying to out-rival each other.

SiblingSenioritySquabble * This younger (fraternal) twin troper and her sister invoke the 7minute difference not to win fights, but to [[JustifiedTrope justify]] how they both fit into "youngest sibling" and "middle child" roles, respectively. They also use it to point out why they call each other their younger/older sister, especially in foreign languages. * Heavily averted by this (elder) twin. Everyone ''else'' always asks which one is older when they squabble, and she has yet to figure out why. (Age seems to make a lot less difference than size and/or aggression.) ** You must be me.

* This troper had a ''classmate'' who would do it. Even though he was only older than the rest of the class because he was ''held back'' a grade. * I'm a twin. My twin sister was yanked out a minute before I was. "It's only a minute..." * [[{{Tropers/Allronix}} This Troper]] is technically six minutes older. However, since Troper's twin has always been larger and more aggressive, the family joke is that I'm only "older" because the twin "kicked me out."

SiblingYinYang * This troper is quiet and introverted; his brother is noisy and extroverted to a ridiculous extent. * This troper is nonviolent and emotionless (discounting PMS); her sister is violent and emotional. * This troper and his brother look fairly similar (allowing for age difference), but this troper is a brainy techno-geek who is polite in person yet somewhat introverted, while said brother has mild learning disabilities, is a carpenter, can be deliberately rude at times, yet is more of an extrovert. It sometimes astonishes this troper that we grew up in the same household and have similar genetics. This troper's sister is somewhere in between the two extremes of her brothers. ** That pretty much describes this troper and his brother, just replace "carpenter" with "mechanic". He also looks fairly similar to his brother, except this troper is short and extremely pale, while his brother is tall and tanned, * I'm quiet and not usually upset at trivial things unless it's shoved down my throat; my sister can get really upset and can wangst over who got the last piece of cake. * This troper's cousins are fraternal twins: Twin A is tall, broad, ruffly-haired and outgoing; Twin B is small, slight, straight-haired, and introverted; the dissimilarity is so drastic, they don't even look the same ''age''. * This Troper has a 3-person Yin-yang. My sisters are fraternal twins and look nothing alike. One is blond, blue eyes, and in general, Aryan poster girl. The other has brown hair, brown eyes, tanned and looks like the Italian poster girl. They also act completly differently, which causes quite a bit of strife. Me, I look like my Italian sister, and act like my German sister, which makes a nice little balancing act. * This troper is quiet, intelligent, fashion-unconscious, frugal, and rather nerdy, while his brother is loud, shallow, stylish, a spendthrift, and apt to make fun of anything remotely geeky. ** You just described this troper and his brother to the letter. Not even inverted. * This troper is shy, intelligent, prefers books and video games, and physically frail. His sister is outgoing, is always attached to her cell phone or [=IMing=], often struggles in school, and is highly athletic. Yes, that's right; even the genders are different. And yet, we're still so similar... ** Scary how Tropers tend to be so similar... that is the spitting

image of this Troper and ''his'' sister, right down to the gender, including traits from the entry right below. ** This is incredible. You are almost me (prefer books and music to video games) and your sister is almost my sister (she doesn't struggle at school (particularly) and isn't particularly athletic (she prefer talking to all of her friends via MSN. Which is pretty much the whole school...)). Oh, and I've never had an official girlfriend (long story short, a girl who was a friend of my sister asked me out and I accepted. Due to some less-than-subtle nudging from my sister, we started moving way too fast for my liking and I never spoke to said girl again (although, considering my parents were splitting up, I have a good reason). I was about twelve at the time), despite being as straight as a rake, while my sister has had more boyfriends than I can keep track (although she has stopped being like this, last I heard: reputedly, once her boyfriends meet me, it goes downhill. EVEN THOUGH I DON'T DO ANYTHING!). Sometimes, my sister pretends we aren't related due to my being very odd ([[{{cloudcuckoolander}} just because I have no fashion sense, play 40K and can happily talk gibberish (sometimes to myself) for hours doesn't make me mad.]] [[{{berserkbutton}} BUT SAYING I AM WILL!]]). As a side note, everyone seems to know me for some reason I can't fathom myself, yet not many people seems to know my sister, which, considering the above, is very odd: I can barely talk to people on the internet, while she can happily talk to people via just about anything (mind you, I don't ask: going around the school saying to people "do you know my sister" seems a bit random). Thinking about it, even our memories work differently: I can remember things with clarity that happened weeks or months (or, occationally, years) ago, but barely remember conversations that happened an hour ago, while she seems to be the opposite... hell, now I'm wondering whether we are siblings! *** Just remembered one thing both of us have in common: both of us like to ski. Although, considering she hasn't skied for about three years, it could be argued as not counting for much. Still, that is one thing I can put on a list... * This troper's sister is smart, has an excellent memory and is a people person, this troper is a laid-back deadpan snarker and cloudcuckoolander ** This troper's siblings have a 3-person variation: This eldest sibling is the [[{{Keet}} loud]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}} AdultChild with [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny ADHD]]; the [[MiddleChildSyndrome younger sister]] is the sociable DeadpanSnarker who is kinda [[{{Moe}} cute]] with [[JustFriends many male friends]] and a {{Fangirl}} of Youtube personalities; and the [[YoungestChildWins youngest sister]] is a [[TheQuietOne more reserved]] [[TheSmartGirl academically-gifted]] {{Dandere}} and also a YamatoNadeshiko. * This troper is TheSnarkKnight, an InsufferableGenius, and a BrokenBird, with goth tendencies and the standard nerdiness. Her sister, on the other hand, is a dead-average teenage girl: focused on having fun with her friends and shopping, fits the typical profile of the squeeing, hyperactive, yet still emo-tastic {{Otaku}}-doing-itwrong fangirl, is obsessed with cute things, horrendously immature and lacking in perspective, and is merely of somewhat above-average

intelligence. The ''only'' thing about her that breaks from the stereotype is that she likes ElegantGothicLolita. * This troper has a pair of elderly aunts who have lived together their whole lives. One is short, plump, gentle, sweet to a fault, a great cook, loves to play with children, and is named after a flower. The other is tall, skinny, irascible, doesn't cook at all, loves to play solitaire, is named after a ''dragon'', and has a metal plate in her head. * This troper is that smart girl with short hair who sits in the back of the room reading instead of talking, is a decent cook, does not care what clothes she wears, and would rather play video games or read a comic book instead of, say, go to a concert. She is not one of the popular kids, and does not know the names of half of her classmates. Her sister is one of those girls who knows everyone in school, and half of them know who she is. She has a distinct lack of common sense (though she is, admittedly, rather smart), cares more about Myspace and bands and actors than, say, homework, and takes an hour just to choose any outfit in the morning. No one is able to believe that we are sisters, let alone twins. * This troper is shy and introverted, extremely smart, and all skin and bones. His sister is outgoing and friendly, athletic, and usually about a "C" student. And yet, the similarities still seem to outweigh the differences. We have similar tastes in music, ''somewhat'' similar taste in video games (although I'm the bigger gaming expert), and most importantly, we're both really, really lazy. My own grades have been falling, primarily because I'm the living embodiment of the BrilliantButLazy trope. ** So let me get this straight she ios both athletic AND lazy, seems like some contradiction there. *** It's really not that contradictory. The most athletic senior in this troper's former school ([[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment last year was my... last year]]) could only logically be described as lazy. When he wasn't swimming, playing water polo, tennis or basketball or coaching, he was lounging around the house only just managing to keep his heart rate above a flatline. * PotatoBucket (a.k.a. ThisTroper) is short, exuberantly extroverted, easy-going, would rather fiddle with his instruments than anything else. His brother, on the other hand, is over six feet tall, shyer than a Shy Guy, mildly abrasive in his personality, and doesn't play a note, but would rather spend most of his time watching sports or wrestling (which [[PotatoBucket this troper]] finds to be a waste of time). Although we both love video games and musicals. * {{Kingogtheingdaw}} (me) is a somewhat shy and socially awkward kid who is smart and skinny and somewhat toned from lifting weights. His brother is an outgoing, stupid (I'm not even being mean I love the kid but he is so foolish!) and is while not fat sorta chubby. At home the roles are reversed in that I am happy and exuberant while he is a miserable wreck. (Although I'm not ever) * This troper has dark hair, dark eyes, pale skin, and is in seminary. My brother has strawberry-blond hair, blue eyes, tanned skin from being outdoors, and struggled through school. It's as though Death from TheSandman and Sabin from FinalFantasyVI were sister and brother!

Yin and Yang is probably the best description of us. * This troper and her older sister used to look like identical twins (no joke; even our voices were alike to the point where her friends couldn't tell us apart...and sometimes our parents). However, we are exact opposites in personality. This troper is antisocial and responsible while not really pointing things out with a love for anime and fan fiction who couldn't find a single bar in her town even if she tried. Her sister is a sociopath with an insane charisma who thinks that most anime is sinful and who parties as often as she can. In fact, this troper tested their polar opposite nature by deliberately making herself less responsible. In response, her sister picked up the slack, making this troper the irresponsible one and her the responsible one. Next this troper thinks she might try using her amazing ability to lie to set up random situations just to see what will happen with her sister in response. ** That sounds like this troper and his brother; born identical but we grew out of it to the point that we only vaguely look like relatives to people who examine us closely. We've gotten more and more opposite with age. He's buff, I'm wiry, he shaves his head, I'm long-haired, he's strictly butch queer, I'm mostly straight and long past my biphase, he's sort of laconic, mellow and measured, I'm fast-talking, quick-tempered and can change rhythm according to delivery. We also clash very violently, personally and physically, so it's probably fortunate that he loves the West Coast and I love the East Coast. * [[QuantumToast This troper]] is average height at most, dark haired, Welsh by birth and introverted, while both his younger brothers are taller than him, pretty close to blond, English by birth and extroverted. And he was born normally, while the other two were born by C-section. Oh, and if you want an example where my brothers are different from each other as well as me, I've always had an unusually high reading speed (at one point I got into the habit of reading stuff in school two or three times just so I'd take longer - I'd gotten into trouble a few times because the teacher refused to believe I'd finished reading), while my youngest brother is dyslexic. * This troper is short, with lightish brown hair and grey eyes, is nearsighted as hell, a couch potato, likes RPG-style video games, has mostly male friends, and will pick up tomatoes and eat them like apples. Her younger brother is tall with dark brown hair and eyes, has almost perfect vision, is more energetic than is probably healthy, likes FPS games, has mostly female friends, and hates tomatoes with a burning passion. About the only interest they share is shonen anime, and even then their tastes vary. (Oh, the {{Bleach}} vs. {{Naruto}} fights that have been had...YuYuHakusho is the neutral zone.) * Probably the best way to do this is in a list format: ** [[Clendy82 This troper]] is 6'2, about 210 pounds with reddishbrown hair and hazel eyes. I enjoy [=RPG=]s, [[Doorstopper insanely long books]], animes, football, just about any kind of music except country and death metal, and my pet goldfish. I consider myself funny, intelligent, somewhat snarky, and very get-along-able. Very limited cooking skills (if you visit, you're getting sandwiches. If you're lucky, spaghetti) Am also college educated. And single, ladies! ** Troper's younger brother is 6'1 and would be lucky to top 160

pounds. Pure black hair, brown eyes. Enjoys hardcore death metal, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick KISS, Marilyn Mansion, Metallica, Alice in Chains, and Elton John]]. Has very few hobbies aside from music and caring for his pet snake (previously named [[IncrediblyLamePun Monty]] but since rechristened Judge Mathis {I don't know why}). High school dropout, smoker, and recovering drug addict. [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Still single, but consistently getting laid on a regular basis.]] ** Troper's younger sister is around 5'3-ish and very thin; maybe 110120 pounds or so. Reddish-brown hair, though less red than mine, and green eyes. Enjoys just about everything in the young adult category as far as television goes (Dawson's Creek, Gilmore Girls, Charmed, etc.); also reads insanely long books (our favorite conversation whenever she comes over is debating [[TheVampireChronicles Anne Rice]] versus Twilight, which she refuses to admit is not as good). Can cook just about any dish under the sun and has probably [[GenkiGirl never been in a downer mood in her life]]. * This Troper has light-brown hair, blue eyes, short and is stupidly pale, whereas Troper's big brother has dark hair, green eyes and is incredibly tall. The only thing we have in common is personality Deadpan Snarkers, both of us. * This Troper is dark haired, male, a maginificent bastard, antisocial, an extreme reader, writer, guitar player, actor, general renaissance type. Independant, doesn't like sports or exercise in general, eats badly, yet manages to maintain a decent figure. Stuck in the past to a worrying degree. This Troper's sister is dark blonde, female, pets the dog, social, dislikes reading, hates writing, doesn't like acting or generally creetive things, more fond of mathematics, sciences, etc. Dependant on a support network of friends, loves exercise, sports, especially of the team variety, eats healthily, yet struggles to keep weight under control. Lives entirely in the now, and considers last week to be ancient history. Hmm. Oh, and by the way, why are most of the troper entries here focused around anti-social, independant, and introverted? ** [[{{captainobvious}} So your sister is female.]] I think we could have guessed that. ** In reply to... -->''Oh, and by the way, why are most of the troper entries here focused around anti-social, independant, and introverted?'' ** Because [[{{Otaku}} guys]] who [[{{Hikikomori}} spend too much]] [[BasementDweller time online]] tend [[LonersAreFreaks to be introverted]]? And we all know that tropers [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife spend a lot of time here]]. * This troper is a dark-haired, blue-eyed, introverted, quiet, pensive male with (depending upon whom you ask) anywhere from one to three friends. He enjoys classic rock and classical music, and (no offense intended) loathes rap and hip-hop. His favorite authors include {{Tom Clancy}} and {{Michael Crichton}} (R.I.P.). His sister, who is 3 years younger than he, is blonde, brown-eyed, extroverted, and garrulous, and has more friends than this troper can count. She enjoys hip-hop and modern pop music, and reads [[HarryPotter some series of books by J.K. Rowling that seem to be rather popular]]. Not surprisingly, she and I have never gotten along.

** This troper doesn't really understand why any of that other than the Rap/Hip-Hop distinguishes you two. Pop's influence, especially really really modern pop, is quite clearly rooted in classic rock and classical, and Tom Clancy/Chriton/and JKR's later works are all about equally realistic. * [[DesertDragon This editor]] is openly gay, liberal, and agnostic. I'm relatively well-behaved, loathe sports, and I'm a huge techie who works in IT. My clothing style is an unholy mishmash of punk, preppy, hippy, and urban, and my taste in music is all over the map. My older brother is ''very'' straight, socially conservative, semi-devout Christian, works blue-collar jobs between jail stints, and is a rabid Cleveland Cavaliers fan. All of his clothes are 4 sizes too big and he loves current mainstream rap and not much else. He won't go near a computer, but he's very artistic to my neverending jealousy. Physically, I'm tall and skinny while he's 3 inches shorter but much stockier. However, we both wear glasses, share a healthy love for 90's hiphop (though I'm more into experimental rap while he prefers the hardcore variety), and we're equally promiscuous in our respective orientations. * This Troper is an archaeology student with a clear bent towards artsy stubjects like English Literature and History, his younger brother is top of his class at Maths and Science. * This troper is introverted. His brother is extroverted. Troper can't get a girlfriend to save his life. His brother has had several girlfriends. * This troper but with her cousin. I am somewhat average with dark hair/eyes and a loud ditzy/spaz nerd who sucks at math. My cousin is a tall blonde/blue-eyed quiet one who is a smart sporty girl. * This troper and his brother are unalike in a lot of ways. For instance, he curses a lot, I do it only when I deem it necessary. He doesn't get a lot of his work done, I do it as soon as I can. One negative thing of this is that he has a lot of friends, and most of the ones that I make are in another town or state that isn't easily reachable. * My brother is an athletic, boisterous, and kind of a punk. I'm less athletic (though I'm stronger), quieter, and polite. I also don't feel the need to do stupid stuff to impress my friends while he does (he once pulled over to the side of a road, put it in neutral, and began running around with his idiot friends. I was just about to drive off when they got back). * This troper knew a pair of brothers who were complete opposites. One was a pretty intelligent, polite, and nice guy who got pretty good grades and was fun to hang out with, albeit a bit hyper. The other a JerkJock who thought he was the best thing to ever happen to the human race, constantly flunked classes, could make [[{{Touhou}} Cirno]] look like Wilson from ''HomeImprovement'', and the last time this troper heard anything about him, STILL hasn't amounted to diddley-squat to this day. * Although this troper and his brother really do have a lot in common, he's become a hard worker currently employed in finance, while I'm an unemployed-by-choice BasementDweller who spends his time editing TV Tropes. I think I have more fun.

* This Troper and her two siblings are as far different as each other as possible. Her sister is a Tsundere, a DeadpanSnarker, likes to feel sorry for herself and rebel for the sake of rebelling. Her brother is a Keet, a self-proclaimed jackass, whines all the time about TheyChangedItNowItSucks about everything but is a nice guy deep down. She is a CloudCuckooLander GamerGirl who is a dork (she's not smart enough to be a geek or a nerd) who knows a lot about nothing. The only thing they really have in common is that they all are insanely good at trivia (though wars break out over whose better) * This Troper's brother and sister drank, smoked, did drugs, got arrested numerous times, had kids before getting married (not that there's anything wrong with that), and had their bodies age well beyond their years because of the abuse they put themselves through. Meanwhile, This Troper never touched drugs, alcohol, or tobacco, spent hours with nose firmly inserted in a book, joined the military, got married before kids came into the picture, and is in quite good health (a bad wrist notwithstanding). * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} This troper]] and her older brother are definitely this. He was popular in high school, and is now still outgoing and very business-minded and athletic. I was a {{Shrinking Violet}} in high school, and am a pudgy, artsy {{Granola Girl}}. * This troper and her brother are very different. He's small, with pale skin, blue eyes, curly black hair and looks like a girl. This troper is tall, tan, with green eyes, full lips and straight, brownish-blonde hair. He's quiet, sensible, athletic, struggles in school but really try his best and is probably dyslexic. He loves videogames and TV. This troper's a {{Brilliant But Lazy}}, bookwormish, talkative, {{Cloud Cuckoolander}}-y {{Deadpan Snarker}} with ADHD and NLD. * My older sister: highly intelligent, highly athletic, a great cook, excellent fashion sense, is always happy, listens to pop, and has boatloads of friends. This Troper: Also extremely intelligent but in a very disturbing that-kid-will-take-over-the-world-someday way, stickthin, fails at cooking and other domestic chores, dresses like a boy, is very cynical, likes metal and Jrock, and has only one friend. The sister is tall, tan, and has hazel eyes and bronze-colored hair. This troper sits like a cat, is the only one in the family with lime green eyes(everyone says they're brown/hazel, but once they get hit with full sunlight you see their true color), and LooksLikeCesare. Opposites we are. Similar we are not. * This troper and her brother are visibly related - dark hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and tall. However, she's a writer and filmmaker, while he's a software engineer. She's fluently bilingual and almost flunked math and science; he hated English and dropped foreign languages as soon as he could while considering pursuing physics. She's a lefty hippie pinko, he's an arch-capitalist. She loves to travel, when she can afford to; he prefers to live in the same city where he went to high school, graduated university and got his first job. Oddly enough, they do have in common a fondness for cooking. * My sister is popular, intelligent, plays guitar and is a good artist. She can be mean to people and has a bad temper. I am not popular, preferring to stick with my small group of friends, Im not

intelligent at all, although I was as a child, when she was just average, I cant play an instrument as I just cant seem to be able to, I cant do two things at once, and I like drawing but it looks like a child drew it. I am really nice to people, and rarely get angry. She is also very tall and I am short. * I have an older sister an and older brother, born a year apart. The sister a stereotypical "Rebellious teen," totally mainstream, aimed at being the popular cheerleader in high school, and also enjoyed drinking and stealing from our parents. Older brother (her little brother,) is as far from mainstream as you can conceivably get. He likes video games, books, and nerdy science experiments in his spare time. He's also not particularly social, but he's moral to a freaking fault. As the casual observer, it was... interesting... to see this play out. * This troper and his sister are a veritable taijitu. I'm perky and good-natured, with a secret rebellious streak that manifests as getting tattoos and sneaking out at night, while she's [[TheSnarkKnight grim and dreary]] but secretly LawfulGood and respectful of authority. * This troper is BrilliantButLazy (poor study habits didn't impact grades much until college), quite introverted, doesn't know what the hell he wants to do with his life, has no poker face and conveys innocence in public (to the point where friends and family worry that I will get taken advantage of...which has happened), and (at least according to people from Asia) handsome. His brother needed extra help to get through grade school but definitely works hard (he's now at Georgia Tech), quite social (has had two girlfriends thusfar to this troper's zero, though I'm not really looking), knows what he wants and guns for it (even if he changes direction mid-course), knows how to put on the "don't fuck with me" look well when needed, and doesn't get complimented for his looks by Asian standards (which upset this troper when he found out about it from his mother). * This troper and his sister reach ridiculous levels. She's a [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bitch]] while he's NotGoodWithPeople. She's a decent cook while he's a LethalChef. [[RuleOfThree He's a]] DeadpanSnarker while she DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm. [[RunningGag She's]] [[ParentalFavoritism The Favorite]] while he's TheUnfavorite. [[OverlyLongGag She's]] BookDumb while he's BrilliantButLazy. He [[BerserkButton hates]] [[DoubleStandard Double Standards]] while she [[AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale derives pleasure]] [[WouldntHitAGirl from abusing]] them. [[OverlyLongGag The list goes on and on, really.]] * This troper and her brother have this to an extreme level. He's the AnnoyingYoungerSibling, uber-masculine, and very much likes to be around other people, whereas I'm, admittedly, probably equally irritating but in the DeadpanSnarker InsufferableGenius way, tend to be somewhat [[OneOfTheBoys non-gender-conforming]], and much prefer to be on my own. Futhermore, I'm more of a bookworm, while he's extremely athletic. In fact, it even goes all the way to appearance - he's a DarkSkinnedBlonde and I'm a PaleSkinnedBrunette. It may be somewhat justified, however, in that we're both adopted. * I am 18, tiny, pale in coloring, fond of Victorian/medieval fashions

and delicate jewelry, addicted to fantasy, and a soprano. My 12-yearsolder sister is taller than me, very curvy, prone to dressing like a 1940s starlet, obsessed with big and sparkly jewelry, and a mezzosoprano torch singer. Our personalities are completely inverted, though; she's shy around strangers, indecisive, a perfectionist, and has trouble asserting herself while I'm outgoing, snarky, prone to recklessness, and somewhat lazy. The ensuing confusion is compounded by the fact that we are frequently mistaken for twins in spite of the large age gap (she looks very young). * My sister and I have entirely opposite Myers-Briggs types: I'm INTJ, she's ESFP. Good thing we generally have similar ''tastes'', or we'd never get along. * Pretty much this tropette and her sister. I wonder how my parents never lost their minds raising us: ** My sister is eighteen and two inches taller than me, slim, with shoulder length dark brown hair and a tan. She is obsessed with anime, manga, cooking shows, and has a crush on Taylor Lautner. She wears baggy t-shirts and has a lot of male friends. ** I'm 20, short, curvy, and pale with dyed red hair cut into a pixie crop. I spend my free time sewing, reading comic books, playing video games, and has a thing for Robert Pattinson. I mostly wear dresses and keep company with women. * [[Tropers/{{Kankurette}} This troper]] and her brother. He's gentle and patient, I'm HotBlooded and irritable. He's a music snob, I have a weakness for pop music and TV theme tunes and all kind of guilty pleasure type stuff. He loves children, I [[ChildHater don't]]. He likes looking for symbolism in books, whereas I'm more interested in the language itself. He's always been BrilliantButLazy (until recently), I'm ambitious and have a fairly strong work ethic. I'm more argumentative and judgemental than he is. I have AspergersSyndrome and various mental and physical health issues, he doesn't (although he was in hospital a few times as a kid and gets migraines). He always wanted people to play with him as a kid, whereas I've always been a loner. He looks like our mum, I look like our dad. We always get pigeonholed as the artistic one (him) and the academic one (me), which amuses me as he wants to be an academic and I'm a musician too! We do have the same sense of humour, though. * There is a set of three-year old twins at the Church this troper goes to, who's names are Dominic and Gabriel. One has dark hair, is a little smaller in both height and weight, and is somewhat shy and quiet. The other is blond, slightly larger, and much louder and extroverted. It's amazing how completely different the two are. (By the way, Garbiel is the quiet dark-haired one, Dominic is the loud blond one.) * This troper is tall for his age, has blue eyes, introvered, a DeadpanSnarker who can be Genki bodering on Creepy!rei levels, lefthanded, loves anime and is really pale. His sister is shorter than him (even though she's 5 years older), has... not-blue eyes, extroverted, can be serious but is usually good to be with, right handed, loves young adult things and has a tan. Honestly, the only thing we share is brown hair and glasses. * [[Tropers/IronicMouse This Troper]] and his younger brother are

often confused for each other, attend the same engineering school, have similar senses of humor, and are VitriolicBestBuds, but that's about as far as similarities go. He's an athletic, outgoing rocker, and I'm an introverted, nerdy gamer. He thinks most of the stuff I like is crazy, and most of his music gives me a headache. And with regards to our futures, he wants to eventually open his soundequipment business, while I would like get involved in genetic research. * My sister and I avert this, some say we should have been twins. It's strange, because she's going trough the same thing I went trough, and developing the same way I did. Same taste in music, personality(we srash heads at this), drawing passion, anime junkie, so much it's a little scary. ---Go back to SiblingYinYang, and do your best to avoid its AxCrazy sibling CainAndAbel. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SickAndWrong * [[ThoseWackyNazis The Nazis]] * A hentai picture involving a cute little 6 year old girl and ridiculously oversized male gentalia that this tropette saw by accident got this reaction from her. * My Response to the idea of [[{{Firefly}} Rayne]] fics (I'm a Maliver shipper myself). * Yaoi elicits this reaction from this troper. The more she likes a character, the more wrong it seems. *** Oftentimes, some yaoi fans (like this troper) actually just like to read a series with the slash interpretation in mind, simply for the lulz. It's a lot funnier when you pretend 2 male characters are in love with each other. This troper at least, would shudder and give up the series if the author of a certain manga actually made that happen, killing the sweet canon almost-brother relationship they have. On the other hand, this troper likes shipping male characters that have some actual subtext (even without the slash goggles.) For some reason, this troper won't do this to books (unless the character is actually homosexual, because you always can tell what the author meant, since books are unambiguous. If they are, then the writer is doing it on purpose, so you're not doing anything they don't want you to do.). Too much respect for them, probably. Manga is ambiguous, so you can actually fit in a slash interpretation and read it like that. If you do that to a book you're just making up your own tale over an author's genius. ** This troper feels the exact same way. *she stutters at the amount of yaoi there is of her various fandoms* ** Personally thinks you two are sick and wrong, you homophobes, lose the internet! *** Oh [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] YEAH? Well, [[{{A-l-e-x-99}} This Heterosexual Male Troper]] thinks the vast majority of yaoi fans are

ALSO sick and wrong and are [=HETEROphobes=] who ALSO need to lose teh Intarwebz! (see also [[HetIsEw this trope]]) *** A great part of us yaoi fans also don't understand what's up with [[HetIsEw this trope]]. *** Now now there is nothing wrong with homosexuality, heterosexuality, bisexuality or even asexuality (Am I missing one) it's a mater of personal preference and as for yaoi/yuri they are fetishes plain and simple don't like don't look. **** BUT IT'S EVERYWHERE. >8[= ** This troper feels this way, unless the characters in question were gay in canon. She feels the same way about making characters who are gay in canon straight in fanfic. Basically she just dislikes characters paired with someone outside their preferred gender in canon in general, regardless of what that gender is. *** Seconded. Very seconded. This troper ships based on orientation out of respect for canon characters. It is important in this troper's mind for them to act ''in character''. Suddenly getting the hots for a character outside of their orientation (as in a {{fanfic}}) would be explicitly ''out'' of character. This troper has issues with that, being an asexual who has been [[{{shipping}} shipped]] with other people at various times and dislikes how that kind of denial of my lack of sexuality feels. If it's all very ambiguous, then this troper goes with her standard rule: "I'll ship it [[FanPreferredPairing if I like it."]] ** What about if it's not stated, but there is a lot of subtext? (Never stated, but very suspicious situations, and everything pans out as if they were gay in canon) ** This anon tropette dosn't really care about yaoi/slash. Harry/Draco, Joey/Seto, Batman/Robin...whatever floats their boat. She just doesn't read it. However. Holmes/Watson. -twitch- Just...it's the sickest, wrongest thing she's ever read. -gag- Just...no. No no no. ** However I can certainly appreatiate this ^ sentiment, while yaoi is fine, Slash and crack is often pretty sick, Sonic and Cream? eugh! GROSS! ** This tropette is a true yaoi fangirl. Slash goggles, shipping slash, etc. etc. But even then, she agrees, Holmes/Watson is just messed up. You can't perverse Doyle's writing like that. You just can't! It's Sherlock Holmes! Have some respect! [[NoYay And in everything, there are some pairings that you just do not do.]] ** Real-life gay people are absolutely fine, but the thought of pairing together two straight people of the same gender just brings up terrible thoughts. *** I'm with you on that one. One thing though...HOW THE FUCK IS YAOI A FETISH?!?!? Notice the extra exclamation point and question mark for emphasis, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitches.]] *** It's the charm of making homophobics gay. * My response to Brody Jenner's Bromance and Paris Hilton's British Best Freind, it's just taking impressionable people away to be milked as cash cows! EDIT: At the time I had not seen enough of the show to know the 'contestants' were actors, but I still think the producers have some messed-up minds. * Any form of Futanari makes this troper's blood boil.

* Lolicon and its male equivalent, shotacon. This troper will never understand why it is so popular. Seriously, it features underaged children. ** Because it's a legal out for people who find themselves attracted to young children, I believe. * Related to the above: Any pairing with an adult and a child. *shudders* * Um. This probably wasn't on here yet because it goes without saying, but {{Gorn}} and all subtropes. * Believe it or not, for this MALE troper: yuri...you know, I used to like to see [[GirlOnGirlIsHot two girls making out]] [[AllMenArePerverts as much as any other man]], but thanks to a very (very BAD) relationship with some girl I won't mention, now it became the unsexiest thing I could imagine... * From an audio podcast, this troper can stomach many things. Scat? Okay. Gorn? I play with my blood like it's finger paint! Elderly transsexual scat porn? A little grossed out, but still standing. But snot-fetish porn? I almost vomited from the audio alone. * This troper cannot and will not stand scat. * This Troper once had a friend of a friend bring over [[{{VariableGeo}} Variable Geo]], or the VG Neo Movie. Rather than be aroused, this troper was sickened and infuriated, told the friend of friend to get the hell out of his house, and ceased all contact with him. Rape fantasy hentai is not arousing for me, to put it mildly. * Incest of any kind gets this reaction from me, but [[TwinCest twincest]] is particularly disturbing because I'm a twin. ** Same situation here. Clearly none of these people have ever met anyone who's a twin. Or heck, they've probably never met anyone with a sibling in general. ** This troper likes some incest manga/ships the Kagamine Twins of Vocaloid, but knows that if she actually had a sibling it would be extremely disturbing. * Tropers/{{Excel-2011}}. This is one of the few times I ever use profanity in reaction: "[[PrecisionFStrike That's fairly fucked up.]]" When that isn't possible, a [[{{Bowdlerise}} Bowdlerized]] version will do: "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal That's somewhat screwed up.]]" * ANY time I hear the words Fox McCloud and its not followed up by the words "Barrel Roll", I cower in fear, Not because I hate the FurryFandom, but because of a SuperSmashBros fan fic I read once. It has Samus, Pikachu, Kirby, two Luigis and Fox. BileFascination alone kept me reading it, and now I regret it. * This troper cringes at the idea of pairing [[FullmetalAlchemist Alphonse Elric]] with anyone. At all. Ever. Ew.

SickeninglySweethearts * This Troper and his girlfriend is completely guilty of this. Granted she's had a (somewhat) bad relationship history and Im...[[ThisLoserIsYou me]] however we do it because we feel we are trully in love for the first time!! <3 Also her friends actually [[SubvertedTrope remark on how adorable it is, and comment on how we're perfect for each other, etc..]]

* This troper and her girlfriend subvert this pretty hard: Public flirting is generally done in the form of [[StealthPun stealth puns]], PDA only goes as far as looped pinkies and the closer we are to one another, the less likely people are to catch onto the fact that we're with each other. Unless, of course, you see the eerily similar, [[ReadyForLovemaking shared look]] we give one another from time to time... ** Same [[@/{{MiraShio}} here]], except for the last part. But if one would read our messages and chat sessions... * This troper's mom and stepdad are still like this even after almost 9 years of marriage, complete with the baby talk and gooey pet names. * This troper's roommate. To make it even more exasperating, said roommate and her boyfriend don't want to "make (this troper) feel left out", resist efforts to {{LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone}}, and generally make this troper want to install a sprinkler system in the ceiling to set off whenever they start. * This troper and his girlfriend. * This troper's sister and her boyfriend. Just...just...take the gooey fluff where I don't have to watch it or be in earshot... * On certain forums and sites, members won't mention this troper's girlfriend out of extreme fear of [[TastesLikeDiabetes gaining diabetes]]. And may God help you if they are ''both'' on. * My two friends go out. They're ridiculous. I mean, I know they love each other, but they're always randomly staring at each other, or else he just keeps holding onto her, and there's just no one else in the world. Made worse by the fact that they're both funny and awesome people otherwise. It was cute at first, of course, but after a year of them ALWAYS doing this, I always greet this with a sarcastic "D'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw." * [[AcrossTheStars This troper]]'s parents. They've been married for twenty years, and now that they've had to temporarily separate (dad got a new job a state away, brother needed to finish up eighth grade), they still talk on the phone every night. Often more than once. Schmoopily. * [[ThisIsSPARTA SHOOT. ME. PLEASE.]] This Troper's uncle and his fiancee at Thanksgiving? They make out at the dinner table! "You taste like turkey!" "No you do, cranberry lips!" Gag. * One of this troper's friends and her boyfriend. The funny thing is, it's not really so much the nicknames ("hun" is as bad as it gets) but they're just very physically affectionate, always holding hands or hugging. The thing is, they're ''really'' good for each other - she tends to have low self-confidence and he's always there for her with a hug - so I'm never sure whether I should [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming go "awwww"]] or [[TastesLikeDiabetes gag]] when I see them... * This troper had a crush on a guy who was dating someone else. Then she happened to see photos of the two together at Christmas on her Facebook feed. It was so freaking adorable it killed the crush off completely. Then they broke up this summer, naturally. * My best friend used to be like that with his girlfriend. It was probably worse for me that I always really liked his girlfriend, plus the fact that I wasn't getting any myself (at the time.... or now). If

I ever complained about it, it only made them worse. * "Sugar"...hearing/reading someone calling their loved one 'sugar' makes me want to gag, and makes my stomach churn. I swear, the first boyfriend who calls me sugar, I'll probably go berserk at them and say something along the lines of: [[BerserkButton "GODDAMIT I AM NOT SOMETHING YOU PUT IN YOUR TEA, SO STOP CALLING ME SUGAR!"]] I'd be at 'em like a [[DrillSergeantNasty Drill sergeant]]...however, Motherese I wouldn't mind. You know, the nonsense words that mums and others coo at babies? "Ahhh cooshywooshymooshymoodogoo!", but ONLY if teasing. ** I can completely agree on the sugar thing, but may I also add Babe? Seriously, no. Babe. * This troper's parents are ''still'' like this, after twenty-two years of marriage. They were ''nineteen'' and ''twenty-one'', respectively, when they got married. This troper would lock herself in a bathroom and cry for a month if they ever divorced. * This troper has three happy couples in her school and good ''god'' are they sure to remind us about it. During lessons, during lectures, while doing homework, during lunch, everywhere, everytime. ** Scratch that. Four couples. Two of my best friends got together. They are worse than all the others combined. * In Russia after the whole "90's" business PDA is not a big issue anymore. While we don't have sugary pet names or things like that, we're really openly close, up to her sitting in my lap in the public transport, when she feels like it. Now imagine us going into China... * This troper's aunt and uncle. Mostly limited to words though. They're both in their late forties/early fifties and only got married around four years ago. * This troper plans to put this trope into use with her next boyfriend-ironically, of course-specifically to annoy people. I have a store of over-the-top nicknames filed away in my mind for this reason. When I told my father of this plan, he asked what would happen if the boy didn't think it was funny. "If he doesn't think messing with people is fun, like I do," I explained, "then I will know that he is not the one for me." * This troper's best friend with her boyfriend. This troper has taken to staring creepily at them whenever this happens so they know the level of uncomfortableness they put on me. * This troper and his girlfriend, most of the time. Any time they're in a ride queue at a theme park, they'll be embracing, holding hands, kissing, and smiling. With the occasional butt grabs. * this troper and his ex were like this. [[SubvertedTrope That's why it completely threw me for a loop when she slept with another man behind my back.]] And now, I'm just like every other miserable curmudgeon who wants to stab these sort of people in the eyeballs whenever they make googly eyes at each other. * This troper and his current girlfriend are like this all the time. He finds it rather amusing how uncomfortable this makes the onlookers, particularly when around her friends, and isn't at all discouraged by their very vocal protests and signs of disgust. ** It's good to hear you don't respect other humans. ** I'm guessing you aren't too fond of your friends, because they're probably not going to stick around.

* This troper's best friend's older sister and her boyfriend (who is one of this troper's other friend's older brother - it's a small town) are like this. It would be cute if it weren't so terribly annoying. * This troper's guy best friend and his girlfriend are this. It really bugs me to no end. [[GreenEyedMonster Doesn't help when I'm still]] [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend in love with the guy]]. * My (using "this troper" will get too confusing here) two good "friends" only talk about their boyfriends, both of whom I've never met since they both live pretty far away so I don't know if it counts, but all four of them are incredibly uninteresting and fairly unintelligent. It's literally the ''only'' thing the two girls have to say and since I have several classes with them and spend quite a lot of time with them, it gets a little tiring. Especially since it becomes a lecture of how Joe coordinated his tie to match her dress at some dance and what Joe's ugly ex-girlfriend did that was so ridiculous and when they're going bowling next and the adorably funny thing oh-so-talented Joe did (like draw a cartoon horse) last night. Kill me now. Bitter? Nah, I'm (possibly) asexual. * When this troper's little brother went out with his immature younger girlfriend they kissed all the time after every little fucking comment to each other it got so sickening you had to turn up the volume on the tv or your headphones, they also had their stupid little pet names, fortunately she was very rude and disrespectful to everyone else so eventually she was kicked out of our house, he only sees her at her house now and we don't have to suffer through their seemingly endless kissing and stupid little comments to each other. * My friend and her boyfriend would habitually french-kiss/make out at the lunch table. Then said friend would announce 'His tongue was in my mouth, I love that man!', usually right after I'd take a bite of something... ** * barf* * This tropette and her boyfriend, even without using pet names. * This troper and her boyfriend plead guilty as charged. Lots of cuddling and kissing, pet names-"BB", "my boy", "angel", "gorgeous"frequent "I love you"s, constant "You're beautiful." affirmations from the boyfriend, playing with each other's hair, never having serious arguments or fights... Has made this troper's sister and friends roll their eyes on more than one occasion. One friend remarked once, regarding our relationship, "Ugh, they're like the model couple. It's disgusting." * [[CynthiaWakefield This troper]] and her fiancee. Around friends it often takes a slightly sarcastic tone, as though we were deliberately doing it to irritate people. Except that we're ''worse'' when no one else is around. * This Troper's friend has yet to have a boyfriend that settled well with her, but one ex that she was particularly slavish around was named Clifford, generally going by Cliff. She would talk to him on her cell phone around me and use pet names like "Cliffy-Bear" and "Sweetie Boo". She would elbow me when I mimed vomiting. Humorously, now that they've broken up, if I ever want to remind her of a huge mistake (because in the long run, that relationship really was) all I do is smirk and say "Cliffy-Bear?" and she rolls her eyes.

* I call the male object of my affections 'Cheese'...I'm not too sure how I got started with that one. * My best friend's sister and her boyfriend are REPULSIVELY like this. They've been dating for three years almost and they still speak baby talk to eachother and spend most of their time cuddling and calling each other baby names. My brother, who's good friends with both of them, started saying they were faggots (I don't approve of this, obviously, but...) and they've taken to calling each other faggots ''in schmoopy voices''. IE, 'You're the biggest faggot,' 'No, baby, you're a WAY bigger faggot.' Etc. ** [[FlatWhat What.]] ** I Agree, [[FlatWhat What.]] * This Tropette has two Facebook frieds / acquaintances who started dating about a month ago. I'm afraid that I got [[TastesLikeDiabetes the most severe case of diabetes ever]] after forced to read all their honey filled, sugar coated "loveyouloveyouloveyou" texts and see all making out pictures from my wall. I've seriously thought about trying to break up those two so that the pink poison shots of pain and disgust could stop. ** This tropette agree's with you. It [[TastesLikeDiabetes]] When supposedly happy couples with nothing to prove put up make out shots as their profile photo. * This troper had a couple like this back in school, but as far as I am concerned they have true love so it doesn't really bother me. * This troper and her boyfriend are somewhat of a subversion. He'd appreciate being a couple of MakeOutKids in the park, but this troper insists that all displays of affection stronger than HoldingHands or [[YawnAndReach an arm around each other]] take place in private. Her best friend and his girlfriend, however, play this totally straight. This troper is really very happy for the two of them, but she's [[TastesLikeDiabetes concerned about her bloodsugar]]. * This troper and her boyfriend spend a lot of the time cooing over each other in person and online. Seriously we don't go for ONE SINGLE CONVERSATION without commenting how good looking the other is, or a 'I wish you were snuggling with me right now'. I'm really not kidding. * This troper and her girlfriend are a strange version of this, as they're currently in a LongDistanceRelationship, which makes it difficult. And we argue frequently. But the good outweighs the bad and we always talk about the things we'd do if we met up ([[InnocentInnuendo NOT THAT]] like go shopping together)), give each other silly nicknames, call each other cute, etc...if she sees this...[[GratuitousEnglish Ai rabu]] [[GratuitiousJapanese yuu!]] [[SayItWithHearts <3]] ** AI RABU YUU TUU <3 ** Wow, this sounds exactly like us! Minus the Gratuitous Japanese. :) * One of [[Tropers/{{Nemica}} this troper]]'s forum fellow's is like this with his girlfriend/fianc. There's no accurate translation, but they take the nicknames to [[UpToEleven parodying lengths]]. Listening to them is like pouring syrup into your ears. * My parents are an odd case of this. My dad sometimes comes up to my

mom, sweeps her up into a hug, starts going into this trope when my mom shoots him down. When I asked her why, she said it was because he wouldn't enjoy it if she returned the sickeningly sweet talk. However, sometimes they do get into this but it's more of a parody of it when they are both talking like that. * This Troper and her boyfriend are like this very very frequently--we give each other cutesy nicknames, get into the "no you're cuter" arguments, and always gush about how much we love each other. Our friends make fun of us for it, but that's okay with her, because she still loves her baby duck. :3 * This Troper and her girlfriend started out (online) roleplaying two geeky characters in a very cutesy relationship (to the point where people would joke that we managed to even make sexy scenes sweet and adorable)... then eventually realized we liked each other outside of our characters, started dating, and proceeded to act in pretty much exactly as cutesy and sweet in our real relationship.\\ (Although this is pretty much because of her; basically she's [=~Everything's Cuter With Kittens~=] in a person, while I tend to often act like a female version of [[RedVsBlue Church]], and she just has this ridiculous CutenessProximity effect on me.)\\ Also, my mom and dad always acted like this together back before he died. * Seeing any couple makes me uncomfortable; I just can't handle it. * This troper's friends plan on making fun of her and her future boyfriend if we do this just to get revenge on all the other times this troper has made fun of them/gagging gestures at them. * This troper's friend has been doing it for the past month and shows no signs of stopping. Doubles as HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday for ''extra'' fun. * This Tropette's friend and her boyfriend. I've never met him, but she adores him, they have nicknames for each other, he buys her a present at least once a week--and they haven't fought yet. I'm always like, "[[ThisIsReality YOU GUYS CAN'T BE THIS HAPPY!]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext YOU NEED TO HAVE A FIGHT!"]] * This Troper has a pair of these in her class. They're actually not that bad, but they share a locker. And it's next to mine. * This Trooper's friend and her boyfriend are like this. They make comments about pudding on Facebook, and one day during a test when she cried about not being able to finish a portion of it, he held her hand while they both took their tests. * I have this guy on Facebook, and he was alright til he got a girlfriend. Now every status is about how much he loves her, he posts links to love songs that describe his feelings, his profile picture is of them kissing, and they send eachother gifts on facebook of hugs and kisses through various apps. Please shoot me if I ever get a boyfriend and start acting like that. * I've been like this in every relationship, but ''especially'' my current one. Constant e-snuggling ftw! ** We celebrated our first month's anniversary by spamming hearts to eachother over facebook. * An acquaintance of mine once decided to ask out another one of the friends in the same group, and apparently it was successful. Now,

every time I see them together, they are clinging to each other like bloody parasites. * ''[[@/DeathToSquishies Everyone in my god damned high school.]]'' It's impossible to turn a corner without smacking into something that looks like [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot siamese fraternal twins]]. And much like the Facebook examples above, one of my old friends ended up getting into a relationship with a guy ([[RefugeInAudacity who used to bully me in middle school, no less]]) and there's strings upon strings of deliciously diabetic 'honeybun's infecting my News Feed. If I ever get a girlfriend, God strike me with lightning should I not keep my arms off her like some freaky tentacle monster. [[hottip:*:And that's a pretty big '''if'''.]] * Tropers/{{Excel-2011}}. Everyone in this page has my sympathy. My older brother's greatest trespass against me, next to his growing tab on my finances, is his disrespect for my personal time when his mate is around. She will call him at literally any time of the day--even as I struggle to get some rest for an exam the next morning--and when they're in the same room as me, forget it. I'd tell them to {{get a room}}, but it is also my room. It is truly a God's miracle that I have endured this for five years and not gained a criminal record. The worst part is that I'm the least romantic person in my family and everyone in my family has at least once given me flak for not having a girlfriend. Frankly, if what I see my sisters and brothers doing when they're with their mates is part of the deal, I don't think I'm thankful enough that I have ducked those obligations. My best advice to you is to buy earplugs in bulk. Carry at least one pair with you at all times. It won't completely block it out, but it simultaneously advertises your disdain for their act without requiring any effort from you in the unlikely event they look in your direction. If that doesn't happen, only remove them when you encounter someone who needs to talk to you and complain loudly about your plight the first chance you get. * One of my biggest pet peeves is people that do this. I understand that you're in love and it's wonderful, I'm a huge romantic, but I cannot ''stand'' seeing couples that do this, it just makes me feel so uncomfortable and squicky and eeeeurgh! I find it pretty rude too, since so many times have I been talking to someone only to have them ignore me in favour of sucking their SO's face off (another pet peeve of mine is being ignored, if it counts). I find it really hard to hold it in now, to the point where I openly rant about it infront of others, which may come across as a surprise to some of them. * This troper saw this all the time at college. On the one hand it was nice to see couples who enjoyed being together but these guys... good gods, not fun at all. I could feel my kidneys failing anytime we hung out. Not to mention I would get insanely jealous with one couple due to my unrequited crush on the girl and the couple's annoying habit of making out in public in front of me. It's a miracle I haven't needed a kidney transplant yet. * Two of this troper's classmates are straddling the fence between being cute and being this trope. When she called them out for kissing in the hallway and holding up traffic, they looked at each other, horrified, and exclaimed [[LampshadedTrope "We're those people that we

hate!"]] * If this troper ever becomes one half of a SickeninglySweethearts couple, I hope to God someone snaps me out of it. The serious codependence just freaks me out, and I don't need to do a 180 on my personality. The guy I choose would have to be able to deal with my sarcasm and snarkiness, and not want a shmoopy lovey girlfriend. This trope is my kryptonite. ---Going back to SickeninglySweethearts, honey bunny? ----

SideBet * When [[Tropers/RandomSurfer I]] was in a production of ''GuysAndDolls'' playing Nicely Nicely Johnson, the actor who played Benny and I decided to have side bets throughout the play. Whenever something would happen when we were both on stage, a bill or two of stage money would quietly change hands, alternating who won. Benny extended it to the Curtain Call: if I got more applause than he did he'd give me a bill. * This Troper's friends started making bets on when she and her EveryoneCanSeeIt crush would get together. We are now dating, and, strangely, the person in the betting pool who came closest was someone I barely know.

SidetrackedByTheAnalogy * [[Tropers/{{Bergil}} This Troper]] once said in a discussion about English class projects that he could write good material as long as he had a good topic, like how you can't make a tower out of mud. Someone else then claimed that he and his brother once made a pile of mud 8 feet tall(I didn't bother asking why). After I said that that isn't a tower, someone else pointed out that you can make good-sized buildings out of mud bricks. * This Troper was trying to explain to a friend how ethnic identity was part of cultural identity and the words were interchangeable through the analogy of how there are squashes and zucchini is a type of squash. Discussion about different types of squashes ensued. * This Troper was watching TV with a friend and was eating an apple. I innocently remarked that apples were the best fruit in the world. She claimed that the best fruit was strawberries. I responded that strawberries were the sexiest fruit, sure, but apples were the best. We got into a discussion on the different personalities and highschool stereotypes that different fruits fulfill. ** I would be interested in learning these personalities if you remember what conclusions you came to. * Happens to [[Tropers/{{Bookhobbit}} this troper]] ALL. THE. TIME. The main reason is that she's a little LiteralMinded and quite pedantic. * Happened to This Troper after she tried to explain an analogy she came up with during dodgeball out of boredom. --> Me: War is like dodgeball. Except the teams are uneven and the

dodgeballs hurt like hell. --> Mother: Bullets hurt more, you know. * Happened to OOZE, culminating with this. --> OOZE's teacher:When you're around [OOZE], it's best not to make any metaphors, analogies, or comparisons from now on, because he will pick them up and run away with them. --> OOZE:Are you sure it isn't really more like leisurely sneaking away with them? * Happens to me when I try adding to TroperTales. Partially justified as I have only been here a day. * What happened to this tropette when explaining to her friend why she broke up with her ex-boyfriend. -->Me: Gerard (my ex) is like Mike (Newton from the Twilight saga). And I'm like Bella. Mike and Bella never get together in the books. -->My friend: So, does this mean your a needy sociopath who can't make up her mind? * [[KevinKlawitter This troper]] practically elevated this into an art form when writing an essay for his philosophy class. The assignment was to analyze the "people-seed" metaphor in regards to abortion. It asks the hypothetical question that if babies were born through seeds that drifted through the air like pollen and grew by latching onto carpets and upholstry, and you opened a window to air out a muggy room, would it be morally permissible to remove an unwanted baby-plant from your house? As part of my essay, I pointed out that there were other ways to air out a muggy room, such as an air conditioner or a ceiling fan. This greatly amused my professor, who thought I was using those alternatives as metaphors for masturbation or oral sex. I wasn't, of course, but I got an A on the essay anyway, so who cares? ---Return to SidetrackedByTheAnalogy like how rust returns to a tin can. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SidetrackedByTheGoldSaucer * Two words (well, an acronym and a word): TV. Tropes. * The PokAthlon in ''[[{{Pokemon}} Pokmon]] [=HeartGold=]'' and ''[=SoulSilver=]''. [[AndTheFandomRejoiced Oh my gosh.]] This is probably the single most addicting "side competition" I can recall in a Pokmon game, though the Pokmon Contests from ''Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald'' might rival it. And yes, I did bother to get the Omnislash and a few other things from the GoldenSaucer in FinalFantasyVII. Thank God for [[GuideDangIt strategy guides]]! ** Same thing happened to {{DarkSpiritBomb}}, but with Voltorb Flip. * [[SoulSeries Soul Calibur IV's]] character creator, people. This troper has probably spent more time tweaking his characters' gear for maximum coolness than actually playing the game. ** I have the third game and many hours were lost making characters from other games and anime, like [[DotHack Haseo]], [[FinalFantasyX Auron]], [[ShadowHearts Yuri Hyuga]], [[ParasiteEve Aya Brea]],

[[TriGun Vash the Stampede]], and even [[DGrayMan Allen Walker]]. * This troper got completely addicted to the Tin Pin Slammer game in [[TheWorldEndsWithYou The World Ends With You]] despite having nobody to play it with. The CPU can't play, but the minigame sure is fun! * For some reason, planting berries in [[PokemonDiamondAndPearl DPPT]]. I wanted to get 5 berries from one plant, dangit! * This troper once drove his friend ''nuts'' by playing at the fishing hole in [[LegendOfZeldaOoT Ocarina of Time]] for ''four hours''. By hour three he was screaming, "THERE'S OTHER STUFF TO DO!" * [[@/{{Tadaru}} This troper]] loves the monster battle BettingMiniGame where monsters fight each other and you bet on which one will survive in DragonQuest III, IV, and V. * Same troper as above has a {{Meta}} version of this; he probably spends more time [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife adding examples of tropes in video games]] than actually playing them. * In [[{{Pokemon}} Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum]], the Sinnoh Underground. Dear ''lord.'' I don't even use the things I dig up. It's just fun to dig them up. ** You too? ** Should we start a support group? I'm also addicted to the Battle Towers and the Battle Subway's multi line. Forget the other facilities, I just want to fight in those. ** What should we call this group? =D * This troper has logged well over two hundred hours into SonicAdventure 2 Battle, at least half of which was spent in the Chao Gardens. When he first rented the game years ago, he even had a Hero Chao and Dark Chao because he played it so much. * When I played my Nintendo 64 while growing up, there was a different kind of saucer that distracted my from the game's main story, [[BanjoKazooie the Saucer of Peril!]] It was so much fun trying to beat my own score every time that I played I came back to it several times for at least an half an hour before completing the main story. Having the Mini-game feel like you were actually on the ride helped as well. * The battle square in ''Final Fantasy VII''. I completed it with every character...just because I could. :D Also, snowboarding! * This Troper is spending almost all the time he allots to using this website on the WildMassGuessing pages nowadays. * Who here has played ''StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime''? And how many spent god-only-knows hours goofing around Genmity? Runic Chess, just one more game, just ONE MORE GAME! * Many students ignore homework to play on the internet, on video games, and to watch televison etc. * The Poker minigame in TalesOfVesperia can be VERY addicting. It helps that you can use it to obtain endless amounts of money and healing items. * In ''DarkChronicle'' there's two major minigames--Fishing, and Spheda (a funky version of golf). Yeah, I know I'm supposed to be rebuilding the world but...I want to catch that elusive 60 cm Nonky, dammit!

SignatureStyle * [[Tropers/{{mobilei}} This troper]] has noticed a couple of things she likes to put into her writing a lot: beautiful gardens, snarky characters, characters with long hair, Chinese culture/people, and a ton of romance. She also likes writing semi-snarky prose. * If Im writing something outside of school, expect it to be a superhero story with lots of different characters who are unintentionally all white, tons of politics, and Deconstruction. If a Fantasy story, get ready for a giant war involving gods and bards. * My friend has a very distinctive style. He uses LeftFieldDescription a lot, and he really likes strange sentence structures, overly complicated exposition and [[{{Metaphorgotten}} metaphors]] that [[{{Narm}} no one else understands]]. He also makes sure to drop a F bomb in almost every sentence, and he is convinced that 'unnecessariety' is a [[YouKeepUsingThatWord word]]. * [[Tropers/{{Cameoflage}} This troper's]] most obvious one is selfparodying narration, which can pop up in pretty much any scene where it wouldn't utterly ruin the mood; the most recent examples (both from PlayByPostGames, but different ones) were following a character's grumpy sarcasm with "See Daniel! See Daniel snark!", and "Italics = SeriousBusiness" when she italicised two separate words in the same sentence to demonstrate that another character was extremely pissed off. Of course, this might not work as well when removed from the piecemeal, fairly informal format of those [=RPs=]. * [[Tropers/SapphireFlame This troper]] has trouble with description, so whenever he [=RPs=] he tends to have lots and lots of dialogue. However, he's found just the right formula of RedOniBlueOni to keep the dialogue interesting. * This troper abuses SesquipedalianLoquaciousness. As well as slightly [[HollywoodHomely unsexy]] females with large chests who are otherwise not sexual at all. * Stories written by this troper seem to feature very small main casts whose characterizations are deconstructions of common preexisting character archetypes, science fiction merged into a normally unrelated genre and varying amounts of cosmic horror. * This troper writes either nigh-on-overly poetical prose (when angsting or romantic-ing) or plays around with FootnoteFever, but includes parentheses as well if it's humour. Must be the Pratchett influence. * This troper once had a creative writing class, where everyone would read another person's story and the class would try to figure out who wrote it. This troper's story, after being read, prompted an immediate response from an English major. How did he know? "Short sentences." * This Troper won't go anywhere unless she's wearing hoop earrings. * [[Tropers/{{Mikado}} This troper]] has some notable traits that show up in his alternate histories. They are weaker Britains, larger American empires, changing the number of world wars, steampunk, cyberpunk(sometimes both in the same TL), divided Canadas, different political party configurations, American-ruled Mexico and chavs existing as a subculture across the pond. * [[Tropers/{{chitoryu12}} This troper]] often deconstructs concepts to show his disdain for them or for the purposes of humor, such as

describing NASCAR as "A bunch of metal boxes on wheels rolling in circles for an hour". * [[Tropers/{{Dukia}} This troper]] really, really sucks at writing dialogue, but is excellent at the written equivalent of SceneryPorn (as well as furniture porn and CostumePorn), so her writings often contain little of the former and a lot of the latter. She also often has a character's InnerMonologue written in italics while their actions are described in the third person (she swears she picked this up from manga), making unspoken {{Character Filibuster}}s rather common. ** Wow. I have almost the exact same tendencies (especially the dialogue versus description thing), although I try to rein them in when they're not to the story's advantage. One time, though, I decided to just go nuts and write a "style" piece - check it out: http://www.teenink.com/raw/Fiction/article/101223/Offering/ . I did a few other things as well, like playing around with present tense and the effect created by said-bookisms, but, in just over a page of material, I also came very close to doing every one of the things you mentioned. I particularly love the italicized-first-person-thoughtsin-a-third-person-story device, but I've never read manga; I just think it's useful. * Granted, [[Tropers/{{randomfanboy}} I]] haven't written much, but what I have written tends to have two HeterosexualLifePartners who regularly engage in {{Seinfeldian Conversation}}s. They will be {{foil}}s in every way (e.g. one will be quiet, the other loud; one will be cynical, the other idealistic), except both will have a touch of the philosopher about them. I enjoy exploring the themes of {{Shadow Archetype}}s and {{foil}}s, to be honest. * [[Tropers/EtherealFrog This Troper]] has an annoying tendency to make every single character he roleplays either TheQuietOne or a CloudCuckooLander, and always a DeadpanSnarker. I also find it easy to tell how much of what I was writing I had figured out at the time by how many errors there are. If I know exactly what I'm typing out I look at the keyboard only and end up with many more errors than when I don't know everything I'm about type/write, in which case I pay attention to the monitor and refuse to let any error go uncorrected. * This troper talks ''exactly'' like Chuck Klosterman, except with references to scifi instead of music. She also is pathologically incapable of writing a story without a character named "Lex" (of varying gender). * This troper, when writing fiction for English class, always fails to keep to the idea i'm supposed to be writing about, usually only vaguely having something to to with it, and often with a humorous twist to it. Like in one exam, I was asked to write a story legitimately called "The Magician". I ended up writing about a stage magician finally getting hsi big break. It even had a SequelHook ! * This troper tends to focus on a characters hair. The style doesn't matter, but characters can be identified by it (two nameless characters thus far are The Bald Haired Man and The Man With The Silver Hair.) and is vague on racial identity, tending to describe features but never out right say a person is black or white. He also prefers dialog to description, and has on some points written full

pages of nothing but rapid fire exchange. He also usually never ships his leading lady and leading man, having more of a strong friendship than an actual romantic interest. * [[Tropers/AgentAlpha This troper's]] stories tend to feature a protagonist who's relatively normal, yet finds himself surrounded by allies and adversaries with either advanced combat skills or outright superpowers. Nearly all major characters will be [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snarkers]] of some fashion (either consistently or getting one or two such lines), while the villains tend to be charismatic and devious individuals, ranging from sympathetic to sociopathic (i.e., untouched by the suffering of others) to psychopathic (i.e., delighting in the aforementioned suffering). Dark and gritty urban environments (like something out of Gotham City) will more likely than not also appear. * This troper likes to make Deconstruction-ish, BlackAndGrayMorality works with at least some supernatural elements, often PsychicPowers. Also, there tend to be a lot of {{Badass Longcoat}}s around. Also, I enjoy writing a mostly serious story with a snarky and overlyobservant LemonyNarrator to relieve tension. * This troper tends towards absurdity, sarcasm, jabs at AcceptableTargets, incoherent nonsense, and acute paranoia. Sometimes all in the same sentence. * This troper's writing tends to vary between Tom Clancy-style blocks of informational text and slightly fourth wall-breaking running commentary. And expect plenty of description. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579866/1/The_Battle_of_New_Mombasa See here.]] * This troper writes rather realistic dialogue, but isn't so good with descriptions, which usually just end up as a bunch of short sentences. She also tends to write the main protagonist of her stories as a snarky, yet ultimately good young man. [[AuthorAppeal With lots of muscles.]] * This troper seems to have this badly with essays. They tend to be snarky, cynical and in some cases almost satirical looks at the subject in question that are inevitably mocking of the fact that the topic even needs to be discussed. Basically, my essays sound like they're narrated by a condescending little JerkAss. * This troper loves him some pathos. From a directing stint that made Neil Simon depressing, to a written play about a murder caused by a tragic combination of simple misunderstanding, forgetfulness and madness. * An acquaintance of mine makes very distinctive films, which are usually DeliberatelyMonochrome, have very little dialogue, bombastic music (you could say the music itself is a LargeHam), exaggerated and highly physical acting, and surreal endings. He's influenced heavily by early silent films, and it definitely shows. * Tropers/{{HSZMV}} tends to write descriptions in the first person internal monologue, with dialog set in third person roving camera. That being said, normally things, people and places will be described in third person, while emotions, if mentioned at all, will be given in the monolog exclusively. He also tends to stick love interests as secondary characters, while decently fleshed out women tend to be just

a friend with the male hero. He also tends to be very descriptive of action, going as far as to describe BulletTime. * [[Tropers/{{Valbinooo}} I]] tend to kill off my protagonists at the end. So far, at least four of my stories will culminate in this. Another trend in my style is sort of this...ehm...BeigeProse with the occasional accent, such as using something found in poetry to describe how a character appears or what many describe as idiosyncratic. I guess. My protagonists are always sort of like me, cause, well, I [[{{Write what you know}} write what I know]]. I also tend to start the story in the middle of the action and then fill in what's going on as a way of immersing the reader in the world of it. These all apply to both my fanfics and original stuff. My style also shifts between a more "stream-of-consciousness" style and a more staccato, "choppy" style, depending on the mood. ** Of course, when writing, [[Tropers/{{Valbinooo}} I]] tend to visualize certain color filters, like in a film, over the scene. Sort of like mood-setting. But in my head. Okay. ShuttingUpNow. * This troper never writes a loud question with ?!, but with !?. Although it might just be a grammatical error, he just likes the visual effect of that particular order. ** I do that as well, although if it's an error [[GrammarNazi I might have to stop doing it.]] * This troper [[AllBlueEntry fills his entries with links when he wants to illustrate a simple statement in a few words,]] [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma adds commas all over the place]], and writes like he's talking to someone, including deliberately misspelling words to show intonation. He also litters his work with {{Action Girl}}s, references to ClassicalMythology, RousseauWasRight, science not being bad, AffablyEvil or NobleDemon characters, and people wearing suits or coats. One concept work of his features an ActionGirl with ties to ClassicalMythology teaming up with a ([[HeelFaceTurn formerly]]) AffablyEvil thief in a suit and a ScienceHero in a BadassLabcoat. He also sprinkles things with references and {{Take That}}s. Dear FSM, does he love recursion. He also has absolutely no idea when to stop typing. Whenever he comments, you can probably pick out his as the ones that go off on tangents and have paragraphs that don't even seem to be related to whatever he comments on, since he tends to get into the discussion. Even when he tries to avoid WallsOfText. That or they're just one-sentence statements. They're either less than four or [[SelfDemonstratingArticle more than ten]], no middle ground. OhCrap. * I tend to keep emotion low in my stories (thanks to simplistic language), but the stories are usually constructed with a absent minded viewpoint (so, constant character switching, providing a large level of description for somethings and little for others, crafting characters with a detailed description of them ([[SelfInsertFic usually described similar to how I look]]) and a fairly complex plot that often comes my worst [[NightmareFuel nightmares]]. Popular culture references are few and far between). * This troper in her songs will mention the song title before the chorus. As a songwriter I've gone through quite a few signature styles over the years (Ever since 07)

* Everything I write is about kids in junior high. Usually a FiveManBand. Here's [[UnFortunateMe my latest work's]] FiveManBand: ** TheHero: Adele. TheHeart, and also the OnlySaneMan. Except for when she's not. ** TheLancer: Delilah, Adele's OneOfTheBoys best friend. Resident DeadpanSnarker, and considers her favorite game, Mother 3, to be SeriousBusiness. ** TheSmartGuy: Patrick and Brooke share this. Patrick is the OnlySaneMan if Adele isn't. Always says ShesNotMyGirlfriend about Adele. Brooke is a GranolaGirl, and the TeamMom. She's often the mediator between Aurora and Delilah. She's also a ShipperOnDeck for Patrick and Adele ** TheBigGuy: Alec, Delilah's LoveInterest and two years older than the others. Actually quite intelligent, and is a bit of a [[BadassBookworm BadassVideoGameNerd]]. ** TheChick: Aurora, the resident girlie-girl. DeadpanSnarker, especially where Delilah is concerned. * [[@/{{Pastylover2}} This troper]] has a thing for [[ActionGirl Action Girls]] and [[HotAmazon Hot Amazons]]. One of his female characters will always have SuperStrength, one of his characters will be a CloudCuckoolander. TimeTravel will be usually involved. One character will be a DeadpanSnarker and all vampires are female and are [[OurVampiresAreDifferent totally different to the norm]]. Expect sci fi references, werewolves and humour, no matter how dark the story is. Also, insane EvillyAffable villains and GenreSavvy heroes. He tries to avoid the word said and sometimes uses HypocriticalHumor and BuffySpeak. If it is a dark story, there will ''always'' be a male PluckyComicRelief. Now that he realizes it, many of his female leads are {{Tsunderes}} too. * In this troper's writing, the male lead is a geeky smartass, the female lead is ''always'' a short, gothy ActionGirl wielding some kind of blunt weapon (they will often be PlatonicLifePartners), and the BigBad is a CosmicHorror. His artwork on the other hand, is extremely geometric, and features a lot of killer robots, horrifying abominations, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking people in baggy jeans.]] Exaggerated poses and facial expressions are also common. * When this troper writes, he has a tendency to use parenthetical notaion. Also, I like the word data, and the idea that knowledge is power (sci-fi that is computer based and academic magic both make it so whoever has the best info is the strongest). * This troper's works are most often set in an UrbanFantasy AlternateUniverse with a bit of CyberPunk mixed in and at least one time-travel plot. There is nearly always a cynical, snarky and stubborn girl and a nerdy guy who's rather jumpy and eccentric, and often a calm and level-headed guy who barely shows emotion. She's fond of naming people after things and uses [[{{Understatement}} a lot of]] [[JossWhedon Whedon-style]] dialogue. * In my fanfiction, [[{{Buttmonkey}} there must always be at least two characters getting tortured,]] [[AuthorAvatar a girl who shows up either to stir up trouble]] or [[TheJester provides comic relief]], and [[HilarityEnsues it will always have comedy.]] [[PungeonMaster Cause I can never resist a joke.]]

** My actual writing is ALWAYS some form of fantasy. And there WILL be a [[CuteShotaroBoy little boy]] [[{{Nakama}} who sees the rest of the cast as siblings]] and is [[SecretlyWealthy actually royalty without telling the others.]] * This troper's writing almost always includes fantasy or sci-fi elements. The main character is almost always a kind and thoughtful teenager with at least one parent dead, and will have a [[{{Genki Girl}} very energetic younger sister figure]] [[{{Not Blood Siblings}} who is not really their sister]]. The main character will also tend to be {{Genre Savvy}} (or {{Wrong Genre Savvy}}), with a lot of {{Lampshade Hanging}} either way. Their best friend is always a brash, energetic, somewhat {{Book Dumb}} kid with a strong sense of justice and a connection to law enforcement or the military, and will get along with the main character's sister. {{Meaningful Names}} and references to modern pop culture abound. * My style tends to change based on what I'm writing (fanfic, original fic, essays, and even within those the style does change a little). I'm doing AvatarTheLastAirbender fanfic right now, and I've used the phrase "You smell like a Ba Sing Se whorehouse" in three different stories (each time referencing the perfume-fu in "Bato of the Water Tribe"). * [[Tropers/{{Ranchoth}} I]] horribly abuse ellipses and em-dashes, '''never''' write fiction in the first-person, aside from dialogue, and have a tone that ranges from "playfully dry" all the way to "grim and sardonic." I also tend to favor using female characters for no special reason, and using throwaway crossover gags. This once got to the point where I ended up writing a fanfic scene where the ''entire'' assembled cast was made up of nerdy, glasses wearing women from three entirely unrelated cartoons...and I ''didn't even realize I'd done it'' until I was ''writing the author's notes.'' * This troper recently decided to combine characters from his stories that all had similiar personalities. So far he has four ButtMonkey CloudCuckoolander's, two NaiveEveryGirl StepfordSmiler StalkerWithACrush's, three {{Tomboy}}{{Tsundere}}'s, and three {{Jerkass}} TedBaxter's. Also, all of his characters will be in high school, and part of a large, complicated LoveDodecahedron. * This troper has found that most- or all- of his serious story ideas involve a {{CityInABottle}}, everything and [[{{DeadLittleSister}} almost everyone]] the [[{{VillainProtagonist}} protagonist]] [[{{LoveMakesYouEvil}} cares]] about [[{{StuffBlowingUp}} vanishing]] [[{{RoaringRampageOfRevenge}} horribly,]] [[{{WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds}} a self-hating villain]] who recognizes that destroying the world makes him scum, but sets out to do it anyway, and uniforms. [[{{ImpossiblyCoolClothes}} Lots and lots of uniforms.]] * [[{{DarkSpritBomb}} This Troper's]] is Zombies. And lots of them. * This troper likes using very complex sentences, detailed descriptions of people and [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel terrifying enemies.]] Which is ironic, as I'm a light hearted person and hate horror movies. * Most of this tropette's work includes a snarky first-person narrator, usually female. About half of her protagonists have

[[AuthorAvatar curly, brown hair and blue eyes]]. She also tends to overuse the names Sam and Zach. And most of her characters live in Fictional Town, USA. * This troper is rather fond of using phrases such as "rather" and "quite" instead of dull ones such as "very." He also uses double hyphens to include a thought wherever it's needed--in order to,for instance, explain and expound the preceding or succeeding narration-and rarely uses the same pronoun or noun to refer to a subject within the same paragraph, reverting quickly to things such as "the man" or some other appropriate descriptor. Finally, plotwise, there will be pain, the main character is likely gay or bisexual, whether stated or implied, and moral relativity is a must. Not Nietzsche-wannabe moral relativity. What's right and wrong depends on what you regard most highly, and this troper plays on that in every story. Even the plot for his original setting, original mechanics tabletop game he's running. * This troper has notices that she loves to use ellipses and BeigeProse in her writing, as well as have ThemeNaming and {{Shout Out}}s to anything I happen to like. She tends to not like drawing ears (though it's really more indicative of my drawing ability) and girls will usually have a swept fringe. She also tends to like [[ButtMonkey abusing]] {{Bishonen}} and having improbable crossovers that try to stay coherent. Lastly, she loves having sling bags in RealLife... even if she does stuff them often. ---Every time you see a clever link back to SignatureStyle, [[DrinkingGame take a shot]]. *drinks* ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SignificantAnagram * Tropers/{{Tabs}}: Bats. *stab* * Googling Anagram gives you Nag a Ram as a suggestion * ''Frostsabre.'' I throw it "Dwarf hunter" and it spits out "Wrath refund." I swear that's not the reason why I switched WoW main characters after BC. * Tropers/{{nightelf37}} has been thinking of various anagrams from common words for last names for my characters. These are the following I have conceived. Can you guess what they are anagrams of? Place your answers after the dash. NOTE: Some may actually be [[SdrawkcabName Sdrawkcab Names]]. ** Zallege ** Cinatorna ** Tolive ** Ceurago ** Sigae ** Binitoly ** Arsaha ** Detarr ** Dentirompe ** Thawfurl -

* [[http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/User:Nightelf_37 Want hints?]] ** Curtch ** Tengama ** Pointroect ** Doluber ** Tarrop ** Dinigo ** Amina ** Ecnalubma ** Amanaquire ** Regit ** Cronsim * This troper's full name is an anagram of "Jovial, incoherent and enthral". ---Back to SignificantAnagram. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SignificantBirthdate * [[{{Tropers/Fungal88}} This tropette]] who launched the TroperTales page for this was quite surprised to find out that the very first SonicTheHedgehog game was released for the SegaGenesis right on her third birthday, so she decided to claim it as a reason why she enjoys that franchise so much. * This troper was born on the same day as poet Langston Hughes. She likes to write songs, which could be thought of as poems set to music. A good deal of her songs deal with race issues. ---Wow, you can actually head right back to SignificantBirthdate! That seems like quite a coincidence! ----

SignsOfDisrepair * I still wish I could see a "S[[spoiler:TARB]]UCKS COFFEE" sign. I've seen a few that were close, but none that quite spelled it... ** [[http://failblog.org/2008/08/04/starbucks-fail/ Today's your lucky day.]] * A friend of mine saw a Black Angus restaurant with the "G" burnt out. * A common form of vandalism to "no smoking" signs where I live. * There is a takeaway in the town where I grew up, which was slow in fixing its sign after the bottom of the "S" fell off. The sign has been fixed for years, but the locals still refer to the takeaway as Fart Food. * This troper's hometown has a small vacant lot next to the High [Main] Street where the Christmas tree is erected each year. On the neighbouring fence was painted a sign reading "GLORY TO GOD IN THE

HIGHEST". After the tree was taken down, somebody painted over one of the letters, leaving "GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGH ST", and the sign stayed like that for the rest of the year. * I once saw a sign for Sleep C[[spoiler:o]]untry; heck, it wasn't once, it was broken like that for over a month, and every time I saw it I cracked up. Unfortunately they fixed it before I could take a picture. * A common one that I see a lot is the signs on [=CityRail=] trains.\\ At night, [[spoiler:t]]rave[[spoiler:l]] in the guard's compartment n[[hottip:*:Usually an "m", but half-erased]] a[[spoiler:r]]ked with a blue light. * This troper saw a sign in a mall that cheerfully proclaimed "S[[spoiler:E]]ARS". This was during the height of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS SARS panic]], as well, and she ''couldn't stop lauging''. * Not really disrepair but this troper once saw a casino sign that was advertizing the loosest slots in the area. Someone had painted the top of the O out in slots. * One of this troper's friends often told a story about how he'd seen the following sign: COLD BEER[[spoiler:,]] PIZZA. Admittedly, it's not all that funny, but it does fit the trope. * This troper lives next to a large-ish park. At one point, there used to be a sign at the entrance to the park that said, among other things, "No Hor[[spoiler:s]]es". No W, but close enough. * Example in Portuguese: the sign in front of CEU, the sports area for my university, had the 'E' erased to become C U ("ass"). * This troper was half-asleep on a train one evening, and opened his eyes to be faced with a "Bed, Bath and Beyond" sign across the street from a station - it had its first two letters burnt out and half of the second B was obscured by a tree, therefore making it read "DEATH & BEYOND". The shock woke him right up. * There's a couple of signs next to a hill near [[{{This-guy}} my]] house that say, "NO DUMPING". One has the "D" replaced with an "H". * [[DialgaX This troper]] once saw a Chinese supermarket with a broken sign that read [[spoiler:Dy]]nasty Supermarket. * There is a restaurant named "Tsar Saltan" in Samara, Russia. The sign reads "Tsar Sa tan". * Near this troper's house, there's a sign that at one time read [[spoiler:S]]OBEY[[spoiler:S]]. * [[spoiler:BR]]ASS BED CO. * Makes me wish I'd saved one that was making the rounds on Email a while back. Place had a sign with a couple lights burnt out; during the day, their sign was normal, but at night it read BEAVER LU[[spoiler:M]]BE[[spoiler:R]] * At this troper's high school, purple was the school colour, and while she was there, they came up with this slogan "Success has a purple lining." They put it on the school buses, and gave everyone purple stickers with that printed on them and then the school's name on the right hand side. The stickers looked like this. -->Success_____________________Whatever -->___has a purple lining.__________College ::After about five minutes of fiddling with the sticker she'd been

given, this troper figured out that if you folded them in two places, so that "lining" had disappeared and the "h" was just barely obscuring the second "p" so it looked like it was actually an "o"... Well, then the message changed a little. The sticker now looked like this. -->Suc______________Whatever -->___hole___________College ::She then showed as many people as she could, and uh, she can't be sure, but they they seemed to mostly stop handing out the fucking school stickers at that campus. * In France there are shops that sell products that are either homemade, or made by small businesses, designed by the adjective "artisanal", which can roughly be translated as "homemade". ThisTroper once saw a sign who said their production was "art[[spoiler:is]]anal". Yes, it's perfectly correct in French, and yes, it translates exactly to what you think. * This troper once saw the lower loop in the first "B" of "Best Buy" blown out. This was around the time my younger (often bothersome) brother was asking questions like "where babies come from". * This troper has heard a rumor that ZZ Top got its name from this very trope. The inspiring sign in question was supposed to read PIZZA STOP. * This troper has seen at least one Shell gas station whose awning was missing the S. Maybe this is why Shell uses only the logo on its signage? ** [[@/{{Tadaru}} This troper]] has seen a Shell missing the neon lighting for the S. * This troper once lived in a neighborhood with a street called "Blue Falls Rd." The number of times the F on the street signs were vandalized is immeasurable. * [[KingSonnDeeDoo This Troper]] and her father once saw a sign in a sign in a 'Marks and Spencer' that read (in all lower case) '[[spoiler:f]]ood h[[spoiler:a]]ll'. Jokes as to whether the [[Series/DoctorWho Ood]] shopped there were made. * [[PentiumMMX2 This troper]] has seen this a few times in real life; including an instance at the place he works at. On a sign on one of the back doors, the sign reads "[[spoiler:Al]]arm will sound when this door is opened". This lead to jokes with coworkers about what an "arm" sounds like. * [[{{Tropers/ACrackInTime}} I]] once saw a Morrisons sign with the 'I' and the fist 'S' burned out, resulting in "Morrons". I lol'd. * This troper still has a decade-old photo of a row of high school bleachers reading "[[spoiler:RE]]SERVE[[spoiler:D]] ATHLETIC ASS[[spoiler:OCIATION]]." * [[Tropers/FroggoFan64 This troper]] passed by a bookstore whose sign had the letters lit up to read "Barnes and No[[spoiler:ble Book]]sellers". * One of my favorites was a local Mattress Discounters that, once the sign was lit up, became [[UnusualEuphemism "Mattress Disco"]]. There's also a sign in a nearby train station that reads "Passenger As Stance" instead of "Passenger Assistance": I thought someone was making some kind of cryptic statement about being a passenger in life, then I realized that in all likelihood it got changed it to "Passenger Ass

Stance" first, then either the other S came off on it's own, or someone was so offended by this that they "fixed" it by vandalizing the sign a little bit more. * This troper once passed by a St. Patricks church. The "a" and the "t" had fallen off one of their signs. It looked appropriate. * Once I saw a Shell station with the "S" knocked off the sign. Yeah. * TWO HO[[spoiler:US]]ES FOR SALE, in a pretty sketchy part of town. * A variant of this happened when someone turned a "One Way" sign into "''B''one''r''way". * This Troper once stayed at a YMCA that had a "Craft Shop" that had fallen victim to this. The craft center is now in a completely different building and has a new sigh, but she and her family still call it the Rat Shop. * THE [[spoiler: HOME DE]]POT. Unfortunately, this troper failed to capture the moment on film. * The residential wing of my college is called Derry, with plenty of capital stick-on letters advertising the fact. It really didn't take long for us to become members of DERP. * The original Japanese ''Puck-Man'' was localized as ''[=~PacMan~=]'' to prevent vandals from simply scratching away bits of the "P" to make an "F." * The Fuddrucker's hamburger chain is understandably susceptible to vandalism of its signage. ** Played with in ''{{Idiocracy}}'', as the Fuddrucker's sign degenerating into Buttfucker's illustrates the downfall of intelligent society. * Common vandalism to hand dryer instructions: 1. Push Butt[[spoiler:on]] 2. Rub hands under [[spoiler:w]]arm [[spoiler:air]]... ** Newer hand dryers include a picture diagram instead for this very reason -- leading to "[[MemeticMutation Push button, receive bacon.]]" ** Weight Room -> We Poo * Canadian Furniture/Electronics chain The Brick use large neon signs on their big box stores. These neons regularly burn out, and the individual lights are placed in such a way that it's not uncommon to see a giant neon sign that reads "The Prick". * Although not strictly signs, In-N-Out Burger used to sell bumper stickers which were frequently cut down by their owners so they would read "In-N-Out Urge." The company eventually redesigned their bumper stickers to prevent this. ** Likewise, "Black Angus" restaurant signs are one malfunctioning letter away from selling something.... else. ** Another burger franchise once handed out bumper stickers encouraging people to "EAT MEAT". Removing or covering the last A and T was too easy. * In the 1990s, Huntington Bank in Ohio tried calling some of their smaller branches "Huntington Bank Access", but made the mistake of having each individual letter of ACCESS as a separate neon tube. The signs were often vandalized to read "ASS". * The Sydney train lines had such an example every schoolchild would learn: the message "At night, travel near the guards compartment marked with a blue light" needed only three and a half letters removed

- t, l, half of m and r - usually by scratching it out with scissors or amending with white-out--to create "At night, rave near the guards compartment naked with a blue light". It's estimated that a train compartment has never lasted more than 6 months without this change happening. Cityrail apparently knows this, but are content to allow it to continue. * Canal Street in Manchester, England is the center of Manchester's gay village. People tend to steal the C on street signs, and sometimes the S, creating [[spoiler: C]]ANAL [[spoiler:S]]TREET. * [[http://www.goodexperience.com/tib/archives/2003/08/neon_sign.html DANALS]], a grocery store, becomes "ANAL" with two broken lights. * Discount Tire has on at least one instance of lights burning out spelling DISCO[[spoiler:UNT T]]IRE ** Or CUNT TIRE ** Similarly, Disco Furniture (for those who like '70s decor?). * The sign at a [[http://www.redrooster.com.au/ Red Rooster]] in Canberra Australia would occasionally be missing the S. * The Essex Building in NewYorkCity. The "Es" part of the sign supposedly has an emergency generator. * Inverted with the town of Stone in Staffordshire, England: signage is frequently vandalised to read [[TheStoner "Stoned"]]. One such example has existed on the A49 for many years. * In Canberra, Nebraska, the sign identifying the suburb of Cook is often vandalised by pranksters blacking out part of the second 'O' turning it into a 'C'. * [[http://www.asylum.com/2009/11/20/neon-elmhurst-hospital-signburns-out-appropriately?icid=mainwelcomedl5link4http://www.asylum.com/ This news story.]] "Elmhurst Emergency & Trauma Center," minus an E and S, becomes "lmhur t"([[spoiler:I'm hurt]]). * Many examples can be seen at ''[[http://failblog.org/ Fail Blog]]''. Try searching "neon sign fail". * [[http://failblog.org/2010/04/17/epic-fail-photos-high-schoolfail/#comments PINECREST minus three letters = INCEST.]] * The sign for Windlass Court (Cardiff, Wales) caused a double-take since someone had removed the "l". * [[http://hackedirl.com/ Hacked IRL]] is dedicated to finding examples of this. * At [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analy_High_School Analy High School]], the Y has been stolen from the sign several times. * Another for public transport: This bus is licensed to [[spoiler:s]]eat 72 passengers. * A Popeye's Chicken signboard had "Jalapeno Poppers" changed to "Jalapenis Poopers". * The marquee for a location of the now-online-only chain Linens 'n Things suffered remarkable letter-lighting failure, turning the store into Linens 'n Thi[[spoiler:ng]]s. * [[http://failblog.org/2010/10/04/epic-fail-pictures-movie-fails2/#comments "Twilight Sucks"]]. * There are many, many, many, ''many'' "Black Anus" steakhouses all over the United States. * A long time ago, this troper and her family dined at a family restaurant out in the country called "Chicken and Dumplings". Some of

the neon letters were blacked out, so it looked like it was spelled "Chick Dump". Lol. * Some Jack Astor's stores will make the "TOR" and apostrophe flash. It doesn't help that right next to the sign is a literal ass's ass. This is, however, intentional. * This Troper sometimes drives past a cleaning store called "Tiffany Cleaners" which sometimes becomes "fany Cleaners". Also "Big Lots" turns into "Big Los" (Big Loss). ** Or "Big ots." * This Troper's hometown university named a dormitory after one Jim Cummings. The J and S were nicked at least once during his time as a student. * After a Stuckey's went out of business, a large sign in front of the unmaintained store advertising one of the fuels that had been purchasable partially collapsed. So, coming off the interstate, right at the bottom was a large sign with big yellow letters reading '''DIE'''. * With the return of trams and tram stations to London, so came sticker-based signs that could easily be vandalized. Addiscombe would frequently be rendered into [[spoiler:Ad]]disco[[spoiler:mbe]], at least until they changed the signs to prevent said vandalism. * In Cambridge: An office block, known as the Janus Building... [[ToiletHumor frequently had the J scratched out]]. * There was once a restaurant called Shell around here, and below the name, they had another sign that said "We serve angel steaks!". So, one day the S of "Shell" fell off. You guessed it. "Hell: We Serve Angel Steaks!". I never knew what an angel steak is. * A seemingly abandoned dry cleaner's in my sister's neighborhood has "CLEAN SHIRTS" written on the window... Or it ''used'' to before someone scratched out the r. * In a shopping center near this troper's house, there's a small laundromat with a sign that's supposed to read "Cleaners," but the first few letters were burned out for a while, so it just read "Aners." My brother and I were kind of disappointed when they fixed it. ---H[[spoiler:ead b]]ack [[spoiler:to]] [[SignsOfDisrepair Si]][[spoiler:[[SignsOfDisrepair g]]]][[SignsOfDisrepair nsOfDisrepair]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SilentBob * [[TheTallOne I]] can revert to this as a result of a bet. A friend bet I couldn't go a day without talking, and I bet I could. [[CaptainObvious I could.]] As a matter of fact, I enjoyed being silent so much that I turned into SilentBob. After a while I grew out of it, but the whole thing had a very mellowing effect on me, and I'm much, much quieter nowadays, being my {{Nakama}}'s resident Stoic. * [[TheBigKing2000 I]] can also admit to being my {{Nakama}}'s

[[IncrediblyLamePun token]] stoic, but being African-American, I am often told that I can be pretty [[ScaryBlackMan intimidating at times]]. * I am always quiet, sometimes to a point that people have been surprised when I '''DO''' actually say something. When I do say something, it's often something smart (or at least something that isn't completely moronic). I also look a little like the character. * I was once at a Halloween party where someone was dressed as Silent Bob himself. He took the costume a step farther by spending the whole party in character, although someone got him to talk at least once. * When {{Tropers/TacoNinja}} talks, people stare like she just started singing [[TheLionKing 'Hakuna Matata']]. * Me. It became something of a running gag. ---[[SilentBob .....]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SilentScapegoat * It happened to ThisTroper. At a party at my house, we're all underage drinking, and a few friends drifted to the cars at the top of the driveway to sit and drink. Way to get attention from neighbors on the block who resent living next to a houseful of unsupervised teenagers who throw wild parties and don't maintain the yard. I went up to talk them back down, but got caught up in drinking and talking with them. Cue sheriff's cruiser rolling down the street. Everyone bolted in different directions, but if I took off, then he'd bust everyone in the house, including my brother and sister. So I stood there and sucked up the interrogation; the cop was cool about it but did what he had to do, which was give me a ticket and a court date. Only one friend knew, and as much gratitude as he expressed he had an excuse not to testify or help with the fine. My sister just considered it my own irresponsibility, no matter how clearly I explained to her that if I didn't stay out there, or if I didn't go out there in the first place to intercept the cop, ''it would've been her ass busted!'' ** [[SincerityMode You deserve a medal of some sort for that.]] * All of my friends in Verena Parthenia. All the time. Go back to Main/SilentScapegoat, and don't say a single word. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SilentSnarker * [[Tropers/DRoy Me]] when I feel too tired to wisecrack...which is actually most of the time. It helps that I'm not a talkative person in real life. * [[{{neoYTPism}} I]] tend to notice this in [[CatsAreSnarkers cats]].

SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids * As a heteromantic asexual, this troper desperately wish not everyone believes in this trope. The only thing I want in a relationship is romance, nothing physical. It's rather disheartening when you realize not only do most people want the physical aspect of a relationship, sometimes that's the ONLY thing they want in a relationship. * It is for kids. When you become a teen you lose interest in the platonic aspect and gain interest in the physical part. Thank the force that created the Universe for sexual hormones. ** YMMV, I'm 17 and still interested in that kind of relationship, [[FanDisservice if I]] could [[SurroundedByIdiots find one.]] Granted, I would like it a ''lot'' better with someone physically attractive; but they wouldn't have to be perfect. Also, for all I know, this is because I've never been in a relationship with anyone; but I've had more crushes than I could count on my hands, some of them having humiliated me when they found out. * Played somewhat straight with This Troper. The [[BlatantLies indirect]] cause isn't meeting the WrongGuyFirst, but BEING the WrongGuyFirst. I couldn't take [[IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer hurting another person]] like that again. Also, seeing my friends [[TooGoodToLast break up]] and get hurt is pretty solid proof that it's not only limited to me. Yes, I'm sure romance feels kinda neat when you do it, but it [[DyingAlone ends]] in tears and is [[WasItReallyWorthIt not worth it]]. [[TheStoic It is, after all, merely a superficial emotion evoked in order to reproduce our species]]. [[ItGotWorse And the planet is already overpopulated]]. ** You're right, the planet is already overpopulated. Unsurprisingly, that doesn't stop me from 'reproducing' *shrughs* impulses are impulses. ** [[WideEyedIdealist I]] just want to tell you that love isn't sadness, or hurt, or pain. Love is the exact opposite of that. It's happiness and joy and peace. Love is the only thing in the world that can really fix these sad feeling inside you. I just really hope that you were having a bad day when you wrote this, because it's really not true. ** And love doesn't have to be paired with lust. I love my brother, I love my parents, and I love my best friend. What makes it hurt when you lose it is, in this troper's opinion, basically AwesomenessWithdrawal. *** Well, the trope is about romance. **** [[Tropers/LostLenore This Troper]] has an extended theory about love; namely, that it comes in three different types. These types are familial, platonic, and romantic love. The types can be combined (although all 3 is kind of odd). ***** The ancient Greeks would have done you one better! They believed in at least four different kinds of love and had a name for each of them. ''Philia'' is friendship love, ''storge'' is familial love, ''eros'' is sexual love, and ''agape'' is deep everlasting love. Ideally, you would feel all for your life partner. * This troper is divorced. The ex-wife called it off. Full stop. * [[Tropers/GalenDev This describes me]] in no uncertain terms. Love... is a joke, and a bad one at that. Never once have I seen it

lead to anything positive, except family. And even that's a crapshoot. Every relationship in my own life and those around me has fallen apart spectacularly, and I just don't see how the temporary happiness and joy is worth the inevitable pain. What's sad is... [[KnightInSourArmor even despite this, I still have some notion that people deserve every chance, and I will do my part to help them with that.]] But I'm pretty darn certain it's too late for me. * This Troper was with the [[WrongGuyFirst Wrong Girl First]]... Three times in three years with three different girls. Everytime, the girls played him like a violin (and he realised it only MUCH later). And every other girl for whom he had feelings? One of his best friends got it first and is still with her (and are, in one case, engaged). The icing on the cake? Some of them thinks he is either homosexual, jealous or a sociopath due to his JadeColoredGlasses. * [[{{ICantThinkOfAWittyName}} This troper]] plays this trope straight. I believe love is only a feeling generated by the human body to tell us to keep putting out our species, along with the good feeling sex gives. ''They are only things that tell us to keep breeding our race.'' No, this isn't WrongGuyFirst, it's AllLoveIsUnrequited coupled with JadeColouredGlasses from a few experiences with people who would do most good for the human race by dying ''slowly'' in a hole. See you later. ** This very scientific minded troper once would have agreed with you, but now finds proof for the existence of love in homosexual couples who love one another deeply, yet obviously cannot be motivated by a desire to breed. * My mother is this to a T. She has good reason though, considering her ex-husband is practically a CompleteMonster. Except she still likes watching chick flicks...Yeah. * A bit of a subversion (or a reconstruction? Something along those lines) with this troper. I agree with the cynics that love is silly, childish, and unrealistic, that it's all chemicals in our brains and was produced by evolution just to make us want to fuck and then stick together afterwards; it's just that I [[GuiltyPleasure don't care]]. It's a pleasant fiction, and that's good enough for me. Life is far too short not to [[TheHedonist indulge]]- irrationally, drunkenly, stupidly- in such a wonderfully complex and beautiful feeling. ** Whether it's all just chemicals or not (couldn't "all just chemicals" explain pretty much all our feelings?), it is a feeling we get, and as it is such since we perceive it as real, it ''is'' real on our mental planes. * This troper wishes she wouldn't get crushes, because they're always a bad case of IncompatibleOrientation. Every. Single. Time. Screw this! Subverted, though, in that I think other people could be perfectly happy in relationships. * I think of myself as a subversion. Since a lot of people and couples I've met over the years were only together for superficial reasons for example, one has a lot of money, one thinking the other is "hot" and so on, without taking account of emotions and genuine feelings it has made me lose a lot of faith in true love happening to me. The fact I have really mild AspergerSyndrome (yes, it happens) probably makes people think of me as a [[LonersAreFreaks loner freak]] who is

probably hopeless since I'm not "normal". I do believe, however, that somebody can see past that and love me for, well, me. But that will be a long, ''long'' time from now. * [[Tropers/LostLenore This Troper]] plays it straight, despite being only fifteen. Love exists as a form of biological programming, alerting people that the children they could have with a certain person would be optimal. (Being an IceQueen doesn't help her at all.) But she doesn't feel like she's missing out on anything, so she's fine with it. This trope may or may not contribute to her {{Asexuality}} and aromanticism. * This trope fits me like a god damned glove. Pretty much from the very start things looked bad. My parents had a bad marriage and argued at the top of their lungs all of the time. My wee childhood friend always insisted that she and my brother were going to get married, right in front of Chopped Liver here. I was also raised with a very strong understanding of the difference of fiction and reality, and the former was the only place I ever saw proper love. When I grew older and took an interest in the fairer sex, I was constantly shot down. Regardless, I continued to revise my strategy for romance with the alchemist like belief that it would work if I only got it right. One time I got rejected by a girl who I was infatuated with before I even made a move, ignoring me straight to my face even though before I had any romantic interest in her, she and I got along rather well. In an English class, I wrote a morose, self-depreciating essay about how love was probably beyond my grasp. He chastised me for being a cynic. He has a loving wife and no real negative romantic influences. Sure, perhaps I haven't just found the right way yet, but as a whole, love isn't making much of a case for itself. * Love is a joke. Enough said * I see dramatic bullcrap and stupid, vague, passive-aggressive statuses on {{Facebook}} all the time, so I'm definitely thinking that ''teen'' love is for kids. ''[[RalphWiggum Stupid]]'' [[RalphWiggum kids]] [[TakeThat that]] [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch watch]] [[NetworkDecay the Disney Channel]]. Also, almost every married couple I've ever heard of got divorced (when my parents were together, all my old friends had divorced parents, and my current friends have HappilyMarried parents while mine are divorced. So I have kind of settled on the belief that monogamous relationships are against human nature; just a thing that we've invented because it gives us hope (which is how I feel about the whole concept of "faith"). I have one person who I sometimes feel like I'm in love with, but this is unfortunately a case of both WrongGuyFirst ''AND'' IncompatibleOrientation. And everyone else I'm interested in and feel I have a chance with has some trait that JustBugsMe. ** So every married couple you've ever heard of has gotten divorced even though you have a number of friends whose parents are in happy relationships? * The Subject of "Love" is the only topic that turns this otherwise happy and optimistic [[{{Crusador}} troper ]]into an unhappy pessimist. It is the one sore spot I have that turns me very bitter in a hurry. The more I see romance and love idealized in virtually every work of fiction and every avenue of human expression, the more I see

how absolutely overrated love is. I am so disgusted by the idea that I have a very low tolerance for it. I do not think I will ever be able to truly understand how people are able to trust and devote themselves to that one person in their lives they had somehow considered to be "more than just a friend". How did we get there? Was it those gestures of "affection" (hand-holding, kissing, whispering, physical closeness)? Was it infatuation that just "happens", no doubt due to a factitious desire for a significant other? Or is it (My personal favorite!) all [[LoveAtFirstSight Love at first sight?]]? Oh... how I loathe romance, especially when it is idealized as this flawless compelling force that brings any and all people together. There are those that may actually find it, and in that case, I say, good for you, now go take your displays of affection elsewhere! But the reality is: relationships fail, people can AND are hurt by failed relationships, feelings may never be reciprocated, and infatuations tend to have a nasty habit of clouding one's ability to make decisive judgment and rationale. Logic and reasoning should NEVER be substituted for these fleeting feelings of "affection" because how do you know he/she is worth giving your "love"? Are they worth dying for?! That is of course, assuming you were even able to obtain their attention and "affections" in the first place! This thing we call [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove "love"]]? Beyond being the driving force for reproduction of our species, I see little else than fantasies that we can do without. In fact, one can easily function through life without sex or a significant other of their own. Good riddance to that burden. As harsh as the reality had struck me, at that it is a fantasy buried under false hope and impossible dreams and that there are those who will note find it, I now believe that that is how it is. I no longer even know what is the reason why I had bothered letting myself become infatuated and aroused in the first place! Just why DID I bother?! The sooner I concern myself less and less with the silly ideal of finding "her" and abandoning it all together, the better. ** Seconded by This Troper in turn, who was turned by the so-called ThePowerOfLove from [[RomanticismVersusEnlightenment an adherent of enlightened reason to a depressed Romantic]] NietzscheWannabe. * [[@/DeathToSquishies This troper]] keeps trying to remind himself that this can apply sometimes. He always gets jealous when he sees other people all over each other, giving each other attention, and pretty much everything that almost keeps from crossing into SickeninglySweethearts territory. Over time, he's begun to realize it's not really ''love'' he's looking for, just a very strong bond of friendship with someone. Helped along by the fact that he thinks if he ever does fall in love, it would probably be just like a normal friendship (regarding how we act with each other), just with us knowing there's something deeper there. * [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] and [[{{SubvertedTrope}} subverted]] with this troper. I was this during my teen years. It didn't work out too well ... let's just say that when this gets cranked [[{{UpToEleven}} up to eleven]] and set on a collision course with {{Yandere}}, the [[{{EvilVersusEvil}} outcome isn't pretty]]. Ironically, I was introduced to [[{{HappilyMarried}} my now wife of twelve years]] while relating the tale to mutual aquaintances.

* [[Tropers/VF1SValkyrie This Troper]] fully believes in this. Every relationship he's had has ended badly. When he attempts romance (most often due to the failures of the past fading from recent memory), it inevitably blows up in his face. The most common excuse he's given is that she 'doesn't feel like dating right now,' even after several dates. This has happened to him every single time with every single girl in the past six years (five times, in case you were wondering). He tries to take solace in that love (like any emotion) is simply a result of chemicals in the brain, and that love is merely a facade we use so we can feel better about propagating our species. * I adamantly believe that '''''LoveHURTS''''' . Well, I hold beliefs that would be instantly labelled as for {{Nietzsche Wannabe}}s. Nevertheless, it does not keep me from listening to Romantic music (the Classical Music kind, not that pop music bullshit) and suffering cases of PerverseSexualLust. (well, [[LoveMakesYouCrazy love does make you irrationally delusional]] to the point of {{breaking the fourth wall}}. Take the Christians loving God for starters. Or the kids, succumbing to this drug called ThePowerOfLove, seeing everything in a "Princess or dragon" dichotomy. Or more scientifically, Romantic love is in fact linked to high levels of dopamine. Dopamine is linked to schizophrenia. Love does make you crazy. In other words, Love is a fairytale. Literally. Not only that, love to fiction is easier because if you love a real life person, that's when LoveHurts to the point that it reaches {{despair event horizon}}.) * A lot of people this troper knows believe this-- even though all the adults we know are happily married! The cool guy everyone idolizes has been married for almost 50 years... There's a difference between "I am heartbroken" and "love is for morons and toddlers". Worse are the people who believe that, when you hit your teens, relationships are only physical. *facepalm* It's not even possible to have a romantic relationship before your teens! ([[LoveMakesYouDumb Or during them.]]) It turns out the guy I kinda-sorta liked only finds me "sexy." I swear, I ''will'' find a man who believes in love. And we'll rant about this together. ** This troper sometimes loses faith, or comes close to it. He is willing to believe, but ranting is beyond him in this case; besides, convincing people that what they firmly believe is false isn't usually his strong suit. * I would be a case of . . . zig-zagging? Maybe? I believe that love is a great idea, except that I honestly don't understand what it is. Like, really. I get what it means to care about somebody as a friend. I get what it means to want somebody sexually. Is love just a combination of the two? That seems kind of sad, honestly. I've had so many people trying to explain it to me, but I just . . . don't . . . get it. I'm sure it works for some people, but I honestly have no idea what on Earth they're talking about. ** You sound a lot like me. In any case, wouldn't you like to find out? * I'm not even sure where to begin with this. Here is what romance is. It is infatuation and sexual desire. Nothing more. It is simply a biological mechanism that increases inclination for reproduction, and for that matter, continues the legacy of the wretched human species.

People who genuinely believe in the concept of "The One" are proof of just how strong this desire is, and how much it clouds your judgment. In fact, infatuation is yet another emotion that does just that, and "love" is a religion centered around this emotion (I used the term "religion" because religion is an irrational and strong set of beliefs manifested from any irrational and strong emotion, to the point where people willingly enslave themselves to them, and "love" is no different). I am ashamed to admit that I fall victim to this lust as well, as much as I keep reminding myself how useless it is, and what a fool I am for allowing this desire to affect me so much. [[LoveMakesYouDumb My marks in school have suffered lately, and I did not get into any universities and will be taking another year, and I blame it partially on my lust for a certain girl two years younger than me prevailing over my better judgment]] (the rest on my general incompetence and the inability to get homework done). Yet I still have this lust for her, and for the idea of romance, and yet another emotional burden is the question of whether or not she feels the same about me. My struggle with these superficial thoughts rages on to this day. At the same time, the false hope it gives me (i.e. the dopemine) is one of the few things that keep me from claiming my own life. I have never attempted to actually make a move toward a girl, and some may say I should, but not only am I too awkward to, I have seen how badly the pain of rejection wounded other people, and it may actually drive me towards my end, so I do not bother. I apologize if you've read all of this garbage, but no one is forcing you to (as far as I know), so I accept no responsibility for any time wasted on this. ---SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids, haven't you learned that by now? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SillyReasonForWar * Any time this troper and his friends play Civ 4. * Once, this troper wandered into the Extended Discussion forum on another site, to discover that the General Discussion forum had declared war. The ED fought back, resulting in both forums being spammed stupid. The reason? The ED, well-known for tolerance, got pissed off that the GD, well-known for stupidity, was being stupid near them. ** That would be GaiaOnline, wouldn't it? I'm afraid that the last time I was on, the ED has since become the new GD, with all the former ED'ers creating their own threads in other forums and only inviting their friends to play. * YourMileageMayVary, but the ThirtyYearsWar, a truly ''awful'' war even considering how wars are, had its proximate cause when... oh, just read it. Are you back? Doesn't that just seem like a ''petty'' way to kick off one of history's most destructive conflicts? ** Still, the causes for the war were very serious to the participants, and involved problems that had been smoldering for over a 100 years.

* The wars around ''SimCity'' mods... * When playing {{Risk}}, [[{{Tropers/Betterthanstrawberry}} This troper]] often backstab weaker allies for basically no reason at all. --> '''Friend:''' I thought we're supposed to be allies! --> '''[[{{Tropers/Betterthanstrawberry}} This Troper]]:''' [[DisproportionateRetribution That bag of Cheetos you dropped at the last turn fell on my troops in Kamchatka]]! Now die, asshole! * I bet you ten--no, TWENTY bucks--that there'll be a war between [[YaoiFangirl yaoi fangirls,]] [[YuriFan yuri fans,]] and those who pretty much hate both. * This troper got banned from an IRC channel because he said he used a Mac Book. ---You can take this link back to SillyReasonForWar, but ''real'' tropers use the little blue button up top. ** Traitor! You will die this day along with all your kind, heathen! *** Users of the blue button, to me! Smite these upstart rebels in the name of the Main entry! **** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Wait, there's a little blue button up top? Where?]] ----

SilverFox * This tropette used to have a Social Studies teacher in High School who also coached basketball and had a very charming, likeable personality - there was literally no student in the entire school who disliked the guy. He was also 43, with gray hair, married with kids, and a damn good teacher. And I had the ''hugest'' crush on him. So much so that [[FreudWasRight I took Psychology partially out of a desire to be taught by him again]] (though mostly because I really like Psychology), and always felt really awkward any time the lecture covered sex... He still probably has no clue to this day that I had feelings for him, and it's been two years since I graduated. XD -----You've aged well, sir. Why not go back to the Main Trope [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SilverFox Here]]?

SimpleCountryLawyer * Subverted in [[ShamelessSelfPromoter a story this troper is writing]], where an attorney, in a last-ditch attempt to save his butt (and his client), decides to play up his Mississippi accent and invoke this trope. It fails, and he ends up looking like a redneck and an idiot. * Disturbingly enough, this apparently works in real life. A law school classmate of mine did this for a case recently. He didn't refer to himself as such, but his entire closing was otherwise the platonic ideal of this trope. It was very weird to watch the jury acquit the defendant as a result of the lawyer doing this.

* This troper pretty much fits this trope accurately. I'm from a rural part of North Carolina, and I'm studying to be a prosecutor. I finished high school at the top of my class, and I have a very large vocabulary. The only thing I lack is the Southern regional accent. ---I may not have a fancy degree or anything, but it seems to me that you want to go back to SimpleCountryLawyer. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SincerityMode * Me, whenever I compliment someone. * This troper falls into this trap a lot. I tend to be very sarcastic, so whenever I actually say something nice, people won't believe me. "I'm in SincerityMode" will probably be uttered a lot from now on. * Sometimes I have trouble with this, but my eyes are quite expressive, so generally I just need to look the person in the eye for them to know I'm being serious. * Tropers/{{Excel-2010}}. [[DeadpanSnarker I'm rarely completely serious about anything]], but [[ClearMyName those wrongfully arrested or convicted]] always have my full sympathy. I never joke about those who serve time they really shouldn't have, because no amount of compensation can restore lost time with their families and friends. * It's usually hard to get a serious conversation out of my LoveInterest in RealLife, but he's completely honest when talking to my ShipperOnDeck best friend. * Tropers/ManCalledTrue codeword for "Sincerity Mode": "This is a serious question and I want a serious answer". Makes my {{Cloudcuckoolander}} friend immediately straighten out. * This troper used to say "yeah, right" as an affirmative response to almost anything when he was in kindergarten or so. It's too bad he had no idea it also meant a sarcastic response. * This troper gets into this kind of situation often with my mother. Because of my history of condescending sarcasm, she often assumes I'm being a jerk when I mean something genuinely, especially with my older brother. For example: after correcting a mistaken belief of his, I might ask something along the lines of "Why did you believe that?", which my mom will interpret as "You're really stupid for believing that," when in reality, I just wanted to know how he came to hold that mistaken belief. I try to change my inflection so it doesn't sound sarcastic, but there are just some things that will sound sarcastic no matter how you say them. ---You so want to go back to that SincerityMode page, I'm sure. lol!!!1 ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SingleTargetSexuality * One of my mates is like this. The only [[BiTheWay person]] he has

ever been interested in is his biology teacher. * [[{{Tropers/Joerc45}} This troper]] had a case of this one time at his last job. He fell head over heels for this woman, and amidst a sea of beautiful and interesting women in both his work and social life, only seemed to pay attention to this one. Due to his {{Shrinking Violet}} nature, [[CannotSpitItOut could not spit it out]]. :( Eventually, he got up the courage to do so, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy but]] [[HeroicBSOD that]] [[JustFriends didn't]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy turn]] [[InterruptedSuicide out]] [[AllLoveIsUnrequited very]] [[{{Understatement}} well...]] ** Aww... Your post just made me want to simultaneously cry and give you a [[{{Glomp}} hug]]. You'll find someone else. ** In This Troper's opinion that kind of positive reinforcement is unadvised as it is healthier to accept the fact that you don't have a definitive chance at finding it than to trick yourself into thinking that it will all turn around. * [[{{Tropers/Moczo}} This troper]] has pretty much this situation going with one of his friends; In over 25 years, she's the only person I've ever felt legitimate romantic attraction to. And because I ''went'' that long without dating, I had no idea how to deal with my feelings and when I actually confessed my feelings to her I totally blew it. Whoo-hoo. That said, we're still close friends and we still talk constantly, so it might be wishful thinking but I haven't given up hope on her... ** EDIT: It was wishful thinking. I have no chance. Fuck. Time to see if I can't find a way to subvert this trope in my own personal life, I guess... * This Troper has this situation going on, before This Troper met Her He was anti-sexual (Think 1984's opinion on sex.) but since meeting her he feels like [[IfItsWithYouItsOkay if it's with her it's okay.]] But sadly she has told this troper she [[IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship doesnt]] [[LivingEmotionalCrutch want to lose me]] because Im emotionally important to her and that [[HopeSpot in the future]] [[RelationshipUpgrade it might happen.]] * These troper tales sound a lot like [[http://www.asexuality.org/wiki/index.php?title=Demisexual demisexuality]]. Anyone think we should make a Real Life section and add the link from my previous sentence? ** Only attracted to close friends and people you have already formed emotional bonds to? Yep. I've had more of a Triple-Target-Sexuality technically, but not all at once, and breaking the obsession has been complete hell every time. It's worse when they're the ones who confess to liking you and let you believe it's all going to be fine before smashing it in your face . And another tries to get you to ask another guy out for her. * My cousin has a slight case of this which sometimes gets creepy and I personally am [[http://www.asexuality.org/wiki/index.php?title=GrayA Gray-A]] but that doesn't really count. * May apply to one person I know. * My husband is like this. Before he met me, he had never had a girlfriend, and never chased after girls (or guys) at all. He says the moment he saw me, it was like a light switched on. It's a little odd,

but we make it work. * This Troper is Bob-sexual but usually just refers to herself as asexual for the benefit of others understanding. Her "Bob" was pretty weirded out when he found out that she wasn't interested in sex. But he couldn't complain because he made a vow to stay a virgin until out honeymoon. And a note to all asexuals that adore cuddling, don't be too disheartened or offended if your beloved's parental units walk in on you two cuddling and don't believe that you were only cuddling. * [[Tropers/FujinKeima This Troper]] is a very acute case of Kyosexuality. Before he met her, said troper was a a borderline asexual who sustained himself emotionally(NOT [[ADateWithRosiePalms THAT WAY]]) [[PerverseSexualLust with 2D girls]]. Ever since he met her and befriended her,that was it. I became completely insensitive to anyone else, no matter how attractive they were. Models and [[spoiler: that Porn that my buds would occasionally show me]] would only earn my straight,bored face. She became the only one capable of turning me on...By smiling or just by just being there.It got to the point I've developed Kyo-specific fetishes (Foot and Hand fetish...Only if it's hers though)...I plan on confessing to her very soon. And no. To me, she's the only one. * [[Tropers/FourTael This Troper]], as mentioned in the If It's You TroperTales, is almost completely asexual and aromantic, except for his ex-girlfriend. * This troper is like this with her husband. He's not the only man she's ever found attractive, but he ''is'' the only lover she's ever had or can conceive of ever having in the future. Somewhat justified; he's the only one she can trust to be intimate with her semi-disabled body. * This troper, after starting to date his current girlfriend, finds it difficult to [[{{Understatement}} look at]] live-action porn or hentai (especially if it involves [[RapeIsLove rape]]). He also finds it quite difficult to express finding other women attractive, even if they're fictional characters (on the basis that they're simply not her), which is [[DoubleStandard funny]] because she fangirls over [[YaoiFangirl yaoi]] and various characters and Asian singers. ---Return to {{Single Target Sexuality}}, and just remember, there's always more fish in the sea! ----

SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan * This troper definitely does not have an interest in jerks. She wants to end up with a guy who is nice, honest, and can make her laugh. Also with the case of her friends, one of whom ''did'' end up with a NiceGuy. ** A lot of girls like to ''say'' that, and then proceed to swoon over complete douchebags. I'm sorry, but are you ''sure'' you want a good guy? *** If she didn't, she wouldn't be posting here. Haven't you notice just how ''short'' this section is in comparison to AllGirlsWantBadBoys? And most of all, look at the titles: All

'''GIRLS''' Want Bad Boys as opposed to Single '''WOMAN''' Seeks Good Man. This distinction is intentional. Young girls are driven by hormones and want a bad guy who oozes masculinity and turn him into ReformedRakes. Grown-up, adult, mature-minded, full-blown ''women'' have standards and have grown beyond that level. *** A lot of guys like to ''say'' that, but usually that's just because they're pissed that the girl in question isn't returning his affections and is overly eager to see the bad in the guy she chose. *** Well someone's a little far down on a certain scale. * [[{{Alrune}} This female troper]] was more your typical [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bad-boy loving]] idiot back in her early teens but her main target of affection now are considerate and funny guys with a high intellect. GeekyTurnOn is an option, as with her current boyfriend. * This troper has no interest in [[JerkAss jerks.]] She wants a guy who is smart and not afraid to show it even in front of his friends (but isn't arrogant about it.) She wants a guy who treats her with kindness, honesty, and respect, and who treats her the same in front of his friends as in private (regardless of what they think.) Unfortunately, the {{Jerkass}}es are attracted to this troper, and the good guys are either not interested, taken, or both. *sigh* ** Hey I'm always the first, and not currently the second. ** [waves] Hi there! ** I'm getting in line too! * If there was one thing I've tried my hardest to have faith in, it's that this trope is true. I've tried being an arrogant jerkass to impress women, it didn't work and it made me feel like shit, so I dropped the act. The results doing the opposite were no different. I was still the tongue-tied, cripplingly-shy guy with a heavy dose of nerdiness. Women either relegated me to their stable of boy friends (but not boyfriends) or simply moved on when they realized I was a love-starved nerd. But despite this, I really do want to establish a romantic relationship, built upon a friendship, with a girl. It's kind of sad that this troper tales page has so few stories, and All Girls Want Bad Boys has so many, because I try to convince myself and the misanthropes I know that this trope is the case for most women. Too bad it hasn't gotten me anything but heartache thus far. ** It's all about suggestion kid. Try wearing a t-shirt that says "free boyfriend" at front in huge bold letters and perhaps "nice/faithful girls only" in a smaller font. If [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4 this]] works for getting hugs from strangers, you should have no problems getting a relationship this way and all you have to do is walk around town and do whatever you normally do. Neat, huh? In fact I'm slapping myself of not trying this as a teen for fear of only being seen as desperate and failing miserably. 'Wish I hadn't a girlfriend now. 'Could have tried it out. *** [[{{Sonichu}} Christian Chandler]] is that you? ** I know "keep trying" doesn't sound helpful, but I got my first girlfriend by doing exactly that. (She even slipped her number into my coat pocket. That NEVER happens to me.) Might I recommend the hand kiss if you judge it appropriate. Shallow chicks are repulsed by it

but real women blush over it. *** Guys, try it. This thing WORKS! ** This is the OP here. Thanks, but I've never been able to spontaneously show displays of affection. For some reason, everything I say or do has to be calculated five or six steps ahead, because I admittedly have a paralyzing fear of embarrassment. I can barely manage to squeak out a "You look nice today" before sheepishly withdrawing. I don't know if that makes me dishonest or simply a coward, but the kiss on the hand is outside my ability. Hell, I can barely compliment a woman without fretting over whether she thought it was creepy or not. I'm fine if the woman is my friend, but as soon as thoughts of romantic relationship take hold, all bets are off. It's like running head first into a brick wall, over and over, until the end of time... *** Well then, what about appearance and hygiene? Why do you think, say... [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] is so damn popular? *** Umm This lurker here (not meant in a weird way or anything) think you sound really adorable!!! Don't give up hope, I'm positive there will be some girl out there that will surely think so too. Shyness isn't a bad thing, but you should have more confidence in yourself, there may be instances where you might get shot down, but remember that you are a good person, because you genuinely seem like one from what little I can read...okay? ** You are clearly a male version of me. ** OP here again. It's been months, and no progress. Met a girl, talked to her, she was friendly, I was interested, tried saying something, but couldn't. Girl went away. Met another girl, talked to her, she was friendly, I was interested, turns out she was taken and the boyfriend was a genuinely nice guy. Still friends with girl. Met a third girl, talked to her, she was friendly, I was interested, tried to say something, but couldn't. Too nervous, sweaty palms, dry mouth, cracking voice. Rinse, repeat; rinse, repeat. So, yeah, nothing's changed. I do sometimes wonder if any girls have their eyes on me, though. Nothing says this trope can't be gender-flipped, and AllLoveIsUnrequited works both ways... *** You could be describing this troper to a T. *** From how you describe yourself, you sound like a male ShrinkingViolet. As someone who used to have that crippling form of shyness, it would probably be best to gain some self-confidence and work on some CharacterDevelopment first, ''before'' trying to woo a girl. Try getting some help from your parents or a close friend to help you to be more out-going and sorting out any personal issues you might have that might be causing your shyness. Once you do that, try taking it up a notch and be more assertive and independent. In the meantime, you can figure out the kind of girl you like instead of just settling for anyone who seems nice or shows interest. And if you ever do develop feelings for a girl, don't dawdle and tell her ASAP! Too many people make the mistake of [[CanNotSpitItOut holding their feelings in]] instead of just getting it over with. * [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] with [[{{Tropers/Joerc45}} this troper]], he is a single man who seeks a good woman. ^_^ ** I think there are a lot of us, actually, but it's just so bloody

difficult to find a "good woman" nowadays. There's just this weird trend that jerkassery is a sign of self-confidence and strength, and it applies also to women. (Don't accuse me of generalizing, I know there are actual good women in the world, but I'm describing what I see in everyday life). This troper finds it absolutely disgusting, to the point where I find "bad girls" dreadfully boring and unoriginal. Yep, people, [[CrapsackWorld the world has come to this]] - kindness of heart and good will (and most of all, appreciation of the two) are now more original than being a so-called "rebel". So, girls... I wholeheartedly encourage you all to be as [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean original]] as possible. * This [[Tropers/{{Cybele}} tropette's]] got no interest in jerks, yet I only seem to attract them and [[StalkerWithACrush strange]] people. I ''almost'' found my good man, but there was a [[AllLoveIsUnrequited wall there that not even I could break down]]. =( ** Have faith: there'll be someone waiting for you somewhere. Until then... *Hug* ** OP here. ''My god. Thank you.'' I really needed that. :D ** I'm perpetually single, too. Don't worry about it, it will eventually work out. And when you do find that someone, your life will be richer with their presence. :) * A friend of this tropette once bemoaned while drunk that girls weren't interested in him because he's too nice of a guy (which is true--he's a total WhiteKnight type). Meanwhile, I wanted to beat him over the head with something because I was (and still am) pretty headover-heels for him; he was just too drunk and lost in his own misery to see my obvious flirtations. * I think the reason that so many guys have trouble getting girls when they are nice is that they are too nice and don't make their intentions apparent. Being an asshole will be even less likely to work. Just try being yourself guys don't worry about what you think girls like because we are all different and like different things. You could be a complete nerd. Guess what, NerdsAreSexy. You could be interesting in something most people haven't heard of, so start a conversation about it. Don't be a ShrinkingViolet and do not be an ass. Just be yourself. ** This (different) troper would like to point out, as a nerdy guy, it is surprisingly difficult to start a conversation in the first place. I'm currently friends (and, hopefully, the love interest) of a girl who sits next to me in English, but I find it difficult to talk to her normally, as I am a naturally quiet person (which is ironic, as I quite enjoy acting) and usually weights up entire sentences before even opening my mouth, which makes it difficult to even know what to say to her (admittedly, I might be a bit of an extreme case). So, girls, if a guy never talks in a lesson, but seems interested in it, try asking him about it instead of patently expecting him to start it, as he might not know how to even start the conversation. (As an interesting aside, according to the theory of language, the language of men and the language of women has been described as roughly like two different cultures and that conversation between the two genders is like a cross-culture conversation, not too dissimilar to a Frenchman speaking to an Latin-American. This should explain why there

are so many people falling out over small things between the two genders. If this helps anyone in the future understand their spouse's reason for taking offence to what you believe to be an innocent comment, or help girls or guys understand why people of the opposite gender have difficulty in knowing what to say to the other, I'll be relieved. But, I digress slightly.) *** That mars and venus stuff seems awfully outdated. She's a human woman, not a freaking panther. A woman who may, by the way, be every bit as anxious and insecure as you are with the opposite gender. Also, well, expecting the other person to make the first move is likely to lead to dissapointment, more often than not. **** (Second poster again) I was just pointing out that language theorists have compared the two ways of speaking in both genders and found them different enough that potential confusion can occur between the two genders: for example, women say "Hmm" to show they are listening (usually at pauses in conversation, as a means of being cooperative with the speaker: this is known as backchanneling), whilst men generally use it to show agreement (see Robin Lakoff's essay on women's language if you have a few spare hours for full details). As to the second point...well, I agree with it, but knowing something doesn't make it any easier to overcome the problem: knowing that you live in a country where no native spiders are poisonous doesn't mean you'll stop being afraid of them. If I caused offence to anyone by my original post and in this one, I apologise. * Know what, guys? This troper's female friend said something very thought-provoking the other day. "The saying that [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean nice guys finish last]] and [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean bad boys finish first]] is true [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex mostly in bed]]". Several other friends heard that, and I'm getting the feeling that it really made them think... But girls, don't take her word for it. Try it yourself ^^ * Well, I'm a [[TheBigGuy tall, overweight,]] awkward man with a lot of BlueAndOrangeMorality, so I don't know where I fall between the target areas for this and for AllGirlsWantBadBoys, except that it's way outside both. However, I have some more respect for followers of SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan by default, as I find this attitude at least marginally understandable - Rottenvenetic * Aw. I think it's ''pitiful'' that this page is so short. For what it's worth, though, I would take a less attractive NiceGuy over a JerkJock any day--and so would my sexiest female friends. One of them landed her NiceGuy, and they're the most HappilyMarried couple I've ever been around. Oh, and hand-kissing is ''adorable''. Seriously, I would fall like a ton of bricks for the sort of guy who'd do that. (Too bad the only men who notice me are cute-but-creepy jerks...) * Single man seeks good woman. Will love and cherish. Hold and comfort. Laugh with. Cry with. Free to good home * This troper is in a relationship with an attractive and intelligent woman who admits that she fell in love with his honesty, empathy and sense of honor. It may take more time, but the results will be more than worth it. Just don't confuse being genuinely nice with acting like a codependent stalker. * [[{{Tropers/samusaranfan}} This tropette]], despite having

[[HumansAreBastards very little faith left in the human race]], is a firm believer in this trope. I don't care if you're a man or a [[BiTheWay woman]], fat or skinny, tall or short, hot or ugly. What I wany is a guy (or girl) who's nice, sensitive, and cares about me, who loves me for who I am. So far, I've had no luck at all. All of the classmates who've shown an interest in me have been bad boys (or girls). While the cynic in me wants to believe I won't find a good man (or woman), I still try to believe that someday I'll get my happy ending. * This Troper is happy to see she's not the only one who seeks good man...sadly, I've surrendered to accepting that I'll be single forever, since I'm not all that pretty (even been called 'deformed'.), and already 23. Doesn't help either that I live in a fairly [[CrapsackWorld shallow-minded city.]] Although, all the (few) guys I know are really nice and definitely not JerkAss personalities, so there's still hope... * [[PenelopeB This troper]] always finds herself falling for the polite, sweet types. All of her serious crushes are the sort who could be aptly described as gentlemanly. Nothing is more attractive than kindness. * [[MayuZane This troper]] used to think it's the opposite, until a close friend helped me realize through conversation that most of the women I used to like weren't dating jerks, but average dudes who I wished were jerks in my mind. One guy, for example, had an irrational dislike of comic books, hated kittens and had a habit of forgetting important dates. For a while that was enough to make me go WhatDoesSheSeeInHim but eventually I found out he more than made up for it by having a stable job, being reliable at doing household chores as well as being a fantastic chef. He, and so many others, weren't bad, just people who aren't perfect. One of them might have genuinely been a {{Jerkass}}, but for the most part they were average dudes who can be 'good' or 'bad' at different times, and their companions noticed the 'good' bits that others (like me) didn't. Also, this troper was painfully unaware he was making other people uncomfortable by being too emotional until this same friend pointed it out to me in this same conversation. Oops. Well, least I know for sure I'm not perfect either. ---You can go back to SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan but the main article won't be interested if you're a SexySadist or a {{Jerkass}}. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SinkOrSwimMentor * This Troper's grandfather was taught to swim by being chucked in a lake by his father. He's over 75 now, and still refuses to go swimming. ** This tends to be the [[{{Deconstruction}} REAL result of [=SoS=] mentoring....]] ** That's how I learned to swim, only I wasn't thrown in the pool. I was maybe 4, and I fell into the deep end of the pool. I learned to

swim ''really fast.'' * I always seem to find myself on the end of this kind of training. Seriously, no matter where I get a job, my superior inevitably says 'You'll learn as you go!' and then just having me do whatever dangerous/difficult task you're supposed to have a license for. Don't even ask me about how I learned to drive... * Quite literally with This Troper. He was taught to swim by being tossed into the shallow end of the pool, then when he tried to climb out, he would get pulled down and dragged back to just befopre the deep end by either his father or grandfather. * The swimming teacher of my mom and my aunt. He pushed my mom into the pool, and she swam. Then, he tried to do the same with my aunt, but she ran. After a nice chase around the pool she was pushed too, but not before scratching, biting and kicking the teacher. ---* splash* [[SinkOrSwimMentor SINK OR SWIM!!]] ----

SirSwearsalot * This Troper was an inversion in high school and much of college -his reputation for being clean-mouthed was a source of amusement to many of his friends, to the point where even "shit" once got him a detention. Sometime in college, though, this troper stopped giving a flying blue fuck. * [[Tropers/GalenDev This Troper]] is this compared to his friends. Pipes from the FreelanceAstronauts is his primary inspiration these days, yet one of his best friends [[BeyondTheImpossible swears less than]] [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]. * This Troper swears quite a bit compared to her friends, to the point that every time she gets angry, annoyed or hurt, her mouth slips out a "SHIT" or "FUCK". Or, when she's frustrated over things as a slowloading computer: (under her breath:) "fuck this fuckshit bitchass stupidass shitcakes shitballs fuckfuckshit" * This troper has a dad that certainly is one (being Polish and all). And it seems that this trope is passed down with the genes, looking at me and my sister... * This troper has been called a "certified cusser," and "swearing addict" by her friends. * A conversation I had: -->'''Brodyn:''' You swear too much. -->'''Me:''' [[IResembleThatRemark Fuck you!]] * This troper really can't bring herself to give a fuck because you can't give what you've never damn had. Also ---> Go away. I'm fucking busy being an asshole.

SittingOnTheRoof * Once on a school trip, This Troper walked into a room to witness an open window and a chair standing on the bed below it. She wouldn't have minded it at all, if it wasn't for her friends voice from outside the window, shouting 'Do you have ANY IDEA how amazing the view is

from here?'. The roof became our secret base for the rest of the trip and place of serious talks about emotions, as well as throwing thrash at another people's windows and general dicking about. * This troper removed the screens from some windows in her house to do this. It's a nice place to read, though her parents hate it. She has also vowed to find a way to get on the roof of her school. * TruthInTelevision, much to the dismay of this troper's mother. ** It is the same with this troper. * Subversion: This troper's brother once tried this. In July. We live in Texas. He got mild burns from the roof and a broken arm from jumping off a second story roof into a pool. F*ING HILARIOUS. * My mom said she would go up on the roof of her school to avoid doing stuff (Like the pep rally in the same ''{{Daria}}'' episode used as an example on the main page.). * One of my classmates apparently likes to sit on his roof shirtless. I don't know. * I sit on the roof of my garden shed sometimes. The roof of the house itself is usually too cold and slippery to be comfortable. * This troper delights in doing this when possible. It's not often an option due to the fact that getting up there requires a ladder and it freaks out her dad. * [[{{Vendetta}} This troper's]] friend is fond of doing this on the roof of his own house. She has joined him on one occasion. * One time (and one time only) I saw some neighbors ''sunbathing'' on the roof of their house. Sadly I was too young to really appreciate the view... * My school sort of had two roofs: one on the fifth floor and the normal one. (Think of the building of having an "L" shape.) The fifth floor roof was in easy view of the cafeteria and everybody always would say what an awesome place it would be to eat at on a nice day. Of course, the door was locked and acess was forbidden, but some kids managed to get out once. Lucky bastards. * At my college, it's supposedly a tradition to climb up to the roof of the library, and earlier tonight some students were on the roof of one of the dorms -- I had no idea you could get up there! * When this troper was a little kid he liked to do just that. Strangely enough two of his neighbors also liked walking on the roof only late at night. We lived in a rowhouse at the time. * My old elementary school has a pretty low roof; it's high enough to keep the 4th graders off, but when my friends and I hang there on the weekends, we climb up onto the roof which is easy for anyone in high school and up. * This troper's one-story house has a balcony directly above the garage accessible by a spiral staircase which also gives direct access to the roof. It used to be a great view from there, until the mango tree at the neighbors' house got in the way of the southwest direction. * This troper's garage roof is fairly flat and has a sort of low fence on two sides, making it very practical for this trope. His friend's house has a roof easily accessible from a balcony. * One time I heard someone on the roof and went out to see who it was (like I didn't already know) and why they they were doing it. Not

surprisingly, it was my brother and his friend, who were sunbathing on the roof (and I think also smoking). What I found weird was that I'm pretty sure they were naked up there (these same two already have a spot on the HoYay troper tales page). * During one winter the snow was really coming down. So me and my brother had to push it off the garage roof to keep it from caving it in (the whole building is made out of steel and isn't too strong). After a short time I slipped and fell off the roof. Luckily the snow was high enough that I didn't get hurt. Unluckily, my foot got pinned under a (broken down) snowblower that was ironically buried under the several feet of snow. That same winter we both went sledding off the roof. It was a fun winter. * [[ThisIsATest This Troper]] did a variation; in the house we used to live in, my room was right above the dining room, which had a small extension to it. And so, just outside the window of my bedroom, there was a small patch of roof. By climbing onto my desk, I discovered a great place to read or think or simply be alone. Unfortunately, I was quite scared of being caught/falling off the roof and not being able to get back inside, so I never made the most out of this convenience. We later moved into a one-story house, and after that, an apartment, and I was unable to do this again. * I used to go and sit up on the shed roof sometimes. My friend also tried this but she fell off * I love roofs! I grew up on a farm, with several homes, barns and other buildings. I have been up on all the roofs available several times. My favorite was the roof of the biggest barn, it had been extended with another building at a 90 degree angle, both with slanted roofs. Where the roofs met, there was a wide rainwater chute made from plastic-coated sheet metal, which we used as a slide - it ended up on top of another smaller, flat roof of yet another extension to the barn. * My old high school had a doorway to the roof near the school cop's office and we could go up there. The view from the tower was really nice but my senior year the superintendent was a bitch to everyone and when she found out about our rooftop cafe set up she blew her top and shut all of that down. Luckily my college has a nice rooftop the students use a lot though it is nowhere as large. * This Tropers parents were PISSED when they found him up on the roof one night. Needless to say, I haven't been up there since. ---You can [[SittingOnTheRoof climb back down to the main page]] when you're done here. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SituationalSword * [[Tropers/AmuroNT1 This Troper]] once participated in a ''DungeonsAndDragons'' game where one of the treasures the party found was a dagger with a Hold Person enchantment on it. The dagger '''never''' landed a hit in ordinary combat, but scored critical hits

during two critical battles, one with a giant scorpion[[hottip:*:Yes, Hold Person should only affect people, but hey, it was the GM's mistake, not ours.]] and another with an evil mage riding a flying cloud (the latter was even more impressive because it had to be ''thrown'' at him, and being Held made him fall off the cloud). This lead to our dubbing it the Dagger of Necessity, since it only worked when you absolutely needed it to.

SixthRanger * This Troper had a close three-person circle of friends, in addition to another close friend who had recently moved away. When said friend moved back, he quickly became a Sixth Ranger to the now four-person group, completely balancing out our dynamic (he evened up the gender distribution, acted as a lovable pervert in comparison to the rest of our relative prudiness, and pretty much just added everything we were missing before). * This troper was part of an all-female PowerTrio for a while in high school. I was the genius in the group, but oddly enough I was the Id. Our Ego was a six-foot-tall black lesbian from Scotland. Our Superego was a bit of a loner. And then our SixthRanger joined. She was shorter than all of us, a bit of a ditz and dyed her hair a different color every time we turned around. * Kind of hard to describe, but this troper finds that one of the "normal rangers" so to speak in a group is actually a sixth ranger for another group. And our friendly group has two sixth rangers! (they're both jackasses and idiots, though they don't actually mean harm about it, which does well to balance out our nerdiness while also keeping the flow of harmless insults going) * At the beginning of my sophomore year, I was TheOneGuy in a trio I formed in my school's anime club with my girlfriend ([[JustFriends before she actually]] ''[[TheyDo became]]'' [[RelationshipUpgrade my girlfriend]]) and our other friend (We were the only three DeathNote fans in the club). We were basically our own little group who did our own little thing, usually geeking out about anime and cosplay...and then after a couple months, we were joined by a new girl who just joined the club, who eventually became our [[SixthRanger Fourth Ranger]] just because she was the only other person who liked DeathNote. We then went on to become the greatest cosplay group I've ever been a part of...well, the ''only'' real cosplay group I've ever been a part of, but still, it was great. And yes, our first cosplay as a group was DeathNote. * This was Edgy in his sophmore year in college. He was the new guy to a group of friends and became the love interest of their "pink ranger". Then we broke up and the group chose sides. After that, I became the hero. ---A new friend will be joining you back at SixthRanger. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SkeletonKeyCard * TruthInTelevision: Before we started having issues with identity theft, a lot of slam-locks could be opened this way. I did it myself just to see if it really was doable or just something that happened on TV. * Definitely TruthInTelevision, it works on one of my doors at home, so that I dig out my school ID insead of going around to the door I have a key for. Granted, we have an alarm system, so getting it fixed is low priority. * Truth in Television at one troper's old dorms, to the point that a skit was performed involving a security guard (who you are meant to see if you lock yourself out) showing up with a ring of cards. * More TruthInTelevision: One of the gates on my old school could be opened with a protractor, never mind a credit card. * The doors in the building that housed my previous job didn't fit into their frames very well. On more than one occasion I had to get into a locked office to retrieve something, and at least twice I managed to open doors with a screwdriver - but the technique was almost identical to the credit card. Back in high school, again in an ancient building, I watched someone jimmy open a classroom door with a ''pencil''. * This troper, as a teen, broke into his own house so often with a piece of cardboard that it finally convinced his mother to get some better-quality locks...after the house up the street was burglarized. * At this troper's old high school, many doors (including various exterior, shop, and lab doors) could be opened this way. * This troper had to break into his own house this way multiple times in High School before getting keys to the front door in case he was the first one home. The laminated school ID worked with a little fiddling, but a spatula from the grill unlocked the door via this method probably faster than a real key properly applied. This troper has subsequently noticed that many doors are built to avoid this trope by opening inwards and having the seam inaccessible from the outside. * This troper, whilst on holiday one summer, accidentally left his keys inside the holiday cottage and was properly locked out. After trying all the doors, fiddling with the windows a bit and resorting to rattling on the door handle and swearing (the door was one of those inward-opening, card-trick-proof ones mentioned by the last troper), a friendly and able-looking man came out of the cottage next door and asked what the problem was. I told him, and after pondering a bit he disappeared into his house and came out with a strip cut out from a bottle of washing-up liquid. He proceeded to bend it around the doorframe and wiggle it about for a minute before the lock finally gave. I grinned "That's a great trick, where did you learn how to do it?", the man looked a bit sheepish "I'm a police officer... er, try and forget I taught you that one, okay?" * My parent's house has an internal sliding door with a simple privacy latch. The problem is the latch is old and doesn't work very well to the point that the credit card trick is pretty much the ONLY method of un-latching it. When this troper was younger he had to rescue people (mostly visiting relatives) who had closed the latch without realizing

that it can't be easily opened. * This troper once ended up locked INSIDE a bathroom in a manner that even comfounds him. After about an hour of trying to get the door open, I said 'to heck with it' and resorted to TV land logic. Used a card-shaped collector pin to pick the lock, and it WORKED! Thank you fiction! That pin is now a lucky charm for me. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SkinshipGrope * This troper has an ongoing count of how many girls this has happened with. 31! * When [[Tropers/{{Vorpy}} Vorpy]] was not doing this to others, I was the center of attention for this trope. The funny thing was, I was aware of the people from the vents watching us, and decided to perform for them a little bit... * This troper has on secondhand knowledge that this is occasionally TruthInTelevision. ** I have actually heard the exact same thing from more than one girl, I didn't get a nosebleed but blood certainly did rush around. ** Oh, yeah. You bet your ass it is. This troper has heard some stories about her school's all-male swim team, as well as experienced a... variant or two... *** Just the ass? ** Confirmed as TruthInTelevision. This troper is a teacher in Japan. I've seen groups of same gender students holding hands, hugging, hanging off of, and (in the case of boys) grappling with each other all in public. Dispite being played up for anime as a RuleOfSexy, skinship is non-sexual and considered a natural part of social and physical development. ** Doubly confirmed by another teacher in Japan. However, despite the trope dealing with girls almost exclusively, she sees a lot more skinship among the boys (for whatever reason). * This troper went to an all-girls school. Gym time in the locker room was always full of this! ** [[FreakyFridayFlip Body switching stories]] have always been a bit ridiculous for me, but I'm starting to see the appeal... * This troper has a friend who has been known to both appraise and ''grab'' her friend's breasts. Despite this, she has a long-time boyfriend. ** [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Despite?]] * This Troper went to school where there were a lot of Japanese schoolgirls that were high school age and older, as well as the female walking embodiment of Anything That Moves. A lot of this went on around said troper, and he was a very happy guy. * This (female) troper's group of (female, straight) friends tend to do this (and compare sizes). The amount we talk about boobs.... * There was one time that [[{{Tahaneira}} this troper]] was at the beach with a rather large group of friends. One day we were bored, so we decided to see how many people we could get to poke the boob of the

DepravedBisexual of the group at once. * [[SalFishFin This Troper]] witnessed this just last night. The other eight guys on the choir looked down in shame. He just stared sarcastically. * This troper's mother and aunts did it to her occasionally as she was growing. Their mother did it to them too, [[UpToEleven even more]]. Apparently, it's a common Puerto Rican thing. While if they were men I could file them for sexual abuse, I don't think it's any more than this trope. * This troper's high school drama troupe was like this. As a freshman, you joined with all the expected sexual boundaries. By the time you were a sophomore, you were helping to "initiate" the new freshmen. From what I've heard, it's died out in recent years, but I still have fond memories of holding another girl's breasts just before I went onstage to calm my nerves (as she did the same to me), and things like this were far from uncommon backstage. It's actually difficult to think of two people (out of a rotating group of 30-60) that didn't grope one another at any point over our four years. * Among [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper's]] {{Nakama,}} this happens a lot... ---Damn, you're a lot bigger than I am. Oh, going back to SkinshipGrope? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SkirtOverSlacks * My seven-year-old neice recently started wearing this. When I asked her about it she gleefully shouted "For lookin' good and kickin' ASS!" I laughed appreciatively, then told her she shouldn't say ass. That won't stop her. * [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] at [[Tropers/SunnyV my]] school. We had skirts as part of the uniform, but in the winter, the heating system was...[[UnderStatement not good.]] As a result, many girls wore pants under their skirts. This later led to a [[HilarityEnsues hilarious incident]] involving me losing my pants. Never before has there been such a case of ItMakesSenseInContext. ** What, you're not going to tell the story? *** That's kind of the point of NoodleIncident stories. * This was a massive craze in my hometown when I was about seven. Every shop sold "skirt-trousers", where they were physically attached. Of course, this was the 90's, so... * I think wearing skirts over pants is really cute! I used to do it all the time when I was younger. * Tropers/{{Mary}} does this when she's not wearing Zettai Ryouiki with her skirts. * A co-worker of mine is required to wear long pants due to the nature of the work, and required to wear a skirt due to her religion. Her compromise is to wear both. * Tropers/JackMackerel did it for his Begnning Acting class - the character in question was a normally uptight person who occasionally

has bouts of mimicking his wife's mannerisms and clothing. Since our professor refused to let groups who showed up late get access to the storage for appropriate costumes, I had to make do with... a cowboy hat, a teddy, a skirt, busted-ass high heels, and my khaki pants. I was highly considering going pantless, but it'd take too much time (the teddy was... tight.) Altered the script (since I had to mimick the character's wife to the very last detail, but as before, no appropriate costume for either of us). * My school is about to bring in ankle length skirts into our uniform next year. I was really annoyed as I only feel comfortable in clothes I can run in (I know that sounds weird) so ankle skirts wouldn't be ... my type of thing... But then someone pointed out you can just wear pyjama bottoms or even jeans underneath. So my plan is to wear jeans under my skirt all year until university (I live in Ireland; it won't be too hot!) ** ... How would putting pants under an ankle length skirt make it remotely easier to run in? * This troper always, always wears pants (or leggings) under her school uniform. It's just more comfortable. /shrug * At this troper's school almost all girls who wear skirts (All besides maybe a handfull in the entire school who choose to wear pants) will have a pair of shorts under it, particularly in the winter when only seniors are allowed to wear tights. * I don't get the caption on the example photo. Oh noes! Pants with skirts! Really, this is so common in RealLife in my area (where we have snow in May) that to me it was PeopleSittngOnChairs level of common. Then again, TV Tropes thinks of everything... ** This troper guesses that while certain combinations of slacks and skirts can be stylish, the one in the page image...isn't, for some reason. ** Yeah. It looks like she just grabbed random clothes on her way out the door. Also, needs to brush her hair. ** ThisTroper doesn't remember ever seeing this in real life. He's not exactly looking out for it... well, he wasn't. You don't need to worry about flashing the audience on the way back to {{Skirt Over Slacks}}.

SkirtsAndLadders Proving one of girls' worst fears, we have a TroperTales section for this. ---* This is truth in television. [[{{Amazinglyenough}} I]] worked at a bookstore where the staff warned female employees about wearing skirts to work. * Another RealLife example. Japan. {{Joshikousei}}. Short skirts. Long high stairs on the way to school. [[{{Aminatep}} I'm]] a bastard. Sue me. * [[Tropers/JuiceBoxHero This troper]] subverts it by wearing ''very'' floofy knickers or boxer shorts under all her skirts, or, if the skirt allows it, floofy petticoats. Sure, a guy can look up there, but all

they'll see is frills and lace without much skin to go with it. Of course some people are [[RuleThirtySix into that sort of thing...]] * This troper's schol has a stairway going down to the lunchroom. I've been lucky to be behind a couple skirt-wearing girls going back up these stairs, but [[AvertedTrope it is nearly impossible]] to see [[PantyShot anything]]. * This male troper's best memories from high school come from the exploitation of a large staircase that all the students were required to use to access the classrooms. As a result he was able to get some very nice views. * If you're going to Chichen Itza or another Aztec or Mayan ruin, wear shorts rather than a skirt. The stairs on those things are steep enough that they may as well be ladders. Trust [[Tropers/GreatLimmick me, I]] saw a bunch of high school girls taking a trip there. ---I am ''not'' climbing the ladder back to {{Skirts and Ladders}} before you, you pervert!

SkunkStripe * YourObedientSerpent's wife went silver when she was in her 20s. Several years ago, she had a scalp injury -- and when it healed, the hair came back with a ''black'' streak in the injured area. * A friend of this troper has a white stripe in her hair, apparently from since she was four. * [[{{this-guy}} My]] aunt has a skunk stripe but I haven't thought much about it until I saw this page. ** I also have an original character with a skunk stripe: [[http://doubleyou-tee-eff.deviantart.com/art/OC-Maria-104240104 Maria]]. (That reference is soon to be outdated.) * This Troper's mother is going gray rather irregularly, with the end result leaving her looking like movie Rogue. She thinks it looks rather cool. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Rather]]. * This Troper gets a streak of blonde at the temple during the summer. Her hair is naturally brown. * This troper's mom had one for a while, in the early years of her greying process. * This troper started growing a streak when he was around 14. Supposedly this is due to premature graying within his family. * This troper has a friend from church whose hair is bright orange except for a white stripe near the front. * This troper's brother-in-law has a white, almost sprayed-on-looking patch on the back of his head. * [[QuantumToast This troper]]'s facial hair is mostly reddish-brown, except for a pure white patch on his moustache. The only thing that really bugs him about it is that it's not really visible from a distance - it just looks like he's shaved away an off-centre stripe for some reason. * This troper's cousin had the ends of her black hair dyed blonde, and was actually told that her hair looked like a skunk. It was goodnatured, though, so she just thought it was cute.

* One of [[{{Starscream}} my]] Visual Design classmates uses a fake lock of hair (she straps it on) to get this effect. * A classmate of this troper had a white lock. In ''elementary'' school. * This troper's brother has a streak of white hair on the side of his head, it began when he was around 13. * A friend from my Boy Scout troop had a white patch in the lower-back of his black-haired head from age 10 on. * Smerf: I'm getting a skunk stripe in my beard. I blame it on stress. * This Troper has a blonde streak going from a cowlick to the very front of his bangs. He also has a gray spot when his stubble comes in. It's on the same spot where I fell on a stump as a little kid. * [[DarcDiscordia I've]] got something kind of like this; my right eyebrow has a random patch of white hair, rather than the usual brown, near the end. * This Troper's chemistry professor has gray hair, but her fringe is a lighter shade. * [[{{Heroville}} This troper]] has vitiligo down the middle of his right eyebrow and nowhere else. I've been told it give me "character"...I don't know what that says about my personality. * [[{{Miso}} This Troper]] has bright blonde streaks in the back of her mostly brownish colored hair. People always ask me how much I paid for the streaks, and I tell them they're just birthmarks. Kind of ruined because my hair is oily and tangly and just generally annoying and unmanageable. And believe you me, I've tried a zillion things to fix it. * There's a boy I've seen around who has a white stripe like that, and it's been driving me crazy wondering whether it's dyed or it's just like that. I'm pretty sure it's dyed, but it's not like I'm just going to go up and ask, considering we've never actually met before. * ThisTropers seven year old brother was born with one of these. He has platinum blond hair (with blue eyes, the kid looks like a reject from VillageOfTheDamned) with a ''huge'' black streak running through the middle. I happen to think it's the most awesome birthmark (or whatever the hell it is, help please?) ever. * This troper has a red-head classmate with this on his cowlick. She later learned it was from stitches to his head. * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} This troper]] has had the same gray streak in her hair since age 13 (premature graying runs in the family.) It's less noticeable now that I'm growing dreads, but I got plenty of comments on it when I was a teenage (adults would say it was a sign of wisdom, and my best friend said it made me look like Rogue from XMen). * A boy at my school has a mole on his head that gives him a patch of white hair near the temple. His hair is blond, though, so it's hard to notice. It does look quite awesome, though. * {{This Troper}}'s french teacher cracked her head open on a piano as a child. Right in the centre of her forehead. She has a centre-parting so it looks like two separate white streaks. Made even cooler by the rest of her hair being [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl silvery]]. * This troper has Waardenburg Syndrome, so they have this, along with MismatchedEyes.

