![]() Even on the YMMV page, many fans will try to remove any negative criticism. However, the pages of most works are edited primarily by very defensive and obsessive fans. These are usually places filled with fan theories and opinions of the work. Other sections of the page tend to be entirely subjective and do not actually list any tropes. There is also a "Trivia" section that lists occurring themes relevant to the creation and production of the work. Therefore, these entries are worded as neutrally as possible to avoid offending any fans. These tropes are put here to avoid edit wars and complaining, as any criticism of a work on the main page will receive complaints from an angry fan of the work. The "YMMV" (short for "Your Mileage May Vary") section lists subjective tropes and audience reactions. Other sections of the page are commonly dubious in nature. The primary one is the "Main" section which lists tropes that are objectively in the work and usually cannot be debated. The articles for works themselves are usually categorized into multiple sections. This trope reinforces the transphobic notion that a character being a different gender than previously thought is unappealing or disappointing. Even worse is the "Unsettling Gender Reveal" trope. In addition, a few examples for the trope "Tastes Like Diabetes" imply that something is bad or disgusting because it is femme. What makes the trope especially concerning is that there is no equivalent trope for a predominantly male group of friends with a few female members. Likewise, some of the examples on the trope "Improbably Female Cast" have the sexist implication that a predominantly female group of friends with a few male members is strange. Also, the tropes "Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales" and "Opinion Override" assume that races and cultures other than the "default" white and American are homogeneous and are often used by white tropers to defend racism in media. One example is the "Anything That Moves" trope, which in concept is already rather panphobic but is also biphobic in execution, as tropers will often apply the trope to any bisexual character regardless of their standards. Some of these tropes are problematic in concept and/or the way the site's contributors treat them. This sometimes leads to uncomfortable results. Real life examples will also naturally fall prey to the golden mean fallacy to prevent edit warring. The ones that do allow real life examples still tend to be problematic in nature, as some try to simplify real life events and tragedies into the simpler storytelling conventions that fiction uses. Occasionally there will be a real life section for examples too, although you will usually not see this on more controversial tropes. This name is usually a phrase that tries to convey the trope's nature and the implications that come with it (some tropes have names that forgo a clear explanation in favor of a pun or play on words or a fandom in-joke that does not explain the trope well, though many tropes of this kind have been renamed into something more appropriate.) The article will then describe and explain the trope and list examples of the trope in works of fiction categorized by media. Despite this, TV Tropes has since expanded into showcasing tropes from all forms of media, even fanfiction and Internet-based media.Ī typical trope article on the site will start by giving the trope a name. ![]() It then expanded to covering tropes from all TV shows, which is where the sites name came from. The wiki initially only documented examples of tropes from said show. The wiki started out as a fan wiki for the Joss Whedon TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ![]() The idea being that storytelling is not just writing, it is the whole process of creating and telling/showing a story. On this wiki, "trope" has the even more general meaning of a pattern in storytelling, not only within the media works themselves, but also in related aspects such as the behind-the-scenes aspects of creation, the technical features of a medium, and the fan experience. Tropes are not inherently disruptive to a story however, when the trope itself becomes intrusive, distracting the viewer rather than serving as shorthand, it has become a cliché. It can be a plot trick, a setup, a narrative structure, a character type, a linguistic idiom. Literary, and specifically fantasy, tropes are, according to TV Tropes:Ī "figure of speech." In storytelling, a trope is just that - a conceptual figure of speech, a storytelling shorthand for a concept that the audience will recognize and understand instantly.Ībove all, a trope is a convention. The website's main goal is to explain and document tropes. ![]() TV Tropes is a wiki that documents and analyzes various storytelling conventions and devices. ![]()
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