* This troper's high school science teacher apparently had one hair in the middle of her scalp go grey during college, which "made her look like the Bride of Frankenstein." Now her hair is almost completely white, but that particular streak is the whitest. * This troper met someone with one today! Saw her coming out of a cafe at uni, so I made a beeline for her and said, "Sorry if this is insensitive, but is that streak in your hair dyed?" and she proudly said, "Nope!" A streak of silver-white against ebony! * This troper had a skunk stripe for a while after dressing up as Sweeney Todd for Halloween. ---[[SkunkStripe Only your hairdresser knows for sure.]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SkywardScream * This troper and his sister had a season's pass to an amusement park (Canada's Wonderland) last year. Sometimes the crowd is manageable but of course much of the time it's extremely busy. Once he went on a day that he thought wouldn't be busy (with the weather), but when he actually drove there, it was madness. After seeing the ''two-hour'' line for the main roller coaster, he had a not-so-{{heroic BSOD}} and literally shouted "WWHHYY?!" to the skies. {{case}} * I got tossed the IdiotBall one day when I was playing tennis. I had quite a lot of ChewingTheScenery moments, and [[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensued]]. Of course, I couldn't go without the skyward shout of [[BigNo NOOOOOO!!!!!]] at the end. * This troper was playing [[MegaMan Mega Man 2]] when, on Bubble Man's stage, she hit some [[SpikesOfDoom spikes]]. On her last life. Naturally, she screamed "SPIIIIIIIKEEEEESSSS!" And let not even get started on [[ScrappyLevel the lazers]]... * Here are some things I've said while playing RuneScape: ** LUCIENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! ([[spoiler: After [[MadeOfWin Cyresius]] dies]]) ** VANSTROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM! ([[spoiler: After Gadderanks dies]]) ** ELVARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG! ([[spoiler: After the cabin boy dies]]) ** And probably the most epic of all: DAAAAAAAAAAAAAGAAAAAAAAAAAANOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTHSSSSSSSSSSSS! ([[spoiler: After Princess Astrid and Prince Brand died]]). * This troper does this a lot in Irish class. Classmates have often used an Irish/English dictionary for homework, resulting in mistranslations. Whenever this happens, cue this troper shouting DICTIONARYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! Complete with shaking fist. * This troper took a Static Mechanics class in college. Taught by one Subhotash Khan. Guess what I did whenever I failed a test. * Who ''didn't'' finish FFXIII without at least one "BARTHANDELUS!"? * Bowling among my friends is SeriousBusiness, including some skyward "NOOOOOOOOOOO!"s, "YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"s, and just plain old triumphant/anguished skyward screams. * This troper heard a [[TheScrappy Justin Bieber]] song on a Chinese

TV show. Cue NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! * this troper is very over;y dramatic, so when her she was playing a queen in a play, and her "husband" was killed, the script called for her to cry silently over his body. Instead she ad-libbed a skyward scream of NOOOOOOOOOO!!!, which she probably would have gotten in trouble for, had it not been recieved better then the other action. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SlapSlapKiss * This troper appears to be in one of these. The first time we really talk to each other was when we were arguing about something(can't remember what but I know it was pointless). For three months after that day we just started arguing whenever we spoke. However as time went on it seemed to appear(and feel) more like a strange form of flirting, something her friends pointed out as often as possible. It finally got to the point where one of them asked if I was taking her to an upcoming dance and I said "I wasn't thinking about it, why?" Her friend didn't answer so I talked to her about it and it appears her friend asked me because she wanter her to. The funny thing is in between all the arguing I noticed she's really pretty so I think I'll see if this can work. * This troper once witnessed one of the most bizarre relationships he has ever seen, between an unreconstructed, offensively racist redneck and a sassy young black woman. He was always cracking racist jokes yet her response took the hilarious form of outright flirting with him, squicking him out something hilarious. It became even more so when he was fiercely denying having kissed her at a party, or making sure she was in hearing range for his jokes it was hilariously tropey, and oddly sweet. ** And this troper thanks that is freaking adorable, and would love to know two people like that. * This troper has a character who is brawly and a remarkably well adjusted alcoholic. He's married to another person's character, who's slightly more brawly, slightly less well adjusted, and slightly less alcoholic (emphasis on slightly-she won't drink him under the table, but damn if she ain't tryin' anyway). They both think that SlapSlapKiss is how foreplay normally goes. Reports otherwise are dismissed as crazy talk. * This troper and her significant other often do this jokingly. One example would be when discussing ominous organ music, and he claimed it was more [[NightmareRetardant cheesy than ominous]]. She called him out on it, claiming he would probably have peed his pants in the fifties "or something". Cue an argument in logic ending with, "THAT'S ILLOGICAL!" "YOU'RE ONE TO TALK!" "ARE YOU AS TURNED ON AS I AM?" "MAYBE!" Cue the snogging. * This troper and her best friend were a platonic example of this (Slap Slap Hug?). They'd have a huge blowup every couple of weeks like clockwork, after which we'd have a rather tearful reunion. Half the school thought we were dating, and the other half thought we hated

each other. Truth is, we were just as intimate as it is possible to be with someone, with the exception of sexual activity. * This (male) Troper was another example of the platonic example above (before a GreenEyedEpiphany kicked in, much to his chagrin). Where she would often annoy him to no end, twist his words around like a BunnyEarsLawyer on crack, and then start a play fight with him. This troper has a thing for {{tomboy}}s, though, so it kind of worked out. * This troper and a friend of her also have the hug variant of this trope. We were always arguing and BOTH liking the arguing. It went so far that, at one point, we went to get her Prom dress, and we told another friend of us. The other friend was encredible happy that we would take one of my other friends along; she litterally said that we would probably kill eachother otherwise and we just laughed at her face. * This troper once had a relationship once which was essentially founded on a mutual fetish for fighting. The relationship was normal otherwise, but arguments all tended to devolve into sex. * The same troper is working with his ex-girlfriend to write a play mostly centering around pornography tropes. One of the couples has a slap-slap-kiss relationship. Subverted in that they don't have to be necessarily slapping each-other to provoke a kiss, just being in the vicinity of two slaps. * Defied example with [[ARandomSerf this troper]] at Friend A's court of honor. Friend B was also there, and at one point we happened to be making eye contact, which...intensified. Friend A noticed and broke it up because "you two are either about to attack each other or start making out, and either way I don't want any part of it." * SlapSlapKiss is pretty much [[MsByrd Ms. Byrd]]'s default interaction setting around people--especially males--she's fond of... cue some [[IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn very awkward moments]] with her [[TheWoobie masochistic ex]]. On the [[SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism slightly brighter side]], this gives her some very good motivation to [[CharacterDevelopment continue improving]] her ability to self-monitor. * Happens a lot with me and my best friend who I've had a fling with for months but we've never dated despite liking eachother a great deal. We argue all the time, and get in fights and wrestling matches over the silliest crap when we're together. It's usually kind of flirty fighting, but after we get bruised our faces end on eachother and it ends with us making out for a few minutes. It's pretty much this trope to a tee. * This troper is writing a story that has a shaman named Lodoo and a Necromancer named Marion. They both fight each other and get into epic supernatural battles, but are the surrogate parents of an archer and are married. * This Troper was in a relationship very much like this. We "hated" each other but the belligerent sexual tension was painfully obvious. This was so obvious that our friends made fun of my (frequent. He even tried a cup only for me to grab it and attempt to pull it back just to kick him...with mixed results.) groin attack as an excuse to get....[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean near him]]. After two years of constantly fighting and beating the shit out of each other (Shota vs. 6'1" man.),

the tension suddenly broke when I kissed on on the excuse that (after slapping him repeatedly from 8-12 times), "Someone needs to shut him up". After that it turned into the slowest painful on-and-off masochism tango. We break up and get back together constantly. We're absolutely ''fated'' for each other. Really. |: * This tropette and her boyfriend, This tropette and her boyfriend, This tropette and her boyfriend. It's ridiculous how much we fight over anything really. * This troper's best friend and her boyfriend. Watching them violently wrestle for ten minutes before curling up, perfectly content, wherever they happen to end up is hilarious. It doesn't help they're both the stubbornest people this troper knows, and therefore REFUSE to give in. * When this [[{{GuyP3rs0n}} Troper]] was in sixth grade, his friend's sister always harrassed me about being short. Then I fell over or something stupid and she starts playing with my hair after I get better. * This Tropette has a crush on this boy. This boy came into her lunch area when she was on the computer, looking up one of her favorite music videos. He stood behind her and watched it too. At the end, he said. "Good video, shitty song." I flipped out, chased him into the hallway, grabbed him by his backpack and flung him against some lockers, punching him. About a week later, I asked him out. He still has not replied. * this troper-shaped-female and this random meaningless [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial totally not in a relationship for 3.5 months]] dude. Argue argue argue...chemistry. Argue argue argue...synchronicity. Argue Argue argue...tackle. * Not quite this trope because the kiss [[AlmostKiss didn't ACTUALLY happen,]] but this troper and her guy friend were wrestling (it began as a competitive game involving body checking), and he eventually pinned her down on the ground with him on top of her. Pause as breaths were caught, then he suddenly leaned his face forward and... this troper freaked out and resumed the fighting. * [[WillTheyOrWontThey Whether or not this one's going to follow through,]] this high-school aged troper has a bit of a routine with a girl in his orchestra. I annoy her with my [[GratuitousRussian fake accent]] and she [[KickTheSonOfABitch kicks me repeatedly in the shins.]] Of course, when she carpooled with this troper, apparently I was the most-talked about topic with her as long as I wasn't along for the ride. Admittedly, she's not that bad-looking. Maybe first semester dance material? It'd be entertaining, at least. ---I don't know whether to slap you or kiss you. [[SlapSlapKiss I think I'll do both.]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SleepCute * When this troper's [[DeadpanSnarker smart]]-[[{{Jerkass}} ass]] [[{{Tsundere}} father]] is in bed with her mother and actually sleeping, he will scoot up to Mom to cuddle, then scoot away when he

gets too warm, then comes back to her when he has cooled off. It keeps her up all night if she isn't in a deep enough sleep. What is so cute about this is what happens if Mom ''isn't'' in bed with Dad. He'll start nudging to the other side of bed to ''find Mom in his sleep.'' [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther D'aw]]. * Little kids (aside from the shipping part, [[{{Squick}} eww]]) are good for this. [[GamerFromJump I was]] at a cousin's wedding reception and held another cousin's baby daughter for him. She fell asleep on my shoulder. Cue mom's "[[{{moe}} Awww]], how adorable!" and dad's "[[IWantGrandkids You should get some of your own.]]" ** Unlike the topmost troper's, my parents can't do this, because she's heat-sensitive and he "is like sleeping next to a water heater". * I just found out a friend has an entire folder on her laptop dedicated to pictures taken of her friends sleeping on various occasions, this troper included. (Cuter than it sounds) * My sister has a picture of her and her boyfriend like this. It's adorable. * Before we started going out, my boyfriend and I sat together on the bus on the way home from a really, really long parade[Marching Band FTW]. I ended up leaning on him and I imagine that we both fell asleep. I wouldn't have been surprised if the band mom in front of us snuck a few looks. Sort of subverted in that I can't exactly watch myself when I'm sleeping, but... * Back in high school, this Swedish [[{{Kathadrion}} troper]] went to Germany with her school. On the bus, a friend of mine happened to sit next to a boy whom we had gone to school with for two years, but didn't know since we didn't have any classes with him. After about half an hour they both fell asleep, my friend with her head on the boy's shoulder and his arms around her. They slept for several hours and the rest of the people on the bus (including the boy's friends) [[{{Squee}} squee'd]] over their cuteness. Then they woke up and went on not knowing each other. I don't think they ever said one single word to each other. * This troperette has had some pretty boring days in Phys Ed, which usually leads to me calling over a certain friend and falling asleep on her shoulder. One time in middle school, I woke up to find my head in her lap. We're both straight and it's totally platonic. I'm usually willing to fall asleep on ANYBODY's shoulders, she's just the comfiest and most willing to let me. * When the choir I'm in was sitting in the bus back from a performance, me and some other people I didn't know that well sat in the back. Me and another girl ended up sleeping against the shoulder of the same guy, and a third girl slept against the shoulder of another guy. I even heard other people make comments about how cute it looked. * In my experience, two people always crash into a position like this one at the end of house parties. * Apparently, this anon troper and her boyfriend. He had an overnight party, we'd both been up since early that morning, and stayed up until the following dawn on account of obnoxious "friends". So when we finally did fall asleep, curled up on his couch, this trope was in such full effect that said "friends" let us sleep until noon - when we

actually needed to be up somewhat early. * This [[{{NiceGuy}} (male)]] [[{{Tropers.Russtopher}} troper]] once had a close female friend fall asleep with her head on his shoulder during a movie. Still one of the cutest things he's ever seen. ** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Not a very interesting movie, huh?]] ** Can't even remember what it was... * A friend of [[Tropers/MegTheMaggot This Tropette]] was once camping with his Nakama. Two of the guys started spooning in their sleep, so my friend naturally took pictures of them as blackmail. The pictures are completely adorable, though it's completely understandable why the heterosexual teenage males aren't too thrilled about the GayMoment. * While not a romantic example, [[Tropers/ProdigalDaughter this troper]]'s Sister Dear and Cousin of the Green Hair, when both were tennish, slumped onto each-other's shoulders during a long car trip. Both were more than a wee bit prickly at the time, Sister Dear especially, and their unguarded sleeping faces caused much squeeing in the rest of the car... until Mum turned back to get a photo of them. The flash woke them both and they swore about as ripely as ten-yearolds tend to manage. * Me and my friend did this once. I stayed over at her house after a party, and there was only one bed, so we slept together. When I woke up, she had her arms round me and I thought it was kind of cute, wish there was some way I could see what we looked like. * My sister is 5 years younger than me, and [[{{Moe}} a little sweetheart, with a voice that will forever sound like a child's no matter what age she is.]] When she was around 12 to 15, during family trips at night, we would doze off in the back seats and I would wake up to find her head laying lightly against my shoulder... sometimes with her hands upon my tummy. I would usually slowly put my head over her's in return, careful not to put too much pressure as to wake her up. ... such a sweet little sister. * This tropers cat loves to wrap herself around peoples heads whilst their sleeping. Dawwww. ** Similarly, my cat will dig her way under the covers and sleep curled up against them. It ''has'' startled a few friends at sleepovers when they weren't expecting it, though. (Imagine waking up to a big fuzzy thing pressed up against your belly...) * This troper and her girlfriend were found by the rest of their camping group, the morning after the night of their first AccidentalKiss-followed-by-actual-kissing, curled up together in their sleeping bags. They assumed it was platonic. [[LesYay They were wrong]]. * I have absolutely no problem sharing a bed with any of my friends, regardless of gender. Several times, I've gone to sleep with an arm around them. It's completely platonic. * I usually have a perma-scowl on that unnerves people, but when I'm asleep, people are apt to take pictures. * This troper went up to a football game with two of her friends. They claimed they were completely platonic, but on the drive back they feel asleep in the car leaning on each other's shoulder, smiling like idiots and all cuddled up. Biggest "Awww!" moment ever. * My brother and I went shopping with a few friends. In the car, on

the way back from the mall, my brother and I (both terrible shoppers) fell asleep cuddled up next to each other. My friends took pictures. * Happened several times with my ex. First met her and started crushing on her at a summer camp, but a few weeks in I started to suspect that she was going out with someone else. Sure enough, the last night of camp they both fell asleep on the couch next to each other, so I just did an IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy and walked out. A few months later, after they had already split up, our confession of love was essentially falling asleep next to each other holding hands. * This troper tends toward this trope. If I fall asleep sitting up next to someone warm, I instinctively start to snuggle up to them, creating some rather awkward moments. Though cats and lemurs do that and it doesn't seem to bother them... * After a flirting-filled school-trip in France, myself and the girl with whom the flirting had happened were next to eachother on the bus home. This trope happened, but a mutual friend decided to cock-block and push us apart. * Happened to this Troper on the school bus with a completely platonic friend of hers. It was a band trip, and we had to be at the school around 6:00 AM to leave, so naturally, everyone was much more tired than they would be ordinarily. So as soon as we started driving, [[CrazyPrepared I pulled my pillow out of my bag]] and went to sleep. When I woke up to shift positions, my friend was sleeping on my shoulder. I almost squee'd out loud. * This troper remembers when she was little the only time her sister seemed peaceful was when she was asleep. This holds true to this very day. Melissa I love you but you are a pain in the ass. * On long car trips this troper and her five brothers are regularly falling asleep on each other's shoulders. I have pictures of four of my brothers and cousins all asleep in the same bed while three of them are tangled up adorable especially considering that they usually try to kill each other. She's also always had a little bit of a dream to be caught in one of these with a love interest. * Once my friend Violet (SheIsNotMyGirlfriend) fell asleep on me when we were watching PushingDaises on DVD in the basement, only for her to wake up and hear "Can you help us get out of these body bags?" Somewhere a shipper is binging on that moment. * My best friend is irritable, short-tempered and not exactly pedantic about her appearance. But every once in a while she'll do something to remind me why she's inherently lovable. The best had to be when she'd worked herself into exhaustion over her exam revision, and I came back to find her curled up on the corner of the sofa with all the frustration gone from her face. It was so cute I wanted to wake her up and point it out (she's a keen tropespotter, too) but realised doing so would just ruin the moment. Besides, she needed the rest. * According to a close male friend of mine, we'll call him A, he had two of our mutual male friends, B and C, spending the night at his house. B fell asleep while they were watching TV, and when A went into the bathroom, C fell asleep, too. When A came back, he found B and C spooning on the floor. The best part? B was the 'big spoon', meaning he'd rolled over in his sleep in order to cuddle C (rather than C having set it up while awake). I, obviously, didn't personally see it,

but it is the cutest mental picture ever. * This troper lives with her two male roommates, who have more than a bit of the [[Main/HeterosexualLifePartner Heterosexual Life Partner]] vibe going on. We were all sitting together watching TV and insulting each other like we normally do, and things went quiet. This troper looks over to see both boys sleeping soundly on either side of her, in a rare moment of peace and non-obnoxiousness. After enjoying the cuteness for a bit, she got up to do the dishes. The boys woke up next to each other and [[Main/LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain a hilariously awkward moment followed.]] ---Go back to SleepCute, but be careful... You'll wake them up. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SleepingDummy * I tried this once, for who-knows-what-reason. Having stayed up all night, I thought it was hilarious when my mom asked me, "Why is there a ''thing'' in your bed?!" Apparently, despite my best efforts, it didn't look at all like a sleeping person to her.

SleepLearning * One time in 7th grade, I fell asleep in my English class, but my dream was the teacher teaching class, so I somehow actually learned it. And later that year, I fell asleep in algebra when a teacher called on me on purpose. I think I must have heard the problem or something because I guessed and got it right. ** I did something similar in Biology. I'm fairly certain the teacher knew I was asleep, so he directed a difficult question at me. Luckily, because I'm paranoid, I never go completely to sleep when people are around (plus, I'm a very light sleeper). I stayed in the same position, answered correctly, and dozed off again. I'm pretty sure I got him believeing that just because I was slouched over my desk with my hair covering my face didn't mean I was asleep. ** Tried that once in the fourth grade. Got detention when "589 bananas" was nowhere near the correct answer. * This troper once tried to learn her college Japanese vocabulary by playing the CD that came with her textbook while she took an afternoon nap. She ended up having a strange dream about her mother running over an alligator with a Jeep...and her family doesn't own a Jeep. * This troper got a 94% in his highschool philosophy class by listening to the first few minutes of the discussion, falling asleep, then waking up about half an hour later and saying something very profound. * This troper ''twice'' got stumped by a calculus problem while doing homework. He ended up going to bed with the problem unsolved, ''solving it in his dreams'', waking up, and writing down his (correct) solution. ** And before anyone asks, yes, he did attempt to do ''an entire homework assignment'' in his sleep. He failed; there were too many

equations to memorize. ** This troper finds that "sleep on it" may be the single most useful piece of advice to give a stumped mathematician. Apparently our subconscious is better at this than we are. ** Agreed, but it's not the same as this trope. Working on something you already basically know how to do is a different animal from learning something brand new. ** This troper has spent half the year asleep in his Multivariable Calc class due to multiple factors (none of which relate to the subject matter - the class takes place right after lunch, the room is warm, underground, has no air circulation, and somewhere in the building is a physics lab where a constantly-running machine makes thrumthrumthrum noises that vibrate through the floor) and still seems to be doing okay on the exams... * This is apparently how this troper got through AP History. He would sleep through roughly half of the lecture, but would still ace the tests. Either he learned through osmosis, or was incredibly lucky. * [[{{Yaguar}} This troper]] is a composer, and he can legitimately compose original music while he sleeps. It sounds good, too. If it's a song, though, the lyrics are certain to be completely nonsensical. * This troper took this trope to the next level. She dreamed of being in art class and taking notes, which she remembered word for word. These notes weren't even made into transparencies before the next day. In other words, this troper learned the material before it was presented to her the first time. * My friend memorized the ''{{Wicked}}'' soundtrack by falling asleep with it on a loop. * This troper's friend fell asleep with Rammstein playing, and woke up speaking german. * Anyone else get great ideas in their sleep and forget them when they wake up? ** [[{{Bookhobbit}} -raises hand-]] ** Kinda. After having writers block for a while I ended up dreaming up a kick ass continuation of the story... only to forget 90% of it in the morning (now I'm trying to work the last 5% of it that makes any sense into the story). ** Are you me? This is exactly how I thought up a new character to one of my previous books! * [[{{Indefatigable}} This troper]] had an astronomy professor who would fall asleep while listening to scientific papers being read by grad students during weekly journal club sessions. He was definitely asleep -- he'd snore a bit, his head would nod, and once when everyone in the room laughed he snorted, woke up and smiled, and dozed off again. The best part was, at the end when it was time to ask questions, he would always wake up and sit straight, and ask intelligent questions that had not already been addressed. * This troper has never been able to pull off SleepLearning, but has occasionally wondered what would happen if you fell asleep with ''[[TheBeatles I Am The Walrus]]'' playing. Volunteers? ** I will! As soon as I can get a copy of it I'll play it on a continuous loop while I sleep. If nothing else I'll learn the lyrics and possibly understand the deep meaning behind "goob goob G'joob".

* [[{{Seiryu}} This troper]] had the cruelest real-life subversion ever. A high-school teacher had a hypnotic voice that guaranteed sleep in ten minutes. However, even while sleeping, you could still hear him. You still sat through the lecture, listening to his every word, and got no real rest whatsoever. The downside of this? You didn't have the notes, and to buy them off a [[WithFriendsLikeThese "friend"]] cost about $50. * [[{{Muselette}} This troper]] had the misfortune of sitting in a very cold spot in her senior lit. class in high school, which made her very, very sleepy. She managed to stay awake most of the time, but when it came to the poetry portion, she just couldn't do it. When it came time for the test, she made a 94. * I tired listening to Uncle Tom's Cabin while sleeping. [[DoorStopper When I woke up the thing still wasn't finished.]] Also, yes I notice the tired typo, [[JustForPun I decided to keep it.]] * In elementary and middle school, this troper used to write facts she wasn't sure of on her hands the night before tests, thinking it would absorb into her skin, and her blood stream would carry it to her brain. (She always washed it off before school; don't look at her like that!) It worked. Every. Time. It could have been power of suggestion, but one night, before a test in her senior year of high school, she was desperate enough to try it again. Guess who got an A+ on the test? * This troper is beginning to suspect that one of his lecturers is in the employ of the {{Mythbusters}} and doing a several-year test of this trope. It's currently looking "BUSTED". * This is how this troper learned TomLehrer's Element Song by heart. * I swear to God that I learned the word "eraser" in a dream from a teacher I wouldn't have for a few years. * Back when I was really little (at LEAST a couple of years ago) I played the Neopets game "The Darkest Faerie." I reached a point in the game in which I was stumped - I could not find a part of a sword, I believe? - and then went to sleep on the bed beside the TV. While I slept, my brother tried playing the same part of the game, and he, too, was stumped (he also broke the console in his frustration.) In my dream, I solved the problem and all became clear to me ("IT WAS THAT GUY IN THE JAIL! HE STOLE IT! IT'S SO OBVIOUS!") but when I woke up in the morning I discovered a broken PS2. Oh, well. Eventually I got another one and finished that quest. ---Go back to Main/SleepLearning and sleep on it. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SleepMask * This troper is far from the stereotypes associated with the SleepMask. However, since I usually stay up until around 5 AM (mostly [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife thanks to this very site]]), I'll wear one so it will be less obvious to me that the sun is already coming up and I really should have gone to sleep hours ago.

SleepModeSize * [[Tropers/KatanaCat This Troper]] curls up into a ball when she sleeps, just like a cat (aside from the obvious anatomy differences). She finds it hard to sleep in any other position. * This troper tends to curl up in a ball when sleeping, taking up surprisingly little space for his height. Being long-limbed means being travel-sized. * ThisTroper tends to curl up into a ball to sleep, and is very skinny. One night, after a round of drinking with friends, he awoke to discover himself in a strange bed. Apparently, the hostess of the party had noticed him curled up on the floor, and had hefted him up a flight of stairs to a spare mattress. ---------------------Okay, now go back to SleepModeSize before you--OMIGOODNESS ADORABLE SLEEP BALL MODE SO CUUUUTE!

SleepWalking * This Troper used to sleepwalk sometimes. She'd always go into her parents' room, tell her mom random things, and go back to her room. * My brother told me that his friend once went downstairs and started peeing on the TV in his sleep. * This Troper has sleepwalked multiple times. Most end with her not knowing how she got from her own bed into the couch, or vice versa. ** Once, when she was eight at the time and woke up at nine on weekends, apparently got up from bed at around seven, and walked to a wall. Not a corner, a wall. Without bumping her head. Asleep. Then, she curled up against the wall, and fell asleep there. She woke up two hours later with no recollection of what happened. Her [[CoolOldLady grandma]] told her she had seen the whole thing happen and thought she needed her sleep, and didn't wake her. * A good friend of mine doesn't sleep walk, he sleep fights. It's scary because he's a decent fighter awake but a complete dick when sleeping. When he was younger he picked up one of his friends said something about spiders and threw him across the room.... than went back to bed. * This Troper has been known to sleepwalk on occasion. Once, I was awakened by my parents returning home at an ungodly hour, and found myself taking a shower. Somehow, the running water did not awaken me. Another time, I awoke to find myself sitting in the driver's seat of a car that was parked on the street outside my house. It was not my car, and, anyway, I was only 13 years old at the time. Fortunately for me and everyone who lived in my neighborhood at that time, the keys were ''not'' in the car.

SlidingScaleOfLivingToys * This Troper's mother convinced her that all stuffed animals were

Type One, but had a special dispensation from the Powers That Be to speak to her (and to this troper by proxy). This evidently goes back a long time before this Troper was born... to this day she feels guilty about the box of abandoned stuffed animals in her closet. * I swear my toys are Type 1, or at least Type 0. The ones from when I was younger were definitely type one though... [[FridgeHorror which means my teddy bear wasn't stolen, she ran away...]]

SlipknotPonytail * This troper's ponytail does this every other day or so. * When this troper saw her love interest take her hair out of its ponytail, she almost fainted with delight. * This troper can't keep the damn hair in a ponytail or braid no matter what she does. * Once this troper's hairtie broke, unfortunately noone was around to see the dramatic moment. * [[ProfessionalWrestling Pro wrestlers]] who wear their hair long often have this happen during matches. * This troper's ties up his hair for physical exercise, but the elastic band (because I'm cheap) broke once, so now I make sure they aren't ready to break when I use them. * [[TomoeMichieru This troper]] once had a full-on Slipknot Ponytail moment - during a sparring session/fight, no less. * This troper's hair doesn't like being tied up in the least, much to his chagrin. * This (male) troper's hair tends to slip out of it's ponytail at odd moments, especially during active moments. The elastic ties don't snap, as such, but do necessitate being yanked out and the hair being shaken out and being bound up again ** This (also male) troper's ponytail does the same. It usually needs to be remade in front of people, and the stares are very unpleasant. However, provoking slipknot moments on purpose has proven to be quite effective in certain occasions... * Inverted with this troper - my (waist-length) hair is always ''down'', and oddly enough, I get more compliments when it's in a ponytail (which is rare) than when it's down. ** Oddly? YourMileageMayVary, I suppose. ...It depends on the ''type'' of ponytail, I think. The "low" ponytail is better than the "high" ponytail, IMHO. *** YMMV on that as well. A high ponytail exposes more of the nape and hackles, and provides an easy pull-handle to drag them closer with. * When This Troper was singing a popular and upbeat song during the heats of 'Anime Idol' at an anime convention, I got really physically into the performance, which was going down well with the audience. Just before breaking out into the final chorus, I grabbed the tie on my ponytail and ripped it off, letting my hair fly loose. While ostensibly a rather dorky thing to do, it got a considerable cheer from the audience and I believe it contributed tome making the finals. Oh, and I'm ''male'' (but I've cut my hair since then). ** I'd say that the fact you were singing at an anime convention alone makes the possibility of anything you did there being "dorky"

redundant. * This Troper has a classmate with long, ''extremely'' straight hair. When he's wearing a ponytail, headbanging hard enough will make it fall right off. Also: Knots get undone just as easily. * This troper has extremely rebellious hair. It won't fall out of a ponytail (my elastics are good, furred ones), but she's given up trying to keep it in a bun. * This troper doubted the power of this trope -- and then this happened to an attractive classmate in the middle of a presentation. Now it's one of my favorite things ever. * [[HawkW This (male) troper]] usually wears his hair loose, on account of being rather lousy with those little elastic tie things (and it looks better that way anyhow). Occasionally though, he puts his hair in a ponytail, and being horrible with elastic, usually ends up with a makeshift clasp made using a pencil and rubber band. When he wants to look dramatic, he yanks out the pencil, letting his hair fall down around his face * [[SciFiChica This female troper]] has hair that goes about halfway down her back, and is really quite pretty- light brown with reddish undertones and blonde highlights. It's a pain to keep out of things, though, so I usually either twist it up with a clip or put it into a bun. I've found it quite effective at Knowledge Bowl meets as a distracting tactic to remove the clip, shake it out, and twist it back up, especially if I'm wearing a short shirt that rides up over my stomach when I raise my arms to put it up...yes, I am evil, why do you ask? * While [[{{Bifauxnen}} crossplaying as a male]], [[DesignatedNPC This Troper]] got into a mock-fight against [[{{DevilMayCry}} Vergil]] and [[{{Bleach}} Ichigo]]. Her ponytail appropriately slipped just as she 'decapitated' Vergil, and the surrounding girls [[{{Squee}} ''squee'd'']]. * Back when This Troper actually had long hair, it would consistently fall out of its ponytail, often during school, which meant teachers constantly told me to put it back. Everyone, including most of the faculty, all of the students, and most of my family, thought it looked better down, to the extent that many teachers eventually started aksing me to lose the ponytail when I entered class (BTW: Male) * Whenever this Troper tries to put her hair in a high ponytail, it keeps slipping down, but it never falls out. * This male troper, who is normally quite reserved, normally wears his hair in a ponytail, reserving let-down hair for emotionally intense occasions. When you see me let my hair down, you might be glomped or headbutted, and you won't know until it hits you. * [[ThaliaAerith This Troper]]'s ponytail does this occasionally. * This Troper's (male-pattern) ponytail does this occasionally, although not as often as one might think, given that he habitually ties it back in a low 'tail virtually all the time out of sheer laziness. The few times he does something more creative with it are either because a hot girl asks if they can braid it, or in response to some extremely uncomfortable issues when this trope occurred during medieval re-enactment: generally encounters with my own chainmail, or an opponent's weapon. Being pulled around by the head of someone's

guisarme is both painful and embarrassing. * I had this happen to me ''on stage''. I was in the chorus of ''The Sorceror'' and had put my hair up in a bit of a rush. Then, when I was running offstage to do a 10-second costume change, my cape caught on a protruding bit of set, caught me right at the trachea, and jerked my head back. I could feel my hair jolt loose, but had no time to deal with it; instead, I threw the cape off, grabbed the bun of hair and squeezed the pins I could find, and got on stage just before it would have been awkward. (Still late, though.) Then there was a brief dance segment that ends with each couple basically galloping around in a circle. As we got halfway around, I felt my hair slither down. I simply waited for our next stand-still moment and quietly removed the pins, dropped them in my teacup, and fainted on cue with my hair swooshing dramatically around me. Unfortunately, it was pointed out that I was going to have to leave it down for half of the next act, because the chorus was supposed to be left where they fell until they woke up. It never did get done properly that night... * This troper spent years trying to dodge this trope, as the other students in my martial arts would always try to pull my ponytail out while sparring. I always wore it up, and they really wanted to see it down. * Somewhat intentional with this troper. My hair cut is similar to [[FinalFantasyVII Reno's]], complete with a wiry ponytail from the base of my skull, which I keep tied with a double-wound single knot piece of string (cut from a shoelace). This is because I've found that regular hair bands are too elastic and don't give the hair room to twist, and so uncomfortable when the ponytail starts close to the skull. It's good that the ponytail has leeway so I don't have to manually correct it every time. Doesn't make it any less hilarious when the string slips off and my hair becomes a mullet when [[LargeHam I'm busy]] [[ChewingTheScenery eating the scenery.]] * Despite the main page stating that a slipknot is difficult to obtain in real life, it really depends on your hair type. Mine is really soft, fluffy, and bushy, so it slips out really easy, since no amount of styling will keep it that way. I can slipknot anything from normal ponytails to even the firmest braids easily. * This (male) troper has a long ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_hair classic length]], I think) ponytail. And regularly plays a dart gun combat game. Which activity tends to result in slippage, loss, or breakage of elastic hair ties. No comment on FanService or dramatic significance. ---Redo the SlipknotPonytail. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SlipperySkid * RealLife: A few minutes ago, this troper went out in the barracks hallway to check the announcement board. She has a tendency to run down the hallway. Unbeknownst to her, the hallway has been waxed and is about half dry. Cue skidding on her butt. HilarityEnsues, because

someone down the other side of the hallway saw it. Somebody could have knocked on the door with a warning earlier. ** But that wouldn't have been as funny. *** Bubble mixture does this too, if you're too enthusiastic and not careful enough. Oh, and indoors on a smooth floor. The result was a perfect, flat-on-the-back fall. It's just a shame there were no cameras. * Similarly, this troper employs ball bearings as a defensive measure regularly. They don't knock down people who are expecting them, but still slow them to a crawl. And anyone else can and does wind up flat on their back (or if they're really unlucky on their front). * Having slipped on everything from ice to a plastic bag this troper knows that most of these items indeed makes you fall and hurt yourself if running over them. But extremely rarely when walking over them, the speed and recklessness of a run is almost mandatory. * Even garden-variety water can accomplish this under the right conditions. For example: Barefoot on school-hallway tile. This troper has exactly that flooring in his kitchen, and under these conditions slipped and injured his knee so badly that even after he regained the ability to walk normally, it still troubled him for a couple of months afterwards. * At this troper's school there's a bridge that connects the upper level of the technology building to the library. Since it's not undercover, when it rains the tiles become dangerously slippery. One day this troper saw her best friend at the end of the bridge where some of the lockers were and in one stupidly brilliant move she ran as fast as she could, stopped, flew across the surface of the bridge, slipped and ended up knocking her screaming best friend right off her feet before the both of us slammed into her locker. This troper ended up sliding 5 meters and since then has been itching to do it again but has been held back every single time by her friends. ** ....Is it terrible that the moment I read this, I squealed, "I WANNA DO THAT!"? * Ice is very good for causing this. At this troper's school, during the first week of winter, it is not uncommon to see the unsuspecting freshmen slipping and sliding their way down to the classrooms not connected to the main building.

SlobsVersusSnobs * This troper and his brother are the epitome of this trope straight and it's subversion. This troper looks and dresses like a particularly unkempt biker, including long hair and bushy full beard, decides on outfits by smell, has bought the majority of his clothing from Army surplus stores, and has been known to frighten Jehovah's Witnesses by opening the door. Brother sports cropped hair and a neat soul patch, dresses immaculately, buys all his clothes from designer stores, and is generally kind and polite. Subversion occurs when you realise that Troper is the academic who studies music and philosophy, will gladly spend his eating money on opera tickets, and smokes a pipe. Brother is a metal-head who went from being a trucker to trying to become a nurse.

* It happens a lot at This Troper's school's anime club, since the teacher who supervises the meetings is also the boy's soccer coach, which means that the soccer players are free to hang out in his classroom during lunch, even on the days when anime club takes place. It's basically soccer players (snobs) vs. anime club members (slobs). * I'm sorta like this. It's less of an active rivalry and more that i'm just ashamed at how dirty and filthy my family is and i want to be more respectable and have a clean house. ---Sir, would you ''please'' return to SlobsVersusSnobs in a ''civilized'' manner? I..I don't want any t...trouble.

SlouchOfVillainy * [[ROBRAM89 This troper]] ''drives'' this way for some reason. When his father tries to drive his car [[LampshadeHanging he's amazed how far back the seat is.]] * A combination of laziness and an incredibly sinister looking smile, this troper does this without even realizing it. ** Ahaha. I say that like it's a bad thing. * This troper sits like this whenever she has enough room. It's just more comfortable. * This troper does it in any chair she can, despite knowing its horribly bad for them. * The more comfortable this troper is, the more she slouches in chairs. It gets to the point where she looks around in class and sees that she's the only girl in the room with her legsuncrossed as a result of her Slouch Of Villainy. * This is pretty much the only way this troper sits. * Chalk up another Troper for this one. It's just so damn comfortable! Damn you, Evil, [[EvilIsSexy tempting me]] [[EvilIsCool once more]] [[EvilLaugh with your perks]]! * shakes fist* * This troper tends to slide into these without noticing. It'll be comfy for a while, then my neck hurts, sit up, repeat. Or I sit across the chair. I'm fidgety, though, so I don't stay that way long. * This troper does this. Having eyes that make her look pissed off (bored at best) regardless of her mood really doesn't help the "villainy" part of it. She had an excuse for the slouching - wearing knee braces after surgery that made it impossible for her to bend her knees, thus impossible to comfortably rest her feet on the floor while sitting normally - but has since lost that excuse and has been trying to remember to sit up straight for years now. * This is my default manner of sitting. It's just more ''comfortable''. * I am 203 cm tall, so I must naturally slouch a lot when I'm interacting to people (also buildings, furniture and cars). Also, ChaoticNeutral (more than anything else) with a lot of ill will toward large segments of society. Definite slouch of villainy - Rottenvenetic * This is one of my default sitting stances, the other two being sprawled over a desk and what I call the "Mister Burns". ~ Danzilla1996

* This troper does it anyway, but it gets to silly levels while reading, as she somehow ends up in very odd positions without remembering how she got there. Often they involve being upside down. Of course, this really applies to most teenagers, as it's more comfortable. YMMV on the TeensAreMonsters trope, of course. * Since this is my natural way of sitting, I've essentially run through just about every possible way to slouch that wouldn't require defying gravity. It usually manifests in a manner pretty similar to Alucard's in [[Castlevania Symphony of the Night]], although the foot not on my knee is usually either dangling in the air or braced against the nearest stable object as I'm rather short. I've even ended up doing a full blown [[SlouchOfVillainy Slouch of Villainy]] ''upside down'' in particularly comfy (and very stable) chairs/couches, legs crossed and all. I don't recommend doing the last one as it can be rather difficult to get out of and you're going to be pretty dizzy from the blood rushing to your head. ---Lean back in a nice, comfy [[Main/SlouchOfVillainy main page]] and laugh maniacally. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SlowClap * This troper has seen the Slow Clap happen in real life, more than once. * This troper thinks he might have started one once. It's kinda hard to tell in RealLife. * This troper remembers in eighth grade, watching the movie ''Elf'' during history class on the last day before winter break. After the big burp Buddy makes, one of the guys in the class stood up and did this. Being immature eighth-graders, we all joined in. * This troper has seen this subverted in a class. After the professor said something that left us all speechless, someone tried to do the SlowClap and the rest of us were too stunned to do anything. * The class clowns in this troper's Spanish class do this every. single. day. Guess what? She now hates this trope. ** The class clowns of my 8th grade class would do this ''every chance they got'', usually in gym class. Sometimes to the point of LargeHam. Usually, there would be multiple ones in a day, and sometimes, multiple ones in a ''class period!'' These are 45-minute classes, mind you. Also, unlike the above troper, I now ''LOVE'' this trope. * In my eighth grade class, the class clown tried to do this everyday for at least two month (hey guys, want to slowly clap and build up to a rousing applause?). I hated the kid for most of his annoying antics, but this one was funny enough in his attempt to get everyone to do it. And sure enough, on an emotionally-charged-second-last-of-school, the girl who everyone in the class obeyed, got everyone to do it together, for him. * At [[{{Hinoa}} my]] job, we store boxes of chips on a shelf a good six or seven feet up. We needed one of them to come down. A co-worker

decided to jump to get it down, and managed to get it ''and three other boxes'' to come crashing down. Cue SlowClap. * This troper was lucky enough to be the one of two people to start a SlowClap at the end of {{Valkyrie}} in his APUSH class[[EasterEgg .]] Everyone joined in. Everyone. Including the receptionist who had walked down to the classroom to deliver some papers. * Subverted in this troper's school. Slow clapping in most cases is an automatic detention(for several days) for instigating a riot. ** [[FlatWhat What.]] * This troper personally saw this happen during one particularly glorious scene in the final session of a World of Darkness RP. Few things can top a young party member symbolically donning the mantle of the Great Detective Murdoch Holmes by snorting the fallen hero's cocaine. * This troper has been the ''subject'' of one. In what is quite possibly my only CMOA ever, too. Long story mode, GO! Back in high school, I rode the bus for pretty much my entire time. Bear in mind, I was the "nice, quiet and fairly smart guy who most people like well enough". One day we had a substitute bus driver that was absolutely horrible as a person. He outright threatened one of the students who was only slightly misbehaving (and the threat he used was one that sounded like very thinly-veiled double entendre, no less). I normally don't care about stricter teachers, but I was aghast. When he was finished belittling the student in question, he kicked him off the bus, and then turned to the rest of us and said "This is how I do things. If anyone doesn't like it, you're welcome to leave." I stood up and got off the bus without a single word. By the time I got to the front, the whole bus was clapping. * One of my friends left school today, by effectively lying to get out of school. Cue Slow Clap. * This troper's classmates are quite fond of this. Sometimes it's [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]], other times [[WorseThanItSounds not so much]]. * This troper experienced this after taking the AP European History exam, after the tests were picked up some kids started one. This was also kind of a shout out to our teacher who told us earlier that year that at some point in our lives we need to start a slow clap. It would have been even more epic if more kids actually did it... testing for that long kinda makes you to dead to clap. * I have also experienced this. There was a senior who had lunch after my period (I had 3rd, he had 4th, seniors have early release, etc.). A few times when said senior would walk in, this table of junior boys would all stand up and just randomly start slow clapping for him. I also joined in a few times as did other people. Hilarity would ensued when the principal and vice-principals would yell at us to shut up (because apparently you can't slow clap in our school without a good reason.) * [[@/RedWren This troper]] was part of this three times ''in a row'' in her English class. The first time was when the teacher asked everyone who had brought both books to give themselves a round of applause, which @/RedWren started insecurely before everyone else joined in. The second was also started by the teacher, one person who

had brought her books had taken them out instead of clapping, so repeat. The third time was [[RuleOfFunny for absurdity's sake]]. * A more negative example: I have a friend who is ridiculously arrogant and tries to start these all the time. He fashions himself to be some sort of hilarious jerkass, and thinks that he's being funny or subversive, or believes himself to be the only guy in the room who can see that the speeches given in state-required speech classes are generally a boring joke. He only slow claps for people, acting like whatever he's clapping for is lucky it receives even that much attention, even if he's at something he genuinely wanted to be at. Thankfully, he's the only one who ever does it, so he just ends up looking like a complete ass, especially in classes where we would all clap, if only in support of one another. * This troper had one start for him when he stood up to a jerkass teacher. At the time, I was stuck in a remidial math class with a bunch of other kids. none of us really belonged there (most of us were either special needs kids who probably should have just had mainstreaming with accommodations, or people who were fairly smart but to disorganized to get work done.), but we were stuck there because the school had nowhere else to put us. The teacher was probably one of the most boring ones I've ever seen, and most of the class had an apathetic/{{Deadpan Snarker}} attitude towards it. I was one of the more vocal ones (I was a high school freshman, and still in the tail end of my Rebellious stage), often responding to most questions or demands with "Whatever". Eventually, this exchange occured [[center:"*Troper*, if you make one more negative comment, I'm sending you to the office."]] [[center:Whatever. *Starts walking to door*]] [[center:*slow clap begins, continuing even as the teacher demands they stop]] I went to the office, called home, and explained to my parents that I wanted to attend a different school. (Crap had been going on for a while, this was just the last straw.) I left that school for the (far superior) one on the other side of town, and never looked back. ---Return to SlowClap. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SlowLoadingInternetImage * {{JET73L}}: [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/4/5/ This]] ''PennyArcade'' strip paused at a [[AccidentalInnuendo rather interesting]] point of loading. --> '''Unknown 1:''' Happy best friends' day! --> '''Unknown 2 (Tycho?):''' That's a thing? --> '''Unknown 2(?):''' Oh, how... Erotic. --> '''Unknown 1:''' It's meant to go somewhere nice. --> '''Unknown 2(?):''' I don't think I have room for this in my house --

---<<|TroperTales|>>

SmallGirlBigGun * This Troper's sister, while being an average-sized girl for her age, still likes to shoot the '03 Springfield we have. * [[DeltaOne This Troper]] was going through O'Hare a few years back. There had been a recent threat, and there were a number of soliders around - including a pixie-cute blonde girl. She was maybe five feet tall and was carring an M240 light machine gun. * This editor once built a ''[[BigEyesSmallMouth BESM]]'' character who walked around with about twelve [=DEagles=] and was capable of using them all at once, as [[MobileSuitGundam Fin Funnels]], via some leverage of the Telekinesis attribute. * This troper went to a firing range for the first time and wanted to try out a Desert Eagle. Why? It's a fucking Desert Eagle. Cue other people sniggering and gathering to watch. The gun popped back and smacked this troper dead in the forehead, laying her out. HilarityEnsues following an Embarassing Injury--a rectangular welt in the middle of her face. * In Teen Second Life this troper is part of an army, which requires her to carry a gun. Said gun is usually... large. Her avatar is at the very edge of the Small side of the Height Scale. * Also, in this troper's actual life. She is 5'3" and is a dab hand with her brother's air rifle. * This (5'3") troper likes to shoot her dad's AR-15, but it's quite heavy and there's a lot of kick. She has also shot various shotguns, but is the best with a regular old .22 rifle. * One of this Troper's friend is quite small, about 5' 4", and we had to do CCF training, essentially military training to teach discipline and leadership tactics. She turned out to be an expert with, and more than capable of carrying, a general purpose light machine gun (FN Minimi), while the rest of us carried SA80s. We only had blank ammo, so no worries about shooting each other. She's also a cute bruiser. * This troper is buying a Mosin-Nagant rifle, a rather long and powerful gun that has been known to bruise weaker shooters. He's going to let his girlfriend, 5'5 at max, shoot it. Joining the wrestling team will not prepare her for that. * This troper is 5'2" and a crack shot with her ([[BlueBoyPinkGirl PINK!]]) air rifle. * This troper works best not with handguns, but with rifles and shotguns (the latter in particular). I can load, aim and shatter a clay pigeon within seconds from hundreds of feet away with a variety of shotguns, but I can barely hit a man-sized target from ten yards with a pistol. I'm 5'3", which, as my roommate loves to remind me, is an inch shorter than the 'average height for women.' * This other troper has a lady friend who is maybe five foot tall at most, and might weigh in at one hundred pounds if her clothes were dripping wet. With mercury. The first time I took her shooting, she had no problem with my M-44 Mosin-Nagant (The even harder kicking

carbine version), a 20 gauge shotgun, and assorted pistols ranging from .357 up through .45 ACP & .44 Special. Her reason for learning to shoot? MamaBear. * This Humans vs. Zombies playing tropette, who happens to be 5'1", is also the only girl known to own a Nerf Raider CS-6. * One of this particular troper's favorite characters he has created was about 4'8", which is barely within normal size range for females. She wields a Barrett M82, a gun that is 4'9" long. Yes, the gun is actually bigger than her. ---Back to SmallGirlBigGun <<|TroperTales|>>

SmartPeoplePlayChess * I've been top of my class from high school to grad school, but Chess continues to elude me, even though my father is a competitive player. [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Eventually boredom sets in]], and [[AttackAttackAttack I just start killing things]] [[BloodKnight whether it's a sound strategy]] [[WhatAnIdiot or not]]. Dad says I'd rather be exciting than victorious. * This brand-new troper abolutely loves chess, and has a high IQ. Honestly, I couldn't care less about the 'Smart' part. * [[@/{{endlessness}} This troper]] is considered quite smart [[YourMileageMayVary by some]], but never got the hang of chess. I sometimes play it against the computer, just to lose 95% of the time. * My dad seems pretty aware of this trope--He has been playing chess since he was a child (and usually wins, but he's no professional). His IQ hasn't been measured, but he is a MagnificentBastard so I bet is above average. * [[@/{{Tadaru}} This troper]] averts this. He has a pretty high IQ, can run circles around his family when it comes to math, and so far is the only one in his family with a university degree. [[CurbStompBattle They can kick his ass in chess]]. This probably just proves more than anything that there is so not just one type of "smart". * This troper gets all As and does play chess... he just loses too often. * Plays Chess, check. Is smart, Check not genius but gifted. Is good at chess, Nope. Good at MagicTheGathering, very much so. * This troper can be described as a genius, and he has a high IQ.. However he loathes chess. It's never really caught his eye, and always loses when he plays it. * [[@/{{Whitecroc}} This one]] has been informed of having a high IQ (albeit one has not dared ask what the scores actually ''were''), yet finds chess a singularly boring game - one can make the argument that chess is a solvable game in a mathematical sense, although admittedly this one lacks both talent and patience for the game. This creates an interesting juxtaposition, as this one strives to become a mathematician. * In my experience, people who are exceptional at chess are usually

smart but not particularly. The real geniuses are too busy working at whatever it is they're geniuses at to get good at chess.

SmellsSexy * OLD SPICE. Full stop. ** I'M ON A HORSE. *** Oh come on, it can't be ''[[ButYouScrewOneGoat that]]'' sexy... *** Well, it sure hasn't improved their sales. * Penshoppe Street Scents Vapor, some Bulgari perfume I don't know the name of, Bench So In Love, or Samourai by Alain Delon. Of course, it might just have something to do with [[@/{{MiraShio}} my]] LoveInterest using these perfumes... * I just need to ask this for my own sanity. Tell me I'm not the only one who finds the smell of sweat appealing. Not B.O., the musky smell like right after a good workout. My ex-girlfriend and I would go for a run sometimes before sex for the purpose of it. ** Thank you! I despise the smell of colognes, deodorants, perfumes, etc. For me, it's all about the smell of sweat. I mean, I like people who are clean and washed, but they should still smell like *people.* * I've been told by several ladies I smell pleasantly manly. * This troper's best friend/platonic life partner always smells fantastic. It's some sort of mix of colognes, the most prominent being Abercrombie and Fitch. I've repeatedly stolen articles of his clothing just because they smell so damn fantastic. And I'm not the only one-one of his ex-girlfriends still has one of his hoodies, because she claims it still smells like him, while dozens of other girls at school told him on a daily basis how great he smelled. * This (male) troper was once hugged by a (male) friend who, upon stepping back, claimed that I "smelled like love." It was actually the residue from some coconut-scented tanning oil, but by god, I slathered on some of that stuff every day thereafter. * This troper was on a plane last summer, and seated next to a very attractive young woman, likely three or four years older than him. Tried as he might, he could not get any sleep on the plane, because this girl just smelled THAT good. [[ChivalrousPervert He spent the entire plane ride obsessed with this woman's gorgeous aroma.]] * I once discreetly followed a customer around the store I was working in because she smelled Astounding. My boss noticed, and I had to come up with the excuse that I thought I'd seen her put something in her bag. * This troper's boyfriend said that having her sleep over in his bed continued to be pleasant for the next couple of days, because his sheets still smelled like her. She felt the same way about the clothes she wore during makeout sessions. * I've been told once or twice that I smell nice (i'm female) by female friends, but i don't wear perfume and they weren't standing close enough to sniff my hair so I guess I naturally smell nice. Once my guy friend licked me as a joke and told me I tasted sweet as well. :D * Subverted with this guy, who works out alot, and has this really unappetizing smell.

* This guy at school smelt of pure sexiness. Almost going to recommend a thing that smells like him to all my guy friends. I'd suggest the troper above to make the suggestion to that guy to do this too.

SmithWillSuffice * Admit it, you do this all the time. Personally I'm fond of: -->'''Other person:''' "Oh God..."\\ '''Me:''' "You rang?" ^.^ * Yep, I've done it a couple of times -->'''Friend:''' Jesus Christ! -->'''This Troper:''' Yeeessss? * I have a friend who will do this when someone mentions Satan. And this exchange happened recently between me and another friend. -->'''Friend:''' something something Harlot of Babylon. -->'''Me:''' What do you want? * Since this troper uses at a social networking the name "[[GreenDay Jesus]] [[AmericanIdiot of Suburbia]]", many of his freshmen like to call him "Jesus" - and related to that are religious jokes. Even funnier is the fact that one of his seniors' nicknames is "Jesus", due to a resemblance to Him. * Due to this troper's resemblance to (Caucasian) Jesus of Nazareth, I will respond to anyone in my gaming group saying "Jesus!" or "Christ!" , etc., with "yes?". This is made all the more fun by the fact the one of the other guys in the group is unanimously considered to be the Antichrist (he plays evil characters and is studying to be a lawyer). * There is a lecturer at @/RobinZimm's university who is quite fond of doing this. * [[Tropers/TromboneChild This troper's]] father has done this from time to time: -->'''Troper (exasperated):''' God!\\ '''Dad:''' ...Yes? * This troper refers to play with it a little. -->'''Them:''' Oh my God!/Jesus Christ!/etc. -->'''Me:''' I'm flattered, but why are you worshiping [[SelfDepreciation ''me?'']] * A friend once had this exchange with his boss at their construction site: -->'''Boss:'''Jesus Christ! -->'''Friend:'''Yes? -->'''Boss:'''You're not my son. * This can backfire... This Troper one time said "Yes?" when she ''thought'' a friend was going to say "Jesus!" But they said "[[GoshDarnItToHeck Geez Louise]]!" instead. Got a very odd look. * This troper's Latin teacher was fond of this trope. -->'''Student''': God! -->'''Mrs. Thorpe''': A simple "Mrs. Thorpe" would suffice. * This trope gets regular invocation in [[Tropers/{{Theologica}} Theologica's]] house. * [[@/OhNoes I can't]] say anything along the lines of "Oh my God" or "Jesus fucking Christ" or "[[AtomicFBomb GODDAMMIT!]]" around one of my friends. He just says "Yes?" "You called?" or "What shall I be

damning today, my good sir?" respectively.

SmittenTeenageGirl * This tropette might fit the bill for being a smitten teenage girl. She has a huge crush on a guy who is probably the coolest person she's ever encountered in her life -- and he doesn't even ''try'' to be. He's just is. And he's an absolute sweetheart. Oh, and he plays bass, is a photographer and is great at both. (Oh lord, I'm starting to ramble now.) However, I'm two years younger than him, and we haven't spoken to each other that much, so my chances of ever getting with him are very, very, ''very'' slim. * [[Tropers/EctoplasmCookie This tropette]] has a huge crush on one of the other actors in her theatre company. He's tall, incredibly handsome, wears adorable glasses, loves Shakespeare, is extremely nice and supportive... unfortunately, this tropette is 16, and he's 25. Dammit. * This tropette has a kindasortamaybe embarassing version of this (two, in fact). ** First one, there was a really gorgeous guy in my class that was super nice to me and we seemed to have a lot in common the few times we talked together. Unfortunately, it took less than a month for him to turn from a genuinely sweet guy into a complete JerkAss. The worst part of it was, of course, that I stayed infatuated with him for four years, despite the fact that it seemed like it was his mission to make the lives of me and my two closest friends a living hell. ** The second - and more recent - was when I fell head over heels for a (completely different) guy in my class, one who made me laugh out loud in the middle of class and [[GeekyTurnOn liked to debate with me about zombie movies and video games.]] I was so far gone it was ridiculous. * I am one. And I ''hate'' it. I've known enough Smitten Teenage Girls to know how horribly, horribly annoying they can be, and I always swore I wouldn't end up like that. That, and I know the person I'm in love with doesn't feel the same way about me. * This troper's 14-year-old sister has a huge crush on [[TheNthDoctor the Elev]][[MattSmith enth]] [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor]]. ---OHMYGOD! It's SmittenTeenageGirl! {{Squee}}!

SmokingIsCool * This troper's dad never smoked a day in his life(nor drank, but that's a whole other story), whereas his mom smokes close to several packs a day. It somewhat turned me off of it, but back in high school, most of the kids that honestly were of the popular variety usually hung outside during lunch to "light up a square", as it were. * This troper has made a deal with himself that if he ever meets someone that he knows he'll raise children with, he'll quit for the sake of her and the kids. 'Til then, he's gonna fuck his lungs ''up'' and he's gonna look good doing it. And hey, if I never do meet anyone, then all you finger-waggers can at least take comfort in the fact that

I'll ease the burden on Social Security by dying before I get old enough to collect. * This troper does not smoke (at least not tobacco), but according to many people, especially in her wilder teenage years, looks as if she ought to. She has noticed that strangers are less likely to ask her for a cigarette, papers or a light on days when she isn't wearing her camouflage jacket and Doc Martens, and even then it's still less than when she had purple hair. ** One of my close friends back in high school took up smoking for this very reason. She dressed in black, ripped clothing, had a different hair color every week and wore the messiest dark makeup she could find. When people told her she looked like she ought to be smoking, she decided to try it out. Now, she smokes a pack a day and considers herself edgy because of it (though my only real qualm with it is that she complains about being dead-ass broke as she lights up her fifth cigarette in less than thirty minutes). * This troper started smoking for nicotine's alleged stress-relieving properties, not because it "looks cool". Okay maybe {{Transmetropolitan}} has something to do with it but the reason I just bought a pack of Marlboro special blends is because I've got three exams coming up. * This Troper smokes, and is a real badass... Yeah. Well, no, but I did do it to look more edgy, or because a certain someone does it, and.. it doesn't work. People still treat me like a sugar-sweet-honeybunny-something-person. Now I'm addicted and all I wanted to do was looking like I lived on the edge of life. * My friend is trying to carry this off. It ''really'' doesn't work, you either look cool or you don't, trying to look cool just makes you look stupid, and trying to look cool by smoking just makes you look stupid and kills your lungs. * This troper smokes every once in a while with friends for that nice relaxing effect it has, but she's never quite understood SmokingIsCool, not in real life situations at least. She's seen professional photos in which cigarettes really do look awesome but, well, they're taken by professionals who know how to work the props in the best way, find the best lighting and all that. In real life isn't it just a burning stick you put in your mouth that puts a smile on your face if you inhale properly? The smoke itself doesn't really enhance the coolness of the situation so much as just float there for a bit. Basically, there are people who look cool with cigarettes, but this troper finds that they tend to be the same people who look cool without cigarettes. * As a smoker, I tend to be more comfortable around other smokers, especially while smoking. Some of the coolest people I know have been smokers, though SturgeonsLaw naturally applies, and I probably wouldn't have gotten to know them as well had we not hung out smoking together. By contrast, anti-smokers are a pack of whiny bitches who use more than their share of oxygen anyway, so screw those losers.

SmugSnake Do not put yourself into this entry.

---* In an Animorphs fanfic my friend is writing, there is the loathsome alien named Mal Anaur. While reading the fanfic, I was constantly saying, "I really do not like you, Mal Anaur." He has the sarcastic voice, he treats his "technical" allies, the Animorphs, with incredible disdain, eventually taking a level in MagnificentBastard, making [[XanatosGambit one hell of a]] FaceHeelTurn and he only got worse. However, it turned to a subversion for me at least, because he got a CMOA at the end that made Mal Anaur very cool: after Jake did something perhaps more drastic than what he did in the books, Mal gives a WhatTheHellHero you would have to read to believe. ---Hyee hyee hyee...Did you want to go back to SmugSnake? DID YOU? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

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SnarkBait * Possible subversion: this troper once had a "friend" host a story of his on a small fan-fic site he hosted... then said "friend's" online alter-ego attempted to turn the story into snark bait, even going as far as to start a "hate club" for two of the characters. For whatever reason it didn't take, most likely because the site didn't have enough readers that actually gave a damn about either the story or the snarking (note the "popular" criteria in the definition). * After [[{{Tropers/Aver}} I]] heard about the [[DarthWiki/{{Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n}} awful]] game called BigRigs, I had to resist the temptation into buying one myself. Subverted in that I actually did. * After seeing The Cinema Snob's video on the E.T porn, I told my friends, in these exact words, "Do you know there's an E.T porn?" They will never let me live it down. Never. * This troper absolutely ''loves'' the [[DarthWiki/{{Ptitlew9bltta3dv6n}} infamous]] ''Film/{{Catwoman}}'' movie because of how fun it is to mock. * This Troper has a younger brother who he shared a room with, once when he noticed the lamp bulbs seam to have changed brightness, he accused me of switching them claiming it was some kind of complex evil plan, & ends this acusation with 'but there was one thing you didn't count on, 14 years ago F>A>K>E>N>A>M>E came out of a (Censered)' note the censered was his own doing, he made a fake beeping sound as if swearing, so my reply was 'Why did you censer out Adoption center?' * School plays make for [[strike:excellent]] AMAZING snark bait. With their [[BadBadActing attrocious acting]], [[NoBudget hilariously low production values]], and [[DarthWiki/DethroningMusicOfSuck and singing that makes Kids Bop sound like]] TheBeatles, what's not to make fun of?

* I made my cousins watch GlenOrGlenda with me. We made a lot of memes after that. * Me and my friends, being very, ''very'' snarky girls [[RecycledInSpace (in BALLET!)]] delighted in watching Barbie's The Twelve Dancing Princesses and pointing every single thing about dance they got wrong(which was a lot). * Tropers/PutYaGunsOn: Anime forums. I mean, I love anime and all, but when the majority of forums I've been to are full of insane fanboys/fangirls and [[StopHavingFunGuys elitists who take their precious anime/favorite character(s) far too seriously]], I can't help but think of them as SnarkBait. I don't actually post ON said forums just to bash them, but I just snark at them in my own mind. * Kongregate's Roleplaying #1 chatroom. Most of the people there have no clue what they are doing yet cannot accept critisism. Also if you are there and you notice [[{{Tropers/Xifihas}} me]] make a smartass comment, consider yourself priviliged. * Edgy and his friends had a whole club about this in college. Our worst victim was Superman IV: Quest for Peace. * What happens when you cross {{Tropers/Kyoko}} with AnitaBlakeVampireHunter? [[http://www.youtube.com/user/minaminokyoko#grid/user/77CDFFA2C4B1B84F "Welcome to Snark Theater, where bad fiction gets blasted!"]] ---Don't go back to SnarkBait: it's an awful main page. * Unless you want to criticize it, of course. ----

Sneebs List your TroperTales for Sneebs (or [[SpellMyNameWithAnS is it Sneeb]]?) here! *Sneebs had the totally super original idea of making a TroperTales page for himself. ** [[TakeThat But not adding the index markup down the bottom.]] *** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint You're an idiot]] **** [[{{Joerc45}} Hello]] there, Sneebs! ^_^ <<|TroperTales|>>

SnicketWarningLabel * On Christmas Eve, I watched ''The World According To Garp''. An odd choice for sure, but I stopped it before [[spoiler:Garp got shot]]. Why traumatize myself during the holidays? (I could have stopped before [[spoiler:Garp's mother got killed]], but I think you should know by now that scene doesn't carry the same level of trauma for me as... you know.) * Random Troper: My dad invited me to see ''ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' on video, and I was more or less introduced to the concept of the BolivianArmyEnding then. Later, we viewed the film when it came on TV, and my dad turned the channel

right before the scene that actually set up said ending. Apparently, even an ending where you don't actually see the protagonists die was too much of a downer. * While on Spring Break, this troper's girlfriend invited him to watch ''WolfsRain'' with her in her dorm. After marathoning through the 22 of the 26 original episodes (they skipped the four ClipShow episodes), his girlfriend told him that the OVA was irrelevant. Of course, this troper has an undying curiosity about almost everything, so it was logical for him after the break to watch the OVA on his own. He regrets not listening to his girlfriend, being permanently exposed to the horrors of [[KillEmAll the series']] [[TheBadGuyWins true]] [[TearJerker ending.]] * EricDVH has never seen the end of the original film of ''TheItalianJob''', his father always shut the movie off when they get drunk because [[DisContinuity They're too smart to do something that dumb]]. * A rather unintentional one: When this troper saw the film of ''{{RENT}}'', a few people left during the transition to the second "act", not realizing that the rest of the movie would be quite a bit more depressing after the rather upbeat tone of "La Vie Boheme". * Another unintentional: when watching ''The Notebook'' on television, the movie cuts to commercial after Allie's relapse into Alzheimers. This troper, watching for the first time, thought it was the end, and was totally bummed. Needless to say, she was quite a bit happier when she saw the actual ending. * A friend of [[JBridge mine]] is a FinalFantasyVII fan. He has Advent Children. Whenever he watches it, he always stops before the end and pretends that Cloud [[spoiler:actually died.]] I guess this counts as a reversal, but maybe not. He stops the movie, but to avoid a WallBanger instead of a DownerEnding. That, and he hates Cloud. * This troper adores [[MetalGearSolid Solid Snake]], but is terrible at the actual games, so she watches the cutscenes on YouTube. She was going through the scenes for MGS 4 and was completely horrified to find the one where [[spoiler: Snake puts the gun in his mouth, and the camera cuts away as the gunshot is heard]] -- she actually screamed. For a long time she refused to look at the cutscenes again, until a very patient friend explained that this wasn't the end of the game, and there were subsequent scenes that she needed to watch, including [[spoiler: Big Boss stopping his son from killing himself.]] The additional cutscenes helped, but she still prefers to imagine that her hero got a ''happy'' ending. * This troper, when he first saw ForrestGump, stopped watching when he met up with Jennie in Washington D.C. after the speech. I, when watching it again, cried pretty much all the way after that... * On the main page there's an example about how Phoebe from ''Friends'' stopped watching ''It's a Wonderful Life'' before the ending because she was so depressed by everything that came first. My high-school music teacher really did that. We were all talking about Christmas movies one day and he was horrified that we had all liked it, and we tried in vain to convince him that it really wasn't a "life sucks and then you die" movie. Hence the name. (Though actually, what had really put him off was the scene where the pharmacist won't let

George explain why he didn't deliver the pills and keeps hitting him on his bad ear until he cries.) * In ''{{The Elder Scrolls}}: Oblivion'', this editor prefers this course of action, since the game is so open-ended: Stop following the main questline right after you return from Paradise and give Martin the Amulet of Kings. Just tell everyone in your party to wait and leave the temple, pretending that the coronation happened just fine. This will give you a completely happy ending, spare you the trouble of slogging through the difficult final mission, and avoid the {{Mind Screw}} of the actual ending. Besides, your reward for completing the quests is laughably weak anyway. * Not sure if this is an inversion, subversion, or what, but... when [[Tropers/KatanaCat This Troper]] saw ''Swan Princess III'' for the first time when she was little, she ended up not getting to see the very end when [[spoiler:the notes get burned]]. A few years later they ran it on TV, and I was glad to see that the titular princess [[spoiler:didn't stay dead]]. Sorry about not using any names, but I can't remember how to spell them. ---Isn't it nice how this ended so happily? That's why there's ''absolutely no need whatsoever'' to go back to SnicketWarningLabel. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SnipeHunt * As a midshipman, this editor almost searched a ship for the "Golden Rivet", supposedly attached somewhere to the frame of every Navy ship. I then remembered that modern ships are ''welded'' together, and therefore have no rivets onboard to begin with. * On my very first Boy Scout campout, I got sent by the older scouts to ask the other patrols if they had a left handed smoke shifter. Oh, the shame... ** I've used this one, but never fallen victim to it. What troop were you in? ** They did the same thing to me. I deduced that there was no such thing and it was just the usual expression of contempt from my patrolmates, but I ''didn't know how to respond.'' Making myself scarce for two hours and then laboriously dragging in a length of rope didn't produce the remorse I'd hoped it would. ** This troper wasn't sent to one of these in her first camps or scout meetings. Which is kinda surprising since she is very naive. Of course that she has seen how other scouts even more naive than herself fall victim to this. ** This troper got the exact same thing. [[MemeticMutation They sell right ones at Home Depot, you know.]] ** [[{{Tropers/Homestar09Mario08}} This Troper]] was going camping when someone came to our campsite and asked for one. ** Same here. * [[Tropers/WolfgangTheBlack This troper]] works in a theatre shop and has seen a great number of these. The board-stretcher, checkered

paint, the left-handed hammer, the metal-stretcher, and the Sky Hook ("It's big and blue and lets you hang things taller than the building"). The shop he works in has also rigged up fake examples of a five-gallon bucket of air and magnetic hammer. ** Is it scary that I actually own a (albeit custom) left-handed hammer? It's got an ergonomic grip and the like, and is actually quite awkward to use in the right hand. ** [[{{Tropers/Azaram}} This troper's]] boss was in the Navy and told a story of someone who had been sent to the supply master for a bucket of checkered paint... and returned with it. The quartermaster (I forget the name) had put a crosshatch of cardboard in a bucket, and filled alternate compartments with black and white paint, and when the cardboard was removed, the checks stayed, at least long enough. * This troper was asked for forms for verbal agreements. He went to the local drugstore and bought cassette tapes, much to the amusement of his boss. He has also been asked for a "long stand." It turned out the boss forgot that the welding shop had a stand more than 6' tall, which could also be considered quite "long". * This troper once sent his little brother looking for pliers to take the barnacles off a boat, made by Moore, Mann and Tabb. (Moore-MannTabb Barnacle Pliers, geddit?) This was taken from a ''KingdomOfLoathing'' adventure. ** I don't get it. Is it supposed to be a homophone for something else? Mormon Tabernacle Pliers? *** Not a homophone - a rhyme. Mormon Tabernacle Choir. * [[Tropers/RegShoe This troper]] was on an Air Cadet camp when one of the slower cadets from my squadron was sent to get "a bucket of steam". By combining a lidded bucket, a cleaner's steam cleaner and a little running we managed to deliver one. Two days later when the camp CO heard about it the Sergeant got in trouble for [[SnipeHunt snipe hunting]] a mentally retarded cadet and we got complimented by the camp CO for "initiative, a sense of humour and justice." * [[Tropers/JapaneseTeeth This troper's]] dad, who worked for a while at a youth camp, used to take the kids on snipe hunts all the time. They usually involved lining everybody up across a field, crouching down, and waving a rag in front of them while making a "hoo-EEE" sound, and combing the field like that. Once, a park ranger came over and asked what they were doing. After he discovered it was a snipe hunt, he started giving the kids pointers, such as walking backwards because the snipes "can't see you if you can't see them". They fell for it. * Some favorites from [[Tropers/YourObedientSerpent This Troper]]'s time on a U.S. CoastGuard cutter: ** ''Electric-pneumatic adaptors'': "This is a pneumatic tool, and all we've got down here are electrical outlets!" or vice-versa. ** ''Oil for the running lights'': The oil for the port light, of course, would be red, and the starboard, green. Needless to say, the lights were electrical. ** ''The keys to the chain locker'': The chain locker is the compartment in which the anchor chain is stowed -- and no, it isn't locked. Nobody's going to walk off with an anchor chain that can hold a 378-foot vessel.

** ''Check on the sails in the sail locker'': The "sail locker" is where canvas, leather, and the heavy needles and sewing palms needed to deal with items of that nature is stowed. A 378 has two diesel engines, two turbine engines -- but no, you aren't going to run a sail up those masts. (This one got me in ''reverse'' -- I was sent to get something legitimate from the sail locker, but flat-out refused to believe there ''was'' such a thing until someone showed me.) ** And my personal favorite: ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_bearing Relative Bearing Grease]]''. * From [[{{Tropers/Clendy82}} this troper's]] time in the Navy...: ** ''Sound-powered telephone batteries'': Pretty self-explanatory. ** ''The mail buoy'': Whenever we had a new guy standing lookout, we'd tell him to keep an eye out for the mail buoy. The story goes that packages of mail would be tethered to various buoys in the middle of the ocean waiting for us to come by and pick them up. ** ''A can of A.1.R.'': Pronounced exactly like it's spelled. A lot harder to catch when spoken aloud. ** ''Go down to admin and fill out form P.U.5.5.Y.'': When hapless newbie goes down to fill out this vastly important piece of paperwork, the yeoman behind the counter would usually pick up a blank piece of printer paper, write out "PUSSY" in giant letters, and hand it back to him. Likewise, filling out form I.D.10.T. ** ''The Cow on the Reefer Decks'': Come on, new guy! If the cooks are out of milk and you want some, you gotta go get it yourself! ** ''The DRT Snake'': When we used to show new guys around our working space, we played this prank on them. In the C.I.C. area of the ship, we have a piece of equipment called the DRT (dead reckoning tracer), which is basically a large table with a glass top for laying down tracer paper, and a hollow interior holding a pinpoint light that takes inputs from the ship's GPS and course and speed changes. During the tour, we'd open a side panel so the new guy could bend down and take a look at the machinery inside. Meanwhile, on the other side of the table, another guy would whip out his [[UnusualEuphemism cobra commander]] and put it through the other side panel until moments later, the new guy would yell and jump back, having been bitten by the DRT snake. ** ''Go find Chang; he does the laundry'': Oh, the fun we had with this one. With one boot camper who really had it coming, we told him that if he wanted his laundry done, he would put it in his laundry bag and "take it down to engineering. Just ask for Chang and say that you need some laundry done." Minutes later, said boot camp, laundry in hand, walks right into the engineering department's morning quarters and asks where he can find Chang. Sadly (for him), the only person in the room to answer to that name was a lieutenant who was the ship's chief engineer (CHENG, for short) who wanted to know who this guy was interrupting his quarters with a bag of laundry. [[HilarityEnsues Many lulz were had by all]]. * This troper once got invited on a snipe hunt. After talking excitedly about it for a few hours, his host promised to set it up for Saturday night, and invite lots of people. Saturday night, this troper... didn't go. Muahaha.

* [[Tropers/TriggerLoaded For me,]] being in the construction industry, I've heard a few of them. Usually a quick joke by asking the first-year apprentices to go fetch things like the above-mentioned board stretcher, (Or a pipe stretcher, for plumbers) the Sky Hook, or some Nail Softner. * This troper is an officer at a college anime club, and has sent younger officers to fetch the "video cassette burner" or a "wireless connection cable". * This troper, upon his first day of employment, was given a box of computer disks to take to the computer department -- whereupon, the computer department tech told him to take it to Home Audio. This troper ''should'' have immediately realized that computer disks have nothing to ''do'' with Home Audio, but... * This troper was asked to get the Sky Hook. She returned with a copy of Photoshop. * This troper's mother, a longtime ER Nurse, claims that rookies are often told (by a panicked-looking doctor) to go and get [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallopian_tube Fallopian Tubes]] from the supply room. ** Please, please tell me only guys fell for this one. It's still stupid, but I weep for the future of American Health Care if you can get a job as a doctor or nurse or what have you without being familiar with your own anatomy. * Played with by a game played by this troper's Boy Scouts troop; more cat-and-mouse hide-and-seek than an actual hazing ritual, the game's played exactly like a traditional snipe hunt, but with the prey being an elusive (and fictional) carnivorous variety of "Raptor Snipe" (played by the other scouts), who would pick off the hunters one-byone in classic monster movie fashion. * The boss of this troper's father ended up on a snipe-hunt for "pink smoke", a pun on the real-life colored smoke that plumbers use to find pipe leaks. It took the boss a very long time (and many calls to various suppliers, all of whom kept the prank going) to figure out that he'd been had. * This troper once participated in a DungeonsAndDragons campaign that went rather poorly due to the DM's inexperience. The plot involved a nation's military somehow making people docile and subservient through food, a fate which befell several party members. In order to keep them busy until a cure could be found, this troper had his character ask them to pick up a loaf of milk, a bottle of eggs, and a carton of bread. And yet somehow, they did it. Don't ask me how. ** I think I've figured this one out. 1. Go to the shop and pick up a carton of eggs, two loafs of bread, a bottle of milk and a carton of butter. (Make sure you have a knife) 2. Using the knife, cut a piece of bread out of one loaf and pour milk into it. Repair loaf with butter. 3. Stick milked loaf in freezer. 4. Your milk bottle is now empty so simply crack all the eggs into the bottle. 5. This leaves you with an empty carton of eggs so...just squish the other loaf into the carton. * This troper was once sent on an actual snipe hunt when on a scouting

trip. Unknown to the prankster, he was carrying with him a Birding guide, and whipped it out, asking "Is this what you mean?" * In high school track and field, I'd tell left-handed freshmen to go to the shed and find the left-handed javelin or discus. The coach joined in and explained that the windings of the grip on the lefthanded javelin are reverse. * I didn't fall for this, but the journeyman I work with once told me to get a "cable-stretcher" from the work van. I asked if I should get the left-handed screwdriver while I was out there. * At this troper's old camp, new campers were often instructed to go to the pier and get a "spurlash." On request, the hapless camper would be tossed into the water by senior campers on site (this was, of course, after swim tests!). One camper, however, turned this tradition on its head by actually retrieving the "sp[[spoiler:ur]]lash"--in a bucket, which was immediately dumped over the head of the camper who sent him to the pier in the first place. * This troper was on a version of this just this afternoon; she went to lunch at the mall with a friend, and the friend's younger sister called to say she was coming to join them. Troper's friend's response was to keep moving through the mall, giving misleading clues via cell phone about their current location until her sister finally won the game. Troper's comment was that she had never been a snipe before, and was terribly amused. * At the FIRST Robotics Michigan State Championship, there was this guy running around asking if anybody had a spare box of [[StarTrek self-replicating sprockets.]] He never really found any. * This troper lkes to send his dumb buddies looking for WLAN cables; one time, his cousin searched for over an hour before asking what WLAN means; I told him and he STILL kept at it. * This troper remembers going out 'hunting for Dooworthies' in a group of about ten with a counseler leading the way. You'd go to the far end of camp, clad in bathing suits and, inexplicably, caving helmets and lifejackets, and slop down the (four-inch-deep) brook back into camp, looking for the beasts. Not a single Dooworthy was ever discovered, but fun was had! * This troper's Boy Scout troop goes on an actual snipe hunt to "initiate" new recruits. However, it is slightly subverted in the fact that the hunt is more a source of {{Nightmare Fuel}} than emarassment. They generally include dissapearances of the older scouts, screams, breaking of branches, and ketchup. Oh, it also happens in the dead of night. Needless to say, {{Hilarity Ensues}}. ** This troper's Scout troop would held other types of "snipe hunt", sending people to find sky hooks, ten minute weights, underwater hair dryers, glass hammers, and solar-powered torches. * This Troper was assigned a literal Snipe Hunt once, when rather young. It turned out later to be a way for the babysitter and her husband to have a small get-together with other adults that involved alcohol, without the impressionable young children around to see it. The irony of the thing was, at least two of the four children on this 'hunt', took it seriously (myself included), and just waited with bag at the ready. Children kept safely occupied(and in my case, attention never wavered from the whole thing for once, huge miracle) - mission

accomplished. * This Troper has heard a popular one about cleaning fluid with the spec number [=K9P=]. Woof. * The Oil Patch is also Full of these. From Pipe stretcher and buckets of steam, to "Push Slaps" (Rig Manager is also Known as a "Tool Push"), "Glasses for the Blind rams" (Blind rams are a set hydraulic rams used to close off the well completely) or the "Key to the V-Door" (The V-Door on a rig is the Metal slide that drill Pipe rides on when brought up to the floor) ** This troper while naive enough to fall for many of the ones given, got Caught on the V-Door Key when he worked on a rig that had a lockout to the hydraulic for raising/lowering the V-Door for Rig moves. * This troper would like to point out that Snipe is actually a real type of bird. He's eaten it before and had a stuffed one as a child. They're native to New Zealand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe * [[{{Tropers/Siofra}} This troper]] reversed the hunt on her scout troop. They had asked me if I wanted to go out snipe hunting. Not being naive, I agreed, telling them that I had planned to take a walk in the same area and that they should call for me when they got there. * This troper sat on his hands and knees in a ditch with a trash bag in his mouth for about ten minutes because his "friends" said they would scare some snipes out and he had to catch them. His brother (equally ignorant about snipes) was placed further back into the ditch and was apparently made aware long before he was. When the joke came out the next day, he acted like he had been in on the whole thing from the start, the bum... * [[Tropers/TheTallOne This Troper]] was a member of the stage crew in highschool. There were many instances of snipe-hunting. It was traditional to leave the new members of the crew stand around, holding a giant tarp, but the most common variant was to get rid of people who the stage manager didn't trust around power tools. They'd be sent off to look for a board stretcher or left-handed hammer. On one notable occasion, one [[TheFool dim-witted]] newcomer spent every workday looking for prop wash. * This troper will never forget telling a boy who was starting to annoy him to go and, 'find a cute girl, 'bout 5'2 who can shoot a bull's eye at 800 meters, can scrap and swears at least half as much as me.' The reason I'll never forget - he found an exact match. ** Don't you read Fairy Tales? With details THAT specific, you were bound to find someone! Also, did she break the curse? * Didn't happen to me, but when I was in 8th grade, the metal shop teacher was infamous for sending kids on snipe hunts. The most famous one was the quest for the Blue Oxygen Tank. The kid would ask the appropriate teacher, who would tell them to ask the custodian, who told them to ask someone else, and so on until the kid figured out that he was being messed with. They didn't really have a blue oxygen tank. * This troper [[BurgerFool works in a McDonald's]], and we love to do this to new recruits. One of the most common orders for sandwiches is "Plain" (only meat and cheese). As such, new trainees to grill are often sent looking for "Plain Sauce". For bonus points, if they get

frustrated and can't find it, we tell them that it's in the refrigerator between the Mac Sauce and Mayo (in our store, those two are stored directly next to each other, nothing between). * My physics teacher once told me that, if a student was talking too much, she'd tell them to go to the teacher next door and get a "long weight". The student would come back with increasingly lengthening pieces of metal until the teacher had decided the wait was long enough. This always fooled the younger students, but an older one, when asked to get the "long wait" disappeared for half a day. * This troper used to work in a computer research group at a Canadian government lab. He got a phone message from the shipping and receiving department asking him to come pick up "the business card scanner your boss ordered." Spent the few minutes' walk to the stockroom thinking up smartass comebacks (like "Oh, that's the English business card scanner, we needed [[{{Canada}} a French one]]")... only to find that the business card scanner really existed. We had five or six other scanners in the lab already, any of which could have been used to scan a business card or any other document, but the boss thought he needed to buy a scanner made ''especially for business cards,'' and the scanner manufacturer had figured out they could sell such a product. * In the chem labs, we would often send people to look for dihydrogen monoxide from the technician if they weren't paying attention. The technician would send them off for a beaker and when they came back, very very carefully fill it with tap water. Which is of course, still useless for the purposes of any experiment that requires a degree of precision (all of them). ** It's a vital component of steam baths. * This troper works in a live music venue where the light and sound technicians love these things. Every year we have a big New Years party for which we redecorate the main hall. During the building week people are often asked to find left-handed hammers and stuff. But the best one was, during another gig, the people from the bar asked a technician to find a no-drip 52 centilitre Scotch bucket. We would send him to a certain person, who was told beforehand what would be happening, who then told him to go to another person and so forth and so on. This was really the highlight of a boring evening. * This isn't just limited to new recruits either! At [[{{Warhammer40000}} Games Workshop]] the staff members inevitably end up socialising with the frequent customers, including some of the kids, and this can lead to some rather unfortunate jokes at their expense. Once the manager of the store I went to asked one of the younger customers to go to the home improvement shop down the road and pick up a can of tartan paint that he had reserved. All of the older customers (myself included) corroborated this story and he was about halfway across the plaza and onto the main road when we all felt bad and called him back. ** A few days later I played a similar joke on one of the "slower" regulars, asking him to look up some bits in the catalogue for me because I was busy painting. The part code? One-Dee-One-Zero-Tee, of course. * This troper has been sent on a literal snipehunt. At night. She saw through the snipehunt, but when her flashlight shone on the reflective

tape on trees... and it looked like eyes... * A fun and slightly odd one this troper witnessed- the manager sent someone out to buy "the last chicken in the shop", having first made sure that the store the pranked was sent to had just restocked... ---Now go back to SnipeHunt, and don't forget to bring me formula ID-10T! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SnowedIn * As an example of the contrast, this troper was born on the Canadian prairies and spent part of her childhood in the North. She didn't get a snow day until her third year of university - on the West Coast, where it snows an average of five inches a year. ** This Troper lives in Northern Sweden (so err.. Much farther north, although probably not as cold OR snowy) and has never gotten a snow day in his entire life. At one point those from the outlying villages got a day off because it was -40 degrees C and they weren't sure if the buses would work in that kind of weather, but since This Troper lived within the 3 km. limit... * St. Louis, Missouri gets about three to five feet of snow per year. They typically can cope, but the schools ''will'' close if there's more than a couple inches. Pretty much everything else stays open. One recent winter was sufficiently severe that there were shortages of ''rock salt'', and keeping the roads open was a challenge. * This Troper can attest that this is a TruthInTelevision. A slight flurry shuts down the state. ** Ditto this troper. He lives in the southwest USA, where we get an average of.. about three snowfalls a winter (and most of those are melted by noon). [[HilarityEnsues Imagine the pandemonium]] when we got a snowstorm cold enough that it ''froze the freeway'', which hadn't happened in something like thirty years. * Truth in television to some extent in the UK, where even a light snowfall tends to lead to massive disruption to everything in the country. ** As can leaves on the train lines, or almost anything but rain. * Literal truth in television when This Troper lived in Prince Edward Island; once or twice a winter, heavy snowdrifts would block the doors, making it difficult to leave the house. Sometimes the doors would freeze shut. And good luck driving in 16 inches of snow. * This troper can vouch for the above ''ToKillAMockingbird'' example, having gotten off of school for light snowfall when living in southern Georgia back in 1994. The rest of my class was going crazy over the sight of actual snow. I had grown up in ''Connecticut'' thus far and was wondering what all the fuss was about. And of course, anyone who lived in Connecticut, where I'd lived up until May 1993, or in New Jersey, where I've lived since May 1994, knows that that was the year with the horrible blizzard. I got lucky. ** "Horrible"? I was 5 for that and I thought it was ''awesome''.

** This troper was also 5, but living in Georgia like the OP, that was the most snow I've ever seen. After that, I never saw snow again, because I moved to Florida. How depressing... * This Troper, born during the arse-end 1991 Halloween blizzard in Minnesota, has only ever had a single snow day while in Minnesota, and that's only because 90% of the buses refused to start. On the flip side, he spent pre-school through first grade on an island off the cost of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico, and was not allowed outside for recess without a coat because it was 50 degrees Fahrenheit. ** I was just under one when that blizzard happened. The snow was higher than me, but I still went trick-or-treating. There are snow days in rural MN, but that is when there is 12 inches of snow after 2AM (This is due to the buses. If they can't plow the rural roads fast enough for all the buses to have a more or less clear route at 6, then they cancel school. However, if the snow has stopped by 6, and there will be plows in time, some schools have a 2-hour late start). ** I was lucky enough to be dressed as a bear that Halloween. Everyone else was wearing their coats and things, but fake fur is surprisingly warm. I'm also immensely amused when six inches of snow shuts down an entire city. In Minnesota six inches is small potatoes! * A snowstorm normally won't shut down the school in this Troper's area. However, if we get an ice storm, ain't nobody going nowhere until we can thaw out the city! * The Puget Sound area in Western Washington is weird about this... we can drive in all kinds of horrible rain that would cause massive road fatalities in Arizona. But if there's even the slightest hint of snow, schools are closed on a massive scale and people wonder if they have enough food to survive until the snow melts (usually later that afternoon). This wasn't helped by the mayor of Seattle who refused to have the roads salted or plowed downtown in 2008 after an abnormally huge snowstorm--he was worried about the effect it would have on the environment. ** Even better--that time was the first time in 19 years (I think) that people were ''actually'' snowed in, and for up to a week. Most areas got at least a foot of snow, and everywhere else got about two. Even better? Most of the greater-Seattle-area towns have, at most, ''one snow plow.'' * When this troper arrived in Buffalo, New York for graduate school, she was advised that no amount of snow could bother anyone in the city, and classes would never be cancelled. Then, that October, there was a huge blizzard that became known as "the October surprise." Most of the city lost power, much of it for days, trees fell down everywhere and blocked the roads, and most of the city functions shut down while the rest struggled to help people without power get to a place where they weren't in danger of freezing to death. And yes, classes were cancelled. When the more normal snow and ice storms set in every other day during the wintry months, however, everything did go on as normal. * As a young child, this troper experienced this in the most literal example. When she was in junior kindergarten, she lived in a basement apartment. At multiple points during the winter, there was enough snow that you were literally snowed in. I was too young to remember what

happened on those occasions, except for the fact that I missed school that day. If you were wondering, this troper was living in the Toronto area of southern Ontario (that's in Candada.) It certainly snows, but it's nothing crazy (most of the time.) * [[RosesSpindle This troper's]] entire university (in the middle of Georgia) was caught off guard by a freak snow fall in the middle of March, 2009. Not only did we get several inches, but it stuck around for the better part of a week before the last of it finally melted. Needless to say, classes were canceled... though it was less fun when this troper tried to get some food delivered and discovered that the local pizza and Chinese establishments were all closed as well... * The winter of 2009-10 seems to have caused this for half the world, with below freezing temperatures and snow deeper than snowplows spreading through Europe and the United States as far south as ''Florida''. ** This Troper can vouch for that. Her family couldn't really leave the house on Christmas Day. ** Suffice it to say, the "as far south as ''Florida''" bit is causing a ''lot'' of problems with the USA's winter agriculture. ** "Global warming", my frostbitten ass. *** A clear example of DidNotDoTheResearch, my friend. Screwy weather patterns such as this are entirely in line with the projected changes in global climate. "Global warming" is something of a misnomer. The ''average'' temperature of the world is rising, but local temperatures can wind up falling and, even if they don't change too much, the alteration in the oceans and atmosphere can bring increased severe weather and more screwy weather. ** Weirdly, northern Idaho didn't get as much snow as the previous 2 years (where were literally snowed in). That said, it wasn't exactly nice out (mid-December brought 0 degree weather with a 20 degree wind chill). * This troper was very specifically snowed in due to southern england's sudden foot of snow. He happily blamed the ice, snow, and half-melted slush for not doing anything he didn't want to, but ventured out in a foot of snow on a bike (because he didn't fancy driving a car in snow) to hang out with a friend, in temperatures cold enough to freeze the 'all weather' lubricant on the gearing.\\ Only one slip, but it caused the chain to freeze to the gearing a until he forced it loose again. * This Troper's city got hit with a snowstorm few days ago and is ''still'' not working properly... mainly because they don't plow the roads, and we got nearly two feet of snow. My university nearly never cancels classes for anything, but we just ended up with two snow days in a row at the city's request. * Coastal South Carolina doesn't get much snow, but when it does it's a newsworthy event. Most of the time we only get a light dusting, at most a couple inches that melt off by noon; usually in January or February. The schools closed on account of sleet once. Right before Christmas 1989 we got a monster snowstorm that dumped at least two feet of snow, and we had snowstorms for close to a ''week.'' I'm really glad my Dad was from upstate New York, and knew how to drive in that kind of slop!

** Also worth note on contrasting perspectives: a couple guys from Colorado were interviewed by a local TV reporter. They'd come to South Carolina to get away from the snow. * Here's another bit of contrast. [[MajorTom This Troper]] has seen quite a few snow days but on several occasions there was more than a meter of snow fallen. I've had days where I literally cannot get the car out of the snow until at least some of it melts. For the record, I live at the base of the mountains in Colorado. * This troper on the other hand, has never been snowed in anywhere even though she lives in a place where more than three feet of snow it not exceptional and snowfalls in July are not unheard of (This troper lives in Montana). Schools and businesses are only closed if it is so cold that the pipes freeze (meaning that there would be no heat or water). The last time that happened was back in the '80s when it was more than 50 degrees below zero. It was so cold that a train car at the top of the pass snapped off from the other cars and rolled all the way down the mountain until it hit something and exploded. * [[PentiumMMX2 This troper]], although he's never been snowed in anywhere in his life (Snow in general is rare where he lives), did once have a dream where he got snowed in at school; the only other person there was a girl he had a crush on at the time. Unfortunately, I woke up before things started [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean heating up]]. * This Troper lives in an area where there ///is/// no snow, ever, but this trope still applies. How? Rain days. My school is open-air, so after a certain amount of torrential downpour, the classrooms start to flood. Yay weather! ** This troper lives in an area where there is no snow and not much rain. My school never closes, even in the opposite extreme of weather (45 Celsius, over 110 Fahrenheit)his school has air conditioners and apparently that means it doesn't have to close in hot weather. Of course, some rooms have broken air conditioners or just don't have any. [[WallBanger We still have to go outside during lunch]]. The rooms where he has most of his classes are portable rooms (due to construction work), and they have air conditioners. They "work", but have no apparent cooling effectunless you're sitting at the teacher's desk. Oh, and it's a private school. * This troper lives in New York City and it literally has to take almost a foot of snow to actually shut down schools. Colleges are more stingy about closing down campus during a big snowstorm since they can decide whether or not to shut down and aren't under rule of the Board of Education. On top of that, colleges have their own clean up crew and work ''fast'' to clear the sidewalks, streets, and parking lots in their campus. Some kids may still be unable to get to school after the big storm passes and the streets are cleaned up because if they live in an obscure side street, the city may almost never get to said street to clear the road, keeping the kids inside their homes. * This troper lives somewhere in Texas where Mexico is far easier to drive to than is any other state in the union. Needless to say, we're not really used to snow down here -- or even ice. I don't even know what a snow plow looks like. But when I was five years old, I got to live through a freak snowstorm that dumped 13 inches of snow in a 3day time period -- a blizzard in our eyes. ''Everything'' got shut

down and my dad, who worked as plumbing supervisor for a building, was called out to work to deal with freezing pipes. That was the first and last time I've ever seen snow in real life. By the way, as a contrast, it was a normal September day the day we hit 112 degrees (the hottest it's been in recorded history down here) and I just went to classes at my university like it was any other day, and last summer when we experienced about sixty 100-plus degree days we just dealt with it. * This Troper lives near Seattle. It snows here ''every year,'' and you'd think that the residents would eventually get accustomed to something that consistent. But every winter, as soon as the first snowflake hits the roads, about 50% of drivers seem to instantly lose about 30 IQ points, resulting in massive gridlock all winter and insane numbers of traffic accidents. A couple years back, one night right as the snow started, there were reports on the news of people who left their jobs in Seattle at the end of the day (a lot of workers live in various towns 10-40 miles north of Seattle) and never made it home. No, that's not a euphemism for dying in an accident; the gridlock was ''so bad'' that they were still stuck in northbound traffic when the sun came up. * [[KayKay This troper]] is from Virginia where every few years we get a major snowstorm. Any Virginian who is old enough will tell you about "The Blizzard of 96" which sucked more for this one because it happened around Christmas and knock out power to many, many, MANY people. ** ''Frostsabre.'' The only thing I (vaguely, because I was very young, like 1 at the time) remember about this storm was the power outages because we were cosyed up inside and I easily fell asleep. * The deep snow didnt stop me cause Im stupid and determined. Neither did the fact that the buses werent running. I decided to walk to college, which is a 20 minute bus ride from where I live. When I got there, it was closed cause of the snow so I had to walk back home. * This troper lives in Delaware, which was hit with a pretty big snowstorm in February 2010. I think we were under a state of emergency, since the roads weren't being cleared for almost a ''whole week''. Needless to say, it was pretty fun for me, even though college was closed for like six days. I stayed at home playing [[MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games]] ''while'' watching the Olympic Winter Games held in Vancouver. Those were the first Olympic games I had ever seen, and it was freakin awesome. ** ''Frostsabre.'' During that snowstorm, I played S4 League and the Aika closed beta. The first was awesome save for the lag; the last, not so much. Also, the WoW LFD with the short queue... (this had to do with the December 2009 storm that came weeks after patch 3.3) * This troper lives in an area that was part of a major and a minor ice storm. The minor one occurred in November 1996 and my family had to stay in a motel while we waited for our power to be restored (and classes got canceled). The major one occurred in January 2007 and it got so bad that the National Guard had to be brought in to clear roads and break people out of their houses. Some people didn't have power for three weeks during the ordeal and teenage pregnancies shot up (because apparently sex was the only way to keep warm). As for me? My

house lost power for 45 minutes and I was mostly mad about the storm because I didn't get to see Curse of the Golden Flower until a few days later. Natural disasters shouldn't keep me from watching martial arts movies. * We are having an early and severe cold snap around here this year, 6-8 inches of snow in late November to be precise. we normally get a couple of days of snow if we're lucky, usually in February. Every school in town is closed. the year after I graduated from a whole school career with two snow days in total everyone else gets at least two with more on the way. I still need to trudge through two miles of snow to get to university. how freaking wonderful. * This troper lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and can attest to schools and many businesses being closed for half an inch of snow accumulation. Part of this is that, if I recall correctly, there are only two snowplows (for a major urban area covering ''literally'' over 9000 square miles), nobody (save transplants from the North) owns snow chains or snow tires (why would we?), and nobody (again, save transplants from the North) really knows how to drive on snow and ice (how would we practice?). ** Schools have been canceled for snow that melts by the time the sun comes up. Seriously. * Having lived on Prince Edward Island all my life, this trope isn't an uncommon occurrence in this troper's life. However, the instance that stands out the most in her mind is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Juan White Juan]]. * This troper is from Middle-of-Nowhere, New Hampshire, so of course this happens all the time. The Most Triumphant Example during my lifetime, however, wasn't a snowstorm--it was the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2008_New_England_and_Upstate_N ew_York_ice_storm Ice Storm of the Century]]. Everywhere looked like a disaster area (which, technically, it was). FEMA and the National Guard got involved, as did massive volunteer efforts. School was closed for two weeks, which is unheard of; in fact, we didn't get back until January 5 because of Christmas vacation. Pretty much everyone in the state lost power for at least a couple days; in my town, it was generally more like a week, and in my case, more like two weeks.[[hottip:*:In Massachusetts, where very few people were out for anywhere near that long, there were calls to dump the utility companies for their slow response, resulting in a major political controversy. In New Hampshire, people baked cookies for the utility workers. [[BlatantLies Not that we're feeling superior or anything.]]]] There was an honest-to-god AP dateline from our town. Having compared accounts with others, I suspect that the exact epicenter of the storm was in my backyard (or at least that was what it looked like with all the fallen trees). It was quite an adventure, and in the end, I think most of us have fond memories of it; at any rate, we don't expect anything like it again for quite a long time. ** I remember that storm. I'm in Rochester, and my power was only out for a few hours, but I was 5 pages into a 10-page term paper that was due the next day when the power went out. I was ready to go into school and tell my teacher that I didn't finish my paper due to an act of God, but I ended up getting a few days off.

*** Guess you knew Who to thank. * This troper, from the western border of Illinois and Iowa, had one or two snow days a year, but almost never for the actual snow-usually, the temperature dropped so low that the diesel fuel in our school buses solidified, so most students in the rural area had no way to get to school. On that note, I'm constantly astounded by tales from my uncle in North Carolina, who said pretty much everything where he lives shut down when there was the chance they'd get 1-4 inches of snow. Being from the Midwest, he naturally drove all the way into work only to find that he was the lone employee to show up that day. His bosses sent him home and canceled work the day afterward as well. Meanwhile, on the same day, in seven inches of snow, I drove to work, just like all of my coworkers. * As of today (2/4/11) This Troper has been snow/iced in for 4 days. I'm representing from Dallas in the 2011 ice storm, the worst since '96. school has been closed for a record 4 days and I've been stuck in the house since Tuesday and more snow fell last night. * This troper lost almost a full month of her junior year of high school because of the crazy blizzard that covered Pennsylvania in January 1993. Quite literally, the students went on Christmas break and didn't come back until nearly Valentine's Day. A record snowfall something along the lines of ''eight feet'' - blanketed the region. It was a full state of emergency and she didn't see her parents for at least a week because of their jobs; dad was a prison guard and mom was a nurse's aide in a nursing home. Since both were considered essential personnel, they were allowed to go ''to'' work...they just weren't allowed to come ''home'' because of the state of emergency. Weirder still, it's hard to remember exactly how long the blizzard kept them out because as soon as the weather allowed them to return to school, the teachers went on strike. No, really. ---Hmm... snowed in... nothing to do but read the main page for SnowedIn! ----

SoapboxSadie * Tropers/HaseoNatsume tends to be, at times, to the chagrin of others...to save a huge long MotiveRant and summary of viewpoints, let's just say that he/I tends to believe that because his left wing utopia is impossible, the only hope for humanity is Instrumentality. Of course, this doesn't go over well with most people. * Tropers/DesertDragon was a male version for most of his childhood, then he became an adult and dated an even bigger Soapbox Sadie and realized just how annoying it is. Nowadays he still has causes he believes in, but picks his battles more carefully (and doesn't always jump on the left-wing bandwagon), rather than getting worked up about every little thing. * This troper's sister. Oh so much! Especially when she finds a new cause. * This Tropers Mother on spirituality and alternative medicine, his brother on vegetarianism, socialism, anti-capitalism, and atheism his father on conservatism, traditional western medicine, and republicans.

That's right, they are all out to get each other, and it doesn't help any that I am usually too timid to disagree. * [[DeltaOne This Troper]] and his friends took advantage of Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park to engage in an intentionally irrational rant about the Space Pixies taking over the government. It was supposed to be a joke. His friends' role was to be shills in the audience, shouting agreement. ''Other people'' started agreeing with him. He ran like hell. * [[{{Luna87}} This troper]] is this. And how. You name it: veganism, animal rights, environment, women's issues, anti-capitalism, poverty, I have a soapbox for ever occasion, and make no apologies for standing on one. Even my [[{{Deadpan Snarker}} sarcastic remarks]] can be (somewhat) hidden Aesops ("Just think of how many starving children could have been saved with the money I spent to see that movie.") ** Are you me? Well...a bizarre version of me? You name it: PETA hypocresy, political correctness, global warming skepticism, gender issues, anti-socialism, criticism of social welfare, small goverment...My relatives doesn't want to talk with me by the fear of being lectured about well, almost any topic in existence. * This troper went to an entire school of these. They were convinced everything in the mainstream was evil, including Republicans, Tv, [=McDonald's=], video games, high fructose corn syrup, global warming, assembly line products, and vaccines. Needless to say, this troper got into a lot of arguments with them. They are also very sympathetic to Calvinism. One of their ideas about [=McDonald's=] is that they use ammonia to wash their equipment and don't clean it out. Another one is that they pluck chickens when they're still alive and then put them in the electric bath. [[YouFailLogicForever The chickens somehow survive and then get another go around.]] They then use everything ''except'' the meat to make their chicken nuggets. * This Troper got into a fight with his relatives after we were disscussing Robin Hood. Everything was going smoothly until someone brought up the subject of him stealing the money from the King. After that, our house was a war zone. I kept saying that Robin Hood didn't need to kill the King and his family, and I still even thought he was labeled as a villian because he was stealing, and my mother kept on saying he [[WallBanger actually was doing]] [[BeyondTheImpossible the]] [[WhatAnIdiot right thing.]] Since when is killing someone doing the right thing?! Even if it is for the poor, someone with at least one single brain cell would know that killing people is illegal. Also I got in really nasty dispute with my mother about feminism, which turned out to become a giant mess. First of all, I am against it, and I believe that I am the same thing that is gender flipped, which I like to call a Masculinist. When I brought up the fact that men are also physically abused by women and when telling someone get ridiculed about it, I swear I heard my own mother 29 YEARS OLD, [[WallBanger SAY THAT IS OKAY BECAUSE 96 PERCENT OF WOMEN ARE ABUSED BY MEN]], which is nothing but bullshit, false percentages, and flat out lies. Me being only 10 thinks doubts that my mother has any common sense and lacks the abillity to understand and configure in her mind that what she was saying was the biggest DoubleStandard I had ever heard in my (currently) 11 years of life on this Earth.

** About the Robin Hood example...ever heard of [[BlackAndGreyMorality Black and Grey Morality]] or [[GreyAndGrayMorality Grey and Gray Morality?]] There are many stories where the protagonist commits murder because of a belief called "the ends justify the means". These characters are [[AntiHero Anti Heroes]] or [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists.]] If done poorly, it can come across as horrible [[MoralDissonance Moral Dissonance,]] but when done properly it can create a compelling story about motivations for good and evil, and whether it's ever okay to commit one evil action to prevent another. It hardly means anyone who can understand the main character's motivation has less than one brain cell. ** And about the feminism thing, just to clarify, your way of thinking isn't the opposite of feminism. ** Original troper - hopefully you'll learn that there are many kinds of feminism. I've known many feminists who would completely agree with you. * This Troper was brought up reading books like The 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century, listened to Air America on long car rides, attended or even worked the camera for my mom's political meetings, preferred history books or books about public policy to novels, grew up in a very conservative town, went to a summer camp/synagogue that put a heavy emphasis on social justice and equality, and my two fondest memories of high school were when I called a classmate "comrade" for a month after she called me a Commie in history class (ironically my term paper for that class was on using free-market solutions, like microloans and foreign direct investment, to mitigate or even end child labor in developing countries), and when I gave a speech to my APUS class dresed as Emma Goldman. It's not entirely surprising that I basically live on a soapbox at this point; feminism, foreign policy, LGBT rights, immigration reform, reproductive rights, health care: you name it, I have a hippie lefto-liberal opinion about it. ** *high five* Hello, girl who could be my twin! *** Triplets? * This troper typically hates talking about stuff he cares for, mainly due to the fact he's shy and his opinions are too open-minded for most people. He can however easily slip into this.. ''Very easily'', especially online. ---Why do you want to waste time reading SoapboxSadie when there are starving children in Africa?

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SoCalization * An inversion would be most schools portrayed in movies and tv shows tend to be confined in one large building with hallways and indoor cafeterias. In SoCal most classrooms open up into the outside, and lunch is always taken outside (unless it rains, then you need to find

a nice teacher to put up with you). It's a bit strange to then see a school supposedly set in SoCal that is all enclosed in one building. ** There's a [[JustifiedTrope good reason for this]]. "Outside Schools" were built before widespread air conditioning (many schools still don't have any), so there would be easy and plentiful access to windows. Now that air conditioning is standard in new schools, the trend is going back toward the old design. ** Subverted at This Troper's school. There are some classrooms that open up only on the outside, some classrooms that only open up on the inside (like this troper's art classroom), and some classrooms that open up on the inside and the outside. {{It Makes Sense in Context}}, because This Troper lives in the L.A. area, but, my school was built a few years ago. ** This troper ''has'' tended to notice that a disproportionately large amount of high schools in fiction (particularly on TV sitcoms) are stately Gothic buildings in red brick that appear to be from the early Victorian area, and also seem to be in suburban surroundings. His high school was a more "modern" building (constructed in 1962), and he used to joke about the school seeming more "urban" and "ghetto" (it was not far from the city's downtown area) than the schools always seen on sitcoms. * Moreover, most supposedly-SoCal schools are shown to be multiple stories and have lockers. This troper lived in Southern California for her entire childhood and saw maybe one two-story school, and many schools have been removing lockers for fear that students will keep drugs/weapons/etc in them. ** Really? This troper still ''lives'' in [=SoCal=] and has not seen a single high school without lockers (and while there are one-story high schools, most are two-story). ** This troper also lives in Sourthern California, and can tell you that, while highschools generally have a couple two-story buildings, they have more one-story ones (out here, the classrooms are spread out among separate buildings). And every middle or high school, and even a handful of elementary schools, have lockers. It's just that students are subject to random locker checks whenever the school wants, without having to ask, and the right to seize your possessions. No 4th Amendment at school. * ''[=~Reno 911!~=]'' depicts a curiously-palm-tree-bedecked version of Reno. Nevada and Arizona are just as dotted with palm trees that aren't even native to Southern California, but ThisTroper right here lives in Reno, and has yet to see a palm tree, especially in the locations on the show that show them in abundance. It's actually more common to see cherry blossom trees than anything. ** ThisTroper always interpreted them to be artificial or foreign palm trees, like the kind you'll find around some Vegas hotels. * This Troper noticed that all high school stories set in Southern California have [[{{The Libby}} Libby cheerleaders]]. It's the opposite at This Troper's school, since the cheerleaders at her school are actually nice people. * Actually, the Mojave Desert is the closest desert to L.A. This Troper has been there many times, but the only saguaro cacti I've seen there are in gardens and landscaping. The native cacti aren't nearly

as magnificent looking. ** Actually, LosAngeles ''itself'' is a desert. It's just hard to see once you've covered it up with hundreds of square miles of concrete. But that sort of explains all the sand and rock underneath the concrete, and the fact that it rains only about 3 weeks out of the year and has that whole "hell on earth during the day, cold at night" thing going on. *** L.A. is not a "desert" as it is popularly conceived (e.g., the Mojave or Sonoran desert). The area receives more rainfall and has milder temperatures. This L.A. native doesn't know where you're getting the "hell on Earth" thing, as extreme heat only happens in August and September-- and even then, it's usually nothing compared to many parts of the Southwest and the humid hell that is the Southeast in August. This September (2010) was a rare exception, with recorded temperatures reaching the 110's. And droughts recently have made the annual precipitation fall below average on some years. * Stories set ostensibly in places such as [[{{Greek}} Ohio]] or Connecticut have characters wearing tee-shirts and other [[ItIsAlwaysSpring spring appropriate]] clothes in the middle of ''January''. ** Could be justified once or twice with Ohio, since we often have unseasonable weather, but since we also get nasty winters, more times than that is silly. ** But see also DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas... ** This Ohio Troper had a teacher who wore sandals with no socks in deep snow, so that's not entirely inaccurate. ** And this troper has seen numerous individuals wear tee-shirts and tanks in freezing weather, even in 17* F weather. For people who live in very cold climates, just because the snow isn't melting doesn't mean it isn't warm outside. *** This is common in the Northern states. T-Shirts & sweat pants are still worn in the dead of winter. If it's even a little above freezing, though, count on seeing shorts. * Carbonated soft drinks are always "soda, " never "pop, " "cola, " or "coke." [[http://popvssoda.com:2998/ Compare.]] ** Then again, "Coke" ''is'' trademarked, very heavily. *** So are Kleenex and Band-Aids, but you'll still hear people use them as common nouns. *** [[TruthInTelevision "Ya'll want a coke?" "Sure." "What kind?" "Dr. Pepper."]] ** Averted on That70sShow, which was set in Wisconsin. The characters almost always said "pop". *** Which is odd, because this troper has lived in Wisconsin all her life and has always said "soda"... * Metropolitan areas are large, sprawling, and separated by hundreds of miles of countryside. (Nothing at all like the relatively compact and closely spaced cities of the Northeast and Midwest.) ** Northeast, maybe. This troper lives in Nebraska, and there's lots of countryside between most of the cities in this part of the country. Oklahoma is the same. Maybe it's an East vs West thing? *** Cities? [[FlyoverCountry In Nebraska?]] *** Compact and closely spaced cities in the US are typical of the

northern half of the country. However, even in [[{{Joisey}} New Jersey]] there are giant tracts of largely empty forest. *** Plenty of countryside in TheDeepSouth (although our cities tend to be smaller). *** Utah's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasatch_Front Wasatch Front]] metropolitan area is in its own strange way simultaneously both of these concepts, with a lot of sprawl in the north-south direction, but densely packed in the east-west direction because they hug the lofty mountains just to the east and the adjacent west desert is barely habitable. Wherever you are, you're never far away from undeveloped countryside, and yet you can still drive in the right direction and never stop seeing city for at least an hour or two. I imagine many other cities are similar to this wherever urban development has rather strict geographical limits in two opposing directions--for instance the densely urbanized Nile River in Egypt (there's a ''reason'' the Pyramids and the Sphinx in the nearby desert aren't ''city'' landmarks). ** This is oddly subverted with shows set in major cities that have tourist destinations, where characters move effortlessly from landmark to landmark, (and even from city to city) [[TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot without stopping anywhere else]] due to the EiffelTowerEffect. Geography Does Not Work That Way! This is less noticeable in the South and Midwest, where cities have a single small downtown and everything else is {{Suburbia}}.

SocialServicesDoesNotExist * I learned this the fun way, by the time I was about fifteen I learned the world didn't give a crap, so I stopped trying to get help and decided to just try and handle my daddio's emotional/physical abuse and try to not be killed. * TruthInTelevision, this troper's mother works in social services, has worked in 4 different cities in 2 countries, and everywhere she's gone they're completely swamped with cases (she currently has ''triple'' the maximum a single worker is meant to deal with), meaning that unless a child is actively in danger, they often just simply don't have the time to deal with them. * More people this troper knows than she cares to think about. She possibly knows more than not whose parents should be locked up for good. * Teaching in a poor area will give you any number of horror stories, "well we're pretty sure it's a power cable he's whipping her with but child services aren't able to do anything without proof right now because he's past the probation period." * Not a troper tale, but there are, ofcourse, many parts of the world where social services really don't exist, or rather exist on paper only or are so corrupt as to unnoticeable. TheNewRussia and other post-Soviet countries come to mind (since the entire social welfare system went out together with socialism), though this is not nearly as bad now as it was in the 1990s.

* This Troper would like to say that where you live doesn't matter, Social Services is incompetent everywhere. When a parent living in the suburbs of a major American city can attempt to murder their forcibly drugged child, with no negative repercussions on the part of anyone other than said child, it's clear that Social Services has failed. * See: AwfulTruth and SadistTeacher troper tales. * Just working in a related field in the same building as these folks is enough to drive me to despair. Half of them plain don't care, and are just going through the motions till retirement. A quarter of them are incompetent, and the remaining quarter are struggling to meet the needs of their clientele, but they don't have the time or resources. Sadly, kids in areas without social services might be better off; when you know there's a department out there meant to deal with this, it's no longer your problem. Where there's no child services, you're just that much more likely to make your neighbor's kid and those welts on his face your business... ** You've got to live in a pretty good place, then. There ''were'' no Social services when my grandmother was a (really young) and the population was all apathetic and literally said, "Not our problem" and wouldn't lift a finger unless their kid was the one with welts and bruises. And no, this wasn't in America; this was in ''Poland''. Maybe in America people would be willing to help kids out more. * I volunteer out of a hospital with an organization that helps families find social resources they might need (help getting food stamps, or utility assistance, or employment etc.) because the social workers are of course really busy and have more serious issues to deal with. We were told by supervisors that we should refer cases to the social workers if they involves certain issues, specifically child or spousal abuse, substance abuse, or mental issues. After all we're college students, and aren't qualified to deal with this stuff, right? That is, until we actually talked to the social worker, who said she couldn't actually do anything unless we came with evidence of abuse in hand, and so we really should bother referring. It's... Overwhelming. * This troper remembers an incident described by someone on a website they used to frequent. This person found out that her friend was getting knocked around by her dad and got her to phone Social Services, only to repeatedly get an answer phone message that said that they were to leave a message and if they left more then one then they'd be ignored altogether. This prompted them to give up on Social Services and instead the original posters dad dealt with it, informing the waste of skin that the woods behind their house were very large and that a body buried there probably wouldn't be discovered for years. * This troper has been banging his head against the wall in frustration seeing kids with black eyes (From being smacked too hard) or signs of other such child abuse (Such as whipping or reacting in fear to their parents) go unheard of or be ignored by Social Services yet they would be in the hospital accusing all the parents of child abouse whenever his sister or other such people had fractures...Nevermind that they ''were clinically diagnosed with Osteogenesis Imperfecta'', meaning that even ''with'' treatments like Fosamax they can ''still'' break a bone from a game of dodge ball.

* This troper spotted a kid walk up and ask for some candy to their dad in a Target, and the dad backhanded the kid ''so hard'' they fell right on their back - Sure they said, "Can I have this?" and we all know that wasn't very polite, but holy crap man - the dad didn't even look up at her, ask what she did wrong and just hit her to the ground. And of course, guess what everyone else did? They either didn't bat an eyelash, or actually ''congratulated him''. Dude - I don't mind hitting a kid if they're making a fuss, but ''the dad made a bigger scene than his girl did when he threw her on the floor!'' There's such a thing as too far... * This troper knows a girl whose mother has her constantly living in fear of taking her to juvenile hall or whatnot, despite the fact that she can't do it legally, and the poor lass believes her. Apparently, her mother even ''dragged her across the living room floor '''by her hair''''' for some really insignificant thing she did. Her mother keeps her into this because she says "Call Social Services and I'll take you to juvy!" * There is this family that lives on my block they have two small boys, the mom is extremely neglectful the dad is even worse I've witnessed him smack the older boy across the face, shake him, and yell at him, with the younger one who is barely three he sometimes seems to barely notice he exists I've seen him blow cigarette smoke in his face, push him around and swear at him, and they often forget to feed them and allow them to wander around town for hours at a time, they have both nearly been run over many times, I worry about the older boy's mental health as he's done some pretty horrible things in the past like he almost killed a dog and a toddler girl and he carries about small dead animals and he's only seven, my family and other neighbors have called the police on them in the past but that did no good because one of the officers happens to be a good friend of the dad's. * In a subversion of this, my friend's family was torn apart when DSS took the word of his mentally unstable and clinically depressed foster brother over the word of his two perfectly mentally healthy mothers. It was one of the saddest things I've seen, watching them take his little foster sister and brother (who couldn't have been older than five and seven, respectively, at the time) who had just been taken away from their mother, away from their family again, and seeing my friend try to be cool while he had to stay with my family and it was clear he was totally torn up inside. He managed it except for one day when we were talking and I mentioned the suicide of a mother of a girl who had gone to my school, and he responded "I'd rather my mother be dead than know that she's right down the street and they may never let me talk to her again!" * This trope is one of the reasons that the centralisation of justice by the government is essentially "You can't do that, that's my job!", or a thinly veiled caste system. Sure it's okay for people with sillylooking wigs and a memorised protocol to throw a person in prison (assuming they go through every motion of their pedantic protocol, and gods help you if you so much as forgot to dot an i on the 3rd copy of the testamony or it's all null!) but if I know beyond a reasonable doubt and have evidence of some kid being abused and roll around to

the perpetrator's house with identical equipment to a police officer (inferior in many respects, since pistols are very very illegal where I live) and do the same it's illegal, I get charged and they go free. The day we give up of the utterly arbitrary centralised legal system and go back to decentralised justice the faster we can get rid of the {{Amoral Attorney}} trope. Only in our civilisation could a person make a very lucrative living by being the legal equivalent of a munchkin power-gamer. * Social Services really failed my friend, she had her children taken away from her-two of them are staying with family, and three of them she may never see again. She wasnt abusive towards them at all. She could have had a chance to get her two sons back, as a letter was sent to her saying she had a month to try to get them back, before they were given to new parents, but it was too late. Tne letter came a month too late, and they had already been adopted. * Another story I read on a forum was from a young girl who was having problems which started by someone accusing her parents of abusing her younger brother, when they were really innocent, and the children got taken away from the parents and seperated from eachother. Eventually they were returned home, but she has been affected by having to go through all that. * I've known of a number of people living in filth raising children in that envorinment and rarely is anything done about it. Even sadder, we have an unofficial policy that if the child is an Aboriginal Australian, Child Services have to go "easier" on them. Which means a lot of children won't be taken out of horrible households and will be left to abusive parents because if they do the right thing and take them away, people will complain and say it's another stolen generation. It's sad seeing what happens to so many innocent kids because of this "policy". * I know of this family that went to my church that had two boys after a while I was suspicious as to why the younger boy was often covered in bruises as the older boy was one of the nicest kids I knew and he didn't seem like the bullying type, I soon figured out why the mother was a very abusive bitch who took out her anger on the younger boy, during church I saw her drag him under the seats he had been crawling under and make him bump his head making him cry then she slapped him and I heard from the other church members that she beat him a lot, made fun of him for being overweight, and told him he would amount to nothing, a few had even threatened to call the social services on her but they didn't, thankfully one day she was arrested for pulling a gun on her husband and he got custody of the kids. * I live in central New Jersey, and the school system (besides falling apart at the seams because of corruption in the Board of Education of my district,from which just two years ago over half a million dollars were taken from the system by our old superintendent,) seems to be holding their own little "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy on children. If the kid says nothing (which they don't, mostly because of fear or lack of information on resources... that the schools are supposed to provide, thus a vicious circle), they don't bother watching for the signs. A girl from my year was taken out of school by her parents and forced to marry an older man, and many kids come to school looking

like they spent the night outside instead of at home. Nothing is done to help the rampant drug use (ever had the ''joy'' of seeing your classmates get stoned before first-period class, and then after lunch?), and from September to November 2010, eighteen people were shot and killed in the area our school district covers, three of them students. [[SocialServicesDoesNotExist]]? More like [[CrapsackWorld]], if you ask me. ---Hello, I'd like to issue a report of child abuse to the Social Services... What do you mean '[[SocialServicesDoesNotExist What's that]]'!? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SockPuppet You know examples of Sockpuppets on other forums? May be best to keep them anonymous. * This troper used to moderate a forum in which one person seemed to be ''completely'' immune from moderation, and for some reason, everyone who told ''him'' to shut up resulred in your own posts getting moderated and you got a warning for flaming. Before the board upgraded (note that this was in the day before IP-banning became commonplace) we found that he was actually a ''moderator's'' SockPuppet. * This troper is a regular visitor to a comics review blog. One negative review garnered two comments about how amazing the book was, and they'd never heard of the writer before but he was awesome and the reviewer didn't know what he was talking about. The reviewer sardonically noted that the two comments came seconds after each other from the same IP address, which seemed to originate in the author's home area. One of them came back with the response that there was nothing wrong with her and her friend wanting to support someone from their home town (thereby admitting that, whoops, they ''had'' heard of him before...) Might have been sock puppets, might have been wellmeaning, but very ill-advised friends of the writer. * [[Tropers/{{Nuclearneo577}} I]] have [[{{Tropers/Nuclearneo}} this]] account for when I use another computer. * I tried this once, but I just started arguing with myself. It gave ppl food for discussion, which was the whole point anyway. * This troper is ashamed to admit that he posts multiple comments on TroperTales pretending to be different people. ** Don't worry, I do the same thing. *** [[TalkingToHimself Well, yes, you would. You're a Sockpuppet of me.]] *** No! That's not true! ''[[StarWars That's impossible!]]'' *** Search your feelings, you know it to be true! *** But what about my wife? My kids? Are they made-up too?! *** All Sockpuppets. *** No! I exist! ''I EXIST, DAMMIT!'' [[BigNo Nooooooooooo...]] ** ^ WIN.

*** [[OverlyLongGag You're a Sockpuppet, too.]] *** ...[[PrecisionFStrike fuck.]]

SomeCallMeTim * This troper teaches at an American high school that yearly hosts several Thai exchange students. These students regularly shorten their hard-to-pronounce Thai names into one or two syllable nicknames. ** At this troper's school, about 40% of the population is a mixture of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean students. Nearly all of them have names that no one can spell or pronounce, but which have been shortened to things like "Kate" and "Min." Substitute days are always hilarious... * [[@/NoSoup4Me This troper]] had a greek friend in secondary (high) school called Dionisia. While not to difficult to pronounce on its own some people still had trouble so she went by the name Nion (pronounced "Yon"). * Similarly, [[@/{{Crisis}} this contributor]] had a great grand-uncle (or something) named Aniello (it's also my middle name, and I pronounce it "Ah-nell-oh"), but everyone called him "Tom." * [[Tropers/LoneRonin This troper]] has a [[TropeOverdosed combination]] of {{some call me Tim}}, {{the unpronounceable}} and {{last name basis}}. I have a common first name and a [[TheUnpronounceable weird Asian last name]]. I find that whenever I'm with a group of people and someone has the same [[OneSteveLimit first name as me]], they get the first name and I'm called by the first syllable of my [[LastNameBasis last name]]. No matter where I have lived/studied/worked on the planet, every new group of people I associate with who has never met the other groups winds up calling me '[[SomeCallmeTim Chu]]', it's my biggest [[BerserkButton pet peeve]]. * This Troper's sophomore history teacher replaced one of his classmate's last names with "from Thailand." * This troper has had a lot of Chinese [=TAs=]. The most recent are two guys, one named Joe and the other named...Apple. * This D&D playing troper once created a Sorcerer from the Greyhawk setting's equivalent of the Middle East, and gave him a name reflecting that. Jabir Khalil Mohammed Abd-Al-Latif. Still fairly conservative compared to other Arabic names, but the other players settled very quickly into calling him [[JackAttack Jack]]. ** This editor's non-human characters regularly get such names: Sandy (Sandaroleth), Lyb (Lyberon), Shorty ([[NoNameGiven Full name unknown]], implied to be both long and [[TheUnpronounceable hard to say]], so the first person she introduced herself to in the human lands asked if she had "anything shorter?"), Rend (Rendoleth), and [[PunctuationShaker Del'var]] (Del'var inb Hazzin, the [[FirstNameBasis rest is unknown]]). ** In the same thread here, this troper had a gnome character with the name *deep breath* Gerboonmatinhasan'dilkur Hastellan Yithyondishathasn. It was promply shortened to Gerbin. ** Possibly related, this troper had a character named Tyrhanai. The other players called him Cloak. Then killed him, skinned him, and turned him into a cloak for the sake of irony.

* This troper's next-door neighbors growing up included a girl by the name of Annabellemarie, known to the troper as Anne. * This World of Warcraft-playing troper had a guildie whose 10-lettername, starting with "De", was pronounced differently by each player. After many failed attempts at pronounciation, everyone just decided to call him "Dexter" instead. When another player with a long and unpronouncable name joined the guild, he was just referred as "Dexter 2". * This troper knows a Chinese student at her high school whose real name is Yim-Ming, but is instead called "Amanda". ** There are a lot of Chinese students at thir troper's school who would seem to do this, but she only knows for certain of one (but cannot recall either name, unfortunately). * This troper has problems with both her main online username for [[{{Main/DeviantArt}} deviantART]] and her [[{{Main/RealLife}} reallife]] name. Online, her name contains an intentionally wacky misspelling of the word "crazy" that no one she knows can pronounce until she explains it to them. In real-life, her name is so uncommon that she can't use it online, and yet she knows of two dozen other girls with the same first name--two of which are in her grade. She once remedied the problem by spending an entire day pretending her name was Emily (which is, ironically, THE most common female name). ** This same troper has also taken note of how other repeat names in school (John/Jon, Andrew, and Victoria (as well as many more repeats, particularly in the girls' names)) are dealt with. Most kids have taken to just tacking the first letter of their last name onto the end. Others use numbers based on who is older than who. *** At this troper's school, we just go by last names if two people are friends and have the same name. For example, two of the theater kids (a guy and a girl; they eventually dated for a short while) are named Alex, and they just go by their last name to avoid confusion. * [[@/{{Vulpy}} I'm]] one of the people responsible for all those pesky ''[[CityOfHeroes City of Heroes]]'' references you'll see about the website. My main PlayerCharacter has a full nahuatl name. As those generally read like a bad Scrabble rack ("Matlactli Omei Tecpatl"), in his "backstory," his American friends often call him "Mat." * [[@/NotSoBadassLongcoat This troper]] usually prefers that people call him Mike. Although his name isn't even related to "Michael". * This troper has a friend who has so many nicknames it gets very hard to remember what his real first name is or even which of his many names was the "real" one. The weird part is that all of his names, including real first name, are just regular names he somehow picked up. * One of my classmates in named Knurmukhamed Eldosov. But everyone calls him Nurik. His brother, Knursultan, in called "Salty". It's hilarious to watch the subs struggle to pronounce his name. * This troper's name, while perfectly normal and pronounceable, is spelled oddly. She just goes by Alex, to save time. * While this troper and her family were playing "1 Vs. 100" on XBOX LIVE, there was a player we were seriously getting annoyed with. I believe his username was Ymergishtygroghkm, or at least something in that vein. Whenever we were cracking a joke about him, we just called

him [[StarWars Yoda]]. For another example, many classmates find it difficult to call this troper by her first name for whatever reason (it's Morgan, for those curious), and instead call her Mo, Ki-ki, Kiki, Hammie, Borgen, Moey, M-CAT, Chica, Momo, Morey, Mocha... * [[@/MidnightVelvet This troper's]] last name (hyphenated, half French, half Arabic) is apparently too hard for anyone to pronounce, and since he's [[EmbarrassingFirstName not quite fond of his first name]] (which isn't really embarrassing or anything, but just doesn't suit him), he tends to just go by his initials. * This male troper has a girl's name. Some of you might say it's unisex, but I know it's a girls mane. Anyway, my name is simply two syllables, and four letters, yet no one ever gets it right. Kaya. "Kah-yah." How freaking hard is that?!? Most people refer to me as "Kai" "Kyle" or "Kay-uh". I've now officially reached the point where I just don't f**king care anymore. * There was this one African kid at [[{{Chihuahua0}} my]] school whose first name and last name was so long, it didn't fit on his ID card. Everybody calls him by his middle name, which is just a normal Western name. * This troper is familiar with two boys called Vivik, and a whole class full of Korean kids with names some people can't say (Kyoyi, for instance; she goes by Kate), and a girl called Xuan-Nhi (who goes by Zuni), which made sub days oh-so fun. * This Troper somehow acquired many friends during high school all named Katherine and all of whom went by Katherine as their prefered moniker. This was fine until the many Katherines began hanging out at the same time which made telling stories of such hang outs confusing to the listeners. Nicknames were quickly assigned. * This Troper's mom's first name is BabaUna. Her middle name is Melissa. Guess which one she uses on a day-to-day basis. * Somewhat of an inversion but I knew a guy who went by odd names like Wolf and Night Ripper because he disliked his name (Seth). Our creative writing teacher dubbed him Oberon and the name stuck for the year. Go back to that guy. What's his name? Eh, let's just call him [[SomeCallMeTim Tim]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SomedayThisWillComeInHandy * This Troper has a teacher who, whenever projecting a presentation is necessary, either has to ask the taller students in the class to do it for her or jump for it with her finger outstretched. She almost always jumps for it and has told us that someday she will encounter some crisis where her ability to jump to push a tiny button will be vital to the survival of all of us. (This same teacher is [[MemeticBadass memetically a ninja]].) Go back to SomedayThisWillComeInHandy and... wait, help! This alien

invader wants me to polish its shoes! ''We need someone who knows how to polish shoes!''

SomethingTheyWouldNeverSay * When this troper's father worked at a bank, addressing his wife by her second name on the phone would have been the hint to send in the police. * This troper has encountered a number of families with established "code words" that can be used when there is a need to request help without being obvious. ** Other families have code words for when a parent requires someone that the child doesn't know to pick up their kid. (See ''{{Changeling}}'' for why this is a concern.) The kids are not supposed to go with any adult who doesn't first bring up the code word in casual conversation. As a child, mine was "carrots" and I never understood why the adult had to hide it in meaningless chatter. Maybe just to make it more exciting so I'd pay attention. * In something of an inversion, this troper has read at least three lists of supposed internet acronyms used by young people in chat rooms. Aside from one or two real ones such as "lol", they almost universally revolved around being unable to speak freely because a parent is watching over their shoulder. Any parent who tried to use them to monitor their children incognito would be found out because they were, for the most part, entirely made up. ** [[SarcasmMode Because the first priority of teenagers explicitly told their friends' parents are watching would be to keep them]] ''[[SarcasmMode out]]'' [[SarcasmMode of trouble...]] * One of this troper's friends never capitalises or leaves a gap after "I" when typing to refer to herself. More than once, he's been able to tell that her MSN is being used by someone else because of this quirk. It's the one thing that his grammar nazi tendencies put up with. * Similar to the above, this reformed Grammar Nazi of a Troper has a tendency to leave out capital letters and punctuation when he's upset. His best friend realized it before he did. ----

SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying * My college anthropology course had to do a lot of background in basic biology, and the teacher tried to compress the entire evolution of life, from the Precambrian to the Cenozoic, into one lecture period. This resulted in some real kickers. He went straight from flying reptiles to birds, although birds evolved from actual dinosaurs, not from small, flying reptiles that happened to be alive when the dinosaurs were. He also covered therapsids after the dinosaurs, making it appear as though they were a more recent development, although the Earth's surface was dominated by largish therapsids that mostly went extinct in one great disaster at the BEGINNING of the age of dinosaurs. He conflated this disaster with the one that wiped the dinosaurs out, and implied that true mammals did

not evolve until the Cenozoic, when it's been known that small mammals existed throughout the Mesozoic since we still thought ''Apatosaurus'' snorkeled in swamps. Oh, and his slide projections were so out-ofdate, there were illustrations of hadrosaurs with literal duck-bills, and ''Apatosaurus'' snorkeling in swamps. Again, this is a COLLEGE. SCIENCE. COURSE. Paleontology may not be his particular field of interest, but he should be able to get the basic timeline in order. * [[{{Tropers/Spinosegnosaurus77}} This troper]] has a few. For instance: ** His mother insists that ''Spinosaurus'' looks just like a ''TyrannosaurusRex'' with a sail. Hmm... I think they're [[http://i27.tinypic.com/k3kjn5.jpg just a bit]] [[http://0.tqn.com/d/dinosaurs/1/0/n/2/-/-/trexluisrey.jpg different]]... (first pic is Spino, second is T-rex). ** Also, he has a 2006 encyclopedia on prehistoric life (this one [[http://www.amazon.ca/Illustrated-Encyclopedia-PrehistoricWorld/dp/0785820868/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1305408294&sr=1-1 here]]). Having noticed several inaccuracies in it, I typed them all up on Microsoft Word. '''''IT TOOK SEVEN FREAKIN' PAGES TO LIST THEM ALL.''''' Such anomalies include naked raptors, swan-necked plesiosaurs, "''Anatosaurus''" and "''Stenonychosaurus''" (both of which were renamed in the eighties or nineties), ''Teratosaurus'' as a dinosaur (thought to have been a land crocodile since the eighties) and tail-dragging dinosaurs of all sorts. Remember, '''''[[CriticalResearchFailure THIS IS A 2006 ENCYCLOPEDIA]].''''' By the way, [[http://www.amazon.com/review/R944NI7Y1UBSH/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R944 NI7Y1UBSH this review]] sums up the problems quite nicely. I'm seriously considering sending a letter to the editor. ** His father insists that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptodontidae glyptodonts]] were reptiles.[[hottip:*: They're ''[[CriticalResearchFailure mammals]]''.]] Said father also has a tendency to confuse ''Coelophysis'' and ''Deinonychus''. ** A brain teaser I submitted to [[http://www.braingle.com/index.php Braingle.com]] was rejected because ''[[http://www.braingle.com/community/board_post.php?forum=4;id=1487;n ew=1#newest the editors thought that BAND was correct]]''. If you don't know what the problem is, see the "Real Life" folder on the trope's main page. Albertonykus, you'll be glad to know I quoted your blog several times in my rebuttal. ** He has a Creationist dinosaur book which is actually quite accurate by evolutionist standards. However, one flaw remains: TyrannosaurusRex ''is shown with three fingers.'' * This troper has a tendency to runt into paleo-idiots on a regular basis, the same way he runs into the FanDumb folks of the {{Transformers}} fandom. Recently, I had a clash with two ''JurassicPark'' haters, both of whom utterly loathed StevenSpielberg, but loved the original novel and ''JP III''. One of them had such a hard time trying to accept the notion that there were feathered dinosaurs, he refused to take notice of the evidence I showed him, and went on to ramble about how "the Jewish are taking over the world, so

dinosaur pages on {{Wikipedia}} can't be trusted" (even though I linked him to other sites as well). Another nut, this time ''a freaking college professor'', claimed that birds have nothing to do with dinosaurs, they are more like mammals, and that only qualified scientists should ever be allowed to be fans of paleontology. ** And, of course, I've also had the usual "But raptors ''did'' have feathers" discussion in real life. The other person had ''JP'''s dinosaur images burned so hard into his mind that he refused to accept the feathers, even after already having read a manga in which raptors were portrayed with fuzz. He firmly argued that they were scaly even in the manga, but after checking the comic itself, was astonished to find that his mind somehow erased his memories of the fuzzy raptors and replaced them with scaly ones. ** Not to forget, one of my high-school Biology books had an illustration of what they labeled as a "''Brontosaurus''". This was a fairly recent edition, printed in '08 or '09! ** And on the same message board that the "birds have nothing to do with dinosaurs" collage prof. posts in, I have encountered yet another curious individual, who proposed his idea (which overlaps greatly with YouFailBiologyForever) that dinosaurs didn't go extinct, but they might be actually living under the earth, swimming in magma. He was upset that others rejected the notion. And no, he wasn't just trolling, he was completely serious. *** [[ThisIsSparta What. The. Hell.]] * My mum and sister think dinosaurs are lizards, even when I have to tell them otherwise. * This troper, a palaeontologist, was asked in all seriousness by a friend how cavemen managed to hunt dinosaurs. He wasn't even a creationist, either! * One of this troper's classmates asked our theology teacher whether or not Jesus lived with dinosaurs. And he was dead serious. ---Ride the fire-breathing raptor back to SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying.

SongFic * [[{{Ronnie}} This troper]], in addition to writing a traditional one featuring [[DannyPhantom DP]] characters, has a KimPossible one incorporating the song part into the story itself- Doctor Drakken loves karaoke night, as shown in canon. So, of course, when he's really depressed after a fight with Shego, he went there, and ended up singing "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone." [[IncrediblyLamePun The title?]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3952603/1/Anytime_Shegos_Away Anytime Shego's Away.]] * This troper often spends her spare time writing fanfics of real life and her own original stories, and in one of them, she made an original character who speaks only in song lyrics. * [[Tropers/MegTheMaggot I]] have written a Song Fic or two, though one of them was as a meme. You took a pairing and set your iPod to Shuffle, and wrote a story based off of each song for the pairing. I had an excuse, though there was no excuse for the fact I did mention a

character singing one of my favorite songs. * This troper once wrote a little songic...based on the ''Panzerlied.'' In his defense, it was a joke, based on the fact that a vehicle in [[Daria the original show]] was nicknamed "The Tank," ''and'' he had an outburst interrupt the song verses just before they could get to the lyrics about how it was a high honor to die for Germany. (Ain't NO ONE gonna top THAT. I'm sad to say.) * This troper wrote a comedic Gintama song fic set to the Ludo song[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6472197/1/Girls_on_Trampolines Girls on Trampolines]]. However, my other fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6462993/1/Selleck_Waterfall_Sandwich Selleck Waterfall Sandwich]] takes the cake, since it's a fifteen chapter musical. * I'll admit, this troper got into writing by making songfics. Nowadays, he's long past that, but he can't help but have a bile fascination for them now. Even Pokemon slash ones set to "Kiss ME" by Sixpence None the Richer, even if only to laugh at how silly it is ---"How do you measure [[SongFic a page]] in daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee? " asked ReportSiht as he stared at the blank page. ----

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SophisticatedAsHell * This Troper's friend has a real talent for this. She likes to improvise long, poetical descriptions of snowy days and end them with "and the wind was strong as ''fuck''.". Her favorite line is: "As one of the gratest writers of our nation, [insert a random Polish poet's name], wrote in his marvellous poem - we are fucked.". * This troper once posted on Facebook, during a particularly cold winter day, "I believe the technical definition of today's weather is ''fucking cold.''" [[PrecisionFStrike Note that I rarely curse.]] * This troper composed a semi-witty rhyme for occasions in which I require a means of cussing. "With all respect, where respect's due, which I suspect, is not with you...fuck off." Or any other generalusage curse I feel like using. * [[Tropers.{{Cosman246}} This troper]] has a class with a quotebook, much of which is like this. Apparently, previous classes also kept such a quotebook, and it had even more of this. * [[Tropers.ReikoKazama This troper]], during [[ThatOneLevel N.O]][[GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas .E.]]: --> I am not above the radar limit. I am ''not'' above the radar limit. I am about to run the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] into a bridge! [[OhCrap Ohhh]] '''''[[OhCrap shit!]]''''' * This troper loves to combine SophisticatedAsHell with FakeRussian, usually in the form of a "We have saying in mother Russia for this. We call it, how you say in English, 'fucked up shit'." 95% of these

instances involve commisserating with coworkers on the latest act of incompetence perpetrated on us by the manager, who is what's known in the trade as "a colossal retard." The remaining five are as the preceding. * This troper, whenever Clark Gable's famous line in ''Gone With the Wind'' is brought up, can't help but paraphrase it. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a f** k!" * This troper has remarked, "Up thine!" ** This troper has similarly remarked, "Thy face, sirrah." *** "Thou hast undone our mother!" [[TitusAndronicus "Villain, I have done thy mother."]] * After this troper's (private Catholic) school had a problem with a few of its seniors making an "offensive" video to Soulja Boy's "Crank Dat", the headmistress (a short, formal, white-haired ''lady'') read the lyrics to the song during an all-school gathering. "Super-soak that ho." EVERYONE was trying (very, very, very, VERY hard) not to laugh. * This troper's father is in the possession of an old pin which features simply the phrase, in Olde English font, "Methinks Thou Art A Shithead." * This troper does this ''constantly''. "Speaking in my formal capacity as a psychologist, this gentleman is what the DSM-IV would define as 'a fucking loony'." Another favourite, while singing along with Wu-Tang Clan: "Wu-Tang Clan isn't anything with which to fuck!" Okay, that last one really didn't fit the meter, but everyone present laughed anyway. * This troper frequently says things along the lines of "He's what we in the business refer to as 'a total asshole'." (She's never been sure what business that's actually meant to be.) * This troper and one of his friends have a joint CatchPhrase; "You, sir," "Are a big crab!" * This troper once wanted to write "fuck off" in an English exam, but worried that she would be marked down for it. Taking a lead from ''The Two Ronnies'', she compromised and substituted "Make love elsewhere!" * [[{{Moogi}} This troper]] frequently indulges in this during casual conversation. It turns the simple act of sarcasm into a sport, method of stress relief, and full-time job. * [[{{BrainDamage}} This troper]] had a reputation at school for being well-spoken and sophisticated, which led to jarring instances in public like "She really needs a good dicking from someone who isn't an asshole". Also, when there was a ban on swearing in a game we were playing, "motherfucker" turned into "oh you Oedipus!" * This troper has a shirt which says, "Resistance doth be futile. Thou shalt be assimilated. - Wm. Shakespeare of Borg" ** This troper needs to know where said shirt came from. * This troper is fond of saying, "In my humble opinion, sir, fuck you." * This troper once spent a summer in Boston. Indeed, this shit is Main/TruthInTelevision. * One of my (yes, ''my''; I will not support this perpetual pronoun persecution!) favourite quotes is as follows: "As I lay under the stars, the wind gently pecking my cheeks as it breathed past, I gazed

up at the awesome power of the heavens and asked myself... Where the fuck has my tent gone?!" * [[JChance This troper]] does it a lot. Sometimes it's his fondness for playing with language, sometimes it's just that his natural tendency towards SesquipedalianLoquaciousness doesn't let up when he's dropping a ClusterFBomb. ** Sorry for the mess-up - this troper swears you write exactly like him. * And [[{{Red-Hatted Plumber}} this troper]] can't resist pointing out that he had a recent example . . . namely, telling someone that "yes, sir, I must agree that this is an unfair world . . . if it's one where arrogant dickweeds like yourself are hired for things other than taking shotgun blasts to the face for other people's entertainment." To be fair, this troper ''has had it.'' ** You...I...Crowning Moment of Awes...can I have your babies?! *** You'll have to pardon the above troper's surprise at anyone actually wishing to have his children - he was spoken for when you wrote originally, but that's since changed (aaaaaaand has again, and yes, this is the last time he changes the entry, thank you for asking). **** Too bad...anyone capable of that kind of awesome deserves better. Preferably his very own UnwantedHarem. ** The above troper's friends recently held a "Fancy as Fuck" party. He's not really sure just how bloody posh it was, but he's sure people preened themselves like fucking peacocks for it. * This troper once told his boss "I must humbly request that you consider asking the other FDR to clean the fucking bathroom." Fortunately, said boss was an awesome guy and responded to my blatant rudeness with laughter. * [[{{Atagamay}} This troper]]'s typical way of talking fuses SesquipedalianLoquaciousness and [[ClusterFBomb Cluster F Bombs]]. The fact that I'm a BadassBookworm with strong {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and DeadpanSnarker traits makes being around me... Interesting. ** I earnestly desire that you might join me holy matrimony, as the fruit of our blessed union would most assuredly rock the f* cking Casbah! *** Good sir and lady, I most assuredly do not wish to offend you with such vulgarities, but, I do wonder, can we arrange a threesome? ** I have a twin. There is no other explanation, seeing as that is not only how I believe myself to be, but how another troper ''has actually described me'' when introducing me to his friends (also tropers). ** Does the OP have a long-lost sister in Australia, by any chance? If so, I can surely assure you that you have completed the search, and the fruits of your labour may be reaped. Now, perhaps we could go on a play-by-post RPG and nuke some motherfuckers. * This troper likes to speak Russian this way, mixing fanciful and outdated pre-revolutionary expressions with cursewords and occasional internet memes. ** I sometimes speak French this way, utilising the past simple tense - which is pretty much like saying "Zounds, prithee take thine person away from this area" in English. I don't know why the French don't use it themselves; it was easier and more regular than any other past

tense I know. * [[http://bash.org/?179132 This]] bash.org entry. * [[MrDeath This Troper]] likes to sum up classical villains' motivations as "being a douche" or similar, such as "Iago betrayed Othello, and tricked him into strangling his beloved Desdemona because he was an asshole." He's also fond of adding "this is a technical term" before after some profanity. * Copied off a forum friend: --> -Why don't you take a jaunt in aerodynamical intercourse with an unpious, oscillating pastry? --> Translation: --> Take a flying fucking leap through a goddamned spinning donut! * [[{{Gerusz}} This troper]] uses pseudo-mathematical language, mostly when some idiot keeps bombarding him with stupidity. One example (translated roughly from Hungarian): --> Supposed that you were in the union of the following sets: A: the set of my friends, B: the set of my relatives, C: the set of people I care about, D: the set of people I respect, the probability of I'd listen to you would be above 0. But since the premise is not true, which means you don't belong to any of the aforementioned sets, therefore you don't belong to their union, I simply say: fuck off. -->Combined with CreepyMonotone, the effect was guaranteed. * [[BonSequitur This troper's]] favourite YouTube comment, from [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tnill2uj2Gw here]]: --> "''Um, shitbird, this a poignant, anthemic protest song and I hope that they did play it when your dumb ass was luck enough to see them. In the future, keep your vapid and inane comments to yourself or better yet, go to your local auto parts store and buy a pint of brake fluid, open it up and drink it down.''" * I do this all the time when people I'm talking to online make me mad. But I can never pull it off in real life, because my thought process requires the extra few seconds typing stuff out gives you in order to think of it. * This one ''loves'' this trope, in no small part due to how it's basically playing with the English language. One recent invention, actually from a work-in-progress story: --> "''Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art lovely and more temperate... unless I'm in Florida; then you're downright unpleasant, to say the least.''" * [[EddieVanHelsing This troper]] once discussed a certain woman with a friend, and said the following: "Take a good look at her. She chews her gum as though it were a cud. Her clothes hang wrinkled from her bones. Her hair shares its limpness with my desire for her." His friend, nonplussed, said, "Dude, speak English." This troper then rephrased his opinion, saying, "I wouldn't fuck that skinny cow with ''your'' dick." * This troper could be described as being "sophisticated and shit," as he usually appends scatological references to the ends of sentences and crap. * Not exactly profane, but still amusing. In This Troper's 8th grade science class, the teacher asked a question about the cause of an air pressure change. He asked, "Now why do you think that would happen, or

as we say in the business, what up with that, dawg?" My classmate responded that, "There could have been precipitation, or as we say in the business, fo drizzle." * This Troper has the running gag of his extremely posh voice. Any sentense in the posh voice generally goes like this- "Good evening good sir! Haven't we lovely weather today? Excuse me for asking, but could you kindly fuck the shit off? You're standing in the fucking way!" * In [[KillerClowns This Troper's]] case, the mixture of SpockSpeak, AntiquatedLinguistics, [[Warhammer40K Orky slang]], [[ClusterFBomb gleeful swearing]], and BreadEggsMilkSquick make an... interesting brew to listen to. I sound far better typing on the internet, thankfully. * After [[{{Leradny}} This Troper's]] bra straps were showing even though she was wearing two shirts, she commented: "It has come to my attention that I need a more... shall we say, ''discreet'' means of support for my boobage." * While not generally profane, [[{{Sharysa}} this troper]] has a tendency to work the word "awesome" into requests for something. For instance, she recently used the phrase "While I'm glad that my character's gotten such a good start in this RPG, I would like to RP with a few more people. Friends, romances, and casual acquaintances are all welcome--preferably in combinations that have the most potential for AWESOME." I also use a combination of polite observations and {{ClusterFBomb}}s; for example, "Watching something in the theater would be much easier if that fucking idiot would stop broadcasting her life to the unfortunates in hearing range." * Ah, this troper has quite a voluminous cerebral lexicon utilized on a regular basis, much to the consternation of her associates, but, like ohmigod, seriously, they don't have to be so totally rude if she says something they don't understand. * This troper prefers this method of speech when explaining a topic to other students because it is surprisingly effective. * This troper once read a blog where someone was explaining why they didn't like rap music. -->"It's annoying, repetitive, and it be disrespectin' da hos and bitches." * While trying to think of something to add to this page to demonstrate her speaking habits, the following came out of [[{{Cameoflage}} this troper]]'s mouth: -->"It's so ''pervasive'' that I just can't come up with any freakin' examples." * Something [[FeartheWolf This Troper]] read on a forum: ''"We think he lead a life of remarkable purity of essence and focus of being, two phrases which mean literally 'jack shit'."'' * Seen on [[ImageBoards /tg/]]: -->[[SystemShock SHODAN's]] schizophrenic tendencies are caused by the nature of her programming. Her functions are distributed across a vast number of sub-processing componants, and only when these componants are working in tandem is she capable of true sentience as we understand it. -->Each SHODAN sub-componant is itself composed of a form of fractal

code; any intact subroutine can eventually (provided adequate storage space and computing power) replicate a complete sub-componant, which can then replicate the rest of the networked systems until the whole is recreated from the part.\\ The question is, what effect (if any) does the source of the scrap code have on the final construct after reassembly. Does degredation occur due to improper replication or loss of vital source code? Is it possible to split off a 'good' SHODAN personality by selectively pruning a more stable sub-componant?\\ And if so, would she [[LesYay lez out]] with [[{{Halo}} Cortana]]? Because that would be hot. * [[AllanAokage I]] qualify for this when I feel the need to. He uses the trope name whenever he's asked about it. * Thanks to my PurpleProse -esque speech and often SophisticatedAsHell manners, I often end up thinking that people who gice insult of my last name sounding mildly sexual is not much of a comeback to the fact that I previously described in detail of how they enjoy thirty inches of phallic, rigid man meat rubbing against their cerebellum and hippocampus every Monday night after Scrubs. Also, I fail to comprehend how someone of such low intellect manages to masturbate properly. You sir, should go insert your penis into the nearest electrical socket forthwith, because the Creator himself knows it would fit, and the Creator has decreed that suck insolent homo sapiens should not reproduce. And that the Creator apologizes that they already have, as AmyWinehouse has proven. * This troper has a bad swearing habit and thus does crap like this all the fucking time. A few minutes ago, in fact: "I am taking undue advantage of this shit." * From a chatroom discussion on the merits of chivalry: --> "Chivalry isn't so much a behavior as an outdated code of motivations and assumptions that, when properly rethought, can be called "simple politeness" and involves mildly inconveniencing oneself in order to benefit others, regardless whether they have a ''cooter''." * This troper once wrote a poem based around this trope and winter. It took the form of 11 lines of dodgy [[PurpleProse Purple Poetry]] followed by "I f*** ing hate this time of year." * This troper often declares things "metaphorical as hell" and then adds that "Hell is pretty damn metaphorical, considering how often people say something is '[[BuffySpeak something]] as hell'" * This troper once got drunker than she expected to and found herself trying to explain the dominant theories of law, ie. positivism vs. antipositivism, citing Battered Woman's Syndrome as an example of the change in law via the channel of the courts, to a high school senior. The sentence "when an individual's mental state is sufficiently perturbed, the mens rea is absent, so the court can't hold them responsible even if they hacked somebody's head off and paraded it through town" was used. * This troper likes to use Latin aphorisms''Post hoc non ergo propter hoc'', for instancebut then put "''[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch lupa]]''" on the end. ** This troper used this on a forum once. The response he got was

"Veni, vidi, stfu." The guy wasn't trying to be a dick or anything, and everyone got a laugh out of it. Also, it counts as an example of this trope. * This troper absolutely loves to do this, especially in the form of quotations - "In the words of the great Benjamin Franklin 'Fuck you very much, and your mother twice'" * This Troper once overheard the following argument: --> You know nothing about geometry! --> How can you say that? I know more than you! --> You've probably never heard of the Pythagorean Theorem. --> The sum squared values of the areas of a right triangle's legs are equal to the area squared of the hypotenuse, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCH.]] ** ...The person contesting the point in that conversation misused the word area. [[IResembleThatRemark This]] [[HypocriticalHumor creates an amusing, if unintentional, joke that is superior to the one intended,]] [[@/RedWren IMO]]. *** And to further drive the hilarity home. "You're probably never heard of the Pythagorean Theorem." isn't an especially complex principle for a person to get, it'd be like two people arguing about linguitics and going somewhat like this--> You know nothing about Linguistics! --> How can you say that? I know more than you! --> You probably don't even know how to use suffixes. Big idea being that most elementary schoolers are pretty comfortable with the Pythagorean Theorem and the use of suffixes. * This troper once wrote his girlfriend an eloquent love letter describing her eternal beauty, it was very well written except for the phrase "And I liek ur boobs lol" at the end. * [[DeltaOne This Troper]], despite usually being rather formal in his choice of language, has been known to tell people, "That is what we technically call 'completely buggered'." He has also been known to exclaim, "Well, bugger me with a fishfork!" in a [[BlackAdder General Melchetty]] sort of way. * This Troper has been known to quote Shakespeare and Mark Twain in the same tone that he uses to curse at bad drivers and dullards. ** At one point, he has also said "Quoth the raven, 'Fuck You'" * [[MonkeyPhysics This Troper]]'s SesquipedalianLoquaciousness goes into overdrive when he becomes infuriated. He usually finishes his rather longwinded rants with "...to summarise, as they say in the vernacular, ''please vacate the premises, find a sizeable crowbar and wedge it down that fucking shitpipe you call a throat''." * [[{{Fishsicles}} This Troper]], generally through use of slang. Has been occasionally known to use direct expletives rather than his standard [[UnusualEuphemism "EBFE!"]], [[ADarkerMe especially online]]. After a particularly long rant after a particular, toremain-unnamed IRC user launched a verbal assault against my programming language of choice, I ended a long and rather detailed explanation of its benefits with a "Digest that, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch.]]" * [[LeighSabio This Troper]] made a cartoon called "The Vulcan ValleyGirl." Her speech is as weird as it sounds.

-->'''VVG''': And she stated, approximately, "no possible method," and I entirely stated, approximately, "It is evident." And by that point in time, I was approximately this close to entirely having an approximate emotional reaction entirely. * This Troper, who studies Maths, has been known to use swear words and obscure mathematical terminology in one sentence, as well as end speeches with "QED, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]". Also, when speaking English, which is not her first language, she tends to combine SpockSpeak and BuffySpeak in really weird ways. * I like to say "You, my good man, are a fucking dumbass." * This Troper has been credited with 'Doth what the lady hath spake' (But I overheard it from a One-eyed girl with glasses in a stationery shop.I wil find her and FISTBUMP her for such awesomeness. * As [[{{Catfish42}} I]] have mentioned on the page for ArmchairPsychology, mixing that with Sophisticated As Hell might give good results. I will try to use sentences like "I feel annoyed when you talk about such things in a certain way because it is obvious that you have no idea of what you are talking about ''at all'' and I would truly appreciate it if you '''shut the fuck up'''." a lot more in the future. * [[GamerFromJump I have]] a literature professor (the same one who rocks the [[{{TroperTales/Bifauxnen}} Bifauxnen]] look described at the bottom of that page), who will use this sometimes. ---> '''Prof:''' So, why is this important to literary heritage? Why do we have to read this shit? (''class laughs'') * [[{{JapaneseTeeth}} This troper's]] philosophy professor, when describing the concept of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrasia akrasia]]: -->'''Prof:''' "Akrasia" literally means "incontinence", or the state of being unable to control oneself; primarily in a moral sense. The most concise explanation of the concept is to say that you've morally crapped yourself. * [[ThisTroper Rlkitterman]] summed up the doctrine of the nuclear deterrent as "Don't make me lay the atomic smackdown on your ass" in my International Relations class. * Another non-profane example: This troper has been known to say things along the lines of "This device is used by engineers around the world. It's called a doohickey." (sometimes a thingamajig, or simply, a thingy.) * [[ABadDriver This troper]] has done this repeatedly, often in the form of "I would like it if you would kindly shut the fuck up." * This troper and her friends were discussing the reasons why a friend had not completed an essay. This then occurred: --> '''Me''': Dear [teachers]: I am sorry that I have not completed my essay. The reasons for this are... (list of reasons). As a result, my overall attitude to this essay is as follows: '''''Fuck this'''''. Yours sincerely, [friend's name]. * to friend* That about right? * This Troper and his co-worker have gone on long exchanges that have amounted to properly saying "Fuck You" while a third co-work is in tears of laughter. * How tech support told this troper her computer was beyond repair when she took it into the shop: "It's what we in the trade call

'totally buggered'" * [[@/GamerAmI This troper]] love using this trope; his better quips include, "Ain't I eloquent and shit?" and "It's a juxtaposition, muthafucka," which was a response to his friend's amusement at the former. * This troper here often ends up using this trope during the [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness perceived cosmological universal movement of the 4th dimension of his sophisticated and fairly cornucopian but repulsively clichd environmental linguistic interaction between individual memories, and it's probably because the fine, elegant eloquence of antiquated languages are mysteriously cryptic and eldritch yet interesting and inspiring with awe, but still, it is even more joyful and characteristically fulfilling]] [[ClusterFBomb to say FUCK at the fucking front of your fucking neighbor!]] ** You're just throwing fancy words together, aren't you? *** To translate: This troper here often ends up using this trope when he interacts with Real Life individuals, and it's probably because the language is mysterious and weird yet interesting, yet's it's fun to say fuck to your fucking neighbour. * This troper's current favourite Facebook fan page is called "You cannot fathom the immensity of the fuck I do not give". * [[{{Kathadrion}} This Swedish troper]] writes a lot of short stories, in which I do this for laughs. Sadly, Swedish profanities tend to be less vulgar than their English counterparts, so the contrast is not as big in Swedish as it is in English. ** Which is why [[{{OskarMovieGeek}} This Swedish Troper]] does the same thing in English. * [[Tropers/CountDorku This troper]] nominates Tropers/{{krrackknut}} for a special prize after [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=l55ywuqcc5s6wji9ktsl 2bnu&page=1#13 this]] incident: -->'''Krrackknut''': Pain hurts for a reason. Pain is you telling yourself: "Try not to do that again." If you plunge your had in a fire, you get burned, and thus you avoid fire.\\ But what happens when there's something dear and precious to you in the flame? What happens when your child or your precious tear-andsweat-stained work is in the blaze?\\ You go and get it, of course. You run headlong and take it back. You bear that pain. Because no matter what, it's probably worth it.\\ I believe it is better to step in the fire, to risk the pain and do something than to never do it at all.\\ '''Me''': And if there isn't anything precious to you, or anyone for that matter, in the flames?\\ '''Krrackknut''': Then you don't go in there unless you're really fucking dumb. * This troper once participated in writing a ''MassEffect 2'' guide/walkthrough book to be distributed among the local gamers. One of the sections that he wrote himself is the [[Characters/MassEffect2 character sheet]], which included this: --> '''[[MsFanservice Miranda Lawson]]:''' A Cerberus operative who supervises the mission against the [[EvilArmy Collectors]]. [[IceQueen

Cold]] and professional, she was genetically engineered by her megalomaniac father to be perfect in every possible way, hence [[BabyGotBack dat ass]]. * This troper is probably the only person to use the term "circumloquation", "sexual dimorphism", and "you Goddamn cunt" in the same sentence. I also do the opposite, telling people things that are StealthInsults while doing things that are insulting, but not to the average person (an example would be biting my thumb at someone). ** [[{{RomeoandJuliet}} Do you bite your thumb at me?]] * This troper met a young man who seemed quite infatuated with her, and when she asked why, he said, "I like how you say things like 'If morality is, like, based on axioms then we can't reliably communicate about it to people outside our own, y'know, scope. That's totally fucking messed up and fundamentally untenable, dude.'" * [[@/RedWren This troper]] does not swear particularly much, if you would please keep this in mind when thinking of her saying the following phrase to her mother. -->''Crazy shit happens on a quantum level.'' * This troper once said to someone, "With all due respect, would you please fuck off?" In a completely normal voice, as well. ** He also recently (as in, three/four minutes ago) said to a friend, who was completely ignoring the voice of reason (ie another friend), this gem: --> Me: The voice of reason hath spoken. Shut the fuck up. * [[@/{{Theoneyoucallwe}} I]] speak like this regularly. I use big words--not necessarily Sesquipedalian, but fairly close. Although I am concise, I use many adjectives and adverbs, even if they don't necessarily apply, or make grammatical sense. I also intersperse this with cursing, slang, and obscure references to things that interest me. --> '''Me:''' (ranting about SuperMarioGalaxy) Having a planet merely the size of an asteroid is absurd! How does it retain gravity? How does one not fall off when jumping? Or a black hole in the center of a planet, no less! A black hole is a singularity, the result of a massive star imploding; it sucks everything surrounding it in! Stars can ''orbit'' a black hole, but a planet cannot form itself around that which is essentially nothingness! --> '''Dude:''' I keep waiting for you to start listing numbers. --> '''Me:''' [[{{ClusterFBomb}} Shit-fuck]] if I know any, man. By the way, I have a half-brained that Venus is a shithole because [[{{Halo}} the Covenant]] came and glassed the place. You know its geology is primarily volcanoes? That fucking ''sucks!'' Note, however, that this is likely highly inaccurate; I have a bad memory. * Tropers/{{Excel-2011}}. There's a minor debate on internet dancing on Japanator, namely, [[http://www.japanator.com/why-the-dancing-onyoutube-phenomenon-isn-t-stupid-17257.phtml is it stupid or not?]] This is what I wrote: -->The only stupid things are what the culture judges to be as such. Stupidity outside of an academic context is entirely subjective. Dancing has evolved numerous times since its birth in time immemorial, as have the venues that house it. At any point in dancing's lifetime,

it is stupid to someone somewhere in the world, as easily as it was accepted elsewhere. Without going into culture barriers, the only stupid dances are the ones that are globally recognized and accepted as such, without exception. In its most general form, dance cannot be labeled stupid as there are countless practitioners and fans of it, no matter how it's viewed. What does have to be considered is the venue, in this case the internet. Since it's a relatively new way to consume media of people dancing any way they see fit, the standards by which it's accepted are still in debate. Many people are calling internet dancing stupid at this time simply because there isn't a ubiquitous standard to fairly judge it against. Should the oeuvre of [=YouTube=] starlets like Beckii Cruel be used as a precedent for internet dances? What about television programs with great internet following, such as ''DancingWithTheStars''? The scope of the dances in these examples are as opposite as night and day, and until an international authority on dancing and objective stupidity can place an undisputed ruling on what is stupid or not, it's unfair to call any internet dancers stupid, no matter how gay they look while doing it. * Whilst reading this page, Tropers/{{JET73L}} heard a nearby acquaintance's test ringtone. It was a spoken-word tone, which consisted of a Proper Englishman uttering the following, in an uncensored manner: "Sir, it appears that someone is attempting to contact you telephonically. Shall I tell them to [[PrecisionFStrike f***]] off?" * [[Tropers/{{Xkun01}} This troper]],used to talk in SpockSpeak when he was much younger.However,after [[DarkAndTroubledPast multiple reasons]].Now he combines some of how he talked in the past,with his present way of speaking.Which makes some of his moments even funnier.It also reminds people,that [[ObfuscatingStupidity I am not as dumb as I seem]]. * [[Tropers/DeathToSquishies "It is my inclination to ramble incessantly at my monitor and tell all the]] [[GoddamnedBats positively annoying enemies]] [[ThatOneBoss and difficult bosses]] [[Tropers/DeathToSquishies to SUCK MY COOOCK"]] * Both of this troper's parents are English majors, which naturally results in him having an excellent vocabulary and a good grasp of proper grammar. However, both of his parents are also comically unsuccessful, meaning that he has to crappy urban schools, resulting in an equally broad slang vocabulary. This combination often has (honest to God, unintentionally) humorous results, some of the better examples are to follow. --> '''Friend''': ''Damn'' that bitch has nice ass. --> '''Troper''': I concur, I'd tear that ho up. --> '''Troper''': If that dude don't leave me the f*ck alone then I'ma whup his ass 'til he needs intravenous life support! * [[@/SoWeAteThem My]] relatives can lean towards this; my mother, at one point, used the phrase "deader than shit" in an otherwise serious discussion on staphylococcus infections, and threw references to {{prison rape}} into a discussion concerning what would otherwise be a serious discussion on criminal court. Worse, they're usually completely deadpan, which makes it hard not to laugh despite the fact

they're obviously serious. * I'm not usually this, but I have one quote: "Is it absolutely imperative to have backup (insert project name here)shit?" * This troper's friend filled out a mad-lib, and it was based on RomeoAndJuliet. The result? ---> O JUN, JUN! wherefore art thou JUN? ---> What's in a name? That which we call a THIGHS ---> By any other name would smell as AWESOME --->Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say "LIKE A DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKY, SO INTENSE" --->And I will take thy word; yet if thou swear'st, --->Thou mayst prove GNARLY. * This Tropette has an abnormally large vocabulary and is admittedly prone to SesquipedalianLoquaciousness in her writing. She also has a sailor's mouth. * A recent exchange with myself, M, a friend F, and another friend, A. -->'''M''':"Oh, you son of a bitch!" -->'''F''':"Oh, ''damnit''." -->'''M''':"God, ''finally''! That goddamn knight's been a pain in my ass!" -->'''A''':"...Are you guys playing ''chess''?" -->'''M''':"Yeah, so?" -->'''A''':*laughter* -->'''M and F''':"What?" * a conversation this troper just had with her bf -->me: objectivity is for forensics and the lab, not for relationships hun -->him: nice me: that belongs on a t-shirt or something -->him: yeah, save that shit -->me: I be all philosophizing up in this joint * I usually to use Laconically short and "to the point" speeches when ordering, manipulating and interacting with individuals [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm who cannot grasp the true form]] of loquacious philosophical and psychological arguments, but when I do interact with people whose capabilities are that great to comprehend such verbose ideas, my part of the cerebral cortex responsible for speech automatically switches to this mode. At first we would begin with expositions about what interesting intellectual subject randomly appears in our mentality, and by logic we would build up the dialogue up to the climax, on which my cerebrum overheats and I fire illogical proletarian slang as an expression of intense emotion, like "[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch Bitch]]" \\ \\ This type of behaviour usually emerges when we argue about [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Life, the universe and everything]]. For example: I was with one of my favourite acquaintances. When we started talking, we first discussed on the differences between the comparisons and contrasts between Aristotelian logic and Empirical logic, and then we suddenly reached the point where we talked about our lives, and being a [[{{Nietzsche Wannabe}} pessimistic philosopher with Nietzschean inclinations and a strong scepticism about an

intrinsic values about living]] and all, I brought about verbose speeches on why the universe is cold and meaningless and about the nonexistence of such hopes and meanings in life "because that with our abject minuscule scale in this particulate planet compared to the [[EldritchAbomination vast incomprehensible horrors out there]], and the neutralizing self-contradictions provided by numerous religious groups and proponents of an intrinsic meaning in life so that they can manipulate and condition the unintelligent lower classes to their own power". He then tried to convince me into believing such childish objects like "believe in God" and "just smile on the world", and thus I became furious and tried to fire counter-arguments against his [[WideEyedIdealist wide-eyed idealism]]. I found my dialogues being reduced from "With the illogical structures of such assumptions and beliefs" to just plain "Know what? This world is bullshit." \\ \\ My acquaintances got annoyed by this, and tried to convince me to be at least pragmatic on my speeches and that I should use the terms of the layperson, but why? How can I decelerate my inertia when the interest itself increases the velocity and intensity of this type of speaking? I counter-argue by saying "I prefer to use such loquacious dialogues even though you and the rest of the crowd could not understand me, because fuck them." * This troper's way of talking combines polite, civil conversation with a number of swearwords, thus creating some very entertaining but really fucking impolite sentences. * This Troper is unsure as to whether the examples he is about to put forward are completely suitable for this given Trope, however, he is fond of saying, in such a situation that it is required, "In the almighty words of [[{{Futurama}} Bender]], blessed be his name, I do declare that, We're boned." Also, in other situations, he is partial to saying, in such a situation that it is required, "You my good sir/fair lady, are hotter than Hell itself." * Though a pretty mild example, [[CatchPhrase I'm fond of the phrase]] 'Oh, most totally.' * [[{{Tropers/Joerc45}} This troper]] is quite intelligent and polite, thus he is prone to the use of [[SpockSpeak unconventional vocabulary]] in everyday situations. However, I will resort to use of common vernacular when it suits me. Ex: "Please don't exhibit traits of being an ignorant motherfucker unless you wish to be treated as such, imbecile." :) * This troper does this quite a lot. Here be a couple examples: ** "It would delight me very much sir, if you were to fuck off." ** When I text, I have a habit of always spelling out words and writing very properly. But, if I get a text about homework or something from someone I dont't like, it ends up like this: "Oh, I'm sorry, did you miss the homework? If so, I do not at all regret to inform you that you need to find out someplace else, bitch." ** Thou art a fucking wench." * [[{{Darthkoolguy}} This troper]] was having a discussion on Facebook. My opponent was wrong, and used "logic" to back himself up, arguing that anyone arguing against him was "illogical." My response

was as follows. "I concede that you have won the argument through logic, but I still disagree with your principle. In closing, my good man, you are a logical man. You are a smart man. You are the man who won the argument between you and I, and I tip my hat to you and congratulate you for that. You are a worthy opponent, you are a learned man, but you are a man who is full of massive piles of bullshit and "justified" injustice. But, of course, that speaks of your character, and nothing more. Ad Hominem, Bitch." * This {{Facebook}} status was posted by a friend of mine: -->''There be a thief of words among us...words that belong to us, that are used by us...and we have not granted permission.''\\ \\ ''I won't say names, but it is pissing me off.'' * There was a recent incident that reminded me of this trope. I was watching a Michael [=McIntyre=] stand-up show on TV with my sister when at one point he used the word "fuck" in a sentance. My sister immediately exclaimed "Oh my god, he ''swore''! But he sounds too posh to be swearing! Are posh people supposed to swear?" * [[{{Tropers/Eilios}} This Troper]] has said on more than a few times that some things are "asinine bullshit". * [[{{Tropers/mymo}} This spanish (specifically Galician) troper]] often happens to fall into being sophisticated as hell. When describing something, I use grandiloquent language but end it with the very galician "do carallo", which can be translated as "as hell". For example: "Y entonces ocurri algo demencialmente prodigioso do carallo." (Translation: And then something dementially prodigious as hell happened) * This troper and his friend Chris used to engage in this kind of talk all the time at work, often while quoting song lyrics, profane or not. One of our favorite exchanges, while discussing animals, sharks specifically: --> '''Chris:''' "Me? I'm a shark." --> '''Me:''' "Yeah, but when you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way. From your first cigarette to your last dying day." --> '''Chris:''' (bursts out laughing) ---You, my fine reader, can navigate your browser back to [[SophisticatedAsHell wherever the hell you came from]]. ----

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SoProudOfYou * I didn't cry at my graduation. I didn't cry when my friends said good bye. I didn't cry when the [[TearJerker Tear Jerking]] speeches were held. I didn't cry, until I got home and found the card from my parents. "We knew you'd make it. You are so proud of you." And I cried. [[EarnYourHappyEnding I've waited so long to hear those words.]] * This troper at one point joined the Army, partially to get money for

college, partially to serve his country, but mostly to make his father proud. This troper, about half way through Basic Training, had a HeroicBSOD which caused him to be discharged. The day that the decision to discharge this troper was made, he got a letter from his father saying "I am so proud that you are a soldier and that I have a picture to remind me of how proud I am of you." That was the first thing in all of my time in BCT to make me cry. * My marching band won first place in a massive regional competition, one that we had the title stolen from us in the past. When we got home, my dad pulled me aside and told me, "You know, I was sitting there and when they said that [the other band that has the same first word in their name] was second, I was so scared it was you. And then they said your school and... I have never been more proud of you in my life. You did good." I cried. ----

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SoulHunter This show was so badly dubbed in Brazilian Poruguese that it became very difficult to understand the history. Some genders were swapped (the princes begun as princessess. Now I'm not sure what were they). It was aired in the now deceased channel Locomotion.

SoundEffectBleep * [[Tropers.ReikoKazama This troper]] uses {{Unusual Euphemism}}s in speech, and [[SailorMoonAbridged *honk*]] in text. * This troper actually ''says'' "beep" in place of his stronger swearing. ** Make that two tropers who do this. ** Me three! ** Me four. ** Me five. *** [[GearsOfWar That's five, mother*beep*ers!]] * This troper stops short whenever she says goes to say the "F" word. [[PrecisionFStrike Unless]] [[BerserkButton she's]] ''[[BerserkButton really]]'' [[BerserkButton angry]]. Pretty much comes out as "Ff". ** Me too. It's like I have a block when it comes to that word, like I can't say it. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Most of the time.]] * I, Prime Evil, sometimes do Craig Ferguson's "OOH-LA-LA!", "WHASSACUMMINAGO!" and "CRIKEYDINGO!" sound effect bleeps. * This troper makes a kind of non-sound but closing his mouth and sucking in, usually leaving enough of the work to make the message clear, for example "he's a f(non-sound)ing moron * I can't possibly be the only one who finds the sound effect usually used for censoring funny. ** I think that too. It's part of the reason why the Non-Fat Yogurt episode of Seinfeld is one of my favorites.

* At dinner, this troper's brother started saying something, paused, and a beep from some electronic device was timed perfectly. It sounded like he was censored. This troper was the only one who thought it was funny and laughed so hard she cried. * This troper, probably taking clues from cable TV censorship, tends to lower her voice in the middle of the word, coming out with stuff like "what the fu--ng fu--." * This Troper uses "crag" as a censor a lot. (It originated from VideoGame/SuperPaperMario Chapter 5 ("[[spoiler:Land of the Cragnons]]").) Though I don't know why I still use it, after the Permajail from the [[{{Portmanteau}} Spamquanzah]] [[NoodleIncident Incident]] on digibutter.nerr, the site that uses it the most. Also, on Roblox, the auto censor is [="[ Content Deleted ]"=]. My favorite variation is to bleep something in chat with [="[ Content=] ''[[HomestarRunner Baleeted]]'' [=]"=]. Another common (''and totally ignored by the admins!'') swear phrase is "WHAT THE BRICK?!", originating from a place called Doom Caverns. * [[DialgaX This Troper]] once saw an encounter in his school were a kid in a wheelchair used noises from it to block out swear words as a joke. It was played straight then subverted when this exchange occurred: ->Kid: What the *beep* fuck. Oops. * This troper was about to drop the F-bomb, but was cut off by a large truck driving by. * I stepped on my friend's foot in middle school at the end of the class, prompting him to exclaim, "You son of a b-". The school bell immediately rang, sounding very much like the cliched "bleep" censor. * When a song this troper is singing during a voice lesson contains a swearword, he usually hits a diminished chord on the piano. * [[AMereServantOfGod This troper]] is not a fan of swearing in the slightest, and generally tries to avoid it. Sometimes, however, the replacement of a swear word with a less offensive non-swear word just doesn't work out. So, he is entirely willing to just make censor noises with his mouth. For example... ->AMereServantOfGod: That is IT! I have had it with these [[SnakesOnAPlane mother*BLEEP*ing snakes on this mother*BLEEP*ing plane!]] * This Troper was talking to his cousin on the phone once and he was talking about a rather rude woman. However as soon as he said the word bitch, I got an incoming call, the resulting beep censoring him perfectly. * In middle school this troper's class was singing Bohemian Rhapsody for a school function and we were told to sing bleep instead of numerous words, especially those in the second part revolving around both guns and death. Needless to say, HilarityEnsues when you sing "Mama, just Bleeped a man, put my bleep against his head, pulled my bleep and now he's bleeped." * This Troper's school bell has a bad habit of ringing during the announcements. --> "Will Darren *'''BEEEEEEP'''*son please come to the front office?" * This Troper's phone often beeps during her conversations with people. While the other person's talking, it can seem like they were

censored, and if it goes off while she's talking, apparantly she just goes silent. * This troper is able to do this whenever he says it out loud, either by invoking GoshdangItToHeck or using something like {{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}}'s "F!" joke. Anything else, he says in his head. * [[PentiumMMX2 This troper]] remembers an instance of this happening when playing a demo of [[SuperMarioWorld Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World]] while at Wal-Mart. There where some people one aisle over having a heated argument about something with plenty of swearing (They where eventually escorted out for how disruptive they where being). 4 times out of 5, a sound effect from the game I was playing censored them with perfect timing, which I still think was funny. * In this troper's science class, we watched a video, then a video quiz came after it. The sentences would be read out loud with the ''(censoring noise)'' in place of a blank where the answer would go. Everyone laughed whenever the censor tone went off. -->'''Teacher:''' ''(after the third time)'' ...I don't get what's so funny. -->'''Teacher:''' ''(after the fifth time)'' Okay, guys. It was funny the first five hundred times. ** Were you in my physics class in highschool? *** That ''same'' thing happened to me in fourth grade! * During this troper's Homecoming Dance, one of the songs played was Ke$ha's Tik Tok, but to keep it clean... -->'''Song:''' Ain't got a care in the world, but got plenty of-->'''DJ:''' Juice! -->... -->'''Song:''' Everybody getting-->'''DJ:''' Whoop! Whoop! -->'''Song:''' Boys trying to touch my-->'''DJ:''' Whoop! Whoop! -->'''Song:''' Gonna smack him if he getting too-->'''DJ:''' Whoop! Whoop! ** Similarly, during the Winter Formal, Ke$ha's Take it Off was played, and of course... -->'''Song:''' Got a water bottle full of-->''DJ mutes the speakers, then un-mutes them'' -->'''Song:'''-in my handbag *** He failed to catch the word "drunk" shortly after that, however. ---Get the <bleep> out of here and go back to SoundEffectBleep. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SoundtrackDissonance * After playing Modern Warfare 2, This Troper wondered if my iPod had a mind of its own. When playing the No Russian mission, it started playing Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight (Having a Wonderful Time). When I got to the cutscene where the International

Space Station was destroyed, Fly Me to the Moon started playing. * [[Tropers/CubanPete This Troper]] has been known to slaughter hundreds of enemies in Thing Thing Arena 3 whilst jamming to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01tL_YOsrCo this]]. * [[Tropers.ReikoKazama Reiko-chan]] is currently watching videos of the [[MortalKombat9 Challenge Tower]] while listening to the radio, and said radio is giving her quite a bit of this. From GoodCharlotte to Wynter Gordon, from Blink 182 to Flo Rida, from Avril Lavigne to Katy Perry... what next? * One afternoon, This Troper, who was very bored, decided to sync a {{Lifetime Movie of the Week}} with {{Dropkick Murphys}} songs. Strangely, watching a building catch on fire while the Dropkick Murphys song "Flannigan's Ball" plays in the background kind of works. * Near this Troper's house, there are very rare occasions where the birds will chirp a very beautiful song. The kind of song you would expect to hear in an old Disney movie. Any time I am fortunate enough to hear it, I will drop whatever I am doing at the moment to listen. They once had a lovely performance at 5 AM, accompanied by a woman sobbing uncontrollably, and screaming death threats at her brother specifically, and then her family as a whole. * [[Tropers/HaruAxeman This troper]] goes to a haunted house thing called "the ghoullog". Their [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaYlvPMJ-E October 2010 trailer]] spatters blood all over classic fifties-ish music in the same fashion as below. It's like "Oh, hey, this is nice fifties music. This MadScientist guy, he has good taste. Wait, what's he doing? HOLY SHIT IT'S A HUMAN FETUS IN A JAR!!" ** I'm also writing a story that has one HighOctaneNightmareFuelinducing scene (Well, I think it's nightmare fuel-inducing. It couldn't be {{Narm}}.) that has a wolfgirl graphically ripping apart security guards while singing "Alouette." The fact that it's a children's song would be scary enough as is (Again, that's only me.) until you realize what the song means. * [[SwiftStrike This troper's]] sister made this claim when I was playing Fallout 3, due to my acts of savagery to the old-school tunes playing. Also completely averted when my friends and I were playing Star Wars Monopoly (the only one I own) and I realised the need to play my Star Wars soundtracks, which I own all off. Was considered totally awesome by all parties involved. Ever been sent to jail to 'The Imperial March?' Yeah. * This troper was reading a popular high-brow news magazine. The article was about how to define poverty in the rich world. The song that came up on my computer was "Those Who Stay Together, Slay Together" by Chiodos. * This troper typed [[http://pokefarm.org/forum_thread?tid=23680 this rant]] while sobbing uncontrollably, and listening to I Got A Feeling by The BlackEyedPeas. * This troper remembers [[TheNineties a time when "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Richer was the psych-up song at Dodgers games!]] * While reading [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6468633/1/Debt this piece of horror]] in the disguise of an AxisPowersHetalia fic, I seeked out the most upbeat songs. If you read that fic while listening to "Tik Tok", "Bulletproof", "We R Who We R", "Take It Off" and

"Telephone", it becomes ''fucking hilarious''. * This troper has a very disturbing habit of playing ''Ode to Joy'' whenever [[{{Starcraft}} watching his Zerg forces massacre Terran and/or Protoss bases and their inhabitants.]] It frequently leads up to an inverted BolivianArmyEnding. ** Don't worry, I had a few thoughts about someone being tortured, Saw style (don't know why, though), with the Anvil Chorus playing in the background while the victim screams in agony. * [[{{Tropers/Cameoflage}} This troper]] once put [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1S3JCknQJ4 "Acceptable In The 80s"]] on repeat while playing through [[HalfLife Ravenholm]]. * This troper has entire playlists devoted to this. ''{{Diablo}}'' set to Backstreet Boys, ''AgeOfEmpires'' set to soft Beatles, and WarCraft or StarCraft set to stuff like Grieg's ''Morning Mood.'' * [[{{Tropers/Akriloth2160}} This troper]] has a spotify playlist which does this twice. Firstly, it has the [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming flowing guitar solo]] at the end of [[KateBush Wuthering Heights]] fading out, and then immediately afterwards...[[spoiler: [[AvenueQ I'm not wearing underwear todaaaaaaaaaaay!]]]]. The second has the theme tune from [[{{Halloween}} Halloween]] which [[LastNoteNightmare fades out into a group of]] [[CreepyChild creepy children]] chanting a rhyme, then [[NothingIsScarier immediately stops]]. The song that follows immediately afterwards? [[spoiler: [[NightmareRetardant I am Very Glad, Because I am Finally Returning Home by Eduard Khil]], known to common internet folk as [[MemeticMutation Trololo]]]]. * To this troper, LinkinPark means one thing and one thing only: ''MonsterRancher''. ** Seriously? To THIS troper, LinkinPark means nothing but YoshisIsland! ** This troper remember the days when he decorates house and shops, designing Sims, and performing simulated daily-life events while listening on Linkin Park. Said troper's game is obviously The Sims! ** Similarly, for [[Tropers/FreezairForALimitedTime this troper]] the euro-pop band Eiffel 65 ("I'm blue, da bee dee da be die...") is inextricably linked to ''PokemonSnap.'' The same goes for the obscure Game Boy Color RPG ''Li'l Monster'' and... [[GuiltyPleasures Ricky Martin.]] *** She just remembered two more. Smash Mouth (of "All Star" and "Walkin' On the Sun") can mean two games, and two games only: Either ''{{Rayman}} 2'' or ''SnowboardKids 2.'' Either way, it's mighty odd. ** Who doesn't listen to S Club while playing violent computer games? Well, apart from everyone who isn't me... ** I think I might be the winner. For a day or 2, I tried playing a muted DOA3 with whatever was on the radio. At one point, I had Usher's "Runaway Love". To make this clear to anyone who doesn't get it, it's a song from Ludacris about little girls running from home, during a session of a fighting game. ** This troper often plays Silent Hill games, especially Silent Hill 2. And she proceeds to crank "Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss Uhn Tiss" and "The Bad Touch" by The Bloodhound Gang. * This troper once had her MP3 player on shuffle while reading

HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows. The song that pops up? Mr.Sensitive by David Cook. A song about a guy who knows the world is crappy, but chooses to ignore it. Yeah... * This troper plays horror games (FatalFrame, SilentHill, Siren, etc.) while listening to Super Robot themes (mostly by JAMProject). This troper finds that it helps very much, even when he is home alone, at night and with the lights out. ** This troper would kill the sound completely, and MST it mercilessly in lieu of an actual soundtrack. ** This troper plays TheSims while listening to horror game soundtracks. * This troper playing The movies while a trance remix of Cruel angel Thesis with vocals by Vocaloid was playing. The song was surprisingly well done. * Take the most intense BulletHell game you can find. Play it on mute while Enya is playing in the background. You'll either [[MindScrew break your mind]] or AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. ** However, most BulletHell games don't need such music switching when fighting a final boss or the last form of it. * [[{{Tropers/Lurkerbunny}} This troper]] likes to listen to her iPod while reading ''The World According To Garp'' on the bus. There have been many such moments of dissonance, but the one that took the cake was Bobby [=McFerrin=]'s "Don't Worry Be Happy" during [[spoiler:Garp's death scene]]. She will never watch the music video the same way again (considering [[RobinWilliams who's in it...]].) ** Above troper also, in the middle of ''OneHourPhoto'', started listening to "Kiss Me Deadly" by Lita Ford and "[[TheMuppetShow Mah Nah Mah Nah]]" for '''no reason at all'''. Uh, yeah, I have issues... * This troper, who was [[NightmareFuel terrified]] by ''DonkeyKongCountry'''s [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwnAgH34XNM cave music]] as a child, would play these stages--the very long "Elevator Antics", particularly--while listening to pop music. [[FanHaters What?]] * The hazards of real-life SoundtrackDissonance are pointed out in [[http://xkcd.com/400/ this]] {{xkcd}} strip. * This troper loves blasting So What by Pink to Mario games. * [[Tropers/GwenStacyWannabe This troper]] was innocently listening to her iPod on shuffle one day, when suddenly song number [[{{Satan}} 666]] came up. What song was it, you ask? Just [[TorchesAndPitchforks "The Mob Song"]] from BeautyAndTheBeast. Although this might be more of a ReverseFunnyAneurysm than anything... * This troper has a disturbing penchant to whistle "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life" during disturbing death scenes. It's freaking HILARIOUS! ** And just now, she happens to be writing an essay on ''A Separate Peace'', specifically the character of [[TooGoodToLast Phineas]] and his extreme childlike innocence. So of course, {{God}} is laughing uproariously when she discovers that she happens to be listening to Paramore's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSp7OikjoCM "We Are Broken"]]; the chorus includes the phrase "What must we do to restore / our innocence / and oh the promise we adored? / Give us life again / cause we just wanna be whole". Oops...

* Having CrowningMusicOfAwesome in your playlist is weird when you're just playing solitaire. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome I mean, solitaire]]. It's not as if I'm doing anything exciting, like [[DeathNote eating a packet of chips]]. ** This troper achieved his best time on expert Minesweeper (81 seconds) with a soundtrack of MontyPython. * [[{{Tropers/raekuul}} This Troper]] likes to listen to slow, relaxing songs... while playing IWannaBeTheGuy, and loves to put [[CaveStory Ball of Ballos]] in the background when reading XKCD... * [[{{Tropers/Azvolrien}} This troper]] has discovered the surprisingly epic experience that is walking around the supermarket looking for Ritz crackers, while listening to ''The Bridge of Khazaddum'' from the LordOfTheRings soundtrack. ** That song makes ''anything'' epic. *** Gandalf: "To the snacks aisle!" * This troper and his wife have decided that a certain rendition of ''O Come O Come Emmanuel'' (by Robin Kochis, once downloadable free on Amazon) would make an excellent background music for an epic, bloody battle. * [[Tropers/DarkInsanity13 This troper]] will read/write anything to whatever music she has stuck in her head or playing on her mp3 player, unless she's trying to get into a certain mood. Cue Linkin Park when writing a [[{{Fluff}} fluffy]] story, and the [[SuzumiyaHaruhiNoYuutsu Hare Hare]] when reading a morbid series. ** Unless it's Ryoko's version. Then it makes sense. *** True enough, but troper doesn't listen to that one as much as some of the others, so it doesn't ever come up. * During his catering career, this troper has attended dozens of weddings, and is still boggled beyond reason at how often Kanye West's ''Gold Digger'' is played. * This Troper has Tons of random songs on his youtube playlist that he has play while using the internet. Which has led to me linking certain songs to what is in the AMV or thinking of a certain thing I was doing online. This is like the "we are" song from spiderman 2 makes me think "Heroes" or "Your love is a lie" to playing on the pokemon application on Facebook. This has probably caused me some problems but i was a bit mentally screwed up anyway so by that point it didn't matter. * Ever the holiday season of 2005, This Troper cannot play {{Warhammer 40000}} without Speed Over Beethoven playing in his head, and likewise cannot play DanceDanceRevolution without thinking of Tyranids ripping into the Imperial Guard * This Troper's favorite band to listen to when playing fighting games? Coldplay. Most definitely. ** Did you play Viva la Vida while playing as M. Bison? That would be awesome. *** [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses OF COURSE!!]] * [[{{Tropers/Niddik}} This troper]] once made the mistake of listening to cheery classical music while playing a particular bloody match of {{Half Life 2}}. His sanity has not been the same since. * There's nothing cooler to play Civilization, taking over all the rival cities with Depeche Mode as background music * ''Every time'' this troper listens to Toccata and Fuge in D Minor

(that's the one that goes 'da da daah! dadadadadaaa da...' if you don't know) her sister turns out to be reading romantic manga. She always gets whacked for unintentionally ruining the 'mood' (if it exists * eyeroll* ). * This troper often finds herself playing Aqua's ''Barbie Girl''...while playing {{DevilMayCry}}. * This troper has discovered that the correct soundtrack makes waiting for the bus in the cold and the rain makes it an epic experience. Especially "Tank!". * This troper had to sit through a Danish educational video (with English subtitles) for a mediation class. A dispute concerning two teenagers' basketball game was unfortunately set to cheesy, softcore ish sultry saxophone music. The whole class snickered whenever it played, or else braced themselves once it started just in case the two lads started doing something inappropriate in the next scene. It didn't help that the film discussed the importance of giving and taking... * Partial example, this troper was reading the Wikipedia page for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwatch Ghostwatch]] while listening to his Windows Media Player playlist of anime music when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgBQbDUjwNg this]] started playing! Could have been worse, I could have been ''watching'' Ghostwatch when the music started! * [[Tropers/ZekeSulastin This troper]] spent part of a night of PVP combat in ''EveOnline'' listening to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieQ1rAIjzXc&fmt=18 Moetekke! Sailor Fuku!]] on unplanned repeat for about 30 or 40 minutes (thanks for glitching at the most opportune time, Winamp!) ... perfect music for the HeroicSociopath to kill by ... * A decade ago, borrowed the PC game ''Quake'' from a friend, installed it, and gave him back the disk, but the soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails is on the game disc. However, I discovered that the game simply references the track numbers from whatever audio CD is in the drive. So from now on, my memories of ''Quake'' are immutably linked to [[http://www.amazon.com/Escape-MarsLasar/dp/B000001J29/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_3 Mars Lasar's Escape]]. ** ''Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith'' does the same thing. Which is why [[Tropers/NeoSilverThorn This Troper]] has memories of playing at 6:00 in the morning to Evanescence, which my kid sister left in the compy the night before. * This troper has noticed that he has a habit of whistling this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn5uEMRCxy0&fmt=18 wildly inappropriate ditty]] while going on killing sprees when playing ''CallOfDuty 4''. * This troper was listening to Christmas carols while reading Swift's''AModestProposal''. All well and good, until "Silent Night" came on. The phrase "Holy infant so tender and mild" took on an entirely new meaning... * Speaking of holiday songs, there's also the wonderful experience of listening to [[BarenakedLadies Barenaked for the Holidays]] while reading TheCallOfCthulhu for the first time. ** On that note, this troper was listening to Twisted Sister while

reading that book. ** For [[{{Tropers/Pepinson}} This troper]], it was Savatage's rendition of "Silver Bells." * This troper will never be able to think of Bop to the Top without thinking of the Jurassic Park game in which you build your own park. Specifically, the image of an escaped T-rex ready to go and rampage. ** Also, recently, she began playing on Ponystars and feeding her ponies while listening to "California Uber Alles." * This troper, due to cheapness, has a bunch of bummed-off MP3s of catchy songs (and not battle-appropriate ones). Due to this, more than once he wound up fighting off zombies in Sven-Coop (which as a builtin MP3 player) to Haddaway's "What is Love?", or punching Morrigan in the face in MUGEN while " Bar" is blasting as hairy men watch. , AFX's "April 25th", Adelhide's stage, a -off raptor and Wolverine duking it out. * This troper takes advantage of this trope while playing [[MetalGear Metal Gear Solid 4]] by selecting the happiest songs she can on Snake's iPod while he runs through the streets blowing things up with grenades. Her favorite it 'Oishi Two-Han Seikatsu!', a j-pop song. * Personally, I find few things more enjoyable then playing WorldOfWarcraft, hoping on my Death Knight and wiping out legions of enemies while listening to anything by Katy Perry. * Many years ago, [[{{Tropers/Pinkbaron}} this troper]] suffered a humiliating defeat in a beauty pageant. To comfort me, my mother turned on the radio to get my mind off of it. The first song to come up? "We Are The Champions" by {{Queen}}. * This troper once could not stop whistling "The Worst Pies in London" from Sweeney Todd...while selling pastry. Granted, our scones are more like [[{{Discworld}} dwarf bread]] than anything else, so it might be true, but it's still a bad song to have around in the food business. * [[Tropers/AriRockefeller This troper]]'s friend once put on Japanese...well, adult viewing material...set the DVD player to play it at 4x normal speed, and cranked ''Yackety Sax''. No one, and I mean ''no one'' lasted more than fifteen seconds before falling over and laughing hysterically. ** [[MemeticMutation Anything is funny with Yackety Sax.]] ** Oh gods, just reading that I can't stop giggling. ** This troper just watched horrible death scenes from ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' Do Yackety Sax. She was disgusted and laughing at the same time. * This Troper discovered Diablo II and Queen at the same time. Now he can relate battling the hordes of to "Save Me" and "You're My Best Friend". Aditionally, there's nothing like Weird Al Yankovic's polka medleys to be the background music during a whole night studying for the final exams in my university. * To [[Tropers/AnthonyMercer This Troper]], ''SonicTheHedgehog'' midi remixes = ''SluggyFreelance''. * This troper played ''Star Wars: Battlefront II'' a lot in 2007 until his computer crashed and he lost the CD code. He had a huge mix playlist that played everything from Foo Fighters to Collective Soul to Marilyn Manson, and he would put on Windows Media Player as he played the game. This led to him zooming through space, dodging

clusters of concussion missiles and launching proton torpedoes at Star Destroyers to slow, emotional ballads....which were immediately followed up with "This is the New ". * [[Tropers/RayAyanami This troper]], while playing ''TheLegendOfZelda: Ocarina of Time'' and rolling through Hyrule Field at night as Child Link, puts on "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire. ** Recently, he's taken to putting unfitting music to the endings of ''{{Eversion}}''. * This troper used to enjoy listening to the Lord of the Rings OSTs on the three and a half hour journey between Oxford and Cambridge. Concerning Hobbits would always make her smile. Also, Lothlorien is on right now, thanks to shuffle. ** And Concerning Hobbits came on of it's own accord afterwards. I love shuffle. * Speaking of iPod Shuffle. This troper was reading ''CodeGeass'' Stage-0-Entrence when The Dropkick Murphys "Irish Drinking Song" started. Nothing like Alternate Universe political struggles with "Drink'ndrink'ndrink'ndrink'ndrink'ndrink'nfight HEY!" * This troper has "Thnks fr th Mmrs" by FallOutBoy playing while he goes around shooting people in ''SpecialForceOnline''. * "[[{{Mnemosyne}} Alsatia]]" by Galneryus for TheSims. WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome? * Two instances with this tropette.. She's got Harvest Moon 64 mentally soundtracked to hide's Greatest Hits album.. which is weird considering Lemon I Scream. And once while playing through the first FLOOD level of Halo 3 (and on) this tropette and her friend (thanks to a parental unit) were listening to Under the Sea and Winnie The Pooh instead of slightly creepy epic orchestra. * Back in the mid-to-late 90's, before mp3s, many games had their soundtrack as CD audio, a different track for each level. Having the wrong CD in the drive when firing up the game led to many, many cases of Soundtrack Dissonance... ** The [=PS1=] port of ''RidgeRacer'' was well-known for this feature. During the ''Galaxian'' MiniGame that took place when you started the game, the game loaded all of its game data, save for the soundtrack, into the [=PS1=]'s memory, so after that sequence, you were free to remove the disc. * [[Tropers/EddieVanHelsing This troper]] finds that the most trivial of programming tasks become EPIC when done while listening to Shoji Meguro's "Battle Hymn of the Soul" from the ''Persona 3'' OST, or "Dancing Mad" by the Black Mages. Then again, the Black Mages are nothing ''but'' epic. * This troper once put her iPod on shuffle, and soon found herself listening to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJeHk1gDT68 "Happy Ending,"]] by Mika, while reading some of the bloodier parts of JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac. * This troper refuses to listen to anything other than The Beatles while playing I Wanna Be The Guy. Not even the later stuff-I mean the love songs and the trippy songs. * This troper, by some strange twist of fate, bought the MCR album "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" at the same time her sister bought Animal Crossing for the Gamecube. And I proceeded to play it on

speaker while she played. After that, neither of us could think of think of one without the other. * While studying for his trifecta of Paleontology, Hydrogeology, and International Relations, this troper is currently listening to the most hot-blooded music he can get. * This troper once played her entire playlist of anime songs (about 50 songs) while typing up a fanfiction. Since the songs varied, she wound up going from something as cute as the fourth ending to PowerPuffGirlsZ to ''[[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Nageki no mori]]''. And the fanfiction had ''nothing'' to do with horror. * This troper is currently typing tropes and looking for tropes while listening to the final boss theme from Super Paper Mario. :D * Fallout 3. Every radio song is happy and jolly. It certainly makes killing raiders seem like a bad thing to do. It depresses me when watching a Raider's head blow open while hearing "Way ba-ack hooome!" ** It does the opposite for me. The swing jazz and marching music keeps me chipper while surrounded by zombies and giant scorpions. *** This troper is a huge fan of this trope and the Fallout games, and has a huge collection of music from that era. Therefore: when her brother is playing or she's playing ''Fallout 3'' or ''Fallout: New Vegas'', she tends to sync up songs to what's going on in the game. Getting abducted by aliens? Martian Hop by the Ran-Dells. Going after Violet the fiend cannibal? "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley. Shooting up a bunch of Raiders? Kay Kyser's version of "Playmates." Wandering the Wastes at night? Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" makes very good Deathclaw hunting music. * This troper listens to sad love songs like Total Eclipse Of The Heart while playing games like the ''Spyro'' games and one time he was listening to Meatloaf while watching Beauty And The Beast- playing Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad during Gaston's fight with the beast- he also did this a second time but with Tenacious D playing Tribute during the balroom scene. And on occasions listening to "Beat It" by Michael Jackson while playing Zoo Tycoon 2. * [[{{Tropers/PictureFrame}} This troper's]] high school coach once sat her team down to meditate before a competition. She then turned on her stereo, which proceeded to play "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy". The be fair, it was an accident. * Another accidental case: this troper was reading the second-to-last chapter of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_(book) Night]]'' when all of the sudden Fleetwood Mac's [[http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/fleetwood+ mac/dont+ stop_20054276.html "Don't Stop"]] started playing on the radio. * Nothing like a little Viva la Vida while on TV Tropes, perhaps I should make it SuspiciouslyAproposMsuic by heading to the EvilOverlordList. * As great as the soundtrack is, this troper felt like a bit of a change of pace while playing KatamariDamacy. Inspired by reading this very page, he decided to turn the BGM all the way down, keep the sound effects on, and play the game ''while listening to Slayer''. Hilarity ensued, especially when rolling over people and entire cities. * This Troper tried to convince his sister that EverythingsBetterWith Jazz. To prove his point, he played some Gordon Goodwin over L's death

scene in DeathNote. Hilarity ensued. * This troper when still able to work out would love to play nothing but Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and the Ramones while doing any time of bag work on a heavy bag. When said troper runs I have the 3rd stage theme from the original Virtua Fighter game playing for 5 minutes. * I once played World of Warcraft, questing in Ashenvale Forest with 2 hours worth of Pink Floyd songs playing in the background. At 3:30 AM. Talk about surreal... * This troper recently played "[[DragonBallZ Cha-la Head Cha-la]]" for the BGM in a game of MagicalBattleArena. While it would normally be extremely appropriate music, considering Nanoha et al are more or less Saiyans disguised as magical girls, this troper had set the character selection to random, and ended up with the [[JokeCharacter Gadget Drone]] from [=StrikerS=]. It was a disturbing fight indeed. * This troper to intentionally create this effect listened to "What A Wonderful World" immeadiately after receiving the news that his mother died. * This troper attended a high school production of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curious_Savage The Curious Savage]]''. The music played for the curtain call was, for no reason conceivable to man, Eric Johnson's Cliffs of Dover. * While playing ShadowOfTheColossus, this troper routinely plays a number of odd songs. These include "[[RockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]]," "King of Lullaby," "[[FinalFantasy Roaming Sheep]]," and anything by Voltaire. * This troper found that listening to creepy music helps her concentrate when playing a comedic online game, and when she ran out of songs by TheDecemberists [especially The Hazards Of Love 3, dear god] she looked up the ''Suspiria'' soundtrack on Youtube. * When I was just getting to know anime as a ~11 year-old (thanks Scifi Channel and ''VampireHunterD''!) I had concluded two things: Anime is [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel for adults]] and all the music was SoundtrackDissonance. Giant nearly-KillEmAll cyborg space battle? Cue soft classical music! * This troper enjoys dropping some hardstyle techno and gangsta rap when playing Oblivion. Especially fun/daunting when the latter half was played while my character was a [[UnfortunateImplications Redguard]]. * I had a strange experience while trying to print some things out recently, while listening to my video game music playlist on shuffle. The printer wasn't exactly being co-operative, since it kept printing pages on the wrong side, using multiple sheets for one page, and such. It almost felt like a battle with the printer. So, what should happen to play? [[FinalFantasyVII One Winged Angel]]. Needless to say, I've never found printing so epic before or since. * I find myself listening to the Alundra Nightmare music while... Reading TV Tropes. * This troper recalls a particularly bizarre experience that occurred while listening to my iPod and waiting for the bus one morning. I was listening to Yuki Kajiura's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puRadJ96r_A Ship of Fools]], and the [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Kajiuran Chanting]] portion of the song

started ''just'' as the bus appeared over the hill. 'Twas a moment of SoundtrackDissonance perfection. You had to be there. * This troper has Weird Al and Tak and the Power of Juju forever linked. * Not sure if this is an example but this troper found herself reading Superdickery's Propaganda Extravaganza (AKA: Anti-Japanese propaganda in comics) and found herself listening to...anime soundtracks. The irony way not lost. * Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time usually has an upbeat soundtrack, even in boss battles, it's fast-paced. But when the final boss goes [[OneWingedAngel One Winged Angel]] on you, and you may be ready to drop after three straight battles, and with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpw9JvW4X9M this]] music playing, it's kinda telling you "Give up now..." * [[{{Tropers/Essex}} This troper]] once played [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4aPMo7TcR8&feature=PlayList&p=AE1B3D 329E2D3158&index=6 this song]] while playing through the breakfast routine of ''FateStayNight'', and found it highly narmy. I intend to play [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nFKPVfDrgU Hell March 3]] from the ''RedAlert'' series for the next breakfast scene. * TubeDubber was built for this trope. [[Tropers/TropeKira This troper]] is currently running the first opening the of CodeGeass to the intro for TheSpoonyExperiment. * Back in high school, this troper's iPod, constantly set on shuffle, once cranked out "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" from ''AvenueQ'' while he was reading about World War II in his history textbook. * I was just listening to AFI's "Affliction" while reading the page for BarbieAndTheDiamondCastle. Lo, the irony. * This Troper experienced two cases of Soundtrack Dissonance on two different occasions when she was waiting for a bus. The first time, it was late at night and freezing cold so I listened to the radio to take my mind off it. "Kokomo" by the Beach Boys made me break into a mad cackle. The other time, a couple pulled over in a nearby parking lot to have a screaming argument. What song was playing on their car radio? "Because You Loved Me" by Celine Dion. * This became a hilarious running gag between me and a friend, we were playing some shooter, I forget which, but whenever my friend was being attacked by some hidious creature and really getting... for lack of a better word, owned. I would play elevator music. Literally, I typed elevator music into youtube and found a soundtrack from a 007 game. Fun times. * Under the Sea from Little Mermaid was playing over the sounds of the Flood from Halo 3. It was... interesting to say the least. * This troper once got himself caught up in a self-imposed challenge to top the scoreboard of a ''[[DarkForcesSaga Jedi Knight II]]'' server before he had to leave for school. Listening to "We Are The Champions" while [[FoeTossingCharge striking people down left and right with no trouble]] was about the most awesome thing I've ever done in that game. * At this troper's high school graduation, the music that played over the recessional was [[StarWars The Imperial March]], as chosen by the graduates.

** I've also had [[{{Mulan}} "I'll Make A Man Out Of You"]] come on while programming multiple times. * This troper would put on [=CDs=] when playing Armored Core. This wouldn't count when listening to, say, Macross Plus or Lacuna Coil, but would when listening to the Code Lyoko CD or Newsboys. ** And again doth NeoSilverThorn pull this: FirstEncounterAssaultRecon, happily set to his "Greatest Hits of the KamenRider franchise" playlist. There's something to be said for getting nailed by powered armor troops while [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS5RyK9XC3k Final Attack Ride: HIBIKI]] is playing. * This troper's friend had installed a new sound system in his car, complete with giant subs and everything else necessary to make one eargasm at the sound of an already awesome song. So we started driving around, he took the top down (convertible), turned the volume UpToEleven, and we started headbanging... to Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, Mvt. IV. Doubles as TroperTales/WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome * You know what really, REALLY doesn't fit with being mauled by the Infected in Left 4 Dead? [[TheWorldEndsWithYou DANCER IN THE FREAKIN' STREET.]] * HandleInvalid read SweetBroAndHellaJeff for the first time while his iPod began playing "Mad World". * A friend was once standing by a beach, just watching seagulls swoop down and fight each other for food... then someone's boombox started sound-tracking this with "Eye Of The Tiger". * This troper once was playing Dead Rising when "Love is my Religion" by Ziggy Marley began playing. Something didn't seem right. * [[Tropers/ARandomSerf This troper]] was just reading a review of a particularly {{egregious}} case of IKEAErotica ([[http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/03/05/review-knight-moves-byjamaica-layne/ this one]]) while listening to classical music. My iPod has a wicked sense of timing. -->'''Excerpt:''' His erection is enormous pointing at an almost 90-degree angle up towards his chin and his glans is sweating buckets of happy juice. -->'''iPod:''' OOOOOOOO FOR-TUN-A! * This troper attended the New Year celebrations of his town. During this, slideshows of the different events which took place during the last year were projected. One of the songs that were used ? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol_75jFEpck Tenacious D's Classico]]. This troper had to struggle for not bursting into laughter (to give them credit, it happened in France, so it's likely they didn't realize what the lyrics were saying). * This troper once heard a [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Cruel Angel's Thesis]] remix at a ''supermarket''. ** WHERE IS THIS SUPERMARKET? *** Around Scarborough, it's a place called Top Food Supermarket. (Being a Chinese supermarket, it makes sense... somewhat.) Also, I heard a song that wouldn't sound out of place in a SuperRobot show in that same supermarket not long ago. It had a calming piano piece in the bridge, making for ''double'' SoundtrackDissonance. * [[Tropers/SteelKomodo Steel Komodo]] was once playing {{Tekken}} 6,

practicing some of King's chain throws against Alisa. Thanks to the Custom Soundtrack option, he was listening to "Ain't That a Kick In The Head?" by Robbie Williams - appropriate to the High Roller's Club stage. Now, just imagine this: -->'''Robbie:''' How lucky can one guy-->'''King:''' RAWR! * crack BLAM CRUNCH!* -->'''Robbie:''' I kissed her and she kissed me. -->''(King headbutts Alisa in the crotch. Cue [[CrowningMomentOfFunny mad laughter from my brother.]])'' ** Which version of T6 were you playing? Because [[Tropers.ReikoKazama Reiko-chan]] hasn't played it in a while, and can't remember whether the PS3 version has that option. Also, you are ''awesome'' for being able to do King's chain throws. I can't do them to save my life. /irrelevancy * This troper watched the [[YourHeadAsplode head explosion]] scene from Scanners while listening to Ne Tou Ge De Reset!, [[LuckyStar Tsukasa's]] character song, which is quite possibly one of the cutest songs known to man. Needless to say, it was [[{{Understatement}} unsettling]]. * [[Tropers/RAMChYLD This troper]] used to listen to Black Eyed Peas' Where is The Love on repeats while playing Snowmuncher on Neopets. Soundtrack dissonance, or just plain pissed off? ** Same troper gleefully subverts the trope by listening to ''Oishii Two-Han Seikatsu'' while browsing eBay. *** Finally, this troper actually owns said Chicco pull-string musical duck that plays "How Much Is The Doggie In The Window" posted to the main trope page. Bought it for the {{Narm}} value (and the fact that the duck sorta remotely looks like [[PBAndJOtter Flick]]. He also owns one of the said dollar-store musical toys that looks cute but plays that bitter tune that is Fur Elise, just because it is a cheap ripoff of a Sankyo/Kiddiecraft musical toy of the same design that plays the more proper "How Much Is The Doggie In the Window" which he has decided to start collecting [[EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies just because the design's that of a cute puppy in a doghouse]]. * This troper once watched her brother playing ''{{Fable}} 2'' while ABBA played in the background. Cue slaying hordes of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Hollow Men]] in dramatic slow motion with flourish after flourish lit by glowing orange motion lines and Christmas-light experience orbs on the way out of a ruin ''as Super Trouper played''. I swear, it was a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. * This troper was listening to "Rumpus" from the ''WhereTheWildThingsAre'' soundtrack until she came upon the news of Andrew Koenig (Walter Koenig's son)'s suicide, upon which she immediately hit the pause button. * wince* * With the help of Tube Dubber, This Troper has created [[http://tubedubber.com/#t5wgwMFiIaU:6EdBd68pu5k:0:100:0:0:true Hamster Dance: Total War]]. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny It's as hilarious as it sounds]]. * This editor once, in a state of boredom, replaced "Glass Soldier", the "sad" music in ''{{Iji}}'' with Sweet Georgia Brown, and "Further", the ending theme, with the ''{{Space Jam}}'' theme song (both taken from ''{{Barkley Shut Up And Jam Gaiden}}'')

[[spoiler:Dan's death]] was incredibly surreal. ** [[http://tubedubber.com/#Jka8Izw7Rig:dC-P-EUDrfQ:0:100:0:0:true Now replicated]] [[http://tubedubber.com/#qEzPUoLwpQ0:J9FImc2LOr8:0:100:0:0:true thanks to Tubedubber]]. (And while we're messing with Iji and the Barkley soundtrack, [[http://tubedubber.com/#bAPVaN7bKec:LUjxPj3al5U:0:100:0:0:true I also made this]]. The lyrics actually fit pretty well. * This troper plays some random creepy music in the background while playing MitadakeHigh. Normally this works, because it's a murder mystery game. Sometimes... The game isn't quite that serious. * Not exactly covered byt his trope since it was a sound effect, not music, but I'll put it here anyway. Me and my brother were watching Halloween (07 version) in the living room while my mom was watching a game show in the nearby room. Several times, when Micheal killed someone there was an airhorn noise, taking all the mood out of the scene (I don't think I'm supposed to be laughing at Michael Meyers brutally stabbing the hell out of someone, but something THAT perfectly timed doesn't happen often). * This British troper once watched a televised response by the Liberal Democrats to the budget statement with Stress by Justice playing in the background. It was utterly terrifying. * This troper once came up with an idea for a video with clips from ''Saving Private Ryan'' set to "Last Regrets" (the opening theme song for Kyoto Animation's 2006 version of ''Kanon''). * [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] tends to invoke Soundtrack Dissonance from time to time; sometimes on purpose, and sometimes not. Some noteworthy examples include: ** {{Doom}} and assorted '90s pop songs. I will never forget mowing down hoards of demons while listening to [[{{Hanson}} MMMBop]] ** {{Klonoa}} and AvengedSevenfold. What was weird, though, was how well the two fit together... ** MarioKart and BlackSabbath. It's hard to beat racing on Rainbow Road while Neon Knights plays in the background, or blasting through Bowser's Castle while listening to War Pigs ** IWannaBeTheGuy and {{Disturbed}}. After all, getting hit by gravity-defying apples is just another way to die ** {{MapleStory}} and IronMaiden. I enjoy exploring the Kerning City Swamp while listening to Ghost of the Navigator ** Another example came when writing a death scene in a story I'm working on while listening to music collection on shuffle, when [[WeirdAlYankovic "Genius in France"]] started playing. I admit to laughing about it; how unfitting it was to a point of being amusing. * This troper was working on a comic and in the process of drawing a death scene when iTunes shuffled to "All You Need is Love". It was hard deciding whether to laugh or not. * This troper was once listening to Disney songs while researching crime in South Africa. It was an odd experiance, to say the least. * My mom has a LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek on the TV while we're eating dinner. My dad is blaring Rod Stewart's GreatestHitsAlbum downstairs. I look up and realize I'm watching a husband give his wife two black eyes and lock her in the basement... with "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" added

to the soundtrack. * My brother and I share a room, and therefore a radio. We alternate between months who has control over what we listen to as we sleep. I have an audio cable hooked into it that my brother likes to jack his iPod into on his nights. He puts it on shuffle... and I sleep to the soothing sounds of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci1gYDhF9hc BANANA PHONE IN G MAJOR.]] * While visiting his father, this troper has ended up playing ''[=~Pokmon~=]'' main series games while CountryMusic was playing in the background. * Once, playing TeamFortress2, the server I was playing on had one of those micspammers who actually enhances the experience, ya know? The music in question? Disney songs. Mostly BeautyAndTheBeast. It was bizarrely awesome. * Just today, {{Tropers/Gancena}} was purposely listening to a ''very'' upbeat trance song while writing. The characters were talking about their past and present suicidal urges. It was weird. * This troper gave up trying to write a Ten Song meme with her own iPod. She was trying to go for happy, upbeat, true love. All she got was Bullet For My Valentine, Rammstein, System of a Down, and the whole of Gereen Day's 21st Century Breakdown. "OTL * This troper once was raiding [[ThatOneLevel Naxx]] in WorldOfWarcraft, and the group got to [[ThatOneBoss Heigan]] [[strike: [[ThatOneBoss the Discomancer]]]] [[ThatOneBoss the Unclean]]. After explaining how to do "[[ThatOneBoss the dance]]" that the fight is famous for, the Raid Leader said he was going to play a song over the ventrilo-- and if we didn't down the boss before the song finished once, we sucked. His song of choice: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw6UFObSn2M The damn Mamboleo!]]. 4 DPS died due to laughing so hard they literally did not move at all during the fight. * Ever found yourself halfway through watching {{Watchmen}} online when suddenly an advert at the side of the page starts singing about scratchcards? * I don't know if you've ever heard of the game "The Revenge of Shinobi", but playing that while listening to Bad Romance is one of the funniest things ever. A serious game where the main character (called Joe) is trying to rescue his girlfriend (or whetever she is) from the clutches of an evil genius...being outshined by a song about prostitution. It makes sense in context. * Ever have sex to the Price is Right theme song? Or play Pandemic II while listening to Taylor Swift? This Troper has. * Fun fact: the Xbox360 has a built-in music player, which works well for online play. This troper has played {{Halo}} to the somber sounds of Mozart's Requiem. * Same guy as above who replaced the ''{{Iji}}'' music with that from ''BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'' - the ''Barkley'' music seems to be a magnet for this to me. I once clicked away from a tab I was on, forgot what I was reading, and started to play the ''SpaceJam'' theme song out of the game's soundtrack, because why not. Then I clicked back and saw [[NanasEverydayLife what I was reading]]. [[CrossesTheLineTwice I immediately burst into laughter.]]

* This Troper plays Game/{{Quake}} to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zviDfG1DkOU Love Is On Fire by The Italo Brothers]] and during the final boss battle listened to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcVU5cGUNE Stamp On The Ground]] by the same band. * [[Tropers/KatanaCat This troper]] has this happen to her very often, as she has only general playlists, which have music in all different styles. Listening to Almost Dead by Powerman 5000 while looking at pictures of kittens is... ''odd'', as is listening to Beautiful World by Utada Hikaru while reading a particualarly violent FanFic, or fighting a particularly tough trainer in a Pokemon game. Happy person, angry/sad music. Angry/sad person, happy music. Strange... * This lady is contemplating the plot details of a novel that can basically be boiled down to a Terminator-esque plot appropriate for children. She formulates the story in her mind while listening to the soundtrack of ''[[{{Theatre/ptitlenjisnv3p}} Les Misrables]]''. Yes, her android character is somewhat upset about getting blown up, rebuilt and repurposed as a killer robot, but there's a lot of unsettling Cognitive Dissonance lying around when your brain combines the idea of androids singing passionate revolution songs. * This troper has written pieces of [[DarkFic one of her darkest fanfictions to date]] while happy J-pop or 80s music plays on iTunes. * Ah, it's so surreal when this happens in this way: I'm reading ''{{Demian}}'' and as I come to the line "'So you wanted to take your life, Knauer?'", "[[TheBeatles Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da]]" starts playing on my iPod (the song, if you don't know, is perhaps the most saccharinely upbeat and happy song on The Beatles' otherwise tumultuous and largely disjointed White Album...aside, perhaps, from "Good Night", which while not very upbeat is very saccharine, but that's not the point of this example at all. In fact, just ignore everything in these parentheses if you get what I'm saying without having to read them). * A comedic one: while playing Timesplitters, the first song that came up on this troper's computer (yes, I have a PS2 in the same room as my computer, but my parents were out when I tried this) was "Ticket Outta Loserville." Admittedly, it would have been ironic if I'd been playing on the subway level (visual gag potential if someone gets run over by a train during the song), but, as this happened in October 2010... * iPod on shuffle, surfing TVTropes, I follow a link on {{Deadpool}}'s page without pausing the music...and watch [[MarvelVsCapcom Deadpool and Dante beating the crap out of each other]] to the tune of Handel's "Messiah." --> For unto us a child is born''I love me some gun!'' * This troper was once listening to "Earth Angel" by The Penguins when committing a senseless massacre in a subway station in ''GrandTheftAutoIV''. * This troper was part of a collective ''double'' soundtrack dissonance. At our club's Japanese music disco, the resident broadminded CoolBigSis of our circle of friends was telling us about her hate for babyfur in her FurryFandom. She had to describe what it ''was'' first, all while the theme to ''{{Ponyo}}'' was playing in the background. A bit later she was describing some weird sex videos she laughed her arse off at; the theme to ''MyNeighborTotoro'' was put on

just as she got to the most {{brain bleach}}-worthy moments. * This troper plays the whole collection of {{Doom}} games, with musics by Mami Kawada (ShakuganNoShana) and Houkago Tea Time (K-ON!). These reduce the fear factor of the game by 90%. * While reading ''OrderOfTheStick'''s Azure City Siege Arc, this troper listens to "I Don't Think Now is the Best Time" from ''[[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End]]''. For [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0437.html many]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0448.html strips]], the music hits the tone well, but for strips like [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0456.html this]] it [[{{Understatement}} really, really doesn't]] * This troper has done it sometimes, particularly with MMORPG's that have a built-in customizable playlists where you can add your own music by putting it in a correct folder. Her older brother was usually on the edge of laughter as they were killing gigantic monsters and running away from them to gothic metal love songs or 80's rock ballads. * [[{{Tropers/Guardyanangel}} This Troper]] was walking around the mall today and overheard a woman rocking a toddler to sleep while singing Eminem and Rihanna's song ''Love the Way You Lie.'' Considering the [[DomesticAbuse subject matter]] of the song, it was more than a little disconcerting... * [[{{Tropers/Betterthanstrawberry}} This troper]] has a nasty habit of quietly playing "Que Sera, Sera" on his phone whenever he's walking at dark, quiet places at night with a timid person. * This troper closed out one of her fics with Hitomi no Tsubasa, which is the saddest song in {{Code Geass}}, playing in the background while the credits rolled. The song closed out a {{Crack Fic}} parody of {{Summer Wars}} that crossed-over {{Axis Powers Hetalia}} and {{The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya}}. Then, in another {{Crack Fic}}, the pirate characters from {{Axis Powers Hetalia}} (France, England, Spain, and Netherlands), my OCs, and the [[{{One Piece}} Straw Hat Pirates, Eleven Supernovas, and Shichibukai]] singing In the Dark of the Night from {{Anastasia}}, which made the tone of the scene [[{{Mood Whiplash}} kind of dark]]. They sang it after some characters from {{Eureka Seven}}, {{Kuroshitsuji}}, {{Sengoku Basara}}, {{Ouran High School Host Club}}, {{Jyu Oh Sei}}, {{Fairy Tail}},{{Baccano}}, and {{Axis Powers Hetalia}} sang Promiscuous Girl and before [[{{Durarara}} Izaya and Shizuo]] sang Baby by Justin Bieber. * Listening to [[GurrenLagann Gattai Nante Kuso Kurae]] while reading SweetBroAndHellaJeff = CrowningMomentOfFunny. * [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4273176/1/Eromenos_The_Beginning Eromenos: The Beginning]] is a [[DarkFic dark]] story detailing [[FinalFantasyVII Cloud and Sephiroth's]]... [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean relationship]] in the years before Sephiroth leveled Cloud's hometown. Naturally, [[Tropers/{{Animenutcase}} this troper]] found herself listening to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCSzqWvJZ_o Aqua's Bumblebee]] several times. * This Troper hates his neighbourhood because of this. While I edit or act out the NietzscheWannabe page (or any dark depressing page for that matter) or just try to remember ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' or

Mozart's Requiem, people play Justin Bieber, pop or ice cream music outside. * Right now, [[@/{{Pastylover2}} This troper]] is writing a scene where a character is being told he's dying. While listening to [[TheyMightBeGiants Thermostat]]. * Right now, [[@/{{Tyrios525}} This troper]] is playing [[MonsterHunter]] with his buddies, while [[HaruhiSuzumiya Hare Hare Yukai]] is blasting out of one of my buddies' phones - and we're hunting [[ThatOneBoss Deviljho]] LOL * This troper would like to someday make a pants-wettingly creepy horror movie set to cheerful jazz music from the twenties, thirties, and forties. * For a real head trip, try reading about ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' (specifically, our page and its own wiki) while listening to upbeat ''GurrenLagann'' music (specifically, Break Through the Dream and Sora Iro Days). It's not the first time I've done that, too - thanks to an earlier attempt, I cannot look at Kyubey without thinking of [[StupidStatementDanceMix the Slap Chop rap.]] ** Similarly, I've played ''MortalKombat9'' while listening to the Scatman song in the background. It's so weird it almost CrossesTheLineTwice. * This troper played through Bioshock with Leekspin set on loop as the backing music. It was ''surreal'' * This troper recently watched the new trailer for Doctor Who (the 2011 season, if anyone reads this in 2012 or later) and had to fight not to have "The Poet And The Pendulum" play through his mind while watching it. Disturbingly, it actually suited the trailer very well... ** Same troper also enjoys playing Rayman 3 while listening to Metallica. Especially "Enter Sandman" after the language selection screen. * This troper was listening to "Two Princes" when she tripped and smacked her mouth against her bed, nearly tearing it apart, and cried for the duration of the song and well beyond that. * Final Boss of [[SuperMarioGalaxy Super Mario Galaxy]] & [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8dVLGLn3oo Naked Arms by T.M.Revolution]], 'Nuff Said. * In GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas, "Today Was A Good Day" by IceCube is one of the few songs [[Tropers/SpyHunter29 This Troper]] likes on the GTARadio station Radio Los Santos. Late in the game, I caught it while driving back to CJ's hood [[spoiler:while the riots were raging around]]. [[{{Understatement}} Not exactly a good day, eh?]] * From [[Tropers/NeoSilverThorn This Troper]]: FirstEncounterAssaultRecon. PhineasAndFerb soundtrack. That is all. * This troper once had bad news broken to her while she was listening to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdimwOvl_Sc this]]. It made the whole thing a bit easier to digest. * This troper once read about Pol Pot atrocities while listening to the Flaming Lips' version of What a Wonderful World. * This troper once purchased a can of coke in a supermarket while "Bridge Over Troubled Water" played over their radio. ** He also has managed to connect Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell 3: The Monster's Loose with [[{{Pokemon}} Elite Four battles.]] The fact that

the CD literally finished when the end credits did sealed it for me. * This troper recently watched LordKat blasting zombies in Left4Dead to the soundtrack of vintage WeirdAl. My personal favorite tunes included "Amish Paradise", "Gump", and "Everything You Know Is Wrong". "The Night Santa Went Crazy" seemed oddly appropriate, as did [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2IA4pPc1JE "Hardware Store"]] when played during TeamFortress2. ---Go back to SoundtrackDissonance and [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife see your lives ruined before your eyes]] while listening to OneWingedAngel.

SouthernFriedGenius * Somewhat related TruthInTelevision example. School councillor: "And where is Space Camp again?" This troper: "Alabama." (School councillor does a double take) This troper: "Something wrong?" School councillor: "I'm sorry, but my mental image of Alabama is people with broken fridges on their lawns." * Another TruthInTelevision example, same state concerned. [[JChance this troper]]'s college advisor (a [[BunnyEarsLawyer rather eccentric]], brilliant economist, inspiring teacher, and somewhat of an [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Omnidisciplinary Social Scientist]]) was from Alabama as well, grew up on a farm, and still had a strong accent that became hilarious when he tossed GratuitousSpanish into his lectures (he had done most of his work in Central America). * This troper's therapist is from South Carolina, and considered a preeminent expert in the field of abuse and trauma triggers. His medical anthropology professor at college is from West Virginia and considered one of the best human biology field researchers in the world. * This (Texan) troper is downright brilliant compared to just about everybody he knows. Subverted, however, with all of his family and friends...they're all either dim-witted, bugfuck insane, or both...although some are bugfuck insane [[CrazyAwesome in a good way]]. * This troper was born, raised, and currently lives in Alabama. I scored a 34 on my ACT, have a full-ride scholarship, and own my own business. * One of this troper's smartest profs (of left-wing political philosophy: [[RousseauWasRight Rousseau]] and Marx, mostly) was born and raised in Mississippi. On the other hand, he's black. Does the stereotype still count for black people from the DeepSouth? ** Hey, black people aren't any less southern than white. At least... not in the part of the south where I live. * Although in Britain the North/South divide is reversed (North is known as the half of the country that holds farms, high-fat foods and a less sophisticated, uneducated populace) yet Dr Impossible's University is headed by a man from Yorkshire (think, British Alabama), with as broad an accent as anyone on this page. * As someone who lives in goddamn ARKANSAS of all places, I think it's worth saying there are quite a few intelligent people. We're just

usually silenced by the loud obnoxious rednecks with a flag on their head. I am personally in all AP classes and find it very annoying if someone questions her intelligence or tolerance because she is from the South. ** Are you sure it isn't just self deprecation? I've seen people do that, but only jokingly. Maybe you're just taking them too seriously. * This editor from Massachusetts once had a professor who was a liberal physics expert with a very thick Southern drawl. Went a long way toward shattering my regional chauvanism. * This troper, from Mississippi, comes from a whole family of SFG's. Unfortunately, none of them amounted to anything, for reasons including addiction, restrictive religion, PTSD, laziness, and TMJ. The next generation fared in some ways even worse. This troper is determined to amend that. * This Texan troper attends a fairly exclusive northeastern liberal arts college and makes a conscious effort to mask what little southern drawl she has. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued]] when she pulled four successive all-nighters during finals week and the accent got progressively worse the more exhausted she became. * This troper's from Alabama and went to interview at U Chicago this summer. At the end, the interviewer commented on how nice it was that her accent was well paced. Translation: You aren't as slow as I expected. I talked about Bach-y-rita and Viktor Frankl, and that's how the interview ended. * Several summers ago I went to a leadership conference in California, and constantly got the "Wow, you have such a cute/thick accent!" to which I usually said "You wouldn't be able to understand me if I had a thick accent, trust me." It was all in good humor (aside from a few people asking me if I was racist, but that was more curiousity than flat out rudeness)but it was still embarrasing that that was what seemed to be the first thing everyone thought. I don't think I'm a genious, but needless to say there were a few people supprised that someone from a small town in the heart of Dixie would be attending events such as these. * This Troper went to something called Congressional Academy after his junior year in high school, which consisted of spending two weeks in Washington, D.C. learning about American political history from college professors. He is also from Alabama. Towards the end of the conference, a student that was from Connecticut told him "I've had to rethink my stereotype of southerners. You're smart." Note: I am not a genius. * This troper is not sure if he count since he's only spent 2 years in the Deep South, but all his family is from Mississippi and Alabama. The troper's father (whose father/my grandfather was a Southern Baptist pastor), has a PhD in biology (specializing in genetics) from a university in Atlanta. He (and my mother who has a college degree) became a Southern Baptist missionary (quite possibly one of the only missionary/geneticists out there), and their son, this troper, is nearing his PhD as well.

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* [[SilentHunter This troper]] has just one paper to his knowledge. It's a copy of ''Le Figaro'', purchased on 8 October 2001 from a hypermarket in Northern France and was the only way he could find out the details of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan that had commenced the previous day. * This troper has a box in the attic full of various newspapers from September 12, 2001. * Amusing examples: A former (in British Columbia) history teacher who, the morning of September 12th, sat ''on the phone for half an hour'', with a news store in ''Seattle'', until the store opened, since they said they couldn't let him buy a copy of the New York Times until they opened. He framed the front page and hung it next to his (replica) Hawaii paper from the day after Pearl Harbour. * I saved the complete local paper from the day after Barrack Obama's election. Not because it'll ever be worth anything, but because it's cool. * I've got a magazine with all of the details on William and Kate's royal wedding that is currently being stored in a box. I'm....not sure why, I'm not from England. I just thought it would be kinda neat to have around. Probably more so when the buzz from the wedding dies, or at least a couple decades from now. Or I'll just pull it out one day and everyone will ask what the hell I saved it for since it's not exactly relevant. ---For a limited time, pick up this SouvenirEdition of TVTropes! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SoWasX * This troper had one when he and two of his classmates got on to naming Marvel characters: -->Classmate: Thor! -->Troper: Odin! -->Classmate: He's a Norse god. -->Troper: Yeah, and so was Thor.

SpamAttack * Quite literally. This Troper pelted his friend with pieces of Spam for several minutes. * This Troper once had the opportunity to take part in a 'kushy kombat' stall at a music festival. The organisers handed us a helmet, a foam-padded sword and suggested that holding the top of the hilt with one hand and repeatedly tugging the pommel like a trigger was an effective way to concuss our opponent. It was indeed incredibly effective, as was a 'repeated thrust to the face' variant. * This Troper insists on Doing this anytime she plays any sort of Fighting video game. * This Troper's Modus Operi. Find characther with best attack speed, find best combo, find back up's and coutners, spam combo until friends

throw controller in annoyance * HYDRO STORM! * When playing Chronicles of the Sword mode, this Troper constantly spammed her character's (Iron Sword discipline) 2-hit verticle attack. Almost always guaranteed a successful mission with minimal damage. * [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] enjoys doing this when playing fighting games against his older cousin. He tends to get a little whiny when I do it, so I tend to do so just for the fun of it. It got amusing when we where playing [[SoulSeries Soul Calibur II]], when I locked Ivy (His character) into an inescapable juggle using one of Assassin's special moves. * This troper likes to use a tactic in her Pokemon games she calls Destiny Green. Similar to Destiny Red of the Nuzlocke Comics, it generally refers to 3 stages of spamming: ** Accuracy-reducing/Evasion-boosting move(the latter is preferable due to the effect not disappearing when the opponent faints). ** (Special)Defense-reducing/(Special)Attack-boosting move(again, the latter is preferable). ** Attacking move that works off of the defense/attack that was altered. If it gets STAB, so much the better. * This troper's characters of choice in beat 'em ups usually do this, Noel and Hazama in Blaz Blue are favourites. I also take part in LARP/swordsmanship and discovered that spam attacks are very viable, indeed the idea of the master stroke is to spam your enemy with a repeating chain of two attacks that stops them doing anything but parrying. I found this out when my mercenary character in larp faced my swordsmanship instructor's mage in a best of five strikes duel for the position of [[TheFairFolk Summer knight]]. ---Back to SpamAttack. You only need to click that once BTW. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SpannerInTheWorks * This troper once played in a game of Mafia on an internet forum. Having no knowledge as to how the game really worked, he tried to form 'alliances' with the players by [=PMing=] them and saying that he had information about various other players (information which, by the way, he'd completely made up.) It began to unravel when one of the smarter players called his bluff. By this time, he'd [=PMd=] about half the other players, and all those contradictory [=PMs=] left him in 'heap big trouble'. He got killed, by the mafia, at the end of the first round, but by then he'd managed to convince the Assassin to kill what turned out to be one of the Mafia members. The good guys won.\\ Best... Mafia game.... ''ever.'' * In a multi-player game of ''[[{{TradingCardLame}} WWE Raw Deal]]'', [[{{Emptyeye}} this troper]]'s friend was making a big deal about all the action reversals in his hand. This led to the following exchange:\\ '''Emptyeye''': "Hey [friend], let's see some of those action

reversals...Commish!" (Commissioner Rules, an action that lets you look at your opponent's hand)\\ '''Friend''': *Pause, followed by a shocked expression on his face* "'''I was ''bluffing''!'''" *shows Emptyeye his hand to laughter around the room*\\ This fits because it never even entered my head that he could be bluffing; I was curious as to what he'd use to reverse the action. *Happens to [[{{reinoe}} This Troper]] at work all the time. For example: as the person who physically ships product into and out of the warehouse you'd think I'd be kept in the loop about product shipping into and out of the warehouse but that isn't the case. When I was given word that an order would be shipping out without permits I immediately contacted the truck company. The truck company was so pissed that they'd received contradictory information from from our company that they now refuse to speak to us directly. I just shrugged my shoulders and lol'ed to myself. Apparently my manager, the order organizer, and the scheduler had all been in secret talks without telling me that this order was getting shipped out. *superslinger2007 was the victim of a May 22 [[CreatorBreakdown compromise]] partially based on hatred of [[{{Paparazzi}} candidists]]. One big RealLife ContinuitySnarl whose [[TheReveal Revelation]] is planned to happen on June 22nd. ---Hey, what are you-- NO! You've wrecked everything! Get back to SpannerInTheWorks and leave me alone! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SpartanSibling * This troper caught a lot of flak from his SpartanSibling... both of them, actually [[MiddleChildSyndrome being the middle of 5 and all]]. It got bad enough to point that I simply stopped telling my family when anything went wrong at school, because the usual answer was always "Well, obviously, ''you're'' the problem". * This troper went to school with someone who had a SpartanSibling. We'll call his older brother "Seth", for now. So anyways, Seth seemed to be a couple steps up from a pure sociopath...and no, he wouldn't just hurt people, he would ruin other peoples' stuff, and had a fiery temper - ''literally''. So what kinds of stuff did he do? Well one occasion, Seth and his brother got in a fight once. And Seth then went upstairs, then walked out of the house. A couple minutes later...the fire alarm goes off. Guess what Seth did? That's right - lit his brother's bedspread on fire. This also is just ''one'' of many things he did. This stuff includes: ** Attempting to drive his brother's car into a swimming pool ** Ruining his brother's textbooks so he would have to pay the fines (in K-12 school) ** Getting caught maxing out his sister's credit card ** and way more...currently "Seth" is under House Arrest.

---Go back to SpartanSibling and stop bothering me, before I wipe your face on the pavement. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace ---* At a wedding attended by this trooper the line was uttered and there was silence, then a baby started crying and the priest hung a lampshade by asking "is that an objection?" * Played straight and subverted at this troper's wedding. After the {{Justice of the Peace}} said this line, my husband and I started to laugh. The [=JoP=] then paused the ceremony himself to admit that it has no legal relevance and was now said mainly for tradition. * Very much played with at this tropers friends wedding in which the official said, and I quote 'If anyone should object to this union, then the bride and groom feel they should have made their case months ago. Now it's far too late'. Pretty much everyone laughed, as the bride had got the official to ham it up for that line. * My grandmother told {{this troper}} once that she and my aunt were checking out catholic churches in galveston. One of them was having a wedding, they didnt know that and my grandmother burst in right after the official said this. It was apparently very embarrising. * This troper once dreamed of doing this. When the cleric says the line, I would burst through the door and yell "Wait!" Everybody will turn back and look at me with surprise. Then I will run all the way up to the first pew, find me a seat and then yell, "OK continue.". ----

SpecialEffectFailure You school play and theatre tropers, post here on your worst SFX failures. * This Troper's school once did an adaptation of ''SchoolhouseRock'' (basically a montage of songs from the cartoon wrapped around an ExcusePlot of [[DisneyAcidSequence a teacher hallucinating that these characters are appearing]]) that played this trope straight throughout. The only set is basically a bunch of colorful boxes and a giant chalkboard, the so called costumes were completely random and downright weird, even by school play standards (one questionable example led to a cameo by [[TheMuppetShow Fozzie Bear]] during the "Interjection" number a cameo that [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment went completely unnoticed]]), and production values that made TimAndEric look like LordOfTheRings. This is made even more egregious by the fact that my school's previous stage show ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', While suffering some AdaptationDecay from the Disney film it's based on, had rather impressive production values and special effects for a School production.

* Okay everyone, raise your hand if the fire alarm at your school went off every time you tried to use a fog machine. ** My sister said that somebody did that once. The fire alarm interrupted a rehersal of ours, once, but that was because it went off by accident. * In one school play I remember, one of the characters died and the lights were meant to go down. They didn't. The actor's solution to not being able to leave the stage in darkness? Have your dead character stand up and walk veeeerrryy sloooowwwllyyy off stage. * [[MmmKay This troper]] made plenty of her own mistakes in special effects, but luckily, they weren't for a crowd... [[OldShame they were for my own amusement]]... in my own home... * Invoked [[StylisticSuck intentionally]] by this troper's fanvid for Fanfic/DoomRepercussionsOfEvil. Hands in the shot, obvious plastic models, the zombie being portrayed by a ninja turtles action figure. The end result was SoBadItsGood. ** When [[FuriKuri this troper]] was in elementary, we had to do a video book report (make a video acting out scenes from the book). I made an action figure one because I liked Action League Now. Only all I had was mainly Star Wars figures. And a Snorlax. Who became a new narrator character. Yeeeeah... *** That sounds hilarious. * This troper was technical crew in a college production of {{Grease}}. When it comes time for the convertible to be rolled out on stage, one of the off-stage actors runs up to me to tell me the car won't move. Our actor, I don't recall which character exactly, was left ad-libbing while I and some others went to wrestle with the car. It turned out that someone had accidentally knocked it of neutral and into drive. ** Your story reminds this troper of his high school's production of ''Grease''. It was the second play this troper was in, and his first musical. Greased Lightning was an actual classic car driven on-stage and through the backstage areas (there are huge rolling garage doors between the stage, the stagecraft room, and the back parking lot) by the owner. During the second performance, the boy playing Danny walked by the car and his mic pack fell off his belt and slammed against the door. The driver had the seat reclined to avoid being seen, but the kids holding the curtain back to make room for the car said they could see the look of horror on his face at the thought of a scratch. * I remember doing "The Wizard of Oz" in Y6, and in the book/film/play/whatever, the Witch of the West is killed by water. Only, in our adaption, the acress playing the WotW had a bucket of torn up paper thrown at her. Would it have hurt to have actaully used water? * Watch this video I made and tell me yourself if [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0V6HPm2Po this]] counts as a special effects failure (note the string and hand. Also the choppy WMM framerate). * I was a big play buff when I was in school, and have volunteered to help with other school plays even after I graduated, so time to count our special effects failures! ** In the middle of a play of "A blunder down under", a girl

accidentally fell off the stage and ''right'' onto the a piece of equipment that controlled the lights. (This was in a gymnasium, so that wasn't on top of the stage) ** Then, we performed ''PeterPan'' in an actual theatre for once. What kept going wrong was that we had different people pulling the tethers, and one of the stage crew kept attaching the tethers to different actors, so naturally, the wrong person kept flying into mid-air. Then some people accidentally dropped the swords. ** I parodied this in a comic strip...in ''SnowWhite'', she bit into an actual apple on stage...unfortunately she spat it out because it was mealy (and therefore, tasted ''DISGUSTING'') and then fell down. The queen then looked in there and did a CrowningMomentOfFunny improv. ---> '''Wicked Queen''': "Oops, I guess I used the wrong apple...oh well, it killed her anyway." *** And the next year, another apple failure. We didn't use a Red Delicious apple (instead got a Granny Smith) and the actress who played Snow White accidentally choked on it. Another improv, where apparently, she choked on the apple because it was so sour. ** I don't know ''what'' happened, but when we performed this play about a crazy salesman, somehow, a prop got lit on fire. (I think somebody smoked behind stage) ** Another play about a dude who discovered his childhood that he locked in a trunk accidentally had ''several'' parts of the scenery that got knocked over. There was a scene where he fought against his greatest nightmare, and since they improved the ''entire'' fight, no two fights were the same, and on opening night...they accidentally took out half the stage because the nightmare and the main character had to fight with each other as long as the music was playing. ** Helen Keller once accidentally ripped her dress off at the waist down in a play, and didn't notice it because, well, the actress was pretty good and shouldn't have heard or seen it. Unfortunately, the teacher took one look at the actress's shorts (which she wore under the dress) and said, "...Wow, Helen has some strange underwear." *** And in the same play, she tripped in another scene. ** Supposedly, a rehersal for ''WizardOfOz'' used water to soak the Wicked Witch...and Dorothy missed and hit an extra. Nothing went wrong on opening night though, ** And finally, we had another play where we tried Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. When Violet apparently turned into a blueberry, we just shined a blue light on her. Unfortunately, someone accidentally used the wrong light so they improvised and said that instead, she turned into a ''grape''. ---> '''Willy Wonka''': "Wow, they usually become Blueberries, this is the first grape!" ** This was something I saw a loooong while ago, rather than a play I had a part in or saw. So anyways, the play is called "Many moons" where they pretend to give the moon to their daughter (Who [[FridgeBrilliance says that it was a new moon]] in the end anyways.) and upon there being a full moon in the sky, are trying to discuss on how to hide the moon. The king said, "We have to ''hide'' the moo-" And then hit the throne with his arm and broke it. And earlier in the play he was sitting in it and accidentally knocked the prop off.

* This troper's drama club did a production of the Lynda Barry play "TheGoodTimesAreKillingMe" for Drama Fest this year. We were at the preliminary round at another school, and the kid who was doing lights sort of gave an unintentional, semi-seizuriffic light show in the beginning when only our silhouettes should have been seen. We moved on to the semi-final round anyway. * This Troper has a friend who semi-professionally acts and is also grimace-inducingly accident prone. She's broken bones doing plays, and has a million set disasters she can tell (including almost being crushed by a falling gazebo, don't ask), but the worst was, of course, doing a production of "The Scottish Play". She was Lady MacBeth, and during a trippy part blood was supposed to come out of her mouth as part of the character's hallucination. They were just blood packets she bit. However, she's diabetic and though the package said sugarless, they had been flavoured with sugar. She finished her bit, went off stage, passed out, and nearly went into a coma. * This troper was in a production of Titanic (the Musical version), and we had a tea cart attached to a fishing line to simulate the ship sinking. The failure came because out of 18 performances, the damn thing only worked ONCE. The other times, it got caught on curtains, or would roll incorrectly. * This troper's middle school had a habit of forgetting to cue gun noises during their plays so much that it became a RunningGag. The funniest time this happened was during a production of Oliver, where the sound of the gun for a policeman didn't appear, so the actor just threw his prop baton at the person and acted like his gun didn't work. * {{chitoryu12}} went to a school that mostly has excellent plays, as even ones with relatively low production values (Including a production of ''{{Nunsense}}'' that re-used part of the set from ''{{Grease}}'' as part of the story) were made up for by extraordinarily good actors, some of whom are semi-professional in the Orlando youth theatre community. However, they've had a few.....issues: ** ''Jake's Women'' had a very bare-bones set; it was done a few weeks after ''Grease'' as a rare double summer show, and most of the money obviously went toward the big-budget musical, allowing for several large movable sets, an entire set of bleachers from the outside field on a rolling platform, and a hot rod driven from backstage to the stage for Greased Lightning. Unfortunately, this meant that ''Jake's Women'' had almost no budget. The set consisted of a few multipurpose, lightweight wood boxes in various colors strewn around the stage. While it would have worked well to represent Jake's mind, it also was used for his office. ** One of the many infamous ''PeterPan'' flying rig mishaps occurred in one of our productions (it's been done at least two times, one of the few plays we repeat). While I was not personally in attendance, I did know one of the kids involved. He later became one of the most famous comedians in drama club, but at this point he was a wee freshman in his first show as a Lost Boy. During one of the show nights, as he flew over the top of the almost ceiling-high set, the person in charge of the rig didn't lift him high enough, resulting in him rebounding off the top with enough force to keep going and nearly

knock it all over. ** A minor one, but the Wizard's crystal ball in ''OnceUponAMattress'' falling off during the opening night as the movable chamber was rolled off and loudly shattering, forcing the prop crew to try and clean up the glass in the dark before the next scene. ** ''AMidsummerNightsDream'', set in 1986, had the fairies in a cool, haphazard collection of tutus, fishnets, dyed hair, corsets, multicolored wings, and heavy eyeshadow, blush, and lipstick. They did all of the set changes, and one of the most crucial involved a set of pillars set up on stage; they were painted differently on each side, so the forest would be represented by gray ruins with vines growing on them and Athens would be represented by yellow, spotless columns. During one of the set changes, one fairy (who was well-known as an excellent actress with a tendency to threaten to quit the show when she got angry, which nobody took seriously) forgot to switch one of the columns around. As the music continued and the stage manager refused to call for the scene to start until it was fixed, there was a short pause in the darkness before the poor girl bolted out, spun the column around, and bolted back. *** The columns have appeared in a number of our productions, as they can be easily repainted for any necessary scene. To make them easy to move, they'll also hollow and extraordinarily light, so light that a girl an inch above being a legal dwarf can sling it over her shoulder and carry it off with no effort. This ALSO meant that you had to be impossibly careful around them because a slight touch could knock them over and running past them too fast would make them wobble. While to my knowledge they never fell ON stage, at one point during ''MuchAdoAboutNothing'' rehearsals I didn't realize until later that it had nearly fallen on me as Benedick did a dive-roll behind it (while eavesdropping on myself as Leonato helping Claudio and Don Pedro fool him into believing that Beatrice was in love with him) and knocked into it, and he only barely managed to scramble to his feet and grab it before I got whacked on the head. ** ''TheOddCouple'' was a rather good play, and to create a "dueling plays" concept the school did the male and female version on alternate nights with the most popular play getting an extra night. During one of the male nights, the stage manager either misinterpreted a signal or didn't bother to look before calling it, but she called for the lights to be raised. This resulted in the lone prop girl on stage turning and giving a VERY dirty look to the light booth, and the lights were dropped in less than a second. ** This troper's friend made a short history video-project with her action figure set. (Not stop-motion, just moving the characters around with her hands and speaking in different accents.) At one point, a soldier returning from a long war is supposed to walk up to his doorstep and have a tearful reunion with his wife. When she acted out the wife opening the door, she accidentally dropped the soldier figure in her other hand, and ''attemped to pick him back up with the hand holding the wife.'' Everyone in the class, including the teacher, thought she was making the two figures have rough sex on the doorstep. * My school once did a student-written musical which was ''full'' of SpecialEffectsFailure. A few examples: the main character's

teleportation device was a blanket that he threw over his head, the magic was physically represented by blobs of tangled up curling ribbon, and the all important light-to-drive-out-the-darkness was created using a couple of keychain LED torches. ** On another, unrelated occaision, myself and a sibling made a video of a giant dog terrorising a town made of LEGO. In order to encourage our dog to knock over our buildings, we hid dog food in, around and on the blocks. Not only was this dogfood extremely visible in the finished video, but it didn't even serve the intended purpose: instead of knocking over the town to get to the food, my dog just carefully sniffed out the food, leaving most of the scene in tact. Come on, this happens all the time with halloween and cosplay costumes. List them here. * This Troper created a [[NightmareFuelUnleaded pretty darn terrifying]] Joker costume, but there was a catch... the material that I used to make the scars was only for temporary use, so it kept falling off all the time. I simply peeled it off and painted more red. It still got a a few frightened reactions out of some people. * This Troper attempted to make a Question Costume unfortunately the thick mesh was much darker in color than my actual pale skin. * My dad and his buddies did a school project about the Mayflower, being nerds, they made a video. Not only did my dad play 2 characters (The only difference was a hat and accent) but the part where storms hit the mayflower were hilarious! They put model ship in my dad's friend's pool, and dad's arms are seen splashing the water about, and you can see the hose creating the rain. Also, it TIPS OVER and dad has to put it back up. * I have a couple that happened in a few DisneyThemeParks: ** One time the animatronics for a rabbit broke in ''Splash Mountain''. So while she's calmly singing "Beware of the foxes" or something she's violently jerking around like she's having a seizure. ** One of the springs broke in ''Haunted Mansion''. ** Recently on ''Pirates of the Caribbean'', one of the animatronics failed so a pirate was singing "Yo ho ho ho a pirate's life for me" while headbanging. And I'm pretty sure he wasn't ''supposed'' to be headbanging given that his arms were holding a mug of beer. ** Costume failures - although these were more accidents. Pooh apparently scared somebody who responded by throwing their soda all over him. Then another time, Mary Poppins stumbled and got ketchup on her dress. However the biggest Special Effect Failure was when we saw Snow White walking around...with a pair of neon green ''crocs'' under her dress, and with no attempt to hide it. ---Go back to SpecialEffectFailure and, for God's sake, quit using 1980's graphics and misaligning that title card!!! ----

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SpecialSnowflakeSyndrome * This Troper used to be oh, so very guilty of this. She has played a half-nymph bard, a fairy dragon mage, a cursed magical artifact, and werecat thief, just to name a few. She got better. Eventually. * This troper, not content with the standard player character races from 2E ''DungeonsAndDragons'' invented a race of insect-men from whole cloth for his character to be from. And the GM actually let me get away with it. That said, within the context of the story, the character wasn't an unusual member of his race. ** What was wrong with the Thri'kreen, Formians, or multiple other already existing insect races? * [[InsanityPrelude My old fanfic characters]] were this in ''spades.'' Psychic [[ReBoot sprites created to be Guardians!]] A good-hearted if rebellious Slytherin girl with a made-up name! The female thief spirit of the eighth Millennium Item! Yeaaaah, there's a reason all of this stuff is my OldShame. ** None of those sound even remotely out of the ordinary. * [[{{Lequinni}} This troper]] was so tired of mail-roleplaying for HarryPotter in a group so full of Special Snowflakes (and I ended playing one against my will), that when the master opened another game, I went by the inversion route: I wrote a sheet with a unnasuming, ber normal character who (I specifically and repeatadly insisted) didn't have any kind of special power and had no potential of ever developing one. Sadly, I never sent the application, but it would have been interesting to play it... * This Troper is a Sue-thor in recovery. That is all. * This Troper is currently working on a Solar working for a Deathlord for an ''{{Exalted}}'' game. In addition, an NPC for a game I'm running is a runaway Dynastic mortal who is going to Exalt (as a Solar or Sidereal, haven't decided), and may end up becoming the new Maiden of Journeys. * This Troper has always subverted this in any roleplay I participate in. Notable characters include, Mortimer Mouse in a Kingdom Hearts roleplay (no special abilities. Basic wizard on par with Donald), A completely normal Ministry of Magic employee named Gaius Flufflebump who had no dark secrets and was just a genuinely nice old guy in a Harry Potter roleplay, and a completely stereotypical Drow wizard who everyone just assumed was a chaotic good rebel from his race (he wasn't). * This Troper doesn't pull this himself, but is in two tabletop games with people who do. In both cases, it's the GM doing it, meaning it's a crossover with the GMPC trope (and the MarySue, for that matter). In a Shadowrun game, one of the co-[=GMs=] pulled out his former PC to use as an NPC. This character is part-vampire, a super awesome physical adept with mysterious powers, and both a legal bounty hunter and most infamous shadowrunner ever all at the same time. Any player trying this combination would be killed immediately. In character

creation. In Star Wars, our GM regularly pulls out [=NPCs=] who have uber-rare lightsaber crystals, like the black and white color crystal from TheForceUnleashed or the rare crystal which can reflect sonic attacks that normal lightsabers can't. * [[TheGreatUnknown This troper]] is pleased to say that he more or less managed to pull this off without Suedom, and tie it into the story as well. The character was an erinyes, a type of devil (who are always LawfulEvil). However, in order to equalize her, it so happened that this particular erinyes ''hated'' magic, and thus willingly divested herself of special abilities, making it up through the course of the game with technology. Also, while she was still in fact somewhat evil, it was more of an "ObstructiveBureaucrat" than "[[TakeOverTheWorld World Conqueror]]" type, thus making her LawfulNeutral. * This troper and fellow poketwitterers have had to put up with an ever so special snowflake human, turned into a green eyed Meowth, with a "tristar" birthmark on one of her ears, who is raising an orphaned Pichu as her son, while also being a pokemon trainer with her own team. Did I mention that she was [[RapeAsDrama raped by a Zangoose]]? Well she was. And she was impregnated. She laid an egg from whence was born a [[SpecialSnowflakeSyndrome Meowth with her]] [[LamarckWasRight birthmark]] [[SpecialSnowflakeSyndrome but on the opposite ear and Zangoose eye marks, I'm sorry, a zangscar]]. And we're just scratching the surface here. ** Oh dear God. Kill it. Kill it dead. * This Troper, when a player in D&D, saw this and TheLoonie happening so much among his co-players that now that he's about to become a DM, he limited players to the base races and forbade ChaoticNeutral and all evil alignments. I may be a tyrant, but at least I'm a tyrant of sensible [=PCs=]. * [[DrNamgge This Troper]], in his younger days, spent time in an RP/Chatroom ... ''thingy'', surrounded by the atypical "Demon queen of the undead", "Immortal vampire prince", "Angelic warrior of the light" and other such overused traits that try to make someone stick out. In his group, he then became the most stand-out and unique character. His character was a piece of expired sushi that had been allowed to go mouldy for so long, [[YouFailBiologyForever the mould had gained a conscience]] and could justify coming back to life through the process of the dead body getting a new layer of mould, and thus got to come back. None of it was intentional, as this troper was trying not to be like everybody else, and it was only because they were all suffering from SpecialSnowflakeSyndrome that the he did. * [[{{Filby}} This editor]] used to play in a [[{{MUD}} MUSH]] based on ''TheLordOfTheRings'' that enforced very strict adherence to the book--often to the point that no one besides characters named in the book were allowed to have any adventures, leaving everyone else to (what was in my mind) boring social roleplay. There's only so many pleasant afternoon tea parties in Hobbiton I can take! Largely out of desperation to stand out from the crowd, I ended up playing an evil [[{{Hobbits}} Hobbit]] who was basically a 3-foot-tall [[SherlockHolmes Moriarty]], which pissed a lot of people off. In the end, it wasn't even worth it, because the worst crimes I could commit

without grossly violating the theme of the books were things like petty larceny and real estate fraud. * In one particular SecondLife roleplaying area, most of the active characters are either mundane humans or from magic-based worlds. My character? A WholesomeCrossdresser GadgeteerGenius-slash-ScienceHeroslash-{{Meido}} from a [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard SF world]]. * This troper would like to point out that everyone who isn't an NPC is a special snwoflake in their own way as far as characters go, because characters who are completely normal are either A) Special because they're ''so unbelievably normal'' or unbelievably boring. It's not a question of being unique, it's a question of whether or not your character is interesting in spite of being overly unique. * This troper played a Tiefling, a common but nonstandard race with demonic blood, in a game of D&D3.5 where only I and the GM had played a roleplaying game before. Everyone assumed I was some kind of lizard person and derided me for making such an unusual character. * In a game of VampireTheMasquerade, the local munchkin wanted to play a True Brujah. True Brujah are explicitly stated to be very rare, intelligent, refined, and special. They also get one of the coolest powers in the game (time control). The GM said fine, but the character will have forgotten his time control abilities during his multicentury coma, (Which the player voluntarily described as flimsy justification for playing a clan that died out ages ago) and would take some time to remember them. At the crucial moment (He ran straight first at a bunch of vampire hunters with machine guns, swinging a katana), the munchkin looks pleadingly at the GM, who gleefully announces, to the surprise of everyone at the table, that my Malkavian with anterograde amnesia suddenly recovers a memory of learning how to stop time. Of course, right after saving the party, I forgot how to do it again. * This Troper managed to play a subversion of this trope... in my first D&D game, no less! I was a human fighter (well, my PC was female) in a party full of half-troll rogues, time-mages and the like. It was an awesome game though, don't get me wrong. * I like making up characters to use as handles online, and when I learned that a friend had just found out about the Furry Fandom, and offered to show her my fox guy. I'd thought him up with traditional literary qualities (clever, but not larcenous) and a penchant for sports, mainly to avoid the usual negative stereotypes. She just called him "unimaginative" from his name alone. When I asked what wouldn't be, she showed me a really self-serving Youtube video of someone else's fox furry, basically just showing off his costume and self-harming tendencies, whose name was just "[[SpeciesSurname Fox the Fox]] [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench in French]]". It turned out she'd just jumped to conclusions both times. * This troper has seen on many pokemon RPG forums that being a dark type specialists is popular due to the lack of a dark type gym and dark types in the anime characters' teams. However since everyone wants to be a dark type specialist, it's actually unoriginal now. * This troper often seeks out niche character types (races, classes, etc) that don't get much attention, partly to be different and partly to give the little-used roles some love. I try not to be stupid about

it, though; I pick them because they're interesting, not because they have the coolest powers or whatever, and I don't flaunt my character's specialness or do things like the main page's example where it's just a common combination with a different name and some unusual window dressing. * [[TheGunheart This troper]] once used one of his own original, non[[{{Transformers}} TF]] robot pilot characters for a message board's {{Transformers}} RPG. Oddly enough, he was somewhat well liked by the Autobot faction players, but some really stupid moments on my part also made me the bane of the Decepticon faction. I retired the character after three episodes and have vowed ''never'' to try something that stupid again. * Is it me, or is the entirety of the Troper Tales pages where tropers talk about themselves full of this? ** The first step to solving a problem is admitting you ''have'' a problem. It's our first step. -->"Hello, my name is [[{{Unistrut}} This Troper]] and I once played a very lost Viking warrior in a setting based on Greek Mythology." *** That's [[TheLostVikings less unique than you might think]], although those particular Vikings got dumped in Ancient Egypt instead of Greece. * This troper has an idea for a character that she will probably ''never'' be allowed to play: a [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch Chaotic Good]] [[SnakePeople yuan-ti]] sorcerer. Most of her characters have been human and basic classes, but she does want to get that snake into a game someday... * Inverted for this troper. In a group with a shifter archer ranger with a raccoon, a kender rogue with a pet lantern archon, and a splatbook-introduced-race laser cleric who happens to be the party tank, her character is a human druid with a wolf. Given how weirdly arranged this all is, she's pretty sure she's just going to be casting buffs and fire spells until level 5, when she can use Wild Shape. * Several friends thought [[FMPhoenixHawk this Troper]] was falling into it when his first character in 4th Edition D&D for Living Forgotten Realms was a two-weapon wielding Drow Ranger. In truth, the character was a rebuild of a character I've been playing for years, through every system since 1st Edition. The character started as a fighter/magic-user in 1st, turned into a fighter/mage in 2nd, a ranger/sorcerer in 3rd and 3.5 ed. I created the character long before reading Salvatore's novels, and he's never been good. Just not evil. * This Troper's case is not so much that he wants his characters to be special in a way that makes them ''superior,'' but instead seeks to make his characters more distinctive. For example, since Pokemon like Eeveelutions, Absol, and starter Pokemon are so common among roleplayers, he instead tends to have his characters use Pokemon with less publicity like Hariyama, Shiftry, and Swalot. However, he has to restrain himself from giving his characters members of the Regi trio. On another note, he also has an irrational dislike for giving a character swords due to how popular those weapons are. ** Other offenses this Troper has committed (some of which actually do fit the more traditional vision of this trope) are [[CuteShotaroBoy reducing the average age]] [[BadassAdorable of the roleplay's

characters]], creating a [[WorldOfWarcraft skeletal dragon]] in a ''SonicTheHedgehog'' roleplay, changing his main fan characters' species due to how widespread hedgehogs, porcupines (essentially hipster hedgehogs), and wolves were, and having his characters come from an alien world with '''magic'''. * This Troper read on the Wizards of the Coast forum about a character that was a Revenant (which is a sort of living undead that resembles and has all the abilities of a previous race). The race they picked? Warforged, being living constructs. The first feat chosen? Dhamphir bloodline, making them living undead. Again. As they put it: A living undead living undead living construct OR A living living living construct undead undead. ** The punchline? Next post was "Yo dog..." * this troper has been guilty of this, but more often i invert the trope. for instance, i once had played a drow rebel... that was just as bad as all the others, and a wizard. this suprised my fellow players a little, since they expected another CG rebel with two scimitars. * This Troper is part of a local Renaissance Fair, and this trope has been bugging the heck out of him lately. He's playing a commoner and trying to walk a fine line between being an interesting character and not making waves due to his diminutive role, but a lot of the other minor characters keep trying to come up with excuses why the caste system doesn't apply to them. Doesn't help that the directors are [[Main/HypoCrite fantasy-style adventurers in an otherwise fairly realistic village]]... [[Main/MagicRealism time travel plots aside]]. * I've fallen into this with my [=NPCs=] a bit in my jungle based D'n'D campaign. All though all of them are in the background (I'm not daft enough to usurp the main characters), I raided most of the source books for exotic races for the main characters to meet- they include Goblins, Halflings,Thri-Kreen, Tengu, Myconids, Half-fey, Yuan-ti, Genesi..... * This Troper felt like one for a while, while in-training a species of her own in a pretty free-form Metalocalypse RP. Among the canon characters, Mary-Sue witches, and gargoyle-mod-char, she played a cat... guy. 26 years old, dirt-colored fur, missing an ear and most of his tail. Attractive, but with the personality of utter garbage. Somehow, he was such a hit with the group that the second iteration of the RP allowed only this character to be of "magical" origin, while the other original characters were demoted to normal humans. (This Troper, out of respect, did not play in the second RP. It's one thing to be a likeable 'special snowflake,' but it's another for the mods to not allow anyone else to be.) * This troper embraces the hell out of this trope. Frankly, if more exotic creatures are available, I simply refuse to play puny humans and the various races that are virtually indistinguishable from puny humans. Humanoids are fine, but there has to be something fantastical if I'm to be playing in a fantasy game. Lizardfolk, tieflings, entomothropes, yuan-ti, driders, and one particular case of a halffiend she-orc with a succubus mother. There needn't be contradictory templates or word salad backstories, but I enjoy defying expectation, and that's all there is to it. Just because you're interesting doesn't

mean you have to be boring! ... Or... something... * This troper was this in his early days of roleplaying, Half-demon vampire? check, extremely strong? his RP site was full of them, so he tried to be as unique as possible. ** He did this bad his first year of roleplaying in WorldofWacraft, his first two toons were a blood elven warlock who shared his body with 152 individual demons as a failed result of his father attempting to use him to summon [[{{bigbad}} Sargeras.]] His druid was touched by the emerald nightmare, and, though sane, tended to jump the gun and try to maul stuff too fast (Which [[{{Godmodding}} led to]] [[{{metagaming}} other problems.]] ----Now back to [[SpecialSnowflakeSyndrome the most unique trope.]] ----

SpellMyNameWithAnS * This troper's name is Sean. Simple, no? I get Shawn, Shaun, Shane. And my last name is such that most people don't even bother writing it. When I introduce myself, I always spell it out (it's nine letters long). * It's ALIX. With an "i". Not Alex, Alyx, Alice, Alisse, or anything else. And yes, it is spelt Alexandra in long form. Just for an extra bit of {{Mind Screw}}. P.S. [[BerserkButton ALIX]]. ** After reading the above two examples, I feel compelled to mention that there was a guy in my high school named, coincidentally enough, "Sean Alix." ** It's backwards for this troper's mother, who's named Alisandra and constantly gets it spelled Alexandra. * My name is Sarah. even my own grandmother spells my name "Sara." My last name is even worse; Koch. it's pronounced like "cook" but looks nothing like it. When asked for my last name, I just spell it out. * This troper's name is commonly misspelled by family and friends, who simply can't seem to grasp that the less frequent spelling of the name happens to be the one my parents decided to use. Most of them are getting better about it, though. I still have to clarify the spelling of my name to people, though. Indeed, my name is actually spelled with an S and not a C. * This troper is first name Mary, last name Lin. Due to the popularity of the name "Mary", I usually am referred to via full name, leading a lot of people unfamiliar with me to assume that my name is "Marilyn" or "Mary Lynn". * This tropers' name (Cory) was misspelled (Corey) on his High School diploma. Then he sent it back, and a few months later received a replacement, spelt properly. Fastforward a few years, to his college diploma and once again...... ** This troper knows a girl named Cory who's had it bad enough when she lived in England and constantly had her name misspelled "Corey", but after having learned in a German university for a she doesn't seem to notice it anymore since it's so close to her actual name. Her name has been spelled any possible way from Korie and Kori (which would be at least phonetically correct with the German alphabet, but Germans

are generally familiar with English names) to Foreign Sounding Gibbrish versions like Courie and Kirie. She even had a teacher who insisted on calling her Courtney. * This troper's first name is Leah. We'll skip past all the mispronunciations and head straight to a job that made out her first paycheck to "Leigh". (It was spelled correctly on everything I sent them on hiring, and my handwriting isn't _that_ bad.) * People constitutionally write this tropers last name the way it's said. Also,more so in the actual pronunciation of my name rather then the spelling,people misspell my name,including my father. This troper cannot spell her off the job imaginary friends name correctly. She never made a correct spelling,since she imagined him before she could spell(at the age of 2 or 3) * This troper knew a Thai girl whose nickname was Noy, short for Piyanant. Noy had a friend whose nickname was Golf. And no, that wasn't a fluke -- her dad really liked the game. * I've decided, for several years, that I am going to change my name, so that it includes a Q. The pronunciation shall not change. * This troper's name (Kurt) was misspelled as "Kirt" on a medication bottle. * Spell my name with a ''Z'', more like. Even when my name was ''right there at the top of the paper'' my teacher would spell it with an S in her comments. * This troper's name is Xanthe. Pronounced Zan-thee. Almost no one spells it with an X first time. ** Cool name!! * This editor's first name is Matthew. Every once in a while he'll discover that his name has been spelled with only one 't'. However, this never seems to happen when he's around other people with the same name; as far as he knows, they all have two 't's in their names as well. This only makes those instances of a single 't' all the more mysterious. ** That's the opposite of this troper's husband, whose middle name is Mathew with a single 't,' but the entire world seems determined to spell it as Matthew. It's like they're taking the 't' from your name and giving it to him! * This Troper's first name is Ian. You would think it would be impossible to get a 3-letter name wrong. You would be mistaken... ** This troper knows someone who named their son Ian...but spelled it Xeon. *** Does this someone play too many [=JRPGs=] perhaps? * A professor at the university where [[InsanityInside this troper]] studies (a Russian living in Poland) tends to introduce himself to the students like this: He writes his name on the board and says "This is the fourth name I've had since I live here". Polish transliterations are not the same as English ones and there are a few of both. * You'd be surprised how many ways there are to spell the names "Jacquelyn" and "Jackie" respectively. Considering that this troper's parents used a less-popular spelling, this happens all the time. Her little brother's name was also once spelled "Kwin." ''That's not even close.'' * my name is Harry. I am an American. Americans do not use the name

Harry. It doesn't help that this is my middle name, and live in a small town, where my classmates would know this name, and a teacher my first. I got so tired of the complications of this (Harry. Aaron? No, Harry. Eddy? Harry. Eric?) that beginning in high school I usually 'responded with sure, why not.' to their wild guessing. * My name's proper spelling IS actually spelled with an S. Elisabeth... And every time I turn around there's someone spelling it Elizabeth! GYAH! ENOUGH ALREADY! * Try having a surname that you're not sure how to pronounce,even after ''thirty years''. And that is only mangled further by your [[TheUnintelligible thick accent and mumble]]. * This troper's name is Ryan. Despite the number of people in his age group who share his same exact name, it is STILL misspelled. How the heck does someone mess that one up? (It's been spelled Rian, Rhyan, Ryann and any combination of those three, not to mentioned the amount of times it's been mispronounced as "Bryan" or "Brian" and so on.) * This troper's last name is Pfeifer. The P is silent. Imagine a world where I ''didn't'' have to spell out my last name over the phone... ** So, your name means Whistler? * This troper found that many of his Chinese, Hong-Kongian and Taiwanese customers and resellers have a romanized version of their name on their business cards... which often seems to have no bearing on their original names. ** Many Chinese are given/choose an English name with no relation to their Chinese name, and use a romanised version of their original Chinese name as middle names. It is possible to tell which part of China a person is from by the spelling they use for the romanisations. *** For example a man originally from China named Chungwen might choose William as his American name. This troper would love to hear the reasoning behind such choices... *** This troper knew two sisters in highschool. Their real chinese names sounded something like 'An-jen Ching' and 'An-jen Fahng'. While their personal names were this 'Ching' and 'Fang', they selfanglicised to 'Angela' and 'Jennifer' respecitively -- both were chosen as a result of their ''family'' names: 'Angela' because of its initial similarity to 'An-jen' and 'Jennifer' (who went by 'Jen') because of the second syllable in 'An-jen'. Since this troper's name is 'Sean' they both recommended, if he chose to 'chinesise' his name, to go with 'Shui' since it started with similar sounds. *** This troper knew a Chinese man who chose to call himself David because ''David Copperfield'' was his favorite book in English. *** This troper was told (by a friend whose name is Lokhan but uses Michael) that it's because of pronunciation difficulties. People in Western nations don't get their real name right so they take on an easier option for them to save hassle. Of course, the weird thing is that several random Chinese people I've met have asked if I have a "Chinese name". *** Of course, this troper has a friend from upstate New York named Ghen-ki who uses it exclusively despite living in the US his whole life and only speaking English. Annoyances abound when forms don't allow hyphenated first names (as his proper, official name includes it).

*** This troper has a cousin who, while living in Hong Kong, used to un-officially change her English name on a whim. *** This Troper's cousin lived in China for years as an English teacher. When he brought home his Chinese girlfriend, he explained that her Chinese name was hard to pronounce, so she went by "Mikki" (pronounced "Mickey") in English. *** There are a number of times when people spells this troper's last name as Lee, instead of Li. I am Chinese, and Li is a common Chinese last name. Besides, other than Bruce Lee, how many Chinese people actually has Lee as a last name? ** Meanwhile, Koreans often take similar-sounding Anglo names. They'll have the same ''starting letter,'' at least. This troper has met two different Jays--one Jake, the other [[strike:Justin]] scratch that, Justin's Vietnamese! Well, you get this troper's point. ** I once met two Korean-American sisters named Yoon and Yune. Apparently the names are spelled and pronounced identically in Korean. * This Troper's name is Scott. Not "Scot", or "Scoot", or even "Scottt", as plenty of his friends (and even managers at work) have mispelled. The second one is especially the worst. * This troper's former [=PhD=] advisor's original (Chinese) name is Xiaoqing, but he goes by Frank... ** This Troper has an exchange-student friend from Taiwan who also goes by Frank, though his real name is Tzu Fen. As well, two of my friends are exchange students in Japan and have changed the spellings of their names to make it easier for their classmates - Madison and Mickey have become Madelee and Mikki. * This troper attended a high school with a number of immigrant Chinese students. There was a subtle but vehement split between those who opted to keep their Mandarin or Cantonese names, and those who chose to take a more western one. * This troper's name is Aidan. EVERYONE, from my grandparents on down to my teachers spell my name Aiden. They even mispelled it on my driver's liscence. Needless to say I had to send it back in to have it redone, but it's the DMV. * This troper's grandfather was told by the registrar office that 'Kareen' (that spelling) was not a real name when his daughter (my mum) was born. He had to change it to Karen instead. * My name is Candice (like the actress Bergen, who played Murphy Brown). Yet people have often spelled it as Candace (like Cameron, who played DJ Tanner). The worst offender was the history teacher I had twice in high school, who spelled my name with an A even well into the second time I had her. To make matters worse, my mom told me that she originally wanted to spell my name Kandyce, but that whoever did my birth certificate didn't get down the "correct" spelling. To that I say thank ''God''. * This troper is named Alyssa. That's with two S's. Either people pronounce it incorrectly (uh-Lee-suh), or they remove an S. Occasionally, they replace the missing S with an extra L. I nearly smacked a boyfriend once when I saw my number under Allysa in his cell phone, after sitting next to him in class for a year. ** This troper's cousin has the same problem, and sometimes with two S's ''and'' two L's.

* Played straight and inverted with [[SovietKitty this troper]]. Her name is butchered a million different ways in her native English, but can be transliterated perfectly to Japanese. No one who knows katakana ever mispronounces it after the first time, if at all, but a lot who don't never get it right, including some of her ''doctors''. Ironically... it begins with an S. * This tropers last name is apparently unspellable in english. Theres no diacritics, silent letters, or anything like that, but people can't seem to grasp that my last name ends with an O, ''despite being pronounced that way''. With the intent of being a writer, I can already tell I will need a pen name ([[ItIsPronouncedTropay since its apparently also unpronounceable]]). Oh and whenever my family goes out to eat and we make a reservation we need to use a fake family name. Thats how bad it is. * You would think that Derek would be an easy name to spell. Wrong. Possible variations include an i instead of a second e, a ck instead of k, and two r's instead of one. This seems to have become less of a problem as I've gotten old though. * This troper's name is Madeleine. You. Would. Not. Believe. how many different ways this has been spelled wrong. The worst has to be her 7th grade health teacher, who spelled it "Madalhaine". ''Has anyone ever been named that, ever??'' ** This troper, a fellow Madeleine, feels your pain. Madelyn seems to be a popular one, as well as the ever-popular Madeline, Madaline, and occasionally Madison. * This troper's had to deal with that in relation to his last name. It's Gonzalez. WITH A Z! Countless iterations include Gonzales, Gonsales, Gonsalez, good lord people, it's the most common hispanic name ever, except maybe Rodriguez. I AM NOT PORTUGUESE! SPELL MY NAME WITH A Z! * [[{{Tovarishch}} This troper]], whose last name is Valds, gets this treatment often. They either write it as "Valdez", or in more jarring examples, with B instead of V. [[BerserkButton Cue rage.]] * This troper has the incredibly unique name of 'Norika'. Pronounced "NOR-ick-ah" by teachers, "Na-REE-kah" (correct) by everyone else. It's also mispelled Narika, and translates to some ''lovely'' nicknames, first on the list being "Na-Freak-a". * You would not believe how many ways it is possible to misspell "Bryan Adam" (please don't stalk me). TWO COMMON NAMES. NINE LETTERS. COME ON PEOPLE. ** To be fair, "Brian" and "Adams" have much better odds of being used. In cases of confusion, what would you assume? * This troper's name is Laura. Not Lara, Lora, Laurie, Lori, or for heaven's sake, Lauren. Troper is at a loss to understand why so many people don't know how to spell it. ** Do I know you? My best friend in Wisconsin is ''exactly'' the same way, and her hatred of the name "Lauren" comes from an ''{{Alias}}'' character o.O * There are 27 mis-spellings of this troper's last name. * AllanAokage is misspelt as often as one can imagine. Made more embarrassing by the fact that, in Welsh, "Allan" means "exit" is one uses a atypical pronunciation, so I'm often accused of faking it. I'm

used to being called "Alan", "Alun", "Allen", "Ellen" (I don't know either), or variants of them by this point. Some people insist on spelling my surname with a D, though... * This troper's last name, Myers, which is not that unique of a last name, has many variations, including Meyer, Meyers, Meier, and Mayers. Even after I say it's spelled Myers as in Mike the actor or Michael the serial killer. My first name, Fiona, has been turned into Pheona, Fayeona, Phione, and Fione. SERIOUSLY, IT'S NOT THAT HARD. * {{Rebochan}} is a nickname for my real name, Rebecca. Which I spell normally. I can't tell you how many creative spellings I've gotten. Besides the Hebrew "Rebekah", I've also had people spell it with two b's, all the e's replaced with a's, one C (apparently a common Spanish spelling), and some that I can't quite remember. * This troper's name, Patrick, is fairly common and easy to spell. So I was rather amused when a Starbucks barista once wrote it as "Patryc" on my drink. I even briefly considered adopting that spelling. * This troper's last name is one letter off from a very common last name. Her name is still fairly common, but invariably people will assume it's a misspelling and pronounce it as the more common one. Worst of all is when they for some reason assume that she has misspelled HER OWN NAME on a form or something and go out of the way to correct it for her. And yes, this happens all the time. * This troper, last name Nathanson, has seen "Nathansen", "Nathenson", "Matheson", ''"Matthis"''... ** He also has a canonical example in one of his own writings, which started as a typo or perhaps just forgetfulness but was intentionally left in to make it seem more {{Animesque}}. Yes, it involves an l/r switch in a proper noun. * This troper's name is Julianne. Not Julien, not Julianna, not Julieann, not Jullian, ''Julianne''. ** And her friend's name is Rachel. It bugs her parents to no end when it's spelled Rachael, Racheal, etc. --> '''Me:''' I've always seen it spelled with an 'A' somewhere. --> '''Rachel's Mom:''' ''They're spelling it '''wrong!''''' ** Oh my god! This troper's name is Julianne as well, pronounced jewLEE-on. However, that does not stop people from mispronouncing it (albeit understandably) as jew-lee-ANN, then misspelling it - thus leading others to mispronounce it - as 'Juliann,' 'JulieAnne,' 'Julianna,' an in the case of one psychotic teacher, 'Julian' (which is the MALE version). * My name is Thad. It's pronounced exactly the way it looks. Simple, right? Apparently not: My teachers call me Tad. I don't understand why the simple pronunciation of 'th' could be so hard, when they correctly say it when NOT speaking my name. * This troper has to consistantly remind people that his name is spelled the French way. That's '''''Marc''''' NOT ''Mark''. * This troper's first name is Ray. When writing his name in Japanese katakana, he writes it as ?? (''rei''). His friend thinks it should be ?? (''ree''), because apparently [[GenderBlenderName "Rei" is a feminine name]]. [[FistOfTheNorthStar What the heck is she talking about?]] ** Perhaps your friend is thinking of [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei

Ayanami]]? ** Or [[SailorMoon Rei Hino]]? ** While you were thinking of [[FistOfTheNorthStar Rei of Nanto Suicho Ken]]? * This troper's name is Hanna. Not Hannah. * This troper's first name is Elizabeth, but for some reason is always spelled Elisabeth. Is this an inversion of the trope name? * This Troper once had a Ukrainian teacher who, after writing his name on the board, said "Don't ask me why there are two 'y's, I don't like it either, that's just the way the Ukrainian government told me I should spell it." * This troper had a friend named Dmitri way back in Grade 2 and 3, and when he mentioned him in the journal he was forced to write in Grade 3, the [[SadistTeacher teacher]] always marked his spelling for his name as wrong and corrected it as 'Dimitri', another spelling for the same name. Needless to say, because of how often he talked about his best friend, he got only a C in his English report card. He never got a C in a report card again because he never had the same teacher. * This Troper's ''entire family'' (except her mother, Mary) have had their names misspelled ''many'' times. ** Troper's name: Felicia. Has been spelled Felisha, Felica, Felishia, and Felicity (o.O) ** Her sister's name: Malinda. Has been spelled Melinda and, in one hilarious spell-checker incident, Mylanta. ** Her Dad's name: Derrick. Has been spelled Derek, Derick, Derrik, and Dirk. And that's just the ones This Troper has seen - who knows how many of his teachers got his name wrong before This Troper was even born! Seriously, how hard is such a common name to spell? * This troper's name is Bridget. But unless I specify how my name is spelled, persons attempting to spell my name will always render it as "Bridgette", "Bridgett", "Brigit", and everything else conceivable between these possibilities. * This troper's name is uncommon in and of itself, but is composed of two much more common ones stuck together. No melding, no weird or uncommon spelling for either, just the two stuck next to each other without a space. Nonetheless, someone always finds a way to mangle it into another name (whether spoken or written), without even going into some variant spellings for the two halves. * This lurker's name is Breanna- Bree-anne-uh. Not only is it impossible to pronounce by teachers- I can't count the number of times I've been called Brenna- it's also impossible to spell. Brieahna, Briana, Brianna, Breighana, everything in between- it's the same when I shorten it to "Brie". Bre, Bree, and Brea are common ones. It's also been spelled "Brittany". And this is not counting when teachers who know me, have known me for multiple years, look me dead in the eye and call me any number of strange names. ** I have a friend Breanna, pronounced like your name. We have a friend who still calls her bree-AH-na. * This troper gets this on occasion. His last name is Czech in origin, and contains a hard "ch" right in the middle. After so many people spelling it with a K, this troper has gotten in the habit of simply spelling out his name whenever someone asks. Conversely, whenever

someone tries to read it, they always pronounce it with a "soft" ch, making this troper one of the ones who always has to speak up to correct the teacher on the first day of class. At least no one gets "Nick" wrong (which is this troper's first name). * My name is not Kimber''ly''. Kimber''ly'' is a brand of toilet paper. My name is Kimber''lyn''. [[ThisIsSPARTA DON'T! FORGET! THE 'N'!]] This troper has gotten so annoyed with the constant glimpseand-go of her name that it's become a minor {{Berserk Button}}. * This troper gets his name mangled on a regular basis. So much so that I'm pleasantly surprised when people get it right. However the real problem is for speakers of romance languages. The particular three-vowel cluster in my name throws them completely. In my last job I had to tell my Spanish co-workers "Look, just call me Juan. It's easier all round." * This troper's name is Courtney. Spelled, C-O-U-R-T-N-E-Y, not Kortney, kourtny, Quortnie, courtnee, or, courtnay. She believes that there should be a law against spelling the name other than the way she spells it. * I second that notion! This troper's name is Kelly, a very simple name to spell if it wasn't for the myriad of variations that have popped up in recent years. Keli, Kelli, Kelley, Kellie, and Calleigh all assure that at least 80% time someone is going to add an e or i where it doesn't belong. This would be bad enough, but her last name, "O'Rourke", baffles English and non-English speakers alike. It's pronounced "Oh-Roark", but people are dead set on pronouncing the 'e' at the end, assuming they try and pronounce or spell it at all. * The name's Julin; not so common, but spelled as it sounds. And yet, I've heard/seen Julie, Julia, July, Julie Lyn/Lin/Lynn/Len/etc, Jyulin, Giulin/Giuliana (I don't look remotely Italian, by the way.), Jyulin, Joolen/lin, Juulun, [=JuLenN=] (capitalized like that, actually.), Juliet, June Lin/Lynn/Lyn/Len/etc, and occasionally Julian (a guy's name, by the way.) And I'm just getting "started." I've got a brother named Jamin (also uncommon, but not that hard either.) He's been called/referred to as James, Jamie/Jamy, Jamen/Jamenn, Jam, Jamon/Jamone (Jamn means "ham" in Spanish, by the way.), Jalin/Jalynn (a girl's name, by the way.), Jamil, Jack, Ben/Benji, etc. And to top it all off, my middle name is Elisa. [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TroperTales/SpellMyNameWithAnS With an S.]] Not Eliza, nor Aliza/Alyssa/Elyssa/Ellie/Eli (a guy's name, by the way.), Julisa (this has happened before. By my best friend, may I add.), Ellen (also by said best friend.), etc. Thanks, mom and dad, for names nobody can spell nor pronounce. * My name is Jenny. Not [[HarryPotter Ginny]]. Spelled with a Y. Yes, I am aware that it is short for Jennifer. No, it should not be spelled with an I instead. * Funnily enough, DON'T spell my last name with an S. My last name is Colin yet people insist on adding extra letters to make it Collins. * When I was younger, my parents gave me the name Abigail, with the reasonably common spelling of Abby. Everyone spelled it wrong constantly, using Abbey, Abbi, etc. When I moved to a new town, I thought that I might as well change the spelling of m name to something more unique, if people were going to spell it wrong anyway.

I now know THREE "Abi"s. They at least spell my name right. Teachers still fail. Some even refuse to change it when I tell them that it's wrong. * This troper's surname is a relatively rare Spanish surname. However, due to having lived in English-speaking communities and countries for several generations, it is not pronounced as it would be in Spanish, but as an English corruption. This leads to at least two dozen separate misspellings used regularly, as well as Spanish teachers mispronouncing it (such has been, in the past, a [[BerserkButton berserk button]]). This troper's paternal grandmother's ancestors had a similar issue; a Spanish surname via Hebrew and Turkish. Yeah. * This troper's name is Cayley, and I have gotten into the habit of spelling it out the first time anyone asks me. And yet on every invitation or hall pass or note or birthday card from friends it will be spelled "Kayley" "Kaylee" "Caylee" or "Caleigh". I'm at least thankful it's not the Gaelic spelling, the one with the silent "d". * This troper's last name is Leal, seems easy, no? I seem people insist in spelling it as Leo, Loyola, and asking if it is with an L or with an U. HOW DO YOU SPELL LEAL WITH AN U? It wouldn't sound anywhere NEAR the same. Also, for some reason, some people think my first name is either Paulo or Sandro... It's PEDRO... Also, for some weird reason, a friend of a friend keeps insisting my name is... FRED. And for a while I used the pseudonym "Matsuo" (it was a otaku-ish part of my life), due to excessive amounts of Pedros in my group of friends. People still call me Matsuu, Matsui, and Matsoi. * This troper's last name is Klyne-Simpson (no I'm not Spanish,I think) but because it's so long my first name only shows up half-way on the computer, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HilarityEnsues Hilarity Ensues]]. This is most prominent with substitute teachers. Also, my autobody teacher cannot stop calling me Mr. Kyle-Simpson * My name is Katy, short for Catherine. Its not Katie, Katey, Kaity, Catie, Caty, Katheryn, or, worst of all, ''Kathy''. * [[FourtyTwoHz This troper's]] middle name is Birck (a German name). Not Brick. Not Breck. Not Berek. Also, 'another brick in the wall' jokes with my name get boring quickly. * This Troper is called Tamara not Tamra or Tammara. It is not pronounced Tam-ARA, it is TAM-MARA. I am sick of it being said wrong and if I get called Tamzo one more time, I will injure someone. * This troper's surname is Van Horn. Two words. With a space in the middle. No, I don't care what [[ObstructiveBureaucrat the Department of Public Safety]] thinks, there is definitely a space. * In Brazil, you can have a lot of this (people like adding "H"s, spelling with K/W/Y, doubling letters, using foreign spelling but Portuguese pronunciation, or simply making up names). And people are getting used to it, sometimes real bad: [[Tropers/{{Igordebraga}} this troper]] is Igor, fairly simple, but somehow people wrote "H" in front of his name at least thrice. * This troper's name is Erin. It's not Aaron, Arin, Aarin, Arinn, or any of those other ridiculous spellings I've been given. It wasn't until high school, when the students wore identification, that my name was spelled correctly.

** I'm also named Erin, and I've gotten the same thing. Mostly Aaron, even though that's the traditional boy spelling and I'm a girl. Then I went to high school with a girl named Errinn, which just complicated things more when we had classes together. [[ItGotWorse And let's not even get started on the many misspellings and mispronunciations of my Germanic last name]] ** I have the opposite problem, where I have the male name Aaron but it's frequently misspelled to Erin, Eirynn, [[{{Pocket Monsters}} Aron]], or whatever else. It's a [[{{Understatement}} little annoying.]] * [[{{Odd1}} 0dd1]]: Two examples: ** I have an Italian last name that so many people seem to have trouble spelling, despite it being spelled exactly as it's pronounced. Despite that, I get quite ticked at one particular thing. There is a capital letter P as the third letter in my name (with no spaces), so even if people spell the name right, I still say it's wrong if they render the P as a lowercase letter or put a space between it and the beginning of my name. ** My username. It's spelled with a zero, not an O. Everywhere I use this name, people make this mistake (despite a 0 being noticeably thinner than an O). [[spoiler: [[HypocriticalHumor I use the misspelling as a redirect to my troper page here,]] however, as I can never remember how to make a link for something with a number as its first letter...]] * This Troper's best friend is Tricia-not Trisha!!! * My name has an usual spelling, but I've gotten pretty used to it. My real BersekButton is people with [[UnderStatement unusual]] spellings of their name who get angry when people can't pronounce/spell it correctly on the first go. If your name isn't Sam or Mary, you're going to have people who can't get it on the first try. It's just a fact of life, and whining about it won't turn people into mindreaders, yanno. * One of my best friends' name is Wernich, pronounced Vernich. Everyone except me pronounces it with a W. * This troper's name is Melissa. Not 'Malissa' 'Mellisa' or 'Melsa.' ** Another Melissa here. Don't forget 'Melisa', 'Mellisa', 'Melyssa', or just 'Alyssa/Alissa'... * This troper's last name is "LaRose." Most people anticipate the random capital R in the middle there, and some people forget it (even when I spell it for them), but that doesn't really bother me all that much. What I found just strange was when, at a track meet, I told the judge-guy my las name, he asked if it was spelled "just like it sounded"...and then proceeded to call me "Lacrosse" every time I was up to throw. * The middle letter of this troper's name is usually interchanged from an o to an a. EVEN ON OFFICIAL SCHOOL RECORDS. * This Troper knows a boy named Lygaver. He has spent many years watching people mess up pronouncing and spelling it, and his sister Enri has spent lots of time correcting people that her name is not Emree, Emri, Emmy, Erry, Nri, or Neri/Nerry. * This troper has a good friend named Cuitlahuac. Needless to say, his name is not only mispronounced or not pronounced at all (he was once

referred to as "that guy"), but there are very few people who can spell it correctly. ** Actually, this troper's name (Roco) has been frequently mispelled as "Rosio". Heck, someone actually spelled it "Roscio" once. Also, it's pronounced "Ro-SEE-O", but MANY people mispronounce it as "RowSEE-Oh" despite the fact that I live in a Spanish/English community. I had a band director that would pronounce it "Row-Shio". Granted, he was a Mississippi native... * This Troper has an ''a'' in each syllable of his last name. One is pronounced flat (i.e. //), the other as a neutral high vowel (i.e. /?/). So, why, pray tell, do so many people replace one or both ''a''s with ''o''s? Oh, and my last name begins with a ''P'', not a ''T''. It's bad enough when it's misspelled normally, but it's worse when it's misspelled on official stuff, like electric bills from two different companies; one of them even had the gall to reduce the double consonant in my name to a single. What the fuck, people? * This Tromper's name is spelled ''Stacee'' and nearly all her life she has experienced common mispelling of your usual ''Stacey''. Depending on my current mood, I would either get pissed off or I don't care. But I will get pissed off when my names actually spelling is right in front of them and they ''still'' spell it incorrectly. Facebook for a example: I comment on someones status on wallpost, and they comment back referencing my name...and you guessed it *WHAM WHAM* * My full name is pretty common, however the spelling is not. It's kathArine, not kathErine, thank you very much! It's just like Katharine Hepburn! (Which is why it bugs me to see "Katherine Hepburn".) ** Oh my God! Me too! I was starting to think I was the only one! I've seen my name misspelt in all sorts of ways, and on all kinds of things - letters, credit cards, even my father's death certificate. Also, I take it personally when I see "Katherine" Hepburn... ** Me three (extra points on taking "Katherine" Hepburn personally because I was named after her). I don't feel so alone anymore... * This Troper's name (Erika) is always spelled "Erica" or "Ericka" despite the fact that the latter is much less common. I don't have a C ''anywhere in my name.'' At least my mom didn't go through with the impulse to spell it "Eriqa"... pronounced exactly the same as normal. * My name is spelled Madelaine, not Madeline! ** I, Madeleine, concur. I am SICK of being called "Madeline/Madelynne", and heaven help you if you spell my nickname (Maddie) "Maddy", "Maddi", "Madi", "Maddey"... * This troper is called Marina. Now, you'd think a name like that is pretty easy to spell, but no: it morphs into Mirena, Mariana, and God knows what else. And don't even get this troper started on her surname. (That said, when you put this troper's two names together, it has AddedAlliterativeAppeal and becomes pretty much an AwesomeMcCoolName, which is not too bad.) * My name is "Kristin", not "Kristen"! They even sound different! GAH!!! Even my school got it wrong. * This troper's friend has a young cousin named "Jorg". Pronounced "George". The child in question? He's entirely Scottish. And she thought it was bad being a Robyn-with-a-Y.

* This troper's surname is a simple male-name-plus-"son" construction, like Jackson or Davidson. She's lost count of how many people spell it "_____sen" instead of "_____son". ** Where do you live? In Denmark, such names are also very common, but we spell it "_____sen" instead. A lot of English-speaking people in Denmark think my name is spelled "Sorenson" when it's "Srensen". *** Australia. * This troper's first name is Mercedes, often misspelled Mercades, Marcades, Mercadese, or Mercedese. Her last name gets hopelessly mangled. She once got called Vasquez at an awards ceremony despite her name starting with an F and not really sounding like Vasquez. Also, the tail end was once spelled "queasy" instead of "quez". Hilarity ensued. Not. * This Troper's last name is DePuy, and people pronounce it De Pwee the first time they meet me (had to spell it phonetically). It's actually pronounced Depew (once again phonetically). * This troper's first name is Dnal, as you can see spelt with a ''fada'' (accent). He requests that you don't include the ''fada''. He doesn't like the ''fada''. If you insist on including the ''fada'', he will gladly correct you. With force. * [[Tropers/MonkeyPhysics My]] surname is the rather Irish "Byrne". Of course, living in England, I'm often confronted with "Bryne", "Byre", "Burn" (which, to be fair, ''is'' [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY how it's pronounced]]), "Burns", "Burnye"... the list goes on. And that's not even getting into people trying to pronounce it. Interestingly, this never happened during the year I spent in Australia. * This Troper's last name is Cheshier, and ever since Kindergarten, has been misspelled so many times to the point where it is my {{Berserk Button}}. It's not spelled Cheshire, Chesier, Chessire, it is spelled Cheshier, C-H-E-S-H-I-E-R!! * [[{{Tropers/Alexandra}} This greek troper]], although her name is never misspelled in English, often has it spelled as "?????????" instead of "?????????" in Greek. [[BerserkButton It annoys me to no end]]. D<

* [[{{Tropers/Xamphynx}} Xamphynx:]] FOR THE LAST DAMN TIME, MY HANDLE IS ZAM-PHIHNX, NOT [[BeserkButton EX-AM-PHAYNX.]] Gyahhh. * This troper's best friend is named Sydnie. However, people insist on spelling it "Sydney" because every other Sydney in the school has their name spelled that way. We know someone over the Internet that lives in the Australian city of the same name, and when Sydnie told her what her real name was, the friend said, "You're spelling that wrong. I'd know. It's where I live." [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Sydnie grabbed the nearest atlas, flipped to Australia, crossed out the city, respelled it, and wrote: "Take THAT, world!"]] ** This troper's best friend is named Cindey. Since "C" isn't used that way in German, she got used to getting is spelled Sindey years ago, but recenly, it somohow evolved into Sidney. Said friend is not amused. Shhe also has a classmate named Janin with the opposite problem involving German, it's pronounced "Yanin" correctly but everyone assumes that it's English or French and pronounces it wrong.

As for the spelling, from teacher to teacher, it varies from the similar name Janina, to Yanin and Yanina, and from some reason, also to Jasmin. * This troper's last name ends with '''sen''', not '''son'''. I don't blame people who mess it up though, I almost write it like that sometimes ''[[WhatAnIdiot myself!]]'' As for my first name, Hailey, it's got like 6 different spellings, the most common mispelling is "Haley" or "Haily" (the second one isn't even a valid variant.) I remembered in elementary/primary school kids spelling my name "Haily" and I didn't mind, they were just kids, but I wallbanged, despite my age, when a teacher spelled it like that. ** The name of this troper's mother, which she'll change to soon, is better than her actual name, but has a similar problem with people thinking that everything has to end with "son". In this case, it ends with "zon". It's Labizon and often gets confused with "Levinson", and every letter has been misspelled at some point. This troper made a habit of saying how it's spelled right after saying the name itself instead of correcting it afterwards, but people tend to ignore it. * This troper has the rather catchy name (which she can't wait to get rid of once she becomes old enough to do it legally) of Kalashnikov. Judging by how many years she's been bullied for it, you'd think that people would at least know how it's spelled, but no. She's gotten at least ten different combinations of alternative spelling for the "sh" in the middle and the "v" in the end, and that's just on official school documents. The most common spelling where she lives seems to be Kalaschnikow. And then there's her first name. Four latters, pronouned exactly like it's written, D-I-N-A. Dina. Many English people feel the need to add an "h" in the end and claim that it's the correct spelling, but most simpply choose a remotely similar sounding name like Diana, Daiana, Dana, Tina, Deyna (is that even a name?), Donna, Ina, Rina, Mina, Nina, Daina, Lina, Jina, Zina, Xina... I kid you not. To be fair, the last one happened by mixing my name with my nick from an RPG, but the rest are real and collected from a few different countries. * This troper's name is Emme. Pronounced just like Emma. I understand the spelling is unusual, so I don't mind correcting people who spell it "Emma" the first time, but honestly, if it's right in front of you -- why? The freaking school I go to has me down as "Emma." They refuse to change it. But what really annoys me is when people call me Emily. No, dammit! It's Emme. There is no relation to Emily. I am not an Emily. My name shares the first TWO letters with Emily, that's ALL. Bit of a [[BerserkButton]]. * It's Klapper with a "K", not a "C". * It's Carla. Not 'Karla'. Once someone spelt my name as 'Cala' (damn Australian accents). My surname is even worse, it's some really foreign name that no one can pronounce. And it's sad when immature kids laugh for having a strange surname. I also knew this guy named 'Jordon'. It's pronounced exactly like 'Jordan' and people spell his name like that too, including me when I added him to my hotmail address book. * The name is Myles, with a Y. I can't even count the times I got Miles as a kid. This has taught me to become more insistent with

people I've met for the first time. * My name is Norman. Unlike many of the cases on this page, my name is spelled the usual way, and yet I've gotten Normon, Normin, and Normen too many times to count. * My Chinese name has a character (?) that is rarely encountered, so most Chinese instructors cannot pronounce it properly. * Everyone calls me Ally and I find it interesting how many ways people spell it. I use the Y spelling but I've seen it spelled Allie, Alie, Aly, and probably some more I'm forgetting. Ali bugs me because it's A) Not pronounced like that and B) I don't think I could take a punch. * This toper's name is Isabelle. Not Isobelle, Izabelle, Izobelle or any of the other ways people have spelled it (and that's not counting the versions with letters missing.) * This Troper's Surname is Dickens, like the author, my favourite misspelling has to be Dickings. * My parents named me Rebekah Lyann (Rebekah after my greatgrandmother and Lyann is a combination of my dad's sisters names, Lynn and Ann) I started going by Lyann in my late teens. Eighteen years and so far ''no one'' has gotten either name right on the first go unless I spell it out for them. It gets a bit old after a while * This troper's name is Chinese, so many people misspell it. It's spelled Xin Ying but I've seen it spelt Xing Ying, Xin Yin, Sin Ying, Xing Yin etc. My ''yearbook photo caption'' spelt it Xing Ying, even though I was holding an envelope with my name on it in ''clear detail.'' * This troper is Anna, ''not'' Anne, Ann, Annie, Hannah or Channah. And definitely not Emma! * This troper's English first name AND last name has been mutilated at some point. First name mutilations: Evonne, Ivonne, Evon, Ivon, Evan, Ivan, list goes on... Last name: Justified to a certain extent, as having A-E-I-O-U convention stuck in your head WILL lead you to mutilate the I-A-O part into A-I-O. Then there is the matter of which romanization to use... * This troper's first name is "Almut", a quite uncommon German name (...it's uncommon even in Germany, where this troper lives) in an even more uncommon spelling. The version that's used most is "Almuth", and her name has been spelled like that even after she pointed out that no, her name was not spelt with an "h". Her name has also been mistaken for "Helmut", which is a boy's name. This lead to this fun conversation she had in kindergarten: (random girl:) "Are you a boy or a girl?" - (This troper:) "A girl." - "What's your name?" - "Almut." ""Helmut"?! But that's a boy's name!" Ironically, although her first name often gets a letter falsely attached to it, her last name is often thought to be spelt without it's last letter, "t", thanks to this troper's unclear articulation. * With an S indeed...My first name is Spenser. Everybody ends up spelling it SpenCer. Even at times when I've had to give someone my Driver's License. Seriously is it so hard to read? * This troper's last name is Jochens. J-O-C-H-E-N-S. Whenever someone hears it and doesn't ask for a spelling, it's automatically Jokens or some other strange spelling. The other problem is pronunciation: it's

"JAW-kens" not "JO-kens" or "Jaw-chens". I'm a fourth generation of a family of German's born in America, people, GET IT RIGHT ALREADY!!! * First of my last names (in Spain we have two, father last name and mother last name) is "Mguez" with an accent in the i. People usually get it wrong and go for the most common spelling of the male first name "Miguel" (Michael) I am a girl. And Miguel is pronounced with an accent in the e. Spell My Name With a Z. D< * This troper's first name is Arianna. You might think that the main name issue I have is people using only one 'n'; you would be wrong. Not only has my name been misspelled with a single 'n', but it is constantly mispronounced. There are those who choose to say 'arr-e-AWna' instead of 'air-e-AN-na, which is annoying enough. THEN there are those who inexplicably place a 'd' in there and call me 'Adrianna'. As if that wasn't bad enough, my last name is ten letters long and Russian. The 'ch' at the beginning is very commonly thought to be a 'ch' sound instead of a 'sh'. This is understandable, and I don't bear too much of a grudge against those who make this mistake the first time. However, those who are incapable of comprehending the fact that 'dale' is NOT the correct pronunciation/spelling of 'dave', which is at the end of my surname, ARE UNFORGIVABLE. * This troper is used to having to spell out his name, because nobody ever seems to get the spelling right otherwise. You'd think with the ''LordOfTheRings'' films having been made, they'd actually be able to spell "Rohan". Seems not. If I don't give the spelling, it'll almost certainly get spelt "Rowan". As for my surname, I've seen at least two misspellings of it. To be fair, though, it is a fairly rare spelling. There's only about a dozen entries in the Australian White Pages with my spelling. * This Troper's name is Amal, commonly pronounced Umul, Emel, and Uhmawl. It's been spelled Amel, Amul, Emel, Umul, Emal, Amul, Umal, and countless other variations. * My name is Allyson, but a lot of people write it as "Allison" or "Alison"; I've also had it spelled "Alycen" or even "Alicen"(!). I used to be really annoyed when people did this, but eventually, I gave up on correcting people, save in cases where the proper spelling would need to be used. It isn't as if they're pronounced differently. * People have had to ask how to spell my last name, this was more in elementary school but still. It it, wait for it... Young. And then people have gotten my first name wrong which still isn't that bad, but more understandable. * This Half-Japanese/Half-Scottish Troper takes pride in his awesome name of [[AwesomeMcCoolName "Daisuke"]], A fairly common Japanese name that's pronounced ''D--s()-k'', or in lamen terms; The ''u'' is silent so it's pronounced ''Dies-kay'' but it's a fairly common name so obviously there wouldn't be any questions about the spelling, I Mean, [[TemptingFate Only an absolute Idoit would spell it as 'Dieskay' right?]] That's what I Thought too...so you can imagine this tropers shock as his ''also'' Half-Japanese/Half-Scottish '''[[AdultsareUseless Freaking Geography teacher]]''' spelled his name as, yup you guessed it; 'Dieskay' on a Test, He kept on doing it until this one time when he wrote my name on the blackboard, I got out of my

seat, walked up to the blackboard, erased 'Dieskay', replaced it with 'Daisuke', turned to him, pointed to my name on the blackboard and said; "My Name is '''DAISUKE! D-A-I-S-U-K-E!''' Remember it!". [[OhCrap His Face was priceless]], My classmates consider it my [[CrowningMomentofAwesome Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. ** Dude, I think this is awesome. Love your name too. * I have the normal, nice name of Carolina...unfortunately, when you combine it with my not-so-normal, Italian last name, they ''always'' spell it like Caroline. Even though they were using the normal spelling two seconds before and despite the fact that the Italian spelling is ''also'' Carolina. Facepalm doesn't being to describe it. * My name is Greta, and whenever anyone spells it Gretta I get incredibly angry. Even worse is when people mishear me and think it's Reta, no g. Although I suppose it could be worse-I have a friend named Kimberley who has said in grade school her teacher accused her of spelling her own name wrong. * This troper's name is Audrey. It's ''constantly'', I mean, CONSTANTLY! Being spelled or mispronounced as "Audry", "Audrei", "Aubrey" "Audriy", etc. I'm not even a large fan of my own name, though, I wonder aimlessly why others cannot spell my name correctly. * [[{{Tropers/Marr965}} This troper]] has a name that's just made for this. First name has at least 3 different spellings, middle name has 2, and last name... has too many to count. :/ * My name is Geneva. It's pronounced properly, but people spell it like Geniva, Geneiva, etc... My friend Wyatt has it worse. Some people spell it Wiatt or Wyat. * [[{{Tropers/Wackd}} I]] hate giving my name over the phone. There's something like fifteen different spelling variations, and mine happens to be the least common. Most common mistakes are switching the "e" for an "i" or putting a "c" in the "sh", but even those who make it to the end correct somehow end up slapping two "n"s on the end. * [[{{Tropers/Bwburke94}} My]] name is Brendan, not Brendon or Brenden or Brandon. After 16 years, you'd think I'd get used to people getting my name wrong. (Incidentally, I have done a LetsPlay of [[PokemonRubyAndSapphire a certain GBA game]] which has two unrelated characters named Brendan and Brandon.) ** Update, six months later: Now my last name is a problem too. THERE IS NO I IN MY LAST NAME. And my last name is IN MY FREAKING USERNAME. * This troper has the name Rylee. Sounds simple, but when she was in Kindergarten.... Her TEACHER and everyone else spelled it "Riley" or "Raileigh" or "Ralee" or "Ralie", and somehow, a popular choice, "Reighlee". Why? Why, people? It's not that hard to spell Rylee! * This troper's name is Sibyl. It is not Sybil, Sibyll, Sybill, Sybel, Sibol or whatever else people feel like coming up with. * Teachers would always misspell my name as "Eric" when they gave me absent work, and one time I got someone else's ISAT results due to similar naming, it annoyed me to no end, my name is in the school records, why can't anyone get it right? * My parents wanted to be creative so they spelled my name "Ema" which sounds just like the name "Emma." Of course, my name is spelled wrong all the time. Even when people know how I spell my name, they still spell it Emma. Some people do it probably because they think it's

actually wrong and I'm trying to be cool and unique, and some others honestly just cannot stand the way my name is spelled. It annoys them so much (which, in turn, annoys me). And when it comes to pronunciation, several people have called me "Eeee-ma." which is just plain ugly ---SpellMyNameWithAnS! Why is this so hard? ----

SpellMyNameWithAThe ---* To my friend's great chagrin, I decided her name was now "The Lexi" instead of Lexi. [[ItGotWorse It stuck.]] * This troper and her younger sister have decided that the proper way to refer to [[{{Sandman}} Neil Gaiman]] is "The Neil." * This troper once read an online movie review of ''Dragonheart'' which repeatedly referred to SeanConnery as '''THE SEAN'''. * [[{{Thetropian}} This troper]] is known as 'The Scott' in certain circles. He finds this self imposed nickname...regrettable. * This Troper's brother tends to parody his somewhat... ''unusual'' personality by (among other things) acting as though he calls himself "The Matthew". * This troper's [[{{HeterosexualLifePartners}} best friend]], when called a dumbass, would always respond with: -->'''Me:''' Dumbass. -->'''Toni:''' No, no, no, no. '''THE''' dumbass. * In this troper's english class, the class had to write our names on bricks (instead of name tags.) Someone wrote "The James" on his instead of just "James," and now that's what everyone in my english class (including the teacher) calls him. * This Troper wishes she'd had a t-shirt in high school that read "THE bitch", as many times as she was called a bitch. * I told everyone to call me "the Schilling". Istead, the is now my name. I take this trope to new levels! * {{Excel-2010}}. My generic internet handle is The-Excel, which is used when a more permanent name is encouraged. In the [[RealLife physical world]], I misuse "the" at every opportunity as well. For example, his name isn't [[AzumangaDaioh Azuma]], it's The ''Azuma'' (italicized in writing). * This troper's old internet handle. It didn't count if you didn't include the "the". * In a story [[PentiumMMX2 this troper]] is writing, the main characters have to battle The [[SuperMarioBros Mario]]; a powerful version of Mario who is capable of mixing the abilities of all of Mario's normal power-ups (This results in things like [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Invisible Tanooki Fire Mario]] and other such {{Game Breaker}}s) * This Troper lives near a man who is (nearly) always referred to as The Grape, even by his wife. This has been going on for around 30 years, apparently.

* The villains of ''The Duchess of Malfi'' are Ferdinand and his brother, a Cardinal, who is never named and always referred to as "the Cardinal". My high-school English teacher ''always'' mixed them up and referred to Ferdinand as "the Ferdinand". * I spell my forum's name with a The. This is to avoid confusion with the forum who owns the domain name that I wanted. * Kind of subverted for this troper. Her username on pretty much every site she signs up for is "Zarola". When that's taken, it changes to "TheZarola" but she is still just called "Zarola". * This (Chinese) troper's surname is "Ho." Guess what happened. * One guy in my spanish class attempted this, but he [[EpicFail screwed it up]] and ended up with 'Thee John [last name witheld]'. * Back in the day, my old internet handle started with "The". Interestingly enough, I wasn't the only person who went by that name (the "The" included), even though it was pretty damn unusual. * {{@/Minnakht}} is known as The Minnakht in RuneScape because the non-the version was taken and he had no better idea. ---Go back to The SpellMyNameWithAThe. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SpinTheBottle * Probably the only sexual party game this troper has ever played. And DAMN did he enjoy it! * The only time my friends ever decided to play spin the bottle was the one time my parents were the chaperones. I asked quietly if we could move away from my parents but instead they just stopped playing spin the bottle. To this day I hate my parents. * This troper once played it with hugs instead of kisses. I think it started with actual kisses, until we realized that none of us really wanted to kiss anyone else. It was fun. * This troper, who works as a substitute teacher, noticed an impromptu game being played in a high school home ec class yesterday towards the end of the period (when the kiddos had nothing else to do). The kids weren't even spinning to kiss; they were spinning to make each other say stupid things. I still put a stop to it, though, since [[LawfulNeutral that's my job]]. ** It's your job to stop bored people from playing a game merely using similar mechanics as spin the bottle? *** Original troper here. Truth be told, I very likely wouldn't have cared, except the "stupid things" they were saying involved very loud [[SevenDirtyWords blue]] [[ClusterFBomb language]]. (And yes, if there ''had'' been been kissing, the game would have ceased ''pronto'', per school rules, and the kids knew it. Hence, the "stupid things" in lieu of smooching.) * This troper and hid group of friends played during lunch in the cafeteria at school once, however most of the time no one actually kissed; this troper kissed his (male) friend after we both had spun it and it pointed in the others direction. Strangely, this troper (who is gay) only kissed his male friend (who frequently says "I'm not gay!"

to the point that it is practically his catchphrase) when he repeatedly told this troper to do so (and by told, he means begged). ---Go back and SpinTheBottle. Now you have to kiss her! Teehee!

SpiritualLicensee * Once I was watching the 1982 ''Flash Gordon'' movie with my friends, and we noticed how similar the planet Mongo was to [[MastersOfTheUniverse Eternia]]. We wound up declaring it "the best He-Man movie ever made!" * For @/CrashGordon94, some of the NeedForSpeed games are great "adaptations" of TheFastAndTheFurious. * When [[@/PentiumMMX2 this troper]] was watching some movies he hadn't seen in a long time back in summer 2009, he noticed strong similarities between AtlantisTheLostEmpire and {{Stargate}}; to the point he considers Atlantis to be "The best AnimatedAdaptation of Stargate ever" ** That one is a pretty common comparison. * This troper considers {{Brazil}} to be the best "adaptation" of NineteenEightyFour. He's also seen TheChroniclesOfNarnia and [[{{Film/AliceInWonderland}} Alice in Wonderland]]...but preferred Guillermo del Toro's [[PansLabyrinth take]] on both of them...both in the one movie! * As Mr. Plinkett noted, the Film/StarTrek reboot does a hell of a better job being a StarWars prequel than the actual prequels. * @/VPhantom says: So far, ''[[BanjoKazooie Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts]]'' is the best {{Lego}} videogame you'll ever play! Sure, the {{Lego Crossover Game}}s are pretty darned good, but they're action platforming games, and you don't get to built at lot on them. ''Lego Creator'' allows you to built intricate models, but you cannot play with them. In Nuts & Bolts you get to built and also play with your own models! * @/{{Edrobot}}: In addition to being an excellent spin-off to DawnOfTheDead, DeadRising 2 is by far the greatest TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression video game in exsistance. * TheMagicSchoolBus has got to be my favorite Series/DoctorWho cartoon, beats The Infinite Quest by miles. * Drive Angry is the Ghostrider sequel we'll never see... except IN A CAR! * GrandDukeNukem: The ''RaymanRavingRabbids'' games (especially the first) are the ''[[RenAndStimpy Ren & Stimpy]]'' games that the actual ones should've been.

SpiritualSuccessor If you think something is a "sequel" in spirit to something else, put it here. ---* I consider PinkFloyd to be a continuation of TheBeatles, since they

both shared a record label and both redefined what rock bands could do. I see RadioHead as a SpiritualSuccessor to Pink Floyd in turn. * Only three episodes in and I already consider ''BlueExorcist'' a spiritual successor to ''FullmetalAlchemist''. ----

SpitTake * [[{{Punzie}} This Troper]] Was working sound board for a theatre company, when a 12 year old on the cast walked up to her and nonchalantly inquired after an ex I am on bad terms with and he shouldn't even know exists, when I had just taken a large sip of ice tea. I promptly sprayed the tea on my bosses' sound board and followed the SpitTake with a BigWhat. Troper has also done this through her nose with hot coffee and soda, both very painful, and spit took once at dinner with a mouthful of cous cous. * [[{{Katsuhagi}} This troper]] did a (luckily) mostly dry spit take after seeing the headline "[[http://www.yahoo.com/s/1051646 Elmo and celebrities discuss PTSD with military families]]" just because she couldn't believe it, since the story fell firmly into Main/ territory. * [[NegativeZero This Troper]] kinda [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] this once when me and some friends were making fun of something (MST3K style, can't remember what though). While I was drinking soda someone said something particularly hilarious. It turns out that in reality you don't spit, you (or at least me)''inhale'' whatever you are drinking, which is as unfun as it sounds. ** This spit take part usually comes from then spitting out everything you just inhaled and coughing and dying, at least in this troper's experience. * This troper has done a rather amusing example of this. He spat his juice immediately after seeing Ace Ventura doing this on the cartoon show. * This troper did this with, of all things, ''ice-cream,'' after a friend's sister revealed a shocking plot twist in the movie they were watching. * This troper, uh, "spit took" when he saw one of his friends making out with my other friend's girlfriend. This troper always wanted to do a spit take. ** spat take? spat tack? ** Spit taked? *** [[RunningGag Spat took?]] * This troper doesn't entirely recall what happened that made him do a spit take. He believes it was learning that one of his friends was not only pregnant, but about 6 months pregnant at the age of 16. He also did an inhale take while watching the Unskippable video for ''AloneInTheDark''. * [[{{Crowbar}} This troper]] believes that he has a [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway minor superpower]] in his ability to trigger spit takes in people while drinking through sheer power of funny. The count is at about ten spit takes so far, a significant portion of which occured by accident.

* [[AMereServantOfGod This Troper's]] reaction to the announcement that Sonic was in Super Smash Bros. Brawl? I went upstairs, poured myself a glass of milk, took a sip and spat it out. * This troper once mistook a cup of Sprite for a cup of water. Having never tasted Sprite before and having a very sensitive tongue, I took one sip and spat all over the table. * [[{{F1ak3r}} This troper]] did it after one of his friends said something really funny. They all made sure not to tell jokes in front of me while I was drinking again. * {{Ripsaw}}'s spit-takes usually occur through his ''nose''. This is painful with sodas and pulpy orange juice. ** It's even more painful with spaghetti or french fries. * My not-a-bigot-but-certainly-raised-in-''that''-era grandmother has a gorgeous piano in her living room. One Thanksgiving as friends and family were gathered in the room after dinner sipping wine and chatting and someone brought up the piano. My grandmother said that she and her late husband almost didn't buy it. When asked why, she replied matter-of-factly (just as I was taking a rather large sip of of my glass) that, "it's former owner had AIDS and we thought it might be infected." To this day my grandmother still hasn't forgiven me for getting red wine all over her white carpet. ** To be fair, there was a mass communication fail from scientists in the early years of the pandemic, so that the majority of the general public really didn't understand how HIV is spread. * This troper once ''didn't'' do a spit take when his friend said something incredibly funny, and started choking on his juice as a result. He also managed to pull a DoubleSubversion with his first cup of coffee. Not knowing what it would taste like, he found out that it tasted bad, but not bad enought to spit it. However, on his last sip, when some of the coffee grounds made their way into his mouth... * This troper's mother once did this with a mouthful of cereal when troper did a rather funny impression of her younger sister. Needless to say, [[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensued]] at the breakfast table. * [[KingSonnDeeDoo This Troper's]] family once had some friends of ours over for dinner, with the subject drifting to Sean Connery. For some reason though, we were all jokingly refering to him as Sean ''Canary'', and making various jokes. Said troper had just taken a '''''large''''' mouthful of water, when her mother yelled out "The canary with his feathers cut short!" ([[DontExplainTheJoke What with 'Sean' being pronounced as 'Shawn', sounding similar to 'Shorn' the past tense of 'Shear', as would a sheep....]]). In a matter of seconds everyone bar my mother (who made the joke in the first place!) had been sprayed. Now no one tries to make this troper laugh when she has a mouthful of any liquid. And the joke wasn't even that funny... * As this troper sat down with a nice cup of tea in front of her computer, an MSN window popped up. It was a friend recounting tales of some of the weird things she had found on StumbleUpon. This troper read on, mildly interested, until one sentence popped up: "Oh, and an online rental sex-toy shop, too." Cue monitor screen being doused with tea. * This Troper, twice. Once with an Orange Fanta at a picnic, and once at Guide Camp. I had Milo all down my uniform. I still have great

difficulty when I'm laughing with a drink in my mouth. [[spoiler:Once with vomit, too.]] * This troper has always wanted a chance to do a spit take, and yesterday, I got that chance while a friend was talking about a series we both like but which she has seen more of. Spoiler was spoiled. Spit take occured. Milk got into my eye. Made my day. * This troper did a spit take with Pepsi the first time she saw ''SouthPark: Bigger, Longer and Uncut''. You know that scene where Sadam teases Satan with a giant rubber dildo? * This troper was just in a stage production of Agatha Cristie's "A Murder Is Announced." Upon reading the announcement in the newspaper, one of the characters literally ''spews'' his tea out and exclaims "A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED?!?!" A beautiful ad-lib, especially when the tea poofs into a cloud in front of him. (We have pictures!) * This troper had two in her life. Once when my mother was talking to my aunt at my grandma's house, amd the other when she watched the "fake" Pocahontas film by Dingo Pictures. It was the cowboys, I tell you. * [[SteelKomodo Steel Komodo]] performed a variant of this - he was watching a prehistory documentary with his granndmother and brother, and were observing a scene where the archeological team spend the night at an Inuit camp in Siberia before setting off to find the loction of a recently-discovered baby mammoth. As the team are drinking vodka with the natives, Steel Komodo chanced to start yawning on the exact moment his grandmother said "I got drunk on vodka once". Cue [[DoubleTake mad fit of coughing.]] * [[{{Kabikku}} This troper's]] then-underage sister once tried to trick grandma into thinking she was imbibing beer in large amounts by pouring apple juice into an already empty beer bottle. Grandma walked by, did a hilarious DoubleTake, and screamed "HEY!" Cue SpitTake and a lot of pained laughing/choking. * This troper tried to fake a spit take once, to please her younger cousin. [[EpicFail She just ended up getting apple juice all over the rug.]] * This troper managed to do a spit take with an ''apple'' of all things- He took one bite, saw the whole inside was all brown and rotten, and spat it all over the table. * This troper has taken to doing beverageless spit-takes. I just turn my head to the side and spit out a puff of air when I'm surprised. * BTIsaac was the victim of this twice. Both incidents were triggered by a joke, and the liquid was blasted out through the nose. The first incident happened in a kitchen and involved milk. The second one happened in a car, and involved, of all things, cola. Ouch. * This troper's family as an annoying habit of delivering punchlines when she has just taken a sip of water. Results are hilarious for them, uncomfortable for her. Then again, given how this troper's family [[GeniusDitz generally is]], they probably do it on purpose. * This troper once observed a girl spit her drink at her friends accidentally from laughing too hard. I laughed at that all day. Without spitting, however. ** I also once subjected someone to a "cough take" with cous cous. While eating, I had a cough enducing throat spasm that sprayed cous

cous all over my mother and her food. It was both disgusting and hilarious. * For my sixteenth birthday, [[{{Seiryu}} I]] was taken to a fairly nice restaurant, where my mother at one point got up on the table and sang "Happy Birthday" while stone-cold sober. (This was, by far, the least embarrassing moment of that night, but I digress...) Flash forward a few years, I threatened to do this to my mother for ''her'' fiftieth birthday. Thinking that was the end of that, I lifted a bowl of soup up and started to drink. [[DeadpanSnarker My mother retorted with]] [[{{Squick}} "Only if I get to yell 'Yay! A stripper!'"]] Half a second later, the soup was out my nose, in everyone else's bowl, on the table, on the floor, ''[[BeyondTheImpossible on the inside of my glasses' lenses.]] ** And again, this time with a fruit smoothie. Fun fact: little chunks of frozen strawberry '''really hurt''' when they come out your nose. This also caused the mother of all brain-freezes. Which is probably much [[TooMuchInformation more information than you require...]] * This Troper was having dinner at a restaurant with a few close friends. One of the friends asked if this Troper wanted to "hear something really funny." This Troper nodded his assent whilst taking a big gulp of water. The friend then proceeded to say, in a monotone voice and with an expressionless face: "I'll give you a nickel if you tickle my pickle." This Troper spewed water all over his dinner (and all over his adjacent friends), and couldn't stop laughing for a full fifteen minutes. * When we were kids, this troper's older sister actually made a game out of trying to get this troper to spit his drink out onto the dinner table, carefully timing jokes with whenever he tried to quench his thirst. * This troper was spending the night at a friend's house. His friend was eating some instant oatmeal (the kind with fruit) when the friend's cousin went to put a cereal box inside the cabinet. This troper said "Faster, servant! That's what we pay you ten cents to do!". Apparently this was fun enough to make Troper's friend to spit oatmeal ''out of his nose''. * This troper tends to end up drinking things when people make her laugh, which makes her spit it out. It often comes out her nose, too, ew. * [[spoiler:For Galifrey! For Victory! For the End of Time!]] Apparently you can have a spit take with popcorn and water. * [[{{neoman4426}} This troper]] while watching a recent movie, took a sip at one of the funniest parts. Luckily, most of the drink (Dr. Pepper I believe) landed on an empty seat in front of me. Not as luckily, some landed one seat in front of and to the right, where a pregnant lady was sitting. He promptly apologized, and needless to say, covered his mouth whenever he took a sip for the rest of the movie. * This troper had an incident where she dumped some excess water from an old water bottle into her milk cup to keep the milk from drying out. A few minutes later she reached, grabbed the milk cup, and then almost ruined the magazine she was currently reading. * To quote a conversation on CloudCuckoolanders in a friend's

Facebook, "Or that other time in a crowded college cafe when the following... exchange took place between me and a schoolmate I hadn't seen in ages: Him: (Nervously) "You know I'm uh, gay, right?" Me: "Oh man, really? That's awesome! You know, I like my gay just like I like my coffee. Strong, black, and bitter!" Never in my life did I see so many people spit up coffee and never have I received so many puzzled and concerned stares." * This troper once did this with Jamba Juice. I can safely say that having a chunk of frozen strawberry lodged in your sinus cavity is a very unique (read: painful) experience. * Unfortunatly for [[{{Mysterics}} This troper]], She tends to do a spit-take of the shooting-out-the-nose variety. * [[TheWeirdo This troper]] sometimes has this problem when gaming. The other members of the group not only lampshade it, but also encourage it and try to make sure the SpitTake goes through. It's that kind of group. * This troper was stupid enough to drink a coke while reading the funny page for pro wrestling. It took ten minutes to clean my monitor. * This Troper was waiting with two friends outside for another friend to show up so we could do something. This friend was running a bit late, so we decided to have sodas while we waited. Soon a cop car pulled up and park next to us. One of my friends sighed and said "I know, I know..." and assumed the position on the hood of the car. Other friend squirted Big Red out her nose laughing. * Years ago, [[Tropers/WartysNeryon This Troper]] was drinking chocolate milk while someone had been cracking a joke I found funny. And there were people sitting next to me at that time, so I felt rather embarrassed, * [[JusticeReaper I]] once did a spit-take, spewing rice out of my mouth while laughing. Context: a family friend was relating an incident he'd witnessed, about a boy who was giving a man some serious difficulty (can't remember the exact details). According to my friend, the man got upset and yelled at the boy, "Why yu no go [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean play]] wid u faada?" (translation from Jamaican patois to Standard English: "Why don't you go [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean play]] with your father?") I happened to be eating corned beef and rice at the time, and had a half-full mouth of rice when my friend said that. Even now, I still laugh when I remember it. * [[{{Hammerhead}} This Troper]] has this happen to him ''a lot''. The two that he can think of right off include spewing food onto the already rather dirty computer screen during an uncharacteristically outrageous moment of [[LifeWithDerek Life With Derek]]. Even worse, though, was when he was drinking a large amount of gatorade while walking through the house, and just the mere ''thought'' of [[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=59625210366&set=o.2950340166& pid=3639419&id=797765366 this image and the line that spawned it]] (as well as another troper's comment on it: "Work it, Voldy!") from the infamous [[MyImmortal ''My Immortal'']]. Actually, this has happened several times with something related to ''My Immortal''. * [[@/AwesomeZombie22 This Troper,]] while normally unusually skilled at defying this trope, once had to take medicine for her cough. The medicine came in these pills filled with goo, and was told to bite

down on the pills by her mom. She did so, and the shock of how bitter and sour the goop inside was caused her to bring both hands to her mouth. Then, later that day, she had to take water with the pills, and while drinking the water, bit down on the pills and had a huge stream of spat out water all over her mom and the kitchen. * [[Tropers/ClatoLawa This Troper]] did the "starts choking" inversion when he heard the punchline to a certain joke. It wasn't obscene or anything, it was just funny and mildly shocking. * [[{{@/Liangnui}} I]] managed to make a friend do this with a [[DeadpanSnarker well-timed comment]]. Thankfully it was just water, or else it could have been messy. * This troper lost a perfectly good sip of water after reading that [[AxisPowersHetalia her favorite characters EVER]] aren't virgins... * This troper refuses to do a spit take under any circumstances, which leads to situations where she's holding back a mouthful of water while trying not to choke while laughing, and the situation usually makes her laugh harder, which makes it harder not to choke ... it's quite unpleasant until she calms down enough to swallow the water safely. * This troper had it done to her via a friend. Can't remeber what her friend said, but it was enough to have a nasal cleanse AND a spit take all at once. Got it all over her Dog and nice new floors. ---You might want to put your drink down before you go back to SpitTake. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SplitPersonality * This tropers first love suffered from multiple personality disorder. Wed been friends for about a year before our first date, but I didnt find out about her "condition" until just a few minutes after the first time I kissed her. Her separate personalities would always surge to the surface when she was experiencing strong emotion (which, in our case, meant any time we started to get intimate). The first time it happened, she just pulled away from me and asked flatly, Who the hell are you? Another time, we were kissing on the couch in her living room when she suddenly grabbed me by the throat and demanded to know who I was and what I was doing in her house. In the end, we split up because she was afraid that she might physically hurt me if it happened again. Despite her condition, she was an incredibly intelligent, beautiful woman with more talent and creativity than Ive ever known one person to have. Letting her go was one of the hardest things I ever had to do. * This troper dates a woman with severe Dissociative Identity Disorder. There are 10 personalities: Two of them frequently try to seduce me, two others have no concept of sexuality or really relationships beyond fairy-tale romance, they all represent various aspects of her personality, and there's no real way to predict when they'll change. If I didn't love the main one (my girlfriend), it would be impossible to deal with things like having your girlfriend slap you across the face and call you a rapist. Wacky, anime-style

RomCom that makes you feel like a pedophile? {{Deconstruction}} can be brutal. ** These tropers...well, this one can't speak for everyone of us, and we don't know their System as well as they do, but I would recomend that you might try to think of them as more than just personalities, or aspects of a single person. If you think of them as such, you dehumanize them, which they probably understand, and some may even resent you for that. If you think of them as real people, with their own opinions, and their own rights that they deserve, if you show them kindness and treat them in such a way that they may never have been treated before, it may go a long way to winning you over with the rest of them. But, obviously, don't do it just to try to make them like you, because that would defeat the whole purpose. * This troper also dates a girl with DID, but it's not as severe, and she more or less has complete control. Four personalities, excluding the main one: happiness, love, sadness/hate, and...well, a new one recently came about, and our best guess is that it's her inner child. Happiness is a devout christian, but the rest are all atheists/agnostic, which has led to some crazy {{Values Dissonance}}, but still, we get along on some level. My girlfriend and I have also redefined open relationships, as she actively encourages me to flirt with her inner child, and the love personality is one of my closest friends, and a great confidant. Hate/sadness and I were enemies for a time, but she has said that she'll be leaving anyway, so that problem has resolved itself. Fortunately, my girlfriend is very in touch with the personalities, so they won't switch unless something is about to harm the body (my girlfriend used to self injure). Regardless, it's all going very well, and it's not really any inconvenience, it's just like having 4 friends that happen to share a body. * [[Tropers/SabrinaDiamond This troper]] has some characters with major split personality issues and some people complain that this makes it interesting but a major MindScrew for those with SanitySlippage. * ...As of Summer 2010, the "voice in my head" has...gone away. Hir name is/was Lunalis, Luna for short. As Moriko no Hikari of FFN, shi was in effect my leash, keeping me from going overboard when I reviewed. Shi also took this role with my Skype friends. I miss you, sister. Please come back... * Borderline personality disorder. I have many personalities, but shared memories and the like. What makes this particularly frustrating, is that I/we are never sure which one of us is currently in control, and it's impossible for me/us to classify all of the personalities because they change so rapidly. Often, the personalities are opposites of each other as well, so a success to one of them is a failure to another, which never works out well. The worst part is the original personality. Let's call him X. We're not sure if we're parts of X, if he's gone, or dead, or damaged, and we think to pull ourselves together, we need to find X, or find out what happened to him. Can anyone gives us any advice on this? * These tropers also have a few "Headmates." Though, we prefer being called "Multiples," and we're not just "aspects" of a single personality, we all have our own minds, and opinions. We're not one

person split up into many pieces, we're many people crammed in a single body. There are eighteen of us, and we have full communication between each other. We find this very easy to live with, and it's even useful many, many times, allowing us to do countless things no one else can do because of our situation. If something stresses one of us out, we can just try to switch someone else in control, or if we need to understand something, we can work it out together silently. * This troper's friends, as well as her herself, are convinced she has plenty of these. She is a DeadpanSnarker, ShrinkingViolet, Tsundere, GenkiGirl, DitzyGenius, CuteClumsyGirl, CloudCuckoolander, OnlySaneMan, TheDeterminator, Tomboy, TheChick, LittleMissBadass, TheHero ([[IJustWantToBeSpecial wannabe, anyway]]), TheChessmaster, BrattyHalfPint, CoolBigSis, in it purely ForTheEvuls, DumbBlonde AND BrainyBrunette (my hair color falls somewhere in between), YamatoNadeshiko, InsufferableGenius, KidDetective, FemmeFatale, and trust me, the list goes on and on and ON... ---Go back to the main page [[SplitPersonality here.]] * No! let's go [[FunnySchizophrenia Here!]] ** Quiet you. ** No, ''you'' be quiet. ** No, '''you''' be quiet. ** Why don't you '''''both''''' be quiet? ** Why are you taking it out on me? ** You never take my side! ** [[KatamariDamacy Na... Na na na NA na Na NA na KATAMARI DAMACY...]] ** [[SpiceGirls If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends ...]] ** [[{{Arthur}} Jekyll Jekyll Hyde Jekyll Hyde Hyde Jekyll, Jekyll Jekyll Hyde Jekyll Hyde...]] ** '''[[CreepyChild Hello, would you like to come out and play...?]]''' ** ''''[[DeathNote DELETE!]]'''' ** '''[[{{Lord of the Rings}} LEAVE NOW, AND NEVER, COME BACK!]]''' ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SpockSpeak * My brother. Often overlaps with DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment and ShapedLikeItself. * This is my usual mode of communicating in English on the Internet, presumably because, as a native Russian-speaker, I was mostly taught formal speech as opposed to the kind of English one would be likely to hear in casual conversations. Even in casual dialogue, I find myself unable to abhor formal terms for sexuality-related topics, and do not use slang words as a matter of principle. My habit to say "indeed" a lot began a long time before I was exposed to ''Main/{{Stargate SG1}}'', and even then, I could not understand why Teal'c's verbal tic was considered peculiar. As a matter of fact, I have developed two

distinct modes of speech for my ''Main/WorldOfWarcraft'' draenei character: straight Main/SpockSpeak when she is feeling confident in her ability to clearly present her arguments and the point she is trying to convey, while when she feels more, uh... insecure, the speech lapses into a less, let's say... otherworldly mode... with, you see, contractions, dropping the whole "sophisticated" routine, and, well, the occasional "uh". ** You find yourself unable to abhor formal terms for sexualityrelated topics? I am afraid I must ask you to clarify yourself. ** I think the original speaker means they find themselves unable to hate saying 'well, sexual intercourse you, you foul bandit!' Or, worse, 'Yes, (sex partner of preferred gender) sexually stimulate me! Sexually stimulate me HARD!!' * Sometimes I speak SpockSpeak when precision is necessary, for any number of reasons, combined with the expediency of not wasting words and not coming to any conclusions too soon. Unfortunately, some who know I'm just as capable of speaking colloquially tend to read into it meanings that could never be interpreted from that selection of words, usually attributing some emotional context or personal motivation. People who've only known me to speak in SpockSpeak are more likely to take my statement as carved in granite, and then I don't have to repeat myself or chase down distorted rumors. SpockSpeak gets your point across very distinctively, but backfires with 'feelers' more often than 'thinkers'. ** Actually, SpockSpeak less often backfires with 'feelers' than it reinforces what you've said. If someone is prone to misinterpret my words based on their feelings (deliberately or otherwise), any time they run it by anyone else who knows me (as feelers are prone to do,) they'll immediately think: "That's not how that guy talks. You must be full of shit." * This troper, being an Aspie, has had to teach herself ''not'' to do that. She's still pedantic, but can make idle chitchat, use colloquialisms (even though she [[PerfectlyCromulentWord tends to make up a fair amount of them herself]]), and generally converse with only a little difficulty... though, being one herself, she naturally relates better to geeks than to 'normal people'. * [[Tropers/{{Momonga}} This troper]], another Aspie, was extremely formal and stilted-sounding as a child (she also, for some reason, thought that good manners meant curtsying to the principal). As she grew older, she learned to incorporate colloquialisms and such into her speech, although sometimes said colloquialisms are odd or anachronistic. People still laugh when she says something like "I know precious little about things of that ilk." Her writing, in both English and French, is still fairly Spockish, with many uses of "thus," "nevertheless," "hence," "ergo," "furthermore," and other such "pretentious" words. ** Wait, ergo is formal? Crap, I just realized I fit this trope..... for that as well as a hundred other reasons... * This troper has a roleplaying character who heavily conforms to this trope. It's justified in that the character in question is a homeschooled social recluse whose exposure to the English language has been mainly in the form of textbooks. This troper herself also tends

to fall into SpockSpeak when she meets new people online and when she is arguing. * This troper has the ability to do it, but finds normal speech more natural. However, I still slip in words semi frequently, often confusing... Pretty much everyone. This especially annoys my jock friends, who demand me to restate my sentence (this is also jarring for them since I'll also use slang words, so I may use phrases such as "jacked up" and "quantum mechanics" in the same sentence). I then spend 10-20 seconds thinking of a smaller word to use, then a phrase to use if I can't think of a word. Yeah. * This troper has been told by someone on another site that she "talks like Spock". This may be true; she has occasionally caught herself using excessively formal language, both in writing and in speech. She has never actually seen Star Trek, though. * [[Tropers/SapphireFlame This troper]] has concluded that snark appears to be more humorous if the statement is made in a way similar to Mr. Spock. For instance, I might make the statement: "It appears that you have not made your decision using your best judgment. I suggest in the future you avoid that course of action", rather than say "That was stupid. Please don't try that again. " It is quite... fascinating. Since I'm slightly autistic, I used to do that a lot normally, though I've gotten somewhat better at it. * [[Tropers/{{Gerusz}} This troper]] uses Spock speak combined with CreepyMonotone mostly if someone fails to notice something obvious (for this troper, at least). This way, this troper doesn't tell them directly that they are wrong (and stupid sometimes), but through mathematical logic he leads them to this conclusion. Also, he has a lot of fun seeing their faces at their moments of personal epiphany. * Unfortunately, due to my lack of adequate social skills in combination with my excessive vocabulary (I am toning it down right now) I often lapse into SpockSpeak. * This troper usually does not do this in normal conversation. However, when speaking on the internet or trying to make a point in real life, I'll often slip into it. My sister called me out on it once, and I'm trying to tone it down. Mostly because I get the impression that it's probably irritating. * [[Tropers/DialgaX This Troper]] tends to use SpockSpeak if ''extremely'' irritated. He can also do it at will but likes normal speech. * This troper mixes this with BuffySpeak and a deluge of pop culture references. The effect is really quite weirdifying. ** Oh my [[GoshDangItToHeck gosh]]... Are you me? * As a matter of course most scientists use this in clinical setting for experiments. Also combining it with acronyms creating an odd effect. Some disciplines don't even use the words good or bad. * This troper occasionally does it, combined with speaking in a really low voice. When he doesn't, he either mixes English with his first language, Portuguese, or speaks like a flanderized simpleton, with unholy amounts of swearing, and a [[NoIndoorVoice really loud voice]]. * This troper has never had a huge problem with pedantic or overly verbose speech, but he used to (and still does sometimes) write with enough 50 dollar words that an unilingual Latin speaker would probably

have no trouble parsing it. He has attempted to solve the problem, although now sometimes his writing is too colloquial, which can be just as much of a problem. * The angrier this troper is, the Spockier her speech becomes. She also uses it with authority figures as a means of being taken seriously in spite of her tiny stature and general porcelain-doll appearance. And when she's angry with authority figures...full-on Vulcan ice queen mode. * [[Tropers/{{Fishsicles}} This Troper]]'s friends repeatedly input the command "[[SmallNameBigEgo JT]], stop being Spocky.". The fact that it is frequently combined with a JerkassFacade, [[SophisticatedAsHell unusually timed slang]], and a substantial helping of [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snark]] results in some interesting conversations. * This Troper does this more times than she can count. And frequently with a [[BriefAccentImitation British accent]]. At one point, she was discussing a character for a story she was writing with her best friend and said, "I've developed an adequate sociological explanation for her misanthropy" in an entirely too excited voice. Needless to say, said best friend was thoroughly weirded out. And yet she often resorts to {{Buffy Speak}} because she can't figure out how to break down what she means and talks way, way too fast. Cue much confusion. * This troper has a habit of it, I basically just say whatever word comes into my head first, and oftentimes that's a relatively obscure word with a precise meaning. I then usually have difficulty translating it into simpler terms if someone asks me about it, because I often find with many words like that, they have their own unique spin on the meaning which cannot be accurately described with smaller words, at least not concisely. I don't know where I get it from, nobody else in my family speaks like that, I assume it's due to reading a lot but my mother reads a lot as well and she doesn't do it. * This troper, a bookish nerd, has come to understand that Spock Speak is her natural mode of speech. Luckily, her family and friends aren't annoyed or intimidated by it, though she did get some hassle for it at school. * I myself am a natural English-speaker (American), yet for various reasons, do this intentionally in normal conversation. I am not certain, but it may have something to do with pride, considering that the vast majority of the people in my community lack either the vocabulary or grammar (or both) to speak in such a manner. It also may simply be that the image I get from self-proclaimed "gangsters" is so bad that I now find American slang virtually abhorrent, and I may not fully follow this in that I am more likely to use an expression from another culture or language, (and, occasionally, IN that language, even if it is the only phrase I know from it) if only to demonstrate that my habit of selectively-ignoring anything that sounds like "gangsta' talk" has made it as unintelligible to me as my own forced [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]] is to the aforementioned speakers. ** As you have no doubt observed I drop into an even more extreme form of it whilst I am writing or typing. ** Also, I invariably use this if my meaning is in any way hostile.

Perhaps this is a subconcious method of evading conflict, as this frequently results in the potential offendee having absolutely no idea they have been insulted. And they may insist that I speak English, which I (usually) am; in retrospect, I find that this allusion to language is identical to my general response to typical slang and a "gangster" dialect. * This troper has a sneaking suspicion that either she does this, or everyone around her is an idiot. Far too often she is told "You use big words!". For the sake of humanity as a whole, she hopes that it's the former. ** If they are referring to anything under five syllables, it may well be the latter. Or, they may just not be native English speakers, perhaps? * ThisTroper spoke this way very exaggeratedly through most of middle school, right up until the long talk with her principal about her ego problems. While still fond of English and all its convoluted peculiarity, she is now able to communicate without always sounding like an ass. Mostly. * This Troper has a speech impediment that forces him to talk this way in order to be understandable. ** This is also one of the reasons [[{{Tropers/Joerc45}} this troper]] tends to speak this way, the other is because he always tries his best to sound like the [[YamatoNadeshiko polite]], [[TheSmartGuy educated person]] that he is. :) * This Troper has an odd combination of this and profanity. A usual sentence usually goes something like this "I found the movie to be dull, trite, and somewhat predictable. Also, the lead actor was a fucking retard"...It sounds more fluid in actual speech. I USED to be full on Spock Speak, refusing to swear and not understanding that such things where important. I've not fully figured it out, so I am stuck with an odd hybrid of the two. ** Are we related? * This troper has the tendency to use Spock Speak often. Generally it is more during actual verbal conversations, however she does write all of her speeches in it. To many of her friends it has a comedic effect, which I do not understand. For example, she noticed one of her friends had just finished crying, and I uttered the following line resulting in giggles and slight applause "I see you have completed your weeping. This is good. Now proceed back to class." Oh yeah, and I'm a ninth grade student. * this troper finds she tends to slip into spock speak when she's feeling sick, her current theory is that illness causes the emotional centers of her brain to shut down for self preservation for some reason * This Troper has exhibited this since she was [[LittleProfessorDialog four]]. At eleven, one of her mother's friends nicknamed her "the eleven-year-old with the vocabulary of a thirty-seven year old." The occurrence of the word "like" in her normal speech patterns is far below that of any of her classmates, and she has often already learned half of the words on vocabulary lists, possibly even having used some in previous assignments or even [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness everyday speech]], although thankfully many of her relatives and

friends also have inflated vocabularies and formal speech patterns. Among strangers, however, she tends to accumulate double-takes, incredulous glances, and [[YoungerThanTheyLook assumptions that she is a graduate student rather than a high school student]]. * This troper only does this with her writing. In normal, everyday conversation she talks with slang and a overly noticeable Rhode Island accent along with sentences that just don't make sense. She is aware of this and often says, "I just can't make words happen!" after many other incoherent sentences. This is quite strange because her writing is quite good and doesn't even need massive amounts of editing to be coherent. This is most likely because she didn't learn to talk until she was 3 and while she did understand how words work she "just couldn't make them happen" in her own dialogues. * I naturally talk in this manner, and have ever since I was a CuteShotaroBoy, but taught myself not to as I got older. I end up bizarrely switching back and forth as some things are easier for me to translate into normal speech than others. I can go from Beast to Wolverine and back midsentence. Lately, I'm in more of a BeYourself phase, and don't like changing myself for people who would look down on me for ''knowing how English was meant to be used,'' but am so used to translating I forget not to. Trying to talk the way I used to feels affected, but trying to talk like other people is no different. ---If you do not possess the necessary information to go back to this trope's main page, the logical solution is following [[Main/SpockSpeak this link]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SpoiledByTheFormat * I've known people who reacted to ''[[EndersGame Ender's Game]]'' this way: when Ender started his Command School exercise, they went [[spoiler: "the plot twist must be that this exercise is for real, because there aren't enough pages left in this book to do it twice".]] * Averted for me in HouseOfLeaves: some of the text is so messed up that the thickness of book remaining isn't a reliable guide. * Most Stargate:Atlantis episodes. Every solution come up with at the start of the episode will fail and the catastrophe of the week will be solved in the last 5 minutes. The authors must've thought such a setup would leave audiences thense and thrilled the whole hour but the plotpattern and cheesiness of the show turned this troper away. * The ending of {{Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows}}, it was very hard for me to believe that Harry is about to die when there were several pages left. (And the whole series was written following his point of view until that part, so him losing consciousness should be the last sentence in the book). * For [[@/{{JET73L}} This Troper]], ''HouseOfLeaves'' was the ''other'' sort of SpoiledByTheFormat, in that the troper gave up reading due to time constraints before the book had to be returned to the library, and only realized later that [[spoiler: a full third of

the book]] was filler and [[AllThereInTheManual manual]], and the troper was a good way into[[spoiler: Navidson]]'s last trip. The troper tends to avert this by watching taped episodes and fastforwarding through some or all commercials, and pausing [=DVDs=] sometimes so that the episode lengths stagger. ''HouseMD'' works particularly well with this, since you can't easily tell if there's fifteen minutes left, five minutes left and there's going to be an [[TheUntwist UnTwist]], five minutes left and there's no more A-Plot after the treatment, or two minutes left and there's no more A-Plot after the treatment. ** You couldn't borrow the book again to finish it? *** I was able to borrow it again, eventually. ''HouseOfLeaves'' was ''[[{{Understatement}} very]]'' popular amongst patrons of my library system, and there were very long hold waits for every copy. * This is why [[@/{{PentiumMMX2}} this troper]] didn't like StargateUniverse. I loved [[StargateSG1 SG1]], so I tried to watch SGU from the beginning, but I just couldn't get into it; I didn't like how it'd jump from what's currently going on to a flashback explaining what lead up to what's currently going on, rather than simply beginning from the actual beginning and sparing us the random flashbacks. ** ...something that happened in [[NonindicativeFirstEpisode the first hour of the Pilot]], [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble an episode involving timer travel]], [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch and at no other point in the first season]]. * Averted for me for''IAmLegend''; when Neville was being [[spoiler: taken for execution]], I had about seventy pages left since the copy was a compilation including short stories. This has made me realize that it is very advantageous to read compilations, since you don't know when the story will end. * This troper has experienced the above aversion with compilations, only using audiobooks, since I'll usually load the whole book onto an MP3 player at once. Yes, I COULD look at the timer on the player to see how much of the story is left, but I don't HAVE to. * [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot The Doctor can't die. There's still ten minutes left.]] ---Go back to SpoiledByTheFormat. ----

SpoiledSweet * Since kindergarden, this troper has been close friends with a girl who's possibly richer than everyone in their home town, is VERY beautiful, is in Los Angeles for college, and is just about the absolute most loving, selfless and amazingly devoted friend she's ever had. Think of her as a human version of [[MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rarity]]. Her mother also counts as an older version of this trope. * This troper has a really sweet classmate. She is smart - able to do the highest grade of Dutch education up untill now, and very beautiful; she has walked catwalks in Madrid, Paris and on the Dutch

fashion week. Being pretty has not helped her, however, seeing as most people think she is uptight and plain mean. Hell, even I did, before I got to know her... Which is a real shame, as she is really nice. * When this troper went to high school, one of the girls he thought would be pretty much TheLibby or a RichBitch considering her family was loaded and she was on the Dance Squad (The Dance Squad was the top of the social ladder and pretty much all the preppies where I went to High school), but she turned out to be a SpoiledSweet. The girl would often come in with an armful of clothes or canned food to donate during the respective drives. And despite being able to have any jock she wanted, she dated her boyfriend from I think grade 7 or 8 and he was ''obviously'' a nerd. * My school had at least 3 of these, one who said hello to everyone she could every day, one who was the nicest cheerleader on Earth, and another who ''seemed'' bitchy but at least tried to be nice. All the other girls who seemed like a RichBitch were. * My High School had a beautifulm very rich and straight A student girl. She was sweetness incarnate and even if she hang out with a RichBitch and dated a jock she was friend she was always eager to help. Sometimes she failed to understand just how poor our Third Word country was and why some people in students would prefer to work to make money instead of spending their holidays working for a charity (we weren't the poorest but we sure needed money). * This Troper's best friend is a male example. His family's loaded, his house is huge, and he's a genius with a promising career on science AND martial arts.But,in his bunch of friends, he's the very first to notice something's wrong with you and tries his best to make everyone there happy.He DOES try to pull off a JerkassFacade, but it doesn't work most of the time. * This troper and her twin sister might count. Their dad spoiled them rotten, but their mom, who was stuck with the "disciplinarian" role, made sure that they behaved and did some of the chores (a work in progress) and didn't act like spoiled rotten brats. In fact, they thought they were exceedingly spoiled until they stayed for a month with their father's friend, who happened to have three daughters and lived in one of the better parts of Guayaquil. After one day of watching their new "little sisters" beat up the maids and have to be forced to eat--she's not kidding, they had to hold down the eldest daughter, who was about 13, and shovel food into their mouths, and this troper got a punch to the boobs for her efforts!--they called their parents and said, "You always said we were spoiled, we always thought we were spoiled, but..." * This troper's entire ''school'' counts--it's a very expensive private school, and almost every kid's family is rolling in money (this troper included, although we don't really flash our money around). Most kids are the sons and daughters of famous actors/directors, jewelery company CEOs, billionaires, financial wizards, and beyond. And yet...this troper only remembers a single instance of bullying in her grade in the five years she's been there. Everyone is kind to each other, and there is an extreme emphasis on charity and fundraising in the school. ** I'm skeptical of this one. I think something else is at play here -

- either this school's discipline level is far harsher, or mean things happen all the time and you just aren't around to see them. Even if everything you've said is true, I bet if you added ONE poor kid to that school, the bullying would start immediately. * This Troper is Spoiled Sweet. She comes from a well-off household and lives in a nice house in where her parents own two luxury cars, desinger clothes, a flat-screen T.V. in every bedroom (inlcluding my bedroom), and a pool. But, am I a spoiled brat? Nope. I served on the student council from fourth to eighth grade, so I know that people are less fortunate than me, I get my clothes from Kohl's and Hot Topic, i'm very kind, I do chores, I take good care of my money, and I work hard. * This troper is one of these as well. Grew up in upper-class suburbia being given nearly everything I wanted. However, I don't feel that I am above anyone else (and in fact, resent the notion from others that I am, based on who my parents are); instead, I feel as though my privileged upbringing is just something that makes me merely luckier than others, not better. I work in community centres, I donate when I have the ability, and I almost always offer to help people whenever I can, however I can. Very rarely am I angered when things don't play out the way I'd like. What does royally [[BerserkButton piss me off?]] When people who were born into the same situation are spoiled, whiny assholes, or, even worse, act like their lives are the [[{{Wangst}} most difficult things ever]]. Being that I spend a large amount of time in [[CrapsaccharineWorld Long Island]]... The BerserkButton is pressed a ''lot''. * A girl [[Tropers/AdelePotter This Tropette]] knows. Her parents are well-off, she's an amazing actress, adored by everyone, and easily gets the best grades of anyone. She has every reason to be full of herself... but she's ''totally nice''. For example, when she saw that I (an unpopular nerd) was EatingLunchAlone, she walked right up to my table and asked me to join hers. ** That's crossing into CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming territories. :-) * [[LavenderCat My]] friends often describe me this way. My parents have very well-paying jobs, I've lived in suburban upper-middle-class my whole life, and my siblings and I have pretty much gotten what we wanted our entire lives. However, it really depresses me when people assume that, because I'm well-off, I'm a rotten brat, so for the most part, I try to be nice, helpful, and friendly. I try not to get too big a head, though there are times when I can be self-centered and [[DeadpanSnarker overly snarky.]] * This troper's best friend, who currently studies at a different school, is probably one of the biggest [[DaddysGirl Daddy's Girl]] she's ever known; she gets almost anything she wanted and regular high pocket money. On top of it, she's pretty, scores high in her class, an excellent artist and friendly to pretty much anyone, nerds or not. My classmates even admitted she's very spoiled but memorably nice. Actually, some of this troper's closest friends are {{Spoiled Sweet}}... * I have actually been called this before i knew TV Tropes was even around, i have traveled allot, i live in a nice house with a big room and a walk in closet, we have nice cars, I have an iPad, my dad has

the iPad 2, mom doesn't want one, everyone in my immediant family has the iPhone 3GS( we dont have the 4th cause the whole left hand thing and my moms a lefty) we have big TV's in every room(besides Kitchen/dinning room, and bathrooms)i get nice clothes purses and jewelry, i take great pride in my hair/style/makeup, have been called "pretty/cute/beautiful"( i don't see it though) but I've been told i'm "considerate/sweet/have a big heart" i love volunteering, i'm a total cloud-cookoo lander, i'm a total geek(and hecka proud) i HATE bragging(the only reason i said the stuff above was to show i belong here) People who don't know me that well tend to call me "snobbish" or "stuck-up" then when they get to know me better i ask them why they thought i was a snob they normally say "You have nice clothing, are always applying make-up and brushing your hair, and have the iPhone" i normally laugh and say "what do you think of me now" most answers are "Ditsy, sweet, and caring" ^_^ ---Awwwww, you're SpoiledSweet, aren't you? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SpoilerHound * Here at TV Tropes, {{Tanto}} is the leader of this faction. If you've put something behind a spoiler tag on this site, he's clicked on it, no matter what the source. * {{Meiriona}}, while not one to peek at the end of a book, will be on forums discussing the end before even buying the book. In some media, spoilers make up the ''entirety'' of her knowledge. * This troper wants to think of spoilers as a mild, harmless addiction and is not above unveiling spoilertags. About the only things he won't spoil for himself are Lost, BattlestarGalactica and Cloverfield. * [[{{Cygnus}} This troper]] thinks the journey to the spoilers is better than the spoilers themselves. * {{Novium}} sees nothing wrong with wanting to know if something has a good ending. It's just as valid as wanting to know if it has a good premise when it comes to deciding whether or not to read/watch it. * ThisTroper's English teacher once actually attempted to [[JustifiedTrope justify]] this trope, explaining that "its fun to see the ending, and then watch how they get there, making guesses and theories along the way". Right. ** It's not ''that'' out there an opinion. Consider this : each and every {{Columbo}} episode starts with the murder, Who Did It and How, and you ''know'' that Columbo will figure out what you've just seen by the end of the episode. If you've seen at least one other Columbo episode, you'll also know that he'll mostly use {{Obfuscating Stupidity}} to do so. Yet it still is entertaining. ** That's why [[InsanityPrelude this troper]] doesn't get too worked up if she accidentally spoils herself... although admittedly, learning a DownerEnding early would probably kill her desire to finish reading in any case except for ThePendragonAdventure.

** People still read the Bible even though Easter spoils that Jesus dies. *** Who exactly reads the Bible for the story? Or the New Testament for surprises? (Almost any Christian except the REALLY serious ones could get half a zillion shockers out of the Old Testament if they actually read it. Also great boredom, as it holds great minutiae of dead kings and so on in a country long extinguished. It can also be very funny just on its own, but you have to have the right attitude.) * [[{{Nerdorama}} This troper]] is a spoiler addict who is attempting to overcome his problem, a fact not helped by the fact that most of his current viewing list is anime so old He Should Know This Already. On the positive side, thanks to irresponsible Wikipedia-diving, he understood most of the plot of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' on his first go. ** This troper probably would have hated EVA (especially the last two episodes) if he didn't have everything spoiled. Now it's one of my favorite shows. * {{Alkthash}} works under the policy that if knowing how story ends ruins it, then it wasn't a very good story to begin with. ** {{Jonn}} has heard this before, and would really like someone to elaborate. * {{Smart Mark}}s. * [[{{Cameoflage}} This troper]] routinely learns pretty much everything about a work of fiction (with the exception of the newest Doctor Who episodes) before experiencing it for herself; she actually does believe that half the fun is seeing how it gets from point A to point B, rather than merely discovering what happens. (Of course, with that said, she really wishes she hadn't known about the eventual fate of the Companion Cube from ''{{Portal}}'' beforehand, as it genuinely spoiled her emotional reaction.) * {{Kriegsmesser}} cannot look at a set of spoiler tags [[spoiler: without reading them]]. It has gotten to the point where he will sometimes ''hunt down'' the [[spoiler: entry with the longest spoiler tags]] just to read the surprises. The only exception is something he's in the middle of reading. (For example, while reading ''WatershipDown'', he stayed as far away from the TV Tropes article as possible.) ** This troper also cannot see spoiler tags without reading them, but she will continue highlighting them because this practice has introduced her to several TV shows she wouldn't have otherwise noticed. ** [[{{Etherjammer}} This troper]] has [[spoiler:written a Greasemonkey script to reveal the contents of spoiler tags so that he doesn't have to manually highlight them]]. *** TheProphetKing [[spoiler:[[strike:wants a website to download said script at.]] now uses a userstyle sheet and stylish]]. *** {{gumby_jd}} thinks that all of that is too complicated and just settled for setting the spoiler unhiding option in the forum options (which translates to the wiki, naturally). * [[{{Cukeman}} This troper]] considers himself "spoiler impervious": he typically isn't fazed in being told a spoiler, and will read up on the plot details of works of media he can't and/or intends to peruse.

However, he apreciates the impact a story can have if left unspoiled, and avoided being spoiled for certain works (e.g. ''[[HarryPotter Deathly Hallows]]'') or spoiled himself on other works (e.g. the ''[[PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Ace Attorney]]'' series) and later realized that he enjoyed the experience better when he didn't know what was going to happen. ** He's also recently lamented that there are [[MetalGear some series]] that you can't read/watch/play without [[PopculturalOsmosis knowing]] [[ItWasHisSled what]] [[AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame happens]] already. * {{Gemmifer}} often checks out plot descriptions to see if something is worth her time and enjoys knowing what will happen. Spoiler tags [[ForbiddenFruit lure her to read]]. * IdleDandy is largely a spoiler junkie. She is compelled to know everything that will happen on her soap operas and reality shows before it happens. She used to dial the 900 number for ''AllMyChildren'' spoilers when she was 16 (before the internet, you know.) Oddly enough, she especially enjoys reading about the endings of movies she has no plans to see, and books she has no plans to read. However, if you tell her what's going to happen on ''{{Lost}}'' next week, she'll cut you. * RedViking loves spoilers and actively seeks them out. Will get pissed when someone refuses to spoil something under a misguided premise of being courteous towards him. * This troper became a spoiler hound because he was sick of wasting time on stories with [[DownerEnding downer endings]]. ** This Troper is so wary of ''{{Supernatural}}'''s possible [[CrapsackWorld crapsack world]] ending, she's waiting to see how season four goes before even attempting to watch the depressing third season. * [[{{Mirrinus}} This troper]] can no longer seen to go through a single series without spoiling pretty much everything for himself at somepoint. * WeirdAlYankovic became a spoiler hound when he was writing "The Saga Begins", his song about ''[[StarWars The Phantom Menace]]'', because he wanted the release of the song to coincide with the release of the movie. He got every detail right just reading fansites. ** He also apparently got himself into an earlier showing just to get the last touches right. * This troper doesn't mind spoilers so much that there are times where she's accidentally spoiled things for her friends...she didn't even realize that what she was telling them was spoilers to begin with! * This troper probably would have enjoyed ''MetalGearSolid 2'' much less if he didn't know half of the plot before hand. The remaining surprises then came at a moderate enough rate to be suspenseful without being [[MindScrew completely]] [[GainaxEnding incomprehensible]]. * This troper likes looking up spoilers for films he hasn't yet seen (mostly because I have a strange "I haven't seen this before, the idea of watching it scares me" outlook) when he plans to watch them or may not have a choice. * This troper does this with the results of sports games he's tivo'd

and plans to watch later. That makes no sense, but he does it anyway. * This undisclosed troper does this for things he intends to read and watch, and for everything else. In fact, most of the things he gets into, he gets into or is intrigued to get into further because the spoilers intrigue him. * {{YnK}} usually prefers to know plot details beforehand -- in fact, she ''finds'' stuff she would like to watch/read by reading detailed summaries. For instance, she started watching ''[[AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]]'' after reading all the stuff about it here at TVTropes and concluding that she would definitely like it (and she was right). Peeking at the end of the book is something she can never resist. * This troper doesn't usually mind spoilers, finding it more interesting ''how'' a trick is pulled off than ''what'' the trick actually is. Lucky me; spoiling that sort of thing is a little tricky. * Yep, [[{{Dangermike}} I'm one too.]] Mostly. Unless there's a TwistEnding that would ''really'' spoil the experience, then keep your yap shut. (Imagine watching, say, ''TheSixthSense'' already having had someone blurt the outcome. Ruins the whole surprise. Or worse, as happened to a friend of mine, sitting next to someone in the theater who knows, and opens their mouth ''right before'' the pivotal Secret is [[TheReveal revealed]]. Aaaaargh!) Basically, the rule is, if I want to know something, I'll ask ''specific'' questions. Beyond that, volunteer nothing. ** I did see The Sixth Sense for the first time after being spoiled. I enjoyed it anyway. * This troper here has the DownerEnding problem as well. Especially with video games. Video games are usually much, much longer than a typical movie-especially [=RPGs=]. To go 60+ hours through a game(or even halfway), only to lose a favorite character can cheese one off ROYALLY. Thus, if she has a doubt about a projected favorite character(you know, the ones where you look at the preview roster and decide you like a lot, and then fall in love with the first part of the game), she will read the spoilers to make sure they're okay. Occasionally a death is acceptable if it's done in a grand, glorious fashion that fits the character well; but she does admit that sometimes, it just p"&/## her the hell off. This also goes for a longrunning series, where tons of episodes get watched and THEN they hit you. Keep in mind that this troper had nothing against a BittersweetEnding or even the occasional DownerEnding, as every story doesn't have to end in Happy Fun land...but there are those times where she just wants to know what happens. * [[{{Dookie}} This Troper]] has a bad habit of doing so despite hating knowing the ending. Fortunately, he tends to get carried away in the story, so he forgets the ending by the time he gets there. However, [[DownerEnding Downer]] and [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet Endings]] usually encourage him to read it all the way through, while typical "happily ever after" endings usually drive him away (except on a bad day). [[spoiler: [[TastesLikeDiabetes So you could imagine what he felt when he read the epilogue to]] HarryPotter.]] * {{Anomaly}} isn't one ''personally'', but nothing describes his mother better, who has a fully-defined habit of reading the first

chapter, and then the last chapter, and ''then'' chronological order. She says that she does it to "make sure the ending's worth it". ** This troper fully agrees. After all, who wants to waste $30-60 on something they'll eventually throw at a wall, especially if one has limited funds to begin with? * [[{{Andygal}} This Troper]] almost refuses to buy a book if she hasn't read half of it already while in the store, including the end, unless she knows the author very well, don't want to pay money for a book and then find out you just spent money on a sucky book with a sucky ending right? Especially if it'a a horrible DownerEnding where RocksFallEveryoneDies for no good reason. It takes a fairly wellwritten and thoughtful DownerEnding to avoid turning her off. She tends to like a BittersweetEnding though. Endings that [[TastesLikeDiabetes taste of diabetes]] get old after a while and it's nice to have a bittersweet ending to mix it up. * [[GwenStacyWannabe This troper]] started watching AvatarTheLastAirbender ''because'' all the spoilers sounded so [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]]. Same with TeenTitans. Also, I like to be prepared for the death of my favorite characters (such as [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Will]] and [[spoiler:[[DarkKnightTrilogy Jim Gordon]]]]) so I'll look it up before I go see the movies or read the books. (I was particularly bad about this kind of thing with ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: At World's End'', since I lurked on a forum who were particularly good at sniffing out spoilers months before everyone else.) * ThisTroper regularly reads spoilers for things she never intends to watch/read -- and is endlessly burdened by them if she changes her mind. * {{AnimeDutchess}} actually begs her friends to spoil things for her...unfortunately, they are not as receptive. * JChance is usually one of these. And, for the record, the only {{Downer Ending}}s he doesn't like are those [[ShootTheShaggyDog in which shaggy dogs are shot]]. It's backfired a few times. Yeah, TheSixthSense was one. So were WildArms 2, and RepoTheGeneticOpera, the latter thanks to its page here. Still desperately want to see it, though. * {{Rand}} would like to know where should he sign to get a card saying that he is one. * [[DevilsAdvocate This troper]] is an avid trivia player, so reading spoilers lets him learn the endings to far more books and movies than he actually has time to read or see, which is useful when one of them comes up in a trivia question. * [[GolemTheTroper Golem's]] recently joined movie club has the philosophy of [[MoodWhiplash "alternating comedies and shit-your-pants scary movies".]] To preserve his good pants, he's become one of these. * This trooper sort of uses it like a defense maneuver, like the above trooper. Though hating some spoilers, will actively look up the ending to movies that will be scary, due to being a paranoid jumps-ateverything horror fanatic. * [[{{Sara}} This troper]] went hunting high and low for spoilers to ''FireEmblem 4'' and ''{{Gatchaman}}'' back when she thought she'd never play the former or see the latter. Surprisingly does not regret

the first since the impact of certain events was just as big even without the element of ultimate shock. * [[{{Sgamer82}} This troper]] tends to take the view that knowing ''what'' is happening is never the same as knowing ''how'' it happens or seeing it firsthand. So spoilers rarely bother him. This is in direct contrast to one of his best friends, who absolutely ''hates'' being spoiled and will rage with a capital "[=FFFFFFFF=]" if he gets spoiled on something he didn't want to be spoiled on. * [[ThirtyTwoFootsteps 32_Footsteps]] will admit to editing a page or two just to read spoiler text without having to highlight. Also, he finds that spoilers don't matter because it's about the journey, not the destination. * [[{{Starscream}} Oh, pick me, pick me]]! I get ''very'' frustrated when someone refuses to post spoilers to something I might take an interest in. * My idiot brother keeps telling me not to spoil anything he's currently watching or playing... [[spoiler: [[WhatAnIdiot then he goes and asks me if Kamina's really the main character, because Simon's got quite a bit of focus...]]]] * {{Recon5}} knows most of what he knows about most of the shows he knows about thanks to Internet spoiler sources such as this here wiki. He has actually watched a tiny fraction of the shows in his knowledge base and does not intend to rectify the discrepancy any time soon. * Tropers/WizardJoni actually started watching TengenToppaGurrenLagann after having read the ending on TVTropes. He is forever grateful for this. * ShadowQueen Not only do I go out to find spoilers, I try to spoil other people too! I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I do so. ** You do realise that not everyone is a SpoilerHound and you stand a good chance of really hurting someone? Does that still give you a warm fuzzy feeling? * [[GwenStacyWannabe I]] could quote the third season of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' before I'd finished watching the first five episodes (seeing it all over the place on [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife here]] convinced me that I really needed to check it out), and I also knew which shippings became [[OfficialCouple canon]] and a general summary of the GrandFinale. Usually, though, I'm pretty good about avoiding spoilers for stuff I'm actually interested in... * DarkInsanity13 enjoys spoilers, and thinks that seeing/hearing them makes her want to know more rather than make her upset. Especially if the spoilers are really awesome. Her brother's the same way. Their friends who don't like spoilers don't appreciate any discussion...but it makes for great threats! On a side note, she does not actively hunt for them, but will ask if it comes up in conversation. * MakiP hunts every possible spoiler, except about things she is reading/watching/listening and hasn't yet find spoilers * {{starshine}} prefers to be spoiled for things like thrillers and InTheMouthOfMadness episodes, because she's uncomfortable with tension and likes looking for the hints rather than feeling confused and stupid for forty minutes. But if something's relatively recent and/or has a TwistEnding, ''do not'' spoil it for her. That's just bitchery. (If something's older than say, ten years, she'll even probably spoil

it for herself so as to not be spoiled by other bitchy people.) * This troper spoils himself to make sure he doesn't waste his time watching anything that sucks * {{Thnikkafan}} is a SpoilerHound... with the exception of HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi. He got spoilered up the wazoo for iut, and now he won't look at it anymore. * Do you know what "impatience" means? Well, this troper (Happyman) is made of that. Spoilers are like a drug to him. * [[{{pyrosim}} This troper]] pretty much always looks at spoilers when they're in front of him and won't hesitate to read the wikipedia/TVTropes page on some media he might consume, but doesn't necessarily hunt spoilers out. He likes to think he can sandbox experiences such that the impact is largely the same if he knew or not. That may just be ego, tho. * Oh, yes. {{IronScope}} ''loves'' to know as much as he possibly can when going into a work. [[ThirdPersonPerson He doesn't like reading blind.]] Not at all. * Also LeadPal! * This Troper likes to be spoiled about the plot because it lets him enjoy the little things in a work. * {{Dmboogie}} is weird like this, he will eagerly view any spoilers: As long as he doesn't have any plans in the future to view/read/play the media. No reason you have to hound ''all'' spoilers. * This troper ''has'' to look up entire plot synopses to movies before seeing them, books before reading them, TV shows before watching them, video games before playing them...and very often gets the urge to look them up for source material she isn't even interested in. She can be prone to what she calls Secondhand Quote Syndrome (quoting things she's never seen/read/watched/played), and is also guilty of looking up TheReveal of ''TheMousetrap'' on {{Wikipedia}}. * Earlier Today, Cloudtail65536 was truly sick of his sister shouting "NO! NO SPOILERS!" whever he talked ab out his upcoming fanfiction, so he sent her a video revealing every important event that will happen in it in the future. Sweet revenge! [[spoiler:Me in a nutshell, and probably you to since you read this.]] * [[{{Catfish42}} Me]] very much. And I don't even really want it. It is just an urge to great to resist. I look at almost every spoiler I see, even if it is something I've never heard of. I just want to read the spoiler... I ruined quite a few surprises for myself this way... * So much for me that I deliberately leave spoiler markers on as to make it even more exciting clicking them to find out. However, I hate [[supersecretspoiler:super secret spoilers]] due to hardly even knowing when they are used in the first place. * {{Tropers/Jaabi}} here really needs to stop selecting spoilers. But you know, as much as I try to avoid something that is spoiler-y, something hidden in a white box just makes me ''[[TemptingFate curious]]''. Ironically some spoilers as of late (especially some certain DotHackSign details) have come of as "''[[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife I knew it!!]]''". * This troper is one, but she doesn't know why, exactly. There's only ever been once (as far as she can remember) when she's gotten upset over having something spoiled, and that was [[spoiler: the Normal

Ending in DisgaeaHourofDarkness, the one where Laharl dies and all. He was [[CutenessProximity one of]] [[ImTakingHerHomeWithMe my favorite characters,]] and this troper had that one ally kill. Yeah. ]] Her being a SpoilerHound actually turned out to be a good thing, as she wouldn't have started watching to see if HigurashiNoNakuKoroni really had a HappyEnding like Wikipedia said or [[DownerEnding not]]. Although she still has yet to finish the series due to laziness. * I pretty much have always been like this often when we read stories in class I read ahead and when I got the internet I read about spoilers for movies that I had not yet seen and didn't mind. * [[Tropers/{{Aquila89}} I]] am very much like this, mainly to avoid disappointment - not neccessarily {{Downer Ending}}s, just things I believe I wouldn't like. The same reason I enjoy re-reading books. The only time I made an effort to avoid being spoiled was the last HarryPotter book, which appeared in Hungarian six months after the original. * [[{{Tropers/Malph}} My]] first act as a troper was to set spoilers to visible. I mostly don't mind seeing spoilers on the site, but I try to avoid anything I'm in the act of enjoying at that moment. And if someone were to walk up to me and spoil something I swear I would destroy the speech center of their brain so they will never be able to do so again (there is an exception, though). * For some reason, I personally don't give a crap about spoiling myself with, anything really. It doesn't help that I tend to get into shows and franchises [[LateArrivalSpoiler that have been finished for years.]] It's also quite fun to read a spoiler and imagine how it happens, then actually witness that said spoiler and compare. Finally, it's fun to spread the information around (with disclaimer) and turn everything into ItWasHisSled. * I love to read spoilers for anything I watch. For example, I have no problem with reading the SCRIPT for an episode in Deep Space 9. * [[Tropers/WeepingWillow I]] am one of these. Spoilers usually don't spoil my enjoyment of a work at all. In fact, they tend to make me even more curious about the work in question. ---[[spoiler:Go back to SpoilerHound]]. ----

SpoofAesop * This troper was in a Visual Media class in high school, where we learned how to do basic videography and video editing. Our first project of the year was a "teen issues" video project, where we had to {{Anvilicious}}ly address an issue through use of a short film. Most of my peers chose typical teen issues like drug use or teen pregnancy, but I chose video game addiction. Problem was, I was slightly addicted to video games myself, so I did the whole project ''very'' tongue-incheek. My film ultimately ended with my protagonist being punished by his mother and forced to walk the dog, with the final Aesop of "If you're addicted to video games, sooner or later you scoop poop." And I got an A+ on the project. * I pride myself in how I teach my friends aesops. I often teach them

such lessons as "Mess with God, and you'll be raped into a goat, [[{{This is for emphisis bitch}} BIOTCH!"]] * After hearing one of my friend's weird dreams, I said, [[SpaceWhaleAesop "So I guess the moral of the story is to never trust Nicholas in a toga.]]" ---Moral: if you don't return to SpoofAesop, a gremlin will bite your knee.

SpookyPhotographs * This troper's step-father brought a camera with him to the hospital when her mother went into labor with her sister. He took a few pictures of mother holding the baby, and when they were developed, every single one of the pictures had a white streak of light circling either mother or baby. There were no machines that close to them, none of the cords actually ''circled'' them, none of that...However, none of us were that frightened when we saw the pictures, as the troper's grandmother had died a month before her sister was born, so we all thought the light was her, wanting to see the baby. ---Let's look at those SpookyPhotographs agai--wait, ''that'' wasn't in the shot...OhCrap. ----

Spoonerism * This troper does it all the time, on purpose. It doesn't result in any puns but does make for some amusing sounding sentences. * While trying to say a TourettesGuy quote, [[LoserGamerBritt one troper]] kept calling a certain celebrity Mick Roranis. * This troper's high school marching band once went on a local radio show. One of the trumpets made a shout out to his friends Darry and Haniel. * This troper's dad is WAY too fond of using these. Almost everything that comes out of that guy's mouth, English or otherwise, is going to be a Spoonerism. I wouldn't be surprised if he flawlessly recited Spoonerism-ified Shakespeare in Latin. * Spoonerism? I must jet him! * This troper is incapable of talking about IrregularWebcomic without calling it Irwebular Regcomic. * This troper does this with whole ''words.'' One of my gems was writing "a fresh of breath air" in an essay and not noticing it until a week later. More closely related, this troper's father likes telling this joke: -->'''Q:''' What's the difference between a magic show and a beauty pageant? -->[[spoiler:'''A:''' One is an array of cunning stunts.]] * Hilarity ensued when my friend attempted to say Kirk and Spock at the same time. Use your imagination. * This troper's sister is particularly bad for making these while

writing (she seems incabaple of using s apell checker), with the thirst free that spring to mind being "Hand Chief" (she meant "Hankerchief": particuarly funny as she was writing an essay on Othello and she didn't even bother to check the spelling in the book WHICH WAS LESS THAN A METER FROM HER!) and "Golden Colin" (she meant "Golden Coin": also rather funny, as my (former: I stopped playing it) accordion teacher's name is Colin). [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Yes, those mistakes dere weliberate.]] * This troper was once in a play where he was required to say the line, "I've come to warn you to keep your doors and windows shut tight." One rehearsal stopped for five minutes of laughter when I spoonerismed the last two words. * @/JChance will never forget one of the local NPR announcers, during the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, talking about a "tremendous cloud of gash and ass." * This troper once referred to Jenn and Kelly (the duo of cosplayers responsible for DemyxTime) as Kenn and Jelly. Uh... oops? ---Go back to the [[{{Spoonerism}} pain mage]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

Spork * This troper's friend once went to a Halloween party as "Sporkman," basically Quailman from Doug but with a titanium spork as a weapon. He won "most unique" costume. * This troper's friend once used the phrase "gag me with a plastic spork" at some point during a school field trip to Orlando. A few minutes later a couple of students came back into the bus from [=McDonald's=], and guess what they were holding? * This troper considers the spork as one of the crowning archivements of human innovation. However, he is left to wonder why nobody has made knorks (knife-forks) or knoons (knife-spoons) yet. Or better still, combine all three utensils into one super-utensil (sporve? knoork?) ** Utensall? Sorry, bad pun. *** No no, it's perfect. ** [[AmadeusWindfall This Troper]] wonders the same thing. After all, all you'd have to do was fit a serrated edge onto the spork and ta-da! *** Um, you may want to rethink the fact that no one has invented the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knork knork]]... *** Or a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spife spife]]! Or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splayd all three in one]]... *** [[DisContinuity I have no idea what a splayd is]]. What you've got there is called a foofe. ** Wasn't one of those combinations attempted in a ''CloneHigh'' episode? ** The Finnish military uses a non-spork style [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusikka-haarukka spoon-fork combination]]. ** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit_spoon Grapefruit spoons,

anyone?]] * This Troper mentioned once that a certain sound made her want to gouge out her eyes with a spork. She was asked why a spork, and the answer didn't occur to her until later. [[EyeScream Y'see, a spoon is good for scooping, but has no cutting edge, whereas a fork would enter the eye easily, but would also rake across it instead of gouging it out. A spork, however, has both the stabbing and the scooping action, and so would be the best utensil for eyeball removal.]] ** Dude...eeeewwwww. And yet...I am intrigued! ** This is the most disturbing example of FridgeBrilliance this troper has seen yet. *** I concur with the above troper. I salute you, madam. ** You wouldn't happen to be [[http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20040628.html Aeire]], would you? *** Actually, no. ** There is actually a specialized, non-culinary utensil known as an [[NightmareFuel Eyeball Spoon.]] *** [[IncrediblyLamePun Would that be used to eat]] EyeScream? ** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit_spoon Grapefruit spoons, anyone?]] * Due to the RuleOfFunny, almost every phrase [[{{Atagamay}} this troper]] utters with intent to amuse involving a utentil, a weapon, or NoodleImplements will involve a spork. * [[SciFiChica This troper]] often declaims upon sporks when she is in a fast food restaurant, usually saying something like "I admire the spork. It is not spoon, nor is it fork. In the world of plastic flatware, it stands alone. Truly, the spork is a shining example of the ideal cusp of nonconformity, for it is its very uniqueness that makes it so very versatile and useful..." in my best 16-year-old girl James Earl Jones vioce. When I tried this with my Knowledge Bowl team, it got big laughs. So I attempted to repeat it with my tennis team... let's just say it was good I had years ago gotten used to that look which says "What planet is this girl from, why are they so damn weird there, and when the hell is the mothership coming to take her back?" You know the one. * This troper's friend had a car, Ye Olde Sporkmobile, which had a spork hanging from the rear view mirror. Sadly, someone broke into the car and stole the spork. However, the only way they could get it was to also steal the mirror...I never quite got the straight of that. * My preferred method of requesting brain bleach is to ask that someone gouge out my eyes with a rusty spork... But it needn't be rusty if you have one of [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/kitchen/8ace/ THESE]]! * Comes up in conversation with this troper's friends at least once per meeting. Cue added hilarity after seeing SnakesOnAPlane. * This troper has played many {{RPG}}s with pervs. I came up with a solution: The Perv Spork! Repels any pervs within stabbing distance! * This troper overheard someone in her former high school cafeteria state that his life's dream was to murder an entire band with a spork. It effectively ''made her life.'' ** This troper knows how to kill a man with a spork 354 different ways.

*** Eleven more and you could make a spork-a-day calendar. * This troper had a girl back in middle school write a compelling character story. The Noodle Implement that caused the whole thing to go off was when she found a golden spork.... and it led her (plus friend) into the Lord of the Rings world with included lambas bread jokes! * This troper's father (owner of a small knife shop) has taken sporks to the next level. He got a batch of titanium sporks, applied a torch to discolor it (and make some spiffy designs on them), and then wrapped the handles with parachute cord. These were debuted at a scifi convention, between the cheap-o katanas and high-end K-bars, where they received two nicknames; "Samurai Sporks" and "Combat Sporks" * This troper has repeatedly threatened to cut out a friend's heart with one during lunch. When at least called on it I stabbed it into the person and it stayed there for a good three minutes in his chest. ** You. . . you ''stabbed'' someone? * I was given a spork to eat chicken curry and chips (not the thin crispy kind known as "crisps"). It. Was. Useless. I ended up getting curry sauce on my coat, fingers and shoe! I had to resort to using my fingers. Those pansy little prongs at the top do not spear chips well at all. I prefer real cutlery that is established and not created to cut costs. ** It's nice to see that someone actually agrees with me on this. A plastic spork cannot be less than too brittle while not becoming too bendy to properly utilize what little tines there are, and the bowl is not shaped properly in most cases to allow the tines proper spearing capabilities (generally, all the tines do is make it impossible to eat soup more than a few mililiters at a time, unless you rework it into a fork-ladle). Metal sporks generally have long enough tines, and the material overcomes the weakness of a plastic spork, but the bowl is generally too shallow to use as a spoon because of this (anything you can eat with the typical metal spork, such as mashed potatoes, can also be eaten with a fork) and most metals that are strong enough and have have no strong taste are too heavy, too expensive, or both. The best design I could come up with was a large-bowled spork that is partially filled in, so that the overall bowl is more flat (like a dessert spoon) and accommodates the tines properly, while the inner bowl is deeper and more rounded (like a bowl, ladle, or deep soup spoon), with a less steep edge on the side of the inner bowl from which the soup is usually partaken. It would most likely require titanium, though a filling in the bowl section to decrease mass and adjust heat transfer rate might be acceptable to those who do not feel it blasphemy to have a spork of multiple materials in the utensil end, and an edge may be put on the far side of the bowl (where it will not be put in the mouth and cause accidental trauma). I'm still trying to work out a method of attaching a barbecue fork to a locking, hinged handle, so as to use a serrated sporf to cut meat without the otherwise necessary redundancy of a knife, but everything either has the same self-mutilation risk as the chopstick fork or gets grease in the switchblade-like handle groove where it would otherwise be kept. * This troper's love of sporks was known to her classmates, after a teacher showed her math notes to the whole class as an example they

should emulate. Thing is, she had drawings of sporks on almost EVERY SINGLE PAGE of her notebook. And no, she does not have some creepy fetish for sporks or anything. She just thinks they're fun to draw, chew on (plastic ones), and mention. * This troper saw a box of sporks being delivered to a Taco Bell that had "MW Sporks" printed on it. Needless to say, the usefulness of masterwork sporks and the possible magical modifications that could be made to them was immediately discussed. * This troper got one of the titanium sporks listed on the front page as a gift from an uncle. They're incredible useful on backpacking trips. * On [=PonyIsland=], this troper was at one stage known as The Spork Queen. It created a thread that was the [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funniest thing in the universe]], but [[TooGoodToLast got deleted by the site's idiot mods.]] * This troper has a friend who has broguht a metal spork with him to school to eat his lunch with on numerous occasions. She finds it amazingly awesome every time she sees it. * Halfway through my sophomore year in high school, the cafeteria switched to a cheaper brand of spork. Previously, most people opened the package (the spork, a "napkin" and a "straw") by gripping the handleof the spork and pulling down on the top of the package, cutting it open. The cheaper ones failed this test: the millimeter of cellophane was sturdy enough to convert the spork back into a spoon. * The "spork" scene in {{WALL-E}} is my favourite part of the entire film. I use "What the spork?!" as an exclamation-you know, from "what the fork". * It is hard to eat a yogurt with a spork, but there was no clean spoons in the house and I couldnt be bothered washing up * Thsi troper proclaims that the best utensil to eat fried rice with is a spork. * This troper's brother once started a trend in his elementary school by bending down two of the tines of a plastic spork from the cafeteria and naming it "Rex". Eventually so many kids started doing this that they had an assembly to tell people to stop wasting sporks. ---Back to {{Spork}}, and wouldn't that make a nifty battle cry? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SpotlightStealingSquad * There is someone I know on a chatting site who pretty much takes up all of the spotlight whenever he/she comes online. This results in me becoming OutOfFocus and getting lesser comments, while said person talks to just about everyone, mostly my friends, besides me. Because of this, I don't get much comments since my friends would rather litter said person's page. I also need to remind you this person has gotten 600 comments within three days while I get 1,000 comments within two months. Said person also shoves everyone else besides me into the spotlight as well, leaving me in the dust. Also, because of

him/her, my friends have shoved me out of the officials list and relaced me in favor of the guy. To make matters worse, this person claims to be ''shy''. * The freshmen of this troper decided to shoot a video about the party they were throwing. The troper met the interviewer twice, once saying he didn't get anyone in the party ("haven't found a woman crazy enough to do it!"), and another expressing his opinion on the party ("[[WildTeenParty Wild]]!"), [[RuleOfThree thrice]]. The editor (a nice girl which the troper really likes) used the former to finish the video... and laughed at the latter so much that during the video she used the cry of "WILD!" repeatedly, to StupidStatementDanceMix levels (she even said to the troper "I'll turn you into the star of this!").

SpotOfTea * This Austrian (but thoroughly Anglicised) troper carries a supply of Earl Grey tea bags at all times, just in case. At home, the day starts with a mixture of Lady Grey and vanilla-scented Twinings (tea bags, I'm lazy), no milk, no sugar. I get through at least four or five pints a day. No black tea after five or I can't sleep, except in one form: the Earl Grey Martini. Great stuff and here's how I make it: Steep two teabags of Earl Grey in two measures of gin (Bombay Sapphire for preference) for a least half an hour, then mix with the juice of two lemons and sugar to taste. Serve cold in a martini glass. Not to be missed. P.S.: Making tea in the microwave?!? Shame on you, that all I can say! P.P.S.: I too was first converted to the cult of Earl Grey by that most English of Frenchmen in Space. * No joke, this troper, who is both a tea lover and a huge ''StarTrek'' fan experimented with Earl Grey because Captain Jean-Luc Picard drinks it. And now....so does he. ** Similarly, this other troper is a huge ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fan and decided to try Jasmine tea because of it. I am now hooked. * This troper, llamasrnice drinks tea of gargle blaster strength, Its great for waking up, on the gargle blaster tropers tales page I shared one of my escapades. * [[Tropers/JethroQWalrustitty This Troper's]] two university English teachers are of course tea freaks; one has recently gotten into Chinese tea, and carries a Chinese-style drinking bottle with him. The other is a more Quintesential British Gentleman type on the tea front; he once asked if any students were travelling to Britain any time soon, and was willing to pay for someone to bring his some ''real'' tea, because the stuff here is horrid. He also had a kettle in his office, despite several complaints from the department. He also included Orwell's "A Nice Cup Of Tea" to the lecture material of ''Areas In English Literature''. * {{Tropers/pagad}} requires many cups of tea per day, or unpleasant things will happen. It has to be just so: boiling water poured into a teapot with three (PG Tips or Yorkshire Tea) teabags in it, leave for five minutes, pour milk into the mug, pour the tea into the mug (IN THAT ORDER, [[SeriousBusiness lest you scald the milk]]), and let the magic happen. Aaah... as it so happens, whenever I've gone to America,

I've needed to bring proper teabags with me because Americans just don't ''get'' it. Some of them even have tea without milk! What is this madness?! ** five minutes is of course the proper steeping time, but I would think three teabags would make it much too strong. *** Three's been more or less standard since I've been drinking it. Pour in slightly more milk than normal, and it's lovely. [[RuleOfThree Three, no more, no less]]. [[MontyPython Three shall be the number thou shalt place in thy teapot, and the number of the counting shall be three.]] Four shalt thou not count as it will be far too strong, neither count thou two as it will be too weak - excepting that thou then proceed to three, which is just right. Five is right out, and [[YourHeadAsplode will probably make your head explode]]. ** [[Tropers/ParadiscaCorbasi This Troper]] read Adams' article on how to make a proper pot of tea, and tried it. It is much, ''much'' better than American brewed tea -- far superior. Unfortunately, it is more time consuming, so it's almost a special treat to have tea made that way for her. * this tropette is a british ex-pat living in Spain near an area FULL of British OAPs. When the man from the funeral plan shows up, or a friend, or her stepdad, or someone her mother is doing buisness with; "GRACE!!! Put the kettle on!" (the funeral plan-guy said he drank more tea than he should, as this is customary in every british home). * This troper drinks a cup of tea on weekend mornings, first steeping it in a cup's worth of hot water and promptly forgetting about it. When she ''finally'' realizes that her tea's been steeping for ten-orso minutes straight, she puts in sugar (no more than three teaspoons) and milk, in that order. It comes out strong, sweet, and not very hot, which is good since she doesn't have much heat resistance. Not everyone's [[IncrediblyLamePun cup of tea]], but it's a good way to start the morning. Her mother, on the other hand, does everything by the book and punctual. Sometimes she wonders if they're even related. ** Pardon me troper, but based on what I know and could find out, the longest steeping time for tea is 5 minutes and that's for certain black tea and English blends. I think that strong flavor you're tasting might be the bitter tannins that seeped out from the long brewing time. A little bit of salt ought to cut the bitter while enhancing the flavor of the tea. *** Hm... I may have to try that. Thank you for the advice, sir or madam. **** Also, I heard that milk is supposed to cut the bitter, so that could a different option for you. *** Thank you, sir or madam, a teeny-tiny sprinkling of salt works most wonderfully. Now I don't need to worry about running out of milk. * [[Tropers/ProdigalDaughter This Troper]] will just about burst if she doesn't have a proper cup of tea in the mornings, and she's always very careful about heating the pot first. Loose tea (usually English Breakfast or Yunnan) in a tea-strainer after that, steep three minutes, ''take the tea out'', milk, no sugar. She was horrified upon discovering that many Americans, including a few friends of hers, think the proper way to make tea is "put a teabag in a cup of water, pop it in the microwave, then put in milk and sugar without waiting

for it to brew or even taking the tea out". Frightening. * [[{{Tropers/Divra}} This troper]] lives with a roughly pint-sized tea mug in hand(Ceylon, milk, 3 sweeteners), and goes through 4-6 such mugs in an average day. He has been known to subsist on tea alone for days, and is also one of the few mid-twenties people in the world who owns multiple tea-cozies. * When he doesn't have to share the tea in the teapot with anyone else, this troper [[RefugeInAudacity drinks it out of the huge soup mug his girlfriend bought him in Paris.]] I've never used it for soup. * [[{{Tropers/Nomic}} This troper]] dislikes coffee, so he always orders tea when in a cafe. No milk, two spoons of sugar (actually two half spoons, he's been trying to cut down the use of sugar). * This Troper's general cup is a mixture of normal tea and mint with lemon and a spoonful of two of sugar. Often with honey. I have at least five cups daily. I'm 14. There /may/ be a problem. ''May.'' Depending on your definition of problem. Then again a good deal of online Nakama just so happen to either be Brits, or are American like myself and are even more overboard so. * [[{{Tropers/scionofgrace}} This American troper]] learned to drink tea while in Australia, having never had proper tea before. I now buy good-quality loose leaf tea online, which I brew with boiling water and a strainer, and am considering getting an electric kettle for work. Tea is at 3pm sharp. My coworkers know I'm having a bad day when I make a cup in the morning. * [[{{Tropers/Sionnach}} This troper]] and her friends depend on cups of tea for survival. Not only does the tea serve as a handy way of fending off the below zero temperatures, but they also bring us closer together. Like when a certain friend ended up in hospital. We brought her tea and scoured the nurses' station for a kettle. Personally I take my tea (which must always be Barry's tea) with about a lot of milk and a few centimetres of sugar. I don't measure in spoons anymore, I find it much easier just to pour and count the seconds in my head. Last time I checked it worked out at... ten? ''Maybe''. * This troper and her entire family loves tea, she has it before breakfeast, after breakfast, inbewteen then and tea time, with her tea, after her tea, with her dinner and after her dinner...even at 11:00 at night. I'm only fifteen and I'm like an alchaholic...without the alchahol of course. * This troper's family is ethnic Chinese, and tea is very nearly our lifeblood. However, to us quality is less important than quantity: standard procedure involves putting a few dried leaves in a thermos, dump in the boiling water, and drinking the lot after a few hours. The thermos typically comes out right around lunchtime. ** Update: when this troper was left home alone for a few days, he got into the rather unhealthy habit of making tea by the coffeepot-full and downing the lot. Repeatedly. He did have a cold that weekend, but he is rather worried about what this foreshadows for his college days... * [[Tropers/KingSonnDeeDoo This British Troper]] has been drinking tea since she was 18 months old, and drinks at least three-four cups of black tea a day. One in the morning, one around lunchtime, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening...and others throughout the day,

whenver she feels like one. * [[Tropers/LoneCentrist This Californian Troper]] can't stand coffee unless it has a ton of sugar and milk in it... which defeats the purpose of coffee, so he always opts for tea when at a cafe, Black Earl Grey preferabbly. * This American Troper grew up liking tea -- she has no idea how this happened, considering she was taught the method of dropping a (cheap) bag in water, microwaving it, dumping in half a cup of sugar, and leaving in the bag. The first 3/4ths of the cup was fine, but the last of it was like drinking battery acid even with the sugar. As a teen she looked into better teas. These days she has a steady supply of PG Tips into her house, brewed in the proper way and taken with milk and a little honey, and wonders how she escaped diabetes or stomach ulcers. She feels rather enlightened about the whole thing, but her co-workers often joke about her being born in the wrong country. (She would die of embarrassment if they discovered her... fondness of certain accents.) ** HOLY CRAP. This troper is British and he'd like to say that he ''literally'' opened his mouth and waved his arms around in disgust. Thank god you figured out how to brew it properly. That method is [[BritishAccents simply atrocious, darling]]. * This Troper has one cup of tea minimum per day: at breakfast. However, he is such a fast drinker that a freshly made cup is often finished before it has had time to cool (what can I say, I like my tea hot, not luke-warm). How he managed before he drank tea is a mystery to him... * [[Tropers/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] has made a habit of making a cup of tea just before a boss fight in some games; usually iced, but sometimes he'll make it hot. I don't know what is is, but I typically want a cup of tea during an epic boss fight (Even more so with the [[DotHack .hack]] series) * [[{{Tropers/Fiwen9430}} This troper]] has a brew (OopNorth for cuppa) every time she is thirsty and needs a drink. This means at least 6 cups a day. Apparently there is a stronger tendency for Northeners to have tea, whereas coffee seems to be gaining popularity in the South. * We had a group of cadets from the Afghan Military Academy staying with us for two weeks prior to a military competition being held at our school (US Military Academy), and they enjoyed their hot tea very much. My roommate, from North Carolina, introduced them to his iced sweet tea, and after their initial confusion at the idea of serving tea cold, they were hooked. We've received word that they're enthusiastically brewing it back in Kabul now. * This (American) troper grew up with tea and can't go without it. At least one cup a day, often many more. Bag tea, brewed one bag to one cup, is the necessity though loose leaf teas can serve on special occasion. Tea taken with milk and sugar, though slowly weaning down the sugar content of an average cup. * This British troper considers a delicious cup of tea to be one of the best things about being alive. Preferred brands are Co-op Indian Prince, Yorkshire Tea and Lyons' Red Label (I find PG Tips and Tetley too bland). Loose-leaf tea is preferred. Tea is brewed in an

earthenware teapot which I've owned for fifteen years or so. I like it strong, but with plenty of milk so it isn't bitter. And just typing this entry is making me thirsty. * This Chinese troper from Hong Kong loves drinking tea, usually chinese tea or iced lemon tea (with plenty of syrup,as lemon tea without enough sweetening doesn't taste right) She's fairly lactose intolerant, but she still enjoys Hong Kong-styled milk tea occationally. ** Original poster here. Scrap the last part about milk tea, I drink milk tea more often now. I like Taiwanese style milk tea a bit more though, it tastes sweeter and has those chewy "pearls".Mmm... * This American Troper is drinking coffee. But only because she's out of tea. Someone buy her a good tin of breakfast black before she loses it. * This troper likes tea well enough, but his father is the king of this trope. He drinks at least 2-3 large pots of tea a day -- yes, that's ''pots'', not cups. He also regularly drives over an hour away from his house to go to a specialty tea store, which sells exotic varieties ('this is the tea blend that was developed specially for the Group of 8 meeting in India') that normally go to luxury hotels such as the Plaza. The fact that his personality is all other respects as well exactly like that of [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Uncle Iroh]] makes this even more awesome. * This troper likes Ginger Peach flavored tea from a tea company called The Republic of Tea, with some sugar and quite a lot of cream. If that is not available, she likes Earl Grey once it's cooled off and without anything in it. At the moment there is none of either kind in the house, so I'm giving this peppermint stuff a try. * This Troper and her girlfriend are both ''very'' English, and drink an unhealthy amount of tea. This has given rise to a private code (Catholic School + BritishStuffiness + open lesbians = TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, otherwise known as expulsion. You think I'm joking.) - "I have tea - I have time", which roughly translates as, "I love you". * This troper knows well of tea's curative and mood-restoring properties. But his best friend takes this to a ridiculous extent; she would go to work and her parents would phone her to ask her what time she was getting back, in order to have the kettle boiled and ready for when she got home. Ironically, we are both [[LandOfMyFathersAndTheirSheep Welsh]], and one of her parents is Greek. * [[Tropers/ZiggyStardustForever This troper]] loves her tea and has never drunk coffee in her life. Black and peppermint are her favorites, and she drinks it with sugar (2 spoons for black, 1 spoon for peppermint) and no milk. Oh, and if anyone uses the sugar spoon to stir their coffee, they're in [[BerserkButton trouble]]. * This troper loves tea. She could give up every drink on earth for tea if the choice had to be made. * After reading the real life section of the main page, this British troper feels like having a spot of tea. * This troper needs a cup of tea every morning She is incredibly lethargic if she doesn't get her tea. DX

* This (very American) troper suffers from PTSD and General Anxiety Disorder, but, to paraphrase Arthur Dent: "A proper cup of tea will restore my normality." And he is very picky about it; Hot, Lipton Decaf, one teaspoon table sugar to eight ounces tea. [[HeartwarmingMoments It's the best anti-depressant he knows of.]] * Averted for this tea enthusiastic troper. When she moved to Great Britain she expected to find great Assam tea sold all over the place. [[spoiler: Sadly she didn't.]] * This British Tropette is tea crazy, simply put. She has a ridiculous amount of mugs and needs her own cupboard, has her own little teapot, sugar bowl and mini milk jug, also has one and a half jars full of biscuits for the tea. She is still yet to own her own tea caddy, tea spoon set among other tea related frivolities... [[BrickJoke goodness she's going to need more than just one cupboard]] now that she thinks about it. ** The boyfriend of the above Tropette is also tea crazy and rarely goes for a day without a spot of tea. She recalls one rambling by him about what he believes would happen if tea was cut off from Britain, which included "an incredible loss of confidence and wellbeing, which would cause Britain to collapse in mental capacity". He even owns a book called [[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nice-Cup-Tea-SitDown/dp/0751537659 A Nice Cup of Tea and A Sit Down]] and very near to becoming a [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman true gentleman]], thanks to the magical properties of tea. * This troper and all my friends go down to buy Taiwanese milk tea with tapioca bubbles, called boba, at least once a week. There's also a little tea shop in my town that sells high-quality imported tea. Surprisingly, this is in America. * This Indiana troper has just started his tea addiction. He boils water in the microwave (dorm without a stove), and then pours it into a thermos. So far, he is working with Bigelow teabags; Earl Gray, Vanilla Caramel, and Jasmine Green. Drop in two teabags, add some milk and sugar if it's vanilla caramel, then takes it to class. * Averted in my case: I'm British but I ''hate'' tea. And coffee. And pretty much any hot drinks. I do make it for my parents though, who have told me that I make a "lovely cup of tea". When I found out that some Americans use the microwave... wow. I mean, I don't even LIKE tea, and I just found that so weeeeeird. * This American troper (who is convinced he is English at heart) makes it a point to bring home a different flavour of herbal tea each time he goes grocery shopping at Kroger's or Walmart. Not the widest selection, but hey. At least I've gotten a few tips from reading the brewing methods posted here. * This troper living in New Zealand once worked with a refugee resettlement organisation, helping a Lhotshampa (Bhutanese of Nepalese descent) family settle in. Tea for these people is incredibly SeriousBusiness, and refusing an offer of tea is akin to urinating all over the house you are visiting. Good thing, then, that their brew was possibly the most heavenly liquid this troper has ever ingested. * This (Polish) troper really likes her tea, but only if it's black and so strong it's practically KlatchianCoffee. * This Troper's ''entire university'' does this. It offers a single,

decidedly liberal-arts major, and attracts [[GranolaGirl vaguely]] [[NewAgeRetroHippie alternative]] students. Naturally, absolutely ''massive'' amounts of herbal tea are drunk; the cafeteria apparently makes five kettles in the morning just to start with. (To put this in perspective, on any given morning, no more than eighty or so students actually have classes.) !!The Great Intercontinental Tea Debate ''Transplanted off the main page - your tea crazy countries, the best way to make a propper cuppa, etc.'' * The gap that exists between the USA and the UK is immense, when it comes to tea. A vending machine in a gift shop in Norfolk can dispense a perfectly adequate cup of tea at the press of a button, and yet a cafe in the average American city can only produce a mug of some watery beverage that is [[HitchhikersGuide almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.]] Perhaps if Americans learned to actually boil water, they'd catch on to what this tea business is all about. ** We figured ''that'' part out, smartass. The problem is that most tea sold in typical American grocery stores is either weak stuff like Lipton or stinky herbal teas. *** Oh you did NOT just insult herbal tea. It tastes good without turning you into a caffeine junkie. *** It still doesn't smell good. *** What herbs are you using? Different blends smell completely different. **** Problematically, many chain stores sell only the stinky stuff. Loose herbs or quality processed herb teas are virtually non-existent. *** W-w-what's wrong with being a caffeine junkie? To this troper, feeling like you've just had half your peripheral nervous system replaced with gold wiring and subsequently got yourself tased is an important part of the experience, as long as it doesn't impair the flavor. ** Tell me where to get a box of Earl Grey and I'll drink it. Otherwise, I'll take my tea iced, sweetened, without milk, thank you very much. *** I might get lynched for this, but my local [=WalMart's=] got a decent box of Earl Grey (admittedly, I've never had the luxury of importing the stuff from the UK, so). **** Actually learning to boil water is part of the problem, at least for tea you order in restaurants. Also many stores sell popular English (and Chinese or Japanese for Green Tea) brands of tea, for example I can find a great selection of teas at a store called Meijer that's found in the midwest and primarily the state of Michigan (Meijer is almost but not entirely like Wal-Mart, but the Wal-Mart near where I live has no imported goods, for some reason Meijer does). ** It should be noted that, in general, Meijer has been able to outcompete Wal-Mart in markets where it has established itself. It is probably because they actually have quality products. *** And an import section. In general where I live Wal-Mart is always cheaper, but if you want quality European or Asian products (such as

good tea from Britain, China, or Japan) your only options are Meijer or, if you live in the city, an Asian Grocer or fancy import store. Actually the Asian Grocers tend to have good prices too, but they don't carry British teas. **** This troper in Indiana has never had any trouble finding Twinings or PG Tips at his local Kroger, Meijer, or Scott's. Failing that, "upscale" groceries like World Market and Fresh Market have them for slightly higher (but still reasonable) prices. **** And this troper, even in her small Indiana town, can find Twinings at the local Martin's supermarket. (Several bagged varieties and three loose, just for the record.) Heck, my Big Lots has PG Tips on the shelf right now. So it *can* be found...just not at a restaurant. (And it is nice, on those occasional Meijer or World Market trips, to know there will be a box of PG Tips waiting. :)) **** Wegmans (grocery chain originating in Rochester, NY and found across the Mid-Atlantic) carries lots of loose tea in the health/organic section (including, for a while, pretty decent and reasonably priced tea sold under their own name) and tins of loose Twinings in the regular tea section (they are a little upscale as grocery chains go). They're this tea-crazy Troper's best bet when she can't afford ordering over the Internet. I'll barely touch bagged tea anymore except for some herbals and for iced tea (where really highend tea would be wasted.) ** This troper's father was born and raised in Britain (although, interestingly, he only drinks coffee), but he has always said the local King Kullen is more than adequate when it comes to imported and mimicked British foods and drinks. * Foreign countries (or for that matter, anywhere north of Virginia or west of Texas) are hell for a Southerner used to drinking iced, sweet tea. In Japan I just got used to the taste of green tea; in my stay in London I had to add tons of sugar to all the tea I was served. I'm not sure I drank anything for two days after I saw milk being added to tea. ** The various tropers with Asian backgrounds pity you and understand your pain at the sight of milk being added to tea. ** Since [=McDonald=]'s started selling sweet tea, the rest of the country seems to have begun picking up the Southern habit. As a Hoosier (person from Indiana) who loves sweet tea, this is a refreshing turn of events, no pun intended. *** You know what else is nice? Iced Earl Grey with peppermint. (Also, this American troper was raised with milk in his tea, and was surprised that other Americans were surprised by that.) ** On the other hand, Northerners are often put off by the amount of sugar in Southern sweet tea, and usually prefer their iced tea to be unsweetened or fruit-sweetened. *** For reference, this troper's friend's recipe for sweet tea involves two single serving green tea bags to (IIRC) 24 cups of water and 2 cups of sugar, and that isn't as sweet as some other teas. ** Either way, considering iced tea is mostly American and Southeast Asian, we find it rather amusing that iced tea is sometimes considered ForeignQueasine. ** This northern troper cannot understand the idea of sweet tea. He'll

just stick to his Earl Grey with two sugars, thank you very much. ** This British troper can't stand either Earl Grey or sugared tea. PG Tips with milk all the way. ** This Asian troper can't stand either creamed or sweetened tea and accuses all foreigners of committing Tea Blasphemy. *** Disclaimer: Just Kidding. ** This other Asian troper from Hong Kong who currently lives in Canada will let you know that she, and all of her other friends who have gone overseas for school, always gets a cup of Hong Kong milk tea first thing when she gets home. FIRST thing. ** This troper from Michigan drinks a wide variety of teas, hot or cold, with or without sugar or milk, black or green, etc., and he even enjoys coffee, albeit not as much. However, he never really liked the Iced Tea common to the American South. Far too sweet for his taste. ** In Finland, the average person can't understand tea. At all. Especially applies to males, who consider it a women's drink. Fortunately, non-shitty tea is available, even if everyone prefers coffee. ** This British troper will have her tea white and bitter, just like herself thank you. And the OH'll take a NATO Standard, but go easy on the milk. ** Puertorrican troper here: most people here hate tea, or think of it as yucky. Iced tea is generally accepted, and those who drink hot tea only do it for health benefits, like the popular herbal diet teas. No milk, no sugar, just awfulness. This troper has tried all sorts of teas in every way, but generally prefers a nice peppermint tea with sugar, or else Irish Breakfast without sugar but with milk. Southernstyle iced tea is for drinking with meals. ** In the South sweet tea is very SeriousBusiness. The Georgia House of Representatives put forward a bill making it a misdeameanor to sell tea without the option of sweet tea in reasturants. Turns out it was an April Fools joke. ** This Troper knows sweet tea is SeriousBusiness in the South because she used to work at a [=McDonald's=] in northwest North Carolina, where she would often have to leave customers waiting at the drivethru so she could start some tea. We simply ''could not'' keep up with the demand for sweet tea. A manager was once in tears because some idiot forgot to put sugar in the tea after brewing it, resulting in [[HumansAreBastards one customer screaming at her like a cranky toddler.]] * Not sure if it takes the tradition from American South, but Indonesians love their tea...ice cold, sweet, in the middle of a hot day. Not any tea, mind you, it's jasmine tea. Though traditional hot tea is just as popular, especially in the countryside. ** One particular brand of bottled tea has this catchphrase, "Apapun makanannya, minumnya Teh Botol Sosro!" Which means, "Whatever you eat, drink Sosro Bottled Tea!" Indonesians have a nasty sweet tooth, to boot. Often times the taste of the sweeteners overwhelms that of the tea. *** It's only fair to blame it on the Dutch and "their" sweet tooth. For reference, stroopwafel. ** Picture it this way. It's a hot, humid, 37+ degree Celsius (or

around 100 Fahrenheit). There are cars zooming everywhere, and a lot of people around you. You then go to a stall, orders one of these nice cold bottles, have them open it for you, and then, you take a swig. Absolutely refreshing. Either that or you drink it in a cold day, after you've eaten the common hot noodle-soups-with-meatballs they always sell in stalls. Cold, rainy day, and then you eat the warm, probably spicy noodle soup to warm your body up. What better way to end the feast than a botle of these jasmine tea? Yes, we Indonesians are crazy about it. *** And then they also introduced Tebs, Teh [=BerSoda=] (Soda-added jasmine tea). I can picture tea lovers everywhere else going nuts about the abomination (this Indonesian troper included), rest of Indonesia loves it. * As a person born in Soviet Union I approve this [[http://home.fazekas.hu/~nagydani/rth/Russian-tea-HOWTO-v3.html Russian Tea HOWTO]] (extensive view on tea cooking and history in Russia and CIS countries). * [[Tropers/FalseDawn This Irish Troper]] is still constantly amazed at just how important tea is to the average person here - from methods of preparation to fierce debates about which brand is superior (usually Barry's vs. Lyons; if you're wondering, it's ''definitely'' Barry's). In schools, for instance, often one of the main privileges associated with becoming a prefect is having your own little office, where you can make tea; accommodating teachers will often let you drink it in class, too. During World War Two, when there was very strict rationing, tea was actually one of the most sought-after black market goods in Ireland. * This (Polish)[[Tropers/TaiCat Troper]] always though that tea was something very precious.Back in Poland,she always had green and fruit tea,everyone there add lemon into their black tea which she didn't liked unless she put extra 3 spoonfuls in.As for the tea with milk,they call it 'Bavarian' out there..no idea.But anyway,Lipton and fruit teas are most common in Poland.Now that this troper emigrated to the UK,she drinks milky tea everyday .It became a butt joke among her friends that she's becoming a naturalized citizen.She also likes her green,white and other flavoured teas like Earl Grey or fruity.To add,selling the tea for the UK customers,milk is a very SeriousBusiness and she suffered their wrath when she forgot to bring it. * When Troper was visiting family in India, there was a [[SeriousBusiness strict]] set of rules as to when, how, and to whom tea was served. In the mornings, tea is given to the family as they wake up and to the servants before they begin work. In the afternoons, its served to the elderly. In the evenings, it is served as everyone returns from work or school. If you have a [[SacredHospitality guest, you give them tea on arrival]], no matter what time it is (if they brought a driver or servant with them, [[NiceToTheWaiter get that guy tea too]]). It can be the fancy masala chai with all the spices or just plain black/gray tea (no green or white tea; that stuff is for pansies). Unlike the other Asians, we missed the lactose-intolerance boat or something, because Indian tea always has milk in it. And this being South India, the tea can be replaced by our stereotypical filter

coffee anytime. Children who are too young for all that caffeine are indoctrinated with 'training coffee' (milk with Ovaltine/Horlicks/Boost). * Back when I was a kid, this troper would of course make a cup of tea the American way: plop a cup of water in the microwave and then drop a cheap bag into the cup after heating the water for about a minute and a half, often adding a fuckton of sugar. I genuinely have no idea why we do this, British tropers. Fast forward several years, and I'm boiling water in a kettle, pouring it over (Twinings) loose leaves in a strainer, and then adding plenty of milk after removing the strainer full of tea leaves three minutes later. Iced sweet tea isn't off the table either, unless it's made using that powdered crap everyone insists on calling "instant" tea. * My dad loves tea for breakfast. He even makes two cups of it! And if you think he's British, he's from Southern Illinois (although he spent most of his life in the Chicago area). He told me he doesn't like coffee. * This American troper asks, am I doing tea wrong? I never put sugar or milk in my tea (except for one or two times when I tried the "British" way) and I tend to just make my tea in my coffee maker. ** Personally, I'd use result as a kind of tea ''syrup'' that could be diluted with hot water to taste. Which sounds like a marvellous way to make a small quantity of expensive loose-leaf go a long way, actually... * This British troper, soon to be studying in the United States, is more than slightly worried about maintaining access to a ready supply of reasonably palatable tea. In a subversion, however, what I'm ''really'' going to miss is reasonably palatable [[MustHaveCaffeine instant coffee.]] * Any true Brit with the spirit of the Empire in their heart will know about toleration, hence the expression, Not My Cup Of Tea. People take their tea different ways, to their own taste. Mine's PG Tips, two nonheaped spoonfuls of sugar, with tiniest amount of milk to give it a beautiful golden brown hue. Cheers! * [[{{Tropers/Honeybrown1976}} This American Troper]] detests hot coffee (but will drink iced coffee, go figure) and simply adores tea. I take it the British way, three spoonfuls of sugar and a few drops of milk. I love it and I will keep drinking that way, thank you very much. * This American troper does often enjoy a good cup of Masala Chai with two spoons of brown sugar, just a dash of milk and steeped long enough for it to climb out of the cup and punch you in the face. I am sickened, however, by all the damned coffee houses selling iced chai lattes without offering the proper stuff. * This troper, whenever upset or unwell, breaks out the peach teabags and lucky peacock mug. She has gone through a box of twelve teabags in about a week in some cases. Being American and impatient, she takes it straight and it is DIVINE. * [[{{Tropers/wkcia}} My version]]: Take a pot of brewed Chinese tea (My personal favourite is Pu-erh tea, boiling water, 1 unheaped teaspoon per cup capacity, 6 minutes) a 500ML (or pint) beer stein, filled to the top with ice cubes, and pour the tea from the pot into

the stein. Enjoy. ** Or, if feeling less blasphemous: Loose Leaf English Breakfast from a Wholesaler, teapot, boiling water, 1 teaspoon per cup capacity, 6 minutes, *no strainer*, hint of milk, pour milk first. Refreshing! Also, if anyone puts sugar in their tea when it is hot come the revolution they shall be first against the wall. * This French troper does not understand why people insist on ruining their tea with milk and sugar, especially when we're talking about Earl Grey. On the other hand, tea is considered to be a girl drink or something old people like in her country and drinking tea rather than coffee will automatically make you a freak (we do have various different teas though). ** This American troper (the one above with the coffee maker) agrees, putting milk or sugar in your tea just seems like blasphemy! * [[{{Tropers/thelinguist}} I]] usually drink Earl Grey or plain black tea, loose, made in a porcelain teapot, lightly sweetened. While this behaviour sounds very British, as does my spelling, I have never liked milk in my tea, even though my whole family drinks it that way. I am also puzzled by the apparent consensus that Americans don't drink much tea. Nearly everybody I know inhales at least four or five cups a day. I must hang out with the right sort of people. * This troper's favorite cup of tea; Earl Grey (Two Leaves and a Bud or Twinings, usually the latter since it's cheaper) brewed to maximum strength, a dash of whole milk to give it the pleasant color, a teaspoon of honey, and a little bit (aprox. 0.25 teaspoon) of vanilla blend (not actual vanilla extract). She only drinks this every other morning though, otherwise she'll have green or oolong with nothing extra, though she does love the taste of green tea with honey and ginger or ginseng. ---Go back to the [[SpotOfTea main article]] to put the kettle on, guv. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SpringtimeForHitler * This editor attempted to escape his school's drama festival by, when forced to take part in the singing - specifically by people who utterly hated him - he picked a song that would be capable of insulting anyone with two brain cells to rub together, hoping to get himself outright disqualified. Unfortunately, the people taking acts were ''not'' one of the aforementioned anyones and he wound up forced to sing it on stage in front of the entire school. Students loved it. Teachers did not and he spent two solid weeks in detention. ** [[{{Iluvtvtropes}} This Troper]] wants to note that the above troper is his hero. ** What this troper wants to know is what the song was... ** "Springtime for Hitler"? * This troper had a similar experience when he was made to sing at one

point in a music class. This troper is a phenomenally bad singer, but rather than actually try, he apparently upstaged everyone actually trying with a horrifically bad version of the American national anthem. * Music class required we perform a classical song with instruments of our choosing every three weeks, one would think a death metal version of Greensleeves would fast put an end to being asked to perform in front of the class. Not so. ** That's because a death metal version of Greensleeves would be [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Awesome]]. * [[{{Churba}} This Troper]] does this for every theater audition, after it worked spectacularly the first time by accident - after screwing his intended audition hilariously badly, He stopped midway through, looked the Casting director and Stage director straight in the eyes and said "You know what? I can't sing, I can't dance, and I can't act." He was not only hired on the spot, he received local critical acclaim for the role - as a quasi-underworld man with a cynical, cold-hearted, mercenary personality placed into normal society by a woman inexplicably drawn to him, and who starts to question himself both morally and emotionally by the end of the play. The critics even noted "the long scraggly goatee sported by the lead character only stands as yet another stark contrast between the character and the world he's been drawn unwillingly into" (Actually, I just refused to shave off my goatee) and "The execution of the lead character's self examination was masterful to the point where it isn't just plausible, you really believe this is a man slowly accepting his own morality is fractured and abnormal, and isn't entirely comfortable with the idea, with the actor's performance lending a credibility to the role rarely seen in theater." (Nope - I'm just a terrible actor. It was entirely unintentional.) ** Wow. That's almost like an inversion of DisasterDominoes. * [[JethroQWalrustitty This Troper]] was attending a creative writing course where the teacher stated that [[SciFiGhetto he couldn't stand Science Fiction]], so, for this troper's second piece, he wrote a Sci Fi short story, only to be applauded by the teacher for being "confident". * When this troper was in high school, she tried to lower her GPA so she would not be salutatorian and therefore have to give a [[DeadpanSnarker speech]] at graduation. For reasons still unknown, she was named anyway. She's fairly sure it was either because the other major candidate failed Spanish or the principal was afraid of her mother. ** [[JapaneseTeeth This Troper]] successfully did that. Then the board decided that I was so close and had been working so hard (not really), that I should give a brief speech and present an award anyway. * I recently intentionally wrote a bad story, and even though it was purposely bad, I hated how bad it was. * [[ZeLnor This Troper]] considers himself the AnthropomorphicPersonification of this and MurphysLaw. It gets to the point where he wonders whether he has a superpower, namely failing in the most spectacular ways possible - near everything he does ends in MurphysLaw, and if he tries to be GenreSavvy by using this - he fails

at failing at failing. * During one visit to Buffalo Wild Wings, this troper was facing off against his mate in no-limit Texas Hold-Em poker on the restaurant's digital games. He was getting tired of the game, and so purposely went all-in ''twice'' in order to bust out. His mate matched the all-in bet...and got busted, himself, as a result. * [[{{Niddik}} This Troper]], for an AP Government project, made a campaign commercial for Bob Barr (the Libertarian candidate in the '09 election). He purposely tried to make it laughably over-the-top, with such fine details as creepy photoshopped pictures of Obama and McCain, a deep and echoey voiceover, and hyperbolic, exaggerated statements about how much better the nation would be with Bob Barr in the presidency. Apparently his teacher was so impressed that she showed it her other hours, and, moreover, it even ''convinced some people to vote Libertarian.'' * [[{{Turtleducks}} This troper's]] school is putting on a production of TheSoundOfMusic. Some of her friends decided they wanted to be [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]]. Their decision? All the Nazis should band together and ''actually sing SpringtimeForHitler''. When this troper told her mother their plan, she began wondering if it might become its own SpringtimeForHitler. However, the likelihood of this actually happening is slim to nil....sadly. * This (male) troper once tried to fail the "How Well do You Know Men" quiz and chose intentionally wrong answers... and got the highest result. Ouch. * This troper was easily the laziest Little Leaguer in existence. He hated playing in the outfield, since our infield sucked and there was way too much damn running involved. So one day he decides he's not running in the outfield at all. He's gonna stand there and not run for the ball at all. He got 7 fly balls hit straight at him. * Everyone in my school thought that I was incapable of losing any game with teams invovled. So I purposely tried to fail, and I got every question right. Screw random games of chance. * A friend of mine entered a creative writing workshop thing during the school holidays one year, wherein they had to write several short stories. He wrote two short stories, one of which (a science fiction story) he was particularly proud of -- and both were marked very low by the (all female) judges, who had a very low opinion of science fiction and criticised his work for having no heart. So for the third and final short story (wherein they had to write a story based on several pictures), my friend decided '''"You want heart? I'll show you heart!!!"''' and wrote the most sickeningly glurge-filled TastesLikeDiabetes {{Narm}}ful story he could possibly write involving a poor dying old man, his young granddaughter and an adorable little puppy -- he submitted it, fuming, hoping that the judges would get his point. When he got it back he saw that it had ''full marks'', and a judge had written a comment like "This is the most touching story I've ever read! You didn't fulfill all the criteria, but I couldn't bear to mark it down!" Not only that, but ''there were tear stains on the pages''. * This Troper is a complex thing. You see, when I want to succeed at something, it will become EPIC FAIL. I have about 100 incidents that I

can refer to. But when I want to fail at something, God is like, "No" and it suddenly becomes EPIC WIN. This becomes tricky, because when I intentionally fail, as to cheat the "system", it just becomes a regular fail. Moral of the story, "Don't cheat God. Let him decide whether or not you fail or win. Because he's going to make it EPIC." ** Your name isn't [[{{Seinfeld}} George Costanza]] by any chance, is it? * This troper tried to be a JerkJock for a day and try to become a [[HiddenHeartOfGold jerk whos heart of gold is kept hidden well away]], and failed miserably. I wore one of those jackets, a snug red short sleeve shirt and long shorts. I even forgot to shave that day. What happens? I become adored by everyone, the exact opposite result and my one attempt to make Freshman jokes ended up giving the Soccer team its missing player that got the win that Saturday. * This troper's mother works for a cell phone repair company as a phone operator. She is docked for long calls. Mother has thus calculated exactly how much she can slack off at her job to get her full pay raise, as opposed to doing the best job she can for the customer and being docked in pay for long calls. Suffice to say, Mother is not pleased she's basically being forced to do a bad job to get paid the most. * The less this Troper does at his job, the more he gets praised for his work technique. The more he does, the more it bites him in the butt. Apathy seems to be the way to go. ** [[OfficeSpace Hey don't you have a meeting with the Bob's you need to get to?]] * MWchase: "It's getting late. I'll only play one more round of this, then go to bed." ... (three hours later) ... "WHY CAN'T I LOSE?" * One of this troper's friends made a Youtube video (called "Potato Skins") simply because he was bored and needed to create something, and never expected anything to come of it. He's now on Potato Skins TEN. * DrThinker: Sometime ago, I remarked that a Japanese Superhero Vs. Video Game Stars game on his website's forum that wouldn't becoming over--but then Capcom revealed that it is--with Added Characters! * [[IWinTheInternets This troper]] is fond of this. His art project which scored him an Excellence grade for being, ''"Audacious, bold and satirical in a primal and simplistic manner."'' was a torn piece of box cardboard with the word ART written in super glue. ** The arts tend to be like this in general, since TrueArtIsIncomprehensible. * [[{{Fishsicles}} This troper]] had it played on him in a rather cruel manner. I entered a programming contest held by one of the IRC channels I frequent, and wrote deliberately obfuscative code to manufacture an inside joke... it backfired when I found out it was an '''OBFUSCATED''' Perl contest and I took first place. * My friends have decided that I am a superhero off of the fact that I can not fail when I attempt to. I can manage to win battles in Star Wars Battlefront despite haveing '''100 deaths''' in one battle. Once your entire team dies 150 times, you lose. Yes, I can fail so spectacularly at failing as to die over twice as much as my normaly incompentent army. I, still to this day, have yet to lose. Damn my

army's ability to perform at ten times the normal level of competence. * This troper took over an NPC for a game of {{Runequest}}. The idea was to get something wrong on the boat on purpose, but so it looked like an accident. The character fumbled... Critically... This was a subversion, because something on the boat ACTUALLY went wrong... * My friend and I once tried to have a Fail Day, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a day where everything we did made us out to be a failure, preferably a comical one]]. First period, I screwed that up. A girl lost her earring outside and worried about teachers hassling her when she went out to get it. I piped in with a clearly joking attempt to get myself in trouble for threatening teachers: "If any try, I'll beat them up for you!" She asked me to go outside with her and help her look, and we kinda, uh, bonded (no, not like that, get your mind out of the gutter). The only time I can succeed with girls is when I'm trying to fail! * A common story in this troper's circle of friends is about a teacher some of his friends had. This teacher had established a completely [[GameBreaker game breaking]] grading mechanic: during a test, one could bring in a can of food for extra points. There were no exceptions to this rule. One kid purposely failed a test, then brought in a bunch of canned food, and ended up getting over 100%. * [[Tropers/{{Onyhow}} This troper]] was playing ''Club House Games'' on Stamp mode, Normal, and faced {{chess}}. Since he sucks at chess, he tried to lose deliberately to gain a stamp, then lose again to get 2nd stamp and go onto another stage. So, he moved the king out in the open, hoping for quick checkmate for him, only for the computer to tried to check the king with queen, leaving it exposed to my queen and leaving forces on the right flank in a very bad position to get slaughtered by my queen. Then it proceeded to make more mistakes by spreading the forces and tried to continuously check him instead of moving its pieces to a more favorable position, ending with him checkmating it with his queen and a rook. So, he gained 3 stamps, and having a spare for next stage...huh? * [[Tropers/{{Jadey}} This troper]] once half-assed and pretty much scribble-colored a drawing for this cover design contest at her old grade school. She then got 3rd place. * This troper is absolutely unable to read a map correctly. He always end up going the wrong direction. When he tries to be Genre Savvy about it and deliberately take the wrong way, it ends up to be just that. The wrong way. * This troper never seems to attract the kinds of women he's interested in, and since he has some pretty major communications difficulties (a mix of Asperger's and frighteningly low self-esteem), has been known to sandbag women who aren't his type to get rid of them. It never works. * This troper's brother often tries to show her some of the "epic deaths" he can get in games. 9 times out of 10, he fails to die. * This troper REALLY dislikes piano lessons. One day, my piano teacher had me play a song I didn't like, so I tried to play every note wrong. I played it perfectly and she congratulated me on it. * In one game of ''MarioParty 3,'' T.T. tried to purposefully ''lose'' all her coins, for a reason she doesn't remember (she may, however,

have been trying to let her sister win.) She landed on Game Guy's square. She bet all her coins on the tiny, 64x Modifier square, fully hoping to lose. She won. When she attempted to lose at Game Guy ''again,'' figuring she couldn't possibly hit the 64x square ''again,'' not only did she succeed, she ended up with ''999 coins.'' Talk about failing at failing. * Played straight many times (not always) when I (there are times and places I want to use the term ''this troper;'' now is not the time) face someone I know at any racing game, be it Mario Kart (reduce speed), Burnout (crash), Need for Speed (drive in reverse) or Ridge Racer 6/7 (try hard not to drift). Three guesses to who won. Better blame my video game racing skills (and their lack thereof) dating back to the late 20th century. * This troper hates writing debates or articles. So he deliberately picks topics that are controversial, and picks the backward discriminatory and just plain wrong viewpoint , so as to fail them thereby show he hates doing them. However, I seem to do such a bad job that I alwayss get A's and my arguments end up changing peoples minds. This troper managed to win the debate, proposing that 'Smoking is Good for you.' * When this troper was young, he believed that [[{{SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids}} love sucked]] and suffered from a ParalyzingFearOfSexuality. To ensure that he'd be passed by as a prospective love interest, he grew his hair long, dressed all in black, angsted a lot and otherwise ignored members of the opposite sex. [[{{AllGirlsWantBadBoys}} Guess how they responded?]] * This troper got frustrated by a conversation while bowling with his family one time, and started messing up intentionally. In his first frame he decided to get an intententional gutterball. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Instead, he bowled a strike]]. ---Back to [[SpringtimeForHitler Hitler's springtime]]. (That'll keep them away.) ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SpySpeak * This troper remembers a commercial which involved two people talking in the same elaborate sort of code. It ended with a third person standing there cautioning both of them, "The circus elephant has lost its way." The two looked confusedly at each other, trying to work out what that was code for, and then had to scramble to get out of the way of an elephant coming down the street. * This troper was working with a number of people on restoration works at a cathedral. Among the equipment given to two of the team members working on top of the central tower was a walkie talkie, which they flagrantly abused to send mock Spy Speak messages to the other end all afternoon. They consisted mostly of cryptic statements regarding wolves and hawks, until suddenly the message was passed on that "the sheep have escaped from the bishop's garden". Further enquiry revealed that they were in fact telling the truth, and the next half hour was

spent herding a flock of ewes back into the lands around the bishop's "palace". ---[[SpySpeak You can fly back with the flamingos here. I repeat: you can fly back with the flamingos here.]] ----

Squee * This Troper - a {{Perky Goth}}, {{Otaku}}, {{Quincy Punk}} - is prone to tons of squeeing whenever she sees Flogging Molly - which is her favorite band of all time - performing in concert, performing a set in a music fest, or doing an interview. Heck, you should've seen me watch the Coachella 2011 webcast - I was squeeing even the afternoon before the performance because I was that excited to see them perform. I am also very prone to squeeing at seeing people cosplay as my favorite anime characters at anime cons. Some examples include - Getting hugged by people cosplaying as my two favorite {{D Gray man}} characters (Daisya Barry and Crown Clown!Allen) at Anime Los Angeles 2010, seeing somebody cosplay as [[{{Hetalia}} Sweden]] at Anime Expo 2011, accidentally bumping into a [[{{One Piece}} Sanji]] cosplayer at Anime Expo 2011 since I was also cosplaying as Sanji when we bumped into each other, seeing the only other {{Gintama}} cosplayer at Pacific Media Expo 2011 (we were both Gintoki), and seeing the most fantastic [[{{D Gray man}} Tyki Mikk]] cosplayer at Mikomi Core 2009. * [[{{Tropers/Lurkerbunny}} This troper]] has been known to make a high-pitched "Eep!" noise whenever she sees or hears about... [[RobinWilliams a certain comedian]]. And that's just when she's in public. She actually Squees when she's alone. ** So ''you're'' the one behind the "Robin Williams is God" WMG. * This troper's (adult) goddaughter lives out of state and they only see each other perhaps twice a year. The standard greeting is a highpitched "EEEEEEEE" while embracing furiously. The usual onlookers (goddaughter's brother and/or boyfriend, and/or Troper's husband) usually roll their eyes, to which the only appropriate response is, "If we have to explain squee, you wouldn't understand." ** This troper and her almost-aunt (Mom's best friend) see each other rarely, so squee ensues. What's funnier is that her mom does the same thing. You haven't seen funny until you've seen two middle-aged women jumping up and down and squealing like demented teenage fangirls. * [[Tropers/HopelessRomance This troper]] is quite prone to doing this. ''Especially'' over Blaine and Kurt from {{Glee}}. It took all the strength I had not to squee at the end of "Silly Love Songs". I knew my parents wouldn't be too happy if my squees silenced the TV. * This female troper "squeed" (yes, she verbed it) when receiving the news that she would be getting a tour of the stadium (for lack of a better word) of her favorite baseball team ** This troper (same as above) also Squeed when she saw in a catalog that there were Season DVD sets of Mythbusters. She wants them. Very badly.

** This same troper's most recent Squee-causing event was seeing a VHS of the second Indiana Jones movie FOR 25 CENTS at her school library's media sale. She bought it. * This troper was at uni and talking with a group of friends. The topic came on to a popular film series and the troper happened to mention that he knew an actor who played a small but significant role in said series. At which point one of his friends, who was lying down on the bed in the corner apparently asleep, ''shot bolt upright'' as though someone had just electrified the bed, and made a sound that really can only be described as "squee". * This troper usually doesn't literally squee, but sometimes when she's geeking out, it escapes in something like "and it's gonna be so awesome EEEEE I can't wait!" She thinks her friends are waiting for her to let a good, loud, high-pitched one out. * This troper AND her sister AND her best friend all set to shrieking, in unison, in an ungodly high pitch, during various wrestling PPVs where someone returns or a match happens or a Hardy brother starts looking particularly hot. To the point where the troper's mostly deaf father was even screaming for it to stop. * I'm male. It was announced that Stephen Moffat is taking over the lead writing role for Doctor Who. Falsetto occurred. * [[{{Magus}} This male troper]] squeed while reading the Player's Handbook II for DungeonsAndDragons 4e. They brought back the Bard! And the Druid! And the Sorcerer!! * This troper Squee'd after finally getting [[{{Defrosting Ice Queen}} Himuro Reiichi]] in Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side. Hot looks, glasses, voiced by Koyasu Takehito, YOUR HOMEROOM TEACHER, and in the end he's blushing as he confesses his love for you, SQUEEEEEEEE * dies* * This troper squeed when [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] referenced TV Tropes. Considering how much I fangirl him normally... * [[{{Midna}} I]] tend to release a high-pitched "Eeeeee!" noise whenever I see [[TheLegendOfZelda Midna]] or [[AzumangaDaioh Osaka]]. Not coincidentally, I have PerverseSexualLust for both. * This troper doesn't squee in a fangirlish way but she could probably crack wineglasses if she sees anything she wants to read or watch for sale in shop. * Recipe for squee: Step 1 - bring laptop to anime club. Step 2 introduce ''{{Potemayo}}'' to any of your anime-loving female friends at your anime club by showing them episode 1. Step 3 - Stand aside from torrent of squee when Potemayo is on screen or Guchuko starts mending things with tape; "Oh my God I don't know what it is but I want it!" (direct quote). [[AckSed This troper]] may or may not have picked up the habit himself from hanging around [=LiveJournal=]. * This troper became online friends with a fellow online user elsewhere, which was consistent for years. For the past year, for whatever reason, she became an Avatar fanatic almost overnight, which thereafter prompted her to seemingly abandon any logic in her conversations and become a complete stranger to the troper! * This troper bends her knees, curls her spine, and makes a choking sound whenever something awesome happens. This has been parodied multiple times, much to her chagrin. ** This troper does this as well. Sometimes the choking sound is

accompanied by a demented sort of strangled hissing. This is, of course, me suppressing loud squeeing. But don't tell anyone. ** This troper makes that hissing noise as well. Luckily it's quiet, so people don't notice. * This Troper does not Squee, But I once had someone Squee once they learned who I was. (I was something of a high school celebrity, but I could never figure out why) * [[TsundeRay This]] NightmareFetishist of a troper is going through the manga version of ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' right now, and oh god it's even better than the anime oh god the scenes of [[spoiler:Rena at the door and Rena with a big freaking knife]] in the Onikakushi-hen arc are even better and i'm giggling and uncontrollably smiling from squee overload i'm going to have a happy kind of breakdown ** {{Wheezy}}: [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean If you know what he means...]] * This troper was looking for her elusive potbellied pigs after they disappeared for several days. She found one female had had piglets-and abandoned the entire litter. Unfortunately, they were all mashed up--or so i had thought. I was walking back to the house when my current cat had come up to me and jumped back. i looked down and saw a tiny piglet the size of my fist following me. It had followed me nearly half a mile before i realized. i picked it up and it kissed my chin with a 'SQUUUEEEEK!" i went AWWWWWWWWW! Absolute Squee. * This troper had much the same reaction as [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TychoGabeSquee.jpg these two]] upon reading that GoldenSun 3 was (finally) being made. * This troper often typed "Squee!" in lieu of other similar stuff a couple of years ago. In the HBP movie, she had to stuff her knuckles into her mouth to keep the "Squee!" in when Snape appeared. :D * This Troper, despite being a 6 ft tall guy weighing over 78 kg, had one after the end of FullmetalAlchemist chapter 97. Oh boy. * [[DarkInsanity13 This troper]] doesn't squee in real life very often (as she's often around people that she has to hold a respectable reputation around), but in place she [[SlasherSmile grins like a maniac]] when no one's looking. More likely than not, she's squeeing in her head, and it's something anime related. * This troper is male, yet enjoys seeing pictures of cute animals. This is normally conveyed by a [[InvaderZim GIR-worthy]] Awwwwwwwww which sounds more like "Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". * [[{{Guji}} This troper]] just squee'd at a commercial- for frigging SHAM-WOW! Apparently, I was excited to see the "Great Vince Offer" on Australian television. * This male troper when ever Kitty Pryde, Stephine Brown or Cassandra Cain appear in anything makes a high pitched noise followed by there name. * This Troper tends to have this reaction to cute young girls in fiction -- especially CreepyChild or EnfantTerrible types, GrotesqueCute, and the title character and Adorea from ''FrankenFran''. Sometimes combined with [=~I'm Taking Her Home With Me!~=] * I often try to supress my squees or cries in response to something awesome, but it really makes my throat feel weird. Also, I much enjoy hearing my some of my friends squee, and they enjoy hearing each

other's squees. It can get a bit hard to stop. Also, loving RapunzelHair makes it hard to play [[TouhouProject Imperishable Night]]. * I must admit, I have Squee'd twice in my life. Once while reading GoodOmens, because the HoYay between Aziraphale and Crowley is just so adorable, and once when I loaded up my iPod after not having it for several months. ** I may have also squeed several times while reading Good Omens. My roommates must be so confused. * I was watching a review on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses on anime themes. I was like "Okay, no [[CowboyBebop "Tank"]], okay... [[SuzumiyaHaruhi "Hare Hare Yukai"]], of course..." and then I was like "Okay, NeonGenesisEvangelion wasn't in, I heard that was good. I wonder what could possibly - [[AzumangaDaioh SQUEE!]] * Fire Emblem makes This Troper squee once the swordmasters show up. Oh, ''yes''. * And when This Troper found out about a possible Pikmin 3... * This Troperette makes a high-pitched "NYUUUU!" sound whenever she sees something adorable (or, well, what SHE qualifies as adorableturtle frogs, anyone?). * [[{{onyhow}} This troper]] after he sees [[http://fabien.li/tvtropes/Sketchbook%20Full%20Colors%2013%2024.26.jp g this picture]]. He wait for [[{{ARIA}} these]] [[{{Sketchbook}} two]] works to get a crossover, and that one picture is enough! And then there's the announcement of ARIA the Piano Collection II... * Puppies playing. Just...puppies playing. * This was approximately this troper's reaction when she found out that Chris Pine, whom she had fangirled over to a ridiculous extent in the ''Princess Diaries'' sequel, had been cast as [[Film/StarTrek Kirk]]. She was excessively grateful the theater she saw it in was basically empty, because she and her close (gay) friend spent the entire thing squeeing like maniacs. * [[JET73L This]] 6'3" male troper tends to use the "gweee!" variation (usually quietly from trying to hold it in, since it's semiautonomous) for exciting things (from realizing the library now carries a series I like to... Well, let's just say "adorable stuff between fictional characters"). However, he uses "Awwwwwwwwww..." for [[EverythingsCuterWithKittens kittens]] (his one weakness...) and "gwuh-" for what would be "ohmygodsthatissohotidon'teven* inhale* " moments for more vocal people. * This trope tends to squeak when he reads or watches something particularly awesome in one of his half dozen fandoms, i.e. stumbling across TurtlesForever by complete accident. The reactions went something like: --> "Oh cool, TMNT, which episode is this?" --> "Wait, why are there eight?" --> {{Squee}}! "OMG! It's the '87 turtles!" * [[LeighSabio This Troper]], after watching "[[StarTrekTOS Plato's Stepchildren]]" -->Spock. Out of control. Kirk. Skimpy toga. Uhura. Interracial kiss. Squeeeeeeeeeeeeee! * hyperventilates* ** Also parodied, when [[LeighSabio the same troper]] heard a group of

boys in her youth group talking about how Robert Pattinson has gained such a fan following, and how they really don't like him. This Troper, in a very fake voice and full SarcasmMode, walked over and said "Did you say Robert Pattinson? {{Squee}}." [[DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm They didn't get the sarcasm, and actually asked me if I was a twihard.]] * This troper tends to do this whenever something a) adorable/romantic happens or b) when something {{Badass}} happens. An example of a) was when she wad reading ''FruitsBasket'' at her grandparents house, and [[spoiler: Tohru and Kyo had their first kiss]]. She then squealed very loudly and had her entire family reading over her shoulder. And example of b) is whenever she reads ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' and Fai and/or Kurogane do/say something {{Badass}}, she starts squeeing and proclaiming how awesome they are. She kind of feels sorry for her dad, who is usually the closest person when she wants to fangirl over it. * On the rare moments when [[{{Kaizykat}}this Troper]] is [[{{CutenessProximity}} overcome with cuteness]] she visibly shakes and squees. This can also happen when she's excited. She's actually quite good at playing down awe for other people for the simple fact that fangirling can be annoying. * [[BlossomMorphine This troper]] has often failed to stifle the soft squeak of joy she releases upon 1) Listening to Peter Cullen talk 2) Being notified a favorite fic has been updated 3) Playing around with the Star Wars soundboard (she has a thing for voices) 4) Getting her copy of Unseen Academicals 5) the tea is done steeping. And other related awesome happening. * This Troper has had to sit at in front of the computer covering her mouth and silently giggling because of a picture/video/etc. because her family was nearby. Which is why she usually watches an episode of Series/DoctorWho alone the first time. She actually re-watched the Master's regeneration scene in Utopia because the first time she watched it her parents were nearby and she couldn't let out the squees. And then there was the time she found an ABC commercial on YouTube... Which included Dominic Monaghan replying to some one saying "You are so dead!" with "Actually I was." Her reaction was: O.O EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! * insane giggling that turns into laughter* EEEEEEE! [[LOST CHARLIEEEEEEEEEEE!]] ** (Luckily she was home alone.) * [[{{Vendetta}} This troper's]] friend makes this exact noise whenever a "cute" guy walks past. * This troper made a fantasy cast suggestion at the AxeCop [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/Axe-Cop/271045833946 Facebook page.]] Ethan Nicolle himself commented on it. [[http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=11971&post=53850&uid=2710458 33946#post53850 See for yourselves.]] * ThisTroper's reaction to almost every scene in The Wachowski [[strike: Brothers']] Siblings' ''SpeedRacer''. * This Troper literally said "SQUEEEEE!" when she first saw Ienzo, the Other of Zexion, number VI of KingdomHearts's Organization XIII. He's. so. freaking. adorable! <3 * {{Miso}} can usually make this exact noise when coming across fanfic for [[{{Aerosmith}} certain]] [[{{Kiss}} bands]] [[{{Rammstein}} she]]

[[{{Nightwish}} likes]]. So long as they're [[YaoiFangirl not]] [[RealPersonSlash het]]. * Try this math: 2 female figure skaters + Super hot male figure skating Olympic champion = [[{{Understatement}} MUCH SQUEEING]]. * Oh God this troper...she squees at almost ANYTHING involing charaters she loves the most that are non-yaoi. * This Troper, when extremely excited about something fandom related, will actually start to twitch, giggle inanely and occasionally yelp. It's only happened a few times. * This Troper remembers reading about the games Nintendo announced at E3. Oh, they're making a sequel to Super Mario Galaxy? Sounds fun. Oh, a new Metroid game? Very nice. What else? ... GOLDEN SUN DS? At this point I said "EEEEE! YES! YES!" * [[{{Joerc45}} For this troper]], [[HaruhiSuzumiya Yuki Nagato]], just...everything about her makes him squee. Her {{moe}} [[TheWoobie woobieness]], her {{Stoic Spectacles}}, her [[WhenSheSmiles smile]], squuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! ^_^ My squee went {{up to eleven}} after seeing this [[http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=info&ref=profile&id=1180396935 #!/photo.php?pid=30996364&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=29318430325&i d=1319384152 pic]]. I mean, [[PlayboyBunny wow]], this is [[FetishFuel jaw-dropping!]] [[IllBeInMyBunk I'll be in my bunk]] ^_^. * This troper decided to borrow the 2009 BBC film of {{Hamlet}} and promised to herself that just because [[Series/DoctorWho David Tennant]] was in it, she wouldn't do this and instead use the film for studying in preparation for her exam. However, as soon as she saw [[PatrickStewart who was playing Claudius]], the whole thing became less of a study session and more of a [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Doctor Who v. Star Trek]] squee fest/{{Nerdgasm}}. And it was ''awesome''. * [[Tropers/AnnaTheCrow This she-troper]] goes "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!" when there isn't anyone who she could scare with this (aka friends, parents or brother). She also grins maniacaly and wiggles her fingers. The cause is usually either cuteness-overload from photos of animals or anything from her mental list "Works of Win". Last time, it was an article about Dreamfall: Chapters [[hottip:* : Kian! EEE!!! Zo! EEE!!! A new character! EEEEE!!!!]]. * Although [[MattyChanHazel This Troper]] does this enough over Pokemon and DavidTennant, the prize in my family must go to "Mini", my cousin. --> Me: Oh, did you hear? DavidTennant's playing the baddie in the new St. Trinian's film. --> Mini: Wait. DavidTennant. In St. Trinian's. --> Me: I know, it's gonna be great, isn't it? --> Mini: IYAAAAAAAAAAAAAH OH MY GOD DAVID TENNANT IN ST. TRINIAN'S!!!! --> (half an hour later) --> Mum: Okay, clamed her down. For the love of God, ''no one mention Series/DoctorWho or St. Trinian's until we see the film!!'' * This troper tends to squee whenever she sees something Logan Lerman/Percy Jackson related. And if it's new, exciting information, it's usually followed by a ClusterFBomb.

* This troper ''woke her mom up'' by squeeing after seeing the replies for something I did for a fanmeme. Averted everywhere else, as I just get incredibly fidgety after seeing surprising (in a good way!) things in fandoms I like. * In this troper's high school anime club, we mostly watched ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' and their were around seven to ten girls who would squee their brains out every time Boota appeared on the screen. I quit soon after. * This Troper went crazy upon first seeing the trailer for StarWars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. It was in a hotel lounge, so I was standing right in front of the TV with my brother and someone had to ask me to move. Similar things happened with every piece of information released before the release of TheDarkKnight. * The noise this troper makes when she sees something cute does not sound like "squee". It sounds like "Neef! Neef! Neef!" It means the same thing though. * This Troper squeed when he found scanned copies of Thomas Jefferson's letters online from the Library of Congress. They were even legible! ** I don't know who you are, but I ''love'' you. * This troper has squeed many a time while in the presence of cats. If they are not rabidly attacking me, their presence reduces me to a combination of awws, squeals and cuddles. I also squeed a little when I received my official notice saying I'm a registered voter. This troper does not attempt to argue that she has normal interests. * This Troper's friend has an older sister who does this in a {{deviantART}} message whenever she finds out that I'm coming over. Nowadays, it's a bit of a running gag. * I do this...basically whenever I'm unexpectedly excited. And in general when SummerGlau is mentioned. I also tend to make affectionate "hmmm" noises in the back of my throat when somebody I like does something sweet or funny. * [[Tropers/LongLiveHumour I'm]] a very silent person, so it's very hard to cope with squeeing situations. Until recently I was, well, silent -- who can tell what awful damage might have been done if I'd had to bottle it all in all the time? Fortunately I found an exit. Now whenever I feel like shouting for joy (general happiness or obsessionfuelled squee) I make a sort of asthmatic "eeeeeeee" sound in the back of my throat; mostly undetectable, unembarrassing and wholly satisfying. It also makes me feel like a kettle (but since when was that a bad thing?) * I make a loud high pitched noise whenever my baby sister does something cute * A dinner conversation ended up on the topic of [[{{Romantic Comedy}} Hugh Grant]]. Because some of the people present were unfamiliar with the name, this troper began to list some of his movies - namely [[{{Love Actually}} Love Actually]]. When asked if he was the [[{{Even the guys want him}} Prime Minister]] [[{{Estrogen Brigade Bait}} David]], answering in the affirmative wrought an ear piercing fan-girl squee and a simultaneous [[{{Empathic Environment}} rejoicing]] from the [[{{Hot Wind}} wind]]. * This troper, a 21 year old male, actually squeed when, in Pokemon

Soul Silver, his very first egg hatched into Togepi. * This tropette has squeed multiply times in her life, the most recent incident (a few seconds ago) occurring when reading on this very wiki that KimiNiTodoke was getting another season next January. * This troper will occasionally go 'Eee!' over something she finds especially enjoyable, but is mostly given to wide slightly unnerving (or so I'm told) grinning. When around others, this is toned down to grinning whilst biting the side of one finger to avoid any fangirlish reaction. Also gets rather squeeful about her dog. But then so does the rest of her family (including her teenage brother, to her amusement). * This Troper recently did fanart for {{Lightbringer}} and posted it on deviantART. It was quickly faved by [[AtopTheFourthWall Lewis Lovhaug]] himself. There are not enough exclamation points in the world to convey the squee!! -flail* This gay troper and his sister once saw Orlando Bloom. IN THE FLESH. Okay, it was from across a crowded street, but there was still much squee. * This troper have never really squee that much until chapter 210 of {{Fairy Tail}} when her secret ship finally get some teasing it deserved. Still recovering from it, but her face have changed into a weird smile face and she can't stop squee-ing in her mind. * This troper squees. A lot. Three of the most notorious examples would be A) Meeting my friend during the year (We live in separate states), B) Getting Pokemon Heart Gold (I love Pokemon and Gold was the very first videogame I ever played), and C) Learning that Pokemon Black/White was set in New York (I live in New York City). * This troper squeed at some of the entries on this page. *blush* She's not surprised- she squees quite often, most notably when discovering something amazing/awesome about something she enjoys. Just today she squeed at the fact that they are making a movie out of the ''Wicked'' musical. SQUEE! :D * This troper remembers watching an episode of DuckDodgers. Oh, he's eaten a puffer fish, this should be good. Huh, he's dressed in a kimono now? And what's that thing with eyebrows on fi- HOLY FRAKKING MORK ONNA STICK IT'S SAMURAI JACK!!!! The rest of the episode was watched with an unbelievable grin of fangasmic proportions. ** I believe I did exactly that upon seeing that episode. * This gay troper makes high pitch "Eeeeeee!!!" noise whenever [[EverythingsCuterWithKittens kittens]], InvaderZim, [[DeathNote L]], or JunjouRomantica are mentioned. I also sqeed when I found out that Amelia Tan/Destroyx of Angelspit likes The Knife. * This troper likes to pair countries. When she sees her favorite nation-ship mentioned? She lets out a squee that could shake down the house. * This troper is a postpubescent male, and as such cannot easily make "squee" noises. However, he is not immune to the reaction: When I read the official annoncement of Mass Effect 3, and saw the trailer, my jaw dropped as far as it can go, my eyes popped open, and I let out a sort of crazy, gasping chuckle. It sounded kind of like this: "HUUUUUUHHHHHHH-HUH-HUH-ha-ha-ha-ha-aaaaahhhhhh... wow. Awesome" ** I would do the usual "are you me" bit, but my noise was more like

courage the cowardly dog's "YES!" * This female troper just saw the Season 10 premier of {{Smallville}}, and HAD to come over here to say how much she Squeed throughout the episode.... (like when pa Kent showed up.) (and the ending. OHMYGODITSDARKSEID!!!!!!!!!!!) * This troper has an inner fangirl who stands right next to him, whenever he says Squee she appears, but [[IWannaBeTheGuy the fruit floating above my head falls down on me, I die, and I have to press "R" to retry.]] I managed to use the [[AwesomeYetPractical fruit as a weapon.]] * This troper lets out an (almost) unintentional squeal of "KITTENS!" whenever kittens are present or the prospect that I will soon have a kitten is mentioned. It generally stops my train of thought right KITTENS! * This troper has to put up with his significant other's annual "Squeeing"... Thank God she's a hottie... ^_^ * As a guy, this troper doesn't squee. However, I internally squeed when a figurine of [[FateStayNight a certain badass knight girl's]] SuperpoweredEvilSide was delivered from Amazon. * This she-Troper managed a "GNEE!" of HannahIsNotABoysName proportions with a lot of curled fingers wriggling underneath the chin and a manic spine-tingling hop up when she got Mass Effect 1 and 2 for Xbox360 AND the Tron: Legacy soundtrack by Daft Punk this past Christmas. Most of the time, said she-Troper doesn't Squee, its more of squirming in place and hissing inwards happily. * This Troper squees everytime she sees one of her favorite bishounen on T.V. or Internet. (to be specific, it's almost always Shun from Bakugan)And almost everytime she gets scolded by her mom or by her younger sister. * This (male, heterosexual) Troper literally jumped to his feet during the [[spoiler: Kurt Blaine kiss]] in Glee's "Original Song" and let out a Squee of epic proportions. Being surrounded by close friends and family who had come over to watch the episode with me this should have been highly embarrassing and awkward. Except they were doing it too. ** [[@/{{Smilingsoprano}} I]] watched that episode in a public place, and was literally ''shaking'' through every scene with Kurt and Blaine because of repressed {{Squee}}. ''[[spoiler: AND THE KISS]]''!!! *** This troper was at a friend's house when watching this episode, and said friend's sister squee-ed pretty much through the entire commercial break. And at regular intervals for the rest of the evening. I'd be lying if I said I didn't take my hand off my mouth for about five minutes straight. It's official, Glee ''is'' Klaine now. *** This (male) troper watched that episode at about four in the morning and had to practically smother himself to keep from awakening his roommates with squee. *** Double subverted by me. This episode was the first Glee episode that this troperess watched. She didn't squee, but she DID have a great many pervy thoughts about what else those two handsome boys could DO, {{If You Know What I Mean}}. She also immediately pegged Kurt as {{Uke}} and Blaine as {{Seme}}. Mmmmmmmmm... delicious mankissing... [[YaoiFangirl I love it!]] *** [[{{Tropers/Sharysa}} This troper]] let out an epic Squee when

watching Original Song, had an insane smile plastered to her face for the rest of the episode, and couldn't get to sleep until ''midnight'' because she was so damn happy. *** [[{{Tropers/SparkyYoungUpstart}} This Troper]]'s family did not just squee. We cheered. We also cheered at [[spoiler: Sam and Mercedes getting together]]. * This is what I thought when KingdomHeartsRecoded was announced for release in the US. * This troper did this out loud with family in the room when he first read that they were making a movie of ''TheForeverWar''. * This writer was the recipient of a squee in a review. It almost feels like an honor. * This troper doesn't do it that much, only when her friend [[LesYay teases her]] with [[YaoiFangirl Vincent/Cloud]] stuff. Actually, only do it when I talk with said friend. * This troper isn't one to go "fangirl" a lot, but when she sees [[spoiler: [[http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/352/b/7/briefers_rock_by_stro beari-d354hfa.jpg Brief's]]]] face (from ''PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'') she can't help but let out a little scream! Then she blames it on the [[MindScrew Mind Screwness]] of it... * Quite a few things do that for me, really. A few times when [[FullmetalAlchemist Ed Elric]] [[ShirtlessScene took his shirt off]] (and I'm an ''[[DracoInLeatherPants Envy fangirl]]'')! ** And, just to prove how [[CloudCuckoolander weird I am]], I actually had this reaction to [[EdEddandEddy Double D]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext stripping]]...hmm, it seems I fall victim to this with ShirtlessScenes... * This troper has done this several times- like when LittleKuriboh was still on Youtube, and I first watched,'Bakura's True Feelings'. Being a huge Thiefshipper, I squeed very loudly for about five minutes non stop after watching it. I was surprised no one ran in asking if I was being murdered! Also, the Master's return in Utopia (I was watching it with my family this time!). When it was revealed, I shrieked and jumped up and down screaming 'HE'S BACK! HE'S BACK! HE'S BAAACK!!!' The looks on my family's faces were priceless. Also whenever my favourite pairings happen in fanfiction, especially yaoi and yuri <3 * My two favorite shows are Doctor Who and Criminal Minds. I went to the Gallifrey One Convention in Feb 2011, where I had been squeeing a lot (after all, Peter Davison was there, my favorite classic series Doctor, along with his Season 19 entourage!) So, a few days after the convention was over, I was watching the latest episode of Criminal Minds, and this conversation came up: ->Seaver: Is that the one where they fly around in the phone booth? ->Reid: First of all, it's a police box. Not a phone booth. Second of all, Doctor Who started a quarter of a century before Bill and Ted even went on their bodacious adventures so really they should have just called it Bill and Ted's Excellent Rip-off. At least then they would've made-->Seaver: I'm really sorry. -->Reid: For what?

-->Seaver: Asking. ** When Reid (my favorite CM character) said "police box," my ears perked up and I was like, "Police box!?" and when Reid said "Doctor Who," I squeed to high heaven and punched the air (sorry, couldn't resist), and I was still geeking out while the scene progressed to the case. Made my day. * This male troper made the squee sound as well when he saw the Green Lantern Wonder-con footage. * This troper when she first saw [[{{OuranHighSchoolHostClub}} Kyouya Ootori]] without a shirt on. Actually, I practically fainted, after forcing out one of the most high pitched, ear peircing sqees you would ever hear. * [[{{Tropers.Zordauch}} Zordauch]] had seen the trailer for [[{{Film.WinnieThePooh}} Winnie the Pooh]] on YouTube before, but that didn't stop him when he saw it on the big screen. * This brony JUST NOW squee'd upon seeing this MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic [[http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/12694 picture]] of Fluttershy on Ponibooru. * This troper squee'd when she learned that [=McDonald's=] would be giving out Pokemon Black & White toys [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg (and Pikachu)]] starting June 17. *huggles plastic Pikachus* * This troper has this reaction repeatedly when encountering anything to do with her various geeky obsessions. The appearance of a TOS-era Constitution-class starship in {{StarTrekEnterprise}} comes to mind, as does her reaction to {{X-Men}}: First Class. I tend to punch my hands in the air, let out a rather squeaky "Yes!", and spend the next half hour with a face-splitting grin with regards to anything Star Wars as well. * This troper literally ''cannot'' look at [[http://iroh.org/screencaps/ep61/ep61-1160.png this]] picture without squeeing. Literally. (Also, she is prone to squeeing when [[TheDailyShow her favorite show]] comes on after a two-week break.) * [[@/OhNoes This troper]] had a [[{{Understatement}} rather large outburst]] upon finding out that MyChemicalRomance and {{blink-182}} were going to tour together. OHMYGONYAAHGAHSQUEEE *dies* ** He also does it whenever one of his favorite bands releases a new album. And he did it when {{Portal 2}} was announced. one of my exgirlfriends had a huge combination cutegasm and squeegasm when she saw my siblings for the first time. I'm not gonna lie, they're friggin' adorable. And evil. * Every time this tropette gets a new Series/DoctorWho related teefury.com shirt. * Two words- Chibi. [[PortmanteauCoupleName Orokabu.]] EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! ** Actually, pretty much any pairing fanart/fanfic this tropette sees will have her instantly letting out that same noise. My sister always knows when something good is happening to me, because she can hear me squeeing all the way down the hallway, '''through two closed doors.''' * This troper does silent squees to look cool in front of her not-toreserved friends who are, at the point of my silent squees, squee-ing loudly. It's quite easy to see when I'm silent-sqeeing. I smile like

crazy, clap my hands and my eyes disappear into lines. Squee- ^_^ ---The original page! I can't believe it! [[{{Squee}} SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!]] ----

SquirrelsInMyPants * This troper actually saw a squirrel run up a woman's pant leg, and her summary freakout. * This troper did this when a mouse ran up her pant leg, her grandmother had no idea what was going on until she saw the mouse go flying into a nearby field. * This troper once had her pet budgie accidently climb up her pants. Of course, I guess I should have been ''watching'' him, but he ended up poking his talons into my calves, which alerted me that he was no longer on his stationary shoulder (my shoulder). Same thing happened when my younger sister bought pet rats that managed to crawl both under my shirt and up my pants after a neglectful session where, instead of paying attention to them, I chatted on the phone. * A few weeks ago, I stayed over at my parent's place and brought my laptop, as usual. This wouldn't have really been a problem if ants that were on the bus hadn't decided they liked crawling inside said laptop. It soon became readily apparent that however it is ants communicate there's food nearby can cross the species barrier after an entirely different variety of ants decided they liked crawling inside my shirt and jeans legs. I was, at the time, eating crackers while lying on the spare bed. It took a short nap and looking over at a package of ant-encrusted crackers for me to realize the ants were the reason why my left side started itching. ---The squirrels in ''your'' pants are forcing you to run back to [[SquirrelsInMyPants this link]].

StalkerWithATestTube * [[SquealingSandry This Troper]]'s sister once knew a guy in high school who told her (in all sincerity), that when he had taken over the world and culled all inferior humans, he would spare her to be his bride and repopulate the earth, because she was the only person worthy of doing so. He also tried to collect her hair so he could clone her, "in case of accidents". Yeah... ** [[FlatWhat What.]]

StalkerWithoutACrush * As [[{{neoYTPism}} the user who launched this trope]], I feel obliged to point out that there are times when my fascination with certain people I "knew" (in a very loose sense of the word) through online communities (but have not yet met in person; at least not knowingly) has come close to stalkerish, (or actually gets there, depending on how you apply the label) such as by using their webforum

signatures' links to their DeviantArt or LiveJournal accounts as stepping stones to other online communities they are in, etc... just to find out more about them without necessarily telling them so, for fear of however they might react. Of course, I am only going so far as what they willingly put on the Internet, and I tend to keep what I find to myself; well, I might mention things I find but will not name the names of the people involved, and in turn it's fairly ethical as far as stalkerish or semi-stalkerish behaviour goes. Interestingly enough, this does tend to go further with female users (I am male myself) so there [[StalkerWithACrush might be some level of romantic interest involved after all]]... * [[{{TumbleStar}} This Troper]] did this when she was 12. Being [[HomeschooledKids homeschooled]], she didn't have many friends at the time, so when she met a talented gamer around her age, she proceeded to look his address up in the phone book... and tell him all about it. They're still friends ([[LongStory In a somewhat distant way]]) now. ---

StandardRedshirtProcedure * RadioactiveZombie is ''not'' a hippy - From the viewpoint of a Sea Cadet, the behavior of some [=NCOs=] and such act in a way that would completely anger fellow shipmates and officers abound, but less noticable since people often use the chain of command to keep people in check.. Case in point - childish insults about a photographer from our Midshipman when he asked to see the CO (to be fair, everyone was cranky about doing nothing on a ship for six hours). Then again, it's not as severe as fictional examples (unless you believe the puppythrowing videos and some other videos on YouTube). Also happened in Sea Cadets boot camp when we were "At Rest" (not the official definition of it - it was designated "fuck about in the barracks, but don't make it noticeable" time. Of course, CO was there to enforce things. Oh, and you really don't want to "grab-ass" in front of our new NCO, either. ---- Teabag that dead terrorist and head back to StandardRedshirtProcedure. Hoorah! ---- <<|TroperTales|>>

StandingInTheHall * [[{{soojinyeh}} This Troper]] had to do this when she lived in Korea-except it was standing in the hallway with a diaper to signify that I was acting like a baby. * This Troper had to do it ''several'' times. And no, I'm not japanese...I'm American, and yes we had to do it in public school. I thought it was just more common in Japan than it was in America because other places would just send you to the principal's office. * [[Tropers/ThisIsATest This Troper]] had to do this while he was in a Montesory kindergarten, but without the buckets. The punishment was

merely to stand in the hall, staring at the door. His mother found him in this position when picking him up from school several times. * Heck, my parents used to have me [[StandingInTheHall sit in the hallway.]] On one notable occasion, I couldn't sit still during Mass, and had to sit in the hallway until I could sit still and quiet for an hour straight. We got home at about 9 AM, my mom let me out in time for dinner. * This troper's sixth-grade class had a trouble-maker who was sent to the hallway only ''once.'' This is because once he was in the hallway, he stood in front of the door and shouted obscenities at us through the window. (After that he was just sent to the principal.) * I feel like I spent more time in the hall than in class when I was in middle school. * This troper had an unpleasant experience with this at a private school once. In his case, "the hall" meant "outside in 50-degree (fahrenheit) weather" and "standing" mean "wearing a t-shirt and shorts for half an hour". It was his fault he was wearing those clothes in February, but considering that the offense he commited to deserve this was ''correcting the teacher's spelling in an English class'', it's no surprise that said teacher doesn't work there anymore (or so this troper's heard, he went back to being homeschooled after that year). * Teachers in our school sometimes send students to stand in the hall (without the buckets of course). To prevent them from just wandering off, the students have to pull down the doorhandle all the time to prove that they are still there. However this punishment is only used for younger students, who still care about the "No switched on cell phones/MP3-players on school grounds"-rule. ---Hey! You there! Perhaps you would cool off a bit by going back to StandingInTheHall? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StarCrossedLovers * [[{{sgrunt}} This troper]] lives roughly three hours away from his not-quite girlfriend. By whatever strange twist of fate, whenever one of us tries to visit the other there's usually some other event going on that prevents us from seeing each other for very long if at all. * This is actually Dating Catwoman, but we don't have a Troper Tale for that. This troper has an ememy that goes from his childhood and now that we're both teens, we insult each other at every oppturnity, but I keep wanting to get in her pants. And once in a party, when she was drunk, I did. It was the.. best..sex..EVER!! But we still hate each other. ** That's not star crossed love, that's you being a creep and taking advantage of a girl who wasn't all there. Shame on you, you pervert. ** Not really, once we actually did go out and liked it, but we found it better to insult each other and stuff like that. To my credit, I was as drunk as she was. *** Still rape, technically.

*** ...To your ''credit?'' [[MoralEventHorizon Dear GOD, man.]] [[WhatAnIdiot What's wrong with you?]] *** Doesn't matter if you were both drunk. If at least one of you didn't consent, it's rape. How do we bust this guy? **** Different troper: actually, it does matter. '''NEITHER''' of them consented if they were both drunk. *** Disturbing on soooo many levels. ** Sure is Internet White Knights in here. *** Not really they are just telling you technically raped her [[WhatAnIdiot don't you know rape is a crime?]] * This has actually happened to [[MalachiteDragon This Troper.]] Ok, Here's how it went... My ex-girlfriend is originally from Mexico, she moved to the states when she was 2 and...whats the time limit on how long you have to live here to be a citizen? Whatever it is, she's definitly passed it. That or she took the test, I don't remember which... ANYWAY! It was a long-distance relationship- I live in Texas, she lives in California. Twice we've managed to scrounge up the money for me to go visit her; The first time everything went ok; The second time, Oh hell...All hell broke loose. Ok, here's what went down... For whatever reason, I cannot stay at her house this time like I did the first time; Her aunt volunteers her home for the two of us to spend time together at. Fine by me, I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, and I thank her profusely. I stay for a little over a week; It's on day...4? I forget what day it was; But it was the height of summer and her aunt's air conditioning was broken. We'd gotten back from going somewhere, I don't remember where... (it was 3 years ago and my memory sucks, lay off me D: ) and I'm taking an overheatinduced nap in her uncle-in-law's big ol' comfy chair (He's in the Marines but we got along real fine. I was about his size but I'm a pacifist and really timid; everyone had a lot of fun poking fun at me for it, but I learned to laugh at myself a long time ago so it's all cool) and who should come along but [[strike: Satan's Concubine]] [[strike: Cruella DeVille]] her grandmother on her mom's and aunt's side. The woman walks with a cane, and from what I gathered does not speak a word of english; I give her a friendly nod and a smile, but it is quite clear that I am almost asleep; I make no attempt to do more then that. I begin to drift off to sleep, buoyed by the rapidfire sound of people talking in spanish...And then my ex begins crying. Well, fuck. There goes '''''that''''' nap. I snap awake, take a few moments to figure out what happened, and glance around. Her grandmother gives me a glare and then hobbles away back to whatever [[strike: hellhole she crawled out of]] [[strike: small child she possessed]] place she came from, and my ex goes back to the room she's been staying in. I follow, try to comfort her, and try to figure out what in the ten blue hells just happened. Well, it turns out- Her grandmother came along to size me up. Not that big a deal, that didn't shock me. However, her opinion of me had already been made when she heard of me. Because I was not a nice mexican boy (I'm a white boy) she already disapproved of me. She came to officially deliver the stamp of DIS-approval. Oh, and she insulted my ex while she was at itback when she lived in Mexico, my ex used to have a pet chicken that she loved dearly. One day, said pet chicken disappears! On that day

that her grandmother came to deliver her stamp of disapproval, she tells my ex- ''her grandchild''- '''TO HER FACE'''- that she herself killed, plucked, and '''''ate''''' her granddaughter's pet chicken! Now, I don't have a racist bone in my body, but... What the fuck is wrong with old women from Mexico?! This isn't how grandmothers are supposed to act! We did eventually break up, but not for another 2 years, and over another incident that was completely unrelated- we're still very good friends. * This Troper's significant other lives three states away. They're both underage girls. They live in the southeastern United States. Both of the SO's parents are Baptist ministers. And This Troper's mother grew up on the Main Line of Philadelphia, and is highly opposed to same-sex relationships. ** [[StoicWoobie :: hug ::]] ** Whatever happens, you deserve respect. That takes some serious guts. You two are well and truly in what can only be called love. ** Similar situation with this troper and her girlfriend, substituting in some Catholics. But enormous kudos to you, it's a ghastly position to be in. ** OP Update: She dumped Troper for a guy at her school; turned out shed lost interest two months before but hadnt said anything because she didnt want to hurt Tropers feelings. Troper only found out when ex changed her FaceBook photo to she and her new boyfriend kissing. * This troper and a now former girlfriend ended up being this when we decided dating over the internet wouldn't work. Neither of us have been in a relationship sense then, and decided if we met in real life, would get back together. * A cross of this and UnluckyChildhoodFriend was this troper. The friend/beloved I had known for years, since the age of seven, when a dreaded school change came. We were parted by forces beyond our control (namely the school system: in the era before e-mail was ubiquitous, not seeing someone on a regular basis, when houses were half a city away from each other, was doom for communication), and this troper thinks he hasn't entirely recovered from idealized memory and idle fancy: For years, it was all consuming, there was only one person for this troper and she was gone but not forgotten. Even now, with the parting nearly half this troper's life ago, with a new life and new relationship that are happy... [[PurpleProse some rare times, a passing, wistful thought wonders]] WhatCouldHaveBeen, and hopes she fared better than I. * This troper has a situation quite like this happen to me before. Basically I went away to Tasmania. (I Live in Sydney) One one day before we went back to Sydney I met this guy who I was in love with for about six months. This and Love At First Sight both apply. * This Troper happens to have a character that is a daughter of the bad guys, but is in love with the leader of the good guys. ** This same troper's boyfriend lives in North Carolina, as opposed to Pennsylvania for her. * This Troper's girlfriend lives in the good ol' Bible Belt in the USA, he's English. (From here-on I think I'll refer to myself in first person, it's easier). So I'm from a Muslim family, atheist myself, and

such her mother already isn't a big fan. The fact we met on the internet doesn't help - She doesn't just think I'm a murderous terrorist, but also that I'm a creepy old dude that plans on raping her daughter! Visiting her is likely going to be a pain - I won't be allowed to stay with her, that much is certain. My girlfriend is a much stronger person than I am when it comes to matters of the mind (Fun fact: Our relationship may as well be "You be the brains and I'll be the brawn!") and even she has no idea on how to face her mother. Her mother is the most intimidating woman I've ever had the misfortune to speak to, despite being almost a foot shorter than me. Then there's the whole deal with an ocean between us... * This troper is... not sure if she's actually in love, but if she is, she's firmly within SCL. The receiver is another girl her age whose father is ''very'' protective and probably not into his daughter dating me. [[spoiler: And I'm not sure if she even likes me.]] * This troper and her girlfriend. It's a serious-ish (long-term at least) relationship, but our families have hated each other as far back as anyone can remember. It's almost exactly like RomeoAndJuliet, complete with the girlfriend's intended husband hating me. I'm really hoping we don't die, though. ** This Troper is Behind you 100% (Except for the whole dying thing, I'm pretty sure no one here wants you to snuff it via accidental suicide), and your girlfriends intended husband is giving you grief? Nothing a good ol' fist to the face won't fix * This she-troper is Pagan, and very much in love with a man whom is a devout christian. I love the way he smiles at me, the way he looks at me whenever he tells a joke, the way he laughs. We've been friends for so long, I can 'read' his expressions and body language perfectly, and he can do the same for me, we've fought and vowed to avoid each other as long as we both shall live, we've seen other people, and yet we've always returned to each other with open arms and smiles. Somehow, I can't imagine his parents being overly thrilled by him snogging a "witch". ** This she-troper goes to a inner-city school thats famous for failing it's ofsted. We are constantly at war with another school called Abby Grange, a posh church school. Me and a boy that goes there are currently mutually in love, but we don't like to think what would happen if either of our schools found out, so we have to pretend to hate eachother in public. * This troper once had a gf who lived in far Limburg while he himself comes from St-Niklaas. I will start with how we met, I once met her sister, who immediatly hated my guts. The girl in question however saw me as common friends with quite some others so added me as fbfriend, where she remained calmly for a couple of months. At a time she posted something sad, and I wanted to cheer her up. We got talking and at a certain moment she told me she had a charity breakfast, at which I jokely said, I'll be there. She said I wouldn't, after which, I came whole the way for it, even though sister saying I would not cross her doorstep. We both were not what the other expected, I was 1m98, she 1m63, hilarity ensues. Anyways we still got toghether because of a common past, but she realised quite quickly she went to swift to far and broke the relationship, to my dismay. I have been trying to repair

that and almost managed that 3 times, at which she loved me, first time, an old lover whom she longed for came available right after she developed feelings for me, second time my stephfather took my phone away while the conversation was leading to another relationship, third time she was trying to get back, going as far as kissing and other things which I shall not describe here only for one name screwing up. Out of guilt and not wanting to hurt me again (I can't give you what you want, if I really care the answer should be no) she never tried again, and just stated dating others, to hurt me less, of course the moment she actually found someone else she just said she [[{{You Have Outlived Your Usefulness}}no longer needed me]] and though I've been trying for 4 months and 4 days by now, I haven't fixed it :( * [[Tropers/ArnoldMcGuire335 This Troper]] has a "best friend" who's a girl in Maryland. (This Troper is from California.) We always get to talk to each other- not by {{Facebook}}- but by PlaystationNetwork (She doesn't use social-networking sites by the way). We usually have problems once in awhile and are happy to be with each other every evening online, but the moment the PSN crashed (this is in the time we're mending and restoring our friendship), we had no way of communicating each other. Now I miss her so much, I wished I could have a chance to tell her I still loved her. (Because both of us has so much in common, there's a chance that friendship becomes a relationship.) ** Update: The PSN is Back, we're reunited, and she's in my friends list again, but the different States problem still exists, so the trope is still in effect. (Not to mention the time zone difference.) * [[@/REV6Pilot I]] am stranded in Brazil, and my lover is in Massachusetts. She can't get out of there until her son's completed high school and can take care of himself. To make it worse, she can't work because of a car accident that nearly killed her. [[SubvertedTrope However]], it's far from impossible for me to meet up with her, thankfully :'-D * I come to you now to tell a tale of love and woe, for such things are often intermingled. Once, there was a young man, and a girl whom he loved with all the passion mortal Man may possess. But fate kept them apart, for she was from a devout Catholic family, and he from Orthodox Jews. Neither clan believed in marrying outside the faith. And so they kept their love secret, and though they were discovered many times, still, they defied their families to be together. When finally they two came of legal age, they decided to elope and marry, but alas, the cruel hand of fate would make itself known once more, for the Vietnam war was raging, and the man was drafted. Before he left for his deployment, the man and the woman spent one glorious night together, a night that would result in the conception of a child. The next day, the man left for war, and 3 months later, died in the Tet Offensive. The woman never saw her beloved again, save for in the eyes of her child, for he grew to be alike to his father in face and posture. And the woman did never love another, vowing to wait until her dying day, when she would be reunited with her love at Heaven's White Gate. And so we come to the close of our tale, but I sense that questions remain: Who were this man, and this woman, and who am I that knows so much of this tale? The answers lie in that

final night the lovers spent together, for the man and the woman were my grandparents, and the child they conceived was my father. Thank you. ---You'll never truly be able to be with StarCrossedLovers. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StarSystem * DickRichardson - I use people named "Dover" in varying roles. They're often main supporting characters for the white/gray side of the story and of British descent. ** Anyone named "Jay" is the AuthorAvatar, and is the designated ButtMonkey. * [[FoominBlue This troper]] tends to use the same roster of names for [=RPG=]s that [[HelloInsertNameHere let you name]] [[PlayerMooks generic units]]. What's more, she uses her imagination to give them the same general personalities -- as in, Ichigo is typically a FieryRedhead LittleMissBadass who [[DeliberatelyCuteChild uses her cute image]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity to make enemies underestimate her]], Marcy is an equally HotBlooded GenkiGirl Tomboy who [[LeeroyJenkins rushes headlong into battle whenever possible]], Velvet is an [[{{Kuudere}} aloof]] [[SquishyWizard spellcaster]] who [[{{Pride}} considers herself superior]] to the [[{{Nakama}} rest of the party]], and so on... * This troper tends to use the same cast of characters throughout her various novels. There's the [[OldMaster wandering fortune teller/mage/swordfighter]], several [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy whitehaired pretty boys]] (it has definite [[AuthorAppeal author appeal]] for her), an [[EmoTeen emo kid rock star]], a [[FieryRedhead redheaded asexual assassin]], and an explosive blonde warrior type and her [[YamatoNadeshiko lady-like]] sister. * ThisTroper has recycled villains in his works a surprising number of times. In his trilogy of trilogies, he has one protagonist character that appears at least once, with an expanded role of side-kick in the final trilogy and a rather TearJerking storyline in the first trilogy. This is despite the fact that he doesn't have plans to recycle any characters between universes, bar villains. In his short stories, a hat wearing dog walker serves as the AuthorAvatar and {{God}}, though his status as such is only explicitly stated in exactly one story. In all others, he is AlmightyJanitor. * @/FreezairForALimitedTime has a couple: ** The actual creature named Freezair: My username is based off this creature I created, whose only real default trait is that she's [[AnIcePerson an ice creature]]. Sometimes she's a {{Pokemon}}, sometimes she's a general monster, and sometimes she's a humanoid. She's always an Abominable Snowball, sometimes she's young, and sometime's she's middle-aged and world-weary. She has a lot of roles. ** The Raine: The snarky, sarcastic young female. Tends to show up as a prominent character in many of my works; is sort of an AuthorAvatar,

but is more of an Author's Third Cousin's Avatar. ** The Nick: Typically a GayBestFriend to someone, based on my actual GayBestFriend. ** The Archie: In any world wit {{Mons}}, tends to be the representational personality of one of my first 'mons. He's a sort of snarky, sort of panicky, wants-to-be-helpful-but-isn't-always guy. * NickTheSwing ((hoo boy this will take a while)) ** The Kiaku: white haired bishonen with a squicky eye ball, usually hidden by bangs. Always has a cult. Always has insect based powers. Does not work well with certain rps, and is ''beloved'' in others as a symbol of LoveMakesYouEvil, loyalty and dedication to a cause. He shows up in Gone RPs, an Inuyasha RP, and in the original story After Dark: Demon Hunters. ** The Frederick: a well intentioned extremist, The Frederick is usually doing evil things for a very noble and good reason. Often kills his treacherous old best friend/dragon for going beyond Fred's standards. Dies very late, so that some advisor of his can succeed him, but be less successful. ** Kaido Sasokube: staples of this character are brown hair that looks greasy shiny, green eyes, and being dressed up in the uniform of Kiaku's Fascist-ish guards. Usually TheBrute who wishes he was the dragon, but he has gotten rather dangerously genre savvy over the years, taking on the heroes all on his lonesome with just a gun in a Fey rp on roleplays rock forum. Usually dark, snarky, and cynical. ** The Johnson: delinquent, runaway prince, criminal on the run, Kingpin's son, he is always a darker hero to contrast the idealism of his peers and the decoy protagonist. ** Kincadis Ela Rosso: StraightGay kid, archdemon's son, disowned by mommy because she hates him. Kills his folks. Sometimes tries to rape the hero if he gets too lusty. Usually has blue hair and looks thin. ** Parallaxia: doom cult opposing Kiaku half the time, and sometimes, they actually are being manipulated into doing his bidding. Trying to bring back Parallaxus, the evil cloud cuckoolander dragon. ** Soranosuke Shiryuma: starts out as a bad boy, over time matures into a Fascist police leader who dresses in a fancy GoodLookingPrivates uniform. ** The Raize: My ButtMonkey. He gets put through the most shit of all my other characters. In one rp, he becomes an Arthas expy, a viciously insane KnightTemplar bent on saving the world...even if he needs to destroy it first. In another, he is one third of an EldritchAbomination, and has seizures because of it. In another rp, he, well, gets LaserGuidedAmnesia, in addition to the evil ice sword that made him so evil in the first rp. ** The Saga: One evil baby, a homage to [[InuYasha Akago/Infant]]. He is occasionally just called Orphan. A good source of NightmareFuel. He sometimes covers up his malevolence by acting as a WellIntentionedExtremist, other times, its just evil for the sake of evil, and, in the case of the Buffy RP, he is actually fairly Woobie, given who "dad" is... ** The Sanada: The Saga's Guardian, most of the time, a barrier using Meido who does not know that her "master" is evil, and just goes along

until she starts getting conscience and then dies. ** Ein Woe, wow, Ein. He shows up a lot. And he is damn ugly all the time. Half his face is covered by bone, and likewise with his body. Usually a CardCarryingVillain who squees at mentions of torture and evil. Has a much more serious side that shows he is actively pursuing an OmnicidalManiac agenda. Just ForTheEvulz, of course! ** Ceres, the funny dictator. The accent, the look, the attitude, and his choice of weapons give him away. Ceres is a source of crowning moment of funny's in my stories, and first appeared in New Dawn Book 5, The Prodigal Downfall. The one thing that redeemed that awful book in my mind was it introduced Ceres. Very prone to marrying his daughters to people. ** Rupert and Demolicia. The goofy ThoseTwoGuys who occasionally go serious and wreck stuff. Very very prone to the DangerousUpgrade, they always work for the DRA, and are usually seen with the MonsterOfTheWeek in the earliest NewDawn books, but as soon as that formula is ditched, they get the mother of all competence upgrades. For starts, they kill Troy, and then Damion. * Not a directly personal tale, but I've seen a sufficiently successful comic artist in my homeland (Burma) utilize this trope. He does different stories (though many of them are romantic comedies), but the major character designs stay the same; the biggest offender is, of course, his male lead, who always have a small pair of glasses over his nose ridge, and he never ''ever'' loses them under any condition. Even if the story is [[AnachronismStew in a pseudo-historic setting]]. Personally, I found the idea to be really interesting, so I thought "Maybe I could follow that idea later in my life (under probable conditions)."[[hottip:*:And indeed, now that I got into drawing, I'm considering it now.]]. The funny thing is, this happened a good 2~3 years before Internet became available in Burma, and to be honest, almost nobody - me and the guy included - in Burma would have answered "yes" if they're asked "Do you know Tezuka Osamu?", let alone his universe and system. Sometimes, there are just coincidences, I guess. * I was bad for this when I was a kid, and wrote stories based on people I knew, expressing the feelings and thoughts about them, without anyone finding out. In almost every story, I had similar people, and they always had a name that began with the same letter as the person they were named after's name. * This troper tends to use a few basic characters for online RPs, mostly because he knows them, they virtually write themselves, and they tend to prove popular. And not just because one of them is a catboy. * This troper has several characters who keep popping up in anything she writes, including: ** The mad scientist girl whose powers prevent her from touching anyone, but still managed to have a loving relationship with her girlfriend before said girlfriend died in a tragic accident, causing the mad scientist to go AxeCrazy and become a villain (or fall back into villainy, depending on the 'verse) ** The one-eyed pirate queen with a tragic backstory who leads a crew of outcasts, and her three children - the pink-haired adventure girl,

the dark, brooding violinist shrinking violet son, and the quiet girl with an aptitude for chaos magic. ** The magic user whose powers don't always work the way she wants them to, and who has to reconcile her deep Catholic faith with the fact that her powers came from a pact her mother made with a lessthan-angelic source. ** The HalfHumanHybrid snakelike alien girl who only wants to be a superhero. Incredibly geeky, some shapeshifting powers, and a really nice person. ** Said alien girl's mother, an alien scientist trapped on earth due to her home planet being embroiled in civil war. ---No, I can't think of a good pun to use StarSystem for. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StartMyOwn * This Troper and his friend are planning to start our own colony of Sci-fi fans and nerds on mars. "Screw this government! We'll start our own! With free health care! And as little bureaucracy as possible for a functioning government!" ** This troper thinks that free health care without bureaucracy is much less plausible than a colony on Mars. ** Will there be anime? *** Will there be Star Trek? Will there be internet connections? *** Yes (Star Trek is awesome), yes (as many as possible), sort of (internet connections would have a latency of about a half-hour due to lightspeed lag, so we'll probably have to start our own and just have marsnet sync up with earthnet every hour or something. FPSs would work against Mars-based opponents, but only turn-based stuff would work against earth.) as for healthcare, I guess I should have said "free heatlthcare with a little bureaucracy as possible!", but that doesn't quite have the same ring to it... * Me and some friends did that, when we got banned from another forum for no reason cause the admin didnt like us. Theirs closed a few months later, and ours is still going. * Back in high school, this troper's brother's best friend got into a disagreement with the head of the anime club; when it turned physical (as in, the anime club head punched him), the friend decided to start his own club out of the AV section of the technology lab. The second club outlasted the first primarily because younger members of the second club took up the reins when older ones graduated (the first club was full of a tight-knit, rather exclusive group of upperclassmen and really didn't care about new members). * This troper once came up with ideas he'd like to see in a ''Series/DoctorWho'' AbridgedSeries. One of them was there to spoof the tendency of abridged series to nick lines from YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries, namely the {{Futurama}} line: -->'''Donna''': I'm going to StartMyOwn time travel adventure show! And it'll have blackjack, and seedy male gigolos -

-->'''Doctor''': There already is one. It's called ''{{Torchwood}}''.

StartOfDarkness * In the game I'm running, the WildCard MagnificentBastard has this story to tell the hero about one of the major antagonists: --> "It was back around the time of the War of the Sentients...an associate of mine wandered a [[SceneryGorn ruined cityscape]]. He happened upon a scared little [[OurElvesAreBetter newman]] girl who had [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan lost her family]] in what could only be described as a local-scale apocalypse. My associate was a [[ChaoticEvil cold hearted]], AxCrazy bastard, but this little one [[LoveRedeems touched his heart so]]. He took her under his wing, and even found a woman who was willing to provide much needed nurturing. It went well for a little while, but then...he decided that he, too, needed a [[{{Yangire}} mad dog]] in his kennel. It was as easy as [[MoreThanMindControl convincing]] her how [[EvilFeelsGood good evil feels]]. Unlike me, evil is a way of life for her now. [[PragmaticVillainy I do evil, Gregory, because it is what will get me my way.]] On the other hand, she does it [[ForTheEvulz because she enjoys it]]. However, the difference between her and [[CompleteMonster Hunter]] is, she still has a soul. Her given name was Aoi Usagi...known to some of her subjects as [[MerlinAndNimue Nimue]] and Vivienne...and known to you as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Yue Lepretto]]."

StatlerAndWaldorf * My nickname in high school was Waldorf. My friend I always hung out with was Statler (which gives you a pretty good idea of our personality). He is going through cadet training at West Point now. Funny old world... * [[Tropers/AnimeAddictAA This Troper]] saw it on a local entertainment show, featuring former {{Romania}}n presidents in the positions of said muppets. Of course, depending on your interpretation, it's just a shameless rip-off without mentioning the source and used entirely straight to play into the political-parody oriented show.

StayingWithFriends * This troper has seen an unusual manifestation of this: she herself is an adult with her own place. A friend of hers is her age but unemployed, so he lives with his parents and brother in a fairly small house. The brother has a friend who occasionally needs to get out of the house - not, she claims, due to abuse but just as a need for personal space. When the friend turns up to stay for a couple of days, the troper sometimes finds herself letting her own friend sleep on her couch (occasionally sharing the living room with her roommates' guests). It's like musical chairs.

StayInTheKitchen * This came up in a dnd game with two females in the party (they were female IRL too). The party had been seeking an audience with the baron of a region, which was ass-backwards even for the dnd setting, to get information on the MacGuffin, but were informed that they had to wear court-approved clothing, which wasn't that bad for the males, but the female ranger and fighter, being [[ActionGirl action girls]] absolutely hated the dresses, especially since they were nearly {{Stripperific}}. Things went downhill from there as it was heavily implied that the two were out of their element and that they should "let the men do the dangerous stuff." The encounter didn't end well, we walked away with no information, and the females were highly displeased with the DM (they got over it). * This was, rather unfortunately, a CatchPhrase that caught on at This Troper's High School during her time there. At every single pep rally, without fail, some prick or pricks in the audience would respond to at least one performance of the choir, cheerleaders, flag team or what have you by screaming "Now get in the kitchen and make me some dinner!", followed by roaring laughter. This directly led to this troper's decision not to date until well into college. * This female servicewoman once had a highly depressing conversation with her mother in which her mother "explained" that "natural law" mandates that men fight wars, and women stay, I dunno, in the kitchen or something. What's one part depressing and one part weird is that this troper's mother is a highly-educated businesswoman and landlady, so it's not like she's just some old-fashioned housewife who needs a clue. ** I sympathize with you. My mother does the EXACT SAME THING!!! She double-majored in music and nursing in college,and was top of her class. She will comment on the sexist "feminine" values of her native country (Taiwan), tell me about being financially independent after marriage, and denounce both the Asian and American media for turning women into sex objects. However, when this tropette's father was abroad for business, her EXACT words were "Naomi,(fake name used)now that your dad is gone,we won't be able to function as well." I asked her why. She said "We're both girls." There have also been many instances where Mom has implied that only beautiful teenage women go missing, leading to ban on tank tops and hanging around with only male friends. WHAT THE FUCK, MOM!!!??? * This female troper had a long discussion with several men on YouTube about female conscription to military services. Since we outnumber males in many a Western country, it would just be normal to have women be a part of the active contingent. The unanimous answer? '''[[StrawMisogynist Back to the kitchen and make me a sammich, that's the only thing you can actually do right!]]''' Not to mention the macho jokes about women's periods and similarly vulgar boorishness. But when you ask the question: Why must women be victims? None ever came with a proper answer. And about women in the army, it was more something around the lines of: "Women are impulsive, can't think straight (read: are stupider than men) and no one would ever obey a general with a vagina". Subtle, heh? ** You make a good point, but it's probably an exercise in futility to

try to wring anything resembling intelligent debate from [[{{GIFT}} a certain subset of You Tube posters]]. ** Realistically, there isn't any reason for women to not be conscripted, but try convincing the military folks of that. ** This troper once heard a Gunnery Sergeant say that the only reason women aren't allowed in most front-line units is due to cultural sensibilities, and that those will probably mostly go away in the next couple of generations. The commanding general of MCRD a couple of years ago was Brigadier General Salinas, and this troper is relatively certain that she has a vagina. You don't get to the 0-7 pay grade in the [[SemperFi Marine Corps]] without earning it. *** Update: She's Major General Salinas now (O-8), and director of Manpower Management Division, Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Headquarters Marine Corps. Only about 170 people in the US Armed forces (Over 3 million strong, currently) outrank her. * This Troper can't see why males need to be so chauvinistic about it (This troper is male, FYI). (Here on out, First Person) I feel that women should be given a fair chance to serve UNLESS they are shown to be physically unable to do so (My ex girlfriend wanted to join the army but was short enough to fit under my chin, and I'm not that tall either. She succeeded and has been accepted into the Infantry[GOOD LORD, OF ALL THINGS. Worse yet, she wanted ARTILLERY but they said she was too small]). I think the Rifle is like... more than half her height or something. And personally, I think that guys are more impulsive and can't think straight more often than girls (Except when having menstrual cramps). Cue joke on female leadership nuking a rogue state every month... In any case, I think its more of a cultural thing, and less of a physical ability thing that women get sidelined in the army. * Ughhhh. This is my personal BerserkButton. I once got into an argument about it with three lads in my class. It got so bad that they made me cry, ''and I don't feckin' do that.'' [[TroperTales/CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming My teacher made it all better (go to the bottom, it's pretty obvious)]]. * This troper wants to kill all of the new facebook pages e.g. "Why do woman need to learn how to drive? There's no road in the kitchen!" It's even worse if you look at the member's replies to those who call the group sexist. ** [[Tropers/{{Kaizykat}} This Troper]] would gladly join you in the killing spree, especially since those types of groups have led to the boys from her school repeating the jokes as often as they can. *** [[Tropers/{{Alrune}} This Troper]] now has the perfect comeback to shut up any kitchen-related {{Jerkass}}ery coming from men: "If you're so incompetent that you can't even make something as basic as a ''sandwich'' for yourself, then you're in no position to demand anything from a woman." *** I agree with this, I hate these fucking jokes, not only because of the sexism, but because it gets really old after the millionth time. A reply I have is "You want women to stay in the kitchen? That's where the knives are!" * This troper (Tropers/FarisV) has had several unpleasant discussions with a few [[JerkAss boys]] at her school regarding this topic. One

boy, who was definitely a JerkJock tried using The Bible to argue that only the men are supposed to learn at schools, and that women should be silent. He then proceeded to say "So technically, you shouldn't even be here." This, coming from a boy who had some of the lowest grades in the class, said to This Troper, who is currently in the top ten of her class. In what This Troper considers a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMoA]] for her, she turned around and said, [[SarcasmMode "Oh of course. How silly of me to think that I actually had my own brain, and honestly believe myself superior to an amazing specimen like yourself]], who is little more than an over-developed caveman." Problem solved, and I never had any other issues like that again from that particular boy. * This troper gets this at times due to her hobbies and due to being a GamerGirl. It doesn't help that she's [[{{Transsexual}} transgender]] and doesn't even identify as completely female. * Every time I hear a guy make stupid jokes about this ("I don't let my girl[friend] have a phone.. there's a clock on the stove in the kitchen, where she belongs, and talking to people will distract her from making me my food!"), even though they're obviously joking around, it makes me want to [[BerserkButton stab someone]]. * I've never really had a problem with this trope as long as it's referred to jokingly. Some of the jokes are rather witty for their limited intellectual range, and it's always fun to step out of snark territory for a moment to laugh at something stupid and childish. What gets me, though, as a man and an equal-opportinuty offender, is that nobody has any good men jokes. I've tried coming up with a few, maybe some about dick size or premature ejctualion, but writing simple, tasteless barroom jokes isn't my strong point. Can any of you sistas help a troper out with this? I want to piss of EVERYBODY, not just women. Toss me a good man joke or two to tell my redneck neo-nazi cousin sometime when he's drunk. ** Not a female, but... why do they say that men think with their dicks? Because every time they try to do something, they fuck it up. *** Courtesy of George Carlin: "Do you know my men go to war? Because they are sensitive about the size of their dicks and are trying to compensate for it. That is why bullets, missiles and half of military equipment are dong shaped, it's called FUCKING WITH PEOPLE!" Does that work? FYI I'm a dude. **** If you can think of an effective ''non'' penis shaped weapon I would like to hear of it. **** Not the troper asked, but throwing stars? **** [[KillItWithFire Fire?]] * My grandfather seemed to believe something like this. He talked to my younger brother for ages about all the different career options he could take, many of them including businesses and such. And then his version of the career choice to me? "...You could be a nurse or a hairdresser?" Bah. * Is this (very much male, thank you) editor the only one who encounters ''inverse'' of this trope? As in girls saying they can't do this, that or something else "'cause they're girls, duh" like that excuses them from even ''trying''? ** This is actually the kind of woman that needs to be conscribed.

** Sadly, this troper ''has'' encountered women like this. Many of whom are conservative Christians who claim, "but it's our ''place'' to stay in the kitchen!" Being Christian herself, this has become something of a personal BerserkButton for her. * My mom is the kind of woman who is stuck in the past and thinks its a womans place to be in the kitchen or looking after the babies. Im not like that though, I cant cook, dont want to get married and am in college. * Is it weird that as a woman, I'm more offended as someone with a sense of humor instead of as a woman? I mean seriously, kitchen jokes are just so unoriginal. How about something more clever and, you know, funny? ** Amen to that. After seeing a billion "lol stay in the kitchen and make me sammich woman" jokes, they start getting a [[{{Understatement}} bit]] tired. * How exactly is an anime game (or game of an anime, however you want to put it) a trope namer for an old sexist comment that existed far before the game was released? That makes no sense at all. In reference to the topic though, i work for a company where the only "hint" of this is management not wanting to put a young female on weekend nights. Which is entirely justifable as they need both someone who can carry a form of "intimidation" (An older "bossy" woman can fit this still) and a young female would be hit on all night also. So i don't really experience any of this actual sexism anywhere. * This troper had an instance in theology class in which the subject came up about why Adam was created first, and Eve second. One student guessed that Adam was greater than Eve because of this, to which I replied; "Actually, it makes sense, the way God created things. First He made inanimate objects, then the plants, then the animals, then Adam, and then Eve! Don't you see how brilliant that is?" Needless to say, it was a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for me. * This male trooper uses this at times, but ''only when I know the person is cool with it and it's funny''. The absolute best time is this: ->'''Me'''*Holdes up hand like he's holding a sandwich*:"What's the problem with this picture?" ->'''Girl''':"Uh..." ->'''Me''':"I don't have a sammich! Now go back to the kitchen, ''and make me a goddamn sammich!''" What made it hilarious is that she had no idea what I meant. * The {{jerk with a heart of gold}} in this troper's {{Nakama}} actually punched a guy for saying this to her (me, not the friend). He was only joking, but still, I get so tired of hearing this nonsense and if any guy I end up with ever tries to make me stay in the kitchen, his behind will be on the curb. Honestly, it's a good thing she hit him and I didn't because I would've kicked him where it ''really'' [[{{GroinAttack}} hurts]]... ** Yeah, but in your friend doing this [[DisproportionateRetribution out of a response to a sexist joke]], she just [[AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale reinforced a much more serious sexist issue]]. Not much better but hey, it could just be my ValuesDissonance to the use of violence.

** I know and I realized this later and felt bad. It's just that this trope is my BerserkButton. I can't tell you how many times I've been told I have to cook because I'm a girl and other variations. That boy actually bothered me everyday (he's left me alone since she did that) and on that particular day, I was tired, irritable and he just set me off. My friend didn't punch him immediately. Only after I repeatedly asked him to leave me alone and she saw I was about to kick him once he said this. * TheTroper once got into a FlameWar on YouTube (yes, in hindsight it was stupid) because I responded to someone making a stupid joke about his his Japanese wife stayed in the kitchen on a video about a horrible serial gang rape story in Japan ( the story with the infamous [[AndThatsTerrible And Thats Okay!]]from the politician). I raged.This person responded by commenting on every single video that I commented on, leaving comments on my page, sending PMs, etc. He claimed I was picking on him because he was black and he had a disability...? It was bizarre. * Me and my brother enjoy these jokes, but it's a BerserkButton for anybody, especially females, who honestly believe it. One time this exchanged happened while I was moving around boxes: ->'''Me'''"Here I am doing all this heavy lifting, and you are just standing there, grab a friggin' box!" ->'''Girl Cousin''':"But I am a girl, you're the man so you should be the one doing all the work." ->'''Me''':"...Wow, good to see the great advancements in the feminists movement at work." ---What are you doing out of the kitchen!? [[StayInTheKitchen GO BACK THERE]], you inferior, unimportant, sub-human female! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StealthHiBye * This troper seems to have the ability to only do this by accident. When I don't intend to, I can walk into a group of people having a conversation and they'll never notice me until I say something. After seeing how good I am at doing this without even trying, I figured that if I actually do this on purpose I could be a master at it. No such luck however, as whenever I actually try to walk in unnoticed, someone always sees me. Ah well * .........People forget that I am in the room. and don't realize if I enter or exit. I have had people start talking about me because they did not think I was in the room. and try to talk to me not realizing I have left. Because of this, it often seems like I do this. ** ...[[AxisPowersHetalia Canada,]] is that you? * This Troper does it regardless of if he wants to or not. * My friends say I do this a lot. I apparently pull off Stealth byes all the time without even trying. Once we were all sitting at a table eating and I left, when I came back everyone exclaimed that I had "batman"ed my way out of there in broad daylight. I had only gone upstairs to get cookies...

* Pulled this off. While speaking with a police officer. But I've practiced this very often and more than once I screwed up. * This troper knew a guy who, despite being a very large young man, snuck away with such frequency that we started calling him a Fat Batman. * This troper has found the easiest way to disappear from a group when walking down a corridor is to walk in the back staying quiet, and then duck down another corridor while they are in deep conversation. * [[Tropers/GwenStacyWannabe This troper]] likes to do this, to annoy people. It usually works. * Apparantly, [[Tropers/DarthSaturnina me]]. I don't understand it, I was clearly walking behind them for a good block or so, but freaked the shit out of a group of my friends when I decided to speak up. * I've got a reputation of {{Stealth Hi Bye}}s, that it's gotten to the point of lampshadehanging. New friends beware, you won't get used to me until I've walked out of a classroom saying "Hey buddy", only to reappear coming out of one of the bathroom stalls in the restroom. Which was in the other direction I was heading. Justified that I was tired and the Teacher sent me for a revitalizing walk. That just so happens to involve taking a walk outside. But, I mean, come ON, how slow do they walk?! * Since people (even friends, sadly) tend not to pay too much attention to [[Tropers/DarkInsanity13 this troper]], she's able to do this without trying. Some of the [[VitriolicBestBuds dimmer ones]] will say "[Troper Name]! When did you get here?" after she's been standing there talking to people for at least 10 minutes. FailedASpotCheck much? ** People often jump at me for suddenly appearing in front of them. And I have to tap their shoulder just for them to see me. * During freshman year of college, this troper wore a large pair of boots without the laces, because although they'd broken, the boots still stayed on just fine. The boots clomped, the eyelets jingled, and yet I '''still''' managed to disappear my 6'4", 250lb self when the time was right. I may even be the Fat Batman mentioned above, I don't know. * This troper doesn't do the "bye" part much, but the "hi" part is very popular with him. His footfalls can be absolutely silent even on dry grass if he tries, and when he sees someone he wants to talk to, or simply wants to insert himself into a group, he'll simply walk up. Even if he's at a 90 degree angle from his target's eyes, he can be completely unnoticed, despite being 6'4. He once went up behind his friend to compliment her on her dye job for ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' while she was on the makeup stool and she screamed and nearly fell off when she saw him behind her, as he waited for her to finish her conversation. ** Ditto here; the "bye" part isn't nearly half as rewarding. ** Same here. This troper walks softly and makes no sound while breathing (except during allergy season maybe.) Thus he often skulks around without even realizing it. More than once he's started talking about some [[RealLife mundane]] matter with coworkers while they had their backs turned, only to see them jump out of their skins. * [[{{Tropers/nine}} This dude's]] footsteps are silent, for no

apparent reason. Because of this, no one notices him until he says something. Sometimes, it looks like he's been "creepin'" on the group, unintentionally, of course. * Usually, this troper has a chronic inability to sneak up on ''anyone'', no matter the circumstances. However, partially due to my excellent ability of navigating through crowds, and really fast walking, I've managed to pull this quite a few times on people. * [[Tropers/PyroSkittle This Troper]] has an ability to perform StealthHiBye GLOMPS to people! Yes, it be awesome. * Despuite being tall enough to see over the cubicles and, I've managed to do this unintentionally to about half my department... ''In the last week.'' I'm seriosuly considering wearing bells so people know I'm coming. * Truth truth truth. Apparently I have the ability to 'teleport', or at least startle the shit out of people who I expected to know I was already present. I've gone through this with every new roomate, coworker, boss, significant other, insignificant other, and it's long past funny to have people spazz out in surprise when they notice me in the room. * This troper can do this as well. When asked about it, I said I was a part-time ninja. "But I can see you!" My reply: "PART-TIME" * This troper walks silently and doesn't generally announce his presence, so he regularly ends up doing this to friends, to the point where he has a reputation for it. His natural walk is also very fast, so he has on more than one occasion baffled people by walking away in one direction and - entirely without intending it - emerging from a door behind them a very brief time later. * One of this troper's friends who plays the ''{{Discworld}} MUD'' uses his ninja training to leave in the middle of conversations. And appear in rooms I thought were empty. * For some reason, This Troper has the ability to move silently in a full sprint, even while wearing heavy boots. One time, he zipped up behind two co-workers across a vinyl tile surface without making a sound. When he started speaking, one of them turned around, visibly startled. This individual remarked that he was "Like a ghost!" On the flip side, he has a tendency to lose track of people very easily if he takes his eyes off them to indulge in staring off into space for even a moment. Very often, he'll be following them and they'll fail to notice when he inadvertently stops doing so, even after going a good hundred yards outside his field of view. * This Troper has both done this (she calls it "Ninja'D") and had this happen to her. The former because she is short, carries herself in a manner that doesn't garner attention, and usually stands there listening to a conversation until she speaks up, scaring the bejeezus out of her friends; the latter because she gets very carried away in whatever she's doing at the moment and doesn't notice somebody standing right next to her until they say something. * [[Tropers/DoctorWorm This troper]] managed to accidentally pull one of these on a friend while they (and about 10 others) were at dinner. What makes this amusing is that he had been assigned to kill me in a game of Assassins, and thus was watching me so he could follow as I left. The kicker? He told me about this while we were leaving a

showing of ''TheDarkKnight''. * [[Tropers/TheHerald This Troper]] has accidentally done this numerous times in the comic book shops he went to. Like some of the others here, he was referred to as a ninja. * [[Tropers/KatsuHagi This troper]] frequently pulls these on her mother, classmates, roommates and other people, though not on purpose. She's a just very quiet person and apparently has very light footfalls. My current roommate is actually legally blind and doesn't really have any peripheral vision, and I've pulled this enough on him that we've joke that I should start wearing bells. * I pull of Stealth His fine, but I'm not so good at Stealth Byes. Of course, the only reasonable thing to say after you've managed a Stealth Hi is "I'm Batman." ** No, the only thing to say is "I Am the Night!" Even IF its day time. * This editor (who pulled SHB multiple times, intentionally and not, and was once told he is like a ghost despite being big and heavy) finally came to the conclusion that most people simply don't freaking pay attention to what is going on around them. Background noise (heavy traffic or somesuch) definitely helps but puh-leeease... * Once, during one of this troper's boyfriend's attempts to get him to join him in his daily naps, he managed to slip out of his mate's arms and slip in his mate's big tiger plush, ninja-style. His mate had no idea the switch took place, and was mighty surprised to wake up holding the stuffed animal, instead. * This troper is a member of a small group of people capable of Steath Hi Bye. Some have theorized that This Troper's ability come from the lack of a soul. His friend is capable of doing this being a 6'7" oaf. * This Troper once had a roommate who was able to do this all the time. The roommate was getting his grad degree in psychology, and he enjoyed pulling it on This Troper as an advanced form of applied psychology. His honest grin always made it impossible not to laugh with him about it instead of getting angry, though. * This Troper can do it, if he holds his keybunch (S'got a keybunch at work for safes and tills etc.) and when he bends over (taller than the average man) and whispers "I'm a ninja." it scares people. Also when people turn around corners they tend to get frightened. It does help that this Troper's standard behaviour is loud, bombastic and more [[BrianBlessed Sir Brian Blessed]] than meek little mouse. * This Troper has a reputation for doing this. It got to the point where I lampshaded it personally by going as a ninja to a Halloween costume party last year and specifically attempted to scare the hell out of everyone I knew by popping up right behind them and greeting them. (It was a pretty crowded party, so it wasn't too difficult.) * This Troper doesn't agree with the assertion that practitioners automatically know that they're doing it. I'm 6'2" (180 cm for folks who use rational measuring systems) and tend to walk fairly rapidly. Nevertheless, when I was working as a carhop, I would startle an average of a customer a shift (maybe 2. I think my high was 5) with a Stealth Hi. One time, I swear to G* d the customer was actually looking at me and she still jumped when I tapped on the window to take her order. I'll admit I've occasionally done it deliberately, but not

''that'' often... * This Troper was called "Nightcrawler" by a bunch of friends for his ability to appear and disappear from out of no where. Helped that I was taking German and spoke with a decent Munich Accent when I wanted too. * [[{{Tropers/onyhow}} This troper]] occasionally pulls this off, sometimes by accident... * This Troper has been banned from walking around her house barefoot due to several instances of nearly giving parents heart attacks due to SHB. The kicker is that she still goes unnoticed both coming and going, whilst wearing heavy steel toe-capped trainers and not making any effort to be quiet. It's even more annoying when said comings and goings involve going in or out of a front door which slams, and can't be opened without at least one dog taking vocal notice. * This Troper does this all the time. Unintentionally. She also manages to go on trips with friends to various places she has never been to in her life. This Troper suspects that a) people don't pay attention; b) that she has a doppelganger; c) that she is unconsciously able to turn invisible; or d) any combination of the above. * [[Tropers/GalenDev This troper]] has a friend by the name of Lucas who is the unintentional master at this. His adeptness of the "ninja vanish" is noted amongst many of his friends, especially in defiance of his routinely shock-blond hair and flamboyant dress style. The thing is, he fails miserably at this whenever he tried on purpose. One time, Lucas, our mutual friend Wayne, and myself were all at the airport waiting for Lucas' then-girlfriend. Lucas was dressed in all bright red, and had recently dyed his hair to a near-white. Both me and Wayne were looking right at him, when someone passed in front of him, and... no Lucas. Despite him being the most obviously-dressed person in LAX, it was like he was never there. It took the two of us another couple of minutes to find him again. * This troper frequently startles her friends by doing this. I'll join the group in the middle of a conversation, but I don't interrupt by saying hi for fear of being rude. But then I sort of forget to mention that I'm there at all...and when I say something, everyone is startled. Sometimes it even takes a while for them to find me. Reaching the not-so-enormous height of 4'10", my six-foot-something guy friends tend to look right over me in confusion. * This tropher has a reputation for this. It got so bad that my last girlfriend bought me a belled collar so I wouldn't sneak up on her. It didn't work. * [[{{Tropers/Seiryu}} This troper]] has had the reputation for doing this through all four years of high school, and (so far) two years of college. Highlights: ** In Sophmore year of high school, I walked into the band room after school, right behind my best friend. We took our seats, and the conversation started up. Since I'm TheQuietOne, I didn't say anything. Half an hour later, I finally participate in the conversation, and my friend nearly had heart attack. He thought another friend of his was right behind him. ** In Junior year, I had my (future) girlfriend convinced that I was a

ghost. ** In Freshman year of college, some friends were eating lunch on the steps right outside the student store. I got my lunch, and took my seat next to a lamp post next to the steps, right at their eye level. When I finally spoke up, everyone got scared and pissed off. One friend went into the store in order to buy me some tic-tacs, a la {{Seinfeld}}. It didn't work. * [[{{Tropers/sgrunt}} This troper]] is known for unceremonious entrances and exits to the point where people joke that he appears and disappears out of thin air. * This troper is apparently is a master at this. His step mother once said that he would give her a heart attack from appearing out of nowhere, and his actual mother once got called him out on his habit of leaving the room whenever she looked the other way, even though neither was intentional. * [[Tropers/EternallyAnonymous I]] do this all the time at work. I've been threatened to have a bell put on me many times now. * This troper is big, tall, strong and fat. Mostly fat. Despite the size, nobody seems to see or even hear him when he walks, leading to loud screams, jumps and, my favorite "What the-holy-f* ckin' hell, man?" * This troper's a bit of a real-life [[{{Scrubs}} Ted]] in this respect. In spite of being almost six and a half feet tall, weighing in at just over 210 lbs., and completely lacking in any kind of stealth behavior, he always seems to take people by surprise. It never seems to occur to anyone to take notice of me until I start actively asserting my presence. Either AwesomeButImpractical or CursedWithAwesome, depending on what kind of mood I'm in. * This troper has unfortunate stealth skills. Walking up to a friend and saying hi gives about a 50% chance of scaring the crap out of them. Well, or I'm just hideously deformed... * [[{{Tropers/Kaizykat}} This Troper]] somehow has these skills. Since she's heavy and quite klutzy she has no idea how people ''can't'' hear her. As for the bye part... Well, her father tells her frequently that she's "Really fast for a fat kid." * [[Tropers/EtherealFrog This Troper]] hates wearing socks and shoes , and uses only the front half of his foot when walking barefoot(It's more of a lope really). Once, I went to the bathroom, sneaking by my family in the process, then back into my room, escaping the notice of ''everyone'', including the person sitting at their desk 5 feet away. They thought I was halfway across the house when they wanted to talk to me about something. * In the last few homes this troper has lived in, the floors tend to creak when walked on. Since I'm very overweight, this tends to make me rather nervous; so, I've gotten into the habit of walking as lightly as possible wherever I go, being careful not to put down too much weight. However, on numerous occasions I've managed to startle my parents (and some other people, but mostly my parents) when I speak up to get their attention, and I'm told that I need to make more noise when I walk. * This troper was at camp once, chatting with his cabin-mates, when one of them came back from the bathroom. None of us had noticed him

leave. We immediately concluded that the person in question was a ninja. * For This Troper, it's an unfortunate side effect of poor social skills an probably gender too; Girls having a tendency to group quickly + being too shy to break into said groups = being able to approach, standing nearby and leaving without being noticed. * This troper has been on both side of this trope. To the point of ensuring to make noise while walking. * This troper, due to being TheQuietOne, has an unfortunate tendency to pull this trope completely by accident. I'm frequently amazed that people don't notice a six-foot, 240 lb. black male's presence unless he straight up announces it. Even when I do, apparently my normal voice is so soft that people really don't hear me. * [[Tropers/AgentAlpha This Troper]] does it naturally, regardless of whether he's conscious of doing it or not. It helps that he's been TheQuietOne his entire life and has an odd habit of walking on his toes. Admittedly, he does tend to do the Stealth Hi more frequently than Stealth Byes. * This troper has a habit of doing this. The years of trying to avoid her parents and staying up past bedtime have taught her to be quiet and sneaky, which has really come in handy when she wants to surprise her friends or stay unseen by the teachers who want to speak to her about skipping assembly/homeroom. * This troper commonly (and unintentionally) commits the "ninja peekaboo" variety. When walking anywhere with friends, she automatically and silently ducks to the other side of the friend (or group) to avoid obstacles. People often notice that she "disappeared" first, ''then'' jump when they find her on their other side. She generally deadpans that she can teleport, though she figures it's because most people aren't as observant as she expects them to be. Being TheQuietOne can also lead to Stealth Hi situations - sometimes if the mood takes her, she'll exploit it for laughs. * This troper's friend commonly refers to her as an elf, due to the sheer number of times this troper has been able to sneak up on various people (including said friend) without making a sound. Conversations are often prefaced by, "DAAAHH! Hello. Where'd you come from?" * this troper just like the many others has the whole 'I'm so big it doesn't make sense to be so stealthy' thing, however he pulled this trope off quite a bit back in high school and would a few time purposefully subvert it with psycho breathing effectively making it something simmiliar to a {{alone with the psycho}} moment, quite fun really * [[Tropers/TheRenaissanceRaver This Troper]] apparently does this often, even ''with'' the Tripp pants that have jingly broken chains on them. However, she has a rather memorable one in the eighth grade, lacking the "bye" part. She had approached one of her classmates from the side, leaned against the table while he was talking with some other classmates. He had earlier dropped a comment about me being psychotic or something along those lines. As soon as he stopped talking, the following exchange happened: --> '''Troper''': "So who's the psychotic one now?" --> '''Unfortunate Victim''': * turns, sees her sitting there when she

''wasn't'' five seconds ago* "GAH!" * This Troper has yet to scare anybody out of their skin, but has a reputation in his dorm for being very quiet. He will regularly join his friends in the lounge without their noticing and leave just as quietly. He blames it on living in an almost 100 year old house with squeaky floors, and a mother who wakes at the drop of a hat and then comes into the bathroom to make sure you aren't your sleepwalking sister. He learned to be very quiet at a young age. * {{Tropers/Ryumaru}}: I looooove doing this. Especially to my sister. [[ForTheEvulz It's rather entertaining, the way she jumps and shrieks....]] I once snuck away from her on the walk home, in broad daylight. Cue the "How TF did you get there?" look from her when I was waiting at home. * [[Tropers/OmegaMetroid This troper]] can inexplicably sneak up on people when walking up to them normally. I suspect everyone does this some time or other. ** This 6'5" Troper accidentally does it all the time. ** Same here ('cept I'm 5'4''), but I do it on purpose just as much, mostly with my brother. *** This 6'1" Troper has done to just about everyone he has met, including his former Army Captain father *** This Troper does it by accident, generally by just walking up to a group of friends, sitting down with them, and not announcing her arrival. Rest assured that at elast one of them won't notice. ** This Troper learned (in marching band) that 'rolling' your feet allows you to walk pretty much completely silently, which allows the use of this trope '''even through doors'''. It's great fun. ** Cool. I learned it on my own. * This troper walks fairly lightly, so she has to make noise intentionally so as not to freak folks out sometimes, especially if they're an avid listener of too-loud music. * This troper used to do this in highschool and earned the rather amusing nickname [[spoiler: "Jesus!"]] because that's what people yelled when I popped up behind them. * Interesting variation in that I never notice what is going on around me; my mom thinks my eyes got worse, but the doc confirms no and agrees with me in that I'm simply oblivious. Which is why it seems to me that ''everyone'' is pulling a Stealth Hi Bye on me when they really weren't trying. * Apparently, I do this a lot without trying. And now my boss is scared to page me since for all she knows I'll pop out of a cash register asking what she wants. And of course the rest of my coworkers to a lesser extent. * Everyone in my family but my mother is a master at the bye part, only I've gotten the hi down. * [[{{Tropers/Lullabee}} I]] apparently do this, but I rarely mean to. My mum is so oblivious that I startle her in this manner ''all the time'', can't keep a straight face, and get yelled at for it. Often, I try to subtly announce my presence and nobody notices, [[WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou forcing]] me to startle them. Or... basically, I don't do this on purpose! It just happens. And now my roommate regularly accuses me of being a {{ninja}}.

* [[{{Tropers/Hydronix}} This Troper]] does it quite often and rather easily. I seem to have a good move silently check... * [[{{Tropers/Orihime}} This troper]] often pulls them on her family, since she likes to go barefoot at home and thus barely makes noise when she walks around. * This Troper is very much a Stealth Hi Byer. No 'Batman' nicknames, though - but Hawley Griffin was not so lucky... * This Troper does it both ways, and sometimes mixes them up for weird results. Like going out for a smoke in the middle of class, then come back to find that nobody noticed I ever left. I'm also one of those cases of nonsensical stealth. I mean, I dress like a Neo wannabe and have a constant cough. It seems all those HighlyVisibleNinjas were right after all... * [[{{Tropers/Drakyndra}} This Troper]] apparently has a talent for doing this to my new housemate. It's not even intentional, it's just that I walk quietly and he isn't used to sharing an apartment, so he freaks out whenever he turns around and I walked into the room when he wasn't paying attention. * [[Tropers/ArrowDnarrow this troper]] once startled herself one day when she realized she couldn't hear her own footsteps. Cue me trying to walk "louder" but failing. I've also scared a man shovelling his walk when he turned around to face me and i said hi. I've done this to several friends and it's a favourite thing to do in drama class as well (especially when we are not supposed to wear shoes). * This troper would like to mention that being nearly six feet tall with flaming red hair and a tendency to wear red shirts does not seem to hinder his ability to appear behind people and give them heart attacks. Neither does the fact that I sound like a herd of rampaging elephants when I run, and I run ''everywhere''. * This troper's friends have gotten used to my ability to do this, so when they notice me they always keep quiet until someone else notices, just to see their reaction. It is quite amusing, especially when I can manage to sneak up on someone along a mile-long, dead straight road ''without trying to''. * This troper is not only painfully shy, but also has very sensitive ears, so she learned from a very young age how to do things while making minimal noise. This includes walking, opening doors, moving objects, sitting down, and even talking in a way designed to provide minimum interruption potential. Combined with the facts that (a) she is prone to wearing dark-colored coats and black gloves when cold and (b) she has trained in martial arts, it's small wonder that she has gained a reputation as a ninja. There have been times when she has been sitting in plain sight in a room for ten minutes and ''still'' managed to make people jump when she said something. Her friends have also recounted times when she has "Ninja Vanished." And, like many of the people here, she often does it without even trying to. * This troper does this often, most of the time without even trying. She's so good at it, she was thinking of maybe becoming a ninja, before she realized that she isn't japanese and ninja training would most likely be hard to master. * This troper's done this fairly often at work, unintentionally, to the point that I have to speak up when I'm about to walk into someone

so nothing's spilled (and even then, as a quiet and tiny person, I'm barely noticed). Otherwise I'm fairly proud of my ninja abilities, as I used to stomp when I walked and got made fun of for it. Make fun of me, and you get stealthed later. * This troper is a subversion: he is possibly the most quiet person in the school, but, whenever he tries one of these, someone decides to look in his direction at exactly the wrong moment, meaning I'm still too far away to get the effect one of these should give. * This unknown tropette often had this happen to her [[ButtMonkey for the sake of laughs]]. Most often by the [[TheBigGuy biggest guy in school.]] Oh, did she forget to mention that she is [[WildTake a complete and utter spazz]]? * This troper walks quietly and has startled her mom, unintentionally, by walking into the room without her mom noticing more times than she can count. * This Troper has developed the habit of coming in to her classroom at school, and, because she insists upon sitting under the table, when someone sits down, they usually kick her. One time, this happened: -->'This Troper: (Comes in and sits down under table. Screaming argument going on. Gets out book, which is incidentally Volume Four of the Japanese VampireKnight, although she also has the English and starts reading. Someone sits down and kicks her.) OY! -->'Other person: Agh! [Troper Name]! Why do you always sit there! -->'This Troper: Good point. (Crawls out from under table in true [[DeathNote Beyond Birthday]] fashion.) It's hard to read Kanji under that table. And my neck hurts. * I did the hi and bye thing to a friend ALL DAY LONG. Most of the time it was unintentionally (I went to the bathroom and, when I opened the door to get out, she was right there and she freaked out because it was like the fifth stealth), but when I realized it pissed her off I started to do it on purpose. Weird part? I'm like 12 inches taller than she. ** Also, I don't know why people are so damn slow: Once, I got out of school, went to the mall (that is like three blocks from school), wandered around, bought a CD while taking my time, wandered again, hitched a ride in a motorbike to another mall, got a 2nd degree burn with the exhaust system, talked with the biker, got his number, wandered again trying to find a drugstore to treat the burn without finding anything and, when I was walking to a third mall to get a taxi that would take me home, I found out that one of my classmates was JUST REACHING THE PLACE. Once she saw me, she shouted 'How did you got here so quickly?' and my reply was 'motorbike'. Then she shouted 'I hate you' and I laughed. * This Troper managed to pull one of these off at an Anime convention, ''wearing a [[ExcelSaga Nabe]][[NerimaDaikonBrothers shin]] costume with an '''eighteen-inch afro.''''' * This Troper, despite being 6'6", lanky, and entirely nonathletic has a strange ability to do this. I can often do it intentionally, to hilarious effect, but it becomes a problem when I'm unsure of how to casually approach somebody who has their back turned without scaring the shit out of them. * [[{{Tropers/Zadia}} Zadia]] does this quite a bit. I often scare the

hell out of people by saying hello to them when they have no clue that I'm there, and several times I'll leave to go get something, return and have someone exclaim that I was just there, then they looked back and I was gone, and then I was there again... * [[Tropers/LadyNorbert This troper]]'s husband has mastered this skill. As he tags along and serves as TeamDad to the church youth group she advises, the kids are frequently impressed by his stealthy abilities. Since he's also a RedheadedHero, they've nicknamed him "the Irish Ninja." * This troper seems to be this without trying, sometimes, she'll just be walking down the street with some friends, and when she says something to contribute to the conversation everyone freaks out because no one knew she was there. She's also done this in any house, when she goes to ask someone something and they're startled or freaked out she's there. Even though she stomps a little when she walks, '''and even on houses with creaky wood on the floor'''. Whenever she tries to do it on purpose, however, she's always seen. ** This troper as well, to such an extent that this trope was played straight with him in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMTq5MEV5hE a student film]] in his high school film class, to uproarious laughter. * This troper was accused of doing it quite a few times. More than once he walked inside a room and after a few minutes people go "Grandy... how long have you been there?", that is, if they don't simply jump when he sneezes. * This troper was known for this in high school-he'd wander on up as though he'd never heard of stealth in his life, and people would be shocked to see him suddenly standing next to them. This stopped after I went to college. It may have something to do with occupying a slot in the social hierarchy vaguely similar to [[{{Scrubs}} Ted]]; since no one particularly expected me to be anywhere, suddenly enforcing my presence with my existence came as a surprise. * Sometimes, this troper will walk up behind someone to say hi, and they'll be opening a locker or something, and I'll just say hi and apparently they didn't here me come up. At all. * This troper can get away quickly if she doesn't want to be stuck with chores. Does that count? * I swear my brother's a Ninja. Sometimes, he'll be in the house but I never see him come in. Also, He is gone for most of the day. * Tropers/SunnyV does this a lot, totally by accident, to her parents. Usually though, she'll walk up to one of them and start talking, and they'll fail to realize she was there, and [[HilarityEnsues hilarity will ensue.]] * Tropers/Tidal_Wave_17 does this so much that he has gained a nickname by fellow students: "The Creeper". Strangely, whenever he ''tries'' to sneak up on people, he makes so much noise you ''can't'' help but notice him. * I have a tendency to do this at work, usually walking up behind or next to someone without them noticing, and they're startled when they turn around and see me or when I say something. I've been called a ninja by a few co-workers, and one constantly mentioned that I should wear a bell so they can hear me coming. * Despite being a five foot six, two hundred sixty pound "brick

outhouse", I can pull this off rather frequently. Some of my friends hypothesize it's my overall "don't mind me, just a shadow" posture that helps people ignore me. * This Troper has a tendency to walk up to people and stand next to/behind them for a while without them noticing. One of my favorite examples is when I was shopping with some friends, went to a different part of the store, found them again, and then stood behind them for about a minute before they noticed me. What makes it even better was one of them looked right at me when I first walked up to them but was still surprised when I was noticed later. * Tropers/{{Excel-2011}}. I do this all the time by going right behind people and waiting for them to turn around. In one instance, the scream was heard through the entire packed auditorium. The trick is to wear the right footwear and control your breathing. A SlasherSmile like the one I have perfected over the years is optional, but greatly enhances the effect if you can hold it long enough or time it properly. * This troper pulled one off recently without even trying (mind you, he's six foot six, 250 pounds). Wearing squeaky boots. In a hallway. He considers it his CrowningMomentOfAwesome. * This troper is at least six foot one tall, yet he is quite good at getting unnoticed (he describes himself as "invisible, except for the people who want to see me"), so this kind of thing is usual to him - a classmate even decided to show up behind him one day in response. In addition to getting someone scared when revealing his presence (at a certain point he started to reply with "I cause this on people"). * This troper does this frequently to her mother, albeit unintentionally since I don't make much noise when walking, my mother complains about this and asks me to do noise when I enter a room so I won't startle her. * This troper doesn't even has to try to pull this off. I have actually startled cats, the sneakiest animals of them all, by ahemming them when they don't realize I'm within kicking distance of them. * This troper is ''friggin' awesome'' at doing these. Mostly unintentionally, though... * Tropers/{{Unshavenhobo}} I started doing this to mess with people when I figured out how to sneak around. I'm also >6 foot tall and wear size 15.5 shoes and still somehow manage to be Mr. Cellophane occasionally... * My father is 185 cm (~6'1.5"), about 120kg (265 pounds) and 52 years old (31.03.2011). One rarely hears him coming. Rottenvenetic * This troper's female friend loves to pull this trick off. And she's baaaad at it. * This Troper love doing this. Apparently my friends like doing it as well and we have created the 'ninja game'. * This troper's dog used to do this. The thing was, said dog was [[BigFriendlyDog 120 lbs of]] [[DogsAreDumb clumsy, dopey, lovable chocolate lab]], who was normally not given to any sort of grace or subtlety. But every once in a while, I'd be sitting in my room, watching TV, only to look back and see him sleeping on my bed, and have no memory of him ever entering the room. * This troper's known for being stealthy. He made a habit of sneaking

up on people at his old job, just silently slipping up behind them and whispering "Boo" in their ears. He still surprises people at how quietly he can just disappear and then return to his desk at his new job. When questioned, he explains his ability thusly: "I'm part ninja." * This troper often does this without meaning to, usually to her sister. More often then not, this troper will leave her room to go to the bathroom and will be noticed on her way back earning a "How'd you do that" reaction from her sister. It helps that this troper walks very quietly, quickly and on the balls of her feet, which creates an even lighter footfall. * My younger sibling manages still, at 12 to do this undetected. Especially when I'm absorbed soley in the world of the internet. She'll come up behind me and go "BOO!" and i'll screech like hell. * This troper does it from time to time. Occasionally, it's by accident, since I thought people knew I was there, but other times, I do it deliberately, give the inherent humor in startling people. * This Troper has had a habit of appearing without a sound, usually to the side of or behind people. When he feels like having a laugh, he just stands there, like a shadow... ''jesus, where did you come from?!'' It never gets old. He often does this (unintentionally) to his mom, appearing in rooms she had believed were empty. Creaky stairs has given this Troper a lot of practice. Vanishing without a trace is something this Troper will only perform when experiencing a Panic Attack, usually due to too many people. ** As an extension to this Troper's previous example, it has gotten so bad that this Troper even does it ''online''. He'll be silent/lurking/inactive and will pop in unexpectedly at a really odd moment (typically by [[SpeakOfTheDevil mentioning his name]] or mentioning something he can help with. He tends to respond with [[AddamsFamily "You raaannng?"]]) * I can do this without even trying. My friends have concluded that I must have been part of some experiment where I had cat DNA fused into my body. It doesn't help that I have other cat-like characteristics. ---Well, now that you've read those, you'll want to [[StealthHiBye go back to...]] and you're already gone. ---<<|TroperTales|>> ---''OH''! You're still here! You startled me!

* creepy voice* hello there...

StealthInsult * Brother: I think Glee is kinda... silly. Troper: alot of people do. I think you're kinda annoying. Brother: alot of people do. Wait.... * Once I had a substitute teacher who liked to use this. Quoting one of my friends: "Wow, he called us all idiots and we only noticed that when somebody told us". * When I was in school doing my A levels, a joke insult that went around the class was to call another a 'Myogenic Bastard'. When we were taught that Myogenic = Self Stimulating, some of us used it to mean a person who... [[ADateWithRosiePalms self stimulates]] * My friend once likened me to the Marquis de Sade, and I said yeeeeeeaah. Um... THEN I looked him up. And was pissed off. * This troper doesn't usually use stealth insults (although he sometimes does use obscure words in insults). Instead he uses something similar to avoid insulting people while still telling the truth. Like when one of his friends was wearing a dress her mother made her and asked how it looked. This troper replied that she looked very pretty, but then again she looked pretty no matter what she wore. Translation: You look pretty but the dress looks like it's made out of a bedsheet. * This Troper often gets an "Are you implying something?" from friends for the few times they catch his stealth insults. * There are several people this troper would call St. Fu. [[spoiler:As in STFU.]] ** This same troper, on the silver anniversary of EDSA I, gave "Sieg Heils" with matching Nazi Salutes to... fans of the sitting president. Fans who have no flipping idea [[AdolfHitler who I just compared their leader]] [[DontExplainTheJoke with in terms of publicity.]] * [[{{Crion87}} This troper]] once called a particularly dim-witted school bully a Neanderthal. While he was trying to figure out what this troper had meant, I had made my escape! * This troper refers to people as "Prince Myschkin". If you don't understand, brush up on your Dostoyevsky. ** You insult people by comparing them to a Christ figure? That seems a little self-defeating. *** Not if you think god is an asshole. * [[{{Tropers/MRL}} This troper]] once had a supervisor respond to one of his offhand remarks with "That's what I like about you; you never take me too seriously", and couldn't resist replying with "I could never take you too seriously, Tom." The idiot supervisor never did catch on, as far as is known. * This troper was once a member of a love triangle, and a friend was

reading a book by Ken Follet. He said we were almost like a love triangle in the book, ''World Without End''. Here is the love triangle. First, there is me, I had a crush on Molly from the start, but she was technically paired off already to a guy from Mission High School. I finally met the guy at the Senior Ball. He was this pretty boy with an older suit and blond hair. I felt like [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown marring]] that all too {{Bishonen}} face. I didn't. I did some reading out of curiosity of what the friend meant by the love triangle relation...I was the bad guy. He was insulting how I pursued Molly. And the worst part is I resemble said villain down to hair and eyes. Good thing the relationship never continued, considering [[RapeAsDrama what happened to the girl in the book]]. * This troper has been known to push his glasses up with his middle finger while looking at someone in order to flip them the bird in the most plausibly deniable manner. ** [[Tropers/HiWayXingFrog This troper]] does the same thing. It's a classic. * This troper has a strange sense of humor, and makes a lot of jokes that people don't get. She's taken advantage of this and used the 'weird person humor' in her insults. She can't remember any specific jokes at the moment, though. Subverted, though, because even her obvious insults tend to fly over people's heads: "Going down the evolutionary scale: Human, monkey, fish, amoeba, perverted classmate (I used his name, of course)". I said this to his face and he didn't get it. * "I can't tell you how happy I am to accept your apology in the same spirit with which it was offered." That's the wording used by [[{{Tropers/MTiffany}} this troper]] when accepting a coerced and blatantly insincere non-apology apology from my neighbor's deadbeat pill-hound boyfriend after a very public - and somewhat violent argument with him in which he called me just about every name in the book and a drug addict. I bring up the drug addict part because a couple years later he died of a drug overdose. * [[Tropers/JohnQuixote This editor]]'s mother was learning Latin insults for this specific purpose. She would tell someone something along the lines of "You have shit for brains" in Latin and tell them it means something complimentary. ** Isn't that the point of learning another language? *** This editor doesn't know about you, but I made a point of learning variations on "_____ if I know", i.e. "coitus si scio" or "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus Tartarus]] si scio." *** This troper doesn't know about ''either'' of you, but rather than use actual German profanity (which sounds too similar to English anyway), he's been known to say "Did you come out of the closet yet?" and "I hope you grow flowers out of your knee," among others. *** This troper has a part French Canadian friend who would secretly insult her incompetent French teacher to her face... in French. **** So insulting the teacher, her French skills, highlighting the lack of those skills, ''and'' getting away with it! I take my metaphorical hat off to your friend. *** This troper, who doesn't normally swear at all, has practiced a form of the [[WatershipDown Lapine]] highest insult so as to be ready

to use it should occasion arise. ** Henry Beard's books, ''Lingua Latina Occasionibus Omnibus'' (''Latin For All Occasions'') and ''X-Treme Latin'' have "Hidden Insult" and "Stealth Latin" sections respectively. ** This was actually ''subverted'' in [[AcrossTheStars this troper's]] life. I called my mother something unrepeatable in Italian. Unfortunately for me, I had forgotten that mummy dear is ''fluent in Italian'' and I endured a hair-raising lecture. ** [[Tropers/PhoenixFire This troper]] takes altogether too much pleasure in cussing people out in [[{{Fictionary}} invented languages]], too. Nothing like [[LordOfTheRings the Black Speech]] for insulting someone. * (RealLife example about poems where first letters spell an insult) ** This troper did something similar, but gave it to the person in question and had the first letters spell "Asshole." Despite the title being "Acrostic" . . . *** And then there's the infamous photo of a lengthy tombstone epitaph that's actually an acrostic reading "FUCK YOU." According to the urban legend that accompanies this picture, the wife and mistress of the deceased only became aware of each other's existence once his funerary preparations were underway, and they both chipped in for the tombstone. **** Not that smart. It rather looks like they wanted to insult whoever looks at the tombstone, not the guy buried under it - and that wouldn't be the point, would it? **** I once had a severely incompetent history teacher who required us to make lists of key events from the chapter. My friend has his list spell out " Fuck [teacher's last name]" and the guy not only didn't notice, he complimented my friend on being thorough. *** I did something subtler with my English teacher, who was incredibly incompetent; for the hell of it, to see if he would notice, I wrote part of that year's final project in Doctor Seuss-style rhyme and another in haiku. He didn't notice. *** This Troper was in a program at his high school for professional scientific research, and one of the girls in the program who was wellknown for academic dishonesty was receiving awards and special recognitions for a "science project" which she could not have put less actual into if she tried (assuming she did the project at all, which we suspected she did not); these recognitions included being asked to speak at an invitational science symposium. As part of the program, we were required to listen to her present her research and provide critiques and positive remarks, to help her prepare to present her research formally. This Troper gave his compliments and criticisms, all legitimate, which he used to spell "You Bitch" and "Bullshit." She never realized. * This troper has been told on several occasions that part of the fun of being his friend is watching people not get it when they are being insulted, even when everyone else around him is laughing. * [[Tropers/RedWren This troper]] personally prefers to do the version where the person you're talking to knows ''exactly'' what you mean...but no one else does. * [[Tropers/{{Sionnach}} This troper]] was hoovering her social area

at school once (we take it in turns) and her Irish teacher walked past. He greeted her and then commented that she would make a good housewife. She wasn't sure how to take it... * Years ago, [[Tropers/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] hoped for the right opportunity to rise to write a Get Well Soon card for his least favorite aunt. Inside, would be this long, sweet message that basically says that she's a good person and I hope she gets better soon. However, some of the letters in that long spiel would be in italic, and when taken away from everything else, you'd find a hidden message: "Sucks to be you". I had the long spiel saved, but the file went missing when transferring stuff to the desktop I just got around that time. * I once said to a really annoying and pervy lad at school, "Tu as un petit verge." His response, "Oh yeah, baby!" [[spoiler:"Tu as un petit verge."="You have a small penis."]] * I've never really come up with any really good ones, but the people I serve them to are ''particularly'' stupid, so not much effort is needed. I know these girls, and one in particular likes to run off her mouth quite a bit, especially [[InternetToughGuy on Facebook]], and trust me, she's ''unbelievable''. She's racist, sexist, homophobic, all of it. She once updated her status with, and I quote, "fucking chinks!" I commented, and this is the exchange that transpired (including the typos and spelling errors): -->'''Me:''' Every time you update your status, I lose a little more faith in humanity. -->'''Mouthy Girl's Friend:''' Its one of my exes g'fs, funny story actually. -->'''Mouthy Girl:''' lmao!!! -->'''Me:''' haha, I fail to see how that justifies overt racism, or racism of any kind. I suppose I'd have to be a lumbering yob[[hottip:* :BritishEnglish was [[ForeignCussWord intentionally used here]].]] to understand. -->'''Mouthy Girl:''' [Troper Name] ur a [[UnusualEuphemism towl!]] lmao u nn ur stupid big words, [[TooDumbToLive i did not understand a word you said]] -->'''Me:''' haha don't worry, it shows. -->'''Mouthy Girl:''' Lmao ok? * This troper wore a nice, flattering dress to school one day (don't worry, the dress was a casual kind), and one of her classmates said "You know, when you stop wearing all your frumpy clothes, you look really cute!" Troper, foolishly, said "Oh, thank you!" She only realized it on her way home. D'ohhhh... * I took to calling a certain teacher 'Santorini' as a [[TheNicknamer nickname]] due, partially, to name resemblance (Santos). My friends have yet to make the connection. * This male troper was never particularly tall (even, now only 5') and was constantly harassed about it in school. At least once a day I'd get asked, "how tall are you?" ("This tall", while setting a hand on the top of my head) or "What's your shoe size?" (at the time, it was a 6). I was having a particularly bad day when one of the football linebackers tried to intimidate me and he asked the latter question. I responded, "larger than your IQ," and kept walking. To this day, I'm

still not sure the football player ever picked up on it. * I had a bully circle a few years back. This was around the same time I was learning bits of Japanese. I ended up using a whole bunch of "{{Baka}}" and {Honorifics -Kosenpai} (little upperclassmate, ie. not worthy of your grade). * My mom's favorite singer is JoshGroban. My favorite singer is...not. Don't get me wrong, I think he sings beautifully an' all, but it gets a little grating after hours and hours and hours of his voice. She was playing one of his CD's the other day and I said, "Ooh! That's my favorite song on that whole CD." My mom said, "But that's the only one where he doesn't sing." Me: "I know." * Wow, it was really hard to notice some of those were ''[[StealthInsult Stealth]]'' [[StealthInsult Insults]]. * [[Tropers/{{Gunarao}} This Troper]] had one recently. He called someone a {{hypocrite}} on a forum. The other poster then replied, coming off as more than a little butthurt. This troper replied with an apology, but hyperlinked the full stop at the end of the sentence to an image of the infamous [[{{Wangst}} "BAWW!"]] picture. ---Hey! I resemble that StealthInsult. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StealthParody * This Troper objects to Poe's Law: it implies that adding the smiley or the blatant display of humor will ''make people stop treating it as real''. This Troper is ''physically incapable'' of creating any sort of satire that isn't mistaken for the real thing on internet forums. Mind, when he makes them, he tends to put an extremely visible "WARNING: SATIRE WITHIN!!!" line in the topic title and makes remarks like "I couldn't think of anything funny to say about this part but I had to include it for completeness." Most people recognize the parodies for what they are, but inevitably, even with disclaimers, one or two people will act, with no indication of irony, as though This Troper actually holds the views stated. ** Some of them could be fellow Poes, just playing along for lulz and confusion. ** This troper knows from experience that yes, some people are immune even to smilies and blatant displays of humour. Presumably they assume you're just "softening the blow" of your over-the-top statement in traditional patronising internet preacher style (even though the smilies used are rarely appropriate for that situation). The more fellow Poes that join in, the more likely that some poor newbie who doesn't know you well enough to know your humour style will think you're serious, even if the other Poes are even more over the top than you. ** [[{{Chadius}} My theory]] is that your disclaimer has to be at least as long as your joke. Of course by then no one is willing to read the joke and you're back to square one. * Is this what happens to me when I tell Jewish jokes?

* This troper's old high school friend found (and copied down to show to others) a poem of sorts written on a school desk that was either a stealth parody of angsty high school poetry, or just a ridiculously incoherent example thereof. I wish I could remember more of it, but I do know it involved the narrator accusing his ex-girlfriend of being a Nazi, and ended on a cautiously optimistic note: "Life is the bad, but it could be the worse". * After years of constant joking, this troper found out that most people think she's a very serious and formal person. Guess why. * This troper's sense of humor tends to be limited to this. If anyone outside of his circle of friends saw his stuff (and knew it was due in part to NWordPrivileges about the groups he's in), they'd probably take it seriously- probably because, outside of his circle of friends, he's known as a blowhard. * Almost all of my humor is StealthParody. It's astounding, even people who've known me for ''years'' can't tell when I'm kidding and when I'm serious. * This troper [[OldShame at one time]] wrote a (het)slash fic that showed what a slash fic about an AxeCrazy, mind-raping, probably necrophiliac [[OrderOfTheStick character]] would be like ''without'' the CharacterDerailment (No sexually explicit acts). After the first response was a compliment, the summary was edited to make clear the already strongly implied message[[hottip:*:Unfortunately brief thanks to the character limit, but this is still an exaggeration]]: "[[DontExplainTheJoke THIS IS SATIRE, NOW SHUT UP GORN FANS]]". * This troper writes [[TrollFic deliberately ridiculous]] fanfiction for the HarryPotter and Literature/{{Twilight}} fandoms, both of which are notoriously rife with FanDumb. (In reality, she is a genuine fan of HarryPotter. Twilight, not so much.) However, her parodies are apparently ''too'' stealthy--she has received kind, well-intentioned multi-paragraph reviews that completely missed the point. She hasn't quite got the heart to correct them. Her profile is [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2195899/Krystalynne_Riddle_Cullen here]], [[ShamelessSelfPromotion in case]] anyone wants to take a look. * This troper wrote up a parody news article on spoof website [[PeterChimaera Uncycylopedia]], claiming that a team of Cambridge scientists led by Dr. John Cleese had objectively proven that Americans are intellectually inferior to other human beings, and submitted it to poll website and home of politically-charged, rageand-death-threat-infused, internet based discussion Sodahead.com. In a twist of self-verification, the ratio of comments that noticed the source to comments of pure, flaming, patriotic hatred was about 1:50. * This troper from Toronto wrote a geography paper about my impressions of Japan. I based my research upon anime comedies like Ranma 1/2. I thought it was pretty obvious my paper was a joke, I mentioned that "japanese teens like running on rooftops of houses." I When we got our papers back, the instructor informed me in front of the class that my paper was "racist." * In sophomore ( second year of high school) health this troper was assigned a project on dangerous and addictive chemicals. Considering I

hated the class and the teacher with a fiery passion I did the only logical thing and based my entire project on [[http://www.dhmo.org/ Di-hydrogen Monoxide]]. No one figured it out and the teacher gave me an [[WhatAnIdiot A+ on the project]]. * This troper once had to write an argumentative essay about a subject. He chose abortion, and proceeded to write a stealth parody on extreme right-wing pro-lifers. And it worked! ---Back to StealthParody -- quick, before they work out the humor. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StealthPun * I'm running a Zombie Apocalypse style GURPS game which takes place in Sobergarden. (Think synonyms.) * In a version of ''Taming of the Shrew'' I saw, a man came onto the stage and sang "Yesterday" in the style of the sixteenth century with a live music backup that joined him for the refrain. [[spoiler: They were "The Beadles."]] * This troper likes to to nickname her Pokemon, and I was stuck trying to nickname Koffing. Eventually, I decided on Jupiter. [[spoiler: Because they're both gas giants!]] ** Also in Pokmon, this troper gave her Ariados an Amulet Coin to hold. Get it? [[spoiler: She's a money spider!]] * In a Dungeons and Dragons campaign I created, I had all the enemies be magically modified changelings forced into servitude with the final boss being two giant foxlike monsters who could use the powers that the players used. One of the players then realized that I was making them fight [[spoiler: [[JackOfAllTrades Jackals of Trade]]]]. * I added the EV Nova example as an example of what I (and a few others I'm sure) have done. Just to indulge my history-nerdiness. * Technically an audio pun: this troper (named William) was one of two soloists in a performance. The other soloist was called Grace. I didn't get the joke until I asked why that was funny...and I still had to look it up on Wikipedia. Justified, though: I'd never heard of Will and Grace before that. I laughed after I saw that, [[CompletelyMissingThePoint then made a mental note to let the choir master know that I'm not gay.]] * This troper has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpt9oO7rX-M The End of a Thought]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5QiP4W3jyE Dona Nobis Pacem]] as ringtones for her parents and people she really doesn't want to talk to, respectively. The former is the battle music when [[spoiler:Lloyd fights Kratos in TalesOfSymphonia, which kinda reflects when tensions run high between me and my parents,]] and the latter is because [[spoiler:godDAMMIT I WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE, GRANT ME PEACE!]] * I'm not completely sure that this fits the trope, but it's something ''like'' a stealth pun. At my retail job, I've developed the perfect response to a certain question that customers ask over and over. (If

this belongs on a different page, please feel free to move it.) -->'''Customer:''' Do you take credit cards? -->'''Yours Truly:''' Sure. I even give them back! * A thread on an anime forum once asked the forum-goers whether they were embarrassed by the amount of Japanese speech they'd picked up from watching anime. One response was "Yes, but it can't be helped."[[hottip:Explanation:"ItCantBeHelped" is a translation of "Shikata ga nai", which is a [[JapaneseStockPhrases Japanese Stock Phrase]] and definitely one you will hear a lot watching subtitled anime]] * My mother once gave me quite a memorable one. She recently asked to look at my Japanese homework out of curiosity. I showed her a worksheet I had done. Her first response was "...I can hardly read this!" [[spoiler:My handwriting back in elementary sucked.]] * This Troper resolves to name her first cat "Sieti" and her first dog "Dioji". * I play an RPG character that I originally developed for a shortlived FLCL game one of my friends [=GMed=]. A part of his expanded universe was an increase of instruments as weapons, and a heavy reliance on famous musicians as [=NPCs=] who were often given prominent positions in the [=GSPB=]. I made my character a keyboard player, and one of his [[CatchPhrase catch phrases]] is "Oh Lord". [[spoiler:Not in a religious sense, but referring to Jon Lord, the longtime keyboard player of DeepPurple.]] * (Overlaps with StealthInsult, as well) My friend was talking with one of her friends about which ScoobyDoo character they most resembled. Friend said that she's most like Shaggy to which I jokingly interjected with "actually you'd be closer to Scooby than Shaggy" *{{beat}}* "... You know, because you're both dogs." [[spoiler:It took a second before it dawned on her that by calling her a dog I was implying that she was a bitch.]] * A History teacher of mine used to tell my class that our answers to essay questions should not contain anything that ''smelled'' like we didn't know what we were talking about. [[spoiler:In other words, not to try to bullshit our way through them.]] * This Troper, halfway through a wiki walk, tried to load the "You Have Waited Long Enough" page, but the connection timed out. * This troper did a video of a building under reforms with "Land Down Under" as BGM. [[spoiler:If you don't know, the performer for that is Men At Work.]] ---[[StealthPun You can't see this pun, it is a ninja.]] ----

StereotypeFlip * [[TsundeRay This Filipino troper]] (and by extension, Asian) doesn't play ''DanceDanceRevolution''[[hottip:* :at least not very frequently. He's more of a ''PopNMusic'' player.]], is very bad at {{Fighting Game}}s, has never put any [[AwesomeButImpractical "rice"]] on his car, struggles to hold a 3.0 GPA in college, is majoring in Computer

Science (rather than Nursing or Pre-Nursing) and his parents are actually pretty nice--well, his mom at least. And going by the [[FunnyForeigner FOB]] side? He speaks perfect English, cannot speak his native language (at least beyond the basics), was born in America, and is out of touch with his parents' native country's culture and values. And the irony? The word "flip" is a slang term for a Filipino. ** This troper has never heard any of those stereotypes except the last bit (Not speaking the language, born in america, and out of touch with parent's country's values) applied to Filipino's. :o *** This troperette's a Filipina, yet I don't smile that often. I cannot touch strange food without asking what's in it. Yep, I qualify. * [[{{Tropers/Lioyd}} This troper]] is of Algerian descent, son of immigrant parents. Warmth and politeness is an important aspect of North African culture; me, I hardly ever speak, I am rude, distant to even my own family and a combo of {{Nerd}}, {{Kuudere}} and CloudCuckoolander. Naturally, my old-fashioned father [[WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent hates this.]] * This troper is from [[BigApplesauce New York City]], so he sees people performing [[StereotypeFlip Flips]] All. The. Time. * This teenage troper doesn't drink, doesn't do drugs, never watched a second of 90's Nickelodeon, and prefers movies and music from thirty years before she was born. * This troper is from a podunk town in South Dakota and dislikes country music, hockey and basketball, snow, and corn. ** Troper... are you me? I'm the exact same way, same state and all. It'd be really freaky if we were from the same town. * This Italian troper hates soccer. 'Nuff said. * This Irish troper is too stingy and too paranoid to get drunk. * This troper met tons of white girls in college who absolutely despised the BackstreetBoys and yet they absolutely adored stuff like Jay-Z, WuTangClan, and the like. ** ... There are college students who like BackstreetBoys? I thought that went out with elementary school. * This Mexican troper can't stand spicy food, noisy music and "excessive" friendly and touchy people (To be honest, I'm a jerk, so I don't know if it counts...) * [[{{Tropers.Sharysa}} This Filipina troper]] is tiny, open-minded, and extremely intelligent. She's also prone to depression, barely graduated high school, has the handwriting of a twelve-year-old, and frequently swears up a storm. She was not amused at all in high school to realize that the only scholarships for Filipino/Asian students were for engineering, science, or math degrees, as she wants to pursue a career in acting instead. * For the last time, this Jamaican troper DOES NOT. Smoke. Weed. A don't ask him if he knows where to buy any either. * Boy howdy...This troper is full-blooded Mexican on both sides, but is mistaken as white by other people, even fellow Mexicans! I've got the triple-whammy of not being raised catholic, parents who never taught me Spanish, and a rather conservative viewpoint. Seriously, I pass off for Italian better than Mexican. * There seems to be a growing ****** of Asian women who, in fact, don't believe that all Black men are simply thugs and drug dealers. At

least in [[BigApplesauce New York]]. * This Canadian troper hates Hockey, snow,and anything winter related, and has a serious aversion to drinking. * [[{{AndrewEverett}} This Australian troper]] is pale-skinned, hates the summer (which, unfortunaely, I'm going through at the time of writing) and prefers the cold. As for his speech, his accent is the exact opposite of broad, he never says "mate" unless mockingly, and is generally pretty articulate. At least when being sarcastic. And though he frequently fakes accents, he can't fake a decent broad Australian accent to save his life. * This troper is a scrawny PaleSkinnedBrunette and a hopeless beach bum. It is March, and she hasn't been to the beach yet. This is unacceptable. * [[DialgaX This Chinese Troper]] ''hates'' math and his parents put little pressure on academics. * This Troper grew up on a farm. He can read, use a computer, and is going to college. He doesn't like animals and has a poor work ethic. * This English troper dislikes tea immensely; not to mention she is one of the girls in the minority in her abode of North-East England, in that she does not have a side parting, highlights or fake tan. * [[Tropers/KamuiValentine This troper]] is from the United States. She hates "American" football, loves TheBeautifulGame, and can happily tell you the capitol, location, and FIFA ranking for any nation. * This troper has a friend from Guatemala who sucks at soccer, but is good (American) football. * This troper grew up in Texas. She hates football, country music, the rodeo, and has never said the word y'all ever. * [[{{Tropers/arcana07}} This troper]]'s -- er, my grandparents all came from Mexico and I definitely look like an American female of Mexican descent (i.e. aside from my lighter, "I hate the sun"influenced skin, I definitely could not "pass" for white). Yet I take great offense to being expected to be a {{Spicy Latina}}, am in fact both a {{Disco Dan}}[ielle] (in that I adore the '70s and disco) ''and'' {{The Spock}} (since my favorite academic disciplines are math and science and I love analyzing things). I wear my hair in an unteased ponytail most of the time, have never worn streaks, favor looser clothing, rarely wear makeup, think high heels are stupid, wear smaller earrings, hate ''telenovelas'' or soap operas period (though I wish I could've seen "The Edge of Night"!), can't stand mariachis, am no one's exotic fruit, know enough Catholic theology to not be fooled by priests and parishes that anchor their "theology" to a childish understanding of the faith, and am a feminist who think the only people who should be maids are the professionals who are getting paid good money for their services. Oh, and I believe that both {{George Lopez}} and {{Carlos Mencia}} need to shut their big mouths. * I'm Chinese, and I almost failed high school algebra. * This native troper ''despises'' animal rights activists. But then so do 90% of natives. Especially when they throw Molotov cocktails in our schools, churches, and community centers because we eat meat. That stereotype is true. * This troper is from Brooklyn, but lacks nearly all of the stereotypes that are associated with the city. When people hear that

he is from Brooklyn, they expect [[BrooklynRage a crude, loud, poor, and violent sports fan]] with an [[AmericanAccents absurd accent]]. However he is fairly quiet, has no discernible regional accent, has trouble provoking fights, and above all, is ''not'' a sports fan. However he does come from a borderline-poor (though ''mostly'' safe) neighborhood, and he can have a nasty sense of humor when around people who he knows well enough. * [[Tropers/{{Pastylover2}} This troper]] is English. (moved to Canada in 2006) I hate soccer and tea, ooh and I detest rain. ** Just because i've [[WheelchairWoobie got cerebral palsy and am in a wheelchair]] [[BerserkButton doesn't mean I'm retarded!!!]] * [[Troper/{{theshadowchild}} This troper]] is canadian and detestes hockey but not only that, I'm also a stereotype flip in my own country because I'm albertan (the canadian stereotype ecquivalent to being texan) but I hate the stereotype that everyone here is a redneck ** Lern too spel. * In high school, one of this female troper's best friends was a jock. He was polite to his teachers and fellow students, excelled in all his classes, was actually the resident defender of the bully-victims rather than a bully himself, and ended up dating the smallest, most ShrinkingViolet girl in our entire circle of friends--composed mainly of nerds and geeks. Oh, and speaking of my circle of friends--the one cheerleader in our group? Yeah, she was also a straight-A student, got accepted into a college way before the rest of us, was the sweetest girl we knew, and her boyfriend of four years (we've since graduated, and now they ''apparently'' plan to marry), was [[NerdsAreSexy the biggest]] [[GeekyTurnOn geek in our group.]] * This Swedish troper is not blonde. Apparently, people have trouble accepting that. * This Indian troper's lowest midterm grades were in the 80s and are in math and science. If you give her any amount of money, she'll use it all up like that (with this, of course, pouncing on the stereotype that Indians are cheap). She likes Bollywood, but only a few movies, and prefers Western animation to it. She doesn't smell, and puts on spray every day. She's also Atheist, whoooo. She was also born in a ''very'' Hindu family, and has no problems with Muslims. * This geeky troper dislikes maths with a passion. * This [[UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome AS]] Troper is rather open about his condition... and strongly refuses to act like a Jerkass, let alone use Asperger's as an excuse. As for the other stereotypes, however... he's can't really think of [[TheRainman an isolated field in which he is amazing at]], at least. * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper]] is a blonde girl living in the Bible Belt. However, I'm vying with a bunch of my peers for the top of the class, am a Naturalistic Pagan, bisexual, extremely nerdy, and unslutty. Quite unusual for our area (which is why I keep most of this quiet), and it subverts the "dumb blonde" stereotype quite well. :P * Tropers/TheIndefiniteOne is another Filipino. I'm not quite religious (I barely believe in God), I'm not that good at the language, I hate the media and the politics (does that count?) and I'm pessimistic. Oh, and I come early to events. Too early, apparently. * While this Chinese troper fills the stereotype for good grades and

nerdiness, he is also very large and physically strong (got mistaken for a junior during his freshman year in high school), LOVES guns, was born in the U.S and speaks English far better than Chinese, talks in a slight southern accent, and loves eating things like steaks and hotdogs more than rice. * This troper is only Chinese in her heritage. She's barely passing maths, detests her home country, doesn't listen to any asian music, doesn't really give much of a crap about grades for classes she hates and hardly speaks any chinese. She's a banana; yellow on the outside, white on the inside. * This troper is a Texan- East Texas, to be specific. I'm also a chaote [Bonus points to anyone who actually knows what that means], don't like cowboys, have more black friends then white, don't drink or smoke, and my accent 'Isn't texan' [According to my friends in Canada]. On the other hand, I'm still a consumnate carnivore, say 'Y'all' on occasion, like guns, and I've got a badass tan trench coat [Which, apparently, a lot of people think is a Texan thing]. No cowboy hat though. I refuse to wear a cowboy hat. * This troper is from Texas. Despite popular belief, I do not enjoy riding horses, detest much of country music (mainly the male singers, though , I like a couple of female singers ; also, my family loooooves country. I'm even growing tired of Taylor Swift and her songs describing the hardships of dealing with men. GET OVER YOURSELF! Ironically, my middle name ''is'' Taylor.), and I refuse to dress up in cowboy getup, no matter what the case. I also have a tendancy to speak much more formally then some Texans, I don't have an accent, I only say (and barely say!) ain't, and drop complex words into my sentences with ease. People assume I was born in another state, but, I was born and raised in Texas. When I tell said people that I'm a native texan, they look shellshocked. ---Show them that Tropers aren't all like that -- go back to StereotypeFlip. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SternTeacher * ThisTroper has a physics professor like this. He'd insult you for asking a stupid question, had a grading system that bordered on [[SadistTeacher sadistic]], and expected that you follow his instructions to the letter. Thing is, he also began each class with a MontyPython clip (or something just as funny), was genuinely enthusiastic about physics, and tried to make it fun for his students (he shot a ''blow dart'' at a [[BarneyAndFriends Barney]] doll to demonstrate gravity). And to top it off, if you ''did'' do exactly what he said, you were guaranteed to pass the class. Every student who is currently enrolled in his class hates him, and every student who has gone through his class loves him. * This troper's Filipino teacher is absolutely strict with the passing of projects and the like, and if you pass one minute too late, you got

a minus and ridiculed students who gave the wrong answer, but he gave interesting and funny lectures and often had us doing fun projects. * This troper's math teacher is the very epitome of this. Known to be one of the few teachers who actually gives out harder homework than exam questions paired with rather large amounts of it, and has no reservations whatsoever in booting an uninterested student right off the course. He also seems to genuinely enjoy the hilarity of some ways students can fail their homework, is actually fairly nice as long as you [[SouthPark sit down and shut up]] when not asked anything, and ultimately, if you pass his courses, there is nothing stopping you at the finals. * This troper's history teacher radiates an aura of power (it doesn't hurt that he's a housemaster and according to his house, his word is law), sets us essays due in for next day, marks incredibly harshly, yells at students and has no problem with ridiculing them. However, he is a genuinely good teacher who likes joking around with his students, supports you when you need help, pushes you to do the best you can (his marking is equivalent to GCSE marking, so if you do well in class you'll pass your GCSE) and has generally been quite nice to this troper. * [[Tropers/{{Seiryu}} This troper]] had one in high school, for American literature. He routinely [[DeadpanSnarker mocked his students]], calling them "chunkies," yelled at students that talked during lecture time, and frequently told the TooDumbToLive students to never ever have sex and pollute the gene pool. But every student got treated fairly during grading time, and if you listened and made intelligent answers to his questions during lecture, he treated you with respect. He currently has a Facebook group dedicated to him, where all of the souls that he had crushed over the years had banded together to reminisce on what a great teacher he is. * This Troper's old Sophomore Algebra I teacher. Very stern, but bloody hilarious when he rips on someone on who isn't you. XD * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper's]] old eighth-grade Social Studies teacher. Stern and gave difficult tests and lots of homework... but freaking hilarious. He'd frequently show video clips, tell jokes, give out soda and candy (he gave us each a Slider from White Castle once)... * ppTropers/{{cozcat}} This troper]]'s year ten maths teacher was old, loud, and scared the living crap out of everyone. He ridiculed and stuck with running jokes for the entire year, such as repeatedly asking a student his name, and then responding "Caleb... that's a nice name" or something to that effect. I recall one time when he told a student to shine his shoes, and checked them the next class. He is universally beloved by students who had him for a full year, despite them hating him at the start. * My former math teacher. Tons of homework every night, the most impossible test questions ever, complete silence when he entered the room, unquestionably the best teacher I ever had.

StevenUlyssesPerhero * This troper's math teacher's name is Mrs. Matheny.

** This troper's High School math teacher was named Mrs. Potenza (It's Italian, yes, but in Spanish, "potence" means "to the power of"). * This one has had a music teacher, Mrs. Carrol. ** This troper's music teacher at primary school was called Mrs D Sharpe. ** Ha ha. One of [[{{Jarmatus}} this troper's]] current high school music teachers is Ms Sharp. Closer by one leter. ** A music store in a town near where this troper lives is owned by a Mr. Sharpe. ** The director of the Southern California Children's Chorus Advanced Chorus is Carol Aspling (all the directors are referred to as "Miss/Mister [first name]"). She told us her family jokes about it. ** This troper, when in high school, knew a music teaching assistant named A. Major. ** This troper's middle school choir director was Mr. Van Note. * And a reading teacher, Miss Spellings. * This [[{{Hanz}} troper]] knew a teacher named Mr. Baldwin who was actually bald. ** You don't happen to go to my school do you? Lanky bugger of a maths teacher? * And [[{{Fly}} this one]] was taught Geography by a Mr. Uphill. * [[{{Nyssa23}} This one]] had a teacher named Mrs. Stern who was really mean. Does that count? ** Sure. This troper's smart-ass psychology teacher was Mr. Gall. * Or this troper's algebra teacher, Mr. Matthew Matics. * [[{{Teeth}} This troper]] once knew an English teacher named Miss Vowles. And a Cookery teacher called Ms Cuts. * This troper's year 8 music teacher claimed to have met someone named "Lee King" who worked at a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_%28water_transport%29 canal lock]]. * During this troper's time at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, there was an Aeronautical Engineering prof named E. Wright Leaphart. It is unconfirmed whether the E stood for Emilio. One of the Architectural Engineering professors was named Clay Pharaoh, too. * In a hospital where this troper once worked, there were once, at the same time, a pair of junior surgeons called Dr Kneebone and Dr Slasher * The two woodwork teachers at this troper's school were named Mr. Beech and Mr. Bridge. * This troper's father had a librarian named Ms. Reading, and a Mr. Hurtle teaching gym. The town florist was Dan Flowers. He maintains that He Is Not Making This Up. ** This has a name; ''Nominative Determinism''. ''New Scientist'' had a big thing for it in the nineties, and got sent some shocking examples. * This troper was talk English Lit. by a Mr. Storey. * This [[{{clintisiceman}} troper]] had an English teacher named Mr. English. ** So did [[Main.SerenYGogledd this Troper]] who now wonders if it's the same one. ** This troper had a Mrs. English, though she is now a vice principal so it sadly no longer applies.

** And this troper had a French teacher whose first name was France. * Yet another English Teacher: Mrs. Reeder. ** Yet one more: Mr. Read, AP English III. ** And another: Ms. Reed, Reading II Advanced. ** {{Subversion}}: This Troper had Miss Read... the maths teacher! * [[{{Nomic}} This troper]] studied geology. His first name comes from latin word for rock. His last name means a hole in a tree some birds make to nest in, but thta has nothing to do with his profession. * This troper knows an M.D. named Dr. Payne. While in med school, he considered becoming a dentist (yes, really), but decided he'd scare off too many patients and became a general practitioner instead. ** [[RTaco This troper's]] orthodontist was named Dr. Payne. I suspect he chose that profession for comedy value. * This troper had a college roommate who now goes to a dentist named Dr. Fang. It's apparently a common enough Chinese last name that the roommate didn't even realize there was anything funny about it until the troper pointed it out. * This troper worked with a man named Max Power. No telling if his parents were planning a career in porn for him. ** Unfortunately, people hearing that name nowdays are more likely to think of ''TheSimpsons''. * This troper had a Psychology teacher called Mr. Chaparro. "Chaparro" is Spanish for "Short". Guess how tall he was. * When this troper's mother worked at the local power plant, she knew an electrician named Mark Sparks. It was funny enough that the name was a slant rhyme, but hilarious because of his occupation. * A subversion on [[{{nine}} This Troper's]] part: he knows a substitute teacher named Mr. Rude, yet he is anything but. * Similarly, SchizoTechnician once had a teacher named Ms. English. She taught Spanish. * And [[{{Hremsfeld}} This other troper]] knows of a Mrs. Whore and a Mrs. Gay. They aren't. NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat. * The most irritating math teacher this troper ever had was named Ms. Rash. * A distant relative of mine is named Rusty Wreck. He sells used cars. * This troper's elementary school principal was Mr. Boss. (His first initial was R; it stood for Roy, though, which doesn't really make the name funnier.) He was also a SmugSnake whose interaction with this troper served to seriously aggravate the emotional problems she was having at the time. * [[{{Darkbladedancer}} This Troper's]] high school guidance counselor was a Mrs. Hope. * In Jr. High there was a substitute teacher named Mrs. Wanda Dick. Every time I had her as a substitute, she was pregnant. Should I say it? * ThisTroper's high school has ''three'': music teacher named C. Sharp, art teacher named Ms Frame and agriculture teacher named Ms Heap. Yes, really. * ThisTroper has had a family member treated by a Dr. Needle. Needless to say ThisTroper was four, was and still is AfraidOfNeedles and was so terrified of him from his name alone, that he wouldn't get even in the same room as him. Currently he thinks the doctor should have

gotten a name change around the time he decided he would pursue medical school. * This Troper's doctor actually has the last name Doctor. ** That's just ''asking'' for [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore the jokes...]] *** While not common, there are a number of doctors/dentists/other professionals entitled to use the title "Doctor" with the surname "Doctor" (or "Docter"), enough that there's been at least one journalist that's written a feature article about it. At least one "Dr. Doctor", according to the story, had a nurse surnamed "Nurse" working for him. * This Troper's Sexual Education teacher in high school was Mr. Cummings. * This Trope's 11th grade English teacher was Mr. Wright. Strangely, his Algebra teacher was Mr. Law. * This Troper's religion professor is Dr. Will Power. And there is another professor in the department named Dr. Godlas. (Really.) * Miss Baker for cooking class. Mr Nailer for wood tech. 'Nuff said. * This troper didn't have a class with her, but a history teacher at her high school was named Mrs. Dull. *** I had one called Mr. Fear. Want to trade? ** Might not quite fit this trope, but this same troper knows a professor of American Government at her college named Mr. Orwell. ** A bit of an ironic subversion: At the same high school, there is a teacher of African-American studies. His name is Mr. White. * My wife has had two that I know of: ** An OB-GYN named Dr. Casanova. *** This troper's first OB-GYN was named Dr. Cox. ** A seminary professor named Dr. Divine. * This troper's school uses teames 1A for a 1st grade team to 3F. The 2E math teacher is Mrs. Toohey, pronounced 2E. * [[{{Comonad}} This troper]]'s Ancient History teacher was named Ms. Rome. * Used to go to school across the street from a dentist named 'Bonebreak'. God help the kid who chipped his teeth on the playground. "Doctor Bonebreak is here until the ambulance arrives." "AAAAAUUUGH!" * Ugh. As a young child, I had a vice principal called Ms. Work. She didn't make you work a lot, but all the children at school were absolutely terrified of her. She was a stocky, semi-bald, cave-woman of (frighteningly) dubious sexuality, so you really couldn't blame us. * This troper created a brain-eating villain named Dr. Lobotomy. Real name: John Lobotomy, same as his father and grandfather. * This troper had a religion teacher named Mr. Buonafede -- Italian for "good faith". (He pointed this out to us on the first day of class.) * Not exactly an example, but this troper has a librarian named [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Mr. Giles]] * Another teacher, this one of shop class: one Mr. Wood. * {{This Troper}}'s first two initials are "D." and "R.", and his last name is [=McLeod=]. It's been suggested that he become a rap artist just so he could call himself "Dr. M.C.". * One of this troper's cookery teachers was named Mrs Pickles. * This troper has heard of a dentist by the name of Doctor Yanko.

* This troper read an article about this very trope in ''Reader's Digest'' a couple years ago. Her personal favorite was the attorney whose last name was Lawyer. When one of his clients was talking to the receptionist at his law firm, trying to set up a consultation, the receptionist asked which attorney she wanted to see and the client snapped, "I don't know his name! He makes me call him Mr. Lawyer!" * [[{{Taco}} This Troper]] had a dentist named Dr. Funk. He happened to play music of the obvious genre all the time. Also a local car salesman, Tom Raper. His slogan? Do things Tom Raper's way. * In a Subversion, This Troper had an English Teacher named Mrs. French. * This Troper once had an English teacher named Mr. Ingles. * Guess what class Mr. Wood teaches? [[spoiler: Lit Appreciation]] * My parents got the better ones, like the Physics teacher called Mr Sparks and the biology teacher called Mrs. Meadows, but [[FeartheWolf This Troper]] had a Miss Lobban for Games lessons. Appropriately, she was very good at shot putting. * This troper had a camp counselor whose last name was Eikamp (Pronounced "I Camp"). We never let him forget it. * This troper works on the health sciences campus of a major US state university. For the first four years he worked there he was amused by the fact that the chair of the urology department in the medical school was named "Dr. Cox". * This Troper's Phys-Ed teacher was Mr. Sweat. * This troper plays in a Marvel themed RP room and he plays a character with the last name of Druid. He's also a practicing Druid. * In elementary school, this troper had a science teacher named Mr. Richter. * In middle school, this troper had a music teacher named Ms. Dorame (Doh-Ray-Me). * At this troper's high school, the music teacher's name is Mrs. Din. I'm not in music, but she seems to be very good at her job, beside's being awesome in other ways. Also inverted at my Dad old catholic school- Brother French taught English, while Brother English taught French. * I've never actually seen him personally, but near a car park in Geelong (where we've parked a few times, usually as a stopover on our way through the city) there's a prominent sign for the dentist's surgery of one "Dr Blood". * Dr. Robert Schnipper is an eye surgeon. * This troper's state is residence to both a Dr. Butcher, a surgeon, and a Dr. Bonebrake, a chiropractor. * This troper's dentist is named Dr. Karl Yauch. He is extremely solicitous about pain management. * This troper's boyfriend's doctor is named Dr Payne. It's always easy to make an appointment with him. * This troper used to attend a dental surgery staffed by a married couple of dentists. Their name? Gummer and Gummer. * My dentist is named Doctor Twist. And a doctor I worked for is named Doctor Grimm. If they weren't the nicest people I've ever met, I'd suggest that they go into supervillainy. * I know a kid named Josh Justice, and I ''really'' think he needs to

become a superhero when he grows up. I've also had English teachers named Storey and Reeder. * This troper has met a math teacher named Mrs. Furlong. * This troper's school employs both a Mr. Boulware, a ceramics teacher, and a Mr. Strong, an enormous security guard. * This Troper knows a total bitch whose last name is Pratt. * There's a teacher at this troper's school named Mr. Badminton who teaches badminton after school. Yeeeeah... * There's a geography teacher at this troper's school called Ms Walker. She also had a teacher called Mr Gay, who was married (and very happy). * This troper once wrote a story featuring an Italian superhero with voice-based powers called Adagio. However, through sheer accident, his secret identity (chosen randomly for its Italian-ness) ended up being '''Ada'''lberto '''Gio'''rdano. * I had a slightly loopy math teacher called Mr Strange. * This Tropers elementary school had (Translated from German) Mrs. Hate (who kinda lived up to the name) and Mrs. Grudge. They would have felt right at home with Mrs. Sour from his High School. * This troper had an algebra teacher whose name was pronounced Mrs. Noise. * Subversion: This troper had a teacher named Mrs. Boring. She could best be described as "eternally caffeinated". ---[[LegendOfZelda Link]] returns to StevenUlyssesPerhero. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StigmaticPregnancyEuphemism * Volouscheur's mother has discovered, while researching the family history, that there are a surprisingly large number of women on her side of the family who "went over the river" to Boston, from Nova Scotia. Allegedly, it was to get work as a maid at a hotel or a boarding house - but we share the suspicion that, considering they generally only stayed for a year or two, it was actually to have a baby where no-one would know them (and thus, couldn't shame them for a pregnancy out of wedlock); we suspect that they then gave up the kid to a local orphanage and, once they were well again and had some money to show for their stay, they'd cross back over the river and go home. * In a case of literal euphemism this troper's mother told him once about how his old school irish grandmama got upset when she told her she was pregnant. Not because of any cultural stigma (my parents had being married for years) but that ''she used the term'' ''[[ValuesDissonance pregnancy]]''. ---Hitch a ride with the stork back to StigmaticPregnancyEuphemism. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StillTheEighties * [[Tropers/CabbitGirlEmi This troper]] lives in a podunk town in Belmont County, Ohio by the name of Barnesville. The town is best known for shamrocks, which is the name of our sports teams, and pumpkins, because of the Pumpkin Festival. However, the neighborhoods there still look like they're from as early as 1975 and as late as 1997. * [[Tropers/AirOfMystery I]] occasionally make this mistake when working out the age of my characters in my writings. In real life I'm more like "it's still 2000", but that's more an accident than anything else. * Two words. Catholic school. [[Tropers/SamHuddy I]] went in the mid2000s, so maybe it's changed, but there seems to be a 20-year delay. Everybody still watched Series/DoctorWho and listened to {{Rush}} and TheSmiths religiously.

StinkBomb * In this troper's middle school days, there were several stink bomb incidents. I don't know whether the kids responsible used hydrogen or ammonium sulfide, but all I can remember is that they smelled like rotten eggs. In the case of the one that I personally got a whiff of, the culprit had apparently put it into someone's locker and let the stink spread through the entire hall. It got so bad that one announcement on the PA specifically addressed it. ---Go back to Main/StinkBomb, and get that thing out of there before it stinks up the entire place! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StockDinosaurs * Stock Dinosaurs....well....this troper remembers he watched the Disneyan "Robin Hood" with all the humanized animals when he was a young boy ....and had fun imagining to substitute thse animal species with dinosaurs! But which dinosaurs? Of course the stock ones! Almost ''all'' the stock dinos are present in his list (note that this happened slighty before the "Jurassic Park Mania", and thus some today stock dinos were missing because they weren't popular yet). ** 1) Prince John / King Richard: '''Tyrannosaurus rex''' (obviously) ** 2) Sheriff of Nottingham: '''Allosaurus''' or '''Megalosaurus''' (because they are similar to T.rex but smaller...) ** 3) Sir Hiss: '''Coelophysis''' (because its snake-like neck and its former reputation as a cannibal) ** 4) Robin Hood: '''Deinonychus''', because Robin was cunning, agile and also a good fighter like this dinosaur (So Yeah, Velociraptor wasn't stock yet!) ** 5) Maid Marion: obviously another '''[[UnfortunateImplications Deinonychus]]'''...

** 6) Lady Cluck: '''Oviraptor''' (because its chicken-like look and also the mental association with eggs) ** 7) Alan-a-Dale: Ornithomimid, precisely '''Gallimimus''', because its name just means "imitator of the rooster"! ("gallo" is the Italian word for cock). ** 8) Little John: '''Iguanodon''' or '''Plateosaurus''' (both big, strong and weaponed with thumbclaws but herbivores, thus "good guys") ** 9) Friar Tuck: '''Protoceratops''' (apparently humble, but a strong fighter if provoked, as seen in the famous skeleton with Velociraptor). ** 10) The Soldier Rhinos and the Executer: obviously '''Triceratops'''. ** 11) The Trumpeter Elephants: '''Parasaurolophus''' or '''Corythosaurus''', because of their "trumpet-like" crests.... ** 12) The Prince's carriage-pulling Elephants: generic Sauropods. ** 13) The Drummer Hippos: '''Ankylosaurus''' or '''Euoplocephalus''', because they could play the bass drum with their club-like tails! (and because of their rather low and bulky frame like a hippo's as well) ** 14) The Tournament Crocodile: '''Baryonyx''' (because Spinosaurus wasn't well-known at the time) ** 15) The two Vultures: Trigger as '''Rhamphorhynchus''' (because of its dragon-like look), Nutsy as '''Archaeopteryx''' (because it superficially appears similar to the former, but less menacing!) ** 16) The Archer Weasels: '''Troodon''' (as weasels are the more slender and cunning version of foxes in AnimalStereotypes, so Troodon was the more intelligent but less-weaponed cousin of Deinonychus/Archer Robin!) ** 17) The Rabbit Family: '''Hypsilophodon''' (one of the smallest and most harmless herbivores) ** 18) Toby Tortoise and his Father: '''Stegosaurus''', because its reputation as slow and dumb-witted. ** 19) The Church Mice: Obviously the tiny '''Compsognathus'''. ** 20) Otto the Dog: '''Pachycephalosaurus''' (because its "wrinkled" face recalled that of the old blacksmith...) ** 21) Robin's Stork Disguise: '''Quetzalcoatlus''' (So Yeah: nobody knew at that time [[HilariousInHindsight it really was stork-like]] !!!!!) * This troper recently took an Italian test with "Name two dinosaurs" as extra credit. She was about to use StockDinosaurs, but realized everyone else would, so instead she averted the trope and used Utahraptor and Acrocanthosaurus. The teacher [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded her dinosaurs]] and mentioned that she'd taken the troper's word for it that they were dinosaurs. * playing with the Stock Prehistoric Animals (not necessarily dinosaurs) when the Ice Age movies started coming out this troper has hoped for an Andrewsarchus voiced by [[IncrediblyLamePun Andy]] [[SerkisFolk Serkis]]

StockPuzzle * I have always wanted to ask someone a "riddle" which is a mash-up of stock puzzles and riddles. It's just something like "An electric train is heading north after it departed at 11:00 AM going at 35 MPH. It left at the same time as a bus that you're driving with 12 people on it, one who is carrying 12 bags of coins which add up to two dollars, some bags contain counterfeit coins which weigh more then the regular coins. You have a scale that can only be used three times. At the next stop you pick up 5 people and drop off 4, at the next stop you pick up 3 people and drop off 4. The bus is going at 45 MPH, if the bus goes above 50 MPH, a speed bomb is activated, if the bus goes below 50 MPH, the bombs detonates, where is the missing dollar?" ** [[NonSequiturThud Pineapple]]. ** In the bag. ---You can't go back to stock puzzle until you solve the puzzle of the blue button at the top of the page. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StockQuotes * This troper has a habit of quoting from the Bible when playing video games. For instance, whenever this troper is [[KillItWithFire killing enemies with a flamethrower,]] such as in ''{{Bioshock}}'', he will often shout: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels!" (Matthew 25:41) ** You, my good sir, win an internet. ** On a semi-related note, this troper has established that the Bible ''does'' have all the answers by asking something and opening it on a random page . This has given questions like "how will this relationship end up?" answers such as "beware the light woman" and "how will my trip to X place turn out?" with "watch your path". ** This trouper wishes they knew the bible well, just so they could do that... wow, self referencing third person is a real pain ---Do not go gentle into [[StockQuotes that good trope.]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StockSoundEffects * This troper lives near a store where one of the doors used to make sound VERY similar to the stock creaky metal door sound when opened. * There's what seems to be a nocturnal bird in Korea that makes a sound almost identical to the sonar ping from submarine movies.

StockYuck

* [[Tropers.ReikoKazama This troper]], as mentioned on the [[TroperTales.GeniusSweetTooth Genius Sweet Tooth page]], despises licorice. [[SelectiveSquick But only the black stuff.]] [[YourMileageMayVary I quite like the red stuff.]] ** Well, the red stuff is made of something different. * [[{{Nentuaby}} This Troper]] has never, in his life, seen an anchovie pizza offered or ordered. And he ''has'' seen ''peanut butter and pepperoni''. ** ''[[{{Jefepato}} This]]'' troper can attest that anchovy pizza exists. And it's delicious. ** [[{{Brickie}} This]] troper concurs, and swears by tuna, anchovy and pineapple. ** [[{{Shinobu}} This]] troper also concurs. Thin crust with anchovies and black olives for me. ** Oh, it exists. Tastewise it's just like very salty, oily fish nothing wrong with that. But texture-wise it's full of bones so tiny they feel like your pizza is ''hairy''... *** [[Tropers.ReikoKazama This one]] ''never'' has anchovies on pizza ''EVER''. [[NoJustNo No way, no how. Just...]] '''[[NoJustNo NO.]]''' * This troper was told by his then-girlfriend that Haggis is actually very good...just don't watch the waiter cut it. * [[{{Circeus}} This troper]] can't stand leaf vegetables in general ("If God wanted me to eat that stuff, I'd have been born a rabbit!"), but he has to admit well done Brussels are not so inedible. A major stock yuck for me is cauliflower (long, complicated story, but it's got to do with a biology class). * For this troper, it's peas. They're green, and it feels like you're eating a pile of small eyeballs. ** For [[FourtyTwoHz this troper]] too. He will go to the extreme of removing peas from anything he eats! * This troper feels you. She will eat absolutely anything once, most things if they're in combination with other things (like tomatoes in sandwiches) and likes frogs legs, squid and brussel sprouts, but she absolutely refuses to eat peas. They are revolting. ** See, that's what I can't eat eyeballs; they're like giant, vaguely salty peas. * Kale, collard greens, okra. This troper will eat any other vegetable happily - broccoli, asparagus, peas, sprouts, spinach, soybeans, string beans, lima, they're all good. But not those three. The first two are too strong, the third is simply - look, it's a pod filled with ''slime''. * When this editor was younger, she ''specifically requested'' brussel sprouts. They are absolutely delicious. * [[{{this-guy}} I]] like broccoli, but I hate cauliflower. My mum tells me it tastes that same. ** Oh god, are you [[{{Haza}} me]]? She's absolutely, completely wrong. [[ItTastesLikeFeet Cauliflower tastes like farts]]. ** This troper prefers Cauliflower, but it has to be prepared well-if it's kind of soft, warm, and buttery, it's perfect. Otherwise... ** This troper subscribes to the theory that the only reason most American children don't like it is because you either eat it raw as part of a salad (tasteless), or steamed with maybe a little salt

(soggy and tasteless). This troper loves broccoli and cauliflower, because being Chinese, we cook ours by stir-frying with oyster sauce. ** THAT sounds yummy. This troper has never eaten cauliflower, but does like broccoli so long as it's not raw. She will NOT, however, go anywhere near salad dressing. Or salad in general. *** Oh thank God, I thought I was the only salad hater in the world! It's the lettuce--I have yet to find a dressing that can make lettuce taste like anything other than watery cardboard. (Spinach salads, on the other hand, are rather good and all too rare in American cuisine.) **** {{You Are Not Alone}}, previous two tropers. [[Tropers.ReikoKazama This one]] will not ''touch'' a salad. No sir no ma'am. ** Cauliflour and Broccoli are both good, but they don't taste anything alike. And if you're eating them raw, you're not really having a meal. That's called 'being lazy'. ** I used to hate both... then I tried them covered in cheese. Now I can't get enough provided they're cooked right. ** This troper finds that cauliflower works well in a kugel (for nonjewish tropers, that's a casserole). * This troper hates liver and hardboiled egg yolks. It's not so much the taste, but the texture that turns him off. * Ewww, coconut! ** AAGH GOD COCONUT EWWW * This troper can't stand whole tomato. It's the texture; mushy to gooey doesn't do it for him. He loves tomato sauce, though. * Bananas. No, [[FreudWasRight it has nothing to do with the shape]]. I got sick off of one when I was 5, and haven't touched one since. ** Same, but ''because'' of the shape. They used to be my favorite, but one too many suggestive comments from my [[JerkAss best friend]] ruined them for me. * Meat? Fish? No I'm sorry, I refuse to eat corpses. ** But corpses are SO delicious... ** Yet you're completely happy to eat vegetable corpses. CARROTS HAVE RIGHTS TOO, YOU KNOW. *** Actually, a recent study found that plants have thoughts and memories. That's right, you have to either eat 100 synthetic food or be a fucking hypocrite! * I don't know what the rest of you up there have been talking about. Broccoli's just awful. * PINEAPPLES are disgustingly textured. ** And the taste is horrible! It's like I would expect battery acid tastes. In fact, everything about pineapples except the smell disgusts me. * Blue cheese, for obvious reasons. God, mom and dad, you raise me for years telling me not to eat stuff with crap growing on it, then when I'm 13 or so suddenly it's okay if it's the right kind of crap? Still revulsed. (Also, the texture even sans mold turns me right off.) ** Once again, {{You Are Not Alone}}. [[Tropers.ReikoKazama I]] '''HATE''' blue cheese. My dad on the other hand, loves the stuff. And he tries to get me to eat it from time to time! Ew. * Shredded coconut was a serious textural violation for [[{{cygirlkat}} this troper]] growing up. Fresh coconut? Absolutely

worth the effort to dig it out from the shell. * Broccoli? Dip it in satay sauce. Peas? As long as they are in something else. Vegemite? Either thinly on toast thinly on buttery toast or straight out of the jar. And yet I cannot stand celery. There I am chomping through a nice potato and bacon soup, which is thin watery mashed potatoes (better than it sounds) and bacon and then CELERY. Ew. * Mushrooms. Freakin' '''''Mushrooms'''''. [[Tropers/{{Alucard}} This troper]] eats and generally enjoys every single thing mentioned previous, but absolutely can't stand those things. They manage to be disgustingly chewy, squishy and lumpy all at once. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And they smell]]. * Vegetables for [[{{Miso}} this troper]]. She eats plenty of fruit, meat, bread, and she has an amazing SweetTooth. She still holds that vegetables were sent down by God to torture kids. "If I were meant to eat that stuff, I'd have been a rabbit" indeed. * [[{{SgtFrog1}} This troper]] always thought he was weird because the foods everybody HATES (peas, tofu, blue cheese, cauliflower) I LOVE. And the foods (most) everyone LOVES (crab, lobster, oysters and other so-called "gourmet" foods) I HATE. Broccoli is pretty good if cooked. Raw broccoli has an oddly spicy aftertaste that irritates my throat. Oh, and tomatoes are awesome. I will sometimes slice a tomato just to eat the slices. I'm about as ExtremeOmnivore as one can get...except I don't really like seafood. Salmon, haddock, and of course tuna are good though. * This troper used to follow this trope to a T. Nowadays? More food to feed a metabolism that needs pretty much a pound of pure carbohydrates to keep running for more than an hour or two. * For [[{{Tropers.Mr3urious}} me]], it's sour cream. I used to tolerate it, but now no more. I have also never liked avocados, artichokes, some forms of coconut, mayonnaise, mustard, and whole olives. * [[{{Tropers.Snowsky}} Me]] - I am a [[PickyEater picky eater.]] I despise tofu (squishy and tasteless), celery (bitter), the smell of the Chinese vegetables my parents like to eat (ewwwwwwwww), lettuce (actually it's not ''that'' bad, I just don't like it), yellow bean sprouts (I've never even tasted them, but just ''looking'' at them [[{{Squick}} squicks]] me out), raw carrots, droopy greens, leafy greens, cauliflower...oh yes, my mom and dad were right about my having been a cat in a previous life. Strangely enough, I don't have a problem with coconut. * I will not eat green beans. If Satan gardens, green beans are what he grows. And i know other people despise green beans as well, I saw an AFHV vid of a kid who hated them so much she vowed never to let her mum make her eat them again. * This troper is the only person in her family that hates asparagus, and I have no clue as to ''why.'' It is ''disgusting.'' It always ''has'' been disgusting and it always ''will'' be disgusting. But I'm also one of the few people I know that likes peas, so I may just have odd tastebuds. ** No, you're just the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] in your family. Asparagus is perhaps the vilest substance on the planet.

* For this troper, it's broccoli, cauliflower, corn, mayonnaise, eggs and marzipan. Also, overcooked carrots, and lumpy mashed potatoes the texture just feels wrong with small lumps in it. * Eggplant for this troper. It gets awkward, as I have a sister who absolutely ''loves'' the stuff, but every time I eat it I get a metallic taste in my mouth. * Ever since he had to eat liver in day care this troper, well into his twenties, can't stand the thing. In the other hand, he loves the strongest kinds of cheese. * My father was an awesome cook when I was growing up, so I was always baffled by this trope; kids and television were telling me I should hate these foods that were always good when I had them. * This troper's father will not eat turnips, ever, at all, no matter what. The troper consequently grew up mostly not eating them, and now as an adult agrees with dear old dad - they taste like bitter earwax. * Broccoli? Hell yeah. Spinach? With potatoes and some fried eggs, woo, bring it on. Pork drippings? Tastes like childhood. So does liver, by the way. But stay away with asparagus or pineapples or bell pepper. The smell of any of these is enough to make me queasy. ---I just can't stand the smell of StockYuck. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StoicSpectacles * [[Tropers/{{Cameoflage}} This troper]] is neither actually male nor a {{Bifauxnen}} (although she's fairly androgynous-looking if you ignore the boobs), but she and her narrow, thin-rimmed oval glasses otherwise fit the trope; personality-wise, she's got the aloofness and [[TheStoic stoicism]] down, as well as being a DeadpanSnarker, and she's a TeenGenius. She also qualifies as a {{Meganekko}} when she can be bothered to not pull all her hair back in a long ponytail. (If I were an anime character, I'd probably have ScaryShinyGlasses.) While she'd like to think of herself as a BadassBookworm, it's not a label she'd apply to herself in earnest, because she's never actually kicked ass in her life and she's a shut-in who's in merely average physical condition. * [[Tropers/{{Malus}} This Troper]] has the glasses, [[TeenGenius the intelligence]], [[TheStoic the personality]], and he's [[BadassBookworm won a few fights]] though he's not certain he has [[{{Bishonen}} the face]]. * This troper has the glasses, the intelligence, the boastfulness, and the BadassBookworm down, but not the actual stoic part. Nyeah. Also, his boastfulness is just a big ego, not aloofness. * [[Tropers/AgentAlpha This troper]] has the glasses, the stoic demeanor, the book-smarts, and somewhat long hair, but not the ponytail or bishounen looks. He also has several years worth of gymnastics training which, while not on the same level as practicing martial arts, might no doubt serve him well if a fight proves inevitable. However, if TheGlassesComeOff, he might need to put his contacts in, or else he's BlindWithoutEm and therefore likely to just

get his ass kicked. * [[Tropers/HawkW This troper]] has the hair, the glasses, the intelligence, the personality, and a propensity for rather formal clothing. He has also studied fencing, aikido, and t'ai chi. So yeah. Basically living and breathing this trope. * [[Tropers/TheTallOne This Tropette]]. I don't really laugh at things most people consider "funny," so it's not uncommon for me to sit stony-faced through comedies, with everyone around me doubled up, laughing. I offered to pay five dollars to the friend that finds a movie that can make me laugh or cry. No one has won yet. * This troper fulfills the majority of this trope purely on the merit that he looks really freaking disconcerting without his glasses, largely because his laziness extends to moving his facial muscles to look particularly human. * [[{{Tropers.Caiaphasthesympathist}} This troper]] has the distinctive preference for glasses in the stoic style over contacts, has been developing [[TheStoic the personality]] (to the point where it is a genuine ''feat'' for an average person to find something that impresses me in the slightest) for several years, has the bookworm status and some experience in [[PsychologicalHorror talking the fight out of others]], if that counts. * While matching most of the same tropes as most of the Tropers here, this Troper has been told he is at his most attractive when he has a few days worth of stubble and his glasses are on. * This troper has the intelligence (Honors classes), personality [[{{NotSoStoic}} (sometimes)]], and the glasses (usually only in class). Sometimes he's been called by his friend, the [[{{Terminator}} The Terminator]] in class or either that or [[{{TheMatrix}} Neo]] with his sunglasses. Both may fit though by [[{{RedPillBluePill}} personality]]. Including school clothing and martial arts, he's pretty much the same as [[Tropers/HawkW That troper]] (minus the hair). * This tropette is a female version of this when she's in a bad mood (Though definitely a {{Genki Girl}} {{Meganekko}} in a good one). Smart? Check! Glasses? Check! Long Hair? Meh...ish. It can go in a ponytail. Kickass? When she was younger most definitely, but she likes the more subtle route these days. * [[@/{{TehNubkilr}} This troper]] is a living embodiment of the trope, being [[BadassBookworm extremely well-read and skilled in martial arts]]. He is [[TheStoic extremely quiet]] around people he doesn't know, and usually wears sunglasses wherever he goes. You know someone is intimidating when they can prevent fights between people he doesn't know just by ''being'' there: his friends and family keep comparing his appearance to that of [[{{TheMatrix}} Neo's]]. * [[Tropers/{{Xifihas}} This Troper]] is a borderline case of this, being more TheQuietOne than TheStoic but I wear the appropriate style of glasses and I am generally quite calm (as long as people avoid hitting my BerserkButton by acting immaturely). * [[{{Tropers/Joerc45}} This troper]] has the glasses, [[TeenGenius intelligence,]] and [[{{YMMV}} MAYBE]] the face. He subverts the personality, as although he is {{The Quiet One}}, he's also a {{Shrinking Violet}} of epic proportions, and an {{Actual Pacifist}} to boot. In the past, he's been called out by family, friends,

acquaintances, etc as the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} "odd,]] yet [[LoveFreak saccharrine]] and [[TheMessiah sickeningly idealistic individual"]]. * This troper is this trope made human, he has the glasses (which are unusually badass), the high intelligence, and the stoic, emotionless personality (and oh how I love it), unless [[Main/BerserkButton you get on his bad side]], usually saying "something stupid", sadly, for him "something stupid" is mostly everything that a average person (reffering to intelligence) can say, in that case, Beware The Quiet One, boy oh boy, beware him, of course, even though they are rare, he has [[Main/NotSoStoic his moments]] ** Forgot to add, as the troper above my post, {{Shrinking Violet}} too. * As a mask, this troper is one. Intelligant, Cold, Calm and Collected. Hell, His friends can tell he's about to get pissed when the glasses come off. ---Don't show any emotion while putting up your [[Main/StoicSpectacles Stoic Spectacles]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StopBeingStereotypical * This troper has a good friend that is Jewish. This troper has heard of at least 5 different other Jewish kids complaining about his stereotypical behavior. * This troper loves science, anime and manga, and science fiction, and is currently at an engineering school studying biochemistry. She also hates stereotypical geeks, whom she considers to be unprofessional, selfish, and, ironically, just plain boring most of the time. * This troper is a fan of hard rock and metal music, but finds other hard rock/metal fans irritating because of their tendancy to [[{{Hatedom}} look down not only on other genres of music]], but also [[FanHater the fans of said genres]]. ** This troper seconds it entirely. As a Led Zeppelin fan, I sometime have difficulty telling which are worse: militant Led Zeppelin fans, or Led Zeppelin haters. I even tend to like certain bands that "true" Led Zeppelin fans are supposedly not supposed to like. Also, even though I don't care for Justin Bieber's music, the over-the-top hatred that some spew towards the teen makes me question my faith in humanity. *** I second your last statement so much, I mean, cut that poor kid a break, not exactly his fault that his fans can be obnoxious. ** So much this. This Troper is considering starting dressing like a [[TheLibby libby]] to stop being accomodated with people who can't stand a discussion about music without starting a regular war. Their lives must be really miserable if they have nothing better to do than to blindly hate ''a band''. * If there's one thing [[Tropers/RainingMetal this Canadian Troper]] hates about Canada, it's [[{{CanadaEh}} fellow citizens saying "eh"]]. Stop it!

** ...am I the only person who ''never heard that''? I heard "Aboot", but ''only'' when they were joking, were Scottish-Canadian (and had an accent), or had a New Brunswick accent. *** Who the hell actually says "aboot"? ** No, YouAreNotAlone. I've never heard anyone say "eh", but maybe my living in Quebec has something to do with it. ** I've heard "eh?" said plenty of times. That being said, "eh" shows up in plenty of languages and other dialects of English, and it may well just depend on the part of Canada you're living in. [[{{Understatement}} It's a big country]], and stereotypes are by definition a trait used by ''maybe'' a small minority that's conflated to include a whole group. In that case, "eh" is downright fitting. After all, how many Americans actually say "y'all" (aside from the South)? As for "aboot", I can't say I've heard that one, but I did hear "aboat" before. So, again, it depends on the part of the country and how they pronounce words differently. It could also be a generational thing. * This troper constantly applies this to himself. He is obese and never eats in public; [[JerkassFacade he's silent and sends everyone]] [[DeathGlare death glares]], [[{{Kuudere}} to hide his shy and nerdy self]]; he's from "the banlieues" (Parisian suburbs; think the Bronx of France), the rare times he does talk is extremely cautiously and formally. * ThisTroper was once in a class with a black girl who seemed as if she was ''trying'' to invoke every stereotype associated with black girls. Voice/tone? check. obnoxiously loud? check. Never stops talking? check. Mildly but not notably overweight? check. clothing/hairstyles? check. ThisTroper had to restrain himself from yelling at her to StopBeingStereotypical. ** This didn't happen to be in Atchison, Kansas, did it? * Attention, everyone who keeps typecasting Americans as fat, lazy morons who are so self-centered you think they'd randomly burst into song about how the world was made for them at any moment: Stop it. Just because some people are like Christian Weston Chandler doesn't mean ''everyone here'' is. Take [[{{Midna}} my]] word for it. (Oddly enough, Texan stereotypes don't grind my gears nearly as much, probably because there's not often much malice behind their appearances in the media.) * ThisTroper frequents a TheSims 2 forum full of intelligent people. Foolish newbies who are too lazy to follow instructions [[{{SelfDeprecation}} and post "lol im a]] DumbBlonde" tend to receive the reaction "You aren't stupid because you're blonde, you're just stupid!" for it by intelligent blondes and non-blondes alike. * This Troper usually hangs out with a Goth / Punk crowd. While cutting through the mall, I came across the most stereotypical group of "goth" sounding more like Emo teen. As I went past them they told me to "Stop being a stereotypical poser." All I had to tell them was to stop being Stereotypical "Death is all I think of" Goth, and have some fun. Maybe I am a rare male PerkyGoth? ** Bro, [[Tropers/WarriorOfLight I]] get you. I wear all black casual clothes (Jeans, Shirts, Jackets, I don't have the money for all the cool stuff) and love rock and metal music. There are people at my

school who do the whole [[HumansAreMorons "DARKNESS AND PAIN ARE ALL THE WORLD IS!"]] and all that other bullshit that people associate with stereotypical "Goth" and "Emo" groups. I'm a FriendToAllLivingThings and TeamDad to my friends. * [[@/{{Wheezy}} This troper]] likes [[{{BBW}} big girls]], and is chubby himself. He used to get very sick of telling his friends that not all that many fat people are humorless, hypersensitive {{wangst}}balls who constantly whine about how awfully cursed they are while still overeating, refusing exercise, and generally doing jack shit to change it then taking out their insecurities on the rest of the world by acting like {{jerk ass}}es or hiding behind a layer of false pride. After having two girlfriends and briefly joining an FA community, he kind of agrees with his old friends now. * This (black) troper is seriously considering ordering few gallons of bleach after a couple of girls (also black) were having a very loud conversation about how much they love watermelon. I shit you not. Watermelon. ** I love food. It's a huge motivator for me in life. I'm also black, and love watermelon. Like, so much that if I see sliced watermelon, I'll drop what I'm doing and go straight for it. I'm so sorry...I just can't help myself. * This Troper stopped being vegeterian and later took up hunting after seven years of meatlessness after getting tired of defending PETA and other animals rights groups. * This native troper hates how all his fellow Indians are {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s. Sports competitions are referred to as wars, every male joins the military, etc. * [[{{Tropers/Luna87}} This troper]], because of the obnoxious SassyBlackWoman stereotype seen in every other TV show and movie, gets a tad annoyed whenever she sees another black woman [[NoIndoorVoice chatting loudly in public]], swearing obsessively, or [[JiveTurkey using embarrassing slang terms every other word]]. ** Also I'm probably about as far left as you can get. But people (who shall remain nameless to avoid stirring up a fight) who are left-wing, and are also condescending pricks about it get under my skin for being too stereotypical. * As a fairly rational (that is, not completely insane) Christian, I take the Biblical command "Love thy neighbor as thyself" very, ''very'' seriously and, while the things people do sometimes upsets me, I've learn to actually love my neighbors as my fellow human beings, regardless of things like religion (or lack of), sexual orientation, political views, etc. So as you can imagine, things like Westboro Baptist Church and that one crazy lady on Wife Swap makes me either FacePalm or feel the effects of the BerserkButton. Have you guys learned nothing from TheBible?!? ** Are you me? ** You'd hate what I learned in CCD - They said stuff like Mormons encouraged Polygamy and worshipped meteors. ** This Christian troper has been attending the same church for her entire life and is embarrassed to admit that her pastor would probably agree with about 90% of what JackChick says. * I wish the VocalMinority of anime fans stopped acting like anti-

social Wapanese recluses, with their [[GratuitousJapanese overuse of the Japanese words]] and [[UnpleasableFanbase their notorious rejection of anything that isn't Japanese]]. They're practically ruining the reputation of the fans that don't fit those stereotypes! ** Amen to that. ** If only... ** This poor troper met one of these...people in real life. After a long, annoying, one-sided conversation, she left. Said troper's friend turned to her and said; "I love anime and all...but I really don't want to end up like her." ** [[@/{{Amethystasheryn}} I]] had a friend like that as well and I totally agree. * This troper wishes more people would do that. He calls them, "Walking stereotypes" because they do nothing but reinforce negative stereotypes. Working at Subway, a [[HumansAreMorons cosmic nexus of stupidity]], I experience these a lot. Here are two of my favourites: ** A person (Maybe African, maybe Hispanic, I couldn't tell) person who honestly looked like every single negative stereotype about Rappers and urban teenagers walks up. I can't place where he might be from, since he spoke in ebonics. And this is what he literally said to order: --> '''Walking Stereotype''': "Sup Honky, gimme a fuckin' five dollah footlong, I want some of that fuckin Chicken Bacon and Ranch shit....fuckin toast that, crackah." --> '''Coworker''': "What kind of cheese?" --> '''Walking Stereotype''': "I'll have some fuckin Cheddah, bitch. Put it right on the fuckin sandwich." --> '''Manager''': Okay, you're being rude to my employees - get out. --> '''Walking Stereotype''': "What the fuck, woman? You're doing this cause I'm ''BLACK''! --> '''Manager''': No, I'm doing this because you're being a disgrace and are being incredibly rude to my employees. Get ''OUT''." --> '''Walking Stereotype''': You white piece of shit! You're gonna regret it when the president sends you to slavery! *** ...what? I...that last one...what? ** '''This''' is why I FacePalm around stereotypical black people. They make rest of us look bad. -_** And the second one...someone walked up in a CU Boulder shirt. She's quite brave, I got to give her that - You don't walk into ''Fort Collins'' with a ''CU Boulder'' shirt and expect to walk away without getting shot. But she ordered a veggie with no cheese - and she told me this: --> '''Straw Vegan''': "Oh my god, I can't believe you guys are serving this! You got ''EGG'' here! Don't you know what Egg is? It's ''murder''! That's what it is! ** But eggs are unfertilized... ** So my message to vegans? Want stereotypes to go away? Then ''StopBeingStereotypical''. * [[Tropers/{{alfinchkid}} This Troper]] took an acting class as his art credit, and once he got to know everyone discovered that he was the only one attracted to females in the class. While they didn't act stereotypically gay (well, except one of them), the fact that a

theater class only had one straight male made me scream this inside my head. * This liberal troper would like to see no more liberals acting like they are superior to the rest of America. ** This conservative troper would also say the same for his own party as well. In sense of fairness, all politicians in general. * Mild (or maybe not so mild) example. This American troper's father keeps getting Sweden and Switzerland mixed up. It drives her insane. ** Ugh, my mom does this too. * This troper wishes PC gamers would just stop being walking stereotypes of self-centered-stuck-up-snobs-who-think-they're-betterthan-everybody-else merely because they play complex stuff. No, I'm sorry, that doesn't make you smarter...that makes you FanDumb. You may be smart, but ''you have the maturity of a flippin ten year old'' for believing that people who play console games do so ''because they're stupid''. So far, I've ''yet'' to see intelligent PC gamers who aren't highbrow elitist or elitist forms of FanDumb. ** when did I type this? ** I prefer PC to consoles because in all honesty I am not very dextrous when I have to make my long fingers fit around an awkwardly shaped controller. Certainly, consoles have games exclusive to them as well. I mean, come on, each platform has its advantages and disadvantages. The PC offers a more flexible keymap (and with some games you can use a gamepad anyway), and more customization options. Consoles don't have as many graphical limitations, and have a lot more games available. * This black Troper [[BerserkButton HATES]] when people call me "white-washed" for not acting stereotypical. I mean that has to be like the most frikkin' offensive thing ever, arguably even more so than a walking stereotype. Not only does it put down an entire people by saying we are all like that, but also kinda has that whole "Superior Race" thing to it(though I doubt those that have said it thought that much about it). It's especially grating when I'm told this by other black people. And this is coming from a guy who otherwise has no kind of pride in being black, because as we all know [[{{Futurama}} all races are equally inferior to Robots]]. * This troper sees it all the time when it comes to gamers. Every time a news report comes out about how video games are making kids violent or are teaching them bad values, gamers naturally will speak up against it. But then it's like as soon as the story dies down, most gamers then revert to being foul mouthed with threats of violent acts against others who dare to disagree with them while making sexual comments about which female video game character they would want to tap. UGH! ** Related topic: Girls! Stop bragging about how you can beat a boy at whatever is the newest Call of Duty video game is in order to "subvert" the stereotype. We all know you're only playing them (if playing them at all) to impress boys. You're not "subverting" anything. You're still pretending to like something in order to make men like you, which is just as stereotypical as a girl twirling her hair and giggling at everything a guy says. You're becoming a new stereotype, and regular female gamers do not appreciate this.

* Mi Maman is a Type II {{Eagleland}}er Democrat. I mean, think of all the worst traits you know about Democrats, and she is it. My father, ironically, is mildly conservative (not Republican) equivalent of Type II (I say "ironically" because he's an alcoholic arse). Me? Conservative on alcohol and drugs and whatnot (straightedge) and liberal on everything else. I can, however, ''see the other's side's point of view'' which ''neither'' of my parents can so I often feel absurdly out-of-place. Especially when Dad starts his "America has the right to not allow whoever it likes in" (this was right after talking about 9/11 and Islam, so uh...not a good reflection) shtick. ''STOP BEING SO GODDAMN AMERICAN, ALREADY!'' You make me want to cry and/or hide in a corner. * Tropers/BTIsaac noticed that stereotypical bible-thumping bigoted christian fundamentalists and stereotypical egomaniac religion bashing atheists have at least one thing in common: according to both parties, anyone who calls them out on this, actually belongs to the other side. * This Troper is from the North of England and lives in the South. There's one other girl in my year from the North and she frequently talks loudly and drags her words out AND over-uses the northern slang to the point that even I can't understand her. She annoys all the southern kids at my school and don't understand why I'm not like her. Aswell as this, I've heard English people say 'Cheerio!'. No, just no. * This troper goes to a boarding school in the US. A large percentage of my classmates are from other countries, though. Sometimes I just want to whack some of the bleach-blond, stick-thin, idiotic girls with the obnoxious giggles for just being so goddamn stereotypically ''American teenage girl''!! * This troper's liberal, very politically active friend once said something like, "When it comes down to it, I'm more angry at the far left than the far right, because I'm like, c'mon guys, I'm trying to help you!" * A message to all obnoxious, brazilian cheaters who thinks swearing in portuguese on the internet to those who don't know portuguese is fun while playing games on international servers: Stop. This. Shit. You're managing to make the entire internet hate us. I must have missed the memo that said that ruining other people's games is fun... * This is one of this black tropette's biggest pet peeves. This is why my patience and tolerance for rap, Maury and BET (In which the only show I watch is Everybody Hates Chris and nothing more) is very limited if not nonexistant. Why is it that every black person on several reality television programs are shown to be obnoxious, loud and incapable of grammar, let alone are ready to pin everything on the "white man" despite the fact equality has finally been achieved. If there are no medical or psychological problems, then tell me...is it really hard to speak calmly and coherantly? Am I suppose to sympathise with you when you run away crying and playing the victim when you couldn't keep your legs closed, in which you probably weren't crying when you did the deed with another man? Am I suppose to interpret a promiscuous, loud-mouth girl who blames or justifies everything she does on her past circumstances such as [[FreudianExcuse "I ain't got no daddy!" or "You don't know me! I'm from da hood!"]] as an independent black woman, in which the latter would use her past

circumstances to do much better and try to do something beneficial? Or better yet, a black (or hispanic) girl (or man for the matter) who weren't raised in such conditions and make extremely poor decisions, and yet, instead of owning up to them, they act as if they were victimized by "the system to keep the black man down?" If MLK Jr. was alive today, he'd weep at what all his hard work came to. I am sorry for ranting; with all three older cousins on both sides of the family living the stereotype and being constantly congratulated for the mere fact that I'm not sleeping around and getting pregnant does get to me fromt time to time. ** I second this. All of it. ** Seeing as how BET and other stereotypical black things tend to be owned by white people...It pretty much comes down to black entertainers perpetuating a stereotype for money from white people. But humans tend to take entertainers [[SeriousBusiness very seriously]] so they tend to copy what they see. "OH, that's how I should be!" It might be annoying but that's how humans behave. By the way, BET is owned by Viacom. I rest my case. ** Is there room for one more? This troper, while enjoying characters who crack jokes, finds the SassyBlackWoman who always uses violence on many occasions (whether it's a DopeSlap or using more violent means) irritating. At first, they're funny, but do them too often and it comes off as old and trite. Also, when it comes to disciplining kids, hitting them often and threatening them with violence is bad for their self-esteem. Also, the black men being portrayed as bad fathers who are abusive, cold, and/or trying to run from their responsibilities is tiring. * This Christian troper would like to make this request to those atheists who think they are smarter than a super computer because they don't believe in a deity or that think atheist=anti-Christian. Some of my best friends are atheists and agnostics, and it pisses me off when I see idiots online make both me look like an idiot and my friends look like assholes. ** [[@/{{endlessness}} This atheist troper]] seconds that. ** [[@/PulpoOscuro This other atheist troper]] thirds that. There's a word for ''hatred'' of religion, and it's called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitheism antitheism.]] Please don't say you're an atheist when you're really not. * I get this reaction to women who seemingly insist on living up to every sexist prejudice in the book by acting like shallow, gossipy airheads. Makes me want to FacePalm and tell them to stop being an embarrassment to their own gender. ** THANK YOU. ** Let us not forget those females who think it is terrible and monstrous that a man can have sexual thoughts about another female. Gag me. * Several of my classmates should hear this request. They're stereotypical, poor Southern college students. They go to more parties than classes, text under the desk, and act like writing a single page essay is an impossible and unfair task - and these are juniors and seniors I'm talking about, people, not freshmen. ** AMEN. It's bad enough when they're high-schoolers.

* Gamers that constantly swear and shout offensive terms into the mic at some FPS they're too young to play. I just want to smack people like that for setting bad example for gamers, especially console gamers(them, and those 40-year-old-fat-guys-in-their-mom's-basementpeople.) * This troper has heard this jokingly many times from her best friend for being a "[[ButchLesbian flannel-wearing, beer-drinking, overly sexual, androgynous, cat-loving, Tegan and Sara-listening, walking stereotype]] [[MurderArsonAndJaywalking with a bad haircut.]] Subverted in that she [[BiTheWay isn't exactly a lesbian.]] * This Main/{{troper}} dislikes the Main/{{Sassy Black Woman}} stereotype and any stereotype that keeps portraying black people as loud, rude, mean, harsh, cold, aggressive, extroverted, and unintelligent . Ironically, there are people who embrace these stereotypes and blacks who do not conform to this idea are told that they "act like a white person" or "talk like a white person". Why are black people always portrayed like this and why is it that a black woman's femininity is constantly attacked in the media? * Two cases that drove [[@/SoWeAteThem me]] right up the wall: ** Dad works at an elementary school in a crime-heavy portion of town, one prone to wanton accusations of racism (He gets it a lot--he's much less compromising in his teaching techniques than the rest of staff). Once, he showed me the pamphlet they gave out for the 2008 STAR tests. It was worded as if to suggest that ''the guys who write the tests were actively conspiring against the students''. ** The only representation of ChrisBrown's fanbase I'm regularly exposed to has to be the worst possible one: Even during the "Graffiti" period, they sided with him completely, trashing Rihanna (who he beat up, mind you) without a hint of mercy, berating all detractors for no proper reason, that is, the ones who aren't demonized, and openly disclosing their fantasies about being Brown's significant other. * [[@/{{Heartlessmushroom}} This troper]] really hates all his compatriots who at the slighltliest insult to their national pride (seriously, proud of what) go apeshit and scream "CHINGA TU MADRE PENDEJO GRINGO MALICNHISTA VIVA MEXICO CABRONES" and at the same time like to complain how much of a rat the goverment or the US are while being as much of a rat if not worse themselves. And finally those who keep defending the illegal inmigrants who are basically CHEATING at getting a job, too lazy to keep on fighting for their ideals and prefering the easy way and in the process leaving americans without a job. Are you seriously gonna keep making the rest of us look like lazy, aggressive, leeching idiots by beating up the guy next to you because he likes the soccer team you hate, by crying like a pussy when your team loses, by complaining and not doing anything else but complain and then do all that over there? [[SarcasmMode Well done my brothers, well done...]] >:| ** What's funny is if you try telling an American to not have national pride you'll get your ass kicked twenty ways to Sunday. So, just chill. Just because someone doesn't want to vomit the stars and stripes does not make them bad. If they want to be proud of their heritage, LET THEM. Don't be such a douche about it.

* Attention, everyone who keeps typecasting Americans as fat, lazy morons who are so self-centered you think they'd randomly burst into song about how the world was made for them at any moment: Stop it. Just because some people are doesn't mean ''everyone here'' is. Take [[{{Midna}} my]] word for it. (Oddly enough, Texan stereotypes don't grind my gears nearly as much, probably because there's not often much malice behind their appearances in the media.) * It's nice to know that [[@/{{Reflextion}} I'm]] [[YouAreNotAlone not the only]] diagnosed Aspie that gets [[{{Understatement}} a little]] [[BerserkButton annoyed]] and embarrassed at people who throw out the "lolz I'm autistic[=/=]aspie" line like it somehow justifies them acting like five-year-olds who've been dropped on their heads once too often (and I'd like to apologize preemptively for any five-year-olds with head injuries who [[InsultToRocks I may have offended with that comparison]]). ** Remember self-diagnosers, [[YouFailLogicForever Autism DOES NOT automatically justify idiotic and/or sociopathic behavior]]. ** Me too. People blaming their behavior on "lol i have aspergers/autism" doesn't justify acting like a dick, and just makes people that actually has it look bad. ** [[@/SoWeAteThem I]] saw this. Twice. On the same forum. And boy, what jerks they were. They got better, but sweet mother of God, I was tempted to tell them I actually was and PM them a link to Kyle Maynard's Wikipedia entry. ** [[@/{{Amethystasheryn}} I]] don't have aspergers or autism, but my brother does and so I completely agree. He would never use that as an excuse in the first place, which just makes the idiots who are pretending worse in my book. * This happened during ''WorldOfWarcraft'' roleplay, when my night elf character was talking to another one about dwarves, while standing in Ironforge: -->'''Ayanore''': The first time I met one was... in the Alliance army. He was standing on top of a stump and performing a wild dance. -->'''Ayanore''': Needless to say, it ruined my perception of them for years to come. -->''Dormoth shuffles in his beard grabbing a canteen as he takes a swig staring at the elves.'' -->'''Ayanore''': ...Not helping dispel the stereotype, I'm afraid. * [[Tropers/AdelePotter This Tropette's]] attitude towards [[TeensAreMonsters teenagers]] is, "You make a bad name for the rest of us!" * One general case that really pisses me off? ''Moreso'' than the folks who believe pervasive developmental disorders can be received in the mail? People in the higher-functioning range of the autism spectrum who feel entitled to bank on their disorders for special treatment and whine about prejudice when it doesn't work. Maybe it's just a personal issue, but it drives me insane. * I am a modest anime fan, but my friend is outrageous about it and has stereotypical traits of an annoying fangirl. She parades around in school with manga and reads it while the teacher is teaching, she tries to fit her favorites into her English essays, she constantly talks about any anime or manga she's seen or read recently, and she

gets very upset if someone sees her reading manga and calls it comics. I've tried to convince her to tone it down because many people in our school already think that people who like anime are weird, but she just will not listen. ** I also have to tell people not to believe that stereotypical bullshit in the media that people with Tourettes curse. If, for some reason it comes up that my brother has Tourettes, everyone says, "Oh, so he curses a lot?" and I tell them to stop stereotyping. * Hoo, boy, do I have a list... ** There are two black girls in my highschool who constantly swear, can hardly speak english, dress like sluts, once got into a fight over lipgloss that ended with a broken nose, and if a teacher tells them to dress appropriately, they'll say he's being racist. ** I'm an anime fan, but it bugs me when an other anime fan in my school goes overboard. She'll say something in Japanese every few sentences (I don't mind saying "seiyuu" instead of "voice actor", but it gets rediculous), and ignoring almost every other type of entertainment. ** My english class. They're Juniors, but none of them pay attention, they complain that a 5 page reading assignment is too long (or too boring, or too hard, etc), and then they complain that the teacher is playing favorites when all but 3 of them (the ones that DO OUR WORK) are failing. Stop making teens look bad! *** Oh, god. You are not alone, trust me, the mandatory classes at my high school were... trying, to say the least, because of that. *** Same [[@/{{Amethystasheryn}} here.]] They even do it in advanced placement classes--which are voluntary! * [[Tropers/SirPsychoSexy This troper]] is kind of embarrassed by most CampGay men. But in [[{{Transsexual}} his]] experience, the hatred is usually mutual ("why can't you just be a ButchLesbian and leave me alone?" "[[CaptainObvious I LIKE GUYS]]!!!" "Honey, stop lying to yourself. You [[AllLesbiansWantKids just want my sperm]]."). (The irony is that he sees pregnancy as BodyHorror and is [[AvertedTrope proudly]] [[ChildfreeIsNotAllowed childfree]]- apparently some cis guys [[UnfortunateImplications think that the uterus is an alldevouring monster]] [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking that overruns a female-bodied person's sense of logic]].) ** Not to mention the really stereotypical FtM's he's had to deal with. OH GOD, every time he hears a trans man say something like "I'm sticking it to patriarchal gender norms and thereby deconstructing the notion of gender" or "[[MisterSeahorse I want to be a pregnant man]]", he fucking {{Face Palm}}s. * This troper is a freshman in high school (but that's going to change in a week's time as of this writing), and, for the most part, ''cannot stand'' her fellow freshmen. It always annoys me to see somebody who just so happens to be a freshman swearing at teachers, listening to music in the halls, carrying a forbidden backpack around, and just generally being an idiot, since it doesn't do anything to defy the stereotypes about us. Bear in mind, it's not the older students that are the problem (most of my friends are sophomores and above, in fact); it's the administrators. They insist on treating us like toddlers by imposing various systems on us to keep us in line, and by

making announcements that apply to the whole school, but specifically addressing them to the freshmen for no reason! It's positively sickening. * Dear Linux users: I know you dislike Apple and Microsoft. Now stop bitching about how much you hate them and bashing people who decide to use an Apple or Microsoft OS computers. Some of us ''prefer'' them because oh guess what? It has what we need. Do I flame you for using Linux? Do I go out of my way to antagonize Linux users for using Linux? Do I bash Linux because I don't really like it that much and admit it's just personal choice? Do I make suggestions to you to just get Linux whenever you have any form of computer problems? No? Then if you want that offensive stereotype of stuck-up Linux users to go away...'''''StopBeingStereotypical'''''. The more you reinforce that stereotype, the more people will assume you're all Linux FanDumb and Microsoft&Apple HateDumb. And frankly, it's probbaly easy to count how many Linux users I met who ''isn't'' a Walking Stereotype. * Has anyone read what the main page for this says about the Burned Furs attitude towards fetishes? Well, I wish people like that would stop acting the way they do, because they give the fandom a bad name (I'm not sure what my attitude towards the fetishists themselves is). All I need now is a fetishist complaining I'M giving furries a bad name and the cycle will be complete. * This INTP troper is fed up with fellow INTPs, who, [[CardCarryingVillain by their own admission]], [[NietzscheWannabe think they're on a higher plane of being than others]] [[KnowNothingKnowItAll because they know how to dress up their crappy fallacious arguments]] [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness in an overwrought pseudo-intellectual vocabulary]] [[YouKeepUsingThatWord of words they don't accurately know the meaning of]]. It also bugs me how so many of them wear their self-diagnosed Asperger's like a badge of honor and claim to have so much in common with Albert Einstein when all they really know about Einstein is what they've inferred from a few quotes of his they found in "inspirational" chain emails from their aunt (all this JUST because Einstein has been FanWanked to have been an INTP, which only further fuels their douchebaggery). Oh, and for Chrissakes, stop talking about how much you relate to [[DeathNote L]] just because you're an antisocial slob with bad eating habits. ** Other things that bug [[Tropers/iheartmountains this troper]]: the fact that there are so many self-righteous bigot Mac users that if I ever dare mention that I prefer Macs over [=PCs=], I pretty much HAVE to attach a "but I don't judge you for your computing preferences" disclaimer; how there are so many dickhead vegans out there that most people are understandably closed-minded toward our cause ([[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking It, Activists]]); ANY fellow metalhead who thinks any band that doesn't fit his biased preconceived notions of what metal is to a T [[NoTrueScotsman cannot possibly be metal or connected to it in any way]] and fellow Christians who hold onto their outdated creationist and [[HeteronormativeCrusader "homosexuality is a choice, a BAD choice!"]] views so tightly that their very faith in God/Christ becomes contingent on those two factors, making it look like you HAVE to be bigoted and deathly afraid of logic in order to receive Jesus Christ's

redeeming grace and salvation. Man, all that bitching makes me feel like TheAngryVideoGameNerd would be staring at me slack-jawed and insisting that I roll up a spliff and listen to some NeilDiamond to calm my overworked nerves. * Dear Fandom of ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', or "Bronies" as you sometimes refer to yourself: I know how people often think you guys are creeps for watching a show that's originally targeted for five year old girls. However, the stereotype is ''not'' going to go away anytime soon the more you keep reinforcing them. So just stop it. If you don't want people thinking you're creeps who're obsessed with a show targeted at five year olds, then try talking about ''something else'' for a change. So far, every single person I've met with ''one'' exception who likes that show is ''constantly talking about it'' and acting like a Monomaniac / StrawFan. b---Why do you have to keep going back to StopBeingStereotypical and setting a bad example for all of us?

StopHavingFunGuys * I am at both ends of the trope. [[BeserkButton I get pissed]] whenever someone's two feet outside of a Dispenser's healing range and they call for a Medic, yet people get pissed when I ask them if it would be better to move our sentries from the spawn area (still a stupid place for sentries) to our Intelligence and rant about it. * I actually beat one of these guys in DeadorAlive one year in an anime convention, and ran into him again the next year, same con. When he asked someone a question, I answered him, and he goes, "Sorry, I was talking to him.", and had this snarky, annoyed attitude. The next day of the con, I ran into him again, going against his friend in another game. It was bad enough I never played the game before and was getting my butt kicked, but Mr. StopHavingFunGuys was helping my opponent beat me by giving him commands. When I lost, he sticks his hand out for the controller and says, "Give it here". [[KarmaHoudini And no one said/noticed a thing.]] * This is why this troper quit WoW. Everyone was quite like this. * This troper was on a nice Team Fortress 2 arena server. One of the mods kept whining about how the server was being shut down if they couldn't get $16 ("That's so much money!") I had a credit gift card lying around with a couple of bucks on it, and I told the mod he could get those bucks -- IF he convinced me. I specified: "By 'convince' I mean give me some BS condition you could never fulfil -- like adding a Velociraptor class." The mod started bitching me out for not being charitable, and proceeded to say I should just go kill myself. He didn't get those cashes. * I actually knew a Stop Having Fun Guy for Donkey Kong 64, of all games. I didn't own the game myself (I think I rented it once or twice), but almost every Sunday after church, I used to go to someone's house to play it. The parents had two kids, who I liked to play DK64 Multiplayer with. Unfortunately, they had an annoying neighbor who came over one afternoon. At first, he was just normal. He

asked to play with us, and we agreed. We did Monkey Smash, and whn it was on the Character Select, he spent nearly half of our playtime laughing at them and claiming "they sucked" because they didn't unlock Krusha. He finally agreed to play with us. He was DK, I was Diddy, the others were Lanky and Tiny. He laughed at us more for picking "the worst characters in the game". Cue food projectiles being shot at him, all at the same time. After which he said: "I would have beat you if I had Krusha!" ** The fact is, he's right. Krusha is PurposefullyOverpowered- his basic gun has blast damage. * [[Tropers/AntiSpartacus This Troper]] most likely comes off as this when playing MagicTheGathering, but that certainly isn't his intention. It comes down to playing with any opponent, whether in a tourney round or for funsies, and stopping them whenever he sees a gross mistake to ask, as politely as humanly as possible, "Would you like to be a better Magic player?" [[GrudgingThankYou Reactions]] [[StopHelpingMe vary]] [[BerserkButton widely]], but I pick up very quickly on whom it is appropriate with, and whom it is not. I make exceptions when actively [[CurbStompBattle engaging]] a real StopHavingFunGuy, waiting until I have won the round to ask. [[MagnificentBastard For best results, ask during Draft]]. ** You come off as one because you sound like a condescending jerk, to be honest. Rather than asking during play, which is very disrespectful, you should go over to them afterward, when other people aren't going to be watching you, and ''then'' politely ask "hey, I saw you made such-and-such mistake over there. Not to say you're bad or anything, but would you like to meet up sometime and practice the game?" ''That'' is how you do it. *** Honestly, it's how I'd like to be treated during local tourneys/fun games. Regionals+ I'd stay quiet, but some of the best mistakes I learn not to make twice are the ones my opponent spots first. *** That still doesn't change the fact that you're being rude and patronizing. That may be how ''you'' want to be treated, but everyone does not think the same as you (surprise!) and, y'know, might get offended at someone publicly insulting their skills. And yes, that is what you are doing. Don't deny it. *** I haven't denied that fact. * [[Tropers/FlightMaster This troper]] was very, dangerously close to become one back when Smash Bros 64 was the rage, and we always played in Hyrule Castle (the closest that game has to a Final Destination), items off and 3 stock. Thankfully we grew out of it and started liking a bit more randomness. Thing is, surfing the web I stumbled upon David Sirlin and his articles (Playing to Win, and etc) and was remembered of my young days. 'Wow, this guy is so full of it', was my initial reaction. After a good reading session, one thing was clear: no one can always win. So next time we play I'll remember to throw up some matches I would have clearly won, because no one wants to piss off his/her friend group and turn into a 'fucking friends, who fucking wants them' guy. ** Just to drive the point home, when I say 'throw up the match' I mean 'not playing to my fullest', in the off case I meet that Street

Fighter playing little girl he stumbled upon once. Because she could grow to be a GamerChick good enough to hand me my ass when I am old and wrinkly and she grows BoobsOfSteel. Is there a trope for that? ** Just to say, the 'old master' trope where the seasoned, old warrior is still stronger than the young, new recruits is never applicable to Real Life. Let's see how you combo your way out of that girl's grasp when you have 40 year old fingers and she hasn't. ** So 40-year-olds can't keep themselves in shape, huh? * [[Tropers/{{EPIC}} This Troper]] is not much of a StopHavingFunGuy. The most advice I'll give you usually relates to changing movesets as well as manually changing stats with the use of pills found in the Veilstone Department Store. But asking me for advice on natures and breeding? I will speak no more. * This troper had a borderline case of this with a friend, in that while he exhibited all the outward symptoms, he didn't have the attitude. He enjoyed SSBB, had a passable strategy for each character, kicked ass, but requested no items and playing more often on the more boring stages. However, he didn't have the attitude that his methods were superior. * This troper had a severe case of this happen with the GuitarHero series. A friend of mine at the time offered to help me get better at the game (I had been playing on Medium without a problem, but I was having problems with the transition to Hard). I shouldn't have taken the offer; it was less like the casual training I was expecting and more like the TrainingFromHell. He forced me to play the hardest songs on the highest difficulty and expect me to survive somehow, criticising every little thing I didn't do exactly like him, tried to explain things I already knew in the rudest possible way, and he made the entire thing out to be more serious than it really was. It was so stressful, that I sold off my copy of Guitar Hero the next day, and after a few months, I switched to RockBand (Which that friend hated with a passion, so he wouldn't try to play with me) * This troper and his guitarist friends are a subversion where we will play along with whatever song is being played in GuitarHero on our guitars. Not to mock whoever's playing, but more because they are rocking songs for good reason and it adds to the atmosphere a lot. * The Stop Having Fun Guy problem has gotten so bad for this troper, she has stopped playing games where you actually have to talk with other people entirely, and she only roleplays with her close friends. If she plays a game where you have to, she tries to avoid conversation and just be as efficient as possible for her teammates while having as much fun as she can. If she spots a Stop Having Fun Guy, she kills him off while he rants. She finds it more efficient than ranting back, since that'd make her get killed. Although she sometimes worries that, in the times that she does rant back, she's being a Stop Having Fun Guy ''about having fun''. * Subverted with this troper's friend, who hosts ''Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune'' tournaments with [[RubberBandAI handicap]] turned on. Said friend's reasoning is that due to the presence of [[GoddamnedBats Goddamned Traffic]] in the highway courses, handicap is necessary to prevent a mistake that less of the player's fault and more of a hardto-see-and-dodge traffic car from ruining his or her chances of

winning. Actually, for that matter, the ''WMMT'' scene in general is a subversion--one of the best time attack players outside of Japan actually finds it ''boring'' to play versus matches with handicap turned off. ** The same troper is quitting ''Maximum Tune'', because of people who think that if you're not within 3 seconds of a world record that you're a complete {{Scrub}}, as well as drama in his region. * One of this troper's close friends fits the bill. When playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl over [=WiFi=], she would always use one character (Link, so I guess she gets points for not using a top-tier...), only ever go to one stage (you guessed it, Final Destination), would complain if the troper wanted items on because they made it "unbalanced" and "unfair"... and would actually get mad at him, because he almost-always puts his player as "random" (he's good with most-anyone now!) and she didn't like how it meant that the rounds weren't all-uniform. Yeesh... This troper actually got so sick of these conditions that, if nothing else, he point-blank ''refuses'' to play on Final Destination if items are off (if they're on, fine, but...). * I think your friends fits more as a scrub, i recomend you to move your example to the Scrub's troper tales. ** Necromander laughs at anyone who uses the tier system. I play as Link (Who is on the lowest possible tier), and regularly beat every top-tier characters. The amount of verbal abuse I get is incredible. One person even tried to get my address so he could call the cops on me. *** [[{{AJTheBlackDragon}} I say]], tiers do exist, but do you know how many varieties of them are?! Yes, I will always play with items, whoever I want, wherever I want! I do agree though, the verbal abuse is rather stupid, considering it is just a game- Oh wait I forgot, for some of these people who should be doing something good for society, [[SeriousBusiness Melee/Brawl is what pays the bills, puts food on the table, and is a lot bigger than religion itself...]] Seriously, why would people take a game that's about [[JustHereForGodzilla Mario beating the crap out of Kirby while Pit puts an arrow into Snake's butt while he's chokeslamming Wario who's farting next to Falco]] so seriously? *** I follow tiers... most of the time. Kirby will always be on par with Meta Knight for me. *** Same here. I describe myself (jokingly) as "the master of Kirb Fu" since I've played him since the original- which leads to my tale. I was playing a tournament at my college for fun, after having not played in months. People were amused at first when they saw I was playing Kirby, but soon they saw why. And then I beat one of the organizers, a really competitive full-of-himself guy like the trope with Kirby... and then the whole group of organizers basically made so much noise during my next match by shouting as loud as they could and turning up noises on other [=TVs=] to way-too-high levels in order to make it distracting (and they were jeering the whole time too)... I left because I wasn't having fun anymore and didn't want to go into berserker mode, and yet they had the audacity to tell me it was my fault.

** This troper once had a friend who pretty much breathed this trope. Every time we played Melee, the rules always had to be 3 (or 4) stock, no items, final destination. I got sick of playing with him altogether because of this (he didn't really compromise and was one of those people who thought that way was the only way to play Smash Bros). ** The fun thing with that is that Final Destination isn't exactly a perfectly balanced stage either. It's flat and completely free. Which means things like projectiles and chain-grabs have a great advantage there. Then there's the fact that the shape can block someone under the stage when they should be able to grab the ledge. oh! Did I mention a perfect chain-grab is unavoidable untill one player is thrown down the stage. Not a problem for everyone, but some character will find Fox a pain to fight. ** [[{{Stickmeister0}}I]] could be one of the prime examples of how Tiers do not exist. I always play as Toon Link, but I also find myself playing as Wario more often. However, I'm much better with Toon Link, and abuse his instant meteor smash and versatile charge smashes whenever I can. Wario, on the other hand, I play worse with. His recovery is decent (but it's terrible in you need to go upwards rather than the side) and he tends to be too predictable. Wario is in the best tier and Toon Link is in a lower tier. ** [[{{kungasi}} I]] don't care for ''tiers'', you might as well be saying '[=LULZ1=] DEZ GUISE ROOL SIMPLY CAUSE DEY CAN SPAM/OHK' In Brawl, I main Ike (yes, I like Ike. and yes, I had to say that, and no, its not in ''that'' way either.), who, [[http://super-smashbros.wikia.com/wiki/Tier_list#SSBB_tier_list according to the latest shit fest of a tier]], is in the second to last tier, making him slightly better than what the [[StopHavingFunGuys serious tournament players]] consider to be absolute shit [[hottip:* :yet they will completely flip their shit if you thoroughly rape and humiliate them with a bottom tier character]]. Granted, I've only played with friends, all of whom, thankfully, fully realize that ITS JUST A FUCKING GAME. Yes they all have their favorites, but they dont say that one is superior to another. I have turned Ike's regular side smash into an art form, at least among my friends. It is very satisfying to hit someone whos got around 30% damage with a fully charged side smash, right as they avoid either a feint or, in the case of 4 player confusion, '''roll right into it''' and send them flying all the way to the Wall of Death off screen. I have actually been complimented on this several time by friends, simply because they know how fucked you are if you miss with said attack. In an attempt to justify Ike's low ranking in the tier, its ''due to his extremely sluggish and punishable moves (forcing an over-reliance on opponents' mistakes to gain kills) and predictable recovery resulting in poor matchups.'' Which is bullshit considering that Meta Knight is ranked first for [[http://super-smashbros.wikia.com/wiki/Meta_Knight_%28SSBB%29 various reasons]], which strangely, doesnt include the fact that one of his attacks can be spammed relatively quickly... Apparently, speed-attack strengthskill=FUCKING WIN while, slow+ strong+ skill needed+ easily fucked over=FUCKING SHIT. I can seriously start ranting really badly about tiers, so I'll just stop now and leave it at this.

*** Tiers only apply to high-level play, which means that they do not have any substantial effect on your typical non-tourney player. **** This, this, a thousand times this. You need to remember that the listed tiers are only accurate under tournament rules, and assume a tournament level of skill and knowledge. Under ''any other ruleset'', they cease to be accurate. *** [[LoveIsWeird This troperette]] likes to play as Zelda. Fact is, she likes to play as anyone at all, except for Mario, since he's a little too popular for my tastes. Now, she has a video-gamer friend who is one of these. "FOX! FINAL DESTINATION! NO ITEMS!" is practically his motto. The last time he tried that on me... -->'''Me:''' I get it, I get it, you think that playing Fox in Final Destination with no items is the pinnacle! Well, I say, heck with it! I want Zelda in Pictochat and I want to throw how many Pokeballs at my opponent without caring! So shut up and let me do this my way, or YOU! ARE! BANNED! FROM! PLAYING! FOX! *** CrowningMomentOfAwesome in my opinion. I think I sounded like a scrub there. ** I think I might be one of these types but never knew it until I read this site. I always play SSB games on final destination with 3 stock and no items because it's the most balanced and fair. I never realized the game had tiers or there was such a large amount of animosity on the subject, it's just what I've always found the most enjoyable way to play. ** This troper's had an experience on one site of an extreme SHFG, who was sadly, and clearly unsaveably, 13. The problem with this example was that almost the rest of the site was rather much indifferent to Tournaments (tiers was a much bigger debate), or supported one side, but was much better about arguing. And then he came along. I'm talking about a young boy who was so decidedly psychotic that he has been quoted as saying things such as "I play so when I beat an guy I can say 'U SUCK NOOB!' and when I lose I can say 'FUCK YOU FAGGOT!'" and "I'M GONNA CUT OFF MY OWN COCK AND HOPE KARMA SWINGS AROUND AND MAKES ME BETTER AT SMASH!" He was obviously banned eventually and has since become a bit of a meme on the site. ** This troper knows a LOT of SSBB SHFGs in real life. Most of them around around my brothers age (13-14 years or so) and think they're hot stuff just because they use Meta Knight and can win against newbies on WiFi. This troper and his brother (Captain Falcon and Ike users, respecitvely) take a great deal of amusement from laying into their Meta Knights three-nil and watching the EPIC RAEG flow. Tip for you CF players who want to really get under their skin: Sacred Combo all the way, baby. *** One word. [[ThisIsSparta TIERS. ARE. FOR. QUEERS.]] * One of this troper's friends is also... kind of borderline. He prefers playing with no items, Final Destination, 3 stock, etc., but he's usually willing to compromise, which means 6 or 7 lives, items on "Low", and some other stages. Mind you, he usually manages to kick my [[SymbolSwearing @$$]], whether it's 3 or 10 lives, so... yeah. But then again, I tend to insist on about 9 or 10 lives, but I'm also willing to compromise. ...Does this actually count? * During [[Tropers/AmuroNT1 This Troper]]'s embryonic role-playing

phase on AOL, he started up a ''GundamWing''-themed game. The general focus was simply to enjoy the setting and have fun interacting with fellow fans. Of course, within weeks, several people whose games had their own complex system of stats, upgrading, and other "serious" touches were mocking me, inviting me to chats with the express purpose of ambushing me in battle, and one person even challenging me to a duel for ownership of my own group. Several years later, I still engage in this type of game, albeit on a message board, and I still refuse to make complex stat systems. And guess what? I'm having fun, guys. :) ** If you created the game, wouldn't that have made you the GM? At that point I would have arbitrarily declared that the GurrenLagann showed up, curbstomped all those assholes, and then vanished. *** "'''[[RocksFallEveryoneDies ROCKS-FALL-EVERYONE-DIES]]-KICK!'''" *** Nah, you gotta keep it in-theme. Have [[TurnAGundam Turn A]] do it. ^_^ **** Unfortunately I didn't know about Turn A back then (and GL didn't exist yet). Either way it all turned out good in the end since that RP was how I met my girlfriend. * This Troper once attended a SupremeCommander tournament and found a Stop Having Fun Guy bragging about how he'd found the 'ultimate opening build'. When asked about the conspicuous lack of early antiair defence seen in the first round, his responce was 'Air units waste resources and you'll lose before they're ready. Every noob knows that!" This Troper, drawn against him next, offered a mutually agreed change of the rules: we'd play a huge, perfectly flat all-land map, start with fixed spawns in opposite corners, and both play the same faction to be perfectly fair. The SHFG was laughing as he started the game... Until this troper used a well-known tactic involving a oneaircraft rush to cripple his defenseless early economy, then mopped him up in a third of the time allotted to the match. The look on his face when he watched the replay - seeing that his 'perfect' plan had a gaping, completely legitimate hole - was priceless. ** That happened to this troper playing an online match of CommandAndConquer Generals. One player in the lobby was boasting about his strategy that was guaranteed to win in ten minutes. The flaw? He had NO anti-air or anti-infantry until nine minutes in. Guess who pulled off a Chinook Rush and captured that players base? He was spamming chat about how I cheated for the rest of the game. :) ** Same thing happened to this troper. Except that, once the SHFG shook off his surprise, he admitted his mistake and made changes to his strategy. Said SHFG has now stopped being one and is this troper's best friend. :) * This troper was one in {{Tekken}}, using only Yoshimitsu. Most of the bouts were either {{curb stomp battle}}s or stalemates against fellow {{stop having fun guys}}. Then he found the feature which randomizes your character or your entire team, revealing it only at the loading screen. And then there's Mokujin who switches movesets every round.. * This troper has a friend who often takes her offhand, RuleOfFunny hyperbolic remarks ("Oh my god, I totally need glasses!" "Is it possible to get high off tap water?") and systematically deconstructs

them in terms of actual science or math. * This troper got into a quick campaign in Left4Dead and became an incapacitated character along with a downed bot. The other two guys refused to help us get up. Why? They wanted to kill the bots (there were two before I joined) so they could unlock some achievements. They did free me from the closet during the finale when I told them I could handle my own. They were apparently going for the achievement you earn for taking no friendly fire damage ever or not receiving damage during rescue. Since after one them hurt the other with a pipe bomb, they wanted to ''start the whole level over again'' just because they missed out on the achievement. This troper quickly left, knowing that since he wasn't quite an expert at the game yet, they'd either yell at me or kick me from the game. ** This troper, while not knowing the game, contends that based on the above explanation this is more a flaw in the game design than the players' fault. The kind of player that goes for 100% completion is some games is often the same kind of player that tries to get as many achievement points as they can manage. It's not that they think people playing the game in other ways are bad (some do, but far from all), they simply have fun with the game in other ways. The design flaw here is putting these players together, which usually means that those players have to fight over who gets to have their fun this time, and who has to do something they consider a boring waste of time. ** Some people also take Left 4 Dead way too seriously. People on GameFAQs rage about people who hinder their team. It's true that you do got the slow players out there, but these guys go above and beyond, ranting about how much people fail in VS as a Boomer or Tank just because they didn't get everyone in one shot or just plain missed. One person even went on to say how effective rushing the levels are and have insulted people who try to point out the flaws in rushing levels and thinks they can't comprehend the rush strategy. Example: ---> '''Guy:''' The faster you complete the level, the less you get swarmed and the less dependent you are on supplies. ---> '''Me:''' Rushing doesn't always work. You'll just bypass supplies that you might need in case of an emergency. ---> '''Another guy:''' Rushing won't work well unless everyone on the team is doing it. ---> '''Guy:''' (Takes our quotes and rearranges them to respond in a [[{{Jerkass}} snarky tone]]) Then the team needs to get in gear and keep up. Faster you beat the level, the quicker you get to play others. Really, do I need to make this any more simpler? *** The funny thing is, Mr. Let's-Rush-The-Level Guy is exactly half right. On Advanced in the original ''{{Left 4 Dead}}'', [[@/RobinZimm my]] usual team had representatives of two competing styles, a turtle (the veteran, who knew every spot to camp during rushes) and a rabbit (the freaking fastest motherf-- ... well, he was quick, and a pretty solid FPS player to start with). When both of them played to their normal inclinations, the rabbit would get jumped by a hunter half a kilometer ahead of the rest of the team, who would then be overwhelmed; when everyone turtled, we'd get through the levels slowly and reliably, and when everyone rabbited ... we'd get through the levels quickly and reliably. Turtling is easier when you have newbies

on the team, but if everyone is capable, rabbiting works just fine. At least on Advanced. I'm no Expert. **** Actually the guy is completely right. The only problem seems to be that he used a snarky tone when dismissing the remarks about the simple point he was making. From here it doesn't seem to be the case that he asserts that this is the only way to play the game either. * This troper was unfortunate enough to be stuck with a group of {{Munchkin}}s on his first two years playing ''DungeonsAndDragons''. One in particular almost destroyed my love of the game by constantly boasting about how his character could kill my character (no matter what campaign we were in) and nit-picking my character builds. At one point, the min-maxing got so bad that the party's average AC was so high (and, to compensate, the AC of the monsters was also high) that ''no-one could hit anything for several rounds''. The really stupid thing was that even though this group would craft all kinds of hideously overpowered monstrosities using material from expansion books (such as ''Complete Divine''), they bitterly detested psionics and the ''{{Eberron}}'' setting for being "broken". ** Wow, that's the exact opposite of what happened to one group of D&D that I got the hell away from. This troper was bored to hell with the basic cookie-cutter classes like sorcerer and wizards and that stuff, and he actually wanted to play a Wu Jen in one campaign. Now it wasn't an Oriental adventures campaign but he really really wanted to play this because it felt new and yet still familiar to him. And he even thought of a good backstory to explain why this wu jen is in Ye olde British Isles and yet guess what? The Dungeonmaster told him that they couldn't use anything from an expansion book because "They just clog up and overcomplicate the game". :| And then two other players prestige into prestige classes found in the ''Complete Divine'' book while one person prestiged into a '''player made class she downloaded from the internet!!!''' Double Standard and stop having fun guys, much? * Whenever this troper ({{GentlemanThief7}} again) plays XBox Live with his cousin, especially Halo 3, his cousin sometimes becomes a SHHG - scolding him whenever this troper messes up - while the troper becomes somewhat of a Scrub - laughing maniacally whenever he messes up, which usually causes something horribly bad to happen to at least one of the teams -, although because we balance each other out, this almost always turns out good. For example: my cousin gives me the big guns and explosives - usually while telling me that I am the LAST person he would trust them to - and I create a diversion by rushing in and taking out as many enemies as I can, while he comes in and flanks them. Fun, AND effective, since I can come across as an OmnicidalManiac whenever I play video games. * This troper has to keep the fact that he plays ''{{Touhou}}'' on a Sega Saturn controller (one of the most reputable controllers for 2D gaming, mind you) a secret, due to people telling him that it plays better with a keyboard. ** This troper's also been yelled at for being an even bigger tard than console players for playing handhelds the most. So maybe I wanna play something on a long bus ride or over lunchbreak or I don't have the time to sit down and play stuff like Left 4 Dead. And maybe I

don't want to rape my laptop's batteries playing Warcraft. * [[Tropers/{{TropersDallenson}} This troper]] was watching a lets play of [[{{nintendowars}} Advance wars]] 1 from Slimkirby, though not a SHFG Himself, He hates them, saying that they should die, Amen Slim, Amen ** but outlawing the use of [[{{Gamebreaker}} Grit, Colin, Hawke, Eagle]] and what else does not make you a SHFG, Intelligent (Defense) System's themselve's Banned the use of Caulder in Internet play in DOR/DC * This troper has actually seen one of these types standing next to a DanceDanceRevolution machine in an arcade shouting about the evils of using the bar. Yeah, [[SarcasmMode 'cause we all know that method works so well]] for the religious [[TheFundamentalist Fundamentalists]]. So this troper intentionally went on the machine and latched onto the bar for his entire game just to annoy the guy. ** There was a guy who used to frequent where I played that would literally smack your hand if you reached back for the bar. This led to him being punched out in the parking lot later that day when he smacked a guy who was attempting one of the Oni records in Extreme. Guy never came back again. * This troper was forbidden from bringing a character from another roleplay of his into the mansion because they didn't allow unoriginal characters. Despite the fact that this character was from fanon and the only thing he had to do with KingdomHearts was that he was a nobody. (And yet they allowed people to bring in obvious star Trek fan characters and blatant Jedi.) * This troper used to be an active StarCraft player on Battle.Net for some years. On multiple occasions he would go without playing for a few months, and then play for several hours straight just to start a new account. Finally, on his most recent attempt, he had multiple problems just getting a game to last; he would either get booted out for no apparent reason before the game could even get started (although thinking about it now, they probably thought he was a new player by simple virtue of the fact that his record read as 0-0-0), or get cannon rushed inside the first four or five minutes, and he is fairly certain that he made requests that no rushing would be involved. He didn't want to put up with this anymore, so he went ahead and just plain gave up on online playing altogether. ** You don't like being rushed? Learn to scout. Cheese tactics aren't nearly as effective if you see them coming. *** I reckon advising to suck less is somewhat counterindicative here. Not that this troper does not agree. *** Wait, so you told people to stop playing the way they liked to, and you're calling THEM stop having fun guys? **** This is a classic example of the [[{{Scrub}} another trope]]. It is not surprising for a scrub to call other players {{Stop Having Fun Guys}}, as there is no real gauge for either category. * The StopHavingFunGuys are part of the reason this troper says TeamFortress2 is one of the most overrated games of this generation. Especially since their FanDumb ''claims'' they're nothing like the StopHavingFunGuys of games like WorldOfWarcraft or EverQuest. Every time I hear a claim like that I can't help but laugh. The severs are

supposed to be full of mature players, yet mature is yelling at each other for "screwing up the game", talking about sexual escapades, calling everyone gay, and whenever someone asks for a suggestion on how to play any form of class, they say "Suck less". They micspam and say that if your'e on a server where someone's Micspamming or there aren't x spies and scouts, then you're on a bad server and yet I actually found myself blocking ''more'' StopHavingFunGuys on "good" servers than Micspammers on ''bad'' servers because I never actually heard them talk about how big their cock is. And let's not forget...whenever you express any dislike for TeamFortress2 at all...the default response? Something along the lines of "Suck Less then". No FanDumb? HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!! ** ThisTroper can vouch for the TeamFortress2 example concerning StopHavingFunGuys who bash any Medic that fends for himself for so much as a fraction of a second. Just the day before making this edit, he was playing as a Medic on a public server; lacking any constant "medic buddies" to team up with and coordinate, he usually roamed the map, healing whomever was in trouble and (trying) to defend himself against the enemy team. Eventually the top-scoring player on his team (ThisTroper was in third place) switched to Medic and continually bitched about how "the other medic (that is, ThisTroper) sucks." A short time later, ThisTroper ''managed to capture the intelligence and win the round for his team'' after backing up and healing/ubercharging teammates entering the enemy base: --> [[StopHavingFunGuys Stop Having Fun Guy]]: Oh, that works. --> ThisTroper: So, ''what'' was that about me being a sucky medic? --> [[StopHavingFunGuys Stop Having Fun Guy]]: Yeah, I think you suck, dude. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint All you do is play combat medic.]] ** The whole suck less bit is the reason why this troper rarely makes his disgust over certain games or their elements public, because it seems now that any complaining for any game results in everyone pointing the finger at you, saying it's your own fault that you suck and aren't as good as everyone else to enjoy the game. ** This Troper sympathises with these stories so much that... well-here. Great servers://CP#1: 209.51.145.133:27015// CP#3: 209.51.145.133:27016 pw: war4433 ** This Troper has largely quit [=TF2=] after playing it pretty regularly since the game came out. I hadn't touched it in a while and I came to the realization that the reason I haven't touched it is because it sucks now. If I don't have a team too busy obsessing over their KDR than actually playing the game, I get screaming clan kids calling me an aimbot user because my sentry gun killed them. Every server is run by fucking Nazi dictator admins who only play [=TF2=] because they banned everyone from their Battlefield 1942 servers and there was nobody left for them to abuse. Half the servers lie about their population so a server that's 20/32 on the server list is actually empty. And then there's the donor perk servers that let every fucking idiot that joins the server "test" the perks so you get 5 engineers on an inaccessible roof all unloading their level 3 sentries (at least two per engineer) while spies with infinite invisibility compete for supremacy with demomen who use their grenade launchers like long range artillery. A combination of StopHavingFunGuys, scrubs,

and user-made game breaking bullshit has ruined one of my favourite games. I'm still angry about it. *** Pardon me, but I have to say this. I discovered about a week ago the reason why there are so many gamer stereotypes (particularly negative ones) in one game: TeamFortress2 is becoming a "melting pot" game. Players from a TON of other FPS games join the TF2 community because its got a little bit of every aspect. SeriousBusiness guys from Call Of Duty 4, whiny teens from Left4Dead, 4chan trolls from GarrysMod, and a bunch of others are starting to come to this game like immigrants to the USA. However, this also means theres the nice guys from little known games here, too. Heres a tip: surf servers tend not to have very many annoying tournament/serious business players because surf maps have NO goals. You can do whatever you want there. **** I ran into several of these types on a Surf map before and several times I've been told "GTFO you noob" because he wasn't "playing the right way" - evidently you have no goal and can do whatever you want, there? They must have been falsified. ** More "[[ViolationOfCommonSense forget survival,]] [[StayInTheKitchen medics must only heal teammates]]" examples: [[{{Tropers/Kadorhal}} I]] once played Medic on a server that ended up 3 vs 2 against my team. My own teammate went to do his own thing somewhere without my knowledge and I was left to fend for myself. I ended up defending our intel from the entire enemy team with just a bonesaw, killing an enemy Heavy with the syringe gun, and capping the enemy intel three times, all on my own. Despite this, I was apparently a bad Medic because none of that included finding my teammate, switching to medigun, and holding left mouse for the entire game. I made a [[http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs45/f/2009/149/5/f/The_Return_of_Bonesaw _McFiller_by_WolfZword.png short comic]] in GarrysMod based on the ordeal, complete with a [[http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj23/WolfZword/Steam/5-2909Extra.png bonus panel]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] my apparent blasphemy. *** That player was extremely dumb. Any halfway decent TF2 player knows that the Medic's Survival > Your own *** I had something similar happen on League of Legends, believe it or not - well, the bonus panel. In the chat after the game, Fiddlesticks on our team who had 5/16/13 said "GG nubs you only won case Teemo fed you". To which Nunu, on ''the other'' team said "Teemo died the ''least'' on your team, you dumbass!! You're the feeder - you kept charging!" *** Above blaspheming Medic again, there was a bit of a happy ending to the story: a few days later I played Medic in a 3-vs-3 LMS game and managed to get more kills than everybody else on either team. Rather than a "what the fuck are you playing medic for" reaction, my teammates congratulated me and asked if I was a "pro battle medic". ** This is why I only play one server. The trick is to find a dedicated server with no mods and a forgiving, friendly community-believe me, they exist--and never play anywhere else, lest you get justifiably pissed off. Frequently, servers based off a specific website, such as Twenty Sided or The Escapist, are far better than

clan servers, which always attract the SRS BSNS types, or on the opposite end of the spectrum, the micspamming trolls. * This troper has never found a D&D group out where he lives that does ''not'' fit the tropes of StopHavingFunGuys and {{Scrub}} to a T. One group chastised me for having a 3rd Edition book despite that I was never told that they only played Dark Sun and nothing else. Another called me a weeaboo for deciding to have a hermit-monk from Rokugan...despite the fact that he had a ''very'' non-japanese sounding name (How many Japanese people do you know with a name like Zhu Jang?) and was described as specifically being the D&D equivalent of Chinese. Then they said that because I was going to build him up to prestige into a class from the Oriental Adventures book that I was ruining it by bringing in expansion books. Nevermind that the Dungeon Master would bring in monsters ''from expansion books'' and was allowed to get away with it. Then I decided to play a Wu Jen and was then chastised for not picking a Shugenja despite the fact that our group ''already had a sorcerer-type'' mage and I wanted to play a wizard-type one. Then when I picked the Wu Jen's taboos, they laughed and said I was doing it wrong because I picked ones that ''would actually require me to play her a different way''. (Eg stuff like "Cannot drink alcohol" or "Cannot introduce herself to men") Then I was told that the best way was to do taboos that would be sleepertypes like "Cannot wear plate armour" or "Cannot wield an exotic weapon". Then when I decided to ''not'' multiclass with a Shugenja I was ''still'' doing it wrong. So maybe I'd rather multiclass in D20 because it's more designed for it, and maybe I wanna be a pure Wu Jen to avoid problems with figuring out abilities. Then somebody's character died and created an overpowered-as-shit class they downloaded from the internet and I just quit in disgust. Not like I'd hurt the group any...their GameBreaker Class could have soloed the campaign anyways. ** Wow...considering this, AND the other D&D -related entry I've seen here, I have this impression that StopHavingFunGuys in the D&D community [[UnfortunateImplications REALLY don't like having Asian characters in their campaigns.]] Other expansion books? Fine. ''Player-made'' classes from the ''internet''? Perfectly acceptable. Oriental Adventures? [[UnfortunateImplications ZOMG NO UR A WEEABOO FAG FOR PLAYING A]] [[AllAsiansAreAlike CHINAMAN.]] ...Yeah, sorry for that. Again, that's just my impression of this whole situation... Yet ''another'' reason for me to hate StopHavingFunGuys. * I am most certainly a StopHavingFunGuy when it comes to Pokemon. I was against the anti-tier slogan(Tiers Are 4 Queers) from the start, and the dozens of low-tier users that I've curbstomped convinced me that the only way to compete against the high-tier is to play in the high-tier. ** Except there are several UU Pokemon that perform well on OU if played correctly. Clefable and Blastoise being two examples. Granted, a full UU team probably won't be able to beat an OU Team, but I usually have at least two BL or UU Pokemon on most of my standard teams and they tend to do quite well. But for the most part you're right, especially concerning the Uber tier. Are you sure you're a Stop Having Fun Guy? There's really a difference between being a SHFG and

stating facts, seeing as tiers are organized through careful playtesting. As far as I can see you're only a SHFG if you're an insufferable prick. ** This troper recommends that you try playing doubles. It's a lot less tier-happy, so you're allowed to use a much wider variety of pokes without having to worry about being taken out easily. ** Extra features like breeding (and the eventual inclusion of special stats from breeding) are the reasons this troper is convinced Pokemon stopped ''being'' fun after GSC. The combination of finding SHFG to battle and them endlessly telling him how their teams are the best due to breeding specific move sets for maximum protection and coverage of the ElementalRockPaperScissors (and implying there's no other way to play if you don't spend countless hours breeding moves to protect your Pokemon from their elemental weaknesses) just put him off the games. ** This is why I don't play online. I just don't care for natures and EVs/IVs and whatnot. *** This troper agrees and is also the reason why he stopped playing pokemon after emerald and refuses to get pearl/diamond/platinumn/heart gold/soul silver. It's not just the the massive breeding and the EV and IV issues people like to bring up, but also the items Pokemon hold, which either devolves into how X item sucks or how X item is cheap and breaks the balance of the game. This troper likes pokemon in general, but would rather not deal with the elitist players in the online mode. **** Don't let it become tainted by the fanbase. Just do what I do and ''DON'T. PLAY. ONLINE.'' You'll find it much more enjoyable thataway. *** ^Wow, and there I thought online was the most enjoyable part of the game, [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks compared to in-game which is more or less the same in every "main" Pokemon title.]] **** Online play isn't very enjoyable considering that it's nothing but people overusing the best teams over and over and ''over and over'' and '''OVER AND OVER AND OVER''' again. If I'm playing online, ''I'' want to see people trying to play with their favourites and not a team full of level 100 shiny legendaries and starters. ***** Of course, this addresses [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome another problem.]] **** The original game was fun enough...Online play was just a slap in the face. Pokmon is "offline only" if meant to be enjoyed. When you play offline, you can play however you want - nobody is yelling at how much of a loser you are and failure at life offline, and 9/10 of the players aren't this trope. To GameFreak's credit, it's not stuffing it down our throats, thankfully. If they did, two words would happen RuinedFOREVER, because these people will chase out all the people who want to have fun with their cookie-cutter teams. And with the {{GIFT}} in full effect, you can bet all of these people will be on their ''worst'' behaviour. *** This troper's friend was disgusted when I refused to constantly restart to game to make sure everything I caught had a good Nature. He also looked down on my practice of nicknaming my team, although this may have been unrelated. *** this troper's team in gen V is almost entirely UU or BL with 2 OU

pokes, my team is: Salamence, Milotic,Volcarona,Lucario,Braivary and Seviper. *** I ''always'' name mine! Example 1, my Ampharos Aeolian. I named him for an electrical term. Example 2, of the Hoenn starters Steven offers you in HGSS, I chose the Torchic. I named him Bradley, after a favourite cousin. What better tribute to him, then to be a flaming, ass-kicking chicken? (Seriously, that's awesome.) I play the games because I love them, not to compete with others. **** Amen. * This kind of player nearly ruined RuneScape for me. In any pvp environment, be it Stealing Creation, Soul Wars, BH, or whatever, I was sick and tired of them along with the UnpleasableFanbase going apeshit over every single change. Totally unable to appreciate the game for what it really was and just wanted to pwn people and show off how big their e-penis was, and whined at every update that wasn't related to combat or some such. Runescape does not take itself seriously and is not meant to be taken seriously and these irritating bastards were making it look like a joke. They cannot possibly see Runescape for what it truly is an can never appreciate it the way it's meant to be appreciated. ... or at least that was my thought process at the time. I realized-- as you can tell-- that my anger itself was ruining the game for me as much as any SHFG, and I was starting to become a Scrub. I decided the thing to do was to get the hell out of the Rants forum and try not to take the various players that made me angry seriously. I still believe Runescape is not meant to be taken seriously, but if I am to stay true to that I have to let go of my hatred for the people who do. HeWhoFightsMonsters... * Stupid Roleplays. I got this tale for when they forced me to wait 2 hours that someone else consented to follow me! Someone IMPORTANT to the plotline we were developing. And their reasoning was "she's online in the foruns, so we'll wait until she posts here" - while its obvious that she wasn't because she didn't reply my Mail. My posts while I waited were all of sorts of "he anxiously kept staring at the lifeless body of the girl in front of him. Spiders were probably making their webs out of her ear by now, but still, he felt as if he couldn't just pick her up and lay her in bed in hopes she'd get better eventually. He couldn't also leave town since she had the key in her wallet, and a gentleman would never take an item from a damsel without her consent. Who cares anyways, if the villains haven't conquered 3 towns by now, including this one, then their leader must be at some convention acting like the Game Master for some D&D-like game preventing some decent minded player from proceeding just as another one ragequits the game entirely but doesn't leave the building. "Yeah!" - he though "That's totally something the villain of this story would do"". After she returned, I politely asked for the key on the roleplay, which she gave me, and I threw it off the window into a river, without any other character on the good guy's side to go get it for her withouth resorting to abilities they didn't have before. I left the roleplay entirely at that point, forcing them to break their own rulings. You'll never see me do a Roleplay again until the pope comes to me and says that "RP faggots are dead, you may now shake hands without being accused of godmoding". Seriously, the "Consentment Rule" is just as

much a reason why RP's aren't fun as godmoding. ** this Troper would also love for the "Your character has an element of this, therefore they are a Mary Sue" attitude to vanish too. Because this troper made his character a vampire, they were automatically called a "Gary Stu". Yes, nevermind that ''THIS WAS A BLOODY VAMPIRE ROLEPLAY'' and that said vampire was hemophiliac so there was no way he'd be able to enter a room and floor all the evil vampires with one hand tied behind his back like another "totally not a Mary Sue" character did. (Before I found out he was actually CursedWithAwesome and had given up his immortality and regeneration for the Awesome powers.) * It takes this troper an awful lot of willpower not to rage and blast the hell out of my TV when I come up against an item-abusing player in Brawl's Wi-fi and lose because of it. He also has only the neutral stages selected in Random Stage Select and no items whatsoever. He also prefers Team Battle, which is closer to tourney conditions. He will also often anviliciously berate people on Youtube claiming a that the Tiers R 4 Queers. ** I could also say the same for when I come up against an uberabuser, OHKO move-abuser or a general cheap tactic user (eg. Perish Song + Arena Trap/Shadow Tag) on PBR's Wi-fi. Admittedly, he also goes on with an uber pass occasionally... BUT he usually gives up on the first turn and offers to battle again, thus essentially sparing the opponent an infuriating defeat. I say 'usually' because it's an exception if I happen to chance upon another uber user. Then I proceed to beat the crap out of them with a well-coordinated ubers strategy. * This troper sucks at {{Fighting Game}}s. You have five seconds to guess why he dismisses the existence of fighting game machines at arcades. * [[LeFarr]] has been accused of being a SHFG about claw machines. While yes, I DO tend to give people hints about how to do well, I don't see why you'd not WANT them. And the accusations come from people my age. I give the tips to kids much younger than me, and they've never complained. * [[LeFarr]] again, and my other tale with a SHFG comes from a nowfriend guy who I met in [=SvR09=] online. He created a ladder triple threat match, and had somehow messed with the game so one punch took out everyone in the game. He still messaged me to boast about how he was top of the Power 25, a list in the game of the best players (who almost all cheat like that) I asked him why he's playing a videogame if he's not having fun. Now he doesn't cheat. * This Troper's brother, cousins and some friends used to be very competitive when we play multiplayer Mario games especially '''Mario Party''' games (it is [[SeriousBusiness when serious we play Mario Party games]]) where they would evetually stop having fun and lets just say things got more [[LetsGetDangerous "intense"]]. One of this Tropers uncles is even worse than my cousins and brother combined, we had reunion and four of my uncles were playing dominoes and [[ItGotWorse he kept to losing to the point where he tried to fight my uncles and he had to hold him down to keep him from killing them]]. [[IGotBetter They get better later on.]] * In a local arcade, some DanceDanceRevolution players who claim that

the only way to play is Heavy, 9+ feet songs, hidden 3x. Anything else is wasting your dollar. ** Actually, most SHFG types play only on Oni/Challenge mode. 3x makes it easier most of the time, they typically either do 8x or C400. And only the masochistic play hidden. * This Troper is a flute player in her school's marching band. We are a silly people, the marching band. We practice diligently and have been to State Marching Band Finals for thirty years in a row. We march down at Disney World in Florida (mind you, we live in Sandusky, Ohio. Which no one has ever heard of), and next year we go to DC to play for the president. But despite this and all our work, we have fun with what we do. Now, there is more to this tale. Up in the bleachers stands a 64-member silhouette- the Lexington Marching [[SmallNameBigEgo "Band of Gold"]] (Or we just call them [[FluffyTheTerrible Lexy]]). There they stand- yes, standing, not sitting- arms crossed, faces stern... Like a machine. Unlike us savage, heathen, lowly Pirates, to get in the [[LargeHam GODLY]], amazing, wonderful, stupendous, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment GODLY]], [[MarySue perfect]] Lexy band, one must try out to even be considered for acceptance among their ingenious, holy ranks. Marching band is [[SeriousBusiness Serious Buisness]] to them. Let me repeat that- [[SeriousBusiness they don't]] [[StopHavingFunGuys goof around]]. They must think they look cool standing up there. They don't. It drives us completely batty. ** Note to any Lexy band members: This is a JOKE. But I really do think you're taking it all too seriously. Please do not edit this entry out just because you don't like it. [[ThisIsSPARTA This is]] [[TroperTales Troper]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Tales]]. [[SillyReasonForWar Let's all stay civil]]. *** Don't justify yourself. If they're going to be offended they probably deserve to be. *** Agreed. It's quite obvious that you didn't mean that as a joke, but they need to lighten up and not edit your entry out of the page, since that in and of itself reeks of SeriousBusiness. * The community of [[CounterStrike]] is MADE of this trope. Get an AWP kill? Congratulations, you're an AWPWhore/AWPfag. Stay in one position for more than second? You're a Camping Fag. Not to mention the players who rage because you "stole" their kills, and who think every match is a CPL tryout. * This troper is a SHFG to [=SHFGs=]. Trying to eliminate every element of randomness from Super Smash Bros./Melee/Brawl? UR DOIN IT RONG. Trying to take any of this shit seriously? UR DOIN IT FUKIN RONG [=N00B=]. ** But then you're taking them taking it seriously seriously. So, you're a hypocrite. *** Having fun is SeriousBusiness! ** This Troper salutes you. * The sole reason I won't get to play Tatsunoko vs Capcom with other people near where I live is because they consider the game to be "broken and unbalanced to the point of not being worth playing". Damn, I wanted to play as Megaman Trigger (Rock Volnutt to some), one of my favorite Megaman Legends character. Also, the same reason for not

playing Arcana Heart... or Smash Bro's Brawl for that matter. Le Sigh. * This troper was once kicked from a PvP group in Guild Wars because he started lagging. * It is these types of people that prevent me from ''ever'' playing sports in a team. Seeing my sister's coach literally ''smack a girl who was crying about a sprained ankle'' and tried to make her go into the game. Dude, there were people ''on the bloody bench'' who wanted to go into the game. Send ''then'' in!! * This troper simply points to some of the more vocal detractors of the latest StarTrek film. * While at a SuperSmashBros Brawl tournament, there was a guy who refused to use items while the other player was using them. He purposefully pushed them of the edge whenever he could. I told him that the other player was using items, so it wouldn't matter, but he still refused. * This troper has run into some kind of bizarre fusion of StopHavingFunGuys and [[{{Scrub}} Scrubs]] in the ''DissidiaFinalFantasy'' fandom--or at least, those who want to have tourneyplay. The game's [[SuperMode Ex Mode]] and [[LimitBreak Ex Burst]] are hated and loathed by these types for their potential to cause a complete turnaround in moments--thus resulting in tourney types, known for their unfortunate tendency to be StopHavingFunGuys, declaring a legitimate and deliberately designed and programmed part of the game to be completely unfair--a typical scrub tactic! Amusing, if in a frustrating way. * This troper has a friend who borders on this. My dorm plays a lot of the original SuperSmashBros, and he's one of the best in our dorm. He doesn't like items or timed matches and can be a bit vocal about it at times, but it's not to the point where he refuses to play if we don't meet his "standards." Case in point: he loves what we call "explosion matches." 200% damamge with nothing but explosives, shells, and Pokeballs, lotsa fun. * hmm wonder why no one has mentioned Fandom experiences. People do this all the time. 'Crossovers are stupid' 'I judge you if you like X' (Flamers, FanDumb and FanHater apply) seriously people fandom ain't serious business. * This troper saw a bunch of StopHavingFunGuys break out into what he calls a "Post war". Because they seemed to be under the delusion that the size of a post was directly proportional to the player skill, they kept trying to make each other's posts longer and longer to show how much better they were. This troper unfortunately kept facepalming because the resulting posts begun to read more like WheelOfTime and eventually turned to a combination of what I call "WheelOfTime Syndrome" and "Tolkiening"; in which I could literally abridge a 100line post into just 10 or less, and ''still'' not lose anything important. The {{padding}} started to get so bad, the plot would progress maybe 10 seconds of in-game time ''AN HOUR'' because people had to read through all the worthless crap to find the stuff they can ''actually respond to''. Needless to say, he quickly left that RP to play with friends who don't act like it's the end of the world when you post a "One liner". * One person Mocked this troper for having a themed {{Yu-Gi-Oh}} deck

and challenged him to a duel [[HypocriticalHumor with a Bug deck.]] ** This troper knows a few tournament players. Most of them are supportive and polite, and will sometimes offer advice in a nice way, but one rags on him regularly for not netdecking(copying the best decks off of the internet) and for playing decks that use his favorite cards. After getting tired of him slinging insults, this troper simply stopped playing against him as the temptation to smack him grew with every second. * Ever been on a sports team and encountered these people? You're in good hands! ** These people are why this troper signed up for Karate and got P.E. credits wavered. * This trope once played Mario Kart Wii with some friends. One of the guys fit this trope to a T, and when he saw that I chose Automatic shift over Manual and a kart instead of a bike, he spent about five minutes telling me I should choose Manual and bike. He gave up and I stuck with Automatic and kart. I got 1st place in the following ten races. He blamed it on playing on a different TV than what he was used to. * This troper vows to never play VS or Scavenge mode in Left4Dead 2 ever again. I tried out Scavenge mode after having a bad experience the first time playing it. During a rematch, this troper's team votes to kick me out of the game for "not knowing how to use melee weapons properly." You read right. I was kicked not for dropping gas during overtime or blowing them up as survivors. No, I was kicked because apparently swinging a katana while changing directions to help clear the zombies off you is some how doing it wrong.. Mind you that to use a melee weapon, you just left click or hold it to spam it, which works well when you're surrounded. How else would you swing? * This Troper is far too serious about Pokemon. My Troper name is ''ShinyBulbasaur'', for crying out loud. I have a team of Pokemon designed to decimate you if you try that obnoxious FEAR moveset on me and they're all built around both Speed, dual typing, and movesets that cover a wide range of opponents. However, I am not an asshole. I will not rip into you for using your favorite Pokemon, even if it's Luvdisc or Sunkern, and I will never tell you you're doing it wrong. But I will admit that I was most definitely an asshole when I played Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold and Silver. By the time Crystal came around my brother had the good sense to give me a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that made me realize what a douche I was. Unfortunately, tables have turned and now this Troper's brother is a Left4Dead StopHavingFunGuy. DX ** See, I admire that; it's a trait lost on many many SHFG's. Also I am not so convinced about examples above saying "everyone's team is the same" (although I have noticed the trend). It makes a world of difference if it isn't just some random battle picked up from a request. I gotta admit though, throughout the life of Gen IV, I never played much (more on Shoddy Battle, which now that I think back understandably was not really as fun). But now if there's ANYTHING about online play that deserves contempt, it's in IV battles when your opponent doesn't also run. Meaning you get a loss on your record, and that's supposed to be understood. They deserve a good hard slap across the face, at the least. (I've had two extra losses because of it.)

* [[Tropers/{{Xaris}} This troper]] had a particularly poor WorldOfWarcraft dungeon run thanks to one of these idiots. He was playing a tank specializing Druid and ended up doing various things including: Blaming this troper (a hunter) for drawing an add that would have attacked no matter what we did as well as calling him a "huntard" because he made a few mistakes regarding Volley, the hunter's area of effect ability, refused to assist when this troper did accidentally draw a few mobs,constantly tried to kick out our mage for similar mistakes with [=AoE=] abilities, caused our original healer to quit because of his abuse and refused to resurrect our rogue because said rogue died trying to get out of the way of a boss that was aggro'd to kill the room's many neutral mobs. The whole time he was bragging about how he had led three groups through the dungeon. All the while he wasn't even a good tank. We eventually kicked him out of the party for acting like an ass, but our new healer, who probably would have proven to be just as bad, quit right after, causing the party to fall apart. * If only [[Tropers/MC2 this editor]] had a dollar for every time he's been called a scrub. For one, I play MUGEN and apparently if you do that you have no clue how to play actual fighting games and should quit the genre. Secondly, I enjoy the MeltyBlood and SuperSmashBros games which apparently are not "real" fighters like Tekken and StreetFighter 3 Third Strike. I play Akuma in StreetFighter and Kula in KingOfFighters, which apparently means I suck so much that I have to use top tier characters and I should either learn how to play Dan and Gai Tendou or just quit the game. I love Fighting games to death, but I swear the community is so full of assholes it's disgusting. * In ClubPenguin of all things, some people take this way too extreme. * This troper has been dealing with a very annoying Stop Having Fun Guy lately. It's on a forum RPG, where the GM gives unwanted critiques without being asked and will rudely tear apart anything not up to his standards, even if it's for a different RPG. Your character hasn't been given anything to do? Your fault for having a flat character. Haven't been able to develop the character into anything more dimensional because he hasn't had any opportunities, due to GM not trying to give each member a chance to contribute? Your fault as well. To this GM, and his cronies, forum role-playing games are SeriousBusiness, and trying to do something for fun is unforgivable. This troper is a damn good writer, and the GM's failings are not my fault! I once respected that guy, but now all the respect has been replaced with utter loathing and a desire for his RPG to crash and burn, which it will, as long as he keeps acting the way he is. ** You and me both, my friend. I once looked up to a few fanfic authors on a site I used to frequent, only to learn they didn't give a rat's fart about newbs. It only got worse when they started an RP site and became its mods. Some of their characters were blatant Mary Sues, but then they turn right round and slam the character profiles of those who were arguably less over-the-top than they were. ** Make that the 3 of us. This troper was part of a sci-fi fansite once. Everything was fairly civil, though we had some arguments here and there. Then we decide to create an RP section. We tried several, most of them failed, but one or two of them suceeded. Long story

short, One year later, the site's RP section is ruled by the same three people, the creator and two mods, and every single RP not made by them or their 'trusted' members is immediately made fun of and shoo'd out of the site. * This troper has seen the case of stop having fun guys when it comes to custom campaigns for Left4Dead. There is one campaign that literally spawns hordes every few seconds instead of every few minutes. In the comments and reviews section, flame wars broke out between people who think the constant hordes are a great challenge ([[BeyondTheImpossible even on Expert]])) and that anyone who complains about it is a {{Scrub}} and the other side of the coin has people who think the map designer doesn't know how to balance the amount of zombies and should tone it down. The author seems to be in favor of the constant hordes (even though he never confirmed it himself) due to him porting the maps over to Left 4 Dead 2 and kept everything, constant hordes and all, the same. * [[Tropers/{{Allua}} This troper]] recently ran into such a person talking about HeavyRain at {{TGWTG}}, apparently if you don't think it's the most moving, emotional game EVER, your an idiot who should go kill themselves lest the world suffer their existence. * My dad. Oh my god, you could not play a game with him in the room, in the next room, or even in the same building as him for that matter. Some people backseat drive, my dad backseat games. He never seems to understand that my strategy is working just fine or that I want to solve the puzzle myself, not have him blurt out the answer while I'm hard at work. * This troper has been told that he has no business playing {{Warhammer}}. Why? Not simply because I played High Elves (back when they were a bottom-tier army), but because I admitted to playing High Elves because I like the background and the miniatures. * [[Tropers/{{Numbuh214}} This troper]]'s sister is a HUGE Stop Having Fun ''[[DistaffCounterPart Girl]]'' when it comes to [[MarioKart Mario Kart Wii]]; she constantly berates this troper for picking Baby Daisy on the Quacker when he "should" be using Funky Kong on the [[IHaveManyNames Flame Runner/Bowser Bike]]. (She ''does'' get respect for insisting to use Dry Bowser on aforementioned bike, though.) * This troper wanted to start on Guilty Gear fighting games, so he decided to go on dustloop to know how is the best way to play and I got threatened by other members with some members and even a mod threatening me via pm. Same thing with Monster Hunter fans when I asked how to make the game fun for myself, then being told by one fan "I will find you, beat you with a metal bat then break your games." ALL OVER ASKING HOW TO MAKE A GAME MORE ENJOYABLE!!! * My two favorite (for certain values of "favorite") encounters in WorldOfWarcraft with StopHavingFunGuys were with me more or less on the receiving end. Both playing my Paladin tank: ** Using the random dungeon finder, we got Occulus -- probably everyone's least favorite 5-man instance. When we first zoned in, the healer immediately dropped group (coz everyone hates Occulus), so we waited around for another healer for a few minutes. The new healer joined and zoned in and did nothing for about 30 seconds. (After the fact, he was probably checking everyone's gear.) He complained "I'm

not healing a tank with only 30k HP. f--- this." and dropped group. My tank with "only" 30k (''unbuffed'', mind) is about 85% geared with Naxxramas-quality gear and higher, and ''well'' overgeared for a 5-man instance like Occulus, but because newer instances like Ulduar and Icecrown have opened up even higher level gear, "only" 30k was no longer acceptable for this healer. (Aside from the fact that any halfway decent healer with even mediocre gear should be able to keep a tank with 30k hp alive in Occulus with their eyes closed.) We queued up for yet another healer, and when the new healer came in and we told them why the last healer dropped, they laughed and said "what a moron" and we went on to finish the instance in record time. ** Again in a random group, we wind up in Azjol-Nerub -- a very easy 5-man instance. The very first thing a Death Knight player says is "I just hit level 80 and I've never been in here, so please put up with me." At the very first encounter with the first trash mobs, the (wellgeared) healer starts laying into this poor guy for his poor quality gear and therefore relatively low damage output. After the next few mobs and the first boss, I finally got sick of it and told him "Look, the very first thing he said was he's a new 80, he's still gearing up and he doesn't know this instance. '''Just because he didn't buy a fully-geared 80 on eBay like you did''' is no reason to harass him for his gear. Cut him some slack." He didn't say another word the rest of the instance. * [[Tropers/{{Gunpsycho}} This Troper]] would like to wonder what's the proper derisive term for these kind of players. In MapleStory, I will also defame these guys the first chance I get should they show up. * This troper's friend yelled at someone for using look inversion in PC {{First Person Shooter}}s. * This troper once got booted for asking for help ''once'' during a scavenge run in Left4Dead 2. Please do note that everybody was right beside me while I got incapitated, and they simply said "No, we won't help you" instead of doing the reasonable thing and helping me back up. Soon thereafter, a votekick window appeared, and ''everybody'' voted in favor of booting me. For what, supporting teamwork? ** The general community for Left 4 Dead seems to have gotten worse since the sequel was released. People are more prone to kicking you out of the game for so many stupid reasons that doesn't justify kicking you, such as missing your pounce as a Hunter, not killing or incapping anyone as a Tank before you die, healing when you're in the red instead of using pills when not playing on Expert, not having/using a microphone, or even falling behind because a Jockey or Smoker dragged you back. And these players claim to be more "mature" than the guys who play the Xbox 360 version.... ** I know how you feel, I was kicked in a scavenge for HITTING someone as a charger, but getting stopped by a hard to see pole a few feet away. * This troper has ran into his fair share of these. The most recent of such involved me getting called a n00b for playing defensively as Ganon (who is ''very slow'') in SSBB, by a guy who insisted that Hyrule Temple was the ''only'' good stage because it was huge, and thought that attacking 24/7 is the only way to play. Next round comes

up. Cue me beating the snot out of Him and 2 other people by using Toon Link to smash their faces in. * Is it possible to have an inversion of this? I played CTF on Star Wars Battlefront 2 a lot, because I liked the teamwork, or at least the ''potential'' for teamwork in that game mode. On one occasion however, on Mos Eisley, I stole the enemy flag successfully and was all happy until some guy demanded that I not take the flag because he wanted an entirely pointless battle without an objective. It sort of counts as this to me, because I find CTF more fun than random fighting. Also note this server was not on a timer, meaning the only way to finish the level was to get the flag. The way these guys were playing, it would have gone on forever. ** [[SarcasmMode You noob! Everyone knows you're not supposed to go for the objective in an objective game mode! You're just supposed to get infinite amounts of kills! What's your K/D? Only 6000/1? Fucking scrub, don't even talk to me until you get some skill!]] ** {{Scrub}} is the trope you are looking for. * During a discussion on the Escapist, [[Tropers/MelasZepheos this troper]] admitted that he couldn't finish [=RPGs=] with evil characters, because I just prefer playing good guys. Cue about ten people telling me I was doing it wrong, and that the cathartic potenital of a game could only be unlocked by being the biggest dickhead on the planet, instead of the senseless violence you still get to indulge in. A borderline example comes from my first experiences with RockBand, in first year university. I was already pretty good from playing GuitarHero, and another gamer told me that if I was doing well on normal and hard, I absolutely had to play on expert, because otherwise it was a waste of time. Eventually none of us played RockBand in the uni house, because everyone knew that he was a [[StopHavingFunGuys stop having fun guy]], and they assumed that I was too. ** I've identified your problem...you were trying to debate [=RPGs=] on the bloody ''Escapist'', where almost everyone's opinion on [=RPGs=] is whatever their shepherd Yahtzee tells them to think. Those who actually liked playing good characters have fled in ''2008''. *** Oh do shut up. I don't give a damn what Yahtzee thinks and I think that being evil is the logical way to go. You almost always get better rewards and killing people is fun. Also, nice job being hypocrites, hypocrites. **** Except when you don't, which is half the time since most games are balanced with both playthroughs(Fallout 2, anyone?) in mind anyway. Try reading the first post again, by the way. OP's problem wasn't with people who did evil playthroughs - it was with those who insist it was the One True Way of gaming - an attitude that you just exhibited. Nice job proving the guy's point. *** It's not just the ''Escapist'', it's showing up in other places too. I've gotten flak for admitting I thought inFamous was a lot more fun on the 'good' path than the evil one. Apparently preferring one power set over the other and the fact that the random dickery required for the evil path wasn't that fun makes me a moralfag. *** I was called a Moralfag for playing the light side in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2'' and saying I liked it the most. The Dark

side ending ''really'' isn't ''that'' good. **** I always play light side too, because a) Mira's more useful than Hanharr anyways (Mandalore could do whatever Hanharr could and wound up doing it) and b) You don't have to go light-sided on every single choice to get mastery, so you can have fun doing stuff like [[CrowningMomentOfFunny telling a couple thugs in Nar Shadaa to jump into a pit]]. Even if I'm going for light side mastery, I '''''have''''' to do that - it's too damn funny to resist! (First time I did it, I was like "Whoa, I didn't think they'd actually do that!") * These people are the reason I don't play fighting games online. Nobody tries to win with their favourites...it's always whoever the best character is. Cue MarvelVsCapcom 2, where the online teams are all Magneto, Storm, and Sentinel, or Storm, Magneto, and Sentinel....or maybe something I see less, Magneto, Sentinel, and Storm! To just give one example. ** This troper agrees and it is also the reason why he gave up playing Brawl online since almost every 5 fights was Final Destination, no items, and people using only Meta Knight/Snake/Ike/Lucas/Wolf/Toon Link * This troper left {{Travian}} for good after it got infested with noobs that would level up faster with gold and then whack you, and after seeing on a ''country's server'' that the first three alliances on the server had a joining rule of "must use gold". You play Travian for fun, you're just a farm and lost the game the moment you decided to play. * This troper as at a school Halloween Party when this applied to Pokemon. I played with this one guy who was an obvious {{stop having fun guy}}. However, I'm known for being extremely nice and godly good at video games, so he asked me to play using LV 100 Pokemon only. I told him I didn't have my official team and so I asked him if I could use my legendary Pokemon because I couldn't follow his rules. He SAID it was okay. Then comes the battle and he's complaining about how I'm cheating when he GAVE ME THE APPROVAL. He also complained about how healing moves in battle was cheating. I turned to my friend and she shook her head. And then I realize I just wanted to kick his ass and shut up. After all, the only Pokemon I were using to kick his but were non-legendary GRASS POKEMON! He ended up shutting off his game despite the fact he said it was an error. He showed me the screen to prove it but I KNEW he pushed it off because I had him beat only using three Pokemon that weren't legendary Pokemon and just happen to use the Sunny Day + Solar Beam + Synthesis + Chlorophyll + Solar Power. Yeah...three of my Pokemon were grass Pokemon and the irony is that most of his Pokemon were flying Pokemon. ** It doesn't stop there though. He suggest that me and my two other friend have a two vs. two battle with no legendary Pokemon AND only LV 100 Pokemon. He KNEW that I didn't have good Pokemon for this double battle and that if I used the grass Pokemon, he would know how to counter them, so I had to switch them out with Solrock, Blaziken and Ampharos and they all had a common weakness to one of my friend's who sent out his Garshomp ([[SarcasmMode that bastard...]]) who targeted me because he thought it was funny. However, since he was team up with the cheater (who was being rather sexist with teaming up with my other

female friend) and he targeted ME because he was bitter about losing to my GRASS team. So I lose the battle first because EVERYONE was out to get me (even my partner backstabbed me when she used earthquake to kill my last Pokemon...) and you know what he did? He LAUGHED at me and called me a loser. I had my pride so I was humiliated because of my partner...and the sad thing is, NO ONE CARED that he said that. So to them, they said I was overreacting and that basically ruined the dance for me. *** Not that it really matters, but whoever played you are more Scrubs than StopHavingFunGuys. It's fairly apparent to me that the person sucks rather badly, so you can easily beat them if you work a little (provided if you want to try, of course). * This troper gets slammed and ignored on gaming sites solely because he is a member of the RPGCodex. Nevermind that its just a few vocal elitists making the "all new games suck" arguments (even then, its not true, they do like a few modern games), being part of the site is immediate grounds for an ignore. ** Even though 90% of the Codex regularly discuss and accept both the merits of modern games and the flaws of their old favourites, and most are quick to slam anyone who shows double standards in that regard, they have long since been the internet's prime victim of HePannedItNowHeSucks. It's become something of a badge of honour. * DON'T GO to friendcodes.com looking for pokemon help. They refuse to tell you anything about advice on ANYTHING unless you farm pokemon like they were baby machines AND EV train. Really. I just ragequit the site and made that the end of it. * This troper has an unusual tendancy to pick bottom-tier characters in fighting games (The few times I played top- or mid-tier characters was because they were the ones I played... back when they were bottom tier in older games) and usually got scorned for it by other "casual" players. This Troper plays May in Guilty Gear, gets mocked for using her, and proceeds to slaughter the opponent, because they have no idea what half her moves are. Proceed them claiming that I'm abusing glitches (May has a move that can stun the enemy in two hits, and can easily follow it up with her one-hit-kill attack. I DON'T use it except against one person, and he's the one I used to play against regularly.) * I hate GunZ. Hate, hate, hate it. I understand how people can enjoy it, I loved it for a few months. I loved it so much I looked up a kick-ass private server with much more content, but I ran into even more StopHavingFunGuys than I did in the regular server. I wanted to enjoy the game more, but the glitches hurt my hands and to be honest they felt really silly. So, I did my best rocky montage, got pretty good, and in one match started helping my team win. Seven messages, from teammates and opponents alike, told me off because of my noobspraying and lack of skill , despite an impressive kill to death ratio. (And if you've played GunZ, you know how hard it is to survive) * Tropers/{{Excel-2010}}. I decided to get good at ''TetrisTheGrandMaster'' because I thought it would be fun to be a snob at something many people are familiar with, but few care about in any significant way. I talk down to anyone who doesn't play like a grandmaster would. [[SubvertedTrope I don't actually mean it since I

can barely score S3 on Classic Rule myself (on Nullpomino)]], but it's cute how a lot of Tetris players think it's a big deal when they score a Tetris. It's not that hard, guys. Stack to the left and hold your Ipieces. It's a lot of fun walking up to someone who thinks they're great at Tetris and then putting them through a battery of questions that only hardcore players can answer: "What's the ARE? Are T-Spins detected with no wall/kick? Do I-pieces rotate on the third or fourth block? Can they floor kick? How many rotations are you allowed before lockdown? Are wall kicks symmetric? How fast is the soft drop and at what rate does it increase? Does topout check at row 19 or 21? What algorithm does the random generator use?" * {{Warhammer 40000}} is sort of an inversion of this trope. The game is played mostly by people who are in it for the fluff, models, setting, etc. Anyone that plays the game competitively is verbally castrated and ostrecized. I know people that have been banned from hobby shops for simply saying they enjoy playing the game competitively. They try so hard to stop the [=SHFGs=], that they themselves are the biggest ones in the community. ** Lucky you. * This Troper's ex and close friend was VERY competitive at his video games (Resistance, Guitar Hero, Call of Duty etc) that whenever he was helping her learn how to play these games, whenever enemies and whatnot showed up he would snatch the controller and get back into it, as other players came into it. [[SarcasmMode Wow, and he wonders why she refuses to play on the PS3 with him nowadays.]] * You can definitely find some in WorldOfWarcraft. In one instance, I ran into a tank who insisted that I had my hunter's pet on the wrong setting, even though it wasn't and kept berating me because apparently my pet was aggroing everything, which simply wasn't true. Almost everything he blamed me for was actually me starting the attack on enemies that ''he'' aggroed before they got to him. * This Troper saw a case of this in a Razorfen Kraul run. The healer was a Shaman who wasn't specced in Restoration, but still was doing a freaking awesome job. Not that this mattered to the Tank (who, was Retaliation Paladin. Hypocrite much?) because he kept berating her for healing on the wrong spec. The only time anyone died was because of the Silencing bats yet she managed to prevent it from being a wipe, but still the guy called a vote to kick, which promptly failed (and he whispered to This Troper to berate him for not voting in favor). However, at the end he got his just desserts as the Heart of Aggamagan dropped from the final boss and she decided to ninja it out of spite. This is the only time I've seen where players decided to cheer for the ninja. ** Holy crap, the Shaman sounds like me. * [[Tropers/{{Umbramatic}} This Troper]] once posted some YouTube videos of his "improperly" EV trained, non-baby farmed, mixed-tier Pokemon teams duking out against his friend's teams of a similar nature. After looking around YouTube for a while, he realized that they were some of the only battles of that sort anywhere on the site. Almost everything else was competitive battlers... and judging from my previous experiences with them, most of them were probably elitist to boot.

** The same Troper was also horrified when the same friend showed interest in natures, fearing the friend would become a {{Stop Having Fun Guy}}. Fortunately, the interest waned and he remains as polite as ever. It was kind of hypocritical, really - although not a competitive battler, the Troper sometimes resets for a neutral or somewhat beneficial nature. ** The transformation from casual player to scrub/SHFG depends on the personality. If they're not a secretly competitive person or...well, scrubbish on other matters, the transformation generally does not occur. :/ My point, though, is it's not the Pokemon game's fault, or any of the mechanics therein. Some people just become obsessed and bossy. At any rate, glad your friend didn't turn into a SHFG. ** ''Pokmon Battle Revolution'' is a good place to find some unusual Pokmon usage. There is absolutely no regulation in its online environment and it keeps no win-loss record, so the competitive battlers have largely fled from it. I also go out of my way to look for Pokmon everybody ignores, such as Grumpig, Kangaskhan, and the Plusle-and-Minun duo, to show that they have potential. While I EV train, I honestly don't care if someone does or not--the Stop Having Fun Guys ''greatly'' exaggerate their benefits in battle. Go ahead and search for ''Pokmon Battle Revolution'' videos on {{YouTube}}. It is actually pretty easy to find videos featuring both players just using their favorites without a care for the tiers. * This troper plays WorldOfWarcraft and while I have played since Classic, my interest wasn't truly peaked until the latter half of B.C. and all of Wrath. As such the vocal minority of elitists tend to peave this one...that said here's a couple stories I've experienced on my Prot/Holy Pally. ** A while back I moved my main to my boyfriends server and since than we'd been doing randoms together in between his guilds raids(which I later got in on, more on that in a bit) so while in one Drak'tharon run while not even upto the first boss a particularly pushy disc priest began pulling when I had to stop for mana due to going oom,I request for him not to pull, he tells me, "Go faster than." and continues to pull. I try to be passive on these things, it's really not worth to effort to rage over a randomed dungeon but I truly have no patience for people who pull intentionally ahead of the tank expecting to be saved when it's the tanks job to pull and hold aggro in the first place. In this priests case I let him die and left group. ** The second story occures shortly before I took up raiding, I'd never really raided before and fully expected to exit into Cataclysm having still not done so but my boyfriends guild was looking for more full time healers, no problem, my off spec was holy, I jump for it, I already had a decent set, I just need to practice up. So I and my boyfriend group up for...Occulus, which normally, I like...extra loot basically since a buff. I inform the group I'm new to heals, they harp how I should probably experiment on normals...the tank than proceeds to mount up while I'm 'manaing up' a trend you see....and charge ahead, grabbing all aggro for about 50 yards plus and going out of my range. The best I can do is my classes 'only' instant heal, he dies, I get blamed, again they cite I should go back to normals. I and my boyfriend leave the instance after words are exchanged. I don't heal

for heroics a lot after this occasion, I feel more comfortable being in tank position. * Now that I think about it, my friends, younger than me, fitted this to a T. Each friggin time we played Brawl it was ALWAYS. No items, five lives, Final Destination. And they always complained when I wanted to play somewhere else, and god forbid if I tried to activate the Pokeballs. Those were the times... * [[TeamFortress2 Team. Fortress. Two]]. Almost every server I go to, I almost wind up blocking several players, and even then there are people posting sprays of [[FreudWasRight Penises and sex]] who aren't screaming on the microphone. Several servers I've been on have had people who were whining that I was playing a "noob class" because I came on as a Pyro or Heavy (I'm sorry, I noticed there ''were'' none, I didn't know this was supposed to be "Demoman, Engineers, and snipers ''only''!) and they never seemed to notice that absolutely ''nobody'' was playing a Medic or Scout, so they were bitching on "Where's the scout?!" "OMG WHERE IS THE MEDIC?" "HEAL ME FFS!" so I rolled a medic and am immediately scapegoated for everything. (The Spy got spotted sapping an engineer's sentry? Oh apparently it's my fault I didn't heal him even though I was ''on the other side of the effin battleground healing the Token Heavy''.) And this wasn't just ''one'' server I had this happen on, almost all the others were full of people who were just cock measuring, several people RageQuit on servers, and there were several people attempting to glitch stuff and grief. So I asked around users for what some good servers were or mentioned my experiences (Big mistake) and immediately, I'm told shit like, "omg that's why you don't play the console version you consolefag" (I'm ''not''. My Xbox 360 doesn't even ''have'' internet access) or "[[ComplainingAboutPeopleNotLikingTheShow Suck less", "Play with friends or GTFO"]]. Then I see people on sites like FurAffinity bragging about how their fandom doesn't have any FanDumb in it. I honestly can't read those claims with a straight face. Thank goodness for the offline training - I've not looked back ever since. ** You know a game has a bad community when ''4chan'' admits that Fur Affinity has some of the best servers. To put this in perspective, imagine the KKK saying that Harlem is the best neighbourhood in New York City. * Slight aversion with this troper. I get the feeling that, if I understood what was going on with [=EVs=] and so on, I would be something along these lines when it comes to {{Pokemon}}... As it stands, though, [[TheSlacker I don't care that much.]] [[CloudCuckoolander I spend my time breeding/leveling pokes with absurd movesets...]] [[VideogameCrueltyPotential like a suicidal Gastly with perish song, curse, explosion and destiny bond.]] [[BlessedWithSuck Completely]] [[AwesomeButImpractical and]] [[WhatTheHellHero utterly]] [[ForTheEvulz useless]], but WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome? ** Same here. [[{{Cybele}} I]] do breed a lot, but it's usually because someone (my friends or otherwise) wants a pokemon that's either A) unavailable in their version for capture (like the Starter 'mons), B) I want to get the newborn 'mon to have a move that it can only inherit as an egg move no matter how absurd/impractical the move

actually is, and C) Requires a ridiculous amount of hoops to jump through to acquire and/or evolve normally (looking at YOU, [[GuideDangIt Feebas/Milotic]]. I do not really concern myself with nature/effort values/individual values (I leave that to my friend). The "Feebas farm" I'm cultivating is simply because I get some nice stuff from my friends that need one for their pokedex, such as rare/uncommon evolution stones/gems like the Dawn Stone. * [[Tropers/SirPsychoSexy This troper]], is, unfortunately, a dyed-inthe-wool Stop Having Fun Guy. Despite his [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intentions]], he takes most everything said against his favorite series/characters/ships [[SeriousBusiness to heart]]- even if it turns out to be a joke. He tends to think these kinds of comments are {{Stealth Insult}}s towards him personally, and he's actually ''lost friends'' because they can't stand him whining about his opinion of canon, the other people's {{OTP}}'s, etc. He'd like to get better, but is trying to figure out '''how'''... ** [[HypocriticalHumor Suck]] [[RunningGag less]]. I actually am the same way; I had a legitimate reason, but for most of my Middle school and high school career I kind of assumed every compliment was a thinly veiled insult. Then again, maybe there's a different reason so MANY girls kept talking to me so weird... * My friend is kind of this; he only plays games on the hardest difficulty available, then berates me for wanting to play a game for the first time one easy. Namely, ''{{Left 4 Dead}}''. When I asked why we couldn't at least play on Medium, he made it clear to me that his way was the way he played and any other way was no fun. He's obviously never played chess with a grandmaster (or similar) because it is no fun playing something for the first time against (or alongside, in this case) someone who drastically outclasses you. Apart from that, he's a great guy and one of my closes friends; he's also a great artist. check him out [[pyrominous.deviantart.com here]]. * WorldOfWarcraft - I wanted to finally make an alt, so I made a rogue. Not just any rogue though. I made a gnome. A gnomish engineer. And I insisted on playing subtlety spec. You would think I had sprouted devil wings and suggested baby-eating as a fun activity based on the reaction of some in my guild. Since 4.0 came out, I'm told subtlety rogues are back in the game, but I chose it at the time because frankly it was fun as all hell. All sneaking around super-fast and such... I enjoyed leveling that character more than any of the classes I've tried. I'm still a tank, first and foremost, but I love my little subtlety rogue. * This troper got on both ends of the spectrum of StopHavingFunGuys, on one end. I was a staunch anti Baby Class in RagnarokOnline, trying to kill them in pvp or encouraging them to suicide just for kicks. On the other end, I was not allowed to join in a DefenseOfTheAncients session because I frankly sucked and when I was younger, some friend of my sister bragged he can beat me with Fox, and will you know it. He was a proto tournament player * This troper can't be the only one who's seeing this crop up more and more on TVtropes, especially in areas off the main page, can he? ** Seconded. Some of the changes I can understand, but many seem to take the fun needlessly out of the situation. Like the thing with

getting rid of strikeouts or many of the re-namings. And while I'm against natter, creating buttons for the sole purpose of nagging people about it sounds like a pretty terrible idea. *** Thirded. *** Fourthed. I think the history of this very trope's main page speaks for itself. * My youngest brother subverts this: he will beat you at SuperSmashBrosMelee with a random character on a random stage, because he is just that good at playing games. * This troper is a subvertion. When playing Halo Reach I go for the Sniper Rilfe and Rocket Launcher when I can, but I get a little frustrated when I get killed by something like that. (Let's be honest, no one LIKES dying in a Halo game) Yet I get frustrated when people F#$KING TEAM KILL. People on my team have shot me for no reason, and I've gotten killed several times just because my teammate wanted my gun, WTF?! Bungie, would it kill you to take friendly fire out? ** This sort of thing is the reason this troper never plays online. Ever. I love HALO especially big team games, but Matchmaking Big Team seems to be filled with one of two types of players: Those who order you around because only THEY know how to play properly and if you're not playing the way they say you're worthless and are going to cause the team to lose; or people who have absolutely no desire to play the game and are basically just trolling through team killing or (after the boot feature was simplified) intentionally destroying vehicles or getting in everyone's way on purpose. * This troper absolutely loves [[Left4Dead Scavenge]] and it is his favorite game mode. He encounters stop having fun guys occasionally, though. Since the release of No Mercy, it's Rooftop stage is popular, and that's what I play on most of the time. One time he got kicked for being death charged off the building. The other guy who got death charged didn't get kicked. My response when the kick started? "Look, that charge was out of my control." They still kicked me. I got kicked again when the exact opposite happen; I missed my death charge as Charger. Again, I responded. "You do know that the Charger is the hardest Special Infected to land a good hit with, right?" Again, I got kicked. Luckily, I occasionally find the good team who I friend. * In a non-video game version, try getting in on a "friendly" game of football or any otherwise physical sport and try to kick back and enjoy it. The jocks in the group will eat you alive. And they wonder why we play video games.... * [[Tropers/{Irrisia} This Troper]] seems to -attract- SHFGs. Ragnarok Online? I played a Merchant as my main character, and had fun with it too, and that was Not Right. Warcraft 3? I liked to play Tower Defence maps and work out my own defensive lines... but that Wasn't The Right Way To Do It. Magic the Gathering? My fun decks, the non-legal ones, always end up against Elves and I suck for having fun with my deck. My actual Type 2 legal deck is artifact/white with a side order of generating tokens like whoa... but because I built it myself out of the cards I own, and haven't downloaded a deck list and bought 20 rare cards for it, it's Just Wrong and I suck for playing it, even though I find building the deck the really fun part. Any RPG ever with an alignment option? I like to play Good/Light Side/Paragon and find it

both difficult and not much fun to play Evil/Dark Side/Renegade... and apparently I suck for not playing through both sides. Any RPG with a choosable party? I suck for picking the characters I -like-, rather than the best characters. *shrug* Oh well. ** I actually get told "You suck for not playing dark side". * This Troper grew sick of the DDR, TaikoNoTatsujin and Bemani scene due to the number of stepchart creators who makes insanely hard stepcharts on the basis of "It is supposed to be hard, learn to play" No wonder this attitude led to GuitarHero and it's spinoffs being more popular here. The newcomer coming in to see who is playing and watches as the veterans show off and making it look too hard. * This Troper is a subversion. I know many competitive strong set ups and play aiming for victory but I'm happy to play casually, give pointers (which I never force anyone to follow), I always remember to enjoy myself and thank my opponent for a battle afterwards instead of taunting them. * I'd say I have shades of this about me. I am a competitive Pokemon player, but I'm perfectly willing to put up with casual players (I can see why people don't want to breed/EV train/etc. for example) as long as they aren't A: obnoxious or B: playing in a competitive environment (like a simulator, or the Battle Frontier) with a non-competitive team. It's my attitude in general - I play my games seriously, you can play them how you want, but don't annoy me or go out of your depth on the issue. ** So- in your mind, people aren't allowed to play in the Battle Frontier without competitive teams. This is something that's singleplayer, on their own cartridge, and yet you're offended by it by some reason. That's a lot more than ''shades,'' that ''is'' this trope. ** Throwing my two-cents in...he does sound like a SHFG, though it's probably not what he meant, more like, if they play in the Battle Frontier without an optimal team and whine when they don't perform optimally, it's kind of annoying. :/ Or if they try to go into the simulators without learning the mechanics first, and then insist that everyone else is using cheap tactics...but that's going into Scrub territory, isn't it? |D * Dohoho, I definitely was one when I was younger and into competitive Pokemon...after I got over my scrub phase. Now I tone it down as much as I can, and while it irks me like a bad itch if I see someone not optimizing...I try not to say anything, or just throw it out there so they know there's a better option but don't shove it down their throat. And besides, I'm certainly not the best player out there, so I don't have a lot of room to really speak. * My brother....ooh boy. Let's see, well, I never grew up with videogames, seeing as my parents wouldn't let me play them when I was a kid, but for some reason had different rules for my brother. So, my brother grew up a gamer, while I only occasionally play some of his Xbox when he's not using it, as well as having a few Steam games that I recently downloaded. But I didn't even get into the gaming world until I was in my late teens or early 20's. Maybe that explains why we have such different views on gaming, but I can ''not'' enjoy ''any'' games when he is in the room because he ''always'' yells about how I'm playing them wrong, and how it's "painful" to watch because I "suck".

He doesn't seem to grasp the fact that maybe, just maybe, I'm playing for ''fun'' and ''not'' trying to finish the game as quickly as possible. * The other day, this troper played against a SHFG in... {{Monopoly}}. Seriously. He started yelling (in German, no less) at one of the other players whenever she tried to make a deal that would put the other player (myself, in most cases) ahead in any way, even if it was extremely slight. ** ...German? Is there perchance a video of him getting angry and smashing a keyboard circulating around the web? *** Nah; that vid was faked. * Mabinogi, in the game where you pretty much do whatever you feel like, I'm usually told to go do specific stuff (around the lines of get the Thunder spell over the Fireball, or dont bother using this sword because you need X dex and why havent you completed G2 yet, and you get the point) theres really one person in my Guild who will berate me for this, no matter what my reason. ** Another deal, in Maplestory, most of my guildies dont really like how I picked Mechanics as a main over corsairs, calling them over powered with little to no skills * Personally, [[GunPsycho I]] am more of a StopHelpingMe guy, since I grew practically sick of MMOG's because of people butting into my adventuring and whatnot, which is why I [[TakeAThirdOption stick with singleplayer games]] instead. * This Troper's brother is okay when it comes to most things.....except for games that have activities (Twilight Princess, Red Dead Redemption), fighting games (Usually because he can't be bothered getting used to the controls and tends to make up excuses when I win against him) and Games like saints row 2. He only tends to be like this just after he's lost to a game several times..... * It's not hard for me to believe why I tend to have a low opinion on certain competitive gamers and card players. Since some of those guys hate losing or got to prove their "skill" even when everyone else is just chilling. Playing Smash Bros Brawl and I'm going ham all day in 4 way matches. So my friend gets pissed because I'm having too much fun and wants to play me 1 on 1. Since he wouldn't shut up until I played I just screwed around the match. He starts ranting about I'm not taking it serious, knowing I don't do 1 on 1 matches in Smash much less take it serious. So to shut him up he picks his best guy [[{{gamebreaker}} Metaknight]] and I [[{{curbstompbattle}} 3 stock]] him with Bowser. * [[{{Tropers/Samusaranfan}} I]] considers myself a subversion when it comes to {{Pokemon}}. While I did spend several hours creating a team that covered all of each other's weaknesses, I really don't care much for stats and EVs and stuff. My planned team for PokemonBlackAndWhite was chosen mostly for the individual pokemon - two of them will never be fully evolved because they're [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter frickin' adorable]], and lose their cuteness when they evolve. As for the subversion part, [[StopHavingFunGuy somebody]] mistook me for a competitive battler, and sent me this message: -->wanna wifi BATTLE my code is <Friend code removed> -->also NO FEARS ALOUD

-->do not steal my sets -->supersonic is banned for obvious reason. ** This troper (suicidal Gastly girl) has recently just stopped caring about anything ''other'' than having fun, and I accredit that to my experience with VideoGameCrueltyPotential breeding, which were far too entertaining to give up. Despite my [[{{Understatement}} experiments]] (and how pathetic it may seem to some) I legitimately adore my 'randomly generated pieces of coding'... and, as of Black and White, my favorite 'mons are Mothim and Simipour. * Not a video game example, but this troper's high school has a few people on staff that seem determined to keep our announcements dull and boring. They don't approve of anything that the announcement kids do that isn't just sitting in front of the camera and reading announcements, and even when they did a parody of "I Gotta Feeling" to get the school excited about passing a standardized test, they still criticized it. * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper]] is definitely a StopHavingFunGuy for Pokemon. EV training? Check. IV/Nature breeding? Check. Using mostly OU Pokemon on my teams? Check. Though I don't blame people for not getting into competitive if they just want to enjoy the ingame portions of Pokemon, I do maintain my stance that you're not a very good battler on the whole if you don't do some of this stuff. (Not saying that you don't have good potential or strategy; but if you actively know about EV training and IVs, don't mess with them, and still think you're "the very best...") ** Also (same Troper here), I tend to be a SSBB tourneyfag. Stock, eight minutes on the clock, no items, "boring" stage. Subversion in that I actually love the Temple stage, unlike so many other competitive players. * When it comes to Smash Bros, [[{{Tropers/Thanos6}} This Troper]] loathes the competitive community. They cut out half or more of the stages because they refuse to change their game to fit them, and then they try to act like their "banned" lists should be considered universal, and any tournament that allows all stages is "not professional" and roundly mocked. They ax items because they refuse to allow any kind of randomness, when that's what Smash is all about. Their snobby, elitist, "our way is the only way to play" attitude is the worst. * [[Tropers/{{Xaris}} This troper]] has actually been asked why he plays {{Pokemon}} if he doesn't give a shit about the metagame or online matches. Apparently the idea of playing for the single player game is completely alien to players who think the metagame is the entire point of the series. ** This troper only plays the single player game because the single player isn't full of people spamming overused types considered uber, or has ever yelled "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG" at me. ** AGREE. Seeing how competetive Pokmon gaming is all about EV training people(which... I don't really like for a variety of reasons) AND IVs, and I think it's just as fun playing the game through, beating my own score at the Battle Tower and [[GottaCatchEmAll trying to fill the dex.]] * I have many examples:

** How has LeagueOfLegends not been mentioned yet? I'm told that the fanbase is friendly and open to newcomers. I mention that I'm completely new to the game, have ''never'' played before in my life, and have never even played Defense of The Ancients. Guess what happened? Yep - I got yelled at and told never to play the game again. *** The sad part is that [[LeagueOfLegends LoL]] is, on average, far nicer than either [[DefenseOfTheAncients DotA]] or [[HeroesOfNewerth HoN]]. [[LeagueOfLegends LoL]] has quite a few assholes, yes, but they are far less numerous and their douchebaggery less egregious than an average player of the other two. Trust me, everything that has ever been said about [[DefenseOfTheAncients DotA]] and [[HeroesOfNewerth HoN]] having the absolute worst communities around is completely true. **** "[[DefenseOfTheAncients DotA]]" essentially scathed me away from playing online games. This troper was told that "Halo" and Xbox Live had the worst online communities ever. Uhm...most people on Halo were ''fourteen''. You know. Still physically and emotionally ''maturing''. [[DefenseOfTheAncients DotA]]? When you're being shouted at, insulted, told to kill yourself, told how much of a failure you are, are screamed at....and by people old enough to be ''your father''...I'd say the Scummunity around [[DefenseOfTheAncients DotA]], League of Legends, and [[HeroesOfNewerth HoN]] are worse. Because those aren't teenagers screaming racial slurs and the like at you...those are ''adults''. ** ''ANOTHER'' TeamFortress2 example. AFter going from server to server to avoid StopHavingFunGuys who keep screaming "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG" or playing that stupid "BONK" remix songs if not flat out hacking (Yes, they were hacking - Heavies should ''not'' be walking on thin air, I should be ''killing'' people with sniper headshots, demoman should ''NOT'' be throwing infinite grenades, and most importantly, the medic should ''NOT'' be noclipping.) I finally find a server full of people who are actually not screaming at each other. Oh wait, surprise surprise...it's an iron-bound group that does not allow newcomers in their grasp. They would completely ignore me even when I was saying where they were taking the intelligence, act like I wasn't even there, call for a medic when ''I WAS HEALING THEM'', and finally booted me and two other newcomers out by saying "We got friends who want to play". If you wanted this to be a private server, ''WHY WAS IT PUBLIC''? * This tropers friend is like this. He yells at everyone on the team if the slightest thing goes wrong, is more than willing to hit you (not too hard, but still) if you beat him, and has a short fuse. He's a good guy other than that for the most part, but my friends cheared when he left our Xbox 360 for PS3. * Both the DotA and HoN fanbases are basically SHFGs, I read somewhere of a troper getting kicked from a noob game for being a noob? Well guess what, it happens a lot. And the people in the community that aren't SHFGs are just scrubs. It's kinda hard to find nice people in game nowadays, even this troper and their closest friends revert to scrubs or SHFGs when losing. Humans are bastards... ** I miss the time when the only way to play multiplayer was when you had to be physically next to the person you were playing with. People behaved much better that way - when you RageQuit nowadays, they keep

on playing, not learning a thing. When you block someone or put them on ignore, they keep on screaming. When they were being a bastard next to you, you [[MegatonPunch hit them in the face]]. Or you never invited them over. Or you refused to come over and play with them because they were a complete bastard. Then they (usually) learned to not be a bastard. Plus, there was no GIFT. * This troper used to hang out on the FireEmblem forums, and people were ''militant'' about stats. "Eww, don't pair those two together, their kids won't get good growths! You should support these two, the stat bonuses are the best! Don't use this character, they suck! Laylea and Sharlow have Charisma and Elite, kill Sylvia and get them! If you pair Levin with anyone but Fury you'll be sorry!" And that's why this troper no longer hangs out on the forums. * I have this friend whom I play League of Legends often. I like to vary my playstyle, but, according to his opinions, GOD FORBID you put a bit of attack damage on a caster, or give that barbarian some magic. ** Hi, entries go on the bottom plz - I'll move it for you. Anyways, I once got yelled at for making Machine Gun Teemo and was calld a nubling because Karth kept harassing me and I was doing poorly at mid. :/ I'm sorry guys - I'm really not good at mid. It's not a good idea to put someone who ''admits'' they're a timid newbie into the middle. REally, I'm already timid enough (At least to get the least amount of deaths in some rounds) but I'm ''extra'' timid with Teemo. *** Yeah, some players suggest that [[{{@/TARDISES}} I]] go mid sometimes, despite the first thing I tpye (usually) being that I'm not going mid. I cannot fight alone for **** as ANY champion. To be fair to them though, I AM in a high level (not as if that has much effect anyway) **** These guys make it hell to play a support champion like Karma, Soraka, or Sona in League of Legends. First off I was once asked to go mid - I said "I hope you're joking - Sona is ''NOT'' a mid-laning champion" and they yelled at me because I went to help a Xin Zhao. Xin Zhao then complained that I was kill-stealing because of my abilities that'd score the final blow, or when I used sona's passive to spike a champion and take the killing blow. I am not ''intentionally'' killstealing. Then Xin Zhao says he's going another lane and complains that he's dying quicker. That's because ''I'm not there healing you'', you dumbarse. I'm dumped with a 2v1 lane and ask for someone to come help me because leaving a support champion (Especially Sona) alone in a 2v1 is practically ''spoonfeeding'' the other team. So Nasus teleports over and we fight them off. Then later on, I decide to help Nocturne out and we epically take out two turrets and two inhibitors, with Nocturne never going below 90% health because I keep mashing the "W" button to heal him. Of course he and Nasus thank me because they know what a "support" Champion is. Then the other team calls me a noob because my deaths outnumber my kills. Guys? '''''SUPPORT''''' champion - you'll notice I had a good 30 assists. * {{Neopets}}, oh LAWDY. The competitive areas of the site, like Battledome and Altador Cup, especially. ** This Troper was on team Maraqua in Altador Cup V. Though we only got fifth place, we were all excited about getting the highest Yooyuball record, and yes, we gloated a little. Enter #2 ranked

Darigan Citadel, the Stop Having Fun Team, who got up in arms for daring to celebrate that we beat the second-place team by one draw. ** In any given Altador Cup, expect to be called a freeloader if you join a diehard team (again, Darigan comes to mind) and you can't play 8 hours a day. * I think I have this as the worst superpower ever...because almost every game I play I run into these guys. * Every time this troper makes a new D & D character, at some point during the creation process I freeze up and get terrified that when my group's resident SHFGs see it, they're going to lay into me about how my character could be SO MUCH MORE POWERFUL if I'd just taken suchand-such power. I think they've already half-driven away one of our players that way. She's become convinced that she "can't create characters" and always asks one of them to do it for her. * I met one of these guys in GarrysMod of all places. You couldn't move off the spawn, and you could only spawn 5 props. Anything else was a "kicked by console". * I'm like this with {{Pokemon}} but the only person I piss off is myself. I have to get good natures for my team, * Back when I was learning to play videogames, I had a friend like this. Said friend would never ever EVER explain how a game worked, so I would have to figure it out on my own. She would beat me mercilessly until the moment I learned and managed to beat her or give her a good battle. Then she would change the game and I'd have to learn all over again. * this troper has noticed that people n grand chase HATE ranged characters. an example? they kick people for using mages or archers, to the point that this troper had to create his own match JUST to play.(P.S i can't find the section on grand chase...) * Well, this is unavoidable for any online FPS but CombatArms...dear God, the amount of these in Combat Arms is just baffling. Manage to survive and kill the person who was shooting at you? "Kick [name], he has HP hacks!" or "Bullshit! I should've killed you!". Manage to kill someone with a knife legitimately, whether or not the victim isn't even aware in the slightest? "That took no skill! U r just lucky!" or "Lucky berserker n00b!". Snipe someone? "Aimbot, kick him!". May whatever deity you worship help you if you like poison gas or smoke grenades because they are apparently, "too hax.". Hell, even just naturally getting multiple kills will award you with messages of people telling you to "Learn how to actually kill instead of spraying and praying!". I know that the amount of hackers that play are baffling even for FPS standards but goddamn...there are some people who don't use hacks and are just somewhat competent at the game, guys. And this isn't even mentioning the whole FanDumb over what weapons are a GameBreaker and what are not... * [[Tropers/{{KilgoreTrout}} Kilgore Trout]] just arrived here from the StarWars {{Narm}} page. As you'd expect, there was an entry on Vader's BigNo. A troper observed that you'd think if anybody could pull off a BigNo without it becoming {{Narm}}, it would be JamesEarlJones. A second troper joked "That's not James Earl Jones,

that's Hayden Christensen with a voice changer!" Which brought along the StopHavingFunGuy, who got rid of both contributions in the name of eliminating natter, and said if something was wrong to delete it. Tropers who really, truly believe in what it says at the bottom of this page (Ergh! Stop editing {{Stop having fun guys}} to be funny, make it sincere and straight!) are something of a BerserkButton for me. ** I hear ya. Someone went to ''TroperTales/BatmanGambit'' and deleted the only real specific examples of people performing the trope and kept the examples of people boasting they can perform the trope. The guy had the nerve to claim he was curating. The Stop Having Fun Guys troper probably deleted those examples because they were negative, like anyone performing a Batman Gambit isn't a manipulative bastard already. Not everything in Troper Tales can be warm and fuzzy. * This troper's brother is like this with EVERY GAME. In D&D, when he DMs I can only play the basic races/classes, but our Munchkin friend does whatever he pleases. Once, he played a Lich Sorceress who would openly try to kill me, but any time I retaliated, I was stopped for 'inter-party conflict'. When I DM, he acts like an idiot (openly killing people, etc.) and when I punish him, he's "acting his character". In Brawl, my brother will only play Metaknight and edge guard like it's the only thing he can do, but I play Marth and use counter, and I'm 'cheap'. * This is the reason this troper is on the verge of quiting Pokmon . A friend of mine told me this, when I suggested the possibility of training a Castform: "Y'know, Pokemon is not for training what you like, but to train what your team needs". He insist that if I want to train something on NU then look up to better Pokes, ignoring the fact that I really like Castform. Oh, and when I trained a Porygon-Z? Another guy pointed "Why Porygon if there's Gengar?" Nevermind that it's my game. I must say I respect things like EV training, IV/Nature breeding and competitive tiers, but in the end, it's just a FREAKING GAME!!! If I bought the game it's because I wanna have fun, not because it's "what my team needs"... * This troper was big into {{Diablo}} 2 years ago. I'd played around with a few other classes, but really came into my own as a Necromancer. I had a friend was a mild and well-intentioned StopHavingFunGuy in that he just wanted to help me be a strong player, but had very strict ideas about how to be one. He was never mean, just sort of insistent. And besides, he helped gather some primo loot to kit my character out in and was a genuinely good guide through the game. Anyway, fast-forward to when I'm starting to max out my levels and pretty much uniformly kicking ass. A random StopHavingFunGuy starts laying into me. "Why are you using a blood golem? Use metal! Why are you using Iron Maiden? Use other curses! Why are you maxing out Bone Spirit? That spell is useless!" I wasn't in his party; I was in a totally different corner of the map. It just rankled him that someone on the same map (GASP!) might not be doing exactly what he would do. It got super-annoying when he kept trying to challenge me to duels just to "prove" how shitty my build was and that once I lost, I'd see he was right. Sure. Because the Necromancer with constantly regenerating health and an army raised from the (many) corpses of his

enemies really really needs your help, dude. It's as if the idea that I like my way better was totally unacceptable to him. * [[Tropers/{{Byakushiki}} Byakushiki]] and {{Ace Combat}} 6 online. God forbid the number of people who use idolmaster planes (that have basically...super-mega-beyond the impossible physics to their movements...) and spam QAAM(imagine {{Macross Missile Massacre}}, and you have the idea of what I'm dodging every few seconds). They really think that that's the only way to play, in a way that needs no skill at all(Sounds like metaknight on SSBB, doesn't it?), and to top it off: I got laughed at for using a different style, ROT Typhoon, which later turned into hilarity for the amount of beatdown(infact, most points on my team) I dished out, despite my team losing. ROT Typhoon/XLAA: 1. StopHavingFunGuys/Whatever they were using lol: 0. * A weird set of StopHavingFunGuys I ran into on ''LeagueOfLegends''. I've run into people who insist you're only "allowed" to play as a champion listed as "Medium" or "hard". But I just ran into two players who took this UpToEleven. Instantly, they pick Orianna and Cassiopeia, who're listed as the hardest champions in the game according to Riot. I select Miss Fortune but don't lock in because I accidentally have my caster masteries and runes up. I notice both of them saying "wtf MF? Pick a real carry!" Then someone else locks in as Master Yi. Then they go "OMG! Yi you noob!" Yi then RageQuit in disguist. I somehow wind up with them ''AGAIN'' and I decide since my caster masteries are still up and I'm lazy, I'll pick Veigar. Then instantly I'm chewed out because "Veigar is for noobs" and to "pick a REAL mage like [=LeBlanc=]." I RageQuit in disgust like Master Yi did. It's also pretty funny because despite being listed as "hard", [=LeBlanc=] is actually even ''easier'' than Veigar. * The WoW forums have a lot of people like this. Have fun chiming in on a discussion and being blasted after they look at your armory and point out every little flaw, whether it's relevant to the situation or not (hint: it usually isn't). If someone complains about the hit cap being so hard to hit and then someone else calls them out on having 0 hit enchants or reforging, then that's a valid use of the armory, but if you argue against someone who is complaining that they're class is weak and they point out that you gemmed crit instead of int instead of a real rebuttal, then there's no helping them. * The Sonic Fan Game Community was and maybe still is this way. Edgy was once a member of a fan game team, named Manic Team. We were criticized for our personal variations from the usual Sonic game formula and our original character designs which were not recolored sprites. Apparently, every Sonic fangame needs to be made the same way. * So many {{scrub}}s in this page... yeesh. [[Tropers/{{Incom}} Incom here.]] I'm a competitive Brawl player. NONE of us that are REMOTELY good (and I'm not particularly good) are like that. The only StopHavingFunGuys are simply mad that either 1. Brawl has tripping (and took out stuff) or 2. are total scrubs (in both the "n00b" and "ban everything" sense). Everything banned in competitive play is banned for a reason (items are off to reduce randomness, stages like Temple are off because the faster character can run away forever, et cetera). Most of us "play to win" because money is on the line.

Midtier characters win surprisingly often (there were as many Sonics in MLG Dallas' top 8 as there were Meta Knights). Tier lists are neither set in stone nor are they the same from person to person (I play Sonic because I do my best with Sonic--I use MK on occasion, usually when facing Lucario or another bad matchup, but my Sonic is probably better). So on behalf of competitive, non-SHFG Brawlers: we put up with hate from Melee players, we're ostracized on Shoryuken... please don't add any more. (And I for one won't judge on items, some of them are pretty legit). Thanks~ ** I could agree with this. After all, it's the Melee competitive players that are the Stop Having Fun Guys once you think it about. Competitive playing rules make sense in tourneys of course. No argument there. * Averted for this troper in {{Team Fortress 2}}. I have played for a total of one day on three servers, and nobody seems to have begrudged me for playing heavy or medic. In fact, everyone seems to be cordial and understanding. In fact, one of my friends was able to pull off a Spy-MEDIC team effectively. In short, everyone on the servers play for fun. The kicker? I found these servers from the random "join-a-game function" ---Ergh! Stop editing {{Stop having fun guys}} to be funny, make it sincere and straight! ----

StopHelpingMe * GMail. They keep ''changing'' it, adding stuff to try and make "friendlier" at the expense of poor compatibility and performance on older computers (not to mention un-subtly cross-promoting their other services,) and the ''only'' way you can get it to piss off and go back to something simple is to force it into the basic HTML view, which disables a number of the ''nice'' features (text formatting and asynchronous attachment upload, for example.) Why can't I just get it back the way it ''used'' to be!? It's enough to make me seriously consider switching back to a dedicated mail client. * [[Tropers.ReikoKazama This troper]]'s dad. Dear God, this troper's dad when it comes to video games. Especially when I'm playing a game that he has LITTLE TO NO KNOWLEDGE OF. [[{{Angrish}} SDFJKASDJFKLSAJFJKLAHNFJKMNKLASDNJKSDFN VJKSEFNKAWLMRFIO_AWNRFMOAKWMFLSDKM<FL:AS<DF GERRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHGLE.]] * This troper's dad provoked precisely this reaction when she first got her learner's permit; his reactions to her mistakes only served to make her even more frazzled, especially since she generally didn't need to be told where she screwed up. ** Ditto. He made me very nervous... It was better with my Mom though. * This Troper's daughter always wants to be helpful. The trouble is, she's only four and her idea of 'helping' is very much like my idea of "getting in the damn way". ** Sounds like your average 4-year old kid to me.

* One of the side-effects of my particular strain of bipolar disorder is an abject refusal to ask for help unless it's INCREDIBLY necessary and it almost kept me from being diagnosed in the first place. It's made for some really weird and painful situations. ** Sounds a bit like this troper, who has cyclothymia. * Played tragically straight, almost to the point of Deconstruction with someone This Troper knew in school (3rd person out). Knowing him, he was obviously developmentally typical, but for some reason his family signed papers saying that he was autistic. His whole life, the school system treated him as such, placing him in the special-ed department despite his near-constant pleas for a normal education. His peers couldn't see anything wrong with him, but made fun of him all the same just because of his placement. Combined with overbearing parents and despite his resentment of the special treatment, he never learned to take care of himself. The tragic part comes in when you learned that he was actually quite brilliant, if a bit sheltered and unsocialized. At eighteen, he unofficially quit school and left home, claiming that he didn't care what happened to him as long as he could take responsibility for his actions. No one has seen him since. ** Holy crap, are you someone I know from the (possible, nearby) future? * [[Tropers/FyreNWater This Troper]] occasionally has friends being "backseat gamers" when she's playing video games. One certain friend doesn't wait for her to get stumped before "offering" clues. This started in ''Ocarina of Time'', so this troper [[PhraseCatcher started the catchphrase]] "Shut up, Navi!" As that "helpful" friend forcibly gives advice outside of video games, this phrase is still used a lot. ** This editor has one such backseat gamer for a sister. His experiences playing ''Bioshock'' with her forcible advice led him to put the TruthInTelevision examples in the main StopHelpingMe page. ** This troper is a recovering backseat gamer, especially with a certain one of his friends. He is trying to channel this into something more useful (i.e. looking up the solution to in-game puzzles on GameFAQs and only giving hints if the puzzle his friend is stuck on is obviously stupid and/or the friend has missed some vital clue. ** My mother once threatened to ''ground me'' for not following her advice to explore an area in Spyro, and later when I thought that there might be a secret in an obvious location in VideoGame/PaperMario where there was one, she chose to ignore it. Also, my brother was sure to do his best to suck out all of the fun in the beta testing of FinalFantasyXI, including asking me, "what the hell is wrong with you?" when I got mad at him for telling me to equip a sword when I ''was''. ** Averted for me. I'm a wuss, and hate fighting monsters, while my brother has no mind for strategy. So I watch him and verbally solve the puzzles for him, and he fights monsters. The weirdest part is that I almost always end up fighting the boss monsters, because he can't figure them out. The mind boggles.... * This troper has a friend with a habit of giving extremely bad advice for games in a way that makes him sound like he knows what he's talking about. For example, saying 'turn right' when this troper was playing GTA and driving along the edge of the sea. Turn, splash, dead.

* This troper has a bad habit of memorising the entire script of every last play, skit, and presentation she ever puts on, even those when she has literally about 30 hours with a solid copy. The friend she usually does team presentations with has a bad habit of...not. This means lots of whispered prompts, which generally make it worse, especially in German class. (No, you're meant to say "wir alles gehe ins Kino am SAMSTAG", not Deinstag!) ** Could it be that you're actually meant to say "Wir gehen alle in's Kino am Samstag"? * This Troper's preferred response to an annoying helper (that he does not get to use nearly as often as he'd like): -->[[TheBelgariad "Do you want to do this?"]] -->[[TheBelgariad "No."]] -->[[TheBelgariad "Then do you want to shut up and let me do it?"]] * This troper, when she plays WorldOfWarcraft, always gets annoyed when healing DPS (such as a shadow priest, a paladin, or a druid) stops doing damage and heals themselves. She has actually said "stop helping me." * This troper knows a family that seems to do this genetically. Both the eldest son and his two younger brothers have an annoying tendency to explain simple aspects of new games that this troper is trying out, even if he performed the moves that the kids are painstakingly explaining to him, repeatedly, in front of them. The eldest son also tends to repeat himself, usually saying "Yeah, you can ____" when he explained how to do "____" five minutes ago. It doesn't help that the two little brothers speak like two-year-olds because their parents refuse to teach them to speak and all three of them stutter and randomly pause and repeat themselves in a simple sentence. ** The eldest has also now begun pointing out enemies that this troper can see extremely clearly, sometimes ones he's even moving to aim at. This only serves to distract this troper and, until he learned to stop listening, sometimes got his character injured by shifting his focus to an enemy he THOUGHT he missed. * This troper's big book o' worksheets for Japanese comes with an audio track necessary to do the listening comprehension parts. Unfortunately, as you're trying to write down the answers to the questions, no less than ''three times'' does the track ''give you the answer.'' Isn't it even counterproductive to give an answer while the student is trying to figure it out for themselves? * This troper's friend is a backseat Tetris-er. It drives her crazy. "No no no, not there, ahh, come on, you should've put it on the right!" * It drives [[Tropers/DarkInsanity13 this troper]] up the wall when people start helping her ''too'' much when she's playing solitare. One of her friends is particularly guilty of doing so, and continuing just because it bothers her. She recently glared at him before he had even started and said '''''"NO."''''' * This troper's friend is an incredible backseat {{RTS}}er. Only once has this troper managed to finish an entire game in front of him without him trying to help so much he's essentially playing for me. * This troper had this issue with a stage manager while doing lighting tech. It was her first time working with a lighting board, and the SM,

who was extremely high-strung, had a tendency to jab her with an elbow and hiss, "What the hell are you doing?" any time she screwed up which only served to make it harder to correct the mistake. Eventually the troper arranged to seat the otherwise-useless tech "understudy" between herself and the SM, and the quality of the lighting went up markedly. * [[Tropers/ILikeCrows I]] have two examples. ** My father is a backseat driver. His advices are either unnecessary (like using the turn signals when the road only goes one way) or unhelpful (using the sun visor when the sun is too low for it to have effect - especially since it just feels like its obscuring my view of the road). ** A former friend doing this with games not only turned me off {{RPG}}s like BaldursGate for a long time, it also made me into one of these until my mum pointed out what I was doing. I still have this annoying habit, but it's getting better. * [[Tropers/NeoSilverThorn This troper]] hates it when people try to help him clean the kitchen. It's small enough that more than one person trying to clean it is impossible, and he's repeatedly told people to stop helping him in the task. * [[{{Tropers/this-guy}} I'm]] a backseat Dr. Mario...er? I do this for both my parents, but only my mum makes any effort to get me away, and that's probably because she's playing the handheld version. From WarioWare. * This troper is writing a {{Transformers}}/{{Macross Frontier}} [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5348638/1/Transformers_Frontier crossover]]. While it is somewhat common (at least, expected) for certain readers, one particular reader/reviewer seems to insist on sending me messages as to what he/she thinks the story ought to be like, usually along the lines of "It was like this in the G1 comic, so you should do it like that in your story." This troper, being [[{{China}} Chinese]], has not told him "Stop Helping Me" and is instead bitching about it on TVTropes. * [[Tropers/MikeRosoft This troper]]'s father has a talent for giving advice or help that I don't want or need, and then gets offended when I reject it (acting as if I had said that I didn't need any advice at all). ** So does my brother. * [[Tropers/MalachiteDragon This Troper]]'s parents are both like this, especially with relationship advice. ''Aaaaargh''... some of the most stressful years of his life were made even more so by their complete uselessness. I give you a quote: --->"If she loves you, she'll come back to you." ...That's '''''PETS''''', not girlfriends! --->"The more you chase her, the more she's gonna keep running." Uhm. Ignoring the problem isn't going to make it go away. * This troper's dog ''loves'' to "help". Such as "helping" take the garbage can in/out, or get the mail, or "helping" me when I'm on the ground bleeding by looking at me strangely and then peeing. Subverted when one time she actually was a big help. * This troper has had it so bad and so frequently, that it's grown into a BerserkButton style reaction. (even when it truly is helpful)

They're convinced that their life would have been much better had people left well enough alone. Not to mention their issues on even ''asking'' for help for fear of this trope. * This troper's now-deceased cats had a bad habit of this. One was mischevous and curious, the other just liked to make sure things were being done right. This would generally mean anything done to the garden being disrupted by one cat, while the other looked on and inspected the work afterwards. * This troper kept Ian on the team in Fallout 1 after recruiting Tycho, against the recommendation of about every source on the internet. The train of thought went something like, It's OK if he's a subpar shot, I have the money for ammo anyway. While in the sewers in the Necropolis, some rat(which I'd been dispatching left and right without difficulty) scurries up to me and triggers combat. Ian gets to go first for some reason and brandishes his shotgun. Between him and the rat is ME. He friendly-fires with a critical hit, and kills me. Upon reloading, I took his shotgun, and gunned him down with it. * This troper's brother is this sometimes. He will point out things like "You're getting shot." to which I would respond "I KNOW!" His family does this too, from time to time, just to annoy me. * This Troper reacts to any help he recieves (unless actually asked for) like this when at work. He won't say a word, just GLARE the offender to death, make a violent gesture and be on his way. * In no particular order: Shop employees, driving instructors, my parents when I'm doing my homework, my friends trying to set me up with girls, my parents trying to set me up with girls, my brother when I'm playing games, anyone who thinks they have an idea for a character or plot I should use when writing or drawing, the libraian at my school library, Windows Vista's confirmation messages, my parents and my school subject choices, my friends and my school subject choices, my parents and my friends on how to spend my money, my parents in every other aspect of my life, my teachers and my schoolwork. I think that covers almost everything. * This Troper has encountered a particularly obnoxious example in a male acquaintance, just shy of being a StalkerWithACrush, attempting to help her with math homework. Even when she doesn't need help (and someone else in the group does.) When she ''does'' need help, this still applies, because the resultant advice is rushed, condescending, and generally unhelpful. * This troper is very prideful and likes to do stuff BY HERSELF. Unfortunately, some people don't understand this, or just don't trust me with powertools. * It's common knowledge round my neck of the woods that I rather like [[HeroesWantRedheads one particular girl]], and equally well-known that she's not interested; current strategy is to get on with life and not cock up and lose any friends. It really doesn't help when a... let's call him a "friend" for want of a better word pipes up in the middle of a perfectly ordinary conversation and asks her out for me ''right in front of me''. I was too shocked to lay into him properly. * There are no wireless networks in range! You are now connected! This wireless connection has little or no connectivity! Quit popping up those baloons and breaking the taskbar's autohide.

* This troper's dad has a heart of gold and will gladly go out of his way to teach people how to do tasks. Unfortunately, this applies even when people don't want his help, and he also sucks at communication. Nearly noun gets replaced with "this", "that", or "that over there", plus he simply cannot stop talking. When this troper was learning to drive, he quickly learned to refuse to drive at all unless his mom was the one teaching him and his dad was not in the car. It worked wonders. ** On another occasion, this troper's family was in Japan, and this troper was the only one who actually spoke Japanese, so he translated orders for the whole family at restaurants. His dad would proceed to repeat the orders in English (even when told not to do it again), confusing the waitress, who would duplicate whatever portions she understood. This troper would end up having to explain "No, my dad only wants one bowl of ramen, not 3. And we don't want 6 bowls of ramen. Sorry." at every meal. ** This troper's mom, on the other hand, is actually much, MUCH better about this the vast majority of the time. Except on the occasion that she's trying to get an already calm person to relax. She's had at least two instances of "Just calm down and relax." "It's fine, I'm already relaxed." "No, really, go sit down and relax." "I said, I'm already relaxed." (repeat for a few iterations) "Look, you'll feel better if you sit down and relax for a while." "I SAID I'M ALREADY FREAKIN' CALM!!" ** This troper (again) has a friend who was diagnosed with Asperger's and is a bit of a savant type. Said friend was one of very few people in high school who was not allowed to take one of the AP classes he wanted - apparently the Special Education department wanted him to ''not'' work too hard at academics in order to socialize more. Which would be reasonable, had he not already demonstrated repeatedly that he developed social skills far better by interacting with AP students in class than with the "run-of-the-mill" crowd due to having much more in common with the former. * I don't know if it's mom and sisters thinking they can actually help me, or if they just love to be bossy, but for some reason, no matter how medial the task, no matter how many times me or my dad have done it, they feel the need to tell us how to do it. Putting gas in the mower? "Be sure to leave some for the push mower." Sweeping the floor? "You need to use the hose." Picking up sticks? "You should get those ones over there." Plumbing? "Are you sure you want this wrench that you specifically asked for?" Any task that they themselves have never attempted in their lives? "Are you sure you're doing it right?" Christ. ** Oh, and sometimes, if I'm getting ready to do something, like jump into a pool, I'll here "Hey Brian?" Then when I answer with a surly "What?" because they couldn't ask me what they wanted in the 15 feet it took for me to get from A to B, they'll say "Nevermind." AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!! * My parents brought me up to be very independent, so when one of my mother's close friends comes by for a visit, it feels like I'm being suffocated by her for this very reason. If I happen to be cooking something she'll ask if I need help with anything. Multiple times. If

I'm trying to get something heavy or out of the way from a closet, she'll ask if I'm okay -- again, multiple times. When my mom's been in the hospital she'll always ask if I need anything (I usually say that the best help she can give me is just to visit Mom at the hospital). If she weren't so darned nice I might snap at her and say, "NO I DON'T WANT ANY HELP! IF I NEEDED HELP I'D ASK BUT I'M NOT SO PLEASE STOP IT!" I want to cook my own darn meals, I want to retrieve my own darn boxes, and unless something requires more than one set of hands (e.g. putting a chest of drawers together), someone pestering me with offers of help actually hinders me getting what I want to get done, done. * I may be a subversion of this trope. I routinely asked my step-kids if they needed help (with schoolwork and other things I'm knowledgeable in), and actually took them at their word when they said "no", only clarifying, "Okay. If you do, let me know." My wife does not understand this type of interaction, especially when it came to their learner's permits for driving where I deliberately limited my input to pointing out errors that put us, or the car, in harm's way. * This troper is fiercely independent and hates asking for help. This troper has an overbearing mother who loves to get in the way of anything I do myself or with my dad, be it homework, maths, fixing our three ailing computers, science or debating; she'll constantly pop in, offer useless "advice", fail logic forever, preach from her soapbox and generally get in the way and irritate people (she also keeps messing up sequences and routines - my dad and I both hate sequence breaking, especially if said sequence is vital). I am easily irritated and have a terrible temper. This trope comes up a lot, usually accompanied by fire and brimstone. * '''[[ThisIsSparta THIS.]] [[{{Tropers.Snowsky}} TROPER'S.]] [[MyBelovedSmother MOTHER.]]''' Mostly because we constantly disagree on how to do things, and it ALWAYS results in me screaming, "STOP HELPING MEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!" * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper]] tends to be really independent when she can. If I'm working on gathering my stuff to leave class after the bell rings, one of my best friends (who is in EVERY CLASS with me) often comes and starts helping me pick up my stuff, holding a bag, etc. It's really thoughtful of her, but I'm so used to doing things by myself that my first reaction in my brain is "Nononoputitdown." I usually just let her do it and say thank you, though, because it's nice of her to help like that. Also, if anyone tries to be a backseat gamer/similar like with some kind've puzzle, I tend to raeg hard. * This troper has had no less than three trojans that turned out to be this trope incarnate. Basically, they all posed as antiviruses and gave me warning after warning of infections that weren't even there(as my actual antivirus can attest to). Eventually, they wouldn't let me open anything(claiming the programs were infected), and the only site they would let me on was the one where I would have to shell out $50 that I don't have for the full version of the "antivirus".(though the last one-[=SecurityShield=]-did something different; it blocked the web browsers from even opening.)They were all removed through different means(first-went away on its own IIRC, second-upgrade of our current antivirus, third-booted into safe mode and downloaded a

program made for removing those), but their evil ExpositionFairy tendencies were exactly the same and made this troper scream this trope word for word more than once. * No, I do not want to eat lunch with you. No, I do not want to do the group project with you. No, I do not want to join your club. I want to draw/study/play video games/listen to music ''in peace''! Thank goodness this troper isn't in school anymore. * Mild example: People who don't know how to drive giving me directions when I'm giving them rides. They tend not to think about the differences between walking/biking and driving. Telling me to turn without enough time to react or not specifying ''which'' street they're talking about. Pointing in a direction instead of saying right/left, which is nigh useless when I can only see their hand out of my peripheral vision and I either need them to clarify(which sucks if it's coming up soon) or look over and take my eyes off the road and hope that I can tell what they're intending to point at. Not a BerserkButton really but can be frustrating if I'm already a little nervous in an area I'm unfamiliar with. * Anyone who owns(?) a cat has probably said these words to him/her at some point. * If it's a mundane task, this troper will almost always declare this when asked "Do you need help?" and/or when somebody is giving me directions. This is both a good and a bad thing. Also, I undoubtedly get it from my mother. * Ever tried to hold an public open discussion on a remotely controversial topic? The worst thing that can happen to such an event is for a person who knows little about the topic, is not affiliated with you (the group holding the event), and is strongly and vocally opinionated to voice their support and congratulate you for doing or saying something that you absolutely aren't. Trying to protest just looks like backpedaling. * This troper has wanted to scream it because he asks people for help on stuff, but they always just do crap like go off on unrelated tangents and don't tell me freaking ''HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM''. I just want help on ''this'' part. Sometimes, I just want to yell "StopHelpingMe" because most people are "figure it out yourself" when it's obvious that some of us kind of need a little pushing in the right direction first. * Sadly, this is a fact of life for many people with all kinds of disabilities, especially if the disability is obvious to any person who sees the person who has it. It is also part of why it is often irritating to be a special ed kid in school. ---I know I can click on the link to return to StopHelpingMe! You don't need to tell me ''again!'' ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StopPokingMe * Okay, let's be honest: How many people have this problem on

{{Facebook}}? * As this troper's sister found out, it's a [[BaguetteBeatdown bad idea to poke me too much]]. True story. ---Quit it! Poke [[StopPokingMe this link back to the main page]] instead! ----

StopThePresses * I work for a local newspaper, in the mailroom (production, we handle the papers after they're printed). Once, my boss noticed that the papers had the wrong price listed on the front page, so he literally ran back to the pressroom screaming "Stop the presses! STOP THE PRESSES!" Yep, I saw this one go down literally.

StopWorshippingMe * My beliefs about the gods are a kind of CrossoverCosmology where the Roman gods exist ([[AncientGrome I think they're the same as the Greek gods]], and so does Yahweh, and Allah, and the gods of the ancient Near East, and so on. And all of these gods compete with each other for control of the world. My beliefs also extend this to modern secular culture. Just as the religious philosophy of Christianity has Yahweh competing for people to believe in it, so the secular philosophy of the Enlightenment (which is, after all, an equally great philosophy) also has gods who inspired the thinkers of early modern Europe, and who compete for that secular philosophy. These gods, who I call the post-Enlightenment gods, have just as much desire and power to influence this world as Yahweh or the Roman gods. But the postEnlightenment gods mostly prefer that humans should not believe in any gods: They don't like the thinking of traditional religions which believe in God(s); and nor do they try to become the objects of explict worship by humans. ** By the way, I initially thought that a good term for a god who wants people to be atheists would be "atheist gods." Actually, it turned out that atheists often misunderstood this phrase, thinking that it implied that the ''content'' of the atheists' beliefs includes a belief in gods. So now I use the term "post-Enlightenment gods," and people seem to understand this reasonably well: Gods who favor the philosophy of the Enlightenment. Much of modern history (according to my theology) is controlled by gods who don't seek to be worshipped by humans any more than they seek to be worshipped by deer. * Meh...completely different from what's going on here...this troper has a friend who's really creepily intelligent... But, he's a major StepfordSmiler/ BrokenAce... At 15 years old, he has knowledge of astronomy, astrology, economics, political sciences, biology, medicine, chemistry, physics, mathematics, history, geography and a lot more subjects, but also has zero faith in humanity, and is a hopeless pessimist and fatalist. Long story short, he just wants to be left alone. However, he can get in the top 10% in his year in school

without the least bit of hard work, and, thus, has quite a lot of people worshipping him literally... Yup, he definitely is a personified StopWorshippingMe

StorybookOpening This troper was in a town play (based loosely on ''TheHobbit'') where the backdrop was a gigantic book (about 12 feet high IIRC) so the stage hands just turned the page between scenes.

StoutStrength * One of [[@/{{Floria}} This Troper]]'s gaming buddies is a good example of this trope. He's the tallest person in our gaming group, not exactly svelte (a lot of it's muscle, but not all of it), can pick up the more petite group members with no apparent trouble and estimate their weight in bags of concrete (he works construction), and is also a BoisterousBruiser. * [[@/{{Kaizykat}} This Troper]] fits into this nicely. She's 5'2" and fat (No, not chubby, not HollywoodPudgy, but ''fat''). The last time she punched someone they thought she'd broken their arm (And her upper body strength isn't that great by her standards). * [[@/{{NoxNox}} This Troper]] is a death!fat chick who can lift two of her skinnier friends off the ground at the same time without much effort. * This troper's father is like this. He's big and round and yet he does all the heavy-duty yardwork with minimal effort. And when he sucks up his gut you can see his hidden abs... * Most of the toughest guys I know are this trope... main page is right, this is TruthInTelevision.... * My Uncle fits this perfectly, he is utterly enormous, but at the same time can easily lift me off the ground, and has to make an effort not to crush me when he greets me. And I'm well on my way to this myself, an equal love of fried breakfasts and weight-lifting will do that to a man... * [[@/{{Gecko}} This troper]] is pretty sure she isn't "fat," but when her karate instructor was telling the class their different builds and fighting styles, he got to her and said "Stout and strong. You'd charge them." * [[@/FarseerLolotea This troper]] has a bit of a "thing" for (as she tends to put it) "pudgy tackle types." * [[@/AcrossTheStars This troper]] is five feet tall at most, weighs around a buck thirty-five, is politely termed "voluptuous" and tends to start wheezing if she has to run more than ten meters when something's not in danger. What surprises people is that she slings around thirty-pound bags of bedding with no apparent struggle and is fearless around even the biggest draft horses. This is because consistent barn work and riding may not define muscles all that well, but believe you me, do they ever make them stronger. * This troper is 5'7'' and squishy, with a reputation as something of the [[EmoTeen whiny, sensitive type]]. But you don't grow up in her kind of household without a lot of physical exertion, which is why

she's squishy and stocky. As well as good for heavy lifting and the odd altercation. * This troper sounds like the one above, being 5'8 and...rotund, thanks to a mouth full of sweet teeth and little to no willpower when it comes to food. Doesn't stop him lifting up his friends with no apparent strain. Or keeping on going when he's drowning in his own sweat and other people have already given in, although that's more a characteristic of a {{Determinator}} than anything else. * This troper, while not exactly being short (6'3"), has a rather deceptive layer of fat on him. He can bench press 160 lbs, and can squat well into the 300s. For obvious reasons, few people mess with him. ** You need to get out more. I'm a skinny 6' and 160 pounds, and my powerlifting total is 205/325/420 (bench/squat/deadlift) * People constantly mistake [[@/{{Smerf}} this]] troper as several inches taller and 30 lbs lighter than his actual 5' 8" and 225 lbs. That being said, his leg press maximum is over 1000 lbs at the ''end'' of his workout; the weight isn't any higher because he ran out of 45 lb weights and room on the bars. * [[@/HellBlossom This Troper]]'s brother (David) is a tall built (but lean) football player who is friends with an overweight boy. Everyone thought he was weak until he dared David to punch him in the stomach. It hurt his hand! Henceforth, the boy's big stomach was known as the 'one-pack'. ** To hell with the six-pack, he went for the ''Keg!'' * This troper is a svelte 280 pounds, after having lost 60 pounds. He can rep over 1000 pounds on a leg press, can effortlessly walk with a 220 pound person in a fireman's carry over one shoulder, and has repeatedly had people punch him and hurt themselves while not being injured himself. And his goal is to get stronger still... * This Troper's dad ''is'' this trope. He can only be described as "round" but he lifts amazing amounts of weight on a daily basis. * I'm totally able to lift, what, 140 lbs. more than I weigh? * [[@/BlakeDiamond This Troper's]] boyfriend is a definate heavyweight, yet has a {{Bishounen}} face, recently got accepted by the Air Force, and has the strength of an ox (no, really. He carried one of his blacked-out frat brothers from one end of his campus to the other and barely broke a sweat). Also, This Troper's dad has what can only be described as a "gut of granite". He's fat, no doubt about it, but he's strong as shit. * This very nerdy, pretty overweight troper regularly visits his university gym, where he sees guys with bodybuilder physiques who clearly struggle to lift the 50-60 kg weights with regular repetitions for a prolonged period of time. Yours truly can lift his own bodyweight, close to 110kg, for several sets of fifteen reps. More often I stay around 80-90 and build the muscle slowly though, I tried doing it quickly in high school and ended up injuring myself. * I have an uncle, an old friend from high school, and a buddy I met from the internet who are exactly like this. None of those guys can be described as skinny or even looking traditionally muscular (with my uncle's silhouette resembling a pear with feet, for example), but the fact that each of them has the ability to pick up at least two people

at once and not seem too concerned has to count for something. * [[@/{{Xepscern}} This Troper]] is over 7' tall. I have noticable muscles, but my abs are covered with a thick layer of fat (Mostly the result of being a BigEater). I can, also, punch people unconciouse (though I prefer not to), and can have to try not to hurt people when I hug them. I'm a combination of GentleGiant, BoisterousBruiser, and this trope. * This Troper has some pretty incredible core and upper body strength, for a 40-pounds-overweight woman. I think I owe this to parkour training. I can easily place my hands on a wall and hoist my body up, whereas a couple of my friends, who are leaner and much more coordinated, struggle to do so without using their feet. ---Finish your vegetables and head back to StoutStrength. No, not a ''pint of stout''... ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StraightGay * Guess what? [[SarcasmMode Your sexuality has nothing to do with your personality!]] * Every time [[Tropers/{{Erkhyan}} I come out]] to anyone around here, the phrase "you don't look gay" has a very high chance of being uttered. When I came out to them, my parents even thought I'd turn CampGay real fast since the "straight" faade wouldn't be needed anymore (thanks to the media, they didn't believe [[StraightGay Straight Gays]] existed). Well, d'uh. Sheer luck. Nothing changed, except that I happen to have a boyfriend, instead the girlfriend they were desperately trying to get me. * This editor recalls her father describing to her a friend of his. He and their mutual friends had no idea he was gay, until one of them used the unfortunate phrase 'it hurt like buggery'. Sagely, the friend replied, 'No. Nothing hurts quite like buggery.' ** Okay, I'm sorry, but this is funnier than any outing ever. It really is. ** Hmm. How long has this item been here? Because one wonders what to make of the other Google results for [[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&hs=yLg&q=%22n othing+ hurts+ quite+ like+ buggery%22&btnG=Search "nothing hurts quite like buggery"]]... ** This troper regrets to inform you that '''the above is an urban legend.''' First of all, I've heard it too many times before, and second, I can tell you from [[HappilyMarried first hand experience]] that buggery [[TooMuchInformation does not hurt or feel unpleasant in any way]]. (Unless you [[PrisonRape forego the use of lubricant]].) If it did, people (other than maybe some S&M freaks (and contrary to popular belief, not everyone in the gay community is [[{{Leatherman}} like that]])) wouldn't be doing it. So... yeah. *** [[TooMuchInformation People are warned that if anal sex hurts, you're doing it wrong, it's dangerous; stop. Actually most S&M

communities warn against using it in S&M (as in, deliberately painfully) because of the safety issue. But anyway, that's offtopic.]] *** I've got to assume that it hurts the first time, or the first few times. Vaginal sex does, after all. *** The sensation of being buggered is dull pain masked by incredible pleasure. It always hurts for a bit at the start, and it never entirely goes away. But no, we wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't enjoyable, which it is even if you have my horrifically low pain tolerance. ** Yes, because no gay person would ever crack a joke. All homosexuals take their sexuality deadly serious and if anyone ''ever'' makes a joke about sex, they are straight. It makes perfect sense. *** I would add to this that the fact that it's an urban legend is probably ''why'' gay guys make the joke; they've heard it before, and they associate it with the popular-culture idea that anal sex is painful, and thus, it is amusing. **** Actual Gay Guy here to approve the previous two comments. * This troper's older brother is gay, and an underwear model in Italy, but he STILL had our father convinced he was straight until his death about two years ago. He had SEVERAL girlfriends in high school. And let me tell you, had a bit of a reputation around school... and still he's defiantly not camp gay by any means. * ''SO'' many instances of young guys being told "innocently" by a friend or relative "You're not bringing any girlfriend, you're not gay are you?". This troper has several gay and bisexual friends to whom it happened. * This Troper was friends with a guy all through high school. Had no idea he was gay until shortly into Senior year when he explicitly stated it in a MySpace bulletin. Since then, I have no idea how I went that long without seeing the clues. Don't worry, we're still good friends. * This troper counts, even though she's quite certain it's more due to her general lack of apparent sexuality than anything. (I'm a rather effective CovertPervert.) Although there was the time her friends noticed her checking out a ''very'' lovely lady at a waterpark. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued]]. * Many of this lesbian troper's friends fit this trope, to the point where she and a guy friend are often mistaken for a straight couple. * One of my Dad's friends and co-workers is this. Took my dad over ten years to figure it out. "So when are you going to tell me you're gay?" (Panicking) "How did you know?" "You've had the same male roommate for the past 15 years. It's kinda obvious now." At my dad's work they have him and a Straight Lesbian too. Everyone knows, too. Also I'm getting Gay Christian dating banner ads. * At this troper's 10-year school reunion, she found out that a boy who had dated every single one of her friends... has now been happily partnered for years. She would love to know whether it was denial, camouflage, or if he just couldn't figure out why the numerous girlfriends didn't ever quite seem to work out. * This troper is straight gay. "You're really gay?" "[[DeadpanSnarker No I joke about sucking cock constantly]]."

** [[GayBravado Not that jokes about it are out of the question.]] * ThisTroper recently saw a friend he hadn't saw in years, and the conversation turned to where we spend our money. He said "Well, I'm not gonna have kids, so it's not gonna matter." To which ThisTroper replied "Oh. Lack of ability or lack of desire?" to which his friend replied "Well, I'd just be surprised if he got knocked up." Leading to [[DoubleTake "Oh... Oooooooohhh."]] * [[ThisTroper This troper's]] elementary school's headmaster was a lot like this. He was a close friend of her mother since ''they'' were children and even she hadn't figured it out until he actually came out. On the other hand, her ''high school's'' headmaster was very much CampGay * This troper seemed to have been straight gay (well, straight bi) for a pretty long period. Having the girlfriend probably didn't help in that regard. Of course, now I'm (while not flaming) pretty emphatically a gay bisexual. Still, apparently it doesn't always show - my team leader at a previous workplace, despite working with me for 3 months, was quite surprised when I pointed out to him I had a boyfriend. * This troper's brother is gay, but people never. ever. ever. guess. People are in fact astonished when he says it. He also despises flamers and "fabulous" gay men, though, and desperately wishes for more StraightGay media portrayals. ** This troper as well is like the aforementioned brother of the other troper. *** Ditto ** Especially about the lack of decent media portrayals. * This Troper and his best friend were taking part in some [[strike:witty]] immature banter when... -->'''Friend''': You're just gay and can't handle it! -->'''This Troper''': Actually I am bisexual and am handling it reasonably well. -->'''Friend''': Eh? * This troper went to school with a guy who she thought at the time had a crush on a mutual (female) friend. He's now the queer officer for our university, and 100% homosexual, it turns out. * This troper plays D&D every Saturday with an... interesting group. Two gay couples, three of the people in which are StraightGay and one of which is a (self professed) screaming queen. He likes to play Dwarven Paladins. * This troper thought he was stuck in a clear-acrylic [[TransparentCloset closet]], but then it turns out that two of his (female) best friends were frankly surprised that he's gay all along, after he outed himself to both of them. They said he's hardly swishy, save perhaps some (very) few odd moments. * No one ever suspects this troper is gay, to her bemusement. As if saying "my other half" and shying away from names/pronouns weren't indication enough, she openly appreciates good looking lasses and never joins in when everyone's drooling over lads. What does she have to do, go around with a sandwich board? It's caused loads of embarrassing moments with doctors, employers ... too many authority figures to count. To quote them, "Oh. Riiiiight. You're gay."

** Actually, I don't find saying "my (your) other half" and shying away from names/pronouns to be all that much of an indication. Why not just say "my girlfriend" (or something similar)? You don't have to advertise it, but being straight and open about it might help with the evading of embarassing moments. Not everyone is good at hints ;D. ** This troper agrees. Talking about it in a completely mundane fashion forces others to do so, since it would break the conversation to make a big deal about it. ** From reading this wiki, I've determined that straight people use terms like "other half" and "partner" and quite often get MistakenForGay, often to the embarrassment of the mistaker. Perhaps this has happened to everyone you know enough times that they now assume everyone who uses gender-neutral terms to be straight. * This troper has been referred to by women as the most boring gay guy they've ever met. He's still not sure whether that's a compliment or insult. * This troper has had hilarious reactions from sheltered people that can only be described as "shock and awe." It's rather bizarre, as this troper is actually slightly limp-wristed. * Possible subversion with Fading Echo: geeky (and successful) female engineering student turning out to be gay? Boring. Conservative, very traditional Southern woman who grew up with cows occasionally eating in her backyard and never missed a week of church turning out to be gay? Awkward. * This troper went to a school where the only two openly gay guys were VERY flamboyant. He had to french kiss his boyfriend for his friends to believe him. Not that I'm complaining, or anything. * [[DesertDragon This troper]] went to college in Cleveland where his friends mostly consisted of other gays, Wiccans, and people who generally had a decent gaydar and figured this troper's persuasion before they even knew his boyfriend. Then he moved to Phoenix and forgot that most people don't realize he's gay and often gets surprised looks when he describes past relationships in male pronouns. What's annoying though is when people say "I would have never known" like that's supposed to be a compliment. * This troper is so sick of the portrayal of gay men as fairies and lesbians as manly that she has to change the channel if a character like that appears. The word "fabulous" makes her physically cringe. If not a yaoi and yuri fangirl and gay herself, people would probably think she was homophobic. She is not "out and proud." She is "out and utterly indifferent." Meh. ** High five. *** THANK YOU! I hate it too. Ever since Will & Grace every single woman who knows that I'm gay seems to think that I want to be her friggin' clutch purse or something. Ugh, and they treat me like I'm in a game of concentration, "Hmmm, this one's gay and...so is this one! They'll be great together!" THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS! Does he like books? How about movies? Does he know all 493 pokemon, all the words to "Landslide"? Does he like long walks on the beach, sunsets, MURDERING PEOPLE? You are not a one-woman Match.com! [[BerserkButton STOP IT]]! *** Er... ''murdering people''?

**** Now now, let's not judge. Bloodthirsty psychos need love too. ***** Seconded. But we will agree to disagree on the murdering people part. ** It's the androgynous/{{Bifauxnen}} type lesbians that this troper doesn't get. Exactly how does looking like a 12-year-old emo boy help you get girls who are attracted to other girls? Even with {{Butch Lesbian}}s, you can usually tell they're female. ** Thank. You. [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper,]] though female, is very similar; I'm a geek. I love Pokemon, computers, fantasy, art, literature... I like to draw, play video games, explore and be immersed in nature... I want to become a veterinarian when I'm older... oh, and I just happen to be bisexual. It's not like it's a defining feature of me or anything; I just happen to be attracted to women as well as (or more than, with the way I am sometimes) men. Now, just because it's human and alive, doesn't mean I'm going to go for it just because I have the capability to. Do they have similar interests, are they intelligent, kind, do they like being around animals...? So many other factors to consider. * This troper is like this, and was quite irritated when he first heard the term "straight acting". I'm just "me acting". * When this troper came out to his mother, one of her (tongue-incheek) comments was, "You can't be gay; you don't dress well enough!" This troper still thinks she's disappointed that coming out didn't get him to dress nicer. ** I heard this from my mom, too! * This troper sort of both subverts and upholds this trope; I'm not stereotypically feminine and don't identify with any feminine personality traits, but I have some rather flamboyant, prissy mannerisms that are mostly unintentional. But this probably has less to do with my sexuality and more to do with the fact that I've always been a grandma's boy. ** Are you me? ** This troper is confused: are you male or female? Or trans? Or both? My head hurts... ** I'd estimate the part about a "grandma's boy" should indicate that the above troper is probably male. * This troper is lesbian. No one seems to get it. Apparently she is not "lesbian" enough. Except for the two people she's told. Who don't really count, since they knew before she did. ** This troper is the oppiste of this. She openly likes yaoi, supports gay rights and the legalization of gay marrige, tends to wear her brother's clothes, is genraly stereotypically lesbain, and she's NOT. Stating this leads to: "Are you sure?" "Yes!!" "Hmm, wierd." NOT ALL MEDIA TELLS YOU IS TRUE, PEOPLE! * This troper used to be sometimes spotted by people with a gaydar but, now that's he's older, more and more people assume he is completely straight and a ladies' man since women are drawn to him despite his rather plain and casual clothing style. And even when he states the truth most people (especially women) tell him : "Nah you can't be gay. You're not camp enough. I'm sure you're bi or something!"... ** My friend said the same thing to me recently. It made me facepalm.

* Actual conversation: Friend: I could hook you up with her. Me: <Ahem> Gay. Friend: Oh, yeah. It's pretty bad when people who have known you for fifteen+ years think of you as being straight, despite coming out to them. * I once roomed with a dude for two weeks. If he hadn't told me he was bi beforehand I would never have guessed. Thing is, he wasn't so much StraightGay as [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot SocialistJackSparrowGay]]. * I don't fall into this trope, but I don't know where else to put this, because it's so odd. I'm a girl who wears her hair short and her clothing loose. I was on the wrestling team for three years, and it wasn't because I wanted to roll around with guys. I don't talk about guys, ever. I'm the secretary of our Gay Straight Alliance, and I went to Pride Prom, and did Day of Silence. And STILL, when I tell them, people act like me being a lesbian is the WEIRDEST THING IN THE WORLD. Maybe I fit the stereotype TOO well? * [[Tropers/SirPsychoSexy This troper]] is so StraightGay that he has an UnwantedHarem of heterosexual {{Fan Girl}}s...who [[CassandraTruth refuse to believe he is actually gay]], and just likes BoysLove to be "sensitive". However, when women come up to him expecting a CampGay, he's dismissed as a complete bastard who's lying about his sexuality to get into women's pants. Damn his YuriFanboy-ness... ** This Troper gets that as well. Except for the fangirls refusing to believe I'm gay. * {{Gecko}} was once talking to a casual male friend, when he mentioned their other friends. -->'''Friend:''' I can talk to you about nerdy stuff, and to [name] about gay stuff that you straight people wouldn't get. -->'''{{Gecko}}:''' ...Wait, you're gay? ** Our other friends showed up and said that they'd known for at least a year, and asked what rock had this troper had been hiding under. * [[LeighSabio This Troper]]'s mom ([[HappilyMarried straight, obviously]]) has an identical twin sister who is almost indistinguishable from her by anything except the fact that said twin sister is lesbian. ** Wait, why is it obvious that your mom is straight? *** Perhaps because [[LeighSabio the first troper]] confuses cultural preconceptions with epistemological self-evidence? *** Maybe cos she has a KID? Food for thought, guys. *** Gay people have children too. Sometimes the old-fashioned way at that. *** There are [[NoBisexuals]] * Some friends of mine are perhaps the ultimate example of this: they're married, and a really cute couple. They have three kids. He adamantly identifies as gay. To hear Adam tell it Stephanie is the only woman he's ever been remotely attracted to, and I remember him having a lot of did-I-come-out-for-nothing angst when he started to like her. But Steph first got him to watch "Firefly" by promising him that it was full of hot guys, and their oldest kid's godfather is one of Adam's first boyfriends. Their conversations about whether Nathan Fillion is hotter as Malcolm Reynolds or Richard Castle are strangely adorable, as are the things they plan to teach the "gay-positive nerdbabies" they're raising.

* This troper fits perfectly, he's manlier than all of his friends in every aspect but semi-jokingly lists his favorite food as dick. * This troper was, during her teenage years, approached by her mother to have a discussion about how "I think you and your friend X are getting awfully close, and..." "Oh, X? Don't worry Mom, he's gay." "What?" "Queer as a three-dollar bill, that boy. What's for supper?" * This editor would fit, although not exactly. I'm actually more of Straight ''Bi''. ** As is [[{{Turtleducks}} this troper]], if she could settle on being either bi or a lesbian (I'd say I'm about a 5 on the Kinsey Scale). She's gone out with two boys before, but had a horrible time with both of them, due to their Mommy issues. Then along comes [[BigBlue my current girlfriend]]... I stick with StraightGay because I'm neither [[ButchLesbian butch at all]] nor a LipstickLesbian. I'm just your average nerdy girl who just so happens to have a girlfriend. *** Oh my god. You just described me! Err... expect for the... [[NerdsAreVirgins dating part]] ._. * This troper is ''asexual'', but shows no signs of being asexual. Then again, I also show no signs of being sexual. ** Isn't asexual just... not being sexual? I'm confused. How can you not be asexual and not be sexual at the same time >_>? ** Posts like this are why this troper scratches his head when people talk about being asexual. If you're not showing signs of being asexual, aren't you... sexual? They're kindof mutually exclusive things. ** I'm going to take a stab at deciphering this and guess that 'shows no signs of being asexual' means 'he or she doesn't act like a robot made by Vulcans'. This is, of course, an ''incredibly'' bizarre definition of 'signs of being asexual', but stereotypes don't exist to be factual. *** But if he were made by Vulcans, he wouldn't be asexual. He would be Once Every Seven Years MateOrDie Sexual. ** Next stab; like most posts here, the Troper is saying that they don't fall into some stereotypical pit of asexuality. Although we obviously have some confusion about this. They act like a human being, interact with human beings, and are a little put on that everybody expects them to be sexual beings. I don't think it really fits in this trope... but close enough for TroperTales, anyway. *** That..And that my curiosity of sex can be mistaken for lesbian behavior. Oh, and asexuality is simply just the lack of sexual attraction to anything. *** Well, this tropette is asexual, and she's also a [[YaoiFangirl]]. Don't even ASK how that one works. **** [[{{Joerc45}} I'm]] tired of getting [[IncrediblyLamePun Straight As]]. * This Troper is kinda StraightGay (although straight bi is probably more appropriate). He's had a boyfriend for a year now, and yet for some reason everyone asks him how many girlfriends he has when they see him. About the only sign is that he refuses to look at Playboy or other such magazines with naked or half-naked women plastered all over it. This is more of a dislike for overly-attractive (as in supermodel fake) women than it is anything else.

** Did I post on here without me knowing? This Troper is like that to a tee, apart from having a boyfriend. * This Troper is an open Straight Gay, and also the one with the deepest voice in his entire group of (straight) male friends. It's not uncommon for us to joke about how I'm the manliest of the group and how one of our lighter voiced friends is actually the gay one. * This troper knew a guy for years at school and never suspected he was gay, only finding out years afterward when he saw him again, asked him how he was doing: "Oh good, after school I came out as gay ...". Of course I wasn't surprised no-one suspected since he wasn't that big and would not have surivived my seriously homophobic old boys school if anyone had. * This troper is a half-Russian, half-Irish American who grew up in a working-class factory city an hour outside of NYC. (And is about how you'd expect with a pedigree like that. He even used to be a [[UsefulNotesOnSkinheads skinhead.]]) His boyfriend, on the other hand, is a French Canadian erotic photographer. And also pretty much the first gay guy he ever met. The first few months of their relationship was all, "Hey, so you like fashion, huh? And musicals? Man, I had no idea gay people were like that in like, real life. I thought that was just a thing straight folks made up ... Shit, I don't got to start liking all that stuff now too, do I?" (Also, probably the worst argument they've ever had was whether or not [[BrokebackMountain this troper's favorite movie]] was ''life-changing and brilliant and true'' or offensive.) * This troper has probably one of the worst senses of fashion in the world, is one of those people who could dissect their favourite video game series in detail, and seems to attract the attention of quite a few of his sister's coworkers. He's had a stable boyfriend (well, now fianc. Living in Canada has perks.) for about seven years now. He also seems to break gaydar, as no one particularly seems able to identify him as such even if they can with anyone else they've ever met. * [[ParadoxicalFrog This Troper]], who is actually more bisexual, seems to be such a clashing of personality traits that she flies under the gaydar until she decides to come out ([[BiTheWay usually suddenly and on a whim]]). She's quiet, somewhat shy, very germophobic and occasionally almost motherly towards her friends, but that's the extent of her feminine side. On the other side, she's also never been seen in a skirt since the fifth grade, can't keep her room clean to save her life, avoids makeup like the plague, loves pervy jokes, and actually relates to guys better than girls most of the time. The end result is reactions like "Wow, ''you''? I didn't expect ''you'' of all people..." Of course, if they knew what [[KannazukiNoMiko some]] [[ElCazadorDeLaBruja of]] [[BlueDrop my]] [[RevolutionaryGirlUtena favorite]] [[MariaSamaGaMiteru anime]] [[AoiHana are]], they would have been less surprised. * This bisexual male troper usually aims for this when hanging out with lads, but goes a bit... [[CampGay swishy]] around gay guys or girls he's not romantically interested in. This led to some confusion for all parties involved. * My best male friend and roommate is this to a T. He works

construction, hunts, fishes, and loves football. All thing this nerdy troper does not. Through highschool only 3 people knew. When he does bring over people to the house who don't know and go "No seriously" he offers to show them his porn collection if they really think he's straight. * [[@/PsychoYoshi This Troper]] has what he likes to call a Gaydar Negation Aura, whereby he is magically freed from constant harems of [[YaoiFangirl Yaoi Fangirls]]. Unfortunately, this also applies toward other men. Probably has something to do with the fact that he's a relatively strong [[GayConservative free-market libertarian]], wants to be a history professor, and often comments distastefully on his opinion towards [[CampGay those gays]] [[AllGaysArePromiscuous overrepresented in the media.]] His only 'girly' hobbies are a love of [[RealMenWearPink cooking and baking, along with a minor interest in interior decoration]]. You also might notice some sudden, but subtle interest whenever people start talking about [[TheLegendofZelda Link]], that [[FetishFuelStationAttendant ridiculously attractive]] [[{{Bishonen}} bishie]] elf that he is. * Of all the gay/bi/lesbian people This (straight male) Troper knows, only one is any kinda of "Flame", and that is more because she wanted to shock her Conservative Christian parents, who in a twist of irony to her, were upset that she came out on Facebook before coming out to them. In a form of WriteWhoYouKnow, this troper has written at least one main character that is straight bi and the ChasteHero. Because of this, only one person guessed that the character was not really straight, and only then, he was kind of joking because the character was not paired with anyone and had long hair (which has nothing to do with his sexuality and everything to do with the fact that ThisTroper doesn't like short hair on anyone.). * CalebTheTimeTraveler here Identifies as gay, but pretty much only if you ask, which practically no one does. When he told his mother he was gay, he was outright offended she didn't believe him. He tries to somewhat avoid the subject, but being the comedian he is, likes to joke about it sometimes, but still, he pretty much has to hint pretty hard at it for people to get it. Which is odd, because though he does Identify as gay, he's probably more bisexual, but feels the term somewhat takes away from the meaning since practically every girl in his old high school used it more often to describe themselves than "girl", but also is more into men, but miles. Still, despite this, he's never dated a woman in front of his friends, and has in fact brought boy friends around them, and they seem to pretty much seem to think he's just another friend, despite Caleb doing all but make out with him in front of them. Caleb also feels his unnatural love for the Sailor Moon series should be more of a hint, but also thinks his massive Gundam MSIA collection overshadows it. What can ya do? ** You know, it's okay to refer to yourself as 'I'. We all believe you when you say your name is Caleb. *** Speak for yourself. I know I saw a [[TeamFortress2 Spy]] walk in here just now... * [[@/GamerAmI This troper]] has nothing that would mark his as gay other than his long and well-kept hair, which has gotten so long that it makes him long more androgynous than flamboyant, anyways. So many

of my friends have told me that they never would have suspected that I was gay that I started wearing rainbow paraphernalia just so I wouldn't have to come out so frequently, as well as to show people that not all of us are CampGay. Here's a specific story to illustrate how much I fit this trope: I worked with a woman for four years before the following incident happened. One day, I gave an overly technical answer to a very simply question from her, and she responded, "[[YouNeedToGetLaid We need to get you a girlfriend.]]" (For the record, I am a male.) It wasn't worth it to come out to her, since I never shared details of my personal life with her, so I just let it go. The next week, I heard her tell a story about a guy she knew was gay and about how he needed to just come out and admit it, and after telling other stories about guys she knew was gay long before other people know, she started bragging about how good her gaydar was. I could only sit back and chuckle quietly to myself as I listened to this. * This troper's uncle has been with his partner since before I was born. Even so, I had to be told by my mother that they were gay because I couldn't figure it out for myself. Now that I know the stereotypes associated with gay men, I can safely say he doesn't fit any of them. His partner however fits some of them. ** This Tiawanese-American Yaoi Fangirl Tropette was visiting Rome, and there were two men being [[HoYay EXTREMELY affectionate]] to one another in the Coliseum. (first person) I thought they were BROTHERS! My mom had to TELL me that they were {{Yaoi Guys}} when I was bitching about their not getting out of my way when I was trying to take a picture. *Sigh* * I found out one of my brothers was gay when I asked him a hypothetical question containing the phrase "if you were gay". Yeah. The fact that he's never had a girlfriend would have been a clue, if he weren't nearly as much of a [[NerdsAreVirgins nerd]] as I am (but on different subjects he is [[CunningLinguist ironically]] more of a language nerd than me). He doesn't like {{Camp Gay}}s, and was annoyed when one of his friends came out and immediately started mincing. * This troper was having a discussion about this sort of thing with his girlfriend. She mentioned a mutual friend, to which I responded "Oh, yeah." Before I could continue with "He could pass for gay," she responded with "He could pass for straight." * This Troper has had people forget he's gay, and one of the favorite jokes among his friendcrew is that he's the manliest one in the group (of otherwise all straight males, as this troper is the Token Gay). Thing is? It's funny because it's true. * My older brother MAY be StraightGay. He's a HandsomeDevil, and always has girls after him, but he isn't interested in them at all. AND he's taken his best friend to the past several school dances. Like, ''taken'' his friend, not just going stag. He's told me on several occasions that he finds certain men attractive. I might believe he's [[BiTheWay bisexual,]] but there's no way in hell he's just plain ol' straight. * This troper, to the point he (accidentally,mostly) flirts with girls. * This troper is perceived as what can best be called "lesbian

pansexual" (dresses masculine-ly, doesn't blab about her boyfriend all the time, short hair, no makeup, etc). However, it is totally true with people who have known her for ages -- when she came out to one friend, said friend replied that she never guessed. And then I came out to a small group and they were surprised. Though, now, it's more likely for friends to notice 'cause I like talking about hot women. * This Troper is a slight subversion: most of his friends comment that I seem perfectly straight to everybody, but once they find out they can't seem to figure out how I duped them in the first place. ** The way I see it, most straight people simply take for granted that everyone is straight until proven otherwise, unless the gay person in question is clearly a walking stereotype. It's the same way with me. No one ever sees the gay in me, but once I tell them, they can't unsee it. * This Troper is regularly checked out at bars by women before any of his straight friends. More amusingly, he was once wandering around the mall with two of his straight friends. The two of them were mistaken for a gay couple, and he was assumed to be the straight guy in the trio. * This Troper was having lunch with a friend who was talking about how she was planning on going shopping with her Gay Best Friend. -->'''Troper''': Yeah, there were a couple of girls in high school who tried to turn me into their Gay Best Friend. They only stopped when they realized I knew nothing about fashion. -->'''Friend''': Well, yeah. It only works if your Gay Best Friend is gay. -->'''Troper''':... I am gay. -->'''Friend''': <beat> Daaaaamn you're sneaky. * This Troper. Several of my friends refuse to believe, to this day, that I have absolutely no interest in women. It probably also doesn't help that almost every single article of casual clothing I own has the John Deere logo. And I live in the suburbs. ** One comment made that I remember vividly was: "So...no girls would date you and you moved on to guys?" Needless to say, I am no longer on speaking terms with that person. But yeah, otherwise, I dont really bother telling people unless they ask. * shrugs* It's none of their business. * This troper loves beer, football, video games, and sex with other men. I've caught a lot of people off-guard with my refusal to talk about fashion, Lady Gaga, use excessive hair products, or otherwise act like a screaming queen. My boyfriend claims he dating "a straight man with a cock fetish". ** Seconded, except for having a boyfriend. * This troper is a partial subversion. He's bi (likes girls more though),but everyone he meets assumes he's gay, which is funny, because aside to liking flowers and Lady GaGa, he has no gay manerisms at all (besides sucking cock). * I am otherwise so straight that my parents never even thought about the possibility that their child was gay until I came out. I can't do camp at all well and flaming gays get on my nerves. The problem with this is that no-one else realises I'm not as straight as I look unless I tell them.

* My girlfriend and I are both this. Which is useful, as she's closeted, which closets me as well (can I use that as a verb?), at least in public. My best friend looked like I slapped her in the face with a damp fish when I told her. * This bisexual troper surprised a lot of her friends when she came out. Not because she's really [[LipstickLesbian femme]] (I'd probably be what Ellen [=DeGeneres=] means when she talks about "chapstick lesbians") but because she was really boy-crazy in high school. None of her friends suspected for a second that she might like girls, too! * From the Exaggerated part of the PlayingWith page: "Bob is a rather chauvinist pig who is also gay with no camps mannerism, he even claims that women and camp gays are inferior." This troper had a gay male friend who was EXACTLY like that. The chauvinism is a big part of the reason we are no longer friends (along with him probably being a [[{{Ephebophile}} hebephile]]). * This Troper's uncle is most definitely this trope - ex-army, former miner, rugby-loving, typical Aussie tradie man... and gay. He came out to his family at the age of 46 - my mother and I were rather surprised, but love him unconditionally and were thrilled that he has found someone he loves (turned out the "best mate" that he bought to visit a couple of times has now been his boyfriend for the better part of a decade). I will never, ever forget what her elderly grandmother said to myself and my mother immediately after he came out to her: "Well... I always knew, but how do you tell an 11 year old boy you think he's gay?". * This Troper was sitting with his friend one day discussing how a lot of our mutual friends seem to have come out as gay or bi lately, leading the friend to list out the remaining straight people we know. He started the list with me. I had to correct him. * This troper's friend was outted through his facebook-info where his relationship status was marked as engaged TO A MAN! Needless to say, this came to a shock to just about everyone. * This troper tends to have this trope play more on his fictional ''BigBrother'' series. Perhaps the best example was one named Tyler, who was a professional cleaner (ie, cleaning up after crime scenes or violent suicides) and just said he was gay when there was a picture of him hugging his boyfriend in his head of household room. Another (From the same season/series) was a lesbian and half the cast didn't guess she was gay until finale. From a previous game, another dude was this as well, and he figured that two guys who worked together in the first game probably could be ''interpreted'' as this but both had girlfriends outside the game. * My aunt is not very butch nor very feminine, and is pretty much just a normal woman who just happens to like other women. She has a lot of fun with this trope - most people don't know she's gay until she casually mentions her wife, and is met by a lot of "Wait, you're gay?"'s. Or they see her with her wife at a gay pride parade. * I'm a lesbian, and I'm not butch at all, but then again, I'm not really a [[LipstickLesbian girly-girl]], so... * This troper epitomises the[[CampGay gay]] stereotype, he is into musical theatre, limp-wristed, has effeminate mannerism and speech (no lisp though), but people always think he is bi. Some of this troper's

friends say that this is because he's never proven that he's gay (what do they want me to do, have an orgy in-front of them), this troper thinks it's be cause he has never been in any kind of long-term relationship (he's shy-ish). Anyway, this troper does have a friends who, if it weren't how he's always talking about guys (and the fact that he came-out to this troper); This troper would have never guessed that he were gay, then again this troper's gaydar has not been installed yet. * [[{{Tropers/STK}} this troper]] is a kind of odd example. Make no mistake about it, I am gay. I listen to metal and play video games, and have no gay mannerisms. But some people (mostly people over the internet) say I have a gay voice. I also say "Oh my" a lot. * I respect homosexuals like this. It's less about being "straight gay" and more "being normal guys who just are gay". It's far less of a stereotypical act and more of just a guy being who he is. I find the "queer fairies" to just be an offensive stereotype holding back gay rights. It's clear as day more people would respect homosexuals and not see it as a negative thing if so many weren't hell bent on being "different" and ostracizing themselves. ** [[StopBeingStereotypical You're thinking of a different trope.]] Personally, I also find gay stereotypes offensive, and it pisses me off that so many people believe them, but I don't dislike gay people that match the gay stereotype, because chances are, they're also just being themselves. I just wish people would realize that stereotypical gays do NOT represent the majorety of gay people... ** ROCK ON!! same here. ** As a rather effeminate gay man, I find this comment really offensive. People have pegged me as gay since before I even knew what the word meant. I still sometimes feel embarrassed when I see or hear a recording of my "gay walk" or "gay voice." It's not an act. I wasn't interested in being "different." I certainly wouldn't have chosen to adopt mannerisms that I was ashamed of for so long. People should be free to be who they are, not who you think they should be. *** That's what I meant by my "they're just being themselves" comment (second post). *** Yeah, my problem was specifically with the original post. Sorry I didn't make that clear! :) * I often joke that one of my close friends broke my gaydar by coming out. Up until then, I was really good at picking up on the little hints, sometimes even while the person him/herself was in denial. Aside from never having had a girlfriend, my friend gave off exactly zero hints that he was in any way gay. We only found out because another friend of ours tried setting him and me up behind our backs, forcing him to come out to avoid hurting anyone's feelings. (Though for the record, I had just as little interest in him, just not for the same reason.) * Most people I know don't know I'm gay. I don't hide it, persay, but I don't flaunt it. Medium build, deep voice, slightly blunt. I don't really have any of the gay attributes. Most of my friends didn't know until I came out, well, some might have suspected, but only after I called a few guys hot. My one friend just assumed I was kidding, until I explicitly told her. Her reaction? "I would never have guessed. You

don't act gay!" Oddly enough, as a young kid (before school), I apparently exibited many gay attributes, to the point where my mom quipped that I would either be "a guy who likes to wear a lot of smelly things and dresses nice", or "gay". Well, she got one right. * What is supposed to be so "wrong" with StraightGay? It's how most gay people should be acting if they want acceptance. The basic concept is that StraightGay is a person who is homosexual who doesn't act "camp" and instead is like a normal random human being who just likes same sex relationships. Which is EXACTLY what homosexual is supposed to be. CampGay is the problem and is why homosexual isn't being more accepted. Because its basically taking the worst/exaggerated/vocal part of a community and saying "everyone is supposed to be like this". There is no rational explanation for "CampGay" as being homosexual does not force you to dress like the opposite sex, talk with a lisp, shave your head or skip around with limp hands. That is the completely the person acting up (CampGay). Every homosexual should strive to be StraightGay because then they would be more accepted by others for just being "people that like the same sex" (instead of "those people who act silly, talk funny, dress weird and want to be seen as equal by reinforcing the stereotype of being abnormal"). The quicker "gay pride" and "CampGay" disappears, the quicker society can move forward and be more accepting of homosexuality. Until then, those parades and that behavior WILL cause people to more often dislike homosexuals because they are just acting instead of being normal everyday people with different sexual interests. ** For the part about camp gays, I'll just say this: that's almost like saying "I'm ok with black people, but only if they show absolutely no traces of black culture!" As for the part about gay pride: One thing a lot of people don't seem to realize about gay pride parades is that they're just that: ''Pardades.'' Do the people who attend Macy's Day Parade walk around in mascot suits and marching band attire for their everyday clothing? And another thing, those over-thetop CampGay and ButchLesbian floats you see in gay pride parades are ''ironic.'' In closing, gay pride is quite simply not being ashamed of being homosexual. I don't see anything wrong with that. *** Regarding that, I have a honest question about it. I could have used the suddenly sexuality troper tales but there is none, and I dont think this would work on the forum, so... how does one know if he is straight or straight gay? Im in my mid twenties and a virgin, and despite having always been attracted to women, I recently started getting paranoid about my sexuality for no given reason. I am NOT homophobic, its just that the thought of ME being gay is unpleasant to say the least, just like the gay thoughts my mind bombs me with, yet I cant seem to be able to stop thinking about it at all. And its getting to the point of Nightmare Fuel in that I have suffered anxiety attacks because of this. What scares me is not just the doubts, but the fact that, according to society stereotypes, apparently, suddenly turning gay even after having slept with countless women seems to be perfectly possible, while reverting back to straight is impossible. What does this have to do with this page? The fact that I might be a straight gay without knowing it. I need advice from some gay fellows because its seriously affecting my daily life, like, you know, Im

walking down the streets and as soon as I catch myself staring at a chick, my mind starts the doubts like "was I looking because I like women or just to lie to myself?" and then the shitstorm of anxiety and bad thoughts starts. Heck, I cant even do mundane things like spend weekends with my friends playing videogames because I have extreme fears of getting a boner near them and I cant even look at them in the face without panicking. I need help but psychiatrists are expensive and I dont quite trust them... **** Gay fellow here. Judging solely from personal experience, your concerns are probably unfounded. I realized I was gay, frankly, when I finally became consciously aware that I was turned on by the idea of going to town on a guy; you seem to be preoccupied by the idea of being gay rather than any specific thoughts of a randier nature, which sounds like obsessive-compulsive thinking more than anything else that comes to my mind. A psychiatrist may be a good idea (?). ***** This sounds kind of like what you're dealing with: http://www.brainphysics.com/yourenotgay.php Hope it helps, and that you're able to figure things out. ***** Its me again, and that article describes my situation word by word: the fear, not being able to stop your mind from bombing you, continously revising everything about oneself like my memories and how I act so that I keep finding and countering evidences, etc. It may be in fact HOCD as that page says, and thats something, so thanks to you two. By the way, is there a way to talk to someone here? I dont want to turn this page into a chat and I have a few more questions. * This trope describes me perfectly as well - regular person, no HardGay or CampGay leanings, but finding his gaze always going towards the guys. * This troper had a good friend in college who she ended up sharing in an apartment with, and who also happened to be Straight Gay. Enough so, apparently, that her conservative grandmother was quite concerned that she was rooming with a ''MAN''. When her grandmother tried to lecture her about the inappropriateness of such an arrangement, the following slightly-awkward conversation took place: -->Troper: Really, you have nothing to worry about... -->Grandmother: But he might try something. -->Troper: Trust me, he won't try ''anything''. -->Grandmother: Why? Because he's already got a girlfriend? -->Troper: Uh, no. Because he's gay. -->Grandmother: Oh. ({{Beat}}, then cheerful) Well, that's okay then. * I think this trope fits me. I'm a mostly gay(long story)guy who doesn't really fit any gay stereotypes. The only thing really would be that I like clothes alot. I also like animes, comics, movies and books. I do really well at school and I guess I'm kinda of a well dressed geek. I also have an unwanted harem of sorts and have had multiple girls crush on me, to my amusement. ** This fits me to a T, especially the clothes part. I mostly find the crushes uncomfortable (though they can also be flattering). * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper,]] though actually bisexual, leans more towards other girls. However, I definitely don't look like a ButchLesbian, and I don't really fit {{LipstickLesbian}}. Really, I seem like any other person, just geeky, and actually near the top of

my class. * The greatest joy this troper had in outing himself to friends was discovering just how many gaydars he flew under. * This troper is pretty much this, as is her girlfriend when she isn't being camp. * This troper is evidently "straight gay". Upon coming out to his close friends he was told "but you don't act gay." (Fail) ---Back to StraightGay, to the surprise of many. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StrangeMindsThinkAlike * This [[Tropers/JWHarding troper]] and his ex-girlfriend often had their moments that bordered on the psychic. -->'''JWH's GF:''' Hon, what's the name of that movie star, you know, the one from a long time ago that had all that sex with guys and had a face like, uh, Doris Durango... -->'''JWH:''' Clara Bow? -->'''JWH's GF:''' That's it! Clara Bow! -->Beat. -->'''JWH:''' Who's Doris Durango? * This creepy dude and I were looking at the stars. We were silent for a while, and then he said "One of [[AlienTropes them]] will be wondering the same thing right now". I smiled. It made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. * A friend and [[@/SotiCoto myself]] the other day were at the pub, and she mentioned the incident with the decapitation at the supermarket in Tenerife... and immediately we both cried out ''"THIS IS MY TREASURE!"'' and started laughing ourselves silly. * This troper has a strange amount of telepathy with her friends and family... Including having entire conversations with pronouns, sentence fragments, and much hand waving. One instance, when referring to an underwear-swimming incident: -->'''Friend 1:''' Hey, you remember that thing the other day at her house? -->'''This troper:''' Yeah. That was funny, especially when she said-->'''Friend 2:''' That joke about that cowboy! -->'''Friend 1:''' OMG! Haha, milk... -->'''This troper:''' Oh man, good times. -->'''Friend 3, eavesdropping:''' ...WHAT? ** That reminds me of an episode of Home Improvement... * This troper and his GF. Same dream, Different POV. * This might be an example of ''Perverted'' Minds Think Alike, but: This female troper and two former male co-workers, very good friends of mine, were talking about anime and one of them mentioned the redhead from {{Bleach}} -->'''Me and Coworker 1:''' The one with the huge rack? * [[TeenGenius this troper]] and [[GeniusDitz another student from his school]] participated in the county spelling bee. As we left the

school that morning, the other student commented to the teacher that "We'll probably get, like, 15th place." When we returned to the school that afternoon, this troper's friend asked about the results of the spelling bee: -->'''Friend:''' Did you get farther than [other guy]? -->'''This troper:''' Yeah... -->'''Friend:''' I knew it. He probably got, like, 15th place. * Slight change to the norm- on a first date. Are both astonished by where a few hours have just gone. I start on a fairly rambly thing involving Einstein, and we both say, simultaneously- "Time." * At one point last year, I was asked for a three-digit number by some kid in science class. I say 132. A few minutes later, he asks my sister, who has been on the other side of the room for the entire class. She says 132. The poor guy almost gave himself a heart attack. * My best friend and I met in our freshman english class. One day we had to write a short essay on "The Hobbit" and have it peer edited. We each used the * exact* same idea. Then, we switched papers, read them, and wrote something like "It was ok, but mine was better, you copycat" on the bottom. Our teacher thought we were being funny, but we swear it was a coincidence. * This troper went out shopping for a Father's Day card, and ended up picking one with a man riding a donkey on the front, with a punchline that was something like "It's Father's Day, you can feel free to just [[IncrediblyLamePun sit on your ass]]". A bit later in the day, his sister also came by with a gift and a card - it was a different Father's Day card that ''also'' had a picture of a donkey and involved an "ass" pun. * During a conversation, this troper's friend told her she sounded Italian that day. (For the record, she's Australian.) Later, during class, another friend who had been absent for the first conversation told her she sounded like a drunk Italian. * My brother and I have bizarre moments where we say the exact same thing at the exact same time. For example, a friend was leaving our house: -->'''Friend 1:''' Can you guys look for my phone? (an LG Env) -->'''Friend 2:''' What does it look like? -->'''Me and My Brother:''' It looks like a calculator. -->'''Everyone else:''' O_O * [[{{Kaizykat}} This Troper]] and her [[{{Nakama}} best friend]] often joke that they share a single mind. For example, deciding a new character's nationality was as follows: ->'''Her:''' Well, what ethnicity should Carmen (Her Character) be? ->'''Troper:''' I dunno, there are a bunch of countries. ->'''Her:''' Hmmm... ->'''Troper:''' Something about Carmen strikes me as Puerto Rican. I don't know why. ->'''Her:''' It's like we connected minds. o.o ->'''Troper:''' That's pretty scary over the internet. IRL, it wouldn't phase me that much. * This troper and her friend are like that too. It's become an inside joke, whichever one of us says something that we both say first "wins".

* [[FoominBlue This Troper]] tends to measure decorated cakes in terms of whatever decorations are on it; for instance, asking for a piece with 'that flower' on it, or counting the shell/scalloped icing 'bumps' on the side. I didn't think anything about it until my sister's last birthday party, when I asked for "Just two bumps, please" and got stared at by my sister and mother. Dad, however, instantly knew what I meant, and said as much. * [[{{Nezumi}} This Troper]] was planning to suggest a trope about the prevalence of squids in fiction, and calling it Everything's Squishier With Squids. She soon decided "Squids" was too narrow, and it should be cephalopods in general, with the title changed to reflect that. Turns out there's already a trope called [=~Everything's Squishier With Cephalopods~=] * This troper once walked into his local comic shop and remarked "It's deader than Gwen Stacy in here today." About an hour later, another regular customer came in and said "Wow, it's deader than Elektra today." * Not sure if it counts, because this is to be expected, but this troper and her twin sister. Speaking the weirdest things at the same time, we went as far as to look up what roadkill was in Japanese at the same time. We did not discuss this. "That's what I was thinking!" is a sentance exchanged on a daily basis. This troper once even said to her sister "stop speaking these things before I type them out!" while voice chatting with an online friend. * In a class on lighting for live shows, my professor once told a story about doing lighting for a concert with a diverse group of bands, in order to point out that different performers want different things out of their lighting: While rehearsing, a rap group on the bill complained that the lighting made them "look like zombies". Later a metal band got on stage to rehearse, he still had the lighting set the same way, and they loved it... because it made them "look like zombies". * This troper and a friend from art class will peer critique the same drawing separately but say almost the exact same thing, or point out the same virtues and flaws. This is weird considering we have completely different approaches to drawing and design. * This geeky troper and her ex-boyfriend (who moved out of the country but remains a close friend) are both very strange people who don't care what other people thing. The two of us were once waiting for our lunch at a restaraunt and there was an awkward silence of about a minute. At the same moment, both of us decided to break the silence by singing ''[[http://youtu.be/TB3aJoZugg8 The Ballad of Serenity]]'', the theme for the show ''{{Firefly}}''. Even stranger, as their waitress came over with our food, she joined in! She is now a close friend. * Happens with astonishing frequency to the troper. "I was just about to say that," is almost his catchphrase. * One of my besties and I have such a ridiculous amount in common that it's almost like we can read each other's minds. * This troper and her brother often think of the same thing at the same time. That, along with astonishing physical resemblance, made people think (more than once) that we are twins, obviously ignoring

our different birthdates. * It's freaky how often me and my best friend are on the same wavelength. We both say something at the same time, and everybody around is like, "WHOA." And, all I need to do is mention the [[{{NoodleIncident}} Monkey Bars Incident of 2005]] and she knows what I'm talking about. * A friend and I were watching a play I was in, and at one part [[BiTheWay a friend of ours]] says, "[[AllMenArePerverts Did you know that the average guy has one sexual thought every seventeen seconds?]]" Due to pausing in the middle of it and [[EpicFail epic failure]] on our part, we both somehow managed to hear "bisexual." We had to rewind the tape, since that was definitely wrong, and then spent a good few minutes laughing. * This troper and her girlfriend. ''So much''. Extremely useful, because no one can know about the fact that we're together, and we thus have a lot of subtext in every conversation we ever have in public. * This troper, although, in his case, it is All Minds Think Alike. Not even joking, if you speak a sentence to him, chances are he will be able to interrupt it with exactly (or a more elaborate version of) what you were about to say. * This troper's two [[RedOniBlueOni best friends]] have what they call a "bro-link". Every so often one will begin to say something, and then the other will finish the sentence. This troper also has a "bro-link" with [[SixthRanger one of our other friends]]. * This troper has many times heard someone say something literally a few seconds after she thought it or visa versa. I have slight ESP though so I guess it comes naturally. * Happens a lot to this troper on this very website. After watching the latest episode of a show I'll go to its page to add a trope, to find that someone's beat me to it, complete with the same potholes, offhand comments, and even puns that I was planning on using. * This troper has a saying for anytime this happens: "Well, great minds think alike, and apparently [[SelfDeprecation so do idiots]]." You wouldn't believe how often I get to say that. * This troper had an incident that's worth mentioning here; it happened during his first term at a community college. During a 15 minute break, he and one other student he never talked with before were the only ones in the break room, sitting at separate tables. Now, sometimes, when this troper is alone, he'll talk softly to himself, but on this occassion, he said in a normal voice, for no reason at all but to be strange, [[MontyPython "Don't you even take the bones out?"]] And without missing a beat, without even looking up from his book, the student at the other table answered back "If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?" * I was over my friend's house and she and her bf where playing halflife together. They thought they needed to get to a certain ledge and were having trouble. I noticed that there were a large amount of zombie bodies lying around. This is paraphrased but... Me: Can you stack the bodies and use them to get to the ledge? Her: I thought of the same thing! But no you can't Him: *Looks slightly disturbed*

* Once I got my best friend into [[{{Anime}} anime]], she started having the same idea of a perfect romance novel... and even started having the same fantasies I had of the perfect boyfriend. It kind of scared me, but we are still going to get our [[{{PowerTrio}} other friend]] into [[{{TrueArtIsAngsty}} true art]]. * I made "I'm just Saiyan" and "Jesus Christ, vampire hunter!" before DBZ Abridged. My catchphrase about my OCD which I again did not rip off is apparently also quote from somewhere and made it to the SuperOCd page. * My sister and I are both big [[{{WWE}} WWE]] fans. As we're watching Monday Night Raw one night, one guy throws another into a statue of the WWE symbol that sits on the stage, and upon impact, the statue rotates. I immediately say "It [[{{EverythingsBetterWithSpinning}} spins!]] and my sister says to me, "I was thinking the same thing!" * My best friend and I are often like this. One time, I was going to buy a new guitar and told her she could come with me, then immediately added "and no, I'm not getting one with flaming skulls on it." and she says "How did you know?! Get out of my mind!" * As is true with most people, there are a lot of examples in my life. My friend and I are in tune enough that we should really stop bothering with conversations. We always end up just saying what the other was thinking anyway. My mother can also fill in my father's "whatsisname"s flawlessly, without any real hints, but that's primarily from living with him for so long. I have another fairly notable example: ** In an instance so extreme that even television writers would have a hard time accepting it as realistic, my sister and I were sitting in complete silence in the basement. We had not spoken for some time and were both in our own worlds. For no particular reason ''at all'', we both burst out into ''Sweet Caroline''. At the same time. At the same part of the song. Again, for no reason at all. * This troper, when bored, will often run youtube searches based entirely on how fitting a song is in the context of the series or character. Some of them make sense, like a video I found pairing Skillet's Monster with TrinityBlood. But one of the most absurdly jarring and objectively strange moments came when I ran a search for "Still Alive MegaMind" and discovered such a video actually exists. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaiQvWDi-M Seriously.]] * This troper often has this with his brother and sister, but it's nothing compared to what happens with his best friend. Whenever we talk, we always think the same things, I know her so well. A particularly funny one was with my sister a few days ago. Over the weekend, we had a RunningGag of creepily saying "Jenga" at random moments. So we were all in the pool playing Marco Polo and at the same exact time, we responded to "Marco!" with "jengaaaaaaaa" and then we cracked up hysterically. ---This page should really have a link to StrangeMindsThinkAlike. * I was just thinking that! <<|TroperTales|>>

StrangeSyntaxSpeaker * This troper knows a rather strange example. There's a guy my friends and I have been having trouble with, lets call him E, that has an OCD habit of saying what he means and then negating it. For example, [[MindScrew "I do and do not love and hate this and that."]] It gets to be [[{{Understatement}} very confusing.]] * You are this trope when you attempt learning a foreign language. The more different it is from your own, the more rapidly and blatantly you will be at this when you start, especially the older you are when you start. This often is a quick way for people to spot a foreigner, and can oddly enough result in either increased kindness or disdain. However, as you become more fluent, this trope is in place less and less often, until you have what is normal syntax in the second language. This oddly enough does not apply to those who learned two languages at once growing up; they can seperate the two and their rules fairly well unconsciously. But this troper, in Mongolian? God, yes. It's been met with more sympathy than anything, though. And this trope is equally in effect for Mongolians attempting English, though the stereotypical Yoda like pattern is actually not standard for either direction of Mongolian-English speakers. However, languages being what they are, it's probably TruthInTelevision for some language and another corresponding one as well. I lack the knowledge to say which languages, though, so other Tropers should feel free to jump in and add their experiences too before we add this to the main page, if we ever do. (Not sure if it's quite up to par yet as an entry.) * This troper sometimes when unaware of what en is doing does this. In all of the languages en speaks. Also, with en's significant other, we speak in a sort of grammar from a constructed language. It neats definitely! * One this troper is, occasionally. ---To StrangeSyntaxSpeaker go back now, yes. ----

StrawmanEmotional * [[@/LeighSabio This Troper]] didn't only launch this trope, but sometimes acts like this trope as well. It-it's not like I see ''no'' value in logic, it's more that I have trouble remembering what the value of it is when I'm angry. Or sad. Or happy. Or afraid. Or {{wangst}}ing. [[OverlyLongGag Or...]] ** Everyone does this. Some people just get emotional more easily than others. Chock it up to coping mechanisms, I suppose. *** Speak for yourself. ** How are you even alive?! Excuse me, but [[@/SotiCoto I'm]] pretty much the total opposite. * This troper also tends to forget logic when feeling extreme emotion.

Unfortunately, this troper also tends to be a bit of a LeeroyJenkins when dealing with people. Protip: the more you focus on it, the more it happens. ---WHAT? YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO {{STRAWMAN EMOTIONAL}}? *cries* ----

StrawmanU * This troper attends [=UMass=] and finds the political situation here hilarious. The Vice President of the Republican Club used to be the President until he was removed for sexual harassment, he was recently arrested for violating a restraining order, and when ultra-liberals protested the Republican Club's extremely conservative speaker until he [[GodwinsLaw called them Nazis]] and left the Club proceeded to hold a "Rally for Free Speech" on April 1st. At the same time, the campus ultra-liberals consistently allocate highly disproportionate funding to black social-justice groups despite having few black students on campus at all and have made the Palestinian-Arab side of the Israeli-Arab conflict into a ''cause celebre'' -- stopping their protest march outside the Hillel House on a Saturday afternoon to shout "Israel, Israel you can't hide! We charge you with genocide!". ''Every political group here'' is some kind of StrawmanPolitical come to life! Well, actually the [=UDems=] (the local branch of the Democratic Party) are reasonable liberals with thought-out positions, but they don't throw nearly as many actual events as the crazy ultraliberal groups. ** Further story from [=UMass=] follows. In Spring 2010 the school decided to host a Great Debate on six issues between Left and Right. To represent the Right, they chose the aforementioned former president of the College Republicans, known throughout campus as the King of Douchebags. To represent the Left, they chose a little-known figure who admitted, in his opening speech, to not being so much a leftist per se as an AngryBlackMan. [[SoBadItsHorrible Hilarity, unfortunately, did not ensue.]] ** Also, Hampshire really is crazy. Occasionally Hampshire students with political views that ultra-ultra-leftists wouldn't agree with transfer to one of the other Four Colleges in the area. *** Hampshire is just plain crazy. Politically or not. *** The Hampshire-going troper disagrees. I'm a conservative thirdyear that's happy as can be on our tiny, weird little campus--sure it can be difficult sometimes what with the insane bias of the SS classes, but common sense keeps one sane. Beyond that, I went into Hampshire expecting it to be ultra-left-all-the-time...more than anything else, I've found Hampshire to be a pretty intensely geeky college, rather than just HIPPIES HIPPIES HIPPIES. Now, if our buildings weren't so hideous, maybe we'd be the perfect school! * This troper, who goes to UC Santa Cruz, would like to point out that 4/20 is celebrated countrywide, not just here. Also, banana slugs are far more common around campus than sea lions. Other than those little justifications, though...yeah...yeah, it's pretty weird.

** Yes, but you people ''organize'' your event. And the police... *** This troper also goes to UCSC, and would like to point out that like 80% of the campus cares nothing about politics. ** I once got extra credit for showing up to a Santa Cruz class on 4/20. * On a related note, UC Berkeley appears to have calmed down from the radical liberalism of the '60's. At least we're not making news anymore.... ** Definitely true. ** With the recent budget crisis, things are getting to be a little bit crazy on campus, but at least we're not under siege (yet). ** This troper would like to note that some of the ruckus may even be caused by outsiders. But they again, he doesn't know everything that goes on on campus. * The political parties on this troper's university can't seem to agree which extreme it is, but all except for one appear to think it is, in fact, some kind of dystopia. The punchline? That one party holds 24 out of 47 seats in the uni parliament. * And [[{{Tropers/ObscuredOne}} I]] attend Ferris State. It's not nearly as crazy as some of the above examples, but definitely leans more towards Berserkely than towards Jim Jones. The surrounding town of Big Rapids, however, is almost the perfect Jim Jones type of town. We don't have a lot of 4/20 problems, but there is a hookah club which is very prominent. Also, if you're right-wing, you may not find a whole lot of on-campus groups that make you feel truly welcome. (Read: Don't discuss Democrats' flaws in front of ''any'' Anime Club member! It's [[{{BerserkButton}} usually a bad idea]]!) Also, don't expect others to respect your free speech. Put up a pro-GOP thing in the residence halls, and someone ''will'' take it down on you. While the teachers are usually pretty reasonable, don't expect to win bonus points for finding a way of defending Sarah Palin (or similar figure). Someone you're in class with [[{{BerserkButton}} will not be able to let it go]]. ** That actually sound fairly moderate, to be honest. A few hardcore lefties aren't unexpected or unusual, in the same way that a few hardcore conservatives wouldn't be either. *** Uh...you consider people not respecting your freedom of speech to be moderate? Plus, the person said the college was predominantly leftist. It appears we have different definitions of the word "moderate". * This troper dealt with a bunch of Objectivists in Berserkley once. They had dressed people up in costumes of Communist dictators, and BarackObama was among the dictators. They were spraying the [[StrawmanPolitical "dictators"]] with pig blood. From super soakers. They were all launching into LONG rants, which made my mom tell them to "stop being Ayn Ranters and do something productive." They harrassed us, called us "fucking commies" and were arrested hours later for attacking a disabled man. ** Must have been a riot during the height of the "RON PAUL RELOVEUTION" craze. ** Great ShutUpHannibal moment, though. ** So basically a typical Berserkley protest. Except for the political

side. And the getting arrested. * This curious phenomenon is certainly not limited to the USA. NUI Maynooth in Ireland is an historic bastion of Catholicism, being the most active seminary in the country, and definitely defies the stereotype of universities being filled with radical lefty types. The campus politics tend to get interesting, especially when anybody brings up religion, the Lisbon Treaty, abortion or stem cell research. And by 'interesting' I mean 'terrifying'. ** In the War of Independance Macroom had a huge number in the 'RA. Have a look at its people now... *** That's mostly St. Patrick's College, NUI Maynooth itself is pretty much free from rabid fundamentalists other than the Pro-Life Society and they just stick to themselves. Even with the student fee situation and the national strike most students just shrug and take it as a free day, and the Union Council is woefully underused. You could almost say that the students are too apolitical. * At the University this troper used to attend (in Australia) there were 2 Christian groups. One was the libral Christian group who were for 'love the sinner, even if you hate the sin' and the other were the Conservative 'All sinnners will burn in Hell' type. The first group was larger which led the second group to ''bus in'' supporters from the bush so that they would have a greater number to egg people with during 'Gay Pride' Day. I'm just proud of the liberal Christians who, in the best Christian tradition, threw themselves between the Gays and the bigots. I wish I was making this up... Straw Fundementalists indeed. ** Why do you wish you were making this up? This agnostic troper thinks those liberal Christians were ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]]''. * This troper went to ''junior high'' in a mini-Jim Jones U. The principal (and most of the staff, for that matter) was an incompetent moron, the vice principal was a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] CompleteMonster who was constantly preaching about hellfire and brimstone, and nearly all the students were either MoralGuardians in training or were [[KidsAreCruel just plain nasty.]] Also, guess where the school got its entire curriculum from, and the only place where potential teachers could graduate from to be hired? Yup, Bob Jones University. ** You just described this tropher's high school. * This troper goes to the University of British Columbia, where two of our student union executives just got impeached for making a human rights appeal to the United Nations based on the complaint that ''school expenses were too high''. * Wesleyan University. The movie ''PCU'' was based on us. Nuff said. * [[Tropers/TheEvilOboist This troper]] goes to Brigham Young University--Idaho, which is even ''more'' Jim Jonesy than the larger, more famous, more highly-regarded one in Utah. ''Shorts'' (this includes capris!) and ''flip-flops'' are not allowed on campus, and it really does feel like you're going to church every hour of every day. Even among Mormons it's known either as "that place you go when you didn't get into BYU-U" or, less charitably, "the breeding grounds," as marriage is a very common side-effect of matriculation. Also, this

troper, who is a moderate Independent, is considered a flaming liberal by her classmates. * Zig-zagged by [[Tropers/StudiodeKadent this troper's]] University. On one hand, this troper ran into his share of StrawFeminist manhaters, a radicalized "queer" lobby which argued that [[TooDumbToLive the battle for nonheterosexual acceptance was a Marxist class war]], and the political science faculty is ''unmentionanbly'' intellectually dishonest. On the other hand, the philosophy faculty was emminently fair and listened to this troper's arguments (and gave him very good grades), ''and this troper is an [[{{UsefulNotes/Objectivism}} Objectivist]] (!)''. Additionally, the economics department was very sane (like most academic economics departments), the professors were either pro-mixed-economy or promarket-economy. Finally, this troper got a chance to present a discussion on the benefits of Objectivism to the University's secularist-atheist society, which was very well received. ** Zig-zagged? So your school is like your average university - it has its strong liberals, its strong conservatives, and a lot of people inbetween? * [[{{Tropers/HotelKilo}} This troper]] attends a small college deep in the hills of central West Virginia... thought it was a set up for a Jim Jonestown U? Oh so wrong. It has an entire "Green Studies" program, more hippies then you can shake a stick at, bizarre but understanding professors, and a town to match. Thoroughly averts this trope despite the possibilities and recent administration attempts. * Student groups are nearly always more radical than the general movement they represent. Feminist groups will always be full of [[StrawFeminist Straw Feminists]]. Conservative groups will always be a mix of Bible-thumpers and people who whack off to Ayn Rand. This trope is really more about campuses as a whole which are one or another, not when you find individuals on campus who are like that. * My university has its share of lesbian separatists, who for some reason give an IfItsYouItsOkay to native guys. I say native even though most of us just say Indian because you can't even refer to yourself as the common word. And then there's Native American Studies, which is run by white guys who love Lynn Andrews... * [[http://www2.astate.edu/info/campus-map/ This Troper's former alma mater]] is such a Berserkeley it's pretty much little more than a resort hotel that happens to hold classes. The school's paper is so left-leaning and corrupt it's a joke; they're more apt to report about a bunch of vandals stealing newspapers to cover up an embarassing story than the story itself (which was about a 17-year-old girl found legally drunk at a fraternity house, and to this day no one knows who she is and if she was a student or a townie). Most of the taxpayers' and donors' money goes to entitlement programs like sumptuous, wasteful buffets three times a day, big screen televisions with premium channels in all the dorms and common areas, and computer labs with high-speed Internet--while education, textbooks, and supplies go sorely lacking. Town girls, some as young as 15, regularly call the mens' rooms to proposition them for sex and freely gain access to residence halls, so campus security is laughable...and yet I hear no complaints because the aforementioned campus media don't report on it.

I have written about AS(S)U and its denizens numerous times under many pseudonyms. * University of Maine Farmington. There are Republicans worth talking to, but you wouldn't know it by the actions of the official group, who are widely held in contempt even by conservative students. And the administrations makes noises about being progressive, eco-friendly, arts-friendly, supporting human rights. There was a proposal last year to tear down the Victorian houses on campus because they weren't "sustainable", with absolutely no suggestions about where they would put the programs that used those buildings and apparently no understanding that it is more eco-friendly and cheaper to adapt an existing structure than to tear down and build new, at least for the standards they claim to want. They are building a new (and poorlydesigned; I've seen the blueprints) arts center, but they have slashed the Theater department, eliminated the theater tech major (which was a draw even for non-theatre majors), and told one of the theater faculty, "Oh, you can get all of that out of a book." ''HEADDESK'' They are also cutting the usable space for tech in half, and we are already overcrowded. And, oh yeah, even though the theater department is reposnsible for looking after the center, we're not allowed to use it. As for human rights- the administration has set up close ties to China. I am so glad I am out of here after next semester. * I went to UNC-Asheville, our state's Berserkeley. My teachers were all die-hard left-wingers who ranted about politics constantly. In many classes, we never even had to read any of the required reading because the teachers would be too busy giving us political lectures to actually teach anything. And our grades were based entirely on whether we parroted what our teachers said. I remember getting a perfect grade in Humanities 414 after turning in a long-winded anti-Ronald Reagan essay that had dozens of spelling errors, glaring historical errors, and no citations. I had several teachers who would give passing grades to students who didn't take tests or turn in papers because they were out of town attending protests. And many students were just as bad. There was one guy who protested anything the government did by standing in from the of the cafeteria and screaming about fascists. He also liked to mark the anniversary of 9-11 by buying a bunch of sidewalk chalk and writing a 20-foot long essay about how the America had it coming. Another classmate of mine majored in "Transgender Studies" and couldn't get into a class discussion without crying about the homophobic atmosphere of the class and then leaving. * [[Tropers/GamerFromJump I go to]] UNC-Greensboro, and am a member of the campus atheist-agnostics-skeptics group. We regularly "table" in the campus center (give out flyers and such), as do other clubs. Never had a Jim Jonestown moment. There's ''one'' guy who's a refugee from a Berserkely (or acts like one). Still, it helps to have something to whet the rhetorical blade on. * Okay, so it's not a ''college'' example, but [[http://www.rushartsonline.org/ this Troper's high school]] is so left-leaning as a whole it's really not even funny. At least half of my classes are spent talking to us about a "real-life issue," which is all well and good... Except the thing is, though, it's all hilariously biased, and we're never told a more conservative side of the story.

(Concerning issues like illegal immigration, the budget crisis, healthcare, gay marriage, etc. I have no idea what those issues have to do with, say, English class, either.) The student body isn't really any better; GranolaGirls, scenesters, would-be hippies, the works abound; class discussions pretty much always end with almost the entire class agreeing that "Technology is bad!! Everyone hates gays!! Religion is illogical and evil!! Everyone should be freaking vegan!!!1!!" And this is all coming from someone who is fairly leftist, herself, albiet more moderately so. (And, yes, fully supportive of gay rights, before anyone accuses me of homophobia for the aforementioned comments.) I once had a conservative friend attending here who was pretty much driven insane before transferring to a school in the suburbs. Then again, it ''is'' an art school, so maybe I should've seen this coming. ---Go back to StrawmanU, and sing "[[TheRollingStones I see a socialist door and I want to paint it African-American...]]" <<|TroperTales|>>)

StrawVulcan * Once, [[LeighSabio This Troper]] was talking to a friend of mine who claimed that people who were good at math couldn't draw, and were usually uncreative, because "[[CommonKnowledge You can't be both left brained and right brained.]] [[LittleKnownFacts One side of your brain usually takes over.]]" I denied it in the most StrawVulcan way I could for the sake of HypocriticalHumor. ** Also, strongly averted with [[LeighSabio this same troper]], who has been known to read articles on formal logic in her spare time, has strong AgentScully tendencies, and thinks most philosophical problems can be solved with logic...yet is a CloudCuckoolander [[MrImagination Ms. Imagination]] who is emotional verging on EmoTeen and has been known to cry at songs and {{Fan Fic}}s. * also averted with this troper. I firmly value the ability to reason coldly and as objectively as possible. I'm a philosophy major and a lover of formal and informal logic, Russell, Wittenstein, dry linguistic theory, contemporary analytical epistemology, and purely passionless debate. I'm also an EthicalSlut and I hate most socially constructed cultural norms. I can be a bit of a HollywoodAtheist at times. But I'm also a poet and a songwriter and a total {{Dandere}} when you get to know me. * Averted by this (autistic) troper. I prefer to solve problems without letting my emotions into the picture, but that is because I suck at handling my emotions, and when I deal with problems rationally things turn out much better. I'm also rather creative and imaginative, being good at writing and other creative arts as well as science and mathematics, and I generally find the humanities more interesting than science (though I find even theoretical mathematics interesting on some level). On the other hand, I suck at drawing, but that is only because of my poor manual dexterity. * Averted by every logic and many mathematics professors I've known. They've been some of the most agile and adaptive wits I've come

across, with flair for dramatic and comedic and timing that the drama and communications department could learn from observing. They couldn't be called uncreative, and if they lack emotion, they certainly apply their audience's emotional sensibilities effectively. * This troper went through a phase around middle school when she acted like this in a misguided way of reacting to some personal issues. I got better after I had sense knocked into me. ---Logic dictates there is no optimal choice between using [[StrawVulcan this link]] to go back to the main page or [[StrawVulcan this link]].

StrokeTheBeard * [[Tropers/{{Alucard}} This Troper]] admits to doing this often (including while launching this very trope). I'm doing it now, in fact. ** I was stroking my beard when I came across this page. * Indeed, half the fun of growing a beard is getting to stroke it. [[ARandomSerf This troper]] even grew his long and pointy for extra satisfaction. Shame it was a pain to keep in line. * [[{{Wolfgirl44}} This troper]] is female, and so can never have a beard. It's still fun to make beard-stroking movements while contemplating evil. ** A prominent chin can make a good substitute. * This troper does so almost entirely unconsciously. Perhaps there's an evil-reflex gene? * [[{{LoneCentrist}} This Troper]] has had several people point out to him that he does this a lot with his mutton chops. * This troper does this when he is thinking slightly more perverted than chivalrous. * This Troper's Default boredom face is stroking his Goatee, It sucks when I shave it Because then people just look at you like your crazy * This troper frequently refers to stroking her internet beard thoughtfully. The real-life equivalent appears to be rubbing her thumb along her jawline. * [[{{Tropers.Russtopher}} This troper]] strokes his beard often, and infact has friends who are fond of stroking it since they don't have their own to stroke. * This Troper admits that this was one of the main reasons he grew one in the first place... * This troper and all his friends do this constantly. Especially when thinking or bored. * I do that almost constantly. If I'm not stroking my beard I'm twirling my moustache. * This troper doesn't tend to grow much facial hair, and so ends up stroking a day or two of 'I can't see it in the mirror unless I look closely so I can't be bothered to shave it' stubble. *scrape* *skritch* *scrape* * I tend to stroke both prongs of my forked beard. * This she-Troper's many male friends relish this trope. 'Fro-man, Shade, That Guy = Team Goatee! * This female Troper strokes her ponytail as an alternative

---Return to the main article while [[StrokeTheBeard stroking your devious beard.]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StrollingThroughTheChaos * [[SchizoTechnician I]] went to an inner city high school, and at one point there was some gang violence during lunch. I was so busy studying while walking to class that I didn't notice that I was strolling through a sizable fight until my classmates pointed it out afterwards. * There was once a mini-riot at this troper's school (just 'cos why the hell not? It was a hot day and everybody felt like rampaging a little). He abstained from the chaos, placidly picking and weaving his way between guys twice his size shoving and beating the crap out of each other. He wouldn't have been especially surprised to have glanced at his reflection and seen HATERS GONNA HATE floating over his head. * There was once a huge fight at this troper's school blocking the hallway that led to her cousin's locker right at the end of the day. Her cousin contemplated walking the 45 minutes to her house with an unnecessarily bulky bag for all of four seconds before saying "Oh, fuck this shit," and casually making her way through the fight and back, unharmed with the same bored look on her face the whole way. ---Walk back through the carnage to the main page [[StrollingThroughTheChaos here]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StrongFamilyResemblance * This troper has been mistaken for her mother more than once. * I've met a couple when he is tall, normal builded and with some arab features, while she is thin, with big dark eyes and petite. Both of them are brunettes. And they got six kids (four girls, two boys) who look just like one parent or another. It's uncanny. * this troper has five brothers and will always get a response of something like "Holy shit, you all look the same!" or "Well, you dad will never worry about if any of you are not his." when show the family picture. forgetting minor differences of hair and eye color, we look like younger clones of our father. this has lead to some very funny stories and embarrassment of those outside the family. ** one brother is in the army and I got chewed out for not being in uniform and not having a regulation hair cut by his commanding officer. at first I was wondering how this man knew I was in JROTC but then it donned on me and I came back after then rant with "Sir, I think you have the wrong sibling." have you ever seen a army ranger sweat? I have. ** I also was kissed by one brothers GF. my response was "I enjoy the

affection but I think that was for him" pointing at the bother who was standing behind her trying to decided if he was pissed or to fall on the floor laughing. * My sister and I are sometimes mistaken for twins. I'm 20 and she is 16, but most people have [[AgeIsRelative trouble guessing]] [[VagueAge our ages]]. [[AmbiguousGender Or gender.]] * My brother and I look startlingly like each other when he shaves. This may or may not be the reason that he wears a great bushy beard. * This troper was repeatedly told that she looked just like her mother, something she never understood...until she saw old photos. The two of us were practically twins when were were both thirteen! * My aunt is a relatively famous basketball trainer in my city, and when the teachers know my last name, they mostly think that I'm her daughter rather than her niece. * My aunt (mother's sister) and I looked so much alike when I was younger (10-12 years old) that when strangers saw us together, they thought she was my older sister. * My cousin and I. We both have dark brown hair and eyes, similar facial features, etc. She's 28 and I'm 14. I'm often described as being a 'mini' version of her by my relatives, when she was getting married... * Strangers sometimes mistake one of my sisters for me, despite an eight year age difference; people who know one of us will identify us as siblings, even if we are not together. The full set of my siblings (three girls, one boy) all have noses with the same snub shape, hair that is curly and within a few similar shades of brown, big square teeth, pale and freckle-less skin, pointy chins, high cheekbones, and powerful shortsightedness leading to nerd glasses (except for the one sister who is fashion-conscious, and insists on contacts). Two of our six cousins, older than the lot of us by ten or so years, also look like elements of the same matched set.

StuckOnBandAidBrand * My father used to do appliance repair. One time, he got a call from a very confused secretary. -->This woman called. She says her Frigidaire is running, but her Kelvinator is broken. When I asked her what brand it was, she said, 'GE!' * My father and I (as well as the rest of the world) use wikipedia often, and when I told him to look something up on wikipedia, he asked if that means he'd "wiki" it. I've used it a few times since then too.

StuffedIntoALocker * When the new highschool was built the band cabinets were varied in size. The ones for larger intruments were quite cozy, too bad teachers didn't like us hanging out in them. (blasted new school paranoia) ** did I update in my sleep? *** Are..are you me? o_o * In this editor's school, one girl was able to fit in her locker. She was the only one who could though, as she was very small.

* This editor's junior high school had lockers big enough for the students (and still does). However, they were easy to open from the inside, so the stunt was only ever done as a gag. * This editor's high school has bigger lockers for the Grade 12 students. Large enough to fit an average person. * This editor's high school had the half size lockers. If you took everything out, a person could fit in. Considering the neccessary preparation to empty an entire locker, this was never done as torture. There used to be a great photo of two lockers one on top of the other that both had a teenage girl staring out of it. Of course, there was the one time, someone did it as a joke and had the door close to scare her friend only to realize that her foot was wedging the door completely shut from the outside... * At this editors high school, students JOKED about people getting stuffed in lockers, but it never actually happened to my knowledge. * This troper can fit into the school lockers and has been shoved into them * [[TheToonGeekette This troper]] doesn't know anyone who was shoved into a locker by a bully, but, on her last day of 7th grade, she and a few others witnessed a boy stuff ''himself'' into a locker, just to see if he could do it. He could. ** Same in this troper's high school. Two people did, in fact, on the last day of their freshman years. Only one actually got locked in, though. * [[DarkInsanity13 This troper]] once assisted in a prank where a friend stuffed himself into another friend's locker. She locked the door and kept an eye out for the victim with a couple others. A few minutes later, said victim comes along. She wondered why said troper had a grin on her face (she replied it was simply to make her paranoid), and opened her locker only to scream and pretty much have a heart attack when she found said friend inside. Actually, this troper might have done it twice to two different people (same person hiding though). The lockers at her school are fairly large, and the only thing that makes a few a tad uncomfortable is the coat hooks on the sides and bottom of the shelf. * This troper's high school had a semi-annual hazing called "Freshman Day", which occurred every Friday the 13th, and/or if we lost the Thanksgiving football game (it's the oldest high school rivalry in the state). Her freshman year, she watched at least six people get stuffed in lockers, two rolled down the hill in trashcans, and one poor sap get duct-taped to the flagpole. All of her friends were upperclassmen, so she was under their protection and didn't get hazed. * In this troper's class, long ago, one guy voluntarily shut himself inside a locker for fun. Too bad noone really knew how to open that incredibly stupid lock-system. * This troper's school lockers are far too small to fit a person into, but one girl managed to fit into a locker at a local sports centre and shut the door! * In elementary school, the principal almost ''never'' called indoor recess, which meant that even if it was minus 40 out, we had to go outside. Many of us tried and failed to hide in the toilets, and then the changing stalls... but no one ''ever'' checked the gym lockers (at

least, the times I hid in there). * This troper had the misfortune of being flexible to the point of being able to make a living as a contortionist if he so chose, as well as being highly unpopular. Half-size lockers suck, hard. Today, he retains the flexibility which is no longer reason for persecution, IfYouKnowWhatIMean. * We have two gym lockers in our school that fit a student and his stuff easy. A fat one. We locked him in (on his will) so that he woulldn't have todo the mile run. It WORKED! * When this Troper was in 1st grade, she purposly tried to fit in a locker because she figured out that you could just push the lock piece back up. It would have worked if her sweater hadn't gotten jammed into the door. She had to get someone to help me out. All the while wondering if she was going to be left overnight. * [[JohnnyBGoode This troper]] had a guy brag about how he stuffed someone who was annoying him into a locker and left him there for a whole day (he got traumatized) I'd recently met the guy, and I then decided I didn't particularly like him. * When this troper was in Year Seven, her religion/science teacher (weird combination. I know.) wasn't the kind of guy who got mad at pranks, so we pulled a whole bunch of gags on him. We didn't have a locker, but we did have a big cupboard, so we'd shut people inside so they could bust out and scare him. It only worked a few times, but we pulled it on some of the other teachers. * At this troper's school, the lockers are just ''barely'' big enough for even ''small people'' to fit in there. One student, however, did manage to fit in there with the locker closed. One student nearby recorded on the camera via cellphone, one of the few movies he refuses to delete. * There was once this little guy in our high school who we used to grab and ''pretend'' to shove into the locker, but we never actually went through with it. We were only kidding with the guy, and he never seemed to mind if it was just a gag. * At this troper's high school, the lockers were perhaps ten inches wide and four feet tall, and maybe a foot deep. One of this troper's best friends was an extremely tiny girl (4'10", and weighed 95lbs at age 16). You can see where this is going - she did fit completely inside an empty locker, but refused to let us close the door, afraid that we would lock her in (we would've). Weren't we great friends? * This troper recalls one time in TV/Productions Class where we watching another period's commerical about cell phones involving a scene where one kid was shoved into a locker. --->Kid: Hey, hey, can we talk about this--Oh no! ''(gets shoved into locker)'' ** It also counted as a CrowningMomentOfFunny since our lockers are very skinny. * this troper once allowed herself to get stuffed into a gym locker in middle school because she had figured out how to open then up from the inside one time when she was bored. this troper doesn't know how she managed to remain silent instead of laughing out loud as the bully that shoved her there gloated. * Some sixth formers at This Troper's school locked a ''teacher'' into

one of the music cupboards once. Unsure of how much trouble they got in. * [[BKrueg This troper]] had a friend who stuffed ''himself'' into a locker every night just before curfew at camp. It was odd. * Not-so-very-comforting speech at a freshman orientation: ---> '''Dean of students:''' ...And kids are always coming in thinking the upperclassmen are going to stuff them in a locker. Of course they won't stuff you in a locker! You wouldn't fit! They take you out back and stuff you in a dumpster instead. [[BeatPanel <beat>]] Just kidding. ** Your Dean of Students wasn't a NightmareFuelStationAttendant, was s[=/=]he? *** Only in that case... mostly he's more of a CoolOldGuy. * This troper knew a kid in junior high who, although physically small, was [[JerkAss obnoxious]]. This began to change after an offended party stuffed him in a locker one day. * This troper knows someone who wanted to hide in his locker all day in Jr. High; and it wasn't a problem because the lockers all had an interior release button on the locks ''just in the event that that happened!'' (It was also used to unjam the lock if the door happened to be stuck open and wouldn't close.) ** Interestingly, his high school also had these but that was only because they used the same locks...The lockers were about four feet tall and there was also a shelf cutting the space off further to only a little more than three feet Therefore, it would be physically impossible for anybody above the age of five (And even then, they couldn't be too big) to fit in there without being asphyxiated. People were able to sit in them when they were open but that was pretty much all you ''could'' do with those. These were also the BIG lockers...the smaller lockers were only big enough for a toddler to be stuffed in. *** Yes, we had a contortionist try to fit in...she couldn't do it. * This troper ({{Dark Lady Celebrian}}) knows a boy who's quite short for his age. In middle school he and his friends were testing to see if he could fit in a locker, and he could. He can't fit in the high school lockers, though. * In [[{{Uerian}} this troper's]] freshman year, we wanted to see if anyone could fit in one of the lockers in the locker room during gym class. My friend was the only one small enough to fit in there... however, a hook for hanging clothes made it impossible to actually get inside. Obviously, the solution was for two of the three seniors in our class to pick up the third and allow him to ''kick and break off the hook''. After he managed to fit in the locker, the door was closed, and someone pulled out their lock and put it on the door for about ten seconds. CrowningMomentOfFunny for the class, and everyone who's still in the class after two years remembers it fondly. * While making a movie for a video production activity in school, this troper's group tried to find a locker that they could stuff someone in (the movie involved bullying), but all the lockers were too small... * I'm small enough to fit in a locker as well... But anyone could, with the size of the lockers at our school. * When this troper was younger, he was once in a swimming pool locker room when he noticed a kid holding a casual conversation with one of

the lockers (which was closed but not locked). As it turns out, inside was some shy little kid in there who had ''asked'' the other to stuff him into the locker so that he could try to get dressed without people possibly catching a glimpse of him in the buff. This troper will never understand how the kid thought it was possible for even the smallest kid to get dressed in such a tight space, or even why anybody would go to such ridiculous lengths just to avoid being seen in the nude briefly. * This tropers high school had fairly large lockers. Attending a school of Below average sized people and being a [[GentleGiant genial giant]], I was never subject to this. The Rugby team captain [[BerserkButton bullying some of the smaller Freshmen...]] "Somehow" ended up [[ItsPersonal wedged upside down in his locker,]] with the latch closed and his lock placed in the hooks (not locked). No one would admit to witnessing anything, and no repercussions were ever felt from administrators.. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge A few attempted retaliations]] were had by the rugby team, [[PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize but when tackling a wrestler/judoka twice their size...]] * A very odd boy this troper knows tried to stuff himself into a locker. It was... a little awkward to watch. * This Tropers school used to have quarter size lockers, so only the smallest people could fit in with their legs hanging out. But one year the school got full size lockers, so people were itching to try this out. This Troper was witness to the first time it happened - somebody pushed their friend into a locker, both knowing that the guy didn't have a lock. As soon as it happened, almost everyone there pulled a padlock out of their pocket and rushed forward to lock the poor sap in. * In first year, this troper tried it, but couldnt get his toes in. In a strange non-human example, somebody 3 years ahead of me apparently stuffed one of the bins inside. The bins are almost twice the size of the lockers. * While not a locker, this tropette witnessed a guy climb completely into one of the dryers in the dorm laundry room. He almost didn't fit, and nearly fell getting out when someone tried to close the door. * This Troper was mercilessly teased throughout grade school and through about 10th grade when things got better (And I'm well over all that), but you can imagine my relief when I got to the Jr/Sr high school and saw the lockers were too small to fit a human into. * This troper's dad went to a school that, even when he attended, was old. So they had rather large lockers and yes, several people ''have'' stuffed rather small kids into the lockers all the way until around 1996 when a fire broke out and, during the reconstruction, removed the lockers. * Our school didnt have lockers, but there were these big glass cupboard things used to put displays in on the science corridor, and I once climbed into one and got someone to shut me in. * This troper did this back in school because she wanted to see if she could fit in it. She could, and then she got locked in it. It was fortunate that her friend was standing outside it looking rather amused... * This troper is pretty small and his cousin often threatns to stuff

me in it.It hasn't actually happened though but this is my cousins last year and I'll probably end stuffed into my locker at the end of the year. * This troper has attempted this many times, and usually succeeded. In middle school, all the band kids hung out in the large cubby holes for percussion instruments and stuff, but this troper could completely fit in her trumpet cubby hole and fit everything above and including her breasts in a flute hole. The high school band lockers have actual doors on them, with locks, so we can't do this, but once during hide and seek this troper squished herself into a saxophone locker. Unfortunately, this was very uncomfortable, squeezed her hips and knees and made them very sore, and her hips almost broke the plastic inside. She also attempted fitting in a normal half-locker at high school, and almost succeeded, except her knees and feet stuck out too much to close the door. She also almost managed [[StuffedIntoATrashcan fitting in a small classroom trashcan]]. * this troper's middle school didn't have lockers, but rather closets at the back of the room to store backpacks. since kids are cruel, and she was hated by her entire class thanks to a false friend, one friday after class she got locked in, and left. the teacher heard her screaming for help after about ten minutes, and let her out. It was a near thing, though, because the teacher had been about to leave and it was the friday before a week-long vacation. the other students did not get in any trouble. ---You can go back to Main/StuffedIntoALocker now, the janitor's brought the master key. ---<<|TroperTales|>> ----

StuffedIntoATrashcan * Happened several times in this troper's school. What caused him to lose his faith in humanity was when he spotted a kid being stuffed ''head-first'' into a trash can (With food in it) and the police officer hired to ''patrol'' for such things didn't even flinch - and proceeded to yell at people who were sitting on the tables. This troper also spotted several people being stuffed into them outside of that, although never rolled down a hill in them because we have those black trash cans that are bolted to the floor. ---Hey, when you get out of the [[StuffedIntoATrashCan garbage]], get back to the page. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StunnedSilence

* Stunned horror, ironically, is this troper's usual reaction to a strong TearJerker moment in fiction -- ''not'' actual tears. ** This troper thought she was the only one. ** Ditto here. Especially sudden, shocking ones, where it's like your mind has no time to actually process what your heart is feeling, and all you can do is just sit and silently stare with your [[JawDrop mouth hanging open]], utterly stunned. * This troper was stunned into silence, strangely enough, upon hearing what is now her favorite song of all time, for the first time. ** Great music still has this effect on me, but this is definitely the case when I hear an amazing piece for the first time, especially if it's a TearJerker song, as above. * This happened when this troper's drama class in his final year of school went to see a very serious, very dark, very moving and somewhat confusing film. At the end, nobody spoke, nobody even ''moved''. This is a class that can barely sit through a ten-minute explanation without getting sidetracked. The reason, as later determined, was essentially "Nobody wants to be the first one to move, because that means they get it". * This troper once got accosted by a time-share tout while on holiday. I just ignored him and carried on walking. He was following me, trying to break the ice so as to speak. I was on my own when he asked: "Where's the rest of your family?" I said: "Dead." Talk about being stunned into silence! I couldn't have shut him up quicker if I'd have punched him in the face. * When [[Tropers/DVBen this troper]] was in 11th grade, he was having an argument with a girl that he liked at the time. This happened during lunchtime, in the school cafeteria. He barely remembers the nature of the argument, but this dialogue is still fresh in his memory: -->[-Girl: Bite me!-] -->[-Me: You wish!-] ** ''Everyone'' at our table became quiet after hearing that. This troper didn't really know what "Bite me" actually meant back then. Yes, this troper was very ignorant of idiomatic expressions. In hindsight, I suppose it sounded very suggestive. I was more focused on the surprised look on the girl's face after my retort. * [[Tropers/{{Nemica}} This troper]] was once awarded the second place in an essay competition. So she had to read it. In front of a whole hall full of people. At the end of the essay, a metaphorical neighbor saved the metaphorical boy form the metaphorical bullies. -->Me: [...] This neighbor could have been you. -->StunnedSilence -->Audience: *applause* -->Me: ([[LampshadeHanging And I thought that only happens in movies.]]) * This troper was very, very quiet after seeing ''ReturnOfTheKing'' for the first time in the theatre (although that was also AwesomenessWithdrawal).

* [[Tropers/DynamiteXI This troper]] remembers a conversation from a YMCA afterschool program back in 1st or 2nd grade in the early 1990s that ended in this. First, a bit of background: IIRC, a dog had been wandering around the playground. The counselors brought the kids inside and told us to stay away from strange dogs. We asked questions about what all this entailed. I raised my hand: -->'''Me:''' What if it has rabies?\\ '''Female Counselor, with point-blank seriousness:''' Then [Male Counselor] will go to his truck and get his gun.\\ ''[StunnedSilence ensued amongst the elementary school kids]'' ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StupidEvil * [[Tropers/RadicalTaoist I]] really have to let the chat log speak for this one. Posted with my friend's permission, ID changed for privacy's sake. --> me: {{Star Wars}} [[TabletopGame Saga Edition]] makes me a happy panda, though.\\ 7:23 AM \\ aturosama: I will mention that I didn't like SAGA until I actually played a few games of it and realized that it was a decent system being strangled by the world's worst GM.\\ And the universe's worst player.\\ 8:01 AM \\ friend: Played a Jawa. Kept stealing parts of the ship and setting bombs all over it in case the party turned against him and to force us to stay grounded while he covered his own agenda.\\ While we were already doing illegal shit.\\ friend: I made a Force Adept type sniper who used some of the accuracy/attack boost powers and the Stun ability rather liberally.\\ 7:25 AM \\ He flipped the fuck out and tried to pimp his Will defense when he realized I didn't care what his Reflex or Fort defense were at all and my attacks with Force Stun could turn him into an unconscious bitch in one surprise round because it's "not fair that other characters could defeat me!"\\ 7:26 AM \\ And my thoughts are "dude, you wouldn't have to worry about it if you didn't keep stealing ship parts and hacking the nav computer to make the ship go where you want and selling off your crewmates as slaves." * [[{{Tropers/MoonageDaydream}} This Troper's]] MO when it comes to video games, particularly SamuraiWarriors. To quote her best friend "CALI, THEY'RE DEAD, STOP LIGHTING THEM ON FIRE AND MOVE." * I played a evil D&D campaign with a friend who did this. Every town we went to, the first thing he did was kill someone. It didn't matter how many people were watching or if we were supposed to be in-cognito, he would kill someone dead. Whats worse, when I attacked him my DM told me to knock it off because he thought that's how the alignment worked.

* One player in a shadowrun game I was at was this combined with crazy prepared. By the time the party realised that he was a sleeper agent for a Nazi paramilitary operation he had already set up several plans to kill each party member. He killed the dodge-crazy monofilament whip using street samurai by using a pain inducer and a mesh of monowire, he sniped the mages with remote rifle turrets, took out the driver with a bangalore torpedo underneath the van's front seats, crashed his tacnet feed when he knew the technomancer was hotsimming inside of it and then in the confusion broke into his house and repainted the walls with blood and buckshot, he killed shotgun using troll through the van's armour using his 25mm sniper rifle at over a kilometer away, killed the stealth expert ninja in close combat by discharging a double barreled 4-bore shotgun as a ballistic fist into the guy's face and killed any remaining party members by releasing Ringu into the block of apartments they were hiding in. Perhaps Obfuscatingly stupid evil is more apt? The guy had no tact but he spent all the time his character wasn't doing anything (most of the time, he was only wheeled out to cover negotiations and as combat support) planning to kill every single person he met. ---Set yourself on fire and go hug that orphan at StupidEvil.

StupidJetpackHitler * This troper and his cousin, when they were little, had an epic action figure saga about a time-traveling robot who imprisoned kid Hitler in a pocket dimension to prevent WWII, which of course somehow ended up with Hitler getting superpowers and escaping to conquer the world. It culminated in a [[HumongousMecha giant robot]] fight at the end of time, after which the time-traveling robot protagonist and his non-time-traveling robot friend decided to become guardians of the time stream. This troper was a very [[strike:strange]] awesome child. ** Fixed. ** Wait... they sell Hitler action figures? ** Yep, they do. This troper bought a randomized collection of action figures, had a battle involving Hitler using a machine to control three superheroes and its up to 3 other heroes to free the brainwashed heroes. One of the heroes, named the Telepath, was, well, psychic. He had a breakdown and ripped the universe up in a place, absorbing Hitler, the Telepath, and the brainwashing machine. A GainaxEnding from a 10-year-old boy * RadioactiveZombie loves you - A case of WriteWhoYouKnow involves the entire CBR community in an alternate universe, where everyone signed up for the [[FunWithAcronyms Central Resource Battalion]], which is more or less various soldiers with better-than-average combat gear and sent into Germany to ruin people's shit. Nazi ground troops got trained to the extent of the Waffen-SS, have StGG-44s that work like rather accurate AKs, G-36s, combat armor (ShoutOut to ReturnToCastleWolfenstein, at least those with the powered exoskeletons), and Himmler is overseeing construction of what's [[{{Expy}} more or less]] [[MetalGear Metal Gear REX.]] Oh, and Hitler ''does'' have a personal Jetpack. [[DarthWiki/TheGreatWar What's that?

You demand a link, you say? WELL HOVER YORE MOUSE RIGHT ON HAR!]] * This troper is working on an {{AlternateHistory}} {{UrbanFantasy}} where the evil guys are the Thule Society, which more or less is an organisation that in this version ANaziByAnyOtherName. One commander is a werewolf, while the other is {{Dracula}}'s vampire son. The basic mook type is {{TheLegionsOfHell}} {{PuttingOnTheReich}}. The elite mooks are litraral "Wehrwolf" nazi soldiers. They have an arctic base and an fleet of {ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld}} and weapons and wehicles that seems to come straight out of {{Hellsing}} and the Wolfenstein series. * In an OldShame MassiveMultiplayerCrossover parody of [[CrisisCrossover Crisis Crossovers]], I merged this with {{Ghostapo}}- AlternateUniverse Nazi! KimPossible is plotting to destroy ''every universe except hers'', the "master universe", with a superweapon powered by harnessing magic characters kidnapped from their respective homes- [[TeenTitans Raven]], [[ArtemisFowl Holly Short]], [[{{Labyrinth}} The Goblin King]], and others. It's not an entirely horrible idea- in fact, I'm considering attempting a salvage of the concept- but the execution leaves ''much'' to be desired. * [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} This troper]] doesn't know whether it goes here or a Ghostapo thing, but one possible StoryArc he has thought of is that Hitler's apparently being blinded mustard gas was the result of a MindProbe GoneHorriblyWrong by a species of ProudScholarRaceGuy [[{{HigherTechSpecies}} technologically-enlightened]] yet [[{{AliensAreBastards}} no less cruel and militant]], but desiring humans to become [[{{HumansAreWarriors}} soldiers in their armies]] and to [[{{MarsNeedsWomen}} enslave the ones they found attractive for consorts]] - justified in that the "aliens" are in fact TransplantedHumans [[{{NinjaPirateZombieRobot}} from an Atlantean prison colony orbiting the so-called Death Star 'Nemesis']]. What they hoped was to show Hitler what would become of humanity, but it turned out [[{{AdolfHitler}} Der Fueherer]]'s [[{{VisionaryVillain}} immense ego and cognitive distortion mistook the vision for the Aryan race ruling Europe and only enhanced his ego]], and he did ''choose'' to act on it, thus averting [[{{ptitleum4ubi0h}} a certain trope exculpating humanity for Hitler's actions]], a PetPeeveTrope for [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]]. ** However, in his possible future story he has described as TomorrowWhenTheWarBegan meets MechaAnime plus DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals (so an Australia-centric role-changed CodeGeass basically), it is set in an AlternateHistory whose antagonist, the [[{{TheEmpire}} Eastern Imperium]], is basically a teched-up version of the old Korean kingdoms of old thanks to foreign trade but also a RoswellThatEndsWell near Baekdu Mountain ''where an [[{{Precursors}} alien starship]] is found'' (thus leading to a {{MIB}} metaplot, as well as justifying the Eastern Imperium's invasion of Australia with MiniMecha ''about December 1952'') - and perhaps might include [[{{ThoseWackyNazis}} Third Reich loyalists]] trying to recruit the disaffected (mostly Caucasian at that period) population of Australia [[{{VillainWithGoodPublicity}} in the guise of actual resistance movements]] ''even with more moderate LaResistance types, basically heroic versions of TheRemnant

[[{{AussiesWithArtillery}} derived from the former Australian armed forces]] being present'' as well as small British-loyalist groups but let's not leave out the odd bunch of LesCollaborateurs groups, many being SmugSnake [[{{TheQuisling}} collaborationist leadership]] of a [[{{LandDownunder}} pan-Australian]] PuppetState called the [[{{InNameOnly}} Australian Federal Republic]]'' - its capital is Melbourne (strange considering [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]] was born there and raised in Victoria - [[{{UsefulNotes/Australia}} who has Melbourne as its state capital]] - in RealLife) [[{{ApatheticCitizens}} and most Australians apathetically giving in to the new order]] which n RealLife may likely be TruthInTelevision depending on who is in charge of the bad guys (DirtyCommunists might get away with it if there's still work and enough creature-comforts, TheFundamentalist might have trouble...) ---Now lets get back to fighting those [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi deathray cyborgs]]. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

StupidSexyFriend * Hi, [[{{neoYTPism}} trope launcher here]]. I see this as a major problem with being "just friends" with someone of the opposite sex (well, if you're heterosexual... I suppose it's the other way around for homosexuals) is that even if that's your intent, keeping your mind out of the gutter is easier said than done. ([[AllMenArePerverts At least if you're male]]... not sure how much easier it is for females if any.) Growing up I was "just friends" with a girl, and not even very close friends... I would go sledding with her during winter times, other times I would borrow Disney movies from her, stuff like that. (No IsThatWhatTheyAreCallingItNow remarks, please.) Then, around when I was going through puberty, our family and her family were going to a beach together, and the fact that she was wearing a tank top that showed how smooth her arms were gave me some rather... impure thoughts, to say the very least. I didn't bring it up, of course... and since a thunderstorm came along, it offered some ways to avoid the subject anyway. Besides, her dad got transferred to another town not long after that anyway, and in a way I considered that a relief, because as strange as it may seem, it felt like circumstance deciding for me what to do about that.

StupidStatementDanceMix Got your own [[StupidStatementDanceMix Stupid Statement Dance Mixes]] [[ShamelessSelfPromoter you'd like to promote?]] Link 'em here! * [[{{Kimo}} ThisTroper]] ''loves'' to make [[StupidStatementDanceMix Stupid Statement Dance Mixes]], to the point that they take up a good portion of his music gallery. Let's see...He's made [=SSDMs=] of: ** [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1885770/ Zero Punctuation]]

** [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1862333/ Felicia of Darkstalkers]] ** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSiwaEy8Bi0 Tropic Thunder]] (as well as a [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1781154/ censored version]], utilizing a duck)) ** [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1585865/ Star Trek: The Animated Series]] (then went and [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1591501/ remixed it]]) ** [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1351702/ "I'M PRESSIN' CHARGES! I'M PRESSIN' CHARGES!"]] ** [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1253732/ the Christian artist tobyMac]], ''backwards'' ** [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1201460/ Doom]] ** The creator of {{Mungyodance}}, Renard, talking about the band Captain Ahab, stating [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1204438/ "They're really gay."]] ** He also made one sampling TyTheTasmanianTiger, but now he can't find it...

StylisticSelfParody * [[{{Indefatigable}} This troper]], frustrated with her inability to draw fingers, once drew a comic in which some characters were unable to dial a telephone with their badly-drawn mitten-hands. * This troper once drew a really short comic, featuring a stickman with just a blank circle for a head suffocating because of his lack of a nose or mouth. * Most of this troper's jokes (Well about a third of them) are based around these. The others are mostly puns and pointless references to Victorian literature. * Gus (Aka Badly Drawn Gus) is meant to be a parody of This Torper's early Off Model work (A rather lengthy listing can be seen in the Troper Tales section about said topic) ---Go back to StylisticSelfParody, If your hand can actually click on the link. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SubvertedCatchPhrase * In an attempt to write a SoBadItsGood sequel to a story from the SCPFoudnation [[{{Edrobot}} This Troper]] came up with this little gem: ->'''Dr. Clef:''' [[ChewBubblegum I came here to do two things: Chew bubble gum and kick ass! And I decided to save the bubble gum for afterwards!]]

SuckECheeses * The last time this troper went to a Chuck E. Cheeses... he was

confronted by a [[NightmareFuel really scary]] [[GrumpyBear janitor]] in the tubes, who shouted and cursed at him for simply being at the wrong place at the wrong time, while this troper took the janitor's warnings and scrambled out of there as quickly as possible. Later, when his older brother wanted to crawl in the tubes with him, he tried to convince him of the "scary janitor" in the tubes; of course, he didn't believe him, and they ended up meeting that guy again. Luckily, a slide was nearby, and he was able to escape in one piece once again. Unfortunately, his childhood didn't, and he never went there again, for fear of facing more lowlifes like that janitor. * This troper has been a frequent goer of a place like this, often being one of the Good people who stick there and clean up messes for people. (The manager's nice, he calls us "temporary janitors") It's loud, the customers aren't too bad, other than stupid children and crazy teenagers. Adults are at least respectable, as are some of the kids who he knows report broken machines to the attendants, and don't make messes. The day High schools get out is often the worst, because they like to hang out there and cause havoc. One time, the people who worked there found empty beer bottles inside the play tubes. And that time he was there last year to help with the devastation? He heard some thumping coming from the play tubes! And it was definitely too heavy to be coming from ''children''!! :O ** [[{{Squick}} Er, um, ah]]...* [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]] faints and has a fit, prompting the on-site first aid manager to yell:* --> '''First Aid Guy''': Ooh boy, another Troper falling victim to the ol' FanDisservice and NightmareFuel at once, hm? 30 litres of BrainBleach! STAT! * My brother ended up getting in a fight with some kids in the tubes at Chuck E Cheeses. They started it by being douches, so he dove on one and punched him. * This Troper never had bad experiences with Suck E. Cheese-ish establishments in the past, although that may be the nostalgia filter. Currently Chuck E. Cheese-ish places NOW get on this troper's nerves, as the bathrooms are always wet and smelling of poo-gas, the Skee-ball machines are always broken, and all the arcade games only give out three-tickets-per-play no matter how long you play! ** Same guy as above. When I was 3 I got my 1st black eye when some kid punched me at a Discovery Zone. * Totally TruthInTelevision for this editor and her cousins. We went when were about seven-ish with our moms...never wanted to go back. * The tubes themselves can get pretty creepy [[NothingIsScarier when no one else is inside]]: dead ends, blind corners, long corridors, and the probability of [[ParanoiaFuel someone coming up on you from behind]]. * The Seattle Center Fun Forest, especially the arcade(many of the machines are permanently broken). And the Family Fun Center in Tukwila. Luckily, the former is closing down soon. * This Troper got thrown up on in the tubes at a place like this once. But hey, that was out of town, so it's mostly forgotten. At the local Chuck E. Cheese, the staff are nice, most of the kids behave, and this trope is generally subverted. It's too bad that one lady who works

there hates teenagers and actively tries to throw us out. * [[Tropers/TheRedRedKroovy This troper]]'s high school English teacher told us a story about one of these places. A few years prior, he had brought one of his classes to such a place for the laser tag, having had a good experience with it in the past. When he got there, he found the place horribly dilapidated and empty, to the point where he suspected that it was a front for a criminal organization -- the only way he could rationalize the place still being in business. ---Go back to SuckECheeses, where the fun is never-ending and there are pizza sauce stains on ''EVERY'' arcade machine! ----

SuckinessIsPainful * [[Tropers/JohnnyBGoode This troper]] actually has this problem when watching RuPaul's reality show (RuPaul is a drag queen.) Like it seriously makes my ears hurt. * [[Tropers/TheTallOne I]] have utilized this trope once or twice. -->'''Me''': Wow, this is so painfully bad.\\ '''Friend''': Yeah, I know I didn't like it either.\\ '''Me''': You misunderstood. ''This is causing me actual physical pain.''\\ '''Friend''': But-\\ '''Me''': Take it away. ''Now.'' * [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} This troper]], sadly enough, ''[[{{WeaksauceWeakness}} is very literally pained]]'' by virtually all "mass-market" Western pop music, especially R&B, purely because he thinks such music royally sucks. The pain is more of the [[{{ImHavingSoulPains}} psychological and possibly even metaphysical pain along the inside of the head and the ears]], [[{{ArsonMurderAndJaywalking}} as well as a slight hint of the feeling usually associated with dodgy food]] rather than actually a literal migraine, though. This (possibly) weird wiring in his brain has made sure virtually all his music choices are usually [[{{Music/HeavyMetal}} some class of metal]], but he can also listen to such music as that of [[{{Bjork}} Bjrk]] but, for some mysterious reason, he can also listen to {{J-Pop}} such as {{AyumiHamasaki}}, {{Gackt}} and the like without any discomfort or cause for complaint whatsoever (this in spite of [[{{LandDownunder}} being from Australia]] and, [[{{AcceptableEthnicTargets}} being a fourthgeneration Caucasian Australian of a rather hashed-up mix of]] [[{{Oktoberfest}} possibly Bavarian from his dad's side]], [[{{LandOfMyFathersAndTheirSheep}} ''Welsh'']], [[{{BonnieScotland}} Scotland]], [[{{Prussia}} the Prussians - via his mother's side]], [[{{UsefulNotes/Britain}} England itself]] (which [[{{Tropers/Crion87}} this troper]]'s mother considers DisContinuity for an odd reason, [[{{BoomerangBigot}} despite her directly being of that heritage herself]], [[{{CaptainObvious}} and thus having no Japanese blood in his genetics whatsoever]] - although one particular person he met [[{{AmbiguouslyJewish}} originally raised in and possibly born in Israel]] - more of a NewAgeRetroHippie than a

BadassIsraeli though, and is his ''unofficial spiritual advisor'' did possibly hint at his eyes being a bit almond-shaped from her view of my appearance, possibly delineating an AsianBabyMama somewhere in the pile, but more likely not - maybe there was a [[{{ThirtySecondsOverTokyo}} Japanese type somewhere there after all]], ironically enough considering his grandfather's [[{{WWII}} spot of bother with them]] - but that's highly dubious). And yet if he hears any Western pop/R&B/rap stuff like OwlCity, BeyonceKnowles, or somesuch, or any kind of [[{{Music/Rap}} hip-hop/urban stuff]], he is screaming for the [[{{BrainBleach}} metaphorical ear-and-cerebralmatter cleaning product]]... ** Sounds like you have much the same musical un-preferences as [[Tropers/{{Tadaru}} this troper]]. He hardly likes any mainstream Western music from after about 2001. Hearing modern hip-hop/rap can give this troper headaches. * People think [[Tropers/{{Bronzethumb}} this troper]] is just being dramatic to make a point, but no, Twilight actually makes me feel physically ill. If they play a trailer at the beginning of a movie, I have to leave the cinema for 5 minutes or else there's a real chance I'll throw up in my popcorn. ** Wao... I got by the movies (I'm not proud of it) by listening to the piano music. I just love the sound of the piano. * Theres a new Chuck E. Cheese's commercial, with some gay looking kid and his dad singing and dancing after winning that arcade game where you throw basketballs. It was so bad, afterwards I felt like I was going to puke, and even thinking about it gives me a mingrane. I hope Chuck E. Cheese's goes bankrupt or something so that I don't have to sit through another one of it's retarded commercials. * Bad singing physically pains this troper, and bad chick flicks make this troper concentrate on something else or leave the room entirely to save her sanity. * Bad (and I ''do'' mean [[SoBadItsHorrible bad]]) literature tends to function as a class-A BrownNote to [[@/SoWeAteThem me]], but lousy music (That is, what rare stuff I don't find boring) and other things will do this as well. The former is more psychological: Draining of will, temporary insanity, and the odd [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking uncontrollable bout of opera singing/yodeling Dokaka-style.]] The latter, while much less common, gives me [[ImHavingSoulPains soul pains]] akin to a dentist's drill. This is compounded by the fact that I suffer from high levels of BileFascination. * For me, I can't bear to watch political punditry shows on certain cable channels (You know, the ones that claim they want to be taken seriously). It makes me physically ill. Something about those people and their insipid, paranoid fearmongering makes my soul hurt. * In Japanese, the phrase &#35211;&#33510;&#12375;&#12356;&#12288;(migurush&#299;, "ugly") literally translates to "painful to look at". * I was reading an internet article mocking OrsonScottCard and his homophobic views. Ugh... Card is such an idiot that just reading ''about'' his views was exhausting, and I didn't even read the whole thing. * JustinBieber's "Baby". The song is so catchy it [[MindRape rapes my

mind]]. I can only compensate through classical music and mass [[NineteenEightyFour Goldsteinian]] hatred. ** That song has crashed this troper's laptop simply by being played. The laptop is about six months old and has experienced no other problems. ** Who else wants to use Justin Bieber combined with children's television for usage as torture in {{Room 101}}? * This troper has severe [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitlebeohy6n8?from=Main. ImHavingSoulPains pains]] with rap, It tends to make me cringe when I hear these useless lyrics and stupid beats. Its like thousands of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Highoctanenightmarefuel screeching birds point blank at my ears]] * For this troper, ''Film/TheLastAirbender''. That is all. * This troper has two. The first, one of my friend's was listening to rap music and my face was actually twitching. The second, when I went to see [[Twilight New Moon]] with my mom, aunt, and uncle. I mostly agreed for the popcorn and the giant wolfies looked cool. They disappointed, and I could not stop squirming in my seat every time Edward started talking. * That annoying song called "Friday" makes me clutch my head in pain. * This Troper's husband has said he finds poorly written fan fiction painful to read. Even purposely bad troll fics. * This troper's best friend plays the viola. He enjoys torturing me with horribly disonant... [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BuffySpeak thingies]]. I didn't study music, but he can make... painful sounds.My head and my ears feel terrible when he wants to. ---Ow! Ow! This link back to SuckinessIsPainful is just terrible! MEDIC! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SuckySchool * In this Swedish Troper's high school, there were history books that spoke of the Soviet Union as if it still existed. This was in 2006. Subverted, as there ''were'' more updated books, only there weren't enough of them for everyone. Apart from that, the school was quite good. ** That seems to be fairly common in Sweden, this troper has, at multiple schools, been given books that were 8-10 years old. Good luck writing about pollution when the only source you're allowed to use is from 2000... * This Troper's school is not only older than her parents, has problems with rats,and creaks and groans when you're walking anywhere on the second floor, has had a tuberculosis breakout, has walls that are filled with asbestos(which became a big problem when they tried to knock it down); it is actually built on an old graveyard which halted reconstrution because of some bodies which may or may not have been there. And that's just the building.

* This tropers middle school was built about 1902 and had no air conditioning, leaks, red drinking fountain water, and creaky floors, however other than that it was okay. This troper's high school though, is newly remodeled and has air conditioning, but about half the faculty is incompetent and so is half the student body; plus it's understaffed. * This Troper's [[TheGoodOldBritishComp secondary school]] was built in the 1950s, an architectural dark age for Britain, was one of the worst performing schools in the country, proudly displayed achievement awards from the late eighties and the [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking clock mechanism in the tower didn't work.]] Many people, This Troper included, spent the majority of Year 7 smoking during [[EverybodyHatesMathematics double Maths]]. ** The school is [[ItGotBetter much better now]] after multiple improvement schemes and is about to become an Academy, with the all the features we wished we had then. It opens the year after we leave. * It's a bit of an odd case for [[Tropers/{{Loffyglu}} this Troper's]] high school. My school is horrifically understaffed, underfunded (and will be even more so thanks to the [[SarcasmMode lovely]] budget crisis), and undersupplied (we have ''almost no books in the library'') but the teachers we ''do'' have are, for the most part, some of the best teachers you could ever hope for (well, apart from [[StrawmanPolitical their near-constant filibusters about their political stances]]); they're always there to help you out with just about anything, most of them teach multiple classes yet are still close to a lot of the kids, and all but a few of them are quite young, meaning they can better identify with the students and are more enthusiastic about their job (they even inspired me to want to become an educator later on, in part). There are also a lot of opportunities for contributing to the school, though unfortunately few students take advantage of it. I'm not impressed with the school overall, though, even if it does have some good points that I think would be very hard to find elsewhere, and probably would have gone to the Catholic school I also got into if I could do it over again.

SueDonym * During a [=D&D=] campaign a friend is running, My character(A conartist wizard named Thaxan Greymountian) was just leaving a weapon shop he had just conned out of 470 GP. The Shopkeep asked his name. Not thinking, I(and therefore, he) started to say "Thaxan Greymountain" but mumbled and managed to pass it off as "Saxon... Beige... hill. Saxon Beigehill." * During a [=DnD=] campaign I was running, the head NPC was based on one of my previous [=PCs=]. to keep the [=PCs=] from realizing he was the same character right away I had him go by the pseudonym Pseudo Nym. Despite saying his full name countless times, they never seemed to catch on to the fact that that might not have been his real name. * This troper frequently signed his GCSE English mocks (Test exams,

for the uninitiated) with the pseudonym Sue D. Nym. The questions were basically multiple chice "Do this, this or this" about particular techniques like describing. A recurring one was pretending to write for a magazine. To this day he still doesn't know if his teacher caught on to it.

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SunglassesAtNight * [[MasterEgregious This troper]] [[JustifiedTrope justifies]] this trope; one upside to wearing prescription glasses is that clip-on [[SinisterShades sunglasses]] stick out far enough for you to see behind you. It works even better at night. * Tropers/BTIsaac had a friend in High School, who once tried to look cool by putting on shades. He took them off after walking into a wall in a dark corridor. * {{Tropers/Moosehp}} uses polarized prescription round glasses at night when on a bike, they have very little impact on the contrast but do reduce greatly the chance of being blinded by car lights. * This troper has done this after being out all day and not going home before going clubbing. In fact, this troper lost his favourite pair of sunglasses this way. * When going out at night, this troper will do this. The mirrored shades are the main pick, but I also have worn the [[TriangleShades red ones]] as well. ---[[CoolShades Cool shades]] compulsory beyond [[SunglassesAtNight this point.]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SuperNotDrowningSkills * [[JohnnyBGoode This troper]] has a friend who once tried to commit suicide by drowning. She was too small and light and just ended up floating. I don't know how old she was when this happened, but considering she's under 5 feet and less than 100 pounds at nearly 20 years old, it's entirely possible. * When [[{{Andyzero}} This Troper]] was little, I used to play a game where I'd hold my breath for as long as a character is underwater. I learned quickly to stop playing that game. ** Haha, who would've guessed? This troper also did that when he was little! ** Hey, me too! ** (Joins the club). Oh Hai, me too. ** I still do that sometimes. Most of the time I lose. * According to his mom, [[{{Hremsfeld}} This Troper]] fell into a pool at age * one* and walked a short ways across the bottom to (crawl) out. [[CaptainObvious I am not dead.]]

** Wow. That's awesome. *** Whoa! That exact same thing happened to this troper, too. * This troper once got caught between a couple of people in a wave pool at a water park, getting trapped under during a back pull in the cycle. Despite planting my feet and walking for about thirty seconds under the water trying to get to the shallow end, the lifeguard still dropped in to pull me out. Almost fought her off too, but she got a good grip. * I have been trying during the summer to gradually increase the time I'm underwater. I can swim underwater across alot of large pools. It's so fun to see the look on people's faces when you pop underwater and resurface at the other end of the pool. * Subversion.. I once swam 50 yards in a pool underwater. I blacked out before the end, and definitely was breathing water into my lungs. But I finished it and pulled myself out... maybe it was willpower? * This troper can hold her breath for a good minute or two. She also has Super Not ''Blinking'' Skills. Staring contest in science class with my friend for no reason. Surprisingly, I lost, but HilarityEnsued. * Come on, who ''hasn't'' had a dream along these lines? * ThisTroper used to allways take his dog fishing with him. She'd jump out of the boat and swim around it, before jumping back in when she got tired. Since she was smart enough to avoid the fishing line, I never cared. One day I fell asleep, and when I woke up she was gone. I searched up and down that lake for her and never found her. Finally the day I went to leave, she climbed up onto my dock. THREE DAYS LATER! Either she has SuperNotDrowningSkills, or got caught in a time warp. * This troper swam across a lake...Ok but the problem was - she was half drunk,the lake was F* deep and wide and when she reached the other end,a group of camping old men told her that this lake is known from it's deadly whirlpools.She still don't know how ** That's not an example of the trope. Also, can whirlpools even FORM in lakes? ---Just try holding your breath until you get back to SuperNotDrowningSkills. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SuperOCD * NekoIncardine has a hefty bit of SuperOCD. He ''cannot'' leave a place if his laptop is there unless it's at home - and his mood is significantly more sour the entire time he's out if that's the case (though not overwhelmingly so). Further, the laptop must be in ''exactly'' the right pocket in the backpack in question, with either the CD drive or the back up (as appropriate to the bag), and the AC adapter's cord fully wound up and slipped into an appropriate side pocket. He will actually put vital paperwork on top of his keyboard if he needs to be ''absolutely'' sure he brings it with him - it ''will''

work, without fail. ** And he insists on evenly wearing his teeth. Precisely one half of the sandwich with one side, precisely the other half with the other. No exceptions. [[MemeticMutation Balanced sandwiches only. Final Destination.]] ** Games? must be in intended play order (older games first, games that just sucked go into the 'done' pile for sale or collectionkeeping). Then he self-subverts the trope by completely ignoring the order when actually playing - only to put it back precisely in its spot in the order. Is it wrong when a Troper goes ''out of their way'' to subvert a trope that could apply to them? * This was me as of almost nine years ago. To be specific, I was a horrible germophobe. Besides the stereotypical washing of hands for hours on end, I refused to touch most things and changed my clothes several times a day. Medication has helped immensely, though not so much that people can't tell I suffer from OCD. Nowadays, I focus more on things being ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. Symmetry is hugely important, and God help you if you pick something of mine up and put it back in the wrong position. * This troper once tried to smoothe out the air bubbles in a ''MILKSHAKE''. * I am OCD about things on the computer-I log onto all forums I am on, in the order I joined them. Anything I have opened in a smaller window, must be perfectly aligned with an advert I have on one forum I am on. Also as a child, my pens were organized in the colour of the rainbow, and I hated other people using them in case they messed them up-I still do that now sometimes, and still hate having people touch my stuff. My friend is very OCD, mostly to do with the neat order of her work at college-she is obsessed with those plastic wallet things to keep paper in. * Where to begin? Desks in classrooms should be aligned. The tables and chairs in the Starbucks must form a pattern, even if this troper has to move them herself. It is important to be silent at 11:11:11, 22:22:22, 12:34:56, and 1:23:45. Coins are to be stacked in order of shininess (shiniest at the top). Allowing errors in spelling, grammar, or punctuation to go uncorrected is difficult. Turning the radio off in the middle of a song is to be avoided, if possible. * ThisTroper has a very minor case of this. I can't help but count passing train cars when riding the subway. * I had and still retain an unhealthy amount of OCD habits. From not touching my nose with my right hand and stepping on small rugs an even number of times, all the way through washing hands after touching school equipment and avoiding opening certain books, to following strict patterns while making the bed, traveling, even ''thinking''... it's no wonder I have a hard time even going to sleep. And although I know it's stupid, I keep doing it. * [[MarY This diagnosed troper]] doesn't have anything against people with REAL OCD, who have actual perfection-based anxiety. But she HATES this trope because it's THE ONLY FREAKIN' WAY PEOPLE WANT TO DEPICT OCD. There are other symptoms besides wanting order, you know. She admits to being a total slob when it comes to her room and folders and such. SCRUPULOUSITY, PEOPLE?

** Sing it, sister. [[Tropers/AstraKiseki This also diagnosed troper]] and her brother both have OCD, but it's being trapped in specific thought patterns and beliefs and not cleanliness. However, this troper finds she takes a surprising level of comfort in a tidy room. ** YES, this. My diagnosed sister is a slob; in fact, she feels most at ease sleeping in a messy bed, with the occasional used towels and clothes left on it. And she's not orderly at all, quite the opposite. It irks me how OCD is commonly portrayed as over-the-top perfectionism in the media, when there's really much more to it than that. * This Troper does not have diagnosed OCD. However, (First person now) I tend to obsess about the amount of space my programs take up on my home computer. I spend hours and HOURS picking out files that I don't need and deleting them. Happens when I feel that my Hard Drive is too cluttered and slowing the comp down. I also go to the task manager and end processes like SEAPORT.EXE that I don't need, and all background programs except antivirus are dutifully end-processed before I start doing anything else, like gaming or chatting online. (Back to 3rd Person)Surprisingly, this troper doesn't have any concept of tidiness when it comes to his room, and his dad regularly calls him out on it. * This Troper (Belfagor) has a quite heavy case of OCD. It is mainly about order, cleanliness, number 3, avoiding cracks, counting, clearing throat and checking if teeth are smooth. The obsessions, however, are much more disturbing and are the main cause behind my self-confidence issues. * [[MmmKay This autistic troper]] has a thing about leaving the computer, monitor, or printer on if they're not in use, even if they're in sleep mode. It feels ''wrong''. Also, no sauces on any food item; no ketchup on fries, no peanut butter on celery, no whipped cream on milkshake; if they're there, they're RuinedForever. ** This neurotypical troper agrees with you about the first thing. As for the second, I'm a little different: I can take mixed things as long as it doesn't contain hard boiled eggs or black beans. Or artificially colored ice cream. Or alcohol. Or soda. Or certain brands of orange juice and cereal...You get the point. * This Troper has this, /bad/. Things have to be even. If they aren't, she will make them even. Stepping on cracks is bad, which makes walking on tile floors difficult at times. Things that are at the top of something, or move to the up, feel wrong. It's the same with the right side. Things that are going down or to the left is good. If something goes up, it will bother her until she moves it down, etc. ** If she turns clockwise on a swivel chair, she'll spin in at least one full circle counter-clockwise to 'fix' it. If she has to turn around, she'll turn all the way around counter-clockwise instead of turning a little to the right. If she walks on her right foot for a while and it starts to feel more tired than her left, she has to switch to walking on the left foot to balance them out. It's the same kind of thing with chewing. ** She also has a few things related to the computer. The space-bar bothers her because it's moving the text/line to the right. When ending a sentence she ALWAYS puts two spaces, then erases the extra before continuing. With tabs, whatever tab she uses the most has to be

all the way to the left. If she's going to close a tab, she has to move it all the way to the left, then click on the one all the way to the right, and click on them in order from right to left until she gets to the one she wants to close, then closes it. She also can't scroll up on a page, and will some times have to scroll all the way to the bottom before closing it. ** If she's coming back to a tab after switching, she has to highlight a piece of the text above where she left off before continuing to write, moving down and to the left. If she closes all the programs, etc., she must do the same kind of thing to the desktop background. She has to select only a solid color, and move the mouse down and to the left as she does so, so that the arrow is hidden from view. * This Troper developed some very strong OCD over oil prices. Things really hit the fan in 2008 when oil hit $147 a barrel. Wasn't sleeping, eating, just totally loopy checking, checking, ''checking'' what they were doing every few seconds. It took him over a year to shake off the resulting depression. My obsessions are generally more abstract than cleanliness. * This troper has an annoying habit of having to brush her hair every five minutes. She keeps a hair brush next to her at all times, even when not going out anywhere. Just recently, she left her brush at home for the entire day while at work and went darn near crazy. Also, because of this, people think of her as "vain", even though she cannot help this. * [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Icalasari This Troper]] has OCD that has gotten better over the years, but still strikes him. For example, volume on the TV or a radio has to be 0, 3, 5, 7, or if it has multiple digits, 0, 2, 3, 5, 7. Also, items have to be stacked from biggest item on the top to the smallest on the bottom, or else it feels like the small item will fly away (exceptions exist, such as with book, where it is the opposite (largest must be on the bottom)). Darker items must always be at the top, and lighter items at the bottom. This allows me to help balance it, actually (a small item can be on the top if it is a dark as hell colour, which helps 'weigh it down'). There are also the usual symmetry issues * This troper clinically has OCD and follows this to a fault. Originally she would just repeat certain things (like putting a video game into a console) because if she didn't she would feel horrible, and wash her hands all the time. Now she can't ''stand'' being around people who do the most remotely unhygienic things, she must have things a certain way, and she has more then a few tiks she fails to notice at times. She's also obsessed with a few things, but that's actually positive. ** Said troper again. Now she refuses to touch most things outside of her house, if she can't clean her hands afterwords, and is always washing her feet, slippers, and hands. * This troper needs to count in a certain order,or else it makes her head spin and stare blankly into space.Whenever she is given coins,she must look at them in a way they create even number,then she adds odds .If she gets confused in this order, she will have to write everything down on a paper or else she sulks and won't be able to speak.That's why she hates maths but on the other hand, had good grades from

logics. * This troper has always had a bit of an obession with symmetry. I've always chewed my food equally on both sides of my mouth, in the right pattern, before swallowing. I was afraid of wearing out my teeth unevenly, so I never let it bother me. Over the years, it's progressed to the point that just about any minor action one hand makes, the other has to mirror in one way or another. Switching my mouse from hand to hand every hour or so, cutting my food into even numbered bites and throwing away the odd numbers (things such as jujubes, or any kind of colored candy), and finally having progressed on to video games. I've always been a console gamer, but am now losing all enjoyment of the process. Unless I hit a corresponding button on the opposite side of the controller, I get increasingly uncomfortable. Of course, randomly hitting buttons on your control in the middle of multiplayer is a one way ticket to losing, so I can no longer play without damaging myself or feeling uncomfortable for hours. This troper, after 20 years of living with this, is finally being driven to seek professional help. * This troper had OCD as far as he can remember, but his obsessions were turned up to eleven when he fell in love with a girl one and a half years ago. Since then, he has countless (sometimes contradicting) compulsions which range from saying prayers to himself or writing them up on pieces of paper (even though he's agnostic), to making push-ups, biting himself, touching hot surfaces, touching his door knob in a certain way, counting imaginative way-points (especially in square rooms or on door knobs), counting the time differences between clocks, walking certain ways when he wants to get somewhere, and avoiding certain numbers (especially 13), among other things. However, he doesn't consider his OCD to be a big impairment in his life, but rather as some kind of strange "guiding hand" or as a consequence of having no really effective way of dealing with his high levels of oxytocin; he's sure that, when he finally gets his girl (so much about patience), his OCD will get much "better". This troper doesn't think that it's possible to separate his OCD from his love for this girl, so he doesn't even think about taking drugs against it or getting rid of it in any way. So yeah, to cut a short story long: He's happy the way things are. OCD is a part of his live. And love makes you batshit crazy. * This troper needs both sides of his body to be perfectly symmetrical. If he knocks one heel off a chair leg when standing up, he has to pause to knock the other heel in exactly the same way. If he steps on a crack with one foot he has to step on a similar-looking one with the exact same part of his other foot. It can get a lot more extreme and cumbersome than that too. He also has with turning 360 degrees and continuing on in the direction he started. If that ever happens he absolutely ''has'' to turn 360 degrees in the ''opposite'' direction before he can continue walking. ** Oh my God, I finally found someone like me! I freak out if I feel like I'm asymmetrical. My surroundings don't mattter, but if I don't feel balanced, I can't think of anything else. I even catch myself correcting other people's clothing, not because I can't stop thinking about it, but because I'm so used to doing it to myself. Also the

thing with knocking your heels (for instance). I'll even stop what I'm doing to, for instance, step down on a doorstep with my right foot in a certain way so it'll feel the same as my left foot. I thought I was alone with this! * Wow, I don't think I have actual OCD but I do have some OCD habits, some of which other people on this page have stated. When I was little, the 'step on a crack, break your mother's back' thing really got to me, so I always stepped over cracks on the sidewalk. Luckily I didn't really care when it came to small tiles. But then I noticed that I always stepped over them with my right foot and so my left foot felt lopsided, so I either took really huge steps over the cracks or bizzarely small ones (I got over that). I also ordered my markers in rainbow order but people would mess it up, which irritated me. If I have a cut or bruise on one side of my body, I always wish it was gone or I at least had it on the other side of my body too (if I do something minor like pinch my hand I usually pinch my other hand). I sometimes spend hours formatting tables in MS Word so they're nice and compact, along with other criteria. I don't like stopping something without finishing, such as watching a TV show or listening to a song, even if I've heard it a thousand times. * When I was little (5 year old or so), I was a nice handful of weirdness, being one of my best examples my obsession over why hand thumbs were so different from the rest of the fingers, being shorter, uglier and in a WRONG position. I spent YEARS wishing not only that the thumb were the same as the others, but for us to have other three fingers to accompany it (that's right, I was actually wishing for humanity to have eight fingers in each hand in the name of absolute symmetry). Nowadays I find it funny, but at the time it was SeriousBusiness. * [[{{Tropers/Joerc45}} This troper]] has a slight case of this. He feels compelled to alphabetize his collection of books, games, etc and can't stand it if they're out of said order. Also, [[LeetLingo leet]] [[BerserkButton drives him nuts!]] As such, he can NEVER bring himself to use it. ^_^ Another strange habit was avoiding the number [[FourIsDeath 4]]. * This troper, so much that she actually gets ''too'' organized. Ignoring how messy my room and desk are, everything else is painfully organized, including my hand-written notes (they're a formal outline with dots and dashes after the lowercase Roman numerals), my backpack is crazily organized (separate cases for most of my pencils, my pens, and my color-marking equipment), and as a TA I almost re-organized a whole classroom. If bored, I start alphabetizing a lot of things and/or cleaning. I also have a habit of fixing people's hair if its sticking up at some point (my friend once decided to keep messing up his hair just to annoy me). * This troper had it bad as a little kid, but thought it was normal, and it was minor enough that she could hide it. Now as a teen, she still has it, but understands it, and has gotten over a lot of her old ticks. From her younger days, she still blinks in twos, and absolutely won't swallow while looking at something she deems unpleasant (as if she'd be swallowing the essence of whatever she was looking at or something). If she's chewing something and looks at something

unpleasant, she'll spit it out because it is now "contaminated". Sometime's she'll re-do actions if her thoughts weren't "in order". Sometimes she'll argue in her mind, trying to convince herself that nothing bad will happen, even if she thinks of certain things. It's minor to the point that she can largely ignore it throughout the day, and she's never been diagnosed or needed medication. She's annoyed by how her OCD isn't even useful- at least if she was a compulsive cleaner she'd be more organized. But now that she's growing herself out of her OCD, maybe it'll be better. ** She also has a thing against moving counter-clockwise and writing the letters 'I' and 'A'. Both lower case and upper case. The volume on the tv must be an even number. When adjusting headphone volume, she'll tap it up one level higher than she needs, then tap it that one step back down. She also '''hates''' touching things that aren't hers, especially fabric, as if they aren't clean or something. * This troper was diagnosed with both mild OCD and ADD at ten. Some of her habits have gone away in the last ten years, like insisting that all the colored plastic glasses be separated and lined up by color. Other's, such as handwashing, have just improved a lot. She used to get dry and cracked hands when younger, but that doesn't happen anymore. Most of her current traits are just quirks, such as refusing to put something in the microwave at a time that does not end in 0 or 5. Drives her crazy when her mother requests something be heated for '3:33.' She still refuses to physically touch anything deemed ickysuch as most any form of cleaner(glass, wood, etc) or bleach, the kitchen sponge, or the handle of the cat box scooper-and will wear gloves while using any of those items. And then wash her hands after removing the gloves. She also REALLY hates being touched by people with wet hands, even if she knows its only water. * I would NOT be surprised if someone told me that I have the obsession-only form of OCD. I've never really had any tendency towards the typical outward compulsions-order, symmetry, numbers, germs, etc, have never really bothered me very much-but on the inside, hoooo. I swear I can't go five minutes without desperately wishing for some Brain Bleach. It's like the white elephant conundrum with all the worst thoughts you can possibly think of, all the time. It feeds into my social anxiety, because it gets worse when I'm around people, especially since I never really feel like my thoughts are private. I know people can't hear them, but damn does it feel like it. It also gets worse when I'm around or thinking of anything that I feel is sacred or should be *clean*. I'm not worried about germs, but I do have a major case of worrying about thought-contamination, which involves everything from freaking out at the thought of going to a memorial service and knowing that the bad thoughts would absolutely RUIN it, to having to make sure that thoughts about "bad" things (which can be just about anything, including just TV shows I don't like) don't touch the "good" things, or else the good things will get contaminated. Oh, and I could go on...it's never been diagnosed or anything, but damn does it drive me nuts. ** I had something similar, and I guess still do. How I dealt is that I got a ring and told myself that as long as I had it on, all the bad thoughts "didn't count" and were canceled out by the ring. I know it's

completely irrational and crazy, but damn if it doesn't really help me clear my mind. I practically lose it if I wake up and the ring's not on my finger though. * Oh boy, where to begin. I shampoo only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and these are the same days I shave, but not in the winter. In the shower, I'll always start with wetting my hair for 10 seconds (on shampoo days), then wetting each body part for specific amounts of time, then wetting my hair again for 10 seconds, then I shampoo, then I rinse my hair for 20 seconds and (now the everyday part starts) I repeat the routine, only reversed: body-hair-body, then soap and body rinse. I don't shower on the first and median day of each month (rounded up when necessary for the median), and these are the only days where I'll clip my nails: both hands and feet on the first, only hands on the median. After these days, I'll stop shaving until the following Friday (I pick up on the Monday after that). I also won't shower on days that are the same date as the month number (like, on July 7th). I used to have a compulsion not to step on black floor tiles, but I got over it. I'm also extremely particular in the order I'll play games and watch series, but I'll occasionally loophole my own rules and insert special clauses when I just really want to play or watch something. I do my laundry every 6 days, without fail, and what I wear on any given day is a direct function of that day's maximum forecast temperature, season, day of the week and time since last laundry. * This troper used to have some reasonably bad issues stemming from her OCD, and still has some of them. The ones she's mostly learned to deal with without freaking out are food touching on a plate (wouldn't eat it when she was a kid) and needing to remain in the same seat (she flipped out so bad during her elementary through high school years that she had to have an assigned seat on the bus just so no one would take her spot). One thing she's really thankful she doesn't do anymore is continuously count. When she was little, if she started counting, she couldn't stop until something made her lose my place. It was exceedingly frustrating, but she's noticed it doesn't really happen much anymore. She still has to keep her room in a meticulous order (not that it's clean or in any order than anyone else understands, but she know what piles are what and god help you if you touch them), she still STRONGLY prefers having the same seat at a table or in a classroom, and must meticulously organize her video game characters' inventories before proceeding in any game. While her need to make lists and notes has lessened (her sisters used to refuse to play barbies or legos because she would have to make full character and story work-ups before playing), she still has extensive, hand-written game notes for certain games and flips out if others use said notebooks for anything else (...like taking phone messages...lost a good Harvest Moon notebook to that...). Medication probably would have helped, but her mom didn't want it affecting her ability to think. * This troper on the autism spectrum always places the TV volume on a multiple of five. He also just finished cataloging and alphabetizing all of his movies and games and is going to start on books next. * Whenever I plan my team of Pokemon, not only must they cover a wide array of types, they must all be in different color groups. -_-' Lame,

but I ''have'' to do it, and I'm getting a headache trying to figure out my Black and White team because whatever group I make ends up having two of the same color. ** If it's viable for you (read: you're using Shoddy/PO), Shinies can help by giving you more options. Might not be so easy ingame, however... * I have OCD. Well, when I was in the first or second grade (I'm fourteen now), I got these thoughts of horrible things that would happen if I ate solid food. So I lived off of nutritional smoothies and applesauce for about seven or eight months. I went to the psychiatrist and got medicine and everything, but I stopped taking it after a while. It was pretty mild for a few years, but recently it is coming back. It sounds really silly, but when it is nighttime there is a lot of stuff that has to be just right. I have to shower going shampoo, conditioner, body wash, then I have to wear the right pajamas, and I have to go to bed between 11 and 12. Also my parents have to go out of town for like a day a lot for business, and I have to stay up and wait for them or else I think they will crash. There are some other things, like having to have facebook, tv tropes, then deviantart on my tabs everytime I am on the computer, but those are the worst ones. It sucks because sometimes I feel crazy or like a baby for having to do this stuff, and whenever I tell anyone about it, they laugh, make fun of me, or say, "you can't have OCD, you aren't a neat freak," which really bothers me. * I'm not sure if I have mild OCD[[hottip:*:The obsessive-compulsive stuff doesn't noticeably screw up my life, and it being a serious problem is part of the diagnostic criteria, so I probably couldn't be diagnosed as having OCD even if I do technically have some form of it]] or Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder or what. (I've ruled out autism spectrum disorders because I don't usually have problems picking up on nonverbal communication.) But a lot of the time I ''act'' like this trope, lining things up and getting annoyed when other people mess up my patterns and being a neurotic perfectionist and the occasional bit of obsessive cleaning.[[hottip:*:I'm a NeatFreak in only some ways. 'Clean' clutter is fine, but I can't tolerate organic messes, garbage lying around even if it's just wrappers, or clothes on the floor.]] I always want things to be ''even''. The thing is, many of the things I'd consider the most truly OCD-ish about myself are quite inconspicuous from the outside; things like how I absolutely cannot close a tab unless I'm finished reading it or have come to the conclusion (which takes multiple days of avoiding it) that I never will. (This is symptomatic of how it feels deeply wrong for me to leave any task half-completed.) I also have to use exactly the right word with exactly the right connotations to convey what I have in mind, because if I'm inaccurate then HERE COMES THE SHAME. And there's a bunch more stuff but this isn't really the place for it. * This troper has a problem with colors. Everything must be lined up in the way it appears in the rainbow, or at least form a gradient from one color to another. I always try to make sure my pencils are back in the correct order. When I was little, I had a tendency to take other kids marker sets and "fix" them, weather they wanted it or not.

* This troper grew up with parents with Super OCD. Examples? My dad had to have the cans and boxes in the kitchen pantry perfectly arranged, with all the labels facing the same way and everything perfectly organized. He also used to insist on the dishes being put away in exactly the same way every time. He also had only one particular way of mowing the lawn that was acceptable, a way I had to learn before I started mowing the lawn. My mom was a stickler about tidiness and cleanliness and could spot a tiny fragment of paper -- no more than a square millimeter in size -- on the carpeted or tiled floor from about 100 feet. She always insisted on dusting and vacuuming being done in one exact way, and I learned her method before going on to doing any dusting or vacuuming. She also insisted on counting the cadence of her conversations in such a way that they always were multiples of ten. I have certain characteristics, such as always having to blow my nose on a tissue in one precise way (folding it in half lengthwise, then starting from one end before working my way to the other), putting dishes away in the same exact way every time, combing out my hair precisely the same number of times, timing myself as I brush my teeth or take a shower, etc. Still, I'm not as OCD as my parents were/are. * Military life encourages it's own brand of OCD, and if you're not prone to it, it will be disciplined into you. The longer you serve, the less likely you are to revert in civilian life. This is only as bad as it's impact on your friends and family, but because it's so justified while in the service, ex-servicemembers will continue to justify it as strongly even if it's making them a terror to be around. * Tropers/BTIsaac tends to get hysterical if his computer isn't functioning the exact way he intends it to. He tends to reboot whenever he loses count of how many seconds bootup takes, and verifies the contents of system folders after every single bootup. He also teds to verify the view settings of specific folders to see if any of them have been lost by accident. If something doesn't match up, he inevitably fixes it with the [[ResetButton System Restore]] function. Which has a 1% chance of altering a setting it was not supposed to, causing further panic. ** He also had a habit of counting the cracks in the sidewalk whenever he's walking, to make sure both of his legs step over the same number of approximately equal sized cracks. And pray you're not near when he steps over a particularly large crack. ** And that's not mentioning the other oddities like always leaving the exact same way he came in, always trying to make sure he makes the same number of turns in both directions (sometimes turning 270 degrees left instead of 90 degrees right), and cracking his fingers on both hands the same number of times. * I have pretty bad co-OCD to generalized anxity (BTW I'm OCD/ADHD/Dyslexic). I obsessivly memorize things that interest me. I must have my phone or I freak out. I must know where my blaket is. I must know where my phone and lap top chargers are. I must have my lap top. I must have the ability to comunicate oraly. I must know who will be picking me up/driving me home and when. I walk to the right in bath rooms. I must touch things in serten orders. I can only get pircings in pairs of two. Etc, etc.

* This troper is quite OCD over the news (no, not Fox News or other mainstream outlets). --------Go back to SuperOCD...WAIT! Use your left foot to get out! Yeah, like that. Now, put your right foot away from that crack on the floor...

SuperPersistentPredator * [[@/{{Spectrum}} This editor]]'s cat, [[ElricOfMelnibone Elric]], once lay in wait for a mouse that was hiding behind a bookcase. I offered Elric food, amounting to a much larger meal than the mouse, but Elric refused and kept staring at the bookcase, hoping for its prey to come back out. ** Well-fed cats hunt for fun. He was probably not planning on eating it as much as playing with it, killing it once he's had enough, then giving you its corpse as a gift. ** Not so much a "gift", as the cat telling you how much of a terrible hunter you are. Yeah, cat's pretty much have a God complex and wish to teach our inferior species. ** Not really true, above troper. It's what happens when the cat regards you as one of its children and does so in order to teach hunting skills. I also have been on the receiving end, except that the cat was being friendly because I play with it often (Schoolyard cat). I ended up screaming like a little girl when it dropped a dead bird into my lap. * Humans really are the MostTriumphantExample. A large portion of the world manufactures, grows, or raises food without needing to hunt prey so why do people still hunt in a lot of cultures? Because we like it. And thanks to certain "advantages" we have that other animals don't (vehicles, portable water and rations, etc.) we don't tire nearly as easily as other predators and we can cover an incredible range. Plus we can actually hold grudges against certain prey (think of your hick uncle and his bitter fishing tales of "That big one that always gets away. I'll get him next time!") and we will occasionally go out of our way to track down that one individual for months or even ''years''. And god bless you if you're an animal that kills a human and gets labeled as a "manhunter/man-eater". We ''will'' put every effort into ending you as quickly as possible. Although that may count as a species-specific form of RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

SuperpowerLottery * [[{{Tropers.Diamondex}} This troper]] can hear radio waves. It requires sitting in absolute silence for about a minute. A minute later, I have a headache and I need to make sound to filter it all out. ** Why is that a SuperpowerLottery? *** It should be on Power With a Price **** I mean, you can hear radio waves...then what? Can you ''utilize'' it? ***** You're joking, right? ** That's not hearing radio waves, that's ''tinnitus''.

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SuperSenses * {{Lale}}: Having hyperacusis is a nightmare! I can hear the music from everyone else's headphones when riding a bus, I rarely go to parties or dances where there'll be loud music, and since a tv or loud conversation anywhere in my house or dorm sounds like it's in the same room, it can take me over an hour to fall asleep at night ''with earplugs!'' * This Troper has over-sensitivity to high pitched noises , cat scarers and other ultrasonic devices can hurt my ears. * This Troper has a funny nose. Even though it's always clogged or something, I can smell very faint sents but when I'm in the kitchen, I can't smell anything. Oh, and I once saw something no one else did...when I wasn't wearing my glasses...halfway down the hall...and without my glasses I can barely see two feet beyond my hand when it's fully extended. * When the T.V is on, but its mute, or the cable isn't on, my friend and I can hear this horrible high pitched sound coming from it. I'm so sensitive to it that i can walk into the house and tell that someone left the T.V on in the next room. ** Indeed. This Troper has done this on many occasions. ** Same here. There's a TV in my grandma's house I can't stand to watch because (for whatever bizarre reason) it has a really loud high pitched note whenever it's on. ** And the same here. My parents never believed me though. ** Happens to me too. It's caused by high voltage and complex circuitry, like a CRT TV. ** Yes, especially the high-frequency switching elements. Also, while cameras used ultrasonic rangefinders for auto-focus, I could hear this insistent, rapid little clicking noise from the rangefinder before the servos moved the optics into place. ** This troper has this, too. His friends find it creepy that he can tell if a computer's been left on from halfway across the house. It's high-pitched enough that it doesn't ''feel'' like hearing, though. ** Count [[@/TedAsanto me]] in if this can really be scientifically proven. ** Me too. I hate having to repeatedly ask people to turn off their muted [=TVs=] because of the horrible noise they make. ** Modern [=LCD TVs=] usually don't have this problem... except when they do. Especially annoying when said [=LCD=] is on a ''cell phone.'' * This troper always knows where everyone in a house is at all times, from footsteps. He gets scared incredibly badly when someone actually sneaks up on him. * Does synesthesia count as an example? This troper has it, and most non-synesthetic people find it cool that she sees colors in graphemes. I only find it useful for art purposes, where knowing the word "slow" is pinkish, light blue and indigo comes in handy.

* [[{{Earnest}} I have]] a weird cross between Super Sense, SpiderSense and SpeakOfTheDevil. Whenever my dad says my name in the same building/floor, regardless of distance or noise, I can hear it. I have the sneaking suspicion this is the result of some sinister pavlovian conditioning, will investigate after I scrub his pool. * Wow. Super senses can really mean BlessedWithSuck. When I read a few of the examples, my first thought was that I hadn't edited this page before. My nose has been (in)famous for near constant discharge or stuffiness, yet I often smell things most people miss. In contrast, smells that might be pleasant for other folks absolutely REEK to me. I can't stand the detergent aisle at the store, certain flowers are only pleasant outdoors, and I can smell people smoking cigarettes ''across the street!''\\ I can really empathize with the Hearing examples too - I hear the screech of horizontal output transistors in [=TVs=] and CRT monitors; a stereo at low volume upstairs is too loud for me to sleep through.\\ And finally, vision... although I wear glasses, I noticed that when the refresh rate on my computer display is set to 60hz refresh rate, I can see a flicker from the screen. It's better if I can set the monitor to 85hz or higher. I know an older lady who has the same problem. * Ugh, if a TV screen is left on I can hear it. I can generally tell where people are in the house, either because of their footsteps or because my family's kind of inactive I'm not sure which. I can usually tell when something's odd, a light left on or a computer, despite being in a different room. And certain foods smell awful to me but have no smell to anyone else in my family or friends, ie. Cucumbers. Nasty, nasty cucumbers. * [[Tropers/JET73L JET73L]] has the "hearing high-pitched noises, feeling low-pitched noises, [[HyperAwareness percieving lots of distinct noises]], yada yada" thing [[BlessedWithSuck with the whole "migraines, focus problems, etc." thing that so often goes with it]]. However, the troper's true power is the ability to [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower smell things (almost always comestibles) from inside sealed containers]]. Its only weakness is being masked by something else, such as vanilla or lavender, or an aluminum or tinplated container. Even sterilization doesn't stop it, and the ability is refined enough that the troper was able to describe three distinct sealed wines, their subtle differences, and [[DrinkOrder which would go best with the dinner it was to be served with]] ''based on the cook's personal style''... despite never having smelled or tasted any of the three wines outside the still-sealed bottles (even if I were of age to drink recreationally where I live, I don't like the taste of uncooked wines, or really, even grape juice for that matter). On a related note, cucumber skins, meats, and (at least if dried, scraped clean, or cracked) seeds all have different scents, which change based on how old it is and if and how it has been cooked or chilled. I don't know what the above troper's family is thinking. * [[Tropers/{{Onyhow}} This troper]] has hyperacusis and can only function outside with earplugs. Even then, overwhelmingly loud sound can still send him into panic. * [[Tropers/{{Cameoflage}} I]] have super-sensitive, er, ''senses'' of

hearing, smell, and taste, though that last one isn't really as relevant as the other two. I also hate hate hate hate hate loud noises (especially screechy or shriek-y ones), smokers are the bane of my existence, and I've recently started getting migraines. I'm also slightly photophobic, but my vision is [[BlindWithoutEm the exact opposite of a super-sense]]. (And there definitely seems to be some sort of correlation between a great sense of smell and an excess of snot, because my nose does that too.) ** ...Except for the near blindness, this is ME....THAT IS SCARY. Although, my hearing seems to be failing me, now. * I used to be so sharp with my senses that I could distinguish people by their footsteps, types of fabric by only touch and even taste words. Then, I went to elementary school and my senses got numb. Turns out it was the isolation. ** [[Tropers/{{BjornStravinsky}} This Troper]] is in college and can still tell some people apart by their footsteps, particularly if they have a unique walking pattern. Apparently they find it a tad creepy when they walk into a stair well a flight above me and I call out a greeting to them, sight unseen. Also the 60 cycle hum from some lamps drives him quite mad. * Zig-zagged with this troper. He has horrible situational awareness, but on the rare occasions when he's paying attention to something, he can hear footsteps from across the house while wearing headphones, count pine needles at ten feet with his eyes crossed, and perform other sensory feats. However, he has very little sense of taste, to the point that everything he eats has to be ridiculously spicy, sweet, or bitter for him to enjoy it. * I most likely have some form of Sensory Integration Dysfunction (along with a host of various other issues), which results in some things being over-sensitive and some things being under-sensitive. And mostly...it just sucks. Being over-sensitive to touch means that I can't wear clothes if they're even a little tiny bit too small, and can't eat a lot of foods because even if I like the taste the texture of it makes me want to gag. My hearing's over-sensitive too (I can hear the above-mentioned sound of a muted TV from a floor away), as well as my sensitivity to light. Honestly I've yet to find any kind of advantage to it. It's really just annoying. * [[AngryBob This Troper]] was told by an eye doctor that he had 20/13 vision. This was a few years ago, though, so it's probably not as good now. * This trope basically describes my sister (who I sometimes call Supergirl because of it). She has great vision, can hear things from rather far away, and is sensitive to smells. She also can just ''feel'' things more. For example: -->'''Sister''': Do you guys feel that? -->'''Me/My mother''': Feel what? -->*3 seconds later, decent-sized earthquake happens* -->'''Me''': Oh, ''that''. * [[@/{{Tadaru}} This troper]] somehow has 1.5 (about 20/13) vision despite how much of his awake time he spends in front of a computer or TV screen. This is about the only one of his SuperSenses that comes in handy; the rest have some sort of BlessedWithSuck attached.

* This troper is incredibly sensitive to touch. When she was little, even light pokes were slightly painful, though it's gone down a notch from then. There are many, many textures she simply cannot stand like crushed velvet or the texture of a certain chair or toilet paper roles after they've been in dry, cold air... although it makes up for itself in [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean certain]] [[PowerPerversionPotential other]] [[FetishFuel ways]]. * Thie troper has three. My eyes are more sensitive to light than most, allowing me great night-vision. I can identify most foods from the second story of my house through there smell. And I can notice slight sounds, noticing once how my glass was producing a tone from the resonance produced, I assume, by the popping bubbles of the soda in the glass. <<|TroperTales|>> ----

SuperSlaveMarket * [[@/{{Kalle}} This troper]] has been working at one of these for the past five and a half years, mostly due to the fact that no other store in town would hire her (and the economy collapse later on made it harder to quit for something better.) It really is that bad. ---Would you like your SuperSlaveMarket page in paper or plastic? ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SuperSpeedReading * [[@/{{Koveras}} This Troper]]'s mother has read the ''LordOfTheRings'' in a single day. Yes, that DoorStopper of a book. At the age of 17. * [[{{Meshakhad}} This troper]] blew through ''HarryPotter And The Order Of The Phoenix'' in a matter of hours. I also find that when I fly somewhere, I will want to bring at least two books - one for the flight out, and one for the flight home. And that's taking into account the hour and a half or so I'll spend on my computer. * [[Tropers/{{Gerusz}} This troper]] is this. LordOfTheRings trilogy? Six hours. {{Foundation}} trilogy and the two '80s books? Three hours. * All of ''Mahou Sensei Negima'' (as of October 2010), up to chapter 302. In one point five days. That's somewhere around 6-7000 pages. ...MANGA STILL COUNTS DAMN YOU ** And yes, it was a scanlation. The chances of finding it in print where I live is next to zero. I'm not even sure if it can be legally imported into Australia. * This troper thought she read at an average speed until she was playing Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days with her mother watching over her shoulder. Apparently I read the text so quickly that my mother didn't believe I was actually absorbing information, and I had to summarize

the cutscenes to prove it. * I thought I was normal until my parents pointed out that I go through books in like an hour. They didn't believe that I was really reading. I think the computer is responsible somehow. * Whenever this troper is asked to read out loud, I'm frequently told I need to slow down, when I'm reading at my normal reading speed. ** So does [[@/{{endlessness}} this troper]]. ** We should form a club. * This troper has to read out loud to actually absorb any information at all, otherwise she will read at a faster pace than anyone could possibly read to her. She learned of this when she read [[TheBible Exodus]] in a little more than an hour. * This troper learned to read before she learned to speak in full sentences/carry on a conversation and practically lives in the library, and it shows. She can get through Door Stopper books in a matter of hours, and when Order of the Phoenix came out when she was eight, she got it at ten in the morning, read it on the way home, curled up in the living room and read it throughout the day, forgot to eat dinner, and finished it about seven hours later. And then the next day at recess half her grade approached her asking, "Who died? Who died?" knowing that if ANYONE was able to finish the book over the weekend, it would be me. (And no, I did not spoil!) * [[@/MaxSinister This troper]] can read ''FoucaultsPendulum'' on one afternoon. * This troper has always been a speed-reader, for as long as I can remember. I've had to make a conscious effort to slow myself down when reading big chunks of text (which sometimes results in me reading a page twice or more, because my short-term memory is a bit crap and I have to make sure I got it) because I realised a few years ago that otherwise I end up unconsciously skipping large swathes of it and hardly remembering anything after I'm done with the book. Even with that speedbump, I still finished ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' in something like seven or eight hours. When I was a kid (and doing the skippy thing) I would go through multiple books in a typical school day, though granted they were usually short little YA books. And part of the reason I went through them that quickly was because I'd rather read than do my schoolwork. * [[Tropers/AviRena This troper]] read ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' in two days. Might not sound that super-speed, but I had only just turned 12, and read it in English, which is not my native language. In fact, I had only studied English for three years at that point. * This Troper has always been like this. For example, when she was around preschool-aged, she would read the Junie B. Jones books and it took her around thirty minutes to finish one. When Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released it took her four hours to read it. She very well may be her local bookstore's best customer, because she's usually done reading all the books she buys before the end of the week. * For foreign languages: today this troper read a Chinese 3 passage and scored a 100 on a quiz on it...all in five minutes time. * This troper doesn't have an absurd reading speed. Still, a book with

several hundred pages, if interesting enough and not read before, is just enough for a single nice afternoon. It's more about persistence. * Cumulatively, [[@/{{MiraShio}} I]] read ''TheHungerGames'' in more or less eight hours. Before that, I finished ''[[HarryPotter Deathly Hallows]]'' in approximately the same time--between a day out with the family and all that. * This troper's ability to read two HardyBoys books or a single Redwall Novel in a single schoolday in Kindergarten allowed him to break the school record for reading that year. It takes me considerably longer to read something written in old or complex English, though. In one day now I can finish the entire HP series, or one and a half Charles Dickens novels. * The elder of my two younger sisters can read the likes of ''AtlasShrugged'' and ''{{Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}'' in one afternoon and still have enough time leftover to complete a quest on ''World of WarCraft''. Also, I have managed to read all ten installments of ''ThePendragonAdventure'' in under one week, and my other sister once read the first 18 installments of The Warrior Cats Saga in five days. ----

SuperweaponSurprise * This troper does a variation of it in most grand strategy games like civilization. He doesn't keep a very big standing army generaly, just a very big industrial base and try to be at peace with everyone. When that doesn't work, he builds enough units to stomp them in the ground and completely eliminate their faction, when so is possible. * This troper likes setting up games where it is possible for him to get all three superweapons in CommandAndConquer Generals. In games with larger numbers of players its likely all three factions are covered, so people get surprised when they're hit with all three supers, and then see my tanks and infantry rolling in. ---- Oh no, they have nukes. Run back to SuperweaponSurprise while you can! ---- <<|TroperTales|>>

SupremeChef * [[Tropers.ReikoKazama This troper]]. I've even told my mum, who is also a SupremeChef, that if I can find some more decent recipes to fill out the rest of the week, she'll be out of a job. She says she won't mind, though. (Hey, I didn't do cooking at primary school and in my previous years of high school for nothing, y'know!) * [[{{Seiryu}} This troper]] swears up and down that his stepmom could have nothing on hand but a bucket of week-old dog scraps and come out with a three-course meal for ten people that would put anyone on the food network to shame. He has yet to see this actually happen, however.

* [[@/{{NovaXAdvent}} I aspire to become one.]] The only way I know how is by constantly making food from scratch without a recipe. * Several people have asked my mother to adopt them after tasting her Korean home cooking. * the former violinist in my church has a chef degree and makes really good desert, especially cakes. It is another thing that makes her a YamatoNadeshiko. * [[Tropers/DokEnkephalin This Troper]] had the benefit of rooming with a SupremeChef who liked to cook, all the time, even after doubleshifts at a restaurant. I learned a lot, and though I'm not nearly in his league, I had the occasional victory to cook dishes that would impress even him. * [[Tropers/{{Orihime}} This tropette]]'s father. In our case Mom's a former LethalChef, but Dad personally busys almost every single cooking ingredient and implement at home and is really good at using them. My older sister moved out recently, yet she still comes home almost every weekend to have lunch with us and ends up taking some food to her home for Monday. ** Same here. * [[{{Tropers/Joerc45}} This troper]] and his grandmother, although the former is a bit [[BrilliantButLazy too lazy]] most of the time to demonstrate it. :P * [[{{Tropers/arcana07}} This troper]] and her late father fit this, though my dad usually made the same five dishes over and over again. I've made up my own recipes for lentil soup and a triple berry crumble, along with a vegan-friendly vegetable pie and chili mac & cheese bake. I can also make you a mouthwatering pot roast, meatloaf, chicken soup, roast chicken dinner, swiss mushroom burgers, shortbread, chocolate cheesecake, sauteed brussels sprouts, and an entire Thanksgiving dinner, from the turkey to mashed potatoes to cornbread dressing and a homemade pumpkin pie (though that dirties enough dishes to run the dishwasher twice), amongst other things. I truly enjoy cooking far more than I do eating and usually when I make something I'll make enough to freeze for another meal or three. Right now I have two meals of lentil soup in the freezer along with some cornbread I made. * [[Tropers/{{Renagade}} This Troper]] could very easily be one with a great taste in food, but I lack a kitchen in this college dorm. I specialize in Breakfasts. Pancakes in particular. and my Omelets with make you weep with pure joy. * [[Tropers/{{Gerusz}} This troper]] can cook delicious multi-course meals of very limited resources (basically what's left in the fridge at the end of month). * Tropers/TheEvilOboist is definitely one of these. For my mom's birthday a few years ago, I made a cake that consisted of alternating Angel Food and Devil's Food cake, with peanut butter/cream cheese mousse in between the layers, all of this robed in dark chocolate ganache. It was an absolute pain in the butt to assemble, but it was TO DIE FOR. Also, I've been perfecting my vegetable stir-fry lately, since that's pretty much all I eat now. That and cookies/bread. * [[Tropers/{{Wint}} This particular Troper]] is one. Well justified, because he's a '''professional chemist''', for heaven's sake!

SurpriseCheckmate * [[Tropers/{{Seiryu}} I]] once did this to my step-mom's dad. However, I freely admit that I got ''really'' lucky that he didn't see what I was up to, that if I had not won, he would have had checkmate in five moves or less, and that after I made the checkmate, my first words were "Holy crap, I didn't actually think it would work!" * [[{{Tropes/FuzzyBoots}} I]]'ve been in this situation before myself, while I was in a chess ladder at the Folsom Intel plant. The checkmate was actually a surprise to both of us because I'd never been able to beat the guy before. Suddenly, I slid in my rook for what I thought was a futile Check, and both of us suddenly realized that he had no way to get out. * Gave [[@/{{MiraShio}} me]] victory against a classmate, involving a bishop, a pawn, and a rook that was in the way. But neither of us really knew what we were doing, since back then we were incompetent in the game.

SurprisePregnancy * This Troper had a former babysitter who didn't know she was pregnant with her second child until her water broke. Although she was part of the "so obese they didn't notice" group of TruthInTelevision. * The granddaughter of one of this Troper's great-aunts had this happen to her. She refused to believe the doctors when they were telling her she was in labor, so they had to call her mother in to convince her to push. * This troper knows a friend of a friend whose girlfriend (skinny as a rail) somehow was pregnant for 9 months without knowing. One day, she wasn't feeling good, so she went to the doctor. A few days later, she gave birth to a normal-sized daughter. I do not understand how this is possible. But I've seen pictures of the girl. And the baby. It actually happened. * This Troper's friend went 7 months without knowing she was pregnant. According to her, she was pregnant and everything, she just thought she was putting on weight. On the other hand, many people around here (This troper included) wondered if she was pregnant but were too polite to ask. * This Troper has a friend whose sister had one. She had a baby boy last week, and didn't even know about it for the first 8 months * I am sat watching a documentary on women who didnt know they were pregnant til they went into labour. I was also on facebook...youll never guess what happened. My friend was worried that she was seriously ill, but she went to the doctor, thinking she had cancer or something, but she doesnt. She is pregnant. * This trope is why this troper is remaining celibate for a ''very'' long time. A fear of actual childbirth doesn't help. ---Here's the link back to... Wait, what? ''[[SurprisePregnancy You're pregnant!?]]'' ----

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SurprisinglyGoodEnglish * The L/R thing works both ways-This Troper got to host a Japanese exchange student for a week, and all the exchange students got a school tour without their hosts. Afterwards,I asked her how she liked the tour, and she replied by saying that yes, everyone ''was'' taller here. * ThisTroper went to high school in Korea, and was always surprised when her Half-Korean friends would switch from perfect english with her to perfect Korean yelling at their parents. ** [[SomedayThisWillComeInHandy This is a linguistic phenomenon known as "code-switching," changing between accents, dialects, and languages as a particular social situation requires.]] * Real life subversion: Apparently in Japan when your English is ''too'' good it goes from surprising to just plain weird. Many years ago my dad was visiting his uncle, an American-born ex-sumo wrestler (his career was cut short by WW2) in Japan and they were having a conversation in a restaurant. My dad eventually noticed that all the other diners were staring at them, and his uncle explained that two Japanese speaking fluent English was a very unusual sight in Japan, especially in the suburb-ish area he lived in; also, considering that uncle had lived in Japan for fifty years it's possible no one even knew he spoke English. ** Our [[GratuitousJapanese Surprisingly Bad Japanese]] was lampshaded again when a film crew did a documentary on my dad's grandfather (father of the ex-''sumotori'') and drove home the fact that little to none of his descendants spoke Japanese. ** Real life subversion of a different sort: during a university linguistics class I took in Japan, where half of us were Englishspeaking exchange students, the teacher one day had us talk about ourselves in grammatically correct English...but using only Japanese phonemes. All the Japanese students admitted afterward that we were ''much'' easier to understand doing that. ** This troper feels weird traveling to the Phililppines and speaking English there, because his English is flawless compared to that of most Filipino residents. * [[@/NotSoBadassLongcoat This troper]] is proud of it. Also, his accent confuses people as to where he's from (one person on TV Tropes Vent channel said it sounds like a mix of US, British and Ozztralian accent). * @/{{dotchan}} spent a measly five years in her birth country of Taiwan, so her English is indistinguishable from (and sometimes ''better than'' *gloats*) any other American. (On the other hand, she gets lots of compliments on her Surprisingly Good Mandarin.) * [[@/{{Kadorhal}} This troper]]'s friend from the Netherlands speaks and types English so well that other people tend to forget he's Dutch. * This Troper Learned to speak Russian and Spanish by parroting and learning from his friends and their families - resulting in 1)El Salvadorian Accented Spanish 2)Russian that sounds like he was born

and raised in Moscow and 3)Some very confused Spanish, Mexican, and russian natives upon the revelation that this Troper is actually Australian. * While this troper was in Japan, a yakitori salesman came up to her and her family and asked, in English, "Hey, where are you from?" Upon hearing we were from Australia, he loudly yelled, "G'day mate!" in an almost perfect Australian accent. It was weird. ** There was also an English teacher we met who spoke surprisingly quickly. Like, almost as quick as I do. [[BeyondTheImpossible Which is amazing]]. * This troper picked up English from a wide variety of sources, chiefly from English-language books that he started reading when he was ten. Aside from English and my own native language, I seem to be completely incapable of learning more than the basics of any other language (to the disappointment of my polyglot, seven-language speaking father). I do enjoy driving foreigners off the wall trying to guess where my accent is from, since the my diction is American, my syntax is British, and my accent sounds a bit like Chris Lambert in the Highlander. Most guesses tend to be German, to which I reply by holding my stomach to prevent my sides from splitting. * This troper's friend was born in Serbia, but moved to England at a young age, and as such speaks English with a British accent. It was therefore quite a surprise to hear her conduct a phone call with her mother in Serbian, and even weirder to hear my name and our friends' names brought up in the middle of the conversation spoken in noteperfect English. * People from Singapore get this alot when they go overseas, especially in places where [[YouFailGeographyForever they don't know where Singapore is]]. ** Agreed. That's why you should be bilingual, if only for the laughs. I can speak fluent Chinese, convince people that the most widely-held misconception that Singapore is in China is right, then turn around and start speaking fluent English to the person behind me. ** Even funnier. This troper's lived in Singapore, Hong Kong, Great Britain and now resides in the United States. Thus, he has a very good grasp of Malay, Cantonese, Mandarin, English, Japanese and Korean. People keep talking slowing when they first meet me. Thus, wherever I go, I have learned to do a [[MindScrew mind screw]] to anyone who is ignorant enough to think I'm stupid enough to go to a country without knowing how to speak it's language. * [[@/{{MiraShio}} I'm]] a Filipina, and I've been the most fluent English speaker in my school since first grade, leading everyone to think I'm American (well, I'm British, but that never had anything to do with my fluency; it just comes naturally). * This troper is half English and half Japanese living in Japan, who is bilingual. Yet I look pretty much like my English side of the family. Sometimes in real life, people'll assume I can't speak Japanese, yet I can speak as a native speaker. But online, people think I can't use English very well, when in fact, I can. * This troper can speak English about as well as his mother language (Greek). With accents to boot. Seeing a small, ponytailed man go from "crass Texan" to "Oirish" to "snooty Brit" in a sentence must be quite

funny, or so I'm told. * This troper visited Vienna in July and there were many signs/tshirts/etc. in English, yet I didn't notice a single grammar mistake, nor when I had to speak English to locals due to my [[GratuitousJapanese poor German]]. * I work in an industry with a lot of internationally born employees. Therfore, i know quite a few people who can speak english better as a second language than naturally born english speakers ** This is also usually the case with students in non-English-speaking countries whose studies require them to use a lot of English on a daily basis. Speaking from personal experience here. * I was enrolling at a TAFE course while waiting to be interviewed when a Chinaman asked me to check his spelling. It said somewhere in it "... so I could be a translationor". While his english wasn't perfect with the last word being miscreated, it surprised me that he spelt it (Capitals added for emphasis) "TranslationOr" instead of "TranslationEr", which would of been wronger. In a nut shell it was surprisingly perfectly imperfect. * This troper was eating for the first time at a Japanese restaurant in Glasgow. Japanese immigrants are rare enough in Scotland and the rest of the waiters and waitresses had spoken in mild Engrish. So imagine the surprise she felt when a second waiter came up to her and her friend and asked them what they wanted to drink in not just good English, but a grade A, flawless, PERFECT Glaswegian accent. Probably one of the most difficult to learn dialects of English for non-natives next to Cajun. Although he was probably born and raised in the city, there are third generation immigrants there that still haven't learned the variant of the accent he spoke (Complete glottal stops). Inspired by this event, the troper is aspiring to learn Osakan dialect Japanese. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SurrealHorror [[quoteright:270:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lolvhat_ 1397.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:270:Gentlemen, leave a moat.]] ! There was a dream I had once which left me quite confused. I had a gun in my hand, a revolver with unlimited chambers, I would spin the chambers around and every now and again hold it to my head and pull the trigger... Click... And again Click... I kept spinning it, it spun so easily in my hand, so frictionless, so effortlessly. It whirred as it spun, and noise I never fully thought about until I awoke. Click... Click... [[spoiler: Click...]] I opened the gun and saw that there was a bullet in every chamber, not a single chamber was left empty. What was my subconscious trying to tell me? Am I doing something wrong? Am I wasting time with idle decisions? Am I trying and failing to die?

I NEED ANSWERS! I need to know what I'm meant to be doing. Why does nothing make sense and why can't I think! Please Help me! Please help me! I need help, why won't anyone help me? WHY WON'T YOU HELP ME!! I can't do this... Of course, I never could, you never could do this, you're pathetic, You're Useless... Useless... USELESS!!!! There is nothing, NOTHING you can do. You are completely useless, you stupid piece of SHIT. I HATE you. No on likes you. No one likes you. No ones likes you. No ones likes you. NO one likes you. No one likes you. No ones likes you. NO ones likes you. No ones likes you. No one likes you. no ones likes you. No one likes you. no one likes you. No one likes you. No one likes you. No one likes you. no one likes you. NO one likes you. No one likes you. No one likes you. no one likes you. NO one likes you. no one likes you. no ones likes you. No ones likes you. No ones likes you. NO ones likes you. no one likes you. No ones likes you. No ones likes you. No one likes you. NO on likes you. No on likes you. No on likes you. No one likes you. NO one likes you. no one likes you. no one likes you. No one likes you. No one likes you. NO one likes you. No one likes you. Why are you doing this!? No one likes you. No one likes you. no one likes you. No one likes you. no one likes you. NO one likes you. NO one likes you. no one likes you. no one likes you. No one likes you. no one likes you. NO one likes you. NO One Likes You. No one likes you. no one likes you. NO ONE LIKES YOU. no one likes you. No one likes you. No one likes you. No one likes you. No ones likes you. no ones likes you. NO one likes you. No one likes you. There is nothing good about you. Nothing at all. Nothing at all. NOTHING AT ALL. Just go, leave. There is no point in your life and there never will be, no one likes you. No one Could like you. No one Will ever like you. You are unlikable, Unlikable, Unlikable, Unlikable. You do everything Wrong. You do Everything Wrong, you can't do anything Right. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. But I have friends... I know I have friends, they talk to me, I know they like me... Do they? Have they ever walked up to you and spoken to you? have they ever come to you for anything? Or do they just put up with you while you talk. They don't like you, they just listen to you so you'll leave, they're only putting up with you. They're nice people, they won't say bad things to you, but that doesn't mean they don't hate you. You should stop talking to them, stop Making them Miserable. Just Leave, they'll All Be Happier Without You! You should Die, You should just Die... I should die, I should die... You're thinking of suicide aren't you. You selfish shit. You are the most Selfish Fucker in the world. You deserve this sadness, You Deserve this hate. You don't get out of it that easily. No one should have to clean up after your disgusting remains, no one should have to deal with you in Any way. Living Or Dead. You Stay alive and Fucking Deal With IT! No one likes you. I hate you. They all Hate you. They All Hate YOU!

...Is this true? Am I really so hated? Or do my thoughts just run with me? I don't know who my friends are, why won't anyone talk to me... ! * [[http://cheezpictureisunrelated.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/82869eea2b19-4954-a491-e55e41485248.jpg ''Nose11//'']] Man. Whether some dreams have meaning or not, they're horrifying all the same. I believe that the scariest and strangest nightmares I've ever had are from my childhood. I had one where me and my mom were in a medieval castle, fighting off what were presumably [[ZombieApocalypse zombies]]. What was really frightening was the fact that when we would injure them they would transform into some sort of large, [[StopMotion clay-mation]] swine. It's body would then shrink, reducing it to a head. And then, apparently, we would have to fight that. It got increasingly [[MindScrew incomprehensible]] from then on. I once had this dream where I would be eating something and I'd hear a loud cracking noise, but no pain. I go into the bathroom and a piece of my jaw with part of the gum and two teeth still attached. ---Follow the spider made of barbed wire and tongues back to SurrealHorror. ----

SurvivalMantra * Whenever this troper is feeling particularly down or is in a scary place - suddenly, without willing it, "[[EarthBoundZero I believe the morning sun, always gonna shine again, and, I believe a pot of gold, waits at every rainbow's end, oh. I believe in roses kissed with dew, why shouldn't I believe the same in you!]]" Pollyanna is very good at cheering her up. * This troper has adopted "Semper Fi, do or die." as his mantra. Got him through the ending shootout of Killzone 2 after MANY attempts. * This troper will on occasion mutter the running cadences from Full Metal Jacket to himself. * This troper uses ''"Finish what you started, human"'' from SpiritedAway as hers. Oddly enough, it only works especially well if she includes the "human" on the end. Just saying "finish what you started" is't enough for some reason. ** That's because the 'human' makes it sound like something bad is going to happen to you if you don't do what is being asked. * To cross into MadnessMantra, I have KILLFRENZYKILLFRENZYKILLFRENZYKILLFRENZY! Mostly as a way to freak the hell out of people, my other one is chanting "Heresey!" and "The Emperor Protects!" Most of my chants are of Warhammer40,000 origin. Minor ones are, "Hail the Emperor" "I shall die for Kay-Oss!" and the

ever unforgettable "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!" Mostly said while charging in airsoft. I have made my friend piss himself by sneaking up on him and yelling it. And because I can sound quite inhuman, I am walking HighOctaneNightmareFuel for any airsoft opponents. * [[{{Tropers/TsukasaElkKite}} This troper]] uses Dorie's little song from Finding Nemo as her mantra. "just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming...". She also uses the 101st Airborne's (and specifically Easy Company's) rallying cry "Currahee!" (we stand alone) to psych herself up when she's feeling down. * This troper uses the 23rd psalm, despite not being a Christian anymore; it got her through a string of horrible panic attacks in high school when nothing else that wasn't prescription worked. In a pinch she finds she can use just about any inspirational fictional dialog from a series or film she likes, though. ** Ditto with psalm 23, only I ''am'' a Christian. But interestingly, I used it for that purpose ''before'' I converted. ** This troper had a similar situation (minus the meds), and her mantra before getting a specialist was either "It's not real" for the fictional scares, or "It's over by now" for the truth. Half the time, she has to admit she was only fooling herself. * Whenever I'm going through something really annoying, I repeat to myself, "It's coming to an end." * My scout troop on our Philmont hike (12 day backpacking trek): Double-Double Animal Style. It's a type of cheeseburger sold at the nearby burger joint. Double cheese, double burger, animal style sauce (not sure what's in that though) * This (Roman Catholic) troper uses the Shema as one of her many Survival Mantras. (It's the Jewish prayer that begins with "Shema Yisrael.") She also uses the Hail Mary, the Litany Against Fear, the opening paragraph of "The Cat That Walked By Himself", and, of course, "Saint Jude, hope of the hopeless, pray for me." * This troper wishes he could remember where he got it from, but he uses "in time this too shall pass" - and the Bene Gesserit's Litany ** I'm not at all sure that it's the same thing, but a line much like the former that you mention was, as I recall, inscribed on a dagger in the story "The Magic Goes Away" by Larry Niven. [[spoiler:Reflecting, again as I recall, that even the unenchanted dagger would pass in time, as the world's mana was.]] That said, my memory turns up "And this too shall pass away" as the quote from that story, although it may well be wrong. ** If this troper is not mistaken, it comes from a legend regarding King Solomon of Biblical Fame. He was feeling depressed (or something) and asked if anyone in the land could cheer him up. Someone gave him a ring with the inscription "This too shall pass." It also may have allowed him to control demons, but that may have been a different "King Solomon's Ring" story... ** It might well be of biblical origin but I know it from ''Harold and Maude'' ** I heard it as a Buddhist story - in it a lord asks for a ring that will cheer him up when he's down, but stop him from becoming

overconfident when he's doing well - and this is inscribed on it. ** This troper uses another variation: "Like all things, this too shall pass." * [[{{Tropers/Ingonyama}} This troper]] uses the chorus of Savage Garden's "Affirmation." 'I believe in karma, what you give is what you get returned/I believe you can't appreciate real love till you've been burned/I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side/I believe you don't knwo what you've got until you say goodbye.' [[HesBack I feel much better!]] * This troper likes to repeat the Samurai Creed to himself as a meditation mantra. * This troper was seriously depressed last year because of one topic, and now anytime her thoughts go near that topic, she has to repeat to herself, "Stop it stop it stop it stop it." * This troper used to like "People have been through worse - so can I.", but he now likes "I've had worse.". Sounds more BadAss to me. * [[{{Tropers/catldr}} This troper]] uses "Just stay calm, just stay calm, just stay calm..." * [[{{Tropers/Stinkoman87}} This Troper]] either uses "Ichi Ni San Shi Go Ichi..." (1 through 5 in Japanese as a song. Ralph Wiggum and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" work especially well. * This Troper, who sees evil as an alternative choice of lifestyle, has noticed a tendency to repeat 'No rest for the wicked' until churning into a such a fury that the indignation of being forced into a situation compels him to see it through. * After reading this, this troper suddenly recalls her own previous mantra of "And the tears do not fall." It never actually kept any tears from falling, however, so if another is ever needed, it'll probably have to be a different one. * [[{{Tropers/Mantid}} This troper]] says "I am Captain (name withheld), I fight space aliens" whenever she has to give a speech, or, you know, talk to anyone in a public setting. She is not a captain of any sort in real life, nor will she be if she has anything to say about it. * [[{{Tropers/Cameoflage}} This troper]] also uses the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear. ** This troper has used said Litany to snap herself out of more than one panic attack. ** This troper used the Litany [or what she could remember of it] to help her pass a Tae Kwon-Do grading, when she'd failed the last one due to being a nervous wreck. * This troper tends to rant "forget about it, forget about it!" to himself when he is reminded of the many things he is suppose to be doing rather than taking things easy. It works. * [[Tropers/ManCalledTrue This troper]] has no set mantra... but the only way to get himself down from a panic attack is to rant the first thing that comes to mind. ** [[Tropers/DarkInsanity13 This troper]] does the same to distract herself from something. A surprise lockdown drill at her school once had her murmuring lyrics from Linkin Park's "Hands Held High", while more recently when waiting for the Sky Wheel at Niagara Falls with moths flying everywhere where she muttered "keep low, they won't get

you down here." * This troper, like several others, uses the Bene Gesserit Litany in times of stress. It's even more appropriate in this situation - my father named me after Lady Jessica! * This troper suffers from an untreatable illness which damaged the retina of her right eye, and she is gradually going blind. (Jury is still out on whether the left eye will eventually start to go.) She was rather intrigued, therefore, to discover ''MetalGear Solid 3'' and watch how Naked Snake gets along without ''his'' right eye. So her mantra, at least where her disease is concerned, is borrowed from him: "It's not like I can't see. I've got one good eye and I can still fire a gun." ** This troper is left-eye blind and would like to say she finds the above troper's survival mantra to be supremely awesome. *** Thanks. :) Hey, if we could only join forces, between us we have two good eyes! * This troper uses "Put up and shut up." [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism No prizes for guessing where she stands on this one]]. * This troper has successfully controlled his shakes with, of all things, the British 1st Airborne's cry of "Wahai, Mohammed"(And he also knows the correct cry, but prefers this fictional version.). He's also used [[{{Warhammer40000}} For the Emperor]] and other Imperial cries. Oddly enough, they work better if said to himself instead of yelled out as they would normally be used. * This editor has many: "Sticks and stones might break my bones, but fear shall never harm me." and "We have nothing to fear but the fear itself." when being afraid or panicking. * This troper takes a page from {{Aria}} and says to himself "There is beauty in everything" whenever he gets lost or frustrated. It works so well he could cry. * This troper likes 'fix bayonets!' ** A fan of {{Gettysburg}}, I see! * This troper likes to alternate between the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, Psalm 23, the Jedi Code, and the phrase Don't panic. * This troper prefers, "You'll feel better in the morning." Maintaining an ironic detachment towards everything, including one's own survival, well-being and general status, also helps. * This troper likes "Ishin na'telleth" from the Ivory books by Doris Egan. ("I'm not about to care.") * This troper recites sequences from ''SpaceChannel5'' or random song lyrics ([[Tropers/DragonForce "Through the fire and the flames we carry on..."]]). * This troper deals with panic attacks either by calculating the squares up through twenty, or cubes up through ten. * [[DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog It's a brand new me, I've got no remorse, now the water's rising but I know the course...]] * This troper has many but tends to go with "Save your fears, take your place, save them for the Judgement Day" ([[GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex ]] opening song lyrics) * To psych myself up to talk to [[LoveInterest an important person]],

I said to myself "Come on, ''[[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs move Zig]]''!" * This troper uses the Sith Code. It helps her focus on getting through things...the imagined burst of evil power from channelling all that frustration doesn't hurt either. [[StarWars "Peace is a lie, there is only passion..."]] ** Join the club; that was the only way this troper managed to reach his rental accommodation after picking up [=DnD=] boxed sets, having gotten off the bus far too early. He now knows the town rather better. * "I'm getting time-and-a-half for this, I'm getting time-and-a-half for this..." * "The pain shall pass, the glory will remain." "I refuse this!" and "My willpower will prevail." * This Troper uses Poe's "The Raven", said without any rhythm or pause between the words. And yes, all 18 verses. * This troper has started using "Fred Phelps is still alive". Seriously. After many months of worrying that people will physically harm each other over words, actions, or beliefs that they disagree with, is there a better source of perspective than knowing that a man so despised has yet to be a victim of lethal vigilantism? * This Troper tend to use "Who Dares Win" in summoning the courage to do something, and "Even Falling is Flight, In Flight there is Freedom" to deal with her strangely specific acrophobia. * This troper's mantra depends on the situation, but it just has to be said in the voice of [[ProfessorLaytonAndTheCuriousVillage Professor Layton]]. Try it. It's calming. * This troper uses Willy Wonka's "What if my beard were made out of green spinach?" to get him to stop worrying about imagined outcomes. It ''almost'' works. Also: ** Sokka's "You can do this" to [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang]] when I was faced with a final-year project,because I ''wasn't'' alone or not capable of doing it. * 'Hakuna matata' got this troper through close to two years of learning Korean. * This troper has a few. When still in school and the target for bullies it was; "This is war. If I break they win. I will not let them win"(or variations thereof), "I'm better then them," or simply "I will not let them affect me." General purpose ones are "there's no choice so get on with it", "it's not over until it's over", or in emergencies "people have dealt with a lot worse then this. Don't be a wuss", "No emotion", and "Don't get upset, get angry". The last one has occasionally led to SmiteMeOhMightySmiter moments. * This troper keeps a little book of reassuring quotes for just this purpose. It contains - among other things - the aforementioned Litany Against Fear, Psalm 23 and a surprisingly large amount of quotes from Confucius. * This troper has appropriated "stand up on it" from the supplemental material to ''ShadowUnit''. * [[{{Tropers/Regiment}} This troper]] has adopted ''[[JackieChanAdventures yu mo gui gui fie di sow]]'', despite not really knowing what it meant until... well, reading it on this site. [[{{Seinfeld}} Serenity Now]] works too, in that meta-humorish way. * [[{{Tropers/Alkthash}} This Troper]] likes to slip into a

[[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Row Row Fight da Power!]] when things get stressful. Honestly the belief that bad things can be overcome through determination and the occasional friend goes a long way. * "I am not anybody else but ME" used to be this troper's mantra when bad thoughts of a certain kind came along. Nowadays, it's a firm "SHUT UP" repeated a few times. * This troper alternates between "Fly to Florida. Get in a rocket. Run away to the Moon. The Appennine Mountains." (Sometimes shortened to just "The Appennine Mountains.") and Ernest Shackleton's motto "By Endurance, We Conquer." * This troper, when fatigued with girlfriend drama, repeats a vague and garbled quote he once heard. "When God created woman out of the rib of man, he didn't take out of man's head, to rule over him, nor from his feet, to be trampled underneath. Instead, he took from the side, to be man's equal, from under his arm, to be protected, and from close to his heart, to be loved." It makes things a lot better. * When stressed, this trooper takes a deep breath, remembers Dak'Kon from Planescape: Torment, and breathes out while saying "Balance, in all things." It helps to calm me down and find my center. However, my housemates have pointed out that, when I'm raiding in World of Warcraft, my mantra seems to be "oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck" punctuated by whatever boss we're fighting's raid-wipe ability. "Oh fuck, don't let me get Burn, oh fuck, don't let me get Burn..." * When this troper is under some duress, he likes to belt out (or just hum) the songs of the classic GonnaFlyNowMontage. Singing this while running track elicits some... odd looks. * For this troper there's two different mantras. For homework or exam trouble, its "If I try hard, I ''will'' succeed", which was something a memorable and optimistic substitute teacher said during an inspiring speech to the class. For general pinches, its "Everything will work out fine in the end", which this troper's best friend said when the whole of our group had big problems going on. * [[Tropers/SeanTucker This troper]] alternates between muttering [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann the rap from Libera Me From Hell]] and humming [[ElfenLied Lilium.]] * This troper has three, actually. For situations that involve physical endurance or being scared spitless she tends to mutter "Pain (or fear) is of the body, I am of the mind. Embrace it, change it, make it your own." Academic challenges warrant "I can do this, I am fucking brilliant, I will do this, bring it on." In situations where it's all up to luck, she chants a traditional Hindu mantra invoking Ganesh. * This troper has a few. The first from "Heroes" I often use to psyche myself when I need to do something that demands courage, like talking to certain people..." We are all, at our cores, the sum of our fears. To embrace destiny we must inevitably face those fears and conquer them. Whether they come from the familiar or the unknown." The other is the speech from Rocky Balboa, Rocky talks to his son about life. It's truly and inspiring speech, and it might help some people out even more! Check it out: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49Ef5Bpzd8&feature=related]] * This troper runs through variations of the Green Lantern Oath. There

are quite a few of them, as it turns out, but the one that tends to help him most is the one voiced by the now-deceased and much-lamented Jack T. Chance: "You who are wicked, evil and mean/I'm the nastiest creep you've EVER seen!/Come one, come all/Put up a fight/I'll pound yer butts with Green Lantern's light/Yowza!" And yes, the last word IS necessary... * This troper also uses the Green Lantern Oath, though she prefers the more traditional one. "In brighteest day, in blackest night/No evil shall escape my sight/Let those who worship evil's might/Beware my power! Green Lantern's Light!" * [[{{Tropers/KayKay}} This troper]] uses what may be an altered from of some wrestler's quote. "It doesn't how many times I fall down, what matters is how many times I get back up." * [[Tropers/GwenStacyWannabe I'm]] rather ashamed to say that I've stolen [[TeenTitans "Azarath metrion zinthos"]] from a certain {{goth}}... * Mostly because he can rarely remember them for too long, this troper has written down two - one for bad situations, the other for good. The first is [[{{Warhammer40000}} "The Emperor protects"]], which he does; the second is [[TropicThunder ...let's just say it involves being a farmer of some kind of metal]]. * [[ASongOfIceAndFire ''Fear cuts deeper than swords'']]. This troper also reminds herself that she's a ''balance'' druid for a reason. ** [[Tropers/SciFiChica This troper]] also uses "fear cuts deeper than swords", as well as "If nothing we do matters, than all that matters is what we do" from [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]], "carpe diem, carpe noctem" (whenever I have insomnia), and several Bible verses, mostly from Luke and Matthew. (I am a very New Testament oriented Christian, excepting Psalms and Proverbs.) ** [[Tropers/BladedSmoke This troper]] doesn't use "Fear cuts deeper than swords," but he ''does'' use [[ASongOfIceAndFire ''All men must die.'']] Not in a morbid way, I think of it just as a mildly awesome way of saying "We're all gonna die some day, so seize the moment now." * For This Troper's love of languages there's the badly formed "deus bios, dea thanathos" (God of life, goddess of death) and "Teos Vitae, Tea Mori" which is the same in latin; more on the belief that "things happen, I shouldn't worry too much" * For scary situations, this troper chants the word 'safe' in her head; in any other situation, it's "don't worry, froidnum (corrupted version of freedom) will be attained soon" * This troper, it appears to be the rather non-cheery [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsOBpDkwBtM Weeping Song by Nick Cave]]. Try to sing that song quickly, or angrily, or while hyperventilating. Difficult, no? Or, inexplicably, on roller coastersthe Hail Mary, which I will insist to the day I die is INTENDED for such use... ** This troper can no longer read Psalm 23 without hearing Hard On For Love (thanks, Nick), but the effect is still strangely cheering. * This troper prefers just imitating heavy metal guitar, which ends up becoming "DADADADADADA DADA DADA DADADADA DADADADADADADA..." or a personal litany of hate, like "[[ClusterFBomb FuckFuckerFuckemallFuckemallFucken...]]"

* This troper either uses the [[FinalFantasyX Hymn of the Fayth]] or "We All Come From The Goddess" as her own survival mantra. * [[{{Tropers/Griffinguy24}} This troper]], many times, will [[ForWantOfANail screw up small details that end up really complicating things down the line]], or have someone ELSE screw up those details. His mantra for those complications is: "Forget about 'should'. Deal with 'is'" ** As well, for situations that suck, but are good for him: "If I liked everything good for me, I'd pour cough syrup on my pancakes." ** And, one he likes since his totem animal is a jaguar: "A jaguar doesn't fear. A jaguar ''is'' fear." * I use the Lord's Prayer when I start having morbid thoughts. (e.g. What if there's no afterlife and [[DeathNote death is just a big black nothingness]]? * When it's my cool that needs help surviving, I use "There is no way to peace. Peace ''is'' the way." When it's me, I used "Cheer up, emo kid," until I decided that it was worthless and switched to the Bene Gesserit's Litany, which worked like magic. Seriously, there's something about that thing. * This troper has 4 survival mantras. Either she begins singing "Hey Jude" by the Beatles, "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen, imagining herself in a happy place with pink ponies jumping from cloud to cloud or repeating "Everything will be okay in the end, if it's not okay, it's not the end." * [[Tropers/LullTheConqueror This troper]] uses Satan's NewEraSpeech from Book I of ''ParadiseLost'', starting from "The mind is its own place" and on through "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." MisaimedFandom at its finest. In a similar vein with this, when things get ''really'' bad, he's composed a short prayer, best said while looking to an open sky: "Is that all you've got? What the ''fuck'' are you waiting for? I'm ''[[SmiteMeOhMightySmiter right here]]''." Seriously, it works surprisingly well, particularly when you ''scream'' it. * This troper has "[[MST3KMantra It's just reality, I should really just relax.]]" * I use Still Alive from {{Portal}}. If [=GLaDOS=] can be that positive in her situation, what have I got to be upset about? First person to tell me I'm missing the point gets... something... bad. * {{Tropers/Haven}}: I've had a few throughout my life; lately, "I have fear, but fear does not have me," though it hasn't really been put to the test yet. * [[VForVendetta "Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate"]] This troper went to the trouble to memorize the whole thing. Strangely enough, it helps. * [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kwYekhwmygM "Whatever tomorrow brings I'll be there, with open arms and open eyes."]] * Stole mine from {{Cardcaptor Sakura}} : "Everything will be all right." If that doesn't work, I resort to "Everything will be better in the morning." ** This troper also says her invincible spell whenever she feels like she's doing badly. "I'm sure I'll be alright!"

* Radioactive Zombie's mantra, stolen from [[WhoseLineIsItAnyway Whose Line]] - ''Nothing Really Scares Me/I know no fear/Nothing really scares me since Ryan licked my ear...]]'' * This troper either uses The Lord's Prayer, or if I have my .mp3 player on me, set "Indestructible" by {{Disturbed}} to repeat. * [[Tropers/CrypticMirror This troper]] likes to use [[DiscWorld Terry Pratchett's]] "I am me, we are here, this is now" as a focus. * This troper is fond of GaoGaiGar Final GGG's lyrics. While he was in the hospital it was the only thing that kept him stable. * For physical or emotional troubles, this troper goes with, "You're a human. Your species is well on the way to conquering the whole damn world. There's no reason you can't do this. Suck it up." For mental challenges, it's "My brain is being lazy and making me feel insecure because it's bored and wants to give up. I am NOT giving in to this tantrum. This is within my capabilities." ** Mind if I borrow those? * When faced with a particularly daunting task this troper has been known to utter: "Settle thy studies Faustus, and begin." ...[[MisaimedFandom Bizarrely]]. ** In what may be a subversion, he ''would'' use the Litany Against Fear but he can never remember it while under stress. * ''Always look on the briiiight side of life~'' * This troper usually says "No, come on, I can do this. [[DarkKnightTrilogy I make my own luck!]] * [[{{Warhammer40000}} Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!]] It works, although not by calming oneself down ... * This troper was ''named after'' [[{{Dune}} Lady Jessica]]. Three guesses what my favorite SurvivalMantra is, and the first two don't count. :P Oddly, the opening theme to Main/NeonGenesisEvangelion works as well... * This troper prefers a very quiet [[WordlessScream wordless scream]], or maniacal laughter. Yes, he gets funny looks. Why do you ask? ** Me too, though I usually wait til I'm alone in my car. Very therapeutic. * I think of music. It's been Wizards in Winter lately. Or, if applicable, I imagine everything going slow mo in black and white. * [[{{Tropers/Crimson Rider}} This Troper]] is fond of using 'There is no spoon', 'Endure, in endurance grow strong' and 'This won't end well' from and for different settings. However, there is a little personal, very privately understood statement between him and his brother, when the stuff is about to go down and you know it's on, there is just one mantra, one phrase that will cut it; "but I don't want to go to the zoo" * This troper has prepared the mantra "I am the protagonist. This story moves at MY command. The scale is set to idealistic, the plot shields are on, I will succeed. Failure is only an option for climbing to greater success. GO!" for future use, but has not tried it yet. In past times, he has used "If I can't believe in myself, believe in those who believe in me" or some similar TTGL-inspired variant, which has met with mixed success. * This troper sometimes uses the Spartan wives' saying, "Come back with your shield or on it" when he has to do something difficult, and

during stress hums the beginning of the Ode to Joy, by Beethoven. * This troper mutters "fuck my life" from Superbad. When he's trying to be reaffirming. And it works. * This troper mutters "For when the Great Scorer comes/To write against your name/He marks - not that you won or lost/But how you played the game" when things start getting heavy and stressful. Keeps him going to see things through to the end. * [[Tropers/LWGadra This troper]] has replaced his old one "This is irrelevant" with a slightly more visceral mantra "Doesn't matter, I'll be dead either way". * [[{{Tropers/Noir-Okami}} This troper]] uses [[DeathNote "You may call me whatever you wish, but I'm taking your cake,"]] so I don't get angry at insults. * This troper uses "meh" for just about anything that makes me agitated. It works surprisingly well at keeping me cool. My other mantra is [[BrilliantButLazy "It's too troublesome..."]] * [[{{Meiriona}} yet another]] user of the [[{{dune}} Litany Against Fear]]. Among other things... * This troper has actually used [[FateStayNight Unlimited Blade Works]] for this purpose. * [[Tropers/SamiFire This Troper]] started out Junior year with the phrase [[{{Transformers}} "freedom is the right of all sentient beings"]] scribbled all over her assignment notebook. It was replaced by the ubitiquous [[TalesofSymphonia "Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality"]]. There's also "Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds," which is Pangloss's catchphrase from ''Candide.'' Although that one tends to be more of a [[MadnessMantra Madness Mantra]]... * In trying to teach my niece and nephews not to panic (which they do a lot), [[{{Tropers/Kilyle}} This Troper]] hit upon teaching the youngest of them (now 5) the exchange "Is it time to panic?" "No!" Upgraded now with the help of {{Freefall}}: When on occasion he gets it in his head to say "Yes," This Troper replies with (mock) "Aaaaauuugghhh! When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!" ** Also, though it's not a phrase, This Troper also found a way to deal with nightmare seeds... by making them bigger and correspondingly less likely. E.g., start with "Oh no, I think there's a spider in my room!" and expand it to either a giant spider that fills up the room or a herd of spiders that fills up the room. Since this is very unlikely to be real, This Troper can then laugh at the idea and get on with her life (or sleep). * This troper, has taken to using "I am a MAYUN!" from Linkara whenever his OCD is acting up. Other times, he just remembers the songs he's memorized. * This troper said to one of her friends who is an aspiring actress (who wants to be in {{Rent}}, as [[{{Stripperiffic}} Mimi]]), "A pole is NOT a penis." It is now her friend's personal mantra. * This troper got through his gcse exams and a number of frankly scary situations whilst on his adventures by repeating the immortal "Don't Panic!" in a calm voice to himself. He also uses "Oh, on with the song!" to break out of a ponderous mood, and occasionally "Bright the

hawk's flight, on an empty sky" from [[{{Earthsea Trilogy}} "Earthsea"]] as a general purpose one. He's not sure why the last one works, but it does. * This troper's: ** "Ignore those idiotic bastards-Ignore them, ignore them, IGNORE THEM! They'll all wind up at [=McDonald's=] anyway..." ** "There's only ___ periods left until school ends; YOU CAN GET THROUGH THIS!" * Simply "It's okay, you're okay, it's okay, you're okay, it's okay, you're okay..." Surprisingly effective; this one can get me through fear, embarrassment, or depression. Part of it is just being nice to yourself. ** The more stressed I am, the faster I think/say it. * This troper has a friend who when in physical pain will mutter obsceneties. When he broke his toe he walked to his car to be driven which wasn't a small distance, and the entire time he was muttering things like "God damn badger dick sucking ass humping cock mongering..." and so on, and while it is structured like he's directing it as someone it is never at anyone in paticular. I asked him about it and he said it just seemed natural to do this rather than shout or yelp or so on. * [[Tropers/UltimateZ This Troper]] loves to quote the Emperor from StarWars, "UNLIMITEEEEED POOOOOOOWEEEEER!". It always cheers him up, no matter what. * This troper mentally sang the CodeLyoko theme song to herself one time when she got caught in a hurricane. It's a very upbeat little song, but if it has lyrics, I forgot them. "&#9834;Code Lyoko, doo doo doo doo..." * The troper adding this uses a few mantras depending on the situation (and what show got stuck in my head most recently), but the one most often used is "I am the universe experiencing itself. This world cannot destroy me. I am the unstoppable willpower. This problem cannot defeat me. I am the eternal optimist. This life cannot discourage me. I am indigo. I am invulnerable. ''[[LargeHam I am INVINCIBLE!!]]''" * This troper has several, for different situations. For getting over things like her fear of heights, which are justified but not rational, she thinks/sings "[[FindingNemo Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...]]". When she's facing one of her less rational fears or being picked on, she'll sing "Heart on my Sleeve" by the [[{{Enchanted}} amazing]] [[{{Wicked}} Idina]] [[{{Rent}} Menzel]]. Whenever she's nervous about something, she'll say "[[TalesOfSymphonia Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality]]." Finally, when she's having a bad day or is afraid for the consequences of what she has done, she'll recite "[[{{Rent}} No Day But Today]]"... [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome What do you mean, it's not]] [[strike:[[IncrediblyLamePun butter]]]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome awesome]]? * {{Tropers/Excel-2009}}. I like to say "Take a crazy chance" when I'm about to do something that I know can bring physical harm to myself and/or others around me. If it won't, I say to myself, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdP8cQLeYaI Can you survive?]]" * This Troper heard from friends a mantra that caught on with himself

for a time: "Hominahominahomina-grits!" This is to be chanted before trying something supremely risky. Add 'hominas' gratuitously until sufficiently psyched up. * The daimoku chant of Nicheren Buddhism is a reassuring chant that seems to actually grease karmic consequences. Best chanted when cops are knocking on the driver's side window, when angry husbands come stalking, when something foul is rising from the toilet bowl, or when facing an exam without preparation. It's also a great voice conditioning exercise, and relieves pre-show stage fright. * For some reason, every time this troper goes to the dentist to get a cleaning, she says "Think about bunnies" to herself. * If this troper is in public, she hums "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" to herself. Alone, she flat-out [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxsHcslu2D8 dances]]. * This troper, who gets by on less than the recommended daily intake of self esteem, chants [[YourMileageMayVary "Just pretend you're worth something"]]. * [[MarvelComics "Hail HYDRA! Immortal HYDRA! We will never be destroyed! Cut off a limb and two more shall take its place!"]] is oddly inspiring for this troper. * [[NeoSilverThorn This Troper]] used [[{{Firefly}} "I'm still flyin'"]] for a long time. * This troper has "Get up and face the day", for those mornings when getting out of bed is a challenge. Repeated in increasing tones of annoyance and profanity until it finally works. * A few for me. First, "Love is stronger than death," which is more a summary of my religious beliefs than anything. The second, from the Ballad of Serenity, "I don't care. I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me." * This troper read The Hobbit at a very young age, and during elementary would use "Bilbo Baggins." It worked pretty well. Cured my roller coaster phobia, and pretty much every other fear I had as a kid. * "No one cares but you. They are wrapped up in their own petty lives. No one cares but you..." seems to have overtaken "You have both your arms and know you are loved" ''and'' [[ShamanKing "Everything will work out"]] for this troper. * On a lighter note: "at least it ain't IWannaBeTheGuy." Works for most every video game [[Tropers/KillerClowns this troper]] has played... well, except LaMulana, the BonusBoss in CaveStory, NetHack, DungeonCrawl, and, [[CaptainObvious of course]], IWannaBeTheGuy. * [[Tropers/JuiceBoxHero This troper]] has [[RepoTheGeneticOpera "I'm the smartest, and the toughest! I will find a hole and fuck it!"]] Which is sometimes added with "if there ain't one, I will make one!" * This Troper tells himself "My turn." after something bad happens. It works. * This Troper uses "I WILL NOT BACK DOWN" or "I promised her I'd live til I'm sixty." cuz This Troper did with his ex * [[{{NeonGenesisEvangelion}} I musn't run away, musn't run away, musn't run away...]]for when I was facing down a bully from my childhood, when I was so damn scared of him. ** Hey there Shinji, ready for 2012?

* I use lyrics from [[http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858686941/ this song]]. I can't exactly remember how it started or why it comforted me at the time, but it works. * I have several. For something bad that's already happened, there's what my sister told a kid on her team when he was complaining about some law of the game: "That's life. Suck it up, be a man, and play the game." For general stress, there's either the Jedi Code or Sith Creed, the first if I has no control over the situation, the second if I do. And for a quickly approaching, inescapable event (oral reports come to mind), there's always, "It'll all be over in 10 minutes... It'll all be over in 9 minutes..." * This troper frequently uses "Stay calm, ignore them" as a mantra, though this is mostly for another person's survival rather than my own. * This Troper's mantra comes in a variety of forms, namely fractions. You're halfway done, just a half more. You're three quarters done, you're too close to give up. Just one more, that all it takes. Must reach the halfway point. Marking progress by fractions seems to break it down quite a bit from one hundred push ups, to just four sets of twenty five which is great for mentality. * This troper went through some really hard times, including over half a decade of being stalked by two people (one of them a former marine), bad social anxiety disorder, increasing levels of disability, and near-fatal food poisoning. Her mantra has become "I will not despair, I will hope; I will not suffer, I will endure; I will not be a victim, I will be a survivor." at times where that doesn't work she sings the first two verses of "Sora" from the Escaflowne movie softly to herself or recites Twa Corbies. ** This Troper thought he was the only one that recited Corbies! * "My name is (Insert list of aliases here) and I can do whatever I want because I AM AWESOME!" It works too. * [[Tropers/DrLombriz This Troper]] has started praying to the Random Number God. While not spoken, it involves making an altar with the dice with the favorable results (usually sixes) pointed upwards. "Random Number God," says I, "Bestow upon me thine boxcars in thy grace and thy mercy. Carry me, your herald, through this trial and/or tribulation, for my faith is strong. My cause is just. And my gun is very, very large." Oh yeah, and that bit from the {{Doom}} comic, and what I'm pretty sure is YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe. ** Addendum: Since joking in an Introduction to Criminal Justice class that "I'm training to be {{Batman}}," This Troper has added [[DarkKnightTrilogy "Batman has no limits"]] when worn out. * In situations of being genuinely frightened, this troper has said or repeated, "This is my story. Here would make a really stupid ending" and "I'm not even afraid of the dark - it's afraid of me" to encourage herself. * This Troper uses "[[ApologizesALot I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm sorry...]]". (It's not very effective.) * This troper has multiple survival mantras. They are...strange. For instance "you should never fear the things that go bump in the night. The things you should really fear will stalk you silently" and (now

that I've discovered the nightmare fuel category for folklore and urban legends) "Tailypo, tailypo, give me back my tailypo." (Yes, I'm a nightmare fetishist.) Another one, which is more of a joke that only my sister and I understand than anything, is "I highly doubt that Ryo Bakura is in my house." (Don't ask.) * This troper uses a Friedrich Nietzsche quote. "That which does not kill me can only make me stronger". Some observant people may notice that the 'us' in the original quote is replaced with 'me'. * A personal favorite for this troper is "Uri nara maesae...Uri nara maesae...." Which in Korean transalates as "Hooray for our country" sometimes I like "Maesae....Maesae..." which means hooray. Depends on my mood if it works. Sometimes I like singing random Earworms to calm me down, which usually works if the "Maesae" thing doesn't work. * I tend to use the Animae Christi when I feel like I'm losing my mind. I don't know why, I'm by no means devout, but it gives me something to focus on. * "Keep moving forward! Like a shark! You stop, you die!" when trying to get somewhere by foot. "You Quit, They Win!" when trying to beat someone/put up with other people's crap/etc. * This Troper has several, but his personal favorite comes from [[AnimalFarm Boxer]]: "I will work harder!" * This Troper happens to like the extremely simple "So it goes" from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. It also works as a greeting. And as a parting. So it goes. ** This troper too. * [[{{Tropers/Silver}} I]] am an aspiring novelist, and say "Write with the door closed" whenever I'm getting bogged down, don't know what to write next, or am just losing faith in my ability as a writer. It comes from StephenKing's book ''On Writing,'' and means that when you write a first draft, you need to write just for yourself and forget about the imperfections. "Where you're at is where you are" works when I'm getting depressed about how badly I've screwed up my life and need to focus instead on what I can do constructively. * One briefly chanted lyric from ''Hold on'' by Subseven: ''"Head up high / Hold the line / The fire inside must never die."'' * For [[Tropers/TsundeRay this troper]], on a particularly shitty day: Something along the lines of "Today sucked/sucks, but tomorrow's a new day, a chance to put today's crap aside and have an awesome day." Or, for those who play ''Tetris: The Grand Master'': [[spoiler:"Let's go better next day."]] * This troper possibly fell in love, and [[AllergicToLove became really afraid of speaking with the girl]]. So, while studying for a test, and becoming desperate: "This is not talking with the freshie, you can do it!" Considering he ended up successful in the test (and the silence with the girl continued), any tranquility mantra of his now involves her. And after she ended up with someone, he tries not to react badly to said relationship it by invoking the Force (playing "Duel of the Fates", quoting "Fear is the path to the Dark Side..."). * I personally go for songs like 'Ice Queen' by Within Temptation and 'Amaranth' by Nightwish. I don't know why, but it helps. * [[Tropers/AnonymousApathy This troper]] has a a few she uses for varying situations. "'''I''' am the thing in the dark to be feared"

for fear. Either "THEY don't know you're not strong/smart/tough/experienced/confident (whatever applies to situation) - fake it fake it fake it fakeitfakeitfakeitFAKE IT!" or "DO '''NOT''' FUCK WITH ME, YOU '''WILL''' REGRET IT" said silently work well for confidence in pretty much any other situation. ** ''"You do not matter. You are insignificant. You are not even worth the trouble to kill, or push aside. I can't even be bothered to dodge your punches. Why? Because you are nothing. Pathetic. Worthless. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZMD_eCpEo Look at you...]] I'm surprised you can even find the will to live."'' ~Ninjat_126, repeated in variations Ad Nauseum. * "Two, Four, Six, Eight. Never too late. Never too late. Two, Four, Six, Eight...". Alternatively (and only when applicable), "After this I'm getting ripped and watching cartoons". * This troper prefers "I do not know fear, I do not know weakness, I do not know defeat." * This troper uses "___ months left until college. ____ weeks left until college. ____ days left..." Depending on how much she's taking at the moment, she may go well into the minutes and seconds. Not only for the Mantra part of it, but because mental calculations are also strangely calming. * When I've done something (turned in an application, taken a test, done a big assignment) and won't know the results for awhile, but are still worried: "Now is here, here is now. Fear not the past. Fear not the future." * [[{{Tropers/BjornStravinsky}} This troper]] uses his full [[{{RussianNamingConvention}} Russian name]] combined with [[ClusterFBomb a cluster f bomb]] to pump himself up. It usually goes something like, "My fucking name is (First name) motherfucking (patronym)-ich (surname)-ov." With various versions of the word fuck thrown about somewhere between words. * This troper's Mantra is [[{{Goldeneye}} Finish the job, James. If you can.]] * This troper tends to repeat "There is no try" in her head whenever she is stressed. Thanks Yoda. * This troper's phrase, when faced with something difficult, is, "I'll live. I always do." * This troper used to have one for when he woke up from a nightmare when he was little, although he can't recall it. These days, during times of stress and situations with high potential for humiliation, "[[DigimonTamers Momentai. Take it easy.]]" seems to help. * This Troper uses the phrase, "Get up and get moving, you weak-kneed sonuvabitch." It works. * This troper has a few. If she's feeling paranoid at night or just woke up from a nightmare, she uses "Every nightmare needs a tap break". (She was once in a musical where there was a nightmare-tapbreak, and it was hysterically funny.) If just the words don't do it, she imagines whatever was scaring her ([[Series/DoctorWho Weeping Angels or creepy shadow-piranhas, anyone?]]) performing an elaborate dance routine. For anger or pain, she curses as elaborately and specifically (and ridiculously) as possible, as in "Fuck your grandmother with a bottle of maple syrup" or "Suck my left pinky toe,

you syphilitic son of a male prostitute and an orangutan." For nervousness, she attempts to remember songs and/or dances she hasn't sung/heard/done in years. For depression, it's the Canticle of the Romans, from the Bible: --> "Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor heights, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." ** So I'm not the only person to think of that one! Although I still can't seem to memorize it... * [[Tropers/AgentAlpha This troper]] has gone through several (his most favorite usually being [[ActsofCaine Caine's]] line: "''Keep your head down and inch toward daylight''"), but he recently came up with these four lines, which double as a BadassCreed: --> ''At the lowest point, I will rise.'' --> ''To the bitter end, I will fight.'' --> ''At the hour of death, I will live.'' -->''For the good of all, I will serve.'' * For [[Tropers/AngelFallacy this troper]], it's [[FullmetalAlchemist "Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange."]] Over. And over. Actually, her record is a full hour...she's not sure why the hell it works, either. * This troper has 3 words:...Kill! Maim! Burn! * This troper has actually provided one at his work place. "Impossible is a word that was made up by quitters, there is no such thing to those who do not quit." This troper works in a hospital, the reciever was in the emergency room. * This troper has developed [[CodeGeass "I, (troper's name), command you to LIVE!"]] as a survival mantra. The only thing missing is a little mirror for the full self-Geassing effect. * When I'm feeling weak or afraid, "You. Are. Not. Alone." or, when unsure how to act "You always have a choice." Finally, for when the bad things happen "It could be worse." * This Troper has: "It's all going to be all right. ''Or else''". ** When this isn't enough, she tends to think about how sooner or later she ''will'' snap out of it and, if she screws up now, she's going to be really mad at herself then. * This troper's mantra for when he feels like shit is: "Bone by bone, feather by feather, I put my wings back together." * I tend to hum the Mickey Mouse Club theme tune in times of trouble, that or Pilgrimage by Nine Inch Nails. * I have absolutely horrible stamina, and in recent years I've started to chant various things to myself when faced with problems involving physical fitness, especially running. When I ran the mile in 8th grade P.E. class I found myself gasping "Dragons, my dragons!" over and over (I'm really not sure where that came from). The next year, I survived another P.E. class by reciting meaningless poetry that sounded Shakespearean (We were reading Romeo and Juliet in L.A. class. I forget most of what I said, but I think it was about madness and love).

** Also, I recite phrases from books and movies when I'm scared: "Now, go to sleep. You'll see me in the morning, and I'll explain everything then," or "We're all mad here," usually. * This troper does what she calls "playing the walk-in-a-straight-line game," which involves placing each foot directly in front of the other wherever she's walking and repeating "foot, foot, foot," under her breath. * This troper has used the Lord's Prayer in the past, as well as (when really scared) a modified version of Psalm 23 (Yea, though I walk through the valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil. For thou art with me, and thou art the biggest, baddest, scariest thing in that valley), the Lord of the Rings alphabet (A is for Aragorn, B is for Boromir...) and (when upset) the phrase "There are loads of people out there having a worse day than you. Put on your big girl panties and deal with it." ** Your version of Psalm 23 is amazing. I think I'll memorize that one for future use. * This she-troper always challenges self with "You miss out on even one single day, people will not be able to experience enlightenment from the distilled badassery that you are." * [[SurvivalMantra It doesn't matter.]] [[MadnessMantra It doesn't matter.]] [[RuleOfThree It doesn't matter.]] [[BrokenRecord It doesn't matter.]] * [[http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/coheedandcambria/mothersuperior.html "Mother Superior"]], by CoheedAndCambria. Yes, the whole [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZaEcRWD4nU song]], though out loud this troper usually abbreviates it down to "GROW UP AND BE THAT MAN." * This troper has a mini-breakdown every time there's a cliffhanger and it looks like [insert loved character's name here] is gonna die, complete with: "No. No. No. [Name] can't be dead. [Author name] isn't that evil. Nonononono. [Name]'s not dead. No. No. He can't be dead. No, no, no. Not dead. No." * I tend just to go with "I can do this, I can do this, I can do this..." especially for physical challanges. (I have very poor stamina.) I've also used "It's gonna be ok," "I've seen/had/felt worse," and "one step at a time." Also, I tend to second-guess myself when it comes to directions, e.g. thinking I've gone to far when I really haven't. When that happens, I have to convince myself that I ''couldn't'' have passed it, and I should go on for another couple of blocks, so I keep telling myself "Have a little faith!" ** Plus I have a new one: "I climbed the Great Wall of China! I can do this!" (Seriously, it's HARD. You're not climbing to the top of a wall, you're climbing a mountain with a wall on top of it.) * This troper has several. My first one is having an imaginary {{Drill Sergeant Nasty}} yelling in my ear that I am the most pathetic, worthless peice of shit to ever exist (It works; I don't like people underestimating me). The second one is to have something like a catchy, funny tune playing in my head like a Rucka Rucka Ali song "Check your butt for a butthole- AIDS!". The third is I envision whatever my challenge is laughing at me. Then, I get really pissed at it and yell "FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU!" The fourth is I yell "I'ma firin' mah lazor!" and then go for it. Fifthly and finally, when I

need more endurance, I start singing the running chants from Full Metal Jacket. * This editor just realized that he habitually uses "I think I'll live with that" when things don't go as they should. * This troper never ''used'' to use/need one, and wasn't able to settle on anything when I tried to pick something [[CrazyPrepared in case I eventually needed it]]. However, I'm currently going through a crisis - driven mainly by some kind of anxiety disorder and also me turning into a hypochondriac - and have thus acquired two: lines from [[ModestMouse "Float On"]] ("And we'll all float on okay, now, don't you worry, we'll all float on all right" - I tend to mash the lines together but it works out the same), which provides an excellent combination of optimism and repetitive lyrics, and "There's nothing wrong with my eyes". The latter sometimes verges on MadnessMantra, so it's clearly not ''that'' effective, but it does work somewhat. * This troper has used a number of Kipling poems (''If'', particularly the 2nd and 4th verses, is particularly good, as is ''Hymn Before Action''), as well as Takeda Shingen's ''Fu Rin Ka Sen''[[hottip:*:Takeda famously had that on a banner, meaning Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain, i.e. "Move as swift as a wind, stay as silent as forest, attack as fierce as fire, undefeatable defense like a mountain."]] and the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, plus a (butchered) quote from ''{{Zulu}}'': "Colour Sergeant Chard! On the word of command...". Recently though, this troper has found himself quoting a homily from a martial arts instructor: "I am Wind, I am Water. I am the Ebb and the Flow. I am Smoke, I am Storm, and none can stand against me." * Tropers/{{Zadia}} talks to herself in her head. When things get bad, she tells herself, "It's going to be OK, kid." * "Every day you have the possibility to start it all over". My mum used to say this is about love, but I insist it's about all of life. In my native language it sounds better though. * This tropers alledged survial mantra is the rather basic:"I'm Alive I'm Alive I'm Alive". Apparently, he keeps chanting it when completely drunk, and thus, he has only his friends' words for it. * For some reason, this troper has gotten into the habit of repeating the chorus of either Monster, by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gELlSl5dSRk The Automatic]] or Monster, by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mjlM_RnsVE&feature=related Skillet]] when running cross country races. The first one I use to keep going, the second one I use to go faster, so I have a tendency to switch between them mid phrase. * This troper once met a kid at a birthday party (he couldn't have been older than eleven) who was working on some arts-and-crafts project. When he started to burn himself on glue from a hot glue gun, he repeated to himself "pain is an illusion, pain is an illusion, pain is an illusion." It was more than a little creepy, even if it was probably a joke. I picked this up (I never used obsessively or literally, though) and, six years later, still use this occasionally. I also have a tendency to say "The darkest hour is just before dawn, the darkest hour is just before dawn" when I feel like a problem (no

matter how small) is never going to go away. Lastly, if I am worried or depressed, I will sometimes start singing ''"So, So what! I am a rock star! I got my rock moves! And I don't neeeeeeeed yoooooou..."'' I don't even like the song, but somehow, it works. * Stolen unabashedly from her best friend in high school, "I'm not fucked. If I were fucked, I'D BE HAPPY." * This troper has a few. ** ''"Parce que j'ai un raison d'etre."'' is my BadassCreed, so I sometimes use "raison d'etre" as my SurvivalMantra. It only gets used when I'm really desperate. ** "Never Give Up! Never Surrender!" is my chant for whenever I'm feeling beaten. ** "ROW ROW, Fight Da Powa!" is used whenever I'm doing something physically taxing. I'm fairly unfit (not overweight), so it is used a lot. * I recite random latin phrases when I'm in any sort of stressful situation, at first it was to help get my mind off things... and now it's annoyingly instinctive. -_* This troper use "She's holding her weapon to her side, loading it full of her good byes, she holding an enemy across the line" from the Linkin Park song 'Across the line' when her agoraphobia hits. When she's afraid she's going to fail, she remembers "I'm still betting on you" from the Hunger Games. For everything else she just repeats Youve gotten this far, (name), you just have to keep going. Things will get easier soon or she starts to sing 100 suns by 30 Seconds to Mars * To keep herself from getting stressed out to the point of crying, this troper has adapted [[Series/DoctorWho "The laws of X are mine, and they will obey me!"]] Also to calm herself, she finds herself mentally reciting the lyrics to [[JonathanCoulton My Beige Bear]]. Her MadnessMantra ([[{{Homestuck}} You hate X you hate X you hate X you hate X...]]) also doubles as a mantra. Or just a simple "stop it" to herself. * This troper uses "Hesitation sucks!" However, when things start to get really intense, she starts using "JUST DO IT MOTHERFUCKER!" * This troper uses "Pain is a sensation. It is different at different times and situations. There is no such thing as pain" during pain and "I have not come this far, for it to end here". Also, this troper also clenches his fist or does a slight hand movement and a "tsum" noise to send goosebumps over the body at will to give a small kick of energy and motivation * This troper uses "Try to find/Before you die/From what you run/To what and why." Dunno where its from, but it always starts going through my head when I need it. Also, sometimes, "Doubt is for the dying" to psyche myself up for something. * "Never give up! Never surrender!" is this troper's mantra for life. I'm generally known as a laid-back, vaguely apathetic person among my group of friends, but when it comes down to the wire, I fight tooth and nail for what I believe in, and don't give an inch. * [[Tropers/{{kyb3lion}} This Troper]] has several for several situations. Now that it's winter "I reject slipping on the ice and/or falling on it; I reject falling and/or hurting myself on the ice, I

reject..." Othertimes it takes a bit of a cake "I reject dark things, I reject dark thing, I reject..." Hell, half my mantras would be considered [[HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] [[MadnessMantra of madness]] for those who don't know what I'm into... At least I don't say them out loud. There's also the "[[AGodAmI I am a God, I am a God]], [[TemptingFate nothing can hurt me]]!" again and again. They all have effects, depending on the circumstances. * This troper found herself staring into the darkness of her own mind (it's very dark) and came up with "The fear is strong, but I am stronger than the fear." Very effective. * This troper uses "It could always be worse," not just as a SurvivalMantra, but just sort of as a motto for living life. [[AwesomeYetImpractical Might be ironic in that he didn't start using it until AFTER he needed it,]] [[PrecisionFStrike but what the hell?]] Might be TemptingFate though... * Just a single word: "Stronger." Feeling depressed and struggling to find a reason to get out of bed? "Stronger." Despise flying but have to endure a two-hour flight? "Stronger." Trying to lose weight and tempted by the last doughnut? "Stronger." * This troper has recently used humanity's boast from NobodyDies as this. It's hard to feel hopeless or afraid when you're proclaiming why your species is not to be messed with. * I seem to've made one just half an hour ago when my character was trying to protect his memories from being destroyed- "Lose sight of nothing." * "The sun will always rise." Long ago, I realized that no matter what happens, my will to live will always come from my desire to see the next day. The mantra reminds me of that no matter how bad I feel. * "I'm alive, I'm alive, all things die but I'm alive. I'm alive, I'm alive, corpses have no heartbeat. I'm alive, I'm alive, corpses do not breathe." I repeat it whenever I get drunk and accidentally convince myself that I'm dead. * [[SanitySlippage I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy...]] * [[@/PentiumMMX2 This troper]] has developed two: ** Whenever I need motivation to do something difficult, that would better myself in the long run once all is said and done, I use the lyrics to [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Libra Me from Hell]] to get myself pumped up ** Whenever I consider quitting my job because of how much I hate my boss, who seems to have everybody else brainwashed into blindly following him, I just remember what the G-Man said at the start of ''[[{{Half-Life}} Half-Life 2]]'': "The right man in the wrong place makes all the difference in the world" * This troper has two as well: ** When playing a racing game or anything else where speed is important (one stupid attempt of chasing King Bulblin on foot when playing Twilight Princess comes to mind), she usually repeats [[JurassicPark "Must go faster. Must go faster."]]

** In any other situation when she's afraid, a translated version of [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Groves's]] speech, re-translated in to English it's something like "We must gather our courage ... or face death". Yeah. Pretty positive. * when I'm feeling particularly angry at certain members of my family, I tell myself "one day, he will beg for you to help him, and you'll smile when you do.". When I'm feeling overwhelmingly sad, I'll mutter "it gets better." * When this troper tries to motivate their group during school events, they choose a three word mantra to keep them going. More often than not, it's "Time's running out!" * Oddly enough, This Troper uses Gorillaz' "Clint Eastwood" to keep himself calm. He has no idea how or why it works. * This troper tends to say "We're half-way there" when she's doing something that makes her nervous. Her favourite, however, is "Stay awake, stay alive". * This troper sings "The Cellblock Tango" to calm herself down. Don't question it, it works. ---I will go back to Main/SurvivalMantra. I will go back to Main/SurvivalMantra. I will go back to Main/SurvivalMantra.... ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SuspiciouslyAproposMusic * This Troper was playing {{Unreal Tournament}} and shot down a sniper. The song that started playing on shuffle? "[[MachinaeSupremacy Crouching Camper Hidden Sniper]]". * This Troper was landing in a plane, and the song that came on the plane's radio was "Paper Planes" and then "Airplanes". She wonders if that was intentional. * This troper seems to be unable to write a long-running FanFic without having at least one example of this. One of her current projects has an ''entire chapter'' dedicated to this trope; it's a kareoke showdown between Fate Testarossa and an original character, who is a Digimon (a Biyomon, for those who are curious). Fate mostly sticks to the songs her seiyuu, NanaMizuki, sings, while the Biyomon (his nickname is Yuuki, and he is always referred to as either this or his EmbarassingNickname, "Chocobo Head") strays into {{Foreshadowing}} territory; his Champion level form can use a Keyblade, and it's been hinted he has a connection to one of the KingdomHearts characters present ([[IncrediblyLamePun No, not]] [[NamesTheSame Sora]], [[IncrediblyLamePun I'm not that obvious]]), but it becomes increasingly obvious who his human partner is (something Yuuki has been wondering about for some time now) when he starts singing ''[[ActorAllusion Jesse McCartney]]'' songs, of all things, along with one Alyson Stoner song. And the kicker? The entire chapter will be entitled ''"Filler or Foreshadowing? Fate and Yuuki's Singing Showdown!" '' ** ...Link? * This troper was playing Halo 3 while listening to his MP3 player.

Floodgate started. Down With The Sickness started. * Last summer, when This Troper was traveling from {{Los Angeles}} (her hometown) to Lake Tahoe with her parents for a family vacation, [[{{Narm}} her mom got pulled over by highway patrol for not having front license plates on the car and for going a little too fast]]. A few hours later, when my family and I were almost at Lake Tahoe, my iPod played [[{{Ludo}} Girls on Trampolines]], which has lyrics about people getting pulled over by cops while trying to get to a shindig behind Burger King toward the end of the song. * This troper was in a car with her dad a few years back. I mentioned casually that I would be hanging out with a girlfriend later that evening when, really, I was going to meet a guy. And what should come on the radio, but ''Papa Don't Preach''. This was only uncomfortable for me, as my dad said to go ahead and didn't even noticed the song playing * This troper's RP group has developed a love/hate for [=WinAmp=] because of this. It got so bad that [=WinAmp=] has been renamed '[=FailAmp=]' and sometimes even has to be turned off because it's gotten so bad and so consistent. (It even has prompted signifigant efforts at aversion, which has sometimes merely resulted in adding crowning moments of SoundtrackDissonance.) ** It has actually gotten to the point in one RP in which [=FailAmp=] decided to give themes to the antagonists -- A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When A Stripper Is Crying, A Very Loud Lullaby, and Enjoy The Silence, to be specific. A while ago, we had decided when a "theme" comes on, somehow we much incorporate the antagonist. This troper, from the same RP group, ought to note that they seem consistent, save for Enjoy the Silence, who that character's theme has changed to Show Me Love. *** For the sake of clarification: it seems consistent across ''different computers''. * Let's just say that using the music of CatStevens to resolve insomnia and messed up Circadian rhythms can produce some rather amusing results: ** ''"Sometimes I wonder if I sleep too long, will I ever wake up again or so?"''- '''Sitter''' * All I ever get is inversions. Top of the list: ** I'm trying to convice someone I don't have a crush on a certain person. Right in the middle of my statement that I don't care a bit about the guy, a song called Desire comes on. ** I'm in the middle of a shouting match with someone. Just as one of us yells, "I hate you right now!" comes the spoken word on the song that's playing: "PEACE..." ** Father is screaming at me for getting involved too much in everything and telling me I need to back off. Two songs in a row for this one: My Little Girl and I Hope You Dance. (He noticed this and before a third song could come on, turned the radio off.) * [[SaniOKh This troper]] is currently debugging software that just won't work and listening to Julien-K' album "Death to Analog". When the song "Technical Difficulties" came on, he found this ironic: --> "About 700 days and ways inside this changing, mind is failing, twisiting turning, eyes are burning, and nothing's working"

** So if it was ironic then that means your debugging software WAS working! ** Another one was when he was listening to a Russian band, Russkiy Razmer, while driving and looking for a mall in a place he didn't know that well. At some point, while the Troper was realizing he's turning in circles, the song said (roughly translated from Russian): "You've seen all this, but you don't know where you are". * [[MysteryOtaku This Troper]] had recently been rereading the older chapters of {{Girl Genius}}, when she gets to the chapter where Agatha and Gil meet. Cue a certain Devinyls song. You know the one. * [[SeanTucker This troper]] seems to have suspiciously apropos music stuck in his head. For example, [[{{Gundam 0083}} Men of Destiny]] popped into his head, and not five seconds later, [[MsFanservice the girl sitting next to him in BCIS class]] asked him if he'd take her cousin to homecoming. (This troper is praying to god she's equally cute.) ** Me too. One day, I got Emergency by Paramore stuck in my head... Hours later, I found out one of my friends was having relationship problems and his crush wasn't talking to him. Scary. * This troper had some in a "[[AllLoveIsUnrequited non-relationship]]" of his (got a crush, [[AllergicToLove became afraid of talking to her]], and so it went until she found someone). He was impressed on how the MP3 on random either went for SoundtrackDissonance (straight love songs, or heavy metal; once the troper decided to add some WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: "[[ThePhantomMenace Duel of the Fates]]", seeing she had arrived at a party) or apropriate music ("Love Hurts", "Disease", "Owner of a Lonely Heart", "Falling In Love (Is Hard on the Knees)", "The Unnamed Feeling", "I Ran", "Walk Idiot Walk") as he either ran or failed to speak with her. (sometimes, after the contact he personally went after such songs) ** The troper has also seen in college a video that gets TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly, from the arrival at the cemetery to the final duel, and replaced the soundtrack with dialogue/score from a Brazilian movie set in a desert-like environment, and a samba, both somehow fitting perfectly (the latter: "However close from there, died from a sure shot, a serious brave man, a disrespect master, who taught the peaceful ones, the way to the graveyard...") * This troper was more like a Suspiciously Apropos Sound Effect. My church was doing a Christmas concert. There are little interludes between songs and two narrators tell the story of Jesus's birth. About a second before one of the songs started, one of the narrators said his line. The line was "His name...was Jesus". Right after he said that, a baby started crying. * This troper once worked at a club, in not-to-be-names Southern "city". Thursday nights was metal night, and he worked lights(and the bar). Well, one night, he was working the bar a little too much, and got into a shoving match with a bruiser of guy(at LEAST 6'8"), and the DJ working happened to play "Ace Of Spades".. Longest 2.5 minuted of my life. * This troper was recently in an amateur pool competition, and just as he made three connecting strikes, sending three balls in the pockets, the opening beats of "Iron Man" came up. Coinciding completely, it

probably fits as much under Crowning Music of Awesome. And I lost, but it was AWESOME! ** Something similar happened to this troper, only with bowling and "Eye of the Tiger". She lost, too, but it was indeed awesome. * [[{{Tropers.Akiba}} This Troper]] has it happen to him all the freaking time, thanks to the shuffle switch on [=iTunes=]. Owning as the Germans on ''CallOfDuty: World at War'''s multiplayer? Kniggrtzer Marsch plays. Get angry at, well, anything? Disturbed's Down With the Sickness comes on. But the moment that stands out in his memory wasn't because of his [=iTunes=]: He and his girlfriend were talking in her car because she thought they might've been taking things to fast. EVERY FREAKIN' SONG on the radio related to the situation. * [[MonsterDog This troper]] hit a jackpot on a video poker machine in a casino...just as the opening strains of the Steve Miller Band's "Take the Money and Run" came on the Muzak system. Advice followed. * Has anyone else but [[K9Thefirst1 me]] have to pick [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagworm_moth Bag Worms]] before? Anyway, their a pain to pull off, especially from Evergreens, and it's hard to find a way to get rid of them without squeezing their guts out. Ergo, I went with [[KillItWithFire burning them in a metal bucket]]. At the time I was listening to my LiloAndStitch soundtrack, and when I dropped the lit match, when ''Hunk-a Hunk-a Burning Love'' by Wynona comes on. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Lulz insued.]] * This troper came in to ask her brother if she could use his laptop, which he didn't want to give her. Before he could say anything, "I Hate You (My Friend)" started playing from the TV. "No one here likes you, go away, get a clue." He started singing along, while she fell over laughing at the coincidence. ** Also, as her Space Camp group walked up to accept an award for winning a trivia contest, "She Blinded Me With Science", started playing. ** And, just a few days ago... --> '''This troper's dad:''' So the last space shuttle flight's in September and then nobody knows what will happen? --> '''This troper:''' Yeah. I just wish I had followed the missions more before. I mean, I have for the past few years, but I wish I'd followed them more when I was younger, because they're going to be gone so soon. --> '''Goo Goo Dolls on car radio:''' "You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe, and re-runs all become our history..." --> '''This troper:''' Freaky. * Last week I was listening to a friend tell me about her boyfriend and how he'd cheated on her after she'd been hospitalized for mental problems. Cue iTunes library shuffling to the ''SerialExperimentsLain'' opening, which is in English, its first lines being: ** ''"And you don't seem to understand/ A shame you seemed an honest man..."'' * At a school dance one night, I was waiting for a decent slow song to start playing so I could ask my date to dance with me to. The moment I got fed up with waiting and complained out loud, somebody I hadn't

even talked to the entire night requested "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey. This bit me in the ass a few days later when I was depressed over her rejecting my feelings. Because of the whole dance thing, "Don't Stop Believing" was the last song I wanted to hear playing. My next class, we're deciding on songs we want to add on to our web page projects, and guess what one classmate starts playing? (Hint: It's "Don't Stop Believing") * ThisTroper, after getting some kind of disease at a vacation, feeling really ill and vomiting up his breakfast, encountered ''Yesterday'' by TheBeatles on the guide's CD player. "''All the troubles far away''", indeed. "''Not half the man I used to be''", quite. ''"Why she had to go''", yes why did I puke up my breakfast? * ThisTroper does it on purpose at parties for couples. ;) * As of June 2010, this troper will celebrate the first anniversary of getting stalked with Michael Jackson songs everywhere. Literally. From the car, to the house, to Malaysia, back to my native country, and away again...and the songs still stalk me. Funnily, people around me confirm that said songs only appear when I am around them, and even more alarming are the comments that people now begin to find some similarity in the way I look, dress, act, &c with MJ... * It was entirely an accident that I ended up reading [[TroperTales/CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming this page]] while [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F2UNLRgKy8 this song]] played, but I'm very glad it happened anyway. * This troper has had several: ** When she first got her iPod, she loaded it up with a couple dozen songs and set it to random. As a self-confessed WeirdGirl, she was pleasantly surprised when "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTFcE7MLlxI Anything But Ordinary]]" was the first song her new geek toy chose to play for her. ** After [[NotADate coming home from a movie]] and dropping off her [[JustFriends male friend]], the song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqKMP6-w5_A I Think I'm Falling For You]]" came on. ** Several weeks later, when she got in her car with said [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend male friend]] (they carpool to and from college together), the first thing the radio started singing when she turned it on was the opening line of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS_REYhvnI You Are My Lady]]": ''"There's something that I want to say...but words always get in the way..."'' This, after he walked her to the car while standing [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace far too close to just be scaring off non-existent parking lot muggers]] or to ostensibly maintain their JustFriends status. * This troper lives this trope, due to a huge music library and a tendency to leave things on 'all songs' and 'random'. The most recent of countless examples was while he was playing ''FinalFantasyXIII'', fighting [[spoiler: Barthandeleus the second time]], with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY06IgyN_RM Libera Me from hell]] having just come on. The final blow came at the moment the music stops for just a second for FIGHT THE POWER. I literally had to pause the game and just go 'awesome.' This had a tendency to happen a lot during my MMO days as well.

* So I was playing Call of Duty 4 and had my entire itunes library on shuffle. I get to the final mission in the single player campaign, and the mother of all chase music, Tchaikovsky's William Tell Overture comes up the instant the mission starts. As it happens, the entire thing fits from start to crash, punctuating events immaculately. It's the most awesome music fit I've ever seen. ** Same with me, except that [[{{Predator}} Long Tall Sally]] came on during the massive helicopter attack towards the start of the game. * [[{{Expthka}} This Troper]] tends to joke around with her friends a lot in gym class playing badminton, striking all sorts of ridiculous poses and [[CallingYourAttacks calling out our "attacks"]]. Our teacher usually puts someone's iPod on the loudspeaker for background music, and one day [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9LrE6dRHn8 this certain song]] came on... and things got [[UpToEleven quite heated]]. * This has happened to this troper quite rarely but when it does, it hits with a vengance. Right after she had finished watching the Series/DoctorWho two parter [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E8HumanNatu re "Human Nature"]]/[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E 9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]], known to be a {{Tearjerker}} of epic proportions, her eyes stung but she kept herself composed. Becoming GenreBlind for a minute, she put her playlist of GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex music on random. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm1SJHFw4fk "Be Human"]] came up. Cue InelegantBlubbering. Those who watched the episode will know why. * What with the way a soundtrack seems to be following him around, this troper should have known better than to put his mp3 player on shuffle while still reeling from a (very deserved) ReasonYouSuckSpeech. [[CoheedAndCambria "A Favor House Atlantic"]] came on as though cued up. The (likely now-former) friend who did the speech-giving? A huge Coheed fan, who had previously taken him to an abandoned factory, where they quite literally "scribbled on the walls" - and who told him outright not to try to get in contact anytime soon. It was then followed by "Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow)". Both songs have... [[SurvivalMantra significance]] to the friend in question. (If you should see this, and you should recognize yourself: ''Please'' call off your music. It's getting kinda creepy.) * This Troper plays PokemonMysteryDungeon to the MadWorld,UnrealTournament and ResidentEvil4 soundtracks,given the [[SurpriseCreepy Suprisingly]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Horrifying]] nature (especially a [[BadFuture particular segment]]) of the game it ends up sounding more fitting rather than being SoundTrackDissonance. * Some time ago, this troper was talking to his crush while we were waiting for our respective laundry loads. After she left, I set up my iPod, only to hear none other than [[DoctorHorrible My Freeze Ray.]] * One day, this troper and her sister were on our way home. When I cam up to a fork in the road, I tried to decide which way I should go (there are a bunch of ways to get to my house, all of which are about the same distance). Well, I had my ipod on shuffle, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVVi-u0I_mY this]] came on. * T.T. was discussing a piece of her writing with a friend, while his

iPod shuffled in the background. In the story they were discussing, a character--nicknamed "Miracle"--decides that she has to stop her JerkAss ways, prove to her friends that she is someone they can depend on, and better her life. A lot of it has to do with memories, and making new, good ones. His iPod then decided to cue up a song named "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIVcXB5wCKo Miracle]]," about changing your ways and bettering your life, and which includes the line, "When this memory fades, / I'm gonna make sure it's replaced / With chances taken, / Hope embraced." It was simultaneously eerie and awesome. * Several years ago, this troper was playing TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker while listening to the radio (with the TV on mute, of course). It was nighttime in the game, I was at the part where [[spoiler:you go down to Hyrule under the ocean for the second time]] and The Coral's "In The Morning" was playing on the radio. Right at the line "Out of the dark, and into the light" [[spoiler:the KoRL went into the yellow light that takes you down to Hyrule.]] * This troper went to a camp where the main theme song was DonMcLean's "American Pie." Everyone knows this song, everyone knows the motions that go with it. The night before everyone leaves, it is the last song they play at the dance, and everyone either cries or hugs their friends who are crying while singing along. The night she came home after her nomore year, she decided to try out the nifty radio feature on the alarm clock she got for camp. Guess what comes up? * This troper was surfing the web, and has a playlist with several themes from videos games. [[HeavyRain Guess what video game theme starts playing when it started pouring heavily outside?]] * The other day, this troper was reading the climax of One More Day, the much-loathed story arc of Spider-Man where Peter Parker literally sells his marriage and his daughter to the devil. The song my MP3 player decided it was time to show off? "Peter, You Suck" from Forgetting Sarah Marshall. * A couple weeks ago, This Troper was driving back from an anime convention that was run by his old anime club. It was around 9:30 PM somewhere on Interstate 80 in the middle of Illinois, and this thick fog rolls in - I mean thick, like I couldn't see more than about 100 feet (the occasional overpass would only be visible for about a second before I passed them) in front of me and had to rely on the taillights to figure out where the cars in front of me were. The thick fog lasted for about seven minutes, but during those seven minutes, out of about three and a half hours' worth of songs, my iPod decides that then was a good time to play music from SilentHill. * Listening to tracks from Powerman 5000s Transform while browsing the [[{{Anvilicious}} Anvilicious]] page. [[hottip:*:I was trying to see if the album would grow on me. Seriously, lamest case of [[{{CerebusSyndrome}} Cerebus Syndrome]] EVER]] * This troper has a crush on a girl, but he is too afraid to tell her this. One of his favourite power ballads? "First Time" by Robin Beck. Here's a link to the song if you want to hear it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiN7c0fqNF8 * This is the only reason why I cannot ever hate on the song "Breathless"-The Corrs. On the day of the big dance that I was going

with my friend-turned-love interest, I heard this song on the way to school, on the way home from school (both instances btw where I was sitting with him and talking to him), and on the way home from my hair appointment. Needless to say...the song [[RelationshipUpgrade was prophetic]]. * This troper's girlfriend broke up with him the day after her birthday, and NOBODY saw it coming. As she walked away, what were the next songs to play on my iPod's shuffle, as I put on a facade of nondepression? "Yesterday" by The Beatles (painful because they're her favorite band), "Boys Don't Cry" by The Cure, "Last To Know" by Three Days Grace, "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" by MCR, "Safer To Hate Her" by You Me At Six, and "Dammit" by blink-182. Look up the lyrics to each of those, they all fit my situation at each moment in time that they started playing. Then afterward all the songs that reminded me of her started playing and it was somewhat depressing. * Over the last couple of weeks, three of this troper's regular jogs have ended with the mp3 player playing an especially energetic tune. And the timing of either the end of the song or the final crescendo have been perfectly in line with the finishing point of the run. Couldn't have timed it a second better if I tried. * This troper once went over to her ex-boyfriend's place to have one of those Long and Serious, Shit We Have to Talk About discussions. When she came in, Sticky Fingers by the RollingStones was playing. He had a bit of a moment of "oh crap" when he realised that she could hear it and not being a Stones fan herself, mostly thought of it as "that album he puts on when we're about to have sex". --> "Okay, for the record, that was totally not intentional, please don't be mad." * This troper was not fighting but DEBATING with a guy she happens to like while we were getting into his car to go over to the nearby middle school to help out with their band pratice. His minon (aka the Pit Captain when he graduates next year)Dom-dom was in the backseat laughing at us cause we're a real life romanic comedy to him. We finally settle the debate with me losing and I mention how I never willingly give in and how, "you're the only exception to that rule sometimes and that irks me." The radio then decided to play Paramore's The Only Exception..... Dom-dom didn't stop laughing the rest of the drive. * This troper has one for his entire life: Numb by LinkinPark <<|TroperTales|>>

SuspiciouslySpecificDenial * Not a denial, exactly, but suspiciously specific details nonetheless. I was talking to my friend, and she said (paraphrased), "Have you ever had a crush on someone? And know it was hopeless? And that it would never happen? And feel like you were sinking into a giant pit of oblivion that you can never get out of, because their eyes are just so blue?" * This Troper remembers a professor who won a million points when he ended his first lecture with holding up a tiny paper-back saying -> This book is sixty pages long. It is a work of genius. It is

required reading. It cost 600 Crowns [about 80 dollars]. After this course you will never read it again. I am now officially telling you to not divide the cost up between you and then photo-copy it. * I think I inverted this trope. I gave hundreds of suspiciously specific denials to one female friend about her surprise birthday party. I said things like "We're definitely not going to throw you a surprise party tomorrow." She got really upset that I was ruining the surprise for her so I told her I felt bad and offered to take her to get ice cream since we were close by a store. She consented and I drove her straight into her surprise party. "That's right, it wasn't tomorrow, it was today!" So I misled her about her surprise party by telling her misleading denials about her surprise party, which caused her to believe she was having a surprise party (which she was) but on a different day than she expected because my specific denial was specific in more ways than one. ** You told her the truth, just in a way that made it seem like a blatant lie. * Not really sure if this counts as everybody else has stories about their real life denials, but what the heck. In my religion class, we were supposed to act out a myth. As there was no script, we improvised and twisted and turned the story our way, throwing one of these denials in. " *spoken really fastly* [[NorseMythology No, we haven't stolen his (Thor's) hammer at night when he was sleeping and we didn't bury it 40 miles beneath the earth's surface!]]" Of course, Loki figures it out. And no, this was my friend's role, [[UnreliableNarrator not our rendition of Heimdal]] [[AmbigiouslyGay that I got to play]]. * This Troper once prefaced a conversation by saying, "Any stories of me getting drunk and missing the toilet have been greatly exaggerated." * One day, for ''no reason I can think of'', I kept replying to questions with sentences ending with, "I'm exclusively heterosexual." I think the first one was actually some joking around, but the others... Is my subconscious trying to tell me something...? * This Troper ''loves'' to mess around with his friends with these..... ** Same here. Half the time it's just to make people paranoid, the other half is to cover up when I actually ''did'' do something. * This troper would like to make it clear that he has never performed ''[=YMCA=]'' in drag, and you can't prove otherwise. ** Yeah, And I ''totally'' don't have pictures of it... * This troper did absolutely nothing interesting in the backseat of a van ever and you can't prove her wrong. (She actually has multiple witnesses to vouch for her, but still...) * The phrase: "It never happened, it will never happen, it isn't happening now!" is an inside-joke in one of the IRC channels, I frequent. * This Troper once came upon her Mother talking to her aunt on the phone and... --->Me: What'cha doin'? --->Mom: *turns around with a jump* I was not talking about possible suitors for you in any way, shape or form!!!!!!!!

--->Me: Ok, I- wai- Say WHAT?!!? * This probably-never-going-to-write-anything-publication-worthy troper defines [[strike: Scientology]] the ChurchOfHappyology as "''absolutely not'' a cheap scam intended to rip off celebrities at all." Probably lucky for me and bad for the lawyers... * [[{{Tropers.PictureFrame}} This troper]] was once looking for one of the actors in a [[TheMusical musical]] she was stage managing. The leading man told her said actor was "not tied up and locked in the green room closet". So guess where he was... * This troper has pulled off a fun combination of [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial this]] with ImplausibleDeniability, RefugeInAudacity, and SarcasticConfession. While leaving a party and bidding good night to his friends he went out of his way to make comments along the lines of "I am not up to anything. Please move along. I am not a crook. You have no evidence of wrongdoing. Pay no attention to me as I quietly sneak out." The almost-universal response was closer to ''Ha ha, he's pretending to be sneaky to attract attention again'' than it was to the more-appropriate ''HEY! He's walking away with a pizza!'' ** That is just amazing. * This troper has the tendency to respond with these. What makes it even better? They're usually lies, or even the exact opposite. HilarityEnsues. * After reading this page, [[MutantRancor this troper]] is seriously considering answering the next time someone asks me "what are you doing?" with "I'm not painting my room green, if that's what you're asking" even if it's completely clear that I am not, in fact, in my room, much less painting it green. RefugeInAudacity, perhaps? * When asked what he is up to this troper will usually respond with, "I'm not plotting world dominatioin" or "I'm not planning to murder you in your sleep." When someone laughs and says that this troper couldn't possibly pull either off this troper will agree politely and a little too easily that they are correct. This troper would never murder you in your sleep. Ever. This troper has no weapons stashed in the closet. At all. * This Troper's universal response for the question "What are you doing?" is usually one of these. Such as "I am MOST CERTAINLY NOT thinking about killing the world." and "I am NOT attempting to murder your dog." * This Troper's has the habit of, every time his parents call for him, tell them variants of "It wasn't me; it was already broken when I got there; You can't prove nothing.". * Somewhat subverted by [[PomRania this troper]]; it might seem like I'm doing that (to a hitchhiker: "Don't worry, I'm not going to lock the doors and drive off to some remote place where I'll vivisect you and leave your dead body out to be discovered months later"), but I actually have no intention of doing said things; I simply have an overactive imagination, and I read too much. * This exchange occured when This Troper was still in elementary school - Father: "Hello, is anybody home?" Me: "I'M NOT EATING CHOCOLATE!" * Me describing a Dali painting: "And it was like the craziest acid

trip ever...not that I've ever dropped acid or anything..."[[spoiler: I have.]] * This troper has a great personal story to this effect. My mother had left my little brother, about 1 at the time on a bed for a little bit while she went to do something. Suddenly she hears a shriek from said child. She runs into the room, notices my little brother crying hyesterically, and my twin brother, earnestly saying "I DIDN"T DO IT! I DIDNT PINCH HIS BELLY WITH MY SUSPENDERS!". Upon closer inspection, it was revealed my little brother had little suspenders-shaped marks on his abdomen, a fact my mother never would have noticed if my brother had not specifically denied it. (Definitely not moved from the main page by [[ThinksTooMuch an absolutely unrelated troper.]]) * This troper (Soundstorm), on one occasion, randomly said when her sister entered the room "I didn't do it! You can't prove anything! ...Oh, it's just you. Hi." This troper hadn't done anything wrong but it was hard to convince her sister of that. * This trope was talking to her friend about her other friend. The friend that's the subject of the conversation comes over to us and goes 'What are you doing?'. This trope goes 'NOTHIG! I WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU! I seriously wasn't!' * This troper's friend on the homework she didn't do: "I have music to study. I've been practicing for this thing on Friday, I just don't have time for the homework... and watching three seasons of ''Torchwood'' in a week has nothing to do with that!" * This troper and her friend once overheard an apparently onesided conversation where the person speaking kept saying variants of "STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE I KILLED THAT DOG! I did NOT kill that dog!" * This troper did his current roleplay character's bio and public profile up like this, mentioning several times he was perfectly normal, if maybe a bit of an overachiever, and that nothing especially traumatizing or interesting happened to him. It didn't even mention his sister, in fact, taking pains to only mention his brother, and would even claim that he was attempting to 'play a perfectly normal character this time around'. Until he actually started showing some of this character's background that is, and why his personality write-up seemed, on the surface, to clash with his background... (Why is he okay with brutal torture and a CombatPragmatist if he comes from a perfectly normal civilian family? What made him so distrustful and [[TheStoic stoic]]? Why is he such an overachiever?) The funny part is that ''no one'', in or out of character, asked why exactly that was. Which was a shame, because then this troper could have explained he always plays fundamentally screwed up characters, so it's perfectly normal indeed. * This troper's personal [[CatchPhrase]] is "I'm not Kira." whenever he does something suspicious. * "Hey, (this troper)! How'd that hole get on the knee of your pants?" "Most certainly not a desperate knife fight against two opponents in the dark alleyway behind the Chinese restaurant. No way." ** ....One day, someone's going to buy that lie. * Yesterday I saw a few shiny pokemon while talking on skype when my friend came and said ---->Friend: "Hey whats everyone doing?"

----> Me: "Nothing and you cant prove I just got 3 shiny male eevee I don't have that kind of luck and I'm not gonna evolve them into Gen I eeveeloutions * Two from this troper's days at state college: ** Regarding the last full day before a long break, usually a Wednesday or Thursday, professors were quick to stress: ---> "I'm not canceling class ''officially''. I'm not allowed to do that. But I'll say this- if NOBODY SHOWS UP THAT DAY, we can't have class. Let me repeat myself, ''because every year some of you nerds come around'', if NOBODY SHOWS UP, I can't give a lecture." ** And when taking a Japanese film class by a self-described Otaku: --->"Now, while I will provide media for all our in-class screenings, there are many recommended films or films that you will want for papers, that are not available in the U.S. Let me remind you, FILESHARING AND TORRENTING COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IS ILLEGAL AND WRONG; it is ''VERY CONVENIENT AND EASY'' but it's WRONG. Many of you could easily download clients such as Vuze or [=MuTorrent=], and visit the websites listed at the bottom of the syllabus. BUT I KNOW YOU WON'T BECAUSE NONE OF YOU ARE TORRENTING ILLEGALLY AT YOUR DORMS. As you'll recall, the school's internet system student use policy strictly forbids this. So I can't advocate file-sharing and torrenting, great technology though it is, as a way to view the best of Japanese cinema that we don't have time to show." * This troper likes to use this a lot. One time at work (this troper is a checker at a grocery store), he had to check on checkstand #1, which this troper hates because the way its designed, no [[strike: slave]] box person can help you bag up customer's orders, you have to do it yourself. Then this troper noticed that another checker was going home, so he conspired to add an arrow on the (typed) checkstand assignment sheet, moving him from checkstand #1 to #4, which does have a place for a box person to bag. This troper then informed his manager of his switching registers due to arrow saying, "the schedule says that I move to #4 because of this arrow, which absolutely does ''not'' look like it was added on by someone who didn't want to spend his whole shift checking on #1." To their credit, they allowed him to change. * [[TheWeirdo This troper]] once asked his then-upper-floor neighbor the reason of some noises coming from his apartment. His answer: "No, I don't beat my wife.". I see. * This troper likes to combine SuspiciouslySpecificDenial with NoodleIncident. For example he mentioned a purely hypothetical situation (definitely not in any way related to anything that ever happened) involving a broken computer scanner and a Russian satellite. And even if it did happen, it was not in the state of Oregon, and the FBI never got involved. * This troper would like to take time to remind her friends that she does not read yaoi. Especially not Junjou Romantica. And she most certainly does not usually just skip through to the Junjou Egoist chapters to gush about how cute Nowaki and Hiroki are. * This tropette does not watch Scrubs daily, at about five o clock, with a boy who is definitely-not-her-boyfriend * A friend of mine did this with hilarious results. When we were

fifteen, he finally hooked up with a girl he'd been in love with for almost three years (everyone in our circle of friends knew that he was in love with her). After she had gone home that day, he was IM:ing with another friend and told him that she had been there earlier. The friend asked him if they'd had fun. He replied that it had been okay, but it wasn't like they had made out on the couch or anything. The friend wrote the comment off as wishful thinking, having no idea that that had actually happened. * (Was re: {{Discworld}} examples) This troper used to have a freind who had a certificate to prove her sanity. Consider the circumstances in which a Doctor feels the need to issue such. * This troper was writing a story. He put it through Bonsai (a site on the Internet that jumbles up your story and then reassembles it) and found out that one of the main characters "did not see a heavyset man standing in an open field." * This troper would just like to let it be known for the record that he is neither bisexual nor has a Monster Energy addiction. That stash of yaoi was planted by my enemies and I have no idea where the ten empty cans of Monster came from. * [[@/DragonKhorse This troper]] played with this trope in the NaNoWriMo forums, in a game of Mafia. Try figuring out whether he's the Doctor, a town member, or part of the Mafia. --> I vote XXX, because she voted for me last round, and I'm obviously, totally, 100%, a townie, because Mafia members would no doubt be at the sidelines silently analyzing the situation and trying to figure out who's the doc and who's on the other Mafia. They would never bother to type out something so lengthy as proof that they aren't Mafia, and they would never point how suspiciously specific this denial is in the same post.\\ \\ Besides, I voted for YYY, and we ended up killing a townie.\\ \\ No wait, that's a bad example.\\ \\ Hey, look! I'm a townie vehemently pointing out that he is nothing more than a townie! I can't be a Mafia pretending he's a townie pretending to be a Mafia, because people would obviously think that I'm either I'm a townie pretending to be a Mafia for the lulz, not an extremely idiotic Mafia pretending he's a townie pretending to be a Mafia! Or maybe I'm an extremely cunning Mafia pretending he's a townie pretending to be a Mafia, who's banking on the fact that people are gonna think I'm an extremely idiotic Mafia pretending he's a townie pretending to be a Mafia, and not an extremely cunning Mafia pretending he's a townie pretending to be a Mafia.\\ * This troper includes with his fanfichon disclamer, that he dos not own a Saparten. I don't know way I do that. * Today, I was a little evil. I feel kind of bad about it, but at one point, a friend of mine asked if something was wrong. As a joke, I immediately wrote (we were talking on Facebook) "No, nothing! Everything's FINE! I'm NOT grieving over the loss of a relative!!" Immediately said friend became very concerned and asked what had

happened. After my friend became concerned, I reassured them that I was just making a joke and that really, there wasn't anything wrong. * This troper's university requires that every class have a final exam at the end of the semester (as many, many universities do). Despite that, most professors in our English department seem adverse to actually giving a final exam. To avoid it, they generally say something along the lines of, "We will have class on the final day, and I will be here, but I won't be taking attendance. Any of you are free to show up to discuss your grade, final paper or the class in general, but I probably won't stay in the classroom the whole time and ''I will not be taking attendance.''" Some kids still didn't get it. * My brother and I got my mom a new pan for Christmas (it might seem like a bad gift, but her non-stick pans never really worked so we got her a really nice one and she loved it). In the days before Christmas, as she was cooking, we'd say things like "Man, your current pan is terrible, too bad no one bought you a new pan" or "It's a shame that you're gonna be stuck with that terrible pan forever". Needless to say, she wasn't too surprised when she opened her present. * At a friend's birthday it was this troper's turn to play "I Never": --> '''Troper''': I never urinated in a plastic bottle in such a way that the mouth of the bottle was completely, er, plugged, forgetting that there was a mass of trapped air inside and that when I went to urinate the air would have nowhere to go but ... [[{{Squick}} up]]. * This troper's friend's Facebook status was "is NOT fucking a dude". I linked the tvtropes page on SuspiciouslySpecificDenial. Hilarity ensued. * This troper was feeling a little down, and her best friend was practicing her solo for an upcoming concert, [[AVeryPotterMusical Not Alone.]] So she decided it would be a good idea to [[LesYay serenade troper.]] Mid-song she simply says "Even though I don't like you that way" and continues. Which, by the way, was [[AllLoveIsUnrequited completely obvious]] and [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday unnecessary.]] * My 9 year old brother bought a bucket of Nickelodeon slime from the toy store...a week later, it mysteriously disappeared. I asked my four-year-old brother if he knew where it went, and he said "No, I didn't flush his slime down the toilet!" * Little kids seem to love this trope. When I was a kid, my cousin and I would get ourselves into all sorts of shenanigans in his neighborhood, including climbing up into the hills behind people's houses, where we weren't supposed to be. One day the two of us saw a swimming pool, and decided that it would be fun to throw rocks into it. This continued for a few minutes until the house's owner angrily emerged and threatened us. We quickly ran back to my cousin's house, and when his parents asked what we were in such a rush over, my cousin explained that a man had come out of his house and threatened us. I hastily added, "And we weren't even throwing rocks in his pool!" * In one of my old stories (Which I probably lost when my hard drive crashed) my protagonist was a male who ended up in a dorm with a bunch of females. At one point the girls were explaining some of the dorm policies or something, and noted that there was "Nothing wrong that we could really do that would be worth doing. Well, okay, technically

there is now that you're here, but we won't." Actually, a similar line appeared in another scene in there in which I think the same girl specifically said, "Don't worry, we're not going to rape you." * This troper and a slightly-down friend over MSN. --> "Hey, it could always be worse. You could be covered in bees." --> "Yes, that's true. I could be covered in bees." --> "Wait, why BEES?" --> "No reason! Definitely don't think about that any more." ---There is absolutely no reason to believe [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial this link back to]] [[NightmareFuel Suspiciously Specific Denial]] will send you to NightmareFuel instead... ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SuspiciousSpending * 32_Footsteps: My English teacher in my senior year of high school drove a high-end Porsche. There were some questions as to his activities until his divorce - it turned out that he merely skimped on ''everything'' else, and his wife was tired on living on ramen noodles in a hovel because he wanted a really nice car. ---- <<|{{TroperTales}}|>>

SweetTooth * [[TroperTales.GeniusSweetTooth *sigh* Do]] [[Tropers.ReikoKazama I]] [[TroperTales.GeniusSweetTooth really have]] [[TroperTales.TrademarkFavoriteFood to say this again?]] [=~Everything's Better With Chocolate~=]. * While not in the same league as many fictional sugar nuts, this troper's sugar consumption is still what many people would consider excessive (hell, I occasionally think it's excessive). Highlights include drinking coffee with six sugars and tea with four (although I'm trying to cut down), eating sugar cubes, chain eating sweets, eating jam straight from the jar, and drinking honey and lemon with so much honey in that it's gone opaque (only upside to having a cold). ** This troper's brother is much the same in this department, with the additional details of having actually bought a box of sugar cubes for eating, and once eating a spoonful of golden syrup. He is inexplicably skinny. * This troper used to eat raw sugar and milk. This troper is now diabetic. Coincidence? ** You too Huh? ** Sugar and milk is almost criminally tasty. This troper used to serve it at tea parties with her stuffed animals. * This troper once ate a whole box (~half a pound) of sweet chocolate powder. And likes almost all kinds of sweets in general. * [[{{Cameoflage}} This troper]] would ''die'' if she ever developed

diabetes; she's constantly eating candy, ice cream, cake, pie, jello, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment cake]], pudding, chocolate, [[RuleOfThree cake]], and so on and so forth, and when she's not doing that, she's drinking soda, chocolate milk, Kool-Aid, or some sort of sweet fruit juice. Most often, she eats chocolate-covered granola bars, which also qualify as a TrademarkFavoriteFood (although they get swapped out for other sweets when they're available). Of course, this troper also devours potato/tortilla chips, so it might be more accurate to say that she just loves junk food. To this troper's astonishment, despite eating so much crap and not exercising much, she remains somewhere between thin and average-sized. And her teeth are okay -- at least, no significant damage; they're kind of yellow and gross, and there's a ''couple'' of cavities from when I was about ten -- but that has more to do with being OCD about tooth-brushing. ** Does this troper know you? Cause that sounds exactly like a girl he knows. *** It's possible, although skinny girls with my eating habits are pretty common. ** (Same troper) I also consider honey mustard to be the perfect condiment. I'll put it on anything, or at least anything that doesn't already have a sauce. * As [[{{Nomic}} this troper]] has mentioned elsewhere, he used to know a girl who was a really BigEater. The same girl also fit this trope perfectly as she loved eating enormous amounts of sweets and junk food (she often joked that her most important food groups were sugar and fat). She even owned books with detailed information about the making of candy, which made her the only person in the class that knew what agar-jelly is used for (besides cultivating bacteria). And like the above troper, she too was rather thin. * [[{{Orihime}} This troper]] goes nuts at the sight of ice cream, cakes and/or creamy desserts. She once went out with her family for dinner in an expensive restaurant and was the only one who was able to finish the desserts she requested. And she even ate the rest of her younger sister's chocolate parfait when said sister couldn't finish it. The sister's face was ''priceless''. Oh, and when a friend of hers who lives in Japan sent her Japanese chocolates and candy, the troper ate almost all of it during pretty much ''the same day'' she got the package. * [[DarkInsanity13 This troper]] comes from a family of female chocoholics. If there is no chocolate in the house or in the general vicinity, they go looking for some, or murder someone. Her mother has been known to even eat cooking chocolate just to satisfy her cravings. Don't even think about trying to take chocolate from this troper. ** The same troper also has a tendency to be more tempted by a dessert menu than a dinner one when going to a restaurant, and this trope is probably also the reason why she's more adept at making pastries and desserts than normal food. She's considerably less picky about sweets than she is with everything else. * [[{{Prioris}} This troper]]'s father consumes more sucrose than any human being should be able to and live. His morning cereal (maplemango flakes, frosted fruit flakes and other obscenities) gets a heaping two or three tablespoons of sugar added; he'll polish off half

a dozen or so doughnuts when he gets to work; he always has dessert with lunch; he can't eat vegetables unless they're glazed, candied or otherwise sugared up; he loads his coffee and tea with at least a tablespoon per cup; and he has been known to put down an entire carton of Popsicles by himself, washed down with a dozen or so mini-Snickers and a handful of Reese's cups. And all that is for a single 24-hour period. The last time he got a cold, he whined for a week that we were "trying to kill him" by replacing the sugar in his tea with honey. ** Maple-mango flakes? Puh-huh? * [[BooBooBob This Troper]] used to keep all kinds of candy (chocolates, hard candy, foreign candy to keep people guessing, and pixy stix to name a few) at my desk. I had to stop when I realized I was the only person eating it and it was going REALLY fast. This is not to say that I don't love the stuff... I just try and eat less of it, now. Of course, I've recently discovered a LOVE of Fritos and Cheetos, so that's probably not much better. ** Oh, and I used to make peanut butter and Nestle Quik (powder, not syrup) sandwiches. ** That sounds incredibly delicious. * This troper has a nasty habit of ''eating cake frosting straight from the can''. Naturally, her mother goes ballistic when she's getting ready to make a cake....and all the frosting is gone... ** ThisTroper and her middle sister are exactly the same! We're known to buy Nutella, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjar manjar]] or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lcuma lcuma cream]] small jars and keep them hidden so we can eat them alone. ** This troper does that too, but only under certain circumstances. Her husband knows that if he sees her come home with a can of frosting and no cake mix, she's reaching critical stress levels. ** OH GOD NUTELLA YES YES YES. Forget making crepes, I'm shoveling that stuff straight from the can with spoon. Only bad thing is that it's $6 a can... ** My god. ''You are me aren't you.'' What six dollars a jar D: Over here it's a third of that price. Poor jars, they don't..last much if I get ahold of them. Also I just noticed the lucuma example and....daaah homeland cream. ** Yep, 6 bucks at Stop & Shop. Stupid overinflated Connecticut prices. =( * This troper gave up sugar in his coffee...but maintained his habit of eating packets of sugar (Rosarch style), took to having syrup in coffees he bought from coffee shops, found a bulk seller of sweets online and [[ItGotWorse things went downhill from there]]. * ThisTroper not only has a significant sweet (and sour, he loves him some sourpatch kids.) tooth, but posesses several odd kinks, and thus finds the female instances of this trope incredibly sexy. * The troper, besides eating all the Little Debie pastries she can get her hands on, also knows another girl who loves chocolate and Volt energy drinks, to the point where every time she's talked with her, she mentions downing two Volts and a huge bare of chocolate. And she's still skinny as a rail. ** . . .Your friend must have the same condition I have, because no matter how much food I eat, I can't seem to go over a hundred pounds.

*** This troper is insanely jealous. (see the "I'm diabetic" post above.) * If there is anything sweet in this troper's house, chances are she will eat most of it. Chocolate, candies, biscuits, pastries, even sugar right out of the packet. It used to be a lot worse though, in her childhood she would not eat anything but sweets. Curiously though, she takes tea and coffee without sugar...but not without several chocolate biscuits. * I think my Sweet Tooth is too big. Considering I work at a grocery store, I buy candy often. I won't eat anything that's too hard, too chewy, or has nuts or toffee in it. * This troper loves chocolate and nuts, and likes baking. In fact, it's a stress valve for her. She tends to be experimental with her sugar. Her favorites are good old fashioned cookies, good ice cream, and warm brie with honey on bread. Mmmmm~ * This troper, like many of the above tropers, regularly consumes ice cream, cookies, chocolate, sugary cereal, and soda. In fact, he believes just about anything tastes better with sugar. If given a choice between normal barbecue sauce or honey barbecue sauce, he'll choose the latter. It goes for just about anything that isn't a dessert and still can be eaten normally with some type of sweet substance added. In addition to this, the troper is currently 17 and just over 105 lbs. CursedWithAwesome indeed! * This troper is his social circle's finest pastry chef and keenest eater of cakes, biscuits and other things-that-go-well-with-tea, a match made in sucrose overdose heaven. * Upon returning from a recent class campout, this troper stashed a half-full jar of Nutella that we'd brought with us in her sleeve and took it home. It was delicious, and I was fully allowed to take it. * This troper is a teetotaler, works our every day, always eats a well balanced meal...and will devour any desserts in his path if given the chance. At a recent pool party one friend actually said, "Damn man, sugar really is your vice." * Triple-subverted with this troper. I hate ice cream with a passion, because it hurts his teeth (sensitive teeth to heat and cold, aw yeah), as well as being too sweet. Let me go anywhere near chocolate, and rest assured, I will drool uncontrollably (chocolates~ >:D). However, my favorite chocolate flavor? ''Bitter, dark'' chocolates. * This troper doesn't drink, smoke, gamble, or go after hookers. Her one vice is candy (a blanket that includes chocolate, oh hell yes chocolate). She should have been a villain in Kids Next Door. ** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/CodenameKidsNextDoo r Stickybeard says "Ahoy!"]] * This troper's metabolism used to be like that, then stopped last year and now seems to be heading back that way. The secret seems to be ''regularly'' eating enough sugar to kill a horse. It'll either give you a awesome metabolism or diabetes. * A friend of this troper: when we bought coffee from Starbucks, he asked for the cup before they put the coffee in and filled 1/3 of it with sugar. Then he let them add the coffee. If they don't let him do that, he just puts 12 spoons of sugar in his coffee.

* {{Miso}} over here enjoys candy (ESPECIALLY chocolate, which is also an ESPECIALLY in Hershey's dark chocolate truffles), fudge, ice cream, cake, pie, soda... pretty much anything sweet. She limits herself to two sodas a day and one or two pieces of chocolate after dinner. She also adores gingerbread and funnel cakes, two time-exclusive foods. This sucks when she's got funnel cake cravings in December. * EnglishMajor: All the [[SpotOfTea tea leaves]] and [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee beans]] in the world could disintegrate overnight for this troper would care...but so help me if the world's supply of Country-Time Pink Lemonade would dissapear off the face in the earth....[[ShoutOut The horror...]][[ApocalypseNow The horror...]] * [[DaibhidC This troper]]'s TrademarkFavouriteFood are Irn Bru, tablet (a Scottish confection made by condensing condensed milk even further) and banoffee pie. Due to his unfortunate weight problem, this troper has recently [[AndADietCoke switched to Diet Irn Bru]]. * Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, [[http://www.sugarmountain.ca/ Southern Ontario Sweet Tooth Heaven]]. * Just a couple weeks ago, a group I regularly attend had the oh-sonutritious meal of Oreo pudding, elephant ears, vanilla wafer pudding, peanut butter pie, cherry pie, and dehydrated marshmallows. You know, like the ones from Lucky Charms. Yeah. We ALL got diabetes that night. * Not long ago, this troper craved sugar . So she caught the bus to the nearest supermarket in search of Nutella, and returned with Nutella, chocolate biscuits, M&Ms, and wafers to dunk in the Nutella. * [[JustCallMeKatsu This troper]] is literally "Cuckoo for Cocoa." Cake, cupcakes, pies, bars, frosting, raw sugar, cookie dough, coffee, ''powdered'' cake mix or cookie dough, syrup, even chocolate-covered bacon strips!! OH MY GOD!! You even ''attempt'' to say the word chocolate around me and I will pounce on you like a cheetah. God forbid if it's ''dark'' chocolate. * This troper, my grandmother, and, to a lesser extent, my mom. If there's any cookies, pie, candy, ice cream, or cake in the house, you can guarantee they will be ''gone'' within a few days. The fact that I've been doing a lot of baking to pass time lately hasn't exactly helped matters for any of us (I can't even resist a taste before baking - mmm, raw cookie dough...). A couple stranger examples of this trope would be two of my three dogs, who, if given a choice, would eagerly pick cookies over a juicy slab of meat. They're also the only dogs I know that like Skittles. ** That's not as unusual as you might think. This troper's dear departed dog would probably have taken biccies over meat and had a fondness for strawberry laces and toffee. Their aunt's Border Collie likes jam and fruit and once ate over a pound of rasberries. * If anyone gets this troper chocolate, they had better make sure that it is of a size that won't make a person sick if consumed in one sitting. I just can't stop! * [[Tropers/ZiggyStardustForever I have]] a horrible SweetTooth, and I'm particularly addicted to chocolate and pop. The problem is, Dad was diagnosed with Type-2 Diabetes last year, putting me even more at risk, but the depressing news just makes me want to eat ''more'' sugar. Boy, am I in trouble... * While this troper has given up soda for various reasons, he still

loves sweets of all kinds from all parts of the world, especially Swiss chocolates. Even better, the rest of my family can't stand sweets, so more for me! The only candy I ''won't'' ever eat are those horrible candy hearts they always sell on Valentine's Day. * The interesting thing about [[@/SgtFrog1 me]] is that my sweet tooth is that it's like a hybrid sweet tooth. I eat smallish amounts of things that are straight-up sweet (mint chocolate-chip ice-cream being a personal favorite), but I eat ridiculous amounts of spicy-sweet (General Tso's chicken and [[FireBreathingDiner wasabi]]), sour-sweet (grapefruit and lemonade), bitter-sweet (limes, oranges), and saltysweet (chocolate covered pretzels, honey ham and peanut butter) foods. As you can see from the examples, I eat pretty healthily. It's just that...[[BigEater I eat...a lot.]] * Hm? [[Tropers/IrksomeDude My]] sweet tooth? The size of [[{{Kaiju}} Godzilla]]. No, not ''his'' tooth. The size of ''him''. To begin, almost ''everything'' I eat has sugar on it, be it pizza or pretzels, flatbread or fried cheese. In fact, I've such a sweet tooth that I've taken to carrying around sugar packets for if I stop off at the local pizza place that has good rolls... And [[YouDoNOTWantToKnow don't]] get me started on my tea... Can you say "20'" for sugar packets? The joys of having a [[IncrediblyLamePun freakin' sweet]] motabilism... * Packet of dark chocolate mints needing to be eaten? I'll manage it easy. Packet of caramel digestives (which have chocolate on the top) needing to be eaten as well? Hallelujah! Bottle of lemonade needing to be drunk as well? *faints* Yeah, I'm amazed I don't have diabeties... * [[Tropers/SaraJaye This troper]] pretty much had her dream come true when she moved to a town with a candy store on the next block and a CVS right across the street. * This Troper loves all kinds of candy and desserts([[DoesNotLikeSpam except for]] [[StockYuck marzipan, and anything with raisins]]). Gummy candies(especially sour gummies, the sourer the better!), [[EverythingsBetterWithChocolate chocolate]] in all its delicious forms, cookies, cakes, pies, ice cream, popsicles, jelly, marshmallows... or drinking soda or chocolate milk... omnomnom. Cheese doodles and other snacks(that are not [[DoesNotLikeSpam potato chips]]) are good too. I also sometimes eat things that aren't meant to be eaten by themselves, like spoons of syrup or honey, or Ricola instant tea powder(it's really good, actually). * [[Tropers/NotOnEarth This Troper.]] Has a particular fondness for Mike and Ikes, sour gummy candies and [[EverythingsBetterWithChocolate milk chocolate.]] * I have the biggest sweet tooth out of everyone I know and while I normally eat almost nothing and [[ForgetsToEat forget to eat]] on a regular basis, I have eaten a [[TrademarkFavoriteFood strawberry shortcake]] meant for [[BigEater 24 people]] in on sitting. And somehow I never gain any weight from stuff like this. ** [[{{Danni-chan}} I've]] been trying to cut back on the sugar. I'm afraid I'm gonna get diabetes and then go into diabetic shock when I eat too many sweets anyway. However I recently went to a diner with some friends and one of them who also has a big sweet tooth mixed up my coffee with hers. Apparently my "cutting back" on sugar makes my coffee taste like a mixture of pure sugar and liquid diabetes.

[[UpToEleven My friend who has a sweet tooth on par with mine thinks my coffee tastes like]] [[BeyondtheImpossible liquid diabetes and pure sugar.]] [[VerbalTic Apparently.]] * As a child, I hated grapefruit and had to put lots of sugar on it. Cue the admonitions, "Don't you think you need more grapefruit on your sugar?" More recently (still many years ago) I had to put lots of sugar in any tea that I drank, for example at Chinese restaurants. I also loved cookies and cupcakes (and cake) with heaps of frosting on them, although once in a while, eating too much of that made me nauseous. I've had to cut down considerably upon discovering that I was diabetic, and I hate walking through the grocery store seeing all the tempting sweets on the table. * [[{{Tropers/Ventisia}} This Troper]] with chocolate. I'm lucky that I have a high metabolism, or I'd be gigantic. <o.o> * When I was young, my older brother had a chocolate birthday cake made for him, which was stored in the fridge for the next day. In all of my wisdom, I got up in the middle of the night, stood in the doorway of the fridge and ate all of the frosting off of the cake with a butter knife. * This Troper can't survive a day without at least small amount of sweets. ---Go back to SweetTooth. Just remember to brush your teeth afterward. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SwitchingToGEICO * [[SharmHedgehog This troper]] remembers an instance when his father came home and announced that he'd lost his job and that we would be poor. Then he announced that the good news was that he had saved a bunch of money on his car insurance by switching to Geico. This troper now loathes Geico even more than he did before. * [[{{Spiritsunami}} This troper]]'s father managed to use the line to lighten up the mood in a meeting at work when there apparently ''had'' been a lot of bad news. This troper's father has a certain way with words. * Played almost suspiciously straight in [[{{Clendy82}} this troper's]] life, in which he really did save a good deal of money by switching to Geico. * Some time ago, [[ThisTroper this troper's]] uncle came into the living room announcing good news. The news? 3 guesses, and the first two don't count. [[HilarityEnsues Hillarity ensues]]. ** My only two guesses are that he found a really good jar of pickles, or that he finally solved a Rubiks' Cube. * This troper uses it to lighten up the mood all the time. Once she even switched it up to be "I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by... [[TakeAThirdOption selling my car!]]" * This troper, when his friend says "Guess what?", usually responds with the trope in a way related to something they were talking about or doing, such as "You just saved a bunch of money on chair insurance

by switching to GEICO?" * This troper has a variation: "But I've got good news! I just saved a load of money on my car insurance... by not having any." He had to restrain himself from saying that when he got into a car accident. * This troper regularly uses this as a joke. Often, HilarityEnsues. * I actually do insure through Geico; but guess how I told my mom I was in a car accident? * This troper pulled this one regularly. The hitch? He doesn't own a car and takes public transportation everywhere. * A conversation between this troper and his friend went like this: -->'''Troper:''' Well, can't find my homework, I'm at a D in this class, and I didn't remember we had a quiz. -->'''Friend:''' Man, that su-->'''Troper:''' But the good news is I saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico. -->'''Friend:''' ...*hysterical laughter* * Once, this troper's laptop died not too soon after she got [[{{Disgaea}} Disgaea 2]]. When she saw a friend of hers, this troper said, "I have bad news, better news, and good news. The bad news is that my laptop died. The better news is that I have Disgaea 2. The good news is, I saved a lot of money on car insurance by SwitchingToGEICO." * Coming from a guy who used to absolutely ''hate'' those "dumb things" commercials, another [[ArcWords group of ArcWords]] I found (I use this unwittingly when I meet a "game over screen:" --> That could've been the money I could've been saving with Geico. *cue music* ---Sad to say, that's the last of the anecdotes. But there is [[Main/SwitchingToGEICO good news]]! ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SwordLimbo * [[MasterEgregious This troper]] worked for four years at a haunted forest-type Halloween trail where most workers would attempt to scare the patrons by jumping out from behind trees, blowing foghorns, revving chainsaws, ect. This troper eventually realized that [[GenreSavvy everyone knew]] what to expect, so instead of jumping out he attacked with a prop sword, generally stopping an inch from the target's face. It startled the heck out of people 95% of the time, but once, despite having absolutely no prior warning, a woman managed to pull one of these out of nowhere... ---DUCK! Mind your head on the way back to [[SwordLimbo the main page]] ---<<|TroperTales|>>

SympatheticSue * About five years ago, this editor used to play on a text-based RPG

set in Middle-earth shortly before ''LordOfTheRings''. The player who controlled Frodo seemed to think the game was her personal fanfic -Frodo was constantly bedridden with some disease or another (this was when he was supposed to be a strapping young fellow, before the wraith-knife and spider-bite, mind you) and dragged the players for Sam, Merry, and Pippin into roleplay sessions where they had to heap pity on her character. ---[[SympatheticSue Whine about your tragic past so everyone will feel sorry for you]]. ----

Synthesizeritis * [[MmmKay This troper]] has a case of {{Synthesizeritis}}, although it's not horrible, it's unfair to compare my covers of classical works with the genuine article. To be fair, I'm trying to get more interesting rhythms than the plain 16-beat techno, but sometimes it's hard to intentionally make mistakes. I cringe at inconsistencies in rhythm and tempo. * [[{{Tropers/SoWeAteThem}} This troper]] is obsessed with electronic music, and while it's not entirely robotic-sounding, it's all I listen to for the most part. * My final project for Computer Music was to compose a one and a half minute or longer song on Digital Performer. Due to both the nature of the assignment itself and my limited knowledge of music composition, I figured I'd run right into synthesizeritis anyway, so I tried for some deliberately retraux 80's electro. [[http://alonetone.com/quetzalcoatlus/tracks/das-doomenhaus this is how that turned out, if you're curious]]. ---[[AC:Beep-beep]] Get-back-to [[{{Synthesizeritis}} Syn-the-siz-er-itis]]. [[AC:Beep-beep]] ----

TactfulTranslation * This story comes from a campaign of 2nd Edition DungeonsAndDragons. In second edition a character's ability to learn language is tied to one's Intelligence. My [[OurElvesAreBetter High Elf]] character was the party wizard, granting me access to [[{{Omniglot}} a half dozen languages]]. Another member of the party is a [[CantArgueWithElves mildly racist Wood Elf]] who has an Intelligence that only lets him choose one language, which he naturally used for Elvish. The rest of the party speaks Common and a variety of other languages, but no other Elvish-speakers. Within the first half hour of play my character had established a tendency to lose most hostile language from the Wood Elf's suggestions to keep peace with the rest of the party. * This troper had to do this once: an English monolingual and a Japanese monolingual had gotten in a fight on a bus I was riding on, so the police had me translate the Japanese person's statement. Needless to say, a lot of insults directed at the English monolingual

did not make it into the formal police report. * Once at a Catholic high school, a young newspaper reporter was interviewing someone about a rabble-rousing speech that had recently been given at a school function. The interviewee said something along the lines of "I'm glad he had the balls to say that." The reporter knew this wouldn't fly with his editor, so he changed the line to "I'm glad he had the [courage] to say that." Oh, and [[AndThatLittleGirlWasMe by the way....]] ---He says that, er, it would be...a good idea to head back to TactfulTranslation...please...sir. ---<<|TroperTales|>>

TaintedByThePreview This is the place where you can personally express about what upcoming work you are sceptical of. * [[{{Rowdycmoore}} This Troper]] is praying that the rumors he's heard of a live action ''SailorMoon'' film with '''Linsey Lohan''' in the lead role are not true. ** [[{{BigNo}} NO]]. &#3232;_&#3232; ** That's a terrible idea unless they go with those PVC sailor fuku, in which case yum. * ThisTroper has gone from 'get around to watching it sometime' to 'not ever' for the recent Narnia films thanks to the Prince Caspian trailer. Oh, I understand it's lying, but I just can't bring myself to watch either film, now, knowing one leads to the other and.. yeah. Doesn't help that they seemed to have raised Caspian's age by a decade; and in the process made him reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter. * I personally think that [[FarCry Cry]][[{{Crysis}} tek]] will '''not''' handle the TimeSplitters series well at all. Thank you. * I'm personally somewhat glad that Sarah Michelle Gellar [[SubvertedTrope is NOT]] going to try to fit in as [[AmericanMcgeesAlice a disturbed ex-id software employee version of a Lewis Caroll charcater]]. There could be worse choices though. * Inversion: [[NotSoBadassLongcoat this troper]] saw the Godfather (game) trailers and thought the game had to be pretty good. And guess what, it wasn't. Same goes for Velvet Assassin and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty. * This troper saw previews for ''{{Smallville}}'' back before it debuted and quickly wrote it off as an attempt to wussify Superman (or [[XMeetsY Superman meets Melrose Place]]). Five seasons later, I decided to actually watch it, and it immediately became one of my favorite shows. * This troper remembers seeing an early preview of ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' and saying to her friend "[[ItWillNeverCatchOn there is no ''way'' that is going to be good]]". I mean, ''ghost pirates''. [[HypocriticalHumor It's the most played thing on my ipod now.]] * This troper was among those who didn't think ''Casino Royale'' would

work - and he was wrong. But for the following movie, being an avid White Stripes hater, hearing Jack White would write the theme was some of the worst news ever. And "Another Way to Die" was as bad as he expected! (the film itself was okay) ** I have an extremely similar story: I ''like'' Jack White and "Another Way to Die" tainted CasinoRoyale for me as well. Extreme disappointment of a song. * ''Tetris: The Grand Master 4''. This troper doesn't mind the flowery graphics so much; rather, it's the alteration of a particular gameplay mechanic that gave the game part of its challenge. [[spoiler:ARS is move reset.]] * [[PentiumMMX2 This troper]] was like this when he first saw a preview for ''KungPow: Enter The Fist''. He though it looked like the stupidest movie ever; there was no way this could be good. Years later, he watched it when he was bored and there was nothing else on that day, and it wound up becoming one of his favorite movies. * This troper is in the process of utterly refusing to watch the upcoming Alice in Wonderland film. I love Tim Burton, I think his movies are awesome. But when the trailers ''constantly'' make it seem like the main character is the Mad Hatter, and not Alice, it gets [[{{Understatement}} a tad annoying.]] Just because he's being played by [[SarcasmMode everyone's favorite]] EstrogenBrigadeBait... * devolves into muttering* ** I would see it if I wasn't certain it would be total shit. I get this theory from the fact that my brother's girlfriend said it looked stupid, and she's pretty much the type of person they're aiming at, teenage girls who like fantasy stuff and Johnny Depp. The other people are stoners and Theatre Arts Majors (aka, stoners on stage). * Cowboy Bebop is going live action? YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!! Keanu Reeves is Spike? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! ** What the fuck were they thinking? Keanu fucking Reeves? Fuck, CHRISTOPHER Reeves would make a better Spike, and he's dead. I'm afraid of what the hell else they did to Cowboy Bebop if Keanu is their best attempt at Spike... * begins inconprehensibly muttering insults and curse words* * An XMen prequel featuring Professor X and Magneto? Well, the last two films weren't great, but I'm still willing to give it the benefit of the doubt...James McAvoy is Professor X now? '''[[FlatWhat What.]]''' * [[MonSolo This Troper]] absolutely ''loathed'' the product placement for ''DespicableMe'' featuring the minions. She decided to go see the movie anyway, based on earlier trailers that did NOT feature the minions and (correctly) predicting that they would not feature as heavily in the movie as they did in the ad campaign. Turned out to be a pretty good movie. ** Exactly the other way around for me: The first teasers amde it look like a movie about a supervillain and the story-based ones and several reviews put emphasis on how the protagonist adopts a little girl and fights an even eviler guy, making him a regular hero. I still want to see this movie, but I guess its only worth waiting for it to air on TV. * Like this troper mentioned in TroperTales/HeroicBSOD, he